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MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1912.
GOING DOWN WITH LORIMER.
The issue of Lorfmcrism was pressed in the re
cent Iowa and South Dakota primaries, where two
United States Senators were asking for indorsement
of the Republican voters. Kenyon, of Iowa, who was
anti-Lorimer, swept everything before him by the
greatest primary majority ever given a candidate in
that Stari. Gamble, of South Dakota, went down in
defeat because he supported Lorimer, although he
had represented his constituency fairly well upon
other issues.
How many other United States Senators will sign
their political death warrants on July 6, next?
THE CENSUS OF THE VOTERS.
number of delegates. But backjof this show of con
fidence, this unruffled serenity, there is a bad case of
nerves that bodes littlo good to the Taft organization.
"Bill" Flinn, who helped defeat the Taft-Pcnrosc
machine in Pennsylvania, and wholTas a reputation
of doing things, started for Chicago last Friday after
a conference withic colonel at Oyster Bay. Im
mediately the Taft organization was in a flurry. By
the time Flinn reached Chicago these devotees of a
calm and judicial temperament had frenzied them
selves into that frame of mind where Flinn had
assumed superhuman and Plutonic proportions, and
his mission was to turn Chicago upside down', start
a riot from Lake Forest to the stockyards, and during
the excitement -do bloody murder to ine Republican
party.
The Taft managers immediately issued the S, O.
S. signal,. yelled for the police, and announced they
would valiantly resist being devoured, raw and with
out salt, by this dragon from Pittsburgh. Colonel
New was selected, as the St. George who must save
the day, and buckling on his trusty typewriting ma
chine he sallied' forth and issued a daring interview
about turning the convcfiTfon hall into "bear gardens"
and other carnivorous habitats.
Meantime Bad Bill Flinn slipped into a hotel,
took a; bath, put on a modest raiment, and went down
to toast and tea. When there discovered by some
venturesome newspaper men and asked when he
expected to begin h,?s pillage he "jest laffcd."
The hissing steam and the rumble of- the roller
has gotten on the nerves of the Taft 'mechanicians.
They need a bromide.
There is a timely interest to the statistics which
' have just been made public by the Census Bureau
as to the number of men of voting age in the United
States. It is shown that on April 15, 1010, there
were in the continental United States practically
27,000,000 males who had reached their majority,
constituting 29.4 per cent of the total population.
Of this number 9,004,422 were living in cities of
25,000 population or more. Of the total number of
males of voting age in the United States proper the
native whites of native parentage amounted to
13,211,731, while the native whites of foreign or
mixed parentage amounted to 4,498,966. The for
eign born vhitcs, naturalized, amounted to 3,035,333;
foreign born whites, not naturalized, amounted to
3,611,273; negroes, 2,459,327 all of twenty-one
years of age.
These figures are of special interest in an elec
tion year, and the seventh sons of seventh sons, who
are now preparing the dope sheets, will profit by the
above data in making their calculations for the ap
proaching conflict next fall.
ROCKY ROADS AHEAD.
The protests against the action of the Republican
, national committee seating delegates last week from
States where there is no Republican party were vig
orous. But they were as nothing compared to what will
happen this week if the committee attempts to un
seat delegates from States where there is a Repub
lican party.
Republican politicians in the South and Repub
lican politicians in the North are very different. In
the South they are mendicants; in the North they
are independent. In the South it is wholly a ques
tion as to whom is appointed postmaster; in the North
it is a question as to whom is going to be elected to
fill all the city, county, and State offices.
The thousands of local Republican candidates for
office in the reliable Republican States want a win
ning man to head the ticket, and they are going to
be heard from if national committeenien they have
repudiated attempt to unseat delegates they have
elected to select that winner.
That steam roller is going to hit some pretty stiff
grades, sharp curves, and rocky road this week.
WHERE THE "IF" BELONGS.
A prize diagnostician writes politics for the Bos
ton Herald. He has located trie trouble with the
Republican party in the personage of one Frank
Sieberlich, a Taft enthusiast who insisted that his
name go on the Massachusetts primary ballot as a
delegate-at-large, after the Taft slate had been made
up without it.
This extra cart-wheel was the undoing of the
Taft fight in Massachusetts, as it muddled the voters
and gave Roosevelt an even break. "If" it had not
been for Sieberlich, Massachusetts would have joined
New Hampshire and stemmed the Roosevelt tidw
that swept in from Illinois and Pennsylvania. "If"
this had happened, Taft would have carried Mary
' land, and "if" Taft had carried Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, and Maryland, he would have carried
Ohio. And "if" he had carried Ohio the jig ould
have been up. Do you follow?
