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Waipio was the scene OF a big cele
'bration Sunday. for it was the sixty
first anniversary OF the birth of a
wellknown Chinese rice planter, Hp
!, Wah Chan, who for thirty-six years
has made his home in the Islands. Ac-
cording to, an old-fashioned tradition
which, is common among the Chinese
of all classes, the first year in every
. new decade Of the birth is always
more fittingly observed by a person
who has attained the age of fifty-one
sixty-one or seventy-one. Therefore,
Sundays occasion was a memorable
one, which may not be duplicated until
the venerable gentleman reaches his
seventy-first or his eighty-first ami.
Versary.
10 Wah Chan invited over one hun
dred and twenty guests to partake OF
his hospitality. Many of these we're
his clansmen from the Ho family
They began to leave the city as early
as last Saturday afternoon in order
TO be present at the birthday feast.
All the relatives and close friends
within a radius of fifteen miles man
aged to get to the little farmhouse at
Waipio to effer their congratulations.
"Koon hee chong took chong
seu!" was the greeting, which, inter.
preted, means long years of happi-
ness"
The. guests were not disappointed,
for they were treated TO a rare twelve
course dinner. with birds'-nest soup,
sharks fins, stewed ducks, chicken
outlets, fish balls. golden pork, fancy
iObsters and other palatial dishes and
delicacies. There was no band to SER
enade the host, but the afternoon was
enlivened by the discharge of fifteen
thousand firecrackers.
The host appeared robust and was
IN good humor throughout the day.
He could not speak English. but his
son. Sinf How, is an intelligent young
man, eighteen years old, and educated
in the public schools. 1t was treat
to hear the elder Ho relate of the
good old days when he first came to
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Idaho consists of a number of hope
full but lonesome communities bound
together by a state election. 1t is one
of the largest states in area, but is Sc
sparsely settled by railroad depots
that when a statesman in northern
COUNTY. wishes to visit his constitu-
ents in the southern part of the state
he has to change cars four times and
borrow a right of way through two
neighboring states. to get there
Thanks to the telegraph and the mag.
azines, however, all Idahens speak the
same dialect, eat the same kinds OF
breakfast food, and get mad at the
same varieties of oppression by Wall
street.
~ Idaho has $4,000 square, but by nc
means flat miles. and has 325, 900 peo-
pie, or one for each quarter section
However, over ten thousand of these
people are crowded together in
Boise, the capital and metropolis, and
other thousands have massed together
in Pocatello, Lewiston, Cour d'Alene
and other BIB towns with howitzer
voices. Thus great many square
miles in Idaho are deprived of their
rightful four inhabitants and it is pos
sible to wander for hundreds of miles
in the central part of the state with
out meeting a. candidate with petit
ton or man who wants to borrow a
match. )
Idaho is the last stopping place on
transcontinentai trains before the re-
call is reached. 1T is 400 miles long
and two miles high in spots and most
of it. is only rafned on bienniaIly. In
it's virgin state it is SO dry that even
the telegraph poles have to be water.
ed to keep them from whiting. How
ever, irrigation is beingsapplied in the
valleys with much success and Idaho
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CHICAGO GIRL LEADSFEARLESS !:
WARON VICE AND GRAFTERS

CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 2O.-They call
her the Joan OF Arc of West Ham
mond.
Il sounds like a joke, but it wasn't
anything like that when she started to
clean out the grafters.
No, no. IL was no joke.
Miss Virginia Brooks, Chicago
girl, who mas dedicated her life to
The uplifting of the Polish women a
little twenty-three-year-oid girla girl
with no previous training in politics,
Is this sJoan OF Arc.
Her father, on his death, left her
100000 worth of property in this Iili-
Aois town. She received letter from
the assessor of West Hammond, as
sessing her $1,000 for some vacant
lots, and she scented graft. She had
received information that all was not
what Il should be there This helped
TO confirm her suspicious. 1t also
gave her resolution. " ?
Once Gay Society Girl.
Mind YOU, Virginia Brooks was at
that time, year and half ago, a
society girl parties, music, interpreta-
tive dances and all that sort of thing.
rShe turned her hack ON ali frivolity
and became reformer. She and her
mother closed up their house in Chi
cago and moved to a cottage in Ham
mond--a town with q voting popula-
ton of $50, with So saloons and un-
< speakable vice.
The town was largely Polish. She
set TO work to learn the language. FL
nally, having mastered the tongue, she
called meeting of the people-the
graft-ridden people who, almost en-
tirely, occupied mortgage covered
homes. The Poles are an emotional,
impulsiye people. She stirred them in
their own language, In the ensuing
election, Miss Brooks won.
The surprised politicians, bestirred
to action. tried to reverse the vote,
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job and she didn't give up.
Warning to Dives! Twenty Days to
Vacate."
That's the way she served notice on
the corruptionists. They became fran
tic Here is her own story of what
followed:
They threatened a variety of re-
taliation, and tried to embarrass the
work by starting suits against me, but
it only served to arouse the people
more.
For our part, we tried in every way
to interest the courts and the prose-
cutting attorney, but we never could
get an official to act against them. 1t
seemed discouraging at times, and we
even contemplated, in the event of
ultimate defeat, to organize riva.
town.
mo one knows. how powerful SUCH
ring organization can be until an Eff
fort is made to clean it out
However, the time came when ev-
cry one was up and fighting and de-
termined that West Hammond must
be clean, courts or no courts.
Il told the people with all the en-
phasis | could command that, they
should rule, and, after studying over
the situation, they, too, began to
preach the same doctrine. We soon
outnumbered the forces of the saloon
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the good citi-
zenship does in every community"
She Became Political Power.
The result of it all was that she
became political power in West Ham
mond-did this little, bright-eyed, smil-
ing girl who started out single-handed
against the grafters. What she &C.
complished can best be told in her
own words:
Il have saved for the Poles nearly
21.000 on reductions of overcharged
assessments. have succeeded in GUST
ing an old clique who for many years
had been grating on the school board.
and being elected myself to the office
of president. This means that will
Introduce into the neglected school
manual training, domestic science, free
night school, free kindergarten, and
playground.
Il have established a settlement
house in Hammond, Ind, right across
the State line, where the boys and
girls have night classes and where
mothers who work can take their
babies for care. There are some 3d.
900 Poles in this region, and the flu
ture looks to great achievement"
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by which she won, but they couldn't
muster the votes. The town was with
Virginia Brooks. The women tnrned
out to help her. They marched IN her
professions. They talked from the
same platform with her. They weren't
afraid to indulge i'm militant tactics.
The politicians, in terror, fought in
their last ditch. She won oyerwheln-
ingly Here is how she describes her
own campaign:
Used Power of Press. . ss-
ITO attract attention to our idea of
what government should be, we cam
paigned vigorously to arouse. the peo-
pie. We aid this by publishing in a
weekly newspaper, started for the pur-
pose, exposures of graft we had dis
covered among the thieving officials
who were protecting the dive-keepers.
I'VE reproduced in this papers col
umns contracts that were nothing but
graft, and we even went to the extent
of driving off contractors by force
when they tried to put down inferior
pavement. -..,,E
Another method that used to
arouse public attention and indigna-
ton was to read at mass meetings the
names of all property-owners who had
leased their places for saloons and re-
sorts in West Hammond and in Ham
mond. Ind. 1t created sensation at
one woman's club, where / read it, and
at some of whose members it struck
very closely, but it all served to
awaken the public conscience. People
began to inquire why the police didn't
clean them out, and gradually all
classes, especially the more ignorant,
whom we were having difficulty in
arousing, comprehended the true stu
alton"
The desperate dive-keepers not only
threatened her with harm. They &C
tually assaulted her, beat her and kick
ed her. But she had her teeth in the
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found for the jackrabbits, who are so
intelligent that they can dig young
potato out of the sandy soil with one
we'll directed kick of hind leg.
Until 1890, Idaho was a territory,
with only few scattering patriots,
but it is now flourishing state,
which is growing rapidly and in loud
tones. Most of its inhabitants go back
east for old home week or college
commandments, but the society of ma
tive-born Idahens is prospecting and
now has chapter in almost every
Idaho town. ---,.s@- - .HE. s-e<1l
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Is very satisfactory. He then discuss.
es the railroading situation, mention
Ing the necessity OF large outlays for
construction and reconstruction pur.
poses. From which he goes on to say:
Erect Of Politics.
General trade prospects are en-.
couraging for the reasons stated
above. Larger offerings OF commercial
paper testify that merchants are WI
prepared for increased activity. t.
oponion as TO the effect OF politics
on business Is divided The majority
believe, and with reason. that politics
have done their worst and have been
amply discounted. Western business
nan are certainly paying little atten.
ton to politics. In the East. however.
the situation Ii somewhat different
Zig financial interests do not like tho
attitude ofslabor and the Government
towards the railroads. Two months Z
hot tariff discussion are closely aneaa
OF as. Many Of our great industr'r
would be seriously disturbed BY any
radical revision Of the tariff, wh'1t
viii be the main issue during the cam
paign this fall Such disturbance
would be reflected In financial quart.
ers. While the West q controlled
chiefly BY local influences. the o I
is unavoidably controlled BY national
and international interests: hence y !,
slnggishness In responding to Western
optimism. After ell, Il Il possible that
toe much attention Is being paid TO
lolitical considerations. Congress Will
shortly adjourn. Then the opportuni-
" for legislative disturbances win Be-
over and after the November election
the necessities for political fireworks
will be less urgent. ConsIderlnR this
fact. and that radicalism, though not
dead, Is declining In all parts Of the
country. there Is reason FOR taking
more hopeful Views regarding nation
al political affairs.
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IDAHO
By GEORGE FITCH

