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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10
The People 5 Rostru,n



sent to the United States Senate. Not
w~ithstandins the Insignificant vote
many persons think It should have
weight with the Legislature, as the
vote was taken under a law of the
State. Had the law been mandatory
1t would have been unconstitutional.
AS 1t was simply permissive, It was a
farce. II every voter In the State, ex-
GLIDING the members Of the Legisla-
ture, had expressed a preference for
Nh. MARITIME It could have mad no sig
nifcance beyond O mere recommenda-
ton. It is q matter In which the people
have no right to a voice.
When the Legislature assemblies to
choose a United States senator it's
members are electors OF the United
States under its laws and sworn to
obey its constitution; and to be true
to their trust they must choose inde-
~pendently, OF their own judgment, q
nan who will by his abilities honor
the State On New Jersey and h SUI
preme council OF the nation.
The people OF the State of New Jer-
sey stand today at the most critical
period Of their history; not because. az
Mr.. Wilson says, there r men who
would disregard what he calls the OK
pressed will of the people, but because
Mr.. Wilson himself, the governor-elect
OF the State, Is engaged In a direct as
sault upon the most sacred institution
left to us by the wisdom Of our fathers,
an institution under which we have
lived and liberty has fiourished for
more than a century, and In which
reside our largest hopes for a free and
happy future.
II we want to elect United States
senators by popular vote we may do
80, but let us do it legally, ~honorably,
periodically.
The third principle, THE executive
must hAve the warrant OF law for
everything he does" seems a YER sim
pie thing. But to get that simple idea
recognized and effectively embodied In
law has been the struggle of the ages.
1t has been the central inspiring mo-
tive of the people in all the battles for
human freedom. It's value should be
measured by It's cost. But our
governor-eleot tells the people through
the press Of all the country that the
members Of the Legislature must vote
for his candidate; that he will use
all the power in his possession to COM
pei them; that II necessary he will
stump the State: that I'M members
who do not so vote will hazard shame
and utter discredit." By what law
Toes ne claim a voice in the choice of
a United States senator? From what
clause in the constitution of our State
does he derive authority to insult the
Legislature? BY the constitution, the
zz-~~ao. - &A4 d%afa voaU ra0nYnrnand
for the consideration Of the Lesisla-
ture measures which he may deem OF
interest to the people. AS a check to
hasty legislation he has been given a
limited veto. To these two acts his
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10

A renegade negro held six policemen
at bay in Chicago for an hour yester-
day. He was armed with a repeating
rife and was well supplied with am
munition and had as a fortress an iso-
lated barn. And that's getting consid-
erably nearer the London situation of
similar mature than was thought pos
sible.
Il dare say remarked the officer in
charge of the Chicago six, that six
Chicago policemen could have taken
those fellows in London and locked
them up. We do police business aif.
ferently e here"
1t doesn't seem impossible at that,
granting first, of course, that two Grim
inals known to the Chicago police
could become so careless as to cause a
violent misunderstanding and force a
resort to arms.
Quite a number Of things that are
done differently in the police business
over here are lone worse.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10

and secured 81. overlooking, how
ever. despite his fervor, a roll which
aggregated $500. It Is unnecessary
to strain any mental processes In
imagining the chagrin Of this poor
robbsr when he read the account Of
his burglary in the paper next
morning and learned for the first
time what a boob he had been.
1t was suggested that perhaps the
intruder who slipped up in tho
Irvington instance was an amateur.
Granting the truth OF the surmiss,
such a break during an initial per-
Torrance might be enough to cause
a young thief to chuck up the busi-
nes In disgust.
People should remember when
they conceal large sums of money
and leave small amounts around
loose that they may be unwfttingly
spelling the budding career Of q
promising young burglar.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10
SHOULD BIB MORE THOUGHTFUL.

Tho man who gave lyric express
sion TO the thought that st might
have been" holds the rnels ncholy
records Tor endurance and altituds
probably said a truer thing
in his life. Hardly a day passes in
which we are not called upon to
witness the sterling value Of this
pronou1cement.
BY way Of illustration take the
case Of the thief who operated in
Irvineton Sunday. He entered q
house IN the absence of the family
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10
OH. WELL, OF COURSE.
PERHAPS.
Hi SURE THING ARTIST.

