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GIVE PLAY
OF POLITICS
"MAN OF THE HOUR" PRESENTED
AT THE MASON
DRAMA PROVEB TRUE PICTURE
OF CONDITIONS
Author, However, Has Succeeded in
Telling a Vattly Interests Love
Story In Connection with
Political Expose
SIDLE LAWRENCE
"The Man of the Hour" Is a lesson in
practical politics. It visualizes conditions
which have made the local governments
of American cities a reproach to the na
tion and a 1 aughing stock to foreign stu
dents of municipal affairs. It Is, perhaps,
overdrawn in detail, but the facts are
there and the facts are ugly things, so
ugly that were it not for recent experi
ences In Philadelphia, Minneapolis and
San Francisco they might readily be
charged agalnßt the melodramatic Im
pulse of the playwright and their obvious
lesson be disregarded.
There Is little theorizing In the play. It
has to do with actual conditions, forcibly
presented. It Is a pitiful, a shameful
story, and pity is 'tis true. If Mr. Broad
hurst has exaggerated his characters—
and Horrlgan Is exaggerated— he has done
so to draw with surer lines the picture
he would present. His Is not a painting
that requires careful hanging and special
lighting for its appreciation. It stands
out from the canvas boldly, frankly, *>b
trueively. There Is no getting away from
it. It is a study In black and white— a
black drawing upon a white background.
A Familiar Story
The story is too well known, though
this Is the first time the play has been
presented In Los Angeles, to require ex
tensive comment. It is an exposition of
the boss system and Its corollary, the
graft system. In municipal government.
In brief, the plot opens with the boss,
Horrlgan, In difficulties. With a cam
paign approaching he discovers the ne
cessity for nominating a clean man for
mayor If he would win. The man is
nominated and elected. Then a franchise
steal Is Introduced and the boss seeks to
bully the mayor Into signing It. This
fails. An appeal is made to his ambition.
He is promised the nomination for gover
nor. This, too, falls. Then he is offered
the woman he loves for his wife, but
¦till declines. His own record unassail
able, the boss unearths unsavory facts
convicting his dead father of graft and
threatens their publication if the fran
chise grab is defeated. Even to this ap
peal he remains obdurate. The bill is
vetoed; the boss and the man higher up
face prison terms for bribery and the bill
Is withdrawn on the day and hour it
was to have gone to a vote for the
second time.
To make his play practical for stage
use. Mr. Broadhurst has cleverly inter
woven an interesting love story with
the practical politics of his plot; and he
has, as I have already stated, exagger
ated some one or two of his characters.
Horrigan, the Boss
Such a man as Horrlgan never could
have risen to be boss of a city. He might
have dominated a slum ward, but beyond
that he could not go. As he himself says,
he knows nothing of diplomacy. He is a
political bully, his one weapon the big
stick; intolerant ot opposition but always
opposing it directly, never by indirection.
He Is a boss without craft and without
guile. Such men do not attain to the
power he is depicted as swaying.
More natural is Alderman Phelan. hon
est for the once because anxious to pay
off a grudge against the boss; an Irish
politician, boasting that he knows the
first name of every voter in his ward,
including the "Dagoes and Polacks;" and
that he knows how many children each
of them has. Phelan is the Devery type
of man, and those familar with the
personality and career of that curious
figure In New York municipal politics
doubtless will regard the character as a
more or less exact portrait.
Perhaps the most informative thing
about last night's performance of this
exceptionally timely play was the at
titude of the audience. The theater was
well filled. Business and professional men
were there in numbers. It was a repre
sentative gathering; such an audience as
might be expected to assemble at the
Mason to view a play which has created
the talk accorded to "The Man of the
Hour." Therefore Its attitude toward the
play Is of importance; and its reception
Of the moral sought to be conveyed,
doubly important.
Laugh at Graft Speeches
Into the mouth of Horrigan, the boss,
the playwright has put several epigram
matic speeches having to do with graft.
