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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
BRYAN SCORES TAFT
IN TALK UPON TARIFF
Declares Present Revision Is Upward Instead of Down
ward and Puts Issue SquareIy to Republican
Party-Compares Platforms

TOLEDO, Ohio, May 24.-In an inter
view William Jennings Bryan de-
clared That President Taft has lodged
the tariff question and puts the tariff
question squarely up to the Republican
party and discusses at length the DIFF
ferences between the words revised"
ard reduced"
Party platforms are necessary, but
are misconstrued unless they are posi-
tive and specific. make this statement
in view of the way in which Republi-
cans are revising the tariff upward in
stead of downward" says Bryan.
Senator Aldrich and his crowd in the
Senate coustrue the tariff plank in the
RepuLlican platform to mean an in
crease in duties. The people thought
differently. but the Republican tariff
plank was so indefinitely wOrded that
there Is room for the two views.
Il most heartily approve Of the reso-
luton offered by Senator Gore of Okla
home, proposing an investigation as TO
the responsibility for this high cost Of
Twins
Endorses Gore View.
Senator Gore is entirely right. The
higl. tariH Republicans have tried TO
shift the responsibility from the manu-
facturers to the merchants. This is i'm
portant and it is only right that the
public should know the truth of the
trouble with the Republican platform
of last fall was that it was not specific
ana definite. The tariff plank used the
word revised instead OK the word re
duced, and now Senator Aldrich and
his crowd construe it TO mean an in
crease, while some OF the western Re
publicans insist it contemplated a de-
crease in the rates.
Mr. Taft lodged the question. So
far as 7 could learn from his speeches
the nearest he ever came to a construC-
tioE of the platform was to declare,
when in the West, that il meant an
honest revision at one time declaring
that while some schedules ought to be
revised and some lowered the revision
would be probably downward. The Re
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
FREEMAN DEPARTS
TO TOLEDO CLUB
Popular First BaSeman
Crowded Out by Unglaub
and Donohue.

Jerry Freeman the Washington first
baseman, has been sold to the Toledo
club, of the American Association, and
is expected 10 report there today.
Freeman's unexpected return to the
minors is due to the fact that he is
too much OF a specialist to play any
position except first base. 1t is about
the only place where he counts. and
as the major league clubs seem to be
satisfied with their first sackers there
was no room for him in fast com
pany- Still, Rossman has been going
so badly for Detroit it might have been
thought Jerry was worth a trial in
that company.
Freeman came TO Washington in the
spring of 1908 from the Minneapolis
club. and Manager CantilIon was OBJ
sOlutely certain that he would make
good in the American League. His
entry was almost inauspicious, for he
was clumsy. threw badly. and did not
hit we'll He showed the most marked
and steady Improvement of any young
ster who has broken into the best so
ciety for years and toward the end Of
last season was playing an excellent
game. Then Washington got Unglaub,
which made Freeman's position uncer-
tain, and from that time his decline
began. This year he has been of his
form. but he was BY no means the
poorest first baseman in the business.
The acquisition Of DOnohue meant the
passing of Freeman, but it is somewhat
surprising that he should De dropped
TO the minors.
Personally, Freeman is merely a big
boy in spirit, and his geniality and good
nature made him one of the most like
able men on the Washington team. be
viii carry .he sympathy and best
wishes OF the Capital fans with him.
with the hope that he viii be in the
major ranks in 1910, which he is almost
sure to do.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
GEORGETOWN'S YEAR
A GREAT SUCCESS
Athletic Association Has
$4,000 Surplus-Basket-
ball Abandoned.

