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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
PLAT COMES OUT
FOR ROOSEVELT
Says New York Will Instruct for
Him if Neces-
sary.
Makes His Declaration Only After
a Talk with Senator
Hanna.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Washington, Jan. 1e.-"Senator Han.
ma is not only not candidate for the
presidency but he favors Mr.. Roose-
velt's nomination. I have just talked
with him. There need be no doubt on
that score" declared Senator Platt, in
his committee room here to-day.
The New York senator's conferences
with Mr.. Hanna took place on the floor
Of the senate. It was long, animated
and attracted much attention. Senator
Hanna talked vigorously, with much
gesticulation and Senator Plat fre-
quently nodded in approval.
"The story that New York will not
instruct for Roosevelt was probably
started by democrats" he said.
IT instructions for him are needed
we will instruct.
II presume the state convention will
be held after the legislature adjourns,
I don't think there will be long ses-
sion or that the governor was correct
ly quoted when he said he wanted
one. There will be no opposition to-.
Roosevelt in New York.
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has made almost continual use Of the
telephone to lntimidate Mrs. Scanlon
| with threats that unless she furnished
money for Carlisles bail and for his
defense in case Of trial she would be
fixed
! During portion of this time he. has
demanded $500 as the price of Mrs.
Scanlon's peace. In the past ten days
he has reduced the amount demanded
to $1,000. In every case his demand
was accompanied with the assurance
that unless he got the money he would
get" Mrs. Scanlon.
Sought to Make Sure of Man.
Within week arrangements were
made by telephone to pay over to the
being the desire of the Scanlon family
to perfect their preparations to con-
vict the man before he was apprehend-
ed. Nothing but a change in the pro-
gram outlined by Deputy Sheriff
George 10th prevented the success of
this plan.
For ten days the blackmailer has
been accompanied by an agent from
the sheriff's office who succeeded the
Pinkerton man first called into the
case. This agent was within fifty
feet Of the suspect when he telephoned
for the money week ago. The ar
rest has only been delayed in the hope
Of making the case against him
stronger.
The blackmailer has lived in Mimi
apolis several years and has a wide
acquaintance, altho his standing in the
community has not been of the best
for a year or more. It was at first
representative Of "veiled lady, called
Mrs. Tuck, who lived with Carlisle
when he first came to town. Later
developments convinced the sheriff's
office that the man was acting entirely
on his own responsibility and for his
own interests.
When the telephone calls first be-
gan to come into the Scanlon home,
Mr.. and Mrs. Scanlon were inclined to
make light Of them, but when they be-
came more insistent and the threats
were couched In such language as to
make their meaning unmistakable,
! the household became alarmed.
Phoned at All Times of the Day.
Sometimes the call would come at
9 o'clock in the morning, sometimes at
/ II o'clock at night, and sometimes
there. would be two or three in the
course of a day. Detectives put on the
case said that sometimes the man
would telephone from North Mime
apolis, at another time from South
West Hotel, and at another from some
drug store. But the tenor Of the mes
sages was always:
''Scanlon won't do anything for
Carlisle. Now you give me $500 for
| him or Til fix you. We must have the
money right away
Careful to Avoid Mr.. Scanlon.
| The man at the telephone was al
| ways careful to find out that Mr.. Scan
| Ion was away before he made his bust
ness known, and upon one occasion
when he saw the Scanlon carriage
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
40 BELOW ZERO
IN NEW YORK
Gold Wave BUSHES Over Empire
State, Causing Much
Suffering.
Even New York City Shivers
Under a Sub-Zero Tenn
perature.

