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Arizona republican., 1908-09-27
ulJNriNc pARTv RETlJRNs.

William Mullen. Date Lincoln, Laures Anderson and Ed Wesson re- turned yesterday from a three weeks hunting trip.S They had a fine time and were successful in landing their full share. of game. In all five deer were killed and quantities of smaller game
Arizona republican., 1908-09-27
A TICKET NAMED,

Following the organization of the Cameron club Friday evening the fol- lowing ticket was named to be voted upon at the primary election yester- day: A. A. Celaya, Jesus Valenzuela,
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To the house of representatives of that
state, where he was chairman of ways and
means when still in his twcnties. When
but thirty-Onc he was prOomted to the
state senate, where he became chairman
of finance. He was elected to Congress
while in his thirties and has remained
there nine years. He is now forty-seven.
nine years the junior Of Tawney and six
years younger than Granger.
The aids-de camp of the republican and
democratic commandment chief are Rep
resentatives Loudenslager of New Jersey
and Clark of Florida. Secretary LOuden-
slager-ifenry C.-was born and reared in
Jersey and was in the commission bust
ness for ten years and then county clerk
for ten years more. or until he was chosen
for Congress at the time Cleveland was
elected the second time, in 1892 He has
been in the House ever since and has the
reputation of knowing more politicians
than any other republican in the House.
He is therefore n valuable secretary to
the republican committee. as is Represent
alive Frank Clark of Florida to the demo-
cratic organization. Clark was born in Ala
bama fortyeight years ago but was taken
when child to Georgia whence he went
to Florida to practice law. Before coming
to Congress. three years ago he served
three terms in the Florida legisat ure.
was assistant district attorney, United
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be almost continuously from now until
election day.
Not only is Mrs. Foster recognized as
the foremost American woman stump
speaker. but she is the only one who en-
joys the distinction of having made
lecture tour of the world. One of her
most priced possessions. next to the silver
loving cup presented to her by the repub-
lican women of Massa chusetts. Is a silk
American flag which she displayed at all
her public addresses in foreign lands, and
which is. now almost in tatters in conse-
quence of such service. In her round-the-
world tour Mrs. Foster spent some time
in the Philippines. and her observation of
Mr. Taft's work there has provided her
with much ammunition in behalf of the
republican candidates executive ability
which she uses with excellent effect in
her addresses.
Just before starting from Washington
and after an interview with President
Roosevelt. Mrs. Foster said: II will not
undertake to predict how many miles
will travel before election day. but ! ex-
pect TO speak in a different city every
weekday from now until November 8 and
l anticipate that my itinerary will carry
ne nearly 10 the Pacific coast. I have
never in the past had any difficulty in
making myself heard in public gatherings
nor in meeting the eXactionS of hard and
continuous travel and as I am now In
perfect health have every confidence
that | will be enabled to do two months
work in one in the matter OF campaign
ing"
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Chairman Mckinley.
(Republican.)

States attorney and chairman of the
state committee of his party. He is typ
zeal southern politician in appearance. be-
ing smooth shaven and wearing his hair
long. In religion he Is Missionary Bap
fist.
Thus. you see, all Of these officers Of the
two congressional committees are repre-
sentatives. The republican committee has
ever. for its treasurer Charles G. Dawes
of Illinois. who was Mckinley's controller
of the currency. and who is now president
OF trust company in Chicago. The dem
Ocratic committee has no regular treas
urer but their campaign contributions
are handled by a finance committee head
ed by Representative Flood of Virginia
Henry Delaware Flood.
