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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.

Bryan IS now often mentioned as the
one Democrat big enough 10 renominate
for the Presidency. The others all look
little after nominating campaign in
which the Democratic voters have been
declaring generally that they prefer a
joke like Champ Clark 10 any Of them.
Champ Clarks success shows the real
poverty Of the party In candidates. II
there were an outstanding figure In II 1t
would not be possible for the politicians
TO deliver states, especially those which
have popular primaries. to the amiable,
man whose character and achievements
had gone home to the popular heart that
man would be getting delegates In spite
Of everything. Governor Wilson. II was
once thought. might prove to be such a
man. but the voting shows that Governor
Wilson was great only in the timid mag
ination Of his opponents. The other
Democratic candidates. arouse only
laneuid interest or none at all.
Governor Wilson's managers in the
Massachusetts campaign complained
that the Democratic contest was over
Swallowed by that in the Republican
party. All the individual figures In the
Democratic campaign are overshadowed.
They looked large last year. when they
were compared with the pygmies the
Democratic party had been producing.
They look small now when set alongside
the Presidency. There Is not one Of
them whose personality or achievements
have deeply stirred the popular imagi-
nation. II the Democratic party wins In
November il will be a party not per-
sonal victory. There Is no one stronger
than his party" for 1t to put up AS its
candidate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
PARE SPOONING.

From the attention II Is receiving AZ
the hands Of the authorities, the problem
presented by spooning in the parks seems
to be a serious one in the life Of the COM
munity. The park commissioners Of the
various borOughs and committee Of up
lifters are deyoting evenings to weiyhty
consideration of means TO stamp out this
habit, or custom. Suggestions have been
made that each couple of young people
who seek TO enter u park receive from
police guardian stationed at the en-
trance n list Of rules and regulation It's
Use Of obedience under penalty Of being
barred out. Another suggestion Is that
policeman stop before each couple gus-
pected Of spooning or intent to spoon and
stare reproachfully. Much stress is laid
on the deterrent effect Of the reproach-
full stare, though little attention seems to
have been paid to the method by which
the police-usually very human and
sometimes entirely kindly citizens--may
produce 1t whenever needed.
This problem is doubtless particularly
acute now, for rs one of the lyric gems
of the day has ii. "Springtime Is spoon
time" And in that line lies the recog-
milton Of Il fact which the regulators Of
spooning are apparently permitting
themselves TO overlook. Young people
always have spooned and always will
spoon. But there are. to be sure. vari-
Gus degrees and manners and conditions
of spooning, and no one knows better
than the park spooner that the park IS
rot always the most desirable place for
the exercise of the gentle pastime. But
what can these unfortunates do? It Is
not given TO every one to be able to en-
Joy the moonit deck % yacht. or the
secluded corner Of the piazza of a SUM-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
THE STRIKES.

Every day brings forth its strike, or
its threat that a strike which seemed
settled will break out again. They are
incidents Of Presidential year, which
are likely to take on more serious pro-
portions as industries become more CEN
tralized or pass more under public regu-
lation, If either of these tendencies de-
velops. The locomotive firemens strike
was to be expected In refusing the
demands of the engineers the railroads
had in mind the likelihood of demands
to come from tiremen, conductors ana
other classes Of employees. None OF these
would be satisfied to see the engineers
alone have their pay raised. and all OF
them were sure to be impressed with the
desirability of putting forward their
claims in this Presidential year along
with those the arbitration of which has
already been arranged.
1t is Just as well that they should all
come in The real situation will then be
fully understood and appreciated by the
people and the public authorities. The
contention of the striking engineers that
the ability of the railroads TO pay higher
wages is a question of efficiency in man
agement will have less force when the
other demands for millions upon millions
Of increase are placed beside their own
modest call for SS.000OO0 additional.
The coal miners representatives must
care little about public opinion. They
are placed in bad light by declining to
ratify the agreement entered into by
their own committee. Collective bar
gaining stands condemned when It Is
shown TO be as clumsy and difficult as 1t
has been in this instance, when 1t Is
necessary to suspend work in order to
make terms and when the leaders OF the
workmen do not abide by arrangements
made by their own representatives. The
miners convention when it comes to
pass upon this question had better re-
iect the advice OF its leaders and agree
to the compromise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
THE PARADE.

