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one too little understood in the wear. How aocount for the Aldrlchs and the Lippitt from Rhode Island with Its great laboring population? I heard the story one night at a banquet at Providence from the republican governor of that state who sat beside me- Talk about gerrymanders.

They have something in Rhode Island that you can't beat. It's a relic— a relic of the remote past. In the house of representatives of the Rhode Island legislature communities are now represented according to population of communities, but only recently. In the State senate the old plan dating back to the revolution still prevails. According to this plan towns are represented in the senate. Here is a little rural town with 500 people. It has one senator. Here is Providence with its 300,000 people. It has one senator. Now the little country towns are reactionary and republican. The people are not awake. They send republicans of the reactionary brand to the state senate. The city of Providence with its 300,000 people usually sends a democrat to the senate. As Providence, however, is the only city of consequence the result is easy. The democrats could carry Rhode Island by tji enormous majority and still the legislature would be republican. Thus have the Aldrlchs and the Lippitts had their way.

Change Is In Store.

Now that the people vote directly for a senator there is every reason to believe that conditions will change. The next senatorial election in that beck ward state' will be strongly contested on behalf of the democrats by Congressman George F\ O'Shaune&sy, of Providence, one of the most capable and certainly one of the most brilliant and eloquent members of the lower house of congress. He is a superb campaigner and will be able to make things hum. Thus it may develop .that Lippitt too has taken his political life in his hand in defending monopolies and the New Haven.

At present the senate is debating the federal trade commission bill which will soon pass. It will pass in response to the demands of business. The national chamber of commerce took a poll of the commercial clubs and chambers of commerce of the country and found them practically a unit in their demand for such legis lation. It will also give teeth to the anti-trust laws. In addition to protecting business against unfair competition, in addition to throwing the searchlight of publicity upon crooked or illegal practices on the part of any business or corporation, it will be in position to follow up decisions of the supreme court dissolving combing and see to it that the edict of the court Is carried out. The great trouble in the past has been that an adverse decision of the court has netted no results—and all because the court could not go into the ramifications and ?Mnplexities of the business world to see that its edict was carried out. This law will take care of that. Nor will it be possible, under this commission, for a great trust or monopoly to grow up and become a giant before the public or law officers know about it. The first move in the direction of monopoly can be and will be stopped. The popular character of the law may be assumed from the fact that a very large portion of the republican members of the house voted for it. Notwithstanding the disposition to play politics in the senate it is almost certain that a large number of republican senators will support it. Thus will another remarkable piece of constructive legislation be written into the law by democratic statesmanship.

There has been such a perelstent, transparent, intarnous conspiracy of shameless falsehood waged against "Woodrow Wilson and Mr. Bryan by the "kept" press of the country that I have found it necessary frequently to refer to this portion of the metropolitan press by its proper characterization. While there are many offenders it is an easy matter to forgive and a palliate the republican press which is making a partisan war.

War on Administration.

The most notorious offenders against decency are William Randolph Hearst and John R. McLean, who both pose— sometimes—as democrats. In the very nature of things they can't be democrats. One is a demagogue, and the other is a plutocrat of the most offensive 6ort. Both have misrepresented facts to the public constantly, and both have resorted to the most nauseating billingsgate in their attacks on Wilson and Bryan. While they were offensively active in fighting tariff, reform, currency reform, and trust legislation, they reached the climax in their unpatriotic misrepresentations incidental to the Mexican affair- In view of the nasty sort of attacks appearing daily in the Hearst papers it is well that the public should know that no representative of the Hearst papers has any standing with the ad ministration. They are looked upon as Journalistic outlaws. Their experience

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with the Wilson administration is not unique. They have had similar experiences with the former administrations. And yet, the Hearst reporters are not wholly to blame as will be shown in the course of this article. They are victims. It will be remembered that the attacks of Hearst papers on the late President McKinley were every bit as bitter as those against Wilson and Bryan. It will be remembered that after the murder of McKinley that Elihu Root made a speech in New York placing the responsibility on Hearst. It will be remembered that Root acted on that occasion as the spokesman of Theodore Roosevelt. The fact that Roosevelt and Hearst have become Siamese twins of politics is neither here nor there. They both have such a funny little way with them- During the Roosevelt administration Hearst made bitter attacks nn Roosevelt. His cartoons and attacks on Taft were beyond the limit. And now he insults the president and Bryan day by day in a manner that disgusts decent partisans on the other side of the fence. Because of this and the further fact that the Hearst papers have been unscrupulous in misrepresenting facts, and in printing stories out of whole cloth calculated to embarrass the administration at critical junctures the Hearst reporters are tabooed. The purpose of this letter to tell the story of one Hearst reporter who thought more of his character as a journalist than of his salary as a reporter.

