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MAT 6, 1911
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Hilton of Denver, and probably
Clarence Darrow of Chicago, will do
fond these labor leaders.
Samuel Gompers gay that Mc
Manigal's confession was extorted by
the third degree process. He de
clares his confidence In the innocence
of the accused men, and says it is
merely an effort upon the part of
capital to destroy union labor.
George B. McClellan, former
mayor of New York City, has been
appointed professor of "public
affairs" at Princeton university.
inside vest pocket was $218, and to
add to the inspector's agony $42 was
drawn from his watch pockot
Herman Schneider, a six-year-old
son, seeing his father fill up the
tablo with currency, thought that it
was up to him to contribute, so he
hauled out $1.36.
Schneider said that he had got
the money as the result of a sale of
his 300 acres of land In Garsonski,
Russia. The family left for Glen
Ullen, N. D., where a farm will bo
purchased. Another child now lives
there, and a sixteenth Is expected In
a few weeks.
The New York World prints this
local news item:
When an immigration Inspector
sitting In the big examination room
'at Ellis Island called for George
Schneider and family, who had just
arrived on the George Washington,
a man, his wife and their fourteen
children responded.
To the trained eye of the inspector
it looked like a "cinch" case of de
portation, and his first question was,
"How much money have you?"
Schneider declared that he didn't
know, so the inspector told him to
empty his pocket. The man dug
down into his right trousers pocket
and drew up $510. From his left
trousers pocket he pulled $473. In
his left hip pocket he found $232,
and in the right was $670.
"That's enough," said the inspec
tor, with a gasp.
"I have more as that yet," de
clared the immigrant. "Wait!"
Putting his hand into an inside
coat pocket, he produced $132. Then
he found $350 in his vest. In an
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The directors of tho Bhipyard at
Schichan, Germany, decided to lock
out 1,300 workmen who refused to
assume the duties of 900 men who
went out on strike. Work on two
German battleships will be delayed.
At a meeting of prominent In
diana democrats in Indianapolis a
presidential boom was launched for
United States Senator John W. Kern.
A Kern club was organized.
Pierre Verdlne, the French avia
tor, won a $4,000 prize for the
fastest flight from Paris to Pau, a
distance of 500 miles. His time was
6 hours and 55 minutes.
that platforms aro made to get in on
but not to stand on.
"He who thinks such a betrayal
can bo made without censuro and
condemnation little understands the
trend of events now taking place in
all parts of the United States In bo
half of tho rule of tho people I
warn you now that an avalanche of
public sentiment is coming no euro
as right is right against those who
refuse to redeem their contracts of
honor'
The governor urged tho house to
mako tho bill conform to tho plat
form pledge. '
Bangor, Me., was visited by a fire
"May 1. Thousands of pcoplo woro
made homeless, three persons lost
their lives and property valued at
$6,000,000 was destroyed.
F.ormer high officials in the Santo
Domingo government were arrested
on a charge of preparing a hostile
move against their country.
More than a million men will par
ticipate in a gigantic war game to be
conducted by tho German govern
ment this summer.
By order of the federal court at
Chicago the creditors of tho late
John Alexander Dowie were paid a
final dividend of 2.8 per cent.
Twenty-threo men were entombed
by an explosion in a mine near Elk
Garden, W. Va.
Dr. Hyde, convicted of killing
Colonel T. H. Swope, has been ad
mitted to ball in the sum of $50,000.
El Paso, Texas, was chosen as the
place for holding the peace con
ference. President Diaz has named
Judge Francisco Carbajal as his
peace commissioner. General Ma
dero of the revolutionary forces will
bo represented.
A Denver dispatch, carried by the
Associated Press, says: In a letter
to the house of representatives Gover
nor Shafroth sharply criticises the
state banking bill passed by the sen
ate as a measure "no more resembl
ing the measure promised the people
than night resembles day." The let
ter created a sensation.
The bill came before the house on
first reading. This is believed to bo
the first time that a governor of a
state has taken summary action on
a measure that was still before the
legislative body.
"When introduced," said Gover
nor Shafroth in his letter, "tho
measure was Intended to comply
with the democratic platform pledge
relating to bank guarantee laws. It
no more resembles the measure
promised the people than night re
sembles day. Its author has repu
diated the bill and had his name
taken from it. The bill contains no
provision whatever for a state guar
antee fund as promised in the demo
cratic platform.
"You have been in session for 113
days, twenty-threo days longer than
any session for the lost thirty years
and not a pledge has been redeemed.
Is there any excuse for such a fail
ure? Aro we to affirm the saying-
Fifteen hundred shbp men of tho
Pennsylvania Railroad are out on a
strike.
Twenty members of tho Ohio legis
lature aro involved In bribery
charges. Tho big exposure has been
made by detectives, these having laid
plots to catch susceptible legislators.
BRYAN STILL AFTER MARTIN
William Jennings Bryan continues
in his paper, Tho Commoner, his at
tack upon Senator Martin, of Vir
ginia, and urges tho people of this
state to retire him from tho senate,
because, as he alleges, Mr. Martin is
a machine politician of tho Aldrich
brand, without tho ability of Aldrich.