New York, Jan. 19.-Intensely cold
weather last night and to-day caused
suffering all over the city among the
homeless and poor and the police were
kept busy caring for unfortunates
several of whom We're found uncon-
scious and one in dying condition.
j. The temperature passed zero dur
ing the night, and at a. m. to-day
/ below zero was registered at the
weather bureau. ....-
Dispatches from all over the state
report extremely cold weather, the
temperature falling as low as 40 de-
grees below zero in the central part
OF the state. s.-
Fonda, N. Y, Jan. 19.-All records
for cold weather have been broken
in the Mohawk valley. The official
thermometer registered 3S degrees be-
low zero to-day.
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F. L. McGhee, attorney for Antonio
Calderone, on trial for murder, has
seen and talked with the third man
said to have been present when Sal
vator Battalia, was killed by Calder
one.
The mans identity is not divulged,
but 1t Is believed that he will be pro-
duced at the trial and will corroborate
the defendants plea of self-defense.
That there was a third man pres
ent on the Franklin avenue bridge on
the night Of Nov. 18 when Battalia met
his death, is admitted by all who have
studied the case. Who and where that
This mystery is said to have been
solved by the prisoners counsel and
the result of his investigation will be
sprung as the big surprise Of the trial.
Mr.. McGhee recently went east for a
purpose not given out. While in Chi
cago he is believed to have met and
had a long talk with the third man.
The result of this conversation is said
to have been most satisfactory to the
defendants attorney in that the UNI
known corroborated Calderone's story
Of self-defense. He is believed to have
told the story of Battalia's death es-
sentially as it was given in the pris-
oner's. confession, stating that the
three were crossing the bridge with
peaceable intent when Calderone was
attacked by Battalia for reasons I'M
known and that the accused thereupon
fought and killed his assailant in self
protection while the third man "took
to the woods"
Will Come AS a Witness.
The third man is understood to have
promised that he would come to Min
neapolis and be present at the trial.
His presence is expected almost mo-
mentarily by Mr.. McGhee. If he does
not appear, it is presumed that Mr..
McGhee had some witness present at
the conversation between himself and
the third man and that strenuous
effort will be made to introduce this
evidence.
The information of this Chicago
conference came indirectly from Mr..
McGhee himself. When questioned
about the matter the attorney said:
you know I was east all right. I
would have the third man. at this
trial If I could get requisition papers
for him. AS it is, you will have to
wait and see."
AS Mr.. McGhee is very confident
that his client cannot be convicted of
murder in the first or second degree,
and if the judge instructs the jury that
he can be found guilty in only these
two degrees, as it is surmised he will.
the lawyer says that he will be cleared
entirely.
To Attack Knife Purchase.
Another point which will be made
Continued on Second Page.
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From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,

