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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-05
ROOSEVELT GIVES DINNER.
Entcrtains Friends After Testi.
mOny Before Clamp Committee.

WARRINGTON. Oct. 4.-Col. Roosevelt
had a small dinner party at the New
Willard tonight Among his guests
were Rear Admiral p. NJ Rixey. re.
tired. former surgeon general Of the
navy. and Mrs. RiXey; Gen. and Mrs.
Anson Mills. John McIlheny. Civil Ser.
vice Commissioner: William Loeb. Jr..
and representatives of the local Roose-
welt organization. The dinner was in
formal.
After leaving the Senate the Colonel
devoted an hour to inspecting the
mounted specimens which he sent to tho
Smithsonian Institution from his Afrl-
can hunt. Later he took a drive through
Rock Creek Park.
Col. Roosevelt and his party entered
their sleeper at the Union Station at
1890 on the train that was to leave
Washington for New York soon after
midnight.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-05
DIDN'T SAY IT. BARTHOLDT.
Congressman Denies ChaPgins
Roosevelt Forces Spent e8,OOO,OOo.

ST. LOUIS. Oct. 4.-Conoerning The
testimony OF Col. Roosevelt to-day In
which Roosevelt said dCongressmanRichard
Bartholdt OF Missouri and Charles D.
Hilles should be driven out OF public life
or be compelled to prove a statement that
the Roosevelt primary campaign funds
this year amounted to 81 ,OOO.O 900, Bar.
tholdt tonight issued the following state.
ment
have never stated that 100000 was
spent by the Roosevelt people in their
pre-conventon campaign. I may have
said in private conversation that Mr..
Roosevelt's pet trusts could easily af-
ford to spend that amount In apprecia-
ton Of what he had done for them in
allowing. in violation Of the law, the
merger OF the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company with the United States Steel
Corporation. But I have no knowledge
of their party secrets and am totally ig-
norant OF their actual money transactions.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-05
BUCK DEER HALTED BY A TRAIN
Gets Tangled I'm the Brake Gear, but
Breaks Away and Escnpe..

NEWTON, n. j., Oct. A big buck
deer swan the Delaware River last
night.and came up on the embankmen,
Of the Lehigh Railroad just as a freight
train came along. The engineer saw the
animal and stopped the train directly in
Its path. Without hesitation the deer
started to pass under the cars. Tw,
or the trainmen caught the animal by
the tall and another tried to pass a
loop around Its prongs, but the deer got
80 tangled up with the brake gear that
u was hard job 10 get 1t out. When
the animal was finally released the
tralnmen were Unable to hold It and 1,
broke away and ran up over the noun
tain to freedom.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-05
MCCORMICK WANTS TO WAIT
Wishes Date for Hts Testimony Rc-
fore Committee Changed.

Medill Mccormick, who has been SUBJ
prnaed to testify before the Clapp COM
mittee in Washington on Tuesday. will,
ask to have the date changed Col. Roose-
welt is due in Chicago next week and MIR.
Mccormick wants to see him there.
when l go on the stand" Mr.. McCor-
mick said yesterday. II shall testify that
l have contributed money to finance
Col, Roosevelt out Of my own pocket.
shall also demand that the commit
tes call Fred W. Upham, collector for
the Republican campaign fund. and ask
him ~ names of Contributor and The
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-05

amounts they gave. He probably Vii,
have some interesting things to tell that
can tell about the Roosevelt fund,
In a statement handed out at the M
tional Progressive headquarters yestsp'
day William II. Creeden. Chief Inspecto,
Of the State Free Employment bureau
Of Illinois. is charged with Offering to trads
Taft votes for votes for Gov. Deneen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-05
All Done to Help Higgins.

