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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15
MN. wACNER ron CONGRESS-.

Tho proposal to nominate Hans Wag-
ner, the world-renowncd ballologist,
for Congress brings no surprise. It
sion. The one open question about the
matter was whether Mr.. Wagner should
go to the House, the Senate or higher
still. The House appears to have been
splendidly creased toward the more
elite situations higher UT.
Mr.. Wagner speaks modestly of his
boom, but refrains from going so far
as TO give it the coup de grace. His
Barkis-like Willingness to serve should
be initiated elsewhere. Certain 1t is
that a debate on '.the floor" between
Hon. Wagner and Hon. Tyrus Cobb, of
Georgia. on the tariff or reciprocity
with the Philippines would attract
more attention than any similar dis
cussion since Lincoln and Douglas.
Congressman Wagner, Of course. would
represent the high tariff predictions
of the Pittsburs tin-platc millionaircs,
while the voice of Tyrus would thunder
for free. trade in. behalf Of the millions.
always barring and excuslns a modi-
cum of honest protection for certain
deserving products OF tho Peachtrce
State.
Among the observing it has long
been an axiom that any mar who had
the support Of the Amalgamated Fans
of America could have any Office in
the gift of the people simply for the
asking. Mr.. Wagner has this support
to an extraordinary degree. Why
should he not go to Congress? Men go
there for many reasons. Mr.. Hobson
went for no other reason than that he
was a hero, II all knowing ones
agree thai Mr.. Wagner is a far greater
hero than he. Other good men go be-
cause they have a pull; or because they
need the money; or because of a plague
of sonorous words in their bosoms
which the folks in Hunkerstown will
not listen to; or merely to get away
from home. Being the baseball mas
ter Of ones day is as good a reason
as most OF these. Mr.. Wagner ingen-
uously hints that he knows nothing
about the great national questions of
the day. What in the world of it?
To apply any test of this sort would
be to depopulate Washington to-mor-
row. We're for Wagner, heart and
soul, believing that the same skill
which guides his Titanic batting arm
viii carry him safely through the ar
duous task OF distributing the vernal
garden-seeds.
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afternoon are compelled to stand. az
cars are packed and jammed. Last
night 1 got on q Broad and Main Street
car at Eighth and Broad Streets. It
was one OF the small cars they have
lately substituted for the large cara
that have been withdrawn from tho
line. The conductors cry was please
constant cry every time the car stop
ped. The fare dial showed that fifty
ever fares had been registered, and
that on a car that only seats twenty
eight persons. II stopped at every
corner, and passengers getting off had
the greatest difficulty In getting out.
When the car got to Twenty-ifth and
registered. representing 1851 2-3 cash
and tickets. How many passcnSer1
We're carried one could not tell, as at
every transfer point several go, on.
and when I left the car at Twenty
seventh and Broad Streets there were
several still standing. Owing to tho
difficulty experienced In getting off.
the car made very poor rime.
Having during the past few months
had to take the Seven Pines car at s
o'clock. / have gone over TO Twenty
ninth Street by both the Main apd
Broad Street and Oakwood cars, and
find both lakewood lines as crowded
as the Main and Broad Street cars.
Residents on Church Hill reading
along the Main and Broad Street line
consider the schedule of that line ono
of the poorest In the city, and we
certainly SHOULD have better service;
II T cannot see that the proposed
changes will improve the service-!n
fact. only make it worse.
CHURCH HILL RESIDENT
AND TAXPAYER.
TiclNr,orI Ia pt,ary ~. .saEH
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THE L1auon nErEnENpuM.

Our much esteemed contemporary,
because The Times Dispatch recently
| declared that the referendum has no
standing in Virginia. n at h same
time commended the sanity of the Anti
Saloon League in proposing an en-
aiding act" giving the people the right
to vote on a legislative question I'M
dor suitable restrictions. TO us the
sequence seems perfectly clear. We
object to tho calm assumption that a
Democratic Legislature will as a mat
ter Of course grant a referendum on
the liquor question, on petition of a
percentage of voters fixed by the Anti
Saloon League, when there is neither
law nor established Democratic prin-
ciple to authorize such a thing. We
desiring to use the referendum, first
take steps to have the principle Of
the referendum sanctioned n ap-
proved by law.
The Religious Herald quotes the law
providing for a popular vote on the
liquor question in certain political
subdivisions OF the State, and asks IL
the voters may thus use their ballots
"in the Ease of a political subdivision,
why may they not do so with refer
ence to the entire slater" The reply
Is obvious. 1t is simply that the law
authorizes the one and does not au-
thorize the other. The w arc any
thing but the m The difference
between them is the vast difference
between local option and Statewide
prohibition. We may make the point
clearer still by ~paraphrasing our con-
temporary's own question. If it was
necessary to pass a law TO give the
voters OF a county or city as a unit
the right to vote on a legislative ques-
ton, why is it not equally necessary
to pass a law to give this right to the
state as a unit? If the right could
not be taken for granted In one case,
how can it be taken for granted in
the other?
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no SPEED GREATER RICHMOND.

