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The National tribune., 1907-08-22
HOKE SMITH As A "STRENUOUS-
GOVERNOR.

Hon. Hoke Smith. ex-Secretary of the
Interior and now Governor of Georgia.
has been giving a very fair imitation of
the strenuous Executive since his In
auguratien. AS result the Legislature
of Georgia adjourned last Sunday morn
ing almost in riot, and after an ex-
citing session of 90 hours. The trouble
was that Gov. Smith wanted some legis-
iation put thru that the General AS
sembly did not like a little bit, and il
required all his power to bring the re-
calcitrant members up to the rack. The
first trouble was that Gov. Smith is
emulous of his brother Governors as
railroad regulators, and wanted to make
some reputation in that line himself
The Railroad Commission of the State
was against him. two to one, so that he
found it necessary to pack" it by add
ing two more members of his own way
of thinking to make majority. He got
the "fve-member" provision thru the
House without special trouble. but the
Senate defeated it. and then trouble re-
suited The Senators said that they had
never been SO "buttonholed and toe
trodden' in all their experience. Gov.
Smith had preached against lobbyists
from every stump in the State, and yet
he resorted to lobbying far worse
than any ever known by the railroads
or other interests. He also secured the
passage of the bill TO disfranchise the
negros. The opposition to this was not
on account of the disfranchf sement of
the freedmen, but because it puts in the
hands of a ring the right to absolutely
Smith was also bent on getting thru a
bill to put an income tax of one per
cent on the gross receipts of railroads
and other corporations He failed there.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

The strongest hopes for Mississippi
Williams as Senator, instead of Gov.
Vardaman. Mississippi is one of the
States of the South least touched by the
modern spirit. 1t is strictly an agricul-
tural State, devoted almost wholly to
cotton growing. with no manufactures
or other enterprises Ito bring in men
from the outside and with them a leaven
of the thought of to-day. No. other
State in the South Is so little affected
by modernism. In Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkan-
sas and Texas great manufacturing
towns have risen, and the people have
had their attention strongly diverted
from the old order of things; even in
agriculture there have been new indus
tries risen, like oranges and lemons in
Florida, watermelons and peaches in
Alabama and Georgia, vegetables and
fine tobacco in Virginia, North and
South Carolina, early fruits in Tennes-
see. Kentucky and Arkansas. all of
which have helped bring those COM
munities more into touch with the coun-
try. There has been absolutely nothing
of this kind in Mississippi. The only
new thing of any moment has been
timber cutting. and this does not bring
into the State a permanent or particu-
Iarly desirable class of immigrants. Gov.
Vardaman represents the people who
think as they did so years ago, while
John Sharpe Williams. n brilliant, highly
educated. much-traveled man, repre-
sents the element that is looking toward
bringing Mississippi up to the plane OF
the thought of today. The contest was
close. but the more progressive element
has won in Senator Williams. and it
looks as if they were in the majority in
the State.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Ex-senator Carmack. of Tennessee.
whose curule chair was fiddled away
from him by Bob" Taylor, is said to
mediate breaking into politics again as
a candidate for Governor of Tennessee,
with view to the Presidential nominal
ton. Mr.. Carmack has strong belief
that you cannot keep a red-headed man
down, and he thinks altogether likely
that those who have been talking of
nominating some good man from the
South had their eyes fixed upon his
flame matched dome of thought. Car
mack was once thought to be one Of
the promising young men of the new
South. ranking along with Joe Bailey.
of Texas. and John Sharp Williams. He
was never a Bryan man. but since his
newborn aspirations he has spoken
gentlier of Bryan than before.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

We are sorry that the revelations
have been so unpleasant in the suits in
which District Attorney Jerome has
been engaged. Everybody has regard
ed Mr.. Jerome as one of the leading
apostles of official and political purit:.
and he has certainly done a great y offs
in the way of civic righteousness and
lincorruptability. 1t develops, alas. that
while Mr.. Jerome and his lieutenants
were making such a fine campaign
against graft the men WHO had charge
of his campaign for reelection were
spending $4,000 to elect him to an
.of1ce which pays but $4,000 year.
1.-The campaign funds were contributed
Eby the big insurance companies and
Ipther interests, and it is hard to believe
Ithat they were putting up all this money
without some selfish motive.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

