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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-14

MI. w. a. Apperson has returned
after a visit to his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Norwood .Apperson, in New Kent,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-14
SOCIAL and
PERSONAL.

- EW persons except those inme-
diately concerned In At are
aware OF the far.reaching In.
II fluence and scope OF tho work
that Is being done by and for
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-14

Miss Annie Heath OF scottsville. tH
the guest OF relatives In Richmond.
Miss Susie Boswell Is spending some
time with Mrs. Mary Hicks, in Talleysr
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03
The Cane Crop.

Louisiana Planter.
With the exception of a rain
fall, which was not very heavy,
on Tuesday. the past week has
been excellent for cane planting
operations and the rain of Tues
day interrupted work for only
a short time. The greatest &C.
tivity is shown all through the
sugar district and the planters
are making every possible effort
to get their seed cane in the
ground. The reports from some
sections show that the seed is be-
ginning to spoil here and there
and this makes the planters
doubly anxious to have dry
weather continue long enough
to permit them to finish their
planting. Good progress is be-
ing made all along the line.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03
THE WEALTH OF THE SOUTH.

Among the wonderful stories OF inoustria.
progress in the South none is moro amazing
than that of the growth Of the Cotton Seed Oh
industry. Years ago. after hi cotton was
einned. the seed was thrown away as worth.
less: in fact it was regarded as q nuisance;
Today cotton seed contributes milnons Of
dollars annually to the wealth OF the South;
fmproved processes of crushing the seed and
refining the oil have resulted in q product
equal to the finest oliveo oil in nutritive value;
From It is produced q cooking fat which. Is
ranidlv replacing lard. This cooking fat
(caIied COTTOLENE) is claimed by physf
clans to be purer. and much more whole
some than lard, and it Is more economlcai.
too. AS this fact becomes generally recog-
nized. the use of Cotton Seed Oil in the form
of COTTOLENE will be practically unlimited.
COTTOLENE Is destined to become the "a
tiOual. national shortening.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03
The Election Frauds.
.Tiules-D Democrat.

Times Democrat.
The returns of the recent pri-
mary Indicate that Lambremont
has. on the face of the returns,
an apparent majority of about
5000 oyer Bailey for Lieutenant
Governor. Forty-five of the
fifty.eight country parishes OF
the State went for Bailey and
only thirteen against him. eight
Of them being practically SUI
burban parishes to New Orleans.
Not a parish north OF Red river,
not one in Northern, Western or
Eastern Louisiana, in the Fourth
or Fifth Congressional Districts,
only one in the Seventh District
and three in the Sixth went for
Lambremont, and these by slen-
der majorities.
It was distinctly q sectional
victory, a triumph of the city
bosses and their methods over
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03
CHARGES OF ELECTION
FRAUDS.

FRAUDS.
Mr.. Bailey, candidate for lieut.
enant governor before the recent
primary. charges extensive
frauds in the election in New Or
leans al.d asserts his positive de-
termination to have a searching
investigation made.
If frauds have been perpetrat-
ed, and the returns of the second
primary in New Orleans com
pared with the returns in the
first primary furnish strong
evidence that such is the case,
then Mr.. Bailey will do a great
public service by proving the
frauds and prosecuting the per-
petrators.
It needs no demonstration
that if bosses, whether In New
Orleans or elsewhere, can com
nit frauds in elections and then
escape not only punishment, but
even Investigation. that the pri-
mary will soon pass into an
sa;rv nothing and a name."
If we are to have a government
by the people the elections must
be straight. Consequently
every suspicion of fraud should
be vigorously investigated, and
it should not be left to the initia-
tive of a defeated or counted out
candidate to make it. 1t should
be made the imperative duty OF
some officer or officers to make
the investigation and a failure to
do so promptly should operate OF
itself to remove them from Office.
It may be, and possibly will be
the case that proof of fraud or
conviction may be impossible.
nevertheless active zeal and a
vigorous investigation conse-
quent on suspicious cases, will
make attempts at fraud so
dangerous, that few will dare at
tempt it.
The better way. of course, is to
take measures before and on
election day to prevent fraud;
but circumstances have a way of
happening that frauds are
charged after elections. When
there is q reasonable indication
that the charge is true, it is
fully worth while for active and
earnest work on the part of the
officers to use every possible
means to prove or disprove it,
and the Legislature should clothe
them with any necessary power
they may lack and furnish them
with whatever extra money may
be needed for such occasions.
Mr.. Bailey ought to have the
earnest support of the people in
his efforts to get at the truth, as
to the charges made against the
bosses in New Orleans. If
frauds have been committed
those responsible should be
punished. If frauds have not
been committed, then those un.
der suspicion deserve to be
thoroughly relieved of the
Ahnwnoo
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03
Notice.

