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Mangled to Death by Carding Ma.
chine.

NEW YORK, October :o.-John
Karle. a porter in the plant Of the
American Rope Manufacturing Com
pany. in Brooklyn. was mangled to
death by carding machine in the pres
sence of 800 screaming girl operatives
yesterday. Karle was sweeping the
floor near the machine when the pick
ers caught the leg of his overalls and
drew him in, killing him in a moment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-20
FERDINAND RESPONDS.
Cables Acknowledgment of Message
From Bulgarians in New York.

NEW YORK. October 0.-Bulgarians OF
New York. who recently met to celebrate
the declaration of independence Of their
native land and who at that time sent a
message Of felicitation to the new Car
Ferdinand. yesterday received the follow
ing reply cabled from Stara-Zagora:
New York Bulgarian Colony: Very
much affected by your kind telegram.
Thanks heartily.
(Signed) THE CAR.
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ONE DAYS HAPPENINGS IN
THE WORLD OF POLITICS

gets great welcome in Baltimore. Physician orders
him curta1 speeches.
Bryan speaking throughout Illinois, charges republicans with
attempt buy election.
Chaner replies Gov. Hughes with questions
Secretary Wright takes the stump in New York
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and it is proposed that every tradesman
within the Lancashire district shall sign
an agreement refusing credit to strikers.
so they will all be I'm the same boat and
none can take advantage of his COM
petitors when the strike is off.
Mr.. MacNara. president of the Employ
ers' Federation, said this morning:
Cotton Industry Never So Bad.
1.-The oldest man in the trade has never
known the cotton industry to be so de-
pressed. Some OF the big mills began
to work short time at the end of last
year. Nearly all of them have been run
ming forty hours a week. instead of fifty
five and a half hours. as usual. Some
of them have found 1t more convenient
to run full time one week and then stop
entirely for week; but no mill belong
ing to the federation has been averaging
more than forty hours a week since the
beginning of this year. The federation
controls nearly forty million spindles. and
between four and five million spindles
belong to companies that are not members
of the federation, but are working with
us.
Three times since tho Brooklan ds
agreement, in 1SG. we have advanced
wages with the improvement in trade
and they are now 10 per cent higher
than they ever were. The crisis in Amer
lea last year started a wave of depres-
sion all over the world. and the cotton
industry has suffered more than anything
else. We have been hoping We could keep
the mills In operation without loss un-
til business revived. but the outlook is
so discouraging We concluded to ask our
employees to consent to a slight reduction
and share our adversely they have
shared our prosperity But they have
refused to do So and the leaders of the
union have assumed control of the situa-
ton by walking out of the mills. They
relieve the employers of all responsibility
and the mills will remain silent until the
operatives are willing to come back at
reduced wages"
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TAFT's THROAT GIVES OUT

On the advice of a throat specialist, \. IL
liam II. Taft will make no more outdoor
speeches during the campaign. He will
cancel some of his night engagements and
will cut out altogether his trips to West
Virginia and Connecticut. This announce
ment was made last night by Frank H.
Hitchcock, national chairman. after he
had spent two hours with the nominee in
New Jersey.
Several of Mr.. Taft's speaking dates for
New York state will be given up and he
Will not appear in Chicago for the big
mass meeting Saturday night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-20

Regularly prepared manuscript sheets
were circulated newspapers In China,
Rome and Venice long before the inven-
ton of printing.
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Russia. Holland and Sweden have
about 100000 spindles each. Norway and
Denmark about 10000 spindles each, and
other European countries few small fac
tories.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-20

The blind population of Great Britain i.
about 10000.
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BUYING VOTES, SAYS BRYAN

