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Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
TOO EARLY FOR
 THIRD TERM AGITATION

The San Francisco Chronicle is oI the opinion that it is yet too early to mass judgment on the Taft admin istration and evidently this great western newspaper looks with dis. favor on a third-term agitation in favor of Col Roosevelt Commenting on the recent meeting of President Taft and Col Roosevelt the Chron- icle says:
 Bo;h the President and the Col oneI expressed themselves as much pleased with the interview, but ob servers seemed of the opinion that the greater peasure was with th- President
 By far the most important infer enee drawn from this meeting and what has preceded 1t is that Colonel Roosevelt desires a third term as President and that is the real cause of whatever 'coolness' may exist be tween the President and the Colonel and of the failure of the Colonel tc to give to the administration of Pres ident Taft that hearty and unqual flied endorsement which Roosevelt when President. expected and got from all who did not care to stand, in the Presidential mind. as undesiF- able citizens.
 And it seems prooabie that neith- CT President Taft nor Co onel Roose- yelt cared to have the question of 3 second term for President Taft raised in the New York State convention.
 And it is doubtless best for the country that that question should not be raised at this tine. President Taft is engaged in the line of work which he announced for himself when tax ing oaiee-the qualification and le- galization of the reform measures inaugurated by his predecessor and arranging the administrative machin cry for carrying them out.
 "A year or two more of observation will enable the country to judge bet ter than it can judge now whether it is best to re-elect President Taft or look for another.
 Those who remember the agita- ton into which the country was plunged by the attempt of the friends of Grant to secure for him a third term would deplore the be ginning of similar agitation at this time in respect to Colonci Roosevelt Things are hot enough now"
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
OHIO DEMOCRATS OPEN CAMPAIGN

CANTON. O., Sept. 2S.-The dem cratic state campaign was opened here today with Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio, candidate for re election and the choice of Ohio den.- ocrats for the presidential nomination in 1912. as the principal speaker.
 Governor Harmon scored the pres ent national administration and told his hearers that the only hope for the people lay in the success of a national democratic ticket.
 The speaker declared that wasteful expenditures had led the republican party to oyertax the nation to the ex- tent of s3oo, 900. He attacked the Payne-Aldrich tariff revision as legis- lation opposed to the interests of the consumer.
 Congress is now appropriating a billion dollars at each session" said Governor Harmon, every cent of which is levied on the people of the country by taxation in some form.
 Tt is confessed that extravigance and mismanagement and waste of not less than ss0o.00O,o00 each year in the ordinary conduct of the gov ernment, which is more than the combined expenditures of all the Ist2tes in the Union.
 Tt is surely time the people should bestir themselves, for every one of them Is compelled to pay federal taxes on almost everything he buys for consumption or other use, wheth- CT he owns property or not. And every one is not only com pelled to to contribute tc this encr. nous outlay of the federal govern ment, hut is made to pay a much greater amount fin the form of in- creased prices on gooas made in this country because of a tariff law framed for the express purpose of making him do this to swell the profits of the manufacturers
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
AT RUSSELIvIILE CABINET CONSIDERS ESTIMATES

WASHINGTON. Sept 2s.-Presi- dent Taft and advisors today worked on estimates to be submitted to congress at the approaching session. Assistant Secretary of War Oliver and Msjor-Genersl Wood, chief staff Of the army, went over the war dc Tartment estimates with the cabinet A tentative draft O. the postal bark regulations was submitted by the president and briefly considered. It had been the intention to close the house party" at the White House today. but SD much work remains that another session will be held to- morrow and probably still another Friday. MT. Taft expects to return to Beverly Saturday.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29

party of his own. He goes to con gress as often, and serves there as potentially and as long as his fellow citizen in other walks Of lie, so there is no need for him to turn Socialist. He sits in the senate, and he fills places in the cabinet and offices of all kinds. such as heads of bureaus, mayors of cities and gov ernors of states, and there is there fore no reason why he should join g party that avowedly is opposed 10 certain classes in the community and that is the exponent of class legis a. tion par excellence.
 The American laborer is entirely different from the European. As was suggested recently by an English yis- itor even in England the laborer is stin doffing his hat to those who claim to be his superiors and con sequentIy there is a social barrier as well as a financial one that has to be overcome. There is nothing Of that kind in the United States and therefore there is TO necessity for
 abor combining from a social stand point. Politically labor has all the rights and privileges that any element in the community enjoys 3 there is every reason why the wage earner should not desire to form a class by himself and none why he should vote the Socialistic ticket. It would be folly for labor to raise a class issue by joining a cass party.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
LABOR OPPOSES SOCIALISM.

