Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1905 — Page 3

POLITICAL COMMENT

Pattison’s Opening Onn. Pattison has spoken. The man who heads the Democratic ticket has thrdwn off the' mask of reserve and stands out before the people hr the attitude of a petitioner, asking for votes. The sphinx has opened his mouth. Candidate Pattison’s speech at Newark is described as the opening gun of the campaign, and it should therefore show the line of talk that the Democratic orators will use to convince the electorate of Ohio that there should be a change of administration. And yet, atrip Pattison’s speech of its one feature and it might as well have been left unspoken. The feature was his discussion of bosses and corruption. “Turn the rascals out!’’ That was Mr. Pattison's argument. Is it not familiar to you? Have we not heard that same old cry from time immemorial? Whenever the Democracy cannot find a war issue or a money issue or a tariff issue that it dares tackle, it goes out before the people and claims the medal for honesty. It puts on the sheep’s clothing and points to the other fellow as the wolf. The ruse is not altogether senseless. It succeeded for Hoadley and again for Campbell, but after these men had been in power for a brief period the people were glad enough to turn them out. The history of Ohio is proof of the danger arising from Democratic

EFFECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST FOREIGN TARIFF DISCRIMINATION.

rule. Republican administrations have been business-like and economical. The State has thrived under them. Its treasury lias grown fat. Orfe Democratic governor can undo the good work of several Republican governors. We wouldn’t call it dishonesty, but rather inefficiency that has marked the administration of Democratic governors. Not one in 4 recent years has left the treasury in as gcod condition as he found it. The finances in Ohio are. to-day stronger than ever before, largely as a result of Derrick's management. Yet tjie people are asked to make a change to give Democracy another trial. Evidently its leaders credit the taxpayers with possessing short memories. “The stealing of the public funds is a great crime,” says Mr. Pattison par-rot-like, as if he had made a great discovery. Since when did the people appoint Democracy to run down graft and corruption? Their orators point with pride to Folk, of Missouri, apparently unmindful of the fact that the Democratic leaders in tliat State used every Influence in their power to pull their governor off. They didn’t want him to expose the rottenness and cor-

ruption that was flourishing in the Democratic stronghold. But grant them their Folk, have wo not our Deneeu in Illinois, who is quite as active in his way? Have we not our Weaver, who is driving the Philadelphia thieves out in the open? And finally have we not our Roosevelt, who first moved against the political thief and encouraged Folk and Deneen and Weaver? It was a Republican President who began the crusade against public thieving—a crusade that is extending to all parts of the country. The Republican party In nation and in State has always proved its capacity and willingness to turn the rascals out, whether they were Republicans or Democrats. Mr. Pattison talked*against bossisnt, but be was careful to define It ns Coxism. He said nothing about McLeanism or Jobnsonlsm. Yet McLean was for years absolute dictator of Ohio Democracy, while Cox has never been able to extend his dominion beyond the borders of Hamilton County’. Tom Johnson holds Cleveland as in the hollow of his hand. He has plied up a debt under which the taxpayers of the city are groaning for relief, and he has planned for a long while to succeed McLean. Then there is the bosslsm

of Tammany, a purely spoils organization, and there is Dunne, of Chicago, who hopes to become the boss of the Windy City through his advocacy of immediate muncipal ownership. So it is to be a specious campaign on the part of Patti Son and his cohorts. There is to be no joining of issues on questions that are vital to the taxpayers of Ohio, but an attempt to stampede them by false cries of “wolf,” “wolf.”—Toledo Blade. Not an “Off Year.’’ In the vernacular of the professional politician this is an “off year” because it is not a Presidential year. In truth, however, it is by no means an “off year.” In ten States campaigns of more or less national interest have already opened or will shortly begin. The results will be of great significance, even though they may have no direct bearing upon Federal politics. Massachusetts elects a governor and it will be interesting to see whether the Democratic victory of last year will be repeated. Governor Douglas thus far refuses a nomination, but there is a suspicion that his refusal is not final. If it should be so then the probability of General Miles’ nomination adds interest to the outlook. Rhode Island always elects a governor and it will probably be news to

