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CALLAGHAN VOTE
CAN BE BEATEN
EASILY IBIS YEAR
If Poll Taxes are Watched It
Will Be Simple Matter to
Overcome Machine Vote.
THE LAW TO BE ENFORCED
Irregularities of Past Years
Will Not Be Tolerated In the
Present Important Fight.
FACE HEAVY PENALTIES
(By Macmillan.)
DF the poll tax frauds that have
disgraced San Antonio in the
past are stopped this year
there is no question about the
adoption of the new commission
government charter at the elec
tion next February. This will be
conceded by any one familiar with
political conditions in San An
tonio, even by a Callaghan man
off his guard.
It is merely a question of poll taxes
in the end, the problem being to get
snough legal voters duly qualified with
poll taxes to outvote Callaghan and nrs
little clique of alien supporters who
have been able in the past to run the
town.
Poll Taxes Shy.
The census has just shown that San
Antonio has 96,614 population. Usual,
ly it is safe anywhere in the United
States tofigure that there is one per
son of legal voting age in five, w men
means that San Antonio should have
more than 19,000 voters. ]hi« estimate
holds good in Chicago and other cities
where there is a larger percentage at
aliens than in San Antonio.
With all the poll tax irregularities
the holding of poll tax receipts in years
passed by aliens who have not even
declared their intention to become
American citizens, the number ot names
on the poll tax list in San Antonio this
last year is 10,562, which includes all
exemptions. In the last primary only
3907 votes were polled for governor, tia
total in the county being 5156.1 M
small vote in San Antonio is a joke all
over the state.
Light Vote a Joke.
Taking the Colquitt vote as a line on
Callaghan strength it does not make
much’of a showing. '1 he
quitt in San Antonio was 3-08. Many
persons voted for Colquitt who wou d
not vote for Callaghan and probaoly
some voted against Colauitt who would
vote for Callaghan. Still the figures in
dicate plainly that if there is anything
like a full qualification of voters in San
Antonio, the Callaghan ring in opposi
tion will not be at all formidable.
Heretofore thousands of decent citi
zens have held aloof from politics and
even remained away from the polis, no
doubt in disgust. This year, though,
three great reasons should move these
persons to qualify—the three important
elections to be held. The election in
February should give San Antonio com
mission government, that in May should
rid it of the Callaghan manana influ
ence in politics, and the election in. the
fall will give every voter a ehance to
register his opinion for or against a dry
Texas. More consequential issues than
these could not come up for decision at
the polls.
San Antonio has been greatly bene
fited by an influx of new blood. Men
have come in here from all the states
in the union, brought here by the tame
of the city’s prosperity. Comparatively
few of these men are voters, although
many of them are taxpayers. This year
every one of San Antonio’s new resi
dents, who is entitled to qualify, should
go get a, poll tax. These men, if they
only know it, have the future of San
Antonio in their own hands.
The Constitution.
In Texas the only persons barred from
voting are those under twenty-one years
of age, idiots and lunatics, paupers sup
ported by the county, convicts unless
restored to suffrage or pardoned, and
United States soldiers, sailors and ma
lines. The constitution says:
••Every male person subject to none
of the foregoing disqualifications who
shall have attained the age of 21 years,
and who shall be a citizen of the Unit
ed States, and who shall have resided in
the state one year next preceding the
election and the last six months in the
district or county in which he offers to
lote, shall be deemed a qualified elect
or; and every male person of foreign
birth, subject to none of the foregoing
disqualifications, who not less than six
months before any election at which he
offers to vote shall have declared his
intention to become a citizen of the
United States in accordance with the
federal naturalization laws, and shall
have resided in the state one year next
preceding such election, and the last
six months in the county in which he
offers to vote, shall also be deemed a
qualified elector.”
In 1902, for purposes which are well
understood, this portion ef the state
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
VOLUME 31, No. 249
Restaurant Pie
Makes Doctor
Carhart 111
Dr. J. W. Carhart, 2408 Monterey
street, was ill several hours last nignt
from the effects of supposed ptomaine
poisoning. Dr. Carhart shortly after
eating a piece of apple pie in a res
taurant, became suddenly ill. He was
taken home immediately, where reme
dies were administered and he was
soon revived. The condition of Dr. Car
hart today was reported much im
proved.
DEFENDANTS
IN LAND FRAUD
CASES GO FREE
Judge Marshall Orders Dismis
sal of Those Against Haskell
and Others.
