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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-06
THE PROPER THING
WELL SUGGESTED

All over the state taxpayers are
protesting against the enormous
total of the appropriations made by
the recent legislature and yet most
OF these same taxpayers would have
been equally vigorous in their pro-
tests had the appropriations de-
manded for the benefit of their
particular locality been rejected or
reduced. TO this spirit of local
selfishness is due in large measure
the extravaganza of the legislature.
The representatives elected from
counties in which state institutions
are located are expected, above all
else, to secure adequate appropria-
tons for such institutions. 1t they
fail in this, they are regarded by
their constituents as having been
remiss in the discharge of their
duty.
Realizing that the appropria-
tons demanded by their constitu.
cnts must be attained at all hazards
these legislators are forced to gov
ern themselves accordingly and
find that the only sure way of get
ting their slice of pork is by COM
bining appropriations. 1t is a case
of you help me and l will help you;
oppose my demands and | will
fight yours. The average legisla-
tor is afraid to jeopardize the
appropriations which his constitu-
ents expect him to secure and
meekly joins in the organized raid
OH the state treasury.
TO speak plainly, for years past
the legislators elected from this
county have been Judged by their
success or failure in securing APP
preparations for the w. S. c. The
protection of the interests of this
institution has been regarded as
their paramount duty. In many
instances they have refrained from
voting their real sentiments on
important measures for fear of
a rousing opposition to bills for
benefit for this institution and in
neatly every session they have been
compelled to support appropria-
lions which they knew ought to be
killed in order to secure votes for
the appropriations which the COL
lcge needed. Their loyalty to the
college has thus impaired their use
fullness as legislators. What is
true of the members from this
county applies with equal force to
the members from other counties
where state institutions are located.
In order to free legislators from
this handicap and to abate the
vicious practice of their combining
to force through all the appropria
tons which each is seeking the
Commoner believes that it would
be a good plan to vest the super
vision of all the state educational
institutions in a partisan and
impartial board of control, one of
the duties of which would be to
determine and submit to the legis-
lature the appropriations required
by each institution. Such recon-
incubation from such a source
would doubtless be accepted as
final and the appropriations made
without the wirepulling trading
and combining. This would leave
the Legislators free to vote theif
honest convictions on other appro-
priations and would end the rival
~ for financial aid between the
state educational institutions,
which in the past has been alto
gether too keen.
If it would accomplish these
results the plan is certainly worth
trial. '-Colfax Commoner.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-06
THE FIGHT
IS ON NOW
GOV. HAY SHOULD BE BOSS
He Will Be Held Responsible
For His Appointments And
Should Be Let Alone

OLYMPIA, MAY !. Secretary OF
State Sam II. Nichols ut noon to-
day handed his resignation to Coy
ernor Hay, asking that it be
accepted Immediately. In his
resignation Mr.. Nichols states that
he is innocent of any wrongdoiup
and that his official life is clean,
but that he is an old man and
broken physically and that he has
not the bodily strength to carry on
the fight that his political enemies
are making on him. He states
that if he were few years Younger
and in better health he would give
his enemies fight enough to keep
their hands full.
Mr.. Nichols announced today
that in few days he would issue
a statement containing information
that would be OF important assist
ance to the Legislative investigating
committee in their investigation of
other state offices.
Governor Hay states that he has
not yet decided on the appointment
of a successor to Secretary OF State
Nichols, but that for the present
Ben +. Fish, chief deputy. will re-
main in charge of the Office until
Nichols successor is named,
1t is not thought probable in this
city that former Governor Albert
E. Mead viii. accept the Office of
secretary of state, even if it is to
be rendered to him, as reported.
This report is believed to be merely
suggestion thrown out by the
Wilson-Thorne political clique for
the benefit of Governor Hay as
expressing their wishes in the
matter.
T.. K. Irwin, Governor Hay 5
personal friend. was a candidate for
state treasurer from Spokane and
came within an ace of the nomlna-
ton. Hay wants TO make HIM
secretary of state, because the gov
ernor intends to junket about con
siderably this summer at the nutn-
erous conventions at Seattle ana
elsewhere and he wishes to have
one of his crew at the helm, there
being no lieutenant governor 10
step in John l.. Wilson ana
Chester Thorne have brought all OF
their batteries to bear for the selec-
ton OF former Governor Albert IT,
Mead, and should Hay give IN TO
this combination it will exhibit a
weakness that down to this minute
has not shown as a characteristic
Of the square jawed governor from
Wilbur.
The trouble which has afiSef
over the selection OF the secretary
of state cannot fail to intensity the
split now on in the republican
parts of this state.
Insurance commissioner Johii IL
Schivelv again today stated in pos
tive terms that he would not re-
sign. He left the city this alter
noon, going to Seattle on business
connected with his office. -.
The investigating committee WIZ
resume its sessions tomorrow ~
inquiry of the conduct OF the ol''c'
of secretary of state will be droPl'
and attention for the present con
fined 70 the doinps Of the insurance
department. Former A'lo' '''
General John D. Atkinson' hc"'
Carstens, representative Of '''
Washington Fire Insurance '"''
panv of Seattle and {. +. Mean y
Seattle, state agent of the NJ az q
chusetts Bonding 4 Insurance o'"'
pany will be the chlei "i'''''
Yakima papers report case '' '''"
pOX IN their city.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17