O Was the Republican committee in
the State OF New York loyal 70 the Republi-
| can national ticket in laO42 A. Why, I
know nothing TO the contrary.
Q. And any effort that II would put forth
to aid the Republican cause would aid the
national ticket to the same extent that
It would the local ticket A. Not at all.
| ] got much greater majority than Higgins
Q. Yes. | understand that. A. And the
fight had to'be waged purely for Higgins.
o. That has been the idea you have had
from the situation in New York-that You
did not need the assistance for yourself'
A. Yes. Senator Paynter. II Was not merely
my idea 1t was Mr., Harriman's idea: it
was the idea OF all others. They all knew
I was safe and they were all trying to de-
velop strength for Mr.. Higgins. II you
will turn to the columns OF the immediate
press Of New York at the time. or look at
the betting on me and on Higgins. YOU will
see the difference In the betting.
Mr.. Pomerene. the other Democratic
member Of the committee. then took the
Colonel in hand: He 9ueried him as to
tona s se!sSm Ssipman Rooseys sais id that ha
he invited Mr.. Bliss. Elihu Root and
United States Senator Crane Of Massachu-
setts to serve as national chairman
before he selected Mr. Cortelyou. Mr..
Roosevelt deeply resented the suggestions
that have been made that he selected
Cortelyou because he had been Secretary
OF Commerce and Labor and had access
to all the corporation secrets gathered
by the bureau OF corporations. Mr.,
Roosevelt testified that he did not in
terfere with the details OF either Mr..
Bliss's or Mr.. Cortelyous work.
Mr., Pomerene called Col. Roosevelt's
attention to newspaper statement
attributed to Mr.. Bliss to the effect that
Mr.. Roosevelt issued orders against ac-
cepting certain contributions, but that
his orders were ignored as "it was rec
ognized that this was something about
which he must not interfere and brooked
no interference"
Il do not remember Mr. Bliss ever say
ing anything like that to me-, said Col.
Roosevelt, "but do remember MIR. Loeb
telling me that when he called him up
by telephone over the Standard Oil con-
tribution that he answered very shortly
and seemed to he very much irritated.
lie seemed TO think that the question
that Mr. Loeb put to him from me con-
tanned some implications on his good
faith. and was INCLINED apparently to
resent it," ~
Frick Would Make Loss Good.
Mr.. Roosevelt testified that Secretary
OF State Knox, then a Senator. told him
that h. G. Ftiok had ed whsn hsheard
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-10-05
Boston Third Party Man Called.

BosToN, Oct. 4.-Nfatthew Hale. chair
man Of the Progressive party OF Massa-
chusetts, has been summoned to Washing
ton by the Senate investigating committee
to testify regarding campaign eXpendi-
lures and contributions made in this State
Hale is ordered to bring along all books
and papers.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01

Here We have a Roosevelt ideal in all its
tabled thirst for gore hot from the slaughter
house as it we're Passing over the skin,-
typical. as all skins are capable OF being, of
desperate occasions-think OF the thirst of a
nan who lusts TO hug grizzly and, even in
the embrace. stab him under the fifth rib. This
j. one anecdote that may be relied upon. COM
ing, as il does, direct from a Governor and
given to the world through one of the most
prominent OF the Roosevelt campaign fund
cabinet
The ambition may be there, but the test Of
ambition is the putting of it to the test. How
many grizzlies have been Rugged by the Rough
Rider How many lions has he ever given n
chance in mortal combat? How often. indeed,
has he ever stood facing one Of his mounted
specimens in the raw state with nothing save
his rife TO intervene? II our recollection Of
African Game Trails be correct. the method
% hunting the King OF Beasts was TO 60 after
HIN with a retinue of hundred yelling ma
lives. a cavacade of horsemen. tumuit of
s6outiugs: and so-being run to death and out
Of wHd-the King of the Desert finally lay
down to pant. that the King OF hunters hbhl
collect him for the Government.
II the lions in the had known the ODDS
against which they were playing, in all prob
ability they would have shortened their IiNes.
While saving their breath.
No doubt Colonel Roosevelt felt a strong
inclination to get down and 90 TO them with
a knife matched against their faRgs and claws
But with as much reason IT, must be said IN
his behalf that he refrained from so forcing
the issue on account OF feeling that he must
save himself to the cutting OF the throat Of 3
let friend, in order that the people Of his
country might be saved.
Hoiat Anyone who wishes 10 be true
snort had best keep out of politics. Other
asse. utterly against the grain. it may be
necessary TO preserve the body at the expense
ar the spirit in order not 70 disappont one 5
constituency.
Protest Of those Who looked 10 the lions.
and those others more humane who counted
On the sleeping sickness oyerrued az being
tl}pcr, men, and outside the record
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01