LIMITATION STATUTE PLEAD
Decision In Famous Cases Fol
lows Long Argument of
Government’s Attorney.
Special Dispatch.
McAlester, Okla., Sept. 29.—After a
vain endeavor on the part of B. T.
Hainer, and District Attorney Gregg to
show Judge Marshall that the Lona
baugh case decided by the United
States circuit court of appeals for the
eighth circuit on June 18, 1910, bar
monized with his own decision, being
distinguished in some points. Special
Assistant Attorney General Kush this
forenoon entered a nolle in the Musko
gee town lot cases against the remain
ing defendants, Haskell, Turner,
Eaton and Hutchings.
He said that the Lonabaugh case
caused the statute of limitations to
shnt off all the overt acts charged ex
cept five deferred payments by Turner
for lots and that it was not possible
under the testimony to connect the
other defendants with those five pay
ments, specifically.
Judge Stuart, of counsel for defense,
wanted a verdict by the jury, but
Judge Marshall denied the request and
ordered the cases dismissed and the de
fendants discharged.
A hundred or more of state employes
were in the court room when the order
was made and after the adjournment
the governor and other defendants were
showered with congratulations.
constitution was amended by the addi
tion of the following:
“And, provided further, that any
v er who is subject to pay a poll tax
under the laws of the state of Texas
shall have paid said tax before he offers
t- vote at any election in this state and
hold a receipt showing his poll tax was
paid before the first day of February
next preceding said election.”
Touches the Right.
This poll tax provision is the only es
sential difference in the law touching
the right to vote as it is in the state of
Texas, and as it is in many of the other
states. The Terrell election law pro
vides for the strict enforcement of this
amendment to the state constitution, so
that the voter, when he enters the polls,
must have with him, and present to be
stamped, his poll tax receipts or his
certificate of exemption. Either that
or he must make an affidavit that the
receipt has been lost, this affidavit to
be left with the judge of election.
Many lawyers hold that the state poll
tax receipt is the only one required
under the law. The county of Bexar
has waived its right to collect poll-tax,
but Callaghan insists that a city poll
tax receipt shall also be reqiured. Rul
ings of the attorney general suuport this
contention, so all persons who desire to
vote in San Antonio must have two poll
tax receipts, one showing the payment
of the state poll tax to the county tax
collector and the other shoyring the pay
ment of the city poll tax to the city tax
collector. The cost of the two poll tax
receipts is $2.50, and every man who
pays that amount this time will get his
money’s worth.
Exemptions.
In case the voter is exempt for age, or
auy other reason, one certificate-of ex
emption will do, the one issued by the
county tax collodtor. An oddity is
that the person wSo has just attaited
the age of 21 years and goes into the
polling place to cast his first vote, must
present his exemption certificate to
show that he was not of age on Janu
ary 1 preceding the year of the tax
levy. This entitles him to vote without
paying poll tax.
Who Can Vote.
In case of the three elections to be
held in 1911 in Sdn Antonio only those
persons can vote who have obtained
poll tax receipts or exemption certifi
cate prior to February 1, 1911. Per
sons who get these papers during the
(Continued on page 2. —Sixth eolum.)
16 PAGES FAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1910.
HEARST SAYS
GAYNOR WANTS
NOMINATION
Declares There Is Frame-up of
Tammany to Nominate Him
at Rochester,
ROOSEVELT IS SCORED
In Speech at Convention De
clares Against Usurpation
of Power By Executive.
CONVENTION GOES OVER
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47 SAYS GAYNER WILL ACCEPT. 47
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47 Special Ditspatch. 47
47 Paris, Sept. 29.—Declaring bis 47
47 positive conviction that Mayor 47
47 Wm. Gaynor would be nominat- 47
47 ed by. the democrats for the 47
47 governorship of New York, Wm. 47
47 Randolph H#irt today gave out 47
47 a remarkable interview. Tho 47
47 editor asserted that he knew ab- 47
47 solutely that Murphy had ar- 47
47 ranged for the nomination and 47
47 that despite all denials on the 47
47 part of Gaynor, the latter would 47
47 accept. 47
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Special Dispatch.
Rochester, N. Y., Sept 29. —With a
dozen guberuatorial candidates to draw
from and the powerful New York-Tam
many organization apparently in control
of more than 200 votes out of the total
of 450 votes, the democratic state con
vention opened here shortly afteinoon
today with the prospect of two bitter
fights to be threshed out from the floor
of the convention —one over the selec
tion of a state standard bearer and the
other over the direct primary plank in
the platform.