most people that both Rhode Island and Massachusetts choose their chief executives every year, thus carrying the principle of “frequent responsibility to the people” about as far as possible. In Rhode Island, as in Massachusetts, the Democrats nrofess to have hopes of victory—largely based upon the personal popularity of Mr. Garvin. It may be remembered that last year the Republicans pulled through by a very slim margin, despite the prestige of President Roosevelt. Kentucky elects a legislature which will choose a successor to Senator Blackburn, and Ohio chooses a full State ticket. There is small doubt as to the result in either case, nor is there much more with respect to Vermont, whore the question will probably be as to the size of the Republican majority and nothing else. Nebraska and Kansas hold general county elections, and in Pennsylvania three Supreme Court judges are to be chosen. The judicial election, however excites small interest as compared with that manifested in the struggle in the city of Philadelphia, where Mayor Weaver, backed by the reform element, is fighting the boodlers. Upon the result of this struggle hinges not only the political control of Philadelphia, but the ascendency of the forces which at preseut dominate the State. Philadelphia will be worth watching on election day. So will New York City, where Tammany Is once more lined up against a none too harmonious opposition. The metropolis will witness some lively campaigning when a candidate shall have been selected to oppose Mayor McClellan. Probably New York will excite more attention than any of the States, though we might mention that in addition to those already enumerated Virginia will elect a complete State ticket and Maryland will pass upon the so-called Poe amendment to the State constitution, under the terms of which the negro will practically be disfranchised. There will be plenty of interest, at any rate, to warrant repudiation of the term which designates 1905 as an “oft year.”—Chicago Chronicle. In Manchuria, Siberia, and North China much use is made of Chinese brick tea, not as a beverage, bnt as a vegetable, boiled with rice and mutton.

GREAT LIFE-SAVING CRUSADE.

The New Mexican Sanitarium of the Fraternal Organizations. America’s greatest battle against the great white plague will be waged within sight of Las Vegas, N. M. The fraternal bodies of the republic, welded with ths churches, clubs and municipalities into •one great humanitarian organization, will, within a few weeks, open a'?l,OOO,000 sanitarium for consumptive sufferers that will be without a peer in the world. Here in the heart of the region which in all the world is best adapted to the relief of lung troubles, a quickly recruited armj- 0f'3.000 sufferers from pulmonary affections will start to work out their own salvation along new Hues, which, it is expected, will constitute the path for countless thousands that Will follow after. The public has heard little regarding this ambitious project. But the fact that it has been taken unawares does not mean that there has not been thorough study and investigation and preparation back of the big undertaking. On the contrary, no life-saving crusade was ever worked out more carefully, step by step. For a long time past the darkening cloud of the consumptive plague which has been threatening the nation has appeared especially menacing to the great fraternal insurance orders. Of late years 40 per cent of the applicants for admission have been turned away because of light weight or the taint of the plague. Yet, of the $62,000,000 annually paid out for Insurance, more than $10,000,000 Is for deaths from tuberculosis alone. In other words, despite all precautions, jl6 per cent of the members are dying from the terrible disease. In an effort to stem the tide of destruction, committees from the big fraternal organizations have taken steps for the establishment of “Fraternal City,” as the new sanitarium will be known. Churches, clubs and municipalities are being invited to share the benefits of this unique institution. Any organization may send its suffering dependents to this haven of refuge by merely paying. the cost of transportation and maintenance. The novel community is distinctly not a money-making institution. Indeed, the idea is that when farming advantages have been secured, the institution will be in some degree selfsustaining. There will be several gateways of admission to the Fraternal City. Wealthy Individuals who have donated lump sums will each have the privilege of sending patients, irrespective of their relations with fraternities and churches. At the outset, however, the greater portion of the patients will come as the guests of the fraternal orders which J-ave contributed to the general fund. Each order selects stricken men and women from its membership to tho extent of its quota, and such individuals are undes no personal expense at the sanitarium, the cost of maintenance in each case being charged against the organization which sends the patient. If only the fraternal insurance orders become parties to the plan to tax each member 12 cents« year for the maintenance of the sanitarium, the income will be nearly $600,000 a year, and from 1,500 to 3,000 persons can be cared for free, whereas if other fraternal societies and the churches co-operate to any great extent, as is now indicated, the magnitude of the work will be greatly broadened.

