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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
SENATOR ELKINS
AGAIN WAVERING

Washington, Feb. 12. 2.--William B 4.
Turner, printing clerk of the senate
resigned today.
His retirement wac due II was said,
to the fact that he mad taken an in
terest in certain legislation to an ex-
tent that offered several senators. The
senate recently had to deal with
claims of certain postmasters cover
ing the period from 1864 to 1874, and
involving several miirion of dollars
They had apparently been taken over
by local lawyer and an ex-ofiicial OF
the government who -eere to receive a
large percentage of the returns. The
work of these men In pressing the
claims greatly angered several of tho
senate leaders and the outcome was
the adoption of an adverse report on
all the claims by the senate.
Turner was alleged to have order
ed the printing Office to withhold the
publication of the adverse report
pending further orders from him
Senator Penrose, Republican, Pennsyl-
vania, chairman of the postofiice COM
mittee which made the report, be-
came impatient over its non-appear-
anco. on investigation he was told
that Turner was the cause of the de-
lay and he then demanded that the
services of the clerk be dispensed
with.
The resignation was the result.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
CHANGE TIME
FOR ELECTIONS

Columbus, o., Feb. 2.-The cleo
ton of county officers may be set for
the same year as municipal elections.
The continuous lobbying of the
county officials for restriction of the
fee system in whole or part for SAL
ary aid from county funds and for
extension of term, has had that much
effect. Senator Mahaffey, Represent
ative Benz and others are considering
bill TO extend existing terms one
year in order that all elections for
county offices may occur In the same
year as municipal elections in order
that they may be divorced from state
politics. The promoters say that
many an inefficient or unworthy man
is pulled through by his state or ma
tional ticket, and that elections in
municipal years would further nom
partisan voting and the general inter-
est in selecting county officers.
Representative Benz will take up
the question of fees and salaries by a
Resolution asking the state board OF
accounting to report to the legislature
OH a reorganization OF the fee system
with any recommendations the board
thinks wise.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
DEN0UNCES
ADMINISTRATION
Representative Harrison
Becomes Very
Vitrolic.
Rv United Press Wire

Washington, Feb. 12-Vitriolic de-
nunciation was hurled at the ad-
ministration and particularly at Sec
retary of State Knox by Representa-
tive Harrison, Democrat, New York,
in the house this afternoon.
"The rumored decision to appoint as
our ambassador to Great Britain a
self f-confessed rebatcr," he said.
would seem to mean that the path
of the rebater leads to the foot of the
throne. The selection of our diplomat
to Austria seems to indicate that the
size of campaign contributions has
something to do with It,"
Harrison declared that the oceac
cable had destroyed diplomacy.
"a diplomat nowadays" he said, "is
simply person who wears silk knee
breeches and gets himself photo
graphed as a host to royalty.
"Our prestige abroad has been
greatly impaired by the refusal of the
nations to agree to the Manchurian
railroad scheme" he concluded.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
THE TIPPING SYSTEM

Tipping has ceased to be tipping
that Is an extra amount to a menial
for good service. 1t is now a right due
to a porter or servant and is so re-
garded by employe. Sometimes this
fact is concealed and sometimes II
Is not. The Kansas City union depot
company has openly taken a stand
in the matter 1t employees ushers
who show people TO trains, CARRIAGES
etc. This has been costing the COM
pany $3.50 a month. The company has
announced that II will no longer pay
its ushers a salary as they make
large salaries through tips, Moreover
the ushers are anxious to remain as
II Is well known fact that servants
who receive tips are generally well
paid. There is no use in a company
paying an usher SIS a month when
the public probably tips him $3.50 a
month more If the public is anxious
10 pay for the service which the com
pany furnishes for nothing it is ma
tural that the company would be will
Ing to let the public have its way.
Moreover. the company can control
its ushers without a salary just as
well as 1t could in paying one. The
servant who Is salaried sometimes
Is as insolent when not tipped as one
who relies on tips altogether. In
both cases 1t is merely q question as
to whether the servant cares to hold
his place.
In most of the cafes. hotels. and
sleeping cars the companies rely on
the public to pay the walters and
porters. Sometimes they draw salary
and sometimes thed don't. In any case
Il " not a grave offense with the
company II the servant is insolent to
q man who fails to tip. OF course
there are extreme cases where a
waiter or servant may go too far but
rs q rule companies are not concern.
ed about the enforcems at of the tip.
ping rule. In fact is the company and
not the servant who is tipped. The
Kansas City company is honest
enough to put the thing in plain
open manner and is to be commend
Cd for bringing the matter home to
the people,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
SAYS ALLDS
SOLICITED BR|BE
Senator Conger Confirms
the Testimony of his
Former Employe.
Ry limited pre.s wire.

