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MEDAL TO ELIRU THOMSON.
First Gift of the Decoration Provided For
by the Edison Fund,

Prof. Elihu Thomson received the
Edison gold medal last night at the annual
dinner OF the American Institute OF Elec-
trical Engineers held at the Hotel Astor.
Prof. Thomson is the first TO receive this
medal, which is provided for by the in
terest on a fund of 81 900 raised by friends
OF Thomas A. Edison. The medal is to
be given each year to a man in the United
States or Canada selected by a committee
OF the A. l. E. +. as having achieved I'M
usual distinction in electrical work
Prof. Thomson was greeted by nearly
500 members Of the institute, their wives
and their friends. Lewis Buckley Still
well. president of the A. /. z. E, presided,
and introduced 7. Comerford Martin as
toastmaster. Mr.. Martin read many
telegrams OF congratula ton from electri-
cal associations including this from Mr..
Edison:
1 appreciate deeply the honor that as
sociates my name with the first medal
esta blished in the institute and awarded
for achievement in electricity. 4 count
myself also not less fortunate than. the
institute in the fact that the first recipient
OF this medal should be my friend Elihu
Thomson. He is a man We all admire,
alike for his work and for his personality.
Long may Ou- art and institute enjoy
such services as his.
In ao epting the certificate OF award
Prof. Thomson paid a high tribute to the
inventive genius Of MIR. Edison.
Samuel Insult. president Of the Medal
Associate ton, and Prof. Charles Basker-
vile Of the City College, also spoke.
Among those who greeted Prof. Thom-
son were d. w. Adams, Bion j. Arnold.
Charles A. Cofin. W. s. Andrews and
Mrs. Andrews Of Schenectady, Walter
Fish Of Schenectady. Rear Admiral
Goodrich. James w. Kellogg Of Schenec-
tady. Robert Mather. T. c. Martin. Fred
erick A. Muschenheim and Mrs. Muschen-
helm. r. W. Pope, DR.. samuel Sheldon,
+, J. Sprague and Mrs. Sprague, and
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AUTOMOBILE LEGISLATION.
Assembly Internal Affairs Committee 70
Frame n New EBill.


ALBANY, Feb. 2I.--From the half a
dozen automobile bills introduced in the
Legislature it is expected that measure
satisfactory TO the automobilists and the
doctoring legislators can be evolved
The automobile interests have insisted
that they ere as snxious as the public
for suitable laws. end Charles T. Terry.
the representative OF the automobile
associations, empha sz ed This fact for
the second time this year to the Assembly
Internal Affairs Committee. which gave
another hearing on the measure to-day.
As a result OF the automobile agitation
in the Legislature the automobilists ap-
pealed 20 Gov. Hughes. They told the
Governor that il the auto interests were to
be the subject OF legislation the remedy to
be applied should be sane one. The
Governor assured the automobilists
that their rights would be protected. As
a result the Assembly Internal Affairs
Committee will throw awry practically
ell the bills before il end frame a bill
that will be mutually satisfactory. Some
OF the provisions OF the ds-HRmn bill
OF last year which the auto interests
met half way. accepting some essentials
that were not entirely satisfactory and
some features also Of the Csllen bill based
on the Massa chusetts law. will be incor-
porated in the new bill. IL is proposed to
keep the collection Of automobile taxes
with the Secretary OF State aud change
the date OF collecting these taxes from
January to August I.
In the amended bill the registration
and examination OF chaufeursare provided
for and they are to be required to carry
their photographs, names, signatures and
general description, which will be pro-
vided by the Secretary Of State when
licensed, at all times when driving an auto
mobile. The chauneurs Of New York.
committee to be careful when legislating
in their direction.
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DIED.

