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SF".-v t-.i , ,Wf- .w . ,AV tm.-t . "(.tt & The Commoner. VOLUME .7, NUMBER S Fn TJ! v iiTWiwgwyvtijiynMfyfaJNW W t;i i i W W ' -r . . M V V t fl ;1 " t' ' ' i" AN ASSOCIATED Press dispatch under date of New York, December 19, says: "At a session which lasted ten minutes the republican county committeo of New York county tonight, by an almost unanimous vote, refused to con- ' sider at this time a resolution indorsing Gov ernor Charles E. Hughes for the republican presidential nomination. No sooner had the resolution been offered by the friends of the, governor and its adoption moved than there , came an amendment to receive and print the document and make it a special order for the ' regular meeting in January. This latter mo tion was carried with a shout that could be heard far out into the street. Immediately a ,j motioi to adjourn was carried. The action of the. committee In postponing the matter was re garded as a foregone conclusion, as the delegates : assembled." j M l-.' '. E.EFERRING TO the .defeat of the Hughes resolution the New York, correspondent "for' the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: "Thats the Hughes resolution, which was introduced to night by Harry W. Mack, republican leader in the Fifteenth assembly,, where Governor. Hughes made his home at the time he was elected eov- ' V-,. er'nor, will be passed by . a large majority at . the January meeting, the governor's friends ' claimed as a certainty. Even the followers of ,,Mr. Parsons did not gainsay th,is assertion, but '' ' 7.If passes at that time the credit will not ; belting to Senators Page and Saxe, who so far ' have been the principal Hughes boomers, and whose motiyes have never ,been questioned ex cept by the friends of Mr. Persons, but to th.e county chairman and his friends. Tonights ' " meeting demonstrated beyond a doubt that Mr. ' -""t Parsons is in complete control of the commit- tee. That the outcome of tonight's meeting "V was a black eye to Governor Hughes and his prospects for the nomination was plainly to be read in the faces of his friends on the county committee after the meeting had adjourned. They were almost unanimous in declaring that r the - hand of President Roosevelt rather than v that' of Chairman Parsons had been felt in to--' ' night's proceedings. The fate of the Hughes' resolutions was practically settled at the meet ing of the executive committee of the republican -county convention, which was held this after noon at the republican state quarters. At that meeting the course of deferring action on the resolution was decided upon by a vote among the leaders." , " fTffNDER THE heading "Let Us Wedp With i :KJ '' Pity and Bow With Shame," the Appeal 1 to Reason displays, across two columns of a re cent number, this extract from a press report of the Monongah mine explosion: "They took a sniall boy, eleven years od, from mine No. 6 today. He bore on his grimed little face a look of peace and happiness that doubtless never marked it in life. 'There are other little trapper boys, they say, in the hideous catacomb back iinder the hills, boys that never have known the delight of tops and marbles, and whose best comrades are the slow and patient mules that haul the black cars down the drifts. The little boy taken out was a weakling, a mere child, who in life probably did not possess enough strength to lift a bushel of coal. But his smf 11 hands were gnarled and his shoes were those naiiaedaU aborer rough and tou6h ad hob- REPRODUCING THE extract from .the Ap peal to Reason the Omaha World-Herald prints this remarkably strong editorial- "Th heading seemed hysterical and a bit ridiculous at first glance. But no. honest man with a spaSc of that heavenly compassion In his heart which Charles Dickens invoked for 'Little Joe' can read this bit of news without admitting that the heading is excused. ChrisUan S womeli should weep with pity 'and bow their heads with shame. For this puny little eleven-year-old miner, with gnarled hands and hob nailed shoes; this child robbed of his childhooW taken from the sunlight arid the fields and streams and forests while yet a baby and plunged into this coal mine there to puffer and die; this little miner was their, slave. In their service he lived and died, and all he has to show for what our Christian civilization has given him in return for what he gave is his stunted soul and starved body arid his grimy face up turned td the sky. Dickens' 'Little Joe,' the English waif whose forlorn condition so touched the great heart of the novelist, was a prince, a pampered and favored child of fortune, com pared with this dead little American miner of a ' half-century later. A half-century of progress and this is what we have to show for it! Is it strange socialism grows; socialism, j&hich hurls. .its challenge in the face of the system that has given us this sorry product? 'Is it strange that, despite' its fundamental' fallacies, it appeals to the fathers and mothers of the poor when it can launch, with, justice, the, terrific indictment against a 'capitalif'; civilization' that 'the march of its conquest is stained with the blood of, in fants and paved with 'the ' puny bones of children?' People wenre poof enough, .God knows, in the dark ages' of medieval Ignorance and in the still earlier' days of paganism; out never, till modern industrialism joined hands with Christian civilization, did they have to send their children to work as children vare sent to day. Ancient, greed' heldIts hand 'in pity, or shame, and spared the child. The greed of "to day knows neither shame nor pity and in chil dren it finds succulent morsels." I r , . i- f i ' CONTEST BETWEEN Nebraska I'epubli&U J. is on. It is Taft against LaFOlIette. One Taft supporter wrote to the Lincoln Journal in sisting that "Mr. Taft should be nominated, ber cause he is "a fearless fighter against predatory wealth and corporation aggression;"" also tiiat "there is no question as to his (Tafts) 'positibh upon every