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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-16
BLACK POWDER
EXPLOOES
SEVEN DIE
DISASTROUS RESULT OF
CONDUCTORS GRIM JOKE
Match Dropped to Scare Idle
Negro Sets Off Car Load Of
Powder and Almost Wipes
Out Missouri Town,

IBy Morning journal Special leased UireI
Windsor Mo. Sept la Seven per
sons are dead, thirty are injured, -four
of whom are not expected to live as
the result of an explosion of car Of
black powder at the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas station here at 11:l5 O'CLOCK
this morning The dead:
FRANK YAKE, station agent
Windsor
JAMES McCAsE, brakeman, Sc
dala, Mo
HENRY GREYSTONE tramp, resi-
dence unknown.
ELMER KEECH, 16 years old
Windsor (boyD
WALTER COG. boy, aged H.
HOWARD KERNS, negro miner
Sadalia
CHARLES DAVIS, negro. Sedalla
Injured, not expected to live:
f. Herchberger conductor, severely
burned hands and head.
j. G. Hall drayman, Windsor
II. A. Malone, coal miner, Windsor
Charles Walker negro. Windsor.
Ernest Igo. the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas baggageman at Windsor
reported dead this afternoon was
found alive tonight He was not in
Windsor at the time of the explo'
sion.
When it became known about town
that ear of powder was on the
tracks at the station, a number o.
curiosity seekers, majority of whom
were negroes. assembled. A. f
Herschbcrger a Missouri, Kansas and
Texas freight conductor, who was SUI
/ pervising the work, became annoyed
| at their presence In moving a keG
| of the powder some of the explosive
fell out. Seeing it On the grount
Herschberger remarked: "Tll show
you how to scare ni9gers" He tool
Ia match from the ertt band Of { nc
gro standing nearby. and lighting |
threw 1t into the p3wdert Instantly
there was an explosion that shook th'
town, knocked one end off the depo
and shattered windows and stopped
clocks for miles around. The ca
containing the powder was torn It
pieces and hurled in every direction.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-16

began by Timothy L. Woodruff, chair
man of the state committee. after a
conference of the local leaders,
Senator White, who was chosen as
candidate for lieutenant governor, was
in the running for the governprshlp
until the early afternoonSwheu after
a meeting of his delegation he request
ed his friends not to present his name.
II was the 1873 votes of all but one
district in New York county that car
ricd the governors total beyond the
sos mark, a majority of the conven-
tion required to nominate.
The votes Of Nassau county had
brought the Hughes total TO 395 Amid
a GREATNESS hush, in which was in
carnatc, all the intensity of bitterness
and suspense which up to that mo-
ment had characterized the struggle to
prevent the denomination of Hughes,
the secretary Of the convention cqlled
New York"
Herbert Parsons, president of the
New York county committee, rose in
his place, his slender figure alert and
tense with the excitement OF the
crucial moment, and said; New York
county, second assembly district, gives
four for Wadsworth the balance Of
the county, 1873, for Charles Il.
Hughes"
A thousand pencils in two seconds
had footed the Hughes total to SIS,
and In as many heart beats every per-
son in the great hail knew that the
battle was over and the place was in
stantly a bedlam Of cheering.
Hardly less sensational had been the
moment State Chairman Woodruff de-
livered to Hughes, in spite of a general
expectation to the contrary, the en-
tire vote of Kings county, 13S bring
ing the governors total to S42, for
Woodruff had been avowedly opposed
to the governors denomination. Il
was really the action Of Kings county
which signalled what might be called
the "stampeCe 20 Hughes" and wher
the 1873 votes were cast in a block fol
the governor any remaining doubt o
his nomination was swent away.
The convention went fairly wild will
/ the first surprise of the roll call, wheI
/ Saratoga returned eleven for Charles
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-16
|NVADES
HOME Of THE
TRUSTS
Null LTITUDES IN JERSEY
CHEER PEERLESS ONE
Democratic Leader Finds AL
most Entire Absence of Hos
tiIity Toward Him Which Was
So Evident Twelve Years Ago
tBy Morning journal Special IGs.ed Wire