BAKER. suddenly. on Wednesday. FebruAr2 -
1910, at kingston. N. Y. Seward Baker sgen
No years Funeral services on Saturday, Feo'
IuaTy - 81 4. NJ. at his late residence nls
Walker av., westchcsteT. n. Y. lntermen' AZ
kensIco. Dutchess co, nty papers please oopS'
CoRMIER.-on February :. Arthur Cornler
aged %. Funeral from TEE FuEEhb
CHURCH." .u West sd st. CFEANk Z. CANT
BELL BLDo). Ha
VoSBUR URGH.-On February "a. a. her Hsldonce
. rs Clinton av.. Brooklyn. Harriet Pauline
widow OF Fletcher vosburgh and daughter o
the late Nathan Thaye-. Notice OF services
hereafter Albany papers please copy.
wILSoN---on wednesday. February y. At ~
East siSt st.. Elizabeth A., beloved whe o'
the late Michael J. and mother OF Rev 'onn
j. and Margaret A. Wilson.
FUNERAL FRIDAY At 10 O'Clock. 81. Stephsns
Church, East 18th 81 .-----
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Van CortIandt skater Hurt.

Raymond Wo,f Of 237 West l0sth street
was injured vest ,rday afternoon while
skating on Van Cortlandt Lake. A
collision with other skaters left him on
the ice Inoonscious, with cuts about the
head and face where he had been struck
by skates. An ambulance surgeon from
Fordham He spital brought him around
and said he would be all right.
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This Club Denounc-. wads~ or,h.

The Progressive Republican Club Of
The Bronx adopted last night resolutions
denouncing Speaker Wadsworth for de-
teatins the Chanler resolution for general
nousecleaning and p4edging the members
Of the club 20 work against the ronomi-
nation OF the Assemblyn.en Of The Bronx
who sided with Mr.. Wadsworth and to
see to II that "only Republicans are NOM
mated for the Assembly at the next pri-
mary who will agree not TO vote for Wads-
worth for Speaker, who IN his way is
as dangerous a public official ~ is .. p.
Aids In his.'
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Hats for Men

The Spring sh a pes in
Knapp-Felt Derbies and Soft
Hats are ready exclusive
styles designed by Dobbs &
Coin a sufficient variety to
afford an opportunity for the
exercise of individual prefer.
ence in the selection Of
becoming hat.
: Knapp-Felt hats are made
by The Cro!ut & Knapp Com
pany in two grades. $6 and 81.
The superb quality is guar
anteed by over fifty years
experience in m king fine
hats. .
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Joshua steen's Cruel SteDmo ether Jailed.
y Mrs. Mary Steen OF Centreport. L, L.
was sentenced in Special Sessions yes
terday to serve sixty days in the CITY
Prison for cruelty to her nine-year-Old
stepson Joshua Mrs. Steon was receLt.y
convicted OF contining her stepchiid in a
closet in her apartment at 4sS West
Twenty y-second street. m
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ollie James RenomInatea.

PADUcAH. Ky, Feb. 24-Ollie James
was nominated to-day for his fifth con-
secutive term in Congress by the Demo-
cratic committee OF the First Congress
district.
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BORN.

| STANToN.--on February -. a. SsoninEton'
! Com. to Mr.. and Mrs Edwin S, stanton .
| daughter.
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DobbS & Co

