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that it will only be necessary for the
secretary Of the treasury to issue
bonds when more is needed. 1t is es-
timated that it would take twenty-five
years to use a billion dollars intelli-
gently in improvements, and it is pro-
posed that the bonds should run from
so to 70 years.
AS a matter of course, the main
thing the advocates of this plan have
in view is the Identification of the cap
ital, but their ideas do not lack a prac-
tical side. The executive departments
of the government are in pressing need
of more room, and it would require
probably twenty-five million dollars to
supply their immediate wants. Pros
pect of treasury deficit has kept con-
gress from making appropriations for
new buildings, even though it has been
shown that the saving in rent would
pay the interest on the investment.
When structures like the new agri-
cultural building, the new national
museum Or the new house and senate
office buildings are erected, they are
built to stand for centuries. Yet
these buildings are being paid for out
Of the current funds of the govern
ment, whereas the next generation or
the generation beyond that, will be in
finitely better able to pay for them.
The gross income of the government
exclusive of postal revenues, for the
fiscal year ended June 80 last was
1901, 126, 1853. The gross income of
the government fifty years ago, for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1858,
was s46,655. 1886. Here is found the
argument of those who believe poster
ity should pay for making the Ma
tional Capital beautiful and for the
erection of buildings to be used by
posterity. The income of the govern
ment has multiplied about fifteen times
in the past half century, and America
is but on the threshold of its develop
ment. Even if it mutiplies but five
times in the next fifty years, there
would be an annual income in the
neighborhood of three billion dollars.
1t is true, of course, that expenditures
increase with income; but there will
be no disputing the point that man
with an income of $4,000 a year is
much better able to pay off a debt of
81 900 than is the man whose income
is only $1,000.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-29
CENTRAL LEAGUE.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
National League.
Pittsburg /; Philadelphia 0.

Pittsburg /; Philadelphia 0.
American League.
New York l; Chicago o. list game.
Chicago 2: New York l. 2nd game.
Detroit /; Philadelphia 0. LIST game.
IL innings.
Philadelphia IL; Detroit ?. I'd game
Washington 2; Cleveland 0. LIST
game.
Washington S; Cleveland O. End
game.
Boston 8; st. Louis l.
American Association
Milwaukee / Kansas City 0.
Columbus .; Indianapolis 1.
Toledo Z; Louisville =
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During the past fifty years Washing
ton has been converted from a strag-
Cling, uncouth town to the most beau
tiful city on the Western Hemisphere
and the bills have been paid as they
We're contracted. The same policy
could be followed and the city made
still more beautiful in the next fifty
years, but it would not be possible to
follow uniform program of beautifi-
cation.
1t goes without saying that Congress
is not going to authorize q billion dol
lar bond issue until there is a very
healthy public opinion throughout the
country demanding it. 1t would ap-
pear, therefore, that the projectors of
the scheme have got to carry on a
campaign of education. This may not
be so hopeless as would at first appear
The past generation has seen a great
change In sentiment with respect to
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There is no duty we so much under
rate as the duty Of being happy.
Stevenson.
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Better use Gold Medal Flour.
YoLASDE.
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St. Paul s; Minneapolis 1.
Central League.
Terre Haute 8; Fl. Wayne 2.
South Bend 4; Wheeling 2.
Evansville 3; Dayton 2.
GAINESVILLE 7; Grand Rapids 2.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-25

