OCTOBElt 14; 1910
The Commoner.
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out proof. J have letters' from many statesmen
and general,, business men and philanthropists
of Europe nd America, in which- they wrijo tho
Tory opposite. Mr. Gladstone, when prime min
ister -of .England, was just a active a man as
Mr. Roosevelt. Count Moltke, tho leading gen
eral of tho German army, was also an active
man, and they all expressed their views very
favorably about my philosophy. I am sorry that
my books have been in vairf for men of Mr.
Roosevelt's type, and I am sorry that Mr. Roose
velt misunderstands my tendency. W. J. Bryan
has written to mo that my books have been of
great value to him and thus writes Nathan
Straus, and I 'suppose both men aro considered
of a very active typo in America. That is prac
tically all I have to say in my defense. Toward
Mr. Roosevelt's political work, I liavQ enter
tained a very high opinion, especially regarding
his tendencies as a peace maker and his demo
cratic manners. .But I have not a favorable
opinion about his imperialistic policy and his
attempt to abolish tho freedom of the press.
Imperialism kills every noblo aspiration. It
creates the parasitic bureaucratic class of offi
cials and usurps the individual freedom. It
favors corruption and laziness, favoritism and
crookodness, such as we have rin Russia. I
Bhould consider that tho very opposlto of tho
Intentions of tho founders of tho American commonwealth."
REFERRING TO former Governor N, B. Bro
ward, who died at Jacksonville, Fla., while,
undergoing an operation a writer in the Nash
ville Tennessoan says: "Napoleon Bonaparte
was one of the biggest and most unique figures
In present-day southern political life. In his
early years ho was a Florida logging hand, steam
boat roust-about, and cook, and cod fisherman
on the ,Grandu Banks. As a filibuster during
Cuba's troubles he commanded the famous
'Three Friends,' and for months defied and elud
ed cruisers of both Spain and the United States.,
Later, he became established In the steamboat
and wrecking business, with, headquarters , at
Jacksonville. After a career in tho state legisla
ture he was governor of Florida from 1905 to
1909, .While governor he was, defeated in a
primary. fqj the rJJnitecL States senatorial endorse
ment by Sepator Duncan, U. Fletcher., ;u.Last fall
he was a candidate against Senator Taliaferro.
The first primary was so close that a' second race
was necessary, Broward finally winning by a
narrow margin. As governor, Broward started
the work of clearing up Florida's everglades. He
was born in Duval county, Florida, fifty-three
years ago."
SEVENTY-EIGHT members of the present
congress have failed of renominatlon. A
writer in the Philadelphia Public Ledger says:
"No such 'slaughter of the innocents' as one
representative put it today, has" occurred in the
roster of congress since the memorable disaster
to the republicans after the passage of the Mc
Kinley tariff bill in 1890. With tho elections
still to be heard from, the chance of a large col
ony of 'lame ducks' in Washington during the
coming winter is proportionately increased. The
list of senators and representatives of tho pres
ent eqngress.who will not be in the next con
gress is as' follow: Alabama William B.
Craig, retired. Arkansas-. Charles C. Reed, re
tired; R. 3Iinor Wallace, defeated. California
Senator Frank P. Flint, retired; D. E. McKinley
and James McLachlan, defeated. Connecticut
N. D. Sperry, retired. Florida Senator J. pf
Taliaferro, defeated. Georgia- L. F. Livingston
and William "M.. Howard, defeated. Idaho T.
R. Haraer, defeated. Illinois H. S. Boutell,
defeated, and H. M. Snapp and F. O. Lowden,
retired. Iowa" A. F. Dawson and W, D. Jamie
son, retired; J. A. T. Hull, defeated. Kansas
C. F, Scott, Jr at. Miller, W. A. Calderhead and
W. A.'Reeder defeated. Kentucky D. C. Ed
wards, defeated. Louisiana Senator S. D. Mc
dSnery and Representative S. L. Gilmore, de
ceased. Maine Senator Eugene Hale and Rep
resentative A. L. Allen, Tetired; J. P. Swasey and
33. C. Burleigh,, defeated. Maryland John
Kronmiller, Ej. E. Mudd, and G. A. Pearre, re
tired. Massachusetts C. Q. Tirrell, deceased ;
J. A. Kelliher and Joseph F. O'Connell, defeated;
Eugene N. Foss, retired. Michigan Senator J.
