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The National tribune., 1910-04-07
ATLANTIC CITY AN IDEAL MEET
INC, PLACE,

Comrade George S Lenhart, the very
capable Secretary Director of the At
lantic City Publicity Bureau. has writ
ten an admirable presentation of At
lantic City as the ideal meeting place
for conventions of all kinds. This
contains facts that ought to be known
to all who contemplate attending the
National Encampment. Comrade Len
hart says that Atlantic City is not a
commercial or manufacturing center,
and will not be allowed to become one,
since this would spoil it for resort.
The sole business of the people is to
care for the public either individually
or collectively, and they cater to moth
ing else. The handling of these gath
erings is no side-line. as it is in other
cities, but speciality with the people.
They have been ii this so long and have
had so much experience that they can
do this better than any other city. At
lantic City's only industry is the hotel
business. and there are 1000 big and
little hotels. which handle 100000 vis-
itors on daily average thruout July
and August and about half that amount
during the Lenten season. These hotels
charge from 81 day up on the Ameri-
can plan and so cents up on the Euro
pean plan. The great ocean piers are
utilized for great conventions and ex-
hibitions and free meeting places are
provided. The convention business is
regarded as being of the greatest ad-
vertising value to the city. as everyone
who attends these conventions becomes
pleased with the place and desires to
return to it for a pleasure excursion
The Philadelphia Public Ledger says:
The function of that most wonder
full resort is to amuse and to entertain.
That is its business its profession and
reason for existing. and il carries on its
mission asbonishingly we'll Atlantic
City ought to be the great convention
city of the United States, and when
finally the merits of this resort are
fully appreciated, Il never-ending series
OF congresses and conventions will be
held there"
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
Capture Of Holly Springs.

Editor National Tribune: Please givs
me the history of the battle fought
Dec. 20. 1862, at Holly Springs. Miss,
between Van Dorm and the I'd Ill. Cav,
9Th Ill, and one other regiment, tha
of which 1 have forgotten
w. II. Williams. Colonel. 1st Van
Buren Co. Uowa) Militia.
In December. 1862, Gen. Grant was
moving overland to reach the rear OF
Vicksburg. while Gen Sherman was
going down the Mississippi to attack the
city directly from the Yazoo side. Gen.
Grant had made a sub-base at Holly
Springs. under the command of Col r.
c. Murphy. Sth Wis. In addition to
the infantry. Grant had his cavalry
alert to meet the raid which he know
that Van Dorm was making upon his
line of communications. In spite OF
Gen. Grants warnings to Col. Murphy,
he allowed himself to be surprised. He
gave no intimation to any of his officers
of the impending danger. and the troops
were first notified OF the advance of the
enemy when they were surrounded. No.
withstanding this surprise, many of the
troops fought obstinately, and after
making their escape attacked the Con-
federates again. The I'd H. Cav. was
conspicuous in this. Gen. Grant esti-
at 100000, with 1900 men captured
Col Murphy in his report makes a
lame defense, and says that Gen. Van
Dorm advanced on him with $4,000 men,
making direct attack with 5000.
where he had but 200 effectives to
meet them. Gen. Van Dorm reports
that he surprised the enemy at daylight,
burned the QuartermaSter'S stores, cot
ton and many trains. took great many
arms, and about 1900 prisoners. i.e
estimates the value of his captures at
$150O,000 Maj Mudd, I'd Ill. Cav.
says that, not having time to form regu-
larly, his men engaged in a series OF
fights, covering each side of the camp
There We're six companies present, under
command of Lieut.-Col. Mcneil. who
was surrounded and compelled to sur
render. Maj. Bush rallied a part of the
men on the south side. Capt. Marsh on
the north. and Maj. Mudd on the west
A sharp fight enSued, with the enemy
giving ground. This was brought to a
termination by a rush against the rear.
when all the commanders saw that the
only hope was a saber charge. which
was simultaneously executed by each of
the companies. The encircling enemy
was broken thru at every point and
driven some distance, with the capture
of prisoners. The Major reports loss
of nine men killed and 3S wounded. Hs
thinks about 100 of his men were cap
tured. The regimental books were
saved, but the camp and garrison equip
age destroyed. His command took IL
prisoners, one of whom was Major.
They captured IL others, but were COM
PEELED to let them go. Gen. Grant issued
an order dismissing Col Murphy for
cOwardly and diSgraceful conduct
Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
rHE BUGABoo OF "cANNoNIsM."

