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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1920)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY 151, Hi! BJ&rTaJVlBCK XV, ivzv. I Cox Is Playing Petty Politics, Says Coolidge ;orfl Methods and Wild Charges Abrupt Break From Idealism, He Charges. Boston, Sept. 18. Assertion that Governor Cox, after attempting the role of an idealist, had turned to the coarse methods of ward poli tics, resorting to wilder and wilder charges, was made today by Gov ernor Coolidge, the republican vice presidential candidate. The governor, addressing the re publican state convention, said the democratic nominee was named by a convention in "which idealists had very little influence." "Yet," he added, "after receiving a baptism of idealism at the White House, he attempted for a time -the role of an idealist. He was to, be the apostle of the 'great and ,solemn referendum.' His address of accept ance started that way. "But the success has" not been marked. Soon the methods of ward politics prevailed. To that eminent valetudinarian in the White House, a master of logical expression, cor rect of style, always dignified, as he has beheld his exponent resort ing to coarser and. coarser methods, wilder and wilder charges, the ref erendum must for him become sol emn and more solemn. "Ideals are projected by the sur roundings no less than the , man. Lincoln had Garrison, Sumner, Sew ard. Stanton. Grant and Farracm. He spoke wjjh their iyoice no less than his own. ..'.. '.. . j "When, both the background and the man are wanting what chance is 'there for ideals? "The republican party has not bren, is not lacking in idealism either in its history, purposes Or Jeaders. Who can name an estab lished ideal they have not cherished? There is none. It has now but fur nished four-fifths ,of the states nec essary to enroll the idealism of the nation in the public service through equal suffrage. . Through the ages woman had been natural counsel lors of man. In her solicitude for ihe welfare of her children she! is the idealist of the world. She is des tined to walk hand in hand with re publican purposes to the glory of our nation." - Mother of Seven Admits Poisoning Her Husband Strychnine in v Peaches Fails Victim Given the Second and Fatal Dose. For supplanting string in fasten ing packages an inventor has com bined gummed paper tape with a folding hook and eyelet attachnent. Sioux Falls, S. D.. Sept. 18. The chief figure in the,, now celebrated poisoned peaches case, Mrs. Anna Matheson, who confessed poisoning her .husband, Martin Matheson, re mains in a serious condition at the county jail here and may have to submit to an operation. ' Mrs. Matheson confessed she pur chased a quantity of strychnine at a Dell itapids drug store under the name ef Mrs. Oison and gave one nose of it to her husband -in canned peaches. This did not kill him, so he was given another dose, this time with salts, and died within 45 min utes. In her signed confession Mrs. Matheson stated she gave him the strychnine in the salts, but later when testifying against John Digre, her cousin, who, she confessed, sug gested the plot in order that they could marry within a "decent time" after the death of Martin Matheson, she stated she did not directly give her husband the poison. "I laid two packages besid his bed," she testified. "One' contained strychnine and the other salts and he took his choice. I figured it would be his act, not mine, if he got the wrong one." ' . ' When offering her evidence from her cot in the county jail for use in the preliminary hearing of John Digre, who as the result of the hear ing was held for trial on a "charge of murder as her accomplice, Mrs. Matheson told of John Digre's atten tions to her, his attempts at improper conduct, of clothing he purchased for ner and of their plan to '"make Mar tin mad at me by John telling him things about me." ' During her cross-examination Mrs. Matheson insisted that John Digre had at times taken her places, had agreed to remain away from her shortly before rfne poison event and contradicted as false testimony of several of her seven children in re gard to her alleged intimacy with his brother Carl. She. stoutly denied that Carl Digre had purchased a ring for her or that she had any feeling fof him except as a cousin. It wis . the suspicions of John Matheson,' a farmer living near Wyoming, Minn., father of Martin Matheson, and those of the children who resented their mother's attitude toward Digre that brought about the investigation which resulted in