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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-01

Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Ok
| lahoma, Missouri, Utah, Colorado
Nevada, North and South Dakota, Ore
gon and alifornia-nearly all in the
to take his seat March 4 next. They
are fourteen states, out of thirty-one
that send a new Senator to the next
Congress, and only three of the four
teen Senators, whose terms soon ex'
pire, are Democrats.
The most eastern of these states
fractional quarrel, which may not only
defeat Senator Foraker for reelection
but make it impossible for any but a
Democrat to have his place. If the
Democrats can carry Hamilton and
Cuyahoga counties, in which Cincinnati
and Cleveland respectively are located,
they will probably be able to make
Ex-Governor J. +. Campbell, of Hamil-
ton. whom the Democratic state con
vention has endorsed, Senator for six
years. 1t is improbable, of course,
that Ohio will elect a Democratic leg
islature in presidential year, but the
last Buckeye legislature had a Repub-
lican majority of only two on joint bal
lot and the dominant party is in quite
as much of a Republican ferment now
as it was three years ago when that
legislature was elected. In spite of
the fact that Republicans have some
twenty odd holdover members in the
Indiana legislature, they are openly
coneeding that they will have a fight
on their hands to elect Republican
legislature this year and to send Sena-
tor James A. Hemenway, the foremost
Republican in the Southern part of the
state. back to Washington. In Illinois,
another influential Republican state,
the result is not at all in doubt, for
the Democrats, even by eleeting all
the candidates they have fled for
at the August primaries,
could not control the legislature at
Springfield Senator Hopkins may be
defeated by Representative George E.
Foss, a New Englander by birth, now
canvassing the state for the primary
nomination. Iowa, in the same tier of
states, has renominated Senator Ali
SON, the leader of the Senate, till his
health compelled him to relinqulsh
much of his legislative activities. Or
nomination would be equiva-
lent to an election in Iowa, but that
state is so torn with dissension be-
tween the Cummins (progressive) and
the Allison {standpat) factions that
the possibility of Democrat, Claude
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GRAFTERs OF
SAN FRANCISCO
The City Getting Tired of the
Prosecution of Public
Thieves.
BY Ernest N. Smith.

