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PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1912.
PRICE. 5 CENTS.
MASTER OF TITANIC IS
BLAMED FOR DISASTER
FLOOD WATERS
LAST RALLY IN
OF
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U(i lor videnci of Fraud
POUR H TO
CAMPAIGN
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Steamers Could Not Reach
Vessel Because He Gave
Wrong Position.
CAPTAIN OF THE MOUNT TEMPLE
ATTEMPTED TO GO TO AID OF
SINKING VESSEL, BUT FOUND
SHE WAS MANY MILES FROM
WHERE WIRELESS MESSAGE
SAID SHE WAS MANY STEAM
ERS WERE NEAR.
By Associated Pre.
Washington, April 27. To give her
exact position in the great field of
floating ice, offering a barrier to ships
hurrying to the rescue, and the mis
take of her own captain in rushing at
top speed through the ice-covered sea.
all combined to send the Titanic with
bar sixteen hundred victims to a wa
tery grave in the North Atlantic This
was strongly Indicated todpy in testi
mony before the senatorial committee
Investigating the disaster.
Capt. Moore, of the steamer Mount
Temple, which hurried to the Titanic
In response to the wireless calls for
help, told of the ice that held him ott.
Within his view fyom the bridge he
discerned, he said, another strange
steamer, probably a tramp, and a
schooner making their way out of the
Ice. The lights of this schooner, he
thought, probably were those seen by
the survivors of the Titanic Captain
Moore denounced as "most unwise" the
action of the Tltanlc's commander in
rushing 21 knots an hour when he had
. been advised of the proximity of ice.
Captain Moore was emphatif in saying
the position sent out by the Titanic
was wrong and the ship was eight
miles further eastward than the oper
ator reported. With what was vlr
utlally a fleet of steamers within a
radius of fifty miles of the' Titanic the
officer said, the mistake in fixing ae-
curately the position of the Titanic
was fatal.
"Have you seen Icebergs by day anu
. by night?" asked Senator Smith.
"Yes sir," replied Capt. Moore.
- "How do they look on a starlit
night?" '
ICEBERGS LUMINOUS.
"White, sir. In fact, they are lumin
ous." , The night of the Titanic catastrophe
: was clear and the sky was studded
thick with stars.
"J wish you would tell the commit
tee Just what happened on that Sun
day night and Monday morning," said
the senator.
"At 12:80 a. m. April 15," Captain
Moore said, "I was awakened by the
steward with a message from the Mar
coni operator of my ship which saM
P that the Titanic was sending out a
C.Q.D. message. Here is the message:
'Titanic sending C.D.Q. Requires as
sistance. Position 41:44 N. 50.24 W.
Come at once. Iceberg. This was a
message the operator picked up."
"What reply did you send?"
"None whatever, sir. We didn't want
to stop those distress messages going
out and the operator said the Titanic
couldn't hear him. At once I ordered
the course toward the Tltanlc's posi
tion. I dressed and went to the chart
room. We steamed up and sailed east
by the compass. We turned right
toward the Titanic Then I went to
- the chief engineer and told him about
the Titanic and to push up the fires,
wake up all extra firemen and to get
them busy. I said If necessary give
the firemen a tot of rum,' sir."
"At the time you got this message
from the Titanic how far distant did
you figure the vessel was from you?"
"About 49 miles."
The senator asked what speed the
Mount Temple made toward the Ti
tanic Captain Moore said a trifle
more than eleven knots.
"About 8 a. m. we ran Into our first
Ice," continued the witness, "and we
Immediately doubled the lookout watch.
"At 3:25, ship's time, we had to stop,
At that time we figured we were about
fourteen miles distant from where the
Titanic signalled."
He said he had been at sea for thirty-two
years, 27 years In the North At
lantic ocean.
"Are you familiar with Ice and ice
tersrs?" asked Senator Smith.
"Yes," said the captain. "A berg Is
ice broken oft from land In the arctic
regions and may be composed of land.
rocks and most anything that it would
pick up in its cou-se."
Senator Smith sought this informa
tion because of some levity caused by
a Question Tie asked, several days ago
as to what an lceoerg was.
Captain Moore's ship was stopped a
few minutes by ice ana again aeiayed
bv a schooner coming from the direc
tion of the Titanic When he saw the
schooner about 3 o'clock he estimated
she was about twelve miles from the
Tltanlc's position.
