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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
OFFERED $500. HE SAYS.
Illinois State Senator Volunteers 10 Testify,
Promised Money to Vote for Lorimcr.

Springfield, H., June 1o-volunteers are
now Offering themselves to state's-Attorney
Burke in the legislative bribery inquiry. He
replied to-day TO confidential commuuica-
ton from state Senator. who volunteered
TO testify. If his name be suppressed. that
he offered $500 il he would vote for
William I.orimer for United states Senator.
The letter also gave names of others who
would give testimony.
Mr.. Burke also has received confident
ial Communication from Southern 1li-
no!s bank cashier giving details of a con-
versation with a member of the lower house
relative to the offer of an alleged bride
| in the senatorial deadlock
When asked what his next step would be
| in the case OF State Senator John Broderick
| of Chicago. under Indictment for bribery o
State Senator Holstlaw, Mr.. Burke said HI
would have the docket of loca cases ctearec
as soon as possible and have ertmina
docket set to bring Brodeflck and Others
under indictment here to en- early trial
! Tomorrow the Sansamou county granc
Jury will adjourn until June 90
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
Remarkable Christmas
Present.

Among the curious Christmas present.,
OF this year will be one for man Of ma.
tional reputation. which has been all year
in the making.
Way last January the present wa,
decided upon. and friend Of the promi-
'nent gentleman requested the Burrelle
Press Clipping Bureau, OF New York.
TO watch every paper in America, and
to take up every item which appeared
concerning the man.
The clipping bureau people followed
instructions, and now present the history
OF one year in the life Of this especial man.
The history ends Just after election,
and the 2O,o42 newspaper items found
include everything firm three-ine edi-
torial mention to iull-pagc illustrated
stories. These have been mounted on
1920 great sheets Of Irish linen paper
and bound into three massive volumes.
At the head OF each item is the, name
and date Of paper clipped from, this in
formation having been put in with .
book typewriter. The words thus III
serted amount to 1882.
In actual time. very strict record Of
which has been kept, the work has re-
CURED sixty-four working days through
out the year, and has kept in employment
during that time thirty people as readers,
clippers, sorters, mounters and binders.
Every newspaper Of Importance is repre-
sented.
This is merely specimen Of some OF
the unique orders which get into the Bur-
relle Bureau, for the extent to which
clippings are used by individuals and by
business concerns seems to be remarka BILE,
There are many people in private as
we'll as in public life who need press clip
pings and don't know it. It might be
& Who i s 'ad e b 80 ys hnex
ksY York" will reach him With no delay
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
CANNON WILL FIGHT
He Expects to Take Active Part In
Congressional Campaign.

Washington, D. G., June lo.-speaker
campaign this fall and defy his politi-
cal enemies from the stump in various
parts Of the country. The Speaker
said to-day that he had not yet decided
lust how generally ne would go into
the national campaign, but that he
would make some speeches In different
parts of the country. MIR. Cannon de-
clared that he expected to return to
Danville soon after Congress adjourns
and make some speeches in his district.
No opposition to the Speaker for re-
nomination from the Danville district
has been disclosed, and his reelection
TO his seat In Congress practically is
conceded. 1t is stated,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
rur UNDER $4,000 BOND.
E. e. Powell, Jr., Arrested Charge Of
Running Eiind Tiger.
11>,-. nj. 49,

Weldon. n. c.. June ICE. E. Powell. Jr..
was placed in Halifax Jail o.day In default
of $1,000 bond for running blind tiger. Ho
Is son OF e. E. Powell Sr.. who is to be
tried ut the June term OF Warren Superior
Court for the murder of C.. W. Dunn at
Scotland Neck. and who az the same Tina
shot and seriously wounded senator e. L.
Travis now in a Richmond hospital, and
Assemblyman A p Kitchin. Sr. II Is said
that there are about iftsen blind tigers
cases against young Powell. hence tho
heavy bond which he has not yet been able
to furnish.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
severe storn at waasshoro.

~ ISpeclAl 70 TINS TIIFts 2t1IspatSN.1 a. n
Wadesboro. N, c., Inne lo--A terrific rain
storm accompanied with severe electrical
display, this afternoon covered the entire
county. Cotton Is injured. farms flooded
and iand badly washed, lightning struck
( tsrn ia the rear al the residence OF II. II,
Mpl.sndon, and 1t was burned, some prop
cry was saved This ksss is sl,soo With IN.
Lfusance OF 1900, !.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
! "MouNrAIN SPECIAL.

