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DEMOCRATS GET
LEeiSLATURE
Have Complete Control of
Affairs in Maine.
ELECT HALE'S SUCCESSOR
As -Result of Victory at Polls Demo­
crats Will Name First Senator
From That State Since 1863—Win
in Two of the Four Congressional
Districts, the Two Victorious Repub-'
Means Narrowly Escaping Defeat.
Portland, Me., Sept. 14.—The Dem
ocrats of Maine are having difficulty
in contemplating the magnitude of
their victory in the struggle with the
Republicans. With two score of little
obscure forest .towns and island plan
fations to hear from additional revised
returns give Colone! Fred' W. Plaisted
(Dem.) 72,711 votes for governor and
Governor Bert M. Pernald of Portland
.(Rep.) 64,000. Plaisted's total plural
ity is estimated to be 8,500. Revised
returns show the election of Ashsr C.
Hinds (Rep.) in the First district by
200 of Daniel J. McGillicuddy (Dem.)
in the Second by 3,000 of Samuel W.
Gould (Dem.) in the Third by 2,200
and o£ Frank E. Guernsey (Rep.) in
the Fourth by 300.
While the election of Colonel Plais
ted and two Democratic congressmen
seemed a great feat interest centers
in the makeup of the legislature,
which has a decidedly changed com
plexion.
Complete returns on the vote for
state senators show the Democrats
have won twenty-one out of thirty-one
seats. The last senate was made up
of twenty-three Republicans and eight
Democrats.
With but four representative dis
tricts to be completed the Democrats
had "elected eighty-four representa
tives and the Republicans sixty-three.
This gives the Democrats 105 votes in
the two legislative bodies and the Re
publicans seventy-three and they com
pletely control both, as ninety-two
votes is sufficient to command a ma
jority.
May Mean Resubmission.
As the legislature has been cap
tured by the Democrats it probably
-will mean the resubmission to the
people of the vexed prohibition liquor
law and a chance for local option in
the sale of intoxicating liquors. The
Sturgis act, which has proved so ob
noxious to many and was denounced
in the Democratic party platform, can
l»e repealed. Certainly the act can be
made inoperative by Plaisted with
drawing the present commission and
neglecting to appoint their successors.
The legislature will also choose a
successor to United States Senator
Eugene Hale and give Maine her first
Democratic senator since 1863 and
New England the first since the elec
tion of William D. Eaton in Connecti
cut in the late seventies.
The next legislature will have full
charge of redisricting the state.
Control of the legislature is of
more importance to Maine than in
some of the other states, because un
der the constitution a number of the
highest state officers are appointed by
that body. These are treasurer, at
torney general, secretary and commis
sioner of agriculture.
The Democratic overturn extends
even to minor state offices. Late fig
ures show that the Democrats elected
thirteen of the sixteen high sheriffs in
the state.
EFFECT FELT IN MISSOURI
Republicans May Draft Platform on
Progressive Lines.
Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 14.—State
committees of the political parties in
Missouri began meetings here in
preparation for the fall campaign.
New chairmen of the committees were
elected.
The Democratic, Republican, Prohi
bition and Socialistic Labor parties
will draft platforms before adjourn
ment. The Democratic committee
will, according to the leaders, endorse
Joseph W. Folk for the ifresidency.
Alarmed by the result in Maine the
Republican committee, composed
largely of standpatters, intended, it
was said, to draft a platform on pro
gressive lines.
LINER IN SCHOOL OF WHALES
Fifty Monsters in Sight of Passengers
at One Time.
New York, Sept. 14.—The largest
school of whales ever sighted by an
ocean liner was discovered off the
Newfoundland banks by the lookout
ef La Gascogne, just arrived from
Havre.
Passengers were able to count fifty
of the animals in sight at once and the
seas was so crowded with them that
the liner bumped squiarely into two of
them.
Fisheries Award Irrevocable.