Yesterday a bill was introduced in
the Assembly amending the Richmond
Manchester consolidation act so as to
permit the required popular election
in Manchester ON thirty days notice.
Tho present notice required is seven
months. The point of the amendment.
as everybody knows, is to make con-
the new Richmond credit for the en-
HANGED population IN the census OF
1910. The measure IS supported by
The entire delegations from Richmond
and Manchester, II is OF great and
equal importance to both cities, The
legislature can confer n favor On the
greater city that IS to bs by giving ii
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15
Democratic Sweden.

Queen3 Victoriat OF Sweden has spent
tRat sho cannot be expected to he in
Touch With the people of the land Of
her adoption. or to understand their
views and preiudices.. Otherwise, she
W lns at 4eenIa'n made Ho' 70 1a Mold Ina'st aeali Gn
cour at fhe royal palace o. New
Years Day. such as that which takes
place on every first OF January at the
imperial palace at Berlin, While these
thinEssara all very we'll In Germany,
they are absolutely contrary to popn-
las sentiment at Stockholm. and. ms
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Proposed In East End.
Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-I have carefully read over the
proposed changes of the routes of the
street cars which the company claims
will improve the, public service and
relieve the congestion on the cars. and
would call the attention OF the repre-
sentatiyes OF the East End on the
Street Committee to the proposed al-
'terations.
As I live in the East End. L will only
write about the proposed changes on
Church Hill. First, / call attention
TO the fact that tley practically pro-
.,tirst.a the "clayy street line" is not 10
go on Church Hill. 1t now carries a
large contingent from Fulton and low
err Main. Street by transfeE, to tho
northeastern section OF Chffch Till,
which Will be thrown on the already
overloaded Main and Broad Street cars.
and with only n transfer allowed.
they cannot reach north Of Broad
Street, while att present they can,
reach points between Bread ana Y
Ssecond,n by aamaigamating the two
lakewood lines they virtually abandon
home between IS ans I'D o'clock In the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15

If England succeeds in putting
through any scheme insuring every
body against being unemployed, a
general emigration of Britannia ho-
hoes may confidently be expected. !.
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If we hadn't put over a lot of quips
about fring Cannon in the past, we
have little doubt that we should be
buslly putting some over now.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15

which he does. Tho case was tried
and decided In favor of ID. Please say
IL the decision was Just. r. I: y.
We cannot pass Oh the equity or
facts. The Justice probably did know
all tile circumstances and presumably
was correct IN his decision. The im-
portant points In the suit Which you
ager oA) have tho right to make such
an agreement with B? IL he could.
did he give u a formal legal right TO
use the ground. or merely a dtasi-leEal
permit?
John u. Sullivan.
Please give me the 3 of John L..
Sullivan, the prizefishter. II. I. l..
sullivan was born october Is. 1853.
and was. therefore. tifty-onc last Octo-
Der.
Northern "DnuEhtcrs.,
Can Northern women Join the United
Daughters OF the Confederacy. and. II
so. In what way? CONFEDERATE.
Only when one of their ancestors
was connected with the Southern ma
val. military or civil service.
daughters of the Revolution.
My great-grandfather served on
George Washington's staff and attain
ed the rank OF colonel. Am not
eligible to be a Daughter OF the Kevo.
luton? CONFEDERATE,
Most assuredly.
Our Game Laws.
To settle a dispute, please explain
this section Of the game laws to me:
1T shall be unlawful for any person
to hunt, kill or capture In any man
ner. or have In possession any wild
turkeys, pheasants, grouse quail, par
tridges or woodcock cast of the Blue
Ridge Mountains between February j
and November /, and west OF the Blue
Ridge Mountains between December
81 and November ;" We are in
Prince George county, east of the
Ridge. Docs the latter portion of the
law apply to usp j. w. n.
Certainly not. You arc prohibited
during tho season February 1 to No
vember J..
John Sewer.
Was John Sewer ever Governor of
Virginia? II not. can you tell me
when? a.
Sewer G745-IS15) was Governor of
the Irregular state OF Franklin, or
Frankland, in 17S5-'SS. and was first
Governor of Tennessee from 1895 TO
1901. lie was again Governor from
rlSDy to 1909 .tr-#H
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15