These two committees charged with OBJ
tanning for their respective parties a ma
jority in Congress, are alike composed of
one congressman from each state. They
have campaign on hand every two
years and therefore twice often as
the national committees charged with
electing a President. Each has its indie
pendent literary bureau and speakers bu-
reau and the work of each will be sup
plemented by that of district congress
sional committees scattered throughout
the states. While Chairmen Hitchcock and
Mack are at II. hammer and tongs. striv-
ing to carry the states, each of which
goes one way the other and chooses
its solid quota Of electors. Chairmen Nc
Kinley and Lloyd are cOntesting for the
individual congressional districts, one by
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his mangled remains of their feet aud
pct the dulled and dented assegais back
into their hip pockets they glanced at
one another II to say that theyd AL
be glad 10 furnish another demonstra-
ton OF the corpse du esprit prevailing in
their profession if some one present would
kindly volunteer to be the corpse"
IF you WIZ goin' TO put out a show
would YOU start in by maxim friends with
the critics." said the House Detective.
I'D start in 10y chucking a large. span
gled bluff" said the Hotel Clerk. I'm
almost any line OF endeavor YOU can win
out by being "A consistent poser from
Posey county. but it's far better Ia he the
champion buffer of BlusTton-on-the-B BUNS.
A fellow can stroll through this hotel
lobby with his face fun OF scars and no
body'n know whether he's one or those
German duelsts or mere,y a party that's
learning Ia shave himself. but II his hlun
is sufficiently massive II won't be fifteen
minutes until we begin calling him Herr
Won and inquiring how things were at
Heidelberg when he came away. And l
don't know any business where a good
bluff can travel as far on its resources
without any other visible means OF sup
port and still bring home the spinach as
the theatrical game. That's one reason
why certain party at Washington
naming no names. Larry. but he lives in
place called the White House-would
be one grand success IN the theatrical
business. | love to think what a hit lie d
make Of II il he'd only abandon his pres
ent plan OF going 10 Africa after next
March and chasing big game In the vicin-
ity OF the original Uncle Tom 3 cabin. lie
ought to stay at home and run a show.
He would do wonders with a wild west
outfit. and I don't believe there'd he his
equal in the country at staging grand
entry
"Wot would you take on the road il YOU
wuz this here barber" asked the House
Detective.
I'D take my kit OF tools said the Ho-
tel Clerk by Thanksgiving day there
ought TO he veteran theatrical managers
riding in on every eastbound through
freight. but there's always demand in
the country districts for finished ha!r
cutter
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shall not be forgotten as long as he's able
to turn out a song number in which the
chorus can simultaneously raise the
Grand Old Rag and the right leg to the
height Of the left shoulder. l suppose by
now there must be as many as fifteen
hundred or two thousand Salomes expos
ing themselves to the dangers of our I'M
certain climate in all parts of the nation.
In the border states the hams can still
make the old reliable war drama stand up
If there isn't too much mOving-picture OPP
position. and the illustrated song balladist
who comes out in a pretty-near dress
suit and announces that he will render
She Sleeps In the Valley by Request Is
reasonably sure of winning the common
dations of the inland populace. providing
he's there with the newest colOred slides
and a good carrying voice. Many of them
do have voices that can carry almost
anything except the tune. at that
But there's been very little of the lin
gering-around and hanging-On thing here
in the home of the American drama.
can't remember the time when many
coming dramatists found they'd come en-
tirely TOO soon. Quite a number of new
STARS nave diSo pecll diSCON-
cred and yet we keep on demanding more
and more of the producers, too. 1t used
to be in bygOne years that an E. p. Roe
hero could lead a Louisa NJ. Alcott heroine
out on the stage and sit her down on a
golden oak, plush velour sofa loaned by
the Daisy installment house. or two reg
ular comps, and they would swap copy
book maxims and great palpitating truths
like you find in Barriers Burned Away
for half an hour at a stretch. and the
audience would stick all the way through
it, knowing that In good season the house
maid in the frilled apron and the comedy
butler would appear and exchange n few
lines of sprichtly repartee. Now you've
got to hand them atmosphere and shock
and novelty and all the clothes in the
world. or no clothes at ALL as the case
may be. and solve the great economic
and political problems in time for the
commuters present to catch the II: % or
the II :0S. or else many people will create
a scene by going out to the box office
and carrying on, demanding their money
back. This goes. Larry, for serious work
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had charge of the western sreal-"r< ia
reau of the republican national COM
mittee.
