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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03
The National Banker Candidate.

The Bryan Of 1896 and 1900 had some con-
vlctlOns, and one of these was that Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew were right in antagon-
izing national banks
The Bryan Of 1908 is Just monomaniacal'
seeker after office, and has no convictions One
of his most astonishing hOps is that which
makes him the supporter of national banks.
He is DANGEROUSLY demanding that the govern
ment strengthen and perpetuate the system by
guaranteeing national bank deposits. He even
goes to the extent of opposing Postal Savings
banks.
Every one who has made a study of the
subject must know that Postal banks would
give a governmental guaranty to all their de
pOsitOrs, would offer a safe and convenient
place of deposit to the people of the country
as we'll as the town, would relieve the country
from the dangers of concentrating the money
in the big cities, would to a great extent
weaken the power of Wall Street fnanciers,
would forever do away with the necessity of
bond issues, would give the people and the
government control over the available cash
of the nation, RENDERING 1T IMPOS-
SIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL BANKERS
TO PRECIPITATE SUCH PANICS AS
THOSE OF 1893 AND 1907.
Now, why on earth should Mr. Bryan op-
pose Postal banks and favor National banks
The historic position of the Democratic
party is, "uncompromisng hostility to National
banks"
ton which he held in 1892, in 1896 and in
1900?
Because he wants the help of the Wall Street
element of his party. He has out-Parkered
Parker, in his serviity to the noney-kings
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03
4 Pound of Cotton.

1t was IN the Char-ear on the Central, not
far out from Griffin. "What's this you have
here" asked one drummer Of another as he
leaned over and fingered the ends Of some cloth
done up in parcel.
"Ihey are bath-towels-big fellows; they
weigh a pound apiece"
"Where did you get them?'
"Here at the Griffin mills They make 'em
here"
"What did you have to pay?"
The towel-oWner side-stepped the question,
leaving upon the mind of the Jeffersonian the
impression that these towels were "comp-
mentary."
One of the drummers said
You can buy towels like that at 50 cents
each by wholesale. They retail at dollar"
The other drummer laughed and said, eyes,
that's SO; and the mill pays eight cents for the
pound Of cotton that goes into the towel"
WhereupOn the other added, ironically, "But
you must allow for the labor. 1t costs so
much to weave the pound of cloth into
pound Of towel"
They both enjoyed the joke-as who should
say, cts all right to fool the foxy farmer"
Go lt--yOu foxy old farmer! Keep on sell
ing your cotton at ten cents and buying it
back at fifty cents or dollar You are able
to afford it, or you woulnt do it. Some of
these days you are going to have more money
than you'll know what to do with-made by
the simple process of selling your cotton at
low price and buying it back at a high one.
Selah.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03

izing of the Democratic means to the South.
Since the days of Charles Sumner and Thad
Stevens, no stab at Southern interests has been
more deadly.
What will it mean if Bryan is elected by the
negro vote?
What does it mean to Georgia when such a
virulent Halter of the whites as the negro "Bish-
op" Henry Turner champions the election of
Bryan?
These negro leaders are expecting to get
something out Of the election of Bryan.
WHAT is 1T?
They say in their speeches and circulars that
he has made certain promises. BRYAN PUTS
FORTH NO DENIAL.
Look we'll to it, Southern Democrats Bryan
is niggerizing the party which for forty years
has ruled the South upon the idea that it was
the white mans party.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03
Hob The Hearst Platform Would Work

We find the following item in the Washing
ton Post
Cora Hawkins, a young negress, was SEN
fenced to two days in the workhouse yesterday
for impudence to Judge Mullowny in police
court. Cora was testifying in behalf of her
cousin, Dorothy Miles, who had been arrested
for disorderly conduct, and when she replied
to a question in disrespectful way Judge
Mulowny cautioned her
Use gwine answer yo' as [ choose an yo'
can't SEN me to no jail the witness declared.
Step down and go to the Workhouse for
two days for contempt of court the Judge re-
Piled
''This evidently was something Cora hadn't
thought of. She made dash for the door, but
was caught by Ba11iff Hughes
"Dorothy Miles was sentenced to the work
house for thirty days"
The above incident shows how necessary it
is for every court, high or low to have the
power to maintain its dignity and authority.
Were the Hearst platform in operation,
sassy negro Wench like Cora Hawkins could
not be summarily squelched She could give
the judge just as much impudence as she
pleased and then demand trial by jury. In
police court jury could not be empaneled
to try the sassy Coras and they would have
to be bound over to some higher court, or
presented to some grand-ury In the mean
while the judge who had been defed would
be reduced to an impotence which would bring
law itself into contempt.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03
Dyyanife Nefl0ds and Tariff Reforms.

