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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-04
Millinery
Forecast for
November
and December

The best values in handsome,
stylish headwear will be seen at
BANKS, 116 South Main street.
The very large or the very
small hat will be bought at
Banks to insure standard shapes.
Fur toques and turbans to
match your set are favored in
New York and Paris as well as at
Banks, Salt Lake City.
Brocaded Ribbons, gilt, silver
and Persian Bands on satin fin
ished velvet and English Fur
Felts-popularly priced at Banks
at $5.00-will be the biggest SELL
ing hat in Salt Lake.
Ribbons will be sold at Banks
in better qualities than this mar
ket has previously offered at the
same prices paid for inferior
grades elsewhere.
Ball Pins will sell at 10c each
at Banks.
A handsome line Of Fur and
Lace Combinations will be Of
fered at Banks.
Black, navy, and green colors
will supplant the brown and
leather shades SO popular today.
Bronze Green Coques or black
street hat-lots Of them.
White Felts with inch-wide
black binding will be seen at
| Banks.
Hats from 10c to $500.
Furs from 81 up-in any skin,
in any style, with responsible
guarantee that the fur is the best
for the price that money can buy
in any city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-04
Duck Hunters Return.

Harry Patterson. ]. B. Herrfck and 9TH
ers returned last evening after four
days hunting trip to the Promontory
duck grounds and brought back goodly
number of ducks The only mishap oc-
CURED when Jim attempted TO enter
his yard upon his return home and his
pet bulldog chased him over the fence,
and his wife had TO come to his rescue.
He hadn't had a shave.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-04
SUICIDE OF MURDERER.

Knoxville. Tenn, Nov. Sin view of
500 people, Jim Davis. a negro who had
shot two negro women early Sunday
morning, leaped from the railing of the
Tennessee river bridge into the water
200 feet below. and was drowned before
he could be rescued. Pursued by two
deputy sheriffs. Davis climbed to the
top OF the railing and pulling a pistol
from his pocket. fired five times in the
air, scattering the crowd which was try
ing to prevent him from suicide, and then
counting lone. two three" jumped head
foremost. In the last words before leap
ing Davis declared that he. had killed
u.errv-pie ht neople.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-04
Reception Tod ay.

This afternoon the ladies of the Demo
cratic party are to hold a reception at
Democratic headquarters, 1866 Twenty
fourth street Everybody is cordially in
vited. 1t doesn't make any difference
whether YOU are a Democrat, Republican
or Sociaiist-it is all the same. Come
and accept the hospitality of the Demo-
cratic ladies. Refreshments Will be
served and a musical program Will pc
eiven In addition to these, there will be
Several speeches by various candidates on
the ticket. which includes an address by
the next mayor, Alexander Brewer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-04
Must Write in Names.

The ballot for the most remarkable cleo
ton ever held in the state of Utah has
been delivered to the city recorder OF
Huntsville Not one of the ballots con-
tains the name OF any nominee for any
political party. On account of the polit-
ical strife which has arisen in Weber
county's second city, the details of which
were given in The Herald yesterday
morning, not a name was allowed upon
the ballot by the city clerk. It will be
necessary for every voter in Huntsville
to write upon the ballot the name OF
every candidate for whom he wishes to
vote
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-04
Left Foot Cut Off.

Harry Kahn. an employee of the ogden
stockyards, was the victim of an acci-
dent last night which resulted in the
loss of his left foot. The exact details
are lacking, but it appears that Kahn
slipped under the car which was being
taken about the yards by switch en-
CINE. He was taken to the hospital,
where his wounds were dressed.
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2NISM IN PRESIDENTIAL POLITZCS

sentiment protested and the would-be third termers quickly dropped the mat ter.
 Jefferson, like Washington, could have been elected a third time. but Monroe could not have been; for even laying aside anti-third term precedent the coun~ try at large 1t seems was growing tired of the Virginia dynasty" and in spite of his splendid record in "the era of good feeling" Monroe would have been, 1t is believed defeated, had he consented to stand for second reelection.
 Coming to Andrew Jackson third term ism might have won in his case, in spite of precedent and the opposition of states men like Webster. Clay and Ewing, had not the strenuous President coveted re- tirement. At the end of his second term Jackson was 70 years old and was in fec ble health and yet his partisans were ready to organize in his behalf to con- tnue him in office for another term. But while Jackson insisted on retirement he named his successor, Martin Van Buren.
 No more was heard of third term ism until General Grant was serving out his second term. Had Lincoln not been assassinated at the beginning of his second term he would in all probability stand for a third term, but it can be imagined readily that he would have been very emphatic in declining third nomination. Lincoln was a patriot and man of positive convictions, and it
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would have been far from him to put aside the precedent set by Washing ton and Jefferson
 About two years before Grants sec ond term had expired federal office holders and many oth CTS began to "agitate" for a third term. Grant was naturally an idol of the northern peo- pie, but neither the leaders nor the majority of the rank andsf file of the republican party wanted Yhim for third term. Nevertheless the third term movement seemed to gain strength. Those opposed to it raised the cry of "Caesarism." In 1875 the republican state convention of Penn sylvania adopted a resolution of "op- position to the election to the presi- dency of any person for third term '
 This called forth a letter from Grant in which he said: T do not want it Ca third term) any more than l did the first" but he added that eXigen cies might arise some time when it would be inadvisable to retire a Presi- dent at the end of eight years. The democratic House of Representatives passed a resolution, introduced by w.. M Springer in December, 1875, as fol- fows. That in the opinion of this house the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents Of the United States in retiring from the presidential office at the end of their second term, has become, by universal concurrence, part of our republican
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CHRIST w ANCIENT LASSICAL HZS7 ORY

