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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-28
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

Mrs. Joseph Gay was AOsteoS yes
terday afternoon for d charming
bridge company at her home on North
Illinois street, when she entertained
guests for fifteen tables. The house
was a bower of beautiful flowers. The
wall pockets and vases We're filled
with carnations. sweet peas and daffo-
dis and the centerDiece in the dining
room was a besket OF scarlet carna-
lions and ferns The hostess was as
sisted by her daughter, Miss Eula
Clay and group OF her friends. in
Guiding the Misses Magenta Ryan,
Ethel Mick and Hester Thomson.-ln-
dianapolis Star.
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SACRED CONCERT.
The sacred concert given last ev
ening in the First Methodist church
Mrs. Grace Gormon was we'll attended
despite the inclement weather
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GIVEN A SURPRISE.
Mrs. K. D. Cofield was given a
pleasant surprise Sunday afternoon at
her home on North Fifteenth street
by the members of the East End Aid
society of the First Christian church.
Mrs. Cofield will soon remove from
the city. She was presented with a
beautiful cut glass dish.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEDNESDAY.
A musical and entertainment will be
given Wednesday evening, March sec
ond by the Woman's Aid Society of the
First Presbyterian church. Mrs. How
ard Dill will give a monologue. accom-
panied by the organ. Other we'll
known musicians to assist are: Miss
Marguerite Doan. Mrs. Will Earhart,
Mrs. F. W. Kruger, Mr.. Braffett. Mr..
Otto Krone, Miss Elizabeth Hase-
meier, Miss Kirkpatrick and Mr. Lee
roy Lacey. The public is invited to
attend. A small admission fee will be
asked
FAMILY DINNER.
A family dinner party was given
Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Holton
at their home on North B street.
Those participating in the affair were:
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Corwin. Mr. and
Mrs. w. N. Earhart, with Mrs. Will
liam Eldridge of Franklin: Miss Flor
ence Corwin and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Earhart.
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EVENTS AT FIFTH ST. CHURCH..
Several meetings and social affairs
will be held this week by members of
the Fifth Street Methodist church. The
following schedule has been arranged ::
Tuesday-In the evening the Ep-
worth League will hold a business SEES
sion, after which a literary program
will be presented All members are in
vited to attend.
Wednesday-The Vivian Graham SO,
ciety will meet in the afternoon with
Mrs. Jennie Williams at her home
354 Richmond avenue, instead of meet
ing with Mrs. Flora Frame as an.
nounced.
Thursday-Section B of the Ways
and Means society will meet with
Mrs. Margaret Cones at the home OF
her daughter. Mrs. Harry Wood. 3O4
kinsey street.
Friday-ln the evening. Mrs. John
Deem of 316 Richmond avenue, will en-,
terrain members and friends of the
church.
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use of lcftovers, school 1uncheons,
croquettes, salads, eggs, mullins.
Thursday March 3-Dir.ner, soup
fish. poultry, vegetables, deserts.
Friday, March flood for day
balanced ratiOns.
Wednesday evening a lecture will
be given which will be free to the
public. The men of the city are es
pecially invited to attend The sub
way will be The Grocery Bill-How
to keep it down to the Proper Proper
ton of the Income
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TO SERVE DINNER.

some, hearty breakfast, as Mrs. Aus
tins pancake flour. At all grOcers.
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RETURNED HOME.

Mrs. J. A. Conkey has returned to
her home in Richmond after a visit
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Clay Campbell. Mrs. Conkey was &C
companied home by Miss Grace Law
ler.--Indianapolis Star.
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afternoon at her home in the Wayne
flats. Needlework and luncheon Iea-
tured the afternoon.
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TO BE REPEATED.

Owing to the popularity of the
Midget Wedding" entertainment. Civ
EN- last week in the Second Lutheran
church the affair will be repeated
Wednesday evening at the Second
Presbyterian church. All persons are
invited to attend.
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LEAVES TO-DAY.

Mrs. Charles Reed of Oakland City
Indiana, went to Geneva. Indiana. to
day. Mrs. Reed has been visiting
Mrs. George Chrisman.
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MISS ELLIS HOSTESS.
Miss Mahle Ellis. was hostess for a
meeting OF a thimblc club Saturday
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TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Rumor has it that the engagements
of number of this city's popular
young people, will be announced soon.
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RETURNED HOME.
Miss Lena Hafner has returned to
her home in Greenfield, Indiana, after
a few days visit with relatives and
friends in this city.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-26
Hotel
Del MUNDO
N. Nj. STREETER, Prop.
WORLD BUILDING
Phone sos.
European Plan.
Everything First Glass
From Us to You