A meeting of the Fire Department is
hereby called for Monday. March 9,
at 1880 p. M, at the Court House. for
the election of officers and for the
TRANSACTION Of other important BUSH
ness. p. L. DECLOUET,
President.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03

extraordinary voting, capably
did it's full duty by the ring, as
it always does in an hour Of en-
Urgency, and many more voters
turned up on the second pri-
mary to vote for LambremOnt
for Lieutenant Governor than
cared to go there on Jan. % and
vote for the entire State ticket,
local offices, etc. This will APP
pear extraordinary to those
who went to the polls, for there
seemed to be decidedly less in
terest than in the first election,
fewer voters in evidence and
none except those in the secrets
the bosses would have imagined
that there was an unseen current
of great political enthusiasm and
that the voters were pouring out
for Lambremont and quietly and
unostentatiously voting for him
with far greater zeal and enthu-
siasm than they had displayed
in the race for Governor and
other State and local candidates.
We regret to see a failure on
the part of many good citizens to
appreciate the evil influence of
these frauds, if permitted to
pass uncorrected and unpunlsh-
ed. We have been far too toler-
ant in this matter in the past and
the result has been deplorable-
political animosity and bitter
ness, gross frauds, contested
elections, dual government and
bad administration. When cleo
tions are crooked, when the
source of political power is cor
rupt, good government is impos-
sible. Unfortunately there are
many who, while they appre-
ciate the fact that there was
ballot-box stuffing in Tuesdays
election, regard it as one of the
natural tricks of politics, and
even credit the ring with having
shown great political astuteness
in being able to count in their
candidate for the Lieutenant! Coy
ernorship. This view of a crime
against the people is unfortunate.
Unless all good citizens see the
gravity of the situation and
unite to unearth the frauds and
punish the offenders, the task of
giving good government to
Louisiana and New Orleans will
be impossible. and the electorate
of this city will stand discredi.ed
before the world as lacking in
the courage and determination
needed to bring the rascals to
justice-and this is the first step
to be taken on the road to good
government.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03
Notice

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Improvement Co.,
Ltd, will be held Wednesday, April
8, at 4 p. M, at the First National
Bank, for the purpose of electing a
Board of Directors.
G. NJ. PARKINSON,
Secretary.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03
For Sale.

Good mich COW, kind, young
gentle and easily kept in good
order. Gives about three gal
Ions a day
L. D. Nickerson.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03

Creole onion sets and Creole
white shallots, at the Moss Phar-
macy.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-03-03

