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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-18
LEWIS ASSAILS
PRES. GOMPERS
BRANDS LABOR HEAD.
As 4 REACTIONARY
Resolution Pending Before Mine
Workers to Withdraw From
Federation of Labor.
Socialists Precipitate Fight in Ef-
fort to Secure Support
of Miners.

lNDlANAPOLIS, Ind. Jan. II
After The convention OF the Jrnited
Mine Workers of America had gone
IN record today a favCring govern.
m"nt ownership OF industries, the
socialists among the thirteen hun
dred delegates launched a resolu-
non indorsing their party as The
political party of the working class"
but II met resistance. stormy debate
occurred during the afternoon scs-
sion and the question went over
until tomorrow.
Action Was also deferred on "A reso-
luton providing that the United Mine
Workers should Withdraw from the
American Federation OF Labor. con
uemning the National civic Fedora.
( ton as an agent OF capitalists and
sharply CriiicZiug Samuel GOmpcrs.
John Mitchell and other leaders ot
. the Federation Of Labor Tor Co-opera.
tion with the civic Federation.
Because the constitution OF tho
United Mine Workers stipulates that
y shall b" non-pol.tical. the resolu-
tions committee reported. IL noncon-
CURED In the resolution committing
the organization to the Socialist
parry and offered substitute de-
claring only it would he well Il
workers would unite on the political
rs well as the Industrial field"
Socialists Fight Hard.
John Walker. president ~ the hi.
noi> miners. speaking tor the Social.
ISIS. !niimatcd that u necessary an
effort viii be- made 20 amend m" con.
stl'u'Iun 20 that th" national union
could 'ndors. ~" Socialist party. In
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-18
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Weaver Fore - Remorse
For d. ). Blows
4 Out

Special Dispatch 80 tne Int.liIgencer.
ELKI\S. ". Va. Jan i..-Sam
'nrrion "a Lithuanian. aged 25. COM
miitra suicide az Weaver. a little town
n'ar here. because of the murder OF
tw" "f his countrymen. which he
committed bcfor. leaving his native
lnr-+:- pr,yed upon his mind carrion
shot himself in the right templ, at "A
hotcl IL Weaver today.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-01-18

OMAHA. Neb.. Jan IA con-
ference OF several leading Nebraska
Democrats today considered the
action Of the editor OF Harper's
Weekly in taking from the head OF
its columns the name OF Governor
Woodrow Wilson - "A candidate for
the Democratic nomination for presi-
cent. The meeting was held in the
Office % Mayor Dahlman. and was ex-
ecutive
The action OF Mr. Harvey is tho
COLLAPSE OF the Wilson BOOM" said
the mayor Mr. Harvey - hy no
means The first of leading Democ rats
who have ben supporting Governor
wilson 20 drUp him democrats like
tolou'i Wat'-rsou and Colonel Hemp
til have fallen ou' al tho Wilson
ranks Nebraska Democrats have no
candida'a 90 propose. bur generally
are opposed to Mr. Wilson having
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Evening journal., 1912-01-17
WEDNESDAY, JAN. IL, 1912
THE COURTS AND PROGRESS.

K REQUENTLY it is asserted that the courts
a stand in the way of progress, and this charge
mas often been brought against the Supreme Court
OF the United States. But decisions now and then
dsprove the truth of such statements by critics.
The other day the Supreme Court rendered a
decision, which shows that the highest tribunal is
far from being reactionary body. By a unani-
nous decision of the judges the Federal Employ
ers Liability act as applied TO interstate railroads
is upheld This decision clears up several matters
that have been in dispute In the opinion of the
high court legislation, state or national, that abro-
gates the common law doctrines of fellow servant,
assumption of risk or contributory negligence, is
not forbddep by constitutional requirements that
property shall not be taken without due process
of law No one, declares the court, has vested
property right in the common law.
The Supreme Court also holds against the opin-
ion of the Connecticut court that actions under
the Federal statute may be brought in the state
court where local laws are appropriate. This point
reasserts the truth that the Jaws Of the
United States are supreme.
Along with this decision by the highest tribunal
of the land is another by the Ohd Supreme Court
upholding the Workngmens Compensation act in
that state.
Several other opinions bearing on the same
kiVf~of Legislation have been lately rendered by
high courts They show that what is called pro-
gressive legislation is not contrary to the const
tuition.
The fact is that industrial conditions are far
different from what they were years ago. New
laws are required to meet present day conditions,
and if they can stand the test Of the courts as
many of them are doing the reasons for the dras-
tic criticism of the courts will have been removed
This criticism has been in effect that many de-
cisions are rendered based upon precedents estab-
lished before the great changes in the industrial
world and that the courts not able or willing
TO grapple with the actual industrial facts they
exist today. But such opinions that of the
Supreme Court in the Liability case and that of the
Ohio court in the compensation case show that
the judges can apply the constitution and the law
TO fit modern conditions
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
WILLIAM c. sPRoUL FOR GOVERNOR.

