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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-30

Secord Baptist Church-Rev. Ed
Weller. Pastor.
Sunday Scnool-9.45 a. m.
Preaching-J1 a. m. f.A Il
b Y. p. U.--6:00 y m.
PreachiDV-7:O0 p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
night-7:00 D. m. "s
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-30

Methodist Episcopal Chureh--Rev
A. r. Kasey. Pastor.
Sunday SchooI--9:30 a. m.
Morning Service --10:45 a. m.
Epwprth League -6:45 p. m.
Evening Serviee-7:30 p. m.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-30

First Presbyteriach Church--Rev
Edward Bryant Lands. Pastor.
Sunday SCHOOLGIRL a, m.
Morning Service-l0.45 a. m.
Christian EAdeaVor-6:15 m.
Evening Service 7:00sp. m.
Weekly Prayer Meeting -Wednes-
day-7:00p m.
Pastor will occupy pulpit preact :
ing at both hours.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-11-30

Westminster Presbyterian Church
Rev G II. H. Branch, Pastor.
Sunday SchooI--9:30 a. ,,m.
Mems Bible Class-10:00 a. m.
Morning Service-l0:45 a. m.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
Mr.. wilson and Indiana.

according to Indianapolis advices,
Thomas Taggart is still in control Of his
party in Indiana. His power will be
shown in the new order of things. which
begins in January. The new governor is
his friend. The new legislature will be
officered by his friends. And SO Mr..
Taggart will continue TO have influence.
Well. why not? Why should not so re-
sourceful politician receive his reward
lie works all the time. in cloud and In
sunshine. He opposed Mr.. Shively fol-
the Senate. but acquiesced in his cleo
ton. and then proceeded without dis
couragement To lay pipe for his friend
Mr.. Kern and two years later landed
him. lie did not get along we'll with
Gov Marshall, but swallowed his dis
comfiture. aud headed a Marshall dele
cation To Baltimore. and had the salts
faction of seeing the man he wanted re-
moved from Indiana affairs nominated for
Vice President. AS alert and adjustable
a politician as that is not easily over
thrown.
But how will Mr.. Tasgart fare here
when Mr.. Wilson takes charge? Strong
as is his pull at home, what will be his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

"pulr' in national affairs? What response
will Mr.. Wilson make to his overtures
1t Is a reasonable superstition that Mr..
Taggart will want to be heard on the
subject Of Indiana patronage. He will
have friends seeking federal places, and
Of course he will back them. Will Mr..
Wilson yield to him? VIII the fact that
Mr.. TaRgart is a boss and boasts of the
title prejudice him in Mr.. Wilson's eyes?
There is the possibility Of an interest
ing situation as respects the Indiana
patronage. In effect. Mr.. Shively was
Gov. Marshalls senator. and Mr. Kern
Mr.. Taggart's. 1t was the defeat of Mr.
Taggart by Gov. Marshall for control of a
state convention which brought about
Mr.. Shively's election, and it was the
persistence of Mr.. Taggart in the next
Kern's election.
Suppose now there should be a Mar
shall-Shively slate on the one hand. and
a Taggart-Kern slate on the other. Which
slate will Mr.. Wilson accept? Will he
yield to his yokemate and see Vice Presi-
dent Marshall through?
Mr.. Cleveland in 1885 encountered an
embarrassment Of somewhat like ma
ture. Vice President Hendricks differed
with some of his party associates at home
about patronage. and the contention was
put up to the President, who. much to
Mr. Hendricks chagrin. took the matter
under advisement. Mr.. Hendricks had
expected a prompt decision in his own
favor But as Mr.. Hendricks did not
live long. death relieved the tension, ana
Mr. Cleveland found way out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
A Hungry Horde.

