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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
SHOWS Up JOHNSON.

Governor Marshall OF Indiana has
Invaded the state OF the bull moose
third term party candidate for vice
president. In his speech at the CAPT.
tai Of California Monday he made
some points that il is impossible for
his opponent TO answer. One was
that a governor who signed a bill
which disfranchised a portion OF its
voters by preventing a republican e,ec-
toral ticket from being printed on the
ballots, could not be progreSsGe Gov
ernor Johnson is responsible for that
law, and 1t is greatly TO his discredit.
The voters OF California who wish
70 vote for Taft, will either have to
write the names Of Taft electors on
the ballots or be deprived of their
choice.
Probably most Of them will vote for
Wilson. It's an III wind that blows
nobody any good. But that fact is no
justification for the outrageous law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
WHIRIWIND FINISH.

Governor Wilson's managers who
are in charge of the financial end of
the campaign have planned a whirl-
wind finish for next week In order
to close up what seems certain now
TO be a deficit that will run into
thousands of dollars, they have re-
doubled their efforts to obtain popular
contributions.
Thousands Of letters are going out
daily from the Chicago headquarters
10 probable contributors These COM
munications contain requests for
amounts varying with the ability TO
give OF the person to whom the ap-
peal is made.
No amount, however small, is de-
spised by the Wilson managers. The
man who has only a dollar TO give is
as welcome and is treated with the
same courtesy as the man who gives
hundred dollars.
All along the men who have handled
this part Of the democratic campaign
have operated on the principle that
the small contribution is Just as i'm
portant in a way as the large one.
Every individual contribution. they
say, represents a vote. Often It rep
resents more than a single vote, be-
cause the contributor by making his
donation naturally feels that he has
become a partner in the enterprise
and therefore that il is incumbent on
him 10 get out and hustle for the
party.
The most gratifying thing in con.
nection with this campaign, in so far
as the democratic managers are con.
cerned, is the fact that Governor vii.
sons election, IL he is elected, will
have been made effective by the peo-
pies dollars. Heretofore It is notori,
GUS that the expenses of the cam.
paigns Of the big parties have been
paid by a comparatively small mum.
Der OF men-probably less than a
thousand. Mr.. Bryan's campaign four
years ago was an exception to this
rule.
The list Of contributors kept al
democratic headquarters this year
demonstrates that more than 100, 0oO
citizens will have participated in the
financing Of Governor Wilson's cam.
paign for the presidency.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
UNREwARDED LIFEsAvERs.

Things have come to a pretty pass
when private generosity has to make
amends for national miserliness and
injustice. Yet that is Just the condi-
ton OF the life-saving service.
For 16 years two New York women,
keenly alive TO the neglect OF the gov
eminent and fully appreciative of the
heroism of the life-savers, have given
$1,000 annually to Superintendent
kimball for the relief OF the old
or disabled. These women are sis
ters who came TO Washington to find
out II the government pensioned its
life-savers. When they learned the
contemplate treatment OF these fear
less public servants they resolved to
do all that was in their personal pow
er to atone for IL. Superintendent
Kimball says that he could use many
thousands Of dollars more in this same
humane work. What is given is but
drop. What he needs is a wave.
The world at large while proud of
the courage of its life-savers, does not
know how niggardly they are treated.
They have no stability of service.
They are engaged for a few months
every year and then are let CO. They
get such small salaries that they can
not save enough to tide them over the
winter, so they go round seeking
work that viii leave them free in the
spring TO return, cap in hand, TO I'm
Gle Sam, and ask him to let them be
heroes again, nearly at their own ex-
pense. Some men have held on in this
way till they are veterans. The ma
jority fall victims to their daring
or become a prey to disabling rheu-
matism. In both cases, when their
capacity for work is gone they are
kicked into the gutter
None OF the congressional efforts
that have been made to change this
condition have succeeded. The in
land Legislators know nothing of the
noble work of the life-savers. Their
idea of water is creeks that dry UP
under the summer sun. So they op
pose placing them under civil ser
/ vice protection and granting them
pensions. Others hold that pensions
I are due only to men of the army and
navy, forgetting that a single sea
son on the ocean. or the great lakes
often puts more peril in the lives OF
the men than the entire years OF ser
vice of many soldiers and sailors.
/ Something should be done for these
men and at once. Uncle Sam should
declare himself with fina.ity. If he
Will not be just-there is mo ques
tion OF generosity-then the people
should follow the example of these
philanthropic women and give these
everyday heroes their due. not as Z
gift but as unofficial atonement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