Asked if the scnooner's light might
have been the one mentioned by Officer
Boxhall of the Titanic and others. Cap
tain Moore said they might have seen
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Form of Government is Present,
But the Substance is Lacking
By Asoclated Press.
Chicago. April 27. There were two
Chicagoans among the five Americans
who recently repulsed an attack by
bandits on the American Hacienda
Ciuimlchic on the Siniloa-Tepec border
In Mexico. They saved eight women
and children by walking twenty miles
and escaping in canoes to Teacapan.
They were Killian Stimpson, 20
years old, and Guy P. Jones, 31 years
old and a Harvard graduate. The
last letters received by the families
of the men were posted at Quimichic,
Arril 12.
Jones wrote that the form of gov
ernment was everywhere present, but
the substance was lacking
"The sacking of a -ranch will be re
TORNADO KILLS AND
INJURES MANY PEOPLE
By Associated Press.
Oklahoma City, April 27. Reports
from Jackson, Kiowa, Washita and
Canadiana counties, in southwest
ern Oklahoma, indicate a score of
persons were killed and a number
Injured this afternoon when a tor
nado swept northward through sev
eral towns.
At Lugert fifteen persons were
killed, and a relief train to Lugert
started back to Altus tonight with
ten injured aboard. Two of the
number died aboard. Two coaches
of the Kansas City, Mexico & Ori
ent train were derailed, but no one
was Injured.
Childress, Tex., April 27. Seven
persons were killed and a number
injured, six seriously, by a tornado
In Childress county today.
HOUSE MEMBERS
ENGAGE IN TILT
Mr. Mann, of Illinois, Charges That
New York Newspaper Are Controll
ed by Harvester Trust.
By Associated Press.
Washington, April 27. Two mem
bers of the house engaged in a mild tilt
today over the influences alleged to
have been exercised on the policies of
cetrain New York and Chicago news
papers. . Mr. Barnhart, of Indiana, was urging
adoption of his amendment to the
postoffice appropriation bill, which
would require the names of owners,
stcckholders and publishers of news
papers to be printed daily. Mr. Barn
hart said he knew of connection be
tween the Harvester truts and a b'.g
Chicago newspaper. Mr. Mann, of
Illinois, told Mr. Barnhart that he had
been misinformed, whereupon the In
diana congressman submitted to cor
rection. Nevertheles he insitsed that it had
been reported to him that a certain
afternoon newspaper of New York was
controlled by Mr. Perkins of the Har
vester trust, who dictated the paper's
pr.licies In behalf of the trust and "a
certain great reform candidate for
president."
MAN BURIED PUTS
IN APPEARANCE
W. E. Wofford, Supposed to be Dead
and InsuranceCollected on His Life,
is Still a "Live One."
By Associated Pra.
- Fort Worth, Texas, April " 27. Six
weeks after a body, identified as tha;
of W, E. WofCord, had been sent to
WoiTcrd's former home in New York,
a funeral;held and $1,000 life ir-suranrvj
collected by Mrs. Mary Wofford. tha
young man's mother, Wofford walked
Into an undertaking establishment here
last night and announced that a "mis
take had been made." He created quirj
a surprise when he stated he was "the
corpse shipped to Brooklyn, N. Y., sev
eral weeks ago."
When the man who was burled for
Wofford died in a local hospital, th
body was identified through letters
signed by Mrs. Wofford. which were
found in the man's pocket. A descrip
tion of the dead man was sent to New
York and as it tallied closely with that
of Wofford, the body was sent to the
sorrowing mother.
Wofford lost a coat with letters from
his mother not long before the death
of the man. Not knowing he was sup
posed to be dead, he wrote to his
mother in his usual way while hi
Lou liana. The Investigation which fol
lowed resulted in Woff ord's resurrec
tion. MONEY TO REPAIR
THE WEAK LEVEES
Immediate Appropriate of Large Sum
Made Certain Resolution Passed the
House.
By Associated Press.
Washington. April 27. An imme
diate appropriation of a million and a
half dollars for rebuilding and repair
ing levees on the Mississippi river and
tributaries was made certain this af
ternoon, when the house passed the
senate Joint resolution authorizing tha
expenditure.