New Train, Richmond to Mountain Re-
sort stations, via Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway.
Attention Is called to the new train.
known as the Mountain Special" leav-
ing Richmond at IL noon daily except
Sunday for Hinton. w Va. and noun
tain resort stations. furnishing early
and convenient arrivals.
This train. consisting of through
coaches and parlor cars. stops at all
principal stations west of Charlottes-
Vile to let off passengers from Rich
mond, and is arranged especially for
the accommodation of Richmond pa
irons. affordins through service with
out change of cars. --.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
Commission Appointed.

Washington, D. c.. June 10.-Tha
House to-day passed resolution au-
thorlzing the appointment Of a COM
mission consisting OF three senatora
and three Representatives to confer
with the Pennsylvania State commits
sion making preparations for the cele-
bration OF the fifteith anniversary OF
the battle of Gettysburg.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
o,,1ioc.tlons In chnncery.

In the Chancery Court yesterday III.
Seldom TAYLOR qualified as executor Of
the estate Of Thos. c. Woody. The
estate is valued at s33,sO0.
G. W. King yesterday qualified in
the Chancery Court as admlnistra tor
of the estate of Joseph S. King, The
estates is valued at $3.50.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
Better Streets for ,yatesboro.

Especial to Tho Times Dlspatch.J
Wadesboro y. c.. June 1.-THE Board OF
Town Commissioners have let the contract
for the paving and grading OF streets and
building sidewalks. The contracts will mean
the expenditure of $4,000 The contractors
VIII begin work at once.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
witnesses before Grand Jury.
Storm in Texas.

persons were injured and much prop
srty was destroyed by storm which
passed through Smith county late last
night. according to meagre advices re-
reivcd tonight.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11
NO AUTOMOBILES,
HOUSE INSISTS

CONTINUED From First Pago)
for maintenance on Appomattox River.
II. e. C. B.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-11

Among the curious Christmas present,
OF this year will be one for man Of ma.
tional reputation. which has been all year
in the making
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-08-03
Politics and Prejudice

1t is perhaps too much to expect
that a political ampaign-natiOnal,
state or local-can ever be carried on
without the introduction of personal
prejudice as opposed to public cOnsid-
erations; and yet individual effort
may wisely be directed toward the
reduction of this undesirable element
has too frequently interfered with the
success of movements for the en-
hancement Of the public welfare.
When men are willing to forget
personal differences and look only at
the all-around qualifications of a
candidate-When they are willing to
sacrifice at least a part of the "ego''
for the sake of the more important
body pOlitic-they make possible
some things that are impossible with
out this sacrifice.
Too often the suggestion of a can
didacy is the signal for the digging up
of trivial animosities and their injec-
ton into the campaign to a degree
out of all proportion to the exigencies
of the situation, and the result is a
brand of ''pOlitics'' that disgustS those
who enjoy a clean, open, fair contest,
increases the number of Stay-at-
homes, and discredits the community.
Any man of average standing may
aspire to political prefermen and he
is entitled to a chance without as
persion. 1t is the straight-from-the
shoulder contest, free from snake
in-thegrass methods and waged on
principle instead of personalities, that
kind is not to be tolerated by
thoughtful citizens who have the
public interest at heart.-[Vermont
Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-08-03
A Voice in the Wilderness.

The ST. Johnsbury Caledonian, by
refusing to support DR.. Mead for
governor, seems to have the honor
able distinction of emphasizing a pro-
test against cOndOning and endorsing
campaign methods that are in direct
violation and defiance of an express
statute governing this subject. 1t does,
however, as we understand it, endorse
the platform and all the other nOmi-
nations made at the state republican
convention giving as its reasons
therefor that the methods employed
in obtaining these nominations were
in entire conformity with the require
mentS of law. In other words taking
the position that it cannot consistent
ly and cOnscientiously support a can
didate for governor who has openly
and fagrantly treated with contempt
the law governing the methods to be
employed and the expenditure of
money to be made by any candidate
seeking this high office.
From the standpoint of any repub-
lican, who has the best interests of
his party and the state at heart, we
think the CaledOnian's position is I'M
aSsailable. 1t has been a matter of
surprise beyond measure to note the
position taken by those leading Yer
mont dailieS, which have done Splen-
did work for purer politics and
which unsparihgly condemned DR..
Mead'S methods before the cOnVen-
ton, and in fact of whom it may be
said that their arraignment of his
practices was so powerful, assisted
by quite a number of the Vermont
weeklies that a strong public senti-
ment has unQuestionably been Great
ed in condemnation of DR.. Mead's
methods. How can the law-observ-
ing electorate, seeing these papers
now endorsing DR.. Mead, feel other
wise than that, having been prepared
to ask for bread, they are given a
stone.
The charges made by the anti-Mead
press as to the unlawful use of money
were either true or malicious mis-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-08-03
As to Boiling.

