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New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
FOR PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY
Correspondent Thinks He Sees Chance
for Party's Rehabilitation.

tn the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: was much interested the other
night while attending a Democratic meet
ing to observe that nearly all the speeches
manifested a reactionary rather than
progressive tendency. There appeared 10
ne a general opinion that Theodore Roose-
volts poJicies should be made an issue IN
the fall campaign and the Democratic
party committed 10 an attitude or enIlre
opposition to them
The demand was made by one OF the
speakers that the Democratic party De
reorsanized as a conservative party. Asl-
tstion for reforms was deprecated as IN
terfering with business prosperity. MI
Roosevelt was spoken Of as dangerous
demagogue.
That this attitude will be popular IN Ger
tain parts of New York cannot be gam
said But I am one of the many Demo-
Gratis who feel that no successful rehabln-
tation Of the Democratic party can be &C
conpIished along so-called conservative
lines deplore any tendency inside the
Democratic party to try to make an issue
with the Republican party over Mr- Roose-
velt's political programme as a whole
The Republican party has established tbs
right 10 be called the conservative party
OF the country. Now, if party government
is 70 amount TO anything in this country
We must have a great Liberal or Progress
sive party as well as great conservative
party, and to my way OF thinking If the
Democratic party is To fulfil any useful
purpose at all in our general political
scheme It must SO organize as 70 stand
for the liberal sentiments Of the country.
Now, whatever may be said OF Mr. Roose-
velt it will not be denied that he has been
the greatest mouthpiece Of Progressive po-
litical thought the world has seen for some
time.
II the Democratic party now goes before
the voters Of the coUntrv o. reactionaryi
party, standing in opposition 10 all that
Mr. Roosevelt stauts IOr. the Democratic
party viii throw av ay rae OF It's greatest
opportunities for success
LOUIS STOCK
New YORK Sent Il 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
4 WISE DECISION

The pension committee of the Grand
Army OF the Republic showed excellent
Judgment IN reporting adversely on q
proposal TO grant each Union veteran Of
the Civil War q pension of at least
dollar a day for life. To fix the mini
mum allowance for any veteran at $500
q wear. or a little over $50 month,
would involve an enormous increase III
pension appropriations. Under me
terms of the act Of February &. 1907.
which allots pensions to al veterans
who have reached the age of sixty two
wears without requiring any actual proof
OF either dependency or disability, the
monthly rates were fixed as follows: At
sixty-two years, S12 month: al sew
entv years. SIS q month; at seventy five
wears. $50 a month. It IS evident that
q fat rate of $50 2 month for those three
classes Of pensioners will more than
double the present disbursement for age
service pensions
In the fiscal year 190S-O5 the NUMBER
of Densioners under the act Of February
g. 1907. was 35S. .315 and the amount
paid 10 them was sos. 1888, III. The aver
3 ge pavment was S14S q year, or q little
over. SD a month. To give every pen
sioner $50 a month would require an
expenditure Of about S145.00oooo-an
increase in the governments annual
pension outlay Of SS7 ,O00,0 600
The fat rate moreover. Is subject to
the criticism that it does not make al
lowance fer increasing infrmities and
disability pensioner Of slXty-two
years has less claim on the government
than q pensioner Of seventy-hve years
the disability of each being taken for
granted. The older veteran has less
chance to make q living and needs more
aid from the government. 1t is faireT TO
grade age pensions, and if the minimum
for sixty-tHo years were to be raised to
$50 a month plausible argument could
be made for raising the rate for seventy
wears TO SO a month and the rate for
seventy-tive years 10 $50 month
The pension system is now in equi-
libriun. The expenditure under #
reached the record breaking limit of
SfCf. .97S. .70S in 190s-'O9- Everybody who
can prove sixty days service and an
honorable discharge can obtain pen
sion now at siXty-tTo years without
regard TO disability. The government
has fulfilled with great lberallty It's
obligations 70 the veterans whose only
claim IS service. after discharging its
prior obligations 10 those who suffered
injuries and 10 their dependents. The
country IS disinclined TO go any further
L is an evidence Of the generosity OF tke
system that the highest expenditure IN
Ger Il has occurred forty four years after
the close OF the war. Congress has
been open handed with the men #no
fought for the Union, and the Grand
Army or the Republic shows its appre-
clarion OF the governments traditional
attitude by disavowing a scheme IN
tended 10 upset the existing balance anu
10 saddle the Treasury with an addl-
-ional expenditure which It cannot now
afford.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
IN THE BERKsHIREs.
TBy TsIegraDh to TEs TrI5uae- J