Per Capita Wealth.
VIII you please explain this financial
problem for me: Hills southern Al
capita In the United states. n we
multiply. say. s34 by 9o,000,ooo iniiab-
%litants, We have s3,oGo,0o0.o00 as the
total amount of money in the United
states, 4 few days & the none II
was one billion and some dollars.
which leaves something like sa,000,-
900. 900 in circulation. a short time
ago the statement Of the banks show
cd something IKE sla,ooo,ooo.ooS on
money as there is in the country.
Please tell me where and how they
got It? Is 1t foreign money or Is it
counterfeit? i. A.. TYIsEG.
lation at present is $3.1o6 .240,65f.
which gives Il per capita circulation
of s34.9s. In addition to this, you
must remember that the banks carry
a great deal of commercial paper. ETC..
much greater than they are in actual
money. The $4,000. 900, 900 to which
you refer probably includes this paper.
doesn't aud Don't"
Please informs me which Is correct:
III he doesn't. I wiz; or III he don't.
I will? l.. d. L.
II you wish to abbreyiate does
HOl you must say DOESN'T" DON'T"
is an improper contraction.
Icaycs In Horses.
Please tell mo in your Query Col
umn IL q young horse can be perma-
nently cured OF the heaves.
a SUBSCRIBER.
A skilled veterinarian Informs us
that careful and patient treatment can
permanently cure the heaves in a
young horse.
Tenants and Rent.
VIII you please answer the follow
Ing question? Three sisters own Il
tract OF and and nave A to manage
same. a tells B he can clean UP
all the land he wants to dn a certain
corner) and have 1t rent free for two
wears. AT the expiration of one year
the management of the place changes
from a to G. A tells G of his bargain
with B, and that he must reserve this
lane when he rents the place out. c
rents the place to y. but fails to re-
serve the land. 3 works the land and
cuts the corn down and carries II
home. Then d comes to s and tells
him he wants rent for the land, Il
tells D that he owes him no rent
that the land was his for that year.
p tells B that If he doesn't pay him
he Will warrant him for tho rent.
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The name of the new forester Is
Graves. Members of the Paragraph
ers' Union are forbidden to deduce in
any shape or manner that NY Conser-
walton Policies are dead.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15

Do you. gentle reader, favor the
naturalization of the Manehurian rail-
ways, and if not why not?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15

For better or worse, 1t surely is a
Yale administration.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15

NJ. Paulhan ought to be able to find
out something authoritative about
Halley's comet and the canals on
Mars.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15

1t is a fact, though. that the Con-
gressional Record gets q lot OF i've
contributions which the muck-raKlns
monthlies would give their eye-teeth
for.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15
LeopoId,s Claim to France.
Df ia MhRQUIsE DE F0NTENOY.
EOPLI Interested in Rlissinn af-

~ LcOpOld'S CInlm 10 france.
While many of the foreign news
papers have called atte1fion in their
obituaries Of King Leopold to the fact
that at one time Napoleon III. was
bent upon the incorporation Of a por-
ton Of Belgium into = the re, Trsnel5 e the
Remaining moiety to Germany, few
people are aware that ! 1ds}o II . l fhe
throne Of France This is set forth in
a letter from Lord odo Russell. after
wards Lord Ampthill, the British
plenipotentiary at the German head
quarters before Paris. to Lord Gran
Vile, then Secretary Of State for For
.eign Affairs. and dated December, 1870:
Bismarck. according to this letter, had
told Russell that Theirs had offered aad
lorraine in exchange for Belgium, by
giving France to King Leopold. \
that Leopold, according to Theirs. was
most favorably disposed to the scl,eme;
that is to say, to the idea of becoming
King of France. Bismarck. so the
letter added. rejected these proposals
OF THEIRS and of Leopold.
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Judd has us beaten to a frazalo!
Paul's got us mcsmerIzed
MERELY JOKING.
March Of prorrc,