TT is gratifying to the many Delaware friends
i of State Senator William c. Sproul Of Chester
TO know that the Republican leaders of Pennsyl-
vania seriously considering him as the next
candidate of the party for Governor Of that COM
monweaith. Had it not been for the fact that the
nomination was considered as belonging TO the
western end of the state, Mr.. Sproul would have
been the standard bearer Of the party when Gov
ernor Tener was named. Mr. Tener got into the
Office by the Skin of his teeth owing to a divi-
sion in the ranks of his opponents, but it is en-
tirely improbable that Senator Sproul would have
10 contend against such difficulties as confronted
Iener a candidate.
A staunch Republican and considered as an or
ganization man Senator Sproul is regarded as
high type of citizen, not at all in sympathy with
the misdongs of the machine leaders that have
brought discredit upon the party in Pennsylvania
Among the many good bits of legislation for
which Mr.. Sproul stood sponsor as a Senator was
the amendment to the constitution adopted at the
last session of the Legislature authorizing a $780,
100000 loan for the improvement of the Pennsyl-
vania highways. He is in sympathy with the good
roads movement and WilmngtonianS have per-
haps what may be called selfish interest in seeing
him elevated to the high post of Governor of
Pennsylvania. With the building of the dupont
road in this county Senator Sproul will use his
influence TO have the roads of his own county so
improved that there will be a continuous good
highway from this city to Philadelphia
Aside from all this Senator Sproul is keen
and alert man of public affairs He is an advocate
of all movements for the general benefit of the
public He is a benefactor of his Alma Mater
Swarthmore College, to which he has given large
sums; he is an all round good fellow in the best
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
DEPOPULATION OF FARMS.

A CCORDING to some observers the question
1 of the rush of persons from the country to
the cities will soon become serious problem
chiefly because of the probable falling off in the
product of the farms. The high cost of living will
become a serious menace to the general pros
perity of the country This subject was brought
up at the meeting of the Ohio State Board of Ag-
rculture the other day when President Charles
William Dabney Of the University of Cincinnati
called attention to the steady decline of the popu-
lation of the country districts of Ohio as COM
pared with the increase in population of the cities.
In the great agricultural state of Ohio the rural
population which in 1890 amounted to 50'per cent.
of the total for the entire state decreased in 300
to AZ per cent. and in 1910 to 35 per cent; or,
to put il another way whereas the total popua-
tion of Ohio increased about 5 per cent. in each
of the above decades and the urban population
increased 80 per cent. for each period the rural
population, on the other hand, actually decreased
a per cent the first decade, and l-2 per cent.
the second.
This state of affairs, DR.. Dabney thinks, is more
menacng than the trust or the currency or any
other question, for, as James ]. Hill says, land
without population is wilderness, and popula-
ton without land is mob"
Speaking of the general state of agriculture DR..
Dabney remarked that it is narrow view of ag-
rcuIture, however which regards this great art
only as means of providing men with the simplest
means of existence. We are interested in the
progress Of agriculture not only as a means of
supplying the food necessary for the increasing
peoples of the earth but as the art which chiefly
supports mans advancement along all lines in
tellectual, moral and spiritual as well as physi-
cal. Man shall not live by bread alone
The university president believes that the inn
proved public schools in the country districts will
be factor in keeping the young on the farms
and that the farms must be made more attractive.
The schools, no doubt will help, but the growth
of the cities with their many opportunities for
pleasure and earning money despite the lack of
independence which characterizes most men in
the cities, will prove or at least has proved very
attractive TO young and ambitious men who have
left the farms.
1t is said that a great many of them after they
have made their pile desire to return to the
farms TO spend the rest of their days in rural life
but if statistics could be obtained this point,
we doubt whether they would show that any ap-
preciable number of men past middle life, or
men who have made their pile so back to the
farms as a permanent place of residence. They
may have their country homes, but they spend
much of the time in the cities, and, besides such
driftba to the land would have little or no real
effect on the production of the farms,
and such production is the serious matter that
DR.. Dabney has in mind
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
MINCE PIES AND COLLEGE GIRLS
New York World.

