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1912:1892.

In their framework, in their superficial outlines, the Republican situation of 1912, culminating today in Chicago, and the Republican situation of 1892, reaching its period in the Minneapolis convention of that year, are very much alike. This similaritr of skeletons, so to speak, is chiefly important, or interesting, as serving to emphasize the dissimilarity of the political spirit of that time and the political spirit of the present. In 1892 the administration of President Benjamin Harrison was drawing to its close. That administration beginning under the most hopeful auguries, had become very unpopular. The course of legislation had alienated the masses of the Republican party. The President's coldness, his lack of personal magnetism, his judicial temperament, had forbidden intimacies and close political attachments. Every indication was that the President, if nominated to succeed himself, could not be elected. Trace in those facts the similarities with the present administration and the prospects confronting it. Not" the further likeness that in 1892 the country was entering troublesome periods whose approach was plainly seen. Big economic questions, dividing in their central interests between the silver question and the McKinley Tariff Act, were pressing for settlement as now even deeper-going social and political and economic problems confront the Nation. Note the likeness, too, that the displeased Republican voters and their more mililant spokesman had turned to the magnetic statesman, James G. Blaine, ard had solicited him to make the race against the President whose Secretary of State he was until three days before the convention. One other point of agreement between the two situations remains. In 1892, as in 1912, the uninstructed delegates held a balance of power in the convention. But there is one tremendous political influence of 1912 that was lacking in the American life of Mr. Harrison's closing year. That influence is the ability of the people of a party to express themselves in other ways than the way of party organization. The "progressive movement" epitomizes the development of a self conbeious democracy which acts for itself rather than being acted for. In 1892 the people were so little used to asserting and exercising their political power for themselves that a revolt against the party federal machine wls almost hopeless. It liad, and probably could have had, no cohesive forcr It is doubtful that even had Mr. Blaine taken an active leadership of ruch disaffection as there was he could have given it coherent and compelling power. And Mr. Blaine did not attempt it. Neither the spirit of the people of 1912 nor the leadership of the people's cause of 1912 manifested its counterpart in the Republican convention cf 1892. The federal machine controlled the convention completely the uninstructed delegates as well as the delegates who had been instructed through its earlier activity. The melancholy convention emphasized its funeral solemnity by nominating, on the first ballot, an unpopular President whose defeat at the polls was almost unanimously predicted. Kansas City Times.

DISTRICT MEETING HELD IN RICHMOND Call for Congressional Convention to Be Issued by Meredith Shortly. The call for holding of precinct and ward meetings over the Sixth district will be issued by Linus Meredith, Sixth District chairman, immediately after the closing of the big national convention. The precinct and ward meetings are to be held about July 1. The purpose of this call will be to select delegates to the district and state conventions. The district convention, when the Republican candidate for Congress will be nominated, is to be held in Richmond, and the state convention at which nominations are to be made for the state offices and state platform adopted, will be held at Indianapolis. The Problem of Force. Whether the sum total of energy In existence Is increasing or decreasing is unknown. Man may cause energy to change from one mode or form to another, but there is no annihilation nor increase. Energy may be created or destroyed by the Creator and the fact escape detection in this colossal universe, which has not, by any means, been fully explored. The entire problem of force, or energy, is being studied In laboratories with renewed activity and with the aid of instruments of ever increasing accuracy. Space may hold wonders yet undetected. Thus energy in a form not at present known may reside there. A number of recent experiments have revealed effects that are inexplicable by any laws known to science. These researches were made in light. The results of studies now being made are awaited with great interest. A new electronic theory of light may be formulatedthat Is, light may be radiating rays of excessively minute bodies at least 1,000 times less than the hydrogen atom. New York American. Two Versions. Miss Jane Barlow's first contribution to literature was some verses that she sent to the Cornhlll Magazine while still in her teens. She awaited the editor's reply with girlish eagerness. When it came it was a shock: "I have no use for your silly verses." She was, naturally, niostified and hurt. A plain rejection would have been bad enough. One worded so scornfully was sheer, unnecessary cruelty. She endured her misery in solitude for awhile her family knew nothing of her literary venture but her feelings became too much for her. She confessed and demanded sympathy. But when 6he showed the letter the sprawling editorial hieroglyphics, read with more calmness and with the whole family to interpret, took on a surprisingly different significance. lie had written: "I hope to use your pretty verses." Youth's Companion. 'THIS DATt