the parishes. Mr.. Bailey car
ried forty-tive parishes and came
down to the Jefferson line with
between $4,000 and $4,000 major
ity. The bosses had evidently
expected this and were ready
for it with 1912 majority in the
city. They counted close and,
with their power of evolving
m%aiorities, they turned out just
enough majority to beat him ION
the face of the returns"
We do not suppose any intelli-
gent person who stayed around
the polls or election day and
knows anything about the old
time election records of some
of the city wards and precincts.
entertains the slightest doubt
that gross frauds were perpe-
trated. Whatever attitude the
leaders may take about the mat
ter, the heelers are quite frank
in their boasts of the slick
work" they did and r. chuck
ling over it. From their point of
view it was a great political &C.
compl;shment, of which they are
proud, as it shows that their
hands have lost none of their old
cunning and that all the punitive
provisions of the primary cleo
ton law can not scare them from
or prevent their old methods.
Mr.. Lamremont calls attention
to the fact that the city vote was
only n per cent of the first pri-
mary, and finds nothing aston
ishing in this" It is a pretty lib.
eral vote, considering the excep.
ton in a few wards. And there
we see the incredible and absurd
fact that there was a falling of
where there were local contests
and an impossibily big vote
where there were none. In the
Ninth Ward, where there was
the hottest fight for political con.
troll. the vote fell off IL per cent
from the first primary. In the
Seventh District (the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Wards.) where
there was an active fight for Sen
ator, a loss of 38 per cent is re-
ported, whereas in. the Fourth
Ward, where there was nothing
at stake. no interest or enthu.
siasm around. only / per cent OF
the voters failed to go to the
polls and cast their ballots for
Lambremont, who received 1884,
more votes than he got in the
first primary. Where there
was a local contest and the cleo.
ton was carefully watched and
safeguarded by the two oppos'
ing factions there was a decline
in the votes natural to a second
primary; where there was no op,
position and, therefore, nc
watching or scrutiny of the
ballots, the votes doomed" in a
manner more than suspicious.
II the ward and precinct vote
is analysed. Mr.. Lambremont's
Ia per cent loses any signiti,
canoe. The wards and precincts
in which there were opposition
commissioners, in which some
watch was kept on the vote
when Mr.. Bailey got a fair
show, return a vote OF
from so to 20 per cent of the to.
tai cast in the January primary
and this is used to cover up the
incredible and impossible vote
returned in some of the down.
town precincts that hold an old
record for crookedness. The
Fourth Ward cast for Lieutenant
Governor 1913 per cent of the
vote it cast for that Office in the
first primary. In five of it's pre-.
cincts the vote was in excess OF
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26
AMERICAN ATHLETES OFFICIALLY ENTERED oo,,
EVENTS IN LONDON

Selection Committee having charge the American @ arrange %
lowing is list Q the entries cabled to London:
NetrcsCortmel Kralfy May, COuhan, Rector
d. r. sherman, Smttson Stevens Whitham ,, p
NetresAee CarmeI Hamilton Huff Kiaf, Mason May Rector
Robertson D. R. sherman Whiham, 0Qqghan; M. ,,, NJ, ,,
Metrs Beard, Bromow II J. Co French IIasted, Jones' Light
body 5 Metres MI % " H. L. Cee Dull ila Heyns Jones'
body, Riley, Rowe Sheppard, sullivan, Irue - -, p.
6qllste Bromley II cos French & Fastei Ham
base 1 & F P i G ys P9a Esee h'e Hail. Jones'
Dull E EsIe & HS % RSe eff futs s'Iu H. Youns L. T. 0'' ~ '
Marathon R-FGTs6% Hatch Lee, LOrz Morrsey, oMa
Standing JumpAdam Bl Brennan, Ew Holmes, Irons,
Standing high JpmPss%% % entries RS as SSndng s Broad S Irons Kelly, Ma
honey grHn M Pleasant aSa oGoqne Sherman +
GA Running High sa6RRey a1On' M"nOney' H. er MOI
Hop Step and Jump Adams BeIh Brennan Cooke Irons Mt Pleas
Pole Jump Beah Campbell Cooke Dray Gilbert Hagsd jack
% Observation-Disclosures Flanagan ellis McGratb, sh
Weight w w Coe r Flanagan GaHe' Gs HOr Krue
Bea Bonhag T. p Carr r. j. Carr, Cohn,
Dull Eele, Hail Rowe Trube, H. c. Young.
iseoMetre Team Race 6artmen, Taylor Sheppard.
Discus both ssAdams Burroughs Dearborn, Garre
Gifin, ellis Horr McGrah Rose Sheridan Talbot c o.,
lis MeGrath Rose Schcmme D. Sherman, sheridan, Talbot
WrsngBanam, Mehn; feather Dole light Krug; middle Cra
Swmmng~Dauie Foster Hener Rich and Trtbuch in
the l0ometre A9metre and team
Breast md Stroke swims-GOessing and GosnelL
Hurley Van Den Dries and Wentz in all cycling
QReser1esw W. Coe Garre afn H Kruessr)
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26
A TEAM OF WORLD BEATERS CHOSEN TO REPRESENT
THE UNITED STATES In THE OLYMPIC GAME
BY Far the Greatest A8gregaon Ever Sent Abroad VIII Up
hold the Stars and Stripes in Acknowledgements OF
the Big Athletic Trip Will Be $4,000.

