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IMB NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
The Latest Gleanings From All
Over the State.
Andrew Smith, 23 years old, employ
ed as a work train conductor by the
Maryland Electric Railways (An
napolis Short Line), was killed when
6,600 volts passed through his body.
Smith was one of a gang of men en
gaged in driving piles at the draw
span ot College Creek bridge. He was
standing on the deck of the pile driver,
with one hand gripped about an iron
“stay.” His body suddenly quivered
and toppled over, and was caught by
a couple of workmen. It is thought
the smokestock of the pile driver came
in contact with a trolley wire.
Prof. Gaston Costet, an assistant
instructor in the department of mod
ern languages at the Naval Academy,
has been notified of his decoration by
the French Government. Mr. L. Bar
thou, Prime Minister of France, has
presented him with the Palmes, and
title of officier d’academie. Profes
sor Costet has been a member of the
corps of instructors for a number of
years.
A tuberculosis dispensary in con
nection with Annapolis Emergency
Hospital was formally opened Wednes
day. The dispensary is in charge of
Miss Anne Doyle, of Baltimore. The
Nurses’ Training School, an adjunct
of the hospital, established three years
ago, will hold its first commencement
in December. Governor Goldsborough
is expected to deliver the address.
Articles of incorporation were filed
at Dover for the Dairy Products Com
pany, of Price, to do a general dairy
business and to establish and maintain
and operate creameries. The incor
porators were F. O. Meade, of Price,
Md.; G. Shearer, of Wilmington, Del.,
and Amos Lefevre, of New York. The
capital stock is SIOO,OOO.
Centreville poultry dealers are ship
ping hundreds of turkeys to Northern
markets. The birds are bringing good
prices. An unusually large number of
turkeys were raised in Queen Anne’s
county this fall. The birds are fat
and of large size and are in large
demand in the city markets.
John Archer, the newly-elected
Register of Wills for Harford county,
lias appointed Daniel H. Carroll as his
deputy. Mr. Carroll has been for the
past six years a clerk in the office of
the State Shellfish Commission, which
position he has resigned to take ef
fect December 10.
To test the constitutionality of the
law prohibiting traction engines with
cleats on the wheels from using State
roadssthe Rockvile grand jury return
ed two indictments against Garry A.
Fisher, a well digger. It is planned
to demur to the indictments and take
the cases to the Court of Appeals.
Leaving his home to drive to the
home of his son, Wesley Miller, near
Leitersburg, Andrew Miller, 70 years
old, a farmer, was found dead on the
Jacobs’ Church road, near Leitersburg.
The team he drove was standing near
by.
The grand jury returned an indict
ment against Spinosa Giacomo for the
murder about two weeks ago of an
other Italian, Antonio Dorio, at a
boarding house at Security, two miles
east of Hagerstown.
The Inter-State Commerce Commis
sion lias ordered the Western Mary
land Railway to discontinue the prac
tice of replenishing its passenger cars
with water taken from the city mains
in Hagerstown.
A. F. Rothstein has resigned as sec
retary of the Hagerstown Board of
Trade, effective December 15. He
has under consideration a position of
fered him by the Board of Trade of a
Georgia city.
Attempting to quiet horses which
were fighting, Harry M. Merriken, a
Federalsburg farmer, was kicked in
tne abdomen and rendered unconsci
ous. A farmhand dragged Mr. Merri
ken from beneath the horses’ hoofs.
Rev. Lewis Beeman Browne, rector
of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church,
Tnurmont, has accepted a call to St.
John’s Episcopal Church, Havre de
Grace, and will enter upon his new
duties December 1.
Michael W. Aker, editor of the
Queenstown News, is a claimant to
the title of “potato king” of Queen
Anne’s county. Mr. Aker raised a crop
of 1,000 bushels of Irish potatoes on
five acres of land.
An outbreak of hog cholera in the
Second district of Harford county is
.causing much alarm among farmers,
and many are butchering their hogs
for their winter’s meat supply.
The barn on the farm of Lindley
Rutter, Chestnut Level, was set on
fire by burning leaves and destroyed.
The loss is estimkted at $3,000.
The County Health Board has order
ed the school at Antietam Furnace,
near Sharpsburg, closed on account of
diphtheria in that section.
