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Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23
THE CAMPAIGN
GRAFTERS-

When the grafters begin to arrive
at the headquarters of either of the
great parties in a presidential cam
paign the most detested of all, but
the one who must. nevertheless, be
handled with care, is ene man who
claims TO control the vote Of q nation
aIity or class. BY this is meant he
who says he has the negro. German,
Italian. Hebrew, or labor vote in his
vest pocket, and goes from one party
TO the other, quite willing TO sell to
the highest bidder.
This CRATER appears at headquar-
tiers in campaign after campaign He
is the only one of whom the party
managers are, in sense afraid. For
in some instances he may control a
vote, though it be not as large as he
claims, and this vote the party wants
If the figures for obtaining il are not
TOO high. The total vote in some cases
may not be large enough to do more
than sway a district; in others it may
only be a few hundred. To take care
of the man and prevent him from
holding up the committee for too
much money is the problem to be
solved. says Harper's Weekly.
In national and state campaigns
managers rely upon the local party
leaders to inform them who's who and
what's what among these grafters
and they only deal with those accred,
tied, IS 1t were. But in many in
stances these grafters are an army in
themselves. Each controls his coterie
of voters, hence a foreign vote, as an
example, is sometimes obtained, from
half a dozen leading citizens" of the
nationality il question rather thar
from a single individual.
1t sometimes happens that these
grafters sell to both parties For in
stance, in the campaign OF 1904, it il
charged thtt a labor leader sold th'
vote of his organization to both par
ties, the democrats alone payini
something like $4,000 for it. Bot
parties found out this double dealing
but, of course. could do nothing.
The man who would eonfound "ih
other side" and win the battle b
some unique method Is variation o
the type who haunts headquarters
This kind the real managers CAREFUL
avoid. He is never very prosperou
in appearance, and probably is not i
fact.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23
A Wall OF WOE
FROM BENSON.

Evidently political action and events
IN Arizona and in Coenise county dun
ing the present year mas left bad
taste in the mouth Of our good broth.
er. W. F. White, editor of the Coehise
County Press, judging from the last
issue of his paper. Bro. White, it win
be remembered, has been herding
with the Kibbeyites during the presi-
dental campaign and we attribute all
his misery TO the fact that the Kib-
hey delegation went down for the
count" in the Chicago convention. The
first thing to attract our attention in
the columns of the Press was the fol
lowing vicious thrust at Judge Kirk.
patrick:
The Tucson republicans are Just
waiting for kirkpatrick to be nominal
ed for some office in Pima county
They viii certainly hand him lem
on"
AS Judge Kirkpatrick got the ak in
about the same place where the gov
ernor did-in the neck--one cannot
but wonder why he should be still pur
sued by the Press or anyone else.
But, evidently, Bro White has been
seeing things" in other counties be
des Pima recently. as is made plain
by. the following. which we found
further down in the editorial columns
of the Press;
The unfortunate condition in which
/ the republican party finds itself placed
in this city. through the crooked worl
| done so far this campaign, will be-
severly felt at the November cleo
ton. Not alone in this county vii
I the party lines be badly broken, bu
also in Pima, Maricopa, Graham and
/ the other counties.
Further on down the column We
find the following lament because o
lost opportunity of Cochise county re
publicans to make of themselves q
pivot around which the balance of tbs
territory would have been compelled
to dance" Here is the lamentation
1T will be long remembered witt
regret by the republicans( republi
I fhas fxUa sFnnd MO
were made use OF to oppose each 9th
/ er, when they should have been pu
| forward together and made Cochis
/ county the pivot around which the bal
ance of the territory would have beel
compelled 10 dance. No gain has beef
| made. The party has lost out"
Evidently the more Bro. Whit
studied the political situation in Pimt
and Cochise counties the more despon
dent he became and stopping tn
press, no doubt, he took occasion t
throw up the sponge" in the follow
ing prediction as to. what will harper
this fall:
kirkpatrick and ALT Donnau Gel
tainIy fixed matters for Pima county
and the ssidy-McReynolds outn
have to a certainty fixed matters 70
the republicans in Cochise county
| Under the circumstances we are pei
ifectIy willing that they or anyone els
name the county ticket this fall and
the party will go down in defeat. Tn
candidates ON the republican tickle
this fall will have a mighty poor shoI
! Just about as much show as snow
ball has in a warm country. Their
can be no success where there ar
people working for their own selfis
gain. which has been the case wit
the republican party here for the pas
six years or more"
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23
Felt at Home.

