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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
LABOR QUESTION UP.
Methodist General Conference VIII
Debate 1t Next Tuesday

Los Angeles. May 19.-The report
of the committee on international and
industrial peace, which was read at
this mornings session of the Metho-
dist general conference, will doubtless
provoke an interesting and animated
debate when it comes up for consider
alton next Tuesday morning. as the
special order of the day In asking
the privilege to read the report, which
was out of the regular order, Judge
LOhn, chairman of the committee.
stated that a request had been re-
ceived from the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, now in session in
this city, for an expression by the
conference on the subject of arbitra
ton.
The report recommends three agen-
cies as the means to accomplish uni
versal arbitration and the settlement
of industrial disputes, namely, The
Hague peace court. United States
permanent national industrial peace
court, and a permanent periodic inter
national peace congress.
The paragraph on corporations,
which is likely to arouse a heated con-
troversy. is as follows:
In the industrial world gigantic
corporations, with impersonal relation
to their employees, have largely mo-
nopolized Industrial pursuits They
have superseded the old personal and
often tender relation in home contact
anu lie Oh lnG master ana the 1DDTen-
tice. Most of these corporations are
founded upon the expectation of large
dividends Under the spur of greed
and competition they demand of their
employees maximum labor at mini
mum wages The stricken toiIer turns
upon the oppressOr.
He organizes. strikes, boycotts, calls
mis- banded union brothers from their
respective employments. He shuts the
doors of the factories in the stress of
want and despair and often resorts to
acts of violence in the destruction of
property and life. while the employer
sits encased in Indifference The grasp
ing monopolist and the walking dele
gates are representatives of these
forces In the main public sympathy
is generally and rightfully with the
toiler."
When the reading of the report was
completed John Young, a layman dele
gate from New Hampshire, offered
vigorous protest to the language of the
report. He denounced the portion OF
it referring to the Indifference of cor
employees, as being unjust and unfair,
and "a slur upon men right in this
conference as well as many other men
who are employers of labor who have
just regard for the interests of the
men they employ"
He moved that the consideration Of
the report by the conference be defer
red until next Tuesday and it should
be a special order for that date. His
motion prevailed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
LAW or ACCESSORIES.

The action of the Western Union
Telegraph company in refusing to
transmit reports of racing meets. looks
like long step in the direction of
putting a stop to gambling on horse
races. IT is more than this: it is a
step in the direction of recognizing the
reasonable assumption that all who
are in any way connected with the vio-
lation of the law are in a measure part
ners in guilt with the principals.
This principle recently has been rec
ognized by a Pennsylvania court.
The judge holds that frequenters of
law-brealSing and disreputable resorts
are just as guilty as the proprietors and
managers thereof and may be indicted.
convicted and punished with the same
severity.
The Newark News commenting upon
the ruling of the Pennsylvania court
says:
Hitherto it has been the custom in
this and other states. when raids have
been made on disorderly places, to hold
the principals in heavy bail for trial
but to allow the visitors and patrons
to go free or else to require only bail
enough to compel their attendance at
court as witnesses. The decision re-
ferred to is not vet the law in PennsyI-
vania, for an appeal has been taken
from 1t TO the supreme court; but if it
d affirmed it viii strike a terror hith-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
BUT ONE TICKET.
Anti-Third Termers Bolt, But Do Not
Make Nominations.