Chicago. It is a part. and no passing
phase, of a great sociological subject.
But what good comes Of talking about
what IL not new. Good looks do not
make employment and do not make
marriages, though nobody ever heard
Of a woman who would deliberately
make herself ugly. Cleverness makes
many more successful saleswomen,
stenographers and wives han beauty,
and the most successful cleverness
comes in two branches, talking we'll
and dressing effectively. All the opin-
ions of all the employers in Chicago
and New York would not change the
fact thai from Esther Summerson 10
Esther the Queen the woman who
knows how to deal with people has the
advantage, FOR good looks are apt to
be OF short life and to lack attraction,
A business m would better think
Of business than Of hair dressers and
face dressings.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
PERSONAL NOTES.

From the revised list Of Roosevelt tro-
phies it appears that the dig dig really
is a dix dix" II will be welcomed just
the same by a grateful and curious people.
Robert womack, famed as the discoverer
Of Cripple Creek, died in Coloado Springs,
Colo, in poverty, muttering to the last OF
new fields he hoped yet to find to replace
the $40, 600, 900 claims he sold for $500.
In the rooms of a Pittsburg beggar has
been found a sum of more than $l0O,O0O,
and evidence that the beggar has more in
the banks. Begging In Plttsburg seems TO
lead to the acquisition of fortune without
scandal.
one Of the four surviving widows Of the
Mormon leader. Brigham Young, died in
Salt Lake city recently. She was Maanah
*. Young. Her marriage tc Young tool,
place at Nauvoo, H.. before the westward
pilgrimage Of the Mormons. She was IS
years old. No children were born to her.
The man who. has started a religious
paper with the avowed purpose Of reaching
readers who are not professionally religious
has a fine chance to work up a large cir
culation. Somebody intimates that there
are 10000 900 of the people he hopes to
reach.
The age of chivalry may be past, but
oratory flourlshes like a green bay tree,
Here is a Yankee Demosthenes inNthe Con-
n~ecticut legislature who d~enounces the
cracking of the party whip by the leader
in the house as the hoof-beats of an ass
striking upon the strings Of a sacred harp
Can you beat it?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
Downward.

A sharp reduction Of a duty not needed
for protection does not count for much in
the scheme of honest downward revision
New York Independent.
Why not? Is it not a fact that the
demand for tariff revision, so far as
justified, arose from the realization
that with changes in Industrial condi-
lions some of the duties had come to
be no longer needed for adequate pro-
lection? The complaint was that the
big concerns controlling a large part
of the traffic in their output we're TAX
ing advantage of the ~needlessly high
tariff schedules to make American
consumers pay more for the same
goods than they were willing to sell
them for in other countries.
The republican platform pledge on
tariff revision was for readjustment of
duties, not below the necessary line of
protection, but down to something
that would make up to u manufac-
turers n producers approximately
the difference between the cost Of
labor and materials here and abroad.
II a sharp reduction of duty not
needed for protection does not count
as downward revision, hen the only
thing that would count would be to re-
move duties that are needed for pro-
lection. int thus expose our industries
to the very competition from which
the country want them shielded.
If the people had demanded COM
plete abolition of protective duties
they would have voted a democratic
president and congress into power. It
was largely because they did not want
to invite such a disaster that they
voted a continuance Of republican con
troll in national affairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
Primary Pointers.

