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Hirsch, In an interview made two especially In
teresting statements. One was that the Phari
sees of Jesus' time were really the Jewish
patriots, the party of nationalism, as opposed
to the priesthood of Rome. He declared that
it was Christ's attack on the 'money trust,' which
these priests had organized in the temple itself,
that led directly to His crucifixion. By driving
the money-changers from the house of prayer
He sealed His own death 'warrant, for the
priests immediately set on foot a conspiracy
with the Romans that brought about His death."
IN MISSISSIPPI charges of bribery in connec
tion with the election of Senator Percy are
being investigated for the state senate. A Jack
son dispatch carried by the Associated Press
says: "After a nearly continuous day session,
the senatorial investigation into the bribery
scandal was continued until a late hour tonight.
The star witness was Mts. C. J. Neil, who swears
that she arranged the meeting between Senator
Bilbo and Dulaney. When asked her business,
she replied: 'Bookkeeping, handling real es
tate and selling Mississippi senators.' She de
scribed how she introduced Bilbo to Dulaney;
how the latter told her to 'feel out the weak
legislators and see if they could be reached.'
She swore that she was to be paid 'in proportion
to the crop and said she naturally desired a
'big crop.' Mrs. Neil told how she went to New
Orleans to confer with those interested, how she
was followed by detectives and asserted she be
lieved her life was in danger. She was cross
examined during the entire afternoon in an
effort to affect her creditibility as a witness. She
said she did not know it waB a crime to bribe
an official, and believed she did no wrong, for
.the men she sought to bribe were already cor
rupt. An attempt to get her to name some
other senators was voted down by the senate
on the ground that the investigation was into
the Bilbo charges only. No witnesses were
present at the night session and the sergeant-at-arms
went on a hunt for them. The quest
was unsuccessful and the senate adjourned."
IN THE PITTSBURG investigation "men high
er" iip" are being brought to the bar of
justice. A Pittsburg dispatch to the New York
World says: "Charles W. Friend, millionaire
president of the Clinton iron and steel company
of Pittsburg and a banker of prominence, reeled
before the court today and confessed that he,
as one of 'the men higher up,' had bribed Pitts
burg councilmen. President Friend is eldest
son of the late James W. Friend, millionaire
steel car manufacturer, who lent Cassie Chad
wick about $800,000. Charles W. is also direc?
tor in the Pressed Steel Car company, also of
the Workingmen's Savings and Trust company,
as well as the close business associate of Frank
N. Hoffstot of New -York. Mr. Friend said that
about two years ago he had given Councilman
Charles Stewart, $500 in his father's office.
'What was it for?' asked the court. 'Mr. Stew
art told me that there was so much fuss over
our company getting a bridge across the street
at our mills that $500 was necessary to keep the
newspaper men quiet, and I ' 'That Is not
the case, your honor,' said Councilman Charles
Stewart, taking his stand beside the confessing
banker and steel man. 'He knows there was
nothing said about newspapers; that the money
was offered and given for the bank ordinance.'
Mr. Friend said later that he had been mistaken
through his excitement as to the reason for
which the money was given. He said that the
arrangements for paying the money had been
started by his father, now dead, and that he
had only carried out the wishes of his father In
paying the money. 'That too is untrue,' inter
polated Mr. Stewart, with bitterness. 'I have
no recollection of ever having dealt with Mr.
J. W. Friend, his father, in this matter.' " F.
N. Hoffstot of New York, president of the
Pressed Steel Car company was indicted by the
Pittsburg grand jury on the charge of bribery.
The grand jury also indicted Max G. Leslie a
tax collector for bribery. Editor Moore went
before the grand jury and gave extended testimony.
KEFERRING TO the proposition to abolish
Barbara Frietchle, the Omaha World
Herald says: "But the treatment of Stonewall
Jackson in the poem as a whole Is such as to
cause us to doubt whether it is offensive to
southern sentiment. It is certainly quite as
much a testimony to the leader's sense of
chivalry and deference to woman as it is a re
buke to his cause an Import that would not
be appreciated more anywhere In the world than
in the south. Without any violence of inter
pretation the words, 'A shado of sadness, a
blush of shame' may be eliminated as casting
any reflection on the honor of the leader, for
just before this the column had riddled with
shot the flag hanging from the window without
the knowledge that it had been placed there
and was being watched by a' gray-haired woman
within whose loyalty, by the display, was mani
fested with the gentleness and privilege of a
mother. The leader's shame might well havo
been not shame for his cause, but shame that,
through ignorance, the sensibilities of the ven
erable woman had been wounded. It is truo
that the inference is plain that the woman's
deed and word awoke the nobler nature that
had been dead in the leader in his occupation as
one of the chieftains of the 'rebel host,' but
can not this design In the bard of Haverhill
be forgiven for the fine gallantry attributed to
the general in the lines: 'Who touches a hair of
yon gray head dies like a dog! March on!' ho
said? Or, if not, we may claim that compensa
tipn is made in the magnanimity and tenderness
expressed for the leader in these lines: 'Honor
to her! and let a tear fall for her sake on Stone
wall's bier.' If Barbara Frietchie is the heroine
of the poem Stonewall Jackson is its hero."
BEFORE THE League of Republican Clubs
at Washington Mr. Taft delivered a spirited
address in which he said: "Tonight wo are
reading nobody out of the republican party.
Wo want all In the ranks and all have the op
portunity to establish their claims to republi
canism by that which they shall do in both
houses of congress In helping to enact the legis
lation before them. By their fruits ye shall
know them." Here the president pounded the
table and looked a defiance which ho assured
his hearers that he did not feel. "Those," he
continued, "in the senate and the house who
stand for the legislation we seek In order to
redeem the pledges of the party have the right
to stand with the party as republicans. If they
don't we won't quarrel with them. They have
a right to -their opinions. But we desire their
aid as republicans and I do not wish to assume
that they are not aB sincere as I hope I am my
self in republicanism. The republican party is
not rigid in its demands. It is so broad and
liberal that it permits differences of opinion."
