The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-21
< ST|CE WHITE IS ! HEST MENTIONED  As Democratic Candidate
 for President TEMPERANCE IN ARMY War Department Says Bootlegging Must Sotp--Farmers Have Had
 FL tering Attention,
 Says Lee
 
TEMPERANCE IN ARMY
By -.ALpH NJ. wHIrEsrpE


 Washington, May 2o.-(Special )-Anoth- CT democratic Richmond is in the field, at least his friends are putting him in. It is no less than Chief Justice White of the United States supreme court. Chief Jus tice White is in no sense candidate for the democratic nomination for President. but there is no little quiet talk about the splendid qualifications of the noted jurist for the highest elective office In the world.
 The idea is that with so many first class candidates for the nomination and the fact that 1t requires two-thrds of the delegates to nominate. makes dead lock in the convention not only possible. but probable.
 If there should be a deadlock, say Jus tice Whites friends, where can a man more suitable be found to break it?
 Talking about the democratic nomina- ton some of the partisans of Speaker Champ Clark are real vexed that he does not take a more active personal interest In the race. MT. Clark makes no secret of the fact that he Is perfectly willing to respond with alacrity even to call from his party, but he will not get out and hustle for the nomination. He will not organize his friends, spurns the idea of a publicity bureau and beyond attending to his business as speaker will do nothing to attract attention to himself. Washington generally believes that MT. Clark will cut big figure in the conven- .ion and that the man who beats him will get the nomination.
 A temperance campaign which will be watched with interest has just been in- augurated by the War Department
 Bootlegging has been very profitable business on the army transports carryings troops to and from the Philippines ever since we took those islands from Spain This illicit sale of liquor has not only been a source of great profit to a ring in the stewards department but has given the officers In command of the troops no It, tie trouble. It is said that sometimes the profits on single voyage would be nearly s100o
 The quartermaster's department has at last decided that the business must cease and secret service men have been put to work to ferret out the bootleggers, who will be punished to the limit of the law when found. xH
 The question of changing the date of the lduS uTdllOH UT fIeSluSnlS IS again to the fore, this time with the backing of Rep- resentative Henry of Texas, chairman of , the committee on rules af5 azsz.
 MT. Henry is confident that the resolu- tion changing the date from March to April and incidentally adding & month to tke life of Congress will be passed this time. A5s
 Very interesting ceremonies will mark the unveiling of the l. Enfant monument at Arlington on Monday.
 President Taft, Cardinal Gibbons, Am bassador Jusserand of France and Sena- tor Elihu Root will be the participants in the ceremonies. The only additional par ticpant will be Miss Eleanor Carroll Nor gan, great granddaughter of William Dudley Digges, friend of LEnfant, and \ on whose farm in Maryland the body of the distinguished Frenchman was inferred before being removed to Arlington. Miss Morgan will unveil the statue.
 The memorial is located in front of the mansion, with a carved map of Washing 1 ton placed according to the compass According to the programme arranged for the unveilng, Cardinal Gibbons will pronounce both the4 Invocation and bene- diction. Patriotic music will form a part of the programme.
 "The farmers ought to feel swelled up : with the eloquence that has been bubbling in their behalf since this Congress began business remarked Gen. Stanley Lee, a IN real farmer from the Minnesota region. " When reach Washington my favorite recreation is the reading of the Congress sional Record, and sometimes I hear the speeches from the gallery. Somehow I did not quite realize that the so-called poor farmer needed so much sympathy and attention from the statesmen here in Washington.
 Tout my way the farmer rides to town in fine automobile, and is ever warmly greeted by the banker and the village po- tentates. His daughters go to Europe and there is nothing lacking for the so- called poor farmer. except flying ma chimes, and he will have them soon enough. But we hear your congressman almost beg for the farmer as if he was in distress. I note that Ferris of Oklaho- ma, for instance, said in a. recent speech Pass this bill and release the farmer from bondage" and almost every orator in the debate had much to say about the poor farmer, the thrifty, hard-working farmer, the sturdy farmer at an humble <firesde. It was inspiring, too, that Un- derwood, the democratic house leader. begged for the poor farmer, who is con tending for free lumber with which to build his humble home. Out our way the humble home business is back number. We don't find many humble homes among the real farmer. The farmland may have the humble home part of 1t. but not the farmer who owns the land.'
 "Once in great while some citizen will bring to light one of the old greenbacks,'. says Stephen Fresno of Nebraska, land such bill attracts attention over the counter either of a bank or a grocery store.
 "The part of the bill that comes in for most study and inspection is the auto graph of Francis B. Spinner, who was the treasurer of the United States from Lin coln's time until after Grants and Hayes. It is not generally recalled that Spinner served three terms in Congress from an upper New York district. and gave special attention to financial matters He was