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WILSON PEOPLE
CLAIM CONTROL
(Continue! from First Page)
er Byrd can ..;'> to Baltimore at ai
it is not believed the Seventh District
will ulect him. unless concessions out
compromises ure made lo-nlght. Tlioro
wore pruciically no responses from the
Third and Ninth Uistrlotu frum the
i?>i call ut titu vVlluon meeting,
l'h' Stats Democratic Convention will
be called t> order at noon to-morrow
In the tjrunby Theatre i>y Chairman a.
Tuylor Eli y son. in accordance with
the action ol th? ;huic Committee to
n.uni, the oiIKeni will ho us follojvsf
Colonel James It. Cdton, of AKxamn....
temporary chairman; J- N. Brenat)iai.,
ol Sh nimoah. temporary secretar) .
Ji. Cunningham, of Norfolk, temporary
?>??! ?i ant-at -arms.
All district delegations Will meet at
lo o'clock at appointed places' to .select
district delegates and alternate* to the
national convention, members of tue
Statu Committee and presidential ?
tors.
Among the meetings held to-night
W*8 one Ol tho Ninth UlStrcit Ucletu
tlon ut the L?ynnbav?h Hotel, it was
Addressed by Ocnorui Bufus A. Ayors.
of Big Stone Gap, candidate for Con?
gress^ who predicted success In the
November ela tion.
Thu hotel lobbies are crowded to?
night ?with delegates und visitors, a I'd
reunions of all sorts ara in progress^
The. scene is exceedingly unlmatea.
Prohibition S pee I re.
Every conceivable topic of interest
in Virginia political affairs hua b'-?n
dl.itu.sbot thiouKhuut tile city by tin
hundreds of dub-gates who throng tue
lobby of the Montlcello Hotel, the con?
vention headquarters. The quadren?
nial molding of the Democrats of vu
ginla constitutes the fountain whenui
Slows the political lite of thj Stutb.
There is settled the organization and
the policies of the dominant putty, and
it is natural that every representative
puny man should su?i>. elth-T to im?
press bis lndlvlduu.1 views or to mani?
fest his opposition to any existent or
projected doctrine or principle to which]
ho cannot subscribe. It was plainly
evident from the beginning that uie
tip.-ctro of a prohibition light was
troubling the party leaders not u. little.
The leaders are divides! among them
solves on the issue, but practically all
of them are unwilling to involve the
convention in a discussion of a mat?
ter w.llch could only resuli in thu
drawing o.' factional lines without the
possibility of a solution .which would
be satisfactory to t:it sldq which found
liheif In the minority when the issue
was S't'x"t'l. Delegates from a certain
city told h?w an avowed Statt prohl
bitionint had tried to secure election
to thi> convention as a d-i?yjat" for 'the
purpose of helping to get through a
resolution commuting the party to a
referendum on this liquor question.
Now ar.d then throughout tho day It
wa? suM that from some source would
come s'jch a resolution. But Its origin
could not be located.
I ee < redllcd With Movement.
FlSh Commissioner \V. MoDonuld l.ee
whs credited In some quarters with
I ng Interested in such a movement
?tSo fai as I am at present advised,"
: . . Mr. Lee In reply to a question on
subject. "I do not expect such an
i ?? i.;>t will be mad'-. At all events, I
IIy t Ink I shall take such action.
KltOUld 1 do so. It would be with the
. :-? i of getting th!? vexed matte.- ?
%vny rr this other and put at rest."
Many of the close pnservers predict
that ?om? one will precipitate the
matter efther on the floor of the con?
vention or in the mcee.lng of the com?
mittee on resolutions.
