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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-05
RUaORS Of VETO
OF BUILDING BILL
ALARMS CONGRESS
House Members Believe
1t Could Be Passed
Over President.

House members were stirred to fine
frenzy yesterday afternoon by a report
that the President would veto the pub
lie building bill unless the bill providing
for four battleships was passed.
II was talked about that the PresI-
dent had given a strong intimatiun TO
a Congressional caller, amounting prac-
ideally to q threat. that he would veto
the public building bill if the battIeship
program which the White. House want
ed were cut IN half.
The President is convinced. It is said.
that Congress ought 10 provide for four
battieships- But, on the other hand, it
is being argued by some Of the MEM
bers of Congress. who are opposed to
four battleships, that so much money
cannot be authorized for the use OF the
navy for the reason that an omnibus
public building bill must be passed.
Should Provide for Both.
This argument The President regards
as a subterfuge. He believes there is
no reason why Congress should not
meet the situation squarely and he
thinks that IL necessary provision
should be made both for public build
ing bill and for four battIeships.
If the President should 90 so far as
to veto the public building bill. the
tone Of comment about the Capitol in
dicates there will be things doing. "I
don't know any bill that the House
would pass over the Presidents veto
more gladly than the public building
BILL said one Western Republican
who is generally aligned in support of
the White House, but who wants some
public building appropriations for his
district and who thinks two battle
ships sufficient.
Without much doubt II the President
should put his veto on the public build
ing measure strong effort would be
made to pass the bill over his veto and
It is quite likely II would succeed.
Bill Will Garry sac, 100000.
The pUEic building bill which it is
expected Congress will pass, viii car
ry about S2O.0OO,OOO.. II will provide for
Improvements in every State IN the
Union, and in large number Of the
Congressional districts.
II Will not be easy TO get the mem
bers either Of the House or Senate 70
stand idly by and see the pork bar'T'
put out of their reach.
Representative Barthoitit, chairman of
the House Committee on Public Build
ings, insists the public buildings BIZ
this year will not be a pork bar'P'
measure but nevertheless II will come
close homo 10 most OF the members Of
Congress. II is generaIIy believed the
big stick viii get twisted If an effort is
made TO use 1t in the fashion proposed
10 force the battleship program OF the
White House through.
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Responsible for Laws.

Every FIVE minutes they intend to
shout from the floor that they are re-
sponsible FOR legislation and are going
to give the country what they think
best
ILL. b. $500 % o--r..-s-- -.
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Sits With Hand on Throt-
tie and Handles the
Whistle Rope.
Gets Her Train Into At
lanta Ahead of
Time.

ATLANTA, Ca. April Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, the daughter Of the Presf-
dent OF the United States. today tried
her hand at running a locomotive. For
quite a while Miss Roosevelt sat at
the throttle OF the engine which was
bringing her mother and a party Of
friends back from their trip through
the South. She speeded up the engine.
siackened IL, and, when the whistliug
posts doomed up ahead. she handled
the cord.
Mss Roosevelt was having a fine time
with the sriny engine crew and getting
grHny herself when Capt. FItznUgh Lee.
lnl'l1ly aide 20 the President dared
Ihe dangers OF the pile OF coal and
HiuWIru over the tender 20 fnd out
what had become Of the voting Ia,4y-
whose disappearance had given 6sr
holher some vely uneasy moments.
Surprise for Engineer.
Coming up 10 Montgomery just before
the train pulled out from Newman. En-
gineer Still heard a girls voice behind
him calling
''Mayn't I come across and watch YOU.
Mr.. Engineer"
Turning, he saw Miss Ethel Roose-
welt balancing herself easily. uncon-
Cernedly. on the tender and taking in
everything with an earnest, wide-open
glance. The engineer lifted her TO the
scat beside him.
Il suppose you would like to run the
''oh il YOU would be good enough to
let me,'' answered Miss Ethel eagerly.
A minute later her palm had closed
over the throttle.
Now pull on the lever" said the
engineer.
Miss Ethel pulled with all her might
and of rolled the train while she laugh
ed delightedly.
Gives Crossing sigma.
About ten minutes from Ne Tman a
road crossing lcomed up
Now pull the whistle TWO long and
two short toots," said the engineer.
Miss Ethel grasped the rope and
sounded the signal exactly as she had
been told
IT couldn't have done it better my
The train was now going siXty-five
miles an hour. You aren't afraid?' he
asked.
Me afraid?" she laughed. Not me.
make Atlanta on time. We are not be-
hind. are we2'
When the train reached Atlanta it was
five minutes ahead of time.
You've got the incest. cleanest en-
CINE 1 ever heard of MIR. Still, and
you've made me very happy said
Stills guest as she departed.
The Roosevelt party arrived at At
Ianta at noon and left for washington
on the regular Southern Limited fifteen
minutes later. At the station a cont
mlttee from the chamber OF commerce
headed by Asa O. Gambler, who was
accompanied by his daughter. Mrs w
D. owens, gave Mrs Roosevelt a mag
nificent bunch Of American Beauties
The first lady Of the land expressed her
deep appreciation of TIE token
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27