Il understand that all the men Of
voting age in Billtown, O., have
been disfranchised."
Yes"
And that the women have Q
vote in the school election out
thereT
Correct"
well, We may see a topsy-
turvy situation in which the men
OF Billtown are demanding equal
rights"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10

The STAR extends the privilege
of these columns to the public ano
not moro than n hundred words
treating of topics of the hour
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10
TOO LONG DRAWN OUT.

This breakfast food-weekly
magazine quarrel is quite excit-
ing-yes?
IT haven't followed It,"
TT wouldn't be SO bad II they'd
finish II in one instailment, but I
never could abide these cereal dis
pute&"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10
NOTHING LOST.

II heal she doesn't like me with q
mustache."
TGoing to shave it off. I suppose"
''Oh, no.; she never liked MEEK
change.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10
HOW HH FIGURES IT.

But after all is anything more
ephemeral after election day than Q
reforner's passion for reform?
OLD HEAD.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10

People who like s~easonabie weather
have begun to complain hat winter
has been taking as much time off from
Its sworn duty the past six weeks as a
New York city chamberlain. They
point TO the unusual number OF spring
and autumn days which nave been
sandwiched between the patches OF
frost in proof OF their claims.
While 1t is undoubtedly true that we
rave not y~et-taking 1t by and large
had any winter as is winter" harsh
criticisms just now are exceedingly III
timed. The earpers before January and
February have been gathered to their
predecessors, may have occasion to ex-
claim uncle" which lie schoolboy for
enough" or Sufficient"
It is only necessary to bark back to
last year n the year before that and
the twelve month periods within your
remembrance which ~antedated them to
realize that II is more often the oase
than not hat winter doesn't really get
down TO business until about THIS time
of the year.
To those who are anxious to see some
action from the present season and are
inclined to y impatient when II n
not forthcoming we can only say:
Give the winter of 1901 a chance"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10

Just when it seemed the Charlton
case was to be settled in the only way
left open for 1t, hearings In the extra
dition proceedings have been postponed
until January %. Since these facts are
~known-that it would be impossible to
try the young man who has confessed
he murdered his wife, In this coun-
try, and that an extradition treaty with
Italy which thoroughly covered the
case existed-there would seem TO be
no difficulties to speak of In the way Of
justice.
But anyone who figured 1t out that
way reckoned without te%chnicality,
that dread source OF delay In Amer
lean courts which makes so many
criminal trials endurance contests. An
extract from an account of the proceed
ings in Trenton yesterday speaks for
itself:
Among the preliminary questions to
be decided in considering the writ Of
habeas corpus is whether the United
States Circuit Court. through q writ Of
certiorari, can compel the State depart
ment to produce all the diplomatic cor
r~espondence between the two countries
on the subject Of extradition."
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10

While II has always created more OF
less Of a Juror in the world, unre-
Quilted love of late has been causing
an Unusual amount Of trouble. All too
often nowadays an opportunity to read
Of the tragic death of some Tilted
Buitor by administered means Is
afforded by the newspapers.
Apparently the modern young man
is taking this world-old check on his
aspirations-the refusal-eltogether too
seriously. The adege, There are just
as good fish in the sea as were aver
caught out of It," fails to comfort and
encourage as it did OF yore. Shake
speare's terse comment, Men have
died and worms have eaten them, but
not for love-" may have been true in
Elizabethan times, but 1t hardly holds
good in 1911.
Why, the thoughtful man or woman,
as the case may be, will ask, why
should 1t be a fact that in these en-
lightened times youths should take
turndowns more to heart thar in more
benighted periods? There can be but
m answer. The population of the
world Is increasing rapidly and the fool
killer has adopted this subterfuge to
tighten his growing labors.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-10

As a newspaper carrier on a rural
route the a%eroplane In it's trial trip
near Los Angeles recently was not an
unqualified success. That was due,
however, to the aviator's unfs milisrity
with the country, and not to any fail
ure of the machine to measure up to
the job.
Aerial free delivery has been sug-
gested half in jest more than once this
past year, but 1t need not be surprls-
ing il 1t is seriously considered by
postal authorities before the end of the
present year. Indeed, if aviation makes
such flying leaps toward the solution
of its problems during the twelve
months ahead of us as It did during the
same period behind us 1t may be util-
lied in the near future for practical
purposes of which none OF US dream
now.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
Majority Estimate of Three
Weeks Ago Amply
Justified.
FEDERATION
GOES IN A. F.. OF 1.
Bio Convention Of Americas Biggest
Labor Union Has
Session.

