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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, IMS. 13 NO ESTIMATES ON THE VOTE Chairmen of Party Committee! Both Decline to Give Oat Figures. foTOf CLAIMS ARE ON CONGRESS nmtorraU Inalat Thff Have Kle-ait- lil thaarr la Fl af the Elavea District la the Stat Stu dents Urged to Vote. iKrom a Staff Correspondent.) I liS MOINES, Oot 30. (BpeciaU-The i -nTnun of botn the republican and the il. inocratic state committees have an nounced they will not under any ctrcunv niaooes give out any "estimates" on the v.-m of Iowa next week. Both take the fr 'Und that the usual "claims" of political .mmltteee are prepared for their effect pon the vote and are not Informational In hararter, and that they would not dare jy ten me exact racis in reg-ara 10 matter for fear their own party associate would condemn them. Henca, there will be no "official claims" as to Iowa. The national committee. In fact, have, already been turned down and will have to do their own auesslng as to what Iowa will do. Tho only matter they have discussed Is that relating; to members of congress. The democratic commltteo claims thers are five districts the First, Second, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth In which they nave - a . imm-i Ins; chanco" for success. The republicans do not admit this, but do admit that It Is a close race In three or four of the dis tricts. ' ' Chairman Price ' of the democratic com mittee, when asked the qurstlon direct, re fused to make a claim that Bryan will carry Iowa. Ho says that he has never at any lime made this claim. But he does claim that the Roosevelt majority of 16, fon will be very greatly reduced. Fred White, ilemocntic candidate for governor, on the othor hand, does claim that he will be elected governor and Is making- his campaign upon that supposition. Something of a sensation In politics was created todiiy by the discovery that some of the railroad employes of the state are , receiving In their envelopes on "railroad ' Jmsfne!s" Along with Instructions as to operation of trains, all of the literature prepared by tho Iaeey committee, and that among railroad men this Is regarded as equivalent ti Instructions how to vote. There was talk of prosecution of the per sons guilty of this plain Infraction of the stHlw laws, but the nearness of tho elec- u will probably prevent. Voting; Macnines rvot to Be 'irastea. The county officials of Polk county ilciidrd this morning not to trust the m ting machines entirely. They gave an n(lr for tho printing of ballots to bo mi haml at every Voting precinct for use In an emergency and so as not to rut out the voters of the county. In ense It Is found that at any precinct the machines will not be able to care for all the voters the ballots will be used. This was done on the insistence of a largo number of the people of the city. Eastern Star Officers Elected. The Order, of the Eastern Star, In es sion here today, elected officers us fol lows: Orand matron, Mrs. Elizabeth Bills, Davenport; grand patron, Austin Meredith. Newton; grand secretary, Mrs. Marie Jackson, Council Bluffs; grand treasurer, Mrs. Ida Webster, vVaukon. The next place of meeting will be Sioux City. (reek Priests Under Suspicion. Two Greeks who have been touring the state turned up in Des Moines today, where they appeared at the state house and were promptly notified to leave. They. have given various names, but uau- -uily that of lAntoa and Nicolo, andurep-t rim nt themselves as soliciting funds tor an orphanage over In Turkey or Greece. They have lettera of commenda tion and produce good credentials, but pected they are the same per- got Into Jail in Michigan for fraud. They secured practically nothing here. Attack on Prohibition Law. Horace Boles, formerly governor, now In retirement, has made public a letter In which he urges that Iowa repeal the prohibitory law so as to permit the man ufacture of liquors In the state and for the purpose of encouraging the Immigra tion to the state of foreigners. He con tends that foreigners do not come here and that they are needed on the farms of the state. He contends that Iowa farms are being depopulated and That the only way to keep tip the farming supremacy of the slate Is by repealing the entire prohibitory law. The matter Is not an Issue In the campaign. At the assembly of the State' university yesterday it developed that there were fully 600 Taft men to about fifty demo crats. The assembly was turned Into a political meeting and R. Otteann of Davenport spoke for Taft and H. H. Smith for Bryan. President McLean urged all the students to go home and vote.' J. tiun and is susp "suns who u yiinu