sprung from the worst element of the
negro race, mixed with this vicious
carpetbag element.
While occasionally a real black
brute attacks some white woman he
has grown up with this criminal ele-
ment and been trained in their coun-
ellis. and is to be found north as well
as south He has now become a ma
tiOnal factor to be found anywhere in
the United States The recent race
troubles in Springfield, Ill, proves
very cOnclusively that the southern
people are more lenient 10 the Crimi-
nal negro than his northern brother.
Il is lamentabIe fact that north,
south, east or west, when a negro as
Saults a white woman and is caught,
the law is set aside and he is lynched.
But ii seems that the lynchingS fail to
lessen the crimes, but rather they are
on the increase
Freedom has proved to be a curse
to ahe negro race as a general prOpo-
sltion and ere long the government
will have to do them as they have
done with the Indian. assign them TO
some territory to themselves. OF the
two races the Indian makes far the
best and most reliable citizen Some
of Uncle Sans outlying possessions
would make them a good home, and
then their republican brethren could
exploit them to their hearts content
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27

| tuition that it should possess.
Just exactly he says, "as the vice
president is really the servant and
not the master of the senate, so do
believe that the president himself is
not to be, nor attempt to De, the mas
ter of congress. My conception of the
presidency, if 1t be proper for me to
express it here, is that It should re-
main, as the constitution declared il
should be, distinctly an executive of
flee Let congress make the laws.
without being Influenced or ordered by
any sort of executive interference.
other than the recommendations and
suggestions in his messages. which
are provided for by the constitution
Let the courts cOnstrue these laws
Then let the president administer and
enforce these laws, whether they ap-
peal to his own personal Drejudices or
otherwise, but without effort TO critf-
else either the congress of the United
States or the courts of the United
States"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27
To Circurnvent the
WiIes of Woman.

Everybody knows that Eve did eat,
and then passed the apple on to Adam,
who, being blinded by the light in
Ewes eyes, did eat also thereof. Ever
| since then Ewes daughters have been
doing the same thing, the only differ
ence being that since Richard Carlyle
discovered the lemon in the garden
of love-" they nave handed over the
citrus fruit to Adams helpless de-
scendants, instead of the luscious cider
| maker.
Man hasn't had much of a chance
in this deal, and the only thing he can
do is to bite deep, and gaash his teeth
afterward, but smile anyway. Every
day some poor benighted man is
tempted and falls and Ewes daughters
go right on smiling about it.
The result is that ''affinities" and
soul loves" have sprung up like mush-
rooms after a soaking rain. and there
has been divorce and distress in the
land theTeat.
WheTeupop cometh a prophet unto
the country from New Zealand, and
he speaketh words of wisdom and
truth, for he knowetn well, the wiles
of woman, and the weaknesses of
man.
And. he goeth unto the state of In
diana, and offereth 10 the councillors
his wealth of knowledge, and he spake
thus: And 1t came to pass that af-
finitieS and soul love nave come into
the land like a scourge; and, the
fields of marital love in Pittsburg, and,
Chicago, and, North Dakota are laid
waste, and, / say unto thee, gather
unto thee thy wives. and with d needle
and red ink imprint upon the chin OF
thy better half these words, Touch
not, for this be mine And, let it be
the first duty of the wedding hour. that
this be done, that all men may know
whereof they stand, and look not with
favor upon the daughters of Eve, who
are not eligible" Thus spake the
prophet. and he passed on unto Wash
ingtOn, spreading his wisdom, that
man may not fall.
So, the day of the soul love" and
the affinity" has come. No longer
shall the unprotected become the vic
tim of woman's vile, and be compelled
to eat citrus fruit and smile as he does
it, for he will know who is who in
PittSburg.
But, what a terrible thing it will be
on the merry widows" the Jackson
vile widows" and others. Women
must be wives before they can be
widows, and if they be branded as
wives how will men know that they
are widows?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27