One of the nuisanceS of politics Is
the practice of certain leaders starting
infia mmatory cries to mislead the un-
thinking. We have always had these
in our politics. and probably always
shall have, because there is class of
people always ready for some eatch-
word to follow into error. A consider
able and much the noisest part of our
people think a glib phrase or catch
word is much better than an argu-
ment-in fact, they are incapable of
argument or of explaining what is
meant by the catchword. They only
know that it sounds well and may mean
something, so they repeat it with the
monotony of a wooden cuckoo on a
Swiss clock. Strictly of the nature of
these catchword bugaboOs which have
been so frequent in our politics is the
clamor against "Cannonism." No one
knows, no one can explain what he
means by "Cannonism:" No two MEM
bers of the House of Representatives
who have been talking the lOudest and
stirring up all this uproar against the
Optjhtl " III agree dS 10 NiiIt ilS itlCfltt-
Iby "Cannonism." y careful canvass
of these men has shown that some were
against Cannon because they disliked
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, but many
more were shouting it simply for effect
They had come to Congress with extra
vagraat promises to their constituents
of things that they would do, which
things were clearly impractiCable and
impossible. and their only way out of
the dilemma was to shriels against
"Cannonism." OF course. ali the Dem
ocrats were against Cannon on prin-
ciple. as they are against anything Re
publican. They were only too glad to
aid and abet at home and in Washing
ton all that was being vociferated
against "Cannonism" and which would
help discrcdit and disiategrate the Re-
publican party. The Democrats are the
| only logical and sincere opponents of
"Cannonism," because it is their play to
oppose the Republican party and its
policies and to prevent the dominant
party in the House from transacting
the business which it is its duty to do.
If by the revolt against Cannon the
Democrats would have been able to
throw the House into confusion. break
up the entire program of legislation and
have the session end in absolute fruit
| lessness, great would have been their
glee and great would have been the
advantage to the Democratic party
The exciting scenes in the House of
Representatives showed clearly the hol
| lOwness of the Cannon bugaboo. After
all that was said and done. the rules
and methods and procedure remain
virtually the same. with simply some
OF the responsibility for the prompt
transaction of business lifted from the
Speaker and transferred to the enlarg-
ed Committee on Rules.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

We are not just now ready to pro-
nounce upon the campaign method in
troduced by NJ. J. Scholey. Mayor of
Kenosha, Wis He is a candidate for
reelection and has distributed 5000
bars of soap instead of the usual
dodgers" The soap is of ordinary
size and on one side is the name OF
the soap while on the other is a picture
OF the Mayor with the inscription, "A
Clean Administration The main
question is how some of the unwashed
who have votes will accept the gift OF
q bar of soap.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

Commodore William II. Wheeler,
L. S. N, retired. and COmmandant of
the Naval Station at Key West,
breaches an idea of startling novelty.
He proposes to make the Florida Keys
an American Gibraltar by sinking the
superannuated warships along them
with only their turrets exposed and pro-
tected on the sea side by an earthen
wall. This would be equivalent to
building that many impregnable steel
forts extending as far north as Miami
and making a position that could not
be successfully assailed He would
have Key West then made great naval
base from which the Gulf of Mexico,
the Caribbean Sea, the approaches to
the Panama Canal and Cuba could be
effectively controlled.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
OBJECTS TO BARBARA FRIETCHfE!.

