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New-York tribune., 1905-07-23

New-Hsven July % (SpeciaD. TO the
great surprise OF the Connecticut public the
legislature which has just adjourned has put
on the statute books q sweeping. radical, po-
litical reform bin that has teeth and can bite
Even the most sanguine political reformers In
this State expected no such fortune Corruption
has been so thoroughly mixed in the politics OF
Connecticut that there seemed TO be not the
least chance that any really purifying measure
could be passed. In fact. II looked at the last
minute as 81 the whole measure was to go over
board The bill has been the big measure Of the
present legislature. 1t has been talked and
fought over since the Assembly began It's de-
liberatons last January. 1t has been cut up
and amended a dozen times since it was hrst
introduced. It passed the lower house. Five
times IL seemed likely 20 be killed by the Senate
and Il was passed by the latter body only after
the Insst devoted work of at least one Of its
members, Senator Allan w. Paige, of Bridge
pert
AS passed by the present legislature, and now
become a law. the new Corrupt Practices act is
bound 10 have an Immense influence on Con-
necticut political conditions. Hereafter any sue
cessfui candidate for office in this State who is
found xuilty of corrupt practices is TO lose his
seat to his defeated rival That is the "oiter
IN the new law. 1t is q long step ahead Tor
New-England Commonwealth 1t is going to
bring about q healthy change In the morals OF
good many Connecticut politicians
Corruption IN Connecticut has been fully as
bad as IL has been in other States, even though 1t
has been different in kind. Conditions here have
never been SO openly indecent in some Of the
States This State has not had an entrenched
boss" as has had Rhode Island. II has had
nothing like the corporation corruption that has
infected New-Jersey Its politics have never
been so courageously evil as have been Penn
Eylvania's The sort Of corruption that has per-
mested Connecticut politics has been insioious
and mean. Its lobbies have been fairly active
and It has gone through some railroad nights
at the Capitol that have left their smell behind
them to this day. Big corporation interests have
without question dominated the State for years.
But the worst features in the corruption OF this
State have been in the political arena, and very
largely in the graft exercised by many leaders
IN managing State campaigns. A witty Con-
necticut public officer once said that there were
no elections in this State; they were "auc-
tions" And this has often been true. The office
of Governor has more often than not been
uassed up TO the highest bidder. How much do
you want TO put up?" has been the question
asked OF candidate for that Office and sol-le of
the Governors have had to put up" lot OF
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23

Last week the fruit growers of Hay' re
New-York tribune., 1905-07-23

this or any other State but It will start
here It will put weapon for still greater
deeds into the hands Of those who really want
10 things better.
The Rev DR. Newman Smyth. Of this city. who
has been one Of the leading friends of the meas
ure from the start. and who has been in mora
than one sturdy contest for moral reform, said:
Three things are going to result from the
passage Of this bill. First. 1t is going TO have
an immense educative effect on the public. It
is going 20 inform people Of conditions and get
them to take hand in reforming them. Second,
Il is going declare Offices void that have been
secured by fraud This is going to have the
effect of making the defeated candidate alive to
his opportunity. 1t is going to make him in
terested IN bringing action. where he now feels
that he does not care to do so, for political or
local reasons. Now the defeated candidate who
had been defeated through fraud will have an
obligation placed upon him to take his case
into court and oust his successful but fraudulent
rival. And third, the bill is going to put in the
hands of the ordinary citizen weapon which
he can use TO purify his local conditions. Up
70 now no citizen has had a chance to do this.
Now anv one can bring information to the prop
er authorities and secure rightfng of wrong
The educative feature of this bill is all ready
10 be put into operation. 1t is not generally
known but an association has already been
formed that will have for its object campaign
of education" as to the purpose of this act, and
as to political conditions generally. This as
sociation is to be State wide. 1t is to have
committees in every town, which are toe see to
Il that the law is enforced. At caucus and pri
mary at the polls and in the legislature this as
Eociation intends TO institute "A vigorous cam
paign to see that the new law is lived up 10.
II viii have watchers" at all suspected eau
cuses and elections. II will make a business of
bringing informal ton against suspected candi-
dates and prosecuting them. 1t is the first out
crop, publicly of this new measure. 1t is the
first time such an association has been started
in Connecticut.
The feature of the bin which requires that
positions obtained by fraud shall be made void
is the bitter in the bill 1t is this which will
In the long run make for common decency in
Connecticut elections. 1t is of the few
sections Of the bill that cannot be avoided AS
a politician said to-day: It's going to be danger
Gus to monkey with After this IL any citizen
has proof that election has been secured by
fraud he take mis- information to Il State
attorney, who is then to ask Superior Court
Judge for a hearing. If says the law such
Judge shall be of the opinion that the interest
OF public justice requires such proceeding" he is
to notify the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court who shall then a second judge to
preside with the first the case the trial TO
be without jury In case the defendant candi-
date is found TO be guilty he shall then forfeit
his Office 10 his defeated rival, and be ineligible
for any Office for four years afterward."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26
Over eli 1000 ,oOU Greater LIN" I"
Any Similar Period in tho
CouuLsy's History.

