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The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-11-05
A CAMPAIGN LESSON

The campaign has been full of lessons, many
of them of the highest Importance to the student
of American politics From time to time we shall
point out some of these and shall dwell upon the
Importance of giving heed to them. Here we shall
speak of but one, one that seems to us to be of
major Importance.
The fight to elect WILLIAM STREET, the Prohibi-
ton candidate states attorney of Cook county,
has been one of the great events of the campaign,
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-11-05

Fairness mpes us to say what we would gladly
have said before the election, that Governor
HARRIS of Ohio denies that he made the statement
attributed to him by the Ohio papers which rep
resented him as saying that he would sign bill
repeating county option in Ohio if the legislature
should pass such measure. Justice also requires
the statement that many of the Ohio papers insist
that the governors words were correctly reported
There is Gubbs, whose wife does washng-if they beat
his candidate
He declares that great disasters will as
fate,
But his weary wife will doubtless have wash
before,
Whether Taft wins Bryan takes the reins from
Theodore.
The Record-Herald
Mrs Grubbs still does the washing for the Ii
cense candidate
Was elected b. the voters of this nation grand
and great;
And the brewer and distiller, whose great Golfers
she must fill,
Do not "care continental if the man is "Wll'
or Bill
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-11-05
LOCAL OPTION

Mr.. WILLIAM F. ANDERSON, the state superin-
tendent of the Anti Saloon League of Maryland,
personally calls attention to article upon
local option which he has contributed to the
Leagues organ, the american ISSUE expressing
the opinion that it demoshes the position which
The National ProhibHionist has taken concern
ing that theory and policy. Mr.. ANDERSON mod
eSty requests that we place the article in full be-
fore the readers of The National Prohibihonist,
intimating that we do not dare to do so because
it would convert our readers to the Anti Saloon
Leagues position.
We beg to assure Mr.. ANDERSON that VIC do not
have so low an opinion of the intelligence of Our
readers as he may fancy, but we can scarcely see
the propriety of asking us to devote at least
page and a half to the presentation of an argu-
ment which, in estimation, is wholly fallacous
and largely mischievous and misleading.
Mr. ANDERsoN's position on the local option
question may, perhaps, be tested by of its
opening sentences as we'll as by the whole article,
Mr.. ANDERSON says:
The stereotyped expression of those opposed local
option that is too local and too optional, utterly
meaningless phrase which dees ineligible explanation,
but is Illuminating commentary on the mental
processes of those who seriously offer conclusive
We sincerely thank Mr.. ANDERSON tor sug-
costing the illumination of mental darkness.
We SHALL however, continue to believe that the
expression too local and too OPTIONAL applies
with absolute precision to the whole local option
theory
It is too local in that it covers so small an
of territory A method of dealing with the liquor
traffic that closes the saloons in a Wisconsin
township, or, more properly, forbids the estab-
lishment of saloon in rural territory where
one would dream of establishing it, and leaves
the liquor business free to operate in the village
that is the center of that township is altogether
too local and fails to accomplish results worthy
of consideration, because it is too local.
method of dealing with the liquor traffic that dots
New York state with scattered no-license town
ships, surrounded on every side many of them,
with license territory, their farmers doing bust
ness in license villages, is too local. A method
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-11-05
THE NATIONAL PRoH1B1T1oN1sr