81 like to see my wife dolled up in
her best rags" said young married
man the other day, but l love to
see her wearing one of those big, clean
Bingham aprons-the kind that come
over the shoulders, you know, and
fasten with a couple of buttons in the
back.
Say. 1 always liked her from the
start, but l guess l really fell in love
with her the first time l saw her in
one Of those aprons.
81 happened to drop in one evening
when her mother was sick and the
hired girl gone She had her sleeves
rolled up and one of those big ging-
ham aprons on, and she was so jolly
and capable, and she bossed her faith
er and me around in such nice way,
that / fell for her on the spot. And
l haven't regretted it since.
why don't the women wear aprons
any more, anway?" he queried. They
used to when | was a boy. Now,
there was mother Why, mother didn't
look real natural to me without an
apron on-at least, when she was in
the house. Her street clothes made
her look sort of stiff and formal, and
when she was dressed up in her best
l had to keep away from her for fear
of spelling something.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
AW0MANyO OBSERVATIONS


But when mother had on her apron
oh. say! l could climb in her lap
and l could hug her and could stand
around as close as ! wanted to, no
matter where I'd been or how dirty
I'd got. l could dump anything into
her lap when she had that apron on,
from marbles to a family of kittens.
I've wiped molasses of my mouth
On mothers apron-when she wasn't
looking. I've dried my tears on
corner OF it. It's done for towel, too,
when one wasn't handy.
81 can't think of mother without
that apron. Somehow she was most
of mother to me when she had it on.
There wasn't anything formal beg
tween US. l could bury my head in
the folds Of that big apron and Tess
up my sins, when if mother'd had on
her black silk I'd just have slid away
somewhere and hid and been afraid
to tell her anything.
"Oh, yes, got spanked lying across
those aproned knees. But that was
all part of the game. She never
hit very hard, anyway.
Mother was a handsome woman
and l was proud of her when she was
all dressed up. But somehow she
was beautifuller to me just the way
she dressed in the house. Mother
didn't wear any of those fancy loose
kimono things. Shed a-been ashamed
! to. But she always had her house
dresses cut low 1 nthe neck to show
the place where the angel kissed her,
as Dad said, with little white lace
sewed in. And she always wore those
biue-and-white checked aprons that &c
over the shoulders and fasten with
two buttons in the back. l know, fol
many's the time I've had the priv
lege of fastening them.
ITS nice to see so many women
dressed up all the time" finished the
young married man. But there's
something missing about them to me
They don't have the real comfy, HON
ey look-the kind a boy needs-al
his life"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

can company. AS the Omaha World
Herald forcibly points out in the long
list of republicans who will vote for
Governor Wilson, there is DR.. Wiley,
the champion of pure food; there Is
Rudolph Spreckels, who fought graft
in San Franisco, and Claus SprecAeIs,
who has spent a fortune and Is years
in fighting the sugar trust; there is
Senator Works of California: there is
Jacob Schiff, the noted banker and
philanthropist Of New York, DR.. VIII
liam Jay Schieffelin, another like
him; there is Charles r. Crane, one
OF Chicago's greatest business men,
and Howell Evans, the Philadelphia
manufacturer. and Rev. Madison C.
Peters. the New York clergyman, and
Erman J. Ridgway, the publisher Of
Everybody's-and just hosts and hosts
OF others. With which class of men
do you prefer TO align yourselves?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