1t was decided that white athletic
dress shall be worn by each competi-
tor, the outer seam of the trousers
to have a red, white and blue stripe
and the chest of the shirt or jersey
to be adorned by a national shield
of the United States. Each athlete
shall wear a blue cap, with a shield
~on the peak.
The team is to sail on the Ameri-
can liner Philadelphia, arriving on
the scene of action about ten days
before the opening of the games. To
finance the trip will mean an expen-
diture of about $4,000, and though
all of this has not been collected
the American committee hopes to
have that sum at its disposal when
the team heads for Sandy Hook. 1t
will cost 1926 to send each OF the
men to London.
aS<very man of the select seventy
six is trained to the hour and will -ISs
kept in perfect condition until the
team sails away. The fifty-eight sub
stitutes, many of whom just fell short
of the charmed circle, are not to be
sighted in the calculations, and a
glance at the following complete rost-
er makes it certain that the honor OF
Old Glory is in safe keeping:
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26

New York City.-The team OF
American athletes that will repre-
sent the Stars and Stripes in the
Olympic games at London, England,
next month, was selected at joint
conclave of the executive and selec-
tion committees of the American
Olympic Committees. The session
took place at the Astor House and
all day long those In authority dis
cussed the abilities at home and
chances abroad Of each available can
didate. After a long list OF perfor-
mers at three different tryouts and
two intercollegiate championships
had been sifted and culled the hne
string OF 76 men was agreed upon.
II is by far the biggest team ever
mustered in America for fixture in
foreign lands. The men represent all
walks of American life-college men
and athletic club men and hail from
all quarters, the North, South, East
and West of the United States. The
competitive grounds which the team
will cover includes events at track
and field sports, aquatics and wrest-
ling-making about thirty distinct
contests in all. All of these will be
Held inside the huge stadium at Shep-
herds Bush.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26
Blames brain Fag" For
Many Railroad Accidents.

Boston. .-Presiden Tuttle. OF the
Boston & Maine Railroad, declares
that the many railroad accidents are
not due TO overworking the railroad
men nor 10 lack OF safeguards. but
10 brain fag." and men guaranteed
not TO suffer from this psychological
disease cannot be obtained. He
thinks that this mysterious obsession.
which. he says, makes the most COM
petent trainmen temporarily irespon-
sible at intervals. Is one Of the great
est problems confronting rsllroada
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26
Mustn't Laugh at Police
Entitled TO More Respect

Detroit. Mich.-At the conven-
tion of the International Association
of Police Chiefs resolution was
introduced by Chief Kohler, of Cleve-
land, which was unanimously adopt
titled 20 more respect.
The cartooning and caricaturing OF
the policeman in publications and
the making OF him subject OF ridi-
cule In stage productions were con-
demned and efforts TO stop IL we're
ordered begun.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26

A local optician has invented what
he calls a panorama lens, which, when
81 is attached 10 a pair Of ordinary
bpectacles, enables the wearer 10 see
what is transpiring all around him,
without moving his head. Think how
useful this new invention will be TO
school teachers and 20 chaperons!
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26