WAS IN ACT OF SHOOTING
MAN WHEN HE FELL DEAD
By Associated Press.
Atlanta. Ga April 27. As he ws
In the act of shooting a man whom he
had accused of insulting him, Edward
Walton, a market owner, was stricken
by heart trouble and died instantly
last night. Hubert V. Jenks, a car
penter, is said to have quarreled with
Walton in the latter's store. Walton
seized a revolver and was advancing
on the other when he toppled over.
ported to the local magistrate." he
wrote. "The magistrate will go through
ail the form of getting a description of
the mauraders, file complaints against
them, report it to the next town and
go through all the red tape, but when
it comes down to hunting the men.
the police will look every place but
where the men are likely to be found."
Jones wrote that "there is no au
thority anywhere to enforce the laws."
In the Madero revolution about 500
of the 2.000 peons on the hacienda
Joined the revolutionary forces and
tcld of weapons and horses which
had been secreted.
The revolutionists returned after one
visit to the place and seized the
weapons and drove off the horses.
, The Indications of the use of large sums of money in the Escambia county campaign during the past few
days, the activity of the well known political manipulators who handle and place that money, and certain evidence
which The Journal has secured tending to show how the money is being used and is to be used, all constitute a
situation with which The Journal Intends to deal without gloves."
The Journal today ol-rs two is wards, these rewards to hold good Indefinitely, as follows:
$100.00 REWARD fcr evidence to convict any person of the fraudulent use of money in Escambia
county in the present rrlmary campaign.
$100.00 REWARD for evidence to convict any cleric r inspector In Escambia county of making a
false count or a false return of the votes cast for any candidate in the primary election of Tuesday, April 30.
THE LAW SAYS:
Section 17, primary election law of 1909: If any person whose dut- It Is to canvass the returns or to
make or tabulate a statement thereof who shall be deemed guilty of fraud, corruption or misbehavior or of violat
ing any of the laws of this state in canvassing the return or making the tabulated statement thereof, he shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned In the county Jail not exceeding one year, or both,
in the discretion of the court. -
The election law provides. Section 241. General Statutes of Florida, Section 241. canvass of ballots: "At the
place of the election at each polling place in each election district, the inspectors and clerks shall immediately pro
ceed to open the ballot boxes, and in the presence of the public, if there be any present who desire to witness said
canvass, count the ballots therein and continue such count without adjournment or interruption until same is
completed." 1
Sec. 270 of the election law provides that the primary election shall be regulated by the general election law
of the state in force at the time such primary election is held. The law gives the right to any person interested,
or candidate, or friend of a candidate, to be present and stand beside the reader of the ballot, and watch the read
ing, and also the right of any person interested, or any candidate or his friends to tally the count as the ballots are
read.
Sec. 15 of the act of 1909 prohibiting the use or solicitations of money to Influence primary election, provides
as follows: "Any persons who shall give, lend, solicit, request, demand or receive, directly or indirectly, any money.
Intoxicating liquor,' or any other thing of value, of whatever nature or kind whatsoever, or the promise thereof,
either to influence a vote or under pretense of being used to proem e the vote of any other person or persons; or
to be used at any Toll or other place prior to or on the day of any primary election, for or against amy candidate
for office, shall be deemed guilty of the infamous crime of bribery and, upon conviction thereof in any court of
record, shall be sentenced to disfranchisement by the judge of such court for a term of not more than ten years,
and to the county jail for not less than one year; and for the conviction of a second offense under this section, the
first being alleged and proven, such offender shall be. by sentence of the court, forever thereafter disfranchised and
deprived of his right to vote at a primary In this state, and to be imprisoned n the state penitentiary not more
than five years. Prosecutions may be had under this section by indictment In the circuit court or by information
In a criminal court of record, and the effect of a sentence of disfranchisement In either of said courts, both having
Jurisdiction of offenses, hereunder, shall be to deprive such person sentenced of the right to vote at any primary
in this state for a period of time fixed by the court where such person shall be convicted under this section."
CAN
There Is a general Impression abroad that no one can go behind the returns after they are once made up and
sent in and therefore fraud cannot be located after the clerks and inspectors have closed the count and got away
from the polling place.
' Let no one be deceived. You cn ro behind the returns from any precinct and get a recount either by the
committee or the court, PROVIDING YOU FILE A PROTEST WHILE THE COUNT IS GOING ON.
