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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-26
PINCH THAT MADE A PRES,
platt's Own Story of Himself
and Roosevelt.
The Rough Rider, Rcminded in eau
Gus of His Promise No 10 Decline
the Vice-PresiGency. sat Down
How Made Governor.


tor Platts Autobiography" which begins
In the June McClurc's. 1t is the history
of how senator l1att twice nominated
Roosevelt for high Office At the very
beginning the posthumous report tells
how Senator Platt wasn't sure In April,
1898. that Frank s Black would be re-
nominated for Governor of the state of
New York Some ono asked him If there
was any doubt Qf denomination.
Yes, there ~ was my response, Nc
Kinley and Congress are liable to declare
war on Spain ct any moment. That war
may develop a hero. Popular sentiment
may force the nomination of that hero
for Governor Of New York. Theodore
Roosevelt has just resigned as assistant
secretary Of the navy and is drilling his
rough riders In tho West. Gen. Francis
V. Greene and Col. Frederick d Grant
have volunteered their services. Any one
Of them might come out of the war
adorned with such laurels as to compel
his nomination..
This long shot came home and Mr..
Plat sent Iremuel Ely QuigE down to
Montauk Point to see how Col. Roose-
Welt felt about running for Governor be-
cause Senator Plat felt he would DO
needed If tho senator himself were to
s,,v in Vasbiu,ton
When Ouiyr n1u,nned at ROOSEVELT the
question "Wo,,ld Won accent the renub-
lea, nomination for C;ovorroro" there
was M hesitation in ,he answer
Like cracks from rifle the gallant
colonel came back with:
would !? would ne delighted'
"rher count 1,non senator Platt's sup
port. Come to the Fifth Avenue Hotel
to 600 hin, y. u.as ouie,,,.e ron,v
Roosevelt came to the Fifth Avenue
| Hotel We had long talk We buried
mast differences He agreed 10 head the
| renublican state ticket IL nominated and
70 consult with mo and other marty lend
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-26
-fonkers StatcsWal.
A NATTER OF CHOICE.
that spring

4 MATTER OF CNOINE-
Tho dancius seasons never ---";
Some OF US dance througN al.
The frog prefers Il summer hog.
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-26

THURSDAY, MAY
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22

of five years ago points to a light vote, and it is well-known saying in New York that full vote helps the republicans. and a light vote the democrats Not more than 60 per cent of the voters are registered, and the New York Globe predicts that not more than 50 per cent will vote.
 In the face of strong stock market and light registration, MT. Roosevelt goes from town to town squirting vitriol and vinegar, and the best opinion is that he is facing defeat-a defeat that he might minify by diselaiming any inten- ton on his part to become a candidate in 1912 A disclaimer of that nature is not forthcoming. MT. Roosevelts plan of campaign is too warlike and bitter to win back the dscontented and the dis satisfied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
GETHSEMANE

AnOnyInouS.
 In golden youth, when seems the earth A summer land for singing mirth, When souls are glad and hearts arc
 light. : And not a shadow turks in sight, We do not know it, but there lies Somewhere, yelled under evening skies. A garden each must some time see. s
 Gethsemane, Gethsemane, M
 Somewhere his own Gethsemane. With joyous steps we go our ways, Love lends a halo to the days; Light sorrows sail like clouds afar. We laugh and say how strong we are. We hurry on, and hurrying, go Close to the borderland of woe That waits for you and waits for me.
 Gethsemane, Gethsemane,
 Forever waits Gethsemane. Down shadowy lanes, across strange
 streams, Bridged oyer by our broken dreams. Behind the misty cape of years, Close to the great salt. font of tears The garden lies; strive as you may You cannot miss 1t in your way All paths that have been or shall he
 Pass somewhere srr'
 Through Gethsemane. All those who journey, soon or late Must pass within the gardens gate: Must kneel alone in darkness there And battle with some fierce despair. God pity those who cannot say Not mine, but thine.v who only pray. Let this cup pass,' and cannot see The purpose in Gethsemane. N<f
 Gethsemane. Gethsemane,
 God help us through 0eths&rnanol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
WELLMAN AND THE JOKERS

