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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22

rapacious grafters. AS a member of
the interstate commerce commission he
acquired a large acquaintance and
many friends among men from all over
the west, representing all lines of COM
merce, and they have the same high
regard for him
Mr. Sherman has invariably excited
admiration for the manner in which
he handles himself when in charge of
a bill on the floor of the house while
in the chair, as presiding officer, he has
shown the greatest ability. He is quick,
alert, direct and fair in his decisions of
parliamentary points, and seems per-
fectly at home in the presiding officers
chair. .- g.
As a Family Man.
AS family man" he has the same
traits as MIR. Taft. his running mate.
Another incident to illustrate this side
of the vice presidential candidate is
related. He was playing a game of
billiards with Mr.. Sherman at a hotel
in New York about a year ago. They
have little time ntheir hands while
waiting for some of the other party
leaders to meet them, when Mr.. Sher-
mans youngest son, Tom, rushed into
| the billiard room, carrying a big
| man was besplattered with mud, and
| still wore the wet and muddy gar
ments in which he had played golf all
| day in a soaking rain, in a tourna-
ment just out of New York. The in
slant Mr.. Sherman spied his son he
dropped his billiard cue and lost all
further interest in the game.
We'll, Tom. yo uwon the trophy, I
| see. l am mighty glad, son." and he
| hugged and kissed the young man.
Mr.. Sherman has three sons. The
/ eldest and the youngest are engaged in
| business in Utica, while the second son
is professor in Hamilton college.
Mrs. Sherman has spent but little of
the twenty years that her husband has
! served in congress in Washington, pre-
ferring to remain with her boys until
they grew up. She has become quite
popular, however, since she came to
Washington the past two or three win
ters, being an accomplished hostess.
The nickname sunny Jim" fits Mr..
Sherman, for he is always affable and
cordial but will fight to a finish any
thing that he sees is wrong, and he is
ever a winner when he takes up the
cudgels His personality is certain to
make him friends. He is a good mix
| er, a good conversationalist and a
| good speaker. But above all, he is en-
| dowed with the important quality
called hustle in superlative degree,
and he will undoubtedly make most
vigorous campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22

Annual Convention of the Association
Opens in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, Wis. June 22.-Between
four and five thousand members of the
travellers Protective association are
gathered in Milwaukee to attend the
annual convention of that association.
which opened a four days session this
forenoon at the Alhambra theater.
The time allotted to the convention
will be pretty evenly divided between
business and pleasure.
At the opening session today Mayor
Rose, In a happy speech extended to
the delegates the freedom of the city.
w r. johnson of Knoxville. Tenn, the
national president, made the response.
The session otherwise was devoted to
routine business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22

heart is Immediately set at rest. for
he knows one of the five TRUSTEES is on
hand. And trusty "Jim" Sherman is
not the least trusty of the lot.
just an Incident
An Incident which well illustrates
Mr.. Sherman's straightforward busi-
ness methods is related here. The
congressional committee had engaged
suite OF rooms in the ST. James
building in New York, and when rney
were ready for occupancy Chairman
Sherman, Secretary Loudenslager. Mr..
Curtis and others went to look them
over.
house, who had arranged for the suite.
was there to show them around.
where's my room?" Mr.. sherman
asked.
The room was pointed out to him.
Loudly" addressing Mr. LouGen-
slayer. where is your office?'
Right here, next to yours he was
told.
Loudly. are you with me or against
me in this campaign" asked Sner-
man.
''why. I am with you. OF course
What makes you ask such a ques-
tion?"
well. then, If you are. there's room
enough in my office there for your
desk. We can be together there and
work shoulder to shoulder. the way we
must do if we expect to win"
In accordance with this suggestion
the chairman and secretary were
placed in the same room, and there
| they worked, shoulder to shoulder, -
with the gratifying results recorded in
the last congressional election.
Representative James t Lloyd.
chairman of the Democratic congress
sional committee, stated, in reply to a
question, that he thought Sherman
would be strong east of the Alleghen-
nies, but not so strong in the west as
Cummins or some other middle west
ern man would have been
Will Be Strong i'm the West.
There is abundant reason why Mr.
Sherman will be strong in the west,
however, even in the Pacific Coast
states. AS a member OF the commit
tee on interstate and foreign commerce,
as we'll as in his capacity of chairman
of the house committee on Indian af-
fairs, Mr.. Sherman has been brought
| into close contact with representative
men from all of the western and south
western states. No one could say that
Sherman is not popular in Oklahoma,
| or in Kansas, or in any other state
where there are Indians.
Some of the men who havec ONE here
| to grab off, things in the Indian coun-
| try have encountered a Gibraltar in
| their path in the person of Jim" Sher-
man, and even they have always had to
| admit that "Sherma is square and hon.
interests of the nations wards against
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22
River Rises Seventy Feet.