What delightful thing it is to see Bryan
and latt squarlng for fight over Tariff re-
torml 1t reminds us of the good old humbug
era OF Grover Cleveland
Did we not see the Democratic party ride
into power on the wave of tariff reform. and
did we not see a Democratic Congress in
crease the price Of farm necessaries by putting
higher rate of duty upon such articles as
trace-chalns? Did we not see it increase the
cost of common clothing? Did it not give the
Sugar Trust schedule which enabled that
Democratic pet to tax the people to the extent
OF 100000 per year by advancing the price
of sugar?
Did~not C1eve1and's Secretary of the Treas
ury, John G. Carlisle, take the obedient pen
in his own hand and write the sugar schedule
just as Havemeyer dictated it? And was not
this betrayal of the people the favor exacted by
the Trust in return for it's contribution of $780,,
900 to the Democratic campaign fund?
Of course it was The whole country rang
with the scandal, but the Democratic party did
not care. The patriots had got what they want
ed, and the fact that they had broken faith
with the people did not disturb them in the
least.
Bryan was member Of the Democratic
Congress which committed the crime of re-
paying the Sugar Trust for half-million con-
tribution to the sush fund by giving it the
power to tax the country fifty millions per
year.
Was his eloquent voice heard in protest
against the crime?
NO.
How then, can Bryan have the cheek to
pirate about tariff reform?
Is he going to lower the copper schedules
and lessen the huge profits of his financial
backer w. A. Clark, of Montana?
Hardly, since he has put Clark on his finance
committee
is he going to lessen the duties upon ship
building materials and thus reduce the yearly
graft of his friend and hacker, Lewis Nixon
the Ship Trust magnate? Hardly since he
has put Lewis on the Bryan committee
Is he going to undo that Infamous series of
laws which Democrats and Republicans united
to pass in favor of the Democratic Tobacco
Trust-whiCh laws forced the tobacco growers
into revolt and Night Riding?
Hardly, since the Tobacco Trust is repre-
scented on the Bryan committee by Moses Wet
more-milllonaire beneficiary of the Tobacco
Trust
What, Their, does Bryan mean by tariff re-
form?"
Nothing. He wants the coon and he will
say anything and everything to get it.
In Ohio he is leagued with the whiskey deal
ers In Indiana he has made his deal with the
Brewers Combine. In New York he has sur
rendered to Tammany we'll knowing that
Tammany stands for corruption in politics, for
Wall Street methods, for Ryan, Belmont ras-
caltles. He bids for the Protestant vote by
butting in at religious meetings with his lee
ture on Christ, and he caters to the Catholic
vote by having his Denver Convention opened
with prayer by Catholic Bishop, and by ap-
pointing Norman Mack, Catholic, chairman
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03
"STRAUS WAS KISSED"

low came the Bryanites to hiss Straus?
Because he endeavored to have the name
of Robert E. Lee mentioned with honor.
Turn to the Life of Thomas H. Benton"
by Theodore Roosevelt and you will find that
he praises Lee as the greatest soldier that the
Anglo-Saxon race has produced Greater than
Wellington, greater than Cromwell greater
than Marlborough, greater than the great sol
diers who won at Agincourt and Poitiers. So
far as we know the name of Lee has never
been mentioned disrespectfully in any North
ern book or speech, during the last twenty
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-09-03
Robert T.. Lee s Name Kissed By
BYyaniteS.