As the convention got under way
Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany lead
er, declared that the convention would
be an open one and that each candi
date had an equal opportunity. Despite
this declaration it was said that tho
gubernatorial nomination would go
either to Congressman James Havens
of Rochester, to Congressman Sulzer of
New York, or to Edward M. Shepard of
Brooklyn. Tammany favored the last
ramed man.
As the various delegations took their
seats it was apparent that the morn
ing’s compromise conferences, whieh
bad been going on since midnight, had
failed. Leader Murphy’s “board of
strategy” had used every endeavor to
have a candidate picked before the con
vention assembled.
As the seats were filling up gossip
in the hall turned to former Comptroller
Metz, of New York as a likely dark
horse. The Havens leaders seized upon
Metz’s name as a tail to the Havens
kite, rooting for him for second place
on the ticket.
On the way to the convention hall
William Church Osborne, a member of
the sub-committee which drafted the
platform declared that the direct prim
ary question had been settled, that a
plank for statewide primaries would be
incorporated but no particular bill
which received legislative consideration
would be favored. A strong demand
for the enforcement of laws covering
corruot practices would be in the plat
form, he said.
The convention was called to order
at 1:05 p. m. Alton B. Parker was
elected as temporary chairman.
Parker Sneaks.
John A. Mason, of New A ork. was
made secretary and Thos. Smith, of
New York, made recording secretary.
Alton B. Parker, temporary chair-
(Continued on page 2—Third column.)
PAY POLLOCK’S FINE.
Sympathetic Citizens Will Aid Prisoner
Beaten By Guards.
Specie.! Dispatch.
Cleburne, Tex., Sept. 29.—Citizens are
raising a fund to pay the fine of David
Pollock, a white man, charged with
violating the local option law, who was
subjected to' a severe beating at the
county road camp a few days ago by
an overseer.
Pollock is still in jail under the care
of physicians. Commissioner Hickman
and Overseer Boone were today re
leased on bond. Tljey will be given a
hearing October 17.
FINED $5O FOR
STEALING 5 CENTS
* Special Dispatch.
; Sherman, Tex.. Sept. 29. —Grover
Belkj aged 18, from Itasca, was fiued
I $5O and given 30 days in jail here to
iday when he was convicted on a charge
of 'stealing a purse containing 5 cents.
AMD GAZETTE
BROOKINS NEAR
END OE GREAI
158-MILE FLIGHT
At 2:20 O'clock This Afternoon
Young Aviator Had Covered
Two-thirds of Journey.
300,000 SEE THE START
In Autos and Carriages and o'n
Foot Chicagoans Journey to
Washington Park.
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47 Clinton, 111., Sept. 29.—Aviator 47
47 Brookins passed here at 2:20 -.7
47 p. m. The distance from Spring- 47
47 field is approximately 45 miles. 47
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Special Dispatch.
Chicago, HL, Sept, 29 -~ Av J* t °F
Brookins started his 185-mile flight
to Springfield, Hl., from the aviar
tion tield at Washington Park, short
ly after 9 o’clock this morning. Be
fore the start he made a three-min
ute trial spin.
The macnine was in perfect run
ning order and the boy aviator
sped through the air like a giant
hawk. He circled over Jackson
Park, where he picked up the spec
ial train which will accompany him
to Springfield.
Aviator Walter Brookins is attempt
ing to fly from Chicago to Springfield,
Hl, for the $lO,OOO cash prize ottered
by a Chicago newspaper.
"With him on the aviation field at
Washington Park were Wilbur and Or
ville Wright who helped him tune up
the machine.
Wright Is Confident.
‘‘Brookins will make the trip sue
cessfully,” Wilbur declared, “if the
wind is with him he will make it in
four hours, but if it is against him it
may take him a longer time, probably
twelve hours. There may be records
smashed before the trip is over.”
Three hundred thousand persons were
at the park at the start of the race.
The distance from Chicago to Spring
field is 185 miles. Brookins has until
midnight Saturday to make the. trip
and declares that even with several
slips he will still win.
Brookins Won’t Stop.
‘‘l want to make the whole trip with
out stopping,” he said just before the
start. ‘‘Unless there is some accident,
or iny gasoline gives out, I will be able
to do this.”
Brookins had hardly risen from his
bed at the Great Northern hotel when
ho went to the window and looked out
at the smoke to get the direction of the
wind. He shook his head in disappoint
ment, for the wind blew from the south.
[This meant he would have to buck the
ibreeze all the way, reducing h's speed
and perhaps ending hope of reaching
the state capital without a single stop'.
