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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-15

Special Gable to The Journal 81 49,
~ ANAMA, July Guatemala is
facing vital crisis. Honduras
= today joined Salvador in, the
declaration ofswar, according to advices
received here. All the district is seeth-
ing and peace. which has obtained for
such an unusual period, has only served
to whet the appetites &c the Latin-3
Americans for revolutions and warfare
+ The Guate1nalan forces suffered "a a.
hard repulse by the Salvadoreans forces
at Meatpan, twelve miles from the
Guatemalan border. General Borilla
Commanded the Salvadorean army and
drove the invaders from their position,
which he now occupies. The Salvador
cans first invaded Guatemala, and it
is thought. here that the invasion Of
Salvador was in retaliation.
Guatemala Best Prepared.
!, Persons familiar with the standing Of
the three countries agree that Guata-
mela is in better position than any Of
the others to carry on war. Recent IN
transitional troubles, tss5 insi gnif cant to
attract attention oeside, Tut sufficient
to put the country enea fighting basis,
finds the country ready to meet its foes.
Partizan difficulties have been laid
aside insthe face of the common crisis.
Alone. Salvador would not be a
match for Guatemala and it is admitted
that Salvador and Honduras combined
will have plenty Of fighting on their
hands. 49,. Is ~
Costa Rica May Fight. -.
The declaration Of war by Honduras
upon Guatemala brings "a third state
actively into the Central American
trouble, which has been progressing
with more or less severe fighting and
bloodshed fora month or more. Hon
duras and Salvador are5snow arrayed
against their neighbor on the west.
Nicaragua and Costa Rica are the only
two countries still passive, and it has
been said that. the former is about to
take part in the fighting. Up to today
Honduras seemingly has taken no part
in the difficulty between her neigh
bors. Recent reports, however, de-
clared her territory has been invaded
by Guatemalan troops in pursuit Of
fugitives from the army of General
Regalado, the Salvadorean commander
who was killed in the fighting at
Jicaro. ~ -,
The present trouble in Central
America has been brewing for a long
time. For the last five years the revo-
lutionists in that country have been
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EIGHT BURIED BY oAvE-IN.

yay IT, TINS n AFTER IT.
the Mansfield Coal & Coke company,
near Carnegie, knocked down several
wooden pillars, allowing a large guam
tity. of the roof to fall. Eight work
men were caught under many tons of
debris. Nicholas Kiolnski was fatally
injured and five others are in an ex-
tremely critical condition.
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CHARGE MURDER TO "a
Five Of the Gang Arraigned at the
County Seat. -. ~