The oxport record OF the United
states in the IL months ending with DC"
tober, 1904, just presented by the ae-
partment Of commerce and iapor
through It's bureau of statistics, Is espe-
ciaIly noteworthy In view OF the lae'
that despite the unusually small exports
of breadsturfs the total value OF exports
Of all kinds is larger than IN any pre-
cedIng veal ending with the date abo's
named states the Washington Star.
The exports of breadstuffs In the ten
months ending with October are less
than half in value those OF the CORE
sponding period OF 1903 or 1907 ana only
one-thIrd as much as In the corresponds"
inc nerlod Of 1901 or 1899. Yet, despite
tho fact that the value Of breadstuhs ex-
norted falls $50. OOO, 900 below the record
for the corresponding period OF laSt
wear and $l5S,OOO 600 below the record
for the corresponding period OF 1901, the
total value of all merchandise exported
in the 70 months ending October, lSV4'
ia 500 600. 600 greater than In the cor
responding peTluu VI i"ot -
ceeds by neayly $lo,0OO00o the largest
total ever known in a IL months perlod
ending with october,
This remarkable fact, that despite q
loee Of from $50 900, 900 TO $lJSJOoVOO
in exports Of n group Of articles the
grand total OF exports exceeds that Oh
anv preceding year, is accounted for
chiefly by a corresponding growth in the
exportation Of manufactures as a group
and raw cotton,
Among the articles grouped by me pu-
reau Of statistics under the general term
NJ manufactures. iron and steel manu-
factnres show for the nine months for
which a record Is already at hand So
0Go 600 increase over the corresponding
neriod Of the preceding year; copper an
Increase Of $23 1000 900 and mineral on
! on increase Of about sI0,000,0 900, wilhelm
most other manufactured articles th'
dgpres for 1904 show little change a.
c,nnsrea with those Of the Immediately
4 preceding year.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26

and dad said: "IAt her went" and
after an hour or 40 We got TO the top.
Gee! but l thought dad would fall
dead right there, when he looked on
at Paris and the world beyond The
VS. We had seen 2! !es e? eT,2!G.
starting had changed to human beings,
all looking pale and scared, and the
human beings on the ground had
thanged into flies and bugs. for an you
could sec OF a man on the ground was
his feet with a nattcucd plug hat some-
way fastened on tho ankles. and .
woman hooked like o spoonful Of rasp-
berry jam dropped on the pavement,
or a splash OF current jelly moving on
the ground in a mysterious way, | DO
not know as the EifCl tower was in
tended to act as a Kelley cure, but Of
The 90 people who went up with us,
half of them were so full their back
teeth We're floating, including dad and
the guide, but when We got to the top
and they got a view OF the awful height
10 which We had come, 1t seemed as
though every man got sober at once,
ana their tongues seemed to cIeaye to
the roof OF their mouths. All they could
DO was to look OFF at the city ami the
view in the distance, and choke up.
and look sorry about something.
/ couldp't" help thinking Of what sort
II a pu1p a man would be If he fell OF
the top of the tower ana struck a fat
woman On the pavement, cause it
seemed to me you couldn't tell which
was fat woman and which was man.
| never saw such a change in a
man as there was In dad after he
got his second wind and got his
voice working, He looked like a
man who had made up his mind TO
lead a different life and begin right
there, There was a salvation Army
man and woman in the crowd and dad
went up to them, He took ont q 1--WE
dollar bill and put 1t in the tambonrine
Of the lassic, aud said to the man and
woman: Nov. look a here, | want TO
join your church. and If you have got
the facilities for giving me the degrees,
YOU a sign mo a. a Christian right
now. / have been a bad man, and new
or thought | needed the benefits Of re.
ligious training, but since got mp
here, so near Heaven, in an elevator
which | viii bet $40 will break and
kill us all before we get down to Paris,
| want you to prepare me for the here
after quick
Some Of the other fellows laughed at
dad, and the Salvation Army people
looked as though dad was drunk, but
he continued; You can laugh and be
jammed, but I'll never leave this
place until | am a pious man, and you
Salvation Army people have got TO en-
list me in your army, for | am scared
plum to death. Go ahead and convert
me. while we wait" The Salvation
Army captain put his hand on dads
head, the girl held out the tambourine
for another contribution, and dad felt
a sweet peace come over him, and we
went down in the elevator and took a
hack to the hotel, and dads lips
worked as though in pain. H.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26

