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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
MORE ARRESTS MADE
IN THE RIOT CASE
Three Italians Apprehended Monday
and Lodged In Jail-No Trace
Found of John Welcome.

Three more arrests were made Mon
day in the famous Fourth of July
riot case at Lock No. 33, near the
saloon of Albertus Spencer. Three
Italians, giving the names of Lew,
Franks and Poes, were apprehended
at Millville by Constable Carter of
Charles Town and Deputy Long, of
Washington county. They were lodg-
ed in the Jail at Charles Town to
await requisition papers.
The men are charged with melting
the riot. A fourth man named Daley
who was also wanted ON. the charge
disappeared and cannot be found.
The men are all employed at the lime
quarries at Millville.
Deputy Long returned to Hagers-
town last night after having spent
several days in the vicinity of Har-
pers Ferry in an effort to arrest the
offenders. No trace of John Wei
come, the negro who is charged with
shooting and fatally injuring Page
Belardino, an Italian, has been found.
Marcelli Gualo, the Italian who was
arrested on Wednesday on the charge
of stabbing and fatally wounding GUIDE
Braxton, colored lis in Jail at Hagers-
town and has nothing to say.
The search for Welcome will be kept
up and it is believed that in the next
few days he will be in Jail.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
DESPoNDENT GIRL
ATTEMPTS HER LIFT
Florence Gordon, Inmate At The
Bush House, Tries The
Suicide Route

Friday night about 10 p. M, Flor
ence Gordon, an inmate at the Bush
house on Eulalia street. attempted to
end her life by taking paris green.
The girl went to her room and some
of the other inmates hearing a
strange noise In the room went to
investigate the cause, and found her
lying on the bed writning in agony.
A physician was summoned, and upon
his arrival applied restoratives and
she was soon able to be taken to the
home of her sister, who recently mar
ried an Italian.
What caused the girl to attempt to
end her life is not known but it is gen
orally believed that she recently had
some difficulty with lover, and 10
end her trouble she sought the poi
son route. The girl came here from
Hagerstown several months ago.
Shortly after leaving the Hagerstown
High school she became infatuated
with the ways of the world, and be-
gan to lead fast life. Leaving her
home she located here, and has since
been an inmate at the Bush house
At>the time of the occurrence there
were quite a number of men and wo-
men present, and for a time the ex-
element ran high and some of the
men hurriedly left.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
DISCONTINUE OLD
ROAD TEMPORARILY
Road From Four Mile School House
Will Be Abandoned For a
Time

The county court, Thursday after.
noon, granted the Security Cement &.
Lime Co., permission. to temporarily
close part of the public icad, known
rs the back road to Bed;ngton, at the
Four Mile Woods school pouse on
the Winchester pike, the distance in
volved being 653 feet
The road is not to be closed longer
than a period of two years and not till
until the Security people build anotil-
er piece of road $40 feet long,
around the part of the old road so
closed.
Tehere Is stone quarry on either
side of the present road and the Sc
ourity people want to connect them
by subway or tunnel under the high
way with the branch railroad running
to the plant near Berkeley Station.
The Security Cement g. Lime Co. will
give a bond of $4,000 for the faithful
performance of their contract
S. M. Stewart was admitted to the
home for incurables at Huntington.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
HEREAF TER WILL
FAVOR HOME STATE
Taft viii Throw AS Much PATRONAGE
That Way As He csn-Four Bio
Plums Are Awarded