---
March Of Progress.
''Whithcr away?"
Going to serenade a girl"
Can you singh
Nope; going to do 1t with a grapho-
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Chief, End of Travel.
what Impressed you the most, the pyra-
mids of Egypt or the pagodas OF hina?'
oh, | don't know. They both made good
backgrounds for photographs OF our party"
-Plttsburg Post.
Quite So.
What do you think of this scheme for
going by air to the polc?"
well, the hot air route worked out all
right III one case."-Louisvillc Courier-5our-
nal.
Something for Nothing.
Pretty ahrewd. l call him.
what now"
Gave out that he had a lot of lido
money, and as soon as a dozen colleges had
conferred degrees upon him. he built a glue
factory."-kansas CITY Journal.
What's tho User
by taking the now express l saved
twenty minutes in going from New York
to Chicago"
"Finc"
And then lost it in a traffic JAM
Houston Chronicle.
One Sort of Spirits.
.tDo you believe that spirits talk and re-
veal secrcts?'
"Unquestionably. That's why l never in.
dulge."-St. Louis star.
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Borrowed J1ngles


! never build a song bY day Of night,
or breaking ocean or Of flowing WIN
But In aoine wondroiis, unexpected way.
Like lIslt upon a road, my love breaks in
---15dwin Markhain.
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General Harrison Grey Otis. editor
OF the Los Angeles Times. publishes IN
his paper a long article called Los
Angeles, the Ardent Hebe of the SEN
suous South" We never hough OF
the generals town in just that way
and must reserve the right TO looN
Hebe over before admitting that no
has doped it right.
Not to make any bones about the
thing. who, what and where is a Re-
Dublican?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15
PrOtests Againnt Street Car Changes
Proposed In East End. %

lurch Road, January ii.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-15

daughters of the Revolution.
My great-grandfather served on
George W~ashington's staff and attain
ed the rank OF colonel. Am l not
eligible to be a Daughter of the Revo-
luton? CONFEDERATE,
Most assuredly.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-08
WOMEN TO WATCH AT POLLS
Lawyers and Doctors Among so
Assigned to Task To-day.

Beware. all fraudulent voters. The
women watchers will get you if YOU don't
watch out. Fifty of them. selected by the
Equality League of SeIf-Supporting Women
and instructed by the Volunteer Watchers
Association, left their beds at O'clOCk this
morning In order TO be at the polls at s.
In the lynx eyed army are women lawyers,
doctors. teachers, nurses. business women,
women of leisure and a number of mothers.
One OF the watchers is Miss Maud Inger-
soil. daughter of Colonel Robert q. Inger-
soil.
The suffragists put in a strenuous day
Yesterday telling citizens how 10 vote.
Stxty-nine permits for open air meetings
were issued by the Police Department TO
the seIf-supporting women. and every one
was used. The Woman Suffrage party sent
out an automobile from the 9th Assembly
District. which, loaded with petticOated
orators and yellow banners, invaded that
section Of the city. The self-suppOrting
women. not proud took soap boxes and
three-leCged stools under their arms and
collected crowds wherever they could.
The women watchers won't starve to-day.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay sent check to buy
food for them and Mrs. Frederic Nathan
and several other women will go about in
automobiles taking luncheon to the fifty
guardians Of the purity Of the ballot.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-08
SOCIALIST TALKS AT COLUMBIA
Charles Edward Russell Tells What He
Would Do if Elected Governor.

Charles Edward Russell. candidate for
Governor on the Socialist ticket, spoke yes
terday in Schermerhorn Hall. Columbia
University. under the auspices Of the Inter
colIegiate Socialist Society. If the Social
lists Should Carry New York State To-mor-
rcw-What Them" was the subject of his
speech.
He declared that the first thing he would
do. fs elected, would De To remove the mill
tary secretary to the Governor
All this gold lace and military chlvalry
is a thing of the past. and medieval Gus
tom should rightly have no place in our
present American institutions when tackled
on to chief executive
Nr Russell next eluCidated some Of the
principles for which his party stands. and
he included in them the following: Stand
ard working day of eight hours and no
more: abolition of all child labor; relief OF
congestion Of population; sanitary cOndi-
tions in factory life; initiative and referen-
DUN; reduction Of public expenditures by
wiping out all sinecures, and woman suf-
frage
Mr. Russell said:
There are no bad men in our American
political life. If you Will change the con-
ditions which cause men to do bad things
Won will eliminate the so-CalIed bad men
from politics. They are living on the pres
ert conditions"
New-York tribune., 1910-11-08
AUTHOR EhVIES 1Ht Chinese
Wishes He Could Writs Play
Six Months Long Like
Orient7Is