y m ar-r.. S3 O i gariic disturbances of the f emin lne system act like a firebrand on the nerves of women, often driving them fairly frantic. A nervous, irritable woman is a source of misery not only to herself, but to all those who come under her Influence.. That such conditions can be entirely overcome by taking LYDIA E. PIN KHAKI'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND la proven by the following letters. Mrs. Mary "Wood, of Christiana, Term, writes to Mrs. llnkham : " I had' the worst form of female trouble and my nerves were all torn to pieces : sometimes I suffered so much i that It seemed aa though I could not live. . " I bejfan to take Lydia E. Pink- vryriacue icmpouna ana bow 1 el like a different person. Your medt Hne '. worth ite weight in gold, and I cannot say enough for your advice." f Mrs. Wallace Wilson, Thompson 1 VUle, Conn., writes to Mrs. llnkham: f "I was all run down, nervous, and eould not rest nights. Doctors failed f to help me. Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vejre I table Compound restored me to perfect I health." TACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. I For thirty years Lydia E. Pink- .ru'g Vegetable Compound, mads om roots ana neros, nas been th.6 ivlard reniedv for fem&ia ilia nil has positively cured thousands of vori!en who have been troubled with ilsplaoeuients, inflammation, ulcer. n, irregularities, periodic pains, akaohe. Why Wt you try it ? lr, Plnkhuni Invites all nick women to write her for advice, M'r lias milrirri thoimaniia tn tealth. Address. Lyna. Masau Thief nobs Traveling Man. TECUMBEH. Neb., Oct. 30. (Special.) A Ing the Oeojrraphlcal Publishing company books and other valuables, the property of A. O. Arnold, a traveling man represent cravenette overcoat, containing orders, of Chicago, was stolen from a local hotel yesterday. Mr. Arnold Is badly handicapped In his work and will have to return to Chicago to re-equlp himself for the road. REPUBLICANS OUT IN FORCE Washington Hall Again Crowded by an Enthusiastic Audience. POIHTEBS ON BANK GUARANTY Senator Brown, General Manderson, A. W. Jefferis and Others Speak Governor rkalleanes the Democrats. Mrs. MrParlasd Sails for Home. MARSHALLTOWN. Ia,. Oct. 30.-Consul General Thackera of Berlin cabled here today that the widow and daughter of the late Consul General McFarland sailed on the Kalserin Augusta Victoria today en route for this city with Mr. McFarland s ashes. SECRKTAUV HOOT IS TOLEDO Election of Bryan Will Menn Labor la Not Ita Own Master." TOLEDO, O., Oct. ax-Secretary of State Ellhu Root arrived here this evening at 1 o'clock. He came unexpectedly and en tered the Boody house unheralded. While he was signing his name on the hotel reg ister he was recognised by a group of re publicans In the lobby and was surrounded in a minute, but asked to be excused for an hour to get a much needed rest. Scarcely able to make himself heard at first because of hoarseness, Mr. Root soon warmed to his task and said he guessed the people of Ohio and the country at large had no mind to repeat the mistake of 1X12, when Cleveland was elected. He reviewed briefly the Ohio situation and took up question after question of gov ernment policy. "I read In a paper a statement that labor Is having the fight of Its life, and If Bryan falls of election, the cause of labor will be lost," said Mr. Root. "Labor Is having the fight of its life," be declared, "a fight to keep from having Its vote controlled by another. The election of Bryan will mean labor is not Its own master. The question with labor is whether it Is to maintain its own mastership of be dominated by Its leaders. We are Just recovering from the Wall street panic of last fall and no one Is more Interested In that recovery than labor. The election of Bryan will stop the trend toward prosperity. The election of Taft will bring the full tide of prosperity, and the factory doors will again swing open to labor. ' "The question the ratchllne of Bryan Is, bnaii ine people rule? There are some people who believe that because Bryan does not rule the people do not rule. There Is planty of room for discussion." The secretary left at 11 o'clock tonight for New York. COHTELYOU SPEAKS IN HEW YORK Secretary Addresses Maaa Meeting; In M array Hill Lyceum. . NEW YORK, Oct. 30. George B. Cor telyou, secretary of the treasury, addressed large and enthusiastic mass meeting at the Murray Hill Lyceum tonight, making a lea for the election of William II. Taft and the entire republican ticket. -Mr. Cortelyou said, in part: lne one overshadowing Issue at this time is which of two candidates, standing as each does, as the representative of a great party, will