John P. White of Oskaloosa, Iowa,
has been elected president Of the
United Mine Workers of America. over
the present incumbent, Thomas l..
Lewis, of Bridgeport, o. The official
report of the tellers, accepted by the
convention, gives White 1888 votes
and Lewis 1880, making Whites ma
jojrity 26,743. Three issues since, the
Wheeling Majority stated that White
was elected by "about 10000 majority, j"
while the other Wheeling papers were
claiming Lewis's election.
Western Federation Goes In.
The convention seated William
Green, to whom opposition was made
because he is Democrat state senator
of Ohio, and also seated the Irwin
strike field delegation, which Lewis
opposed. The conventions action also
brought about the afiIiation Of the
Western Federation of Miners with
the American Federation Of Labor
This body had applied for charter
but several craft organizations object
ed in the lat sconvention Of the A. F
Of Z, and the matter was left In ths
hands Of the Executive Board. Tn!
United Mine Workers the other d.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
Gertrude B. Hunt
PI6asGS Big Crowd
Odd Fellows Hall Filled With People
Anxious to Hear the
Lecture.
GIVES LIES HISTORY
OF ALL HUMANKIND.

away back in history, when the
man, through with fighting, came back
to the camp fire where the women had
made the pottery and cooked the food
and cultivated the vegetables, and the
men had to go to work because the
fighting was played out, the men .divid-
ed the work; they selected what they
would like to do, and said: This is
mans work. and what they did not
do they gave to woman and said. That
is woman's work."
Thus said Mrs. Gertrude Breslau
Hunt to an appreciate audience that
filed the Odd Fellows Hall last Tues
day evening. Mrs. Hunts subject was
Woman and Social Problems" and to
say that she handled the subject ably
is to fail utterly to describe her ad-
dress, Such was the impression made
by her upon her audience, that several
said they would give SIS to hear her
again, and it is safe to say that if
she ever speaks again in this city. it
will be necessary to secure the largest
hall in Wheeling.
Mrs. Hunt treated the woman ques-
ton in way entirely different from
the average method. She began at
the dawn of civilization, hack among
the trees, and brought it down to
moder nfactories, and showed it en-.
tangled now in all the greed and graft
Of capitalism.
She advocates, of course, ballots for
women And she told the men not to
worry about how the women would
vote. "You have gone to the ballot
box year after year." she said, "and
have voted. to receive only $500
wages for $4,000 worth of products
and you couldn't find a woman to do
that! It takes man to drive a fool
bargain like that. If we weren't any
better bargainers than yon have
shown yourselves to be in your voting,
your wages wouldn't last as long as
they do"
She. advocates Socialism as the
remedy for existing evils and explained
that Socialims did not mean the var
ious things that it's enemies have been
claiming. "You have been told" she
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
SUIT AGAINST NATIONAL
PROGRESSING FAVORABLY
Action Brought Against Telephone
Company by Organized
Labor.

Progressing favorably" is the re-
port made by the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor Assembly of the suit
brought by that body against the Ma
tional Telephone, Company Of w. Va.
for the recovery bf the attorneys fees
expense to which the Assembly was
brought in defending the Injunction
procee dings brought during the line
mems strike by the National company
against H. p. Corcoran, H. B. Vessel.
j. T. Hecker and w. B. Hilton.
It will be remembered that the case
was brought before Judge A. 6. Day.
ton, who promptly gave the kind OF
an Injunction against Labor that the
company wanted. but, on appeal to the
United States Disticrt Cour: If Ap-
.peals, Judge Dayton was overruled'
the Injunction wiped out and the COM
pany ordered to reimburse the Assem-
bly, for it's expenditures for court cotss.
Even this was not secured from the
National Telephone Company until
the company had STAYED it off as long
as possible, and not until the Assem-
bly's attorneys had secured the neces-
sary authority to start a United
States Deputy marshall to the Nation
al Telephone Office for the money.
The present suit is to reimburse
the Assembly for the money spent for
attorneys fees-an expense of thous-
ands of dollars put upon the strug
Cling working people of Wheeling by
the selfish action Of the National
Telephone Company officials.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
Watson Chiffon Votes
Sell For $1,000 Each