JUNE 19TH. 177S Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold appointed to command the forces at Philadelphia. 1819 The State of Maine separated from Massachusetts. 1834 Charles M. Spurgeon, noted English pulpit orator, born. Died January 30, 1892. 1864 The famous Confederate war vessel, the Alabama, Bunk by the Federal cruiser. Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, after an hour's fight. 1867 Ten lives lost by falling walls in the burning of the Americaa theater in Philadelphia. 1877 The University of Manitoba established. 1884 Ludwig Richter, famous artist, died in Dresden. Born near there, September 28, 1803. 1911 The President and Mrs.. Taft -celebrated their silver wedding.

IS NOT A LOSTJRT HERE County Clerk and Assistants Have Been Very Busy All of This Month. Who dares to assert that Richmond men are engulfed in the grilling grind of business and have no time to marry? Who of the pessimistic class will dare declare that Richmond maidens and women have thrown off the yoke of domesticity and have become suffragists, clubists and opponents of the obligations of matrimony? In case there are any such prophets of this doleful, unwilling-to-assume-the-duties-their-fathers-and-mothers-assum-ed doctrine, all they have to do is to scan the records in the office of the clerk of Wayne county. The marriage license sheet of paper, which is rapidly becoming more popular and desirable is being handed out daily to from two to five couples by Clerk Matthews and his office force. Although at the same time these happy couples are securing papers which will unite them in the holy bonds of matrimony, divorce petitions are being heard on the floor immediately above that on which the clerk's office is located. Figures prove that the average marriageable age for women is from twenty-one to twenty-seven years in this county, and that the ages of the men J average about the same. In about one-third or the cases the grooms-to-be are younger than their intended brides. It Is believed that June, 1912 will surpass the same month of the past year,. In point of the number of marriage licenses issued. So far about thirty licenses have been issued this month. There have been almost ! licenses issued this year. Acema's Queer Graveyard. What is perhaps the most remarkable graveyard in the United States adJoins the old Spanish church in the ancient Indian pneblo of Acoma, X. M., and took more than forty years to construct The village is situated high in the air upon a huge, flat topped rock, many acres in extent and entirely bare of Boll. In order to ereate the graveyard it was necessary to carry up the earth from the plain 300 feet below, a blanketful at a time, on the backs of Indians who had to climb with their heavy loads up a precipitous trail cut In the face of the cliff. The graveyard thus. laboriously constructed is held in place on three sides by high retaining walls of stone. Wide World Magazine. Got Through. Among other startling statements in her composition on "A Railway Journey" the following was made by a little Baltimore girl: "You must get a ticket which is a piece of paper, and you give it to a man. who cuts a bole in It and lets you pass through." New York Herald. IN HISTORY