BUMPER CORN CROP CERTAIN.

Continued Favorable Weather Assures Maturing; of Grain, The weekly crop bulletin of the weather bureau summarizes crop conditions as follows: The weather conditions of the week as a whole were exceptionally favorable to agricultural interests. Under the influence of warm and generally dry weather throughout the central valleys, lake region and Atlantic coast districts late crops matured rapidly. Florida and portion of the central gulf districts suffered injury from excessive rains, while much needed rains fell in the Rocky Mountain and North Pacific coast regions. The middle and South Atlantic States and southern Texas are in need of rain. Frosts occurred in the middle Rocky Mountain districts and in the upper Ohio valley, lower lake region and northern portion of the middle Atlantic States, but caused no serious injury. Highly favorable weather prevailed throughout the principal corn States. An exceptionally large and fine yield of corn is now assured over much of the greater part of the corn belt, and only a very small part of the crop in the north central portion, estimated at from 2 to 5 per cent of the total, remains exposed to injury from frost, and this is maturing rapidly. The crop in Missouri was extensively blown down or lodged, but notwithstanding this and the damage by September floods the yield in that State will be very heavy.

The Comic Side OF The News

These are days in politics when skim milk passes for rich cream. Atlanta has'about concluded to try the municipal ownership of Mayors. In the government printing office they seem to have many other machines besides those used for setting type. The decision to have the divorce convention held in Washington looks like a personal affront to Newport and Sioux Falls. Some of the Russians are dissatisfied with the peace terms, which is another indication of the dense ignorance of the Russians. A Massachusetts woman announces that she has discovered a new star in the constellation Aquilla. She ought to let the doctors cut it out right straight. With Mr. Depew compelled to pay up the Equitable debt, and Mae Catherine Wood again on Mr. Ptatt's tracks, the New York Senators are starting a lively fall season. When Uncle Sam is done killing the yellow fever mosquito in the South he might direct his efforts toward the destruction of the ordinary mosquito in other parts of the country. There appears no reason why it should be spa r ed.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ' Sheriff Stope Prize Fight and Arrest* 300—Hainljet of Tailholt Renamed by Postofiice Department—Returns After 35 Years’ Absence—Fatal Runaway. Sheriff J. Stephen of Newport broke up a prize fight by appearing at the ringside in the woods near the IndianaIllinois State line, arresting 300 spectators and bringing two of the principals to jail. A number of sports from Hammond and Chicago had gathered to see Carl Anderson of Hammond and “Kid” Hubert of Kansas City go twenty rounds in a pasture just over the State line. The fighters,were putting on hand bandages when the man of law arrived. A wild scramble to escape followed, some plunging head ‘first through wire fences, leaving part of their clothing behind. The sheriff grabbed Anderson and Trainer Ed Kennedy and drove to Newport. Hubert, dressed only in trunks, sprinted for Illinois and reached Danville wrapped.in a horse blanket.

Uncle Sam Disowns Tailholt. The Postoilice Department Itas decreed that “Tailholt,” the Hancock county hamlet that James Whitcomb Riley has made famous by his poem, “The Little Town of Ta illicit,” shall bear the official name of Carrollton, that it shall no longer have a postoffice and shall be a rural route station only. The people of Tailholt are up in arms against the degradation of the place by the department, but there is no help for it. They have determined, however, that though Carrollton may be the name by which the government will designate the place, it shall be Tailholt to them, and they will recognize no other name save as. compelled to do so in sending out and receiving mail.

