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MAT 16, 1913
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WASHINGTON NEWS
A Raleigh, N. 0., dispatch says:
Secretary of the Navy Josephua
Daniels and his wife were honor
guests at an informal reception cele
brating the twenty-fifth anniversary
of their wedding. This had been
kept secret from them until they ar
rived in Raloigh from Washington
on a visit. The reception was in the
old home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniels
and was given by Mrs. Daniels'
brother, W. H. Bagley, and his wife.
There were from 400 to 500 callers
during the evening. With few ex
ceptions the attendants at the wed
ding were in the receiving line.
Messages of congratulation were re
ceived from friends throughout the
country.
Representative Underwood cele
brated his fifty-first birthday.
John P. Mitchell ha3 been named
collector of customs for the post of
New York to succeed W. M. Loeb.
The appointment pleases Senator
O'Gorman and also the opponents of
Tammany.
Representative Lewis J. Martin of
New Jersey dropped dead in the
union passenger station at the na
tional capital. He was serving his
first term.
of which he blamed to the high pro
tective tariff policy. "The extent to
which this may be carried out is
practically unlimited," said he. "Wo
don't want our children to bo taught
the ways or methods of John D.
Rockefeller or his kind, nor to be
generous with ill-gotten gains, nor
to touch, handle or prollt by gold
that should blister the fingers of the
man who has accumulated it by ex
tortion, oppression and crime, and is
not attempting to rid himself of it
by giving it away, nor to become the
receivers of stolen goods in the name
and under the guise of charity."
The federal government has issued
a bulletin through the agricultural
department which is entitled "Fifty
Common Birds of Farm and
Orchard," and is the Farmers' Bul
letin No. 513 and may be purchased
from the agricultural denartment for
' 15 cents per copy. This bulletin is
one of the most useful bird books
issued in recent years and has excel
lent colored plates. Copies of this
pamphlet may be obtained by ad
dressing the members of congress.
An Associated Press dispatch
says: After a conference with Presi
dent Wilson, Postmaster General
Burleson announced that an execu
tive order would bo Issued requiring
all fourth-class postmasters now in
office, or candidates for prospective
appointments, should be subjected to
a competitive examination to determ
ine their fitness for the office. The
postmaster general issued a state
ment explaining the purpose of the
new executive order, declaring that
President Taft's action in putting
fourth-class postmasters in the clas
sified service was not sumcient anu
that the mere placing of a "great
horde of persons" in the classified
service was not in conformity with
the spirit of the civil service as there
were no tests to determine the merits
of the applicants. The new order,
which substantially amends the Taft
executive order, retains in the classi
fied service all fourth-class post
masters, but specifically requires a
competitive examination and a selec
tion by post-office inspectors from
among the first three eligible appli
cants. The order placeB the age
limit for appointees at sixty-five
years. Mr. Burleson, in his discus
sion of the situation, indicates that
the Wilson administration wishes to
take the fourth-class postmasters
out of pojitics, but points out that
democrats as well as republicans
will have an opportunity under com
petitive examination to show their
fitness. Burleson also announced
that it was the purpose of President
Wilson and himself to take into the
classified service, probably during
the next year, all postmasters of the
nnnnri mrl third classes. Fourth-
class offices already have been
covered by executive order.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Efforts in congress to incorporate the
$100,000,000 .Rockefeller founda
tion were icored by Senator Works,
who declared them a "proposal to
'farm out' to John D. Rockefeller and
his associates the right and power to
educate the people of the country
yrith money accumulated by criminal
means." Senator Work statement
was made in connection with a
speech he made In the senate on
Jrusts and combination, the existence
Chas. C. Glover, the Washington
banker, who attacked Representative
Simms of Tennessee, was brought be
fore the bar of the house of represen
tatives. He apologized to the house.
An Associated Press dispatch
says: Vice President Marshall re
plied to Col. George Harvey's state
ment that his recent public speeches
were meant to incite the "predatory
poor." "If anybody will produce a
public utterance of mine advocating
the curtailment of honest wealth, ex
cept by a fair inheritance tax, I will
go to Wall street and personally
apologize," said Mr. Marshall. "In
the course of a long professional
career I have learned that the wit
ness who had knowledge of fraud in
variably got mad when he was in
terrogated as to the fraud."
