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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-30
Real Live Washington Gossip,
BY TAvENNER.

Washington, April 26.-Sena-
tor Aldrich's announcement that
he will not be a candidate for
reelection is being regarded with
increasing suspicion here in
Washington as a manifest pOliti-
cal trick.
1t is doubtful if a single one Of
the genuine progressive republi-
cans really believe that the Rhode
Island boss intends to relinquish
his control of legislation a mo-
ment sooner than he has to. Even
a few regulars have privately
expressed the belief that Aldrich
might consent to a reelection,
basing this conclusion upon what
they characterized as the "enor-
nous pressure which will no
doubt be brought to bear upon
Aldrich to cause him to change
his mind.
Because of his record of under
handedness and trickery in deal
ing with the Senate and the pub
lie, everything Senator Aldrich
does or says should be carefully
analysed before accepted on its
face value.
Aldrich does not say any
where that he will not accept a
reelection. He says he will not
be a candidate" 1t would be
no surprise to Senators who know
Aldrich if the words 81 am not
a candidate for reelection"
should turn out after the fall
congressional elections to have
been but another of his famous
lockers. - with which the Payne
Aldrich tariff law is overloaded.
The corporation interests sery-
ed by Aldrich can best maintain
the excessive tariff rates, which
give them monopolies on Amerl-
a markets and make it possible
for them to collect enormous pro
fits from consumers, through a
Republican administration. There
fore it is but natural that AID
rich primary object at this time
Is to keep the Republicans in
power.
What move on Adrich s part
could relieve the Republicans OF
so heavy a responsibility in the
approaching Congressional elect
ionns as the announcement of his
retirement! Realizing that his
long representation of Big Bust
ness has earned for him the en-
nifty of the American people, and
that his name is to be one of the
main issues in the fall campaign,
it is but giving due credit to
Aldrich's resoprcefulrness to as
sumo that he figured it out he
could not serve the special inter
ests better at this time than to
announce his retirement, Vt such
announcement would help DE Re
party over DANGEROUS
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shoals.

Aldrich is taking no chances in
announcing hat he will not again
be a candidate. He can change
his mind easily, or he can have
reelection forced upon him.
Should the next House be Demo
cratic, however, Aldrich might
not care to come back to the Sen
ate, for it would then be obvious
that he could put through none
of his own peculiar style of leg
islation.
The ship subsidy bill is beaten
so far as this session of Congress
is concerned. 1t goes to de-
s~truction an the rocks of scandal.
The Merchant Marine League, the
organization which is backing
the bill providing for the annual
payment of $4,000, 900 of public
funds to a few private ship own
ers, is being exposed before a
special investigating committee
of Congress as being backed by
men who would profit directly or
indirectly through the passage of
the proposed legislation. These
men, most of whom are million
aires, have contributed to the
funds of the league, and the
funds have been used in turn to
attack and terrify members of
Congress opposed to the subsidy
grab. Although officers of the
league testified contributors to
the league treasury were in
tereSted in the passage of a ship
subsidy bill merely as American
patriots anxious to see the mer.
chant marine built up, a cross ex-
animation OF the very witnesses
who made such assertions
brought out the fact that two OF
the vice-presidents of the league
were directors of the steel trust,
and that another vice-president
was the general manager OF a
Newport News. Va, shipbuill Inns
company, concerns which might
easily profit through the opening
Of the pork barrel by the passage
of a ship subsidy measure.
The Democrats are nearer to
electing a President Of the
United States than they have
been since 1892" says Governor
Claude A.. Swanson Of Virginia.
who recently completed a tom
that extended to the Pacific coast
Not IN years have the Dem
ocrats shown 50 much activity, 50
much desire to shake off lethar-
gy, to hold harmony banquets.
and TO get together as is mani
tested in all sections Of the coun-
try at this time. With such a
spirit pervading the leaders and
the rank and file of Democracy
taken together with the dissen-
sion among Republicans, / can
see no other result that a Demo
cratic house and Democratic Pres
ident in 1913"
President Taft still refuses to
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-30