Maryland Postmasters Named.
The President sent to the Senate
the nomination of tire following post
masters: C. W. Jefferson, at Federals
burg; J. F. Peach, at North East;
Mary Tise, at Hyattsvile. Messrs. Jef
ferson and Peach have the indorse
ment of Representative Covington and
Miss Tise was recommended for re
appointment by Representative Smith.
There will be, accordingly, no delay in
their confirmation by the Senate.
Portugal yearly produces more than
198,000,000 pounds of cork.
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ANNAPOLIS NEWS |
TAX ASSESSMENTS REVIEWED.
State Board Of Appeals Orders Re
duction In Some Cases.
The State Board of Appeals, con-
sisting of Comptroller Harrington, I
Treasurer Vandiver and State Tax I
Commissioner Schley, which is
reviewing authority of appeals agai
assessments as made by the Tax iH
missioner, met here and
number of appeals that had been K3|
the files for some time. As a
assessments were ordered i educed HN
two or three instances, while in
ers the action of the Tax ComnMgg
sioner was affirmed. jl|l|
The following appeals were
Ashland Tailoring Company, of BaHS
more, affirmed; Franklin Printß&
Company, affirmed; Home Gas CcHS
pany, affirmed; Thomas Hughes
pany, reduced from $19,000 to s4,(Ml|
because of an error'; Mallory MachHßj
ery (’ompany, reduced from $7,000 MS
$4,000; Oehm-Sheffer Company,
duced from $3,000 to SI,BOO. WfiM
The following appeals were
ted on brief and will be decided lat<M, ;
Baltimore Antiseptic Steam Launcßg|
Company, Cloverdale Water Compaßf;t
and the Southern Engineering cH||
poration. The appeal of the SoutheMll
Can Company was postponed, and tHjg'
case of the Marvland-George’s CreM*!
Coal Company was withdrawn. M
FOR CRIMINAL INSANE. K
Separate Building Urged By
Arundel Grand Jury. S|||
The grand jury for the Oct ohH
term of the Circuit Court for AnM§
Arundel county made its final repoMi
and adjourned. Part of the report
corned the-affairs of the State H<H|
pital for the Colored Insane, f|||
(Townsville, from which a number H
criminal insane have recently escapiM!
The jury recommends that a separeM||
building lie erected for the crimiiM-j
insane, and that they be not allowMl
to mingle with the others. The iM
port makes this recommendation urg
ent, holding that the safety of' the
residents of the county demands that
such a step be taken. The jury re
ported that several public buildings in
Annapolis have not sufficient fire pro
tection, mentioning the Maryland Hotel
and the Colonial Theatre particularly.
It recommends that the condition of
the Maryland Hotel be reported to the
State Fire Marshal at once.
SOUTH RIVER CLUB DINES.
Thomas S. Iglehart Host At Novem
ber Function.
Thomas S. Iglehart was the host at
the November dinner of the Old South
River Club. The dinner was served
at the clubhouse near All Hallow’s
Parish, 26 members being present. A
feature was the presence of Judge
Alexander Hagner, of Washington, the
president. The guests of honor were:
John Rrogden, Dr. N. E. B. Iglehart,
J. McElderry Mullikin and Clapham
Murray, Baltimore; Senator-elect Ben
jamin Watkins, Jr., Ogden B. Duck
ett, Richard Estep and Eugene Igle
hart. The club members present, In
addition to the host and Judge Hagner,
were: Noble Stockett, Blanchard
Randall and James D. Iglehart, Balti
more; Benjamin Watkins, Sr., Allen
B. Howard, Thomas A. Duckett, Alex
ander Murray, Nevett Steele, Samuel
Brooke, Jr., James M. Munroe, Daniel
R’. Randall, L. Dorsey Gasaway, W. M.
Holladay.
THE VOTE IN MARYLAND.
Figures Approved By State Board Of
Canvassers,
The state board of canvassers of
ficially approved the following figures
of the vote cast at the recent elec
tion :
United States Senator —Lee, Demo
crat, 112,485; Parran, Republican, 73,-
300; Wellington, Progressive, 7,033;
Hendrickson, Prohibitionist, 2,405;
Field, Socialist, 2,982.