Mitchel's Case.

This reporter is Roscoe Conklin Mitchell. This Mitchell is much of a man. He enjoys the confidence of men of all parties. He is known to be reliable. He has been proven to be honest and a gentleman. Thus in a crisis Roosevelt refused to talk- to any newspaper man than Mitchell. Thus Wilson in the most critical juncture of his campaign selected Mitchell for his confidences-

Well. Mitchell has to make a living. Writing is his game. Hie reputation as a reliable man became an asset. Thus when the navy sailed away to Vera Cruz and Hearst asked permission to send his representative with the battling tare along with the representatives of other papers and he was promptly refused, the Hearst people bethought themselves of Mitchell. He was selected for the job. The moment Secretary Daniels learned that Mitchell wanted to go permission was given. This indicated that the opposition of the administration was not against the Hearst papers because of their peculiar political policies but against their unscrupul0usne8s. Daniels knew that Mitchell would write the truth.

Then came the mediation conference at Niagara. It was a vitally important newspaper assignment. Hearst had to send some one, to keep up appearances. As later developed it was not actually necessary at all. His unpatriotic attempt to force war, to discredit the administration, to embarass Bryan could have been served just as well by having some of his fiction writers do their work in the New York office and then put on a Niagara date line. But appearances had to be met. In looking over his list of aJvailables he found that his Washington correspondents wouldn't do at all. The mediators—all men of the. highest characters—were not on speaking tei^ns with them. One of the American mediators had torn up a Hearst man's card and flung the fragments in his face. There was only one thing to do— send Mitchell.

And Mitchell was sent to Niagara. On reaching Niagara Mitchell found the mediators seated on the porch of a hotel He introduced himself as a

EUlenoe. Long sllenoe.

Condemned Vandalia Box Cars Destroyed by Wrecking Crew

DUMPING THE CARS ADD BURNING THEM.

Daring the past two days Vandalia wrecking crews have been dismantling and destroying condemned box cars. Fifty-one were taken from their trucks

Continued silence. Mitchell started away when he met Rose of the state department to whom he explained the situation. Rose took him back to the mediators and explained the unique position of Mitchell. The new Hearst man pledged himself to write the truth. His word was accepted.

Then began the troubles of Mitchell. Articles calculated to embarass the administration and the mediators began to appear in the Hearst papers under a Niagara headline—articles out of whole cloth. Mitchell pretexted to the New York office. The effense was

By Brian Boru.'

If his route hadn't been shifted, his itinerary rearranged, his territory enlarged, James S. Hopkins might nevei have become a citizen of Terre Haute, and by the same token Terre Haute might have gone along without an all night drug store.

As it is we have both Mr. Hopkins and an all night drug store with another well equipped photograph gallery and a fine young motion picture firm to boot.

It all happened this way. Mr. Hopkins had been traveling for the Parke Davis Co., of Detroit, manufacturing pharmacists and biological appurtances, or contraptions, for five years before Terre Haute was placed on his visiting list. He began "making" this city every month and becoming more and more impressed with the community, our people and our institutions with each recurring visit. Aloiwr about the first, of the year Mr. Hopkins and Jerome F. Shandy got together and decided the drug store at Ninth and Wabash avenue might be made more attractive and incidentally a more profitable institution than it had been. Also they decided the Terminal Pharmacy was a good -iame for the place. So the two men became business partners and set about doing things.

To Have New Front.

Quite recently the front was torn out and since then the place has been open at all hours. As soon as possible a seventeen foot plate glass wlnaow with an entrance on the corner will make it possible for the firm to lock up their place on special occasions but it always will be accessible at all hours. That's the program outlined at least. Soon there will be a new soda fountain and a new tile floor. Already the stock has been increased and there has been a business air about the plac« that promises well.

Upstairs the art gallery and motion picture headquarters have been fitted up.

Samples of the work of the Terminal Photoplay Co.. which is the name of the concern which will operate the side line, were shown at the Orpheum theater the other day. Very good pictures they were too, especially in view of the fact that the film production of Paul Dresser's song, "The Banks of the Wabash" and the scenes in connection with the K. of P. encampmcnl

were experimental efforts. The K. of and institutions for not only was P. encampment pictures will advertise Terre Haute all over the United States and an improved film version of Paul Dresser's song will undoubtedly be eagerly booked by motion picture men throughout the state.