The diagnosis is correct, "if1 the writer had not
inserted the "if" at the end of the sentence, instead
of where it should have been. Speaking of Illinois
and Pennsylvania, "if" President Taft had not put
Ballinger in his Cabinet and defended the scandals
which followed; "if" he had not signed the Paync
Aldrich bill, or "if" he had not made that Winona
speech; "if" he had not played 'possum in the Lori
mer case; "if" he had not turned against' all his real
friends and taken council of all his false ones; "if"
he had remained true to his campaign pledges and
conducted a progressive administration; "if" but
what's the use, ad infinitum?
"If" it had not been for Taft's Administration the
Republican party would not now be torn to pieces.
ROAD ROLLER NEEDS BROMIDE.
Apparently the Taft organization at Chicago is
confident. Its steam roller is working with merciless
precision. Its publicity bureau and adding machine
are doing their duty of hourly increasing Taft's
A QUESTION OF SANITY.
The Ohio Presidential primaries polled 80 per
cent of the number of votes cast by Republicans at
the previous State election. Complete returns of
the Pennsylvania Presidential primaries, April 13,
at which Roosevelt swept the State, show that 85,000
more Republican votes were polled than were cast
for Governor Tener when he headed the Republican
ticket two years ago.
By such a direct and representative vote "67 the
rank and file of the Republican party, in States that
always furnish Republican votes in the Electoral Col
lege, Roosevelt was indorsed and delegates were
instructed for him.
The Republican party no longer exists in Louisi
ana. Owing to its failure to poll 10 per cent ot
total vote cast at the last general election in that
State, it is outlawed and will not be given a place
on the ballot. Taft claims the twenty delegates
from Louisiana, representing a political corpse.
In the entire State of Georgia, in the Fourth
Congressional district of Arkansas and the First Con
gressional district of Florida, there was not one
Republican Vote cast at the last general election. Tnft
has been given all the delegates from these localities
representing nothing. Even the men seated as
Taft delegates did not vote the Republican ticket
two years ago.
Yet the Republican national committee is trying
to nominate a party leader by "delegates" from these
localities where there is no Republican party, has
been none and will be none.
Senator Dixon charged the committee with polit
ical murder. Colonel Roosevelt accuses it of political
theft. Perhaps both have given it too much credit.
Ought not the charge be that of lunacy?
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SPEED LAWS AND THE STORK.
TIMELY LETTERS TO THE TIMES MAIL BAG
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without the consent of the contributors. Address MAIL BAG EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
A Brooklyn police magistrate has held that
physicians, in keeping an urgent appointment with
the stork, are not to be held too strictly to an ob
servance of the speed limit, and the policeman who
made the arrest was admonished to use discretion in
future. Perhaps the fact that the case arose in
Brooklyn may have had something to do with the
judicial attitude, while the presiding magistrate
frankly confessed that he took a personal interest in
the matter. He had a new boy at his house.
The courts of the country will not take judicial
cognizance of the ruling of the Brooklyn magistrate,
so a physician's privilege to speed through the
streets, even to meet the stork, will remain an open
question until it is settled in each individual com
munity. The casuists would have a fertile field for
subtle discussion in trying to decide how far the
lives of the adult population could be jeopardized
in order to welcome little strangers at the other end
of the scale of longevity. And yet the stork in every
community has rights which the law itself is bound
to respect.
ACTION BETTER THAN BRAGGING.
Without going into the merits of the question,
and without defending the existing conditions in
Cuba, a lesson may be drawn from the policy of the
negro revolutionary leader, General Estenoz. In a
communication to American officials General Este
noz disclaims any hostility to the Government of the
United States or any animosity toward foreigners.
He explains his destruction of foreign-owned prop
erty by asserting "it was for the purpose of'notify
ing the world I had undertaken and was conducting
a revolution in Cuba, and he sagely closes by say
ing "it would be impossible to carry on a revolution
merely by organizing a band of men and quietly sit
ting under a mango tree."
This typical Yankee policy of doing things is in
marked contrast to the dilatory tactics of the Cuban
government which has droned along putting off ac
tion until "tomorrow" and waiting for something to
turn up. Had President Gomez not been content to
let his forces sit under a mango tree and speculate,
it is very probable the threatened Cuban revolution
would have commenced and ended by the jailing of a
few disturbers of the peace.
