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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

was gone. and Walker admitted that
he took it.
Part of the money he loaned to
friends, among them the present con-
gresham from the First Indiana dis
trict. Part of it went to support a
baseball team, part was expended for
worthless mining stocks, $4,000 went
into an orange grove in California for
a relative. All this came out at the
trial OF Walker But it was argued
that the defendant had no felonious
intent In accommodating his friends
ply followed the custom of his prede-
cessors in Office. Whether the same
thing is true of his baseball and other
investments" was not made clear.
And the jury acquitted Walker. 1t
was as gross a miscarriage of justice
as has been witnessed recently in an
American court. That it will have a
tremendously bad effect in Indiana and
elsewhere can hardly be denied. The
verdict is a disgrace to the state. To
say that man who steals money does
not deserve to be punished, because
when he stole it he expected to return
it. or that he was betrayed by his
| friends. is to state a proposition that
should not be allowed to stand for a
moment. The jury that sustains such
a proposition goes on record as in favor
of crime.
The Walker case. fortunately, will
cases. At least it win not be used out
side of Indiana. state that has al
ready achieved an unenviable record
through it's harboring of the fugitive
conspirator. Taylor, who stands charged
with completely in the murder of Gov
ernor Goebel of Kentucky. 1t may not
be exactly fair to blame a whole state
for the action of one fool jury, but
that is the attitude outsiders will take
on the Walker case.
The courts become a mockery and
the law d laughing stock when the
nan who steals thousands goes unpun.
ished while the petty criminal is sem
to prison for a long term of years. Oul
typical figure of justice is that of &
blind goddess, the scales in her hand:
weighing evenly and impartially as be-
tween man and man. without regard t
wealth or standing or influence or th'
lack of them. And when the court:
do begin to discriminate, speaking gen
orally, the disintegration of the repub
lie must also begin.
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blind and the foolish are preferred over
the wise.
That same Samuel Smith who had
been chosen president pro tempore Of
the senate more than twenty years
earlier now succeeded Macon and
served two terms, and upon his retire
ment l.. w. Tazewell of Virginia came
in, a relative-for aught 1 know, a son
of the Henry Tazewell who had been
chosen president pro tempore nearly
two score years earlier.
And now we come to the name of
another very great man, one who could
if reIncarnate, lead US out of the will
derneSs in which we are wandering
siXty-seven years after his departure
from the scenes OF men-Hugh L.
White, prominently the wise man.
He succeeded Andrew Jackson in the
senate and served with distinguished
ability and unblemished honor. In 1886
he refused to be dictated to by "Old
Hickory even. ran for president
against the heir apparent. Martin Van
Buren,, and carried his and Jackson 5
own state of Tennessee, as we'll as
Georgia. In that same year of 1886 he
was again elected senator from Ten
nessee. but resigned in 1910.
George Poindexter, then a senator
from Mississippi. came after Hugh l..
w mite as president pro teinp0re. he
was a native of Virginia and went to
the then territory of Mississippi in 1902
and was its delegate in congress for
three terms, 1S07-1s13. He served in the
war of 1872 and was a district judge.
He was a representative from the new
state In the Fifteenth congress and
| governor of Mississippi from 1919 TO
1921. He was senator in congress from
1880 to 1885, when he moved to Ken
lucky and practiced law at Lexington,
but later returned to Mississippi, where
| he died in 1858
POindexter lives largely in tradition,
more than he does in actual history.
He was a very brilliant man, a fine
orator, after the order of Henry A.
/ Wise, and but for some faults IF a
! temper, all too violent, he might have
| filed a great place in our parliament
airy history.
This subject will be continued in
| our next"
Washington, Nov 25. 1907
| Copyright, 1907. by E. w. Newman
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is suffering from a crime epidemic. So
are San Francisco. Portland, Seattle
and Spokane. And yesterday morning
The Herald printed a story showing
that according to the records Of the
county attorneys office for the first
five days of last geek, more complaints
charging feionies were issued than
ever before in a like period of time.
Here. as in other cities, the police seem
to be pewerless to stem the tide. Ar
rests are being made, but the crimes
90 on.
Police records generally show an in
crease of crime during the winter The
number of offenses begins to grow upon
the appearance of the first cold weather
and the growth continues. as compared
with other seasons, throughout the
winter. This is accounted for by the
fact that the criminal element is mi
gratory. In the spring. summer and
fall it is out in the open, or at least
in the towns and villages. When the
cold weather comes every city-bound
freight train carries from one to a
dozen hoboes of a criminal turn of
mind as deadhead passengers.
These people feel that the world owes
them a living and, as they will not
work for it, they turn to crime. This
is but the natural order of events. Just
now more men are out of employment
than at any time during the last five
or six years. Comparatively few of
these men are naturally criminals
Most of them are willing to work when
they can find work to do. But when
they can find no work, when they are
confronted by hunger and cold, they
turn to petty crimes for f-preserva-
ton.
Eternal vigilance on the part of the
police department is the price of prop
| erty salvation in every city. 1t is i'm
| possible, of course, to prevent al
crimes, but it is possible to reduce
crime to a minimum by energetic, in.
| telligent effort. II is not necessary fol
the police to disguise themselves as no
| boes and insult respectable pedestrians
who are on their way home. But NJ
citizen need feel that his rights have
been tempered with when an officel
stops him on the street late at nigh
and makes polite inquiry as to his bust
ness. The citizen should extend TO tn,
police all possible assistance.
| And let US always remember that i
| is a great deal easier TO criticize a pc
lice department for not catching Grim
| inals than it is to suggest methods o
| catching those criminals.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
THE eoLDFIELD SITUATION.

