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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
Socialists In Convention.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 14.-"Pro-
gressive opportunities" and ''immedi.
ate revolutionists" opposed each other
at the opening OF today's sessions OF
the socialists national convention.
This was the division of 209 delegates
on the election of the platform and
resolutions committees and was won
by the Opportunities" or conservatives,
led by Congressman Victor Berger OF
Wisconsin and Charles Edward Rus
sell OF New York, by large majorities
Mayor l.. J. Duncan of Butte, Mont,
an avowed Revolutionary" elected to
the platform committee. said he would
support Haywood and sympathizers
with the Industrial Workers of the
World among the men aud women on
the convention floor in advocating the
forming OF one great national indus
trial union that could strike immedi'
ately and effectively for the overthrow
of capitalism and the realiz alton Of
socialistic ideals.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
Roosevelt Wins In California.

SAN FRANCISCO, May Is Delayed
returns from remote districts of yes.
terd avs presidential primary will be
useful only to determine the exact
%pluralities rolled up by Theodore
Roosevelt and Champ Clark over their
respective opponents for the repub-
lican and democratic nominations.
Roosevelt's plurality is estimated
between 60, 900 and s., ZOO over Taft
and La Toilette; Champ Clark lead
Woodrow Wilson by probably $1,000.
Throughout the state the vote was
atively light. This was re-
gsrded as surprising in view of the
strenuous campaign waged for the re-
publican preference and the keen In.
terest that everywhere was manifested
by the huge crowds drawn by the cam
paign orators.
Roosevelt probably carried every
county. Even San Francisco, which
was expected to give a ''thank-you.
for-this-fair" vote to President Taft
and where a determined effort was
made by the Taft managers to make
a good showing for the candidate,
favored the colonel by o plurality o.
3,347.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
Montana Smoke Case DELAYED.

WASHINGTON, May 14.-The United
States supreme court has denied the
motion of Fred j. Bliss for an ad.
vancement of the date of the hearing
Of the so-called smoke cases against
the Washoe Copper company and the
Anaconda Copper Mining company.
In his petition for advancement Bliss
commended that 1t is of vital import.
ance to Deer Lodge farmers that the
case be advanced 80 that they may
enjoy relief to which they are entitled
and that . further delay of two or
three years would be disastrous to the
large district affected.
The defendants in respone asserted
they were ready to take up the case
within q reasonable time but that nc
real reason exists for its ad
They assert that the record in the case,
consisting of 25, 1000 printed pages Of
testimony, has not been served upon
them add they are not advised whether
the record has been completed or
printed 10 the supreme court.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
LAWYER Accused Of Bribery.

Los ANGELES. May l5.-Clarence S.
Darrow of Chicago. chief counsel for
the McNamara brothers in the Los
Angeles dynamiting case and one Of
the best known criminal lawyers IN
the United States, was placed on trial
before Judge George Hutton in the
superior court today, under an To-
dictment charging him with having At
tempted to bride q juror in the Nc
Namara trial. When he appeared II
court Dsrrow said he was ready fol
trial; would ask nc delays that he wa
innocent of wrong doing and had nj
fear OF the outcome of the case.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
Sanders Was Very Sarcastic.
Saturday Evening Post,


The late Colonel Wilbur F. Sanders
of Montana, who a once a United
States sci ator from that common
wealth, mixed a good deal in politics
and one time when he ran for the
governorship was defeated by a promi.
nent democrat.
On election night the democrats OF
Helena held a jolli6c alton meeting and
Sanders went over TO see what was
going on. He stood in the edge OF
the crowd, but was soon recognized
and called upon for q speech.
Friends and fellow citizens" he
beg an, "when l was nominated for the
high Office of governor by the repub'
licans my opponents and democratic
friends told ms they could beat me
with a yellow dog"
There we're loud cheers.
"And," shouted Sanders, ''the.
| did,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
CENTENARY OF LAND OFFICE.e