Albany, New York, February H.
That State Senator lothian =. Aids,
leader of the majority In the upper
branch of the state legislature, di-
rectly solicited the bribe Senator Ben
Conger alleges was paid Aids to stifle
legislation, while a member of assem-
bly, in 1901, was the sworn statement
of Conger at the legislative inquiry
today.
Conger confirmed the testimony of
Hiram c. Moe, his former employe,
who has sworn that he paid $4,000 to
members of the assembly in connec-
tion with the bridge bill that year.
Conger's story of tue alleged bribery
was striking. After explaining that
he and Aids were fellow members of
the assembly in 1901 and that he
had held the bill in the internal affairs
committee until the rules committee
took charge of the legislation, Conger
said:
81 met Aids in the corridor and he
said: Ben, you think you have the
bridge bill bottled in the internal af-
fairs committee. but there's a rules
committee. don't forget that. There
is something doing on that bill and
you had better get officials of the
American Bridge company here l
told him I would get my brother
Frank and did, he and Aids confer
ring in my apartments. Aids demand
ed that we pay him $4,000 u kill the
bill, but my brother said that w9s too
much. 1t was finally agreed that he
was to get $1,000, and that $1,000 ad-
ditional was to go TO the other mem
bers."
Witness stated that the other men
are not now members of the legisla-
ture. We then told the same story
that Moe did regarding the money
brought to Albany, placed in envel'
opes and distributed. When Aids
got his envelope, according to Con-
ger, he said: II guess this is all
right; 1t feels good"
At this point the inquiry was ad-
journed until next Tuesday morning.
Conger was preceded on the stand by
two witnesses called to confirm Noes
story that he was in Albany at the
time the alleged bribe is said to have
been paid. John Newell, an employe
of the American Bridge company. tes-
tilted that he remembered meeting
Moe in Albany about the time stated,
although he could not fix the date def
initely and John M. Jones. of Groton,
swore that he remembered Moe leav-
Ing that city at the request OF the late
Frank Conger in 1901.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
REAL LIVE WASH
INGTON GOSSIP

washington, Feb. 11.-Imagine
the next house of representatives
Democratic by substantial majority.
Camp Clark is speaker, and Under
wood of Alabama is the Democratic
floor leader
An insurgent meets q G. Q. p.
standpatter in the corridor OF the
Capitol. Says the insurgent::
"well, it happened! And 1t was
lust as / told you standpatters 1t
would be. You have been wiped OIL
the political map, Tawney Of Min
nesota is gone, Smith of Iowa is gone
and the few members of the old
stand-pat bunch that did get back
can count their majorities on one
hand. But 1t serves you fellows
right. You had ample warning.
You allowed Cannon and Aldrich
to trottle every piece of progressive
legislation that came up, and the
public was on to you at every jump
in the road. You revised the tariff
upward when you promised to do
Just the opposite. But even then
you were not satisfied with the pre-
dicament you found yourself in.
You capped the climax by having
Presiden Taft declare the Aldrich-
Payne Smooth bill to be the best
tariff measure enacted into law, when
as a matter of fact even the Ameri-
can school children knew the bill
was filed with jokers conceived to
rob the people for their thieving
sugar trust and other tariff bene-
ficiaries, il was absolutely certain
that the public would whack you
over your POLITICAL heads at the
very first opportunity. And they did.
Then the regular gives his version
of It,, as follows:
81 fear, my friend of the west,
that you do not apply the law of
cause an defect to the situation.
The defeat of the regular organiz-
alton was due to a few reformers
and traitors who called themselves
Republicans, but were really Demo
Gratis. Pretending to be Republi-
cans, they learned all of the organ
ization secrets and then started in
on o campaign of blabbing instead
of fighting the thing out in caucus
as they should have done had they
been Republicans with the good
of the party at heart. You fellows
acted like Democras from the start
and Uncle joe call ed the right
term on you when he called you
Democrats. You mention the sugar
joker. Do you know how much
money the sugar people contributed
to the Republican campaign fund
II you don't you haden't ought to
say word. The sugar, joker, and
eAery other piece of legislation about
which you complained, was absolute
ly necessary to bring in campaign
funds. BY making such a howl
over these particular features of the
tariff bill you only directed attent-
ion to the organization business
methods, with the result that Re-
publican voters deserted us by the
regiments The result of your
wretched politics is that the present
house is Democratic, and the next
president is mighty likely to be OF
the same religion. Shame on the
insurgents"
Just then along comes "Uncle
Joe" who has been defeated for re-
election, but has opened a lobby In
Washington for Standard Oil and
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
SENATORS A RE
OFFENDED
Printing Clerk Of the SEN
ate too Active in Legis.
lation.
Ry IInited Press wire.