ed station about ten miles from the
the information that the numbering old
stage made a daily trip, and went to
bargain for my fare.
DO you want TO go first, second or
third class? asked the driver.
True TO my creed that nothing was
too good for rue, | chose a first class
passage at T5 cents.
IAN right. Git in and choose your
seat
II watched the other passengers pay
their quarters and half dollars. but
when we started | found a twenty-five
cent man on my left and fifty cent
man on my right. In fact, all passen-
gers were sandwiched in regardless of
financial benefits.
81 was mad clear through. but luckily
did not boil over. We logged along IN
I'll we struck an awful piece OF road.
when the driver stopped, stuck the
blacksnake whip into the socket, tied
the lines round IL. jumped on his seat,
jerked open the door and shouted:
All sOu NHtAt9 h'C NSHt --1Ch anu
you fifty cent men must get out and
let the seventy-flve cent gent stay
where he is. The fifty cent men must
walk and the twenty-five cent men
must push or Wen never get the stage
out Of this goldarn sinkholer
And, gentlemen. this is the political
Situation. The seventy-five cent men
are riding the fifty cent men are walk,
ing. and the poor twenty-five cent beg
gar is pushing the political machine.
Are you riding or walking or pushing?'
st Louis Republic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
PUBLIC SPEAKING.

And the Necessity For cultivatins the
Art of Enumeration.
Speaking is one of those arts which
people seem to think are unnecessary
to study and learn. and the probability
is that most speakers of the kind men
toned are blissfully unaware Of their
inaudibility. Doubtless their voice re-
sounds comfortably IN the empty
spaces of their own chest and head,
and this prevents them from knowing
that it does not penetrate to the audi
tory apparatus of other people.
To be a lecturer 1t is not only neces-
sary TO know your subject. but the art
of enunciation and audible delivery
needs TO be learned also. And the
sound OF ones voice in ones own ears
is a most misleading guide. Such peo-
pie ought TO be trained by being made
to read or speak from one end of a
large room to somebody teaching them
at the other end. when they would soon
find out that tones which Will pass
muster In a conversation are useless In
a public speech.
In conversation We carelessly slur half
our syllables. leaving our interiocutor
to guess them from the context, but
this viii not do in a public speech,
where people are too far of TO catch
the signs. Again, a word pronounced
in the ordinary English way-ot throw.
ing a strong accent on a single syllable
and slurring the other sylIables-be-
comes reduced 10 mere monosyllable
when said in that manner In q large
rOom.-Theosophical Path
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
Hunor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Re good to the poor. The rich will
be good to themselves.
A poor excuse Is often better than
the truth.
Bachelors and spinsters worry most
over the divorce evil.
There is no friend like an old friend.
He never permits you to forget the
follies of your youth.
The city man has actually been
known to catch fish. but he has never
been known to get credit for it.
You can find plenty Of men who will
give advice. but mighty few who will
take it
Cheer up! The political spieIer will
soon go the way of the baseball fan.
The girl who would rather bake
bread than make fudge is too good to
be true.
The length of the block depends upon
whether you are walking with a pretty
girl or running to catch a car
A good enemy is often preferable to
a bad friend.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
To REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

Socially men are known by the COM
pany they keep. Politically the same
thing is true TO a large extent. When
you cast your vote on election day. IL
you vote for Taft you will be voting
with the Morgans. the Rockefellers. the
Guggenheims, the Penroses and Wall
street.
II you vote for Roosevelt you will
be voting with the Perkins, the Bit
Wards, the Tim" woodruffs, the
',Bnl" Films and their aggregation
Of special trust favorites and bosses
On the other hand. II you vote for
Wilson, you VIII have good republl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
A Raaia of Conhdence.

by Jove," said Wilkes after the
vaudeville performance was over. 1T
must take a lot Of nerve for that man
to lean up against a board while his
wife hurled all those knives at him"
Nerve nothing" retorted Bikes.
Hes perfectly aware she couldn't hit
him If she tried."-HarPer's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
Oct. IS in American
History.