= , =
Special to The Journal. -.-.--- RI ...a
Ellsworth, Wis, July 14-Five Of the
Italians arrested for completely in the
murder of Constable Isaac at Prescott
yesterday afternoon were arraigned here
today and pleaded not guilty. The ex-
animation was then continued until Fri
day. 49, -~.
Ed Schultz, foreman of the gravel
train, was the complaining witness in
today's proceedings. He swore that he
saw Saroguse, leader Of the gang, strike
the blow that killed the constable. A
shovel was the weapon. .
When the officer was lying all but
dead upon the ground, the others piled
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easily adapt themselves, no play Of
the present has weathered such a
storm OF criticism as has The
CIansman.' The New York critics
assailed it with a fierceness that
would have withered any ordinary
production, but the public paid no
attention to the critics and their
combined attack could not prevent a
successful run. When the New York
critics saw their attack was useless
they began to swing around and see
some merit in a production that the
public carried to success in the
face Of newspaper criticism
Has any attempt been made to
suppress The Clansman?' inquired.
"Yes," he replied, several news
papers have advocated such step
and when it was playing in Frank
fort, KY, a bill was introduced into
the State legislature with that OBJ
ject as its inspiration.
But The Clansman' WILL not be
taken off. l have been offered con-
siderable sums of money for my in
terest in it-I own a half interest,
you know-but 1 would not sell it
for any sum. After it has concluded
its run in this country I shall take it
to England and Australia. It is a
play that concerns the Anglo Saxon
race and the Anglo-Saxon race shall
see it,"
The question presented by the play
was a point that occupied Dixon's
mind more than any other, and he
led the conversation back to that
topic.
Since your play presents this
interrogation, do you propose to an
swer it-haYe you a solution for
the negro question:" I inquired.
YES" he replied quickly; "col-
CHI"
I'm Africa. Not by duress or
suddenly. It will take
time, and must be done with the
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consent and wish of the negro
himself. Bishop Turner entertains
the same views, and so, also, do
other negro leaders. We can give
him a government of his own in
the land whence we brought
him. Give him the benefit of our
form of government, our civiliza-
ton, our education, and our knowl-
edge 1t is the only way. We have
educated the negro to q point which
justifies him in demanding more
than we will give. That more he
will get from neither North nor
South. We lead him to believe it
is his right, AID yet you see the
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answeT-the answer Lynch received
when he brought home to the
Northern man what social equality
really means. That is the realiza-
ton my play brings to the people
of this country-to every section
of this country. That was my mo-
tive when I wrote The Clansman.'
''You prefer the drama as means
of reaching the people2" I ventured.
at is far more effective than any
novel" he said with enthusiasm. ct
is like talking to people They
catch your meaning so much more
readily. You drive your points
home. Why in The Clansna an there
are more than six hundred pictures
presented to the audience in swift
succession. Il carries a realization
that no book can give"
DO you find the greatest sympathy
for your views in the South"
''Not altogether. Southern audi
ences are probably more enthusi-
astic than those of the North, but I
have found nothing but enthusiasm
in any State We have played. find
that Northern audiences see many
little touches that Southern audi
ences overlook"
Dixon does not impress one as a
man who Is in the game for revenue
only. He has too much Of the en-
thusiast in his cosmos for that. New
York's critics have presented him IN
the attitude OF one digging into a
dangerous subject with an eye to
nothing but the box Office receipts,
but his methods sufficiently refute
that estimate of the man
He very frankly acknowledged TO
me that newspaper men as a ma
jority are severe in their condemna-
ton of his dramatization. He said
the New York critics had made up
their minds before they saw the play
and were waiting to attack T. the
night it opened.
Dixon protests against his play be-
ing compared to the ordinary melo-
drama that appeals with cheap SEN
timent, and is not true to any par
ticular phase O. life. And his protest
is not without reasonable grounds.
Among his audiences this week have
been many Southern people famil-
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lar with the scenes and incidents Of
the reconstruction period. They ara
a unit in declaring that his atmo-
sphere is admirably worked up in
''The Clansman."
In the scenes where comedy pre-
dominates the author has certainly
caught faithful Iikenesses Of the old
plantation darkies and the laughs
that his lines command are almost
as spontaneous as the Kisses accord
ed those he puts into the mouth of
his abolitionist.
No one who has lived In the old
South can fail to recall the old days
while watching the second cou-tship
between Eve and Nelse. 1t is exag-
gerated. Of course. but not quite as
exaggerated as some pIaygoers sup
pose.
And the fear Of the two darky wit
nesses detailed TO report the secret
meeting of the Ku Klux Klan does
not go very wide Of the mark. OF
course the dread and awe Of the
great Southern secret society has
been oyerdone, as such a fruitful
theme for romance is bound to be
But a lightning blasted pine tree
cleaning white in the moonlight has
been known to completely unnerve
a backwoods darky in sections Of the
country where the Ku Klux KIan
has been merely a memory for thirty
years. Why is it unreasonable TO
suppose that the real taing would
put one into a state Of nervous col
lapse during the reconstruction
period?
The critics who refuse to admit
that Dixon has given a reasonably
realistic picture of an historic period
place themselves soIidIy against the
opinion of the many playgoers who
have actually lived in the country
and during the perioi when the KU
Klux Klan operated through the
Southern States.
Although he did not say so I
gathered that he mistook me for a
I did not tell him that
I hailed from more Southern State
than himself. And since he did not
ask me I likewise did not tell him
what I thought of putting such q
play as 'The CIansman'' on the AIa-
srican stage.
FRANK MORSE.
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~ what recovered from the
a thunderous applause that
= greeted the appearance of
Thomas Dixon, jr., be-
fore the curtain at the Columbia
Theater last Monday evening, and
when I could control the inclination
to dodge which I had acquired dur
Ing the evening as storm after storm
Of Kisses had swept and eddied about
the house, I leaned comfortably back
in my seat to hear what possible ex-
cuse the gentleman from North Caro-
Iona could offer.
From his brief but interesting re-
marks I managed to gather that he
was not at all ashamed of himself,
so when he had concluded his testi-
monial to newspaper critics I took
a chance and drifted back behind the
scenes to arrange d date.
The prompt acquiescence of The
Clansman's" author enabled me to
avoid missing any part of the much
advertised Ku Klux KIan scene and
I Joined Dixon after the fall of the
final curtain with the conviction that
was overcharged with atmosphere.
You are accused of arousing sec
tional animosity," I told him. What
is your answer"
My play is not an appeal to sec
tional or race prejudice, it is a great
Interrogation put fairly and squarely
before the Anglo-Saxon race. / am
attacked because am not afraid
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dice or passion. selected that
period as setting for my play mere
ly because it was the one and only
time that the negro was in power.
The Clansman' was written, not to
stir up bitter memories, but as
prophecy for the future.
Il am more honest than those who
try to evade the issue. The Jim
Crow cars and the Grandfather
Clause offer no solution of the prob
lem. Such expedients are a mere
temporary postponement of the in
evitable. And understand me, I am
not condemning the negro. It is the
white man who is responsible for
the existing situation. We spend
thousands and millions of dollars to
educate him, tell him he is our
equal, and then--what?
You observe that Lynch, the lieu
tenant governor. commands a certain
amount Of sympathy. An English
man who saw the play twice during
the same week came to me and said:
"Do you know that your negro
villain excites considerable SYM
pathy?"
II told him that was my intention.
Certainly there is sympathy for
Lynch. He was led to consider him
self the social equal of the man
whose daughter he wished to marry
and then spurned for no other rea-
son than the color Of his face by the
man who had encouraged him to be-
lieve in social equality. That is the
whole idea of my play-to forcibly
bring before the white man a realiz-
alton Of what he has done and COM
pei him to ask himself fairly and
squarely what he is going 90 do. The
play. as l told you, is nothing more
or less than great interrogation,
and the question it asks must be an
swered. We cannot dismiss the prob
lem, and as long as the problem ex-
lists so long will the play continue"
Adverse criticism does not seem
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to put the situation before the coun-
try as it really exists.
The negro question is not a prob
lem for the South alone-it is a
question that concerns our united
nation. Race animosity is as strong
in Ohio OF New Jersey as it is in
the Southern States. am not bark
inS back to the reconstruction period
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FTER my ears had some
what recovered from the
thunderous applause that
greeted the appearance of
Thomas Dixon, jr., be-
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to have materially damaged you
from the boxoffice end" l conceded.
mo play of the present" said Dix,
on, fixing upon me one of those pen.
etrating gazes to which his dark eyes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-29
SUICIDE AT SWEETHEART'S DOOR
Rejected Love- rim Two ounces OF
CarOOlIc Acid and Dies.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Oct. 2s.-Hans Reck
a florist. Is years old. after a quarrel with
his sweetheart. Helen Bassett, committed
suicide last night on the steps of her home
by drinking carbolic acid.
Miss Bassett's mother discovered his
dead body early this morning.
Reck and Miss Bassett had a lovers
quarrel a week go. Reck heard last even
ing that Miss Bassett was at a theatre with
another man and watched for her. When
she emerged from the playhouse he ap-
preached her with angry words and her
escort withdrew.
Reck walked home with his former sweet
heart and pleaded for permission to resume
his calls. Miss Bassett firmly ref
and informed Reck that she no longer
cared for him.
He first threatened her and then threat
ened to kill himself, but she thought he
was joking.
He left her in front of her home lust
before midnight and walked a short dis
lance away and returned again, hut she
refused TO see him. He purchased two
ounces of carbol.c acid at "a drug store,
and seating himself on the vera nda Of her
home drank IL all.
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OPERATOR SHIPS AFTER WRECK.
Barely waited for Trains 10 Crash Before
quitting Ills hoy.