WANTED: - man to attend
a small garden Of about p acre
on shares or salary. viii add
10 acres to same on shares and
also to take care of an orchard of
about 125 trees. Apply to-:
CAPT. R. TODHUNTER.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-30

B. T. Wiley was in Kansas City
yesterday on business.
John Dreyer and Frank Matsox
went to Kansas City Friday morning
on business.
Rev. and Mrs. c. N. Truck returned
Friday morning to their home in St.
Joseph.
Mrs. and Mrs. E. J. McGrew return
ed Thursday evening FROM a few days
visit in Kanas City.
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FOR ~sALE-Smgle comb buff
Orpingtons from prize winning
strain. Great layers. Eggs $500
anG 81 90 per Is.
Member S. c. 0rpington Club.
A. II. Meinershagen.
Higginsville, Mo.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-30

FOR SALE:-63 acres of land
5 miles southeast of Lexington
on Warrensburg road. Address
or apply to Mrs. c f. Landlord
or B. Y. Landlord, Lexington.
Mo-, Rural Route No. !.
3-5tf
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-30

Red River, Early Ohio seed po-
tatoes as fine as you ever saw at
Jos. L. Long, Cash Grocer.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-30

FOR RENT:-2 Rooms in the
End story over Barrons Grocery
apply to
R. Field.
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Hippo soap powder is in
town--ask your grocer.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-04-30
FOR SALE:-Rose ComI
Rhode Island Red Cockerels.
Mrs. Geo. H. Logan

FOR RENT:-A five room
flat. Modern with heat furnished
Apply to j. K. Letter.
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Wants, For Sale Ell.

FOR RENT:-A three room
house with garden, 51a miles
southwest of town. $500 per
month. Inquire of phone 512.
OSCAR SMITH.
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FOR RENT Suit of six (6)
r"omS with gas. electricity, water
and bath. 1921 'outn street. APP
ply to
Mrs VI. f Royie.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21
Taft in Deep Water.

President Taft is constantly get
ting into deeper water and unless
something for the better happens his
administration will be a miserable
failure. That Taft is able and hon.
est is generally admitted. He is kind
hearted and amiable but with all
these good qualities he can not keep
out of trouble. He ,dislikes shams
and rogues and has no fondness for
the interests. He likes the people,
likes honest men and aims to be
right. Nevertheless he is a failure as
president. He has over two years in
which to retrieve himself and every
citizen hopes he will succeed.
Mr.. Taft owes his present predica-
ment to his unwise selection of adj
Yisors. Except Secretary Wilson, he
has not one man in the cabinet who
is near the people. His attorney
general came to him fresh from cor
poration conquests. His secretary
of the treasury has been republi-
can, a democrat, republican and
was near democrat when he became
a member of Taft's official family.
His secretary of the navy is blue
blooded aristocrat. His secretary of
war recently came to this state to
argue before the supreme court for
corporation. His postmaster gen.
eral is a political spokesman. His
secretary of state is the laughing
stock of diplomats. His secretary
of the interior is suspected.
But Mr.. Taft's browning fault is
his submission to Aldrich and Can
non as his chief advisors. He con-
certs with the friends of the inter-
ests and seems not to know whom
they represent. He calls the agents
of the interests into frequent con-
ference and takes pains to snub such
foes of the interests as Cummins,
Dolliver, Clapp, Norris. Beveridge
and others who are closer to the
people.
Taft must CHANGE his tactics,
change his advisors and get nearer
the people or his administration will
be one of the weakest ever known.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21
The Town of Tarifa.