Comptroller—Harrington, Democrat,
105,976; Metzerott, Republican, 68,824;
Baldwin, Progressive, 7,495; Holmes, |
Prohibitionist, 3,022; Backman, So
cialist, 3,529.
Clerk of the Court of Appeals—Ma
gruder, Democrat, 103,221; Denhart,
Republican, 67,778; Smith, Progres- I
sive, 7,104; Elderdice, Prohibitionist,
3,307; Saunders, Socialist, 2,937.
For Congress—Coady, Democrat, 16,- j
131; Woelper, Republican, 9,622.
M’EVOY AND PUTZEL.
Appointed Police and Liquor License
Commissioners.
Governor Goldsborough announced
the following appointments:
James McEvoy, Jr., president of the
Board of Election Supervisors, to be a \
member of the Board of Police Com
missioners, vice Morris A. Soper, ap
pointed chief judge of the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore.
Lewis Putzel, counsel to the Board
of Election Supervisors, to be a mem
ber of same, vice Mr. McEvoy.
Robert H. Stanton or Charles R.
Schirm will probably be appointed
counsel to the Elections Board to
succeed Mr. Putzel.
Succeeds Major Alexander.
Captain E. A. Hadsal, Third Infan
try, U. S. A., has been detailed by the
War Department for duty with the
Maryland National Guard, succeeding
Major Robert Alexander, relieved.
Captain Hadsal is a graduate of the
Infantry School at Leavenworth, and
is highly recommended by officers con
nected with the militia division of the
War Department. He will assume his
duties December 1.
Pardon Court December 4.
Governor Goldsborough announced
that he will hold the next session of
his “pardon court” at Annapolis on,
December 4. Among the pending cases
is that of Pembroke W. Pitt, the grain
commission man, of Baltimore, who is
serving a term of five years in the
penitentiary for forging bills of lading.
His application for pardon is indorsed
ty a number of Baltimoreans.
To celebrate a Japanese holiday in
Korea for the first time tire govern
ment distributed 2,500,000 young trees
SAY MONROEISM
ISIRRITAIING
Doctrine Scored at Pan-Ameri
can Conference.
adopt a
fense which will enable us to secure
the friendship and support of our
neighbors in the Western Hemisphere,
which will increase our influence for
good among them, and will remove
any handicap in the development of
our foreign commerce.
Professor Bingham, head of the de
partment of Latin-American history at
T ale, declared that the Monroe Doc
trine is distasteful to the Latin-Ameri
can countries. “When the South
Americans use these words,” he said,
“or compress them into one —‘Mon-
roeism’—the meaning is for them a
sinister one. -It spells tutelage and in
tervention; it means the desire of the
great and powerful United States to
interfere in the personal affairs of the
American republics. To the citizens
of the leading American republics, like
Argentina, Brazil and Chili, our ad
herence to Monroeism is extremely
irritating, and even positively insult
ing. To the lesser republics, par
ticularly those around the Caribbean
Sea, Monroeism means interference,
intervention, imperialism and annexa
tion.”
NO WHITE HOUSE RECEP
TION NEW YEAR’S DAY.
Washington. President Wil
son shattered a precedent of
more than 100 years’ standing
today.
He announced that there
would be no public reception at
the White House on New Year’s
Day.
For many years it has been
customary for the President to
stand in the Blue Room from
two to five hours and shake
hands with all who came along.
This will not he done this
year
Instead the President will go
away from Washington for a
“brief holiday vacation” and will
I not be in the White House on
New Year’s Day.
SEEKS $200,000 HEART BALM.
I Sum Claimed In Charlemagne Tower
Alienation Suit.
Philadelphia.—Two hundred thou
sand dollars is the amount of damages
claimed by Mrs. Georgeanna Burdick
Tower, who declares-she is ths wife of
Charlemagne Tower, Jr., and who has
sued Charlemagne Tower, Sr., for al
leged alienation of the affections of
his son. The complainant began her
suit against Mr. Tower, Sr., who was
| former American Ambassador to Ger
many, on October 9. She declares in
her 'Knit that she was married to
young Tower in New Haven, Conn., in
June, 1911, while he was a student in
a New England University, and she
alleges that since then Mr. Tower, Sr.,
has induced young Tower to leave her
and has alienated the son’s affections.