From The Journal Bureau Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, Jan. 19.-The promi-
nence of senators in the national
nominating convention is beginning to
receive considerable attention in
Washington. There were eleven
United States senators in the repub-
lican national convention of 1896, at
st. Louis, which number was in
creased to twenty-five at the national
convention at Philadelphia in 1900.
In 1904, unless all the signs fail, the
attendance of senators at Chicago will
be In the neighborhood Of forty.
There are fifty-seven republican men,
bers of the senate.
Having secured a taste Of political
power on a large scale at Philadel-
phia, the republican end of the SEN
ate purposes repeating the Philadel-
phla performance, and making the
precedent of senatorial attendance on
national conventions a recognized
thing in American political life. The
democratic senators will be strongly
in evidence at st. Louis also, and for
similar reasons.
Threatens Roosevelt.
The threatened increase Of repub-
lican senatorial attendance at the
Chicago convention bodies no particu-
lar good to the candidacy of Presi-
dent Roosevelt for the nomination.
If things go we'll, and the president
is too strong for the opposition, to
concentrate, nothing will happen be-
yond what happened at Philadelphia,
namely, that the senators will be the
whole convention and walk away with
all the honors it has to confer. But
if the Roosevelt opposition feels
strong enough to show it's head, the
fact that a large majority of the con-
vention leaders-these same senators
are unfriendly at heart to his cam
didacy, may possibly turn the tables
against him.
This is one Of the convention pos
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sibilities that Roosevelt adherents
ought not to overlook. It would be
exceedingly difficult to pick out fifty
seven representative men of the coun.
try, two from each republican state,
and find among them a larger pers
centage of opposition to the presi<
dent than is to be found among the
fifty-seven republicans sitting in the
senate.
Resents His Independence.
7 OF course, such senators as Lodge
and Beveridge, trusted and tried
friends of Colonel Roosevelt, will be
there, but they will be in decided
minority, should real test Of strength
come between the Roosevelt and the
anti-ROOsevelt forces. AS body, 1t
may be said without fear Of SUCCESS
full contradiction that the republican,
side Of the senate is against the presi-
dent. 1t doesn't like his independence
and his forceful and direct style. He
isn't sufficiently complaisant. He
doesn't call the senators into CONSUL
tation as frequently as they think he
should. Under his administration they
have entirely too little to say about
the conduct of affairs.
Control of the Convention.
Already the plans are being mads
for the senatorial attendance at the
Chicago convention to break all rec
ords. Already certain senator's are
planning to divide in advance the
convention honors. 1t is known, of
course, that Senator Hanna, as chair
man of the national committee, will
! call the convention to order, and it
| is also true that, at his suggestion,
| the national committee will probably
nominate some member of the senate
as the temporary chairman, as was
done at Philadelphia. Another sem
ator is to be permanent chairman.
| Every senator at the convention, save
| Continued on page II.
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the racial desire for social equality.
In strong terms he declared that edu-
cation Is the curse of the negro race
and urged an amendment to the state
constitution that will place the dis
tribution of the common school fund
solely within the power of the legisla-
ture. Continuing his discussion of
the negro question, Governor Varda-
man said:
AS race he is deteriorating morally
every day. Time has demonstrated that
he is more criminal as a free man than
as a slave, and that he is increasing in
criminality with frightful rapidity, being
third more criminal in 1890 than he
was in 1880.
Education Makes Criminals.
The startling facts revealed by the
census show that those who can read and
write are more criminal than the litter
ates, which is true of no other element OF
our population. am advised that the
minimum illiteracy among the negroes is
found in New England, where it is 21.7
per cent. The maximum Is found in the
black belt--Louisiana, Mississippi and
South Carolina-where it is 65.7 per cent,
And yet the negro in New England is
four and one-half times more criminal
hundred for hundred, than he is in the
black belt.
I know. he is growing worse every year
You can scarcely pick up a newspaper
whose pages are not blackened with the
account of an uncomfortable crime COM
mitted by negro brute, and this crime
I want to impress upon you, is but the
manifestation Of the negro's aspiration fol
social equality, encouraged largely by the
character Of free education in vogue, which
the state is levying tribute upon the white
people to maintain.
The better class of negroes is not re-
sponsible for this terrible condition, nor
for the criminal tendency of their race
Nor do wish to be understood as censur-
ing them for it. am rot censuring any
body, nor am inspired by ill-will for the
negro. but am simply calling attention tc
a most unfortunate and unfavorable con-
dition of affairs. What shall be done
about it?
Advocates Change.
My own idea is that the character OF
education for the negro ought to be
changed. If, after years of earnest effort
and the expenditure of fabulous sums OF
money to educate his head, we have only
succeeded In making criminal out OF
him and imperiling his usefulness and
efficiency as a laborer, wisdom would sug-
gest that we make another experiment
and see if we cannot improve him by
educating his hand and his heart. There
must be a moral substratum upon which
to build. or you cannot make a desirable
citizen.
The governor also declares that the
people Of the nation should rise up
and demand the repeal of the fifteenth
amendment.
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ST. Petersburg 19
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the reported pacific assurance of the
car on the occasion of his New Year
reception. They say it is not the first
time that Russia has spoken thus, but
has not acted according to her spoken
words. They add that it is impossible
to believe her and that Japan must
fight.
The Kokumin warns Japan not to
be hoodwinked by the peace rumors
that come from Europe. 1t says it is
impossible to believe that Russia will
give way.
The government is continuing it's
preparations to meet possible col
lapse Of the negotiations. It will not
allow word of military or naval
details to be published. Several news
papers have been prosecuted for vio-
lating the prohibition,
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SUGGESTS TAFT
Perry Heath's Paper dominates Him
for the Presidency.