The Hague. Sept. 14.—The award
of the international court of arbitra
tion in the Newfoundland fisheries
case became irrevocable with the ex
piration of the five days allowed for
an appeal without either the United
States or Great Britain having entered
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ASHER C. HINDS.
Cannon's Adviser Won Out in
Maine by Small Plurality.
BIG
DINNER
FOR L0RIMER
Friends of Senator Resent Action of
Colonel Roosevelt.
Chicago, Sept. 14.—United States
Senator William Larimer is to be the
guest of honor at what is planned to
be one of the biggest dinners given
in Chicago in many years. The occa
sion is to furnish a rebuke by the
friends of the senator to Colonel
Roosevelt, who recently declined to
sit at the same table with Senator
Lorimer, and in order to accentuate
the disapproval with which the friends
of the senator regard the action of
Colonel Roosevelt they intend to ask
President Taft to sit at the head of
the table.
All of the plans for the dinner are
tentative and neither the time nor
place of it has as yet been determined
upon.
SERIOUSGHARGES
AGAINST CARRIERS
Railroads Accused of Varioos
Illegal Actions,
New York, Sept. 14.—Charges of
wholesale dishonesty, of mismanage
ment, of graft, of overcapitalization,
of gross discrimination, of excessive
rates, of aggrandizement and of ef
forts to deceive and bilk the public
were made against the railroads to
the interstate commerce commission
by the Illinois Manufacturers' associa
tion. That organization intervened in
the now famous increase investigation
and demanded that the commerce com
mission make a searching inquiry into
the misdoings which are charged
against the carriers before determin
ing whether or not the roads shall be
permitted to add to their revenues by
increased transportation charges.
The sensational charges were made
through Attorney William D. Haynie
and were filed in writing with the
commission, becoming a part of the
record in the case.
Not content with having made the
charges and asserting that through
misdoings attributed to the railroads
the shippers are burdened with at
least $1,000,000,000 annually in excess
of justice, the Illinois Manufacturers'
association pledges itself to submit
evidence to prove that what it says is
true.
Attorney Haynie declared that he
was now in the midst of an investiga
tion the result of which would startle
the people of the United States and
would show that were it not for in
flation of railroad securities, for "milk
ing" of railroad property, for dishones
ty in construction and other wrong
doings the railroads could afford to
lower their freight rates and would
have an abundance of money.
TO CONSIDER OIL TARIFFS
Producers and Railroad Officials Will
Hold Conference.
Kansas City, Sept. 14.—Several large
refiners and producers of oil in Okla
homa will meet here Thursday with
representatives of railroads entering
that state in an endeavor to arrive at
an adjustment of rates for the trans
portation of crude oil.
The oil men claim new rates have
severely injured the oil industry. The
railroads readily agreed to a confer
ence. Their representatives said there
was no desire to injure the oil indus
try and they were willing to arbitrate
the rate dispute.
Invited to Good Roads Meet.
St. Louis, Sept. 14.—Mayor Freder
ick H. Kreismann sent letters- to the
mayors of 1,000 cities and towns in
the St. Louis territory asking them
to attend the National Good Roads
convention to be held in St. Louis
Sept. 28, 29 and 30. The governors
of the several Btates have appointed
delegates. The attendance is expect
ed to reach 5,000.
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NEWS 0F_ WORLD
important Events ot the Week
in Condensed Form.
POLITICAL NEWS.
United States Senator Robert M. La
Follette, in the contest for renoirJna
tion on the Republican ticket, swept
the state of Wisconsin by a veritable
landslide, it being estimated that he
will have at least 4 to 1 against his
opponent, Samuel A. Cook, candidate
of the regulars. Francis E. McGovern
was nominated for governor.
The reform wing of the Republican
party in New Hampshire, which first
asserted itself in state politics in 1906
and figured again in the state cam
paign of 1908, has, in the first state
wide primaries ever held in New
Hampshire, nominated its candidate,
State Senator Robert P. Bass of Peter
boro, for governor.