all members present in the joint ses-
sion to vote, the Republican members
left. Significantly, there were twenty
three.
Everett Moore offered resolution OF
investigation, just as last session he
offered a resolution to investigate the
penitentiary, but the Democrats decid-
ed that If there was to be any invest.
cation they would investigate them
selves, and that Moore would have
enough to do to investigate himself.
Watson and Chiffon afterward, with
legal assistance, fixed up resolution
to investigate their own election, and
this is the one the Democrats will pass.
Watson, too, made speech, which
Owen Mckinney wrote for him, in
which he thanked them kindly for
handing him the juicy senatorship, but
added that IF they could convince him
BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT
that he had paid out too much money
Ior it, he would go back to his scab
coal mine and decline the honor. He
was most explicit, however, in stating
that he could not consider mere rumor,
Nelson Hubbard touched off the fire
works. He had evidently done great
deal of reading in the school text
books, for he said that he had come to
Charleston in the firm belief that he
would find honest legislators shouting
into every pause in the roll call. He
was deeply shocked by Shocks testi-
mony. He knew now that Watson and
Chiffon bribed Democrats, although he
knew he could not substantiate it in r
court Of law-thus taking little punch
at our courts of law. So he boosted
for John w. Davis. Some unkind per-
sons said that Nelson was shrewd
enough to realize that the election of
John w. Davis to the Senate, if q
stampede worked out that way, would
make vacancy In the United States
Congress from the First Congressional
district of West Virginia, the district in
which Mr.. Nelson Hubbard and his
father, w. P. Hubbard, live.
However, all this may be. the people
of West Virginia, in return for about
three weeks Of paying for legislature
at about $4,000 a day. have received
only disappointment and disgrace. Not
one single law in the interests of the
people has yet been passed; indeed
nothing at all has been concluded ex-
cept the election of Watson and Chill
ton, those chieftais of spoil, and the
Republicans say they will contest their
election and Governor Glasscock says
he won't sign the commissions.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
Labor Demanding
Decent Legislation
news REFUSES TO PRINT
SOCIALIST news ITEM
Said They Would Mention the Band
and the Hall, But Not Word
Socialist"

Monday the Wheeling News manage
ment refused to print Socialist news
item, states Organizer Morris Barlow
of Local Wheeling Greek. He and
Frank Had, another committeeman,
called at the News and asked the pub
location of an item about Meister's or
chestra having been secured for the
Socialist ball next Saturday evening
at Wheeling Creek, Horas hall, Stop
10, and the paper that claims to "give
the news" refused to publish the item.
The men then offered to pay for its
insertion, and were informed that they
would print the notice insofar as it
mentioned the orchestra and the hall,
but that the name Socialist" could
not be used.
The dance will be given just the
same, and the biggest kind of success
is expected by Committeeman Morris
Barlow, Frank Had, Scott Baine and
A1eBritton.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26

proposed bill, which reads as follows:
sSection /. The State of Ohio and
any County, City, Township, Village,
School District thereof and any en-
ployer of labor who has paid into the
state Fund the premiums provided by
this Code to insure him against the
liability for injuries or death caused
to each and every workman employed
by him, shall not be liable to respond
in damages at common law or by
statute for injuries to or death of work
men occurring in employments de-
scribed in Sections 2 and 3 of this
Code, and the employee who with the
knowledge that his employer has paid
into the fund the premium provided
bv this Code and continues in the ser
vice Of his employer with such knoWl-
edge shall not have nor shall his bene-
|ficiaries or dependents have any right
Of action against his employer for
damages caused BY injuries to or death
| of such employe.
The Board, after thoroughly dis
cussing the matter. decided that La
Ibor could not accept any section b
THE Workmen's Compensation laN
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
Executive Board Holds Session ]
Columbus and, Maps Out
Campaign.
REFUSES TO ACCEPT
sulT-WAviNe CLAUSE
urces All Labor Bodies to Get Inter
ested and Hump For
Laws.