The United States troops asked for
by Governor Sparks of Nevada, arrived
in Goldfield yesterday afternoon. No
disturbances were reported. 1t does
not now seem likely that there VIII be
any riOting. At the same time, the sit
uation is one that will call for the most
careful handling. This is the first time
in the history of the country when
troops have been requested before the
commission of any overt acts of vio-
lence. The dispatches indicate that the
people of Goldfeld We're more surprised
than anybody else when they learned
that the troops were coming.
STILL there is no occasion for hys-
terical comment on either side of the
case. No man who intends to obey the
law has anything to fear from federal
soldiers. The regular army officers do
not, as rule. permit the lives or lib
erty of innocent men TO be placed in
jeopardy. 1t is just as much the duty
of the troops to protect the miners.
should the need arise, as to protect the
mine owners and their property. In
der the law the two factions are on an
exact equality.
There are braves in both forces who
Will. if they are not kept in check, pre-
cipitate trouble. If the officer in COM
mand of the troops is wise and prudent.
he will not commit himself to either
side. preserving a strict neutrality and
letting it be known that he will meas
ure out equal and exact justice to all
concerned. The fear has been ex-
pressed by some of the union men that
the purpose in calling out the soldiers
is to overawe them, 30 drive them from
the district
They cite the Colorado war, in which
many innocent men undoubtedly suf-
fered. There is this difference, though.
The militia were in charge in Colorado
and, with due respect for the national
guard. the members of that organiza-
tion are far more likely to lose their
heads and do foolish things in crises
than are the regulars. This, because
the guardsmen have not the experience.
One thing is certain. The labor stu
alton at Goldheld should be cleared 1t
is the right of the miners 10 work OF
10 cease work, just as they please. II
is also the right Of the mine owners to
employ labor where they can get it.
If not in one place, then in another.
Membership in a union does not con-
vey the privilege of committing acts OF
lawlessness without fear of molesta-
ton. and the great majority OF union
men do not so regard it.
The Herald sincerely hopes there will
be no clash at Goldheld. 1t also hopes
the factions may arrive at a permanent
solution of their problem. There is
right on both sides and wrong on both
sides, and the better elements in both
should be able to get together on a
mutually satisfactory basis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
CHARMED BY THE PRICE.