The land Office of the national gov
eminent is one of the great institn-
tions of the world. Nothing even re.
motely resembling 1t existed in an
cient times. and those of Australia,
Canada and perhaps Russia are the
only ones in modern nations that can
be compared with ours.
The centenary of such an institution
Is an event Of peculiar interest to the
United States, and especially to the
west, says the Spokesman-Review. It
occurred on May I at Washington city.
It deserves commemoration because
the history Of the land Office in effect
is the history Of the settlement of the
west, which is the characteristic
feature OF the economic development
of the United States.
Secretary Fisher OF the department
OF the interior and Commissioner Den
nett Of the land Office delivered note
worthy addresses.
The secretary declared that it must
be the policy of the national govern
ment in administering the peoples
farm to give the individual so much
privilege as is essential to induce him
to develop his holding in such a way
as to make for the greatest, benefit OF
the community as q whole. Mr.. Fisher
condemned all systems of disposing
of the public domain that would play
toto the hands of the speculator for
profits, put unearned profits into the
possession OF landholders, or compel
the seeker and would.be u~tilizer of
land to pay 9 higher price to them
than he would have to pay the govern
ment. Only in case an increased price
to the s~peculator or %landholder was
due to actual Improvements on the
land would it be justified.
The progressive secretary called the
attention of congress, many of whose
members were present, to the fact that
the national legislature lags behind
several states that have enacted ad.
vanced legislation with respect to
leasing coal, mineral and ore lands.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22

enough to give him . chance to work
out q good policy; and there is no e a
son why the people should be deprived
of q good president because he has
shown himself to be good 10 eight
years of experience. There is no good
logical reason for q custom forbidding
the reelection of executive officials
for q reasonable number of successive
terms than there is for a custom per-
hitting the reelection OF Legislative
officials. II q is wrong both are
wrong. II either ia right both are
right. The sun has risen on the
American people, aud the poor old
third term ghost may fit back to its
shades.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
Direct Election Of Senator'S.

WASHINGTON, May 13.-The house
today adopted 237 to 80 q joint resolu.
ton providing for IN amendment to
to the constitution to permit the elect
ion of United States e nators by direct
vote of the people. It has already
passed the senate and nov goes to the
states for ratification.
Direct election Of senator's first was
taken up by congress In 1926. From
time to time attempts have been made
to make the senate q popular body
and have it's members elected 40 are
the members of the house. Numbers
of these resolutions have died in com
mittee, while others have passed at The
last moment OF q congress-, never e
receive the presidents signature.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
TAFT SCORES ROOSEVELT
President Makes Caustic Criticism
Of His Opponent.

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio. May 13.-In one
of the most bitter speeches be has
made since be began his active cam
paign for re election, President Taft
held Roosevelt up to ridicule, calling
him an "intense and dangerous ego
list and q 1atterer and demagogue."
MIR. Taft suggested that there would
be 'but little hope for the future OF
this nation If Mr.. Roosevelt were
waited to the skies in q chariot like
the prophet of old, and there was no
one left to do the job Mr.. Roosevelt
said the country needs him to do"
The presidents speech boiled over
with attacks and criticisms OF Colonel
Roosevelt. One of the attacks on Mr..
Roosevelt, which raised q laugh, ran
like this:
II think it would be dangerous to
put again in the White house q man
with Mr.. R%oosevelt's present constitu'
tional views, with the citation he would
necessarily feel by reason of getting
something that all the great presidents
have not gotten; it would not be safe.
He says the reason the American PEG.
pie are going to elect him is because
be is necessary for the job. Well, ]
hope the American people will no,
think he is necessary to do the job. ]
want to call your attention to what
the job is which he proposes. 1t is the
millennium that he is going to bring
about when he gets into Office. All
bosses are going to disappear, poll
ticians are going to be fewer and he
is going to have q finger in every
community in every state, In every
county, and everything is going te
heaven.
"If that be true, the millennium ii
coming, and if that is the job he is te
do, it Is going to take longer thar
four years. l beg Of you to ask hin
when he comes here whether he would
take a fourth term: ask him whether
he is going to take a fifth term, ano
why he should not continue in Office
throughout his life.'
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
Integrity as a Business Asset.
Kansas City Star.