the better carry forward me work or jrovernment, especially that having to do Vlth the regulation of great corporate enterprises; which will be the builder on sure foundations: which a. in structive force; which more likely to rally around him the elements that will make his administration a success, whether It be In dealing with labor or capital, with white man or black man, with rich or poor, with high or low? Granting sincerity of purpose and worthiness of motive to each, is not a candidate whose life has been given to solv ing great problems, and to large adminis trative accomplishments, more likely to deal forcefully and successfully with the mani fold questions of government than one who, however lofty his alms, however at tractive his personality, has given no evi dence bf either capacity or training for such work? i Of what value would Mr. Bryan's de posit guarantee Dlan have been last fall when nearly every bank In the country sus pended cash payments, in part at least?' A fruarantee fund for all the national banks n the United States, computed on the Ok lahoma basis of 1 per cent of deposits, would amount to a little over lrt5.0UO.OUO. There are several banks here In the City of New York which carry deposits of over IIOO.OOO.OCO each, while banks having up wards of S50.000.ono of deposits number more than a doxen. Thus a single large failure might wipe out the entire guaranty fund. This guaranty scheme of Mr. Bryan's, like so many other of his schemes, does guarantee. not Sl'FFR AGISTS HAVE BIG PARADE Crowd Is Anna Addressed by Rev, Howard Shaw. BOONE, I a, Oct. 30. (Special Telegram.) The suffrage convention ended tonight with a monster mass meeting. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, national president, deliv ered an address. , Suffragettes from Lon don were featured here, participating in the parade today and the meeting tonight and Young Men's Christian association re ception yesterday. The parade, several blocks long, started at noon, headed by a band, stopped at the main corner of town, where Miss Shaw mounted the seat of an automobile and delivered an address to sev eral thousand people. It was one of the greatest events of this kind held In the United States by the suffragists. Des Moines gets the next meeting. The lead ing officers follow: President, Miss Eleanor E. Gordon, Des Moines; vice president, Mrs. Julia Clark Ha 11am, Sioux City; cor responding secretary, Dr. Nina Wilson Dewey, Des Moines; recording secretary, Miss Minnie Llettel, Corydon; treasurer. Miss Mary A. Emsley Adams, Mason City auditors, Mrs. Nealyf Corydon; Mrs. Rlker, Boone; member N. A. W. S. A., Mrs. Mary J. Coggeshall, Des Motnes. An even rsrfer audience than that of Tuesday evening In the same plsce last night cheered Governor Sheldon, Senator Norrls Brown and former Senator Mander son at Washington hall with an even greater enthusiasm than at the previous meeting, which up till last night held the record for the present campaign. A similar enthusiasm was manifested toward A. W. Jefferis, who spoke briefly and whose entrance Into tho hall broke up the meeting for a time, the cheering being so pro longed. Senator Brown devoted the major portion of his address to shattering the bank guaranty vagary. Iook at It from the depositors' stand point," said he. "You put your money In a bank in your home town, where you may lertrn of the conditlcn of the bank, where you know the men with whom you are dealing. You rest confident In the ability and honesty of this banker. But trouble comes not to your bank, but to the bank in another city. And In still another district a bank or banks Is in trouble. Then what happens? Is the gov ernment, according to the democratlo pro posal, behind you, behtnd your bank? Not at all. "It Is not the government, but the banks, and your bank, that must be mulcted to pay for the mismanagement; your own de posits endangered for the dishonesty of banks In another part of the country. But this Is not the whele, nor the worst. What feeling of security will there ever be when such conditions exist, when the banking system of the whole country Is liable to be thrown into confusion at any time, when all the depositors may become uncertain at once as to the possibility of their de posits being taken to pay for those of others? "Contrast this with what the republican party offers. That party favors the estab lishment of postal savings banks, so that every postmaster may become a bank cash ier for the people and with the Kovern ment, not a bank, behind your deposit and paying interest on that deposit." Manderson Warmly Greeted. Senator Brown was followed by General Manderson, whose address was one