Ceorsetown's athletic association held
its final meeting Of the year yesterdays
The most important features were
the report of Treasurer Thomas Boyle.
which showed that the association had
on hand about SEQ. or which $1,000
was contributed by The baseball team
under Manager Stuart, and the abolish
ment of basketball as an intercol-
legiate snort at the university. The
treasuTer's report was highly crafty
ing. especially that portion which
showed the financial success OF the
baseball team and that of the field and
track management of Vincent A. Cor
coran, who handled the indoor meet
at Convention Hall. One reason for
the large amount OF money on hand
was the failure to send a crew to
PoughkeeDsie last year. nor will the
sum be decreased by that expenditure
this year
Basketball as paying institution has
never taken well in Washington, and
GEORGETOWN has suffered along with the
other independent teams and the
leagues. The university has been handi-
caDDed bv the necessity for coming
downtown in order to get a hall which
would draw a large crowd, and rent
for such halls has >cut deeply into the
net profits. Glass games will still be
PLAYED in the Ryan gymnasium but no
schedule with other colleges will be ar
ranged
The elections resulted as follows:
Frank Carlin. Brooklyn, n. Y, jun
Tor class, president of the Athletic As
ISOLATION: Daniel Mccain and Edward
Carr, secretaries, both junior from New
York; John Crosby, freshman, Fond du
Lac, Wis, assistant baseball manager:
Vincent Daley. Rochester, y. Y, man
ager Of the freshman crew, assistant
manager of the varsity crew; Norman
Wymard, Pittsburg, freshman, assist
ant field and track manager.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24

publican national convention was at
fault in not making d specific promise
or reduction, and the Republican voters
were at fault in accepting so indefinite,
so evasive and so deceptive a word as
revision as q sufficient promise.
Defends Democrats.
AS TO the Democrats who voted for
the imposition Of duties, they have as
a rule defended their conduct on the
ground that the duties voted for were
revenue duties. and they have not been
high duties. Measured on an ad vaIo-
rem basis. the duty on lumber and on
iron ore are but a small portion OF tie
price I think that the Democrats who
voted for the duty made a mistake
The Democratic platform demanded
free lumber. and I believe a platform
is binding upon all who run upon IL,
and II ought to haze weight with the
members of the party who were elected
before the platform was adopted.
III the taxpayers would take a little
more interest in The tariff question and
chastise the representative who, ignoT-
ing the interests OF the consumer. fol-
low the advice OF the protected inter
ests, relief would come sooner
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
"BOOKIES" GO BROKE
IF SIR MARTIN WINS
Stand to Lose Million Dollars If American Entry
Cashes in English Derby-Long Odds Be
ing Hammered Down.

given any stiff work, simply a long eX-
ercise jauut, with a smart move over
the last three-eighths. but he was all
that a good strong boy could handle
and was so filled with fire and vim That
at times he seemed about TO get away
from his rider.
He should run "A nice race next We'd
nesday, and 1t seems almost a certainty
lie VIII defeat MinOru, the Kings colt
Despite the fact that the royal entry
Won the Guineas, and is the public IA
Vorite for the Derby, being lalf point
closer than the American, 81 rewd horse
VIII do.
Bayardo Popular.
These men say that Bayardo will
make grand showing in the race and
are backing him accordingly. Danny
Maher, who win ride Bayardo. is very
sweet on the chances of his mount and
said today he believed he will win. The
slogan, however, is anything 10 beat the
American and there are thousands Of
true British "sportsmen" who are today
roofing hard for something to happen
to the ogden colt. and II he is beaten
there Will be open rejoicing, as the
British public does not relish seeing
the Derby winner led into the charmed
circle by an alien hand
Skeets Martin, who viii ride Sir Mar
tin. is expected TO be instructed to keep
the colt among the first half dozen
the stretch. and make his run in the last
quarter. IF he gets these orders and
follows them out. the colt that beats
Sir Martin will get the money.
Odds Take Fall.
A glance at the manner in which Sir
Martin has been backed is Illuminating
On April g. he was 100 to in the bet
ting. Two weeks later his price had
dropped TO to 1, under the weight OF
enormous commissions from America
At that time Bayardo was at AZ to 1,
and the Kings horse. Minoru, 10 to I.
Then MinOTu defeated Bayardo In the
Guineas, and was promptly made the
Derby favorite at odds of to l. Sir
Martin continued to fall steadily in the
odds, and last Monday il became plain
that he would not be betier than to I
at post time on Derby cay.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24

