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"P ftWfAi ? I- r 6 THE WASHINGTON TBCK8, 3TODAT, JULY 30,19J1 r tc1ftashmitoTt Uittej Published Every Evening'ln the Tear t rl. IBIS Penna, Ave, between lath apa Hth BU. FRAfK A. MttNSEY. Urofrielon IP. A. WALKER. ftfantiging ,dttorf . BUUSCIUPTION. RATES BT MAlU , - 'l too. s me. Callr-and Sunday k....t........ 10.30 law only .... .. ;..,... 2S .7K inn. It.w t Itr. 1.00 .10 , . 'JU,NB 1 ' DAltY. ffetil cre June, 1MJ...1,M7.1 A Vers ire ross. June; 191J. 85,494 ToUl net. June, 1912 US7.1U Averace net. June. lJU.. T,7 OI.RO.UIiATtfON' " , BtmpAT. ' Total gross. Julie, 1W1.1.....S .Averase grow. June 1MI..JT.1H Total net June.'iwi. . Avcrate net, June, 1MJ 0.w i ftniAmnlv fewear that th vMmnftnvinff Btatsmint revretenta the circulation of The Washington Times aa detailed, ana that the net figures represent, all return eliminated. th number of coplee ot The Tlmea. which are aold, delivered, furnished, or. mailed to bona' Ada purchasers or subscriber. FHED A. WALKEK, ' General Manager. District ot Columbia, aai . Subscribed and sworn to bafora'ma this first day of July, A. X. Hit v . I ' THOMAS C. YriM.18. (Beal) - Notary Public. Entered at the Pottofflea at Washington. D.C.. ai second data matter. " 'June, 1812, include. 11.M0 extra old June 18, 15,100 61d June It. 1I.M0 told June to. COM sold June , and 11.0T0 sold -June K. Deducting these wrurss the dally average riet circulation for the tnonth (eztraa deducted) I shown to; have been' 1B.1M. . I TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1912. DEATHBED .REPENTANCE. The revision downward of the woolen and -sugar schedules of "the best-tariff ever written'" by the reactionaries, who wrote it and defended it, is not a vindication of the progressives who fought the law's being enacted. Their vindication. came at the hands' of. the people1 in 1910. It is merely the efforts of a dying Administration to make its peace.with outraged decency .that its going nence may not oe accompaniea oy any nar rowing deathbed scenes. ' SHEEP AND PROTECTION. Now come the textile manufacturers who .grew rich, and arrogant by virtue of Schedule K and pre dict that the revision of. the woolen schedule will drive the sheep raiser out of business. ' . ' ' Only a few days ago these same gentlemen "gave; notice of an advance in woolen goods and"" alleged as the main reason for this advance the enormous decrease in the wookclip in this country. So it appears the sheep raiser has not taken advantage of the protection he has been accorded for generations. RESPECTFULLY REFERRED. 'The. honorable committee which is to inform Taft of the calamity that befell him at Chicago last month is having more or less trouble in framing the noti fication in language that will break the news to him and at the same time spare his feelings. - The ready letter writer and Lord Chesterfield could not foresee, such a delicate situation, so there is no model on record by which the. committee may be guided. It is with a feeling of having performed A t.MriW, A,.AA 4Vlt VITA tf..tA.t FM 4tA J.4.I Mma'j. a niuuiy.avi five uiai wc ouumii iui uio wuiiiiiiuicc o consideration ampde fetter of. felicitation under such " trying - circumstances.' ' It "is written' . by a little girl in Missouri : Dear Sis: We 1b all well and mothers got the his Terrlcks, brother torn 1b got the Hupin Kaugh and sister Ann is got a baboe, and i hope these few lines will find you the same. Your affechunate kuzen. THE FOOL THINGS TOWNS DO. '''!' " ' ' '' - ' -' -J - - . - . I' '" . ' ' y . ' I . IT ISN'T THE ST.RA W Hfi B,.BOA-aiD OF -J- 'AcsSMSISSkSS '" wMMlmmKtB -tmMmmmm- mmkJm m .. syzjm; , a . lj, mm ii i ' m JMmKHKm 'WiiHy fig fjff YV cZfSv JlVYrU aaaaVSI aaaW'l lat MUaVfaUaVlaBaaaaaaaBaaW , .. U,i ' VTMT""" "" TtT? Baltimore is one city in which the cost of living of things to eat has been kept almost within moderation and reason. It is known for this all over the land. We should think Baltimore would like it; apparently, it doesn't. ( The Baltimore Wholesale Grocers' Association kicked up trouble about farmers selling direct to customers, and the town will enforce a $25 annual license requirement from all such. 