New YORK World.
Mince pie has endured from gem
GRAFTON to generation and is not cast
down. It has suffered long from the
itacks of critics for whom it is
rong meat, but it still is kind to
those who love it and whom it loves.
Il gives and needs strength. We
note without dependence the at
tempt in various New England col
leges for girls TO give this delectable
dish a new bad name and hang it.
1T is ruinous for the complexion,
says one preceptress. And another
prates of technicalities Of digestion.
But at good Old Wellesley they have
mince three times a year for the
girls who cannot go home for the
holidays" and there you have the
whole case for the libelled pastry in
a sentence. Mince pie is the home
pie. II spells Thanksgiving and
Christmas and a Happy New Year
and back-to-the-farm and good-for-
the-old folks and all sorts of things
that keep together the Families in
which the Nation is great.
Complexionsi Why. the country
was full Of them before any food
critic drew the hot air of life. And
it will be full of them still when the
last foe Of mince pie falls under the
Evening journal., 1912-01-17

Governor Goldsborough of Maryland is advo-
eating the creation OF a commission TO study coun-
try life in Maryland, with view to suggesting any
plans by which life in the country could be made
more attractive. 1t is we'll to have such commits
sons for they stir up interest in the subject al
though their recommendations may not be fol-
lowed. A survey of the country life in Maryland,
including that on the eastern shore, should be of
much interest to Delawareans and it might not be
a bad idea to have Delaware join in similar under
taking. In fact we have thought for long time
that there should be some organization in Della
ware TO take a comprehensive survey Of the state
and make plans for its further development.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
COURT FROWNS ON
THE TURKEY TROT

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE United
States District Court has frowned on
The turkey trot and it's frisky little
sisters, grizzly bear, bunny hug, pic
cadilly crawl and Gaby glide. Moth
ing official, of course, but a straight
intimatiOn to Jacques and Andre
Bustanoby that the nightly high jinks
in the art room of the Cafe des Beaux
Arts won't do.
So the trot and the grizzly, not TO
mention the scissors and the tangal-
anga tap, have lost another jolly
home. Where, few nights ago, people
who hate TO go TO bed early swayed
and undulated with sliding feet to the
accompaniment of a negro orchestra,
popping corks, tinkling glasses and
shouts of merriment, all is perfectly
proper and a little gloomy.
The news that the Federal court had
joined in the ban on the dances which
originated in San Francisco's Barbary
Coast, New Orleans resorts and negro
dance halls from Chicago to Mobile,
got out when patrons of the Cafe des
Beaux Arts displayed neatly engraved
cards which bore the request Of the
Bustanobys that the trot and similar
dances be cut out
What Led TO Order.
"In order" the card read, "to COM
ply with official orders guests Will
please refrain from dancing the turkey
trot, grizzly bear and other similar
dances. Guests unaccompanied by
ladies will not be served in the art
room at supper"
Jacques Bustanoby, who is associ-
ated with his brother Andre in the
job of trying to pull the restaurant at
Sixth avenue and Fortieth street out Of
its financial difficulties, explained to-
day what had led to the order
Mr. Bustanoby said that Augustus
II. Skillin, who was appointed receiver
of the restaurant by United States
District Judge George c. Holt when
/ the BeauX Arts failed three weeks ago,
had directed him to abolish the dances.
Mr. Skillin, whose duties as receiver
kept him around the restaurant pretty
lmuch night and day, had observed the
dances and had made up his find that
he didn't care for them at all.
"Mr Skillin told me-" said Mr.. Bus
tanoby, that he had read the news
lpaper comments on the dances and
that the comments seemed to reflect
public opinion. He had heard also
that Mayor Gaynor thought the turkey
and the others a bit too utterly utter
for a moral community and that he
considereded his duty as an officer Of
the court, responsible for the proper
conduct of the restaurant, to put his
foot down.
Had Consulted Judge.
81 got the impression" said Mr..
Bustanoby, "that Mr. Skllin had con-
suited with Judge Holt and had re-
ceived the Judges approval. Judge
Holt looked in here Saturday night,
but there was no dancing. But | make
! this prediction, that in a short time,
year or two. these dances that have
so disturbed everybody will be as GUS
tomary as an ordinary waltz or two
STEP There is nothing suggestive or
offensive about them provided they are
performed modestly You can make
a waltz or a two-step or a quadrille
suggestive if you go about it. To mo
the turkey trot is the poetry of mo-
ton, a rhythmic dream"
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
WIEN HIS VOICE CHANGED