LONDON, May eff the American
bred colt, Sir Martin, wins the time
honored English Derby at EPSON
Downs. next Wednesday,, British
bookmakers will lose as they never
have lost before.
The big s.u of ogden has been
backed to win a million dollars in
the future books, and il was not until
today that tie frequenters OF latter
sails realized Just how much is at
stake. They have despised the Wi
mans entry; national pride has told
them that no American bred horse
can win here; they remembered the
Nasturtium episode, when Whitney
and Duryes sent that crack across TO
win the blue ribbon Of the turf world
and how he was never able to face the
starter. and so they had nothing but
contempt for the American colt And
they allowed themselves TO be loaded
up with Sir Martin money and laugh
ed in their sleeves as it came Ogden
was a miller pure and simple, and that
he could not stay over the mile and a
half of stiff Derby course was the
burden of their argument, and this
position was maintained until he took
up I37 pounds in the Mile Welter
Handicap at Newmarket and galloped
a field OF selling plateTs to death,
winning in canter IN IaSJ time
Face Bankruptcy.
The leading bookmal<ers realize they
are facing bankruptcy If the American
horse wins the Derby and many rumors
are about that Sir Martin viii have to
be pounds the best TO get home in front
on wednesday. These rl1mors are of a
positive nature and their source cannot
be run down. In facs. they seem to
have originated from the fact that Ger
tain well-known firm of layers has held
Sir Martin at tops despite the heaviest
backing and only today did they re-
iuctantly cut his price TO to ?. hay
ing held him steadily at As yesterday
willie an the other layers We're quoting
the lower figure.
Sir Martin never looked so well as in
his gallop this morning. He was not
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
FRENCH LABOR RANKS
READY FOR CRISIS
Revolutionary Members of Strike
Committee May Vote to
Gust Leaders.

PARIS, May 2L-The break in the
ranks of the General Confederation of
.abor will likely reach a crisis torlor-
row, when, at a meeting Of the strike
committee. the revolutionary members
of the organization viii seek to fol &c
the designations of Secretaries Mel and
Guerard for their stand against
declaration of a general strike at this
time.
Neil and Guerard say nat the pro-
letariat is not ready to safNe, and they
have been largely responsible for the
refusal to jnaugurate
nation wide strike.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
AlNSWORTH CAPTAIN
OF MIDDIE'S EIGHT
Rows No. 2 and Has Been on
Varsity Two Years-Races
Scheduled.

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, May 24.-walter
AinswOrth. Of Minneapolis, has been
elected captain of the Naval Academy
boat crew for next season.
lie rows No. and has been a mem
Der Of the first crew for two years
The Navy loses Leighton, Giler, and
Davis by graduation, but the junior
boats viii supply a number Of good
men.
tt is almost certain that Harvard
viii row at Annapolis next year, and
1910 promises to be a big rowing sea-
son, as Syracuse, Columbia, and New
York universities are also prOba Bile
of the midshipmen
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
SHRUBB-SHERRING
RACE: COMES NEXT
They Will Go Fifteen Miles
Next Saturday for Side
Bet of $1,000.

BUFFALO, y. Y, May 24.-Ixeen in
terest is manifested here in the special
hfteen-miIe race between Alfred Shrubb,
of England. aud Billy Sherring. Of
Hamilton. Ontario, which viii be run
Saturday.
Shrubb is the fayorite in the betting
Sherrzis's advent IN the professional
ranks IS of late occurrence. He won TIE
greatest Marathon of the Olympic series
three years ago, with John Ivanberg, OF
Sweden. second, and recently issrod d
challenge to run any man in the world
at any distance. Persons who have
clicked Sherring in his trials say he has
something to spare en- the best time
made by the Englishman in any of his
contests.
The race viii be for aApurse offered
by the local management and a side bet
OF 81 600 each by the runners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
FIVE YEARS OF WORK
ON PANAMA CANAL
Great Amount of Excavatng Done in Half Decade
Asaonishes the World -Sixty-six Million Cubic
Yards of Dirt Removed Since 1907

The United States has finished I'VE
years of ownership Of the Panama
canal. This Government took posses
sion of the property May g. 1901 At that
time the only work in progress was N
the Culebra cut, where about 600 west
Indian laborers were at work.
The Government engineers determined
that the first work to be done was that
of effective preparation on great
scale. To this about half of the five
years has been devoted. The first re-
quirement was to get safe sanitary
conditions established, and the success
in this work is still regarded as the
most Distinguished achievement of this
Government administration Of the
zone.
The death rae there is now lower
than in many American cities. and the
great plaques formerly feared are to-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
Why Does It Cure?

