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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
Whitelaw reid Coming Home.

London. July 23.-Mr. and Mrs.
WhiteIaw Reid returned to London
yesterday after a tour of Scotland.
Reid went by rail. meeting the re-
mainder of his party at Skibo Castle,
Sutherland. the seat of Andrew Car
negie. to which they had journeyed
from London i'm an automobile. Mr..
and Mrs. Reid will sail for New York
Saturday. July 20
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
Trp women struck bv Lightning.

Keokuku. Ia. July 23.-AIiss Mary
Stevens was struck by lightning and
her left foot was badly torn. Miss
Florence Tanner. of Canon City. Mimi.
her guest, was also struck. and lost
her hearing as q result of the shock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
BAD FIRE IN OWENSBORO
Valuable Plants Wiped Out by BIaze-Loss
VIII Aggregate 100000.

OwensbOro, Ky, July 23.-Fire broke
out in the plant of the Owensboro
Planning Mill company this morning
at 4 o'clock, destroying it and the
plant of the Continental Tobacco
company. The loss on the planning
mill is estimated at 100000, while the
tobacco factory will reach $4,000.
Both plants were partially insured.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
murderer who Had a Conscience.

Helena, Mont, July 23.-The body of
w. c. Craft. who was wanted for the
murder of fellow sheep herder at
Lewistown. has been found in the
northern part of Fergus county. An
unsigned letter was found stating that
he had killed Walter Mcclure. that the
crime had haunted him to such an eX-
tent that he could not sleep and that
death was preferable to capture. and
he blew his head off with the weapon
that had been used to kill his COM
DaniOn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
FnrrIren on the scarold.
VICAR GENERAL FLYNN
is APPOINTED PRELATE

Rome, July 23.-Nery Rev. Thomas
y. Flynn, vicar general of the dio-
cese of Sioux Falls, ). d., has been
appointed domestic prelate by the
pope. :
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
Two Iexicnn War yvidows.

Saginaw, Mich, July 23.-There are
two Mexican war widows in Saginaw
Mrs. l.. McEachron. f Porter street.
and Mrs. Jane II. Muir. widow of
James b. Muir, 1411 Genesee avenue.
Both draw Mexican war pensions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
storm Up Against a storm.

Brazil, Ind, July pa series of
storms sewpt over Clay City Monday.
Lightning struck the barn of John
Storm. totally destroying it, with its
contents Of hay and corn. Loss. $1,000.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
Misconsin Democratic Convention.

Waukesha. Wis. July 23.-The DEM
ocratic state central committee. at "a
meeting yesterday, decided to hold the
state convention in Milwaukee on
Sent g
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
Young Farmer Drounet,.

Clarinda, Ia, July 23.-Tip Long. a
young farmer of Gus Taylor county,
was drowned in the flood waters of the
Nodaway, three miles northeast of
here, Monday afternoon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
DEMANDED 100 PER CENT. RAISE
Gold Beaters and Their Employers Ar,
still Far Apart.

still Far Apart.
Philadelphia, July 23.-The en-
ployers of the gold beaters, who went
on strike all over the country Monday
for higher wages, have offered to COM
promise, and the men have refused to
accept anything under what they ask.
The gold beaters are receiving $11 Il
week and cents book. They de-
mand $21 a week and 8 cents a book.
The compromise offered was. SIS a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-23
ILLUSTRIOUS NAME
OF DECEASED CARDINAL

Rome, July 23.-Cardinal Ledochow-
ski, prefect of the Congregation of the
Propa ganda of the Roman Catholic
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-31