Fails to Keep His Word. John Emigh, who mysteriously disappeared thirty-five years ago, leaving a message that he never again would be seen, returned the other day to his former home in Stark county and was reunited with a brother, who, despite the farewell message, still believed him to be alive. Mr. Emigh is now president of the Nebraska Rural Mail Carriers’ Association. He disappeared when a young man of 22 years. Auto Causes Fatal Runaway. Asa Bullock, aged 65 years, a wellknown lawyer, died at his home in Hobart, as the result of injuries received in a runaway caused by an automobile frightening his horse. Miss Jessie Bullock, his daughter and private secretary, was badly injured in the accident. The driver of the automobile, former Aiderman William Kleihege of Hammond, stopped his car and went to the assistance of Mr. Bullock and his daughter.

Brief State Happenings. A certificate has been issued authorizing the First National Bank of Warren to begin business with a capital of $25,000. Because his wife persisted in having a sign, “Plain Sewing Done,” placed in a window of their home in Elkhart, Melvin Alford asks a divorce. John Hardy and Henry McCain of Chicago, alleged cheek forgers, were arraigned at LaPorte. Hardy pleaded guilty, while McCain will fight the case. E. C. Curry, a Cincinnati detective, has brought suit against the county commissioners in Newcastle, to recover a reward of SSOO offered for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Mary Starbuck. Announeemena is made that Rev. Dr. William Bayard Dale of Richmond, but at present in Philadelphia, has been decorated by the king of the Belgians, being made a knight of the Order of Leopold. Thirty-six divorce suits filed and twenty decrees awarded during September has caused the judge of a Terre Haute court to make stricter rules. During the same month there were ninety-one marriage licenses issued. Two hundred out of 223 freight handlers employed by the Big Four Railroad Company struck in Indianapolis. It is said the men asked for an increase of pay from 15 to 17% cents an hour, and that instead of granting the increase the company inaugurated the tonnage or piece system. Clarence Clayton, 18-year-old son of Cassius Clayton, a Chicago business man, has been married secretly to Miss Margaret E. Sloan, a wealthy woman, aged 54, of Syracuse. Miss Sloan has refused many offers of marriage, believing her suitors coveted her fortune. She is proprietor of a restaurant, and says she has found her ideal in her youthful husband. The boy is still in school. While standing in the door of his farm house near St. Anthony's. Cyrus W. Winkler saw a ball of fire fall from the sky and alight in a vacant lot near the house. Mr. Winkler found it was a meteor five inches in diameter and weighing five pounds. During the darkness the meteor shines like a jewel. The owner was offered SSOO for the meteor, but refused it and will turn it over to a museum, probably the Smithsonian institution.

Walter L. Ellison, a wealthy merchant of Emporia, was murdered in his store by a man wearing a mask, and the crime is involved in mystery. The man entered the store about the dosing hour, walked up to the merchant, and, apparently without a word being uttered, shot Ellison dead. He then made his escape. There was no attempt to rob the store, and it seems that the murder was deliberately planned and executed, but no motive whatever can be found. Officials at Indianapolis have learned that air is mixed with gas and sold nt *.M> cents a thousand cubic feet, and the whole town is enraged as a consequence. George Campbell, while baling straw on McDaniel's farm near Shelbyville, attempted to regulate the engine. His shoestring caught in a cog, which tore off his shoes, socks, • trousers and underwear. In endeavoring to save himself his hand struck a steam valve, opening it, and he was scalded in a horrible manner from the waist down. The engine was stopped just in time to save Us life.

ROBBERS LOOT A TRAIN.