spread of Christianity in the first century, but also a solid proof of the fact that
 the Christians of that early age held the
 doctrine of the divinity of Christ, whom they worshipped ''as a god
 So far as I am aware no critic has
 ever questioned the genuineness, or the authenticity of either of the letters quoted above. Plinys is the 97th of the letters, as published in William Melneth's s edition, Boston, 1900 Suctonius. the son of
 q Roman knight, was born about A. D. 70. He was an intimate friend of the
 younger Plny, and held the office Of
 secretary under the Emperor Hadrian. He |. Is well known as the author of a series
 of biographical sketches, commonly called "The Lives of the Twelve Caesars In
 his life of Claudius, chapter %, he says that Claudius "banished from Rome all
 the Jews, who were continually makins
 disturbances at the instigaton of one
 Chrstus." Now "Christus" is the Latin
 name for Christ. and Suctonius evidently
 meant Christ. We need not be surprised
 that he looked upon the Christians as a sect of Jews; for at first they so regarded themselves, as we learn from the Acts Of the Apostles. The statement of Suctonius
 confirms that of Luke in Acts, 18th chap
 ter, 2nd verse: "Claudius had commanded
 all Jews to depart from Rome"
 Of Nero. Suctonus says (chapter 16) ::
 'IIe inflicted punishment the Chris tians, a sort of people who held new
 and impious superstition" Of course, Christianity would appear to a heathen to be "unplous.
 TaciLus born A. D. 61, wrote his Ia
 nous Annals about the end of the first
 century, when he was about 40 years of age. He had been pretor and consul and
 had filled other honorable positions in the state. In describing Nero's infamous
 reign, he comes to the great fire, A. D. 64 the tenth year of Neros administra- ton. After graphically describing the 1 fire, he tells of the order for the rebuild | ing of the city, and of the means em- 1 ployed for appeasng the gods, and then l comes the memorable passage:
 But neither these religious ceremonies, | nor the liberal donations of the prince l could efface from the minds of men the prevailing opinion that Rome was set on
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~ ENAToR HANsBRoUGH of North
 Dakota in recent statement given N> to the press in Washington, said: We are going to force the President to take another term. There is no getting away from it." In view of the fact that strong contingent of the repub- lican, party favors with considerable en- thusiasm President Roosevelt as the standard bearer in 1908. it will be of in- terest to study third termism and recall the ideas expressed by American states men bearing on this subject.
 While Grant was the first of the men who had been honored with two terms in the executive office to be- come an avowed candidate for third, the third term notion was not orgl- nal with his partisans. In fact, the idea, in point of time, is as old as the days of George Washington. It was only at the earnest solicitation of the leaders of both parties that "the father of his country" was induced to become candidate for second term. Although Washington was not without political enemies, there was a demand for him to continue in office and he could easily have been elected a third time; but in 1796 in his farewell address to the people, he declined being considered
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among the number of those out of whom the choice is to be made" in the ap- preaching election. This resolution on his part not to accept a third term set precedent that has since had the effect of an unwritten law
 Jefferson was even opposed on principle to two terms for the president One of the objections which he brought against the constitution when he first saw it was the re-eligibility which it allowed. Writing from Paris to MT. Madison De- cember 20, 17S7, three months after the close of the convention which framed the constitution, he said in regard to re-eilgi- bility: Reason and experience tell us that the first magistrate will always be reelected if he may be reelected. He is then an officer for life. This once ob- served it becomes of so much eonse- quence to certain nations to have a friend or foe at the head of our affairs that they will interfere with money and with armes." Jefferson thought that the presidents tenure should have been heightened to seven years or even eight. but he favored a stipulation restricting the chief executive to q single term.