fit through the hotels like lost spirits
and recall the dear dead days when
there was politics in this mans town,
and a railroad attorney with book OF
transportation was a bigger man than
old Grant And that's what your re-
form has done. Put lot Of Wilfies
in serge suits-'nine ninety eight,
marked down from fourteen fifty
into control of the destinies of our
great republic.
What has become OF our common
heritage?" exclaimed Mr.. Handy, wav-
ing his glass wildly Where is our
manifest destiny? Who's gone and
stolen the pride pointer and the alarm
viewer? Is it in the platform? No.
you reformers are making terms with
Gompers; and Taft's liberal views
as they call them, are going to pre-
vail over the fine conservative views
of our peerless leader, our grand old
man, freedoms champion, the defend
er of the faith of the fathers, the man
who-the man who-the man who
reiterated Mr.. Handy-"the man who
Vile, III.
Where's your keynote speech in
this convention? I'll tell you; it's
fastened in Burrows time lock. Who
is going to sound clarion note here
to-day? There will be no clarion note
The name of the gallant Blaine will
not be heard in the hall. The party
that saved the country, that broke the
shackles on 100000 slaves, the party
that preserved the Union, is represent
ed here by the allies, and they are
tossed around like a lot of last years
alfalfa. They came here asking for
the presidency; they were willing to
compromise on the vice-presdency
and sprung the name Of Jim Sherman.
1T reminds me of the time Col. Ana
doneran ]. Balderson Of our town
started out to be minister to England
under Cleveland's first administration.
He found that job gone, and compro-
missed by applying for assistant secre-
tary Of state. Failing in that, he asked
for United States marshal. Failing in
that, he asked for the postoftice at
home, and then, failing in that,
Strengthened himself up and said
Thank heaven, we have Democratic
governor in Kansas, and he will not
turn me down
"He came home three months later
with a pair of Gov. Clicks old trous-
ers, and to that end has your reform
brought those who for 40 years have
been fighting the party's battles"
Mr.. Handy rose proudly and said:
rm-reform-what crimes are
committed in thy name."
The Big Crowds Tribute.
What a curious thing is big crowd
of civilized men and women gathered
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He assured the convention that
under Fairbanks there would be no
government by impulse" and the
crowd knew what he was driving at,
and his usefulness as an orator was
ended.
New York has a sense of humor,
and when the delegation was called
for New York the delegates rose
laughing and let Gen. Woodford make
the shortest and most appropriate
speech of the day, nominating Hughes.
And when he said that only two men
beyond a doubt could carry New York
one being in the White Hodse and
the other in the governors office at
Albany-he made the crowd FESTIVE
and quit just before his credit gave
out.
The Clarion Note.
The only real clarion note of the
convention was sounded by knight
of California, seconding Tafts nom
nation. For Knight has a voice, and
Mr.. Burton of Ohio, who put Tafts
name before the convention grace
fully, was not heard as well as such
speaker should have been heard.
Knox also was tastefully nominated
with proper eclat and without too
much wind jamming.
And if the young football player,
Cochem of Wisconsin, who gave the
convention La Follette's name, had
cut his speech in two, it would have
made the hit of the afternoon. But
he slid past the crowds limit, and the
smile which captivated every one
wore off and he grew angry, and the
subsequent proceedings interested
him no more"
1t was Mr.. McGee-remember the
name-who, seconding the nomination
of La Toilette, started the whoop
heard round the world. There seems
to be no question that of all the can
didates besides Taft, La Toilette got
the best demonstration.
But after that complications oc
Cured. Some one walked across the
gallery back Of the speakers platform
with flag containing Roosevelts pic
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-25