When you buy Washington MUIR
sery Companys trees, you deal direct
with responsible concern. Each in
dividual order is drawn on the COM
pany's own order blanks and is en-
tered in the customers own name
and should a misunderstanding ever
occur you know to whom to look
We have a personal interest in
pleasing our customers. We could
not have built up our large business
on other than correct methods.
Our stock is produced under the
most favorable conditions to dev elOp
and mature healthy, hardy, we'll
rooted, fully matured trees. Soil as
fertile as ever made, water as need
ed, months of sunshine, continuous
cultivation and care, and a splendid
fall season for hardening the wood
fibre before digging, enable us to
make good our claim for superior
stock.
When digging time comes we han
die this work expeditiously and with
a system that guarantees our custo-
mers what they have ordered. If our
agent fails to see you, drop us line.
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That's what Washington did for me.
And that tariff which was sup
posed to be reduced downward. Let
me give you an item, then you con-
slider the short time the bill was con-
sidered and the fact that 1000 items
of tariff were in that bill"
Murdoch then repeated a cotton
schedule item containing nine quail
fjcations as to why, how, when, and
how much imported goods were to
be levied on. Il defy any man in
this or any other audience to go over
that item and then tell me that is
the tariff on cotton.
"It can't be done. And then tell
me that congressman knew what they
were doing when they passed that
tariff bill? Not much. But let them
take it up, the 1000 items at a time
Let them carefully inquire into each
item and what the provisions of each
item mean. Then you will see tar
If law which will stand out as the
intelligent work of congress and a
law passed in accord with party
pledges made before election.
II have told you how bills went
into committees and how men who
voted one way in committee voted
the opposite way on the floor of the
house. Why, when that tariff law
was made the senators and congress
men from the wide country were
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Cannon does not step backwards, -

Cannon does not step backwards, -
said the speaker. HE is wrongfully
accused in that instance. He does
not move forward He is opposed to
all human progress. He is a stand
patter from the word go, a stand
stiller.''
He drew careful picture of Gov
ernor Lilly, of Connecticut, ruined
by the interests machine in congress
He told in slow, deep tones how Lilly
did not like the extravaganza in
Washington, D. c., when he went
there for his state, how he boldly
told congress SO and how he was
condemned by that body for but
! ting in" and was bounded by the
machine to the day of his DEATH"
Lilly went back to his state in
disgrace with the machine in con.
gress," said the speaker. But his
people at home thought enough OF
him still, to elect him governor. As
governor he died, still bounded by
that ring because he had spoken
boldly against their methods.
LAS he died he held his hand out
before him and in his fading, disor-
dered brain, just as death appeared
| the vision of some man of the ring
who had bounded him.
HOunded to Death.
/ " Keep him Off he said. Keep
him off, Don't let him get at me.
That's what the machine will do and
that's what a man might get if he
goes out against them. But they
can't get me, because I'm too fat and
greasy to worry and get nervous.
I'm the house of representatives
sits on high, the speaker. He sits
up there supreme with the lash in
his hand. Under his whip and slave.
driving machine methods men vote
against their own convictions at the
behest of the special interests be.
cause they are afraid.
You call that representative gov.
eminent? Do you? II you do then
there are seas and seas between us
| on that point. I do not call that gov.
eminent by the people.
The Whip Hand.
| "You must take the power away
from that whip hand on nigh, uI
there in the house of representatives
You must take the power away from
there and put it on the floor of the
house among the congressman, where
the constitution intended 1t should
be. You can not get these changes
by consigning your political rights to
your neighbor, to your senator, your
representative or your president
you must take a hand in it yourself
or you'll never get your rights In
America.
Take from the speaker the pow
err to appoint the house committees
Take from him the power to say who
shall return recommendations or
bills and proposed legislation. Tear
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called in and one was given this, one
was given that, your men got some
thing. Kansas got only SO duty on
broom corn, California got something
and SO on down the line.
Herded in Congressman.
In this way they herded the SEN
ators and the congressman together.
rushed them into the gate and lock-
ed it on them. Then they voted on
the tariff bill and now we have the
new tariff law.
Craftsmanship? Craftsmanship?
Call that craftsmanship? Not much.
IT. was common, everyday horse trad
ing, that's what it was"
This was said close to the end of
the speech and at the likening of
congressional methods in legislation
to horse-trading the audience burst
into wild series of cheers.
In closing Murdoch pleaded for
votes for Poindexter. "You have in
your state a young man who wants
to go to the United States senate" he
said. I'm that young man you have
a representative of honesty and firm
integrity. He has backbone. If you
have the interests of the whole peo-
pie at heart you will work and vote
for that young man."
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STATE Of Washington IS
ABLAzE WITH INSURGENCY
Progress of Poindexter Marked by Breaking Away of
Voters From Ring Politics = Murdoch, Styled the
"Red Devil of Kansas Changing Hundreds of Votes
for Pondexter- Great Meeting in Seattle