1t was all right, of course, for Mr.. Bryan to
court popularity with those millions who re-
we're the memory of Abraham Lincoln by hav-
ing his Denver Convention go out of it's way
to pass resolution in honor Of the martyr
BUT 1T WAS A SHAMEFUL THING
FOR THIS NATIONAL CONVENTION
OF DEMOCRATS TO HISS THE NAME
OF ROBERT E. LEE.
Turn back to the July 10th issue of the At
lanta Constitution, and read how |. L. Stratus,
of Maryland, was howed down. The sub
head line is,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
HARTMAN PLANNING
IRRIGATION SYSTEM

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May he. H.
Hartman is planning the greatest ir-
rigatiOn system in the world in the I'm
perial valley. The constructive work
alone will cost 100000 and a part of
the project is the retaining of 1900, :
coo acres of desert land.
The plans that have been discussed
so far call for a high line canal from a
point on the Alamo river. 20 miles east
of Sharp's Heading, which will be 100
feet above sea level. The canal will
follow contour on the other beach line
on the east and north sides of the de-
sert basin around the eastern side of
Imperial valley and thence down the
ConcheIa valley to India. 1t will be 125
miles long and will cover $500 square
miles
It is figured that this land will be
made the most fertile in America and
that if the irrigation scheme works it
will be worth $500 an acre.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
BOLT RIPS OFF SHOES
OF MAN IN PARLOR.

MILLVILLE, N. j., May 19.-During
a severe electrical storm a bolt struck
the Petit homestead, in West Mill
Vile, crashed through the roof and
Notwithstanding into the parlor,
where Martin Petit and his brother,
Harry, were reading.
Martin sat at the stove with his legs
crossed when the bolt landed on him,
tore off both his shoes, divided AMI
passed through the opposite side of the
house. Martin was knocked to the floor
unconscious, and his brothers thought
he was dead. The flesh on one of his
legs was blackened and scorched as if
by fire.
After working for an hour DR.. Miller
restored the man to consciousness. and
aside from a severe burn Pettitt stated
that he fels no evil effects from the ex-
Terience
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
HUNDREDSW |LLG
TO SEE FLEET

Enthusiasm over the fleet is growing
all the time and from all Indications
the northern coast will be as fleet mad
as was California Every hotel in Sc
attic is said to be almost full and
thousands of letters are pouring in
daily, asking for accommodations
Walla Walla will go over in a ten
car special train. While this train will
also serve Pendleton and Waitsburg,
it is the Walla Walla special and from
this city the most of the people will go.
The train leaves the Northern Pacific
depot at o'clock Friday morning and
will reach Seattle the same evening
before dark.
Besides the train from here there will
be other special trains One will leave
Spokane on the evening of May 81
Another viii leave that city the next
day and still another will leave on
May q. From North Yakima will go
a train on May %, carrying 10 coaches.
These trains will average about 10
coaches which will make some so
coaches, 5000 people, who will go from
the Inland Empire. This does not in
Glade the special service on regular
trains which will accommodate many
more. Il is estimated that from Idaho
and eastern Washington and Oregon
there will be 10000 people go to see
the biggest battleship fleet the United
States ever assembled. 1t will be
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19

will make it's fight against some of the
principles which the unions stand for
and which are obnoxious to capital
Among these are the closed shop, the
boycott, sympathetic strikes, appren-
ticeship restrictions and compulsory
use Of the union label.
New York labor leaders are appar-
emily not alarmed by the proposed
warfare of the association and declare
that it is but another outburst of the
spirit of vain antagonism to unions
which mas heretofore found feeble ex
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
START WAR ON
LABOR UNIONS
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MAN
UFACTURERS, IN SESSION IN
GOTHAM, OUTLINES PLANS.

NEW YORK, May ia determined
warfare on all labor unions, which will
have the support of the 5000 members
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers, representing an aggregate
capital of fifteen billion dollars, will
soon be commenced.
This action was determined upon ct
today's session of the association,
which is holding its annual convention
at the Waldorf Astoria. Political meth
DDS will be used by the manufacturers
in the fight, which will inject new and
vital issue into the presidential cam
paign.
According to President James W.
Van Cleve the membership of the as
ISOLATION is practically unanimous in
the matter of fighting the unions 1t is
alleged that of the 30,OOO,O0O laborers
in this country less than 100000 are
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, and that any determined
stand against what is termed the tyr
amy of organized labor will receive
the support Of the great majority of
these unorganized workmen.
Fight Principles, Not Unions.
not attempt to disrupt the unions, but
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
GRANTS PASS MINE
PROVES BONANZA
OWNERS TAKE OUT $4,000 IN
TWO WEEkS-$75,oo0 IN
SIGHT.