Madison, Wis, May 19.-GovernOr
Robert NJ. Lafollette was renominated
by reclamation The rest of the state
officers now holding Office were re-
nominated unanimously. The list fol-
lows:
Lieutenant governor, James o.
Davidson; secretary of state. Walter
i. Houser; attorney general, L. M.
Shudsvent; treasurer, John Kempf;
insurance commissioner, Zeno M.
Host; railroad commissioner, John w.
Thomas.
A meeting of the Cook delegates was
held today to determine their own at
titude relative to the Lafollette and
anti-third termers. 1t was announced
that they would not give recognition
to the LaFollette gathering by being
present as Cook men and that not IN
til the legal right of the Baenscn dele
gates from the counties in question
was determined would they sit in the
convention at the Fuller opera house.
Their leader, E. r. Hicks. will take his
men into the anti-third term conven-
ton when the credentials committee
determines whom the rightful delegates
are.
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Diamond Joe Costen is one of the most
faml1ar ngures at the Downs. and. in
cult He is here for the meeting and is
a guest OF the Louisville hotel. He car
ries a number of fine jewels with him
which he sells to jockeys, trainers. pIung-
ers and other followers of the fortl1n IS
of the turf. Il have been following this
business for about 40 years. he said
land have handled some fine gems I on
" sell to people know. and one of nv
regulations is to enter into an agreement
with the purchaser to buy the stone back
If he wishes within five years from the
date of purchase at per cent less than
he paid me for it. Jockeys love jewelry
more than any other class of men. Some
young rider will win a race make a kill
ing, and viii get to feeling pretty good
One of the first things he does is to buy
a lot of jewelry, and 1 have made study
of being on hand to furnish him with Just
what he wants. One day not many mont hs
ago I sold a jockey 81, 200 worth of dia-
monds. Louisville Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

Thomas Benton Murdoch says sheep
sorrel pies are ripe around FL Dorado.
There were 81 births in Highland last
year. The girls exceeded the boys by
two.
It is still cool enough at Robinson to
indulge in Mother Hubbard" skating
parties.
Governor Bailey is to play ball soon.
The governor has been saving wood for
some time.
A White Cloud family has gone to
Paris where the children will take a
years schooling
Preparatory to the prairie chicken
season Oberlin has established a shoot
ing gallery.
Some men couldn't make an impress
sion by falling in a mortar bed but Bill
~ Morgan isn't that kind.
Fredonia has three so particularly
worthless loafers that the town has Of
fered to trade them off for dry well.
Two Horton small boys were arrested
and fined for merely throwing a ref1ec-
ton from a mirror in a woman's face.
In many ways Lawrence is the model
town of Kansas-That is after their
young colored population is substract-
ed.
Leavenworth is going to erect a $780,
900 convention hall That's the best
move Col. Anthonys town has made in
a long time.
The Ottawa druggists have adopted
the ''Atchison plan" That of one store
keeping open Sundays while all of the
others go to church.
Highland is to have a house of II
rooms with baths and gas. In addition
4 it will be built of oak and walnut tim
| Der grown near the town.
! A Butler county farmer has sold a
promising young trotter for $4,000 to a
/ New York horse fancier. Some day
that colt will be heard from on eastern
/ tracks.
There are some advantages in having
a wooden leg. A Santa. Fe Waterman
at Larned received the bullet from a
i SO revolver in his artificial limb instead
of his good one.
A Conway Springs hen claims to be
the owner of a four by nine inch egg.
Her master, however, is inclined to give
the credit to a big Canadian goose in
the same barn lot.
Editor E. w. Eoch is counted a prac-
teal prohibitionist by those who know
him and a man who practices what he
/ breaches. But the Prohibition party
refused to endorse him.
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an old dealer who has always been po-
lite, honest and attentive to business
And it is no more than right.
Are the women more Indifferent than
the men to the danger of catching
cold? We have noticed in our signs-of-
spring reporting that the women's ruff
fed ones appear on the line long before
the mems long heavy ones disappear.
A woman recently attended a concert,
and. on her return home, said it was
really good. She commended it highly.
but finally added: Il suppose some
parts of it might have been better. "
Isn't a straight compliment possible2
An Atchison woman has estimated
that it cost seven cents head when a
woman "entertains.' An Atchison man
is paying off his social obligation by
entertaining at ten cents a head: he
invites those he wishes to entertain"
to eat an ice cream soda
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
The jailer is one sort of in keeper.
Watching the clock won't make pay
day come any quicker.
1t doesn't take a surgeon to operate
on the Stock Exchange.
Exaggeration is a feminine failing.
except in the matter of age.
There is no filtration scheme that
will insure a clear conscience.
1t is easier to make a bad matter
worse than a good thing better.
The annual determination of the
mosquitoes is already being planned.
The more satisfied a man is with
himself the more fault he finds with
others.
The baseball player isn't necessarily
a good catch from a matrimonial point
of view.
Some people are so honest that they
wouldn't take a walk unless it belong
ed to them.
For natural cussedness mule and
an automobile are pretty much in the
same class after all.
When mans bank account is over
drawn it doesn't do him any good to
draw on his Imagination.
The spring lamb gambols on the
green, and when it reaches the board
ing house table it is still a gamble.
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erto unknown into the keepers and
patrons of gambling resorts; pool
rooms, Sunday saloons and all other
awless resorts.
It is patronage, very large and very
liberal patronage that encourages vio-
lations of the disorderly house act or
the keeping of gambling dens and
places of vice. If nobody went to these
viIlainous or law-breaking haunts none
of them would exist, so that the pat
rons are just as much RESPONSIBLE for
and maintain them. Why then should
the former escape with a little unpleas-
ant notoriety While the latter are heav-
lily fined or sent to prison?
If visitors at poolrooms were held to
as strict accountability as the proprie-
tors how many would be found in
them2 If those who drank in Sunday
saloons were subject to arrest and con-
to be just as guilty under the law as
the proprietors, is it at all probable
that the Illegal patronage of these
places would be anything like as great
as it now is? Morally all parties to an
Illegal act are equally guilty and the
Pennsylvania judge holds that legally
they are also equally guilty. 1t is the
doctrine of accessories, and it remains
to be seen how far it will be sustained
by the court of last resort and whether
other states viii adopt the ruling or
not.
Should it be held to be good law in
pennsylvania II IS more imam pTODdDle
that efforts viii be made to have it
made operative and effectual here. 1t
will be the most powerful weapon that
can be placed in the hands of law and
order people and they will be quick to
make use of it. The recent accusations
made by District Attorney Jerome
against the Western Union Telegraph
company, in connection with the cru
SADIE against the poolrooms in New
York city, are in a line with the Penn
sylvania judges decision from a moral
if not from a strictly legal point of
view. The poolrooms could not exist
without the aid of the telegraph COM
pany, the disOrderly house could not ex-
list without the aid of patrons, there
fore the telegraph company and the
patrons of lawless resorts are response
BILE for the laws violation and are &C
countable. The logic is direct and I'M
broken, but it remains to be seen just
how far it will be applied to the par
ticular cases which are now in the pub
lie mind Hitherto it has been reject
ed, but it is possible that public senti-
ment, as we'll as judicial judgment, has
made some progress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
Baseball Notes.