Columbus. Ohio. Jan. %. Especial. ]
The Executive Board Of the Ohio
state Federation Of Labor met in
Columbus last Thursday for the pur-
pose Of taking up with the Employers
Liability Commission bill drafted by
them that viii be reported to the
Legislature in the near future.
The Board met with the chairman Of
the Commission at 4 O'Clock IN the
afternoon and with the labor members
Of the commission in the evening. The
Board won over the differences thai
existed between te labor and employ
ers members Of the commission parti
cularIy as regards 70 Section 1 Of theil
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
Alabama Land
Sale SWind|6
Majority Correspondent Says Vinegar
Bend is Alabama and Mississippi
Trap For Suckers.

A gigantic and unblushing swindle,
is the way the land selling in the
vicinity Of Vinegar Bend, Alabama, is
branded by a Majority correspondent,
who made a personal investigation.
This gentleman, living in Newark, O.,
was induced to become the representa-
tive of the Alabama & Mississippi
RAILROAD" company, which has been
heavily advertising this land through
Ohio and the Wheeling district espe-
eially, and was convinced of the
honesty of the company's claims, SO
that he made a number Of sales, How
ever, his native honesty would not
permit him tocontinale selling the land
without personal knowledge of its
value, and a couple of weeks ago he
went there.
He reports that "The' company are
a bunch of swindlers, the worst I ever
dreamed of. Alabama has good land,
and bad, too, the same as any other
state, but these people prefer inves-
tors to settlers, and I think they
would sell the same land over and
over again. They do anything to get
the money. have taken the matter
up with the Postmaster General. It is
a one mans town, the company owns
everything and pay the employees in
brass checks. The land is heavily
mortgaged and purchasers do not even
get clear title.
The gentleman is now busy refund
ing his patrons, from his own pocket,
the amounts paid him.
The MajDfit sould advise It's read
ers to beware of deceiving land adver-
tisements.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26
This is Charge Made by One Man
Who Says He Received
His Money.
DESPITE BRIBE CHARGES
SENATORS ARE ELECTE Ed.
Nelson Hubbard Leads Bolt and Re-
pubIicans Refuse to Vote
at All.

Charleston, w. Va, Jan. 26.-(Spe-
cial.) thousand dollars am
offered for my Democrat vote-two
thousand-two thousand! Can I hear
twenty-five hundred! Sold-at twenty
five hunderd. aside, to the clerk)
Please wrap TINS vote up for those
gentlemen standing there, Messrs.
Watson and Chiffon"
The election OF United States sena,
tor in West Virginia has lost none of
it's financial importance by reason of
the change in political parties. 1t Is
doubtful if Scott and Elkins ever paid
more than $4,000 each for votes. Yet
that is what Lafayette ]. Shock, OF
Falls Mills, Braxton county, says he
got for his. Fifty crisp $40 oils were
handed him Tuesday, he says, in the
Washington hotel, by one hamrick, Of
Clay county, with the promise Of the
remaining $1,000 after the goods were
delivered. For some reason Shock
afterwards told about it to Judge Ben
nett and John Davis. They told Sena
tor Brand, and Brand tolled the bell.
But the telling of the story on the
floor of the legislature in joint session
Wednesday did not phase the thing In
any way. Watson was elected to the
short term by vote of 70 out of 76,
and Chiffon drew the long term by II
out of a possible rs. Senator ZillikeD
SeraizSenator Frank Caldwell and Dele
gates DIR Harry Hubbard and Chester
Whitman, of Ohio county, voted for
the crooked pair, but Nelson Hubbard
bolted and nominated John w. Davis
in the separate session, and w. R
Thompson in the joint session, being
followed in both moves by Thomas
Padden, also of Ohio county, and these
were joined by three others who could
not stomach Chiffon and four who
couldn't swallow Watson.
Digging up the Whitewas.h
The joint session was held without
the Republicans, the Cincinnatians
though having returned to Charleston.
refusing to enter the senate chamber.
When the motion prevailed to compel