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New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
vR. WILLIAMS AND P0PULIsM.

Tne election OF the Hon John Sharp Williams
TO the Senate after several terms Of service as
the leader Of the Democratic minority IN the
Horse OF Representatives will make him one or
.he most CONSPICUOUS figures in the public life
of fl1e South He has valuable parlla-
mentary experience and as great a facility IN
speech as Mr. Bailey had when be was promoted
from the House TO the Senate, and broader
culture and more firmly developed character
o,ght 70 save him from the blunders and follies
which have lafteriy clouded Mr.. Bailey's career.
He and Mr.. Bailey are as distinctly OF the new
South as is Mt. Tillman or Governor Beckham
of Kentucky, and what the new South mas 10
saw through its egponents naturally interests
su the otner sections Mr. Nillamss speech
at Yazoo City, after hi victory IN the Mlssls-
sippi primary was conceded, has therefore at
tracted wide attention. because in 1t, TO use ms
own language he consecrated himself and ded-
icated bis energies anew Ito the service OF the
South. the state, the party and the race.
Newspaper accounts Of this solemn and COM
prehensive ceremony unfortunately do not yield
8 rery clear insight into Mr.. Williams's pur-
noses and policy. Logic in politics is not one OF
his strongest points, and II is rather confusing
10 fnd him arguing for purging of the party
IN Nississkpi from Populistic taint. while ad-
mitting that both he and the State of Missis-
sIppi aye fully prepared TO accept the leader
ship in national politics OF a statesman whose
views are nothing if not Populstic. IL was
charged by Governor Vardaman MI Williams
opponent In the primary, that the Williams
forces uirmpbed because they were assisted py
hundreds of white Republicans. Mr.. Williams
charnes Ia return that Mr.. Vardaman's unex-
pectedIy large vote was due TO the support OF
from fifteen thousand 10 twenty thousand Pop
ulisrs rlasquerading as Democrats The Senator
designate complained bitterly TO bis Yazoo City
audience because Governor Vardaman had 'co-
qustt,d With the proposition OF state ownership"
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
TRTFLING WITH TYPHOID.

The epidemic Of typhoid fever at the New
Jersey State Hospital for the Insane at Tren-
ton continues apparently unasated. The weeks
of its duration have heightened into months,
and still new cases and additional deaths are
reported with alarming regularity. In the last
three or four days at least one death and three
new cases have been announced, bringing the
roll m 10 nearly a score of deaths and more
than a hundred cases. So far as can now be
seen the epidemic may continue for weeks or
noonths TO come until that record is doubled or
trebled 1t seems impossible that it could have
continued as long as it now has and could now
he raging as violently it is If the most intel
ligept and energetic means for its suppression
had been employed
The suspicion that the management is at
fault is strengthened by the results of the cur
rent investigation. The secretary Of the State
Board Of Health gave some significant testi-
mony on Monday. The board does not, he sald'
investigate or supervise the sanitary condition
of the State Hospital or other public institution
unless requested to do so in the case Of an out
break of an infectious disease. In the present
case II was asked to examine the water supply
of the hospital but it was not informed and was
not aware that typhoid fever was already rag
ing IN that institution and did not know that the
desired examination had anything TO do with
that disease It reported that the water con-
tanned typhoid bacill. Yet the spring from
which the water was drawn was not con-
demned, nor was the further use of the water
forbidden, nor were any steps taken TO purify
the water and protect it from contamination.
The witness added that despite all these circum-
stances it was not at all certain that the out
break of typhoid was due to that water, end thaf'
indeed, the finding of typhoid germs in sam
ple bottle of water WIS not sufficient ground
for condemning the source of the water, since
they might have got into ii from the hand Oh
the man who drew the water or from the CORK
of the bottle!
To the average lay mind It will OCCUR we
think. that all this looks unpleasantly like
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15

