The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23
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P. II. Mccoy of Seattle, Wash, who.
accompanied bv Mrs. Mccoy. has been
on a visit here, says: ''The Pacific
coast states are strongly insurgent, and
welt. Mr.. Mccoy is a Democrat, and
entertains the greatest admiration for
Mr.. Bryan. " Although / am Demo
crat, said Mr.. Mccoy, who was here
TO place his daughter in the National
Cathedral school, ''we admire Roose.
welt very much out in our state. II he
were TO be 4 candidate for president
in 1912. he would. no doubt, receive
tremendous vote out west, and many
Democrats would vote for him, L -bo-
licve, and hope, however, that the next
president will be Democrat. and there
is much fue material to select from.
There is Mayor Gaynor of New York.
Governor Harmon of Ohio. Senator
Culberson and other prominent Demo
crats, who not only enjoy the conf
dence Of their own party, but tho best
Of Secretary Ballineer, Mr. Mccoy said
the secretary Of tho interior enjoyed
the utmost confidence of everybody
who knows him, and that the people of
his state and those who know his work
are satisfied that whatever he has done
while secretary of the interior has been
prompted by an honest endeavor TO
benefit the people of the United States.
Mr. McCov believed that Secretary
Ballinger is ch-persecuted and
maligned man, but that the future will
prove him TO be an honest and disin-
terested official of the government.
Woman for Congress-
woman wants to come to congress
nd H. Is k..I
Charles r. Scott. chairman of the com
mittee on agriculture, and occasionally
mentioned as the probable successor Of
Secretary Wilson in the department
of agriculture. The Hinsurgents' of
the Second Kansas district got Repre-
sentative Scott's scalp and nominated
A. G. Mitchell. Mitchell now finds that
he has lively opponent for election in
the woman who wants TO come to con
gress. This aspirant is Mrs, Kate Rich
ards O'Hare, a real "horny -ha nded
son of sol - and a member in good
standing of the Machinists' union. She
is a Socialist lecturer, and was nomi-
mated to oppose Mitchell by the Social
ist party, with but 1900 Socialist
votes TO start on. There is not much
chance of Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare
coming to congress, but she is making
such a vigorous campaign that in this
district. where there arc 26,000 Demo
cratic votes to 2S,000 Republican votes,
Mrs. o 'Harc's candidacy is not con.
tributing to the feeling of security on
the part of the man who beat Repre-
sentative Scott in the primaries. Be
fore her marriage to A. r.. o Hare, a
Socialist lecturer, she was Il machinist
by trade. having been apprenticcd in
her father s machine works in Kansas
City, and in due time was admitted
into the MacblniStS' union
Control of Corporations.
Judge s. H. Cowan Of San Antonio,
Texas, who long has been an advocate
of the better control of railroads by
the government, who made a number of
important arguments before the com.
mittecs of the two houses of congress
when the recent law was under con
sideration, believes government control
never will be thoroughly effective until
been provided. "The present law, so
far as it goes, is a good one, and It's
administration is IN good hands, said
Judge Cowap. ''In order, however,
that regulation shall be effective, there
must be some basis for the valuation
of the railroad properties of the coun.
try. We must get away from the nm
earned increment. and so long as the
railroads are permitted TO take that
into consideration there can be no real
regulation of rates. The actual value
of railroad property and the actual
cost of operation should be known with
detiniteness, and this can be deter
mined only when there has been a
physical valuation OF the roads This
must be provided by congress, in law
yet to be enacted -
Referring to industrial conditions in
Texas, Judge Cowan said: "We have
increased in population in greater ratio
THAN any other state; we arc improv-
ing our cities throughout the state. and
our farm lands are steadily growing
more ard more valuable. Cotton is
higher th. it has been in years, the
price Of livestock and cattle has gone
up. and IN every line of industrial ac-
tivity the signs of prosperity stare one
in the face. Texas is yet to become
the greatest Of all states"