Standing upon a platform near a mon
ument erected to commemorate the site
upon which the Lincoln Douglas debate
was closed. fifty years ago, William ].
Bryan at Alton, ILL.,, yesterday charged
the republican managers with purpose
to buy the election. The ten thousand or
more persons wildly cheered the accusa-
tons. Mr.. Bryan was earnest almost to
the point of vehemence. 1t was the
third speech he had made in western H.
lfnois at that early hour in the morning
Almost continuously for about fifteen
hours thereafter he hurled this charge
at the republican managers, closing his
days work at nearly midnight in Chica-
go, where he made two set speeches at
the extreme ends Of the city and three or
four more, which were not scheduled, to
crowds he encountered in the streets as
he was being conveyed from one meeting
place to the other. In all he made sew
enteen speeches during the day.
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THIS MEETING STIRRED UP
CHEERS FOR HASKELL

Word from the Haskell special en- route
through Oklahoma and Texas. announced
that OklahOma's governor was enthusiasts
tically received at the principal stations.
He delivered ten-minute addresses at Nor
man and Purcell to large crowds, and at
Gainesville he was met with brass bands
and marching clubs, and addressed an
other large and enthusiastic audience.
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HUGHES HITS HARD

The way to the executive chamber is
not up the back stairs"
Again charging his democratic opponent,
Lewis S. Chanler, with studied evasion
of the real issues of the campaign, this
was the chief bombshell that Gov Hughes
threw into the rival political camp yes
terday during his invasion of five north
ern counties of New York state.
Affirming his opposition to bigotry or in
tolerance, civil or religious. Mr.. Hughes
kept the guns constantly upon his rival
for the gOvernorship. and insisted that
the latter's persistent silence had been
''overdone."
This isn't masked ball. asserted the
governor, land we want to know who are
these figures in black dOminoes that the
opposition is flirting with
CHANLER REToRTS SHARPLY
Lieut.. Gov. Chanler last night made an
swer to Gov. Hughes and challenged the
latter to reply to a series of ten ques-
tons framed by the democratic nominee.
Mr. Chanler charged Gov. Hughes with
insincerity in asking the questions as to
race track gambling.
He knows of his own knowledge" de-
clared the lieutenant governor, that ]
am in favor of the enforcement of all
laws, including the laws against gam
bling He is trying to introduce into this
campaign an issue which has finally been
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F ST, COR. nth.
First Annual
October Sale
of Linen, Blankets,
Sheets and Cases.

so dozen 81 All-linen Full
sewage Napkins; good pat
terms. SI.so value. 81 mn
Sale price. per doz. " q wv
Is dozen IS All-linen Nap
kins; heavy quality; good va
riety of patterns. $2.25 val
lie. Sale price, per 81 S0
Table Cloths.
100 Fine Damask Pattern
Cloths, extra heavy quality.
72N72, special. SI.5o.
72N9o, special, $500.
Cluny Centerpieces.
so Twenty-inch Round or
Square Cluny Center zSc
pieces. Sale price, Ca. NV
Linen Crash.
20 pieces All-llnen Heavy
Quality Crash. Special sale
prize price, per l2Ac
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The week started with a busy day in
politics yesterday. Judge Taft maue
dash through New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland. closing the day with a speech
to an immense meeting in Baltimore. The
candidates voice became so hoarse that
his physician has ordered him to curtail
his speaking tour, nv. BRYAN charged
the republican party with attempting to
buy the election through a fund of mil
lion dollars which is being raised. His
tour extended from east ST. Louis to Chi
cago. Gov. Hughes again berated his OPP
ponent for his silence and declared that
he was not the foe of personal liberty.
Mr.. Chanler in NeWburg insisted that he
would uphold all laws, including those
against gambling, and prOpOunded several
questions for the governor to answer
TAFT TALKS ABOUT MONEY
Judge Taft. swinging through New Jer-
sey. Delaware and Maryland. pushed the
panic issue" to the front. with an Occa-
sonal reference to labor in Baltimore last
night.
1t was the candidates first appearance
in the east, and he appreciated that he
was talking to audiences that had a def
mite notion that their pocketbooks had
been hit by something or other
John Hays Hammond former Mary
land citizen and president of the Nationa!
League of Republican Clubs, presided. At
torney General Charles ]. Bonaparte pre-
coded Mr.. Taft one of the speakers.
He declared among other things that I'M
der the present Chinese puzzle election
law of Maryland seven out of the eight
electoral votes of the state were stolen"
for Parker in 1904
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Hence. following the advice of the OH
Gals of the federated trades. 1000 of
the 10000. or little more than 10 per
cent of the persons involved. refused to
have their wages reduced and struck.
This involves spinners, weavers, bleachers,
Evening journal., 1908-11-03
One Of the
Essentials

