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0 THE ROCK ISIUXT) ARGUS. FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1912. 13 - -a 1' Republican Papers For Cooke Chicago Rfcord-Herald.) Tho term of Justice George A. Cooke of the Illinois supreme court expires next June. He was elected, it will be remembered, in 19C9, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Scott. The fourth supreme judicial district la regarded as normally republican but it elected Mr. Cooke, a demo crat, by a substantial majority be cause of his ability, character and fitness. Justice Cooke Is without opposi tion In his own party as a candi date for another term. This fact aces the democrat lawyers and judges of the district much credit. He has the respect and confidence of his associates on the supreme bench; he is a careful, Independ ent, conscientious judge. In con sidering cases he forgets portisan sr. p and politicsf as all fit judges do, or should do. He reaches his conclusions in cases on the law and the facts. The republicans of the district, after some hesitation, appear to have decided to make an active canvas for a candidate of their own party. They have good men to make .their choice from, but it is only fair to remind them that partisan considerations are irrele vant in judicial campaigns, and that Judge Cooke is entitled to the votes of independent and broad minded republicans on his fine rec ord. He will get many such votes, and will command the support of Independent and republican news papers. We are endeavoring in this and other states to keep judges out of politics and politics out of courts as well as out of judicial cam paigns. One way to further this Essential principal is to return good Judges regardless of their political affiliations. This is the part of sincerity, of consistency, of duty and of the highest public Interest. Has More to Say of T. R. on the Theory of Madman il-nry Wattprson, the veteran edi tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, has the following further to say In his theory as to Theodore Roosevelt in viw of th result In Ohio. Mr. Vat lemon caj.s his editorial with "An Invocation to Civil War," and! fcays: "The result In Ohio makes It cer tain that the voters of the United Statt-s will have to reckon with Theo dore Jtoosevtlt next November at the I'OliS. "H will matter not whether he ap pears under the emblem of a reru'ar party nomination or as an lnsurrecto BMn-alinK to all parties. Unless he breaks down t;nde.r the strain and Is taken to a lunatic asylum he will be a candidate fur president. "There can be in his name and person but one lasue life tenure in the executive office and a civil fabric imperial in everything except its nom enclature. "Thus our system of representative poverntnent laid in constitutional chec ks and balances, having achieved the battle for independent existence anj survived the several ordeals of foreign invasion and Internal conflict, the disputed succession and tb strife of sections and factions, must face the final and yet greater peril of mad rniibition, supported by corrupt and corrupting millions, playing upon the restless, the unknowing and unthink ing, the purchasable, the brutal and the vile. "The hideous spectacle of an ex-pres ident, bowline like a drunken harlot from one end of the bind to the other, drapcir.fr republicanism through an ocean of f.lth. to the horror of Ameri cans having any sense of decency and the alternate dellpht and disgust of the enemies of republicanism all over the world, gives us a foretaste of the infamies before us. "There is nothing which this mad man will not dare to attempt under the excitement and the passion of the state of war he has stirred up In his own mind and In the minds of the crazy mobg th,at follow and applaua That he was able to draw a man like Taft Into the cesspool attests the cruel Injury and wrong a maniac armed ( the teeth may accomplish, for Taft is not only the president of the United States, but be Is a gentleman of upright. self-respecting character. Being euch, he has proved wholly unequal to the bloody fray and the dishonorable war fare forced upon him. It Is clear now that he had better remained in the White house, leaving the frenzied par anoiac the field to himself. "The country hae reached another parting of the ways. From the exit of Washington to the death of Mcti ley the citizens selected for presidents of the United States were level-headed and well balanced men, about whose mental integrity there had never been the slightest question. "At length this nation is a world power. The issue precipitated by TheO' nore (Roosevelt la to decide whe'her that arbitrament was In vain; whether that sublime decision of the sword with all that went before it and all that is carried with it, shall be nullified whether, beeefme a world power, this nation shall proclaim to mankind i own failure by the abandonment of Its constitution, the overthrow of it safeguards and the naming of a dic'a tor. He who says this !s not the Issue little reeks what he is saying; he who thinks it is not, were prudent to ques tion his sanity. In its ultimate analy sis and Its last word the Roosevelt propaganda Is the invocation of mad man to civil war." The Consolidated Township School BY JOHN G. OSBORN. A proposition to abandon the exist iug school districts and establish a central township school was voted on at the town election in this township, Zuma, April 2 It was defeated, re ceiving only 17 affirmative votes. It may lie supposed that our people are way behind the times unprogresslve. old fogies, utterly lacking the spirit of modern America. A statement of the consideration that W to thie action may be worth while. The writer had the Drivllece. some ! four or five years ago, of hearing and I reporting an illustrated lecture deliv ered before the county farmers' insti tute, by Superintendent Kern of Rock- SAVE HE OTHER NICKEL! 