General Estenoz has simply demonstrated the
truth of Bill Nye's philosophy that "thrice armed is
he who has his quarrel just, but four times he who
gets his blow in fust." Even the fellow who has no
merit to his case is in a position to drive a bargain
if he has the other felloW down, or is inside the
breastworks.
Would Honor Veterans' Memories
nj Adequately Pensioning Their
"Widows.
To tho Editor nf THE TIMES
I earnestly hope that Tho Times will
give ua a rou-lng editorial In behalf of
the soldiers' widows that It -will take
Uk accustomed place. In the lend of
those who would crystallize public sen
tlme.nt In faor ot an iucreaHc In their
monthly allowance.
I, for one, am heartily In favoi or
honoitng the more, the memory of the
deceased civil war veterans, by prop
erly looking after their widow.', left to
shift as best they m.iy.
Although too modest to be clamorous,
their needB are numerous, the cost of
living to them is ery great, and the
call to their legion of friends in. urgent.
When wo remember that the ranks
of the grand old army are fast be-1 left for th smaller business places
coming depleted, with Its conseaucntlal 'Vhi-'h are run by a poorer Class of
decrease, In the annim! Amount nuM I neiinln wn miti h nllnu'ml to live and
through the pension bureau, a substan- ' support thomselvcs? Like tho oil and
What 's on the Program in
Washington Today
The. following .Masonic organliatioiiH
will meet toniRht: Lodges Dawson,
No. 16, K. A . Stansbury, No. at. M. M.
Royal Arch Chapter Ml. Vernon, No.
3. mark Eastern Star Chapters
Temple, No. 1J, Columbia, No 15
The following I. O O. F. organization-!
will meet tonight. Lodges' Union, No.
11, and Covenant. No. 13, degiee work,
Iteacon. No. 15, and Langdon, No ;,
business. RebcWa Degree Esther
Lodge. No. "., degree work.
The following K. of P. oiganlzatlons
will meat tonight. Lodges Decatur,
No. 9; Calanthe, No 11 page rank;
Equal, No. 17 Knighte of Khorassan
Monthly meeting of Ascalon Temple.
The following K O. T. M. tents Will
meet tonight: National, No. 1, initia
tion of candidates by degree team
unclrr command of Captain Buffum,
old -Masonic. Hall, Ninth and F streets,
Alt Vernon, No. 4, regular review.
Northeast Temple, Twelfth and II
streets northeast, Anacpstla No. 7,
regular review, Mationlc Hall, Ana
I'ostia Meeting of Old Dominion Circle, No.
fill', P. 11. C. Ballston. Va., tonight.
Concert by the United States Marino
Hand. Marine llarracks. 1:30 p. m.
Concert by the United States Soldiers'
Home Bund, bandstand. I to s;zu p. m.
Meeting of the Washington Cricket
Club, Chamber of Commerce, 7:10 p.
m.
Weekly meeting of the Central Labor
T'nlon, Typographical Temple, 23-l23
G street northwest. X n in
Thirty-second anniversary dinner of tho
National Wiles' veteran Association,
Freund's. 815 Tenth street northwest,
8:S0 p. in.
Celebration of the 135th anniversary of
the adoption of tho American lias.
Central High School
Final meeting of the season of tho
North Washington and Fcklngton
Citizens' Association, Chuitli of the
Advent, becond and U streets north
west, 8 pm.
Reception to Bishops Cranston and
Thirkleld, Foundry Alcthotilst Episco
pal Church. S p. m
Commencement exercises of (he George
town X'nlverstty Hospital Training
School, Gaston Hall, 4:30 -p. m.
I SJ II ...
Amusements.
Belasco Miss Shreve'a pupils In "Major
Poll's Poll Plaers in "The Chorus
Lady." wlo 1'. m.
Columbia Columbia Plajers In "Mary
Jane's Pa," R:15 p. in
Cosmos; Vaudeville. 1 to 11 p. m.
Casino Vaudeville, 8:15 p. in.
Arcade Bowling, motion pictures, and
other attraction.
Glen Echo Park Amusements for all.
Admission free.
Chevy Chase Lake Amusements and
music by section of Marine Hand.
Marshall Hall Dancing and other at
tractions. Chesapeake Reach Bathing, fishing, and
other attractions.
tlal Increase could be n.ade 'without nnyj
nuruui ntidltlonal expenditure.
C. W TIGNOR.
ItctiNC to Buy Food That Is Exposed
to Flies nnd Dirt.
To the Editor of tho Times.
