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The Washington times., 1911-12-29
Jack Johnson motors.

Ed Cochems' suggestions for changes
in the football rules are most radical,
but when you think them over, the
game would be rather interesting II
played under them. certain number
of downs is the stransest thing of all.
but might work out very well, IL tried.
He wants a simpler game. anyway. and
that's what most football lovers are
seeking. game that everybody can
understand.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
MARYLAND DEMO
CRATIC PRIMARY
Progresslves and Reactlonaries VIII
Contest for Control Of
the Party.

Baltimore, Nd, Aug. 29.-Maryland's
4, first primary for the nomination OF
candidates for state offices by the d.
rect system of voting is in progress
today, and, on the democratic side, 1t
marks the climax of one of the most
spirited campaigns In years. Fractional
lines are tightly drawn, and to great
degree the control of the party organi-
cation is at stake.
Pitted against each other for the
governorship are State Senator Arthur
p. German, Jr., of Howard county and
State Senator Blair Lee of Montgom-
cry county. Arrayed behind Senator
German are United States Senator
John Walter Smith, Congressman J..
Harry Covington and other influential
democratic leaders. Back of Senator
Lee are United States Senator Isidor
Rayner, Governor Crothers, former
Governor Edwin Warfield and Con
gresham ]. f. C. Talbot. Because of
Senator Germans following, he is re-
garded as the organization candidate,
and while a number of Senator Lee
friends have always been regarded as
regular, he has been termed the anti
organization candidate in this cam.
paign There is no doubt that il Sen
ator Lee is named and elected strong
efforts will be made to wrest the state
/ leadership from United States Senator
Smith and the Baltimore city leader
ship from John J. Mahon.. II Senator
German is nominated and elected the
state and city democratic machine win
remain intact.
The campaign for the governorship
has been based on the legislative rec.
ords of the two candidates. Both have
been members of the state senate for
the last six years. Senator Lee has
been advocated by his friends as a
progressive democrat, while at the
same time Senator German was de-
nounced by them as a reactionary
The supporters of Senator German
have made the fight on his legislative
record, which they say is sufficient an
swer to the charge of reactionary ten
denotes.
The primary law under which to-
days election is being held was writ
ten by Senator Lee. Edgar Allan Poe
is unopposed for the democratic nomi-
nation for attorney general. There are
six democratic candidates in the field
for the supreme bench, three to be
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
THEODORE PRICE ON
THE COTTON SITUATION

There is perhaps no better informed
than Theodore II. Price, who is now
in Texas on business. In an interview
published in the Houston Sunday
Chronicle, Mr.. Price said:
THE cotton market is such a big
affair that no one man can swing it
to his will. A tip is no earthly good
No one man can say whether values
are going upward or downward and
be absolutely sure of his position"
do you think we will ever have any
more eight-cent cotton?" queried the
Chronicle man.
IF we do it will be at remote
period. Do you know that the farmer
is the absolute master of the cotton
situation, the supreme dictator of
values? Well, he is, and he can obtain
any price for his staple that he asks
if he will only remain firm. l am a
believer in much higher values for
cotton, and will tell you why.
The world is denuded of cotton and
cotton cloth. Retailers, jobbers and
wholesalers throughout the world are
carrying lighter stocks than FOR many
years. The reason is the magnitude Of
the prospective crop was so widely
advertised some ten months ago that
with an unanimity that was extra
ordinary manufacturers and consum-
ers of cotton goods withheld their pur
chases in the hope of buying cheaply.
An analogy for the situation may be
found in hungry man, who, in eX-
pectancy of a good dinner refuses to
spoil his appetite by eating between
meals; he sits down to dinner in a
condition of emptiness and the size of
the dinner makes little difference to
him. The world for two years has
been disappointedly hoping for an in
crease in the American crop. The re-
cent deterioration, now generally ad-
mitted has convinced them that a
mammoth crop is impossible; a large
crop unlikely, and that not much more
than a moderate supply is available
until another twelve months may
bring them face to face with short
crop. Therefore they will not hesitate
to buy, and the Southern planter will
have only himself to thank if, CONTROL
ing, as he does, monopoly of the
worlds cotton production, he parts
with the fruit of his labor at an arti-
flcially deprecated valuation
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

nominated. Candidates will also be
chosen for the state senate and house,
for the state central committee and
delegates to the state convention. The
latter will ratify the choice Of the
primary and adopt platform.
Unlike the democrats, the repub-
leans have no important contests for
nominations. The republican state
ticket will be headed by Phillips Lee
Goldsborough of Dorchester county for
governor. Under the law when can
didate is unoposed for any nomination
his name does not appear on the pri-
mary ballots. AS all the republican
nominees for state offices are without
opposition, the primary today Is prac'
tically confined to the democrats.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
Washington Workmen Secede.