Hong Kong, June 22.-The city Of
wo Chow is Inundated by the abnor-
NAL rise of 20 feet in the Flu river.
Many casualties are reported and
much damage has been done along
the river banks, which are Uttered
with refuse. The inhabitants are tax
ing refuge on the house tops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22
sherman Stops in Cleveland.

Cleveland, June 22.-Representative
James s. Sherman of Utica, N. Y,
Republican candidate for vice presi-
dent. was a visitor in Cleveland Sun
day. the guest of former Governor
Myron T. Herrick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
Burning Cities.

1t would appear to be impossible in the
present state Of the public mind to build
a small city in a manner to prevent such
a disaster that which befell Chelsea
Mass. yesterday. The rapid. destructive
spread of the fire, which started in a pile
of oily rags in a dump, was due to the
gale which swept across the city from
the northwest. No human power could have
stayed the flames when once they gained
Roadway under the influence of the fierce
draft. They roared their way diagonally
across town. devouring 1850 buildings. at
a cost of s1O.OOOOOO. Only at the water
front. whem they had practically burned
all available materials In their path. was
it possible TO check them with a final
massing of forces from Boston. In their
progress they consumed everything within
range. So fierce was the onset, with
hundreds of tinderlike buildings burning
at once, that brick blocks yielded to the
intense heat. Stone churches were con-
sumed in thirty minutes. The city hail.
ISOLATED by scores of yards from other
buildings. and constructed of brick. was
ignited by stray cnder. high on the
cupola. Dormer window castings in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
Washington's Four Hundred.

Washington's -four hundred is not an
exclusive organization. notwithstanding
the suggestiveness of it's title. 1t Is open
10 all, and all are welcome. ANY resident
of Washington willing to give $40 to char
ity can be enrolled in the list and so rec
ognized as good citizen. There are other
forms of good citizenship. But when the
needs of the charity funds are urgent as
at present. good citizenship can take no
more inspiring. benefcent form.
1t is rather to be deplored that there is
a necessity for this -four hundred" propo-
sition The various objects for which the
relief committee was compelled from time
10 time during the winter to appeal to the
people would have been greatly benefited
by full response. The demands upon
the charity funds were heavy during the
season. Although the winter was mild
there were many men out of work and
families by the score were in need of
succor. The funds were kept in a con-
tlnual state of depletion. and the season
closed with a deficit iof $4,000
= Now the proposition is to make good
this deficit by means of the ten-dollar
round of contributions. 1t should be so
easy TO fill the ranks that there will be
ar overflow. 1t can then be arranged to
enlarge the club There will be no less
honor in belonging to five hundred
club than to one of four hundred The
member of thousand club can feel as
content as one of the less numerous givers
Of ten dollar bills. The charitable organi-
cations can use TO good purpose any
money that may remain after the deficit
Is wiped out.
Let the list grow by scores daily One
week should see the ranks filled. There
are surely several times four hundred pe6-
pie in this District who are willing to
put aside ten dollars apiece for the sake
Of maintaining the worthy charities of the
capital and upholdins the hands of the
men and women who are giving of their
time and energy i'll the blessed enterprise
OF succoring the suffering.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
The American Divorce Evil.

