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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
Goes From Backyard to Dis
trict Attorneyship in Com
paratively Short Time.
ALWAYS A WINNER
AND GOOD FELLOW
Victorious as Bicycle Racer,
Hotel Clerk, Campaigner
and Prosecutor.
From PhiIadeIphia Times.


There is always some one waiting
to grasp the hand of the man who sue
ceeds. If he succeeds by his own eff
forts he usually gets more than a
handshake. The grip is usually &C
companied by slap on the back and
a Good work, old fellow. | always
knew you had it in YOU
From brick yard at the age of 1O
to prominent position in the Office OF
the district attorney of the third iarg
est city in the United States is goins
some, and that. too, in the present
century, when wealth and social posi-
ton are supposed to count for sc
much; but it is what Joseph P Rogers
assistant district attorney of the coun
ty OF Philadelphia and master of cere-
monies of the latest Glover Club din.
ner, has accomplished.
Perhaps Dame Fate was more kind
iy to him than she was to some others
whom she allowed to be born in the
humble town of Tamaqua, Pa. Any
how, Joe" Rogers has nothing to com.
plain of on that score. for he first saw
the light on the 18th day of March, in
the year of 1876.
Double Run Of Luck.
To be born in a centennial year was
good omen in itself, but to have add
ed to that the blessing of Ireland s
patron saint was fortune which has
come to only few men, and all those,
historians say, are destined to become
famous
When the family came to Philadel.
phia, they lived at Twenty-third and
Wharton streets. Times for day la
borer were little hard at Tamaqua,
and the elder Rogers thought he could
make more money and provide a bet
ter living for his family in this city.
SO ne packed up his possessions and
moved. Joe" was then seven years
old, but he was sturdy youngster and
before he had been in town three days
he had all the lads in the block on his
staff. Scme>of the qualities of leader
ship he has since shown, were already
in the process of development.
He went TO school and did many of
the things other boys do, only little
more of them. When he was 10 years
old, he went to work in brick yard.
That was hard work. but good dis
cipline. 1t was an ideal muscle build
er and it put an edge on the young
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
Webbing on a
Leading Issue.

The Ocala Banner does not want fish
for one section and fowl for the other
IN the matter of tariff protection for all
parts of the country and answers re-
cent query OF The Journal on that
question as follows:
The Ocala Banner is opposed to the
policy of protection from 'kiver to
kiver." 1t regrets to see any demo
crat favoring a protective tariff for
the sake of protection. II, however,
thinkt that if protection is to become
the settled policy of the nation that
there should be no sectional discrim.
dnations- ALI farm products and man
ufactured articles should be protected
Ampartfally- There should be no IA
gors shown Fish should not be made
OF the products OF one section and fowl
of the products of the other.
Every manufacturer and every farm
er, north and south, should be fed out
pf the same spoon If there is to be a
Tax on wool there should also be tax
on cotton; If a tax on apples, there
should be like tax on oranges, and
30 on. In republic like ours there
should be no favorites and no favorit-
lsm-no special privileges granted to
any.
If every tub is not permitted to stand
on its own bottom, then every tub
should receive the same measure OF
protection.
We observe that our wise. grave and
thoughtful contemporary adheres faith
fully and tenaciously in theory to the
good old democratic doctrines of tariff
for revenue only, but insists that while
- Il oIf IL T.
SLICED up and handed around we should
have our share along with the rest.
This is all right, but without being
able to exactly locate it there is some
thing wrong-an awful hiatus be-
tween our democratic professions and
our democratic yearnings. Either we
are right or wrong; there can be no
compromise between good and evil nor
in any matter of principle. We must
get right on the tariff and stick to-
gether as one man else we are open
to the charge of being the base crea-
lures of expediency, mere opportun
lists. and the republicans might have
some shadow of excuse for denouncing
Us as humbugs.
We are no tariff expert. thank
Heaven, but If tariff for revenue only
Is right how can it be right also to in
sist on protective tariff for our Sea
Island cotton and our citrus fruits?
The truth is that the democratic
party is all at sea and wabbling along
In most ridiculous fashion on this
great issue. and it is high time that
We were getting consistent. We have
departed long ago from the original
faith of free trade and sailors rights;
and II we are ever to win another
presidential election. it looks very
much like we will have to depart still
further.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01