NASHVILLE Americana
The price tag fools the best of US;
Cigars that. for a nickel go
We pass with scOrn but smoke with JOY
If they are in the ten-eent row.
A straw hat marked at fifty cents
Would hardly seem to be a fit;
The same one priced three ninety-eight
We see and make a dive for it.
We see q picture on the wall
That to our eye appears to be
A ten-cent chrome, or perhaps
A work of art that came with tea,
But when the owner comes and says
He paid a thousand for that bit
And thinks he got II cheap at that
Then we sit up and notice it.
We see a rooster strutting round
With pride that seems almost absurd.
He has some feathers and a tail
And seems like any other bird;
He looks to be a common scrub
Until we get his pedigree
And find he captures every prize.
And then his beauty we can see.
That is the way with everything.
From marbles TO a cake of ice,
We may be experts in the line.
But still we judge it by the price.
Were it a diamond in the rough
And worth a fortune any time.
we wouldn't give it storage room
If il were listed at a dime.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
THE CRIME WAVE.

A crime wave of exceptional proper
lions seems to be sweeping over the
country. No city of any consequence
is exempt. A report from New York
saws that the losses from burglaries
and other thefts, exclusive of embez-
dement's, in that city during the last
few months aggregated $4,000 600. Dur
ing the same period the losses by fire
amounted to less than ss,OOO,O0O. From
Chicago comes a similar report. The
newspapers of st. Louis, of Cincinnati
and other cities daily contain long lists
of more or less serious crimes.
To come closer to home. Los Angeles
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.

1t appears from the result of a recent
Indiana trial that thief is not thief
if his lawyers are shrewd enough to
convince the jury that he didn't mean
to do it." john P. Walker was treas
urer of a county in the Hoosier state
He lived at a rapid rate, rate far
beyond his apparent means and, finally,
when his books were examined by an
expert accountant he was found to be
$50, 900 short The shortage was no
error in bookkeeping. The cold cash
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
INNOCENT CHILDHOOD.
(Bohenian.)

Little William-My father has charge of
over twenty men.
Little Jimmy Huh that's nothing. My
father has charge over your father.
Little William-Weli my father makes
more money than your father. He doesn't
own the shop.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

Mrs. Catherine Shay of Massachu-
sets. who is LOG years old. says she
has. smoked a pipe since she was 10
years old. In justice TO the anti-tobac-
co people, though, it is only fair to
say that Mrs. Snay is almost blind and
partly paralyzed. If she had never
smoked, the chances are she would
have been reading without glasses and
running foot races.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

And now we come to the greatest
man who ever filled the station of pres
ident pro tempOre of the American
senate. for Nathaniel Macon was more
than Cato. There have been ADLER and
far more brilliant men than he in either
house Of congress, but. perhaps, in
character he was the graEdest of them
all. As a soldier of the revolution he
was as brave in the field as he was aft
erward wise in the council. He served
thirteen terms in the national house of
representatives, of which body he was
speaker QS01-1S0O three terms, and
then was transferred to the senate,
where he served thirteen years, until
he resigned in 1928. He was president
FRO tempore 1825-1S27.
When he died, in 1887. the senate ad-
jcurned in respect to His memory and
in recognition of his lofty and spotless
characteristic only instance in the en-
tire history of the senate where that
body adjourned in tribute to one of its
eX-members. and as an ex-senator only.
In the lobby of the house are portraits
of all the speakers, save Macon, who
never sat for picture The late Matt
Ransom, lOnG a senator from MacOns
state of North CaroliT-a, sought to have
a portrait of him painted by making a
composite picture OF TWO OLD men or
his acquaintance. each of whom had
features some of which bore marked
resemblance to Macon's, one supplying
the upper face, the other the lower 1
do not know that the project was car
RED into effect. 1t is great pity that
we have no counterfeit image of Ma
con. North Carolina could not but send
his statue TO the national valhalla in
the hall Of the old house of representa-
tives. Take down the geography and
see how this grand old man is hon
ored in its political nomenelature-Ma-
con counties, Macon cities Macon
towns and Macon villages. His life IL
lustrates the value of character. His
monument is like the man. 1t is a
huge pile of stones thrown on his grave
by every pilgrim who visits the spot to
do reverence to the great man who lies
buried there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