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One Of the products of that class, Of
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Evening journal., 1908-11-03
THANKSGIVING Day.

President Roosevelt breaks away
from the conventional even in the mat
ter Of writing a Thanksgiving procla-
nation. After remarking that THE
things Of the body are good. the things
Of the intellect better but best of all
are the things of the SOUL" and that
I'm the nation, as in the individual. in
I re long run il Is character that counts, -
so strong Is the militant spirit within
him that he admonishes:
Let us, therefore, as a people set
our faces resolutely against evil and
with broad charity. with kindliness and
good will toward all men. but with un-
fiinching determination TO smite down
wrong, strive with all the strength
that is given for righteousness in pub
lie and in private life"
Our strenuous President would not
have even the day annually set apart
for national giving Of thanks to be OBJ
served merely in the spirit of passivity,
and perhaps he is iGght about the mat
ter Mans life upon earth is a con-
stant warfare. both of the spirit and
Of the flesh. We must over be on the
elert to "Smite down wrong" and.
often enough. it is the wrong that is
born in our own souls which cries aloud
for the shifting
Evening journal., 1908-11-03

fragettes the advocates of humanitarian legisla-
tion for children are not in the least dismayed
The movement for the eradication of child la
Dor is but part OF the general interest main
tanned in the rising generation. We for
children in schools we educate them and if posi-
bic we should keep them from working in the
mills and factories. The fact that children do
labor while adults remain idle, is a travesty on
our civilization, an evil thing that shows some
thing wrong in our economic system. And it is
the system that is responsible for child labor.
The evils of child labor can be eradicated only
by legislation The most humane man may en-
gage in manufacturing but if his competitors
child labor he is forced to do likewise or to go out
Of business. In most of the Northern States
there are laws regulating child labor that have
accomplished much good but even these laws are
not what they should be.
When the laws became rigid in the New Eng
land manufacturing states, many capitalists
sought sites in the South on the ground that la
Dor was cheaper and children could be exploited.
For while child labor may be permitted TO
flourish in the South, but il will not be employed
indefinitely AS manufacturing increases in the
South the unions will get grip on that part of
the country and they will begin an agitation for
laws regulating the work of children. They will
be supported by the humanitarian spirit that
must develop and the desirable legislation will be
thus brought about. 1t was this sort OF agitation
that led to the aboishing of the convict labor sys
TEN in Georgia, system cruel and barbarous that
existed for years.
Delaware will be well represented at the con-
vention Of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Asso-
ciation TO be held in Baltimore the latter part of
this month. Former Senator Higgins has been
selected as spokesman for the delegation, and as
Mr. Higgins is thoroughly versed on the subject
the views of the Delawarcans will be ably pre-
sented
Evening journal., 1908-11-03
Editorial Opinion
The "Joy Ride"