If he hadn't gone and done it, he would
hsye lived to be a hundred" And so It goes.
We once saw small boy in a panic doing
every leap with yell. Had he not held so
much breath in his brisket the hte-saying
squad and the first aid-to-the injured would
have been apparent supernumeraries to the
mise en- scene. As it was, investigation showed
that the youngster had spied. on the opposite
from whooping -cough quarantine. He was
fleeing the germ, and yelling bloody murder
IS he fed,
These remarks are induced by reading in
the Raleigh News and Observer the warning
given by Brantiey Aycock to a young friend
who had just purchased an ice-cream conc
from an Italian peddler:
You better stop eating that Dago ice
cream cone, or youll have toe-nail poison
ing" young Aycock is reported to have said.
The young Aycock referred to is. pre-
sumo son OF the late Ex-Governor Aycock.
a. North Carolina. If SO. he has every right
20 go as far as he pleases, and without a pre-
lImIadTF tecnnlCal cHNleT, IN the discovery VI
new disease "Toe-nail poisoning is quite
M valid a danger as hook worm" "phosphor-
ous jaw" rabies" or any other of the dis
eases that stand like the boges set up by
nature 10 frighten civilization. Not that Gov
ernor Aycock frightened anybody unduly, but
that he was not TO be frightened For the
son Of man who set the educational yeast
to rise in his own State and 50 started It's
germ descendants rising throughout the South
10 indicate a penchant for discovering evils is
nc more than a matter of right and ancestry
For all that we would counsel the young
tvcock to consider the case OF his father with
more particularly. The elder Aycock looked
for germs where they ought to be looked for
most particularly in life that is germ-ridden
A. the best He looked for germs that would
build up. rather than 10 the more or less hope-
,ees germs that ought to be cut down. We
dcubht If he knew in what danger he walked,
with mis- talking and his smoking. every day
oe his life He was after the germ that would
ultimately make better-thnkiug, better-living.
better-equipped people in that segment of the
Grid over which he had an influence. In
this We think ne was right: For the very good
reason that one ignorant pauper can raise IN
/ len hours more germs than Carnegie hos
p,tal can culture and then kill in ten months.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01
, SUFFRAGE EOoTHOLD

An interesting legal question is raised by
Judge Ferguson of North Carolina. in a de-
cfsjon in which he enioins a township election
O., the question OF bonds because "freeholders
who we're women were not consulted in maxi
trg up the petition.
The statute involved provides that elections
for certain purposes shall be called upon the
petition or "a majority of the 'freeholders' OF
me election district IN the particular case
objection was made that. there being num-
Der Of women freeholders the petition did not
!rclude majority. no women's names having
been signed thereto
The defense was that women not being
voters it was not considered that they We're
the sort OF "treeholders' named or intended
NV The statute Judge Ferguson, however.
thought otherwise and the election is en-
joined until the supreme Court can have an
opportunity OF passing ON the legal differences
involved
Although this case involves one particular
statute it's bearing on the relation Of women
"a government, may we'll be important WhN
Is nor a Woman property owner Who Nv az
which an election is based thereby qualified
as a sort of voter? Why. il she is qualified
TO be determining factor in the calling OF an
election, should she be deprived of voice ii
the election ITSELF Il the Law requires PROV.
erty holders to be the decisive factor in thu
vital preliminary to taking OF the popular
expression of opinion, how can it be recon-
ciled with a prohibition depriylng a certain
class OF property holders competent a ono
stage OF the proceedings. incompetent at an
other?
Sit appears that II is sQuarely mp 10 the
supreme Court of North Carolina Like other
courts of equal Jurisdiction, it has ample pow
ers to make legislation what ii CONSTITUTES 4 TO
be In the North Carolina Constitution, as We
understand the case. there is no positive pro-
hbtion OF woman suffrage. as indeed, there
is no such clear denial in the constitutions OF
majority OF the common weaths
If the North Carolina Court should happen
tc meet the issue squarely. instead of adopting
the method OF sidestepping for which courts
everywhere are famous, Miss Pankhurst may
vet be found singing in her enthusiasm; i'm
a Tar Heel born and a Tar Heel bred and
when ! die ri be a Tar Heel dead"
All OF which goes 10 show. that you er
can tell when or where a simmerng sensation
revolution reorganization of the Universe
may explode
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01
CURRENT COMMENT
Slemp or Summers.