Without a single negative vote oc
any question that came before the
state convention the progressive wing
of the Republican party in California
took over the organization manage
ment, endorsing the nominees chosen
at the recent primaries, and adopted
a party platform.
United States Senatof Julius C. Bur
rows of Michigan was defeated for re
nomination at the primaries by Con
gressman Charles E. Townsend. Mr
Burrows has served eighteen years in
the lower house of congress and fif
teen years in the senate.
Mrs. Frances E. Beauchamp of Lex
ington, Ky., state president of the
Women's Christian Temperance un
ion and widely known in women's club
circles, has announced her candidacy
for congress.
John Lind has refused to acept the
Democratic nomination for governor
of Minnesota.
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.
Thirty lives were lost when Pere
Marquette car ferry No. 18, bound
from Ludington, Mich., to Milwaukee,
went to the bottom of Lake Michigan
half way across the lake. The dead
include Captain Peter Kilty of Lud
ington, S. F. Sezpanek of Chicago,
purser and wireless operator, whose
signals of distress brought assistance
to the sinking steamer, and two mem
bers of the crew of car ferry No. 17,
who lost their lives in an effort to res
cue the crew of No. 18. The vessel
and cargo were valued at over $500,
000."
At least nine laborers were killed
outright and ten others injured, all of
them seriously, in the collapse of an
overhanging shoulder of rock from
above the western mouth of the old
Erie tunnel under Bergen hill, con
necting the Erie terminal in Jersey
City with its westward divisions.
Two women were decapitated, a
man burned to death by molten slag
and a young woman suffered cuts and
burns about the body when an auto
mobile in which they were returning
to Chicago from South Bend, Ind., was
struck by a train of cars containing
molten slag.
An explosion of fuel oil and an en
suing fire on the battleship North Da
kota in Chesapeake bay co»t the lives
of three men and more or less serious
injuries to nine others, including Chief
Lieutenant Orin G. Murphin.
Three children of Charles Curry, a
miner in the mining town of Scandia,
la., were burned to death by the ex
plosion of a kerosene can.
LABORNEWS.
The Labor day parade at New York
brought out more union marchers this
year than have ever before been seen
on Fifth avenue. Conspicuous among
them were 3,100 women, most of them
garment workers. The leaders esti
mated there were 71,000 in line.
Arriving at the scene of the recent
street car strike riots which kept Co
lumbus, O., in a state of disorder for
weeks ex-President Roosevelt, in a
speech, denounced in strongest terms
acts of lawlessness and men who com
mitted them.
The strike of 44,000 coal miners in
Illinois, which has just been settled,
it is estimated cost the miners $12,
000,000 in wages. The loss to the op
erators during the five months' shut
down is placed at $15,000,000.
A riot in which 2,000 men were in
volved and as a result of which twelve
arrests were made occurred at the
conclusion of the Labor day parade at
Portland, Ore.
FINANCIAL ~AND~INDUSTRIAL
Special Commissioner Theodore
Brace, in his report to the Missouri
supreme court in the ouster suit just
filed, declared the International Har
vester company of New Jersey a trust
and a combine formed for the pur
pose and with the effect of destroying
competition in the manufacture and
sale of harvesting machinery.
James J. Hill cannot see why the
business men of the country should at
present fear to engage in new enter
prises, nor can he see any reason
whatever for the semi-paralysis which
is gradually creeping over the United
States, "it's only a senseless lack of
confidence," said Mr. Hill.
Raw linseed oil, which comprises
about two-thirds the composition of
paint, reached the highest point in its
history, closing at $1 on the Chicago
board of trade, an advance of 58 cents
over the high point of September last
year, when oil sold at 42 cents.
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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
The Ballinger-Pinchot investigating
committee, on a party vote, Represen
tative Madison of Kansas, insurgent,
siding with the Democrats, adopted a
motion declaring Secretary Baliinger'
an unworthy public servant and calling
for his retirement from public life.