grasped me by the hand. bIushing and
smiling like a maid of 16, while Cal
called out: Mr. Allen, Mrs. Tippins"
felt right then and there that GOO,
in his providence had sent Cal a help
meet. Mrs Tippins' father was Dr.
Haden Coe. her mother, Miss Jose
phine Lumpkin. both Of Atlanta. Ga
she is graduate masseuse, electric
and medical massage, medical sym
naStics.
Atlanta was named for Ex-Governor
Lumpkin's daughter, Martha, and was
first called Marthasville. Later as II
grew 10 a city it was called ATLANTA,
but in a few years, at Miss Martha
ATLANTA BUmpkin's suggestion one a
was dropped, and il is now called At
lanta, the gate city of the south
No family Is better known than the
LumDkiuS. as their names are in his
tory, and even the children OF today
hold their memory in the highest Is
TEEN Mrs. COe was reared in At
lanta, her future was very bright as
she had wealth and luxury, when her
guardian. John f. Tippin, told her
that all had gone like a landslide Mrs.
Coe was marie at 10, went north and
remained there many years She al
ways longed for the old home. and the
DAYS of her childhood. and one year
ago last May she returned TO the Sun
ny South. dear old Georgia. her south
eTn home. she says:
In northern lands love 10 roam.
But Dixie's land is home. sweet
home
Her father. a prominent physician
and surgeon. was the founder of Dr..
lCudOin CnurCh the first Baptist
church Of Atlanta
The meeting CourtShip and mar
riage of Uncle Cal and Mrs. COe were
very romantic. and would furnish ma
teTial for a good novel. People may
call il superstition. but I honestly be-
lleve God sent Mrs. Coe to Uncle Cal,
as d blessing in his old age. Cal is
one Of the gT3njest figures OF the
present age, and deserves to be bless
ed the rest of life.
L F ALLEN
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o the Voters Of Escambia County:

To the Voters of Escsmbia County:
Upon the earnest solicitation Of many
friends. prominent citizens Of both the
City of Pensacola and County of Escam-
bia- and after careful consid Grafton and
deliheTatiOn. have concluded to announce
myself candidate in the coming cleo
tion for the office Of Sheriff Of this county.
l could if desired. give the names 81
these citizens who have been so earnest
In their efforts 10 get me 10 enter this
race
1t viii be purely through the vote of
the people and II II Is their will ] will
TIC your next sheriff, and shall exercise
the duties Of that office for the good Of
the people. and with the respect that the
office demands. and will also assure YOU
that my deputies and assistants will be
mon of the highest type OF manhood md
capable Of dischaTging the duties i'm
posed upon them
If elected. during nv term Of once. 1
shall not at critical times and periods.
be thinking Of future election but shall
under all circumstances do that duty de-
me
! have lived in the county for the past
l. years. and probably am well known to
ali of you having resided at Gonzalez
for the past 10 years; am man Of fam
lily born and reared in this state
There is no question as TO the fact OF
my being a democrat, having been born,
bred and reared such and under ordinary
circumstances would oppose anything that
principles But experience during recent
occurrences proves that this county should
any and all circumstances in the time Of
need
have no great amount to spend in
seeking this office, but If elected I will
pledge TO support those principles which
Reflect a moment and consider this an
I am the man for this Office, 7 want you
to vote for mo for Sheriff in the election
VI c. H. JACKSON.
Gonzalez, Fla
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27
KERN'S CONCEPTION
,e OF VICE PRESIDENCY