BY Telegraph % TIE Tribune
Lenox. Sept Z2-The Austrian Ambasza.
dor and Baroness von HengslmuUer wiz A.
rive AT the Bourne cottage on saturaav
Count Felix vOn Brusselle-schsubsck 40
the embassy. arrived at the Curtis Ho.si
to-day.
Miss Ruth King. who has been A. N.
Eddy cottage. has gone 70 HighIawn HOUSE
TO visit Mr.. and Mrs William 2 O. Field
Mr. ard Mrs J. Denison Chauplin. Mizz
Marion, Mrs. ". L Mclean. Hrs. Henri
Erben. Mr.. and Mrs y. J. Weller. Wisz
Marion Weller and Mr.. ard 1Irz. ".
Comfort OF New York, have arrived AZ II.
Maplewood. in Pfttsheld
Miss Isabel Shotter IS snts-tatrfnz Iar-.
house party At Shadow5rook including Mss
Catherine Tillman, OF Wesr Point: Eriss
Mary Martin. OF New York: 3I1s Julia Owen
and Mrs James Munroslvn. o. Savannah.
Surgeon General and Hrs Y z Van
Reypen. OF Washington who have besr n
Stockbridgs. departed to-day for New YORK
At the opening OF the intsrstate highway
on Saturday afternoon Mrs. George West-
inghouse will raise the flag She viii -
assisted By Mrs George " Guthrie. %
PittsburG. Mrs. Robb de Peystar Tvtua
viii unveu the bowlder which has been see
up to mark the completion OF this htsh-
way. connecting the HoosatOnic and ths
Connecticut valleys Governor Draper os
Massachusetts, and many prominent cot
tagers will attend the exercises
Mrs 8 Parkman Shaw entertained ss
luncheon this afternoon for Mrs Julian
James. Present were Mrs. Harris Fahns-
stock. Mrs. George Winthrop Folsom. Mrs.
David Lydis, Mrs NJ Dwight Collier. Miss
Clementina Furniss and Miss Harriet Z
Wells
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Underwood Johnsoa
are entertaining BIr. and Mrs. Daniel Chss-
ter French. who have lately returned f-1u
abroad
Mrs Edward J. Berwind. Mrs. Joshua v.
Davis, Miss E1oise Davis. Mr.. and Mrs Ed
ward c Stenens, Mrs. H G. Trevor. Mss
Trevor and Edgar Freeman. oS Esw York,
are at the Curtis Hotel.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
REsrRlcTlNe IMMIGRATION.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: While fully indorsins the sentiments
expressed by Julian I. Gregory in his let
Ter, printed in your issue to-day. I would
ike TO call attention 10 tbs fact that quite
z large number Of native born americans
hold, to my mind the mistaken IDEA. that
il IS contrary 10 the Constitution and
therefore un-American even 10 entertain
ths thought for one moment OF restricting
immigration.
I believe with Mr.. Gregory that votes
and honor await the Congressman who
take up this fight for the restriction OF
immigration. This 70 my mind, IS the
burning question OF the hour. What IS the
advantage Of direct primaries II the con-
diticn OF the seIf-respecting. salf-support-
ing American workingman is to grow
verse every day? The labor market
crowded with the sure result OF lowering
the price of remuneration for labor. and
+be expenses Of the worker increased by
the high tax rate made necessary BY the
tremendous percentage of crime. pauperis1n
and ignorance OF our alien population
Trusting 10 see The Tribune take the lead
in this great cause. the stoppage Of 'immi-
grafton for ten years
THOMAS LOMAX-
New York. Sent. - 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
4 CONPLFTF TTCTORY.