SpRINGFIELD, Ohio, Oct. 2S.-OperatOr
Frank Becker, who is said 10 ha We been
responsible for tho wreck on the Big Four
west Of here last night, is missing. He
disappeared before the two trains came
together and no trace Of him has been
found.
Engineer Leon Weaver, who escaped by
jumping, says that a clear track was given
to him by Operator Becker. The officials
say that the operator had orders TO hold
freight No. 90 at Durbin until the second
section Of No. 90 passed going west.
The caboose had hardly passed the target
when Becker announced to the other en-
ployees tina he was through with the job
and started away. They called to him to
ask what was the matter and he shouted
back, You will soon learn the particulars. y
The day operator took the deserteT's place
and furnished the information about the
wreck to the main Office in indianapolis.
Becker is d stranger and had worked at
the target ten days.
Neither engine left the track when the
crash came. They ploughed through each
other until the fire boxes were damned
together and there was no possible escape
for those who did not jump. The wreck
occurred on a curve. Engineer Leon Wea-
yer and his fireman, John Oren, jumped.
The former was badly scalded but the latter
escaped injury. Frank Bird of this city,
a front brakeman, was the only one on the
other engine TO escape.
The dead are Engineer Frank Cook.
Daniel " lace, conductor, Frank Thomas,
fireman; Leroy Welsh, brakeman.
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STEAM co. FIRE OFT At LAST.
Coal stored High Up Kept on Burning
Until 3 u. VI.

