Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 290, 26 August 1909 — Page 4

OTE KICHMOND ri.XiiAUII7M AND SU2C-TELEGRA3I, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1909,

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Radelph G. Leeda. . . .Maaaa;la Editor. Charles SC. MorgH, .......... Maaaser. W. R. roaadataae ...Nawa Bdltor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond 15.00 per year (In ad vance) or 10c per week. MAIL. SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year. In advance $5.00 Six months, in advance 2.60 One month, in advance .43 RURAL ROUTES. One year, in advance $2.50 Fix months, in advance 1-50 One month, in advance 25 Add reus changed an often as desired: both new and old addresses must be riven. Subscribers will "please remit with order, which should be Klven for a specified term: name will not tie entered until payment is received. KntereJ at Richmond. Tndlana. post office a second class mail matter. Tho Association of AoisricaaJ (Now York City) has at otrtUloi to tte frsuUtfm Of Stfci saktteatioa. Oaly too ftnm of tslasi la Its krtko Fowler and Cannon (Baltimore Sun.) There Is an unmistakable Rooseveltlan quality in the open letter of Representative Fowler, of New Jersey, to the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, of Danville, 111., speaker of the house of representatives. Indeed, if Colonel Roosevelt were not hunting in Africa, there would be ground for the suspicion that he collaborated with the New Jersey statesman in the preparation of the Fowler letter. Cannonlsm a Real Issue. (Pittsburg Press.) There is no doubt that the popular distrust of Cannon increases as time goes on. A very few years ago he was perhaps one of the most popular figures in public life. That was when the people believed hi mto be in reality the sincere, upright statesman of the homespun type that he seemed. They have since learned that under his affectation of extreme democracy he is one of the most serviceable tools the big corporation interests ever had In the national capitol. The homespun pose and the "Uncle Joe" business are all nicely calculated for the benefit of those who are anything but . popular heroes, and Uncle Joe over in Danville is a plutocrat, with a bank account running into perhaps seven figures and all that it implies. Cannonlsm is a real issue. Fowler Has Gone Too Far. (Buffalo Express.) It is needless to say that Mr. Fowler has gone too far. There can be no excuse for using language hardly printable in a document so carefully studied as this one was. Disagreeable adjectives carry no conviction. Mr. Fowler will attract atention by making his attack sensational, but he would have gained more respect if he had. limited himself to a calm and dignified statement of facts. There can be no Question that in his review of Mr. Cannon's record on currency legislation, at least, he has facts to sustain him. Some facts also support what is said in connec tion with the tariff. The speaker's arbitrary methods have been notor ious. Cannon Will Have To Go. (Chicago News.) Speaker Cannon at least must be given credit for deep cunning, though not necessarily in the heated words which Representative Fowler applies to him. He knows how to use the power of the presiding officer of the national house of representatives to serve his own purposes better than most men would if afforded the oppor tunity. The people need look for little benefit from the national house of repre sentatives so long as Cannon, the 1m placable reactionary, is permitted to remain in the speaker's chair. Mr. Fowler and the other republican in surgents are right. Cannon will have to go. The Phrase of a Gambler. (Philadelphia Record.) Fowler's displacement is undoubted ly the occasion for his telling tales out of school, but there is no doubt about the facts and these ought to end the political career of Joseph G. Can non. The speaker has for years ob structed any currency legislation and especially any that was rational and scientific and abreast of the present knowledge of the science. So. also, he was for years a sturdy opponent of any tariff legislation, and when he could not prevent some action he used all the vast powers of his office to defeat reformatory action. He invent ed the phrase, "stand pat" It is the phrase of a gambler and an opponent of progress. A Shameful Situation. (Springfield Republican.) The conclusion it should -force upon the whole country is that a revolution in the present order of the national bouse of representatives, is needed. and must come if anything resembling parliamentary or representative government is to be retained in the Unit ed States. The situation represented by "Cannonlsm' Is shameful to the country, if it cannot be made so to the men. who directly and dally feel