"My 15-year-old son. says Mrs.
c. Sherman, whose home is in Brook
lyn. caught bad cold just when his
voice was changing and could not
get rid of it for about a year. Vinol
was the only medicine that did him
any good and it was Just what he
needed to drive his cough away and
build up his strength"
If he had taken Vinol sooner, he
would have been spared whole lot Of
annoyance and suffering.
Rronchitis-cough is simply a sign
of bodily weakness. When you build
up the bodily strength and enrich the
blood with Vinol. our delicious cod
liver and iron preparation without oil,
the cough is bound to disappear
10 is really the only natural and
right way to get rid of these brOu-
chial coughs that hang on so long.
In all weakened and rundown con-
ditions of the body. whether in men,
women or children. Vinol is exactly
what is needed to bring back strength.
We guarantee 90 give back your mon
ey II Ninol does not help You. ~ p.
Daniorth Druggist Wilmington, Del.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
HACKED THE SPIRIT.

Wanting the spirit, the letter is
Gull. indeed" remarked an officer in
Uncle Sans Army, who is a bit Of a
philosopher as we'll.
"An English drill sergeant. whose
severity had made him unpopular with
his company, was putting a squad OF
recruits through the funeral exercise.
Opening the ranks so as TO admit the
passage OF a cortege between them. the
instructor, by way of practical ex-
PLANTATION, walked slowly down the
lane formed by the two ranks, say
ing as he did so:
Now, ! am The corpse. Pay at
tentionl'
Having reached the end of the lane
he turned round. regarded the recruits
with a scrutinizing eye and then re-
marked:
Yor 'ands is right and your 'eads
is right but you 'ayent got that look
of regret YOU OUGHT to 'avev New
York HeseAS.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
Stories of the Day
BERGER FOR 1T.

Representative Victor Berger, the
lone Socialist in the Hause, was asked
over the telephone today what he
thought of Mr.. Hitchcock's plan for
Government ownership of telegraph
systems.
Are you in favor of Government
ownership Of
eyes" Then-"What are you talking
about?" added Mr.. Berger.
'sWhy, 1 was trying to ask you if
you were in favor of Government own
ership of telegraph systems as advo-
Gated by Postmaster-General Hitch
cock?"
Il was right anyhow" replied Mr..
Berger. Because I am in favor OF
Government ownership of everything.
New York World.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
EDUCATIONAL VALUE
OE rONuuNpTO'
Baltimore Evening Sun.