tBy Morning journal Special Xcssed WIrel
Trenton, n. j., Sept 15.-Pourlng
hot shots into Mr.. Taft and the repub-
lican party at every point where he
stopped, W. j. Bryan tonight in this
city concluded strenuous day of cam
paigning in New Jersey following a
few hours in Philadelphia, where, in
front of newspaper office and before
an enthusiastic crowd, he arraigned
the republican organization of that city
and expressed his sorrow for the peo-
pie who were compelled to live under
its rule Switching into national poll
tics, he asserted that Mr. Taft prom
Used that there would be no panic,
and that Mr.. Roosevelt, as Mr.. Tafts
godfather, promised the same thing
He wanted to know how Mr.. Taft
could prevent panics when Mr.. Roosc-
welt already had one on his hands
Only an hour before his arrival in that
stronghold of republicanlsm, Mr.. Bry-
an fired broadside at Mr.. Taft in a
statement in which he cited his record
on the several matters on which Mr..
Taft had challenged him to declare
himself.
Mr. Bryans reception in New Jersey
was demonstrative one. At Wash
ngton Park on the New Jersey side
of the Delaware river below Philadcl-I
phia, he addressed more than 10000
persons, his audience according him a
great ovation. His speech of over an
hour was continually interrupted by
cheers and handclapping. A state
ment by him that his nomination for
third time after two defeats and
with no president to help him with his
patronage, was due to the growth of
the ideas for which he stood, provoked
the widest enthusiasm. His every ut
terance almost was directed at Mr.
Taft, whom ne charged with running
on the record of President Roosevelt.
EN- route here Mr., Bryan spoke at
Camden and Burlington to great
crowds and shook hands with many
hundreds of persons. Incidentally he
again attacked T. Coleman Du Pont,
of the republican executive committee
reiterating his former charge that Du
Pont, as a trust magnate, was unfit to
occupy the position of attempting to
institute reforms Along the line of
travel from Camden stops were made
at a dozen places and large crowds
gave him an enthusiastic welcome.
Mr.. Bryan's speech here tonight COW
cred much of the ground gone over
during the day Taylor opera house,
where he spoke here. was crowded
from pit to dome. Seated on the stage
were number of the members Of th@
democratic state committee, including
state Chairman James r.. Nugent. The
meeting was very enthusiastic and
contained many democrats who had
been opposed to Mr.. Bryan in his for
mer campaigns.
Mr.. Bryan left for Rochester on "A
late train. He will travel via Jersey
| city. where he will make brief stop
in the morning.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-16
SAYS EAST NO LONGER SEES IN
HIM A MENACE TO PROSPERITY

Washington Park, n. j., Sept. 10
"My nomination for third time after
two defeats and with no president to
help me with his patronage, has been
due to one thing alone, and that is the
growth of the ideas for which | stand
and the conviction among the people
that | am on their side"
In these words w. J. Bryan today
addressing a multitude of people at
this place, who cheered him loudly and
long, sounded the keynote of his first
speech to the people of New Jersey
In the present campaign. Mr.. Bryan
never seemed In better form From
the opening to the close of his remarks
the great throng, by their demonstra-
tions Of approval of his utterances'
gave evidence of their encouragement
and support. Mr.. Bryan took note ol
this and in his preliminary remarks
assured his immense audience that
whether he was elected president or
not. he would feel abundantiy repaid
for all that he had been able to do II
down to the day Of his death he could
retain the confidence and affection OF
the American people.
Coming directly to the issues of the
campaign, Mr.. Bryan declared that the
period had been reached In the his
tory Of the democratic party when
the east and the west the north ant
the south, can unite upon platform.
, He was he said as ready to defend
that platform In New Jersey as he wat
in Nebraska, for, he said, Il believe
that the measures which are outlined
In the platform are just as good fo
the masses east of the Alleghenies a'
fthey are for the masses west of th'
| Alleghenies. and your presence her
today is evidence OF feeling of sym
| pathy with our platform and, with ou
cause. and | rejoice that condition.
are 80 much more favorable to an un
derstanding of our policies than the!
we're twelve years ago"
Mr.. Bryan then compared the DIFF
ference between the conditions in 1883
and the present time. when / spok
in the east in 1896" he said. II recog
nized that there was an intense oppo
sltlon. recognized that there wer
people who feared that my electlo
would be Injurious to the country, an
who communicated that fear to thos
who worked for them. Today there
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lacey urrc,I for senator.