of the most forceful of the campaign. At the end of the general's remarks the audience rose spontaneously and gave the former senator three rousing cheers. General Manderson paid considerable at tention to Bryani In his remarks, saying that he had generally respected and some times admired the democratic candidate, particularly for his matchless gift of mak ing pleasing, plausible arguments In behalf of wild vagaries. Ho then contrasted Mr. Bryan's championship of the wildest economic and financial heresies, his advo cacy of free silver, of government owner ship of railroads, of bank guaranty, with the solid attainments, achievements and Intellect "of the best candidate for presi dent any party has had In the history of the United States, William H. Taft." The speaker then reviewed the career of Mr. Taft and spoke with a lawyer's ap preciation and feeling of Taft'a declination of a position In the supreme court of the United States, "the ambition In the heart of every lawyer, because of a sense of duty to assume .other and less agreeable task." ..... - Following General Manderson, S. C. Barnes snd Harry A. Foster, candidates for the legislature from Douglas county, spoke briefly and then A. W. Jefferis took the stage for a short address. Challenge to Democrats. Governor Sheldon was the last speaker of the evening and he devoted most of his speech to an excoriation of the maliciously unfair charges and misrepresentations of his administration by sjs opponent and on tho land tax question challenged "Shal lenberger or any other democrat speaking for him to meet me in debate at any time or at any place." With respect to national Issues he spoke at length on the tariff and the question of Its revision. "Suppose," said he, "that Mr. Bryan should be elected, which will not happen. Suppose, If you can again stretch your immaglnation such a distance, that a democratic lower house should be chosen. Shall we then have tariff revision even along the destructive lines which the de mocracy favors? "Not at all. The senate contains too many men, both republican and democratic, who are opposed to Bryan's kind of re vision. Two years go by of uncertainty and agitation in the business and manu facturing world. "Mr. Bryan cried for more senators and a new house favorable to his scheme. Still more agitation and uncertainty. And again when he is pleading for a re-election. The business world is still waiting for an end of agitation and an end of uncertainty. "But elect Taft and what will happen? The Job will be over by next summer." John L. Kennedy was the principal speaker at another enthusiastic meeting last night at the North Omaha Baptist church. Sixteenth and Ogden streets. The hall was crowded to the doors and the addresses of Mr. Kennedy, Hugh A. Myers, T. A. Holllster and others caused the great est enthusiasm. a lie big Pointed Paragraphs. When a man la short he usually has a long face. The actions of a dumb man speak louder thau his words. It takes a truthful man to tell enough to attract attention Any man is In favor of reform-lf allowed to select the starting point. Soma men kirk becuusu they don't get Justice and some becuuse they do. It is e.isy to become popular; all you liHve to do Is lt people Impose on vuu Some girls are given away in niarriase and some others throw themselves away A fanner naturally wants the earth In his busmes. for without il he couldn't do a thing. A boy never looks In a mirror to see if lis face Is clean after washing it; he looks at the dirt ojj the towel. Chicago News. Ills safety alv. Morse had perfected his telegraphic al phabet. "The dot are all right," said his friend. nut why do you have so many long i nose nnsnes. ne responded, "represent the language I used while 1 was struggling wun ine x-iy iniug, ana 1 iihh to iiipluv so irony of them thrt 1 Just let tlit-in stay snd worked 'em up into the alphabet " Whirh exrtlanutinii clears un a l.,u ,ian.l. J lng mysttry.-Chk-ato Tribute. INNOCENCE JS UNRELIABLE Does Not Always Save the Accused from Giving Himself Away. t "Detectives talk a lot about people's sc tlons betraying guilt," said the man in tha smoking car, "but I am here to say that a sensitive person who knows he is sus pected or may be suspected of some crime, not only may act in a very guilty manner. but even may feel as If he had committed the crime in question. "One time when I was a terribly un sophisticated country lad a man came to our home to board while he looked for timber in the vicinity. The man's name was Thompson, and he wanted the sort of wood that would make spokes and rims for a wheel factory in Portsmouth. He was a sociable, likable sort, gentle In his man ners and