Tacoma, Wash, Aug. 29.--Secession
from the supreme lodge of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen will be
completed at meeting here today OF
the Washington grand lodge of the
order. All relations with the national
body will be severed and in the new
constitution all references to the SUI
preme lodge are eliminated. 1t is un-
derstood that at the session today the
name of the organization will be
changed, and new plan of insurance
and new ritual will be adopted. The
Washington jurisdiction is now an en-
tirely distinct fraternal order.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
AVIATION PROGRESS
OF TWO YEARS

Paris, Aug. 29-Exactly two years
ago today, at the first Rheims aviation
meet, Hubert Latham attained the re
markable height of 504 feet, and all
the world marvelled at the feat. Since
that day, August 30, 1909. such prog
ress has been made in the science OF
flying that this month Captain Felix
rose more than twenty times as high
and the matter was dismissed by the
newspapers with only few lines. The
progress made by the aviators in at
tanning great height is told in the fol
lowing record:
August 20, 1909-Latham, 5O4 feet.
October Is, 19O9-Count de Lambert
975 feet.
December 1, 1909-Latham, 147l
feet.
January Z, 1910-Latham $3.50 feet
July Z, 191O-Latham, 449S feet.
September 3, 1910-Morane, 1891
feet.
September 8, 1slO-Chavez, s4Os
feet.
October 1, 1910-Miiumalen, $685.
feet.
December 8, 1910-Legagneux. 10,
075 feet.
July 8, 1911-Loridan, 1895 feet.
August 5, 1911-Felix, 10,SS7 feet
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
Bar Association Meets.

Boston, Mass, Aug. 29.-Meeting In
thirty-fourth annual session. the Amer
lean Bar Association convened today
in Huntington Hall, to continue three
days. The association includes In It's
membership thousands OF the leading
attorneys of the United States and the
delegates hail from every section oil
the country. A number of important
legal topics are under discussion. The
entertainment Of the visitors Will be
of lavish nature and is In the hands
of the officials and members OF the
Massachusetts Bar Association.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
CEMETERY CRATER PAROLED

Buffalo, n Y, Aug. 29.-"Johnnie'
Neff, former county auditor and pop
ular politician who was convicted OF
stealing $29,304 from the public funds
in connection with the North street
cemetery graft, rounded out his three
years and six months minimum esn-
tence in Auburn prison today and was
released on parole. The freeing OF
Neff is the final chapter in the story
of the scandal which involved num-
Der of prominent men. r. J. Conover
who had the contract for the removal
of the dead bodies from a cemetery
which had been purchased as site
for an armory, turned states evidence,
and it was on his testimony that
County Auditor Neff and Supervisors
w. B. Jackson and B. d. Gibson, the
latter an East Aurora banker, were
convicted and sent to prison. Jackson
and Gibson were paroled some months
ago.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

was aggravated by the fact that two
of the victims of the assassin's pisto,
were women. But neither that circum-
stance nor any other pecularities of
causation and environment can dignity
mob law or lend 1t wholesomeness and
preventive force. On the other hand,
disrespect for the written laws and
the established courts, as expressed
in executions by the mob, must in the
very nature of things incite individ-
uals to crime rather than restrain
them; for when a whole community
rises openly and violates the law,
there is no lesson of the laws majesty
and impartial judgment of the guilty
conveyed to the criminally inclined
This class is merely reminded of their
danger from brute force more power
full than their own but no better bal
anced or more sanely directed. The
contention made by those who see
only evil in mob executions, whatever
the circumstances, that lynching for
one crime naturally leads to lynching
for another and for many others, finds
confederation in the mob record of
last week First hangings and burn
ings for the crime against women
only; then for murders or assaults to
murder; next for arson, forgery and
theft finally on suspicion only of
guilt in relation to any of the felon-
ious crimes in the calendar. Then If
the spirit of mob law should advance
far enough to take the form of secret
organization of those already guilty Of
frequent participation, fairly good men
would seek personal safety by getting
inside the charmed circle instead of
risking property and life in exposing
it; and what would be the effect upon
law administration in a general way
can be surmised from local instances
in many different states where COM
munities and counties have floundered
in the tolls of feudists, whitecappers
and midnight regulators. Whatever
the provocation to engage in mob law
to execute mob sentences, in partic-
ular cases, it is always better for the
state, for society and for the individ-
uals directly affected to have the as
surance of future protection from i'm
partially enforced law in place of the
present satisfaction of vengeance and
summary punishment, righteously in
fiicted in some instances, doubtless,
but certain to be distorted and mis-
applied acknowledgement Issue.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