The Havana News, which is not pub
lished in the metropolis of Cuba by a
splendid and imposing Senior or a Don
subject to revolutions, but is printed
in a prosperous little city in Gadsden
county. Florida. by our good friend,
Editor r. A. Gray, is kind enough to
say in its last issue:
"Recasting the Criminal Law is the
subject of a splendid editorial in the
Pensacola Journal of the 21st inst. 1t
Is the kind of editorial the public are
actually in need of. The time is moi
far distant when our citizenship is
going TO demand radical changes and
1t will be well for us when it comes if
the matter has been given deep
thought and mature consideration.
The Journal feels very deeply and
sincerely that the leading issue of the
ominous times in which we live is
simply a matter of law and order and
until we get that settled we need not
hope to adjust any of the minor and
innumerable other issues which beset
US on all sides. And We are especial
ly glad when the country press of Flor
ida shows itself alert to this over
shadowing question, for many people
read the weekly papers who never
see the dailies.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01

The identity of the Man in the Iron
Mask, who struck Billy Patterson, How
Old Is Ann, Is the Tariff a Tax and
other great problems fade away as
minor questions in the presence of the
grim. unyielding Cooper case in Flor
ida Cooper has been long under SEN
tence of death, his last legal resource
Is exhausted, but he still continues TO
hang out at the expense of the tax.
payers of DeSoto county in whose Jail
he is the star boarder. Governor
Broward is evidently determined to do
nothing with the case. but it is a pub
lie scandal all the same, and to con.
hnue Cooper in his present anomalous
status means that the criminal laws of
Florida are inadequate, inefficient and
no good We don't doubt that good
conscience is back of executive mac
lion in this matter, but nevertheless
Cooper ought to be hanged or turned
loose. The people are entitled to
know what mystery there is about the
Cooper case that makes the law OF the
land thing of empty meaning.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01

John D. Rockefeller came down from
his examination and cross-examination
on Standard Oil and its history and
methods in New York city with his
composure undisturbed, for John d. is
a very smart man and match for any
lawyer in the country. His conscience
is easy, his mood is philanthropic and
he feels that he has done good to his
fellow man with his vast wealth &C.
cording to his means. But there is
no flavor in his goodness. none of the
Incompatible JOY of giving cup of
cold water to the thirsty dying of
thirst. His large. benefactions are
simply financial transactions on a
great scale which may help some
poor agonized soul in the depths of
despair or they may not-he knows
nothing about that and perhaps cares
less. But If he wants to realize the
ineffable glory of doing good to the
suffering in a direct and practical way
without thought of reward except
that which comes from sad-faced
woman smiling through her tears or
some other of Gods poor all around
him, let him take this advice from
the Memphis Commercial-Appeal:
Some night in New York, when the
air is heavy and gray and like lead,
if he will take basket of food on his
own arm, put the love of God in his
own heart, start out and distribute il
among the derelicts in some narrow
street in the East Side and let his
right hand know not what his left
hand is doing, Rockefeller's conscience
would be just as much relieved by this
act as ii would If ne had donated an
other million to a university
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01

Juries weak in mind and character
are at the bottom of most of the abor.
tons on justice and outrages on SO.
ciety that are coming out of the court
houses these days in the shape OF YER
diets 1t is refreshing to hear of a
judge who has the nerve to tell such a
jury what he thinks OF it, and to let
1t know that it has proved itself I'M
worthy of the confidence of the people
who relied upon it as the only bulwark
between their homes and the criminal
element. There was such a case up
In Gadsden. Alabama. the other day in
which the defendant was charged with
violating the prohibition law. The evil
dence was perfectly clear and there
was no doubt of the guilt of the de-
PENDANT The jury brought in a YER
dict of not guilty. A press dispatch
tells the rest of the story:
When the foreman handed in the
verdict and it was read Judge Lee or.
dered the clerk to call the name of
every member of the jury. After every
one In the court room had in this
manner been made familiar with the
names of the jurymen. Judge Lee told
the twelve men that in view of the
verdict they had just returned to the
court ne believed that it would be bet
ter for them 70 be at home, and that
he would discharge them for the term
Another jury Of twelve was immedi-
ately ordered drawn.
1t may be that the jurors who could
deliberately violate the oath they took
TO try the issue according to law and
the facts and a true verdict render
were too morally and mentally obtuse
to comprehend the singing rebuke OF
the judge or to feel the disgrace which
he had justly put upon them. but the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01

judge himself has rendered a signal
service to law and order and the in
fiuence of his action will be all for
good In the issue just ahead of US
in whose shadows we are even now
enveloped, between civilization and
the criminal element the cowardly,
timeserving Judge who is afraid to
speak his mind to jurors whose lips
are blistered with perjury will be a
heavy handicap: and such judges as
Judge Alto V. Lee of the city court
of Gadsden, Alabama, will be among
the, strongest factors to save the day
and win the fight for civilization, law
an order. All honor to Judge Lee!
May his tribe increase!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01