The former sexton had been an
rogsnt. boisterous and irreveTent. To
do the wrong thing at the wrong mo-
ment was his speciality He retired
at the end Of the year by request of
the trustees. The new sexton was a
colored man, and from the very first
gave intense satisfaction. Hts move
ments were as soft as a cats; doors
were never slammed. nor did he open
windows with a bang. Where did
that man receive his training?" asked
the elated pastor one evening while
attending a meeting OF the trustees.
an the Pullman service, grunted a
member who was battling the hay
fever. where he was taught to have
regard for the comfort of the sleep
srs."
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

There was little harmony in the re
publican national convention. The
'"old guard" which has been direct
ing the management aid policies of
the &. 0. p. during the past genert-
ton, was pushed into the background
and kept there. Cannon, Fairbanks,
Foraker, Knox and the leaders from
New York and Pennsylvania were sit
ting in an obscure political corner,
while Frank Hitchcock, Tarry New
and other kindergarten statesmen
were shaping the platform and desti.
ny of the republican party, according
to orders from the Terrible Teddy
According to the Chicago Inter Ocean
the convention last week was decided,
ly the tamest affair of the kind ever
pulled of in the Windy City.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

The injunction plank inserted in
the national republican platform
never would have been put there only
for the purpose of paclfying the "a
Dor vote. which it is understood was
not peiased with Taft because Of some
of his decisions while he was On the
federal bench in Ohio. The injunc-
ton plank was forced into the plat
form by Roosevelt and Taft to The
disgust of many Of the old-time ieae-
ers Of the party. Certainly the mean
ingIess injunction plank VIII not at
tract the attention Of any seif-respeet-
ing laboring man
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

Dmocrats in Mojave county are al
ready making their political aspira
tons known and the columns of OuI
Mineral wealth is carrying the an
nouncement of a dozen aspirants fol
office. Mojave county is one of the
democratic strongholds in Arizona
and we wish all the democrats there
success.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

Frank Heney. who was at one time
a resident of Arizona and who was
rated as democrat. has announced
his intention to support Taft for pres
ident Heney, during the last few
years. has been noted for making
grand stand" plays.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

Those republicans who are tigur-
ing on official provender after the
election of Taft are reminded that st
would be just as well mot to count
the chickens before they are hatched.'
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

Vow that Editor White OF The Co
elise County Press has thrown up the
pe,itical sponge and comedies that the
repubIicans have no chance to win in
cochise county. a greater load viii be
c,aoed on the shoulders of .~Aify
who now sits astride Of the editoria.
tr,pod IN the Bisbee Miner ONCE
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

The republican platform is devoted
largely 10 making promises to regu-
late and remedy conditions which
have grown up under past republican
rule The people should not forget
this point.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

So far it has not been explained
Just where Judge kirkpatrick got the
axe" or how Pop" Sturges got the
plum. There are many explanations
due from the various factions of the
republican party in Arizona, but they
are of no ptrticular Consequence to the
democrats.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR SUPERVISOR.

/ desire TO announce myself as a
candidate for reelection to the office
of supervisor of Cochise county.
WILLIAM NJ. RIGGS,
Dos Cabezos, Arizona.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-06-23

Don't forget the dance every wea-
nezday night at Tammany Hal. S77
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
Vicous Slinas.

"In years past. especially in the years following close upon the terrible recon struction period the south was the scene of much bloodshed and even today tho pistol toting practice is still too com mon, but it fll becomes northern editors to point now to the south as the one section where homicides are of frequent occurrence" said a business man.
 Brutal tragedies and unprovozed man. slaughter are of frequent occurrence in the northern states and one does not have to be a statistician to know that lawlessness and gross immortality are in- creasing in the north, while crime in the south is decreasing. The slings, there fore, that come from New York editors are peculiarly irritating. Some of them are extremely vicious.
 "Men who are looking for trouble usual ly find it, but in the south 1aw-abiding people are as safe from the murderer s bullet, as a rule, as they are in other sections of the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
AN UNEXPECTED "RoXANE!"
How Mansfield Came to Choose Mar garet Anelin for Leader in "Cyrano."

Paul Wilstach in November Scribner's.
 Mansfield in his preparation for "Cy- rano" was unsparing of himself and he was unsparing of others. Everything he had and everything he hoped for was at stake. Struggle and desperation were in the air. Nearly everyone in the cast re- signed or was discharged over and over again. Mir. Palmer's day and nights were devoted to diplomacy. and thanks to his suavity the heady heat of the day be- fore was forgotten in the cool of the next morning.
 An actress of International reputation and experience was engaged for Roxane Rehearsals were under way when she re- signed by cable. The Orange Girls single line in the first act was being rehearsed by a young Canadian, Margaret Anglin. Mansfield had not seen her act but he remarked the wondrous loveliness of her voice and his intuition told him she had temperament. Gan you make yourself look beautiful enough for Roxane?' he asked. q think I might if you can make yourself look ugly enough for Cyrano,' she answered. The part was hers on the instant. He coached her srelentlessly. Again and again she cried that she could not do it. He reassured her, but not with soft persuasions. ''You can, my dear, and YOU must Now, again!' After re- hearsals she went regularly in tears to MT. Palmer to resign. He appealed to Mansfield to be more lenient. T am only kind" was his reply.
 '.Roxane Is great part Only one who has suffered can play such role. This girl has the temperament and the emotions, but she is young and inexperi- enced. I cannot persuade her spirit. must rouse it." And every day she reached new depths and new heights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
Bird'S.EYe View Of Birmingham