1SI2-The United States frigate United
States. under Commander Stephen
Decatur. defeated and captured the
British frigate Macedonian IN des-
perate battle OF the Canary islands.
1904 Commander William L. Hopkins.
U. s. ". retired. died in San Fran
cisco; born 1922
1910-Brigadier General Henry L.
Chapman. a pioneer G. A. X. vet
eran. died: born 1923 David Por-
ter Heap. brigadier general U. 8.
a., retired, died; born 1S43.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

George w. Perkins. OF stee, trust
ard harvester trust fame, the angel
.of the third term party. told the SEN
ate investigating committee that wnen
ELECTION day is over. all accounts be.
tween him and the colonel will be all
square We'll, Perkins admitted that
80 cost him Sl22.Oe to square the ac-
count Pretty neat sum. even for a
former partner Of the opulent Morgan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
Her Preference.

81 see young Speaker has changed
his boarding place.,
81 noticed that too"
"I wonder why"
''Probably his landlady preferred
coin of the realm in payment for what
he was getting rather than the free
and unlimited coinage of words"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

President Taft gave out a Cheerful.
statement the other day in which he
calmly announces to an anxiously
waiting people that ne expects TO wiz.
Alas They are deccivinS him TO the
last. II is really cruel and inhuman
OF the estimable gentlemen who are
managing Mr.. Taft's campaign 10
lead the president thus blindly to the
slaughter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
May Be Along.

May Be Along.
Election day!
Say,
Isn't that
To come to the bat
Before long
Good and strong7
Seems as though ia heard
A word
Or two to that effect.
And / expect
Some other few
Have heard 1t too.
Yes,
i guess
This is the year
Right here
And now.
Somehow
Or somewhere
I've got that impression.
/ declare!
Am l right.
Or is 1t night
OF fancy?
Have 1 got the right steerf
It isn't next year or the year
After that
That we get at
The Job. is 1t?
How time does nit!
Did the big show
Occur a year ago?
It isn't over yet.
I'll bet
On that. Oh. no;
may be slow,
But / feel free to state
This is the date!
Why. II in doubt
Look about
And
Listen to the band.
Yes, I incline
To the belief that this the the genuine
Full jeweled. blown in the bottle
Presidential election year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

Clyde II. Tavenner continues TO
make friends all over the district in
his race for congress. and all the
abuse and Misrepresentation heaped
upon him by his opponent and those
who speak for his opponent but make
Tavenner more friends.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

The people Of Rock Island county
are not prepared TO burden themselves
with an additional tax, which at the
lowest official estimate is $4,000, for the
mere purpose Of gratifying County
Judge Olmsteds ambition to be ad-
vanced to the circuit bench.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
Right.

"What should you consider desira BILE
qualities in trust magnate"
Desirable qualities"
"Yes."
"Well, judging from recent develop
ments l should think that poor mem
ory and a dissemination to talk shop
would rank high
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

II Is shocking TO note that even
that great social uplifter and friend
Of the masses, George w. Perkins, of
steel trust fame. kept no account OF
the vast sums he gave TO the third
term party campaign committee
George may have been converted but
he has not forgotten his early train
ing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

DISTINGUISHING the republicans OF
California is the poorest sort of ar
gument the progressive party has
used.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

att is said that no two persons can
tell the same story"
That's q mistake"
els itY'
you bet! There's one story that
have heard 1913 persons tell"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

II seems that instead OF politics
hurting business this year. business
has more OF a tendency to hurt pol
itics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily at 1924 Second ave-
nue. Rock Island. III. Entered at the
postofaee as second-class matter.)
Rock Island Member OF the Associated
Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

While those doctors we're operating
on Professor James J. Corbett. why
didn't they take the temperature of
his feet?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

A London specialist says that mod
ern dress is killing women. Yet most
women desire their gowns to be kill
ling
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

Have you seen those delightfully."-
ingenious ads OF Brother Hilles?
Stand pat, boys" cries Hilles. why
CHANGE"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

Floyd z. Thompson is clean. capa.
bic and conscientious-and just the
man for states attorney.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25


and
Columbia
Morrison and Vice President Mitchell
the
of the capital.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