Not simply because it contains
SarsaPariIla, but because il is
medicine of peculiar merit, corn
pose Of more than twenty different
remedial agents effeeting phenom-
email cures of troubles of the blood,
stomach, liver and bowels.
Thus Hoods SarsapariIla cures
scrofula, eczema, anemia, catarrh.
nervousness, that tired feeling. dys-
pepsia, loss of appetite, and builds
up the system.
Get IL today in .he usual liquid form or in
chocolated tables form called Sarsatabs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
DE WORE SLATED
FOR GIANT BERTH

NEW YORK, May 24.-It is expected
that Josh De Wore, who is recovering
from an attack of appendicitis, VIII be
substituted for Harry Mccormick ia left
field for the New York Nationals by the
latter part Of the week, Mccormick is
bOOting the ball too much TO satisfy Nc
GraW, so the little fellow viii be given a
chance, while Mccormick will be held
as a pinch hitter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
ERECT MONUMENT
TO GEORGE DIXON
Boston Sports Will Pay Tribute TO
Colored Boxer To-
nloTrOW.

BOSTON, Mass, May PA last trib-
ute from his numerous friends and ad-
mirers ia the world OF sports, the monu-
ment to be erected IA memiry OF George
Dixon. the human fighting machine. will
be placed over his grave at Forest Hills
Cemetery late this afternoon.
On its face In large oval panel. the
principal stone Of the monument. there
IS "A striking likeness OF the prize fighter
cut IN the solid granite. IN heavy bas
relief Little Chocolate" as he ap-
peared when at his best. with close
cropped hair and athletic jersey.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
TENNIS TOURNEY
TO START TODAY
Annual Middls Atlantic Event Be-
gins on Chevy Chase
Courts.

Weather permitting. the tennis tour
ney which was scheduled to start at
Chevy Chase Saturday will begin today
The result viii decide the champions
in the Middle Atlantic Association.
Washington made particularly bril-
liant showing in this event last season.
and is gain expected to be well up in
the running. despite the fact that some
Of the leading talent from Baltimore
and Philadelphia will compete
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
LINEMAN HAS HARD HEAD.

WILMINGTON. Del, Nay 24.-Jerry
Madden. linemau, after an experience
today. believes he could qualify for Il
side show as the hard headed" man. %
Madden fCll from pole to the ground.
making a fall of more than forty feet
He arose and walked TO a doctors Of
nee, where ne had his scalp sewed up.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
WELCOME BRESNAHAN
WITH GLAD ACCLAIM
New York Fans Plan Hearty Re-
ception for Him This
Afternoon.

NEW YORK. May 24--sixty-one lead
ing fans" including State Senators,
lawyers, actors, and just plain fans"
will give Roger Bresnahan, former
catcher Of the New York Giants. now
Of the St. Louis aggregation. a big loving
cup at the polo grounds this afternoon
and they viii all root their hardest for
the Cardhlals-to lose.
This will he Rogers first appearance
Tor this season here, and IL Is expected
fhe attendance VIII be a record breaker
EaF an off dag.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24

day unknown. IT was not till June,
1906. that the type of canal was decided,
by act Of Congress. in favor of the
locked ditch. The progress which has
been made on the canal is suggested
by the figures on excavation since
American control began:
Cubic Yds
19oi, from May l................. 24S.O72
1913 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 1.7s9, 81
iSVo ---------.------. 4ss4br ~
1907, 1865. and 1909 to May L.. 66,000,U00
The total expenditures On the work to
February /. 1909. have been S93. 913, 000. OF
which the largest items are:
Civil administration, $2,6lS,1 32. santa
tiol,, SS,0l4,952; construction and enSi-
neering, $50, l22, 44S; buildings. quarters,
etc, s. 10 SOP; double tracking Panama
railroad, l,O95, 40I; relocation of Panama
railroad, s., 107,265; municipal improve
ments Of Panama and Colon, S2,Z72, $40:
municipal Improvements for canal zone
settlements, 81, 0O7, 49,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
CUT APPROPRIATION.