It is more than a bird's-eye view of Birmingham, for it puts before the eye at once a picture of 100 square miles, q district, in other words, 20 miles iong and miles wide. And all this is done artistically, the whole constitut- ing an agreeable view of mountain and valley and smoking chimneys and pretty suburbs.
 The publication tells at glance the story of perhaps the richest 100 square miles in this country. A good share of it's riches lies in seams of iron ore, limestone deposits and beds of fuel, much of it undeveloped, but develop ment is coming on apace. The birds eye view presents riches known and unknown, and the story will be told widely and effectively.
 The district is indebted to President Ford of the Railway, Light and Power company for this excellent and artistic story, and that company is printing 100000 copies of it for distribution. It will ba placed where it will do the dis trict the most good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
Tom L. JOhnsOn'S Hard Luck

A long, hard fight in behalf of his dead brothers children and another lonss, hard fight against privilege in his city has wrecked the private fortunes of Cleyelands democratic mayor. He says he is practically penniless. and he is about to leave his Euclid avenue home and to sell his automobiles.
 His heart is, however, stout. He has, he says, 8 thousand fights left in him. and he proposes to run for mayor again, democrat though he be in republican city. This will be test of Clevelands $ sense of right. It will have to choose between privilege and the man who entered the mayors office rich and who Is now poor. Cleveland has more at stake in such an election than plucky Tom Johnson has. If it rejects him poor when it had thrice accepted him rich it will have to acknowledge that it bows first of all before the golden calf. and privilege and special interests will shortly afterward gumshoe in to pick up the resultant spells.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
Mission of the Democratic Party

There is no paper in this country more fntelligently edited than the Phila- delphia Inquirer. It's luminous articles gre invariably based on correct in. formation. It. however. makes two mis- takes when it discusses the attitude of the south and the democratic party.
 It makes mistake when it says any state in this section is getting ready to break away from the democratic party. The Savannah News shows that the re- publican gains in Georgia were not gains at all The changes were due to . vote of 134 ,000,. when 100000 voted in . democratic primary in the previous June. A gain of about 5000 votes in Alabama was also due to decreased total vote. There are some new repub- licans here, but as rule they are not active in paying poll taxes assessed against them or in searching for regis traitor offices. All the changes from democracy to republicanism in this section would not wad gun, and there are no signs of any increase in that direction.
 "But the worst delustlon," says the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
LlTERATuRE's DEBT TO RUM.
Professor Muensterberg Makes Fresh
 Contribution to the Controversy.

From the New York Press.
 To the debate on the question whether rum is an inspiration to industry or a blight upon the muscle and intellect comes from Professor Muensterberg, the Harvard psychologist, who has been con- tending that moderate use of alcohol stim- ulates men to more and better production. This experimenter now tells us of the case of a brilliant New York author whose secret trouble is that he has never written a page of his brilliant books but after incorporate use of whisky"
 Unfortunately for the value of the in- stance, the author is a patient of Dr. Muensterberg, so that his name Is kept secret Thus We do not know whether the psychologists judgment on the bril- liancy of the work done by the said writer is correct. If it is. why does he want to be cured of the habit? If hyp- notic suggestion stops our gifted author from putting in quart of whisky before settling down to the delirious delights of composition, Professor Muensterberg may be doing the world an injustice-and the patient. too.
 If the writer likes his rum and if his readers like his work, why not let him alone? There was the case of Edgar Allan Poe who was notorious soak; and if De Quincey had not been an opium eater literature would not have been en- ,;o I,xyH h a 1,l If our contemporary whose secret is so noisily guarded by Dr. Muensterberg should lose the inspiration of his cups he might fall into the commonplace literary style of a college professor, and from there go on down the scale to the level of magazine writers.
 Our investigator in psychology would do much better to find out the brand of whisky and let the literary world try what virtue lies therein.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
Men of Hinh Equipment.