There seems to ba no foundation for
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The superiority of Michelin Tires j
is recognized all over the World
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(You Would M arj
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ICarceleraa (From ?I.uh llij.::; del
I ; Zeoedco") in Spanish, Chap!
aarnlval of Venice?Part I. Bcncdli :
I Carnival of Venlvfc?Part li. Benedict
Olnoru'." ?' Jirsbi-j. Icgg i sra (Jfnadow
.soii?>. Meyerbeer
L.ikme?Dov' a' rindiana brumi
(Bell Song), Dellbes
; Lucia d! Lamrmermoor?-Rognava
j net allenxio, Donizetti
' Lucia?Mad Seen? (flute ob II gad o by
Oe*tarrelcher?. Donizetti
; Manila?Th,. bast Rose "f summer
in English, Moore
'? Mignon?polonese, "10 son Tltonla"
(I'm Fair Tit inia i
! S'ozzt dl Figaro?Vo| che .-;?;>' ?
?Waat is This Feeling?)
' 1?. ri> dti i'.r s.i -.?liaraiar.t ois-.-a :
<Tho i brilliant Bird;
Proeh's Air and Variations
(-Flute otabllgato by C. Barone), Pro
Rigoiatto?i*:?ro Nome i Dearest Name i
Verdi
I Borneo et Juliette?Valse (JullM's
Waltz Song i. 1 sonnod
liSomnamtjuin?Ah! non cred.ea mlrartl
(Could I Belli v ? i
Somnambttla?Ah, noh Blutige
<oti. Recall Not Sorrow)
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(JSoixwelzer Echo Lied), Eckert
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tr.e report that fit's primary lifiue Will
catiso a tt^ht. Th* new By.-d law on
the subject has not as yet gone into
effect, and Its results are entirely f?.-ob_
lematlcal. Beyond an adheronc.' to th?
system, It l.? unlikely ther? will he
mention of primaries. It would appear
to be much mori Mkely thai some one
(will try to secure the adoption of a
! resolution indorsing a Ftderae Income
tax.
I Color Is lent to this view because of
S the fact that practically every Virginia
i Congressman favors such a tax. Serf
' ator Martin made It a part of his cam*
I tnlgn declarations last year. It will
be fought, and it is likely that the
Kader of the opposition will be Hugh
A White, of Rockhridac. who has op?
posed u in legislative councils since
It was proposed.
Third District Fight.
All sorts of rumors were afloat
throughout the day regarding the
Third District situation.
While the organization leaders were
from the beginning willing to send H.
M. Smith. Jr., as a district delegate to
i the Baltlmcre convention, they did not
j like efforts attributed to him to de
I feat C. B. Cooke, and to substitute C.
j P. Cardwell in Mr. Cooke's place. The
letter was said to have certainly more
j than enough votes to e?ect him. Mr.
; Smith was a candidate during the day
I foi permanent chairman of the con
I yentloh, but was In such a hopeless
I minority that his race was at no time
, taken seriously. Representative James
I Hay was the favorite with nearly
everybody,
i It seems that the only contest for
I consideration Xy flhe committee on
credentials ?III oo fiu.-u Norfolk coun?
ty, which furnishes u contest wlfeii
everybody eir>? in ut rest. The straight
outs have bvun iioiuiiif-, magisterial
district meptfllgs arid electing deltguteu
to oppose the men chosen .?t the fuwlon
primaries. Thu fuslvnlutu profess to
hiivu auch a plain carlo that there Id
no doubt of victory lu tho committee,
luiiu as a natural result, on tin Hour
I ut thu convention.
Speuker Rlouard liyelyn llyrd held,
conferences all dc.y :on^ with his
ii lends of thu Wootirdw w liaou adher?
er t-. Many Wilson badges wem i.oeii
lit Hie hotel lobbies, an 1 but Very lew
ui any othei kind". Vet they were not
oy any me&n/j in tho majority.
Senator John II. Hunk heed, ol Ala?
bama, mixed umong the delegates, do?
ing What b? eouui lor Congressman
Oscui '.v. Underwood. Ucerg,- N.Jess*,
; of tiii Clark hindquarters, dlscisaed
; tile Speakei' of the House of Repfouelit;
atives to all who v/'juld llbten and
' mude campaign pri dictions tu advance
?.f the coming of Senator Stone, uf Mis?
souri, iatu in tue afternoon.