Boston was visited the other day for
n few hours by a distinguished quar-
let of desperadoes, headed by Minot st.
Clair Francis, the negro whose ex-
ploits in the domain of crime have
made his name a household word
throughout all New England.
Francis and his three white com
panions, all of them wearing the latest
and most improved steel handouts and
leg shackles, were on their way 10 the
Federal prison at Atlanta, Ca, where
they are TO finish out sentences i'm
posed in the United States courts in
she Maine district.
Francis has substantially 13 1-2 years
OF a 16-year sentence 10 complete for
having blown the postofilce safe al
Red Beach, Me, and for having shot a
watchman who interfered with him In
the practice Of his profession. Held
temporarily in abeyance, pending the
completion OF that sentence, there is q
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26
ARE BANK CLERKS UNDERPAID

ers would discover that he had stolen
s9O6S at various times in order, as
alleged. TO pay living expenses and
doctors bills He had just been
promoted TO the position, and had
been promised increased pay later.
Some OF the banks are likely 10 ad-
vance the salaries OF their clerks as
a result OF the admission by many
bank officers thtt the men as a class
are much underpaid.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26

New York City.-The question as
10 whether the great banks pay their
clerks sufficient salaries has been dis
cussed with the keenest interest in
connection with the suicide Of
Charles T. Muir, the paying teller
OF an uptown branch of the Corn
Exchange Bank. Muir was receiving
n salary OF only $500 year after
twenty years service. and killed HIM
self because he feared his employ
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26

"A knight for Day at summer
prices is the new spur 10 the crowds
packing the fremont since the big
musical gaiety came to town Two
hundred lower floor seats at fifty cents,
200 first balcony chairs at the same
price. and the entire upper balcony
at twenty-five cents, Ia the summer
modification OF the scale. a practice
customary at the fremont beginning
i'm mid-June The show is great
big hit.
Elsie Gertrude Phelan, Boston's pop
ular young composer and pianist. is
making her vaudeville debut at Keith's
this week as the leading feature OF a
program that has been specially pre-.
pared in view OF the convention OF the
Federation OF Womens Clubs. Miss
Phelan is presenting planologue made
mp OF songs and instrumental pieces OF
her own composition, and seems TO
make pronounced hit.
In view Of the fact that the Boston
Retail Grocers' Association is 20 open
in September at the Park Square Coli
scum. now being specially converted
into an exposition building for this
purpose, its Seventh Food Fair and
Liberal Arts Exposition, IL Is interest
ing TO note the strength OF this organ
ization. It's membership embraces the
leading retail grocers Of Boston and
suburbs, numbering over 500
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26

Chaotic as is the whole system OF
secondary education in the United
States, it nevertheless shows unmistak-
able tendencies toward the utilitarian,
the practical. More and more II has
bread and butter in view. In Boston
this tendency is seen in the Mechanic
Arts high school, the high school OF
commerce for boys and the high school
OF practical arts for girls, as well as
in the greater number Of utilitarian
subjects taught In the other schools,
both day and evening.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-26

New York City has the third larg.
est Germsn population OF any city In
the world. only Berlin and Hamburg
being ahead Of H.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-29

and my people no show We cannot
amend a senate amendment. nor can
We amend committee report All
want is "a fair show want an op.
p0rtuuity 10 offer my amendments
in q way that I can get my town fair
fairly before the house. and not have
10 vote on the approval or disapprov
a of senate amendment or com
mittce report which does not give US
"a fair chance. Mr. Speaker and gentle
men these people have taken the adj
vantage or seek to, all through this
fight. they have sacrificed The school
OF mines IN order TO get a public in
situiion. they have voted away about
hale that should be connected with
school of mines and ] assure you that
any professor who would take charge
OF this school under this bill that Is
now being acted upon. would tell you
at once that YOU have nothing here 20
conduct a school on and maintain
one.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-29

doubted he has the right to do so II
lie has the desire, because whatever
ehe cost it comes from his bank ac-
count
Harsh criticism cannot be Of great
Yasre at any tlme. and il is matter
of satisfaction that 1t is fast disap-
peariag from the pages Of the news
papers OF the state, and intelligent,
logical methods adopted for tue sup
port of measures and men.
There will always be such changes
in newspapers as are demanded bv the
reading public, for, when all Is said, the
people who read are the direct cause
of people are in closer or more direct
ol people aer in closer or more direct
touch with the popular will than the
men who make newspapers. Proper
tionate to population there are more
newspapers with wire press service
in Oklahoma than any other state of
the Union and there viii be improve.
mont made as demanded by the read
ing public.