WHY should the Honorable Basenmb Semp
hirt with Republicans in the Ninth district,
Yesterday he reported entirely willing to ao-
cept the congressional nomination.; TODAY he IS
decidedly uncertain, and tomorrow he win hit
some other tangent. A dispatch from Bristol
in today's papers is speculation as 10 who viii
be the candidate-slemp l.. p. Summers
Every man on earth with grain Of sense
knows that SIemp has the nomination in his
pocket and can use it OF discard il. whichever
he peases If he wants Ninth district Republic
cans TO maine him they viii 10 SO, II he does
not want II. they Will obey his wishes and look
FOR someone else.
Internal revenue and now jobless devotee Of
Tafts forlorn hope. should be mentioned as q
possible nominee, Is equivalent To saying mat
he Is to bear burden that Siemp wants to es-
cape.
Slemp realizes that with the progressives in
tbe Ninth strong and vigorous, his chances for
re election are way below zero. In his attitude
towards the matter he confesses that should he
run defeat III be his portion. In the secret
recesses Of his heart he argues that conditions
in another two years may change and mat II
such should be the case he may he able to
come back" Therefore. he longs and schemes
to escape the loss of prestige and moruhcatio
that failure would entail eHe looks around for
a sacrificed lamb and his eyes behold the states
man from Abingdon man who in his support
Of Taft rose to heights of sublime sacrifice
who actually erased his name from the pie coun-
ter records and made himself plain and humble
toiler in the ranks.
Having surrendered the precious and luscious
fruits Of government patronage, Summers is
qualified for the supreme test at least SlemI
thinks so, and therefore Summers, bound by
thongs of amiable self effacement and gagged
by the power of Semp's intrgues. Will be LED
to the altar
Poor Summers. Battered and torn by the re
suit Of his fealty to Taft, he promises under
the manipulation of Slemps well oiled program
to become a sad and aimless catspaw, Trims
of shreds and patches crippled derelict fit only
for extinction Roanoke World,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01
RICHMoND's STEADY GROWTH.

More than four millions expended in new
buildings in Richmond in the past six months!
Think of it. To give the exact figures of the
building inspectors department, $4,350.290.
Breaking all local records, and further out
distancing every city of anywhere near its size
ii, the South. This is not by any means boom
just continued steady. rapid growth of a
greater grander Richmond with no handicaps
in sight. Architects and builders are as busy
as bees and sufficient labor cannot be found
here to keep pace with the march of progress.
The outlook for the forthcoming half-year is
even more roseate.
Rchmonders themselves do not realize no"
fast their city is growing, though every one of
them is imbued with the Richmond spirit. and
progress is their watchword,
If the shade of old Noah Webster is making
new dictionary in that unknown bourne and
another synonym is needed for prosperity, We
hand him-Richmond.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01
STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT
TREATS TWO HUNDRED IN ONE
DAYFOR HOOKWORMDLSEASE

A most gratifying aspect OF the
work in these counties" said an Of
ticer of the board today. in discussing
the field reports, lis the hearty CO.
operation shown by the county au-
thorities. The Rockefeller sanitary
commission furnishes the funds for
the maintenance of the field force
and for the general expenses. but
We We're anxious to have the counties
lend their approval to the work and
to make 1t a county affair. Accord
ingly we asked the counties to make
an Appropriation for the dispensaries
with which to furnish medicine to
patients who needed It. This they
did and in this manner assured the
people that the work of the dispen-
saries was OF prime Importance to
the health of the citizens and tax
payers of the county. The people
are focking to the dispensaries and
the prospect is most pleasing While
our field men are treating these
cases they are educating the people
in the prevention OF the disease and
are showing them how 1t may be Ut
terly stamped out from their midst.
Our war on hookworm was never In
a more favorable situation than It -
TODAY"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01
GERMS AND THEIR TREATMENT

II must have been happy time when one
could lie down and die OF mysterious malady,
and have his obituary state indefinitely that
the best Of medical attention was unavail-
ing
Nowadays II Is certain that the exact causa-
tseH VIII be discovered. if the remedy be not
found And with the causation of the disease
goes hand in hand the cause. An indiscretion
o.. ten years ago may found the convincing
Tho death or today. 1t pehooves us all to
watch our germs, eating. walking, sleeping
or drinking, or We all sooner or later may be
Fut down IN the ghastly category Of uneon-
scious suicides
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01

In one of the States dispensaries
FOR the diagnosis and treatment OF
hookworm disease, two hundred peo-
ple were received In one day last week
and at all the dispensaries there Is
a livelter interest In the disease than
at any time since the State began It's
warfare against the American Muir
derer.
This announcement. made today at
the office OF the State board of health.
followed the receipt of the regular
weekly reports from the field inspec-
tors Of the department who are con-
Quoting dispensaries in the counties
of Bedford, Franklin and Henry.
Heretofore the principal work OF
The inspectors has been in eastern
Virginia and in the counties border
ing North Carolina. where the schools
were inspected and hundreds OF
children were treated for hookworn.
In moving to the Blue Ridge coun-
ties the inspectors reached new
neld where little had been done In
the diagnosis and treatment or nook
worm. The people soon became n
terestsd in the work of the inspectors
and are lending them most ardent
support.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01
gARKlS EASY CHOICE.