GRANTS PASS, Ore, May 19.-Ar-
other bag Of gold was brought in Sat-
urday from Williams Creek by Harri-
son Bros, the two prospectors who I'M
covered a bonanza in that district re-
Gently. These men have cleaned up
$4,000 in the past two weeks and have
$4,000 in sight Most of THIS Is pure
gold and is taken from shallow de-
posts. on one day the two took out
$1,000. Harrison says that himself and
brother have taken out from $4,000 to
$4,000 every day since the strike was
made.
This discovery was made on the hill
side near Williams postoffice and in a
district that has been mined for the
past 60 years. Harrison Bros. are ex-
pert prospectors and have been in the
Williams district only since February.
The strike has caused a considerable
rush to Williams and many claims are
being located. Abandoned properties
are also being taken up. Miners are
now on the ground from all sections of
the west.
H. Is. Cooper of Colorado. made a
strike few days ago and took out
$1,000 in less than IL hours.
1t is believed that several rich mines
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
Smallpox at Princeton, Idaho.

PRINCETON. Idaho. May 10
Smallpox has broken out in this town.
and there are at present at least "a
cases, according to the county ply
sic!ars. Princeton is in a logging dis
trict on the Palouse river about IS
miles east Of the town of Palouse. 1t
is thought the diseases was brought
here by some logger. Several have
been Quarantined.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
FOR SALE.

Whitman college; nice shade trees. A
bargain if sold for cash; inquire at
Statesman Office
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
reat sight, the opportunity of life

great sight, the opportunity of a life
time.
For the benefit Of those who cannot
go and to get full and detailed ac-
count Of all the proceedings, first
hand description of the fleet, the
Statesman will send a special repre-
sentative who will keep this paper &C
curately posted as to events while the
fleet is in the harbor at Seattle
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19

will develop out of the strikes.
The find is the richest made here
since tie famous Briggs discovery three
years ago.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19

preston in citizens alliances and SIM
liar bodies
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-05-19
SEED POTATOES

Cholce Early Everett, at s125 per
Ioo' Won first prize at Walla walla
air. A. M. BODWELL, Phone s47.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
'WARSHIP PAY.CHEST
ROBBED OF $4,000
Thief Among Grew of Cruiser
Milwaukee Takes Sack of
Gold From Safe

During the stay at Magdalena bay
some member of the crew, familiar with
the combination. robbed the paymas-
ter's. safe on the cruiser Milwaukee, Sc
curing s3,S00 in gold coin. When the
vessel arrived here yesterday the thief
was still undiscovered and the money
missing. Paymaster Grey Skipwith,
who, under navyf regulations, is held
personally responsible for the cash in
his custody, will make up the loss.
The robbery occurred during Skip
with's aHken from the ship. He had
left in the safe. more than $4,000 in
gold, but only one sack, containing
$4,000 in $5 pieces, was taken. When
the theft was discovered all hands were
mustered on deck and the ship care
fully searched, but no trace was found
of the stolen gold.
II can't understand how the theft
was committed. except that some clever
cracksman had carefully planned it,
said Skipwith yesterday. we searched
the ship, but there are a thousand and
one places where the money could have
been hidden and never found. 1t might
even have dropped overheard by the
culprit when the alarm was raised
The police have been notified and
certain trusted members of the crew
have been picked to search for the
thief. Little hope for the recovery OF
the money, however, is felt by Pay
master Skipwith.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
w 0 MANS BREAST
FOR GANG Err!
Any Lump in WOman's Breast
Is Cancer

A new book of the most wonderful
discoveries on the cure Of cancer ever
written has been recently published
by DIR. s r. Chamley. the noted can
Ger specialist. who has for many years
had offices at ss6 McAllister ST., San
Francisco. Cal. and has effected thou
sands of wonderful cures of cancers
that have been pronounced incurable
by other physicians. He successfully
proves his astounding statement that
ANY lump in a womans breast is
cancer in this book. He has so much
confidence in his ability TO cure can
Ger that he offers $1,000 if he fails TO
cure any cancer he treats before it
poisons deep glands. He has devoted
almost the whole OF his professional
Hfe-nearly forty years-to this spe-
eialty and has reduced it to a science
that has not been approached by any
other physician He performs no
operations with the knife and his
treatments are painless.
The book and his cures are creating
a sensation among medical men who
recommend him as being strictly re-
liable. The reader may save life by
sending this to some one with cancer.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
Second Setback for
Varsity Pugiiism

