The Washington times., 1906-09-22
BEG HALF RATES
At VOTING TINE
but Ohio Republicans Get
No Satisfaction From
Railroads.
lDlSFRANCHISED is WALL
Washington Buckeyes See No Way Of
Getting Home for Next
Election.
tDlSFRANCHISED is WALL

Sad news was broken 20 the Ohio Re
publican Club last evening. at its meet
( ing at the q. A II. Hall. when Presi-
I dent T. NJ Sullivan related the expert
/ ences that had befalleu him I'm the
course Of efforts 10 get low rates for
election time. SO that good Ohio Ge-
publlcaus might go home 10 vote.
Apparently. Washingtoniaus are going
10 be disfranchised hereafter. That
seemed 10 be the only conclusion from
the narrative of Mr.. Sullivan. lie had
urged upon the officers OF the Eastern
Trunk Line Association that the Ohio
voters IN this town would Doe glad Of a
halr rate for about week election time
and he had been told that "a rare ana
one-third for the round trip was prObd-
blv all that cOuiu be secured. lie urged
that IL was mighty hard on The voters
+ and Ia reply was told that since lhe
Ohio Legislature passed the --cenJ
fare bill the railroads didn't feel SO
keenly the importance of favOrlng Buck
Mr.. Sullivan said he would let the So
ciety know the results or his eILofls as
soon as possible. Then he added ms
drop of assurance 10 tho heaped-up
bucket of evidence already accumulated,
that there are going TO be no iree
Yasses hereafter. Nobody is going home
To vote on free transportation not II
.ha railroads and Interstate Commerce
Commission and the public prosecutors
md out about IL
Edecting Occasion for Buckeyes.
II was an ehectlng. occasion for the
Buckeyes, and it was the same sort Of
"a sad awakening that other State or
Cauizatious have coming. No more free
uasses: no more exceedingly low rates
To take the family back to The old home
about election time. and keep in touch
with the useful old political pull. II is
going 10 divorce Official Washington
from .'the States as nothing else ever
has done That al least IS what LAe
Government employees with pouJlcal al
leEiaDccS elsewhere, declare
because il was hotter than the recent
state convention az Columbus lnr So
ciety didn't undertake consideration OF
The amendment 10 the constitution, pro
Vidlug that In case OF vacancy lI tIt1
office of president the nrst wee pIeS--
dent should automatically succeed anu
In case both the presidency ana Hrsl
vice presidency were vacant Then me
second vice president should succeed.
Last summer President IT, H. BfasEll7
resigned, and there was ITrclplatro "a
fght for the place that Kept buckeN e.
circles agitared "a long time. To avoid
another such experience tne consItu-
tiOuGI amendment is proposed. bul. tl'
very fact that II was scheduled iot con
sidaratiOn made the weather so A'l
that nobody felt equal 10 IL, and IL was
uut over til a later meeting.
Campaign Committee Named.
Apnlications for member hip were re-
ceived from William e. Little, n. 5.
THOMPSON and H. H. House. The fol-
lowing campaign committee was named.
bv Congressional districts,
First district. Sidney j. Howell, Gov
ernmenL Printing Office. Second district
John C. Cox. Surgeon Geuerats once
War Department. Third district MAJ
J. H. Stiue, office auditor, War Depart
nent. Fourth district, J. NJ Craig. navy
branch Government Printing OuIC--
Firth District, Hon T. H. Hester. once
auditor, War Department Sixth dis
triCt Hon. George p Durham, lredSu uiN
Department: seventh district Hon. j.
w Bell. office auditor. War Depart
ment; Eighth district, Capt N. Bar
ringer, Government Printing ONCE
Ninth district Hon R- T. James Span
ish Treaty Claims Commission, Tenth
district, Charles ". Henry, Government
Printing Onice; Eleventh district VIII
liam n Irwin, Department of Agricut-
ture; twelfth district Capt Emanuel
Read L. 5. District jail, Thirteenth
district, Charles T.. Everett. Fourteenth
district Frank Coburn, Surgeon Gener-
ais Office, War Department, Fifteenth
district. Frank X Raymond Union
Central Insurance Company; Sixteenth
district. Capt. Newton Ferree. Treasury
Department; Seventeenth district, H. b.
Gram Military SeCrctaTy's office War
Department, Eighteenth district. Hon.
= NJ Ashford, Department of Justice;
Nineteenth district William IT. Crow
district, c. II. Darlington office Secre-
tary Of War; Twenty-hrst district, Maj.
l. G.. Hanna post paymaster's office,
War Department