Scoops Carey is playing the game of
his life with the Rochester club and lead
ing 1t at the bat
Tony Mullane and Arlie Latham, as
Southern league umpires, are having their
troubles this year.
Coniskey has a roster of a players at
present. and yet cannot spare any for the
Senators
Christy Matthewson has the Pirates
beaten The moment it is announced that
he is to pitch against them.
Billy Lush is playing such good ball at
Cleveland that they are asking Detroit
why they let him go
Barney. Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgs has
offered s25. 900 for two first class pitchers.
Stage or COnfederate2
Connie Mack says he is not afraid of the
big lead cinch which the BOstons have
gained. He looks for close finish.
Poole and Wilhelm are a couple OF
Pittsburg cast-offs who are doing better
than most of the regular stan of pitch
ers.
Lefty Davis leads the batting list for
Columbus. and Zeke Wrigley is second
Joe Martin comes in as fifth man.
President Pulliam has, set his, foot on
the National league rOWdies- Kelley, Beck
ley and Lever got theirs for three days
pitch again He doesn't have to work Of
ten to meet the requirements of his semi
monthly check
The Philadelphia Nationals are so anx-
ious to get Harry White back that they
offered Chicago 5000 for the Washington
boy. Nothing dom.
Frank IsbeI is covering second base for
the White Sox in the absence of Callahan.
Izzy" has the ability to play most any
position and well, too
Certainly n mistake was made in allow
ing Jimmy Ryan to leave the Washington
club Ryan was able to Whack the ball
and field with the best Of 'em--Boston
Herald
It is said President Comiskey of the
White Sox has his eye on some of the
University of Chicago players. He should
look up few more pitchers He has only
ten now.
Up in New York they have a one-legged
pitcher who shut out a team in twenty
innings. Headless pitchers are numerous
but this is the only one-legged tWirler we
know Of
The Cincinnati Reds are starting the
season the same way they have been do
ing for the past three years. 1t remains
to be seen whether they viii take their
usual drop on their first eastern trip.
! Everybody reads the State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
There are all sorts of opinions; all
that you say doesn't go.
If it wasn't for your troubles, you
couldn't keep awake half the time.
If you fool people even a part of the
time, you are going to be kept busy.
An Atchison man has made so many
mistakes that he has perfect horror
of his own judgment.
A man lately said. Excuse me- to a
boy, and the boy nearly tainted. Peo-
pie are rarely polite to a boy.
Ever notice that when a lot of people
stand around watching a high dive they
are in good position to be touched by
pickpockets?
When we see a. big screen in a room
we no longer have a curiosity to see
what is behind it. having peered so Of
ten and found only a. wash stand.
We have noticed that it is hard for a
new man to get customers away from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
LOCAL MENTION.