entertaining in his speech. When he had been with us a week he said he had enough timber located to make a car load and he would go to Hanxten Junction and meet his men who were coming to cut the trees. So he started walking up the railroad track. "That was the last we ever saw of Thompson. To us it was as If the earth had opened and swallowed him. "Now, of course, there might have been a thousand and one reasons why he did not return. He might have been taken ill He might have had orders from his house to go to some more promising fluid. Hi might have lost his Job. The list could be extended indefinitely. But to me, a wild-eyed, imaginative boy, not one pro saic reason occurred to account for the disappearance of Thompson. Thompson, I told myself, had been killed, no doubt. 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Had anybody seen Thomp son after ho left our house? As adroitly as I could I Inquired of neighbors, trying as well as possible to fix for them the exact morning he left. None had seen him. Some would look at me In a pecu liar way when I questioned them, and now I know I showed In my face the actual uneasiness I felt. "Then fearing that they might suspect me of guilty knowledge of Thompson's taking off. I would try to Invent a plausible excuse and would bungle the story badly. For weeks and even months I spent much of my time trying to dig up evidence In proof that we hadn't disposed of Thompson, and I never succeeded. t I would lie awake nights with cold perspira tion on me, realizing that if we were ac cused of destroying the timber buyer we couldn't prove our Innocence. "It was but a short step from the reali zation of my helplessness In the -matter to an actual feeling of guilt. I began to won der why we did It. And once I scared my mother nearly to death by blurting .out, from the fullnet i of my monomania, 'I wish we hadn't killed Thompson.' "I felt like a criminal afterward as I wore out an old pair 01 orown iromtn and a white shirt which Thompson had left upstairs. And It was years before the dread of accusation left me. "Since then nobody has ever been able to Impress me with the importance of any body's demeanor under accusation, or of the validity of a feeling of guilt betraved by the accused. The guiltiest actions ana good people of Qulncy to hear who was jdected president that a relay of horses and riders were selected to bring the news. They started from Washington, one set to Baltimore, another from Baltimore to Phila delphia, another to New York and the next to Boston, and when the horse" nnd rider arrived at Qulncy it happened to be Sun day and the good people were at church, and while the church services were going on the horse's hoofs made so much noise with its clattering that it made a large number of the townspeople shout, "What's the matter?" "The courier bringing the news of Mr. Adams' election had urged his horse with so much speed that the sweat and foam were rolling off the horse's back, and the courier arrived at the old church door and hurried up the steps and then down the broad aisle and shouted In stentorian tones: 'John Qulncy Adams is elected president of the United States.' Prayer and praise were discontinued and congratulations were offered to one another that the good tiwn of Qulncy had been honored by having an other president of the United States, and among the number who heard the report of the courier and whose heart was brim full of joy was the venerable John Adams, ex president of the United States and father of John Qulncy Adams. Mr. John Adams was S3 years old, and his heart was full of Joy to think that his little son, now grown to man's estate, yes, 'little Johnny,' was elected president. "Among the president that the country employed In .an official capacity In a rall and of considerable extent, have arlsvi. away from tliu railroads and for which i they cannot be hold responsible. . in oraer to protect tne torests in tne future some more efficient measures must be taken by the railroads than those now in use. "I may say for my own part that I gravely question whether the damage of this year may not prove to be greater than that of 1903," says Mr. Osborne. "At that time large tracts of timber were de stroyed, but it was In the spring of the year and the ground was not so dry as during these present fires, which have to a large extent burned over the same area, tistroylng a great deal,, of the spongy, mossy earth, the floor of the forest, which nourishes the vegetation and which would have enabled the trees to grow up again within a generation or so. There ere now large tracts burned down to the bare rock; not only the forests, but the foundation of the forest gone. That can probably never be replaced. "I do not mean to exaggerate the picture, or to Intimate that the whole or even the greatest part Ot tho Adlrondacka Is .'