Kansas City Star.
"A reputation for infa!libility is
pretty nearly out of the question:, -
Melville E. Stone told the Kansas
editors. "But a reputation for integ-
rity is perfectly possible"
In other words, character Is essen
tial for newspapers as we'll as for in
dividuals. There is no short cut to
success. Some men are constantly
sticking out lightning rods In one
direction or another, hoping for con.
spicuous good fortune to strike them,
That will never do. Success Is WOE
only by merit.
The i%nsincere and dishonest news
paper, like the i~nsincere and dishon'
est man, Ia foredoomed to failure.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
Ohio Vote Will Decide.

CLEVELAND, May 16.-Replyipg to
claims OF Theodore Roosevelt that be
had 522 delegates to the republican ma.
tional convention, President Taft In q
public statement pointed out that Mr..
Roosevelt had only 300 delegates aud
for the first time admitted that the re-
suit of the primaries in Ohio will set
tie the question of the nomtn alton.
"Ohio, my home state, much to my
qualification, will be the decisive one
and will settle the question OF nom.
10 ation," said the president.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
THE THIRD TERM GHOST.

The allegation that a third term for
a president of the United States would
be a menace to the welfare and safety
OF the republic is challenged by a
writer in the Saturday Evening Post,
who regards the proposition as a
scarecrow constructed by professional
politicians. 10 an extended discus.
sion OF the subject, the critic OF the
anti.third-term theory says:
The third term ghost has lived a
good many years upon the supposition
that the president of q republic has the
power to keep himself in Office in
definitely unless there is some abso-
Lutte check upon him. Whatever the
danger Ia the past that a president
would use the federal patronage to
obtain delegates, everybody can see
that national conventions of delegates
chosen by state conventions made up
OF delegates chosen by district con.
ventions made up Of delegates chosen
by primaries made up of the official
and organizing end OF the party have
about come to an end.
Before the presidential election OF
1916 nearly every state in the union
will have it's machinery for obtaining
the preference of the voters of the
country for their own stand ard bearer
If that constituency cannot be trusted,
then popular government ia q failure
from top to bottom, and the only thing
to do is to make the leaders of thu
party dictators for life. As q matte,
of fact, people SCOT at the idea of
man on horseback or any other maj
In the United States keeping himsel
In power as the Mexican presiden
kept himself In poverty q series o
moving picture elections.
On the other eide there Is only on
solution OF democracy on q great scale
and that is leadership on q grea
scale. Governments by large board
frequently changing are unable to la
out and push forward q program G
constructive Legislation, ever thong
those boards be q senate and q hous
of Representatives. Those boards hav
tried to concentrate their power b
steering committees and the speaker
ship, but the executive heads of cities
stn F., and the nation are in Q bette
position to represent the nation an
to push forward what public sentimer
demands. Therefore they ought to b
reelected q fair number of terms. !
good governor ought to serve term
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
Will Spend Millions.

SPOKANE, May l6.-Carl G. Gray.
incoming president OF the Great North
ern Railway company, announced
here that millions of dollars will be
expended this and next year in extend.
ing lines into virgin territory OF Mon
tana, Washington and Oregon, and the
province of British Columbia. The
plan is to drain the rich grain fields
Of western Canada by means of north
and south feeders.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
The River Press
Published evesy Wednesday Morning
By the Rivsr Press Publish
ing Company.
DIRECT ELECTION Of SENATORS