The Sound is ablaze with a fire of
insurgency planted during the last
sixty days during the triumphal
march of Congressman Poindexter in
his campaign for the United States
senate. 1t has been given fresh i'm
petus during the past week by the
various meetings held in the state by
Victor Murdoch, the insurgent con-
gresham from Kansas.
A. G.. Morey, of this city, was in
Seattle at the Murdoch meeting on
Wednesday night and states taht the
large meeting place was insufficient
for the thousands who wanted to lis
ten to him.
Murdoch has been called the lead
er of the insurgents in the lower
house, and though the independents
had no recognized leader or organi-
cation, his ability as speaker, as a
parliamentarian, and as har1-hit-
ting aggressive fighter, has marked
him as one of the ablest men in pub
lie life today.
When the famous Norris resolu-
ton, which stripped Cannon of his
czar-like power was brought before
the house, the Kansan was right in
the thick of the terrific fight that
followed. When Cannon invaded
Kansas to stump the state, Murdoch
followed him around hitting the pet
stand-pat arguments so effectively
that not only did Kansas g over
whelmingly republican, but Uncle
Joe has recently been requested to
preserve a golden silence.
Every periodical in the country,
that makes any pretension of keep
ing it's readers posted on current
events, has featured this hard-work-
ing Observation-Disclosures republican,
not once, but a halfdozen times In
the six months just passed. Not all
the articles have been compliment
tary. Some of them have referred
to him as a grand startler, as a party
disrupter. as an insincere political
opportunist-all the names that are
currently applied to those who would
not heed the beck and call of the
self-appointed chiefs of the republi-
can party-the Cannons, the Dalzells,
the Tawneys and the Fordneys.
But most of them have described
him as a homely, honest Kansas
farmer-lawyer, who looks at things
broadly and ably, and who is not
afraid to come out in open opposition
even when a little discreet silence
would have aided him in doing
something for the district" They
see him as the man who works hard
at his desk and in his committee
room. too-as a man who Is on the
| job all the time.
In his Seattle speech Murdoch be-
gan at the first to tell in his direct
| forceful manner about Insurgency
He opened with a picture of Joseph
G. Cannon, speaker of the house OF
representatives.
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the bill they wanted, not the one
they had sent to the senate and not
the one they could stand for before
the people at home.
But the whip cracked. The
speaker got down from his chair AMI
labored over his slaves. The bill
was passed and that is how it hap
pened to get through with all its rot
ten provisions.
His Hide ThiCkened.
why, l went to Washington as
tender as a young girl, as sensitive
and innocent. But, my, | came back
with the hide of rhinOcerOus.
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him down and let your representa-
tive handle the work of the house
reariless of political power and one
man control.
when l first went to Washington
| Was told that the government
weighed it's mail seven days in the
week and in getting the average
weight for each day each week di-
vided by six instead of seven days.
Think that over and get it
through your heads. l tried to get
it through my head and l couldn't
because l never was good at figures.
But l worked over it with pencil and
paper. l figured that this govern
ment lost 100000 annually be-
cause the divisor in that little school
boy problem was six instead of seven
and because the government was pay
ing on that average basis for the
mails carried by our big railroads.
Lost $7O,OOO,OOO.
81 figured that in fourteen years
this government had lost $7O,O0O,-
900. l slept over it. In the morn
ing I thought l was crazy when |
saw the big figures l had made and
l went back to the pOstoffice and
asked a subordinate if they weighed
the mails seven days and get the
average by dividing by six. He said
yes. Again l figured it out. Again
I slept on it. Again l thought it
could not be So Again l asked the
subordinate If what he had told me
was so. He laughted at me and said
YES.
$50 1 figured it out again and got
the subordinate to sign his state
ment. 1 told him 1 was thick-head-
ed and could not understand such
things easily and he signed.
II told the President. 1 told the
house. l got nothing for my pains
but hard knocks. jeers and discour-
agement. And the house voted to
not consider my proposal to change
that little figure six to seven. Then
the President stepped in and order
ed the postmaster general to change
the six to a seven in averaging the
daily weight of mail carried by the
railroads for the government. He
thereby saved the government S.
100000 a year.
Killed by Railroads
but that did not come until after
all the great railroads had sent their
representatives to Washington to
work down my measure, to pooh
pooh it, to kill it, to get around it.
But l knew l had hit them because
a negro messenger of the house told
me one day he had been in the room
where the great railroad men were
assembled and had heard one OF
them say, THAT red-headed devil
from Kansas has knocked a hole in
us this time.
That's an illustration Of ring
methods and measures. That will
show you whether you are represent
ed in Washington. That is what hap
pened and the records at Washington
prove it.
LET me tell you that much OF the
dirty legislation is done in both
houses of congress just before adj
journment when everything is in
turmoil and everybody is anxious to
get away and get home. When the
new currency bill came up for con-
sideration it was sent by the house
to the senate and from the senate
back to the house with changes which
knocked out every beneficial clause.
The paste was not dry under the In
serted clauses. The pages of the bill
I held in my hand that day had not
been cut after it had been changed.
Congressmen scratched their heads
and held back and said, it was not
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-07-30

