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The Bailey Case.

The situation in Texas as respects Mr..
Bailey is one of claim and counter-claim.
Mr.. Bailey is quoted as confident Of re-
election at the time designated. He does
not believe the legislature will halt because
of the action of his enemies. In a con-
fident speech the other day he invited the
public to attend next week and witness the
carrying out of the instructions of the
voters in his case delivered at the primary
He has held, this tone from the first, and
time alone can tell its justification.
But the anti-Bailey men continue their
activity, and profess a confidence equal to
the senator's. They have made some
progress. The papers upon which they rest
their case are now before the legislature
Their value is for that body to determine.
The inventory indicates documents Of in
terest, and those who offer them ask to be
heard in extended and circumstantial ex-
PLANTATION.
A point of importance Is the threat Of the
anti-Bailey people that IL defeated at home
to say. if the Texas legislature returns Mr..
Bailey to the Senate in the face of the
charges against him the authors of the
charges will ask the Senate to take notice
of them. This would give the contest a
national setting, and invite more general
attention than had hitherto been accorded 1t.
While the matter has a national bearing
it Is local in it's first estate, and Mr.. Bailey
should seek a settlement at the hands Of
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his own people. A new commission from
which many of the members Of the Texas
legislature withheld their approval would
weaken him both as a state and a national
figure. At home he has exercised great
influence. Here he has come to deserved
leadership. A result therefore which should
leave any large portion of the people I'M
convinced of the senator's entire innocence
Of wrongdoing in the business referred to
would impair hts usefulness as public
servant and as a party adviser.
Mr.. Bailey fights with great energy. and
with the skill that attends brilliant talents.
His friends in this matter have given proof
Of the utmost loyalty. He has directed his
own campaign, and they have followed
without question. He seems to have all
faith in them. He Is putting them to the
test Presumably, II he wins there. they
will follow him here. If the case Is trans
ferred; If the Senate upon request should
take cognizance of the charges made and
order an investigation. we should witness.
both because Of the great ability Of the
senator accused and the character of the
accusations, a contest Of extraordinary
interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Charity W Gather.

Weather like this gives the charity COM
mittees hard work to do, both in raising
funds and in properly disbursing them.
The public can tighten this burden mate
rally by giving without being asked giving
early and abundantly The committees and
organizations will attend to the practical
business of providing the worthy poor with
food. fuel and clothing. This work Is now
well organized in Washington, better than
ever before, and il is assured that the dol
lars and the goods placed in the hands OF
the distributing agents will find their way
TO the proper places.
Cold, snowy weather not only stops GER
family income IN hundreds of cases, but
II seriously menaces the lives OF a large
number of people whose ways of living ex-
pose them 10 the risk of sickness. Shacks
through which the wind blows freely often
shelter little children and old people They
lack garments and fuel. The sick SILVER
In thinly covered beds. The cupboards are
empty. The father is unable to find work
and death draws near
This is no imaginative picture. 1t is the
melancholy fact, in so many places in
Washington that the whole truth. II made
known to all the people Of Washing ton.
would shock them. The charity workers are
engaged in carefully Investigating all such
cases reported TO them. They merely say
to the public, We need money and goods :"
and do not enter into details. The people
have full confidence in the integrity Of these
organized aims -givers and know that they
give the poor the fun benefit OF their re-
sources as well as their trained Judgment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Gov. Hughes in Action.