'That means that no farmers will do it any more. The cost of living will go up. Baltimore won't have to be accused of being a "cheap town" any longer. Towns that growl about the cost, of living, and then make it as hard for a farmer to sell something inside the city limits as most of them do, ought to be subjected to the ministrations of the lunacy commission. WILSON'S NEW TIMIDITY. Candidate Wilson has written Congressman Griggs, member of the House Naval Committee, that he will not take part in the contention-among House Democrats as to whether they will. live up to the Baltimore platform and provide for an adequate American navy or whether they will, right on the heels of that platform's adoption, repudiate it. Is it of no concern to Candidate Wilson whether the platform upon which he is 'to run is to be repudi ated even before he formally accepts the nomination? Has he taken to heart Speaker .Clark's advice delivered at Seagirt in the presence of the Demo cratic House, not to interfere with the House if he wishes to get along? If it is of little or" no consequence to Candidate Wilson before the election whether or not ...Dem ocratic platform is to be lived up to, it will surely be of Jess consequence to him after election. GIVE THE PEOPLETHE ODpS. Three-tenths of a cent off the duty on a pound of sugar ,wlll not amount to much on the consumer's grocery bill." Philadelphia Bulletin. So? Well, then,, neither will it amount to much on the ledger of the Sugar trust; and, inasmuch as there is more of the consumer than of the trust, why not give him the edge? ' We have noticed that none of the special privi leges Big Business wants ever amounts to much, according to their argument. It makes no difference whether it is a 'little bill", the. Water Power trust .wants passed or a "little" change in the tariff schedules. But we havealso noticed that Big Busi ness is very tenacious about getting the "little" things If concessions-are so "little" that they raise an element of doubt, let's give the people the benefit of the doubt. .dT- AKTC President Taft and The Times ing of the- party. It said that very thing scores of times in the five months before the Chicago convention. "" "'' Was, the Tim;es right? We tHhk'Me present situation of the Republican party is pretty complete vindication. v No matter whether delegates are got for the candidate it Js supporting, or for the can didate it is opposing, The Times does not like these methods. It didn't like them in 1908, and it has no objection to admitting that it didn't like them in 19121 The fact that these methods had long been in vogue, that all factions of the party employed them, that they had come to be regarded "with 'frank cynicism as the regular thing, did not convince The Times that they were desirable. For the people who invented that sort of politics, who imposed that system on the party, who employed, it repeatedly in their Southern fights, who IMPOSED A'SET, OF RULES WHICH MADE IT UTTERLY IM POSSIBLE TO CONDUCT ANY FIGHT AGAINST THE PARTY MACHINE WITH OUT DOING THOSE SAME THINGS; for these people now to smitd their breasts and lift their eyes, to heaven,, thanking God that they are not so clepraved-rit is to laugh. , f THESE SOUTHERN CONTESTS, HOWEVER, HAD NOTHING HAT EVER TO DQ WITH THE REAL MERITS OF THECHICAGO THEFT, Aside from me meaningless rorms or "regularity," one set of delegates represents just as much as another,' in the Southern States which ,hae no Republican party anyhow. THE STEAL ING WAS DONE IN THE GREAT RE PUBLICAN STATES OF THE NORTH, the States that, must furnish the votes to elect any Republican who may win. UNABLE TO CARRY STATES OF THIS KIND, THE TAFT MANAGERS STOLE ENOUGH TO GIVE THEM CONTROL' OF THE CONVENTION. And there is the crime of the Chicago convention, 'the country understands, and the country will reckon with the perpetrators in due time. ' t" " . President Taft does especial 'hortor to the frankness, and honesty of The Times as a newspaper, by calling it as chief witness in his "defense" of the theft of delegates