Newark News.
THAT the nocturnal automobile, as a
vehicle OF dissipation, is highly dan
gerous implement Of death TO have at
large in the community, is an obvious
conclusion" remarks the Detroit Jour
nal. That excellent newspaper gives
several cogent reasons for It's belief
further on, chief Of which is that three
persons have recently been killed In
Detroit by exactly the kind Of an auto
mobile which II describes II would
have been an easy matter TO gather
statistics Of the same kind from the
records I'm nearly every city in the
country. for II is unhappily true that
no small proportion OF the fatal auto
mobile casualties in recent years is di-
rectly ascribablc to dissipation on the
part Of either driver or passengers, or
both.
As yet the motor car is distinctively
the vehicle for pleasure. It's owner is
usually a man who can afford to dissi-
pate, II he so chooses, and those who
ide with him on pleasure bent very fire.
quently regard wine as an indispensable
adjunct to enjoyment. At any rate, II
frequently happens that roistering par
ties whiz along the streets at all hours
of the night, who, whether intoxicated
or not permit their hilarity to blunt
their appreciation Of the danger in
volved. Sometimes it is the owner with
some boon companions. F'requently'4t
is the chauffeur, out for a 10y ride
Always the shadow Of death hovers over
the Jolly party. and invariably the au-
tom obile is a menace to those upon the
streets.
Evening journal., 1908-11-03
INDEPENDENT
TICKET IN KENT

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER. Del. Nov. 3--Whon election
morning dawned the Independent Re.
publican ticket stood shorn of all its
regular Republican nominees, but two
-Wroten for representative from the
Ninth. and Hudson fo. Levy Court,
from the First
This is. all the nomirees of the Re
publican party withdrew their names
by written designations under seal.
from the ballot as filed by the Indo
pendent Republican ticket.
For four DAYS the clerk Of the peace
in this county was on a continual
hustle. registering the designations ana
filling the VACANCIES on this ticket. In
fact the clerk was living demonsira~
ton Of Keelcy's perpetual motion, ali
over this Independent Republican
ticket
AS fast as Republican nominees with
drew. their places would be supplied
by the Independent Republican county
committee. Democrats o; Independent
Republicans would be put on IN place
OF the nominees drawn out.
Finally four Democrats were en-
dorsed for the House OF Representa-.
tives and filed for the official ballot,
and one state Senator who is the
Democratic. nominee was Put on. They
were: Representatives-Firs Hervey
Hall: Fourth. Charles Hopkins; Sew
enth. Frank c. Bancroft; and Tenth,
Thomas c. Kirby; Senator-Second
Senatorial district. j. Hermon Ander
son. One Prohibitionist nominee
Samuel Hodgson. Eighth district, was
endorsed.
There was one thing certain from the
outset of the movement-nO Democrats
We're coming Off. Even Andrew G.
GRAY stayed on for attorney-general in
this county. The county ticket as
finally filed. was as follows:
Prothonotarv. William Uhlg. roofer.
OF Dover: register of wills, James V.
McCommons. expert accountant. OF
Wyoming: county treasurer. William
K. Knight. farmer of Little Creek. CAN
the foregoing are Independent Republi-
cans). For sheriff. william Z. Me
lonev. Democratic nominee. was en.
dorsed; for coroner. William A. Willis
Democratic nominee, was put on.
Evening journal., 1908-11-03
TAFT. TIE BIG FIGURE.

M K. TAFT will have no regrets for the cam
\ pagn that he has conducted. Unfamiliar
with the practical methods OF campaigning Mr..
Taft was plunged into kind of conflict new to
him. He had been removed in his career from the
active participation in politics, having devoted
himself to his duties as a Judge and as an officer
OF administration. But Mr.. Tat Jumped into the
political contest and as a campaign orator has
made a most creditabc showing His record on
the stump comprises forty-one days in which he
made 4IS speeches.
Mr.. Taft has conducted his campaign upon a
high plane. lie has not even resortei to the arts
of the adroit spcbnder. His speeches have been
plain statements OF facts He has believed that
the electorate OF this country is intelligent and
contentious and he has made his appealupon that
ground. He has made profound impression
upon the country and his victory which now
seems assured will show that the people have
taken him at his word ani rested their confidence
in him.
Evening journal., 1908-11-03
JACOB LARKIN
IS EXONERATED
Coroner Holds Inquest in Case
of Woman Burned to Death
And Man Released