Des Moines Sept 1s.-Ex- Congress-
man John r Lacey was today chosen
by the bolting faction of the stand
patters TO oppose Governor Cummins
as United States senator TO be voted
upon ct the primary in November.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-09-16
City Auditor a Suicide.

Baton Rouge La, Sept. 15.--L' j.
Granary, city auditor of Baton Rouge
committed suicide In the city hall to-
night by shooting himself near the
heart with revolver.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
DefantS In Our Election Laws

Nearly all the states hurry on their
counts of ballots and their county
compilations to their respective Sec
retaries of state. The laws of Geor-
gia are notably speedy and excellent
in that respect, leaving little room for
doubts or manipulations. The laws OF
Alabama require the county returns TO
be filed in the office of the secretary
of state within Is days, and the coun-
ties consume the 10 days according TO
their several notions and plans, many
seeming to desire to hear from other
counties before they consolidate their
own returns.
We need change in our laws relat-
ing to election returns. We need the
Georgia laws. We need at any rate
a law that will not leave an unneces-
sary minute between the casting of the
ballots and the filing of county returns
in the office of the secretary of state.
Instead of Is days three days would
be far better, far more satisfactory,
far less tempting to ballot manipula-
tors.
We need such law, and we need
secret and therefore free ballot, and
we need a constitutional amendment
that will abolish the unwise and I'M
necessary cumulative feature OF the
poll-tax qualification of voting.
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Audiences and Audiences.

"I have noticed a curious thing about
Birmingham audiences at musical per-
fafmances." said a theatre-goer. 1T is
this: AS a rule a large and appreciative
audience will attend an opera or con-
cert and applaud very little, even when
climaxes are reached, but occasionally We
find an audience that Is warm In its de-
monstration OF approval
II attended several performances of the
Merry Widow and as that bright and
tuneful operetta was given with artistic
finish and decided snap, one would natur-
ally expect constant and cordial applause,
hut instead of that the audiences seemed
self-contained, not to say cold. And yet
every one present must have enjoyed the
performance.
"At the High school auditorium Fri
Cay night a large audience listened to
the International Symphony club and the
applause was spontaneous and general
throughout the programme 1t was a de-
lightful concert and the musicians were
we'll worthy of applause. But are Bir-
mingham's audiences uneven or fitful?
Why some fine attractions are applauded
and others are not is what cannot quite
make out 1t is evident, however that
there are audiences and audiences
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No legacy is SO rich as honesty.
-AlPs Well That Ends Well.
Getting Ready for Tariff Revision

Chairman Serene E. Payne has pub
lished the official schedule of hearing
before the ways and means committee
preliminary TO a revision of the Ding
ley tariff next March. The hearings
are to be begun next Tuesday at Wash
ington, and Congressman Underwood
has gone to the capital to take part in
them.
Each industry is given an opportu-
nifty to be heard. and some of the in
terests affected say the notice of hear
ing is much too sudden and the time
allotted much too brief. Briefs, how
ever, will be preferred, and no doubt
there will be more briefs than oral
hearings. The hearings to be begun
next Tuesday are to go on until Fri
day, December 4. Congress meets on
the following Monday
The steel schedule will be taken up
November 25, and three days have
been allotted to this important subject
and the metals schedule. On Deem
Der 1 the textile schedule, including
cotton goods, will be considered.
Congressman Underwood and his
associates of the minority representa-
ton will have their hands full in ascer-
tanning what articles of American man.
ufacture are sold higher at home than
they are sold abroad-for example,
watches. Such discrimination against
the home buyer should be fully brought
out. Congressman Rainey of Illinois
stated on the floor of the House that
Waltham and Elgin watches can be
bought so cheaply abroad that they
can be brought back to umdersell the
home market. This is one case in at
least 100, and the minority members
of the ways and means committee will
serve the country well if they bring
out a full list of the American-made
articles that are sold at lower rates
abroad than they are sold at home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
The SEA WIND.