Verify the old order in New York has
changed. The governor has made several
important appointments. and he seems 70
be the only person in the state who I'M
derstands them. Newspapers are mysti-
fed Politicians are aghast. Does he in
tend TO go on in this way? If so. where
will he land? And what will be the length
Of his stay In Office? Only one term?
Why. Just think for a moment OF the
situation. Timothy Woodruff was chairman
Of the committee that conducted Gov.
Hughes campaign. He labored day and
night in the cause, and when the victory
had been won took the governor ELECT to his
lodge in the mountains for rest. Did that
give him no right to name folks for office i?
II seems not. Mr. Woodruff had a friend
whom he wanted retained in office, and
Gov. Hughes appointed another man. I'm
der the old order an act like that would
have been treason, and its author branded
for life.
Take the case then of the Wadsworths,
fatber and son. They are rich and powerful,
and the son is the speaker of the lower
house of the New York legislature. Are
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they not to be permitted to guide the gov
ernor in the matter of patronage? Evil
IDENTIFY not as one of the governors ap-
pointments is most unpalatable to them.
VIII not the wadsworths leave the reser-
walton and take to the bad lands? Young
Jim" says not, although many of his friends
would justify such step.
But. as great a stir as has been caused
by the governor, what has he done that Is
not thoroughly consistent with his cam
paign promises? Did he not tell the voters
from the stump that If elected he would
be his own boss-would decide things for
himself? Was he not accepted on the
strength OF those assurances? Suppose he
had said, instead, that II elected he would
be guided In office by the wishes of the
republican leaders. Would not his defeat
have been inevitable? With the voters all
Disguised with the recent developments
both in political and business circles, would
not such declaration have damned the
candidate making It?
No man Is above the necessity OF advice
in office, and presumably when he needs
advice Gov. Hughes will seek 1t from
sources entitled to his confidence. Like
wise will he find need of party support, and
therefore may be expected to treat his
party with due consideration and hold it
together. But there will be matters which
he must decide for himself II he Is to be
true to himself and to his promises. and
whenever they arise the test will come.
This first test he seems to have met with
true grit. He cannot hope, nor should he
try, to escape criticism.
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The Commissioners Gas Report.

BY their report on the Madden bill the
Commissioners merely express official
opinion that the local gas rate should be
reduced, referring back to Congress the
question of the amount of reduction, to be
determined by an expert inquiry into the
conditions of manufacture and sale. They
frankly acknowledge their lack Of technical
informal ton on the subject and suggest that
this deficiency is due to the absence of a
law compelling the gas company to sub
NIT annual statements as to its operations
Such a law should be promptly enacted
in any event. A public service corpora
ton should be compelled by statute to
keep the municipal authorities and the leg
islators informed to Its methods and
finances. The street railway and telephone
companies are under this requirement and
the gas companies of the District should
certainly be placed in the same category.
The annual reports may not afford a per-
fectly reliable guide for rate legislation, but
they at least supply foundation upon
which an examination of the corporation
conditions may be conducted. They should
be required, II for no other reason, to
stand as an evidence of the obligation to
Congress and the District under which the
gas company rests in its enjoyment of the
street spaces and an exclusive occupation
of the field.
The question of rate is, as the Commits
sioners state, strictly technical. What is
the actual cost Of making gas in this Dis
trict? When that figure has been ascer-
tanned by expert examination Of the books,
processes and conditions, 1t remains for
Congress to fix upon a selling price that
represents fair profit to the producer. In
determining the cost of production every
item must be subjected to the closest scru-
tiny. to show the actual cost Of plant; the
total amount of stock; the conditions of
stock Issue; the presence or absence of
water" the cost of raw materials; the
precise processes of manufacture; the char
acter and quantity of and market for by prod
ucts; the relation between cost of manu-
facture and freight rates. The question is
complicated for one who is not versed in
the lore of gas-making or familiar with
the methods of gas-company bookkeeping,
but il should not prove difficult for a COM
mission of experts who, with personal
or professional interests at stake and
familiar with the general subject. are
capable of advising Congress accurately.
Washingtonians believe that the gas rate
is too high, that it is possible to sell il
luminant for lower rate and still yield a
fair profit They do not altogether credit
the claims made on behalf Of the company
that it cannot meet its reasonable dividend
requirements with the price reduced. Yet
they are not as rule willing to proceed
merely on suspicion, and they would prefer
to have the rate fixed on the basis of a
painstaking inquiry by disnterested ac-
countants and experts whose recommends
lions could be accepted with confidence that
Justice was being done both to the con-
sumers and the corporation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
KINGSTON,

single quake Of the earth makes the
whole world kin. Now it is here, now
there, but wherever it occurs, sympathy is
immediate and universal. San Francisco,
a large, substantial city Of brick and stone
falls, and her hundreds of thousands of
stricken people are succored at once. S
far away as japan the sad report touches
the hearts of people and they proffer as
sistance Valparaiso is next, and her losses
arouse the widest solicitude. And now
Kingston, a tropical little city of unsub-
stantial homes and slender resources, tum-
bles. and ships laden with supplies and
many forms of relief are putting out from
many ports for the scene of disaster. A
good deal of wrangling goes on, and bust
ness and other rivalries keep the world VIC :.
stirred up. but they do not harden man.
kind. as these things show. The age, after
all, is a good one to live in. When was
there a better?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Our Member of Congress-