In one of them Horrigan explains that
nowadays everyone grafts, and proceeds
to illustrate his doctrine by taking up the
professions seriatim; the lawyer, who tells
his client how far he can be dishonest
and escape prison; the newspaper pro
prietor, who accepts lying advertise
ments: the United States senator, who
becomes a millionaire in a year, on a
salary of $juut>; the railroad man, who
Brants rebate*, and the shippers who ac
cept them. The list might be extended
indefinitely. Horrlgan goes just far
enough to prove his point— and the aud-
J»nct> laughs.
There are several such speeches and
last night each one of them was re
ceived with laughter. Obviously this
mean^ one of two things. It means
u«Ynano. that we have come to regard
policy &• at lts worst, as merely a
offense; or that we go to the
relieve,. so completely absorbed in the
terests for amusement that we are ready
tariff gh at anything, if it Is only clev
more rf> nrase< l. The point Is one for a
. ;her or a sociologist. Doubtless,
tlon .his, you have decided that it is
foundone for a play-reviewer,
the I /^ Strong Company
tureJh e company presenting "The Man
thir the Hour" Is a strong one and the
co^veral roles in the main are excel
lently handled. Louis Hendrlcks as
the boss plays the part as the author
designed It to be played. It Is, in
truth, a caricature rather than a char
acter, but Hendrlcks is not responsible
for that. Frederick Perry as the
mayor is convincing and he is not
"atagy," for which we would forgive
him much were he In need of such dis
pensation. Frank Sheridan likewise
gives a good portrait of the "man
higher up," and Felix Haney is ad
mirable as Alderman Phelan, the "fat
test" role in the piece, to make use of
an expression much employed among
stage folk. Ruby Bridges plays the
role of the young woman with whom
the mayor is In love.
The locale of the play, on the pro
gram, Is given as "any large city in
America." Los Angeles, however,
with the aid of the scenery can prove
jtn alibi. A back drop used in one of
the acts shows snow in a street scene.
Therefore our plea to the implied In
dictment must be "not guilty."
"THE MAN FROM MEXICO"
IS A HIT AT THE BELASCO
"The little Alamos, gayly Jumping
from tree to tree" were Just as funny
' when Lewis S. Stone told "us about
LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 190?
HOUDINI, "HANDCUFF KJNG"
them last night at the Belasco as they
were when Willie Collier first intro
duced the lock-step into polite society
and assured everyone he knew that
Mexican climatic conditions were Ideal.
Adaptability Is the strong point with
the Belasco company, and the Dv-
Souchet comedy proved but another
demonstration of the facile way In
which the Blackwood aggregation re
sponds to the deft touches of Director
Bosworth as well as the Inimitable
way In which they reproduce the spirit
of the author's Intention.
More than passing mention of "The
Man from Mexico" Is unnecessary, for
It is Btill green (one had almost said
evergreen) In the public mind, but
seldom has It, been done better than by
the Belasco company last night.
Lewis S. Stone Is not always funny in
comody, but as Benjamin Fltzhugh, the
man who In order to account for the
time passed by him in jail as the pen
alty for a little harmless indiscretion,
Informs his friends that he has been
enjoying a trip through Mexico, he Is a
"howling" success. Popular approval
was his without stint, and when the
Irrepressible "lock step" broke out in
his torture during the last' act the
audience fairly doubled up with mer
riment.
Miss Blanche Stoddard gpt much
from the little given her as Mrß. Fitz
hugh, and deserves rare credit for the
delicate shading of her comedy. We
ha»e had her now In all lines of work,
and it Is hard to say in which she is
best. Her comedy is of the sparkling
description, the better because care
fully "bottled up" until the proper
moment.
Dickie Vivian as Yon Bulow Bismark
Schmidt was a scream. Always at his
best in comedy Vivian was no whit be
hind hl». previous record, and did ex
cellently the part lntrsuetd to him.
Charles Ruggles, the new juvenile
man, made a good Impression In the
part of Edward Farrar. His work is
clean cut and well up to the Belasco
standard, which is saying not a little.
