Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-22

The subcommittee of the Senate
committee OIL privileges and elections,
which is endeavoring to determine
whether or not William Lorimer was
chosen as a through the bribery
OF Illinois legislators, will not be han
dicapped, as vas the prosecutor in the
recent case of Lee O'NeiI Browne. The
men accused of giving brides and ac-
cepting brides will testify in person be-
fore the committee, and unless their
perhaps the truth will come out.
Mr.. Wellman, on the eve of his pro-
posed trip across the Atlantic in a dir
igible balloon, is worrying a little
about the coast winds. He thinks they
are more dangerous than the breezes
to be encountered further out. The
government weather bureau has prom
Used to keep him informed of weather
conditions W. days in advance by
wire. IL he wishes to remain up in
the air. or 'at sea" Mr.. Wellmane will
doubtless take these reports seriously.
An unexpected Progressive victory in
the county convention at Schenectady
has set the Old Guard in New York
State to figuring industriously again.
It may be- necessary, indeed, to
sharpen a, few more pencils, as the task
looks like a long one. Only one
answer-that which shows vice-Presi-
lent Sherman with the majority of the
votes at Saratoga-is acceptable to the
f1gurers, and that's what makes the
problem so difficult.
A hundred and fifty alleged Ameri-
can heirs of the .1ate'-if that term
may be properly applied to a man who
passed away sixty years ago-Sir
Thomas Moore incorporated themselves
In New Jersey as the Moore Heirs"
They want the 800, 900, 900 Sir Thomas
is said to have left, and are preparing
to fight for it. The English estate"
dream Of wealth has not been prevalent
of late, and the Moore Heirs have
pleasantly revived it.
81. have no defense to make of the
Payne law, for it needs none,' declared
Speaker Cannon In defiant mood, )
he accepted his twentieth nomination
for Congress. Perhaps the speaker in
tends to convey by suggestion that n
defense for the tariff would be thrown
away. 1t is impossible to believe, in
the light of political history which is
being made day by day, that the
speaker wished to be taken seriously.
Perhaps it is his desire to be con-
sistent which causes Colonel Bryan TO
determine to handicap the Democratic
candidate for governor of Nebraska in
the coming campaign as much as pos
sible. Fortunately. his power to insure
another Republican victory in the
presidential campaign two years hence
is gon 1t is doubtful, indeed, II he
can hurt Nominee Dah1man's chances
In his own State this year.
Too much Importance cannot be at
tached to the inquiry Coroner Hough-
ton, of Jersey City, has begun into the
circumstances attending h collapse of
the Erie railroad tunnel, which resulted
in the death of eleven workmen, The re-
l~uctance of witnesses to testify is in
itself evidence of criminal negligence,
convincing proof OF which. it is hoped,
the inquiry will unearth.
After a misunderstanding which
caused the postponement of their wed
ding day, sixty years ago. a New York
couple were happily married Tuesday.
1t would perhaps be premature to at
tempt to point out that in such a case
ut is better late than never" or that
this is one of those exceptions which
also proves the rule.