The absolute breakdown of the State
in the attempt to punish the skulkinS
bushwhackers who are shooting one
another down from ambush induces
Col. Henry Watterson to. sorrowfully
admit that Kentucky is tha worst gov
erned State in the Nation. Let the Col
onel look at the Western mining States,
and he Will see that the murderers there
are even more cowardly and brutal than
in the mountains of the Big Sandy. The
Kentucky feudists have at least the
courage of letting it be known who did
the deed, and exposing themselves to
retribution. They are far superior to
men who plant bombs and lay dynamite
under railroad platforms. Nothing in
any heather land has equaied the cow
ardly savagery Of the assassinations in
the mining States.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

The readers of the New York Sun
are pck;ng fun at the astronomical
knowledge Of the paper because of its
saying of "Uncle Joe Cannon, a rough.
frank and sometimes rank old man. but
North Star" Most people know. even if
they are not editors OF the New York
papers, that the tail of the dipper never
points to the north star, not even hard
ly ever. II is the two stars that form
the side of the diDper that DO all the
pointing.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
pENNsYLvAN1A,s CAPITAL GRAFT.

Clearly there was no halfway busi-
ness about the PENNSYLVANIA State
House graft, and there is as little about
the exposure of the rascals The con-
tractors started in to steal 100000
out of a possible $4,000 900. which
makes a fine measure of the appetite
of that class of thieves, and they suc-
ceeded to the extent of their calcula-
tions
The Investigating committee started
to find out how much had been stolen
and who were the thieves. They did
their work with astonishing thoroness.
The work of the committee is pro-
nounced the finest piece of official pro-
bling ever done, and Mr.. James Scarlet,
the counsel for the committee, has
gained a reputation like that of Gov.
Hughes for his insurance probing.
What is most unusual in such inves-
legations there Is not a charge from any
reputable source that anybody has been
shielded or anybody whitewashed.
Probably many of the smaller fellows
have been passed over for the time be-
ing, hut there have been enough big
fellows firmly caught in the net to sat-
isfy the public appetite. Indeed, there
are enough of these large fish to have
completely cleaned out the pool in
State of less wealth than Pennsylvania.
While joining with their Republican
colleagues on the Committee in all their
findings the Democratic members sub
NIT supplementary report recon-
mending civil and criminal suits
against the following:
Joseph NJ. s. Huston, the architect;
Congressman H. Burd Cassel, of Lam
caster, president of the Pennsylvania
Construction Company, which got al
most 100000 for metallic furniture,
said by experts to be worth only $780,
900.
John H. Anderson, the Philadelphia
furniture contractor, who made mill
lions.
Contractors George f. Payne and
Charles c. Wetter, of Philadelphia, who
erected the building.
Ex-Audftor General w. F. Snyder,
and E. B. Herdenbergh, who passed the
bills
Ex-State Treasurer Frank c. Harris
and w. J.. Mathues, who paid the bills.
Ex-Superintendent of Buildings M.
Shumaker. who accepted the furnish
ing. and various persons implicated in
contracts, including charles F. Kins-
man, John c. Neiderer, Wallis Boileau,
and George K. Storm of New York.
who were involved in the bronze and
other metal contracts.
The majority report simply recon-
mended suits against any and all per-
sons concerned in the fraudulent trans
actions
Gov Stuart has placed the report in
the hands of the Attorney General
with directions to Immediately begin
suits against the persons named in the
minority reports.
Gov. Pennypacker. who was in office
at the time, escaped in u way, since he
paid no attention whatever to such an
important piece of State work. and was
therefore ignorant of the wholesale
steaiings.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
SECRETARY TAFT AND THE CAB
MET.