Will you please write an edltoiial on
the. Fly. the Curse of Man. The people
should learn nbout Us life, .habits, the
dli-eases it cause.", and the methods of
exterminating It. or at least preventing
It from coming In contact with our
food We should refuse to purchase
food exposed to damp, dirt, dust or
flies.-. You only have to visit a few of
oui dealers in food, to become convinc
ed, If rou have not become so, that
meat, bread, cake, pie, fruit, butter
cheese, etc., are the playgrounds of the
deadly Fly.
The following ate just a few of the
questions, answers and statements
fiom the Chicago and the Indianapolis
board of health. Where is the Flv
born? In manuro and filth. Where
does the Fl live? In every kjnd of
filth. Is anything too filthy for th
Fly to cat? No. Where does he go
when he leaves tho manure pile and
the Bplttoon? Into the kitchen nnd din
ing room. What does ho do there? He
wals on the blend, fruit, and vegetab
les; he wipes his feet on the butter nnd
bathes In the milk. The three (dls)
graces filth, files, and fever To pre
vent typhoid costs a few cents, to cure
costs many dollars. Don t buy any
food from a dirty place. If the We
"beat you to It," let them have it 'Tls
a wise romfnunltv which places com
munity health above all other com
munity possessions. Typhoid Is most
prevalent In the late summer and early
fall days so are files. Get the con
nection" The typhoid chain of F's.
Filth, Flies. Fingers, Food, Fever.
I would like to have other readers In
tel ested In this, express themselves
Will not some of our physicians nnd
biologists glvo their views and suggest
a remedy? Perhaps, we can form an
"Anti-Fly Club." the purpose of which
should be to disseminate knowledge of
the Fl, nnd methods of preventing It
from coming in contact with food In
the name of Humanity, let us all unite
and get rid of tho fly, or at least pre
vent It from walking all over our food,
and usually leaving bacteria or germs
jf typhoid on It. P. II.
Thinks There Is n Pool to Monopolize
the Tourist Business.
To the Editor nf TIIK TIMK
With the rallrtitds and hotel", and
transfer and touring c.ifh and taxlca'i
i-iiinianles combined to monopolize the
tourist and convention business, what Is
tobacco business. It Is so controlled none
but these In the pool stand anv chance
Congress should '.nvestlzate this trust
just the -mrae as the Beef and other
trusts. I do not mean to make a bluff
at If hii 1 line them and then let tho
trait come back nnd false the wiccs
and make the people pay the fines. a3
.Vr. Taft has don-i. L. VV. W.
Sngrpcsts Captain Ojster As the Head
Of Howard University.
To Ihe Kdltor of THD TIMES.
There are many aspirants for the
presidency of Howard University. In
former years, before Dr. Thlrktleld was
elected president of that grand old In
stitution, almost any one of the pres
ent would-be presidents of Howard Uni
versity could fill the bill pretty well.
But the tiustees of that school are go
ing to find It to be a very hard job to
find a man who Is big enough to wear
the mantle of President Thlrkfleld. who
was recentlv elected a hlshou in the
M. E Church. Truly Bishop Thlrkfleld
had the interests of the colored people
at heart when he took hold of the work.
Hownrd University Is not what It was
in former cars no. but today It might
he called the New Howard University
It has been made new by the hnrd and
earneft labors of Dr. Thlrkfleld.
Hut who will be elected to the Pres
ident of Howard University ih a ques
tion we dare not venture to answer.
Manv are the seekeis for the honors.
but onlv one will be chosen Most of
the aspirants because they aie colored
i lalm that Dr. Thlrkfleld s- successor
hhould be a colored man. We think dif
crentlv. Because he, the aspirant. Is a
colored man is a very poor reason why
Dr. Thlrkfleld's place should be filled by
him. Any intelligent colored man knows
that a colored president of Howard
University would come far short of get
ting the required means to run that
institution To elect a colored man to
the Presidency of Hownrd University
would help that colored brother Indl-
dually, but it certainly would do the
colleee no good Such a step would be
womclhlng like appointing cirtuln col
ored men to big Federal offices: It helps
the Individual negro, but it does the
ue no good whatevei.
For the continued success of Howard
Unlvcnlry we earnesly believe Dr.
Thirkleld should be Miccecdcd by a
white man, and while space will not
allow us to give 'blm the praise he so
earnestly deorves, we know of no man
who Is more befitting to lie the next
president of Howard University than
that great and good man Capt James
F. Oyster. He believes In everything
that spells success to all men alike.
J C. CUNNINGHAM.
Does Not Agree lVIth the Sentiments
of L. C. S. As to Richeson's Death.