The Golden Rule club will meet
with Mrs A. G. Carruth, 1908 Boles
avenue, Friday, at 2:3O p m.
The Oakland Blue Juniors defeated
the Ideal baseball team Wednesday
afternoon by the score of to 3
Batteries: J. McDade, J. McGivern,
and T. Butler HOwes, H Anderson,
and c. Crook.
The Sunday School union will meet
Friday at 2.3O O'Clock at the Euclid
Avenue NJ. F. church
George Klauer and J. E Hagan are
booked for trial in the district court
today and tomorrow on the charge of
selling liquor The cases were appeal
ed from the police court
The police have caught the negro,
Alb Tavlor, who has been wanted for
assaulting his wife Taylor was pick
ed up on Kansas avenue this after
noon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
Sure of 1t.

ct cnce knew an old Irishnans VINO
would invest his last cent in any kind
of gamble he happened up against"
said Magistrate Cunningham the other
day, while talking about Irish Lads
success in winning the handicap. zone
Christmas eve he came home with a
ticket emitting him to a chance on a
morse and sleigh that were to be raf-
fled off.
Wen be drivin' out through Fair
mount park tn morrow like tn big
guns, Mary, he announced with pride
to his wife.
"'Oh, pop, won't that be fine chimed
in his little son. You an me can ride
on the front seat, and nom and little
Johanna can sit in the back
"'Ye'l be dom no SIGH thing!' as
serted the old man. Twill be the
back seat fer you, me lad. Yer mother
will be on front wit me-
1T will So whined the youngster.
I will so be ridin' on the 'front.'!
1.-THE old man assumed a stern,
parental air and took his pipe from mis-
mouth to deliver his final decision.
Yell not, I tell We he said. I'll
be havin' no back talk from ye- Git
off the sleighl' "-Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19

Miss Louisa Frosslund OF Long Is
land, \. Y. the gifted young author
of the STORY Of Sarah and a Ship o.
Dreams" was in Topeka from Sunday
night until Monday afternoon Of this
week, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
James P. Rowley. Miss Forsslund has
been in Santa Fe, n NJ, for thirteen
months and was on her way home
It was in Santa Fe while they were
there last fall that Mr. and Mrs Row
lev made her acquaintance Miss
Frossland has a serial now running IN
the Ladies' Home Journal and viii go
to work at once on another novel, the
groundwork of which was laid during
her stay in Santa Fe-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.

IF'rom the Chicago Daily News.l
We all have our trials-and the lawyer
is glad of it.
A jewel of a cook must be a sort of
paste diamond.
Occasional silence would improve some
peoples conversation.
Many a woman has played a practical
joke on man by marrying him.
It's a poor variety of widows weeds
that won't bear orange blossoms.
Eternal vigilance isn't always the price
Of liberty-sometime it's so and costs.
If a woman has no servant she works
overtime; if she has she worries over
time.
It's pity we can't drop pennies into
the slot machines and get small packages
of joy.
Our idea of a good manager is a man
who is able to manage wife and an au-
tomobile simultaneously.
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INVITED BY BAILEY.
sister States Asked TO Participate in
Semi-C Centennial.

