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All $35.00 Suits at $22.95 All $30.00 Suits at ..... .$19.50 All $27.50 Suits at $18.40 All $25.00 Suits at $16.50 All $22.50 Suits at $14.65 All $20.00 Suits at $12.95 All $18.50 Suits at $12.00 All $17.50 Suits at $11.40 All $16.50 Suits at $lO.BO All $15.00 Suits at $9 -5 All $12.50 Suits at . .$B.OO All $lO.OO Suits at $7-35 SAVE NEAR A THIRD on Hand-Tailored Pants Men's $7.50 Pants are... $5.50 Men's $6.50 Pants are... $4 75 Men's ss.oo'Pants are... $3.75 Men's $4.00 Pants are... $2.75 Men's $3 50 Pants are... .$2.50 Men's $3.00 Pants are.,. .$2.25 Strawsand Panamas Reduced SAULWOLFSONddy goods co MAYOR GAYNOR IS MARK FOB BULLET GF CRANK (Continued from page one.) in good spirits. His vitality is very good. In my opinion he has a good chance of recovery." At this time time it has not been decided whether an operation will be necessary. Bulletin From Surgeons. The following bulletin was issued by the surgeons attending after a consulta tion: ‘‘The mayor was shot on the right side of the neck. The bullet en tering the posterior and upper part ranging downward and forward. The position of the tadlet has not been def inately located, but will be determined later bw X-rays. The mayor is con scious and is now resting quietly and there seems to be no immediate dan ger.” (Signed) “W. J. AR LITZ. M. D., .. ‘‘Visiting surgeon at St. Mary’s. “GEORGE F. BREWER, M.D. “GEO. E. STEWART. M. D. “CHAS. DOWD, M. D.” All the physicians in attendance upon Mayor Gaynor will hold a consultation at 4 o’clock this afternoon to determine whether the mayor will be able to stand the strain of the X-ray examination. Dr Minforth of the house staff of St Alary’s hospital said the mayor showei great fortitude. The hemorrhage fro<r the mayor's throat eeased at 1 o’clock “OLD FOOL? SHE SAYS. Woman 'Vith Whom Galligher Boardet Says Hi Was Man of Quiet Demeanor. Associated Preu. New York, Aug. 9.—Mrs. Sopbii Johnson, wl. keeps e rooming hous, at No. 444 Third avenue, where Galli gher lives, when told this morning tha her boarder had attempted to kill th mayor, exclaimed with an expression o disgust, “The old fool! What did h do that for?” Airs. Johnson described Galligher a a man of quiet and retiring demesne 50 years of age. She said he had bee living in her house for more thau tw years. He evidently had employment 1 a night watchman, for it was his cu tom to go out every night at 10 o’eloc and return at half past 8 in the mor ing. For the last two or three week however, it was apparent no had be< out of work, for Airs. Johnson said 1 had not been keeping his reguh hours. TUESDAY, Men's $2.50 Pants are... .$2.00 Alen's $2.00 Pants are... .$1.65 Soft and stiff Straws in every style and shape'—and genuine hand-woven Ecuadorean Pana mas. $3.50 Straw Hats at $2.75 $3.00 Straw Hats at $2.25 52.50 Straw Hats at $1.75 Straw Hats at $1.50 $1.50 Straw Hats at $l.lO st.oo Straw Hats at 85c $B.OO Panamas at $5-75 $6.50 Panamas at $4-75 $• 00 Panamas at $3.75 54.00 Panamas at $3.50 MAN IS JAILED WITHOUT BAIL — Is Mobbed and His Life Threat ened Before Police Can Put Him Behind the Bars. Assrciated Press. New York, Aug. 9.—When Galligher. the mayor's assailant, was taken before Recorder McGovern, he displayed little emotion. “He deprived me of by bread and butter,’’ said the discharged dock employe. “I did not want porterhouse steak,’’ he added. Recorder McGovern held the prisoner without bail to await the result of the mayor’s injuries. Gal ligher was appointed watchman in the I New- York city dock department, April :7, 1903. He was discharged July 19, | 1910, after having been fould guilty of neglect of uuty and misconduct. He was mdbbed and his life threaten ed before the police could lodge him in jail . Emus 1$ WOUNDED BE ONE Of BULLEES I Associated Press. New \ ork, Aug. 9.—lt is learned that Street Cleaning Commissioner Edwards of New I ork, was .slightly wounded I by one of the bullets intended Tor May or Gaynor. Edwards, who was standing by the mayor, seized Galligbcr’s arm. One of the bullets passed through the street commissioner’s sleeve and grazed his let arm. Die wound was so alight Edwards only discovered it after the excitement subsided. BUSINESS IS SUSPENDED. Associated Press. New York, Aug. 9.—Business on the ! stock exchange today was neglected in the excitement over the news of Mayor Gaynor s attempted assassination. SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE (From The Light and Gazette June 28.) MB RUNS ffl IS ■IF THISI BUSINESS Gaynor of New York, Filled With Hatred for Corruption and Degradation of Govern ment, Sets Out to Correct It. HAS ALREADY INAUGURATED REFORMS New York. June 25.