land is being sold as far west as ILL.,
nois in large quantities.
Idaho has vast natural deposits OF
gold, lead, timber, jackrabbits. Nor
mons and waterfalls. The waterfalls
work we'll in harness and the Nor
mons have boosted the census ire
mendously, but no use has as yet been
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According to a fashion paper. WON.
ans stockings made from real gold
thread and silk are to be the proper
thing abroad this autumn. They come
from Vienna and cost ,25 pair.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
CONTEST OVER
TARIFF PLANK
OF PLATFORM

CHICAGO. June 2o.-when at 10
CLOCK tonight the working sub-commit-
toe OF the platform COMMITTEES began
what it was hoped would be It's final
slttins preparatory TO presenting q re-
port to the full comrnittee, IL had agreed
tentatively upon all the important pianks
the finances.
The principal contest of the day was
over the tariff declaration and dealt with
the definition of the measure of protec-
tlon. Ono of the planks presented reit-
Grated the contention of 1908 that the
projection should be equivalent to the
am erence between the cost OF production
In the United States and abroad, while
another undertook to substitute for this
declaration that the protection should
ne sufficient 10 maintain the standard OF
living prevailing among the labor1ng
people of tho United States
The second suggestion was presented
by Senator Lippit of Rhode Island. who
urged the great difficulty OF ascertaining
the exact cost OF production abroad, a
fact which. he said. rendered the phrase
meaningless. The substitute proposed by
him was attacked by members of the
subcommittee on the ground that II
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
TWO SESSIONS,
LASTING ONLY
FIVE MINUTES
Progress of Convention De-
layed by Failure of the
Credentials Commit
tee to Report.
CROWD
IN THE COLISEUM
Heavy Rainstorm Breaks and
the Vast Concourse of Peo-
pie An1use Themselves
With Cheers.