Threats of boiling the head of the
republican ticket in the approaching
state election are heard here and
there and now and then, but it is a
ton day the number of boilers will
have dwindled to minimum.
Strictly speaking it is difficult to
understand how those party papers
that in the anti-cOnVention days so
shamelessly denounced the candidacy
of Lieut.. Gov. Mead can today sup
port him, yet of their number the ST.
Johnsbury Caledonian alone declines
to eat it's dish of crow. This action
on the part of the Caledonian none
may question. 1t has the right to do
as it pIeases and await consequences,
for there is no game in the world that
two can play at quite so handily as that
of the game of politics, fact that the
bolter should not forget. But in con-
traSt to this course of the Caledonian
is that of those anti cad papers,
which, while not boiling his nominal
ton themselves, yet try by Subter-
fuge to influence their readers so to do.
Lacking the courage and manhood
themselves to bolt, they yet in man
ner that is contemplate try to get
others to do that which they them
selves do not dare to do for fear of
breaking party fealty. In the pre-
convention campaign The Landmark
did not support DR.. Mead, yet its eff
| forts to prevent his nomination were
| in every instance clean, open, and
above board, and thus today it has
| not crow to eat, simply because it
| made it's fight on the broad ground
| of party welfare and eScheWed per
| sonal denunciation. Readers will re-
| call that The Landmark demanded
| that certain antiMead papers stop
| their questionable methods of de-
| feating him and come out in the open
and make a square deal fight. 1t
| was those papers that were leaders in
| the denunciatiOn of the so called cor
| rupt methods of DR.. Mead, that were
| the chief founders and advocates of
| that very system they now denounce.
| They have been the beneficiaries of
| that system in very recent campaigns
| Today The Landmark calls upon
| these papers to come out squarely and
| bolt Dr. Mead or else support him in
an open daylight manner, and stop
| this action of trying to get their
| readers to bolt while they in cam
| paigns to come can mount the house
| top and say they supported the party
nominee Lieut-Gov. Mead will be
| the governor elect in a few weeks
| The boiling of all the anti-Mead
| papers in a bunch cannot prevent
| this In truth all know that the
| big factor in the work of his nOmina-
| ton was the OVERRIDING of the job OF
trying to defeat him of certain
| papers. People like fair play and the
| square deal, hence the big lists OF
| delegates from those regions covered
| by anti-Mead sentiment. It was his
| denunciators that accomplished his
| nomination, and back down scheme
| will not cause his defeat.-[The
| Landmark.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-08-03
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Special Village Meeting.

The special village meeting called
for the fifteenth instant is another
exhibition of an element that is de-
ternined this town shall do nothing
of a progressive nature. st. Johns
bury twice within the past year has
attempted to install improvements in
tended to benefit the whole village.
One has already been killed by this
reactionary element and now 1T is
irving to undo the only creditable
thing the village has done in years
regarding a healthy water supply.
Unless we are misinfOrmed one OF
the leading spirits in this move is a
landlord who has a large number OF
tenants and is unwilling to go TO the
expense of furnishing them with
water fit to drink. Will the voters Of
the village endorse such a mercenary
course as this?
To continue pumping sewage into
peopIe's residences for them to drink
will surely plunge the village into
more litigation and advertise more
harmfuIly than before the poor water
that is furnished by this village. The
citizens in a we'll attended meeting,
voted to end this nuisance and do
something to their credit. It is to
be hoped that they will not allow on
the fifteenth a few citizens unwilling
to furnish tenants healthy water to
cast a permanent blot on the town
and village
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-08-03
Bolts Head of Ticket Only.

The only republican paper in Yer
mont to bolt the party ticket is the
Caledonian of ST. Johnsbury and that
limits it's boiling to the head of the
ticket, It says: John A. Mead's vic
tory has stigmatized the state of Yer
mont as small state for sale to the
man who will spend money to secure
the nomination and election to the
highest office in the gift of the people.
Certainly it cannot be maintained that
such result as this obligates any self
respecting citizen to support him no
matter what the verdict of the party
convention was. 1t seems to us that
it will be creditable to the republicans
of Vermont to so reduce the republi-
can vote for governor that the people
at home and in other states will
understand that the citizenship of this
state is not to be sold even if a man
can by questionable methods secure
the republican nomination for office. -
I Bellows Falls Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-08-03
NEWSPAPER CAMPAIGN TALK.
Editors Say Concerning Feeling independence
That is Developing.