accepted in the spirit in which it Is meant. It becomes powerful weapon of offense only when it is seriously intended to be offensive and strives to inJure it's object rather than to amuse it's audience.
 Walter Wellman has shared the com mon fate of those who elect to stand in the limelight. The Record-Herald lacks a sense of humor when it displays a lack of patience with the lightly meant and lightly read criticism of the Wellman polar endeavors that has advertised it's correspondent for several years.
 MT. Wellman's misadventure on the Atlantic was at any rate a great ad- venture. His sincerity of purpose will hardly be seriously questioned, but the jokesmiths will again attack him as matter of course.
 However, 1t is not an unjustifable ''attack'' on him to say that even if We'll man had succeeded in crossing the ocean it would have been merely a spectacular stunt" profitable only to those whom it advertised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
THE TRICKS OF MEDIUMS

Hereward Darlington in Leslies.
 Table levitations are often produced by means of a hook strapped to the wrist and inserted beneath the edge of the table or hook attached to strap passing over the shoulders of the medium and his assistant. Raps are made by slipping the fingers along the polished wood of the table top or by pressing the boot heel against the table leg and gently sliding 1t up and down. Objects are moved and musical instruments played upon, etc., by means of black threads and hairs which are practically invisible In the dusk of the seance room. Sometimes dummy hands are employed to allow the medium to release his own unobserved and with them produce the marvels witnessed Pel- lets are read beneath the table, after others exactly resembling the sitters' have been substituted and laid on the table during the operation. Sealed letters are simply steamed and pried open, with more or less trouble, and their contents read. The majority of these tests are absurdly simple when once their secret is known. Like many other things in life, Its easy when you know how" But the majority don't know how.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Regarding Prohibition

'The time will hardly come when pro hibition agitation win cease entirely. but the prohibition wave that seemed to be sweeping the south has spent it's force, said ]. r. Dearing of Washington, D. C.. and the reason why prohibition has failed to prohibit in large cities is be- cause the laws enacted have been. toe radical. Had they been less drastic, or, in other words, had they provided for dispensaries or high license and strict regulation In cities of not less than 20. 900. prohibition would have commended itself to a majority of the people.
 'I spent several weeks in Georgia last spring. In Savannah saloons appeared to be in operation just as if Georgia were not prohibition state. In Atlanta it is different. Beer is sold in large quantities under the name of near beer and whisky may be lawfully dispensed in at least one of the clubs. Now the Georgia law is mild compared with the Alabama law, where even beer is prohibited. I am not personally interested in the liquor ques- ton. but l would be glad to see whisky give place to beer and light wines for many good people see no harm in drink ing malt and vinous beverages and the traffic will always be carried on, and that, too, on a large scale. The internal revenue receipts show that the consump- ton of liquor in the United States is about the same in volume as it was before the prohibition movement got start. It would be safe bet that right here in Birmingham there is as much liquor con- sumed as there was before the 'prohibi- tion laws were passed.
 "I was in Florida recently. and there found the statewide movement unpopu- lar. I was told that If a vote had been taken in Florida two years ago on the constitutional amendment now before the people the prohibitionists would have carried the state. But now the matter Is taken as a joke The proposed amend ment will be voted on in November, and will be showed under.
 Missouri votes on constitutional prohi- hition next month and while many of the rural districts may vote for the measure. the state will reject it. I was in Missouri during the summer and from all accounts the prohibitionists were then in the lead. but hear that sentiment has changed and that the amendment will be defeated. The trouble with prohibition is that so many men who have voted the dry ticket for political reasons drink in blind tigers. It Is that way in North Carolina, and it is doubtless that way here. If all prohibitionists were total ab- stainers the cause of temperance would be greatly strengthened
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
POE IN HALL OF FAME