Last Tuesday night a seemingly au-
thoritative report was sent out from CO.
lumbus. o.. that Secretary Taft wouIt'
resign from the Cabinet Immediately
after seeing the Filipino Assembly get
into running order. This report was in
line with rumors which have been cur
rent in Washington. but it has been
strongly disputed by the Secretary's in
innate friends.
They say that in case Secretary Taft
gets the nomination next Summer, he
will at once resign from the Cabinet
But until he does get it, or until he iind.,
that his candidacy is being embarrassed
by remaining in the Cabinet, he VIII
not resign. They do not admit that he
feels it is being so embarrassed.
For the present. he feels, he is align
ed with Mr. Roosevelt in the fight for
certain great reforms and certain leg
islation of the utmost importance to the
insular posaessiohs, especially the Phil
ippines. He does not want to quit the
fight now.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Ion Pericardis mentions one grue-
some fact in connection with Morocco,
which makes interesting reading for
those philanthropists who are SO bit
terly hostile to the extension of civilized
Government over barbarians. 1t seems
rebellion and Instructions for the
number of heads they bring in. These
heads must be salted to preserve them.
The Jews have monopoly of salt, and
they are compelled to salt the heads
given them. France may not have an
ideal Government. but it is q million
times better than that of Morocco.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

The guests at Summer resorts are be-
ginning to complain bitterly of what
they call hammer shoe heels" 1t is
astonishing how many American women
do not know how to walk. The proper
way, the labor-saving way, and the
graceful way, is ito take the impact of
the body at each step upon the ball of
the foot. This is not only the mos,
graceful way for a woman to walk. but
it is far less ifatiguing. When a man or
woman cenfes down squarely on his or
heels at each step. it makes a definite
and strong shock to the body which
saon brings about great fatigue. On
the other hand, if the weight of the
body is received on the ball of the foot
the shock is distributed between the
muscles of the foot, of the leg and the
thight with the same easing effect that
is given to carriage by springs. The
Summer resort guests complain that the
women go stamping and clicking about
the halls in way that makes rest i'm
possible and skaters the nerves of the
hearers. AS rule, the smaller the
woman The mere noise she makes in
walking.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi is rep
resented as saying he would rather live
under the Stars and Bars and jeff
Davis's Administrator than under the
Stars and Stripes and Theodore Roose-
velt's rule. Gov. Vardaman is one of
the men who always gets red in the
gills at any waving Of the bloody shirt,
yet what is more fragrant than this
AS to fis preference for living under
the Stars and Bars, it is a matter of
taste which no cne can successfully dis
pute with him. The people of this
country have, however, said very en-
phatically that they did not want any
Stars and Pars in it. and would not
have it. Probably gentleman of Gov.
Vardaman's peculiar tastes would find
himself more at home In Morocco than
elsewhere.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Think of four floors in New York
building renting for 100000 a year
apiece, or $4,000 for the whole. This
is the biggest rent paid in the world.
Before the war rent of $1,000 year
for fine store was considered enor-
NOUS
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Those japanese who were caught
sketching Fort Mcpherson, near Allan
ia, must be sadly cross-eyed in their
ideas Of strategy. The fullest informa-
tion in regard to a fort as far inland
as Atlanta would have as little value for
the japanese War Department as in
formation about the Wabash Canal. a
japanese army would be as likely to
reach the North Pole as Atlanta.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

The engraving on our paper money is
far finer than on any European cur
rency, but this has little to do with the
avidity with which those people over
there reach for it. 1t is because every
dollar of it is worth as much as gold
dollar
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

The Isthmian Canal Commission has
purchased IA new steam shovels at a
cost OF about $4,000 each. As there
are already SO shovels at work, this
should increase the output about 25 per
cent. As they are made in Ohio, where
there Is always a great deal of dirt fly
ing, they should be particularly effec-
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Think of this, We who look askance at
athletics for women. Mrs. Thomas
Cooper. of Jefferson, Pa, used base
ball bat with such effect against bur-
glar who threatened her with a revolver
as to save $1,000 of her husbands
money.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Infiamed with ambition to be ''allee
samee Mclean man." Venezuelan
court has fined the New York & Ber-
mudeZ Company S14,S0O.000 for start
ing, aiding and abetting a revolution"
in Venezuela This attempt to put a
South American ervolution on the same
plane with something as serious as a
railroad rebate is laughable.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Nobody has yet charged that John D.
Rockefeller is back of the proposition
to kill off musketos by covering all
standing water with layer of kero-
sene. Probably as soon as the idea and
the kerosene begins to spread the price
of oil will go up.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

William S. Bull, First Assistant to the
Executive Director at Saratoga Springs.
writes that there is ample acconmoda-
tion to all who Will come to the En-
campment at Saratoga, and that the
Hudson Railroad Company can handle
the crowd without delay and also with
out Inconvenience and danger of acci-
dents
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

The French troops seem to have in
vaded the monopoly so long enjoyed by
the British soldiers of moving down
hordes of fanatical barbarians with ma
chine guns and breachloaders
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
A BURDENsoME BUREAUCRACY.