Boston has always abounded in
cranks and wishy washy sentimentaiists.
These are sad degenerates from their
sturdy old Puritan ancestors who had
very positive ideas as to what was right
and what was wrong, and, if anything,
had too little mercy for those who hap
pened to differ from them. The Asso-
ciated Press says that Mrs b. a. Keane,
of Roxbury. is the chairwoman of
committee that complains to the Board
Of Education of Boston of the unfair
ness to the noble and pure-hearted
men of the South" which is expressed
in the lines in Barbara F'rietchie:
"a shade of sadness, a blush of shame,
over the face of the leader came.
The nobler nature within him stirred,
etc"
She says that she is a good Ameri-
can and wants her children to be rails
ed as such. and not to be taught any
such an aspersion upon their fellow
countrymen.
This is 24-carat fine sicllly wash. 1t is a
rank injustice to the noble men and wo-
men of the North who gave everything
10 save the Union and who acted with
entire disregard to their lives and
worldly goods in supporting the Union
against those who would destroy it.
No matter whether Barbara Frietchie
was an exact representation of the facts
or not, yet in the main it was generally
true. Thousands of noble. pure-heart-
ed' MARYLAND men and women did acts
as daring in their devotion to the Union
as that of Barbara Frietchie. The poem
expresses the feeling OF the men end
women south of Mason and Dixon's
line who upheld the Union under cir
cumstances of peculiar danger and
hardship. What they did may be only
known to the Recording Angel, but the
beautiful poem of Barbara Frietchie is
expressive of the loyalty and courage
of all of them. and it will live, as it
should as long as the English language
| Is read and spoken. 1t will be to the
eternal glory of the common people of
the country, in whose hands rested the
| future of a Government of the people,
! for the people, by the people. Comrade
| Alfred King, of Arlington. n. J.. feels
strongly upon this subject, and has
written us that he believes the protest
of Mrs. Keane and her -weaklings
| is q gross, injustice to Whittier and
to the loyal people of the South, and
he is right tol
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

A japanese paper estimates that
there are in Japan 1900 Protestant
Christians. with the Methodists leading
the number OF COMMITMENTS. There
are about 5000 Greek and Roman
Catholics. The demand is for more
Christian workers. as. after all. there are
2SS,00O Buddhist temples and Shinto
shrines TO esIy l.675 Christian
churches and 2I6.00O priests to 1921
Christian workers Of both sexes. Thus.
while one Christian missionary is seek
ing to win a convert there are 156 on
the other side trying to hold him. DIR.
Harrington, a Baptist missionary. says
that there should be from 900 TO 400
missionary families sent to Japan at
the earliest date to carry on the work
for which the people are ready.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
Gems. burnside and HaIIeck.

Editor National Tribune: VIII you let
me know what active service. if any. A.
E. Burnside took part in after the Mine
explosion; also Gen. II. w. Halleck.
after Grant took command of the
armies-S. F. Putney, Cleveland, n. Y.
Gen. Burnside was given leave OF
absence after the Mine assault, and re-
manned so until he resigned April Is,
1865. Gen. Halleck took the position
of Chief of Staff after Grant was ap-
pointed Commander-in-Ch Chief, and April
10. 1865, was appointed to the command
of the military division OF the James.
with headquarters at Richmond.-Edi-
tor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

One beauty about our system OF
State Government is that any political
nostTum or scheme can be tried out in
a single locality to the entire satisfac
ticn of its promoters without disturbing
the rest of the country. This has been
well illustrated in Oklahoma, where the
economic fakirs have injected all sorts
of half ideas into the Constitution and
laws. One of the most attractive OF
these was to lend the school funds on
farm mortgages. 1t is urged that this
would deliver the farmers from the loan
sharks, crush the bloodsucking pluto
Gratis of the East and give the State
great increase in revenue. The scheme
has now been in operation two years
and is a conspicuous failure. There
were 100000 of the school fund
offered for loan, but only about half of
this was taken. The loans were placed
with so much red tape and political pull
that men who had really valuable farms
could obtain the money easier and
cheaper elsewhere and be under no OBJ
legations The next step is that the
mortgages that We're accepted were on
inferior species of property, and it is
regarded as doubtful if the State can
ever recover this principal, let alone
the interest, and the plan has been def
initely abandoned
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

West Virginia announces that she is
going to spend a great deal of money
for good roads and is going to get the
value of every dollar that she lays out.
What is best, she is having a campaign
Of education as to how the roads can be
made better. The principal roads will
be macadam or otherwise made solid on
the surface, while the minor roads will
be carefully drained and brought TO a
drown by means of split-log drag.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
Youngest Soldier.