242 Fl TIL AVENUE
between 9th and 26th Streets
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oh1ectlon TO MI, Merrltt StatnR wnRt nv.
Aids had said about the Heacock bill
TO the members ~ the Rules Committee.
remarking that Senator Aids could he
placed upon the stand and testify to that
Chairman Davis said, however. that he
thought Il would be Droner for counsel
to show what Senator Aids did in the
Rules Committee and that that would be
the pending question in the morning.
A dozen witnesses were called bv the
defence to-day with view ri combating
Senator ConRer's declaration that the
bridge bills were strike bills and that
bla ackmsil. ..
The Witnesses inclpded the mambers OF
the Assembly Internal Affairs Committee
Of 1901. which considered the bridge leRls-
who introduced these bills subseouert
TO the session OF 1901. The most important
OF these witnesses was Geor1e W. Doughty
OF Queens. who was chairman Of the
COMMITTEES and who felt hurt because
Senator Conger testified that Jean Burneft
had told Frank Conger that Burnett needed
the 5000 because he had to look after
tho chairman and others"
Mr.. Doughty said he had been rn
oyster planter and contractor since
retiring from the Assembly in 1903. He
had told the clerk OF the Assembly Internal
Affairs Committee tn take orders from
Senrtor Conger. and the two roll coils
handed by Senator Conger with the bridge
amendments to the clerk were not in Mr.
Doughty's handwriting. Mr.. Doughty
insisted that because senator Coneer
was the second member" on the Internal
Affairs Committee and was Interested
In bridge construction the other mem
bers OF the committee. both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans. had agreed TO
hold the Malby Stevens bill In the oom-
mittee or 10 let Senator Conger amend
IL in Pny wav he saw At. providing
the existing policy OF the Law was not
changed.
did you have any interest in the
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In sections where the troopers were on
guard. where the p. r. 7. had not been
able TO run cars, service went on to-day
and tonight practically unobstructed.
In Kensington especially the State con-
stables restored calm to a neighborhood
that had been upset by vicious rioting
on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
The troopers did not bring their car
bines with them. Capt. Lynn Z. Adams
OF Troop {. from Pottsville, said: We
will not need the carbines- We do not
expect any serious trouble, but IL we do
have any think the riot sticks and re;
Volvers will be all the weapons we will
need. Our men are all gentlemen who
know, how to take care Of themselves as
well as 10 handle crowds. They also
obey orders without asking the why or
wherefore of them
One of the troopers speaking Of the
absence Of the carbines said the men
did not like the weapons for the sort Of
duty they are in this city for. The guns,
he said, had always proved Il handicap
when II came to hand 20 hand fighting
because the men had TO dsmount 70
possibility of the guns being yanked from
the holsters in crowd.
we prefer our rs" lmeaning the
Regular army revOlverlr said the trooper
and IL it is necessary To shoot. which we
do not expect, they will bark Just as loud
IS the clrbines, and there will be nc
" bullets wasteu'
MORE CARS AND MoRF RIDFRs.
NJ. s,,,ly wr~ disorder stonnad hv the
pressnce 81 the small force Of State con.
stsbles but the position of the r. r. T
80 irn nroved immensely. The com
,,anv had in operation in the busiest hour,
"a ne dav and evening more than .nOS
ava nearly third more than on any
,,r.vio,is day since the strike began.
L was noticeable also that the lars
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: true TO our country. love our fellow man.
These were my sentiments said
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-14
HOW BILL HOWARD SHIELDED A
CRIMINAL DEMOCRAT AND