Washington, July 17.-With the sem
i-official announcement yesterday that
President Taft will appoint four Ohio
Republicans to important Government
posts in Washington, it became appar-
ent that one of the first moves in the
fight the Taft leaders are making for
the Presidents reelection will be an
attempt to strengthen their relations
with the Republican State organiza-
tions throughout the country.
Taft leaders state last night that the
third party would be fought through
the Republican State organizations.
Assurances have been received at the
White House from Republicans in
many states that they will not join in
third party. and the recognition of
State organizations, the Taft leaders
here believe, will influence still 9TH
ers to remain with the old party and
thus aid the campaign. Although Il
was said that the President is not
ready yet to fill esyeral important va
cancies, it was the general belief that
the appointments would be sent to the
Senate before Congress adjourns and
that they will fit in with the plan TO
remember Republican workers through
out the country.
The contemplated Ohio appoint
ments would recognize L C. Laylin
who conducted the primary campaign
in Ohio for Mr.. Taft; Granville w.
Mooney, for Speaker of the Assemb-
ly. and former Congressman Ralph
Cole. Carmi Thompson, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, is slated to
become secretary to the President,
succeeding Charles d. Hilles, who to-
day assumed his new duties as chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee.
Mr., Money is scheduled to enter
the White House offices as assistant
secretary, and with Mr.. Thompson as
secretary the Presidents principal
assistants, With one exception, will be
Ohio men.
In appointing so many Ohioans to
office the President expects to lay at
rest grievances voiced by Ohio Repub-
licans that his own State had not been
sufficiently recognized
The President sent to the Senate
the nomination of Secundino Romero
to be United States Marshal of New
Mexico to succeed Creighton Foraker,
brother of former United States Sena-
tor Joseph Benson Foraker, of Ohio.
Mr. Foraker signed several days ago,
and for personal reasons, according to
published reports
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Governors, senators, congressman and
other leading men throughout the ma.
tlon have declared In favor of the new
party, although a number of the
Roosevelt leaders in the Republican
national convention have refused to
follow the colonel outside of the party.
Notable among these are Senator Bo-
rah of Idaho. Governor Deneen of Hi
nois and Governor Osborn of Michi.
gan. Senator Cummlns has also de.
clared himself against the formation
of new party. Other progressive
leaders, such as Governor Hadley of
Missouri. have said that they saw no
need of a third party In their states.
since they would control the regular
Republican organization.
Such a situation has never before ap.
peared in American politics The pos,
sibilities arising out of it are stagger-
ing One Is an entire new alignment
Of political parties. Another is that
presidential electors will refuse to
obey the mandate of their party's ma
tional convention. For third. there
may be no election of president at all
by the electoral college, which would
throw the election into the house of
representatives. AS neither party has
a majority of states in the house. sew.
eral states being exactly tied. this
would almost certainly result In a
deadlock, in which event no president
at all would be elected, contingency
for which there is no constitutional pro
vision
Amy one Of the above results would
be revolutionary and in the present ex-
cited state Of the public mind might
actually precipitate revolution 1t Us
this sort OF political dynamite that Is
contained in this unprecedented cam
paign
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
MAY ESTABLISH
SUMNER COLONY
Washington People Planning Fine
Summer Home At opequon
Park

Sunday a number of Washington
people came to the city and drove to
Opequon Park, where they spent
some time. While noting definite was
given out concerning their visit, it is
understood that movement is ON
foot TO establish a summer colony at
this place for the benefit of the Wash
ington people who desire to get away
from the city during the warm
months.
The party returned to Washington
in the evening and IL is rumored that
representatives viii visit the city
again in short tine and make fur
ther efforts along the proposed line.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
Photos copyright. 1912.

pies party. having served on several Of
It's committees and having been secre-
tary of its national committee for
eight years Since the disappearance
of that organization II has been a mat
ter of great interest to observe the
manner in which its principles have
taken root and grown until they I'LL the
nation. Its death was a high example
of laying down its life TO find II again.
1t died that its principles might live.
In the soil Of its self sacrifice they
have thriven nightly. During the past
sixteen years they have been a disrupt
ing force IN both Of the older parties.
The Incoming Tide.
Having gone through that fight.
have lived in the belief that in time
another new party would be formed.
cherishing the same spirit and in a
general way the same ideas, which
would sweep the nation. Is the Pro
gressiye party 10 be a realization OF
that belief? Has 1t come TO finish the
work started twenty years ago? The
time was not ripe then TO perform this
work completely, but public opinion
has marvelously changed In the two
decades that have since elapsed. Per-
haps the hour is now striking,
There have been other third party
movements. although not in the direct
line here mentioned. To any one ia
miliar with the history Of these move
ments it is easy to show how the Peo-
pies party was in a general way the
successor of the Greenback party and
how the Progressive party is taking up
many Of the principles Of the Peoples
party, outside Of this direct line may
be mentioned the Liberal Republican
movement ~ 1872. which nominated
Horace GREELEY Cor president: tue Pro.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
BACK n North carolina.