Tommy Lowell made a hit as the Tam
many deputy sheriff, Timothy Cook,
while John Daly Murphy was well
placed In a bit as a waiter.
HOUDINI BTILL FEATURE
OF THE ORPHEUM BILL
Houdinl still reigns supreme at the
Orpheum. The rest of the bill is received
in good humor by the great audiences
which fill the big vaudeville house, but
the champon of manacles and fetters Is
by far the greatest attraction and one
for which all wait with eager anticipa
tion. Bring your handcuffs from where
you will, he will slip out of them or un
lock them, whichever it is, and the whole
house greets him with deafening applause.
Of the new numbers on this week's list,
Charles Guyer and Ida Crlspl are the
stars. Their singing and dancing act
delights everyone. It starts rather tame
ly—but wait a minute. Things begin to
pick up— that is, Just before they go
down In final crash. Guyer's bout with
the beer keg Is grotesque and lively, only
surpassed with his original waltzing
with his dainty partner.
The Muellers, vocal artists of more than
passing ability, have fine, well-trained
voices. As usual, the beautiful ballads
they render In solo and duet are not to
the liking of the upper part of the house,
but their singing is appreciated by every
lover of good music.
Chris Richards and the monkey show
hold over from last week. At times it 's
hard to tell which is which, for Chris
monkeys and the monkeys act. Their
antics are almost human and the scene
In the barber shop lost none of Its laugh
producing qualities by staying a week.,
The monkeys don't hold so well to their
lines as their human contemporaries, and
the little variety they offer adds to the
zest of the performance.
Fred Ray and company in Roman trav
esty are funny from start to finish. This
playlet was evidently written for these
players, for they fit right Into every
part. "Did I order a short bier?" elicits
a laugh when It would seem the clever*
trio had exhausted the supply. The house
nearly went wild when Archibald! died a
violent death, so vlolertf that he couldn't
keep it quiet after he got It.
The Ruppclts ,also hold over with their
daring feats In equilibrium. As acro
bats, it is hard to find their equal. Far
rel Taylor and his two "lady" assistants
are as funny as ever. The work of these
black-face artists is hard to beat in its
line.
BANK CLERK MINSTRELS
PREPARE FOR BIG SHOW
For the purpose of raising funds to
equip their headquarters, put In a finan
cial and general library, and arrange spe
cial courses of study uurlng the coming
winter In finance and economics, the Los
Angeles chapter of the American Asso
ciation of Bank Clerks has announced Its
annual minstrel show, to be given In the
Auditorium the night of October 3.
The affair win be Just such a perform
ance as was seen with huge delight a
decade or so ago, but has now been suc
ceeded by the vaudeville-minstrelsy of
today. It will be the old-time black
face, "darky" minstrels of songs and
dances and gags and antique jokes and
funny catches, with twelve end men In
gorgeous raiment and a dignified Inter
locutor, who la ever the butt of all jokes.
There i\ an "aching void" which the
decay of this sort of performance has
left the bank boys believe they can fill
It, and 100 of them propose to demon
strate It the night of October 3.
George Towle, the well known musical
director and producer, has organized a
big first part. A fine medley of old plan
taUpn airs, commingled with modern mel
odHs, Is its great feature. A strong olio
will give opportunity for Individual skill
to divert Itself, while an afterplect of
local origin and purport, "The Ba.nk
Clerk's Life," will not only throw humor
ous sidelights on the career of certain
•well known financiers, but will prove to
be abundantly supplied with pertinent
gags and hits which will be applicable to
most bankers of Southern California. Of
course, it will all end In a Cakewalk.
DWARFS WIN APPLAUSE
AT THE UNIQUE THEATER
The headllners at the Unique this week
are Hayes and Alpolnt In a comedy
sketch, "The Clerk and the Bellboy." Al
polnt Is a dwarf about three feet high,
while his partner owns to nearly six feet.