—Whether the claims of his friends that he is actuat ed entirely by civic duty, or of his enemies that he is posing to the gal leries and to get into the limelight for a democratic presidential nomination are true, New Yorkers agree that they have in Mayor William J. Gaynor the most paternal chief executive the city ever had. Hardly a day goes by but that Gaynor breaks out on a new sub ject and he is admittedly the despair of the politicians who, since he took his office, January 1, last, have vainly tried to classify him. Since he was sworn in, G|aynor has taken immediate personal 'charge of the police and fire departments, through the commissioners, and has made it very plain that if the appar ent heads of these branches of the city government do not care to do as he de sires they can get out. . He has placed as chiefs of Ml city bureaus and de partments, men in whom he has confi dence and insists that he intends to have his own wishes carried out inas much as he is responsible for the city government. t Discusses His Ideals. Discussing his ideals for the city and what he expects to have carried out during the balance of his term, Mayor Gaynor said to the United Press to day: “Just like others, I suppose I have been filled for years with an implacable hatred of the corruption and degrada tion of government which I have seen for many years. I wanted to destroy that if I could. Every other idea I had when I took my present office was in cidental to this main one. T wanted also to make the administration of the government free from the control of outsiders, whether politicians or others. The political system under which the government of a city is not controlled by those elected and appointed for that purpose, but at the dictation of out side people who con r:l them, was al ways detestable to me. Whatever I have accomplished so far, I can at- । tribute to tho men who are wiHi me in the city government. I have appoint ed only the best men who could be found for the positions. “In my first six months of govern ment I have not accomplished as much as T had hoped, but I am doing my best. However. I do not want to blame . politicians as politicians have advised me at times ami have helped mo. A good and honest politician is a useful man. The name should not be one of i reproach.” ‘ Saves City Millions. According to Gaynor, changes put in ; to effect by his appointees will have j the city many millions a vear. He 'claims that $6,000,000 a year will be I saved in the water department alone. I He also declares that his new tax com mission will assess the property in the citv at an equitable rate and add many millions to the taxable property of the city. This one branch of the city gov ernment in the past was honeycombed with graft according to the mayor, and this has all been done away with. Abolishment of the Aqueduct commis sion, introduction of business methods , in all departments, and a general re form everywhere, he claims is working out so that the city will soon be run as , economically as if it were a private cor- poration. This view, however, is not held by the politicians who were responsible for the making of Gaynor. The rank and file of Tammany Hall does not look with any great degree of favor on the present head of the city’s affairs and neither does the republican organiza tion. His sincerity is questioned by both, but up to the present, Gaynor has evaded all attempts to trap him by the machine politicians. Stopped Saloon Graft. But it has been in unexpected ways that Gaynor has made a hit with the average citizen. When he took office, he announced that he was going to revolutionize things and the first thing he did was to “reform’’ the ad ministration of the excise law. Here tofore, it had been understood that the saloon in this city was the biggest money maker for the grafting police man.' Gaynor has cut this source off by a general order which prevents po licemen on beats making arrests in ex cise cases. if they find a violation of the law, they are com pelled to make affidavit in the station house to what they saw. These affi davits art forwarded to the district at torney for action and the saloonkeeper cannot find out who presented the evi dence against him until the case is ac tually called for trial. By this moans it is claimed by Gaynor all graft has been abolished. Gaynor expects to solve the “social evil’’ in this city on somewhat similar lines. He is now studying this prob lem. When a committee of reformers called upon him to report that condi tions in the Tenderloin were rapidly ap proaching the “good old days” stage, that “brace games” are flourishing in the eity and that “fifty plainly recog nizable disorderly characters” were seen on Broadway on a Saturday night, Gaynor became peeved. He sent a let ter to the committee insisting that he was trying to devise a solution of the problem but that it was a hard task. Then he said: Shows It’s Hard Task. “Of course I am painfully conscious that in dealing with such a matter, or all of us together dealing with it, we •can do only a little. If we let them go free, as they do in England, the delicacy of th" community is offend ed. Very few people know how great a problem it is. Read again St. Au gustine's chapter on it in ‘De Ordine,’ lackey’s great chapter on it in his ‘European Morals’ and the chapter of Professor Lilley on it in his ‘First Principles of Politics.’ I want to min imize prostitution and gambling, of course, but a thousand times more do I wish to make the government of the city honest and intelligent.’