Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-21
HANLY STILL SHELTERS SLAYER.
GOVERNOR OF INDIANA CONTINUES TO coUNTENANcE KILLING
OF eovEROR GOEBEL OF KENTUCKY - ABOUT THE
TELEGRAPHERs STRIKE.

note that these two companies are
practically the personal property of
two families-the GouldS and the
Mackays.
1t is estimated that more than third
of this enormous capital is water. On
this the public must pay interest and
dividends.
Obviously the first method of correct
Ing this evil is to get an exact esti-
mate of the value of the physical prop
erty of the corporation. At the last
congress resolution was adopted in
structing the department of commerce
and labor to proceed TO valuation or
the physical properties of the railroads.
1t is probable that the SiXtieth con-
gress may find it necessary to amend
this action, rs the task has been found
t. be colossal and its cost almost pro
uibitiVe However, whatever may be-
done along this line, there will be a
determined effort made TO persuade
congress to provide for an official Az
praisal of the physical properties Of
the telegraph companies. This would
be vastly less expensive and would
furnish data that will he Invaluable
when the inevitable question of gov
eminent ownership of the telegraphs
shall come up.
Telesraphic improvements and Cost.
In New York the other day l was
shown Il room in Il big uptown Office
building in which was installed tcle-
graph line fifty miles long. The wires
were coiled around the wall from floor
to ceiling and covered the ceiling. 1t
was used to give Il demonstration Of
new system of tClcGraphy TO lie
known as the telepOst, invented by an
Old associate of Thomas y. Edison.
One curious feature of this system is
| that the wires can he used Simultane-
| ouSly for telephone and telegraph mes
sages. Promoters Of this enterprise told
me that Il four Wire line under their
! system could be built for $l.3I5 mile;
that it would carry as much business
as Il sixty-cight wire line such as the
old companies have. costing $1,000
mile. AS to rapidity of operation,
there is no comparison.
! Perhaps when that appraisal of the
physical properties of the old com
| pauies is begun some investigation
might also he undertaken into the rca.
sons why they have failed to improve
| IN the slightest degree their opcrat-
ing methods. while the patent Office
here is full of models Of devices for
improving and cXpoGitinS the service.
| = Of i.h
able to get a hearing from the man
ayers of the merged telegraph mo,
nopolies.
| History as It Is Written.
| In a syndicate article printed re
| Gently Mr.. Dexter Marshall offered
some "reminiscences of national con
venticns, including the famous Chica-
go convention of 1906 Certain facts
are suggested by Nr. MarShall's con
tribution to history. 1t IS quite true,
rs he says. that Mr. Bryan came to
that convention hoping To make fight
for the nomination. But certainly 10
man ever came with a hope that ut
the outset might have appeared more
| forlorn To begin with. lie did not
reach Chicago as Il member of the con-
| vCntion. He was one Of 4 contcStinG
| delegation, and the committee on ere.
dcntials was in the hands of the en-
envy. Again, while his Nebraska neigh
hOrS were enthusiastically for him,
| there was not one other state dclega-
| ton from which he had assurance OF
support. None of the leaders of the
convention was for him. Bland of
| Missouri was the choice of by far Il
majority of the radical silver men.
/ while Senator Teller and Governor
BoieS of Iowa had their devoted adj
| herents. In the gossip of the two
i days before the convention the name
Of Bryan was not heard. His youth
was against him. He had but passed
the constitutional age 10y less than two
| years. | recall very we'll speaking to
i Governor Altgeld III his behalf the day
before the convention met. "A fine
man." said AltGcld. bat too young.
He has plenty Of time to wait" Alt
geld did, as Mr. Marshall recOunts.
hold his delegation away from Bryan
until the very last possible mo2"nt.
But it was not. as Mr.. Marshall said,
because he had hopes of ling himself
a candidate Nobody accused Gov
ernor Alleged of lack of knowledge of
the constitution or of our system of
; government, and he knew that our
/ American presidents could not be
born. as he was. i'll Germany. 1t was
!, the magnetism of his speech that nom.