Young men with stiff straw hats and
boyish faces are dominating the
crowd.
What can you expect" asked the
colonel, earnestly as he drifted out of
the Taft headquarters, "of a gang like
that? No whispering one coming
out of the consultation room like a
man from a dentists offlce-with his
teeth in his hands-a sadder and wiser
man; nothing but idle speculation
about the ice-presidency.'
Signs for the Old Days.
The colonel waved for the waiter
and sighed and shook his head and
said: "A promise is promise-when
your wife issues the door keys-yes,
another bottle of those liquid hair
pins"
Then he resumed his lamentations:
Il saw some forlorn fellows solemn
ly hayfooting it down Michigan ave
nue. this morning. They had a band
and were in a procession. Was it a
funeral? 1t was not Was it the
doomed man walking to the gallows
with a firm step after eating a hearty
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ture, and the applause for La Toilette
merged into the futile. stupid attempt
to stampede the crowd to Roosevelt,
and for a quarter Of an hour the
yelling continued.
1t was Quoted as the roll call on
president began and continued down
to Iowa There silence fell, and con-
tinued until Taft was nominated
Now written down here in thou
sand words, this seems like the story
of a stirring episode. Yet it covers
events that lasted from 10 o'clock
until $50 There was some formal
cheering Of something like two and
six elevenths seconds for each of the
allies, and this is the best part of 1t
all-those who had sought the NOM
fnation the hardest, Cannon and
Knox and Fairbanks, got no more
than Foraker. who took what he
could pick up. There were no diff
ferences between the SIS picture fire.
works and the ten-cent roman candle
they all fizzled and went out in
gloom.
Abner Handy Talks.
But to go back to some of the earlier
days of the convention, some of the
days before the fireworks were all ex-
ploded, the days when only the fuses
were sizzling. 1t was on Sunday, |
think, that l met my friend Handy
Abner Handy from the Ninth Kansas
district. Mr.. Handy, who has been out
of politics in Kansas since 1902, was
unable to get to the convention before
Sunday on account of floods in the
Kaw bottoms, and until his arrival the
pre-convention milling had been rath-
err tame. But the arrival of Mr. Handy
in his Prince Albert coat and black
SLOUGH hat, with his massive head of
hair protruding fiercely, and his little
Sits of eyes keenly measuring up the
situation-Mr. Handy is an expert on
"the situation'-added new life to the
crowd in the Annex, and one may say
that the convention began with his ar
rival.
1T has been 70 years since l at
tended Republican convention" said
Mr. Handy, as he lolled in a red plush
diyan in alimony alley and spat
through his teeth at the onyx mop
board, and l meet great many new
faces. l first saw Fairbanks in the
st. Louis convention, and l have just
been talking to one of his managers
one of the new men in Indiana poll
tics-born since l left the state-a Mr..
Ade-George they call him. Clever
young man, apparently. He tells me
there is a strong undercurrent for Fair
banks. and wanted me to help him
bale it up so that there would be some
surface indications.
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est The visitors in the galleries are
there only to see the hero crowned,
and once the ceremony is over and
the shouting has worn itself out, their
interest in the convention rapidly dies
away-the show is over
Thursday was a hot day, and the
perspiration that the thousands shed
would have floated all four of the pres
idents battleships. and the real trou-
Bile of the convention-in day of
trouble-began after the invocation
had been spoken, after Senator Hop
kins had given a visible demonstra-
ton of the platform, which no one
heard and no one seemed to care to
hear, and after Congressman Cooper,
on behalf of the minority of the com
mittee on resolutions, began scolding
the convention.
His speech, of course, did not con-
vince. 1t was protest, rather than
an argument, and anyway the conven-
ton would not have changed that
platform, which it believed to be in
spired from Washington. if the minor
ity had offered the Ten Command
ments. But Cooper scolded, and when
the authorized representative from the
railroad engineers and firemen and
trainmen appeared and warned the
convention that the railroad employees
Of the country were dissatisfied with
the anti-injunction planks, that made
no difference, either.
Gabriers trumpet would have been
laid on the table for the regular order
by the convention. Its face was set.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-25
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Story of the Great Gathering Told
by a Master Pen.
Incidents and Sdelights-Picture of the Nomination
of Secretary Taft-The Old Politician Talks of
Politics of Yesterday and To-Day.
By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

1t was under orders, and nothing could
move it, So it moved majestically
along. 1t adopted the platform, for
mally voting down, by overwhelming
majorities, planks advocating pub
licity in campaign contributions
recommended by the president in his
messages, valuation of railroads,
recommended by the president in his
messages, and the election OF senators
by the people. NJ
A Roosevelt Convention.
For that convention was for Roose-
welt policies only when it had them
in the regular order and the anthem
ticated form The Roosevelt policies,
as such, did not interest the conven-
ton, for it was under orders and took
only the real milk of the word as it
came through the committee, and it
believed, and probably with some JUS
tification, in the fact that Roosevelt
did not care to have his policies come
into the convention by way Of Wis
consin.
So it voted for the program and
went on to the next order. And the
next order was the nomination of a
president And that is a serious bust
ness.
1t is curious to know just how forms
and conventions and precedents are
worshiped without sense or reason by
apparently clearheaded men. But
there sat 1000 delegates and 10000
spectators and listened to five mortal
hours of utterly useless, entirely mean
ingless and absolutely vacuous
speeches. These speeches were made
putting men in nomination for the
presidency who had no more chance to
be nominated than they had of pick
ing out a harp check and joining the
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-25