Any candidate or citizen who has reason to believe that a fair co.mt Is not being made can file his protest
at the polling place and the ballots must then be recounted if he demands It.
The Journal will on Monday ha e drawn a legally prepared form of protest and The Journal will assist in the
prosecution and conviction of any citizen or election official who is guilty of fraud.
This election is going to be straight or somebody will help build hard roads for Escambia county.
JUDGE REEVES
SAYS GEORGIA
ISFOR WILSO!
EMINENT PENSACOLA LAWYER
WHO IS HOME FROM ATLANTA
j
SAYS WILSON WILL UNDOUBT
EDLY CARRY GEORGIA JUDGE
REEVES HAS BEEN HAVING
EYES TREATED.
Some days ago The Journal an
nounced the fact that Judge L. J.
Reeves, one of the most prominent at
torneys in West Florida, is a supporter
of Woodrow Wilson for the presidency.
Judge Reeves has been absent for sev
eral days in Atlanta, to which place he
went to hav his eyes treated by
specialists. He returned to Pensacola
on the 5:50 o'clock train yesterday
mornmg for the purpose of voting next
Tuesday.
When seen by a representative of
The Journal Judge Reeves stated that
while he was in Atlanta and on the
trains going to and coming from there,
he made it a point to talk to as many
persons as he could see in an effort to
gauge the sentiment of Georgia and to
ascertain the probable outcome of the
primary shortly to be held In that
state. Although he discussed the situ
atlon with numerous persons he saw
no one except a few Alabamians who
were not supporters of Wilson, and
the Alabamians conceded that Under
wood had no chance.
' Judge Reeves found that Joe Brown's
former campaign manager is active in
the campaign in that state for Wilson,
and as every one knows, Hoke Smith
and his followers are for Wilson. This
means, of course, that Smith and his
followers, as well as such of Joe
Brown's followers as have confidence
in his former campaign manager, and
they are numerous, will be for Wilson.
Judge Reeves stated to the repre
sentative of The Journal that from all
the Information he could obtain, and
he was endeavoring to learn the true
situation, there can be no doubt that
Wilson will carry Georgia against Un
derwood by a splendid majority.
BOARD OF MISSIONS TO
RECOMMEND APPROPRIATIONS
By Associated Press. j
Nashville. Tenn., April 27. When
the board of missions of the Method
ist Episcopal church, South, meets
May 1, the estimates committee will
recommend the following appropria
tions for the foreign work:
China, $83,904; Japan. $90,907; Korea.
$77,196; Brazil, $61,015; South Brazil.
$25,609; Cuba. $44,727; Central Mexico.
JSZ.646; Northwest Mexico. $22,316; '
Mexican Border, $23,218. Total, $461.- '.
536.
These estimates allow for four new
missionaries for Japan, five for China,
four for Korea, four for Brazil, two for
Cuba and one for Mexico.
NASHVILLE'S CLOUDBURST
RECORD IS SMASHED
8y Associated Press.
Nashville, Tenn April 27. Nash
ville's cloudburst record was broken
early this morning when 1.60 inches of
rain fell In thirty minutes. One house
was struck by lightning and de
stroyed. The tremendous rainfall ex
tended to other counties. The rainfall j
nere ror tne night was 3.6S inches, the
river rising ten feet.
GO BEHIND THE RETURNS.
PAPERS
FOR IDEM!
MISREPRESENTATION OF PENSACOLA-
hIEWS IS EXPOSED BY
PAPERS WHICH TOOK THE
TROUBLE TO ADVISE THE
JOURNAL ON THE SUBJECT
THEY ARE FOR WILSON.
Yesterday the Pensacola News pub
lished the following:
JOURNAL FAILED TO CATCH
EVENING NEWS IN A LIE.
The other day the Evening News
carefully prepared a list of the papers
hi Florida which are supporting Un
derwood for President. We have Just
learned that The Journal, in a des
perate effort to catch the Evening
News In a lie, has wired to the papers
mentioned or some of them, asking
them to wire The Journal whether or
not the report was correct. Pensacola
News.