Weather Unfavorable.
The velocity of the wind was only
eight miles an hour and it was blowing
steadily from the southwest, according
to the official bulletin of the govern
ment weather bureau.
However, Brookins reached Washing
ton Park soon after 7 o’clock and made
his preparations.
Even at that early hour the crowd
was assembled rapidly, coming in auto
mobiles, carriages and on foot. A space
of about two acres had been roped oft
and here, early in the morning the me
chanicians of the Wright company had
convened the huge artificial bird.
“Good!” exclaimed Brookins when
he saw the shape things were in. Then
he lit a cigarette and went over a few
details in the machine to which he
wished to give his personal attention.
Wilbur Wright Out Early.
Wilbur Wright went to the park
early. “I don't like this head wind,”
he said.
“I doubt if he will be able to make
much better speed than twenty-five or
thirty miles an hour as a result. This
ought to get him into Springfield about
3 or 4 o’clock this afternoou. I’d give
a thousand dollars for a north wind.”
Wright suggested a trial flight to
make sure the motor was working. per
fectly so the engine was started, Book-1
ins climbed into his seat, and was oft'. |
The crowd had grown to immense pro-
Sortions, and a great cheer wsut up as
er soared into the air. He circled,
twice, climbed to an altitude of prob
ably 1000 feet, then took a long circuit
around and down and alighted less I han
twenty feet from the starting point.
“She works fine,” he announced.
Brookins Is Off.
The engine was again started at 9:15,
the sound of its chattering exbansts
sounding like a gatling gun. Brookins
climbed into his seat.
‘•All right,” eried Brookins, and
(threw on the powerfl The biplane was
ipointing due south —all aeroplane starts
Ibeing made in the teeth of the wind
so as to get a better lift.
The machine ran along the ground for
100 feet, gathering momentum, then
Brookins tilted the horizontal plane
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DAHLMAN, NOMINEE FDR GOVERNOR
DF « BARES LIFE SECRET
MORE EVIDENCE
OE BRIBES IN THE
LORIMER CASE
Twenty New Witnesses Called
In Investigation of Illinois
Senator,
BECKEMEYER ON STAND
Special Dispatch.
Chicago, 111., Sept. 29.—Representa
tive H. J. C. Beckemeyer, one of those
legislators who confessed to accepting
a bribe for their votes which helped
elect William Lorimer to the United
States senate, took the stand when the
investigation of Lorimer was resumed
by the sub-committee of elections and
privileges of the United States senate
today.
Twenty new witnesses were called by
the committee. When Beckemeyer con
cludes his confession he will be suc
ceeded on the stand by Michael Link,
another member of the legislature.
Senator. Hoirsiaw yesterday testified
that he had voted for Lorimer and that
he had received $2500 from Broderick
for his vote. He told of a walk be had
with Broderick in which the latter de
clared that there would be $2500 in it if
he voted for Lorimer.
He testified that he had made up his
mind to vote for Lorimer several days
before the alleged bribe was offered to
him. k
BIRMINGHAM
MAKES LARGEST
GAIN IN SOUTH
Special Dispatch.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 29.—Birm
ingham. Ala., “the Pittsburg of the
south,” has broken all the census
records for increases in population for
cities of the 100,000 class or better so
far announced.
The census bureau declared today
that the Birmingham returns gave the
city a population of 132,685 against
38,415 in the last census, an increase
of 245.46 per cent.
CHICAGO COTION
OFFICES RAIDED
Special Dispatch.
Chicago. 111., Sept. 29.—lederal mar
shals sent out by District Attorney Lid
win W. Sims, raided the officers of B.
H. Seheftels & Co., dealers in unlisted
I securities today and after ejecting pa
|trons of the brokerage concern, closed
(the offices. Similar raids were made at
Milwaukee and Detroit in the west and
at several eastern points.
The complaint, against the concern is
using the mail to defraud.
When the marshals closed the Chicago
offices today a deputy was left on guard
at the place and all desks and papers
were sealed for the examination.
RAID PHILADELPHIA OFFICE.
Special Dispatch.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 29. —The local
offices of the B. F. Schetels and com
pany were raided shortly after noon to
day'.
F Forecast till 7p. a. Friday:
For Sau Antonio and vicinity:
A Fair tonight and Friday.
Th* maximum temperature for
♦he 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock
thia morning was 92 degrees and
Ithe .minimum was 68 degrees.