* The reformers so far have failed to reply to this letter. Gaynor also took up the problem of clean plays in the city theaters. He closed up one playhouse by revoking its license and it is stated that this fall all theater will be com pelled to sign an agreement to refrain from presenting suggestive plays. If this is done, it is agreed there will be few of the usual run of “French Adap tions” staged. Gaynor plans to co operate with the mayors of the big cities of the country in purifying the Stage and there is a possibility, if he has his way, that a theatrical censor will be one of the chief offices on the modern mayor’s staff. Moving Pictures in Schools. Gaynor is also considering the propo sition to have the city put moving pic ture shows into the schools. He be lieves that this can be done very cheap ly and that instructive films can be shown with accompanying educational lectures, thus removing , the present menace of the cheaper moving picture establishments which it is declared lead children to crime. During the years that he was on the । supreme court bench the mayor was a 1 stickler for personal liberty and he 1 seems to have carried these views with 1 him into the present job. In dealing I with the police force and its duty to- . ward the people of the city, he has put 1 a stop to usurpation of power by the ' blueeoats, and is maintaining the rights |of the citizens as against the uniformed 1 I man. In the early days of his admin- 1 I istration there were a number of sen- ' |sational “clubbing” cases. mayor took them up and as a result, a num- ] her of the men were “broken.” The 1 result is that no more cases of club- । I bing, either in or out of station houses 1 have been reported recently. Gaynor ’ also prohibited unwarranted arrests for minor offenses and the police now se cure summonses for infractions of the smaller city ordinances. The police commissioner also has instructions from the mayor to compel the police to as sist prisoners in communicating with their friends. It is in the abolishment of the “Rogues’ Gallery” for unconvicted prisoners, however, that Gaynor has made his biggest hit in police reform. He issued an order directing the de struction of all pictures of unconvicted persons and now the gallery is added to only after a man or woman has been ’ convicted and received their sentence. By terms of some of the recent or ders from the mayor, appointments and promotions must be made according to the civil service list. Heretofore a se lection could be made from the first three names on the list and by a little juggling it was possible to reach a 'fa vored candidate from the first dozen. This was especially true in the fire and police departments, where promotions in the past have gone by favor. In all of his appointments, Gaynor ■ has failed to recognize Tammany Hall I as an organization, although a few of the district leaders manage 1 to secure plums. Rtill Gaynor on several occas • ions has handed Charles F. Murphy, big i chief of Tammany, “kind words” and the big noise at the wigwam has in sisted that he is satisfied with the way the mayor has acted tow’ard him. Mur ? phy's enemies declare he is grooming , the mayor for the presidential noniina ■> i tion and that he realizes that it he t publicly stood by Tammany it might - hurt him. Whether this is so or not, one thing is p certain. New Yorkers generally agree * I that the city has a real paternal one man government of the kind that might * have been planned in Germany or Rus '■ sia and which some people are insisting ‘‘ is an improvement on the “commis a sion” plan. TAFT SHOCKED 81 ASSAULT Wires Hopes and Prayers That Mayor Gaynor's Recovery May Be Rapid. Associated Preu. New York, Aug. 9.-—This afternoon the following telegram was received s.t | the citv hall from President Taft at Beverly: “Hon. W. J. Gaynor, I am greatly shocked to hear of the outra geous assault upon you. lam very glad to hear that the wound inflicted upon you is not serious. 1 earnestly hope and pray your recovery may be rapid. “(Signed) W. IL TAFT.” IN AUSTRALIA, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY, THE PEOPLE WHO DO THE WORK WILL RULE AT TOP, ANDREW FISHER, LABOR PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA. VIEW IN MELBOURNE, CAPITAL OF AUSTRALIA Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 9.—The mine boy who could keep sweet tem pered; the miner who could be an “agi tator” without fuming and ranting; the labor leader who could smile as he worked—this is Andrew Fisher, child slave in the coal pits of Ayrshire, Scot land, and now prime minister of Au stralia. It’s—well much like the bottom side of the hereafter—to drag your “burden, tiring, through the coal-dark” under ground, when you have not reached your teens, and would rather be romping on the heath or fishing or hunting. But Andy didn’t curse the world, bad as it was. He smiled and whistled, and at twenty made his way to the gold fields of Australia. Here his cheery ways made him a leader of men. He has helped weld together the labor par ty through which he hopes to make Australia a place where boys won’t have to give up their boyhood to greedy capital, as Andy did. For the miners liked this very like able Fisher, and his advancement in his trade union, where he became imme diately active, and in the labor party was very rapid. He represented the party in the state parliament of Queene land' in 1893, and has been in politics since. He was prime minister in 1906, but as the labor party did not control the law making body, he had no support. Now his patty controls the governnient entirely. He is not a brilliant orator, but speaks clearly, forcibly and briefly. Never before in the history of the world has a great nation of people been absolutely governed by the laboring men. But this is the condition in Au stralia in the year 1910. LalMfr, politi cally organized, completely controls the government. The cabinet is not filled with lawyers, much less corporation lawyers. There’s just one member of the bar in the min istry, W. M. Hughes, attorney