3Pts rilipl h III Clr nSPTH !,-5 I U rjvUBSp0lJ5 5i Doal compare KITCHEN KLENZER with the OTHER 5c kinds. It a in th 10c dm In work it i guaranteed tho Sana. In price it's twice as good. Look for the Name "Kitchen Kleazer" on Every Can ford, showing In -vivid contrast the dif ference between the present country schools, and their surroundings, and the central 6chooL The illustrations were from photos taken by the lectur er himself, and must be accepted as truthful. Together with the speaker's well chosen words they made an argu ment in favor of the central school well night irresistible. In theory, therefore, the central school is so far In advance of the dis trict schools that comparison is hope less. But the question with out ; people was simply this. How far in our township can these ideal condi tions be realized? What defects In our ! schools can be or likely will be cured by the change? To answer this question we must i konw what the defects are, and must understand the cause or causes of them. The change from the small to the larger school will not remove the defects while the cause continues. The most patent cause of the failure of the country school is the Indiffer ence of the people. The office of school director goes begging. Often the most competent persons in the dis trict refuse to serve. At the election five or six -votes are about all that can be mustered out of a possible 30 to 50 including the ladles. The office is shoved upon any man who will take it. Very often about all the attention he gives It Is to sign his name to the dis trict orders, to the tax certificate, and the election notices. As to the needs of the school, its sanitary and moral surroundings, the progress of the pu pils, the competency of the teacher he knows Just nothing and cares less. The question as to who shall be school director we venture to remark. Is of more vital Importance to the people of the district than Is the other ques tion, who shall be president of the United States. The next thing is the appointment of teachers. A poor teacher cannot have a good school. Any person hold ing a certificate Is considered compe tent, a popular delusion of the first magnitude. The certificate shows that the applicant has satisfactorily ans wered a certain liEt of questions. Tfcis is one poin.t in competence, but there ( are half a dozen others, some of them even more Important. How is the di rector to know? Experience is con sidered a strong point. If the appli cant has taught successfully so many terms she is all right. How does he know If the teaching has been success ful when he hasn't been inside of a school room during study hours for 10 or 20 years. He may ak some patron of the last school who knows just as little as himself, and is often preju diced besides. If the director is a good Judge of human nature, he can make a guess at it, and that Is all. So as to tha question of school sup plies. The average director either does not know, or cannot know, does not care, or will not take the trouble to Inform himself as to what supplies are needed in his school, or are suited to Its requirements. He leaves it to the teacher, which may be wit-e, or it may not; or to the publisher's agent, the extreme of folly. Another serious handicap on the country school is the indifference of parents to the progress of their child ren in their s'udies. This is by no means a universal thing, b::t it is far too common. The teacher finds it next to impossible to interest the child in the study if nobody at home cares. Another trouble is th disposition cf many parents when anything go s v. rong to acquit their -.;! jre:i of ail blame. Theirs are little angels; ih y never do anything out of the way these are little flies that spoil the ointment. It is evident, we hold, that a change from the single district to the town ship system would not remedy these d(fecfs. in some cases they would br augmented. The same popular indif fc rente would continue. A few people nearest the school center would elect the directors in the siime careless way. The s-ime haphazard api.oii.t- ment of teachers and selection of sup plies, the same obstacles to discipline will exist and produce similar results. And the larger the plant the more ser ious will be the results of incompetent or carele.ss management. Our people, therefore, might not be unwise in go ing a Utile slow. While on the subject of schools, we wish to make one remark at the risk cf arpearing ungallant. We believe the schools are suffering from the pres ence of too large a feminine clement among the teachers. We believe that the old fashioned way of having men teachers in the winters and ladies In spring and fall terms gave better, re sults In the long run than we are now