After the iremen had gone from the
New York Steam Company's plant at 10
to ~ Greenwich street under the impress
sion that they had subdued the fire there
that hadkept them busy from midnight until
after 3 o'clock yesterday morning. a blaze
was found in the 800 tons of coal stored on
the upper floor. Engine o and Hook and
Ladder 10 were recalled. A force of
shovellers was put TO work turning over
the coal while the fremen wet it down.
The captain of Engine @ insisted on having
every bit Of coal turned over that might
conceal another spark. II was nearly
8 O'Clock in the afternoon before the fire.
men quit the job for the Second time, after
having been on duty practically fifteen
hours.
IL was one of the hardest fires 10 get at
that the lremen can recall in the downtown
district. -Four lines Of hose were stretched
mp a narrow. winding iron stairway seven
stories to the blazing wooden Surerst rIcturc
on the roof. In going up and down tho
stairs after the hose had | cen laid the fire
men encountered a cataract of dirty watcr
that made l. hard for them to keep their
feet. some Of them on going down simply
sat on the slippery hose and slid most
Of the way. The tireIncn -ay that tho
upper wooden parts Of the building appeared
TO hon to bc of dangerous construction.
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PLAIN DEAL, SAYS PARSONS.
League Could Have Knocked out Tam.
many Petitions and Didn't.

Herbert Parsons, chairman Of the Re-
publican county committee. commenting
last night on the i'll fate which has befallen
most of the Independence League candi-
dates. said that although the Independence
League executive committee, which had
the %Ole say as to regularity, filed afidavits
answering Tammany objections to genuine
Independence League nominations, it filed
none obiecting to the Tammany indie
~pendence League nominations, so that
when any genuine nomination was knocked
out the Tammany candidate got the league
nomination. Mr.. Parsons went on:
join to this the fact that the indie
pendence League petitions were all petit
tions framed for nominating State candi-
dates and not local candidates and that
Tammany did not make tho mistake that
the Independence League nominees made,
although the latter followed the instruc-
ions OF the Gilsey House, and you have a
deal to throw the Independence League
nominees wherever they were confiding
enough to leave their fortunes in the hands
Of the Gilsey House people. In the Sixth
Assembly district Tammany nominate d
the son Of the Independence League leader.
There wa no trouble about the Indepen-
dence League nomination in that case, II
was properly made out
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PLENTY or ORATORY THIS WEEK.
Mr. Hughes VIII Make, a n Address
Next Monday