There seems little prospect thai the
resolution for the amendment OF the
federal constitution to provide for the
election of senators by direct vote Of
the people, which passed congress,
will ever become part of the organic
law of the land, says the Helena In
dependent.
Upon the question of the direct cleo
ton of senators the country at large.
and this applies to all sections OF it,
is virtually of one mind. Practically
every one agrees that under q direct
vote, the sen ate would not be the ref.
uge OF the vested interests it has been
In the past.
But had q deliberate attempt been
made to defeat direct election the
plans could not have been carried GU,
any more successfully than they have
been by the tacking on of the pro-
vision in the proposed amendment
which gives the federal %governmen,
the right to supervise elections in the
various states.
As long as this provision is q part
OF the amendment, 1t IL uncomfortable
that the southern states will ratify the
amendment, aud when 1t is considered
that only the refusal of one branch OF
the legislatures Of one.fourth Of the
states means the ultimate defeat of the
amendment the power Of the south in
this regard can be appreciated.
The southern states have had a bit
ter lesson in federal supervision OF
elections, and the lesson is one which
will be remembered for many years to
come. The dark days OF the recon
struction, the actual experience OF ne
gro domination, will not be forgotten
until the ratio of white and black il
the southland is materially changed
and it is reasonably certain that the
southern states will guard jealousy
any encro achment of the federal gov.
eminent which will be likely to again
disturb the supremacy of the whites
which has been maintained in all Of
the southern states since the troop:
were withdrawn.
Between imperiling the supremac
of his rsce and lettering the method
of electing United States senator's, the
ordinary southern man will not hest
tate as 10 his choice.
In addition to this, many OF the
states have solved the question OF di'
rect election of cen ators without wait,
ing for action by congress. This il
true in most of the southern states
where there is a popular vote in tn
primaries. 1t is also true in many
of the western states, and in Mon
tana this year, we will have actua
direct election of a federal senator i
the pressure OF public sentiment il
sufficient to compel Legislative candi
dates to sign statement No. l.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-05-22
LEGAL BLANKS

AVER PRESS Fort Benton
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-29
FROM A FLORIDA TRUE-BLUE.

Dear Sir: I am sending you two
($2.00) dollars to pay for '"The
Jeffs" another year. l am, one Of
the old guard. I love the principles
that you teach; l love "The Jeffs'
and expect to read them as long as I
live. Our congressman, Sparkman,
says you and Claud L'Engle, are
crazy. | wish we had more crazy
men such as you. By-the-way,
young man here says you are an
Infidel. l wish you would say
something about that in the paper
and l will show it to him.
Mr.. Watson, l have long wished
you could visit South Florida, and
make a number of speeches. A
great many people have been taught
for years, to hate you, but things
have changed a great deal within the
last two years.
l sure would love to see you, if you
were advertised to speak anywhere
in this country you would get a very
large crowd. I hope you can pay us
visit some time.
You have a great many friends in
South Florida, that would be glad to
see you.
Yours truly,
B. T. ALTMAN.
Waukula, Fla.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-29
SOME QUERIES AS TO THE GOV
ERNOR'S OFFICE, THE 18TH
AMENDMENT, AND THE
II. +. ID. ORIGIN.
II. Il. ID. ORIG.

My Dear Sir: Please answer these
questions through "The jeff:
CD Does the Governor go before
the legislature and make a speech,
or does he write his message and
send it to that body?
CD If bill is passed by the leg
islature, and he does not favor it and
will not sign it, does he have to
explain his reasons to the legislature,
or can he veto it?
CD Can law be passed in this
State, eliminating the negro from
politics, or would such a law be
against the Constitution of the
United States?
CD Will you give me proof that
you were the man who made the
r. f. D. law possible, and how can I
get the facts in the case?
| have been reading after you a
good many years, am a young man,
and l hope you will answer these
questions.
Yours very truly,
A. G.. KERSEY.
Griffin, Ga.
Answer:
CD The Governors Message is
sent in writing.
CD When the Governor vetoes a
bill, he writes and sends his objec-
tions.
CD The 18th Amendment not
having been legally adopted, the
States could change their Constitu-
tons and statutes in such a way as
to restrict the franchise to white
men.
(4.) If you will apply to Senator
A. o. Bacon, Washington, D. c., he
will furnish you the proof that l am
the Daddy Of the R. F. D. System.
T. E. w.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-29
MISSION BOARD BADLY IN THE
SOTIP

My Dear Mr.. Watson: Allow me
to thank you for the editorials on
the question l submitted to you I
certainly hope that Georgia will take
your advice and go for Underwood
Sure glad you have come out so
strong against the Government get
ting the farmers and ginners
reports. Who would think of such
thing except you? l read with
pleasure and profit every word you
write
I read your clipping from The
Index and comment on same. I can
tell you that the State board is $15,-
600 behind now; and the board at
Richmond is 100000 behind. The
home board and the foreign boards
must collect 100000 by the LIST of
May to be even.
Your greatness will not be appre-
ciated till you are dead and gone
[ mean to the fullest extent, you
have always been from 20 to 80
years ahead. All great reformers
and prophets are.
am sending check for $3.50, for
which please send me your last book,
prose Miscellanies -
Very truly, your friend,
A. G.
Rome. Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-29
TEXAS COMES RIGHT ALONG
WITH 1T