Joseph l.. Overlands. Albright, Mo-,
thinks that he has some claims to being
the youngest soldier He was born in
Champaign County. Ohio, Nov 3, 1S49.
and went out In 81, and stayed with
the army until May 2, 1864. He then
enlisted and served until Aug. 81, 1864.
He received a gunshit wound while he
was with the army before he enlisted.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

Mississippi is having a ruction similar
20 the scandal which defeated Senator
Pomeroy for reelection to the Senate
from Kansas. The Grand Jury at Jack
son, Miss. is investigating alleged con-
LESSONS and charges of wholesale brib-
cry of members of the Legislature in
connection with the election of Leroy
State Senator has confessed that he ac-
copied a bribe of $645 to vote for
Percy.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

The special features Of the American
Review of Reviews for April are the
stirring account of New York's anti
tuberculosis campaign under the watch
word No Tuberculosis in New York
State in 1920" by John A. Kingsbury;
message to the nation on The Ad-
vance of Forestry in the United States"
by Forester Graves, the successor to
Clifford Pinchot at the head of the
Forest Service; an Englishman's frank
comments on King Edwards attitude
in England's time of crisis. by w. T.
Stead.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

Ex-senator Henry G. Davis. of West
Virginia, says that Mayor Gaynor and
Gov. Judson Harmon are both good
Presidential timber, and the choice for
the next nomination lies between them
1t is pretty early in the game yet for
either Harmon's or Gaynor's friends to
assume that they have made good.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

There are some suryivals of the OLD
laws in Maryland which seem COM
mendable. Under one of these Charles
Delosier, of Hagerstown, Md. was re-
Gently given 10 lashes by the Sheriff for
wife-beating. A little of this sort of
thing in every State would do a world
OF good.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

In speech of marked beauty and
pith in the funeral exercises for the
late Representative Cushman. Speaker
Cannon said as to the Hereafter:
.It is a great mystery. You may
speculate about 1T, but you can never
settle it, L think more and more it
is a consensus that each entity makes
its own place here and hereafter"
Lowell he said, had expressed the
idea he had in Imind in an essay in
which he'lsaid men hold stock in "a
great public debt that is sure of pay
ment."
THAT is" concluded the Speaker, "a
debt which the Creator of the universe
owes to the universe which He created.
And l shall not sell my shares in a
panic"
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
NOTICE.

When you send in your subscription
ALWAYS state whether renewal or new
subscriber.
Whom vou renew from another post
office give former address as wen.
When change of address is desireu oe
sure to give former address.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

There is brighter outlook for Spain.
Her population is increasing, business
men taking heart, and starting enter
prises which give work and wages to
her people, and wealth is beginning to
accumulate. The diminution of i'm
ports of flour and wheat into Spain
show that the people are returning to
the farms and making the country more
self-supporting.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

1t seems that the high prices OF Nv
ing were a stormy issue 100 years ago.
and Thomas Jefferson received the ben
eft of the clamor over excessive prices
in his Presidential campaign.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

New Mexico is entering the field as
prominent oil producer, with strikes IN
the Pecos Valley that sound like the
early DAYS of Pennsylvania.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
A Lost Discharge.

c. M. Montgomery. Nyack. N. Y, has
in his possession a discharge and other
papers belonging to Timothy L. Quaid,
of the I'd Battalion. 16Sd V. r. c.,
which will be forwarded to the propee
person on request.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

Col. Henry Watterson announces his
belief in the hook worm, and says that
Il should be praised as one OF the
greatest patriots, since it won the VIC
tory for the Union.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

when the red morn lighted up the east
The bird of fate prolonged its feast.
1t ate and croaked like n savage beast
War! War! War!
A year or two afterward, at social
gathering. 1 heard a lady sing The
Drummer Boy of Shiloh" the first
stanzas as follows:
ON Shiloh's dark and bloody field
The wounded soldiers lay.
Among them was the drummer boy
Who beat the drum that day.
''They gathered around the dying boy;
His drum lay by his side.
He raised his eyes and clasped his
hands.
And prayed before he died.
.. oh, Jesus cried the dying boy.
Look down from Heaven on me,
And take me to Thy kind embrace;
oh, take me home to Thee"
/ have never seen any collection of
war songs that contained either of the
above and never saw them in print or
heard of them afterward. Should any
comrade have either, | would be pleased
to see same printed in The National
Tribune. Powers, Co. X, 25th Ind,
Palmer, Kan.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

