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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

date for one OF the judicial nominations drew
ten thousand dollars from bank the day
the convention WAS to meet. He was seen IN
an automobile with OF the delegates. This
delegate afterward placed hin in nomination.
All the candidates sued the editor OF the Brook
lyn Standard Union for libel. All of them with
drew their complaint, two, however, declaring
that the publication had some justification as
affecting the third. The money has not been
satisfactorily traced, but the harm has been
done to the entire ticket.
Now there IL hunt by the District Attorneys
Offices OF the counties of Kings and Queens as to
this particular matter and the District Attor-
ney Of New York county has also taken up the
question
There has been much agitation of the appli-
cation OF the recall to Judges. Here Is Il con-
crete instance in which 1t is about to be APP
piled in advance. No candidate in this day can
stand under the blight Of imputaton that
he has paid money for a nomination to the Bench.
and no recall would be necessary II nominal
lions were scrutinized in the full light of day as
is being done just now in the City or
ChurcheS.~N. Y. Herald
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
FIND SLAIN GIRLS
BODY BY ROADSIDE
MOTORING PARTY DISCOVER
LATER BOY WHO ACCTDEN-
TALLY SHOT HER
DEAD,

SOUTH NORWALK, CONN, Now
"A party of automo bilistS this even<
ing found the dead body Of Miss Mar
jorie Wood. a social favorite Of the
village of Winnipauk. on the edge
OF country road near here. The
girls jugular vein had been severed
by charge OF shot and = shotxun
was found lying by her side.
Not until the body had been brought
10 this city, where the party mcs
Timothy O'Neil, q fifteen-year-old high
school student. who was hysterlcnl
from fright. was ii known that thA
girl met dea-h by accident
Miss Wood was one OF a party ct
two girls and as many boys who wsrs
returning h ,ma after day OF nut
gathering In The woods. Tho fous
sat down bestd, the road to rest,
@ Neill was hi lding a shosg IN and
oil were taking and laughiax when
the weapon was discharged.
scream from MiEs Wood told what
IA, L..,, ,ef.ed. The remaining trfc~
o. the party set or in search OF nio
and II was while they were away
that the automobile party came ur
and discovered the body.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
MAINE STANDS BY THE WHITE RIBBON.

MAINE STANDS BY THE WHITE RIBBON.
1t has been officially announced at last that
the prohibition clause remains in the constitu
ton Of Maine by the will of the people of that
State The majority voting against its repeal
was 1853.
When all the conditions are understood this
victory is notable one for the cause of pro-
hibition AS has been pointed out in The Vir-
giniaa the liquor interests furnished a great
campaign fund for the purpose of defeating
prohibition: the State had become since the
last election filled with large number OF
foreigners whose attitude towards the liquor
traffic is much more liberal than that Of the
average citizen OF Maine and one of the roHu
cal parties had made this very fight the issue
of a preceding campaign. and therefore held
through party loyalty many voters who were
otherwise inclined to vote against the repeal
All things considered the dry folks OF Maine
are to be congratulated upon their victory.
Much capital has been made Of the alleged
illegal sale OF liquor in the cities OF Maine and
this was a leading argument employed in favor
OF repeal Very simple satisfies, quoted from
recent issue Of the Richmond Ne,cs Leader
will demonstrate how we'll the law has really
worked and how much reason there was to keep
it In force The per capita expenditure for
alcoholic liquors in the United States for the
last four years WIS $17.39; that in prohibition
Maine for the same period was $1.4S Yet
saloon advocates presume that We are silly
enough TO swallow their sophistry when they
! tell us that more liquor is sold in prohibition
territory than tu wet.
We would not do our contempora the in
justice to suggest from this quotation that II
is IN advocate OF prohibition 1t is constant
| ly and consistently defending the license sys
tenn. On November ard it printed an editoria
! ridiculing the prohibition system because a
mob Of lynchers in Georgia got drunk Oh
November 9Th IL printed this paragraph Civ
fits OF prohibition in preventing the eonsump
ton of Intoxicating beverages in dry territory
It would not like to be considered dry and W
would not for worlds be rude enough to pac
our contemporary where ii did not belong an
where il mad no desire to stand. But we ar
very grateful indeed. that in these figures
should have been fair enough To answer It's Owl
arguments against the benefits of prohibition
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
B" STANDS FOR
BUM" IN ALBUM
ALSO "D' FOR "DRUNKARD, IN
ILLUSTRATED EDITION SUI
FRAGE-TTES WILL. PUB
IISH.