that gives Massachusetts, dozens of no-lcense
cities, with close neighbors under license pouring
liquor into them, is too local. The method that
drives out the saloon from the more sparsely
populated counties of Ohio and leaves the CEN
tiers of population and influence in the hands of
the liquor business, is too local. The method that
lets people raise crops and manufacture goods
in no-license territory and compels them to send
them for sale into territory where they come in
competition with the saloon is too local. The
method that shields the little boy and little girl
from the fright of the saloon close to their
childhood home and deceives their fathers and
mothers into supposing that they have been pro-
tected and makes all Our great cities, where they
may go in early manhood or womanhood, for
education or business, huge traps for their snar-
ing and destruction, is too local.
Very closely related to the defective localism
of the local option theory is the fact that except
in instances it has no effect upon, and makes
effort to prevent the manufacture of liquor. A
system that forbids the sale of liquor in country
towns or small cities and leaves the great brew
cries of Milwaukee and ST. Louis and the great
distilleres of Peoria and Cincinnati and Louis
vile in full power to force their wares, against
the law, upon the people of those communities,
We persist, too, in believing that the local op-
ton theory is defective because the local option
system is too OPTIONAL Massachusetts, cities
and New York towns, going backwards and
forwards, from license to no-license, with almost
the regularity of shuttle form a feature of the
local option system. Hundreds of towns in diff
ferent states be found that have changed their
policy from license to no-license and from
license to license, once, twice and thrice in the
last ten years While they have had no-license
it has been poorly enforced, because the liquor
dealer has been staying, waiting for the turn of
affairs, and neither the moral nor the economic
advantages of the no-1icense system have been felt
in any large degree; but the full energy of the
temperance people of those towns has been cen
tered these see-saw fights, and they have
been deuded into the notion that they have done
their duty
Perhaps worse than the "too local and too
OPTIONAL feature is the poultice feature of the
local option system. If the state of Ohio had no
local option law, the people of the state of Ohio
would wipe the liquor traffic out of existence,
from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, by state 1egis-
lation, turning out of office, if necessary the
party that nullifes their constitution today and
gives them license. If the state of Illinois had
no local option system the moral people of the
state would drive the saloons of Chicago into
Lake Michigan with mighty uprising of public
sentiment that is kept poulticed down by
chance to vote locally
The local option system today is the chief bull
wark of the liquor business and the outcry of the
brewers and distillers and their kept" politicians
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Funds Retained by Government.
HEARS REPORTS OF OFFICERS.
Woman's Organization of Retail
Druggists Hold Meeting.

At a recent meeting of Washington
Chapter, No. 4. of the Woman's Organ
ization of Retail Druggists the president.
Mrs. w. S. Richardson. presided. The
secretary, Mrs. Henry Evans, being alb
sent, Miss Sarah Richardson acted as
secretary pro tempore.
After the reading of the minutes of the
last meeting a letter was read from
Mrs. Solomon Boehm of ST. Louis. CIV
ing an account of the new chapter re-
Gently organized there. and also letter
from Mrs. Lewis Flemmer, who has just
returned from trip to Europe.
The report of the treasurer. Mrs. A. C.
Taylor. showed the organization to be in
satisfactory financial condition. Mrs.
C. l.. Henry. chairman of the entertain
ment committee, stated that plans We're
in progress for luncheon in the near
future. The chairman of the educational
and press committees Mrs. l.. +. kebler
read a letter from Mrs. Emil Graft, chair
man of the press committee of Philadel-
phia Chapter. No. t. containing a full re-
port of the recent visit of the Washing
ton delegation to Philadelphia.
Interest was manifested in the report on
historical pharmacy and the many things
the mutual improvement committee is
concerned in. Sunshine and flowers have
entered the homes of the sick and the
messages Of love and appreciation
brought to the meeting by Mrs. A. E.
Powell showed the fraternal spirit eX
listing in the organization.
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plain this Mr. Ashford described a con-
venient and pliable method of executing
contracts. He states that his assistant.
Mr.. Webster, and the contractor, NJ,
got together and agreed on the details to
be left out to cover the $50 deterioration
claim, and Mr.. Webster said that minutes
when the work had been done and paid
for, no such minutes had ever been of
record or on file in the case.
The bill of NJ. was submitted for my
approval. ! returned that bill January
IS. 1908, not approved. and | gave an
itemized statement showing wherein the
contract had not been complied with.
However. it was paid without my ap-
prevail The District owes me S6JS5 due
last July, as admitted by the auditor. but
refuses to pay me on the ground that l
ought to have watched the condition of
the appropriation and have saved enough
to pay myself instead of using it for the
beach. ] quote from my letter of March
4, 1908, to Commissioner West in reply
to that refusal:
The District would have saved at
least $645 by accepting my offer the
$1,000 Offer, and there cannot be found
piece of work done by me at the beach
as poor as a great deal of the work ac-
copied of NJ on this job. / therefore in
sist that ! am not to blame for the short
age in the construction fund and that my
bill of $65.S5 should be paid in full
Investigation Follows.
This caused an investigation at the
beach Many of the concrete foundation
stones are not of the size required and
none that was uncovered stands centrally
under the posts. Two of the five uncov-
cred in the drying yard are far to one
side that the posts project more than half
their bases beyond the face of the stones.
One stone that shows on top of the
ground to be two feet square proved to
be only nine inches deep and a mere collar
around the post. when it should be thirty
inches deep under the post
The contract demands that the floors
shall slant toward the pools to drain the
water off. but they slant the other way
very serious objection, as every shower
of rain tends to rot the structure.
1.-The high partition should have had
large posts running into the ground The
posts set up are small and fastened on
top of the floor by nails toed in. and the
partition can be swung to and fro by
hand. The contract calls for thirty-tW two
concrete bases under the pool steps yet
not one has been so done. A stake driven
into the mud takes the place of the
eighteen inches square by thirty inches
deep stones called for.
The contract calls for cornces to be
built across the ends of the building
amounting to 375 area feet. which has
not been done at all. In relation to work
shabhily done. Mr. Ashford makes scien-
tific explanation showing it to be mprac-
ticable: and yet the contract required it
and the contractor engaged to do it. The
only difficulty that l. see to doing all that
work well is that it gould lessen the prof
it's AS to the published statement that
my statements are not well founded, let
me say that the conditions still exist at
each beach, as T. will be pleased to show
TO any public-spirited person
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as to a candidates future desirability as
member of Congress.
Must Stand by Their Friends.