C. Burrows and Washington Gardner, defeated;
C."E. Towhsend, retired from the house and
nominated for tho 'senate. Minnesota James
A. "Tawney, defeated. Mississippi Senator H.
p.' "Money, retired; Thomas Spight and A. M.
Byrd, defeated." Missouri -Senator . William
Warner, retired. Nebraska G. M. Hitchcock
and E. H. Hinshaw, retired; Hitchcock nomlnat
ea for tho senate by the democrats, NeVada
G. A. Bartlett, retired. Now Jersey- 0. N.
Fowler, defeated. New York J. Van V. 01
cott, defeated; Charles L. Knapp and James S.
Havons, retired. North Carolina John M.
Moorehead, retired. North Dakota Senator
William E. Purcoll and A. J. Gronna, retirod;
Gronna has been nominated for the senate by
tho republicans. Ohio Ralph D. Colo, defeated.
Oregon William R. Ellis, -defeated. Pennsyl
vania T. D. Nicholls, H. W. Palmor, John M.
Reynolds, C. F. Barclay, G. F. Huff, A.. F,
Cooper and J. K. Tenor, retired; A. B. Gamer,
N. P. Wheeler and W. H. Graham, defeated;
Tener nominated for governor by the republi
cans. Rhode Island Senntor Nelson W. Aid
rich, retired. South Carolina James O. Pat
terson, defeated. Tennessee W. P. Brownlow,
deceased. TexasGordon Russell, resigned; O.
W. Gillespie, defeated. Virginia Senator John
W. Daniel, deceased; H. L. Maynard, defeated.
Washington Senator S. H. Piles and Represent
ative Miles Poindexter, retired, Poindexter bo
,ing nominated for tho senate; W. W. McCredle,
defeated. West Virginia W. P. Hubbard, re
tired. Wisconsin W-. H. Stafford, defeatod; C.
H. Weisse, retired. Not all the states have yet
completed their congressional nominations,
notably New York, whero there will bo a few
more changes in the delegation when tho nomi
nations aro made. Of tho number of sure ab
sentees In the next congress noted above, eleven
aro in the senate and slxty-sovon in tho house.
Of tho senators, six aro republicans and ilvo are
democrats, at least two of the republicans being
reasonably certain already of being succeeded
by democrats, while none of tho democrats will
be succeeded by a republican. The losses among
tho houso membership to date show forty-nine
republicans aqd eighteen democrats defeated or
retiring. Among the democrats are five who
voted with 'tho Fitzgerald coterie to support
Speaker Cannon in his rules fight, while among
the republican insurgents only one-r-Charles N.
Fowler, of New Jersey has been defeated in
the 'primaries, and three have retired, two of
whom have become republican, nominees for the
senate."
aOVERNOR MARSHALL, of Indiana, has
commenced somo Interesting proceedings
against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway com
pany of Indiana. The governor seeks to revoke
the company's charters. Roferrlng to this suit
tho Louisville Courier-Journal says: "It ap
pears that tho Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
company of Indiana was formed to take over
tho Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville railroad,
recently sold at receiver's sale. This road ox
tends from Chicago to Cincinnati, a distance of
284 miles. It was sold on June 23 last by order
of the federal court and was bid in by repre
sentatives of tho Chesapeake and Ohio railway
for $5,000,000. Fifteen days after the receiver's
sale the property was formally transferred to
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway company of
Indiana. On September 5 this company filed
for record in the various counties of Indiana
through which tho road runs a mortgage for
$40,000,000 on all the property of the road.
This mortgage is to cover an issue of 5 per
cent gold bonds, due fifty years from July 30
last. The company which proposes to execute
the mortgage'has no general headquarters, in
Indiana, though it has traffic offices at Peru, and
one of its vice presidents resides in Richmond.
Its actual headquarters, it is claimed, is in Rich
mond, Va., and tho Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way company of Virginia is tho actual owner.