general, but'he is a lawyer for working people, DANSEUSE ADELAIDE WEARS CASSIE CHADWICK’S $20,000 NECKLACE. Jewelry was among the fads orf Cas sie Chadwick of frenzied finance fame. Among them was a pearl necklace worth $20,000, which for many months reposed in a safe of Charles I - Lcacn, collector * of customs at the port of Cleveland. It was held for duty, and after the crash, when creditors, big and little, jumped upon the woman who pulled the wool over the eyes of ex pert male financiers, the pearl necklace and not for capitalists. Andrew Fisher, the prime mi«ister, is a mine worker E. L. Batchelor, minister of foreign af fairs, is a metal worker. Josiah Thomas, postmaster general, is a miner. Senator Pearce, minister for defense, is a car penter. F. G. Tudor, a hatmaker, is minister of trade and customs. King O’Malley, a newspaper reporter, is min ister of home affairs. Senator McGregor, vice chairman of the national council, is a day laborer. The official figures show that the election by which the labor party got full control of the government was a landslide. In the last senate the fused conservatives and liberal parties had 21 representatives; labor 15. In the new senate labor has 23 representatives, while the fusionists have but 13. The old house contained 46 fusionists, 29 laborites. In the new house there are 44 laborites and but 31 fusionists. The anti-labor majority of 23 has just been reversed into a labor majority of 23. The labor party elected every one of the 18 senators in the six states (there are eighteen others who held over from the last parliament), and won fifteen seats in the house. Former Prime Min ister Alfred Deakin’s combine of free traders and protectionists is so badly defeated that it will probably break up. Among the causes the political revolution are the action of the state government in New South Wales in playing into the hands of the coal trust during the great strike, when it enacted a law outlawing strikes and boycotts; the reckless extravagance of the Deakin administration, and its refusal to enact progressive legislation which had been promised to the working people; sham tariff fights to distract the attention of the workers from their grievances; the growth of trusts, and tax-dodging by the rich. The people smashed “state’s rights” at the same time in a referendum by I voting to nationalize state debts and •centralizing the public financial power was seized with the rest, and a Balti more jeweler finally bought it. It is now owned by La Petite Ade laide, the toe dancer who docs her stunts nightly both at the American music hall and in “Up and Down Broad way” at the Casino. New York. The ' diinseusc exhibits her treasure at the Hotel Flanders, and incidentally upon her neck. She says she paid $20,000 for it, and the press sav ajMtu and swear to it. AUGUST 9, 1910. Exposition Building In Melbourne, Where the Australian Parlip ment Meets. entering wedge to make the federal power dominant, and the states subor dinate. There is no one-man rule in the new Australian scheme of things. In the United States the present appoints the cabinet and the speaker (or a packed committee) selects congYessional com mittees. Here cabinet officers and the speakers of houses and committeemen are selected by ballot. The curse of Australia has been the ownership of great tracts of land by in dividual owners. Many of the greatest holdings are in the hand* of men who live in England and have never even seen their land. The single tax has been invoked to cure this evil. Land is taxed at its real value and idle land taxed just as land in use is. Improvements are not taxed. The result will be to break up the great; estates into small farms and to free op portunity for labor and industry to unite with nature’s bounty in supplying food, clothes and luxury for mankind, in the national government. This is the The new labor government comes in to power finding a four and a half mil lion deficit, but the land tax is expected to make short work of that. Australia has its trusts, too. The coat trust is one of the most cordially hated by the people, and the labor government will go after it at once. Attorney Gen eral Hughes will prosecute the trust un der the anti-trust law, which was a joke under the Deakin administration. But the prosecution is only a preface to the taking over of the coal mines by the government. The labor administration promises to take over and run all mo nopolies. Other bills being drafted provide foe a state bank, old age pensions, national insurance, civil equality of men and women, national initiative and referen dum exclusion of Chinese and Japanese coolie labor, amendment to arbitration law and limitation of bond issues. The labor party is moderately for pro tection —what it terms “new” protee- I tion. In industries in which trade union wage scales and hours of labor are recognized and labor receives real pro tection, a moderate revenue tariff will be permitted. Where trusts and mo nopolies exist tariff duties will be abol ished. Australia is as large as the United States, exclusive of Alaska and tha island possessions, and its government id similar to ours in that it consists of fed erated states. KODAKS - - And Everything Photographic. 0. WEIGHSEL CO 324 W. COMMERCE STREET SAN ANTONIO The Largest Photo Supply Dealers In the South. GERLACH BROS. TAILORS AND GENTS’ FURNISHERS 117 W. 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