A DARING ROBBERY,
Bank Cashier Held Up At Noon and
Locked In Safe.
Laurel, Miss. —Unobserved except
by his victim, a robber entered the
Bank of Heidelberg, at Heidelberg,
Miss., shortly before noon, held the
cashier up at a pistol point, got about
$2,000, locked the cashier in a vault
and escaped on. a freight train that
was passing nearby. The cashier was
liberated within half an hour and gave
the alarm.
G. O. P. SPENT $112,000.
Morgan, Rockefeller and Carnegie
Gave To New York Campaign.
Albany, N. Y,—Receipts of $117,000
and expenditures of $112,000 were
shown in the election expense state
ment of the Republican State Commit
tee just filed. Among the larger con
tributions were: J. P. Morgan & Co.,
$15,000; William Rockefeller, $10,000;
Andrew Carnegie, $5,000; Senator
Elihu Root, $2,600; Chauncey M. De
pew and John D. Archbold, $1,500
each.
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not only tend to limit the duration
and scope of hostile operations, but
also aid in the control of the seas, one
of the elements contributing material
ly to the power and prosperity of a
nation.”
Secretary Daniels made this state
ment here in the course of a public
address upon aeronautics, in which he
discussed the conquest of the air by
the United States Army and Navy
and the part aerial navigation will
take in future wars.
“The potentialities of the aeroplane,
when applied to the art of war, are
extremely great and its proper use
will undoubtedly be a dominating fac
tor in the success of future cam
paigns,” said he. “The principal roles
o? the aeroplane In naval warfare will
be for scouting and reconnoissance
work and for offensive destructive
operations against hostile fleets and
fortifications. Rash indeed will be the
commander of anhpposing fleet who
would head his "vessels against the
fleet or coast of an enemy possessing
a number of these vicious wasps of
war, and unfortunate indeed would be
a commander who did not have ready
at his call this means of obtaining
supremacy in the air.
“A torpedo costs $8 000, and fre
quently is lost in practice through de
flection in direction that makes it im
possible to follow it from the crow’s
nest of a ship. But an aerial scout
can follow a torpedo’s course unerring
ly by watching it from above. The
price of one torpedo will pay for sev
eral flying machines. Experts say
mines are easily ‘picked up’ or lo
cated by aerial scouts. One little
mine may wreck a $10,000,000 battle
ship. A flying machine, costing but a
small sum, would mean the ship’s
safety. The dirigible balloon, like
wise, will play as important a part in
naval warfare as the aeroplane, and
possibly will have a greater effect on
naval strategy and tactics.”
HE KILLS FOUR IN DAY.
After Murdering Man a Mexican Slays
Three Policemen.
Salt Lake City, Utah. —Chief of Po
lice Grant, of Bingham, and Deputy
Sheriffs Otto Whitbeck and Nephi
Jensen were killed in a rifle fight with
Ralph Lopez, a Mexican, near Sara
toga Springs, Utah. Lopez is wanted
in Bingham for the murder of a coun
tryman there. After slaying the three'
officers Lopez fled into the hills. Posses
are searching for him with the pros
pect of another fight if he is ever
taken.
KILLS MOTHER AND HIMSELF.
Hard Up and Better Off Dead, Man
Said In Note.
Chicago.—Albert Zinkie, 44 years
old, shot and killed his mother and
himself. A note found by the police
said that the deed was committed be
cause Zinkie and his mother were
“hard up and better off dead.”
WILL BE LEFT TO JURY.
Judge Refuses Lunacy Commission
For Hans Schmidt.
New York. —The question whether
Hans Schmidt was insane when he
killed Anna Aumuller, cut up her body
and threw it into the Hudson will be
left to the jury that will try him for
murder. Judge Foster in the Court
of General Sessions denied a motion
of Schmidt’s attorney for the appoint
ment of a commission to pass on his
mental condition.
CAN PAY FOR FISCAL YEAR.
Corporations So Advised In Regard
To Income Tax.