One of the most urgent needs of this
country today is the unification of the
laws relating to marriage and divorce in
is demoralizing and immoral. 1t is con-
ducive TO marital troubles and to the
weakening of the home institution. Di-
vorces may he secured in some states
only upon the most narrowly restricted
grounds, while in adjoining states they
may be obtained on the most trifiing ex-
cuses. In some of the states divorced
persons are prohibited from remarrying,
but they can go across the boundaries and
secure licenses to wed and can thereby
evade the laws of their own domicile
without mourning penalties. The restrictive
laws of the states which have adopted
luxury TO be obtained by the wealthy
The poor cannot seek the more lenient
Jurisdictions TO Secure full separation
from unconsenial or disorderly mates or
If divorced on abe statutory grounds NAV
not remarry because of lack of means to
pass into another state for that purpose
Thus the restrictive laws are nullified at
pleasure by the rich, without penalties.
The appellate division of the supreme
court of New York state. first judicial de-
partment. has just pronounced its view
through the medium OF memorandum
filed by one of the justices in pending
case. He has written:
This unfortunate state of the law relat-
Ing TO divorces, by which divorce is re.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
Another Week Wasted.

Another week has slipped by without ac-
ton in Congress to relieve the burden of
the people who use the Union station. The
case is no less urgent than before the
conferees disagreed. 1t is rather more
urgent. for the loss of week brings the
summer nearer. and there is a prospect
that In a short time the travelling public
will be toiling between cars and station
building laden with baggage in the broil-
ing sun. Sickness is certain to result from
such exertions on the part of the people
who cannot afford to hire cabs. Deaths
may result from the toilsome, nervous eff
fort of belated travellers to catch trains
The responsibility for wasting time which
should have been put to the good use of
constructing these tracks rests sQuarely
with those members of Congress who are
preventing action on the bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
New York Presents HUGHES.

The value of New York's Endorsement
of the Hughes boom is a problem. An
absence of hurrah in the convention is
remarked But Gov. Hughes is not the
representative of hurrah. He is a calm.
self-centered intellectual man, without
affectation or guile. He would not fit
hurrah campaign His friends present
him for what he is and what he has done
AS he has made good in the Office of
Governor of New York. they believe he
would serve equally we'll in the office of
President of the United States. And so
they ask the republicans of the country
to nominate him, and they pledge him
support at home.
The platform adopted is a sound, con-
servative deliverance. we'll suited to pres
ent party conditions in New York. Those
conditions are not happy. They require
the incest handling The old order has
not entirely passed, and the new is not
firmly in the saddle. 1t was necessary,
this was done.
OF the delegates at large to Chicago
only two are known to the country at
large. and neither possesses political in
f1uence of any kind, at home or else
where zen. WOO0IOrQ is good speaker,
and stands for good things. but has long
been on the shelf. Seth Low is the cham
pion principally of municipal reform. His
services at home have entitled him to a
power which somehow he has never pos
sessed. 1t is plain therefore, that if the
Hughes boom is to make Roadway at
Chicago it must look elsewhere than to
those officially in charge of it. That they
are thoroughly loyal to Gov. Hughes cam
not be doubted. But loyalty alone in
national convention in a contest where
both skill and strenuosity are required
will not suffice to steer a boom to victory.
Mr.. Platt did not attend the convention.
1t was best so. He is not associated In
the public mind with such things as Gov.
Hughes has done. or stpl is battling for.
His presence. If noted at all, might have
been construed as a protest against the
business the convention had in hand.
Mr.. Depew was present, but only as
spectator. And that was best so. The
junior like the senior senator from New
York lacks touch with the Hughes boom
and the Hughes policies. He will support
the nominee of the Chicago convention,
but there is probably no risk in the asser-
ton that he neither expects nor desires
him to be Charles E. Hughes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