obtaining. This is not from any lack of respect for the ladle6. but because there are the two qualities of mind and character, the masculine and the feminine, and both nerd cultivation. We cannot afford to neglect either of them. hi i 11 SU i mm, um mi v ssn vwww w 17 a m w rm MOST PAINSTAKING POPULAR PRICE TAILORS IN AMERICA LET US TAILOR YOU WE SAYE YOU THE MIDDLEMAN'S PROFIT 0 - r r iiLEMZER May un, i lie I fill .1 '.P. H Watch For The Page Ad In This Paper Glutton of the Seas. The pike's reputation for cruelty and voraciousness is such that It has been popularly dubbed the "water wolf." It is probable, however, that many specie of sea fish are equally, if not a great deal more, rapacious. Large dogfish, congers, pollack, cod and bass are especially ferocious, while halibut will very often seize and kill other large fish. An Engfisb angler was playing" a large conger when a huge halibut swam up to and savagely bit t H a proceeding that cost the halibut its own life, for on its making for the wounded conger a second time the boatman contrived to gaff and haul it aboard. There have been many ex amples of pike being found dead, chok ed by their own species, and these fish not infrequently atttack another pike that has been hooked by a fisherman. Lisbon The chamber of deputies by a vote cf 30 to 45 decided Thursday to abolish the Portuguese legation at the vitlcan. 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Zh iv -?s, 7t Jf S s DELEGATE RACE DEMOCRATIC STATE) t 2 I a 2, r o . e c i 4 6 e . B, Z S a? A VOTE FOR JUSTICE GEORGE A.C00RE Democratic Candidate for Reelection to the Illinois Supreme Court Is a Vote for the Continuation of a Non partisan Judiciary in the Illi nois Supreme Court Alabama 24 .. .. .. 24 .. Alanka 4 . California 2U 26 .. ..... Colorado 12 12 .. .. .. Connecticut . .14 Or In ware tt . . a .... Klorldn 12 .. a j, . . Georgia 2W SM Hawaii A Illinois as t,H Indiana So Iowa 'M rtt Kanaaa 2tf 1:0 Maine 12 1 5 4 .. 2 Marlnnd 16 Itt .. t Mna'hurtl . . 30 Michigan 0 30 MlMHlMlupl U( 20 Miaar.ur. HU 'M NrhruL-ka 1U 12 .. 4 .. .. .e ilnnipililre. . 8 H Senr Mexico .... H H Hew York 90 . . . Mt Norlk Uakola ..to .. , Ohio 4H .. 1 SB .. .. Oklahoma 20 10 lo Orenoa 10 10 fennalnaia ...78 2 74 l'onn Hlro 0 a Houtk Carollaa ..IX Itt I'conruwe 24 3 1 1 1 1(1 I Teiaa 40 40 1 I tan H ft I Irginla 32 33 Waalilniiton .. ..14 14 Wlacoaata 20 6 1 .. .. 1 0-ulnK Pennsylvania ...76 0 07 .. Philippines 3 2 Porto Itlco 2 2 Uhoile Island ...10 10 South Carolina ..18 H 6 . . 4 Tennessee 21 2:1 1 Tn 40 2 6 .. .. 21 1 tan .. H ri Vermont H 2 2 .. A Vlrclnla 24 22 a M aahinttlon . . . . 14 14 West lrclnla ..16 .. 16 Wisconsin ' 2tl . . . . . . S Wyoming '. U 6 Total 4.14 407. 10 S6 113 ratftr Was Neglected. At first ravil diil not like to hav his teetb brushed. Ills failier said to bini one evi-nlriR whou the three-year-old stninffled more than usual against the Ranitnry performance of h!n mother; "David. I wish my mamma had brushed my teeth when 1 was n little boy. I would not have lost noy then." "Don't you wish your mamma had brushed your hair?" was David's re vengeful reply, with n look toward papa'H bnld head. Exchange. A Delicate Compliment. "My new uown received a very sin cere compliment the other day." "ITow xvim that?" "The proprietor of a restaurant I went into asked me to sir near the win dow; km il it would lend tone to WH Northern Steamboat Co. Total 302 WS 4S K3 1U1 Instructed for Goveraoc John Barkf. lnstructed for Governor Tkomas Marshall. Instructed for Governor S. IS. Baldwin. REPUBLICAN. iTATB i a 3 e 3. B s I 5? e 2. I 1 state decreed by the government In April last vear. Columbus, Otio A west bound New "York-St. Louis last passer.ger coaches into a ditch. O. O. Okert fireman, cf Columbus, was killed. Quanah, Texas Burke Burnett, owner of the famous "Four Six" ranch train on the Pennsylvania railroad j and a millionaire, shot and killed Far jumped the track near Bradford June- j ley Souers, a King county ranchman, t:on, throwing but the last two at Paducah, Texas. Alabama ... ... Alaska Arkansas California .. .. Colorado Connecticut .... Delaware Ulst. Colombia . Kknlda Georgia Idaho lis wall I ill B4. Is Indiana ... .... Iowa ... ... .. Kansaa k eat nek r l-oulataaa Maine Maryland Maaaaehneella -- Mlrhlaaa k.wlnaeaota .. .. I Mlaaoarl Mississippi .. .. Montana ... ... I .Nebraska Nevada new HaasnahJre Mow Memtea .... New lerk North Carolina . North Dakota . . Ohio Oklahoma Uregoa , 24 24 . 2 a i . . 24 12 12 14 10 . " . a a 12 12 .24 2 .8 2 10 .ao 2 io .20 1 10 2 2 1 .20 23 S .. .20 2 .. .. .12 .. 12 .. .10 .. 10 .. .30 1H 10 .. .30 12 lO .. .24 .. 24 .. .3 lO 1 .20 2 .. .. . H H .. .10 .. 10 .. Spend Your Vacation on the Scenic Upper Mississippi River THE FINEST TKII" IX THK WOULII From Kock Island to Paul and Stillwater OX THK UK; SIDE AMI EEL hTEA.MEH RNING STAR i . H H . O .It Itt .24 .. .10 .4H 10 32 2 11 .10 .. 10 2 7 23 11 Commencing June 1, leaves Rock Island every Saturday at 3 p. m. Take a pleasant short trip to Clin ton, returning on the I. St I. railway. STEAMER HELEN BLAIR Leaves for Musratine and Burling- 8 ' ton every Monday, Wednesday and ' t rlday at 4 p. ni. Making connections at Burlington for Ft. Madison, Keokuk, tbo big dam and Quincy. R. W. LAMONT, Agent W. A, BLAIR. Gen. Mgr. Office foot Nineteenth street. 'Telephone West 188.