Dear Mr.. Watson Enclosed, find
money order for two dollars, for
which send the Magazine to H. G..
Martin, Pleasanton, Texas.
The Jeffersonian (weekly) to J. K.
Lawhon, Pleasanton, Texas.
Mr.. Watson, this is in reply to your
card, sent me in December last.
Pardon my tardiness, but l feel
that it's better late than never
I greatly appreciate the honor of
being one of your selected 5000 SOL
diers, and hope to be able to prove
a valuable and faithful one.
Since l am only a wage-earner, l
am not financially able to help as I
would love to-but shall strive to
save a few cents along and send it
in with another name. BY cutting
down my few cents to foreign mis-
sions," will have more for the good
work that you are doing for Amer
lea.
Should you see fit, would love to
see you show up the record of two
of our (Texas) representatives.
Seems that tbs up to the people Of
Texas to draw from the lower house
for a successor to Senator Bailey.
Hon. Morris Sheppard and Hon. G.
B. Randell have announced. I favor
Randell If my memory serves me
right Sheppard voted with Old Joe
Cannon when he called for desert
ers" to help rob us all and that Ran
dali remained true.
Am glad they both kept on the
right side on the pension grab.
With best wishes for your future
success. Your friend,
D. E. WILLIAMS.
San Antonio, Tex.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-29
THEY HAVE NOT DONE ANY
THING. YET.

My Dear Mr. Watson: The
United States monetary commission
having made it's report to Congress,
[ hope you will inform your readers
what Congress has done, or is doing,
about it, and also what progress has
been made in the establishment of
the new banking and currency sys-
tenn Of the country under the laws
providing for it. A newspaper, pub
lished in this State not long ago, in
reporting some of the provisions of
the Aldrich plan, deprecated agita-
ton of the subject. This advice
tends to excite our curiosity and
desire to be Informed about it.
Yours truly,
SAMUEL A. BLACKSTONE.
Chester, n. H.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-29
THE UNNATURAL FATHER CAN
BE PROSECUTED.

Mr. Thomas E. Watson: I am
reader of "The Jeff" and like it very
much, and especially your idea on
foreign mission. Now, Mr.. Watson,
want you to answer, through "The
jeff" if a man has a boy child born
to him with infant paralysis in one
side which disables him from MAX
ing living, can he be disinherited
and can his father, if able, throw
him away and not support him? I
want the law on the support of such
children. A FRIEND.
Forsyth, Ga. ~
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-29
BUT, YOU SEE, THEY WENT AND
HOOKED UP WITH ME!

Dear Sir: Your card received.
Will try and get you some subscrib-
ers if possible. The Peoples Party
used OF be 700 strong in this, Cedar
County now they are very few, on
the account of such men as William
J. Bryan and Oscar Underwood. Just
as long as they are a Democratic
party, the politicians and stand-pat
rascals will run it.
don't see how you can work with
that party | have not voted an old
party ticket since Sam Tilden run,
and [ never will. I send you a clip
ping, would like for you to comment
on.
Your sincere friend,
J. P. ENOCHS.
Stockton, Mo-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-02-29
BROWN No. | COTTON SEED

Two to three bales per acre Every
cotton grower, large or small rich or
poor, ought to try it, and would grow
no other. It's an early cotton; natures
as quick as Early King. Fruits close
on limb has large bolls, SO makes a
pound; has five locks to the boil, limits
40 to ~ per cent lint. 1 had all my
cotton ginned fine, and seed we'll cared
for. Will sell to suit the times: 1 blu.
$1.15; blu. $1.10; 10 blu. $1.05, and over
$500, f. o. b. here. 1 have never had a
complaint
Reference-Bank of Bowersville, Ga.
JEFF DEAN. Bewersvile. Ga.