PROSECUTED AN INNO-
CENT POPULTST.
CENT POPULTST.

Dear Frank:-I wish I'd had time
last Mondy to explain thing I
heard. I understand that Bill How
ard told some of his friends in Can
non that he had considerable opposi-
between ]. P Gholston and K D.
Strickland while he was solicitor. I
will give you brief sketch of the
way he acted in this case, and leave
it to your judgment as to whether or
not we have cause to be against him
even if his political career was clean.
The first court after the fight, J. P.
Gholston went before the grand jury
and got bill against Strickland for
an assault with intent to murder.
I think this bill was gotten on Tues
day, and an officer was dispatched the
same evening to make the arrest, and
did serve the warrant on Strickland
while he was i'm bed unable to get up
without help. I, with others, went
on the bond, and the next morning
DR.. @. @. Whelcher. a heightened gen
tleman and physician, thoroughly ex-
amined Strickland and sent a certif-
cate to the court that Strickland was
not able to attend, giving the all
ment, etc. 1t was then that Howard
rejected that certificate and forfeit
ed the bond before Strickland or his
friends had time to employ counsel
He showed plainly then, and after
wards in the trial, that he fully in
tended to tear away from his wife
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and baby an honest man, for no
other cause than Strickland was a
Populist, and put him in stripes. At
the next term of court Strickland and
his attorneys were there and went
into the trial, and the jury tried to
make a compromise verdict by find
ing Strickland guilty of assault and
battery, which the evidence did not
justify, for the Supreme Court set
the verdict aside and sent the case
back for a new trial. AS soon as the
first trial was over Strickland went
before the grand jury and got bill
against Gholston for assault with in
tent to murder The warrant was
served and bond given, but Gholston
never did go to court, and Howard
never forfeited his bond or made any
effort to bring Gholston to trial while
he remained solicitor, and was finally
elected to Congress on the Populist
Free Silver Platform" Strickland
attended court term after term while
Howard was solicitor and after he
went to Congress, but could never
get Gholston in court to defend his
case or prosecute Strickland, so final
ly Gholston's lawyers came to Strick-
lands lawyers and offered to get
Judge Reese to have both cases
thrown out of court if Strickland
would pay half the cost. This Strick-
land refused to do, so finally some
one satisfied the costs and the cases
were mol pressed.
These are facts, and you can use
them as you see fit
Yours FOR FAIR PLAY
Conner, Ga.
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handed me one more and said that
was the last one that he was going to
send me, if | was not converted |
never could be; that he was done.
[ told him I must have it, that my
eyes had been opened, and The Jeff
should be read by every honest man
in the United States, for it was bread
and meat and pudding, too, for every
poor man, and also an aid for the
wealthy man; that if he would heed
it's teaching it would keep him
straight in his religion.
I haven't worked more than four
hours in sparsely settled country,
and send you twelve names. | enjoy
working for the spread of such litera-
ture for it's needed in all the land,
and the sooner the commonality sees
it the fewer Pussy-foot Bills we will
have among us wearing the veil of
deception. I will keep my eyes on
you and will help you to swell your
list to one hundred thousand, and
five hundred thousand, if I can.
Please send me two knives. [ let
a friend have one of them.
I remain sincerely yours for big
success, P. B. BOOTH.
Union Hall, Va.
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A RECENT CONVERT WRITES A
MOST ENCOURAGING LETTER.