We wonder. in view Of the suffrage pr1pa-
ganda. why il is that SO many women answer
advertisements Of men who take 10 the news
papers as an obvious dernter resort in their
efforts to attach spouse
Manirestly it ought to appeal to such women
Of woman of his community to become his
wife has something or other TO debar him from
being a husband.
Nevertheless. any such advertisement gets
scores of replies. Even when the man Is out
spokenly poor and likewise frankly aged, the
apparently lnexbaustible supply Of forlorn
females hasten to harken to It's lure
AS an example. one John Trout. of Freder
iGk. Maryland is not suffering from embarraS-
ment DC richie on account of the women who
wish To marry him. Trout Is in moderate cir
cnmstances. of no particular position, of an
.ge that leaves little which romance can look
to Despite the fact that all these circum-
stances were duly set forth in his advertise
ment he begins to feel as though he had the
world of women to choose from, His CORE
spondence has far out-run his abilities rs y
writer and much against the grain, ne has
for the first time in his ftfe, had recourse to a
stenographer or all OF those who are enam-
ored OF his Barkis-like announcement, that one
which pleases him most in prospect is a widow
twenty-three years old who swears that she
has money
What is the matter with the women? Where
is the propaganda Of equal rights. Of the born
privilege of participation in the government o.
the country IL an old river scout like this can
have so wide a choice?
We have been deluged with facts showing
how many women work for living: how
many women have made for the bettermsat OF
mankind; how many women, in this way and
the other way. have been responsible for the
crusade that is now upon us,
What we wonld like to know is why. with
no reason in the world EXCEPT WEAKNESS. so
many women wish TO be married, and married
anyhow. anywhere, and with whatever pros
poets of sacrifice.
Even. remember, with money.
Women with work Women self-sustaining.
supposedly self reliant At the moment when
the question Of womens right not only to
equal. but to be superior in representation is
al stake and at stress it is to say the least
curious that so many individuals of the new
militant sex should be so eager. not to boss,
but to nut themselves under technical boss
ship
A homey philosopher once said that any sort
Of a man had TWO relances: Some sort Of
whiskey and some sort of wife"
We would have more faith in the ultimate
success of the Bull Moose party and the suf-
fragette stampede in that direction. If this
aphorism did not, apparently. still hold so good
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-01
4 t0tI.En AMBITION.

In the August MuHSeBs Mdgd&tne MIR. Frank
A Munsey has an article in the course of
which he explains the reasons for the faith
which has led him to contribute several good
sized fortunes TO Roosevelt campaign funds.
II the course of other panegyrical rhapsodies'
Re narrates with unconscious satire the fol
loving eulogy and narrative
Furthermore Mr.. Roosevelt If the 4 pc u man
ha, stjrs the blood If the people. lie II hl@
..mhodmen OF democracy. the cowboy Inc sol
a5.r the hnntsman. the scholar, the writer ut
orator ard the statesman. lie is man or most
nuusttal mental, moral and ply steal cour1e"
There are eounterparts OF Mir. Roosevelt ~ ANY
one III thcs. qualifications but itno@ ~ TO
counterpart If him in this country, or anywhere
II inc world. combining the three ia one.
Governor SheehuH once told }ne uf eohN'lsd-
tiar he rad with Nj Roosevelt. standing before
the mounted skin of monster grlzziy be"i
which Mr. Roosevelt had shot at close range
~ close that the odds al one instant seemed
greatly in favor Of the grizzly. After a descrip-
lion OF the dramatic fight. Mr.. Roosevelt sudden
IL turned To Governor Sheehan and said:
"fsttt Governor / shall never be satisfied untll
I have Killed q grizzly bear with knife
We should think that such man would
stir the blood OF the people The question
n wheibey or not such desperate. character
sould not and ready willingness 70 let II.