MATRIMONY

William Howard

William Howard Taft the twenty-; seventh President of the United j States, was born in Cincinnati on September 15, 1857. He comes of a family distinguished in the law and the public service. The first American Tafts came of th English yeomanry, transplanted across the Atlantic by the grot ceaval that peopled New England with its sturdy stock. In this country they turned to the study and practice of law. Peter Taft, the President's grandfather, was born a maker and an interpreter of laws, having served as a member of the Vermont Legislature, and afterwards as a judge. Alphonso Taft. son of Peter, was graduated from Yale college and then vent out to the Western Reserve to practice law. He settled in Cincinnati where William Howard Taft was born. Alphonso Taft, himself a judge of the superior bench, earned distinction through the service of city, state and ration. During his later years he served under President Grant as AttorneyGeneral to the Department of Justice, and finally entered the diplomatic service as minister first to Austria and then to Russia. The President's mother, Mrs. Louisf M. Torrey Taft was also of old New England stock, holding strictly to those rigid religious tenets handed aewn by her Puritian ancestors. She was a woman of great strength of char atter and brilliancy of mind, one ably qualified through nature's gifts to thape the destinies of her three sons, Charles P., Peter and William Howard. Through Alphonso Taft the scholar, diplomat and judge and Mrs. Louise Torrey Taft, the loving mother and guardian of the ethical and physical welfare of the three Taft boys, an atmosphere of culture, refinement and inspiration was maintained well calcu lated to produce fine specimens of American manhood. The career of each of the boys gives ample evidence of the influence of this environ ment. Alphonso Taft was the first alumnus of Yale college elected to the corpora tion, and retained throughout his life time an affection for his alma mater that amounted almost to a passion Therefore, each of his boys was destir.ed to pursue his studies in that col lege. Charles P. Taft, the eldest son graduated with highest honors, the sec end Bon, Peter, graduated two years later than Charles.. His standing was higher all points considered than that of any other graduate of the college taking into account all the classes from the beginning. A brilliant career seemed to open before him, but his health was impaired and he died after a few years In invalidism. In the case of William Howard Taft the same routine of preparatory edu cation was mapped out. He attended first the public schools of Cincinnati, graduating from the Woodward High School in 1874 and later entering Yale from which University he graduated in 1878, being the salutorian of his class. Following the graduation exer cises young Taft returned to Clncin uatl, where he began the study of law in his father's office, at the same time doing court reporting for the newspa per owned by his brother, Charles P Taft. His salary at first was $6.00 a week. So well did young Taft perform his duties, however, that Murat Hal siead, editor of the Cincinnati Com inercial Gazette employed the young man to work for that paper at an in creased salary of $25.00 a week. Taft, always Independent, greeted the raise as a recognition of his talent, and, though he was in no way in need of financial aid, he was highly elated His new job brought to him duties that held him to a rigid regime. Despite these duties, however, he still pursued the law, taking a course at the Cincinnati law school where Champ Clark and many other promtnent men received their sheepskins. He graduated in 1880. dividing first honors with another student, and was admitted to the bar soon afterwards. That "Big Bill" Taft's physical pow ers were in no way impaired by his studious pursuits is evidenced by an incident that took place about this stage of his career. His father. Judge Alphonso Taft, was the defeated can didate for the Governor of Ohio and had been most scandalously slandered by a Cincinnati newspaper, owned by a man named Rose. Rose had the reputation of running a black mailing sheet, deriving his chief income from blood money ex tracted fro mhis victims. According to the chronicles of the time he was an ex-prize fighter, a bully and the associate of rowdies, who was in the habit of pacing Cincinnati thoroughfares ac companied by a band of roughs on whom he could depend for both por tection and assault. "Big Bill" Taft, stirred to the verge of frenzy by the attacks upon his fath er's character decided to put an end to the cabals. But instead of having recourse to the processes of the law, he cast aside his judicial training and marched into the sanctum of editor Kosewith fire in his eye. Taft demanded a retraction of the slanderous statements printed in Rose's paper. Rose refused. Hot words passed and "Big Bill" and editor Rose engaged in a persona! encuonter Both were men of great physical strength and determination. They fought all over the office. The tide of victory favoring first one and then the other. In the end, however, Taft best ed the editor and administered to him such a terrific thrashing that he begged for mercy. This young Taft agreed io grant if he would leave Cincinnati at once. Rose, beaten into submission, met this requirement and left the town that night His paper has never since appeared upon the street. This incident illustrates the rugged determination hidden beneath the Taft eemblance of geniality. He is primarily a fighter and though possessed by nature with a kind and genial disposition likes nothing better than to be in the heart of a melee. This passion of

oung Taft to do and conquer, coupled v ith the judicial training of his father, ssnd his mother's desire that he should follow in the footsteps of his ancestors, won him away from what might have L-en a strenuous life in business, or perhaps the army, and led him to seek u livelihood and fame through serving 1 s country. e