There are seven political parties in
Delaware. With a little more effort,
one can be provided for every voter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
Locking For TrouhIs

He hupted for a fault all day.
Observers couldn't doubt It
Not finding IL ne nursed. they say,
An awful Crouch about IT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
90 YOU RIDE, WALK OR PUSH7
An Old Stage Coach Story From . Pc
IiticaI vie.point

The following story was told at a po-
lidcal banquet by a well known poll.
ucian:
Il was going to the seashore. and the
ierkwater railroad left me at q wretch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25


How is Rogers
coming on run
ming his carr"
Fine! He has
killed ten chick
ems, four dogs. a
calf and has
caused three run
Always"
well. when he
runs of a twenty
foot embankment
he can get a di-
ploma. or a death
certificate"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
Not "a Harm Than.

NOT 70 Harm hem.
Il have known three presidents II
my time"
How well did you know them?
Intimately"
well. keep it dark Their biogra
piers may overlook It."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
Getting Too Wise.

You are not In favor Of woman SUIT
frager'
Il am not"
Don't women know enough to voter
They know too much"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

Don't forget to vote early. Your
vote Is needed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

Pc good to the poor. The rich will
be good to themselves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25
BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.

TERAs-Ten cents per week. by car
risr. in Rock L. land
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made TO the circulation department.,
which should also be notified In every
instance where St Is desired 10 have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority In the premises.
All communications OF srgumentstive
character. political or religious. must
have real name attached FOR pubi.ca-
tion No suck articles win be printed
over fictitious sisEstureA
Telephones in ell departments: Cen
trail Union. Vest I45. IiIS and al4s:
Union Electric. 5iI6.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-25

A good enemy is often preferable to
q bad friend.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-01

Continuous dancing afternoon and
night Saltair Labor day
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-01

Presbyterian.
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
corner OF South Temple and c streets;
| The Rev. William NJ. Paden. D. D., pastor
| Morning service at IL o'clock. Sermon
| by Rev II. J. Talbot Sunday school at
1880 p. m. NLId-wcek services on Wed
| nesday evening. Teachers meeting at
1850, prayer and conference at p. m.
Everybody cordially invited to all these
services
w II s r MINISTER PRESBYTERIAN
| CHURCH, Filth South and First West
streets: Robert Asa Smith, pastor. The
communion OF the Lords supper will be
observed this morning at II o'clock. There
will also he a. reception or new members.
The topic Of the day Will be Christ 8
Call Evening services discontinued for
August. will be resumed this evening at
l7.45 o'clock. The topic for the evening:
1.-Two Types OF Christians" The Sab
bath school meets at 12:I5 noon; tho Y,
Up. s. c. L. at 6:45 p. m; the mission
school, 632 West First North street. meets
at 1:30 r. M. The miG-week service is
held on Wednesday evening at o'clock.
THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Corner OF Eleventh South and Eleventh
East streets; Frank o, Leonard. pastor.
Morning service of worship and preaching
at II O'Clock. subject. The Most Pre-
cious Possession" by Rev. W. B. Stew
art. Sunday school, 12.15; no preaching
service in evening. hearty welcome
to all
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-01
Lutheran.

DANISH LUTHERAN CHURCH, cor
Der First avenue and E street.-Sunday
school, 10 a. m. Services, IL a. m. Young
church basement.
GERMAN LUTHERAN ST. JOHNS
CHURCH. Seventh South and State
streets.-Wiliam J.. Lankow. pastor.
Sunday school at e:S0 a. nj. Serv-
ices at 1890 a. III. The Ladies' Aid
society meets next Wednesday at
. p. IN. with Mrs. John Bauer.
1888 Euclid avenue. The parochial school
commences next Tuesday at Q a. m; H.
II. Pflueger. teacher
SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCH.
corner Second South and Fourth East
Erfck F1oreep.~ pastor Sunday school.
1890 a. III. Services, S y. III. Meeting Of
the Mission society at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. August Wahlduist, 933 East
Third South street, Thursday evening.