There was protest from the Repub-!
lican members, who tried in vain to
make the point of no quorum, but were
overruled. The resolution asking for'
the removal of Baliinger was passed
by the votes of Senators Fletcher and
Purcell and Representatives James,
Graham and Madison. The four first!
named are Democrats and Mr. Madi-1
son is a progressive Republican.
With an overwhelming majority of
the delegates standing solidly for fed
eral control in conservation the second
National Conservation congress at St.
Paul came to an end. The final hours
were a turmoil from start to finish,
with vigorous speeches from a small
but lung-powerful coterie of states'
rights men from Washington, Idaho
and Montana. The resolutions adopt
ed advocate federal control of natural
resources and follow closely the ideas
of Roosevelt and Pinchot. Henry Wal
lace of Des Moines, la., was elected
president of the congress, Gilford Pin
chot declining the honor.
Using his power as chairman of the
Ballinger-Pinchot committee, called to
meet at the West hotel at Minneapo
lis, Senator Knute Xelson adjourned
the committee meeting until Tuesday,
Sept. 13, when the members are di
rected to meet in Chicago. The action
of the chairman angered the minority
members of the committee and they
held a meeting and at once made pub
lic their findings in the case, which
condemn the actions of Secretary Bal
iinger and call for his removel from
office. The minority then adjourned
until next December.
That the vigilance of the customs
agents at the port of New York id
profitable is shown by a report from
Surveyor Henry, showing that over
$500,000 worth of jewelry has been
seized from alleged smugglers in the
last two months. More than half of
the gems were taken from women and
about half is still in the hands of the
authorities awaiting confiscation or ad
judication.
One hundred thousand people were
in the great Eucharistic congress pro
cession at Montreal and participated
in the carrying of the host. The most
solemn processional known in the Ro
man Catholic church throughout the
world was held for the first time in
the history of this continent. The
spectacle was witnessed by 500,000
people.
CRIMINAL NEWS.
The special grand jury which had
been investigating charges against for
mer Representative Joseph C. Sibley
and four co-defendants in connection
with Sibley's nomination as the Re
publican candidate for congress at the
June primaries returned true bills
against each of the defendants. All
/are charged with conspiracy to bribe
debauch and corrupt voters of Warren
county, Pa.
Lee O'Neil Browne, a minority lead
er in the Illinois legislature, charged
with bribery in connection with the
election of William Lorimer to the
United States senate, was found not
guilty by a jury in the criminal court
at Chicago. This was Browne's sec
ond trial. The jury disagreed in the
first trial.
The Lucas Bridge and Iron com
pany's large plant at Peoria, 111., was
completely wrecked by dynamiters
Three terrific explosions reduced the
plant to ruins and six adjacent build
ings, including three saloons, were
wrecked. The Lucas company has
been operating an open shop.
Gold bullion valued at $57,500, part
of a consignment of $170,000 from the
Washington-Alaska bank of Fairbanks
to the Dexter-Horton National bank
of Seattle on the steamship Humboldt,
was stolen in transit. Lead was sub
stituted in the strong box that con
tained it.
Crazed by jealousy H. V. Harveson
a drug clerk of Redfield, S. D„ shot
and killed Dale Kiser, a prominent
young lady, seriously wounded Dr.
E. Clinite, a dentist, and then killed
himself.
THE DEATH RECORD.
Solicitor General Lloyd W. Bowers
died at Boston of complications aris
ing from an attack of bronchitis. The
solicitor general had been ill about
two weeks. He was fifty-one years ol
age. Mr. Bowers had been prominentl)1
mentioned in connection with one oi
the vacancies on the. bench of the
supreme court of the United States
and it was generally believed he was
slated for appointment to an associate
justiceship by President Taft.
Dr. S. S. French, a widely known
physician, died at his home at Battle
Creek, Mich., aged ninety-four years.
Dr. French read the first resolutions
that resulted in the "Under the Oaks"
meeting when the Republican party
was organized.