The Yankee lieutenant general of the
democratic congressional forces is
Episcopal prea "hcr's son. and a bachelor
who can boast of four words in his
namc-Daniel I.arned Davis Granger. He
was born in Providence. where he still
lives. and has been graduated at Brown
University. also the Boston University
Law School. Soon after taking up law
he got into politics and was twice elected
reading clerk of the lower house of his
legislature. then city treasurer for ten
years and afterward mayor of Providence
He came to Congress four years ago and
was lately made American vice president
of the Interparlamcntary Union. the in
ternational association of distinguished
Legislators which is cooperating for ar
bitration and world wide peace. He is
president of the Rhode Island Church
mems Club and Is on the standing COM
mittee of his Episcopal diocese He is
fifty-six years old. or three years the SEN
Tor of Tawney.
The southern lieutenant general of the
democrats Is Representative David Ed
ward Finley of South Carolina, who was
born in Arkansas the year the way broke
out. He went through the public schools
and the South Carolina College and got
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go into the same hole together. Hold on
4 minute-it's no nature fake I'm hand
ing out to you. Naturalists and others
have seen EN- do il. Into the same hole
at dewy goes the trustful prairie dog,
the unsuspecting squinch owl and the
dignffied rattlesnake. DO they all come
ont again in the morning? They DO. They
come out practically together-that is To
say. the rattlesnake starts ont first. then
the other two come out. one after the
other. You can tell where they are by
the Jumps in the rattlesnake's waist line.
He's picking his teeth and has happy
smile on his mobile coUntcnance. I'm not
blaming the RATHER for abusing the sa-
cred name of hospitality. either. Any
prairie dog that'n retire into the same
apartment with rattlesnake deserves TO
be eaten. And, anyway. if the RATHER
didn't eat him he'd ear the RATHER. That $
human nature whether it's the banking
business or prairie dogs or a theatrical
syndicate.
Il don't think It's the critics. either.
I never saw anybody that paid much at
tention to a critic unless twas another
critic. Thcre're more than ll.OO critics
in this country that can tell you how to
write a successful play. and they do tell
you how every few mornings but You
can count up the critics that have written
strong. successful plays on the fingers of
one hand and never get past the first fin
ger But when one of their own number
does find time to write a play the others
all rally to him. III say that much for
them. They proved that here the other
day when one of our best little critics put
on piece of his own"
Did they stand by him." asked the
House Detective.
Those that couldn't find room to stand
on him stood by him." explained the
Hotel Clerk. They couldn't have had g
better time with him if he had been q
rank outsider, and after they'd wipes
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cure. by independent effort. suffrage and
other rights sought by women. In speak
ing Of the matter the other day she said:
Il am heartily in favor Of many of these
reforms. and often publicly proclaim my
advocacy of them, but / contend that it
Is much better for women to work for the
success of the established party that will
do the most for them rather than to
waste their energy in furtherance of some
special Independent movement that has
no chance of success.
Not Partial to Suffragists.
I'm my campaign speeches / do not
dwell to any great extent upon women's
rights and kindred topics that are sup
posed by some persons TO constitute the
sum total of Woman's interest in poll
tics. For one thing. my audiences are
composed of both men and women. there
being frequently more men than women
in the hall, and obviously l can hold their
attention only by discussing campaign
issues in the broad sense. and then again
| hold that Il is quite as important for
women TO get a grasp upon fundamental
principles In politics and 20 influence their
husbands. and sons. and brothers TO vote
right as II is for these women to secure
the reforms in which they are especially
interested as a class"
AS president Of the W-oman's National
Republican Association. Mrs. Foster has
become known to all workers IN women 5
clubs organized for political study ard for
political work. Other Washington women
who have been conspicuous in the work
OF this organization are Mrs Mary s.
Lockwood Mrs. Emf J S. Chance. Mrs.
Sara II. Dean. Miss Mary \. Wood. Miss
Elizabeth f Pierce and Miss Helen V.