Governor Bailey this afternoon issued
a proclamation inviting Kansas sister
states to participate in the Semi-Cen-
tenniaI OF the Sunhower state during
the week commencing May 80. The
proclamation is as follows:
State of Kansas. Executive Depart
ment, May 10, 1904
Whereas. Monday, May 80. 1904. will
be the fiftieth anniversary Of the sign
ing of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS bill by the
president of the United States, Great
ing the territory of Kansas. which act
was fraught with stupendous cOnse-
quences and was an important epoch in
the histry OF our state; and
Whereas. Arrangements have been
made to hold. during the week COM
mencing May 80, at the capital of our
state. celebration to fittingly COM
memorate that event.
Now therefore, I w. J. Bailey, COVER
nor of the state of Kansas, invite all
citizens of Kansas and of our sister
states to attend this celebration and to
join in celebrating one of the most no
table events in American history.
In witness whereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused to be
Iseal1 affixed the Great Seal Of the
state on the day and year first
above written.
w. ]. BAILEY.
Governor.
he rroVarv7nr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19

Judge Gaynor introduces a new ele
ment in the trust debate in declaring
that the power of the trusts has reach
ed a paramount place in the welfare
of the nation, through the discrimina-
ton practiced by the great railroad
systems. He says: "They are the
father and mother of the trust evil
and primarily beget all its enormities.
The greatest crime of our day and
generation is the favoritism in freight
rates. Freight favoritism is the mother
of trusts. The first trust was built up
wholly by discrimination on the part
of the railroads. The evil needs sum
mary executive treatment instead of
the slow process of judicial proceed
ure. All that we need is that the gov
eminent appoint the general freight
agent of every road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19

Pittsburg Post: The paper trust is
likely to come ia for a competitor that
may abridge its monopoly and cut the
extOrtionate prices it exacts, which
would be a comfort to newspaperdom.
The manufacture of paper from rice
straw has been commenced on a large
scale in Louisiana by northern cap
italists. The success hoped for will
revolutionize the paper world and give
further vent to the development of
the great resources of southwest Louis
lana. The paper manufacturers of the
country have been looking for years
for a new material convertible into
wood pulp, the chief stock of the paper
manufactured today. The supply OF
spruce, which has been found the best
material, is nearly exhausted, and
great hopes are entertained for the
louisiana experiment.
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Loves Young Dream.

The wind swept a cloud of dust
about them as they turned the cor
ner of the street.
Did you get any dust in your eyes.
darling?' he asked fondly, holding
her closely to him as though to keep
the too eager wind away.
YES she murmured, searching for
her handkerchief.
(Which eye. dearest %
1.-THE right one, love Did you get
anything in yours? - she asked anx-
iously, seeing his handkerchief ap-
pear.
Yes. darling.
(Which eye. dearest?"
1.-The right one, love"
How sweet" she exclaimed, with
a glad light glowing in her we'll eye.
do you suppose. dearest heart, that
it could have been part of the same
piece of dust that got in our eyes,
darling -
II hope it was" he said, beaminG
with one eye and wiping the other.
wouldn't it be sweet dear %
wouldn't it. love? -
And the wind howled round the
corner as though it was in pain, and
from the house three doors below a
dentists sign fell off into tn estreet.--
London Tit-Bits.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

from the New York PTess.I
It's very easy for a clever man to get
around a WOman-With his arms.
No man can break a girls heart as cas-
lily some other man can repair it.
When the open-work shirt waist season
comes a man always has the embarrassed
feeling he has the first time he is ever in
a Turkish bath.
It's mighty hard to make a woman be-
lieve that If her husband used her sew
ing machine oil on his razor he could cut
himself so often.
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funeral services over the Hearst BOOM
This course does not seem to prevent
the young man from capturing a few
more delegates occasionally.
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Cortez, Colo, May 19.-When driv-
in to their home near Ariota last
mint, MRS. c. w. Herman and her SON.
Frank Ingles, were shot and killed by
Marshal Humphreys, who rode in to
town and surrendered himself to the
sheriff There had been a feud be-
between the two families
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-19

Corporation contributions to the
campaign fund are finally paid by the
masses but they fall on members of
both parties alike, regardless of wheth-
er Republicans or Democrats are the
beneficiaries