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VOLTJMH 11, NUMBER 41
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tho dismissal of W. Morgan Sinister,
the treasuror-genoral.
Tho nationalists in tho house of
commons say 1912 will bo "Iroland's
year" on the home rulo quostion.
The Now Orleans TImes-Domorat
estimates this year's cotton crop at
14,835,000 bales.
Mr. Roosevelt says ho will assist
noithor. Taft nor La Follette but that
ho is not a candidate himself.
Andrew Carnegie celebrated his
seventy-sixth birthday by revealing
to tho American people tho identity
of the twenty men who deserved to
bo called "the greatest of all." The
Carnegie list follows: Shakespeare;
Morton, discoverer of ether; Jennor,
discoverer of vaccination; Neilson,
inventor of hot-blast; Lincoln;
Burns, the poet; Gutenberg, inven
tor of printing; Edison; Siemens, in
ventor of water-meter; Bessemer, in
ventor; Mushet, inventor of steel
process; Columbus; Watt; Boll, in
ventor of telephone; Arkwright, in
ventor of cotton-spinning machinery;
Franklin; Murdock, first to employ
coal as illuminant; Hargreaves, in
ventor of spinning jenny; Stephen
son; Symington, inventor of rotary
engine.
Illinois republican editors declared
in favor of Mr. Taft and opposed the
initiative and referendum.
. A Superior, Wis., dispatch, carried
by the Associated Press says: Right
Rev. Bishop A. F. Schineer, blBhop
of tho Superior Roman Catholic dio
cese, disagrees with Cardinal Gib
bons, Archbishop Ireland and other
prelates of the church and went on
rocord in favor of the referendum
and recall in an address before a
local fraternal organization. He
also indorsed the commission form
of government on which Superior
voters will vote in January.
tho purpose of taking up tho method
of selecting delegates to the national
convention. They want a rttawid
primary.
Tho Chicago Tribunt print thla
news item: Richard Croker admits
ho is sorry now ho defeated Henry
Georgo for mayor of Now York years
ago according to Joseph Fels, who
spoko before the current evenU clam
in Evanston recently. "I cornered
Mr. Croker, who came over to thii
country with mo last week, and
asked him why he defeated Henry
George," said tho speaker. "He re
plied, 'If I hadn't, Henry Georgo
would have defeated us. Self-preservation
is tho first law of human
nature.' In talking further Mr.
Croker admitted he had wronged
Henry George and misrepresented
him and said that ho was sorry for
what he had done."
The Tennessee democratic state
committee called a democratic pri
mary for April 20, 1912. State
officers will be nominated and dele
gates to tho national convention will
be chosen at this primary.
Suspected bribery was injected
into tho McNamara trial at Los
Angeles' recently. Detective S. L.
Brown, chief investigator for the
state, arrested three men and
brought them before tho district
attorney. Ho alleged one of the
men had attempted to bribe an un
summoned venireman. One man had
$500 and another $3,500 when arrested.
The Japaneso cabinet crisis,
threatened by tho finance minister's
demand for wholesale cuts in the
budget, probably will be averted.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Los Angeles follows: The ugly
smirch of suspected bribery was
trailed across tho trial of James B.
McNamara for tho alleged murder
of Charles J. I-Iaggerty, a victim of
the Los Angeles Times disaster.
A pleased prosecution and a dum
founded defense took stock of the
day's work of Samuel L. Brown,
chief investigator of the state, who
arrested three men and stacked- Dis
trict Attorney Frederick's desk high
with yellow bills taken from their
pockets in Frederick's presence. Bert
II. Franklin, a former deputy United
States marshal, now employed by the
defense, as an investigator, released
on $10,000 cash bail, is to appear
in court to answer charges of bribery
and attempted, bribery, sworn to
against him by Brown, while Georgo
H. N. Lockwood, an unsummoned
venireman, and C. E. (Cap.) White,
an alleged stakeholder, both ar
' rested, are at liberty, and, according
to District Attorney Fredericks, will
appear as witnesses against Frank
lin. Five hundred dollars, taken from
Lockwood, is declared by the prose
cution to have been the first payment
of a sum which he was to have re
ceived if he would prevent an ad
verse verdict in the McNamara case,
and $3,500 found on White was de
clared to be the balance to be paid
when tho jury was discharged.
The United States grand jury at
Chicago began an investigation to
determine whether railroads operat
ing between Now York and Chicago
have been giving rebates to tho
theatrical companies.
dlty. Om the other hand, to oppose
him with a man like Governor Wil
son would make the issue clear cut
and easily defined, and there would
b one Inevitable result the con
servative voters of the democratic
party would join the Taft forces and
the radical element in the republi
can party would join tho Wilson
forces. In this way there would be
a new alignment of tho voters one
that inevitably must come some time
in tho future, when the conservative
and radical voters of the country
must find their proper places in one
or other of the two great parties
representing those principles. Now
just a word In conclusion in regard
to Governor Wilson. He may be, as
your correspondent states, one to
whom it is natural to command
ratheT than to compromise. He is
instinctively brave and fearless, and
regards compromises as the natural
refuge of the coward. He may .lack
tact at times in dealing with men,
He may bo intolerent in ways, and
to some thus seem more of tho
"boss" than the leader. But he is
a man whose spotlessness of charac
ter, purity of motive, sincerity of
convictions, integrity of purpose and
high conscientiousness put him on a
mountain peak r.s compared with the
average politician of today. Neither
with friend nor opponent does he
ever play false. For those who do not
care for that type of man, and for
tho principles for which he stands,
the natural place is in the ranks of
the republican party under the
leadership of Mr. Taft. But for
those who think differently Gover
nor Wilson is the natural leader, and,
therefore, to tho writer he now
seems the logical and inevitable can
didate of his party in next year's
contest. E. H. S., Springlake, N. J.
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Tho city of Nanking was captured
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Han Yang has been occupied by the
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Tho progressive republicans In
Ohio have called upon tho chairman
of the republican state committee to
call a meeting of tho committee for
MUST BE OF DIFFERENT TYPE
Editor Philadelphia Public Ledger:
Sir May I be permitted a brief
space in your columns to reply to
some of the criticisms of Governor
Wilson by your New York corres
pondent in a recent issue?
Governor Wilson, your correspon
dent states, holds radical views en
tirely at variance with the "funda
mental principles" of the democratic
party, and, therefore, could not com
mand tho support of the conserva
tive voters of that party in the elec
tion of 1912.
But is it not entirely clear that
whatever may have been the "fun
damental principles" of the demo
cratic party of the past, the demo
cratic party of today must be a radi
cal party if it is to successfully
oppose the republican party? Surely
there can not be two conservative
parties in tho country, and the re
publican party is preeminently the
conservative party of the nation.
Tho reason the republican party is
so badly split today is because the
western element of the party the
so-called progressives can no lon
ger stand for the extreme conserva
tism of its eastern leaders. The op
position party, therefore, must, by
all the rules of the game, be a radi
cal party, and have a radical leader.
President Taft in 1912 must be op
posed, not only by a similar type of
man standing for practically the
same things,,.but by a radically dif
ferent man, 'standing for practically
different things. To oppose Mr.
Taft with a man of the McKinley
type, an opportunist whose backbono
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