BY Joel Chandler Harris.
sweet south wind! o soft south wind!
wind from off the sea!
When you blow to the inland ports OF
home,
Kiss my love for me.
And when you have kissed her, sweet
south wind,
Tell her 1 never forget
For the pale white mists Of parting tears
ters
Are floating round me yet.
Tell her I sit all day and dream
Till the old love poems afioat in my
heart
Meet together and sing.
And the tune. o wind, that they sing
and ring
with burst of passionate rhyme)
Is 1.-THE Lovers Prayer'-a sweet, sad
air.
A song of the olden time.
Touch her lips lightly, sweet south
wind
AS I should were I there!
And dry up the tears in her violet
eyes,
And play with her purple hair.
soft south wind. o sweet south wind.
wind from off the sea,
When you blow to the inland ports at
home
Kiss my love for mel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
judge LindSeV'S Victory

Judge Ben N. Lindsey of the juvenile
court of Denver was sidetracked by
the machine, and at the eleventh hour
he decided to run independently. He
polIed more votes than both of his OPP
ponents, the one republican and the
other a democrat He led the higher
one Of the two over 10000 votes. The
candidates of the bosses scarcely
knew they were in the race when the
ballots were counted.
Judge Lindsey is still middle-aged
man, but he has lived to see 20 states
adopt his plan of juvenile courts. He
has more than a national reputation
In dealing with the weak and unfor-
tunate, and the people of Denver know
his worth and the worth of his serv-
ices. They know the politicians, too,
end the influences that induced them
/. to reject Judge Lindsey.
AL praise to the good people of Den.
yer. They struck while the iron was
hot, and the entire country applauds
their signal triumph over the bosses
and machines Of both parties.
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Causes Of the FRAGILE

The democrats were licked to fraz-
zle last Tuesday because so many peo-
pie had been hypnotized either by the
business idea or by Theodore Roose-
velt 1t is not worth the while to in
quire which hypnotic influence was the
more persuasive. Both were preva-
lent, and the two combined left the
old historic party fat on its back.
But this is no time for despair. The
republic still lives; although the Co.
lumbia State says sit seems almost
! hopeless to take the part Of honest
government" The Montgomery Jour
nal intimates that the pocketbook out
ran principles, while the Augusta
| Chronicle thinks something must be
done to give the south a real voice in
the councils of the nation, real place
in the sisterhood Of states--or we must
continue every four years to march up
the hill and then march down again"
These opinions and many more OF a
similar nature are very natural and
very reasonable, but nothing has oc-
Cured or will occur to justify the
south in cutting loose from the party
that advocates the lowest possible
tariff, the fullest possible retention of
the rights of the states, and the great
Jeffersonian doctrine which calls for
equal rights to all, special privileges
to none. Let rs sit steadily in the
boat, awaiting svents and the swing
of the pendulum, Public sentiment in
the north, when released from recent
hypnotic influences, will turn to time
honored principles, and when it does
it should find steady and true the 10
states of the south, including Mary
land and Missouri.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
WHERE IT is REALLY COLD.