mail Special to the Advertiser.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.-Say
what you will about the justice of the
work the graft prosecution is carry
ing on, the end of their work seems to
be exactly as far in the distance as it
was months ago or shall we say years,
and the situation instead of clearing up
is as hopelessly embroiied in endless
difficulties and entanglements as it well
could be- And what seems more dis
couraging than ever to good citizens,
the strength of the 80 higherups' seems
to be getting greater as the strength
of the prosecution diminishes. Carried
through the entire gamut of legal en-
tanglements the recent developments
seem to indicate that San Francisco
is to be plunged into a new field of
Investigation in connection with the
graft eases which will include attempts
to murder. dynamite or kidnap-it is
hard to tell which; and good citizens
can hardly be blamed for holding up
their hands in disgust and crying
Enough"
San Francisco has been condemned
by the press throughout the United
States for its apathy when it comes to
cleansing the city of grafters. It's citi-
zens may feel the sting of the charge,
and acknowledge its seeming truth, yet
when the entire city was aroused to
the necessity of putting every "high-
erup" in existence into Jail for life,
the prosecution for some reason or other
did not make any greater progress than
1t is making at present, indeed some
mistakes were made, and San Fran
cisco is not altogether to be blamed for
relaxing in its enthusiasm for putting
boodlers, franchise stealers and ordi-
nary ''French restaurant extortionists "
IN Jail, Results must be obtained be-
fore years have passed, and it can hard
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THE CONTROL
Of CONGRESS
The Lively Western Struggle for
Control of Senate and
House.
BY Ernest G. Walker.
(Mail Special to the Advertiser.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 1S.-Po.
litically the West will be much more
than a presidential battle-ground in this
campaign. While Taft and Bryan are
clashing spear on shield and making a
tiltyard of the upper Mississippi Val
lev and of the Transmissouri country,
the complexion of the next House of
Representatives will be decided by the
voters of those same sections. More
ove~ OF almost equal Importance with
the western contest for the control of
the House are the senatorial campaigns
the radical spirit, which possesses the
West every decade or Whereabouts. is
now rising and not receding-a point
on which many men differ-the present
movement threatens to bring in crop
of Democratic Senators and to white
down the present Republican majority
u1 AAIl " III tAc uppSA pA"hSA ~ NNA
gress.
The Western Democrats, who came
to the Senate on the silver wave Of
1896 and succeeding years, have nearly
all been retired to private life. They
were from South Dakota, Montana,
Idaho, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Col
orado, Kansas and Nebraska. Only
Newlands, of Nevada, and Teller, of
Colorado remain and. as Colorado is al
most certainly a Republican state IN
this campaign, Senator Teller will prob
ably be displaced by a Republican af-
ter next March.
Strangely enough, however, many
Western states that the optimistic
now claim in July will be
for their candidate in November chose
United States Senators this winter
As only one-third of the Senate lie
elected every two years, it is some
what noteworthy that Ohio, Indiana,
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ly be expected that ssalwart citizens
will be always ready to answer any
cries for assistance from the prosecu-
ton when after months of continual
fighting the prosecution has succeeded
in getting only one conviction-thato of
Louis Glass of the telephone company.
The fact is borne home every day
that the trials go on that the defend
ants are good fighters, and they are
cleverer fighters than the prosecution.
Few people doubt that Abe Ruef is one
of the greatest scoundrels of modern
times, few people doubt that Patrick
Calhoun bribed the supervisors for a
trolley franchise, few people doubt that
Mayor Schimtz and Ruef held up the
French restaurants for all there was in
it. yet the prosecution as constituted
cannot secure a conviction. No matter
what the excuses they have not secured
conviction. With large detective
force of supposed experts, one loaned
Dy lht onllSu Stdlco government bHey
do not seem to be able to outwit the
detectives hired by private company
whose president bribed the supervisors.
And the thought cannot help but come
that the present force of the prosecu
ton is not competent enough to put to
rout the brilliant forces gathered for
the defense. Say what you will about
the great work that Heney is doing,
talk all you like about his doggedness
in hanging on until he has driven the
opposing dignified attorneys into fist
fights and a flood of billingsgate which
would be out of place in a cheap police
court, yet it is significant that no one
has yet accused Heney of being brill
liant lawyer, and no one who was big
enough to pass judgment has told the
world that District Attorney Langdon
would set the world on fire with his
knowledge of BlackstOne-and then
comes the thought that what is needed
Just now is a corps of really brilliant
lawyers, men who instead of spending
their time delivering public speeches,
and telling a retiring public how lack
ing in public spirit its members are,
have gone into the musty volumes of
the law and fought their battles there
because most certainly that is where
the battle is to be fought if the de-
PENDANTS counsel is to be put to fight
md the bribe-givers- jailed. Perhaps
then San Francisco is to be pardoned
somewhat if she feels that perhaps a
OF of money has been thrown away,
when few really brainy lawyers, who
Knew the law fronrlthe earliest volumes
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of English common law down to the
latest California Codes could have Sc
cured more than one conviction in the
months which have passed since the
| battle began. San Francisco is inter
| ested in every move that is made
| nightly interested, but she is rightly
distrustful of just what the prosecution
can do. They have let the public know
what the men they are after have done,
and no one doubts for a moment that
some of these men are guilty of the
crimes with which they are charged.
Excuses are made of course that iuries
have been fixed, that men have been
paid to leave the country, and hun
dred other things, but most certainly
the defendants are not the cleverest
men in the. world, and it is equally true
that the lawyers of the prosecution are
even less clever than they. And so it
is that those who want the city cleansed
of its grafters have. perhaps come to
believe that it is not in the power of
the present prosecution to do much
more than it has already done Give
the prosecution all the credit. it de-
serves, and the fact remains that what
we need are lawyers in the fullest sense
of the word. men who are as crafty in
the law as the defendants attorneys,
men who do not make mistakes in draw
ing up indictments. Mistakes will hap
pen but they are not supposed to hap
pen when the brainest men in the law
are there to take instant advantage of
any mistake that is made.
However the story may end, and
whoever may 60 to Jail, it is not going
too far to prophesy that San Francisco
would wake up with bound, and rally
to the support of the prosecution to a
man should some of the really big law
yers Of the State or even the United |
States open their guns upon the coterie
of clever, brainy lawyers who are de- |
Tending the grafters, and fight those /,
men to standstill on their own |
ground. There would be no fighting
then on moral grounds-leaving that to
the ministers-or no rambling about the |
country delivering speeehes-leaving
that to the politicians, but carefully /
planned and executed attack, using
every advantage that the law allows. |
and fighting only within the bounds of |
the law-because it is the only possible
way to secure convictions. /
ATTITUDE OF THE PRESS.
One of the strangest situations of the |
entire fight between grafters and the
Continued on Page Tenn
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
COUNTY JUDGE WARNED
Told That His Gray Hairs Will Not
Save Him if He Prosecutes
the Tobacco Outlaws.
Used Switches.