The sudden and unexpected slipping
Of Schenectady County away from the
grasp of William Barnes. jr. makes the
control Of the state convention by the
Progressive forces certain. Even Mr..
Woodruff admits that il viii leave a
majority Of only fifteen or twenty in
favor Of his side while The New York
Herald" which cannot he regarded as
preiudiced in Colonel Roosevelt's favor
gives him 524 delegates to A. for Vice
President Sherman. with 10 doubtful,
and The New York Evening Post, ="
which likes Colonel Roosevelt no better.
also gives him a clear majority Of the
delegates. as TO 4G6 for Mr. Sherman,
with 81 doubtful
The ma iority Tor the Progressives will
probably be very much larger than even
the most ardent Progressive now ex-
poets. The results in Queens. where
Colonel Roosevelt won a majority of
the delegates: in Oneida. where the ma
chine lost one Of the three Assembly
districts, and in Schenectady, where
Barnes's assistants were Overwhelmingly
routed. show the tendency. The Pro-
gEessives are displaying increasing and
unexpected strength The tide has set
in their way. Before the votes are
counted in the convention there will be
a scramble TO get on the winning side
Mr. Barnes will have his hands full
trying 20 hold together his supporters.
The old guard is stronger to-day than
il VIII he tomorrow, and il will be
stronger tomorrow than il viii be when
the convention meets. The prediction
about "corporaI's guard viii be veri-
fed
We see no reason to doubt that the
victory Of the Progressivcs will be com
plete- Some fear has been felt lest the
''old guard" while losing control Of the
convention. might keep the platform
committee and the state committee in
its hands. The extent OF the victory is
reassuring Oh these points. While some
Of the supporters of Colonel Roosevelt
are cool toward direct primaries. on the
other hand some Of the membe-s Of the
-old guard" faction have felt il neces-
sary TO declare for this reform. And in
the haste 10 get upon the band wagon
considerable enthusiasm for direct pri-
maries viii develop. The zeal OF IN
eleventh hour convert is proverbial. In
the same way the victory Of the Pro-
gressives probably insures permanent
control Of the state committee. If the
ProgressiTes do not elect an actual ma
jority OF the committee. the lukevarm
members viii ally themselves with the
winners at the recent primaries. The
effect Of the vicuorv viii NOT be wiped
ont IN the way the Barnes woodruff
group hopes When the convention meets
the control Of the party viii pass per
manently out Of the hands Of the enemies
Of Governor Hughes and Of Progressive
policies
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
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New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
APPOINTMENTS BY REGENTS
Nine Members of Board Of Pharmacy
Named at Albany Meeting.

Albany. Sept 23-At = nesting OF the
state Board OF Regents to-day these ap-
uointnents were rnads 10 ths new SlaLs
Beard OF Pharmacy:
Fer terms Of three yearS-Clarence o
BigeIow, George c. Diskman, New YORK
and Byron NJ Hyde Rochester
For term OF two yearS-Judson 3. Todd.
ithaca: Alfred 3. Huesteds Albany and
George Rsimanns Buffalo
For term Of enc ysar-Otto R7uoen-
hs,rer. New York; John Hurley. Little
Fails. and J Leon -LascoH. New York
The Regents revoked the license OF Dr.
HUGO Schmidt. OF Buffalo, on the rec
Communication OF a committee OF the State
Board OF Medical Examiners Schmidt
was charged by the Erie County Medical
Society with issuing prescriptions for the
traffic in cocaine with the intent OF evad-
ing the law.
". Reed Blair, Of New York was ap-
pointed member Of the State Board OF
Veterinary Examiners in place OF Dr. r
c Grenside, who declined
The Regents called on Governor hughes
and bade him official farewell
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
LEGISLATIVE RELUCT4NCE.