If the report that Henry Gassaway
Davis is to marry a newspaper woman
is correct. it may truthfully be said
that he has at last arrived at years of
discretion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

A New York man made a will in
which he disinherited his wife. Then
he murdered her. Evidently he had OBJ
served the success of widows in other
will contests and didn't propose to take
any chances.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

The Sagebrush Sage desires to go on
record as saying that it is now a case
of f Pluribus Union at Goldfield.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

William II. Crawford of Georgia came
next. He was one of the leading states
men of a generation that produced
giants. It is not at all unlikely that he
would have been president had his
health continued robust, and it is GER
tain that his candidature for that office
defeated Henry Clay in 1924 He was
the great-grandfather of Mr.. CuIber-
son, the present able and distinguished
senator from Texas, himself presiden-
tai timber and a presidential posSibil-
ity, a presidential probability. Joseph
3. NarnUm of Massachusetts, succeed
ed, and, after serving a single term,
gave way 10 that same Gaiilard of
South Carolina, who served two terms,
and was succeeded by James Barbour
or Virginia, whose brother was speaker
of the seventeenth congress. One day
John Randolph of Roanoke, coming out
of the capitol, was asked by an ac-
quaintance what was going on inside.
In that shrill voice, the terror of many
an ADLER debater, he answered: Il was
in the senate and Jeemes Barbour shot
at a hair and split it. and then / went
over to the house, where his brother
Phil shot at a barn door and missed
it, John Gaillard came for a third
time and was president pro tempore
three terms in succession. SO il will be
discovered that I was mistaken in the
assertion that Mr.. Frye holds the
championship for length of tenure.
Gaillard served six terms, but they
were not continuous Frye has served
five continuous terms only. but should
he survive he is certain of a sixth, and
all continuous.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

What a blessing If would be to this
generation to have a statesman, cast
i'm The mold of Nathaniel Macon. to
lead this people out of the political
labyrinth, in the windings of which
even our wisest and best are ne2- be-
wiidered and apparently helpless such
as ever results when the blind lead the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

With men in Boston and Cincinnati
trying to demonstrate that it is possi-
BILE to live on a diet of beans and sauer-
kraut, exclusively and respectively,
isn't it up TO some Salt Laker to
achieve fame by attempting to live for
six weeks on sego lily roots?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

If it is true that Senator Hopkins is
likely to be defeated in Illinois because
of lis advocacy of Shoots cause, may
it not also be true that Senator Bur-
rows seems doomed to defeat in Mich
igan because he was against SmOot?
VIII some kind reader please answer?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

The crowd at the dock when the
Duchess of Marlborough walked up
the gang plank to board her ship to
return to England, was so great that
policemen were called to push the peo-
pie back What a truly democratic
country we have. What?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08
Some Earlier Presidents Pro TEN.
BY SAVOYARD.