The act Introduces a large number of
costume changes, to conform to the sev
eral specialties presented, all of which
are clever. By the merest coincidence
another act on the new olio, Leonard and
Thornton, also features a dwarf, Thorn
ton scarcely reaching the waist line of
his fair teammate. The two are clever
singers and comedians and made a dis
tinct hit with the audience. Annie Moore,
"the cowboy maiden," won deserved ap
plause for her singing of Indian and
Wild West ballads, made more Interest-
Ing by four quick changes of costume.
The Unique comedy company adds to Its
popularity in Richard Cummlngs' com
edy, "Just Married. " The entertainment
concludes with Illustrated songs by Tracy
McDermott and moving pictures on the
Unlque-o-Scope.
Opera Ticket Sale
The season ticket sale for the twelve
operas to be given by the Milan grand
opera company at the Auditorium, "The
ater Beautiful," will open at the' box
office this morning. The single ticket
sale will open Thursday, October 3. The
opening opera will be "Aida," to be fol
lowed later by "Lucia," "La IJoheme,"
"Trovatore," "Rigoletto," "La Traviata"
and many others. Including Mascagnl's
new opera, "Iris."
"Henele" Tonight
Jacob Gordon's "Honele" will be pre
sented at the Auditorium "Theater Beau
tiful," tonight by the Yiddish players of
New York. The company is large and
carries a fin* chorus. Miss Ida Blum, the
leading lady, Is said to be an actress of
much ability. One performance only will
be given. The play will be presented in
the original Yiddish.
Murphy Memorial Benefit
A heavy advance sale Is reported Tor
the Francis Murphy memorial benefit, to
be held at the Auditorium, "Theater
Beautiful," October 3. The sale opened
iat the box office Monday morning.
Among the artists to appear are Max
milllan Dick, violin virtuoso; Catherine
Colette, Edward S. Fuller, pianist, and
Archibald Sessions, accompanist.
Hemmi Returns to Cast
Alda Hemmi, prima donna soprano of
the San Francisco opera company, has
entirely recovered from her cold and will
reappear tonight singing the part of Ar
line In "The Bohemian Girl."
OREETS HAND OF FRIENDSHIP
WITH BLOW FROM KNIFE
Carroll Firioto, Assailant of Albert
Broex at Verdugo, Arrested — Vie-
Tim Is in a Critical
Condition
Carroll Firioto, the Italian who stabbed
Albert Broex at the Verdugo picnic Sun
day afternoon, was arrested yesterday by
Officers Hoeslg and Craig.
Broex was stabbed below the heart. His
chances of recovery are very slender.
The men had quarreled but decided to be
friends. Broex was extending his hand,
when Firioto drew a dagger.
Witnesses of the affair say both men
had been drinking. The Italian is held
prisoner In the city Jail, pending the out
come of the tragedy.
WOMAN SCARES THIEF
FROM PABADENA HOUSE
Special to The Hprald.
PASADENA, Sept. 23.-The home of L.
Decker, on the corner of Oxley street and
Fair Oaks avenue, In South Pasadena,
wus burglarized this evening at 9 o'clock
while the family were attending a lec
ture In Los Angeles.
Miss Bessie Franklin, who lives at 1008
Fair Oaks avenue, discovered the bur
glar, her attention being called to him
by hearing him break the glass In the
front window, through which he entered.
She could see the flash of matches being
struck in the Decker home.
She Immediately called to her sister^
Mrs. D. B. Sharff, who was the only oth
er person In the house, and Mrs. Sharif
went next door to learn if It was any
of the family who had returned. Going
to the door she rang the bell repeatedly,
but got no answer. Instead of leaving
she remained standing in the dark shad
ow of the porch and was soon surprised
to see a man poke his head through the
open window.
As soon as he saw her he jumped back
Into the room, and she, fearing that he
might shoot, went out on the walk and
called to her sister to telephone the
marshal. While she was making a cir
cuit of the house to see If the man was
making an escape from the rear, he took
advantage of his opportunity to climb
out through the window where he en
tered, and made his escape.