party public business and the officers and
members Of a party committee public
officers, it was bound also to provide that
the business be carried on and that the
services Of these officers be rendered at
the public charge. If the need of such
a bill were as urgent as it's friends in
sisted no doubt an early appeal would
have been made to the Legislature to
provide public compensation for these
officers. The disappointment of the peo-
pie in regard to the way in which these
committees would probably have been
constituted and to the difficulty which
would have been experienced in holding
committeeman to a strict accountability
for the way in which they would have
performed their duties, would have found
it's expression in legislative enactments
that would indeed have brought the Off
GERS and members of these party commit
tees within the pale of the law. If the
public judgment with reference to the
condition of politics and political parties
in our state were correctly set forth in
the arguments made before the Legisla-
ture in behalf Of a primary election law
then l have no doubt that there would
soon have developed intense dissatisfac-
ton with that part Of the Stevens
bill which created this system of
party committees. 1t was COM
pact system. 1t effected a thor
ough concentration Of party power.
To this end a better system could hardly
have been devised. If it were still neces-
sary to add to the strength and durability
| of a system so we'll built up the lack was
supplied where the committees touched
candidates for office having to do with
valuable patronage, by placing them I'M
der the personal direction Of such candi-
dates, as witness the following:
Each candidate for Congress, state
senate or Assembly shall Immediately up
on his nomination select a chairman, a
secretary and an executive committee
for his respective party district commit
| tee"
The sweets of office seldom pail upon
the taste of anyone fortunate enough
I to be elected, and a man once seated
| in an office usually sees every possible
reason in favor of his continuing therein
and of his using all the patronage at
his command to strengthen his hold
thereon. Given then a committee sys-
| tenn such as that proposed in this bill,
made up of the sort of men who would
most naturally offer themselves for a
committee service, SO burdensome and
ostensibIy unreQuited, or who would be
satisfied with the compensation to be
! paid out Of the public treasury as such
| compensation goes, and who would be
willing TO be committed so fully to the
interests of candidates for Office as they
would have been under that provision
of the bill which 1 have just cited. and it
will readily be seen that political ''ma-
chine" would have been created in every
| one of our Assembly, senatorial and
congressional districts, the like of which
for efficiency had never been known in
| any such district in this state.
JOHN NJ. WHITEHEAD.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-31
EIGHTH LETTER.
he Editor of the Sentinel:

EsTo the Editor of the Sentinel:
''The Stevens bill was introduced Janu-
airy IS, 1902 The public arguments on
the bill, for and against it, continued
from week to week until about February
%, when the Assembly committee on
privileges and elections gave notice of an
executive session of the committee to be
held that day, and invited suggestions
for amendments to the bill, to be submit
ted in writing. The committee retained
the bill in its possession until March
IS, when it reported a substitute bill
printed and ready for our files. The
new bill proceeded, in the main, along
the lines on which the Stevens bill had
been drawn; but certain of the objec-
tons made upon the argument Of that
bill, having doubtless been recognized as
valid, occasioned some changes.
Our attention is again drawn by
study of the substitute bill to the plat
form statement with refernce to the
Australian ballot. The substitute bill
provided a ballot which obviated diff
cuIties surrounding the use of the ballot
proposed in the Stevens bill. but was OBJ
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-31
SEVENTH LETTER.
o the Editor of The Sentinel.

To the Editor of The Sentinel:
"The state Republican platform de-
manded that all candidates for state, leg
islative, congressional and county officers
be nominated at a primary election
With reference to other elective officers
excepted by implication from this de-
mand / quote from the Stevens bill as
follows:
Section 2. Hereafter all candidates to
be voted for by the people. except those
for judicial, village, township or school
district offices, or ct special elections to
fill vacancies, shall be nominated eother
at primary election held in accordance
with this act or by petition in accordance
with subdivision of section 80 of the
statutes of 1898.
1.-THE exceptions noted were judicial,
village, township and school district Off
GERS and officers elected at special cleo
tons to fill vacancies. In each county
the candidates for eight state offices, for
Congress, Assembly and Senate, and for
nine county offices were to be nominated
at the primary election. All told, the
number Of such nominations was twenty.
Judicial officers were excepted from the
bill. They were deemed practically out
side of any party usage with reference to
nominations.
THE village officers excepted were the
president, six trustees, the treasurer.
supervisor, an assessor, constable, two
justices of the peace and rolice justice.
fourteen in all. The pracj of nomin-
ating the candidates for these offices by
direct vote and in many if not ma
iority of the cases without regard to
their party politics, had been of long
standing No law had been needed to
point out the way for voters in villages
to make nominations and the bill recog-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-31
NINTH LETTER.