From the New York World.
 The long campaign for the election of Edgar Allan Poe to the Hall of Fame seems to have ended successfully. Next Friday afternoon in the senate of New York university will canvass the votes cast in the quinquennial balloting of the electors. and the men who have urged the cause of the poet and tale writer since his defeat in 1905. felt sure yester- day their fight had been won. The last of the ballots from the 96 electors was received yesterday at the university of fees in Washington square east
 In an official announcement that the balloting was over there was an admis- sion that the Poe campaign had undoubt- edly been influential.
 The claims of several men have been particularly urged on the attention of the electors" the announcement said, notably those of Poe and Roger Will Hams, and 1t will be interesting to see in count of the ballots how far the elec- tors have been influenced in their de- eision by these campaigns, and what the gain in votes for these names will be as lOI cAdDlplts Nilil VI Cullen Bryant or Oliver Wendell Holmes, in whose election no one has particular ly interested himself"
 In 1905 Holmes boiled 49 votes and Bry- ant 4e Poe receiving 42 and Williams 46.
 Curious incidents of this years ballot ing were that Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller of the United States supreme court died a week after his ballot was received. and United States Senator Jonathan P. Deliver of Iowa died exactly the same length of time after his ballot came in. Senator Deliver had been an elector only since March, when he was chosen to fill the place of Edward Eggleston.
 It is possible, though not probable that 40 names may be added to the roster this year. Twenty-six vacancies exist among the famous American men of native birth" some of these having continued since 1900. Twenty-one remained after the election of five years ago. five being added as the quota of this year. One new place was awarded to the men of foreign birth, making the total number four, Three new places were set aside for fa- nous women making the total ten. The vote at this election will be the largest cast since the organization of the Hall of Fame. None of the electors failed to return his ballot, and all but a very lfew were received within a week after the time fixed for the voting had come. In several sections of the country confer ences of electors were held, following a plan originating in Boston, where ten of | those from New England were presided over by Charles w. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard.
 | The senate's canvass of the votes will l take place in the general offices of the university, Washington square
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
SOME POOR POLITICAL GOLF

imputation of wrongdoing. The repub- lican party doesn't need reforming: it's all right. What the republican party has been doing is improving
 This looks like a clean miss-Mr. Griggs did not have his eye on the ball at all. In his approach game he is apt to over drive the green. Proclaiming himself not a halfbreed but stalwart, he took President Woodrow Wilson to task for never voting the republican ticket:
 He was such a hdebound, mossbacked Bourbon democrat that he wouldn't vote for Mckinley. I don't say he voted for Bryan
 This manner of play would naturally provoke the retort inquisitive: Did tho Hon. John William Griggs ever vote for Cleveland? Has he ever voted for dem ocratic candidate? The approach is a severe test of the golfer. If we'll done 1t places his. ball on the green for the put to the hole. which requires good judg- ment of distance and sure touch. A specimen of the putting of MT. Griggs is his sneering allusion to the democratic candidate as this teacher and the 'sde- coy uuch' f1eie is very Ddu put.
 ''They sought the halls of old Nassau so as to make every one of their candi- dates by pr. Wilson's presence on the ticket as clean and spotless as he him. self-he's the decoy duck"
 MT. Griggs is an IL. D. of Princeton, too! Some veteran politician like the Hon. John Kean or the Hon. Franklin Murphy should take Mr Griggs up into three-story back room and show him how to play the game in better form. We doubt if his bellicose and partisan speeches are promoting the interests of the Hon. Vivian M. Lewis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
Carving Coal to TideYater