Mormon wives to get into the carriage
with the bishop and be sealed for life
Well. sir, you'd a thought IL was a
remnant sale! More than a dozen got
into the carriage with dad. and about
400 couldn't get in, but when the sgarcs
driver started up the horses. they a.
followed the carriage, and then the
mounted police surrounded the whole
bunch and moved them on towards the
police station, and dad under the wag-
~ load of females, each one trying to
get the nearest to him, SO as to be his
lavorite wife,
1t got nolsed around that a foreign
potent-ate mad been arrested with his
whole harem for conduct unbecomine
to a potent-ate, and so when we got
to the Jail dad had to be rescued from
his wives, and they were driven into a
side street by the police, ard dad was
locked up to save his life. The re-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26

porter and | went to the jail to get
him out, but we had to buy a new suit
of clothes for him, as everything vas
torn off him in the Mormon rush Dad
was a sight when we found him in
jail, and he thought his bones were
broken, and he wanted to know what
was the cause Of his sudden popularity
with the fair sex, aud | told him it all
came from his looking so "Contounded
distinguished and his flirting with
women. He said he would swear he
never looked at one Of those women In
a tone Of voice that would deceive q
Sunday school teacher, and he felt as
though he was being misunderstood In
France. We told him the only way to
get out of jail was to say he was a
crowned head from Oshkosh, travelling
incog, and when he began to stand on
his dignity and demand that a mes
senger be sent for the president Of
France, to apologize for the treatment
he had received, the jailer and police
begged his pardon and we dressed him
up in his new clothes and got him out,
and we went 10 the Eilfel tower to get
some fresh air,
| suppose you have seen pictures OF
the Eilfel tower, on he advertisements
of breakfast food in your grocery, but
you can form no idea Ct the height and
magnificence of the tower by studying
advertisements, You may think that
ssSTfFanbJ GaRdeS6S9q! sgeees Of world events on
foreign travel, but it does not, You
have got to see the real thing or you
are not fit to even talk about What you
think you haveseen. Yourememberthat
Ferris wheel at the Chicago world
fair and how we thought 1t was the
greatest thing ever made of steel, so
high that it made MS dizzy to look 10
the top of 1t, and when we went up on
the wheel we thought we could see the
world, from Alaska to South Africa
and we marveled at the work OF mar
and prayed that we be permitted 10 ge'
down off that wheel alive, and not bt
smiled down through the raritied CHI
cago atmosphere and flattened on th'
pavement so thin we would have 10 o'
scraped up off the pavement with
case knife, like a buckwheat cake ina
sticks to the griddle.
You remember, old man, how yo'
|, cried when our sentence to ride In thu
/, Ferris wheel expired, and the jailer o
the wheel opened the cell and let u
out. and you said no one would eve
get you to ride again on anything ina
Won couldn't Jump ont of If II baked, o
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26