In 1S80. soon after his fight with Rot-e, he was called to public office where he has been in one capacity or another ever since. First he was as sistant prosecuting attorney of Hamil ton County. Here he rendered signal service by helping to drive out the old Campbell ring, whose influence had long dominated Cincinnati's court house. In 1S81 he became Collector of Inter nal revenue for the First Ohio District i.nd demonstrated the same ability that he had showed in the law. A year later he resigned that office and went back to the practice of his profession, joining in partnership with H. G. Floyd L's father's old partner. In 1883 he became assistant county solicitor. Two years later. Governor Foraker appointed him Judge of the superior court to tucceed Judson Harmon, who had resigned to enter President Cleveland's cabinet. In 1886 Judge Taft married Miss Helen Herron, daughter of the Honor able John W. Herron of Cincinnati. It is said by those who knew Judge Taft at that time that the young man's ambition looked forward to a career iu the judiciary. His home training. his years of preparatory education and his personal tastes together with his natural endowments, all eminently fitt ed him for such a course in life. He was the possessor of what is known as a "judicial mind" that rare physical attribute that is adept at both analysis and synthesis. So great were his abilities on the bench that when his first term grew to a close he was triumphantly elected foe another period. Already, howev er, his ability had attracted outside afr tention and he had served but two years of the five year term for which he was elected when President Harri son asked him to take the difficult post of Solicitor General of the United States. Mr. Taft accepted this position in 1890. Here he was associated with Joseph Choate, and other giants of the law, and acquitted himself with a brilliancy that demonstrated clearly to his contemporaries a faculty involving not only wide learning and tremen clous application, but the power of clear and forceful presentation or argu ment During his term of office he han died the seal fisheries controversy with Great Britain and a tariff case in which the law was attacked on the ground that Speaker Reed had counted a quorum when the bill passed the house. Both of these cases he won It was during his Solicitor General ship that Taft became acquainted with Theodore Roosevelt. The acquaintance ripened into a firm friendship only bro ken during the last four years. In 1892 Mr. Taft was sent back to Ohio as Judge of the Sixth Federal Circuit. He spent seven years on the Federal bench, his tenure of office be ing generally recognized as an appren ticeship for a later appointment to the Supreme Court This was then the acme of his ambition. Mr. Taft's administration of his du ties as Federal Judge was marked by a universal brilliancy and fair minded ness that won him the respect and acclaim not only of those in favor of whom he decided the cases before him, but of those who failed In their litlga t'on. He was hailed on every side as a fair minded and upright judge. One of his most noted decisions a decision that even at that early day chowed him to be in accord with the Sherman anti-trust law, was given out in the Addystone Pipe Co. litigation. This was the first time the Sherman anti-trust law was made a living, vital fcree for the curbing and punishment of monopoly. Mr. Taft upheld the law end it was appealed to the Supreme Court, where he had the satisfaction of having his decision quoted In full and handed down as part of the opin ions of the high court, which sustain ed him at every point. Judge Taft remained on the Federal Bench until 1900 when President Mc Kinley appointed him President of the United States Philippine Commission His administration of Philippines was truly a heroic task. Americans, individ ually and collectively, were persona non grata with the natives. They were hated with fanatic fervor. Besides this at the time President Taft took up his administration of Philippine affairs there was much controversy in the United States as to the future policy of this country in regard to the islands Taft won the confidence of the Phil ippines through kindness and judicial fairness. He lived with them, ate with them and drank with them. He gave tbem schools, provided for their education, fought for their rights with the home government and rejuvenated trcde to such an extent that prosperity smiled upon the islands for the f rst time In centuries. His early efforts in the Philippines were early recognized in the United States and in July of the year follow ir.g his appointment he war made the first civil governor of the islands. There has been some criticism of President Taft's administration in the Orient but upon the whole It is recogr.ized by even the President's enemies that his tenure of office was one that showed executive ability to a rare degree. So intent, indeed, was fee upon the regeneration of the Philippine Islands that upon three different occasions he refused an opportunity to reenter the judiciary. In refusing one of these opportunities he turned down an appointment to the, Supreme Bench of the United States. This was the goal toward which his ambition had turned fclnce boyhood. In 1904 he accepted the port folio of war In the Cabinet of President Roosevelt and continued In that office until