After stating 1t to be the duty OF labor
ing men to question candidates for Con-
gress as To their attitude toward labor
legislation the address calls upon the la
Dor workers Ito stand faithfully by our
friends: oppose and defeat our enemies.
whether they be candidates for President.
for Congress or other offices, whether
Legislative. executive or judicial"
Hold mass meetings" says the address.
lin every city sand town in the United
States on the evening OF the third Sunday
or Monday in April. ~ or -, and at
that meeting voice fully and Enthusiastically
labor's protest against the Supreme Court
decision which strips labor of the rights
and liberties which We had supposed were
guaranteed by the Constitution.
Each candidate. continues the adj
dress should he questioned and pledged
as To his attitude upon all subjects Of inn
portance to the toilers. whether in fac
tory. farm. field. shop mine
In conclusion the address says: I'VE call
upon the executive council and upon all
labor TO use every possible legitimate eff
fort to secure for the workers their in
alienabe liberties and their proper recog-
milton as a vital portion OF the fabric Of
our civilization
A footnote to the address states that
this address is signed by the same
names as were appended to ''labor's pro-
test to Congress-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22
MURDER THE CHARGE
Boy Husband and Girl Wife
Face Grave Accusation:
STORY OF DREADFUL CRIME
Pittsburg Youth Slain for His
Money and Revenge.
CONFESSION OF MURDERER
Relates Details of Killing Without
Slightest Show of Emotion.
Trial Set for Tomorrow.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

special Correspondence OF Inc Sthf
WHEELING, w. Va. March 81, 1908.
For murder, plotted and executed in a
cold-blooded manner by mere children,
Charles Cook. aged seventeen. and his
wife, Lila Zane Cook. aged nineteen, will
be arraigned before Magistrate Hobbs to-
morrow. They are now locked in separate
cells of the Ohio county Jail awaiting the
preliminary hearing, held without bond.
The young couple are the se!f-confessed
slayers of Charles Bennett. a sixteen
year-old college boy Of Pittsburg. He was
lured by the girl to a lonely spot on
Wheeling Island the 25th of last Septem-
ber beaten to death and his body thrown
into the river. from where it was recov-
cred week later. Joseph White. aged
twenty, companion of the boy and girl.
Is implicated in the murder by the COR
fesions of the co-slayers. and Is held with
out bail. He uttered not a word of cor
roboration or denial of the tale of MUIR
der as it was being recited in his pres
ence by young Cook.
Story of the Crime.
Without CULVER in muscle of voice,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22
HOLDS BIG MEETING.
Features of Session of Mississippi
Society of WASHINGTON.