Boswell. The last mentioned is acting as
Mrs. Fosters secretary in her present
work for the republican national commit
tee and will be in charge of the women s
HEADQUARTERS at the Martha Washington
Hotel In New York when Mrs Foster is
absent upon speaking tours, as she will
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House. The Senate stood thirty-seven re-
publicans TO thirty-eight democrats, but
David Davis of Illinois. the only independ-
ent member. who became President pro
tempore. was able to make a tie by vot-
ing with the republicans.
In the House the republicans had eight
more votes than the democrats, but there
were ten greenbackers who had the bal
ance Of power. In the second half OF
his term Arthur Lad with him Senate
that was republican by four not count
ing the two ''readjusters" from Virginia.
who voted with his party. But the
House was democratic by seventy-four,
and Carlisle was Speaker. Cleveland
found republican majority of eight in
the Senate when he first entered the
White House and sent in his appoint
ments for confirmation. But his party
had 4 majority Of eighty-fOur in the
House. A republican Senate was still a
thorn in his side during the second half
of his first term. although the majority
was only two. Carlisle was still Speaker.
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Washington. and her part in the big po-
litical battle is the very important one of
the direction of the woman's department.
organized by the republican national
committee at its New York headquarters.
Mrs. Foster. ii should be explained at the
outset, is by no means without experience
IN this unusual field of activity. In a
number of previous presidential and con-
gressional campaigns she has assumed a
like responsibility for the committee in
charge.
Mrs Foster. although Cor some years
past resident of the District OF CO.
lumbia is a native of Lowell. Mass. be-
ing a descendant of the famous John
Alden and a number of other personagcs
famous in the early history of the New
England colonies. She was educated at
Lima y. Y. where. in 1869. when twenty
nine years OF age. she was married to T..
c. Foster a we'll known lawyer.
Inspired by an instructive interest in
her husbands profession, Mrs. Foster
took up the study of law. and in 1872 was
admitted to the Iowa bar. She forthwith
began the practice of law and soon the
kinship between politics and the law had
resulted in her being drawn into public
activities In this sphere. She became prom
inent IN the work OF the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union. and served as
superintendent of The legislative depart
ment In addition to making public adj
dresses in behalf of the cause
When the W. G. T. L. affiliated with the
prohibition party Mrs. Foster united with
the non-partisan W. c. T. L.. of which
she became president. Mrs. Foster has
never sympathized with the effort to Sc
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Her Little Worry.

From the Houston Post.
Your wife has nervous prostration: I
cannot. however. tell you what caused
IT."
Il can" replied the husband: she heard
some one say the other day that one-half
the world didn't know how the other half
lived. and she has been worrying about 1t
ever SINCE"
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'''ANYB0UYC AN TAKE OUT Show
-BUT II3((35FF:aIr TING IT BACK lf1KTCoUNTS
81 c3&&7-THE HOTEL CIEKK-5 ::=:

and II it's a musical show there must
be distinct and noticeable shock or jar
every thirty, or. at most every forty sec
onds. If not after about the second week
an autumnal picnic is observed on the
way up Cemetery hill and the manager is
the cold meat in the front wagon.
Still. they're a remarkably hopeful lot.
those managers. Christian Science has
nothing on them. / was talking to one
that came in here yesterday. He had one
Of those mother f-onion breaths' that did
not seem to draw me 10 him closely. but
he was all right otherwise. He must
have money, because he wore fur over
coat that was only slightly moth eaten
about the collar. and the diamond in his
tie couldn't be worth a cent less than
100000 If it's real. Hes going to take
out the Devil company. No. 2O01 He
has swell bookings, too-country rights
for the entire Texas Panhandle, and one
whole congressional district in northern
Arkansas. He said he anticipated proba-
bly, the most successful season in the his
tory Of the drama on this continent. The
only detail worrying him at present was
where he was going TO get the money 10
pay the fares to the town where they
open. After l had convinced him that 1t
would be impossible for me to do any
thing for him al this immediate time,
owing to the present stringent condition
in the stringency market it suddenly oc-
Cured to him that he knew the very man.
and so he turned his cuIs and went away
to look for him. full of bright and
hopeful prospects as a double-yolk egg in
patent incubator He wasn't worrying.