The Republicans this year intend TO
break away from the custom Of winding
up the campaign on the Saturday night
before election day. Charles T.. Hughes.
who will reach town on Friday from his
long upstate tour, will, beginning on Fri
day night, start in 20 address a series OF
meetings which cover almost every sec
ton of the city, and he will not end the task
he has set himself until Monday night.
On Friday night he will speak at ten meet
ings in Kings and Queens. On Saturday at
noon he will address a meeting in the Brook
Ign Real Estate Exchange.
On Saturday night he will make a tour
up the East Side and down the West Side,
speaking at twelve meetings. One of the
arqest of the Saturday night meetings
will be held in Cooper Union under the aus
piCeS Of the Republican Club Seth Low,
Acknowledgement Julius M. Mayer ana DR..
f. II. l.. Gould will speak there. Henry W.
Taft will preside. Another big meeting
that night will be held in Abingdon square.
On Monday night Mr.. Hughes will speak
in Durland's Riding Academy. Mr.. Hughes
assignments nave not all been made.
On Thursday, Friday and saturday Mr..
Hearst will make addresses at a series Of
meetings TO he held in Manhattan, Brooklyn
and Queens. Five Hearst talking machines
with moving picture attachments will
stert up The state to-day.
The Judiciary Nominators will hold meet
ings all over the town every night this week
AMI a hundred street corner meetings around
tr lcl.s zach night. For tonight four mass
meet ings are scheduled. one at Murray
Hill Lyceum, one at Metropolitan Temple,
one at ~Pythagoras Hall and one at 23t
East Tenth street.
! Tammany Hall is doing little campaign
work outside Of the truck and street corner
meetings, nut the organization has arranged
TO wind up the campaign with a mass meet
ing on Saturday night in Durland's Riding
Academy.
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The WCa

The storm which was over the Lake regions
moved rapidly eastward. causing rains over the
Lake regions and the New England States and a
few scattered showers IN the northern section OF
the Middle Atlantic States. with cloudy weather
from New York city south over Virginia.
Fair weather was general lsewhc throughout
the country, save for orc or two showers in the
Southwestern States,
The passing OF the low pressure area occAsiOned
brisk TO high winds on the north Atlantic Coast.
The disturbance was followed by an area of high
pressure which covered the country generally
west Of the Allegheny Mountains, the temperature
falling S 10 IS degrees In the Central and Southern
States, and IL was cooler In the Lake regions and
Middle Atlantic States. with fresh to brisk westerly
winds. In the Northwest IL was warmer.
In this city the day was generally cloudy; slightly
cooler: fresh 10 brisk westerly winds; average
humidity, So per cent; corrected 10
read TO sea level, at \. NJ, 29.64: 3 p, NJ. 2D.SS.
The temperature yesterday. ns recorded Ivy the
Oniclsl thermometer. Is shown IN the annexed table.
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DEArH or 4. BTSr BOY.
JakeN kaPIan, Immigrant, Makes sIO-
Doc and Dies NJ -.

d and Dies NJ -.
Over at 253 Graham avenue. Brooklyn.
an aged father and mother, two sisters and
a brother are bewailing the death Of Jakey
Kaplan, an he was famil;a-ly known to
pretty nearly all in the Brownsville section.
He d.ed on Saturday. About five years ago
he left the province Of COurland in Russia,
taking passage tn America with no other
asset than a little red bundle and an album
dance Of energy and ambition.
He DID not now n word Of English when
he landed at EIliS Island. The Hebrew
Aid Society released him and CAV him a
small sum Of money. With that he bought
a basket and n small stock Of shoestrinrs
collar buttons and other notions, and
thus equippe1 he started a successful
business career. Within a year he had
saved enough TO hr ng his old father and
mother, two sisters, and brother to this
country. When they came he rented A
house at 253 Graham avenue. BROOKLYN!
and IL took every cent he had left to meet
the first months rent. After tina all the
members Of the family worked at some
tn ing and in q few months the shop into
VIII oh he had turned a part Of the house
WAS tho S~torehOIise for \ considerable stock
of dry goods and notions, from VIII Oh hiu
pushcart and his brothers. were supplied.
Business prOspered and a friend OF the
FAM ly told a r. porter that the family owned
SIC, OO0 in real estate aud other assets. All
tbs Jakey had don" by the time he was 81.
but the hard work old on hia strength
and typho q pneumonia took q fatal hold
on him., ending in his death on Saturday.
The funeral was held from the little dwelling
yesterday afternoon Al 2:3O and both before
and after the hour there was a steady stream
OF friends n acquaintance. young and
old, who went to pay their last tribute 70
his memory