heavenly choir. Boutell of Illinois
began it-naming Cannon
The crowd stood for him with some
patfeace, though no one listened TO
him.
Gov. Hanly of Indiana, an unusually
able governor. and an otherwise sane
man, came a little afterward and got
it laughed at him and jeered him dur
ing the last half of a perfectly I'M
necessary speeoh.
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Chicago.-A national convention is
Ill over but the shouting, when
the presidential nomination is made.
= is for that that the delegates assem-
Die. High-browed men wrangle over
party platform planks, and fight 1t out
among themselves as to who shall
be forced to accept the vice-presiden-
kial place. but in all of these things
the general public has but little inter
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breakfast of bacon and eggs? Not at
all! Was it delegation of flood suf-
ferers or a chain gang? No, but it
looked like the melanchOlia ward Of an
asylum out for a mornings airing
and it was the Knox Marching Club!
"They are here. The band is here.
They have to do something-so they
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-22
GREAT TUNNEL DONE
Engineering Feat of the Penn
syIvania Road Completed
In New York.
1T is 1000 FEET LONG.

New York, Feb. 22.-The first of the
great system of tunnels and subways,
by which the Pennsylvania railroad
will be enabled to run a train from
Philadelphia under the Hudson river
across Manhattan island and under the
East river to Long Island City, was
completed yesterday. The two ends of
one of the four tubes connecting Man
haitian island with Long Island City,
were brought together under the bed
of the middle of the East river off
Thirty-fourth street before noon yes
terday and the steel rings, composing
the shell of the tube, were for the first
time bolted in one continuous string
from shore to shore.
The work on this tube was begun in
August, 1905, and the tube is 1000 feet
in length. Two other tubes will be
completed within few days and the
fourth will be finished within three
months, according to an announcement
| by the company.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-22
Vaudeville at the Phillips.

Management of the New Phillips
will look to the Weber family, aero
bats and equilibrists, for the headline
act of next week. This family is re-
ported to be one Of the most clever in
this particular line. appearing in vau-
deville. 1t is expected they will give
the patrons of the house some feat
ureS new i'll this style of entertain
ment; something so good that they
will perforce sit up and take notice.
Other features on the program for the
week are a piano overture by Miss
Eva Hazeltine; John Max, German
comedian and wooden shoe dancer; H.
Illustrated song, Here's to Our Absent
Brothers,; John Woodford and Jean
cite Marlboro, presenting a refined
comedy playlet entitled "a Timely
Lesson; Joe Golden, entertainer;
and the cameragraph shows THE
Prisoners Escape, depletion of a
thrilling experience in prison life.
The bill is all new, for the supply Of
vaudeville performers seems never to
be exhausted, despite the demand that
is made on it week in and week out,
almost through the entire year
There will be the usual three points
of special interest in the weeks order
of events-a souvenir matinee for the
ladies on Wednesday, a special mat.
| ipse for the children on Saturday and
a chance for the amateurs on Friday
night
The present pleasing bill will be
concluded with the performance of to-
night. Those who have not yet seen
| it will not regret doing so as some OF
the acts are of special interest. This
is notably true of the Boston terriers
who have a clever and highly amusing
stunt.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-22
ANARCHISTS CAUGHT
Police Follow Up First Action
And Nab Other Men Plan
ming Assassination.
PLOT AGAINST GRAND DUKE

st. Petersbur, Feb. 2o.-The frustra-
ton in this city of terrorist plot and
the arrest of no less than fifty men
and women for alleged completely was
followed by the capture of several 9th
er persons implicated in the abortive
attempt at assassination. who were
gathered in just as they were trying 10
escape. The police believe that they
have made the most important move
against the terrorists that has been
engineered in several years.
The most recent plot of yesterday
came very much nearer maturity than
did the last unsuccessful conspiracy
against the emperor, the participants
in which were tried and condemned
last July According to the police the
band that started out yesterday to do
murder had two victims in view.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch,
son of Grand Duke Michael, and NJ.
Chtcheglovitoff, the minister Of justice.
The police had been informed of
what was in the air and took steps &C
cordingly. The arrests followed.
Most of the prisoners are between II
and 81 years, we'll dressed and well
supplied with money.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-22
1.-THE Girl From Broadway"