Great Northern Overland Held Up Near Seattle, Wash. The Great Northern overland train leaving Seattle at 8:20 Monday night, was held up and the express car dynamited about five miles from Ballard, at 8:45 p. m. It was 11 o’clock before tha train pulled into Edmonds, and meager reports were sent to the Seattle office. Sheriff Smith and a posse, armed with rifles, shotguns and revolvers, and led by trained bloodhounds, went in pursuit of the blind of robbers. Two boys who attempted to rob the passengers wbll* the adult bandits dynamited the through safe in the express car are in jail. Meantime it is reported that the highwaymen obtained a big shipment of gold from the Alaskan mines. The amount stolen is estimated all the way from $2,000 to SIOO,OOO. Three men, well dressed in rain coats and wearing slouch hats, did tho work. Conductor Grant’s report of the holdup shows that at least seven men were in the gang that committed the robbery. The conductor believes three or four of the gang were further down the track, but did not take any part, possibly because the train had stopped too soon. When once inside the car tho robbers began dynamiting, the first explosion being of six sticks, the second of twelve, and the third of eighteen. No one was injured seriously, although a continual fire of revolvers was kept up. After securing the contents of the safe the three men started off in an easterly direction. —■ ——— ' -■

The train was flagged and as the engineer slowed up two or three men climbed over the tender and pointed revolvers at his head. When the train stopped two of the robbers jumped off, making the engineer and fireman follow, and all marched to the express car door. “Open the door,” the robber commanded the messenger. He refused and the robber placed an extra heavy citarge of dynamite against it, which he exploded. The explosion tore the car almost to pieces. The safe was then dynamited. , The train was delayed two and a half hours aud then was pulled into Edmonds, making a brief report before proceeding to Everett. While the robbers were engaged on the safe, two who had been riding on the blind baggage slipped off and went through the train, attempting to hold up the passengers. They had no guns, but took advantage of the timidity of the passengers while the shooting was going on outside. The boys assert they never met the holdups until they got on the train and are in no way connected with their work. The Idea to hold up the passengers occurred to them after th* explosion.

“NO COAL STRIKE” - MITCHELL.

Mine Workers' Chief Looks for Harmony in Anthracite Fields. "I think the sensational stories printed in many newspapers recently to the effect that there will be a great coal strike next spring are unwarranted,” said John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, while in Washington to see President Roosevelt the other day. “As far as I can judge, after having be?n in the anthracite coal field for some time, everything will work out harmoniously in the end. “I can see no reason why there should be a general coal strike next spring. I have not seen the railroad presidents who are also presidents of the coal companies, and I do not expect to hear from them for some time, but I do expect that In time there will be a readjustment along the lines on which we are now working.” Mr. Mitchell said, in response to a suggestion that large supplies of coal were now being stored away in anticipation of a strike, tjiat he did not take any stock in that story. “This is the time of year,” said he, “when coal is always stored in large quantities.” Mr. Mitchell says the response to his efforts to increase the strength of his organization has far exceeded his expectations. The coal situation was not discussed with the President, he said.

JAIL CROWE AT BUTTE.

Police Nab Fugitive Accused of Kidnaping Ctidahy’s Son. Pat Crowe, wanted by the Omaha police for kidnaping the son of Edward Cudahy, the millionaire packer, in 1900, was arrested in Butte, Mont, Monday night. Crowe acknowledged he was tho fugitive, becoming alarmed when he feared the authorities were going to shoot him. Capt. McGrath and Detective Mclnerney of the Butte police made the, arrest placing the muzzles of their revolvers against his stomach as he emerged from a saloon in the tenderloin section. Crowe declared he would return to Omaha without requisition papers. He cursed bitterly at his arrest, expressing chagrin at his apprehension in a town the size of Butte, when he, as he said, had traveled the world over and evaded capture in all the large cities. Crowe has two brothers in Montana, one living in Butte and the other at Great Falls. A friend of Crowe “tipped” the police as to his presence in the city and his arrest followed after photographs of the fugitive had been secured from Omaha.

Notes or Current Events.