It will soon be hundred years since
the end of the last war between Eng
lish speaking nations, the war be-
tween the United States and England
which began in 1912 and ended in
1915. Preparations are making to cele-
brate the centenary Of international
peace in both countries. AS lasting
memorials of the occasion, it is pro-
posed to buy Subway Manor. the his
toric seat of the Washington family
in England, and to erect free bridge
across the Niagara river below the
falls.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

After finishing his flight from st.
Louis to New York, Atwood said that
at nearly every place he stopped some
fellow asked him to carry letter to
his girl He obligingly took charge Of
the letters and carried out the instruc-
tions to mail them. at the end of the
voyage. Now, If it had been Hobson
she would doubtless have delivered the
letters in person, exacting kiss from
each recipient, for the service.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
WHY MOB LAW IS DANGEROUS.

Almost simultaneously in Pennsyl-
vania, Oklahoma and Texas negroes
were executed by mob law, and in
each case for a crime different from
that usually pleaded in full justifica-
ton for Judge Lynchs court and the
condign punishments it prescribes. 1t
is true the crime for which the ne
groes last week were dispatched with
out the form of law was murder or
assault to murder and that this crime
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
Bomb Dropping Contest.

Boston, Mass, Aug. pa bomb,
dropping contest for a 5000 prize is a
novel feature of this afternoons pro-
gram of the Harvard aero meet at
Squantum. The purpose of the COM
petition is to test the accuracy with
which bombs could be dropped on war.
ships or Notifications during warfare.
Several army and navy officers will
witness the feats of the birdmen.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
Discuss Municipal Problems.

Quebec, Que, Aug. 29.-Problems
connected with the government and
improvement of the cities Of the do
minion will be considered by experts
during the three-day session opened
today by the Union of Canadian NUM-
cipalities. Mayors and other repre-
sentatives of cities throughout the do
minion are in attendance.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

1t was naturally to be expected that
there would be agitation in Mexico
until after the presidential election in
October. That event will be the crisis.
Madero is using his best efforts to
secure fair and peaceable expression
of the will of the people. If he sue
ceeds there is good reason to hope
that the turmoil will cease and nor
NAL conditions will prevail
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
CONTRIBUTED BY COMMERCIAL
SECRETARIES ASSOCIATION.

Col. ]. r. Black, one Of the leading
capitalists of the NuGes Valley coun-
try, has Just given out statement 10
the effect that a huge dam Will be
constructed acress the Nueces river
on his land in LalSalle county for the
purpose of conserving the waters OF
the stream for irrigation purposes.
Colonel Black is an extensive onion
farmer and reports net income OF
$4,000 from twenty acres OF Bermuda
onions last year.
A community, like an Individual
may get into rut and apparently
have no disposition to move out
There are persons who, day after day.
complain of their condition In iiie'
lament most bitterly their misfortune,
who never make the slightest intelli-
gent effort to improve their condition.
The Young Mems Business League
of Waco has made arrangements 10
put on booster excursion to Dallas
during the fair for the purpose OF CIV
ling publicity to Waco and the Cotton
Palace, which opens in Waco In NO
vember. This is the second excursion
OF this kind to be pulled of by the
league, the first one during the fair
Of 1910.
There has never been time when
our people have not appreciated the
necessity for better roads ana de-
plored the existence Of bad roads. The
difficulty has been in the indisposition
to take concerted action to improve
them. The mere recognition OF the
bad condition does not mend II. we
must appreciate the inconvenience ana
losses which arise from such bad con-
ditions and the profit which would ac-
crue from repairing the same.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

In order to understand anything cor
rectly 1t is essential to look at it from
every point of view. 1t is therefore
impossible to get a correct knowledge
of an issue-the prohibition question,
for MISTAKENLY reading only the or
gans advocating one side or the other
The inevitable influence of an organ
Is to make the reader an unreasonable
extremist.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

The congestion in the business dis
trict of Bryan is an unhealthy condi-
ton which seriously retards prosper
ity. Prices and rents in this limited
area are abnormally high, while every
where else they are reasonable. This
state of things can not continue per-
manently; there will be an overflow,
but what direction it will take remains
to be seen.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

Both branches of the legislature
adopted resolution asking the demo
cratic state committee to submit at
the July primary the names of can
didates for president, vice president
and member of the national executive
committee. The people of Texas are
going to run their own political ma,
chine
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