90 and see the parade. Go and see
the accent hats. They are a clincner
When women are determined enough In
any cause to put aside the vanities or
millinery 1t is no longer possible to Jest
at them. If the paraders could only
show the public that votes for women
would lead to the general wearing OF 30
cent hats husbands and fathers would
insist on amending the Constitution at
once in some way quicker even than any
Colonel Roosevelt has suggested. or
course, the parade won't prove that, so
the auti-suffragiSts need not be unduly
alarmed
But it will show numbers, much larger
numbers, very likely, than the average
man supposes to be interested In votes
for women" or else the effective orGani-
70 ton OF the suffragettes will have failed
TO do It's work as well as usual. Doubt
less IL will not fail. however, and every
suffragette will be there, from the three
year-old with whom suffragism Is hered-
itary to the eighty-seven-year-old, both
of whose pictures The Tribune published
yesterday morning.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch gave the
reason for the parade when she told the
Tribune readers that Eve know the av-
"erage man in the street Is more likely
ito be brought over TO our side by the
demonstration that we have numbers
with US than by the soundest logic"
That, no doubt was the rationale Of the
political parades and torchlight process
sions with which men used TO seek to
carry elections. Men used to march
through the streets chanting, Blaine!
Blaine, James G.. Blaine!" or some
other candidates name, Just as the
women will march to-day with big ban
ners demanding Votes for Women"
1t is a curious circumstance that as men
have given up trying to walk their way
into office and prefer talking their way
into office women should take up walk
ing their way to the vote as more effec-
tive than talking their way 70 II. Per
haps IN these matters n resort 10 other
than the natural weapons Of the sex Is
most impressive.
There is a significant absence Of laugh.
ter over the coming demonstration.
Numbers, the enlistment Of youth, avoid.
ance Of excess in dress or methods. such
as the hysterical excuses Of the British
militants, have won for the suffragettes
q degree Of respect. Still, II the parade
Is not to be laughed at II Is not to be
taken too seriously. II all the women
who are totally Indifferent to the suf-
frage could be induced 10 march there
would be parade
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
From The Tribune Bureau


Washington, May 3.--President and Mrs
Taft received more than two hundred MEM
bers Of the Society Of Colonial Danes OF
America in the Blue Room this afternoon,
Mrs William Ruffin Cox. national president,
heading the line The Colonial beauty OF
the White House was brought out to the
fullest in the simple decorations or spring
flowers. After greeting their visitors the
President and Mrs. Taft accompanied them
TO the East Room, where the ceremony Oh
presenting o portrait OF Dolly Madison TO
thg White House took place.
Mrs Cox made short address and Mrs.
William Todd Roberts, OF behalf of the
Colonial Danes of Virginia, unveiled the
portrait Miss Ursula Whitlock, Of Phla-
delphia the artist who copied the portrait
from that of Gilbert Stuart in the Gallery
Of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. also made
short speech. Then the President. on be
half of Mrs. Taft, accepted the portrait, 10
be hung in the White House with the por-
traits Of Mrs. Tyler Mrs. Van Buren,, Mrs.
Rutherford 3. Hayes, Mrs. Benjamin Harri-
sor and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
Mrs. Taft wore a gown OF cherry red
satin crepe Decline, with an overdress or
fine old black thread lace. while the same
lace and chiffon also made up the bodice.
The Marine Band played during the re-
Ception.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
JUDGMENT ON DIAZ.

Porfirio Dtaz was acclaimed the other
evening at a dinner in Paris as the
creator Of modern Mexico That is q
tribute which has frequently been paid
to him and which even those who most
strongly disapproved some of his au-
tocratic methods OF government will
not withhold The world generally has
long recognized the great beneficencG Of
his work in securing for Mexico tran
ouillity instead Of turbulence and stable
continuity Of government in place Of the
all but inceSsant revolutions which pre-
vailed before his day. 1t seems proba-
BILE that history will confirm the judg-
meDt Of his contemporaries.
The present disturbances in Mexico
suggest, however, if not a reconsidera-
ton Of that judgment at least peril
nent and pregnant commentary on It,
They were not unexpected. Indeed,
many friendly observers Of Mexican af-
fairs regretfully predicted when Diaz
was forced to abdicate that the country
would speedily relapse into the slough
Of disorder and repeated revolutions
from which he had rescued it, and even
the most hopeful to-day must confess
there is danger that the forecast will
be fulfilled. But what does that mean?
Partisans Of Diaz promptly reply that
1t shows the inability Of President Ma
dero to bend the bow Of Ulysses and
the need Of Diaz himself to keep the
land in order That estimate may he
partly correct Mr.. Madero has not been
universally regarded as strong man
In the sense that Diaz was In former
years. Seeing how many men formerly
tried TO maintain constitutional order
in Mexico and failed. 1t would not be
an indeliblc reproach to Mr.. Madero
that he did not greatly succeed.
The retort, however, is ready and not
ineffective, that II Mr.. Madero has not
been able to keep revolutions In check
neither was Diaz himself. in the last
emergency. II 1t be said that that was
when he had grown old and compare
lively feeble. the retort is that he should
by that time have so educated and dis
ciplined the people that they would re-
main orderly even when his grip began
to be relaxed, or that before the fatal
hour Of weakness came he should have
transferred the reins of government to
other hands which would be able to
hold them. The fact of record is that
after suppressing or preventing revolu-
lions for so many years, he finally him
self became the victim Of one. and Of
one which was led by man who is
now criticised for being weaker than he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
Nd less competent 10 deal with dis