Even the accidental killings are COM
ing forward in unusual numbers this
year to warn us against the folly of
deadly weapons. In plain truth there
should be some rigid and drastic legis-
lation in every state in the Union on
this matter of firearms. The manufac-
ture and sale OF these weapons need
regulation and need it badly. Race
suicide. about which there has been
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS
Poorest Deer Shot in Florida.

Poorest Deer Shot In Florida.
Very few of our hunters are making
records this year. Some of the bird
hunters have not been out at all. and
the deer hunters are few in number
So far this season the crack deer hunt
er from Inverness, w. H. II. Witten,
has two to his credit, while Geo. Bos-
well, repUted TO be the poorest shot
in Florida, barring F. r. Mccormack,
now of Live Oak, has actually killed
two. The latter is the only talked
of record made this season. although
the scrubs are reported alive with the
game.-Inverness Chronicle.
Editor Pound Goes to Georgia.
Mr.. J. E. Pound, formerly editor
of the Herald. left Monday morning
for Cordele, Ca, where he has boug>
an interest in the Dispatch and is
again in newspaper harness. Mr..
Pound has been in Florida and con-
nected with various newspapers for
several years. and aside from his ex-
ceptional ability as newspaper man
he is citizen whom the state can III
afford to lose. and we had hoped he
would find suitable location at some
point in Florida. A host of Florida
friends will join the Herald in wishing
him health. wealth and prosperity in
his new field. His family will remain
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
BY J. C. WeIIiver in Philadelphia
Times.

BY J. c. WeIIiver in Philadelphia
Times.
President-elect Taft has been tolC
that unless he makes and wins fighi
TO prevent the reelection of Joseph G.
Cannon as speaker, the Taft admins
tration will be foredoomed to failure
The presidept-elect has been con
vinced that this is true.
Much against his will, he has given
his voice for war. He has been plung
ed into the contest three months be,
fore he will be president. 1t is con.
test in which he will need every ounce
of patronage power, yet another man
controls that power.
Mr.. Taft is, of course. assured the
earnest cooperation of President
Roosevelt if such a fight be made.
The presidents help will be invalu
able; but none the less it is primarily
Mr.. Taft's fight
Back of the announcement by Rep
resentative Burton, in which Taft's op-
position TO Cannon was foreshadowed,
was the decision of Mr.. Taft that
a fight was inevitable. The reasoning
which convinces him that he must
fight is:
IF Cannon is speaker during the
tariff revision session, revision will
not satisfy the country. The succeed.
ing long session will accomplish little;
then will come a congressional cleo
ton, and the Disguised country will
give the Democrats the house. With a
Democratic house, progressive achieve
meRt will be impossible during the
latter half of the Taft administration |;
the administration will be written
down a failure, and Taft will be a
one-term president"
Cannon Rallies Forces.
There is only one way to avoid this
series of calamities, as the advisers OF
Mr. Taft view it. That is to defeat
Cannon. Mr.. Taft must get about II
Immediately, If he hopes to win.
1t is reported on high authority that
the speaker already has pledges OF
enough votes to renominate him.
But President-elect Taft is in a
most difficult situation Here Is the
situation as it looks TO a man whose
name cannot be given, but who has
been mentioned for weeks past as a
probable member Of the new cabinet
and who is close to both the presi-
dent and the president-elect:
.'Mr. Taft is earnestly for tariff re-
vision. He cannot but know that II
he fails 10 get it he will fail because
the controlling powers in the house
will prevent it.
HE knows that if he is defeated at
the special session in the matter OF
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
PENSACOLA FLORIDA TUESDAY MORNING. DEcEMBER l. 1908

so much gush, isn't doing the people
of this country near so much harm as
the guns and pistols that kill and are
to be had anywhere for the price. 1t
Is better not to have been born at all
than to be born only to meet untimely
death at the muzzle of a shotgun or
revolver.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
A Healthy Family

Our whole family has enjoyed good
health since we began using DR.
Kings New Life Pills, three years
ago." says L. A. Bartlett, of Rural
Route 1, Guilford, Maine They
cleanse and tone the system in gen.
tie way that does you good. Csc at
all druggists.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01

in Perry for some weeks before join
ing him in Cordele.-Perry Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-05-22
Post Office Robbers Indicted.