 Washingtop's example in declining third term, being followed by Jefferson, established well the ''not-more than-two terms" idea, and " the time the presi- dency reached Monroe, the barrier against a third term was even more strongly fixed. There was talk of running" Mon roe third time, but quiet, patriotic
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dians from the grounds they then held, l he sent commission to Chief Bowles, | really a white man, to negotiate a treaty
 of evacuation. Reagan joined the com
 missioner as a volunteer and heard all
 his talk with Bowles. The chief asked for time to allow his people to gather
 their crops then growing in the patches The commissioner had no discretion; inn mediate removal was the alternative of
 war. The war begun at once. The fight ing was severe. Young Reagan partici-
 pated. In the last battle Chief Bowles ! was wounded. Reagan stood near his prostrate form. Texan came up and against Reagans earnest protest, sent a
 bullet through the wounded leader. an octogenaran. It was supposed this chief
 was the young white child named Bowles
 who had been stolen by Indians in Geor- gie before the revolutionary war He could speak no English.
 Between employment as land surveyor
 and service as a private soldier in the
 Texan army. fighting Mexican invaders and Indians MT. Reagan passed the days , of his young manhood. Upon the annexa-
 ton of the republic to the United States, in 1S45 when he was 2 years of age, he entered upon the study of law, natural inclination and the auspices of peace and settled government inviting him to that sphere of life. Presently the war With
 Mexico opened and he volunteered in the army, but was stricken by disease, which
 impaired his strength and disqualified him for the service
 As usual with young lawyers of the slave states MT. Reagan went to the leg slature. There he became conspicuous for his counsel and safe measures. At
 the bar he stood high. A prisoner, charged with the murder, of his wife, of- i,,t,, foa ofe IIa amlned the case, became convinced of the
 guilt of the proposed client, refused the retainer and assisted in a successful pros ecution of the murderer.
 After ten years practice at the bar Mir.
 Reagan was elected circuit judge. About the year 1854, when he had been on the bench only one year. a district democratic convention, without his knowledge or con- sent indeed against his protest nomi- mated him for representative in the Con
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said to officiate in their religious func- tions; but all I could discover was, that these people were actuated by an absurd and excessive superstition l deemed 1t expedient, therefore, to adjourn all fur ther proceedings in order to consult you. For 1t appears to be a matter highly de- serving your consideration; more espe- cially as great numbers must be involved in the danger of these prosecutions, which have already extended and are still like ly to extend. to persons of all ranks and ages, and even of both sexes.
 Tn fact this contagious superstition is not confined to the cities only, but has spread its function among the neighboring villages and country. Nevertheless, 1t still seems possible to restrain Its prog ress. The temples, at least, which were once almost deserted, begin now to be frequented; and the sacred solemnitles. after a long intermission, are revived; To which I must add, there is again also d general demand for the victims, which for some time past had met with few purchasers. From the circumstances I have mentioned it is easy to conjecture what numbers might be reclaimed, If general pardon were granted to those who shall repent of their own error
 And here Is the Emperors reply:
 'The method you have pursued, my dear Pliny, in the proceedings against those Christians who were brought be- fore you, is extremely proper; as it is not possible to lay down any fixed rule by which to act in all cases of this nature. But l would not have you officiousy enter into any inquiries concerning them. If indeed they should be brought before you and the crime should be proved, they must be punished, with the restrie- tion, however, that where the party de nies he is Christian, and shall make it evident that he is not, by invoking our gods, let him notwithstanding any form CT suspicion) be pardoned upon his re- pentance. Information without the ac- cuser's name subscribed. ought not to be received in prosecutions of any sort, as it is introducing a very dangerous prece- dent, and by no means agreeable to the equity of my government
 Now here we have not only distinct reference to the existence and the rapid
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By f. /. Monks