At the election of the Chicago Fed eration Of Labor for officers the So cfaIists were showed under. That re suit is particularly significant be- cause Chicago is the kotbed of So ciaism and if there is a place where we might suppose that that party would be strong in the ranks of Ia- Dor it is the Great City of the Lakes.
 There is, however, no reason why the workman of the United States should become a Socialist Every thing that the radical Socialist stands for Is opposed to the inter ests of the American laboTer. The American laborer has always the am bition to be his own boss. Socia ism does away with that ambition, be- cause it proposes that the state shall be the universal boss. The American laborer or wage earner. if he be sober and industrious and ordinarily fortunate, may own his own home, have money in the bank and invest ments of various kinds. He is not in favor of a system that won.d take from him his savings to give to the fellow who is too lazy or too dissi- pated to save for himself. The Amer ican laborer knows that the highest place in the republic is open to him. and he has the example of a tanner. a canal boy, a shoemaker, a rail splitter and other men who com menced in the most humble sur roundings rising to the preside-scy. There is heretofore no need for him
 to flock off by himself and form
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29

teen nearly blind, deaf and dumb, politically speaking. during that in portant period when ne was waiting to assume the nations highest ol- fee. and when national sentiment was so swiftly and so pa,pably en- gagged iR forecasting those things now evident that it would seem a sohoolbcy would have caught the drift.
 If the political protege of Roosevelt had been born with but modicum of the political second sight posses sea by the redoubtable Colonel-i
 But then he wasn't Hence a dis iElsegrating party of the majority, and the jubnant expectations of the democrats.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29

One of the most interesting specu lative ifs" of contemporaneous his tory relates to President Taft
 It displays. box-car-ietter wise. the fateful and temperamentsl difference between him and former President Roosevelt.
 If Mr. Taft had possessed the po- litieaI sagaeiiy to sense national sen timent during the first few months of his term, the entire republican party, and not one branch of it. would have been insurgent: there would have been a tarif universally acceptable and the democrats would not now be making up their slate. for the congress of 1911.
 On such small things hinge history.
 O. the other hand, 1t appears the big, genial almost boyish Ohioan had
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
JOHNSON AIIAch s. ?.

STOCKTON. Calif.. Sept 2S.-Hi- ram Johnson. the republican nominee .or governor. closed day of cam. pa;gn meetings in an automobile trip of 100 miles with an address before nearly 900 persons tonight at Stockton. During the day he made four speeches in principal towns through which he passed. Tn ali his speeches today. Johnson .weit upon the dominant campaign issue of eliminating the Southern Pacific railroad from the government of the state.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
LAW MAKERS UNPAID

DENVER. Colo. Sept. 2S.-Tae state legislators stood aghast tc, day when they learned State Audi tor Roady Kenekan had refused to honor a second appropriation bill allowing s75,o0e for its own ey- penses. The bill was approved by the governor. According 10 Kenc- han the regular session Of legislat- ure had appropriated every cent in sight. and all money available for two years. Until a bill is passed the legislators will go without pay.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29

The warning republican factions in the state of New York which will meet in a death struggle al the Saratoga convention can only mean one thing and that success for democratic can didases ip that state
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
M.ecaAckEN REIIREs.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2s.-On his sey- rntieth birthday anniversary today 'he ven.rabic Henry Mitchell Mac Crscken- one of the best known edi cators in the country. retired from h's position as chanceilSr of New York university. The n'versity has decided to make him chancellor emer- itus
Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
SAYS nE WAS GIVEN
 s2,500 FOR VOTE
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Continued From Page 1) s2.500 from Frederick
 Neither Lorimer nor the senator ical election was mentioned then" replied Hoitslaw. The confession signed by Holtslaw May 20. 1910 when he was before the Sanglmon county grand jury. was presented in the indictment and called attention that the witness. in his statement there. said that "Broderick told us there was s2,500 in it for me if I would vote for Lorlmer."
 On cross-examinat'on. Attorney Hancey brought it out that Holtslaw had told many persons prior to the Lorimer election that he had made up his mind to vote for Lorimer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27
Railroad Improvements and Extensions