As to whether the News lied or not,
the reader may Judge for himself. All
of the third district papers mentioned
by the News were evidently not for
Underwood as the following took the
trouble to advise The Journal to the
contrary. The Gracevllie Advertiser
says
GRACEVILLE ADVERTISER.
Gracevllie, Fla., April 26, 1912.
Journal, Pensacola.
The statement made by the News
that the Advertiser is supporting Un
derwood Is untrue. I was one time In
sympathy with him until the Harmon
people traded us off, but I refused to
he delivered. The Advertiser has never
expressed itself as being an Under
wood paper.
THE GRACEVILLE ADVERTISER.
THE QUINCY TIMES.
R. E. L. McFarlln, editor of the
Gadsden County Times, published at
Quincy. says:
Quincy. Fla April 26, 1912.
Journal, Pensacola. Fla.
Times unqualified! for Wilson.
R. E. L. McFARLrN.
ENTERPRISE-RECORDER.
T. C. Merchant, editor of the Madi
son Enterprise-Recorder, says:
Madison, Fla April 25. 1912. 1
Pensacola Journal, Pensacola, Fla.
Madison Enterprise-Recorder has
been passively in favor of Wilson for
presidency and editor Intends to vote
that way. See issue of Feb. 23rd and
March 2nd. At time of publishing
Underwood section, commendatory ar
ticle on the south coming into her
own was published, but the paper has
never stated Its choice for Under
wood. T. C. MERCHANT. r:
Editor.
OTHER PAPERS.
The Washington County Verdict and
the Monticello News are also quoted
a being for Underwood though The
Journal has never seen any announce
ment from those papers to that effect,
though It reads them every week.
But what difference does It make,
whether it be true or false, if the Pen
sacola News and the special Interests
for which it speaks, can make a little
temporary capital for their candidates
and their cause?
STATE SENATOR SENTENCED
TO SERVE NINg MONTHS
By Associated Press.
Columbus. O., April 27. State 'Sen
ator L- R. Andrews, of Iron ton, con
victted of accepting a bribe for his
senatorial vote, today was sentenced
to nine months in the penitentiary.
1
WILSON WILL
GET BIG VOTE
3RD DISTRICT
IT WILL PROBABLY AMOUNT TO
NEARLY THREE TO ONE EN
THUSIASTIC WILSON MEN IN
ALL PARTS OF DISTRICT LET
TERS INDICATE DETERMINA
TION TO WIN.
Since the publication of The Jour
nal's straw ballot last week on the
presidential situation in the Third
Congressional District, 17 more votes
have been received, making the totals
now as follows:
Underwood 42
Wilson 113
Total 155
Here Is the way the vote stands in
the 14 counties In the Third congres
sional district:
VOTE BY COUNTIES.
Underwood Wilson
8 Escambia .1 26
8 i Santa Rosa 9
3 Walton 12
6 Holmes 10
6 Washington 13
7. Jackson 8
1 Calhoun 9
2 Franklin .' 4
Liberty 2
1 Gadsden
4 Leon 4
3 Wakulla 9
1 Jefferson 5
1 Madison 2
42.
Totals
.113
G. W. Johnson, of Washington
county, writes: "There are only 40 or
45 votes in my precinct, but I am go
Inp to do all I can for a Wilson dele
gation." C. H. Jernigan, of Santa Rosa
county, writes: 'I will not only cast
my vote for you, but will assist you all
I can."
. P. Snowden, of Santa Rosa county,
writes: "Woodrow Wilson stands well
with the people in my precinct."
B. P. Edge, of Walton county,
votes for Wilson, and W. J. Miles of
the same county says: "Wilson Is go
tog to get more votes here than Un
derwood and I hope to see Mm in of
fice." Norman Gillis. of Walton county,
writes: "I am for Wilson and I think
that he will be in the lead in this
section. I am also for Mayes and
Griggs and will ask all my friends to
vote for them.
LINCOLN ALSO A KENTUCKIAN.
Capt. F. J. Clarke, of Gadsden
ccunty, writes: "I find the voters al
mcst to a man for Wilson for presi
dent. In fact, with only a few excep
tions, the voters wear Wilson but
tons and are firm in their determina
tion to vote for him. As to claim
that Underwood Is a southern man,
let us see how that can be. In my
school days I was taught that Ken
tucky was not a southern state a
fact that has been fixed in my mind
ever since. She was not with us in
the Confederacy. Though she furnish
ed many noble and gallant men who
left the state and faught for the south,
still she was true to the union. We
are urged to vote for Mr. Underwood
because they say he is a southerner,
as he came from Kentucky. Abraham
(Continued on Page Eleven.)