II does not stand to reason that Pitts burg can prohtably float coal 2OOo miles to New orleans 100 days in the year while Birmingham cannot economically float 1t 100 miles 365 days in the year to tidewater.
 This question should answer itself but it will be aided to an answer by President F. L. Robbins of the Mo bile Coal and Cement company, which is preparing to mine Alabama coal and to barge it to New Orleans, and to Mobile bay to be there transferred to steamers that will carry it to Colon provided President Taft does not mon- opolize the coal business at that point. MT. Robbins is an experienced river man and he is sorely needed in Ala = bama as leader in barge navigation. MT Robbins greatest successes in life were won in .barging and marketing coal on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and his hand is needed to open the way in the Warrior to Alaba ma coal ana coke.
 His company is getting ready to show the differences between rail transpor- 1ation and water transporta ton. He is himself a Pittsburg man and he does 5 nd'am' ate to say that water borne Ala> s:s coal will speedily drive West Virginia and Pennsylvania coals out of the gulf markets. Alabama coal should be first and cheapest. too, al Colon. and so it will be if 1t is not jock eyed out of it's geographical advan. tages by the Taft administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
SAVINGS OF CoNFUCus

Advance the upright and set aside the crooked, then the people will submit Advance the crooked and set aside the upright, then the people will not submit
 l do not know how man without truthfulness is to get on
 To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
 If the son for three years does not alter from the way of his father he may be called filial.
 The cautious seldom err.
 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises 1t will have neighbors.
 l am fortunate If I have any errors people are sure to know them. The people may be made to follow 6 path of action, but they may not b, made to understand it. The man of perfect virtue is cautious and slow in his speech The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
New Y0rk's Political Battle

The republicans of New York are singu- larly distressed. They see that if they elect the Roosevelt ticket they will de- feat MT. Tafts nomination in 1912. Should the Roosevelt ticket be elected next month the nomination Of the ex-President in 1912 would become a foregone conclu- sion. He. would. be irresistible in the de- sire for success that would sweep over the next republican national convention. To throw New York away in that con tvention would be to throw away all hope. It Is no. too much to say that many a republican besides the postnasters in New York do not desire to see Mir Taft left st the post
 1 There are signs already that the Roose. welt ticket k encounteIing Snags and ob- siaeles Look. for example, at the strong stock market The more the prospects ol democratic success are increased. the more active becomes the stock market. Wall street in other words is already disc0unting Mr. RooseveIts defeat
 Then. too, the lean registration figures in New York city are significant The  falling of of lI.ce9 from the registration
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
David Rankin, Farmer

The death of the man who supervised almost to the day of his death a cul- tivated farm of S4.OOO acres is no or dinary event. He was S5 years old when paralysis struck him down. Up to that attack he had arisen with the farm hands at 4:So o'clock every morn ing to carry on the work of the largest cuitivated farm in the world. He was multi-millionaire. but that fact did not make him globe trotter or an idIer of any sort.
 His farm lies in Atchison county, Missouri. He was born in Indiana. and he went to Missouri about 40 years ago. While he was first and foremost a farmer. he was also a friend and pro- moter of education. He founded col lege at his market town, giving it s25O,ooo.
 His wife died last month. and he had put his vast holding of excellent farm lands into a corporati tion. the stock of which now goes to two sons and two daughters David Rankin was the peer among American farmers. He had no tenants He cultivated his own lands and agricultural experts from many countries visited his farms to study his successful and practical methods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 "HE participation of the Hon. John William Griggs in the New Jersey
 \ campaign reminds us of his favor
 ite game of golf. He was one of the
 sturdy Apawamis veterans. He did not make so good score as some of his fellow immortals, and in the political
 game also MT. Griggs is not playing in very good form. The strength and vim are there; his driving Is an exhibition of tremendous energy, but he pulls and slices, often going into the rough and losing distance His brassy work is also faulty, for he seldom raises the ball in clean arc in the air. His approach game is even worse. and in putting he lacks the nice touch that holes out. He plays aggressively. even savagely. but with indifferent judgment To illustrate, lMr Griggs said in a speech at dollar dinner in Elizabeth on Wednesday even ing last: aHas ssa lie.'If we were to wipe out the achieve
 ments of the republican party in this country during the past 50 years 1t would | leave greater void than if we struck the sun from the Armament"
 We submit that that sort of thing is not good political golf. The muscular force in the stroke is undeniable, but the only result is to drive the ball into the ground and vastly amuse the specta- tors. A grave face under the circum- stances is impossible. Everybody roars.
 An instance of MT. Griggs disappointing
 brassy work:
 q don't like the word reform when
 applied to the republican party. It is
 best suited to -drunkard. But terms like
 improvement and progress carry no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
From the Louisville Courier-Journal. lHHHE Chicago Record-Herald published | in it's Monday issue the following

