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The Washington times., 1909-05-12
BUILDING A PARTY SOFTLY
BY MAGAZINE EFFORT.

Editor Bryan of the COmmoner viii
hardly view with alarm the latest at
tempt to revive the Democracy by
means of a magazine In the days
when Democracy meant something
and stood for something there were
reliable Democratic daily newspapers
of circulation, prestige, and influence.
and Democratic voters looked to them
for advice and direction. Those days
seem to have passed.
Mr.. Bryan has the advantage over
Mr.. Mack in more than one respect.
In the first place, his continued can
didacy for President is an asset Of
large Importance to the publisher and
editor. In the second place, his per
sonal' letters congratulating the Demo
Gratis of New England and elsewhere
upon their good work for the ticket
last fall, and reminding them that
their subscriptions have expired, viii be
treasured in many households until the
next campaign by the same cariidate
and editor Finally, Mr.. Bryan reaches
his readers weekly; Mr.. Mack is to
content himself with monthly publi-
cation.
What the Democracy of the nation
needs most of all is not a weekly 1r a
monthly, but thoughtful, analytical
quarterly. That would seem to ha as
often as a national organ Of tie once
powerful party ought to be published
1t viii come, Of course, in duo season
possibly after the campaign Of 1912
/ Meantime. there is a chance FOR Pub
fisher and Editor Mack of the new
Democratic monthly to attract some
thing more than languid interest TO hi:
venture by finding somebody who car
answer this question intelligently arC
convincingly:
"What is a Democrat"
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
MEMBERS DEMAND
A DOUBLE TRACK
Congress Heights Citizens Asso-
citation Also Appeals for Through
Car Service.

Congress Heights is demanding
through cars between washington and
that place and a double track between
Anacostia and the Heights.
This demand came IN a resolution.
passed after considerable discussion. BY
the Congress Heights Citizens Associa-
ton at its regular meeting last assht
The Washington Railway apd Electric
Company viii De appealed to immedi-
ateiy to install a through services.
The association, which was presided
over by w. W Price, the newly-eIected
president. in6c -ssd a communication
sent the Commissioners on May by
Colonel Randall. in which he asserted
that many thousands Of dollars were
being invested .n Maryland ana Vir-
ginia because Of Determinations against
District citizens.
A letter from the Commissioners was
read in which the latter stated they
had ordered the grading OF Seventh
street. from Omaha stgeet TO Alabama
avcnsle, and Of Nichols avenue from
Coghlau street to II street The Sec
retary was asked TO request that the
drainage around Congress Heiebfs
schools be perfected Fifteen new
members were added last night. the at
tendance being a large one.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
A SCHEME TO ENCOURAGE
RISING WITH THE SUN.

Out in Cincinnati today the Day
light Leaguers are working and play
ing with their clocks and watches two
hours ahead of standard time. It's
English, you know. It seems 1t
shame, as an abstract proposition, to
stay abed when the days are long and
lose so much daylight or sunshine.
It's all right to get up at Z and re
port for work at $3.50 or Q, standard
time, in the winter, when the days
are short and little bit of daylight
before and after work doesn't count
for much But il stands to reason
that at this period of the year, when
the sun bobs up so early and drops
down again so late, the proper thing
to do, theoretically, is to make the
most of cheerful and heaIthful OPP
portuaity.
If you don't realize the force of the
argument, you should be made to do
so; and that is the object of the Day
light League, with headquarters in Gin
cinnati. Like their bret:lren over in
England, the leaguers would have time
pushed ahead two hours during the
daylight months, so that by rising soon
after dawn and putting in the usual
days work the people would have an
opportunity to enjoy Eore outdoor life
So out in Cincinnati they are going
to make a beginning along this line
of action today. 1t has been the rule
in some parts of the country to start
work a little earlier in summer. The
Cincinnati enthusiasts believe that this
idea should be generally adopted and
perhaps legalized. That's the English
enthusiasts view of it, too. There
may be something in it.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

ers" as DR.. Vogt of the University OF
Pennsylvania says on the strength OF
the newspaper reports of the time, OF
American Sugar Refining stock. The
Sugar trust had become affiliated with
the Oil trust.
This is the ''infant industry" which
is protected at the cost of every pack
age of sugar wrapped up in any grOc-
cry in the land under our proposed
tariff. Does it need protection? And
if it does, does it need so much
Wouldn't it be we'll to drop a million
or two into the hat of some other poor
blind Millionaire once in a while?
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
GUNS WILL ROAR
SALUTE TO TAFT I