The town of Tarifa, just north of
the Straits of Gibraltar, gave its name
to an unpopular, but profitable, Gus
tom which now prevails in almost alb
civilized nations. The first tariffs
were levied by a gang of privateers
upon vessels passing through the
Straits of Gibraltar. This historical
fact has been the subject of many a
jes: and much sarcasm. Some people
think the example of the original
pirates of Tarifa has been initiated too
zealously in modern tunes. The tariff
collected by the bold seamen who
stood guard over this strait was de-
voted to the common good as well as
personal purposes, but The town never
prospered and today 1t is sleepy viii
lage of fishermen without a future and
without a hope, and nothing but a
story to make 1t famous.
Tarifa is protected by Cape Trafal-
gar, under whose shadow, in 1905,
Lord Nelson met the combined fleets
of France and Spain, and fought one
of the most notable sea battles OF his
tory to decide that "Brittania rules the
waves" The influence of Great Brit
ain as sea power has never been
misunderstood since that date, and the
lofty column which supports bronze
statue of Horatio Nelson, guarded by
Landseer's lions, in the most conspic-
uous spot in London, bears testimony
TO that fact
Across from Tarifa, on the African
coast, on an aggressive headland
which projects into the Atlantic, is the
picturesque medieval city of Tan
giers. where the negro race once de-
veloped an art and culture equal to
that of Athens or Rome, but the in
habitants have since become depraved
and degraded by corrupt influences
and are not only distracted by internal
dissensions, but are the cause of seri-
Gus controversies among the powers
of Europe. Under a good government
Morocco might again become a rich
and prosperous nation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21
The Argus Daily Short Story
The Order to Fire.-By F. A. Mitchell.
Copyrighted. 1870 by Associated Literary Presa

mander galloped up to the battery IN
hot haste.
why don't you shell emp he cried
angrily. What are you doing here
with these guns while the Yanks are
Strengthening us?"
General" gasped the disabled cap
tain. endeavorinG to rise, 1--WE ordered
Lieutenant Birney to take two pieces
over to that knoll which commands
the position and open fire, but l can't
get him to move"
open fire right herep' Numbered the
general. I'VE must stop this sacrifice
at once"
General" said the lieutenant, must
/ fire into that grove?"
"YeS, sir. Didn't you hear the or
der? Have you lost your head through
cowardice. or are you afraid Of hurt
ing the Yankees"
The lieutenant turned and gave the
order. The shells went crashing
through the trees.
Now move your guns forward" said
the general. land give it TO them again
and again till you clear the grove"
Rirrev. looking more like a corpse
than live man, advanced his guns as
ordered, stopping now and again to
empty them, till the fire from behind
the trees had ceased. Then he was or
1ered by the general, who continued to
direct the operations in person, to take
his battery through an open gateway
and post it beyond the intervening
trees. The guns were hauled into the
place through the grove and past a
large dwelling with massive pillars in
its front. The Federal troops had been
cleared from that part Of the field, and
the general was satisfied. Turning to
Birney with a scowl, he said:
Lieutenant, go to the rear under ar
rest"
sheathing his sword, 81 crave your per
mission to first go into the house yon-
der"
"What do you want to go there for?"
''To see If the inmates are alive"
''The inmates? What are they to
youT'
'From that house 1 went south to
Join this army. There / was born.
There less than year ago 1 was mar
ried. 1t is not a week since received
word from my wife that she had there
just been delivered of a son. You see
the holes made by those shots, that
rent In the roof from the explosion of
shell? General, for Gods sake let
me go and see If l have killed ray wife
and boyI"
The general sat in his saddle listen
ing TO this brief but impassioned plea
till it was finished. then threw himself
from his horse.
Come" he said. 81 will go with
you"
Together they went into the house.
All was silent: all was wreck. Not a
person appeared on the ground floor.
and the two officers hurried upstairs.
That. too. was deserted Then a sud
den thought struck the lieutenant. and
he hurried to the cellar. followed by
his general. There on a wicker lounge
lay a young woman with an ashen
face and closed eyes, while an old man
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21