The Indiana legislature having made

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by the wrecker and then burned. More than two hundred cars have been condemned because of their being' out of date and beyond repair at a given figure.

continued. Finally the climax came. In the heart of one of Mitchell's stories found what purported to be a long statement sent to the mediators from Carranza. It was a manufactured story. It was utter fasehocd. It was of the whole cloth. It had been written In the Hearst offices to wreck or help to wreck mediation so that Bryan would be discredited and Wilson embarrassed.

Then Mitchell acted. He sought Justice Lurton, of the supreme court, one of the mediators, and disclaimed any knowledge of the

Who's Who and Why Among Terre Hante's Newer Citizens

JAMES S. HOPKINS.

"The Banks of the Wabash" a state song has aroused new interest in tlita classic.

Other films dealing with local subjects are to be made by the Terminal Photoplay Co., and that end of Messrs. Hopkins and Shandy's activities is liable to expansion.

It is only natural that "Jim" Hopkins should be interested in Indiana son ,rs

born in Indiana but his father before him was a Hoosier and for many years practiced medicine in southern Indiana. The subject of this sketch was born in Ft. Branch, Ind., right in the watermelon zone, in 1SS6. He attended the publio schools of Ft. Branch and

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article. He then fired In his request to the New York office to be recalled. In reply he had a wire from Bradford Merrill, the managing editor. This brought a response which follows:

New York, May 30, 1914.

Roscoe C. -.viiteheli, CHrion Hotel, Niagara Faiis. All rignt. iJiease come home tonight. Always send the news tacts and leave policy to editors. Show Mr. Johnson.

BRADFORD MERRILL.

The reply of Mitchell was that he would introduce Johnson to the other reporters and put him next to the work but that he would not introduce him to the American mediators. To this he added that his resignation from the Hearst stalf would be forthcoming on his arrival in New York. This brought another wire from Merrill:

New York, May 30, 1914.

Roscoe C. ivvtcheii, Olirton Hotel, Niagara Falls. Way resign without cause? We should greatly regret it. Please be good soldier and good boy.

BRADFORD MERRILL.

Now Mitchell had respect for Merrill. No doubt Merrill had more respect for Mitchell, and then followed the last wire that has been given to the public:

New York, May 30, 1914.

Roscoe C. Mitchell, Clifton Hotel, Come hpme comfortably. Be philosophical. Mr. Hearst sent Johnson. .No rertection on you. Good soldiers are yutient even i£ superior otricers mane mistakes. Be resigned without resigning. Mi£KKl.L«L.

But Mitchell went back and resigned. And when it was known what he had done he was given a reception by the boys of the press at Niagara and the American mediators joined to do honor to a man who would not prostitute his pen to lies.

This incident, which is treated fully in Harper's Weekly. July 25, ought to be known to all Americans. It is only a fair indication of the kind of fight being waged against the Wilson administration.

Now, as to McLean: He copies (very largely every scandalous untruth that Is printed in the Hearst papers, but he is something of a scavanger himself. His attempt, through the Cincinnati Enquirer* to discredit the administration and to misrepresent conditions and if possible to depress business conditions, was adequately exposed on the floor of the senate by Senator Kern who put Into the record a telegram sent by that paper to a newspaper man in northern Indiana asking him to send a story of a certain sort—whether the story existed or not.

And so the merry work goes on. The remarkable feature of It all from the Washington point of view is that the people have so easily got "next." Reports reaching the capital from every section of the country indicate that Wilson and his administration are stronger in the confidence of the people than efver, and that it has not been exceeded In popularity in the life time of the present generation. The "kept" press is its own exposure.

THOUGHTS THAT COME.

Large wishes make all that one has seem small. Fruits of economy sooner or later tempt someone to extravagance.

Some men regard the time between pay days as something to be killed. Some men get by with a lot of nonsense because it Is too silly for argument against it.

Much of the going away to spend a (vacation is for the sake of being able to say that one has been away.

Among the credulous, a man can get a reputation for greatness by talking about the accomplishment of impossibilities.

Princeton, graduating from the Princeton high school. When the improvements settled upon are made at the Terminal Pharmacy it will be one of the handsomest Institutions of its kind in this vicinity. Also it will be the only place where toothache drops may be obtained in the middle of the night without waking some kindly druggist or clerk out of a sound slumber.

And if all works well in the art and motion picture departments there may be a formidable rival to the Vitagraph and Famous Players establishments right here in Terre Haute.

So 'tis well to bid Mr. Hopkins welcome to our dtyl

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