Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 150, 29 April 1912 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGKAM, MONDAY APRIL, 29, 1912.

THE TAFT PEOPLE OWE G, W. PERKINS

A SUM OF

$15,000

JJew York Financier Hands This Jolt in Reply to Scurrilous Attacks Made Upon Roosevelt.

(Continued from Page One.) i 4 peculiar baseness about all thea attacks on me In view of the follows Ing "First Mr. Otto T. Bannard is recognized throughout the country as Mr. jTaft's warm personal friend and stanch supporter. He is also president of a large trust company in the very center of the Wall street district. "Recently he ran for mayor of this city on the Republican ticket. I supported him and personally contributed !more money to his campaign than I did to the recent primary fight here in iKew York. Leans to Bannard Campaign. "In addition to that, I personally loaned a number of thousands of dollars to his campaign committee at its irequest, and for some time after the campaign was over held the note of (Mr. Bannard and Mr. Herbert ParBons for this latter sum, which they repaid. "These two men are no conspicuous .members of your organization. They know perfectly well how much I helped them and how eager they were for khat help. How much . fairness, how

much of the 'square deal' is there in their attitude toward me today be-

cause I am now financially assisting jthe Roosevelt cause, which is precisetly what I did for them? "'As to my motives in thus assisting tMr. Bannard, I am sure that the then treasurer of the Bannard ' committee will support me in the statement that, las the campaign progressed, I expressled the belief that Mr. Bannard would (fail of election. He said he thought I ( was mistaken, and seemed rather surprised that I should support Mr. Bansard so liberally, if in my judgment

iMr. Bannard was not going to be elected. "I told him that I was doing It on principle that so long as there was a 'there ww a chance, or even a hope, of defeating Tammany in New York I I wanted to do-everything In my power to that end. Supported Stimson in New York. "2 When Mr. Stimson, now a member of Mr. Taft's cabinet, recently ran

for governor in this state, I supported him with all my might and main.' I personally contributed exactly the same amount to his campaign that I

'contributed to the recent BO-called primaries in this city. "Permit me to say in this connection that, so far as I know, I was the S only man In the financial district who j contributed any considerable sum to ! that campaign, and that I was about i the only man in Wall street who was ) openly supporting Mr. Stimson, most of my partners and associates being Imuch opposed to his candidacy. "I supported Mr. Stimson because I believed absolutely in the principles i being fought for in that campaign and because I was unalterably opposed to j the program of deliberately t urning I over the entire state of New York to , Tammany Hall. j "3 When Mr. Taft ran for Presi

dent in 1908, I supported him in every way that I could. You complain constantly and bitterly now because I am

: now supporting Mr. Roosevelt and am

connected with the Harvester com-

Hpany and the Steel corporation. SenLator Crane of Massachusetts is ac-

,ttvely engaged in furthering Mr. Taft's

campaign, and yet no criticism - is

heard of this, notwithstanding the fact that he is prominently connected with

(the American Telephone company and

important paper enterprises. During the Taft campaign in 1908 j 'Senator Crane called on me and telephoned me repeatedly about the financial progress of that campaign, being (particularly solicitous as to what could be done for the state of Massachusetts. Pays Taft Campaign Bills. "When the Taft campaign was over

the treasurer found that he had some bills' he could not pay, amounting to about $15,000. He told me he was unable to raise this money from any one. It was evident that the friends

and relatives of the newly elected (President took no interest in paying left over bills after Mr. Taft had been (elected. I was aBked to loan the comjmittee 115,000, which I did, taking the Bote of Mr. George R. Sheldon, treasjtirere, which asyet has not been paid. "All of the above activities on my i-part covered a period when I was not I only connected with the Steel corporation and the International Harvester company as I am now, but when I was also a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., a director in the National Ciy bank and other prominent "Wall street financial institutions from 'which I have Blnce retired; and if, according to your views of things, it tls a heinous crime for a great political cause to accept support from me now, It must have been far more heinous to , accept it in the above named three instances. "The rumor Is even being circulated that Mr. Morgan and others are secretly behind me In the present fight, and In some round about way are furnishing the money that is being used. This Is a downright falsehood. There is not a scintilla of truth in it.

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.THE DEAD LIVE ONLY IN MEMORY

So Says Maeterlinck in "The Blue Bird" in Which Symbolized One of the Great Mysteries of Ex- . istence. Publisher's Procedure.

