The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-08

by outlining his southern birth, his pride in being born of people who loved democracy, who loved the free. dom that local self-government assur ed. He loved the memory of the days when self government was the stern issue sof battle, and he championed the cause as one which fosters happl ness and prosperity.
 Mir. Cobb declared he was baptized in the same Baptist faith Wood had referred to, but his had been faith that taught brotherly love and unison, that sponsored faith, hope and char. ity; that had ennobling inspirations rather than the breeding of strife and i'll feeling between men.
 Mir. Cobb then brought into exhibit petition which Wood had signed, demanding of the secretary of the in terior that he cut off the hot water at this resort unless conditions Judge Wood named were immediately com piled with.
 In MT. Wood's speech he had re- ferred to the splendid family he had reared in this city, and Mir. Cobb stated that he. too, had a family of four little daughters here, that hun dreds of others had families here dear to their hearts, and uppermost in their lives. but that through the petition Wood had signed to the secretary of the interior he would have the water cut off, have the families deprived of their support, have the afflicted de- | prived of the God-gifted healing of the waters, and cause countless thou sands to suffer-simply because Wood had grievance against some gambl- ing law that might be violated by some gambler.
 Cobb regarded Wood as a fanatic who was dangerous in public office. and who was so enwrapt in one single idea that according to his own signed statement, he would surrender the right of self-government of his peo- pie, surrender the democracy of his | people to a single man at Washing. ton, who would have a power more despotic than republics have known in the past.
 Why" said MT. Cobb. eff the peti- tion by Wood were carried out the secretary of the interior in his seat at Washington could cut of the hot water because some man happened to beat his wife, because some negro shot craps, or for any violation of the criminal law, as Wood has peti- tioned this surrender of local power" | MT. Cobb made long, convincing argument. But once he was interrupt ed, and that was while reading his platform in regard to a reasonable enforcement of the law" when Wood asked him to tell the audience what a reasonable" enforcement of the law was. %Si "It is this" said Mir Cobb. When a crime has been committed, to have the arrest promptly made, to permit bond if the case is not too serious for bail, to gather the facts and the  testimony in behalf of the states case and present that testimony to a good jury of men, and then when the yer dict Is returned, be it guilty or ac- quittal to be satisfied that a court of justice had properly passed on the circumstances.
 This plain, pointed recital of the procedure of court as fixed by the statutes of the state in answer to the query had strong effect, for the people who heard MT. Cobb realized that no word had been spoken in lev ity, but every word we'll weighed. and that summary of the answer was the lawful and legal procedure of government under the statutes.