yermifuge. But 1t gets there just the
same and the result of drinking it is
about the same as the result OF drink
ing anything in France-it makes you
want to hug somebody.
At home when a man get lull on
whisky, he wants to hug the man ne
drinks with and weep on his collar,
and then hit him on the head Win a
| bottle: but here every kind of drink
nuts the drinker in condition to want
to hug. Dad says he never knew he
| had a brain until he learned to drink
| absinthe, but now he can close his eyes
and see things worse than any mlnce
pie nightmare, and when we go out
among people he never sees a man al
all, but when a woman passes along,
dads eyes begin to take turns Wink
ing at them and II Is all | can do 10
keep him from proposing marriage TO
every woman he sees.
| thought | would break him OF this
woman foolishness, SO | told everybody
dad was a Mormon bishop. and had a
grand palace at Salt Lake City, and
owned millions of gold mines and tab
ernacles and wanted to marry a thoua'
and women and take them to Utah and
Mace them at the head OF homes Of
their own, and he would just call once
mr. twice a week and leave bags of golC
for his wives to spend. A newspaper
reporter. that could talk English, wrot'
A piece for a paper about dad wanttn:
TO marry q whole lot and he said liEt
in Utah was better than a Turkish har
EN-. cause the wives Of a Mormon Dish
on did not have TO be locked up an
watched by unix, but could fiTt an
=, blow in money and go out TO dance
and have lust as much fun es thong
they lived in Newport, and had sc
i. divorces from millionaires, and he sal
any woman who wanted to marry
? Mormon bishop could meet dad On th
bullyvard real a certain monument, o
| certain day
q was on to it, with the reporter, al
We hired a carriage and went to tn
hullyyard, Just at the time the new
naper said and | put q big red badge 0
a dads breast, with the word bishop G
y It, and dad had been drinking absintf
i and he thought the badge was a kir
of sign Of nobility. Well, you'd adj
1 ia soc the bunch of women that we
a thara In meet dad. Whats the matt
q bere?" said dad. as he saw the eraT
q II women, looking like they re
r. there in answer to an adyortisewe
i. for nurses. | told dad to stand up
Il the carriage, like Dowle does in CT
cago, and hold out his hands and sa
! "Bless you, my children" and VIII
:. dad got up to bless therA. the repor
/, and / got out Of the carriage, and
reporter, which coulA talk French, s.
for all the women. who wanted 70
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26
HAVE GOOD MAP OF MARS
Astronomers Know CorsldeEap Die
About the Earth's Nearest
Neighbor.

we can draw all the geographical
c~onfg1rations, seas. coasts lS'dIu"'
neninsulas, mouths of rivers OF caHai'
20 wars with accuracy, and we can an
ticinate what district will appearlh 'he
lens of the telescope, for the length Oh
the rotation of the planet Is Known "
the ~hnndredth part OF a second AS INC
n1onet turns upon its axis nor slo"l!
~, o,rs the calendar Of the lnhablI-
ants of Mars is composed OIL TWO con,
sacutive wears of GG8 days and a bisextlie
one of $50 days, writes Camille flaHA
marion, in Harper's.
It is not many years SINCE M@lS en-
terad into the sphere of ourobserVa'ion
And one can also say that there Is pu'
email number of the inhabitants d
this world who have observed 1t ~
all its details, and of these n NOS
evparienced is Signor Schiaparei'l' Vi
roator Of the observatory at Milan
THE geographical map Of the pane.
Mars has Just been made with ihil'i.'
rara bv the above mentioned aS'LoI
or,or One might really consider II
terrestrial sphere of continents, -
lands coasts. peninsulas, CULTS, water
Moreoyer. clouds, rains, inundaI'ois
s,ows seasons winters and summers
snrinrs and autumns, prevail, as the,
do here. and the intensity Oh the sea
CONS is absolutely the same as VII
ps The inclination OF the axis pelu
the same as ours.
our problem of the Availability Q
the stars is limited to observing u
celestial bodies upon which the conc
tinns are such that organized matIe
, can exist in a durable I" N,
In the planet Mars the density Of
, emilio meter OF water, eartn Of a"
, matter is only the seventeenth OF wa
n ia here. and the weight Is onlJ .
] A Rilogram transported to Mars WON
therefore, only weigh 37G grains ther
, and \ man or woman Weighing
kilos would only weigh 70 there II
! Years are nearly twice as long az o
! own planet and the cllmatoloeicai 60
!. S,t;ons seem much. more fsyorab
i than they are here.
: The conditions necessary to lie a.
!, va know, multlfornl, as che straesl'
4 Of the organic matter Is 20 comp
Gated,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26
The Bad Boy Writes More from Paris
Dad Poses as a Mormon Bishop
and They Climb the Eifel Tower,
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
C~Ex-GoyerEor of WISCONSIN, Formerly Pub
Usher Of peck'E san, Author Of
"penk,N BAD BnN.W ELCl