One of the largest meetings of the Mis-
sissippi Society of Washington thus far
this season was held last evening in
Pythian Temple. The features of the en-
tertainment were chalk talk by Clifford
X. Bergman. cartoonst of The Star and
the reading of d paper on jefferson Da-
Wis by Representative 3. G. Humnhries of
Mississippi Thomas Herndon, president
of the society, presided.
AT the conclusion of his paper Repre
sentative HUMPHREYS presented the So
ciety with a gavel, which he said is,made
of wood grown on the "Beauvoir'' prom
erty, formerly the home of jefferson Da-
Wis. Mr.. HUMPHREYS and Mr. Bsrryman
were unanimously elected honorary life
members of the society
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22
HOPPE DEFEATS sCHAEFER.
Makes High Run of 80 and Aver
ages Over 3;3.

NEW YORK, March 21-Willie Hoppe
defeated Jacob Schaefer at 49, balk-lne
Billiards tonight. 400 to 142 points Hopes
high run was 30, and his average 80 4-12
Schaefer's high run was II, and his aver
age II 10-11.
George Sutton defeated Cassignol the
French expert, tonight. .toO TO 26. points.
Sutton's best run being 104 and his aver
age 3S 6-13. Cassignol scored ST as his
high run and made an average of 23 3-13.
In the afternoon game CassignoI de-
feated Slosson 800 to 80.
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without an outward sign of remorSe
Charles Cook recited the story of the
brutal killing in the presence of city and
county officers detectives and newspaper
men. He told how his wife. who was
then his sweetheart, told him that Ben
nett had a big roll of money. and how
she believed that she could get It, she
told him of Bennett staying with hef all
night at a Wheeling hotel to arouse jeal-
ouSy and make the boy al the more Vln-
dictive against his rival in love. He told
how the girl had suggested that he and
White remain in hiding at the old state
fair grounds while she lured him off for a
walk-to his shameful death.
The boy. not realizing the awful fate IN
store for him. told of how the girl heard
Bennett moan after they believed nm
dead, and while the trio We're carrying
his body to the river said: HE needs just
q little more, I'll fix him; and how she
picked up a club and struck him over the
head until he stopped moaning. The
of the bleeding form into the
river was described in detail and 1t was
at this point of the story that the girl,
who was listening intently. made the
only apparent sign of remorse. she
shrugged her shoulders and said: ION,
Cod"
Divided the Money.
Young Cook further told how they gave
White SO for his part IN the Killing ana
kept the remaining $40 themselves. He
recited their story of the wedding the
following day and of their departure for
Detroit. They lived happily there for
two months. when he suspected unfaith-
funess. They returned to Wheeling. and
the wife grew cold. 1t was because of
her dead love that he took measures to
"get even" and placed his own neck in
danger to get her in the tolls.
Its my first job. boys, and / may
swing for it. he said. but when I do
others will swing with me. and maybe it'll
be her"
Young Bennett was soliciting for fla
voring extract company to earn money
to complete his education at Meadville
College.
The parents of the girl are well-to-do
and will put up a hard legal battle in her
defense. plea of hereditary insanity
will be entered by counsel for the de-
Tense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22
LABOR APPEALS TO LABOR
LEADERS ISSUE ADDRESS FROM
CONFERENCE CHAMBER.
Declare That No Power on Earth
Can Outlaw Or Disrupt Trade
Unionism.