the arrest of the widow and Digre on murder 'charges. , When Matheson died Dr. De Vail of Garretson, S. D., had been attend- , m i wmmjii Nonpartisans Successful In Colorado Vote ing the case, and at his order the widow sent to the state food and drug department at Vermillion sam ples of some canned peaches she had prepared the week before Matheson died and of which he had eaten. So6n after her arrest the widow declared that she herself had not eaten any of the peaches. . Analysis of tH(je peaches showed strong quantities of strychnine, while the chemical analysis of the stomach arid liver of the dead man showed sufficient strychnine in the canned pfeaches to kill 300 persons. It is believed that if Mrs. Mathe son' recovers sufficiently she will ad pear in the circuit court and enter a plea of guilty to the murder of her husband in accordance with her con fession and receive sentence without a formal trial. "" Candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor Ar,e . ' ; Winners In Primary Fight. I Denver, Sept. 18. The extent of the nonpartisan victory in Tuesday's primary and the result of the re publican contest for nomination for U. S. senate remained in douto on the rface of belated returns received up to today. On the democratic ticket the non partisan league seems to have .nom inated candidates for governor and , Lt. W. R. Callicotte, nonpartisan candidate" for nomination for sena tor, reduced the lead ot lully jscott to 846, with some 400 precincfts to report. With some 600 precincts to report, Morrison Shafroth had a lead of 2,861 over George HethT ington, nonpartisan candidate for democratic nomination for attorney gejieral. Returns yesterday placing Sam uel D. Nicholson of Leadvillc in the lead for the first time for repub lican nomination for United States senator were upset by returns from the remainder of the Publbc county and with 112 districts to report Karl C. Schuyler was leading by 111 votes. Full returns are improbable be fore next Tuesday when the official count will have been made in all the counties. In some the. official count will be stated today. y - Chicago Upholding Claim as Melting Pot In Adoption Case Chicago Tribune-Omaha Leased Wirt. Chicago, Sept. 18. Chicago is .upholding its claim as a melting pot. An Italian foundling baby was adopted by a Presbyterian Chinese merchant and his Meth odist Chinese wife, according to the English law, in a Cook county court, before a Scotch and a Ger man judge today,. and a week from Sunday it will be christened in a Methodist church with an Irish TZatholic godfather in attendance. Recently Li Wah Li, owner of the Shanghai Tea company, with stores throughout the country, re ceived a telephone call telling him there was a baby on his doorstep. He and his wife went to the front door and found the baby in a basket. The telephone rang again and a tearful woman, who said sb was an Italian, asked them if they would adopt the baby and they promised to do so. Today they went through the legal ceremony which makes the v child their own. After the christ ening there will be an elaborate banquet in one of the big Chow Mein parlors in honor of Miss Shirley Constance Li. Cattle Cause Wreck. x Columbus, Neb., Sept. 18. (Spe cial). C. M. Taylor, real estate man of this city, had a rib broken Wed nesday when his car rolled over a high grade. He was forced over the grade by cattle, whch were being driven along the road. Phone Douglas 3940 Courtney Building COLORADO ELBERTA PEACHES, per bushel $4.50 C. & H. CANE SUGAR, 10 lbs. . . . .$1.57 Windmill Preserves per jar. ....... .37c Comb Honey, per comb. ........... .36c OLIVES this week. I DR. CLARK The Painless Dentist Teeth extracted by the use of Vapor Mist absolutely without pain or danger. Oxygen gas used for the preparing of sensitive cavi ties and extracting of teeth without pain. You go to sleep and know nothing of the operation. DR. CLARIS Crowns and Bridges of the Best. Comfort Plates, Gold Plates. I treat Pyorrhea and guar antee to relieve where in structions are followed. The X-Ray tells of all hid den tooth troubles. Office: 5th Floor, 510 Paxton Blk., 16th and Farnam Sts. Lady Attendant. Phone Douglas 1201. DR. M. H. GARRISON Formerly ef Valley, Neb. Assistant Mensger French engineers have found 35 places in Tunis where dams can be built to provide from 30 to '6.000 horsepower of continuous energy. H. H. HARPER & CO. Announce "The Birth of a City" to be known as NASHVILLE. It U located five mile north of Flor ence on the Washington Highway. 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