.'recked. Fortunately it is not so bad as that. But It Is undeniable that a vast ter ritory has been seriously, and a great deal of It Irretrievably, damaged. "As a result of my examinations I rec. ommend to the commission that everything In Ita power should be done to prevent future destruction, and to protect what re- the worst-haunted feelings may come with has had, for purity of life and sweetness of a conscience absolutely clear. The accused may feel the general tide of accusation and grow to sympathize with It to the ex tent of almost, if not actually, confessing crime he never even dreamed of commit ting. "And how I wish, even yet, thai i Knew what became of Thompson!" Chicago News. WHAT A DIFFERENCE NOW News of Adams' Klectlon, Brought by Courier, BlarnpteU Chnrch Service. The last days of the presidential cam paign have brought to one of Boston's "Old Schoolboys" vivid recollections of the s.or.ej he heard in young days of the election ol John Qulncy Adams and the dramatic man ner In which, by courier, the news from Washington disrupted a church service in Qulncy. The letter Is as follows: "Whom shall we have for president the next four years? The transition from one set of rulers to another Is often attended with Incidents and peculiarities sometimes amusing. For the past a little more than 100 years, with only one exception, the peo ple have chosen tho electors to decide who shall be president; that exception was the case of John Qulncy Adams in the year 182, who was chosen by tho house of rep resentatives, there being no choice by the people. Of the electoral votes John Qulncy Adams had eighty-four, Andrew Jackson had nlr.ety-nlne, W. H. Crawford had forty one and Henry Clay thirty-seven. Mr. Adams was elected by the stales' votes twenty-five stales and Mr. Adams hud more than half and was declared to be constitutionally elected president of the United States. There was great rejoicing among the friends of Mr. Adams, especially among the townspeople of Mie town of Qulncy. At that early day there were no railroads, no telephones, or telegraphs. It took many days and weeks to bring news from Washington, and so a.ixlous were tht character he was not excelled; he was great In his goodness and good in his greatness. "It was the church home of his father and mother. If he were living he would be about 141 years old. He has been dead many years. He often repeated to me this little story of the courier walking up the broad aisle and announcing that John Qulncy Adams was elected president, and told me of that large number who were in the church and saw the courier and wit nessed the scenes of that historic Incident." Boston Journal. mains of that useful and beautiful wilder ness, which It has long since become sound Jlato policy to preserve. "I ought to add that I believe every thing possible Is now being done by the men in the servioe of the railroads to pre vent the spread of the fires, and that the responsible officials of the various com panies will do all In their power to assist the commission In finding proper remedies for the future." New York Commercial. The Explanation. Spot cash Isn't so scarce as spotless cash. Money talks, but It never gives itself away. The luck that seems to come easiest Is hard luck. Any man who ' can make money can make friends. Love Is blind, and self-love la posi tively incurable. A man descends from his ancestors and still may rise above them. The male flirt never asks a girl to marry htm till he's sure she won't. If every man has his price lots of them should be on the bargain counter. t 1 When an old maid makes a joose of herself It merely proves that she Is no chicken. , If a man could only endure his own troubles as easily aa he thinks he could endure other people's this would be a happier world. New York Times. aa. FIRES IN THE ADIRONDACK Forest Destruction the Result of "Greed, stupidity nnd C'are leaaness." In a report to the New York Up-state Public Service commission. Commissioner Thomas M. Osborne declares that the dust and ashes of San Pierre, which he saw in his visit to Martinique two years after Mount Pelee's eruption, were less painful than the scenes he witnessed In a tour of inspection of the Adlrondacks, seeking in formation as to the causes of forest fires. "There it was a terrific oitbreak of na ture, which nothing could have foreseen or prevented: here the ruin and destruction were the result of greed, stupidity and care lessness of men." 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