Miss Franklin could not locate the mar
shal, so notifies the police department
here. Constable Harley Newell went to
the scene. Upon his arrival an examina
tion of the house revealed a thorough
overhauling of the rooms. Jewel boxes,
drawers and closets had been ransacked
and the bed in Mrs. F. Burbank Bacon's
room was strewn with Paris gowns and
delicate lingerie In utmost confusion.
A document box was left on the dresser,
but showed no signs of an a.tempt at
forcing the look. Mrs. Sharff does not
tbink that any valuables were secured,
as since a recent burglary of the house
while tlie family were at home they have
taken extra precautions for the safety
of their valuables.
HOUDIM RESCUES
SCHOOLTIME CHUM
RECOGNIZE ONE ANOTHER IN
DRESSING ROOM
Officer Manacled to Test Cuffs with
Which He Planned to Trap the
Famous Escaper Needs
Letter's Help
Houdlni's challenge to police officers
who "wish to try their manacles on him
have sometimes ended In unpleasantness
and hard feelings on the part of the
officers who failed to hold their prisoner.
Usually, however, the policeman and the
handcuff expert are the best of friends,
and the upholder of law and order closes
the argument by saying that he depends
much more on his brains than his hand
cuffs In handling a prisoner.
Not often does the challenge end in a
renewal of old friendship, as was the
case Sunday afternoon, when a young
officer from an outlying/ town came to
the' city for the express purpose of plac
ing on Houdlni's wrists a pair of cuffs
that would hold. The officer made
known his intention to a friend and tho
two went to the theater together. Stand
ing in the lobby, the officer was demon
strating the workings of his cuffs to the
friend.
•'Here, you put them on me," he said.
"No, not that way. Turn them round.
Now twist the chain and snap the right
wrist."
The friend did as directed. Then taking
the key, he attempted to release the
locks, when something snapped In the
Interior mechanism. For five, ¦ ten, fif
teen, twenty minutes, they struggled with
the problem. One cuff was released, but
the other refused to wjrk. The officer's
wrist was swollen and his hand purple
from the tightly locked cuff.
In the meantime some one Informed
Houdini of the officer's predicament. He
came out to the lobby of the theater.
The cuff was shown him.
"Your lock Is broken. It can't be un
locked," he said.
"I suppose I shall have to file it off,
remarked the
"Can you stand It a3 It Is for half an
hour?" asked Houdini. "If you can wait
until after my turn I will take It off for
you, and not Injure the cuff."
The oftlcer thought he could hold out,
and curiosity to see how Houdini would
do the trick pulled .»im through.
After the performance Houdini took
the man to his dressing room, where he
took tho lock of the cuff apart, repaired
It and returned It to the owner.
The greatest surprise of the event was
the discovery that the officer and Hou
dini had been school chums In the little
town of Appteton, Wis., where Houdini
was born thirty-four years ago.
FOUR CHILDREN MARRY;
ARE STERNLY PARTED
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.— When Joseph
A. Physloc, Jr., son of a scene painter,
took Miss Lorene Douglas for better or
worse) at the same time his friend, Frank
E. Likby, made Miss Lillian MacNamts
his bride, they stored up trouble which
bids fair tp last for gome time to come.
Joseph Is of the mature age of 15, whlje
his bride when married was not_ quite of
that age. Frank and his bride are each
a year older. Their marriages have -. et
seven parents by the ears and sent a
young Methodist minister to Cleveland.
Moreover, court proceedings are contem
plated to annul the marriage ties and
expunge the records in the office of the
town clerk at Oyster Bay.
How It All Happened
Young Phy&ioc expected to enter Ste
vens institute this fall. He spends his
summers with his parents at their coun
try home, a show place of Bayvllle, L. 1.,
near Oyster Bay. Young Libby, who al«ro
hoped to go to college, often visited him.
The youngest Mrs. Physloc, stllLknowii
as Lorene Douglas, is the daughter of
James F. Douglas, an importer of 244
Fifth avenue, whose home is at 349 West
One Hundred and Twenty-second street
At least so It appears In the record. A
young man at the house, who laid last
night he was Mr. Douglas' son, declared
that he had no sister and that Lorene
Douglas did not live there. Mrs. Libby,
or Lillian MacNamee, is the daughter of
a widow who lives on St. Nicholas avenue.