mansard roofs Of apparently stanch struc-
lures were fired by sparks. famed into
unreachable flames in the twinkiing of an
eye.
The day may come when there will be
no wooden tenements. no wooden-trimmed
buildings of any description in our cities.
That will be the millennium of precaution-
airy construction. 1t is possible, but
undoubtedly SO remote that it can be now
viewed chiefly as an ideal condition. The
process of replacement of the old with
the new is certain to be tediously slow.
Fire itself will hasten it more rapidly
than the sense of safety, inspired by the
numerous demonstrations that wooden
construction. though perhaps cheapest at
first, is eventually the most costly
1t has been suggested that when the
fires have licked up all the wooden struc-
lures in the cities there will be so little
wood obtainable owing to the rapid de-
vastation of our forests, that steel and
concrete will be cheaper for building ma
terials. In the light of such fires as that
which destroyed one-third of Chelsea. this
condition would not be ultimately disas-
trous. Those who regard fires as UNI
necessary waste, as calamities that may
be prevented by cOmmon-serse precaution
and timely provision of checks and safe
guards. sometimes contemplate the pass
ing of he forests without dismay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
The Navy and Peace.

othing new on either side has been
presented in the debate in the House on
the naval bill. and much of the old has
been poorly stated
Ii does not strengthen the appeal for
more ships TO use any particular foreign
power as bugaboo. We not armlng
as against Japan, or Great Britain. or
Germany We are not threatened in any
particular quarter. On the contrary. our
relations with all the great powers are
friendly. and should remain We are
tes,ifying to an exceptional condition of
things by sending the pick of our sea
armament on a journey which will circle
the earth.
On the other hand. it does not weaken
the appeal for more ships to deliver
eulogies of peace, and to recite in va
riety of phrases the undiSputed fact that
war is he'll" We all know what war is.
We have had our share OF hell" And
certainly we are all for peace. We threw
weight into the scale for peace in
the contest between Russia and Japan.
and in doing so earned and received the
applause of the world.
Our naval problem grows out of things
for which We not responsible. and
which we cannot change. AS world
power-and nobody denies that we have
attained that distinction-we must meet
the obligations of that estate-must, ii
YOU please. play the worlds game. 1t
would be worse than folly for us to sig
nalize our advent into the circle of the
rulers of things by taking the tone of
non-combatant and proposing disarma
ment. We should not win single fol-
lower. but discover that we were address,
ing powers strong and set in their pol
icies. and that those policies called for
thorough preparedness for war.
The only result, therefore. of such a
course on our part would be the discredit-
ing of ourselves as a practical, every
day people If We were not suspected of
hypocrisy we should be of weakness, and
in either case lose in the worlds esteem.
Might does not make right, but it often
maintains right when nothing else would
avail
The nation unprepared for war and yet
participating on large and active scale
in the worlds affairs would be an ''un-
desirable citizen in the worlds equation.
1t would be a menace to peace. in that in
an emergency it could contribute nothing
of force to help localze any armed con-
fict that might spring up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

garded as valid in one state and void in
another. with all the deplorable conse-
quences which shock the senSibilities of
decent men and women and bring untold
disgrace and misery on their innocent off,
spring, may, l think. be ameliOrated to
some extent by the legislative and judicial
departments of the respective state gov
ernmentS without an amendment to the
federal Constitution, which is the only
complete remedy for this crying evil, and
without abandoning their respective pub
lie policies to which they apparently jeal-
ously adhere 1t is high time that a
movement was instituted in the legisla-
lures or by the trial courts. by which di-
vorces shall not be granted excepting in
those cases where the court can obtain
such jurisdiction over the defendant that
it must be recognized by every other state
and territory in the land
Two schools of reformers occupy this
field of endeavor. One of them would
remedy the evils by means of the amend
ment of the state laws to reach one COM
mon standard. The other would strike at
the evil by means of federal enactment,
thus extending the jurisdiction of the
United States over the matrimonial rela-
tons of the people. Against the former
proposal rises the, objection that uniform
action by the state legislatures is practi-
cally impossible. save through the con-
veninG of national assemblage or con-
gress on the subject of marriage and di-
vOrce and the simultaneous submission of
an identical measure to the legislatures.
On the other hand the federal jurisdiction
proposal is subject to the objection that a
law enacted by Congress on this subject
would be unconstitutional
Here. then. is the evil. against which all
classes of people are now crying out in
the hope of remedy. Here. too. are the
difficulties in the way of its correction.
The church and the courts are clamorous
for relief from the intolerable burden of
an immoral confusion of standards. Can
not the American people. who have solved
greater problems than this for their own
welfare, meet and solve this in its turn j?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
Race Track Gambling.
! the Philadelphia Ledger.