Governor Marshall is quoted as saying: 'The
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway company of In
diana is a mere farce; designed to evade tho
railroad commission of Indiana' and the state
board of tax commissioners. The Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad company of Virginia, tho
foreign corporation arraigned in our complaint
as contemplating tho stock jobbing and stock
juggling, has mortgaged for $40,000,000 the
property of the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louis
ville Railroad company, which its agents bought
at receivers' sale a few weeks ago for $5,000,
000, as we allege. This $40,000,000, the com
pany, claims, Is to cover a bond Issue In equal
amount. This suit, so far as I know, Is tho
first to be filed In Indiana to test a corporation's
right to distribute watered stock to an innocent
public. Stock watering and legislation against
stock watering have been talked about for
twenty years, and I am determined to see if
there is .any virtue in legislation on this sub
ject.' It is, to say the least of It, a rather pe
culiar transaction when a decrepit railroad, sold
in the open market for $5,000,000, may fe
paddled with a bond Issue for $40,000,000. It
is moro especially so when It is considered, that
tho road only cost a mnttor of $10,000,000 at
tho outset and has been struggling undor finan
cial difficulties over ulnco it was built. The
bonding transaction looko a good deal like
mortgaging for timo and eternity. Presumably
tho next step of tho Chcoaponko and Ohio Rail
way company of Indiana will bo to raise freight
ratos Mn ordoi4 to insure fair returns to tho stock
holders "
THE DETECTIVES at work In Los Angeles
say thoy havo a strong clow as to tho
identity of tho men who blew up the Los Ange
les Times building with dynamlto. Explosives
wcro found in sbvoral other buildings, among
thorn tho homo of I J. Zchnndelnar, secretary
of tho Merchants and Manufacturing association.
Tho bomb failed to explode A Loh Angolca
dispatch says: "Tho bomb contained sixteen
sticks of giant golatino, commonly known as
. dynamite. This golatino was 80 per cent ox
ploslvo power, which fs'soldom made by powdor
companies, and It is this fact that gives peculiar
forco to tho police cluo. Each stick of the
dynamlto was stamped with tho inscription of
tho Giant Powdor compnny, at Giant, Cal., and
boro tho packing dato of September 20. On
Soptcmber 19 there appeared at tho office of the
Giant Powder company, In tho Kohl building,
in San Francisco, two men who gave their names
as A. J. Bryson and William Morris. Thoy said
they wanted 85 per cent explosivo to uso in
blowing up stdmps on a ranch near Auburn.
They wero told by the company clerk that that
was too high powder to uso on stumps. Thoy
finally agreed that 80 per cent power would
bo high enough and placod an order for five
hundred pounds of it."
THE FIRST "bird man" is an interesting topic
these days. The Denver News says: "A
recent issue of tho Saturday Evening Post ha
an artlclo on 'Tho First Birdman,' moaning there
by tho late Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley,
"secretary of tho Smithsonian Institution. ' The
artlclo comes rather late in the literature of
aeronautics; but bettor Into than hover. Lang
ley was tho real pioneer in a hundred matters
connected with flying. Ho worked out a lium
bor of now laws of motion through tho medium
of the air. Ho flew tho first heavler-than-air
machino that was over driven by Its own wolght.
This was on May C, 189C; somo seven or eight
yeaTs before tho exploits of the Wrights. Lang
ley had monoplanes and biplanes; )io worked
out stabilizing devices very similar to, If not
identical with, those now in use on practically all
aeroplanes. Indeed, there is a well grounded
belief on tho part of many inventors that Lang
ley had devised an automatic rudder which was
distinctly superior to anything now In use. True,
Langley never flew In any of these machines.
Ho adjusted them, turned on tho power, and let
them fly by themselves. Tho attempt to launch
his larger machino, carrying a man, was a fail
ure. But it was a failure, due, not to faults
in the machinp, but to faults in the launching
device which might "easily have been overcome.
Tho trouble was that Langley had been allowed
to develop a standing feud. with practically every
newspaper man in Washington. When tho fail
ure came, the newspaper men, who had not been
allowed to see any of tho really meritorious
points of tho machine, saw only tho present
. failure, and wrote of it with pencils sharpened
by their dislikes. The failure killed Langley;
and probably set back the cause of aerial navi
gation for several years. We aro glad that, how
over tardily, the claims of Langley as a pioneer
of the air are coming to be recognized; and wo
.wish the authorities would let somo of the ex
perienced aviators of today try a flight in Lang
ley's favorite machine."
AMONG THOSE who wrote letters to Mayor
Gaynor expressing sympathy for him when
ho was shot was an inmate of a Clinton, New
York prison. Mayor Gaynor replied to the
prisoner in these tender words: "I thank you
exceedingly for your kind letter. I am glad to
receive the good will of all thoso who desiro
to amend and lead good lives. I am well aware
that many of you aro not really bad men, but
unfortunate men, and that God so sees you.
There are many of us who would be the same
as you are if we had bad the same troubles and
obstacles in our lives. Do not bo discouraged.
I -shall not speak of. my trouble in view of the
greater trouble of you men. Let us be patient
and content."
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