The burden of the talk of the Clark
and Underwood representatives was
'merely that they hoped< to brev'jnt .my
sort 01 action at tui- nieelu.,; in favor
! of (lo vir nor Wilson and lo uucure del
I e'gates frlendlj to their men" Both
i had to admit thut Ii the uriit rule 1=
j enforced it would make llitl? dlfferOn? ?.
? as to swell preferences', since Hi: d< ? -
gallon will then be swayed by1 lue liliir
Ijority, or. more correctly speaking* b>
the leaders.
v. i \v in. Sixth District.
! Some interest was aroused over the
situation ot Charlotte and Halifax
' COuntlCS. By act of th-S last Leg:bla
\ tlire these two counties were taken
fr,m the Sixth District and put in the
' Fifth for political reasons. The act'
j will not b>3 in effect until June Ii; and
: It was Dually decided ibut the toOntlea
'must still, so lar as this convention 1? i
concerned, act ivith the Sixth District
i delegation and perhaps secure their.
I part of the political honors. -|
All Congressmen arrived during the
day exc?pt:tiK Senator Martin, who!
cannot come. Represerrtatlvs Carter
Ctlus?, who fa'.'ors Wilson, bat Is In |
favor of an unlnstrucred delegation. I
was a*.out the lo/Uby mo.tt of the day j
d i usalnglhe signs of t..e Units with
Mis political friends, and, it Is said, |
receiving many assurances of support j
for r*-eb.ction in spite of the opposl
tioh to him. W. A. Jones sa-.v mtoy j
friends in hlr room. Senator Swanson
was busy at all hours. IL D. Flood '
was l!i all places at once.
Secretary J. X. Brenaman will be rc- !
I elected without opposition, lie has
j with him many convention rolls show- :
lng the proper representation from!
each pol it Icy. 1 subdivision. Sorn? dele- I
gates are Inclined to argue with him '?
regarding tIiv correctness of els flgJ
urcs. but he points to thc^tresldentlal I
election re.cortJsi of H?OS, as ?u tils in *
rha olllc? o* tin- .Secretary of tho Com- I
sx-onwealth, where he s cured the In-i
formation.
' The I'.'chmond delegation has mos:
t of the fourth iloor of the convention j
todtel.
Fight (lur '?lute Board of education.:
One of tho fights before the conven?
tion to-morrow- will he over a resolu- j
t!on aimed at the State Board of Edti-I
cation and its method of selecting di?
vision school superintendents. Its
patron is W. It. Walton, member of the i
House ,,f Delsgates from Hanover,
?whose efforts at chances in the school!
system won him puCol'e notice at- the j
I last session of the Lea isla tu re.
j He wants all superintendents chesen
at party primaries. Mr. Walton is ex?
ceedingly active to-night and claims
I wide support fo rhls resolution. It
{will be warmly advocated by S. 11.
! Love, of I.unenbilrg, who is on the'
? scene with Ills usual attitude te,ward
! rhe school syste mas ut present con-j
? ducted. After setting forth that the!
j people of Virginia demand ami ought
? to have a larger voice In the manage
I mcnt of school affairs, which under the 1
i present laws and the regulations of,
i the Department of Public Instructions;
t they r.re denied, the resolution de-'
' nounces the school system as "an oli?
garchy contrary to the principles of,
democracy and repugnant to govern-,
mental Institutions." The resolution^
i then follows:
"Be it resolved by the Democnts
of Virginia In convention assembled,!
That all Democratic candidates for po
sltlons as division superintendents of
schools be and ore hereby required
to submit their claims to satd office
to the decision o fa Democratic prl- 1
niary which shall be suitably pro- j
vlded for by the party ofiiclals.
"And be it further resolved, That
the Democratic members of ti?- State
Board of Education be and are hereby!
In honor bound to vote fo rthe ap- ;
pointment of such superintendents as.
are nominated by the primaries.''
sixth congressional district dele-,
"oreenal: For Vlrfflnln? I'nlr TbllrN-|
day) Friday, mir, narmer lu ras I por?
tion.
For Vorth Carolina?Local showers
Thursday) Frldny, fulrj wanner ia
easl portion.
S|ieclnl Local Data for Yesterday.