50 far as | could Fee. about the fares
coming back-they never do, which is all
right. too, when YOU come to think It
over. because any town that bunch of
actors get into they can get out of. That's
been proved time and again
IL see some parties is blamin' things on
the syndicate" said the House Detective.
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A RE Now Battling Ham
n mer and Tongs-Not So
Much in Limelight as Hitch
cock and Mack, But Equally
Important-President of One
Party and Congress of An
other Would Be Bad Predica-
ment Congressional Chair
men Have Their Own Ma
tional Committees and Take
No Orders From Chairmen
of Presidential Campaign
Presidents Who Have Had to
Contend With Opposing Con-
gresses-Why Seat in Con-
gress Loomc Up Bigger To-
day Than in Last Campaign.
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Vice Chairman Granger.
(DemOcrat

Democrat)
one: for a state may go Solldly repuhllcai
for President. yet secd more democrats
than republicans to Congress and. as IN
timated above, republican President
may be hampered by democratic Con-
gress.
Presidents With Opposing Con-
crosses.
Six Presidents have had TO put up with
this drawback since the civil war. al
though the republican Presidents have
had the good fortune to have both houses
of Congress always on their side since
Clevelands last term. Grant. in the last
half Of his second term, had to contend
with p House that was democratic by
sixty-one, although the Senate was re-
publican by fourteen. Hayes had TO put
up with democratic ma iorties in both
Senate and House in the two Congresses
of his term. while Arthur in the first half
of his administration was kept on the
anxious bench by independents who held
the balance Of cCwer in both Senate and
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SEE where there's a barber over
- on Broadway that's goin' to turn
manager and take a show out
troopin,'' said the House De-
tective of the St. Reckless. 4
s'pose he'll be putting on bay rum and
witch hazel fur his afterpieces-'
Pray cease your ill-timed testing Lar
ry" said the Hotel Clerk. 1--WE seen
managers before now that I thought
ought to make fair BARRIERS. with a little
training and the way some of the bar
bers have taken 90 cents away from
me for egg shampoo and hair SINCE
when all | wanted when l came in was
a quick shave once over has convinced me-
they've got the making of good managers
in them. and really ought to be on the
road with fifty-cent show getting 81
for it. Besides anybody can take out
show. It's getting it back intact that
really shows the true managerial ability.
They tell me the seasons opened up
purity rough" said the House Detective.
There's Il lot of companies closed al
ready
Well" said the Hotel Clerk. sit used
to be that a non-successful metropolitan
success could be nursed through the win
ter like an ailng calf. and maybe not
drop off until the spring was well adj
ranced but now they get the answer
quicker After the third performance
the ambitious producer nearly always
knows whether its UP to him to buy
more paper or ticket home These times
we want action in our drama and if the
actors can't furnish il the audience will
by getting up and walking out I'll hate
to tell you how many productions they've
Already been where the Jealous and capa-
bic performers delivered their lines at the
close of the first act to many red plush
seats and an array of broad. intelligent
human backs that filled every aisle lead
ing to exit We don't have near as
many hung juries in the theater we
do in the courthouse.
ITO be sure they've been some con-
SpicuouS successes. George COhan has
once more let us know that the name of
that other and scarcely less illustrious
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upright 1905 10y John Elfreth Watkins.)
.HE campaign for the capture OF
Congress is quite distinct from
the battle for the taking of the
presidency. For the two under
takings each big party has in
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WASHINGTON woman IS occu-
plying a thoroughly unique posi-.
ton in the present political
campaign. She is Mrs. j. Ellen
E'nsfnr who makes her home in
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ITO he sure they've been some con-
spicuous successes. George Cohan has
once more let us know that the name of
that other and scarcely less illustrious
George refer to George Washington
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-SEE where there's a barber over
~ on Broadway that's goin' to turn
manager and take a show out
troopin'." said the House De-
- -, .. D.t,o,, ..I