Mrs. Douglas met Mrs. Mac Names at
a bazaar in the Waldorf-Astoria a year
ago and their daughters became close
friends. Young Physloc was Lorere's
high school sweetheart, and the four coon
became acquainted. On June 4 they were
members of a houße party In the elder
Mrs. Physloc's home.
They spent the first day boating,
driving, bathing, tennis playing and
strolling. The stroll took them to tlie
Methodist Episcopal parsonage, occu
pied by the Rev. E. E. Wilson, who had
not long been in charge of the Bayville
church.
When these four' came out of the
parsonage, according to the record,
they were married. Mr. Wilson's re
port says that Joseph Physloo, Jr., a
civil engineer, was twenty-two; Libby,
another engineer, of the same age;
Lorene and her friend, Lillian, eigh
teen. It seemed to have escape/3 the
minister's notice that Lorene's skirts
were not down to her shoe tops and
that her hair hung in plaits down her
back.
How It Came Out
The young people said never a word
of the marriage that night. The next
day they returned to their homes.
Mr. Wilson met young Physloc in the
street and In the presence of the town
harkman asked after his bride. Lillian
thought it was such a good joke that
she told her mother about the same
time. Telephone and telegraph mes
sages passed between the parents, and
it Is reported that slippers, hair
brushes and stronger weaponß became
active. Mrs. Mac Names turned the
matter over to her lawyers and went
west with her daughter. M*»and Mrs.
Douglas went with theirs to the St.
Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Libby took
their son up to (the Adlrondacks.
Young Joseph remained at Bayvllle.
The minister withheld his official re
port for weeks. About a fortnight ago
he resigned his charge and Died the
papers. That made the marriage
public. ¦
243 RESCUED FROM
ISLAND IN FAR NORTH
By Associated PreM.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.— A message
was received at the treasury department
today from Captain Minger, commanding
the Bering sea fleet of revenue cutters,
dated Unalaska, stating that the cutter
McCulloch had rescued 243 persons from
the ship John Currier, which was
wrecked on August 9 In Nelson's lagoon,
Unlmak Island, Bering sea.
All of the rescued were transferred to
the cutter Thetis on September 16 and
the Thetis had discretionary . orders for
landing at either Seward or Seattle. The
rescue was timely, as the food supply
saved from the Currier was getting short
and the place where the wreck occurred
was a desolute and barren shore.
RULES BY A
DICTATORSHIP
REVOLUTION 13 CHECKED AMONG
PORTUGUESE
3ENHOR FRANCO IS THE NEW
POWER
Rules as a Premier Without a Party
and Is Doing His Best
for His Coun.
try
LISBON, Sept. 23
—Revolution has
been checkmated
In Portugal, at
least for the pres
ent. The recent at
tempt to assassin
ate King Carlos
and the premier
has led to the ar
rest of thirty Re
publican leaders,
rt is believed that
this action on the
part of the gov
ernment will bring
to a head one of
the gravest polit
ical struggles
fought out In Por
tugal since consti
tutional govern
ment began.
Dom Caf-108 dis
solved the cortes,
which had become
little more than an'
arena of corrupt
factions, and took
the strong, but
necessary step of
refusing to name a
Klnc of I'ort HK'iil
date for the convoking of a new par
liament. He swept out of office for the
time being both of the parties who held
antj quitted office by arrangement,
changed places with the mechanical reg
ularity of the figures in a Dutch clock,
and battened with equal rapacity upon
the country. *
Each of them in the last few years
had obtained majorities by the usual ma
nipulation at the polls In a land where
the vast majority of people never go near
the ballot boxes. Each of them has
failed to govern against the obstruction
ists of the assembly temporarily defunct
and the growing violence and daring of
(.he republican agitation. Each of the
regular parties la now excluded from of
fice.