Eddyville, Ky, Feb. 17,-Night
riders, 500 strong, visited Eddyville
at o'clock Sunday morning and
whipped ten men, four of them
white and six negroes. The white
men who are suffering from sore
backs as the result of severe chas-
tisement with switches are:
Police Judge Clem R. Rucker,
Leslie M. Woods, former city
marshal.
Press Falack, who occasionally
acted as deputy city marshal.
Grace George, saloon porter,
The connection between the whip
ping of the white men and the ne
groes and the tobacco war in wes-
tern Kentucky is not apparent, and
no one has been able to offer any ex-
planation None of the victims were
known to be active or Influential in
opposition to the farmers pooling
movement No attempt was made at
destroying stored tobacco.
The night riders were well drilled
and well armed About $50 entered
the town from the direction of Trigg
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
LARCENY IS CHARGED
Handling of 100000 Note Deposit
ed in Tentative Agreement of
of Sale Is Inyolyed-(iaye
Bond to Answer.

New York, Feb. 17.-Charles w.
Morse, financier and promoter of
the so-called ''ice trust" and a
merger of nearly all of the coast
wise steamship lines, was arrested
when the steamer Etruria reached
quarantine in the lower bay, held
in custody until the ship was dock
ed and then whirled away in an
automobile to the home of Justice
Dowling of the supreme court,
where he gave bond in the sum of
$4,000 to answer to two indict-
ments charging grand larceny and
involving the sum of $100, 900. Mr.
Morse was released and went imme
diately to his Fifth avenue home
where he gave out a statement as
serting his innocence and asking the
public to suspend judgment until he
has had an opportunity to face his
accusers in court
Mr.. Morse denied that his trip to
Europe was a flight He said he
b>d gone abroad to sell stock in
large interest and to secure rest.
Both purposes were foiled by the
publication of reports that he was
fugitive from justice, he declared.
Mr.. Morse had received word by
wireless telegraph that two indict-
nents had been found against him.
Mrs. Morse met her husband at the
pier, and it was in her automobile
that the journey with a detective
was made to Justice Dowling's
home. Justice Bowling held an in
formal court session in his library,
Assistant District Attorney Krasle
represented the prosecution. The
bonds, which were signed by a sure
ty company, had been prepared on
Saturday.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17