'sTo the Editor of the Sentinel:
ssrTbe committee system proposed in the
substitute bill was practically the III
as that contained in the stes st length.
hitch I have already examl Inesti,sg system
axceDt that the cunau
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-31
FIFTH LETTER.

nm ,sl 5rssaE
iil-I'cS9 NHlSh ISIu'IO- -. -
Grafton. In each election instinct
was to be chosen at the primary cleo
tion in Sen+nmbor 2 committee of three.
M, -, ..,Il;,,o, +bo HIGHEST number
ile person poH!nS 'i'I 49,, ol,airr,,.,,,
Oh FoLeS was deSl2haCCu do LIZ -
OIL the committee mere were ~ '0
/. In each cjtv, a central committee,
made nm of t,n chairmcu Of the commit
fees i'm the election districts in the city.
2 In each county a central commit
tee made up of the chalIneh or the con-
mIttecs III the elecIlon u'S'li1'' III INV
0''pl1 =, oob Aseon7bIv district a COM
mite made I'D Of the chairmen of the
committees in the election districts IN
the assembly district.
!. In each senatorial dIStflcL con con-
mirtec made up Of the c4alrmen OF tue
committees Of the AS@rWbly dISLtlcIS III
the senatorial DISTRICTS.
.. In each con-t'ENiGhal dioIrlct q
committee made ~ o. luG CiaIihAeH VI
the county committees Wnouy. or par
tally in the congreSsIohaI uiSIt!ct.
u. In the Stale cCAILa4 collI Ii..tt
made of the chairmen OF the county
committees.
l. The central committee Oh each cIL1
and county and Oh the state was "
choose from ITS own NUMBER + ~ an
ana executive CoAlHIILLtC, "n0' III
were 10 select secretary. .....e-. -+o.o
n fach ,5'luIItg I?L -1,oi;9a+(I2 ,',on
senate or A9SeinpIS' nm oTL"t0-S ~
ms nomination. W"a ~ Ss'f re- d I3
parry c'H'Iu Coil liI. ~ oLafr,
and from the members thefoI, cll} lI,l
mau, q secretary anu "h executive O''l-
mltlcc. .7 "a
g. Any vacancy IN Ine pace " c,, ~
officer or any COmuilliCc " dS ~ 10 -LAl|H
uh the same uiaIliieI 40 Tic VI 7AN'i
Har chosen.
Durie8 Of Committees.
ryr. dutics imDosed by the bill upon
......I..,.. af ra,tv committees were as
IoIJ""N. -
(. Inc cutlIIudh VI d CO''li'i'1L
% voting district was TO represent us
party at the polling place IN ms dlSI[icL
l.JJIng the canvass ana return ol tht
Nutn lD certify thereon 10 Jile icCuI lCS
"Hu completeness OIL each dupilcaIe
tuu rotating to ms party Fote' anu "
receives and keep one copy OF Such re-
turn lor Use IN making any canvass OF
such vote required 10 De HiNue Without
The voting district.
.. In IL city ward dIFideu Ihto Two vi
NOR" voting dlStrIrJS, the ch5LrIleh oI
tle committees OF Such uiSLIlcIS were 70
canvass the whole vote OF the Wafd ana
dr"l@r" the nominee Oh Jhelf party lof
B. The canvass Of the vote Of a city
rotating to nominees for city Offices was
lu be- made by the chajrmen of the com
U.lJocS OF all the voting districts IN the
city,
I. The canvass required by either OF
the last two paragraphs was to be made
a'. or al suitable place, as near as
mght be to, the Office OF the city CLERK
% ~uprIfIpI GIV and hour.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-31
Hagemeister Bill Passed.

"The Hagemeister bill was me- p
over to the Assembly on ApnI "a
referred to the committees Oh pr,
and elections. The committee 'spl
back an amendment in the loI"
substitute, which was in suOslau,
form the Senate bill introduced w 9
tor Miller, the original NO. 10 ~
same as the Stevens bill, WnIcH q. -,
mittee had itself set aside foI -
stitute which the Senate hau ~
The amended bill so proposed ""-
a special order in the AssemD'! W.
25, and the vote then taken "Ds 4
lows: Ayes, Al; noes, A; aD''D' M
voting, 1; paired, g. This To'7 naiI
the Republicans six short Oh
of the House. The Democrats
voted with the Republicans nj
"The Assembly messaged its II
ment over to the Senate on Ar
and on May 2 the Senate r5 - "A
curTence by a vote OIL - ~ W
the senators being paired anu Il
publican majority being three 5.oI-.
ton of the Senate was imIne"@ on :,
aged over to the Assembly. 0 oanf,
a motion for a committee u o4a
was lost in the house, the n w no
Ayes, 48; noes, As; absent l.o+ IN f,
ing, A. The Republicans ,, r0, short
motion numbered 4" l0 g,ho onest
majority of the house ne odbera
the Assembly then beng ." . when
it's amendment. The YCle' . conf,
stood as on the motion III h = re,
committee. The AsSenlU mon &c
The question then vas h TI' TIL,
renee in the Hageme'ster 4e. pair,
stood: Ayes. 4s; noes, The TG, IA
absent or not voting, cn,r6 pass.I
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-05-31