SWOLLEN RIVER
The Mississippi Starts Ris
ing and Will Go
Much Higher.
WATERS MOVING AT GREATEST
RATE KNOWN AND THIS GIVES
ADDED APPREHENSION FOR
THE SAFETY OF REMAINING
LEVEES ARMED MEN ALONG
BANKS OF RIVER WATCHING
EACH OTHER.
By Associated Press.
Greenville, April 27. A second rise
in the Mississippi river, predicted by
the weather bureau and engineers to
start as soon as the west crevasse
waters began to pour back Into the
Mississippi through the Red river.
6tarted in today. Government read
ings at 7 o'clock tonight showed a
rise of one-tenth of a foot at all points
south of the Red river landing. Gov
ernment engineers say the Indications
art that south of Torras all river
points will experience the most rapid
rise ever recorded. A Jump upward of
a foot and a half within ten days is
predicted. This will give New Orleans
a foot more water than shown by the
previous high record gauge and at
some points north the excess ever the
previous record probably will reach
two feet or more.
Government observations here today
showed that the Mississippi waters are
moving at the rate of eight feet per
second, or almost an hour faster than
ever before recorded. This great In
crease in the force of the waters gives
added apprehension for the safety of
the remaining levee?.
ARMED MEN ALONG THE
LEVEES WATCHING EACH OTHER
By Associated Press.
New Orleans, April 27. The levee
ou both sides of the Atchafalaya river,
tnrough which the greatest flood ever
recorded Is booming along Its way to
ward the gulf, last night resembled
armed pickets of hostile forces. These
files of determined men are not only
watching the levees, but they are
watching each other. Each 6lde fears
those on the other will cut the op
pcslte bank and every movement is
closely watched.
The sitaution Is the result of rumors
that those on the west bank-had made
threats of cutting the levee v on the
east bank, and those on the west bank
have heard rumors of similar threats
from the opposite shore. Volunteers
guarding the east levees are confront
ed with the Opelousas company of the
nntlonal guard. One such report flash
ed like wild Are over the district con
cerned yesterday. The call for volun
teers was responded to with prompt
ness of the historic "Minute Men
farmers with shot guns and rifles re
porting in almost incredible time for
duty as watchmen.
According to dispatches received
from Melville last night, one armed
detachment boarded a train at
Fordoche, ten miles east of Melville,
and urpred the conductor to let them
off at the east end of the river bridge.
When asked about their mission and
arrarent haste one replied: "The
fellers on th west side have threatend
to cut our levees and we're going to
see to It that they don't."
GETTING READY
FOR DEMOCRATS
Temporary Organization Was Suggest
ed, But Question Drooped For Good
of AH Concerned.
By Associated Press.
Baltimore, April 27. Temporary or
ganization of the Democratic conven
tion here next July was taken up at
th meeting of the national commit
tee's sub-committee here today. It was
dropped, however, at the suggestion of
Chairman Mack, who urged that no
action be taken now because the pub
lic might assume the national commit
tee was seeking to organize the con
vention in the interest of a particular
candidate. CoL John T. McGraw, ot
West Virginia, brought out the ques
tion by proposing that the committee
select United States Senator James
O'Gorman of New York as the tempo
rary chairman of the convention, with
Urey Woolson, of Kentucky, as secre
tary pro tern, and CoL John S. Martin
of Missouri, as a temporary sergeant -at-arms
of the convention.
Mayor of Cincinnati Will Don
the Garb of a Street Sweeper
By Associated Press.
Cincinnati. Ohio, April 27. Mayor
Henry T. Hunt, of this city, proposed
to familiarize himself with the various
public service departments in a de
cidedly novel manner.
The mayor will make a most sweep
ing, investigation or inspection, not as
a mere onlooker and recipient of In
formation such as his subordinates
may be able to tell him. but to mingle
lu person with the laborers of the
street and the many other employes
of this city.