King Carlos was Impartial between
them and the pensants, with the more
solid class In the towns, were weary of
both. But in Portugal, as elsewhere, the
king's government had to be carried on.
Dom Carlos called to his aid a new man
— young, brilliant and fearless. This was
Senhor Joao Franco. He had been for
a time minister of the Interior In the
party of the regentators who correspond
to conservatives bo far as any names
agree with realities In Portuguese party
politics. The other organization is that
of the progressists, who believe that they
are the more liberal section of the two.
Franco Forms New Party
Senhor Franco separated himself from
his old associates and formed a new party
of men-, whose program might be de
scribed as National Liberal, or Liberal
Unionist — one of those combinations of a
strongly patriotic creed with enlightened
domestic principles by which the best
work in the policy of all the great coun
tries has from time to time been done.
Senhor Franco could form a following In
the country, but he could carry no par
liamentary seats against the power of the
regular machines. He had proved his In
dependence by trenchant criticism even of
the court.
In May of last year King Carlos took
the decisive step of Intrusting him with
the formation of a cabinet of the heads of
both the factions. Regenerators and Pro
gressionists alike, who believe they had
a consecrated right to alternate In office
at convenient periods.
Senhor Franco became a premier with
out a party. He is exercising what Is
called the dictatorship until he can make
one. He is undoubtedly making one, an 1
It might be the salvation of Portugal if
this minister, prepared to devote his llfo
to the campaign against waste, corruption
and Incompetence, were able to rally round
him a sufficient number of followers to
create the basis of a roforming majority
of a new cortea.
In spite of the interested declarations
against tyranny which have been pub
lished throughout Europe by ex-members
of the late Portuguese duma, Hberty
lovlng minds must not be unduly excited
by the term "dictator." In Portugal the
dictatura is a recognized institution, and
means only that countries which cannot
be governed through parliaments must
sometimes be governed without them until
the national spirit crushes faction or the
cabals of office seekers return to a better
mind.
Dictatorships Long Ruled .
For 'more than a generation after the
peninsular war the Portuguese were
governed by nothing but dictatorships
of one kind or another. Now they are
no longer chronic, but they are recur
rent. The dictatura Is always held In
reserve and most governments have
been compelled to have recourse to It
for longer or shorter periods, even un
der the parliamentary regime of the
last half century.
The process is less agonizing and
more people are as Indifferent under
the occasional regime of administra
tive despotism to the wrath of the party
which does not happen to be the one In
power as were the mediaeval market
women to the wars of the roses In
England. A ministry conducting af
fairs by a dictatorship legislates as a
rule without parliamentary assistance,
carries Its measures without the aid of
an opposition, enforces them without
asking a majority for a superfluous ex
pression of its support, holds elections
at a suitable time, appears before thr
chastened cortrs recalled by theso
methods Into life, and asks and receives
in due course an indemnity for all Ata
nominally Illegal proceedings.
Senhor Franco Is In a different position,
and may be able to carry to the end a
really thorough treatment of the consti
tutional cgmplalnt. He is a premier
without a party in the orthodox sense.
That Is by far the most hopeful fact' in
the situation. With this dictator the
work is not necessary, but unwelcome,
Interruptions of the office seekers' oppor
tunist game.
Senhor Franco is overhauling the ac
counts and revising the whole system of
national bookkeeping. He is stopping thi>
vicious system of supplementary credits
by which the handsome balance regularly
announced upon the production of every
budget was turned into another deficit
before the end of every session. He Is
putting down sinecures and pluralities.
He is also putting down with an un
flinching hand, as he Is entitled to do,
the republican movement, excited to
fever during the last two or thre years
by sympathy with the Russian revolu
tion.
Republicans' Minority Small
The true character of the revolutionary
movement in Portugal was shown last
November, when the republican deputy,
Senhor Affonso Costa, attacked the per
son of Don Carlos, and apostrophised
him in the cortes as follows: "Senhor,
go; withdraw out of the land, lest prison
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be your portion." And when called to
order, the deputy continued: "I take
back nothing. For less than King Carlos
has done the heall of Louis XVI rolled
on the scaffold."