The thirty days allotted for the spe-
cial session of the legislature expired
at 10 o'clock this morning, but Gov
ernor Colquitt and Speaker Rayburn
agreed that the session could be ex-
tended to the end of the calendar day
at midnight tonight. 1t is probable
that several vetoes will be sent in to-
dav
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

The Ell Paso Times describes Ker-
NIT Roosevelt as skinny, almost
anemic, slender as a sapling, with a
long neck, pair of clothes-pin legs
and a blonde mustache mostly fuzz.
He seems to have inherited none Of
the physical characteristics of his
father.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

Admiral Togo expressed much salts.
faction with the treatment he received
from the newspapers of this country.
Probably the only grudge he carried
away was against the Bostonese who
served the dinner that made him sick.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
Rates Of subscription /:

Subscribers will confer a favor on
the management by telephoning the
Office promptly when carriers fail to
deliver the paper. or when change Of
residence occurs.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

Not all the New Mexicans are new
Mexicans, and there are new Mexi
cans in Old Mexico who are not New
Mexicans.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
Notice..

The ladies' OF the First Baptist
church will serve cream Thursday
night on Carnegie LEVIN.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
Luther,s Improved cottonseed.

Parties wanting good, improved seed
of finest quality can get same by drop
ping me card. Sam Luther Bryan,
Texas.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

PUlIl|CS ANU PULlIIClANS
The contending parties have agreed
to accept reciprocity as the sole issue
in the Canadian elections.
The municipality of Berlin has pre-
pared plans for the expenditure Of
about $SO,O0O,OOO on municipal i'm
provements.
The United States geological survey
gives the origin of the name Chicago
as derived from an Ojibwa Indian
word, meaning the place of wild
onions"
The Jews of the whole world now
number 1926 OF this world pop
ulation nearly 100000 reside in Amer
lea. Only one other country has a
larger Jewish population, and that is
Russia.
OF the ten most beautiful buildings
in the United States, the national cap
itol at Washington ranks first in the
estimation of critics and the city hall
of New York last. In the list are three
churches, three libraries, two govern
ment structures and one private resi-
dence and one amusement building.
1t is hard to get into the United
States army OF twenty-five applicants
in a certain instance, not one got in.
Bad eyes, bad teeth and all sorts of
things are sufficient to exclude an ap-
plicant. One rejected would-be soldier
had Ike" placed after his name on
the register. 1t means insufficient
knowledge of English"
AS first step toward fortifying and
arming the approaches to the Panama
canal, the government plans to ship
the big sixteen-inch gun stored at
Sandy Hook to the canal zone and
mount it there on a site selected for
it. The gun is supposed to be the most
formidable in the world. 1t can throw
a projectile weighing 24O0 pounds a
distance of sixteen miles The projec-
priA Wi q
mass about $50 pounds of high explo.
sive powder.
According to competent testimony,
the Nebraska democrats will not pre-
vent William J. Bryan from attending
the next democratic convention as a
delegate. They could easily keep him
at home, they claim, but do not feel
that it would be good democratic pol
itics to do so. They own that Bryan
has made a fortune out of his three
democratic presidential defeats. Bry-
an, at the same time, according to
these Nebraska democrats, is now al
most a fanatic on the subject Of tenn
perance.
One of the most interesting ques-
lions heard in democratic circles is:
who is providing the funds for the
Governor Wilson press bureaus in New
York and Trenton and for the Wilson
agents who are visiting the various
states of the Union?" In the Wilson
campaign for governor Of New Jersey
last fall letters were sent to Prince
ton graduates throughout the country
inviting subscriptions to the campaign
fund and the receipts were total OF
$500. There has always been consid-
cradle interest as to the size OF the
campaign fund in New Jersey for Gov
ernor Wilson last fall. The best infor-
nation is to the effect that it was
100000, of which ex-United States
Senator Smith, Jr, of Newark con-
tributed $4,000.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

The contending parties have agreed
TO accept reciprocity as the sole issue
in the Canadian elections.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

The United States geological survey
gives the origin of the name Chicago
as derived from an Ojibwa Indian
word, meaning 1.-The place of wild
onions"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

The municipality of Berlin has pre-
pared plans for the expenditure OF
about $SO,OO0,OOO on municipal i'm
provements.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

The Jews of the whole world now
number 11,625,656. OF this world pop
ulation nearly 100000 reside in Amer
lea. Only one other country has a
larger Jewish population, and that is
Russia.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-29

OF the ten most beautiful buildings
in the United States, the national cap
itol at Washington ranks first in the
estimation of critics and the city hall
of New York last. In the list are three
churches, three libraries. two govern
ment structures and one private resi-
dence and one amusement building.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-08-15
GENERAL FOUNDERS
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