Dear Sir:-If I live to see the 18th
of July I will be seventy-three years
old, and this is the first work I ever
did for a newspaper. I must tell you
how and what has caused this to be
done. I have been for the past six
years reading daily political papers;
Roanoke Times, Richmond Enquirer,
Lynchburg News. And during the
past two years, or longer, | often
met my friend, J. r. Brooks, a patron
and friend of yours, and at nearly
every meeting he would have a lot to
say about T. e. w. and his jeff, and
he was SO persistent that it worried
me no little. On one occasion l met
him and he tried to get me to take
the paper. I did not. About six
months ago he began to send me his
paper by mail, and last Friday he
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-14
PECULIAR ATTITUDE OF SOME
DEMOCRATIC co PAPERS.

Dear Friend:-I notice that your
political enemies among the weekly
press of the State are using a sys-
tematic and evidently planned cru
SADIE in trying to discredit your
charges as to Congressman Edwards
immortality and Hardwick' S gambling.
These same papers were the ones
that generally abused you because
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Mr.. Watson to speak at Thomson,
ON personal and political matters, at
10 O'Clock i'm the morning, of Satur-
day, the 23rd of this month. At the
Courthouse. Come ahead, Boys!
Let's have a big meeting, like those
of the Nineties.
Let delegations from every County
i'm the Tenth District come.
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the sawmill associations could go
after the railroads and compel the
robbers to disgorge. Brantley would
have big time trying to explainthat
vote to an intelligent audience of the
common people.
(4.) Brantley not only deserted to
the Republicans on the 18th of
March. 1909, rescuing Joe Cannon
and his machine from overthrow, but
he specifically voted with the Lum-
Der Trust to keep up the high tariff
on lumber, and that's the reason
why we have to pay so much more
for it than we ever did.
AS to Calico Edwards, l have no
doubt that he wishes that the Brant-
ley opinion concerning those charges
we're prevalent in the First District.
If Edwards will just go before
magistrate and make oath to those
statements in the Savannah Press
and his night letter to me, he will
very soon see whether I can produce
a witness or not!
AS to the gubernatorial race,
Brantley himself doesn't believe a
word that he says. Having sold out
to the Republicans, and having be-
trayed the South to the manufac-
turers of the North and East. he
naturally nooocuroc mo hu hic ou,n
standard. For a miserable mess of
pottage, this traitor to his own peo-
pie went over to the Republicans, and
cast vote with them which was an
indispensable aid to the upward re-
vision of the tariff, which is costing
this country a million dollars per day.
people, everybody who reads after
me knows that that depends upon the
people themselves. No truthful man
could speak we'll of the Congressional
career Of such man as w. G. Brant-
ley.
AS to the Republicans and the late
senator hanna, BTdnCl0y T6ldC1OnS
appear to have been quite intimate,
else he wouldn't speak of what
Hanna told one of his Meutenants.
AS matter Of fact, there never were
the slightest relations or communica-
tons, direct or indirect, between me
and Mark Hanna. The Chicago con-
ference is fable, as every school
boy ought to know, and as every
body but such deserters as Brantley
and Bill Howard, is aware, I nearly
worked myself to death for Bryan
and the Democratic Party during the
campaign to which Brantley refers.
T. E. W.
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intruding on your valuable
time to ask you a question.
The Hon. w. G. Brantley was
here on our streets a few days ago,
and while talking to a small group,
the most of which were his friends
and followers, the conversation
naturally drifted into politics and
on to you, and. they evermore did go
to do you up in great shape; it SIM
ply beat anything / ever heard in my
life. | am not sure that this letter
will not bore you and disgust you if
I tell you some of the things he said
Of you; first said that you had &C
cused him of not being Democrat,
and sneeringly answered his own
statement that you ought to know,
and that Calico Edwards had exon
Grated himself by denying the
charges you made against him and
daring you to name a witness, that
the burden was on you to prove your
charges or stand branded as Edwards
said; and further said that you were
waiting to see which side of the
GubernatOrial race would offer you
the most money before you came out.
and that you never spoke we'll of any
one in your life, that every one was
crook and scOundrel but yourself,
and etc. And finally said that you
had at one time lined up with the
Republicans, and, as proof said that
Senator Hannah at one time instruct
ed one of his politicians to confer
with you in a hotel in Chicago on the
political situation, which demon
strated beyond a doubt which way
the wind was blowing, and that you
were indeed working in their ranks.
Now, Mr.. Watson we do not believe
this statement as being true, but just
wanted to ask you for the enlighten-
ment of those who heard BrantIey
say this, just how it was
There are lots Of people in this
section who would be glad to have a
good man come out against him in
his race for Congress, and we would
show him, I think, how much we
think of a do-nothing and a De-
serter.
Hoping you will have much luck
and prosperity,
Very respectfully yours,
Waycross, Ga. VOTER.
Answer.
The following votes will show
whether w. G.. Brantley deserves to
be classed as Republican in princi-
ple,-that is, a follower of the Ham
iltonian political creed. They will
also show what serviceable tool of
the corporations he has been in Con-
gress.
CD He voted in favor of the ex-
press companies to Keep them out of
the Hepburn Rate Bill few years
ago, thereby exempting them from
governmental supervision. Who
ever runs against this near-Republi-
can, in this campaign, should de-
mand an explanation of that vote.
CO. He voted in favor of the tele-
graph and telephone companies, to
exempt them from Governmental SUI
pervision. He couldn't give his peo-
pie satisfactory explanation of that
rotten vote to save his life.
CD He voted to emasculate the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
depriving it of the power of initia-
tive against the unjust railroad rates
Thus he threw upon the individual
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-14
w. G. BRANTLEY VOICES SOME
OF HIS SENTIMENTS.

NEAR SIR:-I beg pardon for
intruding on your valuable
time to ask you a question.
A. The Hon. w. G.. Brantley was
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critic in the person Of Judas, who came
to kiss Jesus and betray him to the
enemy. We must then, expect to
meet every twelfth person as q hypo-
critic, and make no wonder about It.
Backbone among young men is what
should be cultivated. as well as mus
cular strength. Your bright, happy
conscience will repay the efforts to
stand opt hgainst temptation and
from upon sinful pleasures that bring
only remorse and q loss OF confidence
and sek-respect.
Why are we here on earth? why
all the schools and institutions of
learning and improvement, il they
do not improve our morals and up.
lift our minds Am I my brothers
keeper" Yes, dear young men, you
are in truth your brothers keepers,
so far as example is concerned. Let
your example, then, be helpful and
blameless. To brag in public of
ones wrong-doings is not smart, de.
cent or civil. It is brutal and at once
bespeaks the clam or the loud-mouth-
ed fool To speak disrespectfully OF