Golfers Weekly will print in its
forthcoming issue an AzSscfe by John
w. Kern, Democratic nominee for the
vice-presidency, on My Conception
of the Vice Presidency" He ildorses
William J. Bryan's declaration in ia
vor of making the vice president a
member of the cabinet, and says:
Vice presidents in the past have
Influenced legislation largely, but US
ually by indiTection. My own concep-
ton of the duties of any public Of
fetal is that the influence he exeTts
should be direct, open, obvious and
known to all men.
IF by the friendship, OF by the po-
litical convictions of the president he
is put in a position in which he is able
to come out into the open, speak as
frankly as his chief speaks, and ex-
ert upon legislation openly and avoW-
edly as much influence "a any mem
Der of the cabinet may. his office is
raised to a dignity which was the
original understanding of the consti-
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Several Ways Peerless One
Could Win Without
Maryland.
SOLID SOUTH" IS
NO LONGER SURE
One Group of Figures Gives
Bryan Election Without
New York or Mary
land.
A Washington special says:

A Washington special says:
II William Jennings Bryan has luck
hard Iuck-he will get only 1872
votes in the electoral college out Of a
total of 4S3.
If Mr. Taft has equally bad luck ne
will be able to count only 11s votes
in the college.
The result will be something be
tween 3S1 for Taft to 1O2 for Bryan
and 365 for Bryan to lis for Taft.
This is based on the calculations OF
the tipsters. Between the aDtipojal
conclusions of opposing enthusiasts
there is a marvellous range of posi-
bilities concerning the outcome.
The South-once always referred to
as the Solid South-means 169 cleo
toral votes, if you include in it Mary
land, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Nevada, but leave out West Vir-
GINA But this year Maryland, with
eight votes, is commonly regarded as
quite as sure for Taft as Missouri is
for Bryan So the South may be set
down as representing 161 votes. II
takes 242 to elect Mr.. Bryan must
hold the South and gain 81 somewhere
else to win.
Work for Dopesters.
The man who hangs up on his wall
q map of the union. with the number
of electoral votes written in each
state, will presently discover tlat
there is an infinite variety of csLcuIa-
tons. If ne is a Democrat and sets
out to figure ways to elect Bryan, he
must decide first whether ne will get
his votes east or. west If he concludes
to get. them east he will list New York,
Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware
and Maryland for his man, along with
the 161 of the South and will still
be shert, but he can make up the
shortage by putting in Indiana, with
Is votes, and making a total of 245,
which is three more than enough.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27
WALL STREET
is SHOCKED.
New York World.

More than one-thirtieth of the entire
stock issue of the New York Central
was traded in" on Change Saturday
Nearly the same proportion of all the
Steel common shares in the world also
/ changed hands" in two hours. Even
Wall street was shocked. suspecting
that these vast holdings were merely
palmed from the right hands to the
/ left of iuggleTS interested in making
OF breaking the market by wash
sales. The fact that only one-threc.
thoTsandth part of the PenP5yIvaHnia
stock and one-five-thOusandhh part OF
Wabash were sold heightened the sus-
picion-
Wash sales are undoubtedly a cheat.
deliberately undertaken TO enable fl
nanCial confidence men to get other
peoples money on false pretenses. But
why should virtuous Wall street SUD
pose that sales other than Legitimate"
are induiiged in only occasionally?
In 1906, before the precursors of
panic came. there were sold" in the
Stock Exchange SIS 900 600 900 par
value Of stocks and 1915 900 900 or
bonds For every dollars worth OF
bonds sold. usually though not always
for investment, $40 worth of stocks
was traded in Not per cent OF
these enormous transactions repre-
scented genuine investment.
Wall street itself Is cUriOuSly crcdu-
lOUS of its own honor. But any man
outside its feveTish atmosphere who
believes that the sale in single year
in single exchange of single city
of a volume of securities twice as
great as the entire railway capitaIIza-
ton of the country is legitimate
business-that man is fit and woody
candidate for the shearing-pen. Any
man who thinks that, by comparison
with this StHpPndOUS. Tuin-wrea king
despatched cheat racetrack
gam bling Is moro than a triffing evil is
headed for the asylum of lost intel
IectS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27
NEGRO QUESTION
WELL DISCUSSED
Blum Springs, Fla, Aug. 25.