Madison, Wis, Feb. Ills United
States Senator Elkins Of West Vir-
ginia preparing to Jump of the
reservation for good?' and become a
real progressive r.,
This is the question asked by La 4
Follettes magazine In an editorial
under the captain "Ellins Insurges d
again." 1t says: ~. "
"Now Senator Steve Is again show.
ing signs of relentleseness. He confess
sed in the senate the other day that
he had been in slavery to the Ald-
rich machine and rebelled at the drip
ping West Virginia had gotten under
the new tariff. He very nearly scared
Senator Aldrich out, of his unusual
equanimity by asking That the pro-
posed investigation into the high cost
of living be broadened with a view to
ascertaining il the new tariff did not
have something to do with 1t.
Perhaps Elkins has a good bum1
of acumen as well as a goodly stors
OF practical horse sense. Can 1t ba
that he considers It inevitable that
the rising tide of new sentiment Will
spread over even the mountains OF
West Virginia and that he is training
TO become progressive"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
Feb. 13 In American History.

1I2S - Cotton Nather. famous in the
New England witchcraft raid,
died: born 1868.
1906 Benjamin Franklin appeared be.
fore the house Of commons ia
plead the cause Of the American
colonies.
17s9-General Ethan Allen. the Green
Mountain hero, died; born 1889
1S43-Commodore Isaac Hull. American
naval hero, commander Of the ia.
nous frigate Constitution, died.
!. born 1878.
1S97-John Randolph Tucker, a noted
virginian, died; born 1923. Gener.
al Joseph o. Shelby, celebrated
west Of the Mississippi as dash.
ing Confederate cavalry command.
er, died.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
'M|LL|CAN' Men
DISGUST JAPS
Too Much Bowling and
Scraping to Women in
This Country.
Ry limited Press wire.

Chicago Feb. 12.--The manner In
which the typical American man bows
and defers to women and meekly
obeys orders from the feminine por-
ton of the household Is enough to
disgust any self-respecting Japanese
who has enough regard for his dignity
10 know that he is lord and master.
This tendency of American men Is
the chief objection TO them voiced by
the imperial Japanese commissioners
who recently returned to the Flowery
Kingdom after a tour of the United
States. Their views are expressed
i'm Hochi. a Toxic newspaper, a copy
Of which reached Chicago today.
Hechi summarizes nine things
which the Japanese commissioners
said they could not admire about
Americans. -Four of the nine were
extreme respect for women;" pre-
tension of respect paid to ladies'"
'too much respect for women" and
"presumptuous attitude of women ov-
er men,"
Among the other five were the facts
that Americans "wear their hearts
on their sleeves" and "mingling boys
and girls in schools" 1t appears from
Hochi's account that, when the Jap
anese were i'm Chicago, and were told
that Chicago got It's drinking water
from Lake Michigan they looked
pleasant. shut their eyes and gulped
down the water giveh them to drink
When they got home, though they
numbered Chicagos drinking water as
one of the most reprehensible things
they found in the United States.
Their other two objections were that
they found American shopkeepers
"unreasonably egotistic" and inde-
pendent and that Americans as a
class, are too much taken up with the
worship of wealth and material things
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
BEHIND TEXAS