Every ybOdy's wife. as everybody know !,
is talking about The Social Bucaneer.'
the dashtng new mystery story BY Fred
eric ;. Isham that has been caught IN -
gale OF popular favor. Not that Mr..
Everybody is not interested, too. Mr..
Every body reads TIL all hours Of the
night in order 10 follow 10 the end the
perilOus course of this neW-fangled pi-
rate. But Mrs Everybody and Miss
Everybody have been particularly i'm
pressed with the love story. They like il
from the moment when the BuCaneerfnz
Mr.. Bruce meets MajOrie Wood as ho
StrOilS along Fifth avenue until they ap-
pear together in the little japanese play.
The Beggar Prince" and the mystery
which has kept the EverybOdies on the
keen edge OF excitement for three hun
0red odd pages is all So beautifully re-
solved
In depicting this japanese theatrical
performance in d New York house. an
amateur novelty. Mr. Isham. the author
OF The Social BuCaneer. has described
a kind of entertainment he has a marked
prediction for Whenever he drifts into
the old city of kyOtO. he times his ar
rival 70 the season Of the year devoted
TO the ancient classical dramas. You
may look around the whole world far and
wide, writes the author. and find many
a drearier nook and corner than a box at
the karureujc Theatre. when the dance
is symDOltcal OF JOY and you watch. while
before You repOses a cup OF warm sake.
little tweIve-year-O Miss Oh-Be-JOy-
fUl-F'Orever. whose slim fingers rest on
your knee as she turns TO you an artless
COuntenanCe. light as a cherry blossom
Ii - the charming American MajOrie
who does the Oh-Be-J0yfullin FORA
Thousand Years in The Social Buca-
neer.
The little play that SO happily brings
the exciting story 10 a conclusion is only
kind OF Japanese Curtai1-raiss some
plays in China and Japan last several
weeks MIR Isham. who once wrote q
play that had a brief run in New York.
rather emphatically advocates the Chi
uese method Of authorship. IF YOU
write "a play six months long. il will
have % run for six months observes
the novelist 4 commend the Chinese
method To American dramatists They
7 can always learn from these remarkable
/ people"
NJ. Isham has no occasion to be ruefuI
about the vogue Of his literary produc-
tiCns. The Social BuCa neer'- has Ieaped
Immediately into the best selling class of
popular novels. and is not likely 70 be
displaced for months 70 come Already
steps have been taken looking 70 a
dramatizatiOn and dramatic production
And who knows but that We shall see
The Social BUCaneer" running on the
boards as long as a observation-disclosures =
Htry-tWO act Chinese tragedy
New-York tribune., 1910-11-08
woMEN "ELECT" BERRY
Couldn't Keep Result Secret in
pittsburg Straw Vote.
rBy Telegraph TO The Tribune. ]

-....u.,re. Nov. John X. Tener. Repub-
.andidate for Governor OF PennsyI-
uas buried under a shower of straw
-. to-day by the women of Pittsburg.
pd'.' ..s,ected'' William H Berry. Keystone
,.z,te by to | over Tener Grim. the
I,a.-s.rstic candidate, was defeated by 40
20 /.
ost serious matter. The polls opened
-, after daybreak, and IT was o'clock
ii, when they closed The entire vote
e-,a',nced at 10 o'clock tonight was as
follows:
1,orrr fKeystone). 4O2: Tener tRepublican)
,oa siavton (SocialisO, IS; Larkiu Prohibi-
.i9,I ~, a. Grim DemoCratic), 10; Anton Gin
tI1'U,etriaIistl. >: total. 6iS.
= is estimated that fully 1.010 ballots
zero cast. but the remainder were pre-
.,,-nahIv counted out because of bunders
by the voters
The counters could not keep the result Sc
c-et and 1t was known long before the
noIIs closed that Tener had been showed
,,ndAr in this Republican stronghold. Mrs.
Mary Love. seventy-five years old, cast the
4rer vornan's ballot this morning. One
,o,,nq woman. prompted by her brother
irsisted later on voting for Hans Wagner,
the baseball player and was not allowed to
vote at all.
\ party of six women. who had voted
in rotation. came back later and demanded
: look at their ballots, saying they wanted
TO know the name Of the man"
While automobiles were in use most Of
the day. the women Of Pittsburg. accord
ing 10 the returns, did not take kindly to
the business of voting.