To the Editor of TUB TIMES.
I cannot and do not agree with L. C.
S. "Pastor" Rtcheson, In my belef. had
no equal, for such an atrocious crime
as his wuh. How can a murderer have
a "beautiful death?" Ht went to his
death calmly, because he knew he had
to die one way or the other I like Hih
sentiments of L. H. M. I think Avtt
Llnnell was a good girl, but looking
toward her pastor as Bhe woald her
father, failed. L. N. J.
Nurse Tells How .Sho Goto Sen ice
and Necessaries to the Widow of a
Veteran.
To the Editor of THE TIMES'
I have read several articles In your
helpful paper for the benefit of widows.
I have been a nurso for over twenty
flve years, during which time 1 havs
attended all classes of patients, among
them many old veterans and their wid
ows, one Just a few weeks ago, whom
I not only nursed for notnlng, but also
provided her with the necessaries of
life. It occured to mo then ab on many
previous occasions, how many of our
Senators or Congressmen know how
some of these poor creatures exist. How
many more months we cannot say
years will they bo allowed to live so
wretchedly?
AIan. of them before the year Is
gono will be with those who would hRVo
provided for them. While they are,
here don't let them live on charitv
Many of them die from want, being too
proud to let It be known. Is It not pit!
ful 'or such cases to exist.
How manv will read this and agro
with me? Think more about It
A NURSF
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS
ARMY.
Captain CHARLES C. PULLS Second
Field Artillery, 'from Chicago, III., to
St. Paul. Minn., In connection with
his duties as Inspector instructor of
militia field artillcrv.
Chaplain FRANCIS B. DOHERTY, Porto
Rlcq Regiment of Infantry, trans
ient 1 to the Twenty-sixth Infantr.
NAVY.
LJcnlenant N. W POST, detached
ehar,x' Na.'y Recruiting Station,
Omalu, Neb., to Naval Stitlo'i,
TiUtill.t. Sainn.i.
Lieutcna'it (j.iuior urade) G. M. LAIRD.
dftaOi'd Reciliiu Ship, Mare Is
land, Cal., to Naval Station, TutuHa,
Suri'oa.
Midshipman It. Y. SCHOFIELO. to
.Marytaul,
Fum.ibter AL.VIN HOVEV-K1NG. Uo-
ta'-hed navy Vaid rhailt-flon, ,S C.,
ti. titling out Kluckv, i.nd as
pay of tlccr w bet commissioned.
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.
Arrlvcd-Cclops at Key West. Reld at
New ork yard, Han Fr.inclsco, Cul
go.t. Caesar, Lebanon, at Gu.mtana
ino; Louisiana. Kansas, New Humps-hire,
South Carolina, Drayton. Alt
Call, Paulding, Roe. Terry, Yank
ton, at New York: Mavllower ut
Hampton Roads, Birmingham at
Hallfnx, Supul at Honolulu, Mary
land at Portland, Ore.; Abarenda at
Olongapn.
Sailed Cyclops, from Key West for
Guantunamo; Washington, Rhodu
Island, fiom Key West for Iluvatu;
Patnpsco, from Ke Went for .Ma
lanllla Shoal; Rainbow, from Pslng
Uu fur Shunshal,
Concerts Today
By the US. Soldiers' Home Band,
Bandstand, From 4 to 5:20 p. m.
JOHN S. M. ZIMMERMANN,
Director.
March. "Imperial Edwaid"...Sousa
Overture, "Festival" Leutncr
Transcription, "Tho Angels Sere
nade" (requested) Braga
Selection, "Mnld Marian".. De Koven
Orltntal scene. "The Star Dreamer,"
Bendix
Excerpts from Dr. De Luxe,"
Hoschna
Finale. "King Broadwa"..Wardwell
"Tho Star-Spunsled Banner."
By the U. S. Marine Band, Marine
Barracks, at 4:30 p. m.
WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN,
Leader.
Jlarch, "Thomas Jeffeison," '
Santelmann
Overture, "Leonore No, 3,"
Beethoven
"Reverie" .Leybach
No:turne, "The Alonastery Bells,
Nth
Grand scenes from "Tho Pearl
Fishers" BUet
Suite. "Breezes from tho South,"
Myddleton
(a) Lamentation, (b) The return of
happy das. (c) Finale, a Joyous
greeting.
Waltz, 'Avicner Blut" Strauss
Grand march, "The Ra Charmer of
Hainlcln" Nessler
"The Star-Spangled Banner '
"V