at Chicago. If the President had discovered ea'rlier that The. Times was a reliable witness, and had been as willing to adopt its views on such matters as the Ballinger scandal, the loot ing of Alaska, the betrayal 6f the pure food laws, the tariff outrage of 1909, or the reactionary Administration railroad bill of 1910, his political fortunes would not today be at the pitifully .low ebb they are. ' More than a week before the Chicago convention opened, The Times printed a dispatch from-a correspond ent at Chicago, pointing out that no particular significance need be attached to the fact that tjie national committee had, to that date, decided every contest in favor of Taft. At that time, seventy-two contested seats had been passed on and all given to Taft. To the uninitiated, it was a statement calculated to give the impression that Roose velt was losing everything, and had no chance. Therefore The Times correspondent explained the exact significance of those contests. He stated, frankly and candidly, what was doing; told exactly what everybody knew was true,, and what nobody had ever made any secret of mystery about. The' statement of the facts caused no astonish ment then, because it wasn't astonishing; it would have no significance now but for the fact that it was printed in a newspaper then and now supporting Colonel Roose velt. Today, pressed for defense, the Administration's .special pleaders bring forward The Times' statement of June 9, GIVE IT A DISTORTED SIGNIFICANCE, AND PRETEND THAT IT SOMEHOW HELPS MAKE A CASE FOR MR. TAFT. The Times correspondent wrote that the decision of seventy-two cases against Roosevelt had no special sig nificance. He pointed out that many of the cases were started for merely political reasons, and told why. When Roosevelt became a candidate, a considerable number of delegates had already been selected in the South, by the Federal officeholders' machines, and instructed for Taft. A tabulation of delegates actually selected, on the day Colonel Roosevelt became a candidate, would have shown most of them for Taft. Senator Dixon, thereupon, took a leaf from the experience of other campaigns; he started contests, and placed these Southern delegations in the "contested" column. The Times correspondent added: "That is the whole story of the larger number of the Southern contests that were started early in the game. It was never expected that they would be taken very se riously; thsy served a useful purpose, and now the na- j". ? O v tional committee is deciding them in favor of Taft; in most ' cases, without real division.. These contests never were listed as available assets of the Roosevelt campaign. It rested on no such flimsy foundation. The Roosevelt strength resides in the great blocks of delegates from such States as Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, Nebraska, Min- H nesota, and so on; delegates that come from the people, that mean business, Jhat nobody will dare contest, and that give him, no matter whathe national committee may do, just about the same number of votes that Taft will be able to count." Such is the awful confession that The Times corre spondent made: That Senator Dixon had -started some contests which it wgs not, expected could be sustained be fore a hostile! 'national committee If that admission is the confession ofr.something wicked and Mr. Taft seems to think it is let. that 'be conceded. But if it was wicked in 1912, the same proceeding must have been wicked, like wise, in 1908. Exactly the same thing was done in 1908; and IT WASDONE BY THE VERY SAME MEN WHO THIS YEAR MANAGED THE TAFT CAMPAIGN. Jn 1908, as in 1912, the machinery at the South was for taft. the machines, composed of officeholders and bosses,tcalled their conventions early and elected pro-Taf t delegates. . ' In 1908, however, the big national bosses, at the North, were AGAINST Taft. Crane, Penrose, Guggen heim, Cannon, Hemenway, Fairbanks, Kealing, Scott, Aldrich, Hale all of that sort of people were AGAINST Taft. What did they do? THEY WENT INTO THE SOUTH, FRAMED UP CONTESTS, CALLED UNAUTHORIZED AND IRREG ULAR CONVENTIONS, AND