The country is asked to believe that "a
hungry horde is moving on Washing
ton, and shortly will fill the town to
OVERLOOKING Office. office. office! Every
body wants office. Mr.. Wilson's life is to
he teased out of him by the importu-
nate What spectacle we shall all see!
How discreditable to us as people striv-
ing for good government.
Now there is no warrant for the use of
disrespectful language in describing
democrats who maneuverng for
places on Uncle Sans pay roll. There
is human nature in the desire. and album
dant precedent for it. And probably
many will succeed with their plans and
pulls.
But no horde" is moving, nor is there
encouragement for a horde" Mr.. Will
son is not committed to a program of
spoils He could not if he would. and
probably would not II lie could. provide
places for all who will apply in person,
or through others. If he yielded to those
who are frankly for spois as spoil. he
would lose public confidence. and handi-
cap himself at the very start. The bust
ness of the government would suffer
heavily as the result. Trained men in
solutely necessary to the public inter-
ests.
Mr. Wilson may probably be trusted to
work out the matter for himself. His
| intimate associations have been with
public men advocating an improved civil
service and safeguarding ii from ma
chine politicians. The influence of all
our university life. indeed. has been on
the side of capacity for the government 8
work rather than political pun in those
| seeking it.
| But We shall not aid him by hurting
! epithets at those with applications ready
| for his eye. Rather will such treatment
! be likely to render them the more i'm
Fortunate. and to add to Mr.. Wilson $
| embarrassments in dealing with such as
| he will be forced to disappoint.
| Sorne Of our stock phrases in politics
/ have done much harm. Tariff revision
has always been hampered by free trade
| rhetoricians with their extravagant decla-
| rations that protection is only robbery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
New York Hotels and Graft.

No one will be surprised at the testi-
mony given in New York yesterday be-
fore the aldermanic committee invest1-
eating police conditions to the effect that
hotel proprietors in the big city have
been mulcted by the police organization
I'm graft money at high rate, IN pay
ment for protection One man told the
committee that he had for five years paid
at the re tie of 500 month. OF course
this could not have been a sporadic case.
as the conditions under which this toll
was taken are general in the metropolis.
Probably the hotels from which the graft
Is collected are operating more or less
beyond the letter of the law. In point
of fact there is hardly one of these estab-
lishments in New York that does not. as
respects the excise law at least. get over
the Inc in some degree. and it is this
condition which enables the police. when
orruptly inclined, TO apply the screws
of extortion. Probably no hotelkeeper
who is absolutely within the laws and
regulations would yield to the importuni-
ties of the police unless he feared frame
ups such as it is alleged have been
worked in some cases. But no amount
of derel.ction on the part of hotel man
ayers justifes the criminal blackmail en-
terprise of the police. Their business is
TO enforce the law and not TO capital. re
viola tons of it. Probably suspensions
and perhaps other punishments will fol-
low these disclosures, but. after all, the
vitality important thing is for New York
10 clean itself thoroughly In the matter
OF the police organization, and that can
not be done by spasmodc exposures and
individual punishments. The fault lies
in the relation between the police organi-
cation and the political administration of
the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
Police RESPONSIBILITIES and Needs.

Mai Sylvester's statement Tuesday
before the monthly meeting of the Dis
trict branch of the National Congress of
Mothers should be laid before every mem
Der of Congress. In that statement ne
calls attention to the low pay received ey
a member of the police force and the hiSh
requirements of service put upon him.
For eight years he gets only 80 a month,
which Is about the wages paid to street
car conductors. He must DC well Verseo
in local law; he must be neat polite, tact
full and discreet; he must face danger In
every form and he must maintain the
dignity of the municipal government ana
safeguard lives and property. This is the
hard bargain that the District, under it's
present scale of appropriations makes
with the policeman. Yet in these circum-
stances, which will probably in other
cities lead to dishonesty on the part or
the police force, the morale of the local
organization is exceptionally high and the
men who wear the uniform of the District
government are free from any suspicion
of graft The crime record here is very
low, Notwithstanding the fact that the
police force is comparatively small. With
total of 400 patrolmen on the rolls the
ments of the service are such that there
are only leo men on guard duty during
the day and 200 during the night. This
allowance for a community of over 100000
people is so small as to lead TO the con-
clusion that either the local population Is
remarkably we'll behaved, or that the
police force, small as it is, is unusually
efficient and vigilant. Probably the fact
lies between these two possibilities. Yet
the argument for a material increase IN
the number of policemen available Tor
! street patrol is unanswerable, and only
an arbitrary refusal on the part OF Con-
gress to add to the organization on the
score of so-called economy leads to the
present conditions. In one respect, now
ever, Congress should certainly come to
the relief of the police force of the Dis
trict without further delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
GOV. WILSON'S "CIBBET SPEECH