The primary election today will
determine the makeup of the repub-
lican ticket in Douglas county, and
while there are only a few contested
places, still the aim should be to settle
these places In such a way as not only
to present qualified and Trustworthy
candidates, but also to strengthen the
ticket all along the line.
For coroner the aspirants are all
reasonably qualified, but the place is
a political one, and II party service
counts for anything the nomination
should go to C. H. T. Riepen, who, be-
sides being a member of a pioneer
German family and in good business
standing, has been the efficient secre-
tary for the committee through two
county campaigns aud n city cam
paign.
For county surveyor South Omaha
presents a candidate In the person Of
George Mcbride. who has been sur
veyor before. and is co~ncededly equal
to the requirements of the position.
II IL is good politics to give South
Omaha recognition on the county
ticket this place should be accorded to
Mr.. Mcbride.
Two nominations are to be made for
county commissioner, one for the short
term and one for the long term. For
the long term the strong candidate
seems to be John A. Scott. Mr.. Scott
is a representative business man with
obvious qualifications. He is not a
chronic of~1ce-seeker; he is not a man
out of a job; he has never failed in his
own business. He is the kind Of a
man who would be chosen director Of
a big corporation spending a half mill
lion dollars a year and erecting a mil
l~ion-dollar once building.
For the short term commissioner
ship John Grant has the best claim,
having been identified many years
with the district for which the vacancy
exists.
II the county ticket should be filled
out with these names, In addition to
the present county officers conceded
denomination, 1t would be as strong as
the material at hand would permit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
The School Board.

A school board ticket is to be nomi-
mated at today's primaries and
nomination on the republican ticket
will be practically equivalent to an
election. This year for the first time
the members of the Board of Educa-
tion are to be chosen by wards, one
from each of the first four wards.
After careful investigation Of the list
Of candidates filing in the various
wards we are convinced that these
selections are worthy of recommends
ton:
First ward-George Fl. schnell
Second Ward-Dr. e. Holovtchiner.
Third Ward-Henry 1. Plumb.
Fourth ward-Charles r. Courtney.
While the nominations are to be by
wards, the candidates are voted on
over the entire city. Do not fail to
vote for the best men for the school
board.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
BEWARE OF THE saUINT.
one Of h effects of Bright summer
Sunshine.
Indianapolis News.

indianapolis News
It is about this time of the year that the
reflection OF the sun shining on streets
and cement pavements begins to affect
peoples faces. Unless one keeps the
thought in mind, not to allow the face 20
take a rink expression, the sun squirt
gets into the eyes. horizontal lines form
across the forehead and vertical or "V"
shaped lines between the eyes. often with
this triple formation Of the upper part of
the face there comes a corrugation Of the
muscles and skin of the nose, and some
times a dropping OF the jaw and opening
OF the mouth.
serious-minded people will say that the
lines of the face denote character. Prob
ably they do to a large degree, but the sun
of summer and the desire to shade the
eyes from the disagreeable glare of the
street is responsible for many Of them.
And the sun is not so much to blame for
scowl on the faces Of the young girls, a
troubled look, as II life were not all bright
and happy for them.
The scoWl is the caprice OF the time,
just as the high shoulders. extended ell
bows and the forward throw OF the head
was the within preceding, or the stilted walls
was of the season before that. The high
shoulders are dropped, SO are the elbow
and the head is held erect. But we ha, =
the scowl instead. Lines due to the scowi.
no doubt. betray character. for IL is an
affectauon, and affectstiont Is hypocriD
In after years # will TAX hours OF massas
to erase these unnecessary and ugly line
They viii cause anxiety when the rage TO-
them passes and the girl finds she cannot
rub them off as easily as she put them On.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
THE NEW PRIMARY.