Comparative temperatures for
this jeur and last:
1909 1910 ।
4 a. m ... 58 70
Rd a. m 51 69
8 a. ui . ~ . 59 72
in a. m.... 72 79
12 noon .... 78 83
1 p. m..«. 84 64 1
16 PAGES
Mayor of Omaha Lived Under Assumed Name
for Years After Shooting Brother-in-
Law In Texas.
HIS LIFE LIKE THAT OF DIME NOVEL HERO
SITUATION HI
NAPLES GRAVE
City In State of Panic as Re
sult of Cholera Epidemic.
18 Deaths Reported.
AMERICANS HAVE FLED
Special Dispatch.
Naples, Sept. 29.—The cholera situa
tion here is openly declared to be in
finitely worse than the authorities will
admit. Charges are made today that
the official reports give but a fraction
of the actual number of the dead and
dying. The city is almost i na state of
panic and practically all of the
American residents have fled along
many thousands of the native popula
tion.
While the official report given out
late last night admitted 9 deaths and
15 fresh eases within the preceding 24
hours, it is openly stated that there
were actually 18 deaths and 39 cases.
Nine more are known to have died
since midnight last night.
LONDON ELECTS
FIRST “PROHI”
LORD MAYOR
Sir Thomas Vesey Strong Only
Total Abstainer In Long List
of City's Rulers.-
Associated Press.
London, Sept. 29.—Sir Thomas Vesey
Strong today was elected Lord Mayor
of London, without opposition. Sir
Thomas enjoys the distinction of being
the first teetotaler ever chosen as cheif
magistrate of the metropolis.
He was born in 1867 and in 1900
married Lillie, the daughter of the late
James Hartnell.
5 More Newspaper
Canvassers Can
Make Good Money
The Light and Gazette has openings for five reliable newspaper
canvassers for work in the city. These men can make excellent
wages, as the rapidity with which subscribers are obtained makes
possible many calls each day. It is no trouble to obtain three-months
contracts. Those who want work should apply at once.
Twenty thousand daily circulation is the mark
I set for January i, igu. and present appearances
indicate that this figure win be reached before that
time. The new leased wi?e service, which leaves
no news for the morning papers, is causing the cir
culation to jump in the city and in the country —20,-
000 by January 1 is going to be easy. It’s a gain of
only 3000.
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ipeeis! Dispatch
Lincoln, N e b.,
Sept. 29. — Under
the stress of
charges made by
political opponents
that he had “kill
ed his man ’ ’ years
ago in Texas, and
fled from justice,
and under an as
sumed name, May
or James C. Dahl
man of Omaha,
democratic nomi
nee for governor
of Nebraska, to
day laid bare the
Cowboy Jim Dahl
man.
aay iaia oare tuo
secret of his life. It is a story tensely
thrilling and dramatic, rivaling in keen
interest the yellow-backed fiction of the
dime novel brand. \
The Omaha mayor frankly admitted
that he shot Charles Bree in Lavaca
county, Texas, in 1878. Bree had mar
ried Dahlman’s sister and when a child
was born, deserted her. Reared in the
midst of cowboys, where the border
spirit predominated, the avenging
brother and the faithless husband met
in a saloon and exchanged a fusillade.
Bree fell with a bullet in his head.
Dahlman fled and eventually rounded
up in the range country of Northwest
Nebraska, where he assumed the name
of “Jim Murray.” He roamed the
range as a cowpuncher, finally earning
a promotion to a foremanship of the
biggest cattle ranch in that section of
the west. For six years he was “Jim
Murray?’ Then he learned that the
worthless Bree had recovered and, that
he, Dahlman, was not a murderer. He
fell in love with Hattie Abbott, gov
erness for a trader on the Pine Ridge,
a reservation, and made a clean breast
of his history to the woman of his
choice. She condoned his past and the
two were wedded.
Establishing himself in business un
der his right name in the border town
of Chadron, Neb., he soon entered poli
tics and was three times elected sher
iff of Dawes county and twice mayor
of Chadron. In 1897 he was appointed
by a democratic governor as one of the
secretaries of the state board of trans
portation. Later he entered the live
stock commission business in South
Omaha. Four years ago he was elected
mayor of Omaha by a majority of near
ly 5000, being re-elected in 1909 by an
increased vote.
$12,000 FIRE AT PALESTINE.
Special Dispatch.
Palestine, Tex.. Sept. 29.—Fire orig
inating at the yards of the Boyles
Lumber company, destroyed lumber val
ued at $12,000 today. The cause is un
known.