William Burns and John Mccoy, who
have been sent to prison at Atlanta, Ga,
for robbing the post offices at Pedrick
town and Bridgeport on March 7th, may
have a few years to serve in New Jer.
sey, when their eight years are up under
Federal offences.
The Gloucester county Grand Jury al
Woodbury. on Wednesday found five in.
dictments against Burns and Mccoy, in.
Guiding assault with intent to kill, carry.
ing concealed weapons and using dyna.
mite or other explosives. There wa also
another Indictment against John Doe, the
accomplice of the man who got away.
When their sentence expires the men will.
probably be brought to Woodbury. fol-
trial, and if full sentence is imposed
the balance Of the mems lives will be
spent in prison,
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-05-22
pEbKlcKroWH,..
May lg-scliool closed Oh Wednesda

May 1y-Scliool closed on Wednesda v,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lintord Denny, of Salem
were guests at Chas. Munyan's on Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jordan spent Sun.
day in Swedesboro.
Nathan Jordan, OF Swedesboro. is
visiting friends here.
Mrs. Mary Stewart of Vineland, is a
guest at the home of Frank Gates,
Mrs. Geo. r. Pedrick is visiting her
daughter Mrs. Abram Detwiler, in Cam
den.
Eugene Sparks has sold his house to
Mrs. Catharine Justice.
The Pedricktown Baptist Sunday
School by an unanimous vote, decided 20
send its superintendent, Frank j. Gayen-
ia, to the Worlds Sunday School con-
vention, to be held at Louisville, KY,
June 1928. Mr.. Gaventa has been SUI
perlntendent OF the school for a number
OF years and is one of the most energetic
land popular workers of the county.
The Patriotic orders, of PENIS Grove.
will attend the Baptist Church on Sun.
day evening.
The quarantine was taken off of War;
rem Rlsner's home on Tuesday. His son
Albert is still very sick and about the
same he has been fol ten days with some
hopes to recovery.
Members of the M. E. Church will
hold a Strawberry festival in Red Mems
hall Saturday night. May 20.
Miss Helen Sweeten is visiting her
grand parents Mr.. and Mrs Isaac Ridp-
nary in Greenwich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Parker, OF Gibbs
town, are visiting at W. Scott. Picken's.
Mrs. I. l: Holton and daughter are
visiting Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Wagg in
Trenton.
Miss Mildred Sparks is spending a
week i'll Philadelphia.
Miss Ella Carter, of Woodbury.. spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. James Sparks.
Mrs. and Mrs. Thos. Weatherby, of
Swedesboro, spent Sunday at Chas.
H%ampton's.
Mrs. Harvey Justice has returned from
a few days stay in Atlantic City.
William Murphy has been spending
ten days in Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gates entertained
at dinner last Thursday afternoon Mr..
and Mrs. Harry HOFFMAN, Mr.. and Mrs,
5. Il. Blocksom, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Doughten, Mr.. and Mrs. L. 1. Holton.
Mrs. Freelan Sparks and Mrs. Maria
Pedrick.
Mrs. Isaac Ridgway, of Greenwich, is
visiting at P. P. Sweetens.
Mrs. NJ. Somers, of Philadelphia. is
visiting her daughter Mrs. Edward M.
Justice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Doughten and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gates spent Sunday
at Haddon Heights.
Miss Decker and Miss Justic, of Allan
tic City are visiting Mrs. I'll. Justice.
A male quartette and a special sermon
will be the principal features of worship
next Sunday evening in the M. E. Church.
Good music and brief sermon have made
the services popular.
Prof. j.. Harry Smith has been elected
principal Of Pedricktown school and will
also Supervise the other schools in Old
mans township. The other teachere are;
Pedricktown, intermediate, Carrie W.
HOFFMAN; primary, LIST. Nettie Picken; I'd
Bertha Garrett; Auburn, principal, Lii
liam Hunt, intermediate, Irene Lane;
primary, Amy Horner; Perkintown, net
tie Sparks.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-05-22
BOROUGH COUNCIL DQINGS