i
for the Presidency.
New York Sun Special Service.
Salt Lake, Jan. 19.-Perry S.
Heath's paper, the Telegram, is out in
an editorial boom for Judge William
H. Taft for the presidency. The Tele-
gram says:
The homecoming Of William H. Taft,
just judge, able statesman, splendid
American, promises to be the signal for
an outburst Of enthusiasm on the part
of friends and admirers that will not cool
till he shall have been rewarded with the
highest office within the gift of grate-
full country. Already the orient is aglow.
with praise for him. His journey home-
ward is marked with the same manifesto.
tions of worshipful regard that charac-
terized Grants reception in the far east.
If it shall SO transpire that the illustrious
Ohioan, than whom Mr.. Roosevelt declared
at Fargo last April there is not in this
nation a higher type Of public servant.
shall come before the republican national
convention at Chicago, there will be but
one voice Of praise for his worth.
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Troops On the March,,

Port Arthur, Jan. 19.-Fcur> thou
sand troops are to leave here to-mor-
row bound northward. Applications
by correspondents desiring to accom-
pany the forces have all been met with
reply that hostilities are not ex-
pected and therefore it would be pre-
mature to issue permits.
The authorities here state definitely
that Russia has no Intention or desire
to interfere in Korea even should
Japan continue to land small bodies of
troops there in .contravention of the
existing treaties, as the Russians as
sert the Japanese are doing, under the
pretext that they are only railway
guards.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
COLD DELAYS
MURDER TRIAL
Jurors in Notorious Bechtel Case
Frostbitten on Their Way
to Court.

Allentown, Pa, Jan. 19.-The re-
sumption of the Bechtel trial to-day
was delayed owing to the inability Of
three jurors to reach the city because
Of the bitter cold weather which inter-
fered with the trolley and train serv-
ice.
Two of the jurors, were compelled
to walk a distance Of six miles. One
had his ear. frozen and the other had
both hands frost-bitten. Both re-
quired medical attendance upon their
arrival here.
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BRYAN and Parker.

New York, Jan. lev. j. Bryan
is to be in New York city on Friday
to attend the annual dinner Of tho
Holland society. Judge Parker is also
to be a guest of the society on the
same evening. Some democratic pol-
iticians said that Mr.. Bryan, on his
visit, would investigate the report
that Judge Parker opposed him In
1896. This report, however, has ala
ready been denied.
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SAYS EDUCATION
LEADS TO CRIME
Southerner Says Educated Ne
groes Are More Criminal
Than Illiterates.
Governor of Mississippi Discusses
Race Problem in Inaugural
Address.
He Advocates a Change in Educa.
tional Work Among the
Blacks.

Jackson, MISS, Jan. 19.-In his in
augural address delivered TODAY be-
fore Joint session of the Mississippi
legislature, Governor James X. Varda-
man declared that the growing tend
ency of the negro to commit criminal
assault on white women is nothing
more or less than manifestation Of
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being driven up and down in front of
the Masonic Temple, he stopped it and
Inquired of the coachman, Robert
Matthews, if it was not the Scanlon
carriage. The coachman said it was.
Then where is Mrs. Scanlon?'s he
demanded.
"She is up in DR.. knights office y
was the answer.
The man insisted on seeing her at
once, and was advised to go up to the
dentists office. He replied that he
couldn't do that. The telephone was
suggested. This advice was followed
and the man did call her up at both
the dentists office and her house,
making repeated demands for money
in behalf of Carlisle.
Within a week he telephoned from
the drug store at Tenth street and
Eighth avenue S, asking this time for
$1,000. Mrs. Scanlon said she would
pay the sum if he would come out to
the house and get it.
He Was Too "Foxy.''
"Oh, no, I'm too foxy for that" he
replied, and wanted to know why the
coacllman was not sent to meet him
as had been proposed. Since then Of
fers have been made to have the
coachman meet him with the money in
some secluded spot, but the man has
become too suspicious to accept this
offer, and hence the arrest will prob
ably be made without effecting an ac-
tual money transaction.
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Connecticut Shiyers.

New Haven, Conn, Jan. lex
IRENE cold weather again prevails in
Connecticut to-day, the temperature
here equaling the lowest official rec
ord of. the season. degrees below
zero. Much lower thermometer read
ings were reported from outside
points, especially from places in the
Litchfleld hills, where the thermome-
ter readings We're from "a to SO. below.
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Eckles for Grover.