and had Seemed TO take stand upon the RANK
est doctrine of state socisism." The gravity OF
this ofence was enhance4 by exchanging friendly
letters with the Hon. Thomas A Nalsoh-a
proceeding which in Mr.. Williams's eyes IN
yolved q serious embarrassment TO the national
party. What was this embarrassment we
viii let Mr. Williams himself describe IL:
Take our own case right now. for example
The probability is that Mr. Bryan Will pe the
next nominee of the Democratic party. NO man
in all America has ever attacked him. ms mo,
tives and his character as saVageIy a I'm 1oli.
Watson Yet here are fifteen or twenty thou
sand men participating in q Democratic PRIMARY
in the State of Mississippi who receive anu ana dc-
knowledge marching orders from rom "a'soil
This means. we assume. that it was gross
inDropriety for Mr.. Williams's opponent 10 az
oept support even indirectly from man VINO
had criticised the probable next nominee OF
the Democratic party for President. 10 give
ear or countenance 10 Mr.. Watsons PopullsIc
ideas was a species Of treason against the Dem
ocratir marty and the statesman who is soon 10
foreclose his mortgage on the Democratic Presl-
Dental nomination.
This argument may have been received with
applause" in Yazoo City. But what becomes OF
it when it is subjected to examination by crIlICS
not under the spell Of Mr.. Williams's faclle eio
auence? 1t appears that Mr. Nardaman slnhed
in "coquetting with government ownership u
DleaSe Mr. M2tSon L0e Iopu4lStS' e'O1 N-@C'
are not the sole patentees of the doctrine OF
government ownership. No public man N lhe
United States is more firmly ami completely
committed to that doctrine than the prooaDle
next nominee of the Democratic party. If the
wishes opinions and predictions OF MI Bry an
are TO be the tests of true Democracy, and CRIT
les of his policies are to be severely warned Oh
the Democratic reservation, we do not see that
Governor Vardaman has especially exposed
himself to the fatal charge of IeSe majestic. II
he stands with Mr.. Watson he also stands Win
Mr.. BRYAN. Just as Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. watson
stood together on a Populist platform IN the
Presidential campaign of 1896
But how about Mr.. Williams himself: tie
has nubliclv opposed the doctrine of government
ownership and operation Of the railroads, and
thereby nut himself out of harmony with the
.,nrohabIe next nominee" If it be abhorrent 10
true and loval Democrats TO accept the leader
shin of a man who has attacked Bryan ana
Rryanism how can he venture to try the Souls
of the Mississippi faithful by assuming to lead
them and TO dedicate himself anew to their ser
yicep Mr. Williams needs to cut his oratOry 10
fit his logic If he is willing 10 compromise
with Populism in national Democratic COUNCILS
and TO support a Populst for President he
ought to be discreet enough to overlook the
enormities Of Populism when professed and
practised by rival Democratic statesmen nearer
home.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
ZIP ;,ORG4N,s APPOINTMENT.

The appoic trnent of Edward VI. Morgan as
postmaster Of New York is tribute to
efficiency and persistency in a trying service
Mr. Morgan has literally risen from the lowest
rank: for he began as a letter carrier and al
yanced through all the subgrades - be gen
oraI superintendent of city delivery and assist
ant DostIaaster He entered the p0stofice here
tfi-ty-four years ago, when It boasted Sour hun
55rei carriers and FIVE hundred clerks, and has
seen Ehe establishment broaden until 1t has
cn IFS rolls two thousand carriers and four
thousand clerks OF that growth he has been
an intelligent and faithful observer, and his
Knowledge Of local postal conditions probably
exceeds that Of any one else connected with
the service.
The appointment is good augury of sound
and progressive administration. In recent years
fhe work of the Office has been divorced
more and more from politics and better stand
ards of qualification have been established
In an exacting work like that of handling the
mails there can be no division or diversion OF
energy and the divorce Of the service from
Dolt;cal side activities has been a positive and
notable good. What New York needs as the
greatest mail centre in the United States Is the
expert management of a trained postal force,
and the Postoffice Department will win locai
regard by constantly keeping this aim in view
The choice Of Mr.. Morgan is in line with the
most enlightened public policy, and is there
fore to be welcomed both as promise and a
nrpcpdent
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
C0rRT OF APPEALS NOMINATIONS.

If the Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff thinks the
Republicans of this state want him TO Interfere
with the plan TO elect Edward 7. Bartlett and
Willard Bartlett TO the Court of Appeals he mas
much to learn about the disposition of the voters
whom he seeks TO lead If his recent utterance
on the subject of a union ticket means simply
that he does not expect the Democrats TO follow
a Republican good example he may be entirely
right.
What the Democrats may do need not concern
Republicans They did not stop TO ask If the
Democrats would take the same action when
they nominated Edgar NJ. Cullen and William
E Werner, though afterward the Democrats fol-
lowed reluctantly on the insstence OF their
Presidential candidate. This year Republicans
should similarly put forward a Republican and
a Democrat now sitting in the court, show their
continuing dc-otion TO a non-partisan judiciary.
and leave the Democrats to take their own
course. We hope that is what Mr.. Woodruff has
in mind when he says that the two tickets are
not likely 10 be the same.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
STEAMBOATS, BTRTHDAY.
Celebration of Trial Trip of Fulton's
InUentiOn on SatuTday.