The president plainly told that he meant that
Insurgents must get in line or there would be
some reading out of the party. Representativd
Longworth, son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt,
was present and he declared that he is a strong
Taft man.
ON THE SAME evening on which the presi
dent spoke at Washington Attorney General
Wickersham spoke at Chicago. He made a bit
ter speech denouncing Mr. Taft's critics. Ho
said that every republican must choose which
side he was on. "He that hath no stomach for
the fight, let him depart," quoted Mr. Wicker
sham, in 'a shout which emphasized the senti
ment. "The time of running with the hares
and the hounds Is over. Treason has ever con
sisted in giving aid and comfort-to the enemy.
If anyone wishes to join the democratic party,
let him do so, but let him not claim to be a'
republican and work In and out of season to de
feat republican measures and to subvert the In
fluence of the republican president."
T.HE JAMES R. RANDALL Literary and Me
morial Association of Maryland is intending
to do honor to the author of the famouB song,
"Maryland, My Maryland." The Baltimore Sun
says: "The James R. Randall Literary and
Memorial Association of Maryland has lately
been formed, with many of the most prominent
Baltimoreans as its early members. It repre
sents a movement designed to honor the memory
and genius of the author of 'Maryland, My Mary
land.' As recently stated in the Sun, Augusta,
Georgia, Is preparing to erect a monument to
Mr. Randall In that city as well as one at the
grave of the poet, though Georgia is not Ran
dall's native state. Maryland is now giving evi-
dence of more extended recognition of her own
poet. His portrait painted by Miss Katherine
Walton and provided for by state appropriation,
was unveiled at Annapolis last year. The James
R. Randall Literary and Memorial Association
aims to extend this appreciation and make it
more general in understanding and expression.
Devotees of literature have approved of it, not
only In Maryland, but in New York. The con
stitution and by-laws contain the following pro
visions: 'Aims To secure a wider Knowledge
and appreciation of James R. Randall as the
author of 'My Maryland,' and through him, as
a ropresentatlvo writer, to add to tho fame of
Maryland, and to gain greater literary recogni
tion of tho stato. Dues There aro no dues or
financial obligations. Membership Opon to all
proposed for membership and thereto Invited
who have an interest in the welfare, ethical and
material, of their natlvo or adopted stato of
Maryland.' Tho members are, with few excep
tions, men; but tho ladles aro gladly welcomed,
as it Is clearly understood by tho founders that
no good enterprise can bo carried on successfully
without them. Tho officers of tho association
are: Honorary president, Dr. Samuel C. Chow;
president, Mr. Matthew Pago Andrews; secre
tary, Miss Lillian McGregor Shepherd."
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DISPATCHES from Washington and dls
patchos from the correspondents who ac
company Mr. Roosevelt persistently say that
when Mr. Roosevelt returns to America he will
defend Mr. Taft. Some of these Washington
dispatches also say that Mr. Taft will re-organizo
his cabinet to suit Mr. Roosevelt and that tho
ex-president will then take the stump in de
fense of his protegee. Tho Washington corre
spondent for tho Chicago Record-Herald says
there has been no understanding between Messrs.
Roosevelt and Taft and that there aro no
changes In tho cabinet now contemplated. It
is generally believed, however, among politi
cians that Mr. Roosevelt will, upon his return,
give his support to tho Taft administration.
AFTER MR. ROOSEVELT had refused to ac
cept tho Vatican's terms for a call upon tho
pope a reception for him was arranged by tho
Methodists, and other Americans. One Metho
dist clergyman issued a public statement in
which ho said the Roosovolt incident was tho
beginning of a war against Catholicism. Mr.
, Roosevelt promptly cancelled the other recep
tion. Walter Wellman, correspondent for tho
Chicago Record-Herald, and several other cor
respondents who were with Mr. Roosevelt, in
sist that he has broken with Taft and upon his
return, ho will fight tho administration. Tho
Associated Press correspondent who is with Mr.
Roosevelt says he will support Mr. Taft.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
The most notable result in tho municipal
elections was the election in Milwaukee of Emil
Seldel, socialist candidate for mayor. His ma
jority was 8,000, the largest over given in Mil
waukee. The socialists also elected another
alderman to control the city council.
Tn Chicago the democrats elected twenty-one
out of thirty-five members of tho city council.
This Is taken to mean repudiation of Mayor
Busse. One newspaper dispatch referring to
the Chicago election says: "In addition to local
issues Colonel James Hamilton Lewis and
former Mayor JSdward F. Dunne injected na
tional issues into the campaign. Both assailed
the tariff and the high cost of living, and told
the voters that even In a municipal election they
could rebuke the republican administration."
In Hartford, Conn., Edward L. Smith, demo
crat, was elected mayor. Tho Connecticut dem
ocrats are greatly encouraged by this victory.
In Jefferson City, Mo., Frank St. George, dem
ocrat, was elected mayor.
On the liquor question in the -municipal elec
tions the result was generally a "stand off. Al
though in Illinois and Wisconsin the anti-saloon
forces failed to hold many of the important
cities which went dry two yeaTs ago, while
the wets succeeded in preventing a number of
important towns and cities from going dry In
which the question had never been contested
until this spring.
THE FULL DINNER PAIL
Here is a full dinner pail story from the
Kearney (Neb.) Democrat: "What," asked tho
teacher of her class in mathematics, "would
three and one-eighth pounds of beef steak come
to at 41 cents a pound?" "It," exclaimed John
nie Wise, "wouldn't como to our house."
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