~ H1CAGo, June 20.-Five minutes
was the entire duration of the two
sessions OF the Republican national
~ convention today. with recess OF
four hours between.
The first session convened at noon,
lasted four minutes: the second. one
minute.
The feature OF the noon session was
the prayer Of the Very Rev. Walter T.
Sumner. dean OF the Protestant Episco-
pal cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul
or Chicago. and the applause which fol-
lowed. This prayer differed from that
ofered at the opening session on Tues
day, when Father Callashan adhered
ssHctiy TO the usual form Of the Roman
Catholic ritual likewise from the invo-
cation yesterday by Rabbi Stolz, which
was oolorless and general in Its terms.
Dean Sumner dealt directly with the
sensational factional conflict present In
the mindd of every person IN the epor-
nous audience In whose oahaH he spoke
and prayed that there should be granted
10 the members Of the convention "self-
restraint, cool judgment and all wisdom
that their deliberations may insure to
the nation civic right teousness, industrial
peace and social Justice" The entire
gathering. both on the floor and plat
form and In the galleries, stood during
Dean Summers invocation, and as he
closed broke into quite general hand
claDpinC
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
TAFT BACkERS HALT
TO STUDY SITUATION
Colonel Could Get Only 200
Delegates, but Even Such a
Nomination Would Do
Damage.
BY EDWARD n. HAMILTON.

D GOW AhD n. HAMILTON.
BY International News Service.
~ HlCAGO, June 20.-This is the
day on which a nominee for
" president should have been Sc
lected-the third day Of the con-
ventioD. Aud a nomination seems as
far away as ever
One S afraid; the other dassen T."
That Is the situation as write this. II
may change before | can close
II the steam roller had emotion, you
would say it was frightened; that its
heart had weakened, that its nerve was
gone. The men of the steam roller have
halted. Will they back up9 Will they
get their nerve again and go ahead
Who can say7
The bolt of the mon from the com
mittee on credentials last night-the
bolt led by the pugnacious Francis j.
Heney-caused that committee to pause
In Its mad carcer-even Chairman De.
vine. the rough roller of Colorado, with
the blood all up in his neck, paused
long enough to bite his lip.
Chill For Fairbanks.
"You must excuse us!'' said Chester
"A. Rowell Of California, one of the
Roosevelt members of the sub.commit-
tee on platform. "You must excuse
US, We are going over to see whether
or not new party is to be formed,'
Rowell went to the Roosevelt bolters'
meeting in the Florentine room of the
Congress, When he came back to the
subcommittee he said, addressing for
mer Vice President Fairbanks, chair
man:
"Well, Mr.. Chairman. have the hon.
or to inform You that a new Republican
party has been born here
us that true?' asked Fairbanks
getting a little gray.
"Yes, SIR replied Rowell, emphat-
icalIy.
"Then in the future a man who de-
sires success must be Democrat, - said
the former vice president.
E'In the immediate future, yes" as
sentsd Rowell.
That subcommittee had arranged to
sit all night. 1t was to go through the
motions Just as the credentials commit
tee had arranged to do. 1'neu today,
the deep and dark dun steam roller was
to have snorted its way, hiccoughing in
the face of the dawn.
But suddenly there was a hand on
the lever. The roller stopped.
1t has been stopped all day. There
has been talk of compromise.
The credentials committee, that had
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
Direct Descendant of Mad An.
thony Wayne Is Admired
by the English.
Special Cable 10 The Tribune.

Special Cable 10 The Tribune.
DHlLADELPHIA, June 20.-Miss
Il Edith Wayne of PaoH, who as
bridesmaid OF Margsretta Drexel, now
Viscountess Maidstone. was pronounced
by the English press the prettiest
American girl who ever graced Eng
lish society, has been married to Thorn
as Ridgway. The ceremony was per
formed at Cheesurtwood, the Torres
dale home of her aunt, Mrs. Samuel
Mickle Fox, by the Rev. Horace A,
Walton. All Philadelphia society at
tended the reception.
Mrs. Rldgway is direct descendant
Of "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the revo-
lutionary hero.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
Some Certain Planks.