NEW YORK, Nov. Armed with
camera an ardent suffragette whose
name was kept secret by her fellows
spent election day in taking photo
graphs of a choice collection Of Bowery
derelicts. DRINKS and nondescripts Of
all kinds as they EN- erged from polling
places in the siums These pictures
will be used in the compilation of
the latest thing in suffragettedom-
| AN alphabetic album Of male
| voters"
81 in this book will stand for
| bum" and the most striking persona
| feation of this character will grace
the second page of the primer. ID"
stands for "drunkard" and any face
that gives a striking example Of
inebriety will adorn this page. Thus on
through the alphabet ph4os of hor-
rible examples will be used to aid
the cause of women.
| And to this will be added the
deadly parellel." For each tough"
who was permitted To vote in New
York and who was afterward photo
graphed. the woman suffragists will
furnish picture of one OF their
brafnest and best looking member
big. black type: why should these
nen be permitted to vote, while the
privilege Ia denied the women %
| The suffragists were active all day
They distributed 5000 flags all over
the city and around the polling places
these Were to be seen waving IN trs
hands of enthusiastic friends of the
movement.
/ Many women were ont selling
copies of the The Voter" the off,
cial publication. and tonight two big
yellow touring cars rolled through the
election crowds on Broadway bearing
suffragette banners and women selling
the papers.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
GOMPERS ENDORSES
LIABILITY PROGRAM

WASHINGTON. Nov. samuel
Gompers. president OF the A. r. Of l..
to-day gave a general endorsement Of
the employers liability commissions
plan for coynpensating employees Of in>
terstate railroads for injuries sustain
ed while at work.
Mr.. Gompers was a witness before
the commission He took exception,
however. to the provision In the pro-
posed law making each company liable
for damages sustained on its own
roads.
Mr.. Gompers argued there would 30
larger percentage Of accidents on too
poorly equipped roads than on those
properly supplied with safety APP
pliances, and he suggested that Il
all the roads should be required to
contribute to a common fund for in.
surance against accidents the ten-
dency would he toward a better gene
eral equipment. and. therefore, to-
ward greater protection to employees,
The better roads. be thought, would
force the poorer roads to improve cons
ditions
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

North Winds

BY I. X. Roby.
The snow was falling fast and hard.
And the North Wind shrieked and moan q
As q little waf came to yard
That a wealthy banker owned
He walked through the open gate
And approached the bankers home.
And he the fire In the open CRATE
Spread its warmth from floor to dome.
He said, "Oh God. why must ! freeze
With this fire to me?"
Then stumbling, fell to his little knees,
AS the North Wind shreked with glee.
Just then the bankers car arrived
And he started down the walk.
When he found the boy,-though still alive,
Could neither walk nor talk.
He took the boy into his home
Where to-day II you will go,
You'll fnd minister of Rome.
That prays when the North Winds blow.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
CHARGE WOMAN
WITH k|LL|NG
CARRIE HUNT ALLEGED TO HAVE
STARRED HER HUSBAND,
LEWIS.

''eteetives kiengle and Atkins n
yesterday served warrant on Car
RE Hunt. colored. charging her with
the killing OF Lewis Hunt, her hus-
band. several nights ago.
On the night of the killing the wo-
man said that he came home drunk.
and found another man" visiting.
The two men. she said, got into an
argument and the "other man" stab
bed her husband. She also said that
her husband had hit her over the eye
the afternoon preceding the killing.
At that time the woman was placed
under arrest under suspicion OF hav-
ing had something to do with the
death of Hunt. Since then the de-
tectives have been worf ing on the
case. and have secured what they
think Is sufficient evidence to make
the charge. The warrant was served
on the woman IN jail.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
GOOD ROADS COMMANDMENTS.