A Thousand A Mile ? Yesterday the Palladium published a news story from its Indianapolis correspondent on the subject of the cost of repairing asphalt. It is $50,000 every year for 58 miles of streets that it costs the citizens of Indianapolls to keep those asphalt streets in repair! Some of them are heavy traffic streets some of them are residence streets. The heavy traffic streets in Indianapolis doubtless receive more hard usage than does our own Main Btreet but the average is certainly far less. One thousand per mile for asphalt repairs in Indianapolis? Every year? Our correspondent may be charged with exaggeration but you may divide his figures by four or by six and compare them with the expense of maintainence of our brick thoroughfares and see where yoi are. For Main street has been paved for twelve years with brick and not in any single year has there been aiy expense to the city even remotely resembling that of Indianapolis Iron asphalt repairs.

Walk along Main street today and look across the street which has stood twelve years of heavy traffic and you will agree that its usefulness is not yet over. It is practically as good as it ever has been. Look at the places where there have been repairs by the T. H. I. & E. caused by relaying their track. It is Eolid and has no ugly marks nor no infirm edges ready to clip off and begin trouble all over again. More than that, we have not had to have any plant for brick repairing. Any competent brick layer (of whom there are several in this town) can repair Main street any time a few square feet get loosened or worn. We need no repairing plant "to come here every winter," as Mr. Saxton of the asphalt propaganda would have us do.

The resident property owners who were persuaded by Mr. Saxton that asphalt is "the best" paving were taken around to the telephone exchange and told to call up several persons named by Mr. Saxton 'all over the state.' The reports were almost uniformly favorable! In the face of such incontrovertible evidence we falter. And yet any Richmond man who will go to Muncie or Marion and look at the asphalt streets there will come away thankful that Richmond streets are not in that condition. And so will the man who goes to Indianapolis and sees on what should be heavy traffic streets streets paved with asphalt "No Heavy Hauling." The policeman is there to enforce the sign. ; Isn't that a confession? It is not even a matter of controversy. -

The only place where asphalt has any decided advantage is in the residence district of large cities where the materials for the magnificent macadam which we have here are not obtainable. We have that material. We have all the apparatus. The city has streets which people remark on after visiting the town as being remarkable. Is this to be thrown away because a few local capitalists want to carry on their operations in Richmond is it for the good of Richmond that this is contemplated?

For It stands to reason that the S. S. Saxton Construction Company was organized here for a purpose. That purpose is to pave Richmond with aaohalt.

We call particular attention to the fact that if the asphalt once gets a hold here it will not end with only two blocks. It will require constant watching to keep the S. S. Saxton company from meandering through the twilight acquiring resident property owners to put down asphalt. We do not know what the Inducements for asphalt are that resident property owners should be so anxious for it. But we know what its drawbacks are. Two of them are well exemplified in the city of Indianapolis. "No heavy hauling!" $1,000 per mile.

the cut of its coarse lash upon their bended backs. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) We view with satisfaction this fur ther evidence of a spreading revolt among republicans against the forces of plutocracy and privilege which have dominated the party and ruled congress. Let Mr. Fowler join Aldrichism with Cannonism in his cam paign for congressional reform and the people will flock to his banner. Down with the plutocratic bosses. Knew It All the Time. (Kansas City Times.) The public, though, rather wonders why Representative Fowler should have permitted himself to become so excited about Cannon. Was it at all necessary for him to employ such vehement language in charging Can non with a lot of things which the country knows that he is. that he has been and that he will continue to be as long as the public will stand for it? May Defeat the Party. (St. Louis Republic.) The suppression of debate on the tariff in the house during the recent session and the jamming of the Payne-Aldrich bill through both houses by machine organization have indeed made Cannonism one of the paramount issues. If not reformed it will help to defeat the republican party in the congressional elections next year. Here is a Kind Word. (Philadelphia Press.) Speaker Cannon doubtless has his faults, but he works in the open. Items .Gathered in ''Srom Far and Near Those Canting Canucks. From the Chicago Tribune. It is the favorite pastime of the Canadian press and people to moralize over the corrupt governments of American municipalities and to strike a "holier than thou" attitude as they do it. To listen to them one would imagine that "grafting" and downright tfcievery was universal on this side of the boundary line and all officials were honest and efficient on the other. Now, let us have no more of that hypocritical braggadocio. Canada is a waited sepulcher. The Canadians have been berating American misgovernment while concealing their own. Now it has been unveiled. For particulars read the story of the venality which has been rife in Montreal. Read of the aldermanic combine that has been looting the treasury, of the sale of . appointments in the police, fire and other departments, and of the swindling of the taxpayers out of millions of dollars through collusion with contractors. . . Father Ducey. From the New York World. New