point in what we have come to recogr nize as the Roosevelt policy." Frank A. Harri son, the LaFollette leader in Nebraska, has pro pounded to this particular Taft boomer these questions: "When did Mr. Taft declare his posi tion on the policies now before the country? When did he make this 'fearless fight against predatory wealth and corporate aggression?' Surely Dr. Ely didnot receive this information, by the process of mental telepathy. If Mr. Taft's chief recommendation is that he is in dorsed by Roosevelt, then by the same reason ing are not Paul Morton and the minister to Mexico also 'fearless fighters against corpora tion aggression?' And isn't it just possible that Roosevelt is a better judge of policies than he is of men? Shouldn't the Taft tub stand on its own bottom?" A PERSONAL encounter occurred December 19 on the floor of Jthe liouse of representa tives. An- Associated Pi-ess dispatch from Wash-' ington tells the story in this way: "John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, leader of the minority and Representative David A. De Armond of Mis souri engaged in a fist? fight over the passing of the 110 On the floor of the house this after noon immediately after adjournment at 2 1.0 Mr. Williams struck the flrst blow and Mr.'De Armond retaliated vigorously with clenched fists. When the combatants were separated blood was flowing down Mr. Williams' face from a small gash in the left cheek and his forehead was red and abralsed. Mr. De Armond bore no mark of the fray. The encounter was witnessed by more than one hundred members of the house and by as many more persons in the gal leries, among them a number of women The house having just broken up, groups of'repre ' sentatives were standing or sitting about dis cussing the committee appointments that had been announced by the speaker. Among them were Mr. Williams, peated at Representative Wallace's desk on the center aisle of the demo cratic side, and Mr. De Armond,, who occupied Representative Bartlett's desk adjoining They were .engaged in very earnest talk but their yoicps were low and they attracted no especial attention. Suddenly both anen sprang to their feet and bejsan striking at each other. So startled, and so vastoupded were -tlie J members,; of the' house and the officials that for a mm no one offered to interfere and the lead the minority and the member from Mfssour lunged back and forth between the desks both swaying wildly and each in apparent d'anSJ of going down. Blood was flowing from 2 in Mr. Williams' cheek when AssistantTerg'ant at-arms Sinnot sprang between them, BS Mr De Armond and held him back whil Trepre. .sentatives and attendants, following suit, effect ed a separation." ' Cl THET LIQUOR question came up in United States senate when Senator Tillman intro duced the following resolution: "That the com mlttee on interstate commerce be instructed to .consider and report by bill or otherwise what legislation is desirable or necessary to enable the estates in the. exercise of their police powers to , .qontrol the commerce of liquors and alcoholic beverages within their borders so as to aid the ; cause of temperance and to prevent the encour- ' ?,??ent 5y tue United States- government of ;UHcit dealing in the same." REFERRING TO the Tillman resolution an Associated Press dispatch says: "Mr. ' Tillman said his purpose was to prevent cir cumvention of state prohibition laws. Said he: 'The courts have held that these laws interfere ' wUh interstate commerce. On this account I ask this investigation Mr. Tillman said the ex- r .press, companies are flooding local option south ern states with whisky from other states, 'C. 0. D.,' and the supreme court of the United States had held that such traffic can not be interfered with because of its interstate character. He said his resolutions ought to define the point at k which the police power of -the state begins and .determine how far congress can go in limiting the control over interstate traffic in intoxicating beverages. A general discussion concerning the powers of states and of the federal government was - precipitated. Mr. Knox suggested that the - whole difficulty could be reached through a bill. Draw one,' suggested Mr. Tillman, whereupon Mr. Knox prepared an amendment to the Wilson law. Mr. Tillman then withdrew his resolution and offered the Knox bill, wiiich was referred to the committee on judiciary. The bill pro vides that all intoxicating liquors transported into, any state or territory regaining therein shall, upon arrival within the state and before or after delivery to the consignee, be subject to the laws of such state in th same manner as tho.ugh such liquors had been" produced in suph state or territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced in origi nal packages or otherwise." SEVERAL Washington correspondents have reported that strained relations exist be tween the president and Secretary Cortelyou. It was reported that Mr. Roosevelt was very angry wljen he discovered an alleged scheme on the part' of certain of his appointees to boom Sec retary Cortelyou' for-the presidential nomina tion. Although Mr. Cortelyou has not given the public statements he seems to have found it necessary to issue under date of December 17, the following: "I do not know that I am called upon to make a statement at this time, but in view of the various rumors in circulation as to the alleged political activity of friends of mine in my interest, I will say that I have not been a candidate for anything but the confidence of the people in the discharge of my duties as secre tary of the treasury. I have not in person sought nor have the friends whose names have been mentioned in this connection sought to influence political movements in my interest; I have not, nor have theyy used any influence, directly or Jndlrectly, to secure political support for or against any candidate for the presidency and ac cusations that such has been done are unquali fiedly false. 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