be resigned to engage in his presiden

tial campaign of 1908. During his incumbency of the Cabi net office Mr. Taft displayed to even greater advantage that efficiency and met he had shown in his adminlstralon of the Philippines. Perhaps hi teatest achievement as Secretary oi War was the masterly manner ir which he wrought order out of chaos n the Panama Canal Zone. The Panamianians despite the Hay-Vsrilla Trea y, were more or less firmly convinced hat the United States had not acquir ed that section of the Isthmus of Pan araa solely to build a canal. They wer of the opinion that there were diplo matic reasons behind the move. They thought that the I'nited States sought to strike at the independency of the Central American Republics through the establishment of a rival state and he gradual absorption of the surround ig territory. This antagonism had to be overcome t nd Taft was the man that overcame it. He visited Panama and exercised ttore those personal and mental pow ers that had won him the confidence of the natives of the Philippines. The refcult was that army engineers, under his direction, were enabled to proceed with their work of making this pest hole habitable without serious opposi tion from the natives. Another instance of his ability as an executive and a diplomat came with the second insurrection in Cuba. He journeyed to that island in 1906 and hardly had he reached its shores when internal affairs took a change for the better. In a comparatively short time peace had been restored among the varrlng factions. He remained as pro visional Governor of Cuba throughout the months of In June 1908 he was nominated for President by the Republican National convention at Chicago, and in the fol lowing November he was elected to the presidency by a considerable majority. Up to this time there had been noth ing in Mr. Taft's career that had elicit ed anything but boundless praise. He had been a faithful and efficient ser vant of his country at home and abroad. Throughout the worjd he had made many friends for the United States by his frankness and liberality. and his country was only too willing to see him honored with the highest office within his gife. It is no. exagger ation to say that no President ever moved into the White House with so nearly the universal good-will of the populace as did Mr. Taft. He fell heir, however, to a political situation calculated, by its complex sides and factional friction to create party dissension and party criticism. It was understood that he was to pursue th Roosevelt "policies" which, though popular in some political quarters, were equally unpopular in others. He did not pursue them. He took his own initiative, abided by his own counsel, and stood out firmly for the measures hnd administrative policies that his own Judgment told him were right. As President he not only faced the questions left over by ex-President Roosevelt's administration, but he em barked upon a period of dissension in bis own party. He was placed in the difficult position of having to please both the stand-pat wing of Republicanism and the Progress've branch of the Republican party. If he pursued one course he was bound to friienate the support of one faction of the Republicans; if he pursued anothhe was in the same predicament. His administration, therefore, lent itself to criticism no matter which way he turn ed and much criticism had been ac corded it. It cannot be denied, howev her, that Mr. Taft advocated the things he thought were right and pursued his policies without reference to his politi cal future. Mr. Taft's most serious party break came with the signing 6f the Payne-Al-drich tariff law. Through this act he alienated the support of such men as the late Senator Dolliver of Iowa, Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, Senator Cummins of Iowa and other prominent men of the progressive faction of the Republican party. These men went before the people rnd claimed that Mr. Taft had betray ed the trust of his party through sign ing a measure that embodied largely the protective tariff. Mr. Taft stood to his guns and upheld his action. He claimed that revision of the tariff downward was not expedient He met the attacks of the Democratic legislature by vetoing their low tariff bills and explained his action by stating that he wanted to hear the official re ports of the various boards investigat ing the measures which they so hastily advocated. Through his reciprocity bill, provld ing for the free enterchange of certain commodities between Canada and the United States, he sought to alleviate the sufferings of the people. This measure was enthusiastically advocated by his friends and was passed by both houses of Congress. It met its Waterloo when the Canadian Parliament overthrew Laurier and repudiated the tentative agreement largely on sentimental grounds. In the advocacy of international leace he surpassed all previous Presidents. He assembled the representatives of France, Germany and England and submitted to them a treaty which would practically obviate war between the four nations party to the agreement This measure had the enthusiastic approval of such men as Carnegie snd Rockefeller and was heralded as the greatest step toward the depletion of war ever taken by the head of a Modern government. The bills passed the house by a large majority, both Democrats and Republicans Joining bands in singing their encomiums and passing them along to the Senate. They were killed in the upper body largely through adverse sentiments set afoot by1 those who claimed that national degeneration would follow the snbrnlssal of, such international disputes as they provided for to a court of arbitration.