PETERSBURG, w. Va, May IA
thunderous welcome viii be given Presi-
dent Taft when he arrives in this city
next week. The Norfolk Light Artillery
Blues. one OF the oldest military or
EapizatiOns in the country, viii fire q
Salute of twenLy.One guns when the
President steps from his train.
This Will be the first salute fired IN
the history of Petersburg. although the
town has heard the thunder of cannon
not fired in peace.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
sCALDED TO DEATH.

HAGERsTOWN. Nd. May 12-Craee
Elizabeth. young daughter Of Eugene
Hammond, electrician and chief en-
gineer at the plant Of the AIarvland
Portland Cement Company. n1ar here
was fatally scalded when she feu into
a large vessel Of boiling water in the
laundry, where washing was il prog
ress. She died later,
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
Reid-Smith.

, pretty wedding took place last
evening at O'Clock In the ballroom OF
the Savoy when Miss Emily Griffin
Reid became the bride OF Dr. Dwight
Gordon Smith, the Rev. John Lee Ali
son. of the Gunton Temple Presby-
terian Church, officiating
The ballroom was effectively decorat-
ed with a profusiOn of pink and white
roses and palms, and the bridal party
stood under a bower of white roses
and palms.
Or. w. II. Richards. of Knoxville,
Tenn, uncle OF the bride. gave her in
marriage. The bridal gown was Of
ivory satin embroidered in pearls, with
effective touches Of princess lace. The
bridal veil of tulle was arranged with
"A coronet OF orange blossoms and the
bridal bouquet was a shower OF gar
denias and lilies of the valley.
Mrs. William. J. Cromer, Of Winston.
n. c., sister of this bride, who acted
as matron of horror, wore gold-colOred
chiffon over pink satin, short veil OF
white tulle with a wreath Of tiny pink
rosebuds, and carried Bridesmaid
roses
Miss Isabel Fallen Smith, sister of
the bridegroom, and Miss Anna Lee
Ray. of Richmond. a niece CT the
bride, wore similar costumes Of pink
null over pink satin. short wells q
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
CEDAR RAPIDS THRIVES
UNDER COMMISSIONERS.
Iowa City. After Year With Board of Five Men at
Head of Government, Shows Effects
of New Plan

This il the third of series of articles by Govern
men official dealing with the developments of the com
mission form of government in various cities of the West
and South These articles being written especially for
The Times apropos of the present discussion as to the
best form of government for the District of Columbia
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
DYING OF LOCKIAw.

EASTON, Pa. May 12-RupeTt
Breisch, aged sixteen, accidentally shot
himself in the hand a week ago with
blank cartridge. Blood poisoning set
in, and now he is dying Of locktAw.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

The glass schedules are to be made
over. and I'm the distribution of the
credit It win be only fair 10 keep in
mind Senator Cummins and the gentle
men who. started the trouble and kept
II going until they had convinced va
rious others of the need Of making
over
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

The long-lost archduke OF Austria,
heir 10 the throne Of Francis Joseph,
has been discovered again IN Cleveland
is it possible that Cleveland's leading
citizen has concluded to buy Austria S
fbroup2
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

New York Goo Coos are getting so
active about throwing Tammany out
of power that IL really does look as II
Tammany would have easy running
The New York Goo Goo somehow seems
always 10 get his practical politics tan
pled InexfricabIV.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

Porto Rico is kindly admonished that
mother is still keeping the hair-brush
on her dresser.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

Senator Root would appear TO have
interested the Finance Committee in
the most distinct fashion.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

Is II possible, after all, that all these
folks who have known from the be-
ginning that there was no chance Of
the Finance Committee being brought
TO terms. can have been in e.rOr2
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

The reading Of the Philadelphia news
papers leads US 10 suspect that some
body IS trying 70 get away with some
thing worth some millions Of dollars,
and that everybody is very indignant
about it, Wherefore, as it's Fhiladcl-
phia, we are sure that the rniscreant
whose identity we can't just make out
viii sncceel
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
Capital Tales