eminent but the best government pos
Sible the question of whether he shall
endorse in it's entirety the policy of his
party or exercise his supreme right of
standing for only such parts of it as
shall aid in giving the best government
To our mind the time has come when
healthy independence on the part of
the individual voter at the ballot box
next September will bring to the state
very beneficial results. list. Johns
bury Caledonian.
We can readily see how a reader of
a few journals of the state during the
campaign that has just closed, might
form a judgment that would be,
most humiliating to all anxious to
preserve the good name of Vermont"
Any person who was a reader of one
or more of those Vermont newspapers
which were engaged in the effort to de-
feat DR.. Mead at any cost, might we'll
have gained the idea that Vermont
was wicked beyond a hope of redemp
ton. Yet these very papers know,
down in their hearts, that it is not true
that the impression that has gained
belief in some quarters outside OF the
state is a base libel upon Vermont.
The insinuatiOn, the inuendo, the
hints that were kept flying back and
forth during the ampaign-unsup-
ported by proof of any kind-and
| circulated for political purpose only
| to defeat the honorable ambition of
their natural fruits outside of the
| state where the true facts are not
known and it is to the shame of the
| newspapers who are responsible for
them. The Caledonian evidently not
| satisfied with the evil it has already
| done in it's unsuccessful attempt to
| drag a representative citizen down,
now refuses to be bound by the choice
! of the majority of the delegates of the
| party which it pretends to represent.
hi to nTin cfn IN to1Z 10
and we hope the editor of our esteem
| ed contemporary has not taken it
| without due consideration. If the
! step should result to his own serious
| injury it would not be the first example
| of suffering following hasty action in
| spired by disappointment over defeat.
| But whether the CaledOnian
| suffers or not is not half so important
as that the state should suffer as it
| undoubtedly does by the false impress
| the unfounded charges that were
made against DR.. Mead during his
| campaign for the nomination of the
high office of governor.
! When the excuse is given to the
Plattsburg Press, the mouth piece
! of one of the most VIGOROUSLY cor
rupt political machines in New York
state, where corruption has had some
| resourceful deVoteeS, to hold its hands
| up over VermOnt'S short comingS the
| extent OF the harm done may be
| somewhat appreciated. The Press evil
! IDENTIFY has gained the impression from
the anything to beat Mead" news
papers that Vermont is more stepped
| in corruption than Clinton county
which has been a stencil in the nostrils
of honest men in New York state for
years. How deeply degrading this
opinion really is can only be appre-
ciated by a newspaper like the Press,
which has been so closely conversant
with the politics of northern New
York; Burlington Clipper.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-08-03

representations. If they were true,
the republican press assumes serious
responsibility in endorsing these
methods, because if DR.. Mead was
law violator before the convention,
he is none the less one after that
date.
What a travesty, in the light of
the knowledge which prevails re-
garding his methods, to have DR..
Mead elected on a platform demand
ing the publicity of campaign eX-
penditures, when he absolutely re-
fused to meet his opponents in an
open-handed manner and satisfy the
people whether the charges made
against him were warranted or not.
1t seems to the Standard that the
condition confronting the republic
cans of Vermont at the present time
is a serious one and one that cannot
be turned aside on the ground OF
party regularity, because it goes be-
yond that and becomes question of
good government.
The great portion of the republican
press of Vermont have commended
without stint the policies of Theodore
Roosevelt, the great fight Gov.
Hughes has made for civic righteous
ness in New York, and the heroic
and sterling qualities Of President
| the law. How can these same papers,
| when the question presents itself
| right at home, condone and endorse,
under the banner of party regulari-
| ty, which is so often the refuge and
weapon of law violators, those
! methods which they condemn else
| where?
Although the Caledonian's protest
| at the present time is like unto a
voice crying in the wilderness, the
| Standard believes it is right, and
| endorses it's position in not urging
| the election of John A. Mead, al
| though approving the platform and
| the remainder of the party ticket
| [Enosburg Standard.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-08-03
Old Soldier Bolts Mead.

To the Editor of The Free Press:
In last Thursdays Free Press there
was a protest from ga Powell Repub-
lican'' against the nomination by the
democrats of Mr.. Kennedy for county
senator, and also against Mr.. Ken
nedy's accepting the nomination on
the ground that "Dr. Mead promised
that if he was supported for governor
he would keep Mr.. Kennedy out of the
race for senator"
Now isn't that richness for you %
To an outsider this protest seems so
inexpressibly funny as to be absolute
ly ridiculous. How long, pray, has it
been customary for republicans to
protest against our democratic friends
nominating any man they see fit as
a candidate for office? or against the
nominee accepting the nomination?
However, this protest seems to
throw considerable sidelight on some
of the methods employed by Dr.. Mead
to secure his own nomination, and so
I have pasted it in my hat for refer
ence about the first Tuesday in Sept
ember.
Am I bound to vote for a man VINO
stoops to such methods to obtain Of
fee simply because I have voted the
republican ticket for more than so
years, and he is the regular republi-
can nominee? Great Scott! Forbid I
utterly repudiate any such obligation.
ALONZO KINGSLEY.
A Grand Army Man.
Essex, VT, July 26, 1910.