Gov. Hadley is afraid Missouri will
drop behind Texas in the next CEN
sus. How can this be? Missouri hasn't
cast its vote for a Democratic can
didate for president for eight years
II has Republican governor and q
Republican United States senator. II
casts more Republican votes than
most Of the rock ribbed Republican
states, Every one or these Repub
lican voters white and black are
supposed to be more progressive than
Democrats. The wise people from
the east we were told wouldn't locate
in Missouri because 1t was Democratic
but would pass through. 1t seems they
are passing through, not to Kansas
for that state didn't grow as fast as
Missouri in the last census and II
won't in the coming census. The
people who are passing through Re
publican Missouri are headed straight
for Texas. Its per centage of growth
in 1900 was only four hundred per
cent. Kansas growth was three per
cent.
Down in Texas there isn't any Re
publican party. 1t is true the progress
slve negroes are doing what they
can for progress and things but
there is really no Republican party in
the true sense of the word. The
state is about 100000 Democratic and
growing faster than Republican Mis-
souri,, Republican Pennsylvania or Re
publican, anything else.
OF course Texas will pass Missouri
in the next census. If 1t doesn't pass
Ohio and Illinois also 1t will in the
census of 1920.-Mo. Exchange.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
STRIKES BLOW AT
THE MEAT TRUST

by Dnlteu treSS WI
Winnipeg, Man, Feb. 1.-THE Mani
toba provisional government struck a
hard blow at the beef trust today
when it announced that municipal
cattle market and abbattor would
soon be established in Winnipeg TO
compete directly with the trust.
This announcement is in response to
the demands of farmers who charge
that the beef trust is killing the live
stock industry of western Canada by
keeping down the price to farmers of
cattle on the hoof and keeping up the
prices OF meat to consumers.
The farmers allege that an investi-
cation has revealed the fact that
much of the livestock of western
Canada is shipped by the packers to
Chicago and is there sold at proht
even after the packers have paid the
Increased freight charges and n liz
nor cent duty.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
RANKS, sTATEMENT.

New York, Feb. 1.-The weekly
statement as issued by the associated
banks of New York follows:
Reserve on all deposits, decrease
$2,549,S25; reserve on deposits, other
than United States decrease $2,542,-
200; loans, decrease $0,321.OOO; spe-
Gle, decrease, $4,72S,9O0; legals, de-
crease $1.S96,90O: deposits, decrease
$16,303,9O0; circulation, decrease
1855, 800.
Total loans, $1,223,367,6 600.
The surplus of the banks is $24.-
599,125. against $10,300,325 last year
and $45,724,050 two years ago.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
CANNOT UNDERSTAND
TOMBSTONE FIRE

New York. Feb. 12.-City hremen
are still talking today of the freak
fire among the marble" tombstones
of the Holy Hrinity cemetery Brook
lyn. which destroyed a row of the
monuments late yesterday and well
on its way to set fire TO the entire
burial place when discovered by a
small boy and an alarm turned In.
The firemen easily put out the
blaze. Upon investigation they
found that the marble" monuments
were in reality frames of wood which
had been treated with some pre-
paratilon that looked like marble and
granite. Foun hundred dollars
worth of tombstones had been des-
troyed.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1910.
Feb. IL In American History.

1S09-Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth pres
ident of the United States, born;
died April 10, 1865, from the eff.
fects Of a pistol shot wound at the
hands Of John Wilkes Booth, the
evening Of the 14th. while wit.
Messing the play "our American
Cousin" at Ford's theater Wash.
ington.
1886 Horatio Seymour, statesman,
Democratic candidate for president
In 1868, died; born 1910.
1891 = Admiral David Dixon Porter
Federal naval commander of the
civil war and author Of a naval
history, died: born 1913
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
POSSE SEARCHES
FOR A MURDERER

Tylerton, Miss, Feb. IA sher-
iff's posse Is searching the county
with bloodhunds today, for Sylvester
Bearden, twenty-five. who killed
Georg Walker and his daughter, Inez
and fatally wounded two other child
rem. Walker objected to his daugh-
ter marrying Beardcn.
Bearden visited the Walker home
When the father repeated the objec-
ton to his presence, she suitor took a
shotgun from table and mortally
wounded his sweetheart and her faith
er. He then used the weapon as a
club and fatally beat the two little
children. Bearden had been a regu-
lar caller at the Walker home FOL
some time.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
THREE SUPPOSED
ROBBERS NABBED

st. Louis, Mo-, Feb. 11.-Three
men alleged to be the robbers who
held up the Missouri Pacific train at
Glencoe, near st. Louis, January 81,
are under arrest here today. A fourth
alleged member of the gang was ar
rested at Little Rock, Arkansas. The
men are in the custody of postoffice
inspectors who made the raid which
resulted in the arrests.
The men were taken Wednesday.
but the matter was kept secret SO that
tho other arrest could be made.
Don't be slouch, stop that crouch
Get well and you will see
More JOY in life and less of strife
Try Rocky Mountain Tea.
Chas- Schmidt e. Co.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
Daniel ID. Bickham.