Bloomington Advocate: We we're in favor
Of the primary law at first, but it has
been a disappointment. We are in favor
Of the old caucus system with the conven-
tions.
Ainsworth Star-Journal. The primary
election ballot this year is big enough and
broad enough, and caused worry enough
to the printers to be a thing Of beauty and
Joy forever, but it isn't. And you will say
so when you see It.
Rushville Recorder: Next Tuesday the
wide open ballot will be tried for the first
time. as given us by the democratic legis-
lature. Politics aside this ballot is a grave
reflection upon the political sagacity and
honesty of some of our law makers. 1t Is
full Of Inconsistencies and loopholes for
fraud.
Fremont Herald: The new primary hall
lot is in the hands of the county clerk.
sheet is twenty-one inches long and
thirty-eight inches wide. 1t requires a
great deal more paper this year and in
wolves more work in the printing, not
withstanding there are only a few nominal
tons. When It comes to a presidential
election the chances are that it will require
a sheet many feet in length.
Loup City Northwestern: Oh, yes. this
primary ballot is a good thing for the
newspapers-the big ones, we mean. For
instance. Judge Hamer Is having two to
three columns of paid stuff in his lauda-
ton in the Lincoln Journal, News and
Star, Omaha Bee. Kearney Hub, Fremont
Tribune and other bigger papers, but the
little fellows, who have been bowling about
the primary giving the newspapers the
wonderful power heretofore exercised by
the conventions, where are they? They
nave been simply the tools of the big fell
lows that reap the benefits. Faugh!
Beatrice Sun: The election laws of this
state should be amended so as to cut down
the time necessary to be devoted to policies
by a candidate. The present campaign
started two months ago, and politics will
not be disposed of for the year until we
have gone through nearly three months
more of it. Five months is too much time
to devote to men to fill public offices, nc
matter how important those offices may
be. The intent of the law In spreading the
campaign over so much time probably Is
to give the voters an opportunity TO gel
acquainted with candidates for state OF,
fices. Very few people know who are can.
didates for supreme court nominations. 6
great many people do not know how many
Judges are to be elected, nor how manl
regents of the university are to be elected
nor who are the candidates. TO enabl,
the voter to become familiar with tn,
issues and candidates in state wide politics
the campaign is scattered through the bes
part of a year, and the county candidat,
has the inconvenience and expense of
long campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
Good Looks in Business.

New York and Chicago are debating
whether good looks help a young
woman to attain success in the bust
ness world. New York thinks, or
let's young women say in the papers.
that favoritism for good looks on the
part Of employers or department store
managers draws a line In favor of the
pretty girls in all the large employing
Institutions.
On the contrary the employers in
Chicago state emphatically that, while
there is no discrimination against
good looks, the plain girls are gener-
ally the ones who succeed, The rea-
son is that a plain gill has more intel
~lfgence, takes more pains, dresses with
better taste and has much more agree
able When a girl has
prettiness, she depends too much on
II and does not get results or please
our customers" said a department
store manager. The person In charge
OF the operating force at the telephone
office used the same language. There
was no report for photographers, but
it is reasonable to suppose hat the
employers OF that class of women
have the same demand for results and
look at the subject in the same light
This is no topic over which TO com,
pare the ponderings OF New York and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
Cooling Thoughts.

w. j. Hampton in New York world
Gee, whlzl
What a bliZ
It is!
It's the real thir s.
A foot deep and all snuw.
Including the balmy breeses that blow
The spume in your face
And every old place .-
That you try to keep warm
And out Of the storm
Oh, say,
Don't You like II this way?
Amt the pure white
A pip of delight?
You're not afraid
To wade.
Are you? Nor
Then wade into the snow.
And, say,
Amt it fun when you have a Ions way
To come and go2
Oh, the snow,
The beautiful snow.
Is a boon to those who come and go,
Yet,
We mustn't forget
That only the other day
We wanted to have it just this way.
At least we wanted change from the slush.
Tho really we didn't insist On a rush
Like this,
BY gum!
We wanted some, ~
But why in thunder
Must we be showed under"
However. don't worry,
Or be in a hurry
To kick and euss; - 'HH va " JtI7'
Before it's gone
1t will be a darn sight wuss.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17
Csnsn. Amendments.