York's loss by the death of Father Ducey is more that of a public man

than a priest. For a quarter of a cen tury he made St. Leo's a forum as well as a church and his secular influence reached far beyond his parish. extending into politics, society and philanthropy. His was one of the purpose, of which New York has had many, which attracted hearers from other denominations. A considerable Protestant fol lowing held him in esteem, and the whole city had reason to acknowledge the sincerity of his hostility to financial and political corruption, whether the methods were those of Tweed or of the newer order of corporation rascality. An Irish wit and an Irish urbanity rendered Father Ducey as companionable in a club as he was powerful in the pulpit. He was a man of the world within the limitations of his office and a priest to whom the domestic or the man of affairs could apply for counsel with equal assurance of cordial assistance. Costly Folly of Hazing. From the New York Mall. When the seven cadets whn have been dismissed from the Military Academy for hazing sit down to count the cost of their olly they will undoubtedly agree that the game was not worth the candle. It has not only cut them off from an honorable career abounding in opportunities for distinction, but, as viewed from the narrower point of self-interest, it has taken from them the assurance of a competence for life. A Peripatetis Restaurant. The eating stall is quite an institution In China, says a writer in tbe Wide World Magazine, and the average Chinaman thinks nothing of stopping and having a feed at a street restaurant. Tbe proprietor carries the whole,, of bis stock iu trade on his shoulders. Tbe stall itself consists of two cyjindrieal boxes attached to a yoke or pole. One of these boxes usually coutains a fire, on which John cooks weird dainties into the composition of which it is unwise to in quire, for the Cbinamau has a scientific appetite that is to say. he will eat anything that in any way forms food. Squeamisbcess is a sensation unknown to him. The keepers of these street stalls sell good fruit, excellent pastries and simply delicious sweets at a price so low that it would astonish even the proprietor of an Italian restaurant. It is figured that it will take ?112, OOO.OOO to build the subways necessary to take care of the street traffic in the city of Chicago. If you arc all run down. Foley's Kid ney Remedy will help you. It strengthens the kidneys so they will eliminate the - Impurities from the blood that depress the nerves, and cause exhaustion, backache, rheumatism, and urinar7 Irregularities, which sap4 the vitality. Do not delay. Take Foley's Kidney Remedy at once. A, GVLukjenss Co. 3 "