From the Columbus Ohio State Journal.
President-elect Wilson impresses us as
a man who would be quite likely to reach
over and ring the bell and tell the boy
| to bring i'm Il gibbet. at least as high as
Humans, If some prominent representa-
| tive of the United States Steel Corpora
| ton should drop in and ask PERMISSION
| to absorb "A leading rival, In order to
avert an otherwise inevitable panic
| From the Spartanburg Herald.
Every time Woodrow Wilson opens his
mouth he puts his heart in 1t.
From the Atlanta Journal.
President-elect Wilson's vacation gave
him plenty of strength. as his speech be-
fore the Southern Society, the best he
ever made, goes to prove.
From the Chattanooga Times
There is nothing the matter with the
cut of Gov. Wilson's lighting clothes
which he is wearing At present
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
The Two-Engineer Bill.

Following the numerous train wrecks on
the New Haven road. attempts are being
made to pass laws through the Connect
cut legislature that will lessen the dan
ger of disasters bill has been pre-
pared for introduction at the next session
requiring the presence of two engineers
for every fast express train running in
the state. The labor unions are back of
this proposition and are pressing 1t Wig
orously with the argument that it would
very greatly reduce the risk or mishaps.
1t is claimed that with two engineers on
the train there can be no misinterpreta-
ton of signals, no recklessness and no
cases of going to sleep. But it would seem
a complication to divide the RESPONSE
b:lity. No craft was ever run sue
cessfully with two pilots. One man must
be in charge at a time, and that man
Judgment must govern. II there IS d
dispute between two engineers under the
proposed system, whose will is to pre-
vail? These matters are to be settled
quickly, perhaps in few seconds, and IL
is easy to conceive the confusion that
would obtain in the cab of an express
locomotive in a case where judgment was
to be exercised, or even the interpreta-
ton of specific orders Indeed, this is
disaster in the division of responsibility
instead of the concentration OF 1t. Inc
real solution of this problem lies in the
installation of an automatic device that
will supplement train orders and signals
by an absolute stoppage of the engine in
case it is sent into danger zone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
Old Reliables.

AS Merry Christmas day draws near
/ look ahead without fear,
However far my friends may be,
Somebody will remember me-
Great enterprises carry cheer
And wisdom for each dawning year
l know I'll get some blotters new,
Likewise a calendar or two.
Some friend will guide me once again
Toward neatness with an ink and pen;
Some friend will seek to keep me straight
On every little day and date.
So what care ! for necktie pink
And socks that make the gaZer blink,
] shall be quite content to view
My calendars and blotters new.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
The Interior Department.

The public as a rule has an inadequate
conception of the importance of the work
that is Entrusted to the Secretary OF the
Interior, and it is to be hoped that the
Presidents message to Congress submit
ted Thursday will be widely read IN those
passages which deal with that department
of the government. The President notes
that in the problems of administration IN
cIuded within its jurisdiction the Interior
Department presents more difficult ques-
tons than any other. 1t is charged with
the guardianship of the public DOMAIN
and the disposition of that domain to
private ownership under act of Congress
Within a few years this matter has be-
come of exceeding Importance owing to
the fact that previously, as result of in
difference or inattention to the broad
principle of conservation, large part OF
the public domain has passed into private
ownership under ill-devised laws, in cir
cumstances leading to much fraud. When
these conditions became generally I'M
derstood protests were voiced, and the In
terror Department has been under a
heavy pressure in the readjustment OF
conditions looking to the preservation or
the rights which make for the public well
fare while at the same time developing
the resources and potentialities Of the
country. With an inadequate equipment
of assistants sufficiently versed in law to
handle the innumerable cases that have
arisen under these new conditions, the
Interior Department has been handf-
capped, but though working under this
disadvantage 1t has served the public
interest thoroughly. With the entire sys-
TEN of public land laws in need of re-
vision the President urges upon Congress
the necessity of early action both In the
way of amendment and reorganization
Of the force of the department. The In
terror Department is charged not only
with this duty. but with the complex and
difficult guardianship of the Indians. in
volving a wide variety of questions. The
questions arising in this branch of the
public work are not of nature to APP
peal strongly to public interest, and yet
they call for the exercise of the highest
order of administrative ability. and 1t is
remarkable that such excellent work is
done by the Department of the Interior
with the inadequate force granted by
Congress. Both in the matter of the Gus
tody Of the public domain and the su-
pervision of it's use and the private own
ership and lease and in the trusteeship
for the safeguarding of the interests of
the Indians. the Department of the In
terror is rendering great public service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
THE COAL TRUST DECISION.