That is to say, Mr. Martin is not a
machine politician of tho Bryan
brand, and, therefore, is not accept
able to Bryan. Defeated in his Im
pudent, not to say infamous, attempt
to defeat Mr. Martin for minority
leader of tho senate at Washington,
Mr. Bryan has determined to "carry
tho war into Africa," and calls upon
the people of Virginia to join him in
his most outrageous crusade against
tho senior senator from this state.
We much mistake the people of
Virginia, whatever their personal
feeling towards Mr. Martin and their
opposition to him in previous cam
paigns, if they do not resent this
attempt of the Nebraskan to inter
fere with the purely local affairs of
the democracy of Virginia. Their
own self-respect, their proved ability
to manage their own affairs, their
distrust of the thoroughly dis
credited "leader" who has led them
for fifteen years only to defeat,
should make them say to this
trouble-maker that they need neither
his counsel from a distance nor his
presence among them.
There was never anything more
impudent or disgraceful than Mr.
Bryan's attempt to compel the or
ganization of the democratic mi
nority of the senate in his own In
terest. He was defeated there, as
he will be wherever he shall strive
to butter his own bread at the ex
pense of the party. The democrats
who voted against Mr. Martin for
minority leader of the senate have
since expressed their entire approval
of his course since his election, of
his fair play to those who were op
posed to him at the dictation of Mr.
Bryan, and there will be, as there
ought to bo, wide denunciation of his
present effort to boss Virginia.
As for the comparison of Mr.
Martin to Mr. Aldrich, it can be, and
will be shown, doubtless, before the
campaign in Virginia is over that
Mr. Bryan has been as unfair in this
as he has been in so many of his
other ventures into politics, and al
ways for his own benefit. As for
Martin's "ability" as compared with
that of Aldrich, there is little to say
except that Martin is still a poor
man, having devoted his "ability" to
the service of his state and not to
tho promotion of "the Interests."! It
might very well bo added that Mar
tin hus boon so busy discharging tho
logltimato functions of his ofllco that
ho has not had tho time to uso his
mouth for tho benefit of his own
pocket, and that he has not sought
to build up a machine which might
assist him to larger national im
portance. Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch.
CRITICISM THAT COMMENDS
Many sincoro admirers of Governor
Woodrow Wilson aro disappointed at
tho manner of his entrance Into tho
arena of national politics. Much was
oxpectod of him, for tho opportunity
lay waiting for the right man and
It was hoped that tho "scholar In
politics" would got out of tho com
mon rut and bo commondably dif
ferent. As it has doveloped, ho hi
merely n politician In politics Ilko
the rest of tho "reformers" and "up
Hfters." Governor Wilson had his great
chance when ho was invited to ad
dress the National Leaguo of Demo
cratic Clubs at Indianapolis tho other
night. His speech was looked for
ward to with unusual interest, for it
was to Indicate, to some extent, at
least, tho kind of figure this "scholar
in politics" was going to cut. Tho
eyes of tho nation as woll as of tho
democratic party were on him, and
many bellovod that hero was a demo
crat who would rise to tho occasion
as a dolivoror and a prophet. But
he failed miserably to justify the
faith reposed in him. .His speech
was the conventional plea of tho
demagogue. Instead of outlining
great principles upon which democ
racy might hopo to rlso to power and
dignity, he confined himself to tho
same old political platitudes 4;hat
have been worn threadbare by Bryan
and other charlatans. He conjured
up the same old ghosts for oratori
cal attack and belabored them with
tho same old stuffed clubs of discon
tent and blind prejudice.
Tho speech did not lack for liter
ary finish. In this respect it was
consistent with Governor Wilson's
scholary reputation. Tho words
carefully chosen and If tho meaning
they conveyed had been as sound and
sensible as the diction was elegant
the effort would have been creditable
to him. A careful analysis shows
that ho merely repeated tho same old
wails in a little more attractive way.
But they bore the mark of Bryan
and' Folk In every sentence. For ex
ample, Instead of repeating Bryan's
patter about "shall tho people rule?"
Wilson would "give society command
of Its own economic life again."
There were no new ideas in this
speech, nor was there any fresh light
upon old problems. Tho speaker
showed 'ready familiarity with tho
recent utterances of democratic
officeseekers and demagogues. In
the vernacular of Governor Wilson's
own environment, he "cribbed" ter
ribly, paraphrasing the lamentations
of other Jeremiahs and palming them
off as his own. Kansas City Repub
lican, i
ON OLD AGE
The late Archbishop Ryan illumi
nated every subject he discussed, and
once, at a banquet in Philadelphia,
he illuminated strangely tho subject
of old age.
"We ourselves," he said, "never
seem to grow old. Our hearts re
main young, and even our faces in
the gloss don't look old, as do our
friends' faces.
"One day on Chestnut street a
very withered, very bent graybeard
accosted me.
" 'Why,' ho said, 'don't you re
member me? We "were classmates
at Carlow college "
Archbishop Ryan paused, then
added whimsically:
"I was taken aback. I vfas
shocked. I knew ho was my age,
but I had no Idea I was his." St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
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