and less competent 10 deal with dis
order.
Beyond that, and above all else, there
rises this unsatisfactory and disqulet-
ing reflection, that with all bis great
work for that country Diaz did not per-
manently redeem Mexico from her in
clination toward revolutionary methods
II was remarked here at the time OF Ills
abdication that the supreme test of his
work was then to come in the conduct
of Mexico after his departure. Now it
must be regretfully confessed that the
country has not stood the test as well
as bad been hoped. The old revolution
airy spirit is again rampant. And that
Is probably the severest Judgment that
Is TO be passed upon Diaz. His work
for stability and order does not endure
He was the creator of modern Mexico.
but his creation rested too largely upon
his own puissant personality, and when
that was withdrawn the great fabric
was imperilled.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
SIGNALS AT SEA.

The Titanic inquiry has inevitably
called attention TO the urgency of certain
reforms which can come only through In
ternational agreement. No resume OF
the lessons learned Is complete, for IN
stance, which does not point to the hope
less confusion of night signals at sea.
Congress cannot hope to remedy this
condition.
At present majority Of the steam
ships regularly plying between Europe
aud America employ Roman candles,
and a few even use rockets, in displaying
their private signals at night, among the
latter being the White Star boats them
selves. Yet rockets. from which Roman
candles are not easily distinguishable at
a little distance. are used universally at
sea as distress signals. The Titanic dis
charged them as such when she was
sinking, and there is much evidence to
show that her rockets were seen. But
the heartbreaking irony Of the situation
decreed that the one or two vessels
which might have saved every one Of the
/ 800 lives sacrificed ignored these fire
works as nothing but the usual display
of private signals seen along the great
lane almost any fine night.
There would appear from this superla-
lively dear experience TO be as great a
need of reform in night signalling at sea
as In the receipt and transmission Of
wireless messages. The general use OF
wireless telegraphy by passenger boats
has abolished the necessity for private
signalling over great areas. 1t has been
suggested, therefore, that all private sig
nails be confined to the burning Of pyro-
technic or Coston lights, which are not
easily confused with the explosion Of
rockets, and that when any ship, large or
small. discharges rockets aloft, or even
Roman candles. that ship shall be con-
sidered by all vessels IN sight to be in
dire need Of help.
In view Of the ability Of the steamship
lines to agree so promptly to pursue a
transatlantic course $50 miles to the
south Of the old long" course, what ar
gument can be advanced against the sim
fairy concerted adoption Of precaution
so simple and elementary as the distinct
differentiation between distress signals
and all others?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
MRS. SAGE is NOT ILL
Physician and Lawyer Deny Re-
port Regarding Her Health.

Mrs. Russell Sage is not III. and Is IN bet
ter health than she has been FOR two years.
This was the statement made last night by
Or. d. Bryson Delavan. her family ply
stefan. In denying the report published yes
terday afternoon that her friends we're
anxious about her condition.
For one OF her years." said Er. Della
van Mrs Russell Sage Is n particularly
good health. She has really not been Ill
all winter. To-day she went out for ride
in her automobile. as is her invariable GUS
tom I'm good weather"
Robert W. de Forest. Mrs. Sage's attor-
ney, added his refutation of the report 20
the physicians, and asked that the rumor
be emphatlcally denied lie said Mrs. Sage
never went to her Long Island home before
the first OF June, in replying to the pub
lshed statement that she had refrained
from going on account Of her health
At Mrs. Sase's home II was said there
had been 10 nurse IN the house for six
weeks and no doctor for two weeks. Mrs.
Sage was receiving daily callers. as usual.
It was said. tho number yesterday being
moro than usual because OF the report OF
her illness
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04