county and the remainder from the
opposite direction, Over thousand
shots were fired during the course
of their stay, but the only casualty
reported is that of a young woman,
whose face is said to have been
grazed by stray bullet. The home
of Judge Rucker was badly damaged
before the riders were able to get
hold of him, the walls being riddled
with bullets, doors and shutters torn
off, etc.
After taking each of the men to
the edge of town and whipping them
they were allowed to return home.
After the whippings had been adj
ministered, the mob awakened
County Judge w. L. Crumbaugh
and warned him that his immunity
from similar punishment hereafter
depended entirely upon the friend
ship he was expected to show the
tobacco growers organization. He
was told that his gray hairs alone
were responsible for his being spar
ed this time.
The only tobacco man visited was
J. M. Bradshaw, who is a tobacco
appraiser for one of the growers as
sociations Mr.. Bradshaw was order
ed to close billiard hall which he
owns
Before leaving the town the rid
ers announced that they had not
finished their work and that they
would return before many days.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17

days widening the deep white rock
cut between the section house and
the company's large oil tank. Several
train loads of rock have already
been taken out and hauled to Cor
sicana for the improvement of the
yards. The coal chutes will probably
be completed about April /, as that
Is the date the company has set for
inaugurating a freight service be-
tween WaXahachie and Fort Worth.
1t is understood that all light en-
gines are to be used between here
and league, while the big moguls
will be operated in the Fort Worth
service. The work of ballasting the
track is being pushed as rapidly as
possible that it may be in serviceable
condition for the handling of heavy
freight trains. Two work trains are
now in operation between here and
Corsicana.
The Brazos Valley is gradually in
creasing it's force of employees at this
place, and during the construction of
the coal chutes large force of men
will be employed here. The regular
yard force has been augmented by
the location of four engine cleaners
here.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
Two Fires at Ennis.

Two fires occurred at Ennis Satur-
day and Sunday. Saturday morning
the photograph gallery belonging to
w. o. Lorimor on South Main street,
together with a stock of books, pic.
lures and artists supplies were de-
stroyed Loss 1900. No insurance.
A small wooden building on the
premises of l.. G. Fetzer on South
Breckenridge street was destroyed
by fire at O'Clock Sunday morn
ing Fetzer, who is agent for the
Crescent News company, kept his
papers, books, fruits and other
stock in the building and it is be-
lieved the house was robbed and
then set on fire.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
THINK MURDER WAS DONE.
Wilson Brothers Arrested in Inves-
tigation Of Death of w. w. Petit

Corsicana, Texas, Feb. 17.-Lee
and James Wilson, the two men ar
rested here in the investigation of
the alleged killing of the man whose
body was found in Chambers creek
some days ago are still in Jail. On
Nov. s a man named w. w. Petit,
who was travelling through the
country giving exhibits with NOV
ing picture show, gave an exhibition
north of here, and it is alleged that
the two Wilson's were with him. A
few days later the Wilson's sold the
team, wagon and show outfit for
merly owned by Petit to a party in
Corsicana, claiming to have purchas-
ed them from the former owner. In
one of the shirt cuffs of the dead
man was an Elks' button and on the
streets of Roane, where Petit gave
his last exhibition few days after
he was there an exact match to that
button was found. A thing that adds
interest to this story Is the fact that
during December the city officers
here received a letter from a woman
in Cleburne asking about a man
named Petit who was running pic
ture show and the last she had heard
Of him Petit was on his way from
Mexia to Corsicana.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
DIES AFTER BEATING
Corsicana Negro Charged With
Killing Child.
With

hili1nS (niid.
Corsicana, Texas, Feb. 17.-Jim
Hawkins, negro, and Aggie Craw-
ford, a negress, We're arrested and
Jailed here yesterday The Crawford
woman is charged with having beat
en- her 5-year-old nephew so badly
Saturday morning that he died that
night and Hawkins is charged with
being an accessory to the crime. The
child had been prepared for burial
when a negro who lives hear the ac-
cused and knew the facts reported
the matter to the officers and the
arrests followed. 1t is alleged by
those reporting the facts to the Off
GERS that after being beaten with
many stripes the child was taken to
nearby tank and submerged while
perfectly nude, and was then taken
back to the house, where it died.
After a post mortem examination Of
the child's body by County Physician
Fryar, Justice of the Peace Nash de-
clared the child came to its death as
the result of cruel and inhuman
treatment at the hands of Aggie
Crawford.
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Panama, Feb. 17.-Not in recent
erican official attracted SO much at
tention as that President Amador Of
Panama in declining to accept re-
nomination. Leading South and Cen
tral American newspapers are unit
in commencing Amador for his de-
real republic exists in Panama.
President Amador, in voluntarily
relinquishing Office without an ap-
peal to revolution, has established a
precedent in Latin-America.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
BUILDING COAL CHUTES.