When we read the evidence that is
coming out before the graft Investigators
we are puzzled al the reluctance with
which the Legislature passed the Tesolu-
ti0n providing for that Investigation. and
the care with which Speaker Wadsworth
and his friends tied the committees au-
thOrity UP in double bowknots. But
il becomes palmer. It must have been
modesty which made the LEGISLATURE
shrink from having legislative virtue un-
covered in the unsparing way Ia which
counsel and witnesses are bringin" il TO
light. Certainly the senators and As
sembiylnen must have known that the
probe would reveal only goodness. super
lative and almost incredible goodness
Senators lending mcuey 10 the needy
public service corporations. and the lat
ter whenever they had the cash 10
spare. spending it 10 secure the election
Of uncorrUptible legislators. Why the
zeal to keep the lid on all this hidden
merit:
But even Z legislators thought it de-
sirable not 70 let the right hand know
what the left hand was doing even if
they felt that they must continue 10 do
good by stealth, was II fair, was Il
proper to leave the pubic service cor
porarions Of the state labcrinc under
the hiceous and unjust imputations IN
der which they staggered? Was II right
10 keep the true facts hidden. and let
the public use the ugly word corruption"
~ S4b
an eye te It's Welfare? LEGISLATORS may
conceal the truth about legislative bene-
factions 70 the needy creatures of The
laT theg may keen the curtain drawn
over the fact that the corporations
found members OF former legislative
bodies incorruptibie and paid them 70
stay so. or paid 10 insure the continu-
2nce Of these incorruptible members in
public life. That is all IN the family
desire 10 spare bushes j. always
laudable. But was it right 10 hesitate
TO give the public the opportunity TO
know that the street RAILWAYS of fbe
state spent $4,000 in three wears 10
keep incOrruptible men in the Legislat-
ure? Who would not have hung upon
a strap cheerfully had he known thar
he was under such a heavy obligation
aE this 10 the street railways for guard
ing public morality: Few OF us have
loved the street railways as we should.
The Goals Of fire burn as we fhiuk Of
the unjust words bribery" grabs
-slush funds" that were applied To those
who were paying 10 keep public life AT
Albany pure and undefiied No: no con
sideration Of legislative blushes would
excuse the failure 10 10 this simple aci
ef Justice and let the truth t,e known
about the peoples obligation - the street
railway companies.
And while we are OBJ the subject of
the reluctance of the Legislature 10 un-
cover virtue let US express the hope that
none of the good deeds of living legisla-
tors and ex-legislafors will remain hid
den. The inlincibie modesty # living
Legislators nc doubt inclinee them 70 dig
cnly Tor that good Which We are assured
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
People and Social Incfdenfs

! Mrs. william n. Sands. who has bss-
visiting Mrs. James p. KernOchan, has r.
turned to New York
Mr and Mrs Craig BiddIe VIII close 4bss-
season on wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence y. DoIan vv4r
start for Hot Springs, on Thursday.
Miss Annie Leary has ~ 70 Naw vo-t.
for short visit
Dudley s. Morgan registered ar "A.
Casino to-day.
Miss Anna Sands. who has been 1-r,sr.
Of Mrs. Ogden Mills AT Staatsburr. has =.
turned 70 her home here.
Mr and Mrs George Gordon King ur7
close their estate on next Wednesday a,f
return to New York Tor the winter.
Blr. and Mrs William z Carter clousr
their season tonight and departed -
Philadelphia
sIr. and Mrs. A. G. Thatcher returned ..
New York to-day. Mr.. and Mrs. Avn
Ball departed for Tuxedo.
Nr. and Mrs. Norman De r vVhirA5orz.
returned from New York tonight. Tss-
are entertaining 3Irs. Baldridge, a sister :.
Mrs. W'hitshOuse
William Watts Sherman has rstv-u.s
from New York
Dir. and Mrs. c A BALDWIN. OF Colorss,
Springs. are guests Of 1fT. and Mrs Cha-l~a
II. Baldwin.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
NEW YORK FROM The sUsUEss.