The bill sought TO increase bic ,.,.
ny n3 ora. severe pains and penalties
over hiIn' but 1t proceeded on a wrong
theory TO insure the efficiency professe5
to be sought. The courts would nor hoTa
come to the rescue had writs hann --,'a = :
to compel performance or prose,, 80
instituted for neglect of duty. T,bn Ian
laid a public service upon committee.
men, and public compensation +hcreTo,.
should have been provided, NOT nrnh;,1;t
ed. The pay of 1740 committeeman fo,.
each of the four parties that might have
been taken into the account for services
rendered under the bill would have
amounted to a tidy sum; but 10 matter,
IL the Legislature were pledged to pass
q bill declaring the business OF political
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-03
RECALLS POLL TAX DAYS
Norris l. EliaSOn Asks Levy Court to
Put Him on CapitatiOn List.
WILL HAVE TO APPLY IN PERSON
And 1t Will Only Entitle Him to
Pay SO Cents.
THE LUMBER FOR WASHINGTON BRIDGE

A white hyacinth adorned President
Willis desk in the Levy Court room
Saturday. 1t was u gift from the
members to the chairman, who eS
pressed hope that harmony might
prevail and good work be done by the
court.
Norris L. Eliason of ST. Georges
hundred sent letter saying his namo
had been left from the capitation list
and he wanted it put on. Why he
should want it on the list did not
appear, for the only effect of the
presence of ones name there is that it
gives the county claim Of 80 cents
against the person A question was
raised as to whether Mr. Eliason would
not have to apply in person to have his
name put on the list. Clerk of the
Peace Quiglay laid the matter before
the court $ attorney, Henry G. Conrad,
whose opinion was that he must appear
personally. This reminds one of the
days Of poll taxes, when the payment
Of the poll tax was one Of the pre-
requisites in voting.
Commissioner Chandler announced
that much delay was experienced in
getting wood for Washington street
| bridge About 100, 600 feet Of white
oak is needed and the contractors,
Rrosius n Smedley, have been able to
supply only about 500 feet. Mr..
Chandler says he has rejected about 80
per cent OF that for not being up 10
Specifications Some was red oak, and
some was wormy, Mr. Bros!us nc
guessed in tho rejection of the lumber.
The great difficulty now is tho need of
the sleepers on which to lay the plank
ing already here. Foulk Il Son, Wit
have the contract for laying the lumber
are anxious abont it and talk of throw
King up the contract if not permitted tC
exe cute it soon. The lumber come;
from ERst Virginia, whore it is said,
good white oak is becoming scarce.
Mr.. Chandler has received drawing
of county lines at Market street bridge.
The Charles Warner Co., formerly uset
some county property at the northside
but since rebuilding have conformed t,
the proper lines
Mr.. Elliott reported that the bridg
at Graves Mill, Christiana hundred i
in bad shape and new one may hav
to be built. The court may visit tn
bridge.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-03