So far as 1 know there has always
been an extra session of the senate
convoked simultaneously with the in
auguration of a new president, to co..
firm the new cabinet, and deliberate
on other matters it may see fit to con-
slider. When the session is few days
old the vice president gives notice that
it will not be convenient for him to at
tend on the morrow, and when the sit
ting on the morrow begins the senate
chooses a president pro tempore TO
serve during the life of that congress.
Until some twenty-odd years ago the
president pro tempore was next in
succession to the presidency after the
vice president; but that is now changed
so as to make the secretary of state
president, in the case of death, reSig-
nation or removal of both the president
and vice president.
Many very eminent men have been
chosen to this great place, though ii is
a matter of remark that neither Clay
nor Calhoun nor Webster nor Benton
nor Douglass nor Fessenden nor Conk-
ling ever held it. There have been
more presidents pro tempore of the
senate than speakers of the house
perhaps twice as many. Mr.. Frye has
served five full terms, and if he lives
until the expiration of the Sixtieth
congress he will have completed a
sixth teTm-the longest tenure of that
office in the history of the senate.
The first president pro tempore was
John Langdon, then a senator from
New Hampshire, a man after the order
of George Clinton OF Isham G.. Harris.
He was the Carnot who organized
Stark's brilliant victory of Benning-
fhof ~ der
inevitable. He was succeeded as pres
ident pro tempore by Richard Henry
Lee, who, as an orator, was to Patrick
Henry as the silvery stream of a syl-
van brook TO the roaring waters of a
mountain torrent. Lee persuaded
Henry commanded. Lee was the Cicero
of the revolution; Henry was its De-
mosthenes. The next was lizard of
| South Carolina, and Tazewell of Vir-
ginia, followed by four names now for
got. until Theodore Sedgwick came in
in 1898 for a little while. Afterward he
was speaker Of the house, of which
| body he was repeatedly a member be-
fore he became senator. He had beer
in the continental congress from Mas
! sachusetts and was a pillar of the rev.
| olutiOn in New England.
And now we have a long list of what
| Disraeli said Lord Liverpool was-arch-
mediocristies. as they live in the pub
lie esteem of our day, such as Lau-
renee of New York. Ross of Pennsyl-
vania, Livermore of New Hampshire
/ Tracy of Connecticut, Howard OF
Maryland, Hillhouse of Connecticut
Baldwin of Georgia, Bradley of Yer.
mont, Brown of Kentucky, Franklin OF
North Carolina, Anderson of Tennes-
see, Smith Of Observation-Disclosures as
the first man who ever served forty
years in tie national legislature, ano
he is one of the half dozen men of oui
| history entitled to that distinction
| Alilledge of Georgia succeeded Smith a:
president pro tempOre, and was sue.
| ceeded by Gregg of Pennsylvania
Next was Gaillard of South Carolina, Z
very eminent statesman, who was sue
| ceeded by John Pope of Kentucky.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

a Washington paper wants to know
if congress is going to enact a prohi-
bition law for the District of Column
bia The answer is that congress is go
ing to be too busy with the financial
question to bother itself about prohibit
ton.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-25
COT TIE / HABIT A
AGED coLoRE0 MAN OF HARRI.
SON COUNTY MARRIEs
EIGHTH WIFE.

CLARKSBURG. W. Va. Oct. 25.-
For the eighth time William Tillman,
colored, aged IS. took unto himself
wife last night when he married Mrs.
Mandy Walker, aged 80. who had been
married three times before. The wed.
ding was performed as public affair
on the front steps of the Courthouse
by the Rev. George T. Smith, colored.
and in the presence of a big throng Of
interested spectators.
Mandy is a well known negro
"mammy" who worked in Clarksburg
households for. many years, and was q
slave before the war. At their home
at Wilsonburg a big wedding recep-
ton was held, which was attended by
"a large number OF both white and
colored people. q a
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-25
farm FACTS
BROUGHT oUTilN CASE BEFORE
JUSTICE AMOS ON TRIAL
YESTERDAY.

Any one interested in exploiting the
agricultural wealth and advantages OF
West Virginia and especially Marion
county can procure some interesting
information ut Justice Amos Office,
The facts were established last night
by n sufficient number OF witnesses to
satisfy any dubious persons as to re-.
sources of Marion county farms. The
evidence relative to what can be pro-
duced on a small parcel of land was
adduced in the case OF LUCIA Tamasco
VS.. Joe Romano. The testimony show.
ed that on plat Of ground 5Ox1Oo
feet the following products were grown
and their value was as stated below:
One bnshel OF grapes. worth ten dol.
lars; one hundred bushels of red pep.
pers, worth forty dollars: four bush
els OF corn, twenty dollars; forty
bushels Of tomatoes worth thirty dol.
lars; ten bushels Of beans, worth ten
dollars.
The plat OF ground is trlfle over
an eighth of an acre; the value OF the
products total s11O. showing that the
value o! the products grown on an
acre would amount to $3.50.