The census of the ofiice-holding class
in France is astonishing There are $780,
900 paid and about 463, 900 unpaid; that
is. one person in every 26 of the adult
population holds an office. The people
seem to have become craz- on the ques-
ton of positions. and the average young
man cares very much more for some
Insignificant place than to go out in the
world and make much more in private
employment Everybody is pulling wires
either for himself or for his sons, and
every year shows an increase in the
number of public employees The sal.
aries are usually exceedingly meager,
tho some of the higher officials get sal
aries propOrtionate to those paid in the
Der of more than 100000 there are
but 1850 whose salaries amount to So
900 a year or over. The following are
some of the larger salaries. figured in
American money:
The President of the Republic S240, 900
President of the Senate .... 10000
President of the Chamber of
Deputies .......... 10000
CaDlnet ministers 1900
Under Secretaries of State :. 5000
Prefect of Police of Paris. -. 10000
President of the Court of Cas-
Sat1on ........ 5000
President of the Court of Ap-
peals ...... ....-....... 5000
ambassadors receive $4,000 q year
salary, but allowances for expenses of
the Embassy are added, ranging from
$4,000 a year at st. Petersburg to s4,-
900 year at Bern. Ministers Plenipo-
tentiary receive from s4.S00 to $4,000
a year, with varying allotments for ex-
penses. The pay of Governors of Col
onies ranges from $4,000 for the Gov
ernor of Indo-China to $4,000 for New
Caledonia.
The Chief Clerks of the two Cham
bers receive $500 year and the Sem
ators and Deputies $4,000 each. Pre-
fects of Departments get on the aver
age about $4,000: Treasurers-G General,
$4,000; rectors of universities. $4,000,
and the Grand Chancellor of the Legion
of Honor, $4,000.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
NOTICE.

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always state whether renewal or new
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When you renew from another post
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When change of address is desired be
sure to give former address.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Iowa has established two new holi-
days. "Pean Day" which was celebrat-
ed this year, Aug. IA, and seems to have
been a highly pleasant affair, and
''Sourkraut Day." which will be held
Sept. 26.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
JOHN AIcELRoY, Editor.
WASHINGTON, D. c., AUG. %, 1907.

ONCE. s1s Thlrteenth Stree. N. w.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-16
Wrinkle IS CHOSEN
A NEW COUNCILMAN
Well Known Mechanic Will
Represent the New Eighth
Ward Hereafter.
BUT ONE BALLOT TAKEN.
THE NAMES OF CHARLES c.
SMITH AND JOHN BURDSELL
WERE ALSO PRESENTED AND
VOTED ON.

Monday evening at a special meet
ing of the city council, held after adj
journment of the regular council ses-
sion, Harry Wrinkle, a well known me-
chanic, was elected councilman from
the Eighth ward, which was formed
at the council meeting in July. Mr..
Wrinkle was elected on the first ballot.
When Mayor Schillinger announced
that nominations were in order, Coun-
Gilman McALahan nominated Charles
c. Smith. Councilman Ogborn nomi-
mated John Burdsell and Councilman
Leftwich nominated Mr. Wrinkle. The
first and only ballot taken resulted in
six votes for Wrinkle, three votes for
Smith and one vote for Burdsell.
Harry Wrinkle is taking his first
plunge into the sea of politics. He is
a republican and has for some time
taken active interest in the affairs of
his party in Fairview, which is includ-
ed in the Eighth ward, but he has
never before been a candidate for Of
flee. He has always been a resident
of Richmond although recently he
lived for about a year in Aurora, Ind.
Mr.. Wrinkle was confident of his cleo
ton but did not expect to win out on
the first ballot. Elmer Towle was
thought to be prominent figure in
the race but his name was not pre-
scented. Mr.. Wrinkle will take his seat
in council at its next meeting, the
first Monday in August.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-16
IN QUEST Or AN HEIR.
The G.est Napoleon and What Might
Have Eoen.