Cincinnati's chief executive will don
the garb of the laborer and try from
a day to a week the Job of cleaning the
streets, answering the ring of the fire
gong, spending a day or so at each
of the police district station houses
and make the rounds with the captain
and corporal, as well as a night on a
EHMETWU
Escambia County Candidato
Will Speak
Monday.
MEETING WILL BE AT COURT
HOUSE AND PUBLIC IS INVITED
TO BE PRESENT CANDIDATE
IS ONE OF FLORIDA'S GREAT
EST CAMPAIGN ORATORS
OTHER CANDIDATES INVITED.
Hon. Emmett Wilson, Escambia'
COUntv's candidal for rrrmwntntlva
In congress from the Third district of
Florida, will close his campaign with
a meeting at the court nous Monday
nigm at :su ociock.
Mr. Wilson has devoted the past
eight weeks to a canvass which has
ccvered practically every voting pre
cinct In the fourteen counties of tha
district, and he returns to his hom
people With most eneouraerin e rurmrtm
of the outlook for his nomination in
tne primary or next Tuesday.
In every county in the district not
excepting the home counties of the
other candidates, he found scores of
ardent supporters who assured hlr
that the people have received his can
didacy with enthusiastic rinrnvnl ru
alone because of the progressive poli
cies or government for which h
stands, but because they want a vig
orous, active and energetic young man
O represent them at the national capi
tal Mr. Wilson attended the school'd.
ing exercises and basket picnic at
Eratt yesterday, and upon his return
to the city last night expressed to a
representative of The Journal his
gratification at the reception which
has been given his candidacy through
out his home county.
Other candidates for any office will
be welcome and may addiess the meet
In? after the conclusion of Mr. Wil
son's address.
DEMONSTRATION
FOR ROOSEVELT
Ex-President Royally Received in Bo
ton, Where He Delivered Speech
"Almost" Free From Personalities.
By Associated Press.
Eoston, April 27. Boston gave CoL
Roosevelt a demonstrative welcome to
night. Roosevelt, speaking before a
tumultuous throng, criticized Mr. Taft
but did not repeat the severe denuncia
tion which marked his speech at Wor
cester. He spoke calmly and said h
did not wish this to be a campaign of
personalities between Taft and him
self. 'Roosevelt defended his position
In regard to the courts.
The police were called to handle the
crowd, it was so large. Several hun
dred attempted to storm the main en
trance and the rush a number of win
dows were shattered. Policemen forced
the people back.
Before Roosevelt arrived a body f
men in the hall began to chant: "We
want Taft," and people rose to their
feet with a shout. There were a few
moments of confusion.
Roosevelt said he was more for
tunate In his friends than Taft. As
representing Taft's supporters h
named, amid the hisses of the crowd,
Senators Lorimer, Penrose, Guggen
heim and Gallagaher. and said "you
can Judge for yourself on whose eld
the bosses are."
HARRY THAW IS ,
TO TRY AGAIN
Fourth Attempt is Made to Liberate
Him by the Institution of Habeas
Corpus Proceedings.
Associated Pr.
New Rochelle. N. Y., April 27. A
fourth attempt through the agency of
the law to liberate Harry Thaw from
the Matteawan state hospital, where he
has been Imprisoned for the slaying
of Stanford White six years ago, "be
cause of Insanity," was ma-de today b
fore Justice Keogh of the supreme
court in New Rochelle. Thaw wu
brought down from Matteawan this
morning.
The hearing today on a writ of ha
beas corpus was expected to be pre
liminary in character and It wts
though that no witnesses would be ex
amined or exhibits produced. An ad
journment for several weeks in order
that counsel for the state may go over
the voluminous records In previous
habeas corpus proceedings was pre
dicted. beat. , Mayor Hunt will begin with
the street cleaning department by
eepndlng a day or o touring the
streets with Superintendent Mar
scheueer. Then follows the actual
work of sitting in the mid-night hours
ot the 6eat of the water wagons and
sweepers.
After this, the mayor will don the
garb of the "white wings" and assist
in sweeping the refuse from the thor
oughfares. He will even go so far as to try his
hand at driving one of the ash carts.
Other departments follow, such a
spending a week In the fire engin
he-uses, getting up with the firemen,
answering all alarms, but once at the
scene of the conflagrations, Mr. Hunt
will be a mere onlooker. Not a de
partment will be missed In an effort
to ascertain the actual Vorking con
ditions. ,
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