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BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE "Interested Reader" writes to this column, apropos of the book notices appearing here the other day "Thirty Thousand an Hour' has been forgotten by Saturday Evening Post readers and "Fran" has been running in a Philadelphia publication for quite a bit." Ordinarily anonymous publications are consigned to the wasta basket since anyone who hasn't courage enough to sign his name to a communication is not worth consideration. "Interested Reader," however, possibly hides liis anonymity behind modesty. Therefore for any portion cf the public whose information may be limited, as is evidently "Interested Reader'6." concerning the technique of book publishing the following may be enlightening: There isn't any book called "Thirty Thousand an Hour." The one noticed here within the past week is "Five Thousand An Hour" by George Randolph Chester, and published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. It is the custom of publishing houses to send copies of their publications to certain newspapers for review. Any newspaper receiving them is of sufficient, calibre to have; a literary editor. - , i The larger the paper, the more frequently it appears on publisher's lists and the greater its accumulation of books for review. Books are not received by papers in bulk. Generally one at a time. Hence the literary editor waits until enough have come in to make their combined review worth the paper's while. The writer had on her desk about a dozen books for notice and took those that were "released for review" first. All the books noticed at this time were received within the past few weeks and, will be found on all the spring lists of new books. True they may have appeared in serial form before. And they are very apt to appear in serial form later. For it is the custom of authors and publishing houses to sell not only the book rights, but the serial rights, before a volume is put Tut. "Five Thousand An Hour," was not put into book form until after Its serial publication had closed. Such arrangements axe for business purposes entirely. Through the Saturday Evening Post "Five Thousand An Hour" reached its million and a half readers. But there, are over ninety million persons in this country and a good many abroad. The publishers, knowing this, are not afraid to put the book out after- its serial publication. It is by a popular writer of the hour. Is a capital story of its class. Summer is coming on when people make elaborate purchases of light literature. Therefore "Five Thousand An Hour" is sent out to papers for review. If you happened to be the exchange editor of any paper you would find that this same book has. within the past few weeks, been reviewed by papers all over the country. The literary editor receives the books and looks on the cover. On each is stamped "Released for review on " such and such a date. Papers are not permitted to publish reviews of the book until after the expiration of this date. All the books noticed last week, including "Five Thousand An Hour' and "Fran," were received within the past few weeks and reviewed as soon as

convenient after their release for that purpose. The serial rights to "Fran" may be running in a half dozen or more publications, as the serial and book publication may be simultaneous. Attention is called to "The Prodigal Judge," a novel which had great vogue within the year and whose publication in serial form began long after the story appeared as a book. Richmond readers will remember its appearance in the "Indianapolis Star." Books received for review may not be in the least interesting to the literary editor. But It is his, or her, professional duty to give them a fair hearing before that portion of the public which reads the paper in which they are noticed. The foregoing is for those who like to know "how the wheels go round," and to set right evident erroneous ideas of why book notices appear in the Palladium.

The dramatisation of Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird" is, in its way, a triumph of stage art over thai of literature. For rare, indeed, is the attempt to transfer the fine essence of the latter to the former successful. Maeterlinck, curiously enough. Is first a dramatist, then a litterateur. Writing in symbols he still has constantly in the background of his consciousness their theatric significance. Hence their vizuallzation is convincing, especially when staged with such consummate art as is "The Blue Bird." For, without its scenic appurtenances, the play of this name would be unintelligible and wearisome. Half of its success with the public must be attributed to the craft of the theatric artist and the theatric ..taste of the management under whose auspices it appears. This was at its apogee in the scenes, "The Kingdom of the Future," and "The Land of Happiness." In the former the unborn children appear mystically clad in short white tunics and draped with transparent shimmering veils giving them the illusory character they possess in the book. Up a flight of steps stands "Time" with his scythe, a figure of tremendous impressiveness silhouetted against a brilliant cloud strewn sky, a boat swinging in and stopping by his hand. From this point of vantage he calls the children who are to be born, the hesitation of some, the joy of the others, in their earth summons, making the dramatic and intellectual appeal. In the latter, the scene painter has achieved a climax that can be likened to nothing more than a combination of the effects from the brush of the great modern mural painter, Puvis de Chavannes, and that of the old Italian master Botticelli for this stage picture Is reminiscent, in spirit and decorative effect of Botticelli's "Spring," a composition familiar in reproduction to the general public. "The Blue Bird," Is founded on a fairy tale that has been variously utilized by writers and artists but in Maeterlinck's is symbolized as a search for happiness although this is not made as clear in the stage version as play-goers might desire. To vizuallze at all a conception so illusive and symbolic is, as has Just been said, a triumph of stage and dramatic art and in the presentation of the "Blue Bird," it Is interpreted with as much clarity as is, perhaps, possible. Happiness lies not in that which Is afar but" that which is close and intimate is the conclusion of the play. But in "The Land of Memory," Maeterlinck's play is lifted out of the sym-