The Agriculture and Industrial Department
OF the Norfolk and Western Railway is issuing
a card. containing seven good roads command
ments compiled by Joseph Hyde Pratt, which
are well worth treasuring in memory by those
who have the task of constructing and mann
tanning the roads of their communities. We
pass them on:
l. Don't fill up the holes and ruts in the
a little dirt to the rocks: but fill up the
hole with dirt OF the character the
balance of the road.
2. Don't throw all the refuse from the bitches
surface and destroying the solid, firm bed that
you have obtained by previous work; but throw
this material out on the opposite side of the
ditch.
lowest point. but make 1t the highest and give
the surface of the road slope OF about | in
20 to the side ditch.
a. Don't carry the water across the surface
of the road from one side to the other; but
carry 1t by means OF culverts underneath the
road.
5. Don't have grades your road over 1-3
per cent; for If you do, it will be necessary to
build V-shaped surface bitches or "Tha TX you
MANS the road
3. Don't in working out the labor tax on
the roads, try to make holiday Of 1t: but
give an honest days work the road Let
us eliminate what is often seen In those sections
where the roads maintained by tn labor
taxae to IL and FIJI Uverseer a little gray
mule small plow, six dogs. three OF four
guns, and few tools which often are not con-
sidered worth using at home
/ Z. Don't reject the spt-Io drag because It
1 il cheap road machine, but use 1t constantly.
1 for 1t is the most efficient road machine that
i We can use In maintaining the dirt road
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
A Voice From Texas.

One II. Hamilton president OF the Houston
Brewing Company. OF Houston. Tex. is said to
have nearly paralyzed' the brewers congress.
in session at Chicago. by certain observations
relative to the passage of resolution holding
that public drinking places which are the
haunts of vice are dangerous and should be
eliminated
MIR Hamilton got the floor just as this reso-
Luton was about 10 be put to vote-1t SUD-
seuuently passed--and deposed as follows reia-
tive the sincerity of the resolution:
1t Is useless to pass resolutions ike these
when it Is we'll known that most of the i'm
proper places in large cities arc in some way
owned controlled By breweries
The owning of Nhese disreputable places ana
the protection of them by the brewing interests
is what gives us black eye. The anu-liauor
interests take these facts and make capital OF
them as they justly should few years ago
1t was this way in Texas but We cut ourselves
off from such institutions and we have won our
way back. | know what say Is true. because
/ have visited every large city in America and
| found out for myself
Everybody that has ever lived in any of the
large cities of the United States knows that what
| Mr. Hamilton says is true. We do not know how
accurate are his assertions that the Texas brewers
have adopted policy. but certainly the
close vote In the recent prohibition election in
Texas was sufficient to bring about some re-
form within the party. In other localities, how
! ever, the brewers usually talk one way and act
another. That Is reason why resolutions
/ from such bodies are received with mild indif-
| ference--Louisyilie Post.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
METH0D|sTs MEET
IN STATEsv|tLE
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COM
FERENCE CONvENES
TO-DAY.

Especial to The Richmond yirginian.v
STATESVILLE. y. c.. Nov. THE
Western North Carolina conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal church viii
meet in annual conference here to-
morrow. Bishop Hoss will preside.
Tonight the city Is filled with
Meth odist prea and others In at
tendance on the conference. the houses
OF all denominations being thrown
open in welcome.
Broad Street church. the host Of tho
conference. IL beautifully arranged f,'r
the deliberations Everything points
to one OF the mor- pleasant and auc~
eessful conferences In the history ef
the church, since the State Was divad-
ed into two conferences.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
FLETCHER CASE
WAS CONTINUED

J. w. Fletcher. an employe OF the
Richmond Dairy Company, was before
Justice 0riggs this morning to answer
the charge of taking Ss1 in currency
belonging to the company. He ac-
knowledged his guilt, but the case
went over to the fifteenth.
Fletcher h married and has Avo
his bond In the sum OF $500.
When confronted with tho charxu
BY Detective Wiley Ct hin hOms. No,
213 West Marshall street. he conS
fessed and the money was found hid~
den beneath pile. of coal in the cell
lar. The company has no desire to
push the prosecution, and the COM
tinuance 80 hAA ~ - vhAe eeuAA
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
YOUNG LADY INJURED
BY FALL rs IMPROVING

Some Improvement was reported
yesterday In the condition of Miss
Myrtle Ellington. who was injured
several days ago as a result Of be-
ing thrown from her horse while
riding on Midlothian turnpike. She
Is at Memorial Hospital.
Examination by x-ray revealed that
the young indy's pelvfs was fractured.
She will probably be detained at the
hospital for several weeks.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS BEST.