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 THE Chicago Record Herald published in it's Monday issue the following 4 article:
 .~rhe cheap wits who have had their daily nings at Walter Wellman are get l ting their answer now. and it is a crush | ing one whether the American shall sue | ceed in crossing the ocean or not.
 .The persons who know MT. Wellman
 hest have never thought of questioning
 his sincerity. He is an enthusiast, a man
 with stirring imagination, man pos-
 sessed with an idea. He has proved his courage in the past and he is proving II
 again. He means to cross the ocean, he | ,s ready to face all the risks and he has
 crew of courageous men with him who {. are full of his spirit
 we venture no prediction as to the re-
 suit of the perlous undertaking, but ex-
 cept the polar balloon projects 1t certain l ly exceeds in boldness anything yet at tempted in air navigation. We contrast
 It's daring with the spirit of the sneers and the satire, and suggest that there may be some edifcation for the public in the contemplation of the contrast.
 l The failure of MT. Wellman's dash toward the pole in an airship subjected him to the fiings of the testers that would have been visited upon anyone else who attempted the seemingly impossible ana met with no more success than his. The lioke-makers. a large majority of them engaged in humorous writing as daily occupation, and hard put to 1t for raw material. are little inclined to. temper the wind to the shorn lamb If plunger falls on the wrong side of the market Inc rates as the fool who is soon parted from his money, and Is lampooned as Hong as interest in his misadventure en- dures. If a king loses his crown ne pe- lcomes erist to the mills of the humorists | If an emperor narrowly escapes peins 1dvnamited he becomes equally useful to inc newsnaper paragraphers and the
 writers fer the comic weeklies lhe millionaire who marries the prima donna inc beiress who marries a nobleman. the Ino,,t,cian who makes a notably good iiii-
 nressIon or achieves notoriety by mak' ing A strikingly bad speech, are all alike to the writer of jokes. Each IS TOT ths moment in the public eye to pe reao
 obout and written about till suppiahteo l in the headlines by other players upon ,he stage of life sufficiently prominent to be accorded large space in the columns of the press. But jest and )ipe never seriously hurt anyone who amounts 10 anything. When the public considers anytne seriously 1t does not estimate his
 value by what has been written about him in jest. Humor, or wit. Is usually
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-22
There Is Gloom In MOntg0mery

"The Birmingham dailies," says the Montgomery Journal, are excoriating those cities in the far west that have already been exposed as having padded their census lists. We believe it was discovered many years ago that the man who ran down the street crying Catch the thief! Catch the thief? was the thief himself. But we wouldn't even insin- tate"
 That is all right. Let the Journal broaden it's campaign by demanding a re- count in both Birmingham and Atlanta, the two cities that show high percentages of increase in population. Birmingham Is ready for the test. Let it come, by all means. The Journal should march up to the White House and demand it. Open demands are better than sly insinuations
 AtIanta's increase outruns Montgom ery's, and it's census should be investi- gated when Birmingham's is. The Jour- nal should conduct it's campaign openly and above board. and without discrimina- ton. Compel the administration which has offended the Journal deeply to re- count both Atlanta and Birmingham. and all will be well. Go about 1t in earnest. Appeal directly to MT. Taft himself. On with the recount dance. let the joy of the Journal be unconhned.