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bolization of Fact and Emotion into the region of the transcendental. The two little ' children, in theli search for the blue bird go to the Land of Memory where dwell their dead grandparents and their little dead sisters and brothers. The delight of their kinspeople in finding that the two little "earth" children have not forgotten them but hold them ever In their hearts is one of the supreme moments of the play's presentation. For it is in memory alone, says Msaterlinck in effect, that the dead live. They achieve Immortality only In the thought of the living. The joy of the poor dead grandparents and sisters and brothers over the visit of the little living boy and girl, is gripping in its symbolism. Hearth wrenching in its significance. ' Tear welling in its personal appeal. And its setting was as it should be. The children see their grandparents in the porch outside the door with the garden hedge of hollyhocks and the paling gate. The srmbolization is herein perfect. The children, in memory, see their grandparents in the latter's earthly environ. But an environ, curiously enough, dimmed in the perspective. And here also stage art was convincing. For the bright-hued garden was not there but its faded counterpart. The "Blue Bird" is a wonderful play, both scenically, dramatically and In philosophical conception. In it literary and dramatic art are united and form a perfect picture. A picture enveloped in a veil of mysticism fascinating in the spiritual distances it conjures.

A POLITICAL PLOT III PENNSYLVANIA Old Guard Seeks to Gain Control of State Convention, May 1.

(National Nef Association) HARRISBURG. Pa.. April 29. An attempt to wrest the control of the Pennsylvania State Republican convention from the hands of Colonel Roosevelt's followers will be made on May L when the Republican state convention convenes here to select the twelve delegates-at-large to Chicago in June. If this attempt falls, as is confidently predicted by the Roosevelt ment today, it Is probable that most of the ten delegates credited to Presi

dent Taft will swing Into line with the Roosevelt men. making a solid Pennsylvania delegation to Chicago In favor of Roosevelt. The official count for the state convention gives President Taft 105 delegates, against 259 for the Colonel. The former faction, however, controls Convention Secretary Henry r. Walton, of Philadelphia, a Penrose supporter, and Is building its hopes of capturing the twelve delegates-at-large for Taft on the prestige of the old Penrose machine. Another side light of the coming convention Is the probable overthrow of Walton and the appointment of a Roosevelt man as secretary of the state convention. If this occurs. Senator Penrose will not even be a dele. gate-at-large to the National Republican convention at Chicago. His only part will be to sit in the state convention as a delegate from the Eighth ward. At the Penrose headquarters here today. It was cenceded that the con-

gressman-at-large. Auditor Genera. !

State Treasurer and the presidential '

electors would be named to suit the '

Roosevelt people. It ts thought, how-

ever, that many of the Roosevelt supDorters will back the machln In tK

convention votes on the state officials.

since their desire will hare been satisfied when Roosevelt delegates to Chicago have ben named.

Cabot and Columbus, The discoverer of the North Amert-' csn continent was John CaTsot and not Christopher Columbus. Celuabns never set &et on the North Amedcaa mainland, or if he did there Is no record of the fact. The laid that Cabot discovered and landed npea In 149? wss probably Labrador. This was fourteen months before Columbus (In 1498) first set eyes on any portion of the mainland of the western world the portion of South America lying at the month of the Orinoco.

ADDITIONAL SOCIETY

SOCIAL TREND AT CLUB. With the passing of the winter season and the coming of the warmer days, the social trend Is toward the cool surroundings of the Country club. The May social committee has arranged for a card party to be given Thursday afternoon of this week at the club. The game will begin at twothirty o'clock. All members are invited to attend.

MRS. MOORE HOSTESS. Mrs.' George B. Moore gave a double box party, followed by a tea at the Victoria Saturday afternoon to witness the "Blue Bird," entertaining fourteen friends, among them Miss Matthews of Cincinnati, with Mrs. T. C. Day and Mrs. Lee of Minneapolis. The decorations for the tea were attractive baskets of marguerites and pink roses. Indianapolis Star. Mrs. Moore who was formerly Miss Sea too, has many relatives here.

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