SE THEN Senator Bristow Of
M Kansas first took his seat in
v the Senate. about two
months ago, he was in
considerable trepidation. This state Of
fear and tremor was caused by the
fact he was uncertain whether he could
take part in the debates without getting
stage fright. He had never before en-
gagged in parliamentary discussion, and
he thought that probably when the
test came ne would be found wanting.
But il appears Mr.. Bristow's mis-
givings were entirely without founda-
ton. He not only finds that h's can
debate, that he does not get s-ared,
that he can think on his feet In the
Senate, but that he really enjoys it.
The result is that when anything
comes along in the tariff bill that
doesn't look good to him he takes a
whack at it, and he viii be heard
from at length and often between now
and the adjournment Of the special
session.
When I first got up to speak, -
casually remarked Bristow the other
day, "Aldrich and Lodge looked pretty
mean and disagreesble toward me.
They'll find 7 can say as mean things
as they can look
The Washington times., 1909-05-12
Craft-Russell.

Miss Althera Craft, Of Atchison,
Kan. and E. G. Townsend. Of Roches-
ter. n. Y, were married last evening
at $50 O'clock In the Seventh Day Ad-
ventist Memorial Church, Twelfth
street near NJ the Rev. X c. Russell,
of Takoma Park, D. c., performing
the ceremony.
The church was beautifully decorated
with palms and flowers and a large
gathering of relatives and friends wit
messed the ceremony. Miss Lula Rus
sell played the wedding music
Miss Crafts brida. gown was of soft
white null and lace with white satin
ribbon sash and instead OF the con-
veINional veil. she wore a wreath Of
white sweet peas IN her hair, and car
ried a cluster Of Bride roses tied with
white satin ribbons.
Miss Annie Vincent Worrel Of VII
| Transport. Pa, the maid OF honor,
wore a dainty gown OF white batiste
and lace with a wIsite satin Directoire
sash.
white dimity and lace, and Miss Ora
| Kress in white muslin and lace, were
/ the bridesmaids.
Little Miss Cathleen Sisco, IN a dainty
white frock, and carrying a huge bas-
ket of white sweet peas, was the flower
| girl.
Chapman Mccoy acted as best man
/ for Mr.. Townsend and the ushers werC
| OrsOn G. Warner, of Michigan. and
/ William O. Wirth, Of New York city.
Following tre ceremony a reception
was held at the residence of DR.. and
/ Mrs. Henry Sisco. Mr. and Mrs. Town
send viii reside In Rochester, n. Y.
! after June G.
| Among the out-of-torn guests at the
/ wedding were Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson and
/ Miss Hanson, OF Calcutta. India: Miss
| Carrie Scott, Of California: J. NJ. Jack
| son. Dunkirk, y. y; the Rev. and Mrs
/ E. 3. Westbrook, of Buffalo N Y; and
! Beriah Manuel. of Newfoundland.
=
! Mrs Thomas w Symons entertained
| a luncheon company today. having
| among her guests 'dine Nabuco. wife
/ OF the Brazilian ambassador; Baroness
| Takahira, wife Of the japanese ambas-
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

The unwritten law seems TO have
been erased, for once Up in New York.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

Now. gentlemen, while you're fixing
to revise # in spite Of yourselves, don't
overlook those sugar schedules.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