Dr. John A. Etiander, for forty-one
years editor of the Hamlandet, the
oldest Swedish newspaper in Amer
ica, died at his home in Chicago, aged
sixty-eight.
Julian Edwards, the composer, is
dead at his home in Yonkers, N. Y.,
of heart disease and complications.
He was fifty-four years old.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Attorney General George W. Wick
ersham, who returned from a tour of
Alaska in company with Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Nagel, declares
himself strongly In favor of Alaska's
development.
SUPPORTERS OF
BALLINGER MEET
Republican Members of Com
mittee at Chicago.
LACK ONE OF QUORUM
Said Chairman Nelson Has Proxy of
Senator Flint, the Absentee, and a
Report Exonerating the Sesretary
of the Interior Is Expected—Partici
pants Unable to Say How Long Ses
sion Will Last.
Chicago, Sept. 14.—Shortly before
noon Senator Knute Nelson callcd to
order the meeting of Republican mem
bers of the Rallinger-Pinchot investi
gating committee which he had ap
pointed to be held in this city. The
committee was called to gather at 10
o'clock, but the train on which Senator
Xelson came, to Chicago was delayed
and he arrived nearly two hours late.
Senator Nelson declined to say on
arrival just how long lie thought the
meeting would last or when the report
of the members of the committee now
in session here would be made public.
As was expected the Democratic
members and Mr. Madison of Kansas,
the progressive Republican, who on
Friday, in Minneapolis, made public
their findings which condemned the of
ficial acts of Secretary Baliinger, failed
to attend.
All the Republican members, with
the exception of Senator Flint, were
here. Senator Flint is not expected
to return from a trip abroad for some
time. His absence will result in no
quorum being maintained.
However, it was reported that Sena
tor Nelson has a letter from Senator
Flint authorizing him to cast Mr.
Flint's vote with the majority of the
Republicans. If this is done action
on the question as to whether the
Republican findings in the controversy
shall be made public now may be
expected. The Republican members
were non-committal before they met
regarding this phase of the dispute.
Luncheon was sent to the commit
tee room and the executive session
continued during the afternoon. Sena
tor Sutherland left the meeting for a
few minutes, but declined to discuss
the deliberations.
COLONEL ROOSEVELT SILENT
Refuses to Discuss Result of Election
in Maine.
New York, Sept. 14.—Theodore
Roosevelt, up bright and early from
Oyster Bay to pay his first visit to
his editorial offices since his return
from his Western trip, was not in
clined to comment for publication on
the result of the Maine election. Asked
to express himself on the subject the
colonel said:
"Nothing to say."
Colonel Roosevelt, was no more com
municative. either, on political topics
in general. Pressed for some state
ment on the general situation he re
sponded
"No. have just returned from a
hygienic tour to steep myself in lit
erary calm.'.' With that the colonel,
who had momentarily emerged from
his private quarters, beat a retreat to
his offices.
SWEEPING CUT IS ORDERED
Canadian Railroad Commission Re
duces Alaskan Rates.
Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 14.—A
sweeping reduction of freight rates on
the White Pass and Yukon railway
was ordered by the railroad commis
sion of Canada.
In a rate Rearing at Seattle last
year, when the railroad was charged
with discrimination in favor of cer
tain steamship lines, the United States
interstate commerce commission up
held the contention that the jurisdic
tion of the commission, being limited
by law to the United States and its
territories, did not extend to Alaska
AMMONIA TANK EXPLODES
One Man Killed and Two Others Badly
Injured.
Mason City, la., Sept. 14.—In an ex
plosion of coils in an ammonia tank
in the refrigeration part of the Decker
& Sons packing plant William Belk,
engineer, was killed and C. B. Locke,
electrician, and Oscar Bradley, labor
er, badly hurt. Locke was blown
from the roof thirty feet to the
ground. Bradley was blown down
stairs.
Wisconsin Lumberman Dead.
Hudson, Wis., Sept. 14.—Henry P.