A lire at the silk manufacturing
town of Fukui, Japan, has destroyed
4, COG houses.
Wages in the cotton mills at Taftville
and Danielson, Connecticut, are to be
advanced On April 18th.
Laborers to the number of 1000 are
being hired at Christiania, Norway,
for railroad work in Canada, by Frank
NJ. Eddy, Congressman from Mime
sofa.
Judge johnson of the Delaware county
PA. courts Monday received an
anonymous letter warning him Of his
safety, unless he Immediately sentences
a recently convicted murderer.
Advices from Athens, received in
London, state that the Macedonian
committee has planned general rising
of the Christians in European Turkey,
but Turkey is making extensive mill
tary preparations which may interfere
/ with the movement
The quarFymen strike was settled
at Quincy, Mass, Sunday, when a
| 3-ycar agreement was signed by repre-
sentatives of the employees and mann
facturors. 1t is agreed that eight hours
shall constitute days work, with the
| present nine hours pay.
The Civil Service Commission has
| decided not to except from the opera.
ton Of the Civil Service law the posi-.
| tion of chief clerk of the Postoffice DE.
partment. It has also decided to make
no Recommendation looking to any
change in the present method Of APP.
pointing postoflico inspectors
A movement is under way for the
erection of a monument in Washington
in memory of the 1,457 soldiers, ex
prisoners of war from Andersonvillt
and Cabala, who lost their lives iusr
after the close of the war by the ex
plosion of the steamer Sultana, neal
Memphis, Tenn, on April 9th, 1865.
Congressional nominations have beer
made by the Arkansas Democrats a.
follows Second district, ]. p. Robin
son of Loneke; Third district, Mino
Walls of Texarkana: Fourth district
G. Q. Reid of Morrelton: Sixth dis
trict John S. Little Of Sebastian, anc
Seventh district, }. Z. Floyd o
Marion, defeating Congressman Dins
more, now serving his fifth term.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-03

and bridges, and even they are few
compared with the men such erections
set at work. lou will lessen the profits
of some of us steel manufacturers; but
you will stimulate industry, give idle
labor a chance for employment and so
tend to raise wages. MIR.
Chairman, what is true of steel is true
of all industries. If we could abolish
the whole tariff on the first of Feb.
ruary, do not believe there is single
manufacturing industry that would
close. On the contrary, all that were
not purely exotics, ket alive by taxes,
would be greatly stimulated. Foreigners
would want more of our products, and
foreign markets would open to our
goods Wheat would bring more to
the grower, and labor would bring
more to the laborer, and the masses of
our people would want and could pay
for more manufactured goods. You
cannot depress industry and impoverish
labor by remitting taxes: that is done
by imposing taxes. Manu-.
facturers need no protection. 1t was
not manufacturers who settled this
country, and We're the pioneers of its
western growth. II was farmers. I'm
port duties on what is received in ex-
change for farm products shipped
abroad are equivalent to export dnties
on those products. If you want to help
manufactures, repeal them. Let the
farmers lie prosperous, and manu-
features will thrive
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-03

Out of the goodness of their hearts
and their desire for party unity
that shall make Addicks Senator, the
Union Republican State Committee
has made 1. proposition to the Regular
Republican State Committee for a
State Convention to be participated in
by both factions, in the election of
delegates who shall be chosen accord
ing to the Regular Republican appor-
tionment. That apportionment is as
follows: New Castle county, rs dele
gates; Kent, i0 Sussex, AZ. 1t was
adopted in 1866, when the Republican
party of Delaware endorsed the prin-
ciple of representation in the State
Legislature according to population,
and emphasized its professions by
applying this principle to representa-
ton in its State Conventions The
result, it will be seen, was to give to
New Castle county a representation
within four votes of that of Kent and
Sussex combined. After the Republi-
can split, in 1896, the Union Republi-
cans adopted an apportionment of g.
delegates to New Castle county-3J Of
them to Wilmington-5O to Kent and
so to Sussex. This gives Kent and
Sussex combined a majority of Is ovel
New Castle.
But, despite the preponderance, o
New Castle county in the Regular Re
publican superintendent, the Addick!
Republicans can we'll afford to entel
into fight for the control of Stat,
Convention under it. They absolutel,
control the colored vote of Kent ant
Sussex counties, having corrupted i
until it knows nothing but Addick
Republicanism. With this vote. com
Srising large majority of the Re
publican vote in each county, they ca
elect the solid delegations from thes
two counties, and thus bo sure of s
votes out of total of 100 They woul
thus be in the majority even if the
did not elect delegate in New Castl
county. And each delegate they electe
in New Castle county they coul
not possibly get more than ten, an
probably not moro than fve-woul
add to their assured majority.
And so, although the propositio
seems fair enough on its face, it is
one-sided one. The Addicks Republ
cans corruptly control an ignorar
negro vote in two counties, by whio
they would be assured of contro
Their dice are loaded. They are SUI
to win, no matter what their opponen
may throw. 1t will not be at all su
prising should their proposition
declined without thanks.