They'll find can say as mean things
as they can look"
=
Magnificent Fight.
This magnificent Aght we made on
the lead schedule. even II we did get
beaten observed a Western insurgent
Senator. makes me think of the story
about the man who went to sleep in a
haunted house, just to see what would
happen.
In the middle of the night he was
suddenly awakened by the approach Of
sn6dowy-looLing man, carrying his
decapitated hea1 under his arm. The
man jumped out the window and ran
four miles without looking back Ut
terIy exhausted, he stumbled. fell. and
crawled up on a log to sit for a mo-
msnt. when the wrath glided up and
sat beside him.
q Morning, spoke up the head. Nice
lively little run we've been having
q" Well, replied the man. YOU nay
think so: but Il amt a circumstance to
the one we're going to have as soon as
I get my breath back
'+And that's the way with us insur-
gents. concluded the Senator; IT'S
anything TO the ones we're going to
have little later,
+.
- ERENO E. PAYNE, chairman of
the House Committee on Ways
and Means. is excessively fat and
i he knows It, although he doesn' t
ike to be told about It. The other day
a newspaper reporter put in his paper
Il e following statement:
Mr.. Payne waddIed out OF the White
House
Today this same reporter, who is also
fat and, therefore. possessed of a ten
dency to waddle along like a duck, ran
out of the White House to overtake Mr..
Payne. who had made aaFother trip to
see the President.
ANY news. Mr- Payne2'' he asked
You just say" replied Payne, that
a newspaper MAJ Waddled out after Mr.
Payne. and was told that there was no
news"
After that the newspaper nan wad-
died away hurriedly, and Mr.. Payne
waddled on In dignihed content.
s.
Carter Can't Help It.
Senator Thomas Henry Carter of Mon
tana, whom Uncle Sam resembles to a
remarkable degree, can't help being
funny. He amused the Senate the other
day when he took a couple of hours or
to describe the books, volumes, docu-
ments, and other publications that were
intended to shed light on the taT4f bill
lie said he could pile them clear 70 the
ceiling Of the Senate chamber If need
be- Some one In the press gallery was
thereupon prompted TO tell this story
about Carter.
"Bil1 Starrett used to say that this
man Carter was the funniest person
he'd ever known. Bill came to me one
day and said he'd just heard Carter
tell a story. Funniest thing I ever
heard, said Bill What was the story p
, / asked. Well said Bill. I wouldn't
attempt TO tell it as Carter told it
1T appeared Bill didn't know what
the story was, but he knew II was q
good one. He outlined something of it
and told me to get Carter TO tell it.
The next time I saw Carter I asked him
: to tell me the story he'd told Bill Star
rett. story, he said, what story?' I
| told him what little I knew about it.
Oh, said Carter, that wasn't a
story. ] was trying to tell Bill about
! the death Of one of nay dearest
/ friends. -
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

Mrs Thomas w. Symons entertained
a luncheon company today. having
among her guests 'dTne Nabuco. wife
Of the Brazilian ambassador: Baroness
Takahira. wife Of the japanese ambas-
sador, and Mrs. McGraw, Of Buffalo
n. Y, who is the house guest OF Mrs.
SymOns.
The Washington times., 1909-05-12

The Rector's Aid Society Of St.
Michaers and All Saints Church at
Twenty second street and Virginia
avenue. will present Aunt Jerusha
Dow's Friends and Relatives" by means
of an old-fashioned album, Thursday
evening. May Is. at o'clock, IN St.
Michaels Parish Hall, Tor the benefit Of
the church
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-13
imply a call for a crying reform.

simply a call for crying reform. 1t
should be done
Byers' appeal for authority enabling
county attorneys to follow appeals to
the supreme court is plain common
sense as the average citizen sees it.
Byers' plea that it be made possible
for the governor to execute the laws
by giving him the power to remove
peace officers, mayors and prosecuting
attorneys who refuse to do their duty
will be supported by the majority of
Iowa citizens. Iowa wants the laws
enforced.
The department Of justice should be
reorganized and made effective to the
highest degree.
Byrs' report to the governor will bear
study and careful analysis by the vot-
ers and the legislature. 1t is the be-
ginning of better law enforcement in
Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-13
M@sahezs
Iona Newspapers
oWlA BORN M'BN IN oTFIcE.
Cedar Rapids Repblican.)


For the first time the Iowans are
coming into their own. The Iowa
born men will have a majority in the
legislature which meets tomorrow
The governor to be inaugurated also
Is an Iowa born man, the first in The
history of The state, in humiliation 6s
1t admitted. Iowa has been a state
for more than sixty years and yet now
for the first time we are to have a
native born 1owan In the governors
office. In the United States senate
we have never been represented by
an Iowa born man, but Iowans have
gone to other states and climbed into
the senate.
OF course, this consideration Is not
the most important Good men ara
born outside of Iowa, but state pride
!nclineS us to favor Iowa born men.
If we can grow the most corn, tho
latest hogs and the sleeleest cattle,
that Is well. but 1t is Infinitely better
to produce the best men. AT least we
ought to be able to produce men who
can be trusted In the office of gov
ernor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-13
Outside Point of Vierv