L don't see why they make him go
Up there to Washington:
1t isn't there. as they should know,
His greatest work is done
OF course these duties are a test
And keep him on the jump,
But you should see him at his best,
hustlin' on the stump.
We need him here to tell us how
To run things as we should.
To smooth the sorrow from each brow
With maxims wise an good;
l wisht he'd linger round an cheer
Our spirits as they fail.
His speeches? He could make EN- here
And send 'em on by mail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
SHOOTING STARS.
The Most Audible Dialopue

Inc theater is not SO entertaining as 1t
might be-" said one critical person.
NO, answered the other, eft would be
much better If box-partfes would arrange
TO nave playwrights prepare their CONVERSE
ton instead of trying to make it up as they
60 along
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

The fact that 1t is more scattered in its
manifestation prevents the railway wreck
from being recognized as a more deadly in
stitution than the earthquake or the vol
canic eruption.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

II would of course, be unreasonable to
insist that the President had time to think
of the arguments presented by Mr..
Spooner and Mr.. Carmack before he felt
called upon 10 act in the Brownsville case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

Anybody who has to travel on a street
railway during the rush hours can sympa-
thize in small way with those who are
suffering because of shortage of cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Fixing q Basis.

You have had great deal to say about
the income tax"
Yes answered the candid citizen. II
favor it; but I'm like everybody else in be-
Heving that it ought to start with the next
thousand dollars above my own income"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
The Future.
sytlle Courier.Iourna]

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
When the 125-mile AM hour train becomes
practical shall We have elevators which can
run daylight excursions to the top of the
highest American Office buildings?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Would Improve Mankind.

From the St, Louis Post Dispatch.
If the resolution not to lie were as strong
as the determination not to be called q
liar, the worlds veracity would be greatly
enlarged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

The National Museum murderer appears
to have been provided with an abundance
Of insanity evidence before the homicide
was committed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Probably Both.
e City Ilter-Mnuntain

From the Butte City Inter Mountain.
At this distance 1t is not quite clear
whether Colorado is tired of woman suf-
frage or woman suffrage is tired Of
Colorado.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Differences.

Unequally by fate we're tossed.
Some fioat-some go to wreck.
Some have to hustle for the cost
And some Just write a check.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

Nature occasionally seems perversely in
ciined to cooperate with politics in produce
ing disturbances in the West Indies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

Ii Is perhaps commendable TO find no dis
position whatever TO offer any insanity plea
in connection with the Terra Gotta wreck
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

Senator Tillman is one Of the few men
whose energies are sufficient to enable them
to hold indignation meetings unassisted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

A halt should be called Wen it comes to
insisting on an accurate descriptive table
for the mince pie.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

Mark Twain's fears of monarchy in
America are all right, coming from a
humorist.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Their Own Fault.

Poets usually have sad lives" said the
sentimentalist.
We'll answered Mr.. Cumrox, writing
the KIND of things they do, l don't see how
they could expect to be very cheerful"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Gas.
From the Baltimore American,

From the Baltimore American.
Washington has now fallen in line in
investigating its gas, a subject of general
municipal interest just now. Yet it seems
to be the hardest Of subjects upon which
to get light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

1t may be set down as foregone con-
ciusion that 75-cent gas will not afford
what the company considers a fair profit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

The car would no doubt be glad if all
Russian agitators would conf1ne their activ-
tiles to American lecture tours
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Always the Way.