"While the Supreme Court or other in
stitution may be able to temporarily re-
tard and seriously embarrass the growth
assert that no power on earth can de-
stroy successfully outlaw or disrupt trade
unionism.'
These words form the key to an adj
dress issued tonight to organized labor
and Farmers Association by the labor
workers who have been IN session IN this
city for the past four days. the meeting
having been called by President Gompers
of the American Federation of Labor.
The address states that a large part of
the discussions of the conference was
devoted to the consideration of the Su-
preme Courts action i'll applying the
Sherman antitrust law to labor. THE
proceedings the address says, were
marked by the utmost harmony. There
was, indeed, the intensity of feeling which
so grave a situation must evoke. There
was also an unbOunded enthusiasm, a
grim earnestness of purpose and a firm
determination that the work initiated by
this conference should not cease until the
wrongs from which the workers suffer
shall be righted and their liberties. which
have been imperiled. shall be restored and
forever Safeguarded.
Steps to Impress Congress.
The further statement is made that it
was the unanimous feeling of the confer
ence that some steps should be taken to
impress upon Congress the necessity for
prompt action toward amending the Sher-
man antitrust law, so that it shall be in
applicable to organizations or associa-
tions not for profit and without capital
stock nor to members of such organiza-
tons or associations: nor to any arrange
ments, agreements or combinations
among persons engaged in agriculture or
horticulture made with view of en-
HANGING the price of their own agricul-
tural or horticultural products
The conference pledged itself to use its
influence toward securing the enactment
of a bill to regulate and limit the issu-
ance of injunctionS. and also of a new
employers liability bill.
The address. continuing, says that il is
the belief that Congress appreciates the
gravity of the situation, and it is declared
that labor is in mood to be trffied
with Every legitimate pressure, it is
stated must be brought to bear upon
Congress lin the effort to secure the pas
sage of amendment to the Sherman
law" 1t is declared that resolutions
should be adopted urging Congress to
amend the Sherman law land warning
Congress that it will be held responsible
for failure to enact such legislation" and
it is stated. upon the record of this Cons
gress will be based the workers decision
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-22
DECIDES FOR CARTER
Former Army Officer Wins in
Suit With Uncle Sam.
FINAL DECREE BYKOHLSAAT
Findings Award Him $45,000, De-
clared Without faint.
ESCAPES COST OF ALL SUITS
Court Holds That a Brother of the
Defendant Owes the Govern
ment $11,454.
FINAL DECREE BY KOHLS AAT
ESCAPES COST OF ALL SUITS

CHICAGO. March 21.-The final decree
in the case of Oberlin NJ. Carter. former
captain in the United States Engineer
Corps, was entered today by Judge Kohl
saat in the United States circuit court.
Practically all the findings are in favor of
the former army officer.
While Carter does not get a large share
of the funds which have been the subject
of litigation between him and the govern
ment, the costs of this and all other suits
against him are taxed against the gov
ernment By the decree Carter is award
ed $4,000. which was held by the court to
be without faint"
The total amount attached by the fed
eral authorities some years ago was about
S400.0 The greater part of this Carter
claimed to have received from his father
in-law. the late Robert +. Westcott of
New York.
The Secret Partnership.
In an opinion announced by Judge Kohl
saat some weeks ago it was held that
large part of the funds received by Carter
from Westcott were tainted" and while
Garter may not have known of the secret
partnership between Westcott and Greene
and Gaynor, yet, in the eyes Of the law,
he was supposed to have knowledge that
Greene and Gaynor the contractors, We're
reaping enormous profits from their work.
In his final decree Judge kohlsaat re-
fused to charge Carter with the money
spent in defending himself before the
army courtmartial and in other tribunals.
All the expenses of suits against Carter
in Chicago, New York Savannah and
other places, except a small per cent to
be determined later, are to be paid by the
government. This amount is estimated to
be about $4,000.
Funds Retained by Government.
The court holds further that the money
which it was claimed Carter received from
Greene and Gaynor. more than $2S5, 900
came from Westcott Inasmuch as the
court declares these latter funds to be
tainted they are to be retained by the
government and the court costs and attOr-
neys' fees are to be paid from them.
The court also held that Stanton Carter
brother of the defendant is indebted to
the government to the extent of $11, 454, d
part of the funds for the recovery of
which the suit was started.