The following quip is clipped from the New
York Herald
There are some rare jokers in the South
Some of them employed by various pub
Iications. but the best governors OF various
sovereign States. Perhaps they do not realize
their powers, but
Who not master iokcsmths would in solemn
conclave advise organized movement to
reduce the production and increase the price OF
president he asked to help the good work along
by enforcing the laws prohibiting restraint Of
trade.
The humorsts who perpeuated this joke
We're Governors Mann, of Virginia; o'Neil. of
Alabama; Noel, of Mississippi; Sanders, of
Louisiana. and Colquitt. of Texas, aided and
abetted by delegates less we'll known to fame
from other States
To our minds there is world of difference
between hundreds of farm owners and cotton
growers combining to reduce production and
to thus regulate prices by the standard of sup
ply and demand and handful of trust mag
mates combining to regulate prices to
ignore the law of supply and demand and to fix
such arbitrary scales as shalt best lit their
financial schemes Surely con-
denim the policy or deny the right to the cot
ton planters to reduce production or adopt
other honorable expendients to resist the plots
against them of graspng financiers and
gambling spectators.
We rather think the joke is on the trusts
aud spectators and is another tribute to the
brilliant wit of the folks in Dixieland
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
One ofthe National DisgraCes.

speaker at the prison congress IN Omaha
said that in 1896 there were for every million
IF population l1S homicides In this country: In
Italy less than eighteen In Canda less than
thirteen; in Great Britain lesssthan nine, and
in Germany less than five.
Then he presented statistics the proper
tons of convictions in this and other countries
showing that the average murderer here has
a disgracefully good chance of going scot free,
and that anything like adequate punishment
the punishment, at any rate which the statutes
prescribe adequateis very rarely inflicted.
In 1910. he declared. only homicide in
eighty-six was capitally punished while the year
before one in seventy-four had been pun
ished
Last year in London there were nineteen
murders Five OF the criminals committed sui
eide; ten caught and convicted: four es-
capped.
The same year in New York city Ils cases
We're reported to the grand jury, and only
forty-fve convictions secured. Chicago had
200 cases in the year. resulting in fifteen pen
ftentiary sentences and hanging All the
others went free.
! Small wonder that President Taft pleads for
reformation OF court practice in criminal cases
The condition is Of the most giaring re-
proaches to the nation. It Is recognized the
world over as the evidence that we are about
half-ivlized. and that institutions are
hopeessly erude.-washington Times
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

Chicago society is all futter over the ac-
ton of the police in declaring that they pro-
pose to put quietus on those select gambling
parties held in the drawing rooms of the
fashionable section. Now they will have to
resort Of the expedient of the common gambler
and find back room somewhere with heavy
curtains Why not? Is poker playing down
town any more gambling than bridge whist UP
town? That is of course. If played for stakes
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
A SWIFT AND EFFECTIVE WAY TO GET
RID OF AN UNDESIRABLE PASTOR

RID OF AN UNDESIRABLE PASTOR.
The Union Presbyterian Church of Denver has
solved the problem OF how to secure the Inn
mediate radiance of an undesirable minister.
II Is a problem with which many churches have
long wrestled 1t has produced great bitterness
and friction in its day and has resultea in
the separation and alienation of factions once
tremendously and happily united In the great
work of the church. These heated controver
sizes have sometimes dragged their unfortunate
way TO the complete destruction of the peace
and usefulness and religious experience OF the
CHURCH
1t need be so no longer. There is method
temporarily strenuous but swift and summary.
that brings the issue to immediate termination
and is always effective in its results. The Union
Presbyterian Church is entitled to the discovery
they first introduced it, We wait to see II it
finds popular adoption.
The members of this church took their re-
calsitrant parson up and threw him bodily
through the window.
This method has no apostolic precedent that
We know OF. but II commends itself ex-
pedient that produces resultA and it l. COM
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