Whether the terms. standpatters ana
progressives, in such common use in
Iowa during "the late unpleasantness"
originated hero or not is an open ques-
ton, but that they have come to stay
and to be applied to men prominent in
national matters is self evident. There
is in the house of representatives q
clique headed by Speaker Cannon, and
another crowd in the senate that has
for leader in Senator Aldrich. that
are standpatters in all that the word
implies They will not admit that they
are directors to progress. real progress
They only claim they object to charges
that are the cry of the mob. To hear
them talk, the impression is given on.
that they really know what is for the
best interests of the people, know 1t
far better than the people themselves.
Speaker Cannon's role for many years
was behold the watch dog of the treas
ury, observe the great objector. Now
he has advanced till he Is the self
elected and appointed guardian of the
real, not fancled interests of the peo-
pie.
Unquestionably such men are needed
in and out of national matters. Such
men serve as brake, not only on The
wheels of progress, but act as a ball
ance wheel in the machinery of pol
itics. They are needed fully as much
in our legislative halls as in the new
douma of Russia. The people do go off
half -cocked. Our spasms of reform
generally include efforts for extreme
and unconstitutional legislation. In the
attempt to cure the ills of the body
polite, we expose the patient to other
and infectious diseases. Whether
Speaker Cannon and Senator Aldrich,
in electing themselves as physicians
of as large a family, say eighty mill
hon people, and are equal to the task
of resembling for so many, whether
their diagnosis and treatment is the
only kind eighty million citizens should
have, demands entirely on the point Of
view
And this line Of reasoning easily
brings up another thing and that is,
while the progressive so-called is gen.
orally too far in advance of public
opinion, for his ideas to be at once
adopted, and seldom does said pro-
gressive see his plan adopted as pre-
scented, yet after the objections and
diliatory tactics Of the standpatter, a
reform comes and is put into law and
practice that contains the essence and
the best features of his proposed re-
form. This is true no matter from
what source, or what particular party,
fathers the scheme. To illustrate:
Bryan at one time mentioned OCCASION
ally Is to /. He has lived to see his
exact monetary plan dropped and al
most forgotten. But the republican
party adopted some Of his ideas when
financial legislation for the Philippines
was needed. Bryan and others advo-
Gated a direct vote OF the people for
United States senator. Today in many
states, an expressed wish at a state.
wide primary accompishes the pur.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-13
FORAKER ON THE JOB.

| Senator Foraker is now on the jot
of assaulting the president. This SEN
ator is in position to have the time
| of his life as an nssaulter. He goes
cry reason to his rnind why he should
pass in the smoke as they used to
say out west. There are a number
OF fellows whose will is not less than
Foraker's but who are not going to
leave the country as the Ohio sena-
tor is to do soon; Foraker presumably
Is doing assault and battery on their
account as upon his own.
Foraker has reason; he has the
grudge of the exposed against the man
who exposed him. He might have gone
on in his friendly and apparently pro-
fitable relations with his friend Arch
bold, 10, many years, had not Roose-
Welt butted in and spoiled the relations
incidentally spelling the senator. Some
of the others who are standing to hold
Foraker's coat have more to lose than
their lighting man 1t would be well
to remember that the average man
thinks better of the one who has a
grudge and strips off his coat to salts
fy it than of the one who rushes up to
hold the garment. There is future
of one kind or another ahead of the
delighted bottle holders.
1t is a pity wher, a strong man goes
down, deservedly or not. None are
ready to support Foraker but many
are sorry he went the way he did.
No amount of fuss and fury can wipe
out his fault. The; country may listen
but 1t does not forget when public
men have betrayed it. He is on the
job as senator for a few days more
and on that other job of annoying and
insulting the chief executive. After
that the obscurity that comes to men
who betray confidence and are found
out. But it is a pity that man whose
exceptional ability marked him for
usefulness should end his career as
Foraker is ending his. AS to some of
the bottle holders the sooner they are
set aside both as incompetents and as
unworthy of confidence the better for
the country.