Mrs. Irene Cunningham and little
daughter Aileen, West Martin street,
left Saturday evening for Wilmington,
N c.. where they win make their fu-
ture home. They had spent seven
months there and recently came north
for visit While here Mrs. Cunning
ham decided 10 return to North Car
DINA to reside.
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hibition party and ti1e Socialist party.
Two third party movements appeared
in 1895, but only for one campaign.
One was that Of the Gold Democrats
and the other that of the Silver Repub-
licans.
The periodical third party move
ments may be lilkened to waves OF the
sea, each wave mounting higher than
those preceding it, With the incoming
Of this reform tide one wave win ad.
vance farther than all the rest, break.
ing over all barriers and reaching the
mark. Is the Progressive movement to
prove such a wave?
The Organization OLA new party is q
prodigious task, as is now being re.
allied by the Roosevelt managers.
The states have widely varying cleo,
ton laws, and the ticket must be
placed upon the ballot In each. In
New York, for example. the obstacles
able. Other states are almost as diff,
cult. In some states, it Is understood.
there will be an attempt made to take
over the entire Republican organiza,
ton, electors and all This plan Will
be fought by the Taft men aud may
end up In the courts. The progressive
party VIII organize throughout the
south and VIII make q pronounced eff
fort to carry some southern states. 1t
Will also make vigorous campaign In
those northern states carried by Taft
in the preconyention struggle.
Senator Joe Dixon on Guard.
The general of the Roosevelt forces
will be Senator Joseph NJ Dixon of
Montana. who had charge OF the colo
nels campaign for the nomination.
Governor Hiram w. Johnson of Cali
fornia has been one Of the chief Roose-
welt lleutenants, presiding over the
meeting OF delegates In Chicago that
first put the former president In nomi-
nation and also naming the committee
that has had charge Of the organIza-
tion Of the new party. In New York
state William II. Hotchkiss, former
insurance superintendent, is In charge
of the Roosevelt forces. In New Jer-
sey are such doughty warriors as for
mer Governor John Franklin Fort.
George Il, Record and Everett Colby.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20

Large shipments of peaches are be-
ing made by express from this city
this week. and still. people have been
saying that there wasn't peach IN
Berkeley county this year.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
The Rise of Populism.

The Peoples party first advocated
the Initiative. referendum and recall,
postal savings banks, government own.
ership of railroads and teiegraphs, a
peoples money as against what 1t call
ed the money power" aud other poll
cies In kind. 1t became involved In the
free silver fight. although 1t is mis-
take to suppose that the free coinage Of
silver was one of the original funda-
mental issues on which the Peoples
party was formed. In It's essence II
was an antimonopoly party and was
against railroad domination md fought
the machines Of both old parties. Its
great strength was In the west and
south. threatening Democratic suprem-
acy in the south almost as much as
Republican supremacy in the west.
The formation OF the Progressive
party this year occurs of the end of
another twenty year period. Thus the
dates fall as follows:
ISL Republican party organized.
1ST4--G recnback party organized.
1892 Peoples party organized.
i912-Progressiye party organized.
The interval In each case is twenty
years, except from 1874 to 1892, which
Is eighteen years, deviation not great
enough to be important
The writer was intimately associat-
ed with the organization of the Peo-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20