The centennial Of the trial trip OF Robert FuItons
Clermont, the first steamboat OF the inventor, viii
be celebrated Saturday. August It. and all local
steamboat companies are expected 70 observe the
day. At o'clock that day hundred years
ago Fulton started his trip Up the Hudson, the
success OF which destined 70 radically change
maritime transportation.
Preparations are making 10 have al ships plying
IN New York City waters decked with bunting on
Saturday. At O'Clock there viii be a thirty sec
onds salute OF whistles. At the headquarters OF
the Robert Fulton Monument Association, at No. 3
Park Row. yesterday IL said that the churches
Of the city TO be requested to have their bells
rung az the hour named Like preparations for the
celebration OF the day said to be going n
Baltimore, despite the claims OF Maryland that ora
James Rumsey preceded Fulton in the idea ot pro-
pelIng a vessel by steam by tyverty-o1e years.
souvenir has been prepared by the Hudson
River Day Line. DebrOsses street pier. 20 Dc given
away August l. in coTunenoraton OF the cen
tenniaL The souvenir contains picture of the
CIernont passing Storm King and Crows Nest n
the Highlands OF the Hudson Four letters are
also printed n the souvenir, which contain q de-
scription of the first trip of the Clern0nt and
account Of navigation on the Hudson IN the SIC
ceeding hundred years.
The first two letters are supposed 70 have been
found among the effects of Rufus Putnam the first
white man make a permanent home at Marietta.
Ohio His son is supposed. on finding the letters
20 have written to their author. living IN Schenec-
tady N Y and to have received from him another
letter descriptive Of the later boats The last let
ter written within the last year By an unknown
writer brings the history down 70 the latest stsa-11-
-r Of the Day Line the Hendrtck Hudson
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
NEW YORK SOCIETY,".

Miss Mary Elsie Moore will be married to-day to
Don Marino Torlonia of Rome. Italy. at Beiie
Haven near Greenwich. Conn., the coupOS AOAA0
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Charles A Moore.
Mrs Chester NJ Colby will be her sisters maid or
honor The Italian charge ,d'affaires at Washing
ton Giulio Montagna, will ofticiate as pest man.
while Count Aldrovandi, consul of Italy IN New
York will be one of the ushers The young couple
after the wedding will devote several weeks to
travelling about in this country, sailing lor l'aiy
in October to spend the season at Rome
Announcement has been made of the engagement
of Mrs Sadie Van Dyke Brooks to Robert Living
ston SCHUYLER. son of Mr.. and Mrs Montgomery
Schuyler, sr. Mr.. Schuyler is graduate OF Column
bia, class of '03. and is a brother OF Montgomery
Schuyler jr.. first secretary Of the American Lesa-
ton at st. Petersburg
Mr. and Mrs Louis Haight who have been spend
ing the summer at Tenafy. N. J.. will depart for
Colorado Springs to-day.
Mr. and Mrs Harry T. Peters have returned 70
town from Newport. where they were the guests
for several days of Mrs. Peterss parents. Mr. and
Mrs. W. Storrs Wells.
Mr and Mrs. NJ Hartley Dodge were among
those who sailed for Europe yesterday board
the Adriatic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald L. Hoyt. on their arrival
lloiH Europe Oh SdIurody VIII go to ips"ICh' MdSs-
Mr.. and Mrs George B. Post tr who returned
from Europe last week. have gone to Bernards-
vile. N j., for the remainder of the season.
Judge and Mrs. Francis NJ Scott Miss Mar
garet Scott and Mrs. Higgins. mother OF Mrs
Scott. will sail from Europe for New York the lat
ter part of next month.
Mrs Goodhue Livingston will give a large din
ner tomorrow night at the Meadow Club, South
ampton Long Island
Mr and Mrs. II. de Berkeley Parsons viii spend
the autumn at the Rest. their country place in
Rye, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forsyth Wickes have returned to
town and are at their home in Madison avenue
Miss Mary R. Shreve. daughter of Mrs. George
II. Shreve, will be married to Lieutenant Thomas
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
HOOD ON THE MOON.