AN INSPECTION OF PRIMARY LAW. MADE YESTERDAY

Special Committee of New York Legislators Invade Indianapolis and Look Hoosier Statute Over. STATE IS NOT PROUD OF THE RECORD MADE Law Passed in 1907 Applies To Only Four Counties, the Other Eighty-eight Turning It Down. Indianapolis. Ind.. Aug. 26. Inquiry regarding the workings of the Indiana primary election law was made here yesterday by a New York legislative committee consisting of Senator Geo. L. Meade, of Rochester, chairman; Assemblyman Jesse S. Phillips, Andover; Robert S. Conklin, New York City; Frank L. Howard. Waverly; James E. Fay, Brooklyn, Senator P. H. McCarren is a member of the committee, but he did not attend the hearing. Judge Walter H. Knapp, of Canandigua, counsel, and Henry Lammert, stenographer, accompanied the committee. B. J. Haggerty, Sergeant-at-Arms of the New York Assembly, arranged for the inquiry. Those who were invited to appear before the committee were Albert Sahm, John W. Holtzman. Harry W. Bennett, Gaylard R. Hawkins, Frank D. Stalnaker, Adolph Schmuck, Leopold G. Rothschild, W. N Harding, C. F. Remy, W. A. Ketcham, Evans Woollen, Louis Howland. Ten Years Experimenting. After experimenting for 10 years with a variety of primary election plans, the Legislature of Indiana passed1 a law in 1907 that is applied in a compulsory way to but four counties. The other 88 refused to stand for a law compelling them to make their nominations by direct vote of the people. In the last campaign both parties adopted the usual plank pledging themselves to the enactment of a primary reform measure. The Democrats decided in caucus to support a general primary law. The Republicans did the same thing, but all of the action along that line was behind closed doors. On the floor of the House and the Senate the leaders of both parties were very careful in seeing to it that there was no serious attempt to bring up the primary election bills. It is admitted' that the primary law under which the four larger cities, Indianapolis, Evansville, Terre Haute and Ft. Wayne, is compelled to operate is something of a farce, but there seems to be no disposition on the part or any one to change it Demand Has Died. In fact, there are plenty of lndica tions that the demand for nrimarv re form, as advocated at the beginning of the crusade, has died out. and that something more practical will be demandedin this state, where every oth er man you meet is a student of poli tics. The early advocates of the direct system of making nominations insist ed that it .would break up the political machines in which they might name the candidates. Experience has shown that the people who clamored loudest for the reform are the ones who were the slowest in taking advantage of it. In the larger cities the purchasable element has been the most ready to go to the polls. In fact, the same elements that have been predominant in electing the delegates under the old system in the large cities practically control the primaries. The first primary plan in Indiana was known as the Joss law. Apparently there were all kinds of safeguards to keep down corrupt practices at the polls and that it paved the way for the finish of the party machines. Plenty of Corruption. The first time the Republicans nominated their county ticket under it here it was not denied by the newspapers that advocated the reform that there had been more corruption than ever before in nominating the ticket. One candidate for a place in the court house is said to have spent nearly $40,000 in landing the nomination. The salary for the two years the job held was less than half that sum. Some of his opponents are said to have spent nearly as much as he did. Practical Republican politicians here say their party is jnst beginning to recover from the effects of that first primary. The difference between the new and the old system wa3 that it gave the grafting element here two rounds at the candidates who were compelled to "put up" or be defeated. The first law opened a bountiful harvest field Tor the floarcr. The year following the first experiment with the primary law here the Republicans lost control of the city. Three or four years later the present law was enacted. Didn't Back Candidates. It was supposed to be a vast improvement over the first one, as It provides that both parties shall make their nominations at the same time ani place. Under this system opportunity was rnrnished in the recent municipal campaign here for machine politicians of both parties to make a combination in the City Council by which t the election officers were thrown out in a fourth of the precincts.