A regular meeting Of the Borough
Council was held Tuesday evening.
Mayor Gentieu presided and Councilman
English, Layman, and Morgan were pres.
ent.
Mr.. Layman reported that cinders had
been put Ill the sidewalks from the Cove
corner to Church Street, also that terra
Gotta pipe had been laid in front OF III. S.
Titus's houses on North Broad Street.
The Mayor reported $40 received for
fines.
Current bills were ordered paid.
Motion to increase the Street Super
visor's pay from 81 so to $1.75 was laid
on the table until all the councilmen
could be present.
Marshal j. A. Fisher was ordered on
Sunday duty and SIS was appropriated
for the G. A, r.
Collector S.. L. Boone reported receipts
as follows; Hotel license fee $497. so,
personal tax $10.02, fines $40, telephone
tax 1922 total $539.77.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-05-22
OBITUARY
HANNAH M. ToRToN,

wife of former Mayor, James d. Torton'
died at 1915 Thursday morning, aged 90
years. She had been very sick with
pneumonia for only ten days, but very
bad from the beginning, and there were
doubts of her recovery for some days, be-
cause she had been failing in vigorous
health for several months.
The funeral service will be held at the
residence of her husband, at South Broad
and Mary Street, on Monday, at IL
O'Clock. Interment in Riverview Gene
terry.
Mrs. Torton was the daughter Of the late
Michael X. and Sarah Cook Dalbow .
She was a member of the M. E. Church
for overthirty-five years, and an ell
thusiastic, active worker in the church
like her sainted mother before her.
She was also interested in the young
folks and a worker in the Sunday School
for years.
When the st. Paul's Church was or.
ganized she joined that. No member
Of that society has been a most earnest
worker for its success and more faithful
attender at the services than Mrs. Tor
ton in the twenty-four years of that So
ciety.
She took an active interest in tenn
perance work during the Good Templars
movement in the early 70s. When the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
movement came on she was the first and
most active person in organizing the
Union in Penn's Grove, February II,
1884. She became its first President and
has filled that office almost continuously
ever since. She has been instrumental
in procuring several of the abIest State
and National speakers to visit PENIS
Grove whose addresses edited and en-
tighten numerous audiences. She also
took an active interest in the County
organization Of the w. G. L. U.
She was skilled in the culinary arts and
her superior entertaining social qualities
made her home a happy stopping place
for ministers and Christian temperance
workers, who were always welcomed.
Being skilled in needle work she has
been a superior helpmate to her husband
in his undertaken business in the past
thirty year.
Conscious of her own rectitude, sht
was diligent in business, given to hospi
tality, instant in prayer, ~fervent il
spirit, serving the Lord and mankind.
LoTTIE G. ZANE
wife OF Albertus w. Zane, died of bright,
disease on Sunday, 18th, aged 81 years
The funeral service was held Tuesday
afternoon. lnterment in Emmanue
Cemetery.
HETTIE MCALLIsTER,
the 16 year old daughter of Cyrus McAllis
ter, of Camden, formerly of Upper Penn
Neck, died on Wednesday of pneumoni
and will be buried Saturday in Emmanue
Cemetery. She made her home with he
sister Mrs. Wilbert f. Land and caugh
cold on the measles. MI. Lands wifi
and two children had them,
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-05-22
Birthday Party.

Miss Bertha Montgomery entertained
a few friends at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Montgom-
cry, on Pitman street on Thursday
evening, May 18th, the occasion being
her eighteenth birthday anniversary. The
home was prettily decorated with pink
and white colors. The evening proved
a very enjoyable n and was spent by
playing games and with vocal and in
strumental music, after which refresh
ments were served.
Those present were Misses Ray Kidd, Mar.
tie Banart, Helen Walker, Edna Cline,
Pauline Taylor, Grace Wolmontizer, Hazel
Davis, Hazel Peterson, Harriet Harbeson,
Lille Harris, Anna Montgomery, Lottie Mont
gOmery, Messrs. Warren Croft, Fred Allen,
Harry Smith, Earl Firestone, Mr., and Mrs
William Montgomery, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Croft, Mr. aud Mrs, Harry Banart, Miss Ber-
tina was the recipient of many pretty and use.
full presents.