Big drum little drum, fire bell and fish horn!
Sound the tocsin and wheop up the alarml
For there's going to be trouble, right away
quick if not sooner War in Cuba is assured.
The date is fixed. We forget whether it is the
day after yesterday or the day before to-
morrow, but it doesn't greatly matter. The
essential thing is that the whole island is in
wild excitement over the impending revolution.
So intense is the crisis that Don Manuel Ma
mana yesterday fell out of the hammock in
which he was taking his siesta, while General
Pancho Mamal6n drank three glasses of
GguGrdiente de cdbezG without stopping TO roll
a cigarette. Santa Maria Trinidada! but there
will quickly be blood on the southern summer
mooni
In truth we have received confirmation of
the most alarming reports and are able to
amplify their appalling details. Thus 1t is an
nounced that in some places armed bands have
already seized provisions and articles desired
for their comfort in the woods. You bet! We
heard of that last week. 1t was down near
Aureus, in Santa Clara province There was
an armed band -Four men. with revolvers and
machetes. They raided the hacienda of a citi-
zen OF African ancestry. They looted his pigsty.
They purloined, distracted, conveyed, swiped
in brief, the fattest shote in the pen. They
swept triumphantly back to the jungle, mas
sacred the porker. roasted his defunct carcass,
and ate their FILL And when the Man and
Brother, discovering the desolated sty, fol-
lowed them with a pitchfork and ventured to
remonstrate they cried with one voice. I'VE are
Observation-Disclosures. Viva Cuba Libre.'
OF such stern stuff are Cuban insurgents
made What wonder that the Pearl of the
Antilles thrills with dread anticipation, from
Maysi TO San Antonio: that the eloquent Sehor
Rechifa is nightly addressing and arousing In
Vulnerable multitudes; while for Governor
Magoon-poor man, How can one who weighs
less than three hundred pounds hope TO sit
successfully upon so tumultuous lid? Why.
1t is as bad as it is up in The Bronx, or out in
the Jerseys, in both OF which regions we have
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15

trifinp-bv somebody-wfth q serious matter.
1t would seem to be desirable for some ofnclaI
state sanitarian to have some supervision oI
state hospitals without waiting to be called III
when an epidemic occurs Failing that' "heh
bosDital becomes plague stricken and asks for
q sanitary inspection common sense dictates
that the investigators should be informed OF the
prevailing conditions and of the object OF their
work When there is typhoid fever in a nos
ptal and Investigation shows that the water
supply is contaminated with typhoid germs 1t
seems incomprehensible that anybody outslue
of bedlam would delay a moment TO stop Tue
use of that water. It may be that the nndlhg oL
typhoid germs in bottle of water could De ac-
counted for in other ways than the contamlnd-
ton of the source from which the water was
drawn but we should say it should strongly
suggest the desirability of further and more
careful Investigation, especially if typhoid was
already raging among those who used the water.
II NAV also be that not one of the hundred-odd
cases of typhoid in the hospital has been due
to the germ laden water of that spring, but IN
the entire absence of any other apparent cause
we should say the presumption against the
spring was so strong that continued use Of It's
wafer was negligence and trifing little snort OF
criminal.
It is reported that the managers of that hos
pital will not retire under fire." but after the
lnVeSUgdIlOh Is al over, say III ooAi0"iJ ~
will ask to be relieved of their duties. we SIN
cerely hope they will stay under fire long
enough to refute or satisfactorily to explain
the extraordinary record which official Wit
nesses have compiled concerning their manage
ment. At present the record stands that for
many weeks after the outbreak of typhoid fever
the hospital continued using water which was
known to b. infested with typhoid germs. Moth
ing more than that-if it remains uncontra-
dcted-is needed to fix responsibility upon
somebody And -~e greatly doubt if the game OF
"Twasn't I twas the other fellow will work
successfully in this case.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
THE GREAT ISSUE.

The correspondence between the Law Enforce
ment Society and the city authorities relative
TO the enforcement of the Sunday closing law,
as reported in yesterdays Tribune, reopens the
question which, in its wider aspects. is the most
vital one ow confronting the American people.
1t is not the question of prohibition rerSus II
censed liquor selling, yet Of abstinence UeF-
sus Indulgence. II is the question Of the relation
between making and obeyng laws in general
Regardless of differing personal views on the
propriety of locking all saloon doors at certain
daily and weekly intervals, the action now con-
tenplated by the Law Enforcement Society
should be Sommended without qualifications.
For it Is q 6l0w-and, let US hope. sturdy one
not at the dramsh0p so much as at civic hy-
pocrisy, 4 disease seemingly more widely prev
alent IN this country than anywhere else, excerpt
possibly in the Orient. The power Of civic ny
pocrisy here IS great enough to corrupt-only
momentarily, Of course--the logic OF the Law
Enforcement League itself
Who came see the farcical side Of the soci-
ety's first appcsi to Acting Mayor MCGOWAN,
asking that, lin view of the crime wave sweep
iEs over the city" he would have Acting Police
Commissioner O'Keeffe order all the saloons
closed on Sunday, August II? How the gods
must have shaken with ineXtinguishable laugh
ter at the spectacle Of a "law enforcement So
ciety being compelled to beg that somebody or
der somebody else 10 tell some policemen 10
carry out the law, not because it Is the law, but
because criminals seem TO be a little more active
than usual!
Let nobody deride the Law Enforcement So
ciety for this slight lapse from stern logic The
society's momentary oversight of the one best
reason why the law should be enforced proves
that the falacies of current civic morality are
potent enough to disturb the reasoning of the
sanest thinkers. The Sunday closing law should
be enforced, not because of crime wave, not
because workingmen are harmed by wide open
holidays not because alcohol can be assimilated
only in small quantities, but solely because the
law is on the statute books. Whoever any
other argument for maintaining the dignity of
the law is simply demonstrating the gravity Of
the task of teaching Americans the relation of
law making TO law abiding. This task is the
Great American Issue.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15
,ocIAI NOTES FROM NEWPORT