Taft

The Railway Rate bill, passed during Taft's administration, is regarded by many as the most effective measure kicking toward the regulation of trans-1-ortation corporations ever enacted by the United States. This too, however. .'smf in for factional criticism. When the Supreme Court of the I'nited States rendered the Standard Oi and Tobacco Trust decisions, embodying the celebrated phraso in reacnable restraint of trade." President Taft stood back of that adjudication iiid voiced himself heartily in accord ,'th the Supreme Court Judges. This stand put him squarely on reerd as againat corporate monopolies in restraint of trade, and be has demon strated his intention of fighting the iuta through filing suits against the Steel Trust, the Sugar Trust the Har'ster Trust, and a number of minor monopolies. Another law that had his approval tnd that looked toward the betterment of conditions in the United States v.as the Corporation. Tax Bill, which i a large measure eliminates the possibility of corporate secrecy through providing for a certain amount of gov ernment supervision. Beside this the corporation Tax Bill will add to the revenue of the United States through its tax upon monopoly. President Taft also established the United States Commerce Court, and strongly advocated the policy of dollar diplomacy that has done so much to rejuvenate finances of the small republics In South and Central America. Throughout Mr. Taft's administra tion his policy has been one of safe -nd sane progression with neither the flamboyant aggressiveness that marked the actions of some of his predecessors, nor the extreme conservativeness that graced' the terms of others. He has advocated that no further corpora tion laws be enacted until the present cues are tested, that the revision of he tariff await the report of his tariff commission; that the array and navy be- reorganized with a view to affect ing greater efficiency and that economy be pracUced In the administration of the government He has endorsed the Aldrich monetary plan with some form of government supervision and ultimate control; he has urged a rural parcels post; he has urged a rut In the wool duty and he has always nought to further the Interests of this country through his administrative acts. Mr. Taft's offices In the White House have been a physical counterpart of lie acts during his administration. Instead of the war clubs and trophies of . the chase that graced the presidential office during President Roosevelt's re gime the mails are lined with books of reference and the President's work shop presents the view of a modern. ui-to-date office with every convenience at hand for the administration of the great affairs of the government Mr. Taft's home life is as Ideal as cne could wish to see. His household an excellent example of the best type of American family. Sirs. Taft, conceded to be one of the most accomrlithed and brilliant women in Washington, has proved herself to be eminently fitted to take up the duties of the wife to a President She reads Incessantly and is not only abreast of the times but is well versed In the w rid of literature. The atmosphere of the Taft home, whether In Washington during the beat of the administration or In Beverly, Mass.. In the summer. ir one of quiet gracious hospitality. The Tafts three children, all of them displaying the marked abilities characteristic of Mr. and Mrs. Taft Robert Alphonso. the eldest Is a student and is eventually to become a lawyer. Miss Helen Herron Taft is studying at Bryn Mawr and Charles Taft. the youngest of the family. Is attending school. He will also go to Yale .when be finishes bis preparatory course. Now You can keep the water-closet oowU as white as ney ani-FIush Cleans Water-Closet Bowls Do the work uoithomt mmy fmt or unpltaa wfwose. Yom don't m to tomeh tho hotel or dip oat tk toater e mcomrbtg. Sani-FtuMh w3t not injur thm plumbing mm mcidm do. It' a m perfect disinfect mt m deodorant. 20 cents a can at your grocer's MAKE NO MISTAKE. BUT USE For the blood, and kindred ails. Nothing better; try it At all drug stores.