A new musical comedy from the
pen of Herbert Hall Winslow, styled
"The Girl From Broadway" and re-
sponsible for its production to O'Brien
H. Mack, is the attraction for tonight
at the Gennett. 1t is a three-act COM
edy set to music and deals with the
trials of a pretty circus rider, who, tir-
ing of life in the sawdust arena, takes
French leave and between the en-
deavorS of the owner of the enterprise
to induce her to return, and the plot
ting of a flint-hearted old aunt who
learns by chance that the girl is the
rightful owner TO the fortune she has
been enjoying, endeavors to keep her
in ignorance Of the same, the heroine
is hustled about until she captures
the heart Of millionaire artist, who
rescues her from her tormentOrS and
restores her fortune. The piece is
unique, in that it is embel lished with
score or more of quaint characters
from that mystic palace the interior
of a circus dressing tent.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-22
PEOPLE IN DISTRESS
Flood Conditions Continue in
Southern Indiana With
Bad Result.
FLOOD VICTIMS ARE I'LL

Princeton, Ind, Feb. 22-The real
suffering from the flood has begun.
Entire families have become i'll and
are shut off from medical aid. In
some cases, according to reports
reaching Princeton today, there is dan
ger of starvation. Families are crowd
ed together in the houses which are
out of reach of the flood.
Surrounded for several days by
water ranging from twelve inches to
ten feet deep with only a limited sup
ply OF provisions and fuel and with
no boat available. the families Of John
Stewart, John Roberts and Allen
Lyles, colored, were sorely afflicted
They dressed in heavy clothes and
waded water three-quarters of mile
to the home of Robert Hall, where
they secured a wagon and team and
drove to Patoka, four miles distant
Tor provisions and medicine.
Find Victims III.
1t is believed there are many others
In that section who are cut off by the
water. Much sickness is reported in
the vicinity of Wheeling, this county
where the back water from the Pa
toka spread over vast area. The
flood has broken all records in that
section. Rescue parties yesterday Wis
tied the home of Lorenzo Morrow
which is surrounded by water, where
they found the family sick
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-22
HIGH TRIBUTE PAID
To THE NEW PRESIDENT

home city, Richmond he was one of
the organizers of the Richmond Home
Telephone company. Elected presi-
dent of the company a few years after
it began operating in 1895. he has held
the position continuously TO date. I'm
der his direction the company has built
up a system of city, rural and local toll
line telephone service that is not sur
passed by any company in the country.
He was elected president of the Indi-
ana Independent Telephone association
at it's second annual meeting and
unanimously reelected at the Indian
apolis meeting in May, 1897. He has
also been a member of the executive
committee and the advisory board of
the International association during
during the past two years. Mr.. Lin
demuth introduced and supported the
resolution adopted by the recent Chi
cago convention fixing the basis of as
SeSSment of state associations at
mills Per unit. and making the Trade
Mark Stamp the means of raising
funds for the International association,
Such is the man and such are his
qualifications, whom the allied indie
pendent Telephone companies of the
United States and Canada have select
ed to manage their common interests
during the coming year. That he will
do so successfully is evidenced by the
success the Indiana association has
achieved during his two years as pres
ident. Allied with no special interest
and none of his own to serve, practic-
al telephone man of wide acquaintance
with telephone conditions, a student, 81
! lawyer, a politician in the highest
sense of that word, We believe the In
ternational association did not even
make an experiment in its selection of
its president We owe to him our
fullest cooperation as the only re.
naming element necessary to assure
complete success for the association
| during the present year.