Washington. —The Treasury Depart
ment issued instructions to collec. >rs
in regard to the inconie tax, stating
that every corporation will be allow
ed to pay its taxes on the basis ot its
own fiscal year. The collector in t..e
district must be notified 30 days be
fore the corporation proposes to close
its fiscal year. Those which do not
name a fiscal closing date will make
returns for the calendar year.
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of water power in private hands was
denounced with a declaration that no
water power rights owned by the pub
lic ever should be removed from pub
lic ownership by the National Conser
vation Congress, just adjourned here.
The climax of the water power fight
which had agitated the congress for
several days came after the commit
tee on resolutions, to which had been
referred divergent reports from the
waterway committee, submitted that
the matter had been taken from its
hands by action of the convention in
accepting general principles upon
which the waterways committee
agreed. No mention of the majority
or minority reports, which differed as
to State and Federal control of water
power projects, was made in the reso
lutions committee report to the con
vention.
When the report had been read, Gif-
I ford Pinchot, former chief forester of
the United States and father of the
minority waterways report in the con
gress,' moved as an amendment to the
resolutions’ report a declaration of
principles on waterways control, simi
lar to the ideas in the minority report
signed by himself, former Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson and Joseph
N. Teat, of Oregon. This amendment
was adopted by a vote of 317 to 96,
after one offered by Representative
Burnett, of Alabama, which injected
into the resolution the matter of State
control of waterway projects had been
defeated, 378 to 132.
The Pinchot amendment, approved
after a stormy session during which
repeated attempts were made to ad
journ by some Southern and Western
delegates, declared that monopolistic
control of water power in private
hands was swiftly increasing in the
United States “far more rapidly than
public control thereof,” that increasing
“concentration of water power in
some hands” was accompanied by
growing control over the power-con
suming agencies, the public service
companies of the country.
MINE EXPLOSION KILLED 24.
Six Others Were Injured In Acton
(Ala.) Disaster.
Birmingham, Ala. —Complete ex
ploration of the Alabama Fuel and
Iron Company’s mine No. 2, at Acton,
in which an explosion occurred Tues
day afternoon, showed 24 men were
killed and 6 hurt. State mine officials
are’ investigating to determine the
cause of the explosion.
THROAT PIERCED BY PENCIL.
Woman Dies From Wounds Received
While Asleep.
Clarksburg, W. Va. —Mrs. Ida Som
merville, aged 50 years, died in a hos
pital as the result of a peculiar acci
dent. She fell asleep in her home
Saturday with a lead pencil in her
hand. Her head dropped on the table
and the pencil pierced her throat,
making a wound which caused her
death.
DYNAMITE DIDN’T EXPLODE.
But Six Miners Were Fatally Injured
In Car Collision.
Bellaire, O. —A car carrying 12.
miners collided with a car hauling 250
pounds of dynamite 400 feet from the
entrance of the Pultney mine, near
here. Both cars left the rails. All
of the men were injured, six fatally,
it is believed. They were foreigners.
The dynamite did not explode. If it
had the 12 men would have been killed
outright.
SEES END OF NATURAL GAS.
Manager Says West Virginia Supply
Will Last Only Ten Years.
Wheeling, W. Va.—Appearing be
fore the State Public Service Commis
sion here in defense of advances in
natural gas rates in Northern West
Virginia towns, General Manager T. O.
Sullivan, of the Manufacturers’ Light
and Heat Company, of Pittsburgh, de
clared that within 10 years the supply
of gas in this State will have been ex
hausted. This was one of his argu
ments for the advance in rates.
AVIATION’S PARI
IN TIMEOF WAR
Secretary Daniels or Impor
tance of Flying Machines.
CONTRIBUTE TO PROSPERITY.
Also Orders Issue Of Small Bills.
His Effusiveness To O’Shaugh
nessy Excites General
Comment.
Mexico City.—His face showing
none of that whimsical humor which
sometimes characterizes him, Presi
dent Huerta appeared before the new
Mexican Congress and read his mes
sage.
Few Mexican Presidents have read
at the formal opening sessions of Con
gress shorter messages and few have
confined themselves so entirely to one
subject. It was nothing more than a
terse explanation of his motives for
dissolving the old Congress, most of
the members of which are now in the
penitentiary, accused of sedition.