The Greatest Philanthropy.

II has often been asked: "What is
the greatest philanthropy in the
world2'' aud there are all sorts of
answers, that is from some people. There
is hut one from me. who have studied
social problems somewhat. Many men
have distinguished themselves as Low.
crs of their race. as distributors Of
great wealth for one purpose or another
dwindle into comparative insigniicance
in comparison to the philanthropy of
life insurance. II is the kind that
counts, that applies itself when help is
most needed, and yet does it ia such a
form that the recipient has not the hu.
initiation of receiving charity. Few
people realize the extent Of this bene.
faction, and the figures are startling.
Last year was the greatest in the his.
story of the progress Of the human
race toward the brotherhood of man.
II applies both ia the so.called old.
line and the fraternal divisions, for
the great life insurance companies while
operating for profit, aud getting il.
we're the pioneers, and are still the most
perfect form Of life insurance for those
who have means TO far beyond the very
excellent frntcrnities. Last year the
nfe insurance payments in the United
States and Canada aggregated the enor.
nous sum of $500, 100000.
To measure philanthropy by the
amount of money contributed tn the
relief Of human suffering and the ex.
tension of human happiness is gross
and ungracious. There is excellent au.
thority tor the belief p that n cup OF
cold water given in the right spirit
means more than the careless gift Of a
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-07-30

there are many which are permanent
in ownership, but with most of them
the changes are frequent. Last week
witnessed two important shifts. Sid
Wharton, under whose management the
Tucumcari News grew into the best
country weekly In New Mexico, turn.
the sheet over to other hands and To-
Gated nj the historic town of Cimarron,
which is coming to life again after a
sleep Of twenty years aud promises to
be- one of the livest ccnters in New
Mexico. Up at Ration the Fosters sold
the Range, 1t being commonly under.
stood that the new owners are the Van
Houtons. a rich syndicate who have
for a long while lusted for the general
control of Colfax county politics and
affairs, and who have put in as editor
JobE A.. Cutler former Baptist preacher
Of Cimarron, who is well known up in
the north end of the territory. II
remains TO he seen what the change
means for Ration. The Fosters had the
Range for i've years, carrying IL from
an obscure weekly to the Invest little
daily in the territory, and all of the
while doing a hcreoic work in promot.
ing the best life of tho people. To this
end, the ability Of Mrs. Foster was a
great help. Unlike most women writers,
there was no foolishness about her, no
dealing in pretty little co~mmonplaces.
when il was necessary she could call a
spade n spade, and in the use Of tho
hroadsword she gave or asked no qua
ter. The things she wrote stood out
In the Range with the flash Of FURNISH.
ed steel. Given n natural gift of woll.
balanced rhyme, she was equally at
home in dealing wi.h political and pub.
lie matters. Early in the game people
with an axe 10 grind came to have n
wholesome respect for her. and IL is n
safe bet that they are now glad that
she Is out of the game 40 far as Ration
is concerned. " is hard to combat the
thrusts Of nm intelligent and right.
minded woman, who can neither he
caioled nor inundated. and il is n
matter ~ common belief that is the
reason why the Van Houtons took the
only possible way to put a collar on
III" Range. II is to be hoped that the
Fosters will in truth stay in New Mex.
leo. The new state needs such workers
in III" newspaper business.
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favored with many enemies. which ~
perhaps the best test Of rs usefulness
AS the real value of all reformative 40
cietics il gagged by the enemies II
ina kes. The union has 10 a very com
siderable degree t%riumPhcd over all ad'
verse influences. and i. coming to have
greater and greater power in reforma'
tive legislation. II is certain to he a
prominent figure in the life of the new
state Of New Mexico, and the Las Cru.
ces convention will doubtless point the
way to many probable reforms. GET
ing broader and wiser all of the time,
there is ouly reason for congratulation
in it. Making mistakes, after the way
of all human associations, the general
trend Of the Woman s Christian Tenn
perance Union is wholly for good, and
the coming session is entitled to all OF
the attention its deliberations will At
tract.