The men who dissented from the be-
lief that Lee was the greatest General
were Lieut.-Gen. A. p. Stewart, who be-
lieves that Joseph f. Johnston is en-
titled to that pre-eminence. and this
opinion is coincided with by Gen. F.
NJ. CockreI. Gen. c. ]. Polignac thinks
that Beaureguard and Richard Taylor
should be placed at the top of the list,
with Gen. Forrest second to none. Gen.
Thomas L. Rosser considers StonewaIl
Jackson the greatest commander on the
Southern side. and there are three
others who think with him. Gen.
Roger A. Pryor thinks that the ablest
General was ]. E. b. Stuart!
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

In the House Oh Representatives MT.
Sherwood, of Ohio, on Feb. 26r 1910.
introduced the following bill to pension
certain disabled veterans of the civil
war, which was referred to the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions and ordered
to be printed. 1t is numbered 21902:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled. That upon written application to
the Secretary Of the Interior, and sub
iect to the conditions and requirements
hereinafter contained, the name of each
surviving volunteer officer and soldier
in the United States volunteer army of
the civil war who shall have served
with credit as an officer or enlisted man
not less than 80 days in said volunteer
army between April 20, 1861. and July
Is. 1865, whose physical or mental con-
dition is of such degree of disability as
to require the frequent and periodical
aid and attention of another person,
shall be pensioned at the rate of $50
per month during the period of such
disability. He shall have been honor
ably discharged from service. Said ap-
plication shall be accompanied by proof
of the identity of the applicant, and
the identity shall be sworn to in the
manner and form provided by law for
other applications for pension, That
the class of soldiers hereinbefore de-
Scribed, when entered upon the pension
roll, shall be paid, out of any money in
the Treasury of the United States not
otherwise appropriated, the said sum
of $40 per month from and after the
date of his application.
Sec. 2. That this act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's pas
sage.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
soUTuERN GENERALS.

Senator C. A. Culberson. OF Texas
has been trying TO find who is regarded
by the Confederates themselves as their
greatest General He has sent out let
tiers to A surviving Generals of the
Confederate army asking them to give
their estimate as to who was their
greatest leader. The vote resulted as
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

We are now having a wave of "City
Commissions" About 60 American
cities. representing over 5000, 900 peo-
pie. have decided that the municipal
management shall be taken out of poll
ties and placed in the hands of COM
mission of experts. OF course, all the
professional reformers are wild over
this change, and are pointing out what
results have already been accomplished.
They magnify and exaggerate the con-
ditions from which the cities have been
rescued by their nostrum in municipal
government and also eXaggerate the
good that has been accomplished. For
example. Galveston placed the city gov
eminent in the hands of five men. with
practically autocratic power. 1t is
claimed that it has reduced its expenses
nearly one-third saved $1,000. 900, and
become in every way a better city to
live in. The same claims are being
made from Houston, Des Moines. Sioux
Falls and Cedar Rapids. AS new
broOms sweep clean" a great many of
these good results are real, and it is
possible that the plan will go on being
tried by other cities lust for change"
if nothing more. Then we shall begin
to hear of the defects of the system.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
War Songs.

Editor National Tribune: Just after
the close of the civil war | CHANGED to
read in some daily newspaper a song
written incident to the battle of Chicka-
mauga. The first lines ran:
"a raven sat on a blood stained stone,
And picked away at a fleshless bone.
Anon it cried in horrid tone
Wari War; Wari
The National tribune., 1910-04-07

Entered at Washington, D. c. Post o'''e'
as second-class matter.
The National tribune., 1910-04-07
WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL T. 1910

Office: 1.th and E Streets Northwest
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-12-04
TO ENTEI FIELD AT RENO.
Dickerson Sad to Have Leased Me-
yada State Journal.

A special rom Reno to the Sacra-
mento Bee II recent date says Ii is
persistently reported that George Kill
born, of ths Nevada State Journal,
has leaesd that paper to Denver s.
Dickerson, acting and lieutenant gov
ernor, and Key Pittman, who was the
Democratic candidate for United
States SeIator against George s. Nix
on in thela campaign, and that
Dickersoi and Pittman are to take
charge d the paper on January 1st.
1t is Mrther reported that Senator
FrancisJ. Newlands and a number of
Democratic business men of the city
are pl;nning to start another morn
ing paper in that city.