the supplemented assistance which helps to equip youth for the battle of life, while the same state refuses to grant and the same citizen declines to accept a doctrine which advocates the relief of those who are wounded or fall in the same battle. The crippled soldier was formerly turned adrift ito beg bitter bread through realms his valor saved" but modern civilization not only binds up the wounds, but makes some compensation, generally very much inadeuuate for the loss he has sustained. The man whose labors help to upbuild state may not perform as glorious an act as he who risks his life in defense of the state, but 1t is no derogation of the services of the latter to claim considera- tion for the services of the former
 There is no form of paternalism which could be adopted with more universal benefit to the people than system or national life insurance. The vast amounts of money paid annually in the shape or premiums and the immense profits which life insurance companies make Is proof positive that the person who takes out and maintains a policy of insurance Is paying a great deal too much for the pro- lection purchased. Insurance companies pay big salaries to their officers and allow big commissions to their agents. The ex- penses of these institutions are not con- fined tos the actual payment of salaries and the maintenance of their magnificent 1y furnished offices; they even can anord to contribute generously to political cam paign funds. Competition along business lines has not served to reduce the pre- miums or to prevent new competitors from entering the field. Times of dis tress and financial stringency only serve to strengthen their position, because Of the forfeitures which follow the Failure to meet the payment of premiums.
 A policy of life insurance has saved
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1 far exceeded any employment Reagan had been engaged in. He promptly re-
 jected the offer "because l did not wish
 to engage in that sort of business, or to be brought in contact with the people
 who for the most part frequent such
 places From this boy thus came one
 of the early protests in Morgan county
 against the liquor traffic, a matter of sur
 vivinG interest there to this day.
 Tennessee was yet in wilderness; nev-
 ertheless this young Tennessean, as If driven by an unseen hand, resoNede to go west. In the early spring of 1888 he took his seat on rude passenger car on the first railroad he had ever seen, the only railroad south of the Ohio, and one
 of the first half dozen in the round world. It was the 40 miles of track built by Ben jamin Sherrod of Lawrence county and other cotton planters with their planta-
 tion slave labor and their cotton field
 mules. The car seats were dressed plank painted black. The track was bar iron, nailed to wooden stringers. The line
 ran around Mussel Shoals, connecting g
 Decatur with Tuscumbia. What mar
 vicious events pivot on that little rail- road.
 Partly by stage coach and partly on foot young Reagan reached Memphis, then a village of scattered cabins on the 
 bluff He left the steamboat at Natchez and walked out into the plantations seek ing employment as school teacher. MT.
 Jackson, a planter at whose house he stopped for the night, offered him $500 to oversee his slaves. After some weeks of that employment the men under him n- formed him their meat ration was too scanty. He reported the complaint, which he discovered to be just, and hearing the
 decision of the master not to correct the insufficiency, the young oyerseer threw up his job in disgust.
 On May %, 1s39, 21 years of age Reagan crossed the Sabine river to begin career in Texas, then a struggling republic. His
 wardrobe was tied in a colored cotton
 pocket handkerchief and all the cash he possessed was one ten-dollar bill of a bank in Mississippi, worth 8 of the cur rency of Texas.
 Mirabeau Lamar was president of Texas and wishing to remove the Cherokee In
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IN reply to some questions from "A
 Freethinker," leading daily paper of 4 Chicago has the coolness to say: "Not a trace of authentic history relative to Christ's death exists in the world out side the Gospels and Epistles. whereof the earliest existing copies date from the fourth century, A. D. Did the editor ever hear of book called "The Acts of the Apostles" or of the Book of Reve lation?" Did he ever hear of the "Apos- tolic Fathers" Polycarp, Paplus, Justin Martyr and Clement of Rome, who all lived long before the earliest existing manuscript of the New Testament was written?"
 Polycarp was born soon after the middle of the first century, and was thus a con- temporary of the Apostle John. Justin Martyr was born only few years after the death of the Apostle John. Papius died about 163 A, D. Clement of Rome was born about A. D. 30, and died about the close of the first century. On what ground should the testimony of all these excellent witnesses be utterly ignored?
 An intelligent and thoughtful Christian woman, a member of my church. once said to me: q have sometimes been pug zled with the question asked me by skeptics, If Christianity as set forth in the New Testament be true, why have we no evidence coming down to us from the classical Latin writers of that period?" :"
 Sometime ago a famous Baptist editor In one of the large northern cities said to me: 'I have recently seen it stated in a religious paper published in this city, that there are no references to Christ in any of the ancient classical authors Is this true?" I replied that it was not true, as I could prove; and as 1t may be worth while to do this publicly, have taken the pains to investigate the ques- ton, and shall here set forth the results of my investigations.
 That mono of the earlier Latin authors have anything to say about Christianity Is true. The reason is obvious: They all died before there was any Christianity. Julius Caesar died A B. C.; Cicero, 45; Ballust, 34 Virgil 19; Horace, s; Ovid.
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system of government and that any departure from this time honored GUS tom would be unwise, unpatriotic. and fraught with peril to our free institu tions."
 The resolution was adopted by vote of 234 to 1S Every democrat and TO of the Ss republicans voting declared for the resolution. The third term project in favor of Grant was for the time dropped but it was taken up again in a highly organized form in 1880. Grant was then 8 candidate for the republican nomination. lie had made a trip round the world and in every nation had received an ovation un. paralleled in modern times. He re- turned to America shortly before the republican national convention met. With the presentation of his name battle of the giants followed Grants forces were led by Roscoe Conklng and 3O6 delegates stood by the war hero to the last But Garfield was nominated by decisive vote Third termism seemed then to have had it's death blow. But for certain minds the very idea of a bold viola ton of precedent has been alluring.
 In the early part of 1926, when demo- erats were casting around for presidential timber, the tide of sentiment appeared to move toward Grover Cleveland. This sturdy statesman had occupied the white house from 1885 to 1889. Harrison suc-