12 noon temperature . S3
3 P. M. temperature . S4
Maximum temperature up to S
P. M. SI
Minimum tempisVaturc up to S
P. M. 7 4
Mean temperature . 7:i
Normal temperature . ii'i
Excess in temperature . io
KX.CISS in temperature since March
1 . 1
Accum, deficiency In temperature
sl.vee January l . no
Excess in rainfall since March l. i.7i
Accum, excess in rainfall since
January 1 . -I..,S
Local Observation s p. ?!. Irsterdny,
Temperature . 71
Humidity . 7(j
Wind, direction .S. E.
Wind, velocity . ji
Weather .1't. cloudy
CO.\DlTIO.\S IN IMPORTA XT CITIES.
[(At S P. M. Kastorn Standard Tlino.)
Place. Ther. 11. T. L T. Weather
Aihevllie _ 72 Ts 66 l". cloudj 1
Atlanta . Ti; iit> p. cUii>!y .
At.hvitic City. .'?-.' 56 r>2 Cloudy ,
BOsroh . 5S .'..' p. cloudy
Buffalo . 7:'. Sa ."o; I?. cloudy]
Calgary . :>'> OQ it Itain ?
Charleston .. 7-' 7? Cloudy j
Chicago . v_" s.i 7.? Clear ]
Denver . 7J 7s is: Cloudy
Duluth ...... 42 RS Cloudy
Galvestbn ... 76 s. 7? i'. cloudy
liatteras .... 70 72 CS Rain
Havre . i? Kb it Rain
Jacksonville. .71 SI 7:1 r
Kansas City.; M' 88 7J P. cloudv
Louisville ... SJ ss 7n Clear
^Montgomery.. so m; 73 p. cloudy
.N.w in nans. 80 SS 7 1 I*, cloudy
Xew York..,.. 61 0 4 ,,l Clear
Norfolk .,. ., 70 SO 7rt P. cloudy
tiklahoma ... M ,86 O.S Clear
Pittsburgh .. 82? 81 70 Clear
Baleigh . 70 7-'. 6S I'. cloudv
St. Louis_S2 Si", 70 I', cloudy
St. PfTtll . 7 1 80 5 1 Cloudy
San Francisco ?S 58 66 I'. cloudy
Snvannah ... 7i' SO C6 Cloudy
Spokune . IS 62 II Ualn
Tampa . 78- Si 72- Clear
Warhlngton.. OS SI 68 Clear
Winnipeg ... 4"! 60 Olo?dy
wythevillc .. 70 80 r.r. Clear
Mixi.vi 1 in: ai.m \\ vc.
May ii, 1912,
ili'.iii TIDE,
Sun rises.... 4.'56 MornliiK. . . . 1 "aM
Sun sets. 7:17 Evening... .10:12
ways in which :i Public Utility Company differs from all ordinary manu?
facturing or merchandising concerns arc these, namely:
<i) The Public Utility Company docs not" primarily deal in commodi?
ties: it performs a SERVICE. And by tlie quality of that service it must
stand Or fail?succeed <t fail. i
(2) 'I'lle Public Utility Company cannot be transplanted to any other
city. The Virginia Railway and Power Company has invested millions ot
dollars in Richmond to serve the People of Richmond. Both investment
and service arc local, and by their very nature cannot be moved to any
other place.
13) The Public Utility Company cannot be established or maintained
withoiit Public Co-Operation. Its "distribution system"?the apparatus
necessary to convey the service to the pcople-r-must inevitably to some ex?
tent occupy or traverse public property ; and this cannot lawfully be done ex?
cept by the People's permission, in the shape of a grant or franchise.
Prom the inherent nature ot this whole class of business, in anv Pub
Ii.- Utility ONE SOURCE OF SUR PRY A NT) ONE DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM INSURES THE BEST SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
AND A MINIM I'M COST TO EACH CONSUMER.
These are some of the reasons why the old ideas of competition
(whether or not they arc applicable to ordinary manufacturing and merchant
dising) do not and cannot apply to Public Utilities.