AA=4aNA Va NAh . 0haaAt sNAAsANA "a
"Peck's Bad Boy" Etc)
Copyright, 1906. by Joseph b Bow,esl
Paris, France.-Old Pardner in
Crime: | got your letter, telling NE
about the political campaign that is
raging at home, and when I read it to
dad he wanted to so right oHt and I'LL
up on campaign whisky anG yell for his
presidential candidate, but be couldn't
find any whisky, so he has not tried to
carry any precincts Of Paris for u
standard-bearer
There is something queer about the
liquor here. There is no regular cam
paign beverage. At home You can Sc.
lect a drink that is appropriate for any
stage of a campaign. When the nom
nations are first made you are not eX
cited and beer and cheese sandwiches
seem to fit the case. A little later,
when the orators begin to come out
into the open and shake their hair, you
take cocktails and your eyes begin to
resemble those of a Gagged rat, and you
are ready to quarrel with an opponent,
The next stage in the campaign is the
whisky stage, and when you have got
plenty Of it the campaign may be said
to be open, and you wear black eyes
and lose your teeth, and you
swear strange oaths and smell Of
Kerosene, and only sleep in the nor
Ing. Then election comes and If your
side wins you drink all kinds Of things
at once for a week, shout hoarsely and
then go to the Kelley cure, but if your
party loses you stay home and take a
course of treatment for nervous pros
tration and say you will never mix up
In another campaign.
Here in France 1t is different The
people have nervous prostration to
start on, start a campaign on cham
payne, wind up on absinthe, and after
the votes are counted go to an insane
asylum. | do not know what first got
dad to drink absinthe and | don't know
what it is, but it looks like soap suds
tastes like seed cookies and smells like
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26
Electric We've Clocks.

The distinguished maker Of scientific
inst uments In Paris, B~igourdan, has
srpsrlmentally demonstrated the prac-
,icablity Of operating a system or
locks by wireless telegraph signals,
The method, he claims, would be both
simpler and cheaper thar the present
syatem. which requires the use 0! IN
d~erground wirss. The new plan uses
: central clock, operating every second
AZ electric contact which actuates an
osclllator. The signals are transmit
I'D 10 the receiving clocks from an ele-
yated mast. WITH the aid Of a chrono-
graph band, and recording pen the sig
1aIs can be read within two one-hun-
6rssths Of b second. The experiments
we're made over a distance OF one mills
md a dfth, which might be ipcreased'-'
Yogtn's Communion.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26

YOU got wheels in your head and
chunks Of things came up to your Ad-
ANS apple end choked you Well, cross
my heart, If that Ferris wheel, that
looked SO big to Il. would make a main
sprIng for the Eiffel tower. That toSer
Is higher than a Kite, and when you
get near it and try to look up 10 the
ton. you think 1t is a Joke, ana that
really no one actually goes UP to the
TIM Of it. You see some flies up around
nc TOD Of it, and when the guide tells
| Won the flies crawling around there are
men and women, you think the guide
has been drinking.
But dad and I and the guide paid oul
money. got into an elevator and begar
% 20 up. After the thing had been go
ing up awhile dad said he wouldn't g.
10 more than a nEs or SO at first, ami
asked the mar 10 let him of at tk
3.000.foot legel. but the elevator ma
said dad Lad got to take all the degree
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-26
REVELATIONS BY
An EX-SPEAKER
IN5IDE HISTORY OF A STATE
LEGISLATURE BY ONE
WHO KNOWS.

Lawmakers Golden Rule"-Compro-
mise Necessary to Get Legislation
System of Trading Vates-Clear-
ing House for Tradable Votes
Why Honest Men Sometimes Vote
for Vicious Measures - Fight
Against State Bosses - Railroad
Lobbyist Reveals Plot-Nipped by
the Governor.