The horrors OF the civil war fell
der states than on any other. This
territory was fought over by great ar
mics swaying southwark and north
ward, their houses riddled by shells,
their stock appropriated, and first one
army and then another Quartered upon
them.
In Kentucky. standing in the center
of a group, is house in the walls Of
which are to be seen a number Of
scars due to the impact of round shot
and shell. There is a story connected
with it that after nearly forty years
is still told among the people who live
in its neighborhood, a story Of one of
those occasions wherein one member
of a family was called upon by the
fiend of war to sacrifice another, only
IN this case 1t Is not brother spilling
the blood of q brother or a father OF
a son, but of a man obliged to- But
to the story.
In the late autumn of 1861 Win
field Birney, a young Kentuckian, was
married to Jeanette Ormsby, girl
who had grown up with him in the
same neighborhood. Her father was
a Unionist, and her sympathies went
to the side he favored. Her husband,
loath to choose against the wife he
had just married, hesitated a long
while as to which cause he should en-
brace, but at last, Notwithstanding the
pleadings of his bride, finally bid her
adieu and. going south, entered the
Confederate service.
The Union armies during the next
spring passed southwark over the
Kentucky border, down through Ten
nessee and into Alabama. Young
Mrs. Birney saw them march past the
house In which she lived with her IA
Their and mother, and it seemed that
every regiment formed an additional
barrier between her and her husband.
But when the next summer came
they all marched back again and this
time were followed by a Confederate
army. A part of this pursuing force
was fighting its way one day through
what had been two years before one
of the pleasantest, happiest regions of
Kentucky. With its artillery was Win
field Birney. now lieutenant. His
battery was being dragged onward for
a short distance, when it would stop.
its guns would be numbered, trained
on retreating Unionists. then advanced
again and the firing repeated.
"Birney." said its captain. take two
pieces over to that rise in the ground
and she'll that grove just below"
Birney paled. he made no move to
execute the order.
.'Well.' said his captain sharply,
.'what are you waiting forg'
Birney was saved u reply. for at that
moment shot struck his commander.
and be fell. red blood tric<ling from
bis chest.
There had been a desultory fire
from the grove in question. which now
gathered force and was doing much
damage TO infantry regiments support
Ing the artillery. The brigade COM
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21
Conservation in Sweden.

A Norwegian lumber dealer visiting
in the west tells Of a conservation
method in force in Sweden, Norway
and Finland which should commend
itself to the friends of forest preserva-
ton in this country. In those three
countries, he says, every lumberman
who cuts down tree is compelled to
plant another in the place of it. The
penalty for the first failure is a fine,
for the second is fine; for the third
refusal on the part of the government
to allow the delinquent to do further
business in lumber.
Naturally the law is carefully OBJ
served, with the result that forests
viii hold out indefinitely. The people
most Of them, those who wish to
grab government property-who hold
that our own forestry laws are too
exacting, should learn that only the
preliminary steps have yet been taken
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21
Hurnor and
Philosophy
~ DUNCAN n. SMITH
FRIENDSHIP.

IT'S very fine TO have a friend
Who loyal Is and true
Until some day you find out why
He has been good 20 you.
Who has been Laughing al your JolSe4
So modest, old and tame
That he might later come around
And work you on his game.
he seems a sweet, unselfsh soul
From dark designs go far,
When cheerily he chases up
And hands you q cigar
Nor can you notice through the fumes
That wreaths Of friendship weave
A faint suggestion OF the scheme
That's hidden up his sleeve.
So pleasantly he comes and says,
"Old man, how's tricks and suchfs
You would not guess he meant 20 make
"A more than modest touch.
You would not guess that when be griDped
So gleefuily your hand
That he was wondering how large
A shakedown you would stand
There may be friendships that are not
OF selfish motives born.
That anything suggesting gain
Most haughtily would scorn,
But all DO not cavort along
On such lofty plain,
For moro have their foundations lasd
In sordid greed for gain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21