If two separate systems of Electric Light and Power Service would
be better than <->ne such system for the people of Richmond, four would
be better than two; eight would be better than four; and a hundred would
he better than eight?which, you will rightly say, is a manifest absurdity.
Natural Laws sometimes seem to work slowly?because we human he?
mps are slow to understand their workings?hut they worjk; and they arc
inexorable. It i^ a Natural Law that in anv Public Utility the QUALITY
OF SERVICE IS IMPRi ?VED AND ECONOMY IS INCREASED NOT
BY COMPETITION AND DIVISION, PUT P.Y CO-OPERATION
AND CONCENTRATION. And in accordance with this law every; organ?
ized, unified community ultimately must and will for the public welfare, re?
ject and prevent competition in its Public Utilities.
There is no more need and no m ore reason for a competing electric
lischt and power plant in Richmond than there is for a COMPETING
WATER WORKS or a COMPETING GAS WORKS?the one would be
as much against the public interest as the other, and as much a PUBLIC
NUISANCE and a PUBLIC INJURY.
Remember this?and read to-morrow's "Service Talk."
William Northrop, President.
Service Talk No. ?
May 23, 1912
gatea to thr Democratic State Con?
vention carried their grlevcnces against
what they regarded as unfair means
used in connection with tlie parceling
out of delegates to Baltimore, to the
floor of the si.ite committee meeting
to-night.
They were ignominously defeated,
when the committee, by a vote of 23
to 9, sustained a ruling of stato Chair?
man J. Taylor. Kllyson. which will re?
sult, it is expt cted. in depriving the
Sixth District, as it will hereafter he
constituted, >??: one of Its delegates
to the national convention.
The trouble arose over the redls
trictltig of the State as affected by
the last Legislature. The counties of
Halifax ar.l Chat-lotto were then taken
from the Sixth District and plac?d( in
the Kifth in order to make the latter
A few drops on sugar
will usually relieve
the most obsti?
nate case.
Noah's Llalment Is tho best remedy for
Hheumatlda, .' .lallen, Lame Back, Stiff
Joints and Muoclos, Soro Threat, Colds,
Strains, Sprains, Cuts,
Dr?ttes, (.'e'.lr. Cramps,
.'.YarnlRlit. TootlUtChS,
and all STervo. Uono
and Muscle Ahrs and
Pains. Tho gcaulaohas
Nosh's trie on every
pickJ^o an 1 leol-s like
this cut, hut has HUD
l.jn 1 on frj::! of pack?
age, trad "Naah'i Lini?
ment" always a R :i>
inic. Jlotvsrc-<??' '.n
lions. Large : ?? ? !c, 25
ce:its, and s;! I oy all
dealers In r.:c -S I c I n o.
Guaranteed, or money
r o (U >' 'I ell 1>v Noali
Remedy Co., Inc.,
Iilchnajna, Vn.
certainly Democratic. Tills law win
not no into effect until Jun> 13.
Halifax county wants to ecml Oran
Cradd?ck, the clerk of the Circuit
Court and a well-known political
worker, to Baltimore as a delegate.
It seemed the only way to get him <n
[ was to elect him from the Sixth Dis?
trict, sine? the two places from tho
I Fifth had been spoken for and agreed
upon. ' The Sixth District folks did
I not lake kindly to this arrangement,
as it reduced their representation to
one. while giving the new Fifth Dis?
trict three. They kicked long and
I loudly, but It did thi ni no good.
Henry < >. Humphreys, of Bedford,
started the fight In tho .stifte commit
.tee m eting. He said that when the
i Baltimore meeting is held, tho new
! redistrictlng will he in effect and
ought to govern. Robert Giliium tried
\ to head him oft without success, ar?l
J. Taylor Thompson, of Farmyllle,
disagreed with Mr. Humphreys In his
views.
At last, Chairman ICIlyson was asked
for a ruling, and said that us tho law
was not in effect, Halifax and Cha'r
1 lotte should be still regarded as In the
(Sixth District, so far as this conven?
tion is concerned. Mr. Humphreys did
[not give up. He lirst teferred to let?
ters written by .Mr. Rllygon as If the
chairman had changed, ills position re?
cently. Ho. was reproved by Colonel
K !>. Cole, of Fredertcksburg. The
Bedford man said ho had meant no re
liection upon the chairman. Ho then
appealed t" th.- committee from Mr.