Six Italian laborers were buried by a cave-in at the bottom of a trench along the Fort Wayne railroad in Allegheny, Pa. It is reported that James Hazen Hyde of New York is to wed Miss Charlotte Warren, a debutante last year at Newport. Denver has been selected as the place of meeting of the national grand lodge of the Sons of Hermann of the United States in September, 1909. President William Foelson has wired Gov. McDonald, signifying the acceptance of his invitation. Fire started by the explosion of a lamp destroyed the entire east side of the main business street of Clement, O. T., the loss being $60,000. After the removal of five 38-caliber bullets from his bo ly, Joseph Guidivinski, a New York railroad detective, shot Aug. 18 in a battle with a freight thief, is on the road to recovery. A negro attacked the wife of Deputy Sheriff A. J. Shores at Clayton, near St Louis, and waa shot by Shores and badly wounded. A mob from the congregation of a colored church attempts! to lynch the negro.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Edward W. McKenna, who was elected Second Vice President of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul

E. W. M'KENNA.

rose steadily in the service of that company until 1887, when he became division superintendent of the St Paul Road, becoming general superintendent in 1890. In 1891 he transferred his services to the Great Northern Railroad in the same capacity, where be remained till the autumn of 1895, at which time he had developed an invention for rerolling, steel rails and at once launched a company, which has since made a fortune out of the process. Mr. McKenna resumed his services with the St. Paul Road as assistant to the President Feb. 1, 1904. Jacob Henry Schiff, who testified before the Insurance investigating committee in New York that the directors

knew nothing of the secrets of the Equitable, that he never heard' anything of the numerous “trustee” accounts,and that he doubted the correctness of entries in the Equitable book recording the purchase o f $500,000 o f Union Pa c Iflc

stock for “holding account,” is one of the noted financiers of the country. He is a member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., is a director in several banks, trust companies and railways and also Is a director of Equitable Life and of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Mr. Schiff was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1847 and came to the United States in 1865. He has served as vice president of the New York Chamber of Commerce and is the founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary of the Semitic Museum at Harvard University. Last winter he was decorated by the Japanese emperor for services In connection with floating the Japanese loan.

Frederick L. Cutting, Commissioner of Insurance for Massachusetts, has come into wide notice on account of a

severe arraignment pf the methods of big Insurance comoanles Incorporated In Ills annual report. He especially condemned the Equitable, the Mutual and the New Yo r k LI fe. He characterized some of the officials as 'Judases and alluded to one as the

FRED L. CUTTING.

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Company.” He referred to “dubious schemes" and “schemes for getting enormously rich.” He also touched on fraternal societies and mentioned the Royal Arcanum in particular. John M. Hamilton, former Governor ’ of Illinois, who died recently, was for many years a prominent figure In the

politics of the State. He was a schoolmate of Vice President Fal r - banks and of Senator Foraker. Mr. Hamilton was a member of Hesperia Lodge, A. F. and A. M., in Chi cago, and was also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. K

J. B. Fowler, of Portland, Ore., Is the Inventor of a device which, If successful, will make him the peer of

J. B. FOWLER.

erer calls it the “televue.” Mr. Fowler, until recently was a laborer in a railroad shop. F. J. W. Boettcher, the weU-known scientist of Washington, D. C., has a collection of 10 000 planta from all over the world, classified and catalogued. The Rev. S. P. Cadman of Brooklyn baa framed and hanging in his study the celebrated letter of Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby. Thomas Nichol, the last one of the Perry expedition to Japan in 180(X died recently in New York.

Railroad at the OBnu a 1 meeting Of the directors la Milwaukee, is one of the most widely known railway officials in the railway service. Ho was born in Pittsburg and entered tho service of the ■Pennsylvania system in 1863 and

JACOB H. SCHIFF.

JOHN M. HAMILTON.

Edison, Marconi, Tesla and all the other wizards of electrical discovery. It is claimed for this newest of wonders that by means of it one may see the image of the person with whom be Is talking through the telephone. Its dlscov-