Blum Springs, Fla, Aug. 25.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
Very early in life L had an onpor-
tunlty and did study the negro as a
race, being reared in the black belt
or Montgomery county. Alabama
where there was grea+ man nc
SroeS on the farms. | knew all their
peculiarltieS and until long after the
war we of the south had but one from.
Ole with the negro, he was not reliable
or IN other words, one man could hire
MIN 10 farm and another man couId
come along and induce him to leave
his contract. There were some ey-
ceptions but this was a general char
acteristic of the negro then, but our
mothers and sisters were DerfectIv
safe among them
But the freeing of the negro did not
misplace the confidence to he nIsced
in him as regards the white women
The first trouble was brought on bv
his contact with the Carpetbagger in
many OF the southern states. or all of
them The then legislatures were
composed OF negroes and d few car
petbaSgeTs who had everything their
own way in most OF the southern
states They passed or tried TO pas,
miSce2enatiOn laws generally introdac-
ed by some viii man that was here
at the instance 81 the United States
government and in many instances
the negroes opposed all such advances
from a man with a white skin, but to
carry out their theory many of them
married negro girls This carpetbag
element was criminal in its nature. il
was the scum not only of the north.
but of other countries "a we'll. and
the element OF the negro race that is
guilty of assault and other crimes has
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27
VOX POPULI
PETITION SIGNED BY
CENTURY VOTERS.

Century, Fla, Aug. &c.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
Our committeeman, Mr.. w. H
MAYO, had a called meeting of the
legal voters of Precinct No. % last
night, which was well attended bv the
voters The sense of the meeting was
TO petition Sheriff J C. Van PeIt TO
please tender his resignation as sher-
III OF this county to the county demo-
cratic executive committee, as thew
thlnk 1t best in order to save their
party The committeeman was in DOS
session of two petitions, one asking
our sheriff 10 resign, and one asking
MIN not to resign, and so far he has
IaIIed 10 get even one voter to sign
for him not to resign. 1t seems to
De the sentiment of every voter to
ask him to resign.
Precinct No 9 has held the same
meeting with the same results, and
also No. is and No. %, with the same
results.
w ID. MITCHELL, Deputy Clerk.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27

The latest new thing under the sun
of sudden over at Quincy and while
g new Moon, it is at the same time,
full, and expects to remain so, sled-
dinE~its mellow light continually upon
the people of Quincy and GadSden
county. The Quincy Moon is a new
paper of which the first number has
just reached The Journal office 1t
might be considered as the sequel to
the Quincy Journal which is no more
The Moon people bought the Jour
nails plant to be used in assisting the
Moon to keep UP its regular glimmer
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27

According to a published statement
by counsel for Hams who is charged
with the killing of VIM. Annis at Long
Island City the defense will be insan-
lily. The success with which the in
sanity dodge was worked in the Thaw
case will naturally lead murderers to
select that line of defense as Offering
the most promising way of escaping
the penalty for their crime. Indeed,
the two cases are very similar in many
particulars.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27
Thinks II Saved His Life

Lester N Nelson, of Naples. Maine,
says in a recent letter: 7 have used
DR. Kings New Discovery many
years, for coughs and colds, and
think it saved my life I have found
it a reliable remedy for throat and
lung complaints. and would no more
be without a bottle than ! would he
without food For nearly sortv
years New Discovery has stood at the
head of throat and lung remedies. As
a preventive Of pneumonia, and healer
Of weak lungs IT has no equal. Sold
under guarantee at all drug stores.
soc and S1O0. Trial bottle free.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27
PROF. ALLEN MEETS
JUNGLE GALS"
~~%~~~<<e~~~>>

One Of the greatest blessings God
ever bestowed upon man. is without
doubt, 4, true wife While I was in
Pensacola last Saturday GenI w l..
Witch told me that he and several
other members of Camp Ward were
planning 10 give Uncle Cal a serenade.
and asked me if I could be present
and take part | told the general |
couldn't take my wife's husband out
at night, but later I decided to go out
with my own conveyance, which l did
I found Uncle Cal sitting on the front
gallery. IN company with several
others In the crowd we're two fine
looking ladies' and while ] was cast
ing about: trying to guess which was
the bride, q beautiful lady cordially
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-27

West Florida should begin taking up
contributions to the Bryan and Kern
campaign fund. Other states are re-
spending to the call and Florida demo
Gratis should not be derelict in their
duty in the presence of so great an
emergency.