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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1907)
yurr f 5,-r ' " fWgWWItf W"?q & The Commoner. yoLuM 7;:injMBBii'oo fniM"Ji ' nnfti'mi i,iiiinii'iini -J-' '" - - - "- "- fc .... - ,. !-- - " -- ,-S. - I ... , J !.- '.-.. rcuRieeNT "QRCSJM r i. t ht a A CABLEGRAM FROM Paris under date of May 23, and carried by the Associated Press follows: "The condition of Theodore Til ton, the American editor and author who in 1874 brought suit against Honry Ward Beechor for $100,000 damages, showed no improvement at a late hour tonight. Mr. Tilton has been sick only a few days, but his illness took a turn for the worso yesterday. In viow of his age, sov-onty-two, the condition of Mr. Tilton is serious. Ho is suffering from pneumonia." Later dis patches announce Mr. Tilton's death. TUB NEW YORK American prints what it calls "the history of the Twontloth cen tury in a nutshell" as follows: "List of illus trations: President Roosevelt on horseback (frontispiece). President Roosevelt in camp. President Roosevelt on his favorite hunter. President Roosevelt killing a cougar. President Roosevelt jumping a fence. President Roose velt denouncing a mollycoddle. President Roosevelt at a cabinet meeting (tailpiece)." THE DISTINCTION of being; the oldest living veteran of the Mexican war in the United States is claimed by James M. Crutchfleld, re siding on the Warwick pike, three miles from, Harrodsburg, Ky. The Paris correspondent to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: " 'Uncle Jimmy was born in Clalborno county, Tennessee, April 15, 1807, and is therefore over 100 years old. One brothor enlisted at tho same time ho did in the Mexican war, and Ave other brothers served with him through the civil war. 'Uncle Jimmy' claims his mother lived1 to the age of 130, and at the the time of her deatli did not have a gray hair in her head. - Mr. Crutchfleld is in the best of health, and every day or so walks from his home to Harrodsburg and return." REPRESENTATIVE DALZELL of Pennsylva nia is evidently not an enthusiastic Taft man. Speaking to a newspaper correspondent at New Orleans Mr. Dalzell said: "Personally, I. am a "strong admirer of our present chief oxecutive but, like many others, I think he is going somewhat out of his proper sphere in attempting to name the republican nominee. I boliovo 'that his effort in this direction with re gard to Taft is doing the latter more harm than good. Should the president have supported the secretary of war in the proper manner, and not attempted to silence all persons who mentioned any one else for the place, his endorsement of Taft or any other aspirant for the place would no doubt be of great advantage to them. The president has simply overdone the thing." ASSEMBLYMAN VOSS introduced in the New York assembly and at the instance of 'Billy Madden," a bill which provides for the pensioning of aged citizens in "preference to sending them to the almshouse. Referring to this measure the Brooklyn Eagle says: "The bill was prepared by Assemblyman Voss after hard work and study and is modeled quite close ly upon the measures of like naure now opera tive in New Zealand, Australia and Sweden. The bill provides that the state shall pay a pension of $12 per month to each citizen over the ago of sixty years who is unable to support himself or herself, and who has complied with certain conditions precedent to the receiving of the pen sion. Applicants for pensions under the act must be able to prove that they have been resi dents of New York state for a period of twenty five years prior to the making of the application. This provision is Intended to prevent a rush of old people from other states to this. In addi tion to this provision, the applicant must bo a citzen of the United States; must never have been convicted of crime and, in tho case of a man, must never have deserted his wife or have failed to provide for children under the age of fourteen years. To win a pension it must also be shown that since his fiftieth year the appli cant has been of good habits and sober. In ad dition it is provided that applicants must not dispossess themselves of property in order to enable themselves to qualify for pensions. The state board of charities is to pass on ajl appli cants and the law provides thatyany one making falso statements in ordor to secure a pension shall bo guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill has already won much support in -both houses of the legislature, and it is believed that it will have many advocates when called up. Madden's Idea in suggesting such a bill to Assemblyman Voss was that it would enable many old people who, under the present laws, must go into almhouses for the last years of their lives to remain with their relatives, who are otherwise too poor to support the aged ones, but who would be en abled to keep them should the state make such an allowance as the act calls for. A number of prominent Brooklynites favor the passage of the bill and believe that its enactment into law will do much to solve the old age problem which is becoming more and more urgent in state and nation." HALL CAINE, the novelist, tell this story: "At a garden party near London where royalty attended Mr. Caine was presented to the king. A photographer made a snap shot of the assembly. As is well known, at these open air functions the male guests always remove their hats when in the presence of the king while his majesty continues to wear his headgear. When the photographic plate was developed it was found that beside the king only one other uest wore a hat. This was tho very young son of the novelist, who was remonstrated with by his father for a grave breach of decorum. 'But,' asked the. boy, 'isn't his majesty a polite man? would he be guilty of a rude act?' 'He is a very polite man he was told, 'and he would not be guilty of a rude act.' 