citlZcnHHip IN OFHef mat tne nance u
the most corrupt set of newspaper
owners known to the history Of the
country"
Woman in the Case Held
Chicago, July 13--Miss Aileen Hepp-
ner, the young woman named by Mrs.
Josephine Henning as the person who
influenced her in the alleged conspir-
acy to injure Clarence s. Funk, gen
eral manager OF the International Hair
yester Company, by means of suit
for damages for alleged alienation of
Mrs. Henning's affections was held for
the grand jury yesterday on charge
Of perjury. Miss Heppner's bond was
fixed by Municipal Judge Newcomer
at $1,000.
In her testimony in the damage
suit Miss Heppner said that on Decem-
Der 20, 1909, she had seen Mr.. Funk
and Mrs. Henning enter room while
she was dining with Mrs. Sophia Hoer-
ner and her daughter In the Grand Pa
cific Hotel
Mrs. Hoerher and her daughter de-
MED that they were in Chicago ON that
day OF dining with Miss Heppner.
The Court, in holding the young
woman for the grand jury, ruled
against the argument on the defense
that the statement of Miss Heppner
as to dining with the Hoerners was Inn
material.
Lormer Case Has Sequel.
One of the principal topics of
newspaper discussion in the Middle
West, and especially in and around
Chicago, is the unsuccessful scheme
to ruin the character of Clarence S.
Funk. general manager of the Inter
national Harvester Company, after the
latter had given testimony unfavora5le
to Senator William Lorimer, in the
effort to Gust the latter from his seat
in Congress. and involving Edward
Hines, millionaire lumberman, be-
fore the United States investigating
Committee. During Funk's testimony
before the inuqisitorial body he said he
had been approached by Hines and
asked to contribute $4,000 to $780,
600 fund which had been used in put
ting Lorimer over" The character
wrecking suit took the form of an ac-
ton for $4,000 damages filed by John
G. Henning, a clerk, against Funk,
charging the latter for alternating his
wife's affections. Several witnesses
including Henning appeared at the
trial and they testified to have seen
Funk and Mrs. Henning together on
several occasions in hotels. Mrs. Hen
ming did not appear at the trial for a
long time and could not be located
The suit failed and much perjury on
the part of the complainants witness
es was shown. These witnesses are
now being held on the serious charge,
and Henning is a fugitive from justice
Mrs. Henning was located in New
York, and admitted that the whole af-
fair was a put up job" to ruin the
character of Funk. She also stated
that she had been induced TO keep out
of the way for the last year, her travel
ing expenses being paid by Hennings
lawyers.
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Portugal may split in tive. Thus
spreads the boiling hahit.--New York
Tribune.
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Progressive
In the Rinq'
Speculation as to Its Flu
tuEe-HiStory Of Other
Third Parties"

thrive ana have been vital from that
day to this.
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The National
Party Is
Its First Convention viii Be
Held In Chicago on
Aug. 5.
BY JAMns A. nDeERToN.

T< HE long expected third party Is
here, and Roosevelt is its proph-
III ct. The newspapers call it the
bull Moose" party, and the pol
lticians cal 1t names not fit to print.
Anyway, it is In the ring and will have
to be reckoned with by all concerned.
Guesses as to the number OF votes it
will poll range all the way from n few
thousand to as many millions, the num-
Der varying with the political complex.
ion Of the guesser. Some assert that
1t will not carry a single state, while
- others are just as certain that 1t Will
sweep most of the great Republican
states of the north and west and may
ssJeven break into the solid south All
- we know for sure is that 1t will hold a
= national convention in Chicago on Aug.
aIsb, that 1t win nominate Colonel Roose-
yelt for president and that 1t will be
called the Progressive party. As for
the rest, it is on the knees of the gods.
whatever the knees of the gods may
have to do with politics.
The first national gathering of the
tTOEFeSslNe purity VIII ne Il IhdsS Son-
vention in which each state will be
entitled to as many votes as 1t has SEN
,.ators and representatives in congress.
q the territories being deprived of rep
resentation. In other words, the con-
a.a vention will have exactly the same
number of votes as the electoral col
3 iege. or less than half the quota of
snaeither old party convention. Yet each
state may have number Of delegates
In excess of this number, as many. in
..s.fact, as the state itself may provide
.., and can get to attend.
III What does the move mean? Is itato
= be only a temporary disturbance, II
~ dash In the pan. or is it to be the be-
ginning of n new departure in Ameri-
IL can political history?
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Alleges A Wide Conspiracy