Svendsen, president of the Central
Lumber company at Hudson and own
er of large timber interests in the
West, died of diphtheria at Spokane,
Wash. He and his family left Hudson
last Thursday for Spokane after a
month's visit fn this city.
Former Broadway 8tar Dying.
New York, Sept. 14.—Deserted by
the hosts of friends whose idol she
was only a few short years ago, when
she was known the length of Broad
way as the "Little Magnet," Lottie
Gllson is reported dying in Bellevue
hospital.
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NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS
In his speech before the National
Conservation congress at St. Paul for
mer President Roosevelt declared him
self in favor of a rational and practi
cal conservation programme which
should give those who are living today
the benefit of our national resources
as well as those of later generations.
He warned the people against the in
sidious activities of agents of the spe
cial interests, who, as victory draws
nearer, are redoubling their efforts to
defeat the conservation movement. He
added that it would be no small mis
fortune if a meeting such as this
should ever fall into the hands of the
open enemy or false friends of the
great movement which it represents.
Mr. Roosevelt strongly urged federal
control of water power sites and
pointed out that most of the "preda
tory corporations" are interstate and
therefore out of reach of effective
state control. One of the prime ob
jects of those corporations that are
grasping and greedy, he said, is to
avoid any effective control, either by
state or nation, and they advocate at
this time state control simply because
they believe it to be the least effec
tive. He further declared that wo
have passed the time when heedless
waste and destruction and arrogant
monopoly are any longer permissible.
Henceforth we must seek national ef
ficiency by a new and better way, by
the way of the orderly development
and use of our natural resources. Mr.
Roosevelt urged the establishment of
a federal board of health and in this
connection said that the needless loss
to our people from premature death
and avoidable disease each year has
been calculated at nearly twice what
it costs to run the federal govern
ment.
Cardinal Vanillin Hi, the aged repre
sentative of I'ius X. tt the Kucharistie
congress at Montreal, fainted in the
CARDINAL VANNUTELLI.
midst of a brilliant reception given in
his honor by the Canadian govern
ment.
Secretary of the Interior Baliinger,
at the Arctic club smoker at Seattle
given in honor of Secretary of Com
merce and Labor Nagel and Attorney
General Wiekersham, spoke bitterly ot
his detractors. "With my conscious
ness of rectitude of my every act, in
private and public, and my determina
tion to go forward in the same path
1 do not fear the criticism of any man
or set of men," said the secretary.
Prior to the banquet of the Hamil
ton club at Chicago, given in his
honor, Colonel Roosevelt refused flatly
to attend unless United States Senator
Lorimer was excluded. The commit
tee in charge of the banquet then re
called the invitation to the senator.
A notable party of Irish leaders will
leave for America Sept. 17 on a tour
which will take in most of the large
cities of the South and West. The
chief figure of the mission will be
John T. Redmond, the leader of the
Irish party.
After an absence of three weeks
Colonel Roosevelt is home again,
weary from his Western trip, but well
satisfied with the result. He enjoyed
every minute of it, he said.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The century old fisheries dispute,
the source of constant diplomatic fric
tion between the governments of the
United States, Great Britain, Canada
and Newfoundland, was. finally closed
with the award of the international
court of arbitration at The Hague,
largely in favor of the United States.
The American government is sus
tained on points 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 out of
the total of seven points in which the
issue was framed.
During the week of Aug. 28 to Sept.
3 there were 9,899 new cases of chot
era in Russia, with 4,405 deaths, com
pared with 15,659 new cases and 7,890
deaths in the week previous. The to
tal for the season is 170,363 cases and
77,466 deaths.
Virtual martial law prevails in Bar
letta, the center of the Italian cholera
zone, as the result of a clash between
several thousand starving and unem
ployed people and the military.
Barcelona, Spain, is in the grip of
a general strike. No newspapers are
published, street cars are tied up and
business generally is at a standstill.
Reports from various towns in the
flooded districts of Moravia indicate
that a heavy death roll will result
from the recent torrential rates.
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