'Then,' triumphantly replied this young republican, 'I was as polite as he, for I only followed his example.' " Q ENATOR HOPKINS, of Illinois, in a formal KJ Interview, presented Speaker Cannon's boom for the presidential nomination. He says that Mr. Cannon favors tariff revision, but ob i0Cii ., t(Lh,aving vision made a political foot ball The revision of the tariff," said Mr. Hopkins, is purely a business matter and must be regarded solely from a business and not at all from a political viewpoint. We can eliminate SnV ics xfr,,m thQ consideration of the revision Dili by taking it up at a special session of con gress immediately after 'the close of the next presidential campaign or in the spring of 1900. Were wo to take up the problem at the coming long session' of congress each item would be treated with regard to politics and not with regard to .business. .If we wait until after the next president is elected there will be little stir ring in politics and the interests of the nation as a whole, can best be cared for. It would 'not surprise me if Speaker Cannon should take un the issue of wise and safe, legislation in making his campaign for the presidential nomination. Other issues have' been suggested, but it would be hard to find one broader or more national in its character i u npHE NEW YORK PRESS, the most outspoken JL republican newspaper, in protesting against i0rprrtAion rue ,speaks rISlit out in meeting on the Taft proposition. The Press says: ''We are not at all in sympathy with the attempt to nominate for president Secretary Taft in Wash ington one year ahead of the republican national convention, and we have the gravest doubts of his ability to carry New York, with its thirty nine electoral votes, and other states which are absolutely essential to the success of the nartv next year. But we have no hesitation in say ing that it is to his very large credit that he refuses to sign the agreement by which it was arranged that the Foraker crowd should sun port Taft for president and the Taft party or alcer for re-election to the United States senate. In every state in the union there should be war without quarter on the Foraker type, which serves the corporations so faithfully and so ably that we havepbtained from congress so far legis lation against them that, compared with what . Governor Hughes is achieving in New York is only a mockery. There can be no genuine re form of the evil conditions and ppffi? thS afflict our industrial and financial life until all the Forakers, whether in Ohio, Rhode Island New Jersey or anywhere else, are dismissed in disgrace from the public service. We should be the last newspaper in the world to deny to Secretary Taft the credit that will be- his if he does his share at this late day in the wdrk of cleaning out the Forakers. Yet it is onlv fair to consider how little Mr. Taft has ever done to better in his own state conditions that have not been surpassed anywhere for corrup tion, scandal and infamy. He has held public office for many, many years, but until President Roosevelt decreed that his residuary legatee should be the secretary of war the Ohioan never "f, to fight in his own state the political iniquities of Foraker antf Boss Cox. On the contrary, most of the years thut he spent in public office were by gift and license of the Cox Foraker machine. It is because the easy-going Tafts have so long endured Forakers, shariug office with them, that virtually, nothing has been accomplished in a national way-tbwardhecking corporation abuses." J N THE OPINION. of the Press "President X Roosevelt may be able to order delegates to nominate a candidate but he can not order the delivery of votes at the. polls as he can the de livery of delegates in convention. And it is the vote of the American people that elects or de feats candidates running for president, of the United States." The Press adds: "We believe that Secretary Taft would make a good presi dent. We don't imagine that he would drive -and 5 if,e cause of tlle People in his own state of Ohio he never has done so with 'the Trc? d,t!ie S1"14 of President Roosevelt. We don t think he would ever conduct the battle that Governor Hughes has conducted .here in New York for the public. We don't-think so because else why so late in beginning?- We don't think his temperament in twenty years could achieve f?r h S??110 what LaFollette achieved in his state of Wisconsin and in the United States con gress in five. We have no doubt he could not ?nQ proiable results that could be ob tained from other men who have not waited a 21arIer f, a, century before beginning to fight for the public. Yet we think he would give an administrat on that would not be sensational fo? averaVCemenTh?Ut i01 W0Uld be wel1 abo the Sow gh i8' 10we,ver' is not the question now. The question is not whether he would make a good president; it is no more that than whether President Roosevelt can deliver the del egates for him. It is whether he could carry - fT Yr ,New Jer?ey and those other essential states. It-is whether he could be elected And PVrStmighty 8eriUS QUStlon 'or tteiblteS MR. ROOSEVELT is now engaged in a spirit ed controversy with Rev. William T t l a Nature student. The Stameford Conn, elf respondent for the Chicago Tribune says- 4h Rev. Dr. William J. Long toda? gaVe out an interview in reply to President Roosevelt? . nrt? controversy a few years atn , i L bitter President DRoosevStya?erclorfrienldrUDgrhSLS says the Roosevelt article, whic i h0L ?? 3 i? ihsevednodm?ua; bSS&so Bhowed " pity that all animals i won't act' i,,Fe Sys &8 a Roosevelt prescribes, bSt it is i flfti? reBde? The president's article h ?5 act ?ey don its merits apart from his hSS' have been thrown in the WMtbwhS n'TTUld no desire for a controvew with ?i ' . ? hfV1 the United States, said Dr Lon r?TsIent of profound respect for that offlno "ve.a modified or changed in the w V?,1 iS not cupying the office. The oint f h a?y manoc' Roosevelt has gone , oS of io lv fnT ed violent attack upon me anri i Jay mako a narlly I Ignore such attacks Ff v0kB' Pr.di" article, even carelesslfywin SOTtaS s av iy&Lilt biii&toiL-