FrOm me FnIIaUeIpDIa INuKtr.
Nothing could be palmer than that the
people of New York. with the exception
of the gamblers themselves, feel that the
legislative failure to efface race-track
gambling was an outrage. With one &C
cord the newspapers rebuke the partisan
ship that led opponents OF Gov. Hughes to
vote against q measure designed to over
throw the most vicious form of gambling
that prevails In any part of the country.
They assert that the fight must be re-
newed. and steps to this end have been
taken already.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

Tine fact that the New York convention
displayed portrait of Hughes less in
size than that of President Roosevelt, and
inferior as to decoration. is being con-
strued as slight to the governor. yet it
may have been merely prudent effort to
avoid these troublesome arguments which
arise over questions of precedence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
Times Not Hard.
From the Baltimore American.

FROM Inc baltimore American.
1t is significant fact that the south has
complained least of hard times. 1t has
good crops and plenty of work. and Its
future Is altogether satisfactory. Balti-
more feels the effect of this confidence.
and il is idle to talk about business de-
preston when prosperity may be gained
by activity and enterprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
THE STAR has . regular and psrma-
uent Family Circulation much moro
than the combined circulation Of the
other Washington dailies. As . News
and Advertising Medium It has no
competitor.

NIn order to avoid delays on account
Of personal absence letters to THE
STAR should not be addressed to any
individual connected with the omoe. but
simply to THE STAR, or to the Editorial
or Business Department, according to
tenor or purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
Inexplicable.

When all officeholders were made to pay
fare,
We believed that complaint must be fin
ished;
Yet the railway men earnestly rise and
declare
That their profits are greatly diminished!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Second Thought.

Remember said the prudent man,
that the words once spoken can never
be recalled"
No" answered Senator Sorghum: but
you can always make a fuss and say you
were misquoted."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
Might Bring It Over.

From the Louisville CourlerJournal.
u. P. Morgan left Rome today" says q
cable message. But of course he will re-
turn and get it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

Gov. Johnson is indeed an imposing
figure; democrat who has the nerve to
appear as a candidate without having
passed an examination before Mr.. Bryan
in free silver or bimetalism.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

One cheerful thing about celebrations of
Shakespeare's birthday is that they are
hard to use as pretexts for speeches on
current politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

Now and then some Photographer en-
deavors to say kind and sympathetic
word for janitors; which goes to show
how some men will fawn upon power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13
Society News.

From the Portland (Ore) Telegram.
Since there is lull In the American
heiress-title matrimonial line, it is time
for some wealthy and 'intellectual'
woman to marry an Indian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

Earle. whose discovery of an affinity pro-
voked both ridicule and censure. must feel
doubly injured when he sees how easily
some of the figures in scandalous divorce
cases manage to get off
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

America has no room for terrorists as
Europe knows them. But Emma Gold
man has succeeded in becoming some
thing of terror.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

When the republican convention assem-
bles a number of these favorite son in
dorsements will be taken up at the door
along with the admission tickets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-13

Tom Watson will fail to see why his
personally conducted political party is not
entitled to as much respect as that of
Mr.. Hearst.