President Taft has addressed a let
ter to Secretary Nagel on the behavior
of census supervisors, which is an ad-
mirable epitome OF the duties which
come to the men selected to manage
the counting of the population. The
president %endeavors to separate en-
tirely this constitutional duty from the
old trammels of politics. Any super
visor or enumerator who, during his
term Of office, takes part in politics,
by service on a party committee, by
public addresses, by the solicitation of
votes or otherwise, shall at once be
dismissed. The supervisors are to be
strict in avoiding pressure on the
enumerators, clerks and other subor-
dinates TO assist any party, or any
candidate, in a primary or a general
election. The president, who will be
fearlessly assisted by Secretary Nagel,
himself an advocate Of business eff
cheney, proposes that the vast army Of
census appointees shall not be used
to build up any political machine,
Mr.. Taft %disposes of one matter
which over-strict reformers might
make a subject of advice. He says
that the quickest and best way OF Sc
lecting suitable supervision is to con-
suit senators and congressman in the
districts. That is not flawless civil
service reform, but it is common sense
and the plan has always been followed.
In turn the supervisors will consult,
it may be supposed, party leaders in
minor civil divisions concerning emu
merators and clerks. The president
does not intend TO ask Mr.. Nagel to
make rules that will not be obeyed or
will provoke confusion. In fact, the
only criticism which Justly applies to
the letter is that the language of in
hibition almost would prevent a super
visor or enumerator from taking the
ordinary citizens ordinary interest in
politics. ANY part in politics than
merely casting his vote" is fixing
limits which permit the constitutional
privilege of free speech and little
more. But it can be safely assumed
that neither the president nor the sec
rotary contemplates a bureaucratic
and mechanical rule of conduct. They
only give notice that this is a bust
ness affair, a taking OF the census
and not an opportunity for political
boosting, or a reliance on favoritism
1t is of the first importance that the
people have confidence in the good
faith and competence Of the men who
make and tabulate the decennial
count. The letter is designed to pro-
mote that kind Of confidence. To the
extent that 1t is a specific instruction
to the secretary, 1t is a precaution and
a justification. Last Spring the secre-
tary discovered certain conditions in
the census office which called for re-
proof. This letter is notice that the
payrolls Of the office are not to be
stuffed with the names OF political
favorites. Capacity and character
suitable to the work are to be the first
consideration.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17

he takes hold of things that interest
him.
Daughter-An right. dad. Just you bop
out on the piazza suddenly some night
Boston Transcript.
Good gracious, isn't that your husband
across the street there Uuarreling with the
man on the opposite porch""
20. they're not really puarrelinE. They
dispute that way cvc!y uight. George Is a
monoplanist and Mr.. Sttgeins is a biplan-
list. "-Cleveland PLAN bealrr.
Spinster Aunt-Nu.. ud-rd. III not risk
my money in puttius It into Il business
with you.
Scapegrace Nephew But. consider.
aunty, II you were in a business firm you
could advertise for proposals. Baltimore
American.
Wiggs--It takes my wife to manage
tramps. You should see the wood she has
got cut.
BigEs-How does she work Il?
Wiggs-Easily enough. She tells them
such funny stories they laugh till thew
s~plit.-Boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17

Corn is injured by the dry
weather" is the dolorous report from
Vermont to Kansas. That talk will
soon be over. In reasonable measure
hot weather is the best thing that can
happen to corn. 1t develops and rip
ems the grain at this time OF year. A
few weeks ago cotton was q despair
ingly short crop. Now in Texas the
rains have come and that state thinks
that 1t may have 100000 bales, one
third Of the country's total. The
5000, OOO, OOO-bushel corn crop will be
found before frost.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17

According 10 a recent work, hay
fever is a badge of intellectually. The
connection between a sneeze and a
burst OF genius was a long time ap-
p~earing and we can only keep our eye
on the red-eyed victims for confrma-
tion. Most of us would take chances
on the intellectually II the long-due
cure for hay fever could be found.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17

And now we are told that railroads
have plenty of equipment for handling
record crops. That's fine news. Also
let them be on the square about sup
plying cars and routing trains. MIR.
TAFT is about to ~renovate the interstate
commerce Law and has his eye on the
combinations.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-17

Sample wheat Of the new crop gives
at Minneapolis signs that the quality is
to be extraordinary. If they will
kindly keep the price within reach
there will be bread to eat. Omaha,
with plenty of wheat Of It's own, offers
congratulations.