Had Josephine borne Napoleon an
heir the history of France and in
deed all Europe must have been very
different In the hours of triumph
after Wagram Napoleon realized that
had the young German fanatic who
had come to attempt his life been sue
cessful in his mission one thrust from
that vulgar kitchen knife which the
lad concealed would have shattered all
the glories whose fashioning had caused
such rivers of blood TO flow. He re
solved upon the divorce of Josephine.
He would take as his wife a princess
and found a dynasty. Whom should
he marry? Should il be princess of
the Russian royal house or a princess
of another? He slept in the palace OF
the man whom he had but newly re-
conquered. the emperor of Austria, and
slept, as fate would have il, in the very
room in which the heir for whom he
prayed was destined to die. Under the
roof of the son of the Caesars he re-
solved 10 marry that mans daughter.
\ little while earlier she had heard
that the tide of battle had turned
against the French and had written
great joy that Napoleon was present
at the battle which was lost. If he
would only lose his head as wellr'
The writer of the words became, ten
months after the French troops entered
Vienna as conquerors, the bride of the
man whose death she now wished.
She was the granddaughter of Marie
Antoinette, and by his marriage to her
Napoleon believed it would be the sal
walton of France. A man wiser in the
matter than himself had pointed to a
Russian marriage, foreseeing renewed
hostilities with either Austria or Rus
STA. Napoleon, he said, knew his way
to Vienna; he doubted whether he knew
the road to st. Petersburg. Napoleon
chose to find, as he afterward said,
that the marriage was but an abyss
strewn with flowers. The marriage
led inevitably to the calamitous Rus
sian campaign and TO the breakup OF
bis empire. His ruin began with his
marriage to the princess who was TO
be the mother of his child. All France
acclaimed the union with joy, which
was eclipsed only by the birth Of the
heir.-St. James Gazette
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-16
DENNIS DWYER WAS
FOUND NOT GUILTY
Court Acquitted Him on the
Charge of Assault.
HONEST AND INDUSTRIOUS.

Dennis Dwyer, seventy six years Of
age, was arraigned in police court for
assaulting his wife, and after the tes-
timony had been heard, Judge Con-
verse acquitted him.
The whole affair was nothing more
than a family quarrel and Prosecutor
Jessup and Attorney Study, along with
the other police court attaches, consid-
cred it SO. 1t seems that Mrs. Dwyer,
according to the testimony given, had
entertained a male visitor This an
gered Dwyer and last Saturday on CO.
ing to his home he found James Allen
there, and an empty whiskey flask on
a table in one of the rooms Dwyer
told his wife to leave and forcibly
elected her from the house.
Dwyer was shown to be an honest.
industrious old man. Even his wife
stated that he worked hard and was
sober and honest.
On being acquitted Dwyer left the
city building and assumed his duties
on the streets, being employed by the
city with the street cleaning gang.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-16
HENRY BODE SENT TO JAIL.
Henry Bode was arraigned in police
court on the charge of drunk and was
assessed a fine of So and costs and
went to the county Jail.
Together, Yee separas-.

II know three women who live in the
same fiat" said the bachelor girl. 81
wish you could see the way they man
age it. It's awfully funny. They live
as separately as if they were in three
flats. They hardly have anything to
do with each other. For instance. each
gets her breakfast tray ready the night
before. All she has to do 10 TO make
her coffee in the morning and boil her
eggs. Each has the same daily paper.
You'd think they would buy differ
ent one and exchange. but they don't
So every morning they go out in the
kitchen at different times, get their
breakfasts, bring them back to their
bedrooms on their little trays and read
their papers, all separately. / don't
believe three men living in the same
apartment would do that. Do you?
believe they would hobnob together at
breakfast t.re rrd start the day with
little Gr'- less.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-16
DELEGATES WERE ELECTED
Denver Brown Camps Choice
For Encampments.

AT a regular Council of War, of Den
yer Brown Comp No. 90, L. s. w. Y.
on Monday evening with large at
tendance and a rousing meeting, the
following delegates were elected TO
attend the department encampment to
be held at Kokomo, Aug. I: Frank c.
Kibby, Jos. R. Cook, Paul Comstock,
Past Gem, and Oscar Taur, Jr., Com.
Delegates to the national encampment
to be held at Cedar Point near San
dusky, Ohio, Sept. 9th, 10th and 18th,
Elmer S. Laymon and John j. Steele.
A large delegation viii attend both
encampments.