of course" he exclaimed, not a
cent of that $1.900.0OO could have
Deen contributed by the predatory
wealth of the country. Surely all OF
1t was the free gift of the common
people, for whom this man is the
great champion. No malefactor con.
tributed to that fund--only the com.
mon people of whom he was the guar.
dian"
The letter from President Taft to
Col. Roosevelt, expressing the hope
that Lorimer would be ousted, when
became public in the preconvention
campaign was again taken up by Lor-
inner. He drew attention to Presi.
dent Taft's phrase emphasizing the
necessity of winning" He declared
his enemies had tried to win mot by
free and fair fight" but by sneak.
ing up behind like a theft in the
night"
Was ever mortal man ever more
completely surrounded by conspira,
cy and intrigue" exclaimed Lorimer,
dramatically. THE President of tn 3
United States, William Taft; Theo.
dore Roosevelt, the former President;
a former Democratic candidate for
the Presidency, William Jennings
Bryan and the trust press of the coun.
try ali We're in it--an joined in th-
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The Herald VIII Give All the and
Also All the Home and
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conspiracy to poison the minds of the
citizenship in order that the malice Of
the most corrupt set of newspaper
owners known to the history of the
co.nntrsr0
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~ dash In the pan. or is it to be the be-
ginning of n new departure in Ameri-
IL can political history!
It's Coming Predicted.
:, =. The writer is especially interested in
,.this move because more than year
;, ago in the Review of Reviews he pre-
- dicted the formation of a national pro-
gressive party this year. Colonel Roose-
.o.yelt was not then a candidate, nor did
1t seem probable that he would be.
The injection of his personality into
-the situation has changed matters in
some degree. although the principles
remain the same. AT the time I wrote
this article 1t was my belief tliat the
-. members OF the new progressive party
would come from both of the old par
-, ties The nomination of Woodrow VIII
son has in some degree satisfied pro-
gressIye Democrats. so that as large
i. an influx FROM that party may not be
expected as would have gone over
under other conditions.
!, These are only minor variations.
however. The great fact is that the
.,. new party has come, and in much the
same way that it has been apparent
to close political students for some
time that it must come. However we
look at it, the conclusion is forced
upon us that its effects will be ire
mendous. Even though they never
succeeded nationally some of the third
parties have changed political history
No one man or group of men can or
ganize new party. Like poets. par
ties are born and not made. They ara
born from great impulses of public
opinion. They are the result Of mate
rial conditions and OF human psychol-
ogy. One of the mysterious facts
about these new parties or at least OF
a certain line of them is that one
comes into being about every twenty
years.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-20
The Recurrent Reform Wave.

The Republican party was born in
1854 and two years later participated
in its first presidential election IL
started as n third party, but rapidly
drove the Wings from the field and be-
came one of the two leading parties.
John C. Fremont. it's first presidential
candidate. polled something more than
100000 votes. hut WAS defeated by
James Buchanan. In their second cleo
'',tion in 1860 the Republicans succeeded
owing to a division in the ranks of the
ogAiemocracy
- The second great uprising came in
1874. when the national Greenback
-oi party was organized. The shibboleth
of the Greenbackers was a peoples
"a money, and the party supported other
issues that looked to the peoples rule.
While il never pOlled a very large vote
In a presidential canvass, the Green
o. back party did cast about million
votes In one election, choosing a num-
a Der of governors and members of con
gress. Its identity was lost through
fUslng with the Democrats although
s. it was still factor up to 1854.
'oT Eighteen years after the formation
of the Greeuback party the Peoples
..u1 party. generally known as the Popu-
list party, came into existence. In
49, some ways it represented the same
: spirit as that Of the early Republicans
and Greenbackers, which in a general
....a1way may be described as the rule of
vnathe people ms against special interests.
s..ln its first election, with James r.
stGWeaver as its candidate for president.
1.-the Peoples party polled more than
100000 votes and by 1894 had nearly
100000 IN 1898 it fused with the
Democrats but elected a large number
80 of governors senators and congress
men While it went out of existence
as a party. It's priueiEies continued to
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Sarcasm for Col. Roosevelt

The attack on Col. Roosevelt with
which he opened his speech, was bas-
ed on testimony given by George b.
Cartelyou Thursday before a Senate
committee regarding the $1,000, 900
campaign fund raised for the Republi.
can presidential campaign in 1904.
Mr.. Lorimer referred to Col. Roose,
welt as the custodian of all the NOR.
ais of the country, private and pub
lie"