Brazos Valley Engines VIII BE
Loaded With Fuel Here.
All details have been worked out
by the Trinity and Brazos Valley for
making Waxahachie coaling point
for locomotives, and active work on
the construction of coal chutes will
be commenced at once. The chutes
will be located in the east yards and
on the north side of the main track.
Several car loads of lumber and steel
to be used In the construction of the
chutes have been received and un-
loaded. In order to make room for
the chutes and for the extra tracks
that will be required a large force
of men has zen at work several
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17

Two young couples we're made
happy Sunday afternoon by Justice
of the Peace Y d. kemble At 3
O'Clock Jesse C. Morton and Miss
Matte Lanier called at his Office and
were united in the holy bonds of
wedlock. At o'clock A A. Norton
and Miss Luella Wilsford, who re-
side few miles south OF town, visi-
ted the home of Mr.. Kemble on a
similar mission.
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Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. IT,
Seven hundred leading Hoosier DEM
ocrats will gather about the banquet
board at the Hotel Clapyool tonight,
when William Jennings Bryan will
be the guest of the Indiana Demo-
cratic club. 1t is expected that Tom
Taggart will occupy seat of honor
at the dinner, a place he refused to
accept at the famous Kirby Risk
feast in Lafayette last December.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
Arl unsas Railway Suit.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 17.-Hear
ing in the injunction suit filed by
the Iron Mountain railroad against
the Arkansas railroad commission.
involving the enforcement of penal
ties aggregating $4,000, for al
legged violations of the state demur-
Federal Judge Trieber
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
ASSISTANT COUNSEL EMPLOYED
Local Attorneys VIII Assist County
Attorney Smith in Katy Tax
Shit PROCEEDINGS

Farrar, McRae & Pierson have
sioners to assist County Attorney
Smith in defending the county
against the injunction filed by the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
road company of Texas to avoid
the payment of the intangible assets
tax. A representative from the at
torney generals Office will also be
here to look after the states inter-
ests District court convenes next
Monday and the case is called for
Wednesday of the first week
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
Hey! Look Who's Coming.

New York, Feb. 17.-Mme
Kommisarzhoftskaya, a well-known
Russian actress, is now or the way
here from st. Petersburg and will
arrive in b few days at the head OF
company which win present rep
retoires Of modern Russian dramas.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
SKATING RINK BURNED.
building and Contents Destroyed by
Fire Sunday Night.

"A large frame pavilion on East
Main street in Freedman was totally
destroyed by fire Sunday night about
II O'Clock. The building was owned
by George Dillon and was used for
a skating rink. A piano and about
burned with the building. The
building had been closed several
months, but was opened Saturday
night for the season. Mr.. Dillon es-
Inmates his total loss at about $500,
with 500 insurance. The fire is sup
posed to have been of incendiary
origin.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17

information from what may be re-
garded as an authoritative source
that plans for the building of this
line are now being discussed. From
the same source also comes the in
formation that Waxahachie is to be
made a division point at some date
in the very near future
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-02-17
KILLED BY POISON.
Negro Nurse Gives Young Man Fatal
Drug by Mistake.

Sherman, Texas, Feb. 17.-Her-
man Richardson, % years of age, a
clerk in the Dallas postoffice, died
at the home of his father, nine
miles west of Sherman Saturday af-
ternoon from the effects of a dose
of poison. He came home on visit
and broke out with smallpox. A ne
dose of poison and he died in
great agony.
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