IBy Telegraph tofThe TribUne-l
Newport r l., Aug 14--There was considerable
activity in Newport to-day there being in all four
Iuncheons and three dinners given by the members
Of the cottage colony, besides several sporting
events.
Mrs James Brown Potter. Mrs Henry C1ews
and Mrs A. S. Clark entertained at their cottages
with Iuncheors, while Henry BedIOw entertained
few Of his friends with luncheon at Berger's.
Last night Mrs. ogden Mills. Miss Anna Sands
and Mrs A L.anfear Norrie were hostesses at large
dinner parties which were attended by many OF
the yachtsmen who arrived during the afternoon
from Vineyard Haven
Mrs. Elisha Dyer will be among those who viii
entertain with dinners Thursday night. while
Mrs L Townsend Burden has planned dinner for
forty guests at her cottage Friday evening Mrs.
Nathalie Schenck Collins has announced that she
will entertain at dinner Monday and Wednesday
of next week
Mr.. and Mrs William B leeds who at the close
Of last season purchased the F. ". VANDERBILT
estate. will give housewarnning next Saturday
evening. The hOusewarIning will include large
dinner party for fifty sixty guests BIr- and
Mrs. Leeds have planned 20 go TO Europe at the
end Of the Newport season. to remain for the win.
ter.
Registered at the Casino to-day were Georgs a
Adee. stuyvesant Wainwright. John Clinton Cray
jr, Mrs. L Stuart Wing, 3. Bryce Wing and 7.
Stuart Wing. jr
Mrs Alfred G. Vanderbilt with party Of friends
in her large touring car. visited Narragansett Pier
to-day
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold 1Iinot. who are at Hemp
stead this season. will visit Newport next week IN
be present at the national lawn tennis tourns-
rnent. Theodore p. Shonts. Of New York. viii also
be a Newport visitor next week to attend the ball
to be given by Mrs. Edwin J. Berwind for Prince
Wilhelm of Sweden. Mr.. ShOnts win be the guest
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Berwind at the Elms
Baron Robert de DobIhon Of Austria first lem,
tenant in the Royal Austrian Dragons who has
been in Newport for some little time VIII give a
small dance at Berger's in the first week OF San,
tember.
Many yachting parties have bean arrsngas
among the cottagers TO attend the Astor Gun races
tomorrow off Newport. and practically all Of tha
steam yachts viii carry large parties One OF the
largest viii be aboard ex-Cornmodors Fgbrfdgs T
Gerry's Electra
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15

The tribulations of the man who would be
utterly and unalterably free and independent
came to light the other evening when the Nom
Partisan Municipal Leagues county committee
was addressed by the leagues president The
speaker declared unadulterated freedom TO be
the one best bet, and he stoutly opposed the
suggestion of fusing with the independence
League An Independent has to be independent
of all independents. OF course: otherwise he is
a base vassal OF a pernIcious clique. The ora
tors optimism over the Independent ticket ne
proposed for next fall becomes. in the hght OF
the foregoing theory, rather puzzling-
New-York tribune., 1907-08-15

Are not the latest disclosures about the means
and methods of Armenian assassin bands strong
arguments in favor of the establishment Oh aii
interurban "secret service? Operating Vai
ously from headquarters in Boston, Ne" 1oih'
and possibly other cities, the murdefers i
long been able TO elude the Iocai au'il
Had there been well ORGANIZED ros oona..r
oo,.rs oe detectives familiar with the languages
ana customs of all kinds of foreigners, the h1e
of Mr. Tavshanjian and those of many less
nron,inent Arnenians might never have oeeh
taken for greed of gold.