From the 4Greenleaf Sentinel.
We notice that a certain dreenieaf
woman is left-handed when she gets her
diamond ring on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

The man with a sleigh Is still in doubt
whether to take the weather seriously or
not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

Mr.. Carmack goes to some lengths to
demonstrate that his opinions of the
brownsville case, like Topsy, just grew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

OIn order to avoid delays on account OF
personal absence. letters to TIE stan
should not be Addressed TO any individual
connected with the once. but simply TO
Z THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Bus1-
ness Departments, according to tenor or
purpose.
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Tillman's Influence,


From the New York World,
Senator Tfllman Is one of the most in
fiuential public men in the country. He
can defeat almost anything he advocates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Pot VS.. Kettlep


From the New York Herald.
Boston, which has cowpaths to the COM
mon instead of streets, rejoices, forsooth,
because New York no longer uses horse
carsi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

Some men," said Uncle Eben, "nebber
rely does DER hardest work 'ceppin' when
dey's schemin' 'roun' to git out O. dom any
work at ALL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17
Knows More About It,

From the Pittsburg Press.
Gen, Kuropatkin is publishing treatise
on the Russ-Jap war, We think we will
wait and read Marshal Oyama's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-17

After snowfall weather prophecy i.
easy. Slush comes next.
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The Hearst Aldermen.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
We are sorry that we have not at hand
the magniloquent pronunciamentos with
which the new Hearst party invaded the
arena. The inception of the republican
party which led to the freeing of the slaves
was nothing to the new movement. The
letters which had been fastened upon man.
kind would be struck off by "Independ-
ence.' The old parties were tottering to
their graves. The new party in all the
splendid innocence of youth was calling to
the Peepul:
Rise like lions from your SAUNDERS,
Great In strength and great in numbers;
Shake your chains OF like the dew,
Which in sleep hath fallen ON you;
You are many, they few.
And now after SO brief a period we have
for the total achievement of this mag
ni1cent promising movement one Holster
under arrest and ten others explaining with
desperate embarrassment a conspiracy of
circumstances of which they are the VIC
TINS. 1t Is painful to see radiant novelty
put on SO soon an ancient leer. 1t almost
impels cynicism.
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Pure Drugs, Medicines
Etc.

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Rubber Goods.
Warranted Ono Wear

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Z 75c. Throat Atomizers. 49c
: 81 co Throat Atomizers. ...57c
}: 125 Throat Atomizers. 73c.
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? Witch Hazel, best, pint. .15c
itobiodi .1IC.
Colgate's Tooth Powder.
ooAouout ..IlC.
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. Woodbury's SOap.....-............. lac.
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:. 2-lb. bar Pure CASTLE Soap. .21c.
!. Violet de Parme Soap. 9c.-box. .23c.
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Hundreds Of yards of Plain and
Printed French Flannels, Shrunken
Scotch Flannels, White and Colored
Skirting Flanneis, both plain and fancy.
Also Eiderdowns, to 41s-yard lengths.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-05-04
EDITORIAL COMMENT
SAN FRANCISCO'S DISTRESS.

The labor situation in San Francisco is very grave, latest reports
from there being to the effect that 0,OOO men may be thrown out of en-
poyment by their own actions. This means a tie-up of practically every
industry n a city which is struggling to rehabfltate itself after one of
the worst disasters the world has ever known.
While we may be too far from the situation to thoroughly under
stand the conditions, W e cannot imagine that we are far from being
right in saying that there must be a peaceful way of settling the trouble.
Arbitration will do it.
Joseph F. Valentine, national president of the Iron Molders Asocia-
ton of North America, has hurled the following def at the employers: 81
shall prolong my stay in San Francisco long enough to map out a
course for the iron molders of san Francisco which 1 hope will lead them
to win against the oppression of the employer"
That sort OF a sentiment is not calculated to bring peace o victory
to any side, and it sounds rather presumptuous for a stranger who has no
interests in a city to make such a declaration. To an outsider 1t would
seem that it would be a great deal better for men struggling for a prn-
ciple to be rid of such agitators.
The eight-hour day is a good thing for all concerned. No man should
be required to work more than eight hours, and this is a fight that or
gained labor has been struggling for in this country for many years.. 1t
would be a great thing for everybody If it could be brought about, and
it ought to be brought about by peaceful means, and it will, with proper
leaders on both sides.
1t is such lei a S Valentine that foment bitterness between en-
ployer and employe, and encourage strife. Men of his way of thinking
make the ia who employs him their enemy as soon as they get on the
payroll All wrong. No mar employs another in this country unless
the other is willing to go to work, and the mar who pays out. the money
ought certainly to have some say as to the manner in which the work
should be done, and who should do it.
It is usually the men who do not work who create the trouble and
with the agftators eliminated, a settlement which is beneficial to en-
ployer and employe alike, should be reached without trouble.