There were no extraneous frills to
the session. It was more in the
nature of a little business meeting of
the President and the men converted
into lawmakers during the recent so
called elections.
The message General Huerta bore
to them was in its essence an admoni
tion. The incident he related to them
of the dissolution of the previous Con
gress was one by which it was inti
mated they might be guided in their
conduct as Congressmen.
The message, as stated in the fore
cast, was chiefly a review of the po
litical events since October 10 last; a
plea of justification for the assump
tion of dictatorial powers, the dissolu
tion of Congress and the imprisonment
of the Deputies; a denunciation of the
latter for alleged harboring of trea
sonable designs; a demand for a com
plete vindication at the hands of the
new Congress and ratification of his
acts, and a rather bombastic and stilt
ed protestation of ""patriotism. That
Huerta would promptly get the rati
fication seemed to be beyond doubt.
The forecast was correct, even to the
quoting of Napoleon.
The reply of the Speaker, Eduardo
Tamariz, was brief. Not all the Con
gressmen were present.
Huerta, who appeared in evening
clothes, was applauded only upon his
arrival and departure, when the mem
bers of Congress and the spectators
rose to their feet and added “Vivas”
to the handclapping.
The only country not represented in
the gallery reserved for diplomats was
tne United States. Nelson O’Shaugh
nessy, the Charge d’Affaires, acting
under instructions, was absent from
the session.
ARREST ZELAYA EXPECTED.
Washington Willing To Surrender Ex-
Dictator To Nicaragua.
Washington.—The refusal of Secre
tary of State Bryan to receive Jose
Santos Zelaya, ex-President of Nica
ragua, it became known, was because
the United States will take all steps in
its power to have Zelaya brought to
trial for the numerous crimes that are
ascribed to him when he was dicta
tor of Nicaragua. It is known that
Zelaya is under surveillance and his
arrest at any moment may be ex
pected.
MISS BURNS PAYS FINE.
Suffragette Who Chalked White House
Sidewalks.
Washington.—Miss Lucy Burns, the
capital’s first militant suffragette, paid
a fine of one dollar in police court for
i chalking the White House sidewalks
with “votes for women.” The judge
proposed to release Miss Burns on her
personal bond not to repeat the of
fense, which is a violation of a city
ordinance.
“I want this thing settled ;and over
with,” said Miss Burns, so the court
made it a dollar, and she left, the
center of admiration of her sisters.
SHOOTS WIFE AND HER MOTHER.
Then Electrician, Deserted, Turns
Pistol On Himself.
Pittsburgh.—Charles Deitz, an elec
trician, aged 35 years, shot his wife,
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Mil
ler, and himself at Braddock, a sub
urb. The trio was hurried to the
nearest hospital, where phyeicians
said Dietz would likely die, but the
women were not dangerously hurt.
Dietz and his wife have not been liv
ing together and the shoting attended
a visit Dietz paid to her mother’s
home.
GIRLS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE
But Return For Lunch At College
After Missing Meal.
Spartanburg, S. C. —Two hundred
young women students at Converse
College, who started a hunger strike
at dinner as a protest against the food,
returned for lunch. A dozen had
weakened at breakfast. “Merely the
desire of the young ladies to try some
novel experience,” was the comment
of Dr. Robert P. Pell, president of the
college.
TO SMASH THE EGG TRUST.
Attorney-General To Investigate Cold-
Storage Combination.
Washington.—Attorney-General Me-
Reynolds is considering an investiga
tion of an alleged cold storage combi
nation, which he believes may be re
sponsible for the high price of eggs
and poultry. Charges have also
reached the department that cold stor- .
age concerns in some instances sell
cold storage products for fresh ones.
Such transactions violate the Pure
Food law.
MUST GET TOGETHER
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Factional Disputes in Republican
Party Hurt Country.
Present Administration Has Not, and
Will Not Have, the Support of
the Majority of the
Electorate.
How ( long can a minority party go
on winning elections by reason of the
divisions between other parties op
posed to its most important policies?
How many years will majorities that
agree upon the fundamental features
of such questions as the tariff and the
currency submit to political helpless
ness caused by their failure to act to
gether?