There are more than seven hundred tsSa, S,
sand school children IN NSw 4crk >,
wonder the slot machine trust Is 2oS
maintain a paid lobby At Albany
Held (Ohiol News.
A German dealer in hops buncced ~, ~
York banks out OF quarter OF ui5l.~ uis5r.,
dollars IN order 70 play the market So 80
OF the New York banks appear % % e-''
Rochester Herald
When We think OF New Yorks - ~
Headquarters we ara filed with pltSc c5~-s
the cOrnparativefy honest persons IN ~
Sing and Auburn pTiSons--bcils-iSs -
quirer.
\ fashionable New York ehurch ,-is 80
wanted its pastor TO resign TOOK Us, T7fls~e
means OF locking him out OF the eel,-,,s-
as its notice 90 him. lt really "e9
thing OF a hint--Omaha bee
New York man. forty years oio ~ sri
20 wed says he has never yet hisss- hssl- --7srs
He'll still BE about 70 We1 ~ =
from nOW.-Cleveland Leader
New York viii now renew rs r~~sre
mailing down OF the Id New p e. vysrrs1
10 bs good is really smusirs .-GisS
JcTLn-Courisr.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
TEF NEWS THIS MORNING.

FNoRFIGN.-Nohamm Bey fer1o'
-,-esidenr OF the Egyptian National Con-
RES in session in Brussels, denouiiceo
Theodore Roosevelt for 'dlshenorllis
E--z-pr on ifs eYn soil =- Inc ffeitch
Minister of Public Works, ulsIsalce
from Paris says, has decided 10 graIL'
rzr-rifcsres 70 American sutomooilsts'
sl+ho,1rb the United States was net q
7rsrtv 10 the international autoneD.iS
convention Of q year ago -- 1lat
EedernDI orist fathers were SuIllnoIlSo 70
zruear ID the correctional court IN tafls'
charged with having secretly recon
sf-l5cred the order, which was dlssolFso
~ law IN 1901. - Germany faces a
large deficit THIS year, but, according 10
q r5isusrch from Berlin. the government
will not introduce new revenue measures
7,util after the BslchstaS electlens'
which VIII be held, probably, IA 1s11s
AbOI1t three hundred Jhousanu
German metal workers viii be locked
cut if the shipbuilding strike Is ne1
ended before October L
RONFSTIc-Afters q conference with
President Taft At Cincinnati, Senator
Es,,~ton announced that he would stump
the state for Harding. the Repubf'can
nominee for Governor. - interstate
commerce Commissioner Lane sa1a at
the Chicago rate hearing that he ran
-aads must adjust their economic DIM
entities hv some other means man oy
asking shiDpprs TO contribute the Iunos
-1,ar1for Arguments for ana
s~1i-7sr 2 uostponement until a-ter ms
november elections Of the Lor-rner n
zreStigarior were heard be- the senatorial
committee n Chicago - EcN6Il-eI
Hughes II Aibsn- designated Attorney
r5eneral O-NGiley 70 have charge O me
Queens graIt cases. - ne IN ~
Service ConaEnissioIH ID District con
-inue6 the hearing on he apphcaJlon O.
fhc Buffalo, Rochester * Eastern t-1li-
rod COMPANY for authorit- 70 construct
road from Buffalo 70 Troy. - me
Deroc-sts of New Hampshire held their
state convention at Concord Simply
adopting platform
STT-Sfoeks were dull and prices
g-eaz-y-. After q conference with
PROCESSING leaders At Oyster Bay Iheo-
ejore Roosevelt said he would be CHOSEN
as temporary chairman Of the saratoga
convention by more than enc hundred
~-ateg = Commissioner Baker tod
the grand fu-v, il was said that the
f-svnor order sbolishing plainclothes
zneu was responsible Tor the VIDE open
conditions decried by Acting Mayor
Mitchell - The attitude Of Mayor
s5avnor toward the Democratic nOmina-
zion for Governor stin puzzled politicians
of that party. == EX-SheTifT Chanler
revoked the power of attorney given 10
Mime. Caxaiieri in the ante-nuptial
agreement The graft hunters
learned from Mr. Rogers that more than
Ss2 Geo had been given candidates 10y
The corporations 10 secure square,
honest men" fn public life. == Presi-
dent Shante denied that there had been
q split between ms company and the
Trterborough- Metropolitan reorganiZa-
fipu COMMITTEES, but said early Develop
Tueuts might be- expected -= John z
Gilman. Of Boston WAS elected com
uIander IN chief of the Grand ARMY Of
the Republic 81 the Atlantic City en-
k-arnpfnent
THE WEATHER.-Ind for to
DAY. Far. The renpera tJre yesterday:
Highest, IS, az 2. m; lowest IS, al
q N.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: l should like TO register q protest
against the use of the loud uneaTthly
screech. now so frequently being used by
automobiles to give warning OF their ap-
prOact.
This sort of noise may be necessary on
busy thoroughfares and upon country
roads, but 7 can't see the necessity of its
being used so continuously in the quiet
residence streets of New York, especially
at all hours Of the night
The number of times that my sleep has
been disturbed frequently far into the
morning. by motorists evidently III an
effort to awake the dead" makes me feel
that some concerted action should be taken
IN regard 10 prohibiting such occurrences
Here on West End avenue we are 8 quist
community. or rather. would he. were Il
not for these discerdaut blasts and I think
thar we, along with al other auist Gem
nunities, should be spared this torture.
WEST END AVENUE
New York, Sept q, 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT

rBv Telegraph 70 The Tribunal
Newport Sept. z2-An Of the patients in
the Newport summer colony seem TO be
doing we'll and to-day were reported on the
road to recovery.
There was a report here to-day that Mr.
and Mrs. F. Lothrop Ames, OF Boston, had
purchased the Cushing estate on Ocean
avenue which they occupied last summer.
No verifcation could be obtained OF the
report
Mr. and Mrs. Royal Phelps Carroll and
Miss Dorothea Carroll have closed their
season and returned 20 New York
Mrs Edward 7. Potter has gone to New
York for a visit with relatives.
Mrs. Thomas Mexican, OF Philadelphia, ts
q guest Of Mrs William E Carter
William Rhineiander Stewart, Jr-. has re-
turned 70 Harvard for his senior year.
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds Hit have planned
to close their season in a short time and
return TO Washington for the winter.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-23
4r01PDUPOIs AND A1I4BILTTY.

AIDlRUI POtS IN ~ 1lIAADAL1i l.
Some time ago q German benedict ap-
plied for a divorce on the ground that
his wife had deliberately and without
consent divested herself Of the pleasing
plunapness that had won his love in or
DER 10 be slender and in the fashion
Contemporary history is silent as to the
decision Of the solon before whom the
plea was made. bat the weighty ques-
ton continues TO agitate the breasts o.
German husbands. who continue 10 be Of
the aattering opinion that there cannot
be TOO much OF their womenkind.
Tie pr0tracted agitation of the ques-
ton demonstrates also that the German
ladies continue to be OF the opposite
opinion They not only admire slender
ness. they acilieve il. and now there bobs
up in the ''Berliner L0zalanZeiger" an
other male protestant. who bases his
case not ON "a mere difference OF ideal
Of physical beauty, but on the far
stronger ground OF incompatibility OF
temper. a woman, thus he argues. VINO
is not slender by nature ruins her
temper bv banting which generally
means undertaking 10 woman who Il
hungr., ne s4clairns With conviction, and