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Representative H. Olin Young, re
publican, of Ishpeming, Mich, an
nounced in a speech in the house his
intention of resigning his seat. He
discussed the contest instituted by
William McDonald, a progressive,
saying 458 votes intended for Mc
Donald had not been counted for
him, and he did not feel justified in
holding his seat.
C. J. Smyth, of Omaha, has been
appointed special assistant to the
attorney general. He has been de
tailed to the investigation of alleged
violation of the anti-trust law by the
telephone companies 'In Washington,
Oregon and California.
President Wilson sent to the senate
thj3 following nominations: Ambas
sador to Japan George W. Guthrie,
of Pennsylvania. Collector of cus
toms at New York John Purroy
Mitchell. Commissioner of Pen
sions Gaylord M. Saltzgaber, of
Ohio. Collector of internal revenue,
Seventh Kentucky district Ben
Marshall. Collector of customs, dis
trict of Georgetown, S. C. James C.
Congdon. Collector of customs dis
trict of Charleston, S. C. Frederick
C. Peters. Postmasters to the num
ber of 150.
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Mrs. Helen Longstreet, widow of
the famous conferedate general lost
her fight for the post office at Gaines
ville, Ga- Tk president named Mrs,
H, W. J. Hamm for the place.
A SIGNIFICANT ELECTION
Threo years ago the upturning of
a strongly republican congressional
district in the stato of Massachusetts
and the election of Hon. Eugeno N.
Fobs as a democrat from that district
pointed clearly to the defeat of the
republican party in tho nation.
Tho Thirteenth congressional dis
trict of that samo stato elected a
congressman to fill tho vacancy
caused by the resignation of Hon.
John W. Weeks, recently elected to
tho United States Benato, and the re
sult of that election demonstrates
just as clearly that tho republican
party Is far weaker than It was last
November.
Tho vote of the district last No
vember was: For Taft, 15,934; for
Wilson, 13,583; for Roosevelt, 5,853.
The vote of tho district on April 15
was: Mitchell, democrat, j2,9Ui;
Cutting, republican, 8,853; White,
progressive, 5,078.
Tho democratic loss, as compared
with November, was 591 votcB, the
progressive loss was 145, while the
republican loss reached the great
number of 7,081, or very nearly 45
per cent of tho vote received by Mr.
Taft but six months previous.
There can be no mistaking this
dissolution of the membership of tho
republican party, as based even upon
tho vote cast last November.
Even those who voted must have
been hopeless of accomplishing any
thing by going to the polls for their
nominee.
It is not difficult for the demo
cratic party to keep on winning while
the opposition continues so dividod,
and that the old republican organi
zation gives no hope of success to its
nominees or supporters is plainly
demonstrated by this latest result in
the stato of Massachusetts.
The meeting of the executive com
mittee of the progressive party and
itB determination to carry on na
tional and stato campaigns receives
new significance In view of the vote
in tho Thirteenth district of Massa
chusetts. It is but logical and in accordance
with precedents to expect a sloughing
off of democratic strength through
differences upon tariff schedules,
opposition to other policies and dis
appointments as to patronage distri
butions. Those who drop away are far more
likely to ally themselves with the
progressive party, young and vigor
ous, than with tho defeated and de
jected remnant of the republican or
ganization. On the other hand, as republicans
become more and more convinced of
the hopelessness of their party's fu
ture they will find that strong plank
of old, tho protective tariff, a bridge
to the progressive party, and they
will find themselves at home with
political friends of former years.
That finally the elements of oppo
sition to democracy will combine
under the progressive standard seems
to be a certainty, as revealed by this
Massachusetts special election, in
which tho progressives held their
November strength and republican
forces went to pieces. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
STUDYING IiAW
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4. William J. Bryan, jr., son of the
secretary of state, is following in the
footsteps of his father by studying
law. He is now in the offico of Frank
H. Hereford. Mr. Bryan said
Wednesday that he expects to take
the state examination for admission
to practice in tho fall.
He has studied at Georgetown uni
versity in Washington, D. C. He Is
a graduate of the University of Ari
zona, having the degree of bachelor
of arts.
He will make his home in Tucson
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