As the year goes out railroad build- ing to and through this district Is promising. It Is a cold year when 8 railroad Is not trying to secure ter minal in this district. Just at present the Chattanooga Southern railroad is surveying and preparing to finance an extension from Gadsden to this city. This extenson will probably be coru- pleted next year. And then President John T. Cochrane, who always carries out his well-matured plans, Is stead- lily extending his line of rails through the western counties of the state to this city, thus giving 1t another rail line to Mobile and the sea. Selma, too, is striving to get the Cahaba valley railroad on construction basis. It is reasonably certain that this long talked of line will yet be constructed.
 But this is not all The Illinois Gen. tral railroad is pretty sure to build through continuous coal fields from Valeyville to this city. thus giving the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27
Generalization in the Tennessee Valley

The consolidation which placed BIT
 ,,.,,ar, in a true light before the country is proving contagious. Flor
 oe Sheffield and Tuscumbia also want to be united by ties more exten- s,ya +han those of a trolley line. They want to become one municipality atter tho counties of Colbert and Lauderdale have been combined to form Muscle Shoals county, Then the three towns mentioned are to become Muscle Shoals c,tv. the whole movement having for JUS chief object the development Of the Muscle Shoals water power and the opening of the river to navigation. The movement is to be launched. so to sneak. next Friday night at a banquet over which Gov.-elect Emmet o'Neal will preside.
 The Age-Herald wishes this entire enterprise success. Organization and combination and a pull all together will accomplish a great task. While the government is fully opening the river between Decatur and Florence the people of the three cities propose to pull together to render the water power of Muscle Shoals available to the fullest possible industrial extent.
 It is big project but it is not too big to baffle the combined efforts of the three cities. Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia should persist in their ef- fort to get together, and the rest of the state will certainly aid them in anything that looks toward develop mcnt and industrial prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27

great system it's own track to a con- nection with the Central railroad of Georgia which 1t owns. The main line of the Central railroad of Georgia no longer extends to Atlanta. The main line is the portion filled with freight traffic from this city to Savannah and Florida.
 Of equal importance is the double tracking and rebuilding of the Louis- vile and Nashville, which is plainly getting ready to handle a great volume of business when the Panama canal is opened The line as far south as Decatur is to be rebuilt and double tracked next year and then there will remain to be improved but the gap be- tween Boyles and Decatur, about TO miles, to give this district a double track line northward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27
Cities of a Hundred Thousand

Ten years ago there were ss cities of over 100000, and this year there are just 50. When Spokane was reported the list stood complete. The list entire is as fol- lows: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia. St. Louis, Boston. Cleveland, Baltimore. Pittsburg, Buffalo, Detroit, San Francis co, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Milwaukee Minneapolis, Newark, New Orleans Washington, Denver, Indianapolis. Jersey City, Kansas City. Louisville, Seattle. Portland, Providence, Rochester, St. Paul, Atlanta, Columbus. Oakland. New Haven, Syracuse. Toledo, Worcester, Bir- mingham. Cambridge, Dayton, Spokane Grand Rapids, Lowell, Memphis, Albany, Nashville. Omaha, Paterson, Richmond Scranton, Bridgeport, and Fall River.
 The changes in this list of 50 premier cities have been many in ten years. but no other change quite equals that of Rir- mingham, which rose from No. 100 to No. S5. The cities that rose into this class this year are Atlanta, Birmingham Bridgeport, Cambridge, Dayton, Grand Rapids. Lowell, Nashville Oakland. and Richmond-ten in all. Possibly ten more will be listed in 1920, in the top class of towns. Four of this years accessions are southern towns, and the question natural iy arises, can the south furnish four more fin 1920? The Age-Herald believes it can. Texas alone may put into the list of 1oo.- Voo towns ten years hence San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27
Discovery of a Germ Destroyer

From the dean of the College of Phy sicians and Surgeons, Dr. Samuel w. Lambert, comes the statement that a new substance has been found that will drive from the human body all germs of every known disease. It was discov- cred by accident, but that does not in the least lessen the importance of the great find. The heating of "606," a great discovery of the present year, has, it appears. given the world toxic 6rug that promises to be revolutionary in the practice of medicine.
 Before unduly rejoicing in the dis persion of all disease germs it would perhaps be best to await results. In this matter as in many others the proof of the toxic is in the eating, and no one outside of some animals have eaten any of 1t up to the present time. How ever, it is not easy to mislead the scientists of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and all the claims made for the new germ destroyer may prove to be well founded and wholly within the bounds of truth. If so, it will be but new amplification and use of the germ theory which was in itself A revolution of the most drastic nature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27
CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR DOGS
From the New York American.
 Miss Chump Alderman requests you to attend her Christmas Tree Party