Although James Gayley, who retires from the office of first vice president of the United States Steel corporation, was exceptionally well equipped for the posi- ton he filled. it will not be difficult to find an efficient successor, simply because the official organization of the great steel concern includes many men of splendid ability and large training" said an en- glneer not connected in any way with the corporation. MT. Gayley is not only a man of sound technical education and broad business experience, but he Is a recognized authority on many matters of the industrial world, especially in blast furnace practice, steel making, iron ores and coke making. Several of his inven- tions are of high value, but the achieve ment by which he is best known to the world at large is the development of the Gayley dry blast.
 Tt is safe to say that the Steel cor poration has a score of officials who would be deemed we'll qualified to take Mr. Gay ley's place; my guess is that John Reis' assistant to President Corey, will be chosen. MT. Refs has visited Birmingham two or three times, and has many friends here who would be glad to see him pro noted. He is. like MT. Gayley, high class engineer and an all-round technical expert"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
Bryan for 1912.

q was one of those who hoped for Gov. John A. Johnson's nomination at Denver. but willingly voted for MT. Bryan,' said J. J. Briscoll of Cleve- land, o. Ut was generally thought that Bryan would meet his third defeat and that he would be forced out of the presi- dential class; but not so.
 According to MT Bryan's own words he will be in a receptive mood again in 1912 provided he is alive and we'll and human ly speaking he should be in prime condi- tion to make another race four years hence At first I could hardly take the great Nebraskan seriously, but within the past week I have met dozen democrats who said they were prepared to work for his nomination in 1912 I think, however, that Johnson is the coming man so far as the nomination goes.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22
4 strange repose, to be asleep, With eyes wide open.
 Tempest.
Atlalta's MaYOraItY Contest

Atlanta elects a new mayor on De- cember ?, and it is giving the subject an unusual degree of attention. When democratic or white" primary placed former Mayor Woodward on the official ticket it was generally believed that the election had practically been fore stalled, but shortly afterward Mr. Wood ward fell off the water wagon, in pro hibition state, and the entire piece of public business was reopened. 4 com- mittee of citizens has brought forward Robert F. Maddox, and the race is be- tween Maddox and Woodward The latter has no newspaper support and no money, but still it is plain that he has good deal of popular strength.
 The case Is a peculiar one. MT. Woodward attempted to pull out of the race after he had become the official candidate of his party. When he be- came convinced that he had no right to rob his party of it's expressed choice he re-entered the race, and he will stay in it until the last ballot has been cast The right of an official nominee to withdraw is denied by MT. Wood wards friends.
 They also respectfully deny the moral right of a democrat who had voted in the primary to bolt the nomi. nee. It will thus be seen that "princi pies" are at stake--principle that un. derlie party rule in general and the democratic party of Atlanta in particu lar.
 MT. Woodward has twice been mayor of Atlanta. MT. Maddox is a young man Of capacity. The race between them will to some extent be measure of classes. and one side is charged with holding pink teas, while the other side is charged with appeals to the prole- tariat. This makes an interesting race, and the pinks are working like beavers in the hope of outvoting the slums.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-22

prohibition or regulation of the liquor traffic, the town and the district Is going ahead. From business point of view it don't make much difference one way or the other. The iron and coal business Is too important to stop for an instant on account of the people who like to delve in politics, whether 1t be on the prohibition question or the tariff or the guarantee of bank de- posits or the postal savings system or any other question which might make much of the men who advocate it enthusiastically from the stump.
 There is too much of the real stuff here which is to be developed and which is being developed for those who have a grasp upon the soil and its products to waste time with those who want to talk and meet, and talk again. The coal and iron companies are going ahead. Merchants and others business men are going ahead. The good people of the town arc going ahead. These people are the people who want law and order. They want their employees and customers good and substantial citizens with big families about them and friends near them. They want to build up this district as an industrial and Christian communi- ty. They want to develop what they have and to make everyone in the Bir- mingham district prosperous. con- tented, and an honest citizen.
 Tn doing this the community must not only protect the morals of its citi- zens but it must protect the lives of it's citizens.
 Men have been killed in blind tiger raids. And men have been killed at grade crossings. I have spoken before on this grade crossing question. It is said that one of our last grade cross ing accidents was due to the possible indulgence of blind tiger liquor on the part of a fiagman at the crossing.
 Now, why is 1t that there arc so many grade crossings in Birmingham? Neither the railroads nor the street railroad com pany are in such condition that they cannot improve the present situation. The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail- road is coming through Bessener on an elevated structure to prevent grade cross ing accidents. The Birmingham street railway crosses a net work of tracks in Bessemer on an elevated structure, which has only recently been constructed. Yet after announcing for years that it intend ed to build a viaduct over the net work of tracks from Twenty-seventlf street on First avenue across to the Sloss furnaces, 1t has done nothing, and every day people who ride to East Lake fear repetition of past accidents. Again the city or the railroads should build a viaduct from Twenty-seventh street on First avenue across to Avenue A on the southside.