the principal accusers OF the secre-
tary have been heard upon them
Pinchot has told his story. So has
CLAWS, the special agent of the land
office. The committee has the evil
dence from the fountain head.
1t is in these circumstances that
the new issue is presented and there
can be no denying the fact that the
administration by weak and faulty
methods has made plenty OF thick
weather for itself. LAWYERS work
for the president should have been
acknowledged the moment 1t was
called in question; there should
have been no reference to Wicker
sham letter when there was only t1e
oral advice and the rough notes or
the attorney general; the brief state
ment from the White house might
better have been suppressed, since
the full statement followed in day.
But what has all this to do with
the coal lands and the specific
charges made by Ballinger's accus-
ers? The effort is to prove that the
president is disingenuous and a pref
udieed witness and to direct new sus-
picions against Ballinger, to show
that the latter was too friendly with
Perkins, and that his letters in
strictest confidence to that gentle
man are proof Of sinister motives
which were entertained a year ago.
What the effort will lead to it is
impossible to say. Ballinger may be
discredited, may become too heavy
a load for the administration to car
~, and the president himself may
suffer some loss of reputation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21

The concurrent resolution submit
ting constitutional amendment
changing the date of the presidential
Inauguration from March 4 to the last
Thursday in April failed in the house
of representatives on Monday by one
third of one vote. 1t will probably
come up again before the session ends,
and it ought to pass. Making the shift
may involve some little disturbance
and effort, but it would be well worth
while to lengthen the present short
session of congress by eight weeks,
that being the most positive of the adj
vantages of the change proposed in
our political calendar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21

The supporters of Ex-Governor
Folk in Missouri are arranging for a
banquet in st. Louis June 2, at which
the former governor will be the prin-
cipal speaker. 1t is expected he will
at that time announce his candidacy
either for the United States senate
or the presidency. Mr.. Folks adj
ministration of affairs of state as
chief executive attracted much favor
able attention throughout the coun-
try, and it will not be surprising if
he shall prove a prominent factor in
the coming campaign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-21

cases in question in order that he
would not be in the way of the pat
enting Of fraudulent claims.
CLAWS appealed, finally, directly to
the president All the facts in the
case were carefully prepared and sub
mitted.
The president was thereby placed
in the position of a judge. CLAWS
was the complainant. Ballinger was
the defendant.
The presidents decision, equiva-
lent to a court opinion, was rendered
Sept. 13, 1909, in the form of the
letter to Ballinger.
1t now develops that 1.-The court,
in effect, permitted a friend of the
defendant to dictate the finding that
was to be later handed down as the
official verdict.
Ii Not All.
Nor is this all. On Dec 81, 1909,
the senate passed resolution direct
ing the president to transmit to con-
gress ANY reports, statements,
papers or documents upon which he
acted in reaching his conclusions"
On Jan. s, 1910, in compliance
with this resolution. the president
transmitted a large number of doeu
ments, filling more than 500 printed
pages; the last of these was a sum
mary by Attorney General Wicker
sham dated Sept. IL, 1909, two days
before the presidents action in his
letter to Ballinger.
Mr.. Taft's declaration over his own
signature, that ct have examined the
whole record most carefully and have
reached a definite conclusion was
accepted as having been based upon
Mr.. Wickersham's lengthy and ex-
haustive opinion.
Where wickersham Comes In.
The fact now develops by the ad-
mission of Wickersham himself that
the president did not have his opin-
the letter generating Ballinger and
CLAWS.
This document was prepared later
and falsely dated two days before
the president had written the letter
in question.
In other words, President Taft had
rewritten letter prepared for him
by Assistant Attorney General Law
Ter, (who was Ballinger's appointee
and who prepared the letter in Bal
fingers office) and when congress
called upon him for the documents
upon which ''he acted in reaching
his conclusions" the president found
himself in a distressing predicament.
Gave Falsely aDted Letter.
Instead of submitting to congress
the draft from which he had pre-
pared the Ballinger exoneration let
ter, the president submitted the
falsely dated Wickersham opinion.
Attorney Brandeis, counsel for
CLAWS, had in some manner learned
of the Lawler letter, and frequently
demanded the document. He was
informed that no such letter. was in
existence.
Then it happened that Frederick
NJ. Kcrhy, stenographer in Rallin-
gers Office, came forward and adj
mitted that he had prepared the Law
Ter letter.
Within three hours after it became
known Kerby had ''peached," the
Lawler letter was rushed to the Bal
Investigating commit
tee.