From Tit Bits.
A person who has never been in the
Polar regions can probably have no idea
of what cold really is; but by reading the
terrible experience of Arctic travellers in
that icy region some notion can be formed
of the extreme cold that prevails here.
When we have the temperature below
freezing point out of doors we think it
bitterly cold, and if our houses were not
as warm as, say, go degrees above zero,
we should begin to talk of freezing.
Think, then, of living where the Their
mometer goes down to IS degrees below
zero in the house, In spite of the stove.
OF course, in such a case the fur gar
ments are piled on until man looks like
q great bundle of skins.
DR.. Moss of the English polar expedi-
ton of 1875 and 1876, among other odd
things, tells of the effect OF cold on a wax
candle, which he burned. The temporal
ture was % degrees below zero, and the
doctor must have been considerably dis
couraged when, upon looking at his cam
die, he discovered that the flame had all
it could do to keep warm. 1t was so
cold that the flame could not melt all the
wax of the candle, but was forced to eat
it's way down the candle, leaving sort
Of skeleton of the candle standing There
was heat enough. however, to melt oddly
shaped holes in the thin walls of wax,
and the result was beautiful lace-like
cylinder of white, with a tongue of yell
low flame burning inside of it and send
ing out into the darkness many streaks
Of light.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The sIoss.shettield STOCK.


who is after the Sheffield COM
pany?' is the question being asked IN
business circles. The rapid advance IN
the stock Of the company is attracting
wide attention and as the sales have
been very large observers are saying
that it looks as if strong interests we're
trying to get control.
The upward movement in the Sloss-
Sheffields stock began early in the fall.
During the panic when all stocks were
depressed Sloss-Sheffield went as low as
q. AS it pays a dividend at the rate
of per cent per annum it gradually re-
covered until it reached 10. But when
active trading in it started up this fall
it soon reached so. 1t was selling around.
go on October 1, but within the past ten
days it las risen rapidly-faster than the
average advance in the market. The day
after the election it jumped up to 10
and on yesterday it sold for so.
Mr.. Maben, president of the Sloss-shef-
field company, when asked last night if
he could suggest any special reason for
the sudden jumps in the stocks. replied
that he had no information of signifi-
cant sort.
II naturally have some curiosity re-
garding the big purchases of Sloss stock
said Mr.. Maben, but when 1 was in
New York recently l could learn moth
ing definite. When large interests at
tempt to acquire control of a certain con-
Germ they first begin to buy the stock
through brokers' and after they have
obtained large holdings and the price
has advanced to a figure which they
intend to offer for a controlling block
they go to the men in control-go to
the captains office SO to speak-and
begin to negotiate. / was in telegraphic
communication with a member of our
executive committee in New York today
but learned nothing new"
Among many rumors in New York is
one to the effect that the United States
Steel Corporation is about to acquire the
Sloss-Sheffeld properties. But that is
stock rumor, and as the policy of the
develop what it has in this district and
not absorb other concerns hereabouts,
not many persons attach much importance
TO the rumor. 1t is believed, however
that if some great interest is planning
to buy the control of the Sloss, the
scheme will become public within the
near future
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-08
Beautiful Capitol Park.

speaking Of the City Beautiful"
said a travelling man, did you ever take
a stroll through Capitol park? No? Then
you are missing whole lot of pleasure
in life by not availing yourself of the
opportunity while here. 1 frequently
make Birmingham in my rounds, and
never fail to visit this pleasant place of
rest, so admirably kept and cared for by
the city. To my mind it is one of the
chief attractions of busy Birmingham
end right in the heart of the city, too
The white winding avenues, the close
cropped green grass, the beautiful flow
ers and shrubbery, with the birds fitting
through the foliage ever and anon to
rake bath at the fountain, while the
sunshine plays hide and seek with every
shadow, all go to make a scene that is
simply enhancing: and for the time sit
and dream I'm in fairyland. and what I
behold is the work of magic.
But, instead of the magician being a
witch astride broom, it Is none other
that Mr.. Bailey, the urbane and accommo-
dating superintendent, who devotes his
whole time to identifying and keeping in
order this lovely place. so that you and
[ may enjoy it,"
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declared he will not accept another
term. While this may be but a joke
of the period, yet the power of spe-
eial interests is dwindling in the SEN
ate, and without such interests the
Rhode Island Senator would have but
little to represent. He has never rep
resented the people, and he never will.
The new regime may be inaugurated
even before all the states select Sena-
tors in primaries. That reform is,
however rapidly spreading over the
country, and when it reaches Rhode
Island Nelson W. Aldrich need not
apply, for he has not and cannot COM
mand enough money to carry state
primary.