The coroners jury empaneled last
night to hear the case Of Mrs. Will
helmina Ford. who was burned To-
death at the home Of Jacob Larkin.
at No. 22i South Van Buren street. ex-
onerated Larkin from all blame. lie
was later released by the police and
left the station with some friends.
1t was brought out at the hearing
that the victim was not Larlxin's wife
but had been his housekeeper for ten
years Larkins said her name was
Wilhelmina Ford. and that her rather
was James Embert, of Trainer, Pa.
There were only two witnesses, Lar
kin and Deputy Coroner Nichols. Lar.
kin testified that when he went home
on SATURDAY. night he lay down IN a
couch in the kitchen smoking a sIgar
lie went to sleep an1 was awakened
by the flames shooting up in his face.
lie ran to the front door, passed
around the house with the intention Of
pulling a burning table from The
'kitchen through the back door. but tho
flames had gained too much headwdy.
FIREMAN DIDN'T SEE HER.
The witness said when he returned
TO the front of the house he saw the
firemeh One of the latter had place 1
a ladder against the building and
climbed through a second story VIM
dow. but afterward told Larkh that
there was nobody on the upper floor Of
the house DESPITE LarSin's declaration
that the woman must LS upstairs
Larkin thought il possible that his
lighted cigar might nave set fire TO thu
tablecloth. the table being close 20 the
couch. He thought the woman was
suffocated by the smoke. He admitted
that he had been drinking on Satur-
day but said he knew what he was do.
ing and had had no quarrel with his
housekecper.
Deputy Coroner Nichols testified tha.
the police notified him of the womans
death and on going to the house he
found the body at the head Of the
stairs. The woman's room. he said
was not damaged by fire and he ex.
pressed the opinion that if she had re-
manned there and opened the window
instead of trying to leave the house,
she would not have been suffocaied.
The jury was composed Of: Foreman
James Polk; secretary, James I. Walsh
J. X. =. Morris. Lee Cochran. e. r.
Johnson. Charles W. Stanford.
Evening journal., 1908-11-03

n FTER all the voter today will take broad
view Of the campaign
Nationally the personality OF the candidates
has entered largely into the contest. The final
questions is whether Judge Taft or Mr. Bryan is
moro suitable for President--whether the affairs
of the country will be better administered with
Mr. Taft at the helm than with Mr.. Bryan ,as
President
Mr. Taft has shown himself to be broad and
high-minded and progressive. lie has declared
that the work for the uplifting of conditions be-
gun by President Roosevelt will be continued
that there will be no backward step.
The Republican party has stood for the for
ward move. 1t is the party that has actually ac-
tually accomplished things.
The Republican party of Delaware is as we
have said. part OF that national party, it has
given Delaware progressive and good admins
traton. II has brought about a change in senti-
ment here that the ballot is free and
tramelled.
In this campaign il coufronts the Democrats
who under the control of the old reactonary
element of the party. The convention Of the
Democrats was controlled by the forces whose
administration of the affairs of the State was
marked by bitter feeling between citizens.
Democratic rule brought about such deplorablc
condition that the party voted out of power.
The old tax collection and assessment laws were
typical OF the Democrats spirit in those DAYS
The same spirit exists today 1t may be sup
pressed for effect but it would crop out, if given
tho opportunity.
A large majority OF the people of this State the
voters who have given the Republican party con-
troll in the past. it seems to THE JOURNAL,
must undoubtedly vote the Republican ticket as
it appears on the ballot--the Republican Ma
TIONAL, STATE, COUNTY and LECISLA-
TIVE positions
Evening journal., 1908-11-03
CHILD LABOR LAWS.

HE agitation for doing away with child la
L. Dor or at least mitigating the circum-
stances that surround the labor of children, is
not to be dropped. A strong society with large
membership has been formed to work for the
betterment of children. The National Child La
Dor Committee intends TO introduce in the next
Congress bill for the organization of National
Childrens Bureau as government department
similar bill which was introduced at the last
session Of Congress and which had the approval
of the President, failed 10 come to vote in Con-
gress, 50 great were the sinister influences that
have opposed the humane efforts for the abol-
ton OF child labor. But like the English Suf-