From the Cumberland Times.
The dissolution of the coal trust proved
the usual success, the price or the stocks
showing a healthy advance.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
All the Wall street w,seacres who knew
beforehand. just how the Supreme Court
was going to decide the anthracite coal
case, simply didn't.
From the Providence Journal.
The effects of the anthracite decision
are being widely discussed by legal
pundits, but the only one of keen inter-
est to the average citizen relates to the
price of the commodity involved, coal
Pending the answer. 1t is "A hopeful
augury that no trust was busted In this
instance Where that has happened
prices have usually gone up.
From the Buffalo Evening News.
The Supreme Court may strange coal
conspiracy. as the court puts IL, but may
not strange the conspirators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
The One-Term Plank.

There is new light ON that One-term
plank OF the Baltimore platform about
which so much has been written and so
much interest still is felt
The authorship has been ascribed to Mr..
Bryan, who presided over the platform
committee, and comment has attributed
n selfish motive to him His eve at the
time. IL has been said. was fixed on 1916.
and his purpose was to remove Mr.. Will
son from the field then. One term OF
Wilson was to be succeeded by one term
OF Bryan.
The public snapped this up because 1t
seemed TO go on all tours with other
things His age, his ambition. his con-
tinued power in his party, and the in
fiuence he was then exerting in Mr.. Will
sons behalf. all appeared to support the
idea that Mr.. Bryan was laying pipe Tor
another try at the presidency.
The assertion is now made that Gov.
Beckham of Kentucky drew the plank.
and offered il in committee. He was a
member of the committee, and, according
TO his most intimate personal and political
friend. declared before leaving home for
he national convention a purpose to
bring the one-term proposition to the
committees attention.
This friend is Gen. Percy Haley. who
was adj 'utant general under Gov. Beck
ham. and has since supported all OF his
political plans. He is supporting him IN
he present contest for the democratic
nomination for United States senator to De
decided at a primary next August.
The disclosure puts a new aspect on
the matter If Gov. Beckham prepared
the one-term plank and secured its adop-
ton at Baltimore. the purpose could not
have been Of an anti-Wilson character.
He was a Wilson man in all the move
nnents which sought to bring Kentucky
into The Wilson column, and did not
change his personal preference when ac-
cepting instructions as a delegate for Mr.
Clark He obeyed his instructions. but
probably rejoiced when the convention
under Mr.. Bryan's leadership, overruled
kentucky and awarded the prize to Mr.
Wilson.
Gov. Beckham is likewise Bryan man.
Years ago, when the gold democrats OF
Kentucky were assailing Mr.. Bryan in
sharp terms. Gov. Beckham. then in Of
flee, championed him, invited him to the
state capital, and entertained him while in
town. They are still on good terms; and
if Mr. Bryan goes into the Wilson cabi-
net, and Gov Beckham two years hence
into the Senate. they will probably be in
complete accord on all the leading public
questions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
The S. P. U. G'S.