In Massachusetts the Democrats
boast of the election of their candi
didate for governor by a larger plu
rality than any Democrat ever had
before him in that state. They are
jubilant over the margin of 60,000, or
thereabouts, by which they carried
the head of their ticket to victory.
Yet the three other candidates who
stood on platforms opposed to the
Democratic tariff policy polled 82,000
more votes than the winner in a four
cornered contest.
In New Jersey there is much re
joicing among Democratic politicians
because the president’s state has gone
democratic this fall. But here, again,
the result is clearly due to the divi
sions among the majority of the vot
ers who stand for the protective tariff.
The combined vote of the Republicans
and the Progressives was 20,000 or
more above the Democratic strength.
How long can such conditions con
tinue? When will the majority which
is anti-Democratic in respect to ques
tions of great importance make its
real power felt at the polls and regain
its natural control of national affairs?
Democratic Trust Policy.
Now that the Democrats have got
ten their tariff law enacted, they seem
bent upon making a drive at the
trusts. Having no means at hand for
carrying out an anti-trust policy they
forsooth have to fall back upon ex
isting law. Thus liie action of Presi
dent Taft finds indorsement. In sea
son and out of season he was busy
bringing the Sherman anti-trust law
to bear upon the forms of consolida
tion that could not give a good ac
count of themselves.
The Democratic attorney general,
Mr. Mcßeynolds, proposes to make
the dissolution of the Harvester trust
by law drastic to the last article.
Claiming in his brief that the trust
arose through no economic need, but
through the intervention of George
W. Perkins, a banker and insurance
man, at the fortunate moment, he asks
the dissolution of the trust and the
distribution of the stock of the parent
company. The good book says there
is a time to laugh and a time to
weep, and it seems untimely when
the country is in the gasp of a gen
eral attack updn industry through-fee
tariff law to enter upon an anti-trust
crusade.
As a matter of fact, the Democratic
administration was afraid to carry out
its professions of taking the tariff off
of all trust commodities and falls back
upon the recourse of President Taft
for trust-smashing, with the extreme
of radicalism that will not accomplish
the end better, but will surely tend to
alarqj all consolidated enterprise.
Still in the Limelight.
Mr. Roosevelt has gone to South
America to preach the “new democ
racy” to the people of our sister repub
lics. Incidentally it kept him oue
of the country over the election, which
is of advantage to a man who is wait
ing for a presidential nomination to
lay its irresistible grasp upon him, and
it will serve to keep him a good deal
in the limelight, which is also neces
sary for a man who has the most sub
stantial reasons for his determination
not to be forgotten within the next
three years. We know of no country
in greater need of education in popular
government than Mexico, or a country 1
where Mr. Roosevelt can get more of
that excitement necessary to keep his
blood in circulation. If he would go
there and deliver a course of lectures
to Huerta, Carranza, Orozco and
Zapata he would have a most interest
ing trip and possibly do much good.
Truth About Sugar Schedule.
Concerning the new tariff bill, the
Democratic organ of this city says
“One feature of the new act that im
presses itself strongly on the public
is the free list. Under the Republi
can law sugar paid a duty of 48.5 per
cent., which the Democrats have taken
off.” Why does it try to conceal un
der this receht statement the signifi
cant fact that while many products of
northern industry are fitted into that
free list instanter, sugar is left un
changed till next March, is then given
a very conservative reduction, and its
going to the free list postponed till
1916? —Philadelphia Ledger.
Does Not Speak for the Nation.
In Mr. Roosevelt’s own state of New
York his own people have just reject
ed overwhelmingly his candidates who
consented, in the hope of catching
votes, to submit their independence in
the judicial offices to which they as
pired to the decisions of mob mass
meetings. In Argentina Mr. Roosevelt
is speaking only for himself and a
dwindling array of political followers.
He is not speaking for the American
people nor does he voice their deci
sions, intentions or convictions.
Advantages of Civilization.
“Roosevelt will be away from civil
ization three months,” says an ex
change. There’s no use talking, civil
ization has its advantages.—Detroit
Free Press.
“Distance Lends Enchantment.”
At last we have succeeded in pleas
ing Japan. It is the tariff. We should
rejoice that it pleases somebody, even
if 6,000 miles away.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, Rep.