OAKLAND. March 13.-College pugi1
ism received another setback today at
the hands of the police and fire COM
missioners of Oakland, when a per-
NIT was denied TO the University OF
California boat club to hold three am
ateur bouts as part of a smoker pro-
gram The permit was applied for by
Paul a. Myers, president of the club.
who said that the bouts were planned
for the evening of March Is. when
only members of the club would be
allowed to attend. Because the club Is
not Incorporated and licensed, how
ever. the boat club of the university
cannot hold exhibitions Of boxing, ac-
cording to the decision reached today.
Other attractions at the smoker
which will be held without the boxing
are to be the De Koven club quartet
the Mandolin club of the university and
the University of California band. The
place of the show, where the bouts
were to have been held, is the club
house-the old ferry boat Amador-at
the foot of Fifth avenue
The students endeavored to evade
the obstacles to the PoIydeucean club
bouts, which were forestalled by OBJ
tanning permits from the commissioners
in Oakland. The Reliance and West
Oakland clubs give bouts by this sane
tion, but unlike the boat club, these
organizations are licensed by the city
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
WIFE WOOfD him,
HUSBAND ASSERTS
Widower Subiugated in Three
Days, and Says 1t Cost
All His Wealth

Mrs. James Quinlan was a master
ful sort of woman. according to her
husbands answer to the suit for sep
arate maintenance which she filed sew
eral days ago. Quinlan says his wife
did all the courting. completed the
subjugation of his widowed heart In
three days and then married him last
October, after having taken him to
the county clerk before whom she
caused him to make will giving her
his home in Edinburgh street But
Quinlan's excuse is that he was drunk
when he met his wife, drunk when
she moved leap year up few months
and drunk when she took him for
better or worse.
Quinlan fled his answer in the SUI
periorscourt yesterday In it he says
his wife came TO him stranger on
October 4, 1907. He was a widower
then. She offered herself as house
keeper on regular pay He declined.
Then she proposed marriage. Economy
was >the idea. But before November
% she had not only obtained all of
house Keepers reasonable wage, Quin-
Ian asserts. but she possessed every
thing else he had and then left him
not however before she had taken the
precaution to file a homestead claim
on his realty.
DR.. Peter Metcalfe of Vallejo hav-
ing remarked thinks he should be re-
lieved from the burden of paying ALI
mony to his former wife, Clara, who
obtained a divorce in 1904. Metcalfe
appeared in Judge Grahams court yes
terday on an order to show cause why
he should not be punished for. con-
tempt for permitting the alimony to
fall $3.50 in arrears, He told the court
he could not afford the money, but
Judge Graham told him that il he did
not pay his ex-wife s25 by Monday he
would be sent to jail.
The following suits for divorce were
filed yesterday: Flora Van Trump from
Gardner L. Van Trump. failure to pro-
vide; Charlotte Losle against Charles
Losle. failure to provide; Maurice w
Bray against Ida M. Bray, desertion;
Edward c. Pingrey against Matte ].
Pingrey desertion Edward J. Trouin
against Mary L. Trouin.
Judge Seawell yesterday granted
Margaret Simpson divorce from Fred
erick p Simpson on the ground of de-
sertion, and Judge Buck granted Harry
c. Egan a divorce from Gladys NJ.
Egan on the same ground.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-14
WIN ON A WILD THROW
st. NinCentS Defeat University
of CaIifnrnia III to 10

BERKELEY, March ia wild throw
in the last inning by Shortstop A.
Myers of the University, of California
nine when the score stood 10 to 10 lost
the game to ST. Vincent this afternoon
on California field in the first game of
baseball of the series with the south
ern college The wild throw brought
in another run for the St. Vincent team
and the score at the end stood II to 10.
A feature was the home run made by
Butler of the California nine and the
pitching OF Jordan in the last inning.
The lineup:
st. Vincent-Grindle, catcher; Ker-
foot. pitcher; O'Konke, first base; Flick,
second base; Lamar (captain), short
stop; Corbin. third base; Brannon,
right field; Gray, center field; Callahan,
left field.
varsity-Smith. third base; Earnist.
second base; r. f. Myers, first base;
Butler left field: c. Myers, catcher; A.
Myers, shortstop, Solinsky. center field !;
Reid right fed; White, Fleissner and
Jordan, pitchers.