NEW YORK. May 2f-Governor
hughes has cut 81 As. Ss6. 0s from the to-
tai appropriations made by this years
LEGISLATURE. a higher figure, II is said.
thaa sucn action BY governor of this
State has ever before reached.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
HITS MAN WITH GROWER.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, May 2A-Ber-
nardo Julio had just left a hotel on Mil
street with a GROWER when he was
struck by a train on the Reading rail-
way. He was taken TO the NorristoWn
Hospital with a fractured cOllaF-bone
and other injuries, and is in a danger
Gus condition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
FALLS FROM CAR.

Leon PAUL thirty years old of sl5
Eighth street southeast. fell from a car
at Eighth and I streets southeast this
morning, receiving a cut over the left
eye He was taken to the Casualty
Hospital, where the injury was dressed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24
EASTERN LEAGUE
MORNING GAMES

TORONTO, Ontario, May "a
Ri. +.
Newark .....O / 0 ] 3 > 0 % 6 2
Toronto 20 o o 0 q , % 8
McGinity and Krichell; Lul.dgren and
Mitchell. Umpires-Kelly and Murray
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-24

MONTREAL, May IA
Baltimore % 0 3 o 1 ? . O-S /
Montreal - 0 o 0 1 % 2
Dessau and Bycrs; Rogers. Smith, and
Clark. Umpire-Connor.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21
REDMOND SAYS ERIN'S
OPPORTUNITY HAS COME
Cables Stirring Message to T.
p. O'ConnOr

NEW YORK. Nov. 2O.-John Red
mond. leader of the Irish nstionalists
in the British house of commons, has
eabled to T. P. O'Connor, who is
here in the interest of the Irish cause
declaring that the greatest constitu-
tional struggle in England in the last
two centuries had begun. Redmond's s
cablegram follows:
THE greatest constitutional struggle
in England for upward of 200 years has
commenced. No such opportunity has
been offered Ireland to strike for lib
erty since Grattan moved for the dec
laration of independence
Accept my heartiest congratulations
on the splendid success of your mis-
sion so far and convey TO our coun-
trymen and friends in America our
deepest gratitude for their abounding &
sympathy and aid. If the Irish nation
alists abroad and at home act unitedly
in this supreme hour glorious vic
tory is assured.
O'Connor said today he had been
able to send Redmond 100000 in cash.
and that between $4,000 and 100000
had been pledged besides.
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21
LABOR LEADERS WILL
BE PAID SALARIES
If Imprisoned the Three OFF,
Gals Will Draw Pay

TORONTO, Ont. Nov. 2e.--The Amer
lean federation of labor. In addition to
indorsing the attitude taken by Pres
ident Gompers In the Buck stove and
range companys Injunction proceed
ings, has voted to continue the sal
aries of Gompers and Secretary Frank
Morrison and to compensate Vice Pres
ident- John Mitchell. who is not a sal
aried officer. I'm their terms of impris-
onment. should they go to jail for con-
tempt OF court.
they will be paid at the rate OF
Sc, 900 year.
resolution of thanks for the hos
pitaIity extended by Toronto was
adopted 1t declared that .'the free
dom of speech which we have exer
cised without judicial restraint based
on superconstitutional and self-arrogat-
ed authority has been more in conform
ity with the fundamental principles of
a free and self-governing people, free
speech and free press than is possible
at present in the United States
The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21
DON GASPAR DE PORTOLA
WILL VISIT VENTUR A
To Aid in Big December Street
Paving Jubilee
[Special Dispatch 10 The Cali


VENTURA, Nov. 20.-Don Gaspar de
Portola has been invited to be present
at TIE Ventura street paving jubilee
during the first week in December. 1t
is entirely likely that on his trip up
the coast Portola visited Ventura. The
spot found favor in the eyes of the
early Spanish explorers. 1t was the
first place chosen to found a mission by
Padre Junipero Sierra, although it was
not the first mission founded. The
bells for the Ventura mission came to
the coast in the first mission ship.
1t being likely that Portola was here,
the committee having charge of the
jubilee In celebration of the paving
of all Vontura's streets deems ii fitting
that Portola should come again to see
how mission town looks in the TWEEN
tieth century.
So Den Nicholas Coyarrubias. who
impersonated Portoia at San Francisco.
with MS gorgeous costume and riding
his splendid horse, will be at the right
hand Of the queen Of the Ventura
jubilee.