Baltimore Evening Sun.
It is a little bewildering to consid-
er the length and the breadth, the
height and the depth of the meaning
Of the Democratic National Conven-
tion. Take its educational value. for
instance. From this time forward
about 100000 people in Baltimore will
watch the news Of the struggle for
the Presidential nomination with in
tense interest. Bryan, Harmon, VIII
son, Clark. Underwood. Folk the
the very names will take on a new
meaning. Each move they make, each
action Of their supporters. will mean
vastly more to all Baltimoreans than
such things ever did before. By the
time June 25 rolls round the Balt-
more people will have higher aver
age knowledge of public affairs than
the people of any other city of the
country.
In truth, the political game is we'll
worth watching. Wheels within
wheels. wires overlapping wires,
plank upon plank. rail supporting
rail-all the hackneyed political
metaphors will come to mean some-
thing definite to us by the time the
convention meets. Harmon-what
does he stand for? Is he a disguised
emissary of the corporations or is he
another Grover Cleyeland-brave,
hard-headed, determined? Wilson
is he a political Bayard OF is he an
unstable thinker. bending this way
and that with the winds of popular
thought? Is he anything more than
the extraordinary orator and the
felicitous writer? Champ Clark
has he the virtues of the early states
men or are his homely talk and his
old slouch hat mere affectation? How
far has he been responsible for the
excellent record made by the Demo-
Gratis in the House since he has been
Speaker? And Bryan himself-is he
a patriot or a mastery self-adver-
tiser? Cares he more for coin or for
country? Is he striving to land a
fourth nomination for himself or does
he wish merely to have a voice in the
selection of the nominee? Children
in the primary schools Of Baltimore
will have definite opinions ON all
these questions by June 25 next.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
: With the ParagrapherS ::

When a has to get busy he rolls up his shirt
sleeves; when a really gets down to work
she ties up her hair I'm knot at the back-Detroit
Free Press
II took a Philadelphia millionaire fourteen and
half seconds to buy a automobile of winter pat
tern; yet there still men among who will insist
that the rich have things to worry them
Chester Times.
The Democratic National Committee understood its
business in particular least IL snapped up
Baltimore's certified check and let the magnificent
oratory in behalf OF other cities go protest-Phil-
adelpha Press.
Mr.. Roosevelt. IL is announced, will do nothing to
obtain the nomination Well some Of his trends
determined 70 leave him nothing to do.-Boson Tran
script
Evidently Ohios other favorte son. Governor Har-
Bee.
some men are satisfied that their neighbors drink
too much for every time they go into a saloon they
md their neighbor here.-Chester Times.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
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Evening journal., 1912-01-17
Peoples Column
CITIZENSHIP RESPONSIBILITY
INCREASING

Editor of THE EVENING. JOURNAL.
The movement for the Initiative, the
Referendum and Recall is spreading
over the country. These are instru-
ments of democracy. Give instru-
ments to an orchestra-they cannot
play unless they get together-and the
orchestra cannot use instruments to
play new tunes and produce good
music unless they practice. The citi-
zens cannot use instruments of de-
mocracy to solve the new. complex
problems Of the day unless we get
together and practice democracy.
Taking the principle enunciated by
Washington: I'm proportion as the
structure of a government gives force
to public opinion, it is essential that
public opinion should be enlightened"
the keynote Of this movement is a
citizenship organization. Such we
have
George II. Litz,
Chairman /. r. and r. of Delaware.
Wilmington, Jan. IS.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
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Evening journal., 1912-01-17

sense of the words, and his Delaware friends feel
deep interest in the political career of their
neghbor They believe that the Republican party
in Pennsylvania could select no worther stand
ard bearer than William G. Sprou of Chester.
Being part owner of both the Chester news
papers, Mr. Sproul cannot be expected-modest
man that he sto toot his own horn, and we trust
he will pardon little footing the part of next
door neighbor though in another state
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
RELIEF REPORTS.

The Philadelphia and Reading
Railway Relief Association has is
sued their statement for the month Of
November, 1911. During that month
a total of $27,14i.S5 was received; I;
S17S97 disbursed, making a grand
total Of $5,359, ,490.97 distributed since
the organization. S4.546.50 was dis
tributed for accident. and S5,4O6.S0 for
sickness during the month.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17
MIR. HOFFECKER AT McCABE.

Francis II. Hoffecker will lecture
on "The Trial Of Christ Before PLATE
From a Lawyers Viewpoint" at Nc
Cabe Memorial Church. Twenty-sec-
ond street and the Boulevard. tomor-
row evening. There will be a musical
program furnished by some Of the
best talent in the city.
Evening journal., 1912-01-17

After years of service in the cause of various.
reform movements in Pennsylvania, Colonel
George E. Mapes, a well-known Philadelphia news
paper man, has been appointed TO the position of
Chief of the Lighting Bureau of Philadelphia and
he is expected TO perform useful service. Colonel
Mapes one of the stars on the old Philadelphia
Times under the Mcclure control, and he has been
actively connected with all the reform parties in
PennsYlvania