 requests you to attend her
 Christmas Tree Party"
 December A, to II D. m.,
 at 101 West Seventy-fifth street. R. S. V. P.
 These invitations to Miss Chump Acker- mans party have been sent to only few of her closest and most aristocratic friends, as, above all things, it is desired that the company be select. Miss Irene Alderman, an artist. with studio in the Miller building, at Broadway and Sixty fifth street, has kindly consented to allow the party to be held in her home, and the guest of honor will be Mahoney, Mrs. Hudson Liston's bulldog.
 Miss Chump, although a black-and-tan herself. plays no favorites in the matter of breed. Pedigrees, however, are es- sential. Miss Chump has arranged that each guest shall have a present, those most favored being collars and leaders. Incidentally Miss Chump is charitable, and believes in caring for the poor. AS 1t would be rather difficult. and perhaps embarrassing, to round up enough poor dogs to be objects of her munifcence, Miss Alderman has decided to bestow some small Christmas gifts upon poor children. At least 100 children will re- ceive warm mittens or some other artic,e of apjparel to keep out the cold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27
EARLY DAYS OF HARTMAN

drove a good trotting horse, aad wss an unusually quick and clever boxer. He had taken lessons from "rsrrrs Edwards, and had the distinction 5f DC. casionally boxing with Edwards ersrt brother. Billy" Edwards, ex-ligh weifsG champion and later peacemaker aL lhs Hoffman house. Med" Harrlm n. D. virtue of his mind and tempe lsns. early became a leading spirit among the younger aristocrats of New York, whose families or friends were inter- ested in the secure investment of Illin. ois Central.
 Hartman had known Fish from the time. in the late 6Vs, when Fish. friend of the Livingstons, used to cont into the Hays office. They had attended the Saturday night dinners of the Tray elers' club together. In 1880 both Har- riman and Fish were directors of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain railroad in upper New York-a property which Hartman had planned to acquire. Fail ing in this. he had become a director. He had also married the daughter of its president, William J. Averell of Og utHhUuTS.
 Hartman had been markedly success ful as a broker. He had started with nothing. The money for his seat ws apparently borrowed; the capital for | j business certainly was. An old friend of Harrimans still recalls his taking a s1cO bill out of his pocket, just after he had gone into business for himself, and showing 1t to him, with the remark:
 ''Well. I can't lose much, anyhow; that's all I've got.''
 But success came to him immediately. The money he had borrowed was paid back in a comparatively few months: he soon dissolved partnership with young Livingston, and became independent, forming with his brother. William, the firm of E. H. Hartman & Co.
 Harrimans gift for making and keep ing an influential acquaintance had not only secured him money for his start, but it brought him immediately a re- markable clientele.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-27

From John Moody and George Kibbe
 Turner's "The Masters of Capital in
 America" in January Mcclure's.
 TDwARD H. Hartman was the son H of a poor and unsuccessful Epis- A copal clergyman of Jersey City, who spent the latter part of his life as a bookkeeper in the old Bank of Con- merce in New York. The family was an old one, and an uncle, Oliver Hartman, was one of New York's leading mer- chants.
 Tn 1863 young Hartman, short. sharp-eyed, bowlegged boy of 14. began work in Wall street as office boy for Dewitt C.. Hays, broker-a conservative and highly reputable house. While there he met Lewis Livingston, a member of one of the oldest New York families, and became very intimate with him. In 1870. while cashier of the Hays business, at S2o0o a year, young Hartman bought a stock exchange seat, costing about 5000 at that time, and went into busi- who was about the same age as Harri- man, then p years old.
 Young Hartman had great ability, and, even then, that peculiar gift, his extra ordinary those for money" which placed him throughout his life in close relations with the men In control of the greatest bodies of capital in America He dress ed carefully, was lively and, when he desired to be, of very ingratiating man. ners. The old Travellers club on Fifth e.venue in the former Cunard mansion, near Nineteenth street, was at that time counted the most sociable club in New York. Young Hartman became direc- tor and one of the active attendants of the Saturday evening dinners, which brought together periodically a small company of some of the best known young men in New York.
 The Tenth Company of the Seventh Regiment was then the ''society' organi- zation of the New York militia, corre- spending somewhat to Squadron A of the present time. Hartman was a private in the Seventh for number of years following 1875 A fellow member in his company was young August Belmont.
 The set into which young Hartman fell was athletic and rather sporting in it's tastes. Hartman was a good shot, an excellent billiard player. always