New York, Jan. 19.-James II.
Eckles Of Chicago, who was controller
Of the currency during Cleveland's
last administration, is In the city, and
to-day told friends that he favored
the nomination of Mr.. Cleveland for
president this year. He said that the
former president was easily the
strongest candidate and would have
the support of the democrats of Ills
nois.
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VICTORY FOR AMERICA
Opening of Ports Resented-Czar Will
Not Meet Minister.


Not Meet Minister.
ST. Petersburg. Jan. 19.-It is au-
thoritatively denied that a personal
interview between the czar and the
Japanese minister, kurino, has been
arranged. In notifying Japan of her
recognition of treaty rights In Man
churia, Russia expressly excepted the
privileges of foreign settlements, and
the United States government has
been informed that Japan is disposed
to contest this point, which it con-
sidered vital to the exercise of trade
privileges.
All the newspapers to-day published
editorials on the mediation suggested
and declare such a step Is unneces-
sary.
The press generally admits, with
some irritation, that a great victory
has been won by American diplomacy
in Manchuria.
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SAYS JAPAN WILL WIN
Professor Edward Steiner Contrasts
the Two Nations

Special to The Journal.
sor Edward A. Steiner of Grinnell,
friend and chosen biographer of Toll
stoi, who recently returned from a
long tour of the czar's domains, de-
clares in an interview that the Japan
csc preparedness and instinct for order
and organization, will, in a war, turn
the scale In their favor as against the
unpreparedness, disorganization and
incapacity of the Russians.
Japan has a splendid organization
and makes effective use Of Its re-
sources, while the Russians d1ssipate
and waste more energy than any other
people. He expects Japan to win.
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JAPAN rs COURTEOUS
LIKEWISE VERY FIRM
The Russian Foreign Office Seems to Be Less
Confident of Peaceful Outcome to
the Eastern Negotiations

Russians Generally Resent the Proapanee Policy
While the Stand Taken by the United
ment-Czars Advisers Are Now Busy Trying Devise Plan
which Will Wound the Neither Nation
Task Appears Almost Hopeless.
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COnsuIs Are Named,

Washington, Jan. 19.-The presi-
dent to-day sent to the senate the fol-
lowing nomination.:
Consul General-Fleming D. Chesh-
ire. New York, at Mukden, China.
Consuls-James w. Davidson, Min
nesota, at Antung, China; Edwin v.
Morgan, New York, at Dalny, China.
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Cold DELAYS Trains.

Boston, Jan. 19.-Railway traffic
was badly interfered with to-day ow-
ing to the recurrence of extreme cold
weather At a. m. the tempera-
ture was 5 below in this city. In
northern New England during the
night the mercury stood at 20 below,
and even lower at some points.
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BOLD THREAT
Minneapolis Man Attempts to Elk
tort Money from Mrs. M. q
j. Scanlon.
He Makes Demand on Ground
That Money Is for Silber-
berg's Bail.
Officers Have Been After the Man
and He Will Be Ar
rested.

A. Minneapolis business man who
has used the presence of Harry Silber-
berg, or j. J. Carlisle, as the basis Of
an attempt to blackmail Mrs. M. J.
Scanlon, mother of Silberberg's wife,
to the extent of $500, will be ar
rested.
For more than a month this man
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CENSORSHIP IS STRICT

Japan Permits No Publication of
Army or Navy Movements.
New York Sun Special Service.
Toxic, Jan. 19.-The minister of
finance has summoned the leading
bankers to a conference.
Some Of the newspapers sheer at
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SENATOR FAvoas 1YNcH1Ne.

jackson Miss. Jan. ia measure has been
introduced by Senator Fl. j. McLaurin Of Rolling
Fork in the Mississippi legislature, to make par.
ticipation in a lynching a lesser crime than MUIR
der. and give the trail jury power to fix the
penalty.
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Is THE COUNTRY
TO, BE RULED BY
AN OLIGARCHY?
Surprising Growth of the Power of the Senate
in the National Councils.

The Executive Department of the Government Aarmgy
ened with Loss of It's the
slative Dominance of Nominating Conventions by
Members of the Senate and Plans Complete Control
by That Body in Both Conventions This Year.