From tho Boston Globe.
The Society for the Prevention Of Use
less Giving Is all right. but Society for
the Prevention Of Useless Talk is needed
more.
From the Baltimore Star.
Woman leader of the Spugs ad-
vises all women members to get mar
ried Don't see how they can without
violating the rule Of the order.
From the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch.
Roosevelt has joined the society for the
prevention of useless giving. George
Perkins no doubt wishes that he had
Joined such a society last year.
From the Omaha Bee.
1t is not so much the value of the gift
as the spirit of the giving.
From the Birmingham Ledger.
Col Roosevelt is also Spug, and he
should cease at once to give out useless
advice.
From the Springfield Union.
We have yet to hear that the colonel
or any other prominent member of the
progressive party has urged George w.
Perkins or Frank A. Munsey to join the
new Society for the Prevention Of Use
less Giving.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
THE RIKERS.

We're marching on tn Albany
With scrip anu staff I'm hand.
iSay, classic TarrytOwn has got
Some hills to beat the bandit
We're not afraid Of anything
This pilgrimage reveals
Dive got TO stop and put some saiye
Upon my blistered heels,.
With powder puffs and chewing gum
And banners in the van.
We're doing ii to show 'em our
Equality with man.
We're footing II with hopeful hearts
And stockings full OF holes.
Lieut.. Peary found the pole.
Were looking for the polls.
A few, it's true, have left the ranks,
But not enough to hurt.
IL was a bargain sale Of pins
That caused them TO desert.
The yellow cockades i'm our hats
Are all on straight. trust:
So hike II. girls, along the pike,
It's Albany or bust.
MINK Irving, in the New York Time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
The MARCH TO ALBANY.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Twenty women have started from New
York to walk to Albany in the interests
of votes for women Twelve will COM
plete the hike. 1t is far less harmless
than the tactics of the English militant
ones, and does just as much good.
From the Utica Press.
II is difficult to see understand what
value or advantage there is in asking a
score or half a dozen or even couple OF
women to walk all the way from New
York to Albany in the cause of equa
rights. There is no argument or logic OF
reason in it one way or the other.
From the birmingham Ledger.
1t is suspected that those suffragettes
who undertook to walk from New YORK
to Albany were more out for notoriety
than the promotion of the cause.
From the Sioux City Tribune.
The suffragettes occasionally are spec
tacular in their methods, but it takes
pyrotechnics to wake most people up.
From the Syracuse Herald.
So long as our Suffragettes use up their
stupendous energy by walking, instead OF
assaultng people smashing windows
there will be no fault found with them
by the public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
An Impression of Uselessness.

Here's a story about a man who owns
a MISREPRESENTATION overcoat, said
Flooding Pete.
Yes" answered Meanderng Mike.
An wot's the good of it? a man that
kin afford that kind of an overcoat ain t
got no need to go to wnbroker.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

under the forms of law. though protec-
ton has numbered among its champions
the flower of our public servants from
the beginning.
Civil service standards should be ana
probably will be maintained under Mr..
Wilson, but affronts to those seeking or
fee under him viii not help the cause
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
Height of Credulity.

Don't you disapprove of Reno
Yes replied Miss Cayenne. But
there is no chance of avoiding domestic
difficulties as long as there are men so
foolish that they want to get acquainted
with girl simply because her voice
sounds good over the telephone
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Unimportant Detail.

Il understand yon went over to Grim
son Gulch and lynched the wrong man..
mo-" replied Three-fnger Sam. You
can't lynch the wrong man i'll Crimson
Gulch. We jest got Pute Pete IA little
bit ahead of his turn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
Conscientious Comprehension.

Does your friend comprehend the du-
ties of the Office he is seeking?'
Il should say So replied the energetic
booster. Il have posted him about that.
He knows that the first thing he will
have to do when he gets the place will be
to get some first-class assistant who real
ly understands the work
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22
Liable to Be Devoured.

The dove of peace looks worried some!
1t hears fierce footsteps onward come
And murmurs with rueful sob,
Il fear they take ME for squab.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

The comparisons of modern statesmen
to those of ancestral fame have been
more or less neglected since the close Of
the campaign Washington's birthday
will be the next date suggesting reminis-
cence along those lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

DIR. Wiley has not made 1t clear whether
the suggestions that he be returned TO
the Department Of Agriculture as it's head
appeal to him seriously or merely gratify
his sense of humOr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-22

Great care and elaboration shown in
selecting an inaugural committee chair
man offer assurance that the ceremonies,
as usual, will be a great success.