No provision was passed upon finally,
but among those to which no return is
likely to be made are those dealing with
the trusts, with the courts the arbitra-
ton agreement and with campaign con-
triouttons.
Legislation supplementary 10 the Sfer-
man antitrust law for the prevention OF
monopoly is recommended, and the rec
ommendation goes TO the extent Of sug-
gestlng the punishment Of violations OF
the law as a crime. Publicity for all
campaign contributions and the prohibit
ton Of such contributions from corpora
uons are suggested as In the interest
OF Impartial government.
The maintenance Of the inviola bility
Of courts OF justice is pressed and
thore Is an explicit declaration against
the recall of judges and OF judicial de-
cisions as contrary alike TO the consti-
tuition and the public welfare. Tho ref
erence TO arbitration of all justicea bic
controversies is recommended. but the
provision is not dwelt upon
Other recommendations are the re-
tention by the government of the own
ership OF the natural resources OF the
country, the enactment OF a workmens
compensation law. the protection OF chill
dren against oppression by antI-child
labor legislation and the safeguarding Of
the public health by proper legislation,
state and nation.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
Changes Long Needed.

The national committee roalized that
H. was proceeding with rules that were
not official" explained D. J. Luke OF
Connecticut. LAS a result IL named a
subcommittee several months ago TO COM
slder necessary changes long before the
present controversy in the convention was
foreseen.. Therefore the changes are nom
PARTISAN"
Marshall Stimson Of California sought
In vain TO commit the committee 10 the
proposition OF permitting the states to
dictate the manner in which they should
elect their Representatives on the nation
al committee He submitted three amend
rnents to this effect, all OF similar tenor
and each was voted down as it was Of
fered-
The rules as adopted will govern the
present convention. but the change In
the section Of the rules affecting the ma
tional committee Will not become effec-
tive until the new committee Is named
by tho convention
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alarms Stone was sent out for sand
wiches and coffee and the roller rolled
on.
significant thing about the hearings
is that Or,nsby MoHarg the Roosevelt
lawyer. has. like Heney, ''bolted" the
contests for good, He Is appearing In
the hearings. but Is letting each state
make It's own fight. Also II is slgnfl-
cant that OF tho twelve members who
bolted, Carringtop Of Maryland and Way
Of South Dakota were back today, That
is taken TO mean that even should Col
onel Roosevelt change his mind again
and try TO pull off bolt the delegates
from the states whose representatives
stuck in the credentials committee will
refuse to follow him, Indeed, the Mis-
souri, and Illinois members announced
fatty that they Will not bolt.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
port Probable.

y matters. though. the TAFT
.son nat when the convention
|rfiai tomorrow that they will
n report to Let the conven-
|hsr.he he cases one AT n time.
nh 'y get both mills TO grind
an mere was suggestion
N aaJournment for dinner.
"en said mo" Sergeant.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
Declines to Join League.

NEW YORK. June 20-Theodore
Roosevelt has declined 10 join in the
New York Mems League for Woman
Suffrage. Immediately after the recent
announcement by Colonel Roosevelt that
he was for woman suffrage. the secre-
tary OF the league. Mr.. Besdle. called at
the former presidents Office and left a
membership blank for him 20 sign. The
secretary now has received his answer
1t says that Colonel Roosevelt AT the
present time does not wish TO avail HIM
self OF YOUR kind offer"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
Iowa Will Not Bolt.

CHICAGO. June 2O-Iows's ten dele
gates who are pledged 10 Senator A r.
Culnmins will not bolt the convention
according 10 Senator w. s. Kenyon of
Iowa, campaign mana ger for Cumrlins
The Cummirs delegation never will
bolt" said Senator Kenyon last night
This talk about boiling ought to be sat
down on. Let the two factions fight Il
out in the convention"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-21
CHANGES MADE
IN THE RULES
BY COMMITTEE

CHICAGO. June 2o,-Perpetuation Of
the "steamroller' SO far as the national
convention OF the Republican party Is
concerned and recognition OF the direct
primary plan Of electing members of the
committee were the two radical and ap-
day In the rules governing the national
committee by the rules committee or the
convention. The Roosevelt members OF
the committee did not oppose either. They
will, however introduce A minority re-
port IN the convention, insisting on re-
duction OF southern representation In the
convention and upon the right of the
various states to dictate the method and
manner under which tbeis representa-
tives on the national committee shall be
elected, IN other resepcts the rules that
governed the Republican convention OF
four years ago wero adopted, 22 TO s.