' The Council met at midnight toca

ry out the, plans of the bipartisan machine which planned to nominate both tickets. In Evansville the candidate of the reform element that wanted a primary system, received less than a fifth as many votes as the next lowest man on the ticket, showing that the reform contingent didn't back its own candidates and get its votes to the polls. In Terre Haute it is charged that a bipartisan machine nominated Mayoralty candidates for both parties. TWINKLES (BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.) Vanity. "Young Mr. Botigh must be a very sincere lover of nature." said the impressionable girl. "I don't know about that." answered Miss Cayenne. "But he is constantly going on camping expeditions." "Yes. But he is invariably accompanied by a camera which will prove to his friends at home how picturesque his hunting costumes are." Practice and Theory. "Father," said Little Rollo. "what is the difference between farming and agriculture?" "Well, my son. for farming you need a plow and a harrow and a lot of other implements, and for agriculture all you need is a pencil and a piece of paper." A Process of Evolution. He shouted for reform at first. He then got a position. And now let's frankly face the worst He's a plain politician. Good Intentions. "When I was your age," said the stern parent, "I had money in the bank." "Well," answered the embarrassed young man, "perhaps when I'm your age I'll have money In the bank, too." "Wisdom," said Uncle Eben, "is fre quently hard to understand. And some talkers git a heap of advantage fum de fact dat a lot of folks regyahd ev'thing dey can't understand as wis dom.'' Glaata of Mint or jr. Turner, the naturalist, declares that he once saw upon the coast of Brazil a race of gigantic savages whose average height was over ten feet, some individuals exceeding twelve and a half feet. M. Thevet of France in bis description of America, which was published in Paris in 1575, says that be was once present when the skeleton of a South American savage eleven feet and two inches in height was disinterred. The Chinese have a record of several giants between twelve and sixteen feet in height which have lived in the Flowery Kingdom within the last 300 years. Josephus mentions a Jew who was ten feet two Inches, and Pliny was well acquainted with Gabath. the Arabian giant, who was nine feet nine Inches in height. Coming down to modern times, we find that John Mlddleton. who lived in the time of James I., was nine feet three Inches and bad a band seventeen inches long by eight and a half broad. Murphy, one of the celebrated trio of Irish giants (Charles Byrne nd O'Brien being tbe other two), was eight feet teu Inches and O'Brien two Inches taller. 014 Tkandcr !ttlaa. The "Prognostication Everlasting of one Leonard Digges." published In 1550. tells us that thunder in tbe morning denotes wind, at noon rain and in tbe evening a great tempest. He goes further still and declares that "Sunday's thunder should bring the death of learned men. Judges and others. Monday's the death of women. Tuesday's plenty of grain. Wednesday's bloodshed. Thursday's plenty of sheep and corn. Friday's tbe slaughter of a great man and other horrible murders. Saturday's a great pestilent plague and great dearth. Tke Blaaee. The name "blazer was originally applied to the bright red uniform of tbe Lady Margaret Boat club of St. John's college. Cambridge. Tbe brilliant scarlet which was the Invariable characteristic of the Johnlan "blazer doubtless suggested tbe name, and as an expressive slang epithet it proved a hit. In course of time the application of the term widened and is now extended to any bright or pale colored flannel jacket, striped or plain, whether for cricket, football, tennis, boating or seaside wear. London Standard. It is estimated that In the streets of London some $500,000 is every year given to beggars. , t

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STAMPS CAUSING CLERKS TROUBLE New Eight Cent Stamp Greatly Resembles the One Cent Stamp. ASK THE ISSUE RECALLED LOCAL POSTOFFICE IS NOTIFIED OF TWO CENT STAMP COMMEMORATING THE HUDSON-FULTON RESOLUTION. Clerks at the local postoffice are bothered considerably, it is said by the similarity the new S-cent stamp bears to the 1-cent variety. The closest scrutiny is required to distinguish the difference between the two. A supply of the new stamps has been received here recently. They are green in color and it is alleged the postoffice department made a serious mistake, and one which has caused a great deal of trouble by making them so near like the 1-cent stamp. It is understood that a petition will be circulated signed by the clerks in the various postoffices over the country asking that the issue be discontinued. The new special delivery stamp has also caused trouble by 4ts great resemblance to the 1-cent series. They have been discontinued and tbe old variety bearing the picture of the messenger boy riding a bicycle has been restored. A Hudson Stamp. Postmaster J. A. Spekenhier has been notified that the department is preparing a new stamp of special design to commemorate the discovery of the Hudson river by Henry Hudson in 10, and of the introduction of steam navigation on its waters by Robert Fulton in lSf7. The stamn will be placed on sale about September 25. it is said. It will be oblong in shape, about by inches in size and will comprise a border containing at the top the inscription, "Hudson-Fulton Celebra tion," with the dates "WH-V.r on either side. Below this inscription in a curved line will be the words "U. S. Postage." At the bottom on either side will be a prominent Arabic numeral "2." with the words "two cents' in a panel between the figures. In the center will be a picture showing the palisades of the Hudson river in the background, with the Half Moon sailing up tbe river and the Clermont steaming in the opposite direction. In the foreground will be a canoe containing four Indians. The canoes are to represent the first means of navigation. The new stamp will be printed in the same color as tbe present 2-cent stamp. It will not be sold to the exclusion of the stamps of the regular

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