The Methodist preachers of Norfolk and
Portsmouth have been discussing the question
of whether God or man made the appointments
We would dislike very much to charge some
of them up to the Almighty. Upon the surface
we should say that God is doing pretty good
the preachers and the church~s has relieved
Him of the necessity of filling the fat places in
the cities
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

Doctor Cook has deserted the frigid reception
OF Denmark and Is returning TO the more con-
genial cline Of his native land He can come
back but not with his pockets lined. After
Copenhagen he decided to retire from the plat
form. His future will be spent in raising wheat
instead of cain.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
CURRENT COMMENT
Tho Sale Of Judo cabin,

The question of the sale of judicial nomina-
lions has become the burning issue OF a cam
paign that babe fair TO 60 by default 1t Is
swee ping with the Second Judicial
district and promises to invade the FIRST It has
probably settled the fate Of the Democratic ticket
in Kings. Queens. Richmond. Nassau and Suf-
folk counties. 1t may decide the complexion Of
the New York Assembly that will sit in 1919.
Stripped of all extraneous matter a candf-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

The Altavista journal offers subscriptions
for one week at GO cents We presume that ad-
vertising rates from 3 cents for small
want ad up to 999 for the page We regret that
the sordid commercialstic spirit is breakin g
into the realm Of journalism. yet the depart
ment store has demonstrated that odd numbers
price tickets pay
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

The California editor who was acquitted Of
the charge OF printing matter in his paper con-
trny to the law by jury of women. has
nounced his conversion to the cause Of the
sufragette. Come to think of it these good
women might make good many converts the
way.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

OF womanliness will be lost and new. strong
err sterDer woman will take It's place. mofe
active but less attractive. ffeer but not fairer.
conquering but not captivating,
women God bless them. They have equal
rights with men and powers just as great. but
we hate a masculine woman Just like we hate
an effeminate man.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
NEW Rank FINDS HOME
AT ELEVENTH AND MAIN

The Bank OF Savings and Trust.
which was recently organized, will
be housed In the old home Of tho
National Bank OF Virginia at Elev-
enth and Main streets. This an
nouncement was made yesterday. Tho
bank expects to begin operations
shortly. It Is capitalized It 93o0, 900.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
same way.

Congressman Lafferty will find "a partner in
distress in the person of Congressman Rarch-
field of Pennsylvania The difference is that
Barchfeids irritation was with a married wo-
man and her husband is suing for divorce.
Those dignifed solons are sure getting gay
in these days.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
800 MINERS ENTO8EBED IN
JOHANNESBURG DISASTER

JOHANNESBURG. Nov 1.-TWO
hundred men have been entombed by
the subsistence Of the Primrose mine.
/ Tho work OF rescue II diAicult and =
further collapee y feared.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

mended to those militant hosts who care more
for the result than the method.
1t does not yet appear whether the Reverend
Mr. Rudolph has been able to come back"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08

Maine is dry. but cheer up comrades, Rich
mond is wet again this morning Yesterdays
was only temporary lapse from the slippery
path ~.z
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-08
Veteran. Suffer AGAIN.

Almost simultaneously with the report from
Richmond that the States finances show al
increase this year OF $3.50 900 over the estimated
total comes the that the appropria ton
made by the last general assembly for the Con-
federate pension fund liz insufficient and that
a cut of ten per cent. in the pensions of all
Confederate veterans save those wounded in bat
tie must be made.
That such cut 10 necessary is unfortunate.
to say the least of it. The next general as
semhly should provide adequate funds not only
to cover all pensions to veterans and widows of
veterans but also to care for the old soldiers
who inmates OF amshouses in various parts
of the Commonwealth and for the unfortunate
widows OF veterans
VIRGINIA owes debt to the Confederate vet
Grams and the noble women of 81 that she can
never repay. or recent years the State ha.
made but little effort to discharge that debt and
result has brought shame and disgrace
upon her
At best the unfortunates among the thousands
OF veterans have but few years to spend
upon this earth and the least the State can do
IL to make those declining years peaceful ones
for them.-Newport News Press.