The severance of ID. d. Bickham's
connection with The journal calls
for recognition of a quarter century
faithful service. For well nigh fifty
years the name of Bickham has been
associated with the operation and
management of this paper. 1t was
in 1858 that Major w. ID. Bickham
became owner, its editor its active
head and inspiring force. For over
thirty years up to the day OF his
death In 1894, he was The Journal. +.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
Delight of Farming.

Poultry shows and farmers insti-
tutes can have only most beneficial
effects. eMore profit, more content,
more interest, better living all around.
Agriculture offers perhaps the most
delightful of vocations. The motto
of Homocrafters is a glorious one.
every child in a garden, every moth
er in homocroft, and individual in
dependence for every worker in q
home of his own upon the land. -
Athens Journal.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
THRILLING RESCUE
BY LIFE SAVERS

Portsmouth, N. H., Feb. 12.-
Fighting their way through great seas
In a binding snowstorm, the life
saving crew of the Rye Beach station
today saved the crew of the w. II.
Reed, a Portland. Maine, fishing
schooner which went ashore early to-
day at Straws Point. The Reed was
reached only after the life-savers had
been twice driven back by the sea
She Will be a tota wreck.
Reports from the allis Sands life
saving station say today's torn along
the New Hampshire coast is fully
equal I'm severity to the big blow of
a few weeks ago. More wrecks are
expected.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
HYMN wRrrER DIES.

Hackensack, N. j.. FEB. ~ =
Colonel WI. ID. Snow seventy eight,
soldier. author and hymn writer,
died here yesterday. Colonel Snow
during the civil war served on the
staff of General Powell Clayton and
General Steele. He was best known
as q writer Of Unitarian hymns.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12

A number of friends called en-
masque at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs
Leroy Lindsay, or East Columbia
street last evening and for some Time
refused to divulge their identity. ~
When the host had ben sufficiently
mystifid, disguises were removed and
the merrymakers gathered about a
bountifuly spread refreshment board !.
Afterward there were games and ml-
sic. The affair was thoroughly en-.
joyable.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
Third Reason
WHY THE BUCKEYE
STATE BUILDING AND
LOAN COMPANY Is THE
SAFEST AND ES r
PLACE FOR YOU TO DE-
POSIT YOUR MONEY.

3. Owns no real estate. This fact
AFFORD the most positive proof OF the
carefulness with which the company
has loaned its money. 1t has loaned
millions without loss. From such proof
one must conclude that the apprais-
ers OF this company understand real
estate and know how to loan money.
Our assets ss,oOO.OOO. Five percent
paid on time deposits. Rankin Build
ing, 20 West Gay Street. Columbus,
Ohio.
(See fourth next week.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
Respects to Uncle Joe.

Congressman Diekema is candi-
date for the speakership to succeed
Mr.. Cannon. We do not know any
thing about Mr.. Diekema, but are
committed to the proposition that he
would be an mprovement.--St. Paul
Dispatch.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets -:2G rises 6:53; moon sets
S:45 p. m: 4:54 p. m. moon at perigee,
nearest earth; planet Mercury visible
low in east hefHrn sunrise
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
Timely Aid to the In,ured

turbulent seas have cast up thous-
ahas or clans on the Atlantic Coast
evidently the ocean is helping along
, 1ne boycott on meat.-Philadelphla
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.

Sun sets 5:27, rises $50; moon sets
e:59 p. M; S:13 p. m, moon in con-
junction with Saturn, passing frow
west to east of the planet, IA degrees
south the.eof; planet Mercury visible
low In east.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
Not I'm That Business.

Il believe" said the poet, that
there are flowers beneath the snow,
but I'll be blest II I'm going to shovel
'em out, when it's degrees above
zero. Their duty Is TO stay there till
springP-Atlanta Constitution.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-12
The Heavenly Gait.

GOLD goes at any gate save heav-
ens-Talmud. Which being trans
lated means the rich go every gait
save heaven's-Kansas City Times.