Klly.-uiu's ruling, the chair being sus?
tained by the vote Of twenty-thtco to
nine on roll call. The insurgents in
politics mainly voted for the appeal.
Tito committee adopted a now set
of rules for primary elections, to con?
form to the new Byrd law.
Critic,. Kdwnid was given another
delegate on production Of a certificate
ii in the clerk of the court to tho ef
fect that a mlstako had been made In
the official returns. Then Warwick
was given ah additional delegate on
ov'idenco at nil. This makes a total
membership of 831 In the convention.
1 Lou'svllle, Ky., May 22?Express?
ing its disapproval of the action of
Secretary of Agriculture' Wilson 'h
accepting last summer, a vlco-presl
d>ncy of the Brewers' Congress at
Chicago, the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Churoh in tho United.
States of Ante tic'J tp-day rescinded its
action in naming him as a delegate
to the Pan'-Presbytcrlun Council.
The pomlndllng co'iiimllteo was di?
rected to nominale a del. gate from
\the" Synod of Baltimore, from which
j Secretary Wilson was to have been a
representative, for the Offlco,
I What was taken to. bo an lnfcrcnco
by the Uov. Alexander Henry D. D.,
of Philadelphia, that one or snore
members of tri?; board of publication
and ' Sunray-school w ork were not I
orthodox, iprovoked quick response to?
day from im toilers of the general as?
sembly. Nantes of the heterodox ones
were called for. One commlss'drier
declared that any member of the
board who had to make metnal reser- |
! v.. t ions In liYs acceptance of tho
J church's doctrines should at once re
| sign.
Moderator Matthews sternly forbade
! any challenge of any man's orthodoxy
* on the floor of the assembly, pointing
I out charges must be made before the
j proper tribunal of the church. Dr.
j Henry straightened matters out by ex
i plaining that in anything he had said
i he had not Intended to convey any In?
ference and expressed his unqucstlon-l
ed belief In tho Integrity of the ortho-1
[doxy of every board member.
j The report of the board of publica?
tion and Sunday school work, present
e?'. to-day. was accompanied by reso
1 lutlons providing for. the appointment
of a committee to center wiUt tho
board and to withdraw from distribu?
tion, such graded lessons as are held
to be unsatisfactory. Amended -so ass
to provide that the decision of tho
committee alone would be suflielent
to cause withdrawal of such literature,
the resolution was adopted.
I'lrtt" State to Ratify.
I Boston. May 21.?By the favorable
action Of the Senate to-day Massachu?
setts Is placed lu line as the tlrst state
In the Union to ratify the amendment
: to the Federal Constitution for tho di?
rect election of United States Sena?
tors. The vote was t -Irty In favor
1 and none against.
at Camp Comfort
The boys at Camp Comfort are using
the same stove that they had last year.
It was the best they could get. It was a
.New Iteration.
This year they got a New Perfection Oven
Also a New Perfection Toaster
Also a New Perfection Broiler
"Gee, what * difference in the me.ill a ?>->or] stove
makes," said one o( the boys. So they called their shack
"Camp Cotnfod." And they > iti tell their mothers ar.d
wives about the stove, too. For the New Perfection Oil
Cook-rtove is as convenient (or the home as (of the
ip. It will Lake, broil, roafl and toast as well at a
regular coal rauc,e.
N e W
The
Perfection
Stove
ii h?ntl?o:r.el/ fmidiod in
niciel. with cabinet top.
drop ?helfe?, towel ricl..
etc. i_ctig rKi.nne>?, enara.
eled lutquatM-bhl?. Mad*
with I, J <j ) burners. All
liriVn l'ree Cock - Bosk
\.:lh every Move. Cook
Rook ' liven to anyone.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
NF.WARK. N. J.
(rhcorp.iratod In New Jersey)
BALTIMORE. MD.