LISTED AS "CONTEST ED" THE DELEGATIONS FROM THESE UNREPUB LICAN. STATES. Contesting everything in the, South was the particu-' lar specialty of those gentlemen in 1908. It was" per fectly correct; gqod politics; the regular procedure. But in 1912, with these same bosses all supporting Taft because they had discovered 'that he was their kind of a. statesman, how different! Today, McKinley, Pen rose; Kealing, and the rest of them hold up their hands in horror at the idea that the Roosevelt managers should have been so wicked as to do, in 1912, THE VERY SAME THING THAT THESE BOSSES THEMSELVES DID IN 1908! Let the Times make itself clear about this matter. It never did fancy that sort of thing. It. has said' as much many times. It has warned the Republican party, time and again, with all the earnestness of which it was capable, that the rotten Southern situation would yet be the undo- Seen ..and.ifed ' C" "The readers of The Times yesterday afternoon must have been surprised upon seeing the dispatch from Ja pan announcing the death of the Mikado, bearing date I of 'Tuesday, July 30 while the paper itself was dated 'Monday, July 29 a day earlier," said Commander Ed ward. McCauley, superintendent at the Naval Observa tory'.. "In other words, -The Times published the event the day before it occurred. "This is due to the fact that the time for the civilized world is counted from the 100th meridian, which runs through the Pacific Ocean a little "east of Japan. Accordingly Japan is the first country to begin counting a new day. To be exact, Tokyo, her capital, is just fourteen hours ahead of Washington, so that, at the hour when the newB of the Mikado's death was re ceived here. 2:10 Monday afternoon, it was 4 o'clock tomorrow (Tuesday) 'morning in Tokyo." Washington Elks are pawing the sod and tossing their branching antlers in gleeful anticipation today; for this evening they are going to take the Eagles and the Indians out to Luna Park and give them, a gymkhana and a hlgh jlnks and a pot-latch, and every other form of good time dear to the heart of gregarious man, la which form of practical philanthropy this animal excels. Fred Mersheimer, long a principal, and favorite spirit among the antlered herds of the" Capital, is taking a leading part in arranging for tonight's trouble. Ab he paused on an F street corner this morning he detailed to a youthful brother Elk the anticipated Joys of the occasion. "The Elks will be there, every head of 'em In the city," he enthused, "and, the Indians are coming out in carload lota, and the Eagle! Say, the air's going to be Just full of Eagles." "Say, mister," put in a bewhiskered person with a carpet sack and a return ticket for Squeedunk, who hod been listening open-mouthed, "Kin you tell me haow ter git tew that there performance? And is they got any perforata seals t I'm Jlst crazy 'bout these here Wild West an' an'lmile shows." "The man who thinks it's all cakes and ale answer ing the questions that folks ask a newspaper office all (day long over the telephone' has got another think com ing," sighed Ed Humphries, a veteran newspaper man. wearily, as he hung up the receiver. "And Fought to know; I have it all day long. There's that fellow just now. This was our'conversaUon: "'Hello. Say, what general of the Revolutionary War was it that said. War is hell?' " 'It wasn't any general of ' " 'Yea, It was. I want to know to decide a bet " 'But it was not a general of the " " 'Yes it was a general. I know it was. It wasn't a colonel or a captain. Don't you fellows down there know that much?' '"Why, yes, of course we do. But, I tell you, It wasn't a general of ' '"Say, look here, young man, are-you trying to be funny? I guess I know what I'm talking about Can't you smart alecks answer a simple question?' " 'Yes, sir. But I was Just trying to tell you that it wasn't a general ' " 'Get off the wire. I'll report you to your manager. Now I'll call up the Congressional Library, where they've got some brains.1 "And all the time," sighed Ed, "I was just trying to tell him it was not a Revolutionary general, but General Sherman of the civil war." a ' t ' ;