To emphasize the serious significance
of this Incident the Spanish Republi
cans dispatched to Lisbon enthusiastic
telegrams of congratulation. The
great strength of the Reds in Portugal
is in the two principal cities, Lisbon
and Oporto. They have no hold upon
the peasants. The Republicans, .n a
word, are a small minority of the popu
lation. There Is no doubt that they can
be grappled with successfully. There
is scarcely less doubt that the struggle
must be waged some time, and had boat
bo fought out now; and there w'.l. bo
rejoicing if the conspiracy of asonssi
nation, happily discovered and foiled,
carries forward with a sweep the work
of ranging all the best clem") its of »he
nation behind King Carlos and his dic
tator. The king means well. It is dif
ficult to see what other measures were
opened to him. He wfshrs to reign
constitutionally. It has been his mis
fortune, not his fault. >f nrbitrury rule
has been made a necessity.
NEW SHIP WILL BE
CALLED NEW YORK
Armored Cruiser Now Bearing Name
of Empire State Will Be Re.
christened the Sara
toga
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.— The navy de
partment has practically decided to
christen the great 20,000-ton battleship No.
29, sister ship to the Delaware, the New
York. This can be effected by changing
the name of the present armored cruiser
called the New York to the Saratoga.
No. 29 has been left unnamed up to thla
moment because of the act of congress
requiring battleships to bear the names
of states, and there were but two such
names available— Utah and North Da
kota. It was felt at the navy department
that neither of these states, by reason of
population or development, could properly
lay claim to the finest ship In the navy.
Newberry's Decision
Acting Secretary Newberry in consider
ing this matter had his attention ' at
tracted to the fact that the famous old
frigate Saratoga had been condemned and
her name had been ordered stricken from
the naval list. He regarded It as a mis
fortune that the American navy should
thus lose a name that had been covered
with glory In the early days of the his
tory of the country, so It occurred to him
that it might be possible to keep within
the terms of the act of congress Velativ-;
to the naming of battleships by trans
ferring the name of the Saratoga to an
other chip already on the naval list.
It so happened that the people of the
Empire state, while proud of the achieve
ments of the vessel that had served as
the flagship of Admiral Sampson during
the Spanish war, were by no means satis
fied that the name of their state should
be borne by v vessel short of the very
highest order of naval architecture. So
by transferring the name ofthe Saratoga
to the present armored cruiser New York
the navy department will be able to use
the latter name for the unchrlstened bat
, tleship No. 29, which undoubtedly repre
sents, in design, size and power, the very
highest de\*lopment In American naval
construction.
Original Saratoga
The original Saratoga won distinction
as a flagship In the famous battle of Lake
Champlaln, and naval officers are fond of
recalling the remarkable resourcefulness
shown by the commander of the ship in
that action, which Is taught every mid
shipman in the naval academy. The bat
tle was fought In a dead calm, and the
Saratoga lay at anchor; in fact, the cap
tain had placed an anchor on .each side.
So when It happened i that after every
gun on the starboard side had been ren
dered useless by the enemy's •flre, and the
last piece had been, by a violent recoil,
dismounted ' and thrown clean down the
hatchway, the captain by the use of the
capstan swung the vessel on her anchors
and was able to bring into action the
guns on the port side and thereby win the
battle.
Police to Work Twelve Hours Daily
By Associated . res*.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.— San Fran
cisco Is to have police cavalry, and patrol
men will work twelve-hour shifts instead
of eight. Chief Blggy ruled yesterday
not only the present number of mounted
policemen should be doubled, but that all
men In the department should be on
duty half the day.
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Fulton Day Celebrated
Sept.
and beautiful ceremonies marked today s
observance of "Robert Fulton dayat
the Jamestown exposition. Of the many
historical events commemorated by the
ter-centennial none has been of greater
importance and. deeper significance than
the celebration of the practical applica
tion of Robert Fulton's Inventions to the
needs of the world.
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