was deep in thought as he sat at the coun-
sci table. The opposing attorney maze al
objection TO a question put to witness pS
the associate of Senator O'Gormans. oD'
lection is overruled," remarked the forn'e'
Justice and, still deep In thought he was
the only person in the room who did not
smile
81 see Jack Hanson was married the
other day to Miss Richley." ~,
Yes, and | was very sorry TO see H.
Sorry? For her sake or his .,,o
For mine: wanted her. 1.-THE CatPoi0
Standard and Times.
Among those who stood in Broadway
near Trinity Church week ago, Waitlhs
for the funeral procession of General Grant
IN pass. was a man who held by the hand
small boy to whom he told how he hau
seen the funeral of General Grants father
about fifteen years ago. \ woman WIZ
heard the conversation, eScusing herseh
for spea king, said: Are you not giving tIe
child tho wrong date? | thought Genera
Grant was buried in the summer OF 1850
..Not at all. madam" said the man, with
sbou NJ displeasure, Ito be exact 1t will be
fifteen wears tomorrow" The old lady helo
her own, however, and retorted On ~"
mean the dedication Of the Grant torho
that was fifteen years ago; but niue ooS'
turning to the child, the first GENERA
Grant was buried on August s, 1880 anu
she showed the child q badge which she H''
worn on that occasion. Then the man
without saying a word. moved away from
that part Of the crowd and boy shouted
after him: "Smatter pop?'
BJobbs-Does young DR.. squills know
much about medicine: 10
SIobbs-Well, / should say that What ne
doesn't know about medicine "ouln III
rnnrnln -Philadcln ReCor1.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
HINTS FOR LlFEsoAT EQUIPMENT

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. Adequate support 10 the waist OF
lifeboat can b. given by tackle similar 70
that which Is attached at the bow ana
stern. \ spring mattress AS = buffer be-
tween the ship and llfeboat should be low
cred ri the same time TO avoid the ever
present danger OF crashing in the liteboats
side ele II can cast loose. Or load IT IN
a launching car that protects the lifeboat
until 4 floats, strongly built 10 secure Its
safety when fully loaded with its compile
ment OF passengers.
The danger Of leaky boats made OF wood
IS great This can be met by metal lin
ing which. although adding little 10 The
weight renders them always ready IN the
open sea Hooded tarpaulins over the bow
and stern protect the occupants from spray.
Additional tarpaulins furnish protection
from Indictment weather. All these fittings
10 a boat that must risk the open sea can
be cheaply furnished and are indispensable
10 complete equipment
Moderate sized air tight compartments
should DO Installed fore and aft and stores
OF concentrated food and rockets and other
necessary signals should be placed on board
each lifeboat.
A FRESH WATER SAILOR.
shdrpes. Fla, April 80, 1872.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
SMALL CHANGE.

The decision OF the Treasury Depart
ment not TO interpose any objection TO
legislation authorizing the coinage Of
three cent and one-balf cent pieces Is
sign Of the times. Although the hand
lers of food products are talking com
placently Of boosting the prices of meat
and selling butter next winter at ~ or
90 cents a pound. the great masses Of
the people are turning their attention
more and more TO small economies In
expenditure and are getting ready 10
welcome q diversifcatlon Of our minor
coins. For the first time in American
history we seem TO be on the verge OF
putting into circulation half-cent, and
that fact alone speaks volumes In re-
gard to the increasing pressure on the
great majority of the present high cost
Of living.
1t IS not hard to remember when in II
large section Of the United States the
cent piece was scOrned. The nickel was
the smallest coin In common use, ana
newspapers long continued 10 be sold In
Western communities for five cents be-
cause that was the minimum change a
purchaser had to toss TO the newSboy.
Wages and salaries were on the whole
much lower then than they are now, but
our great progress In invention and In
economy and systemzation In produc'
ton has been accompanied not by rise
in the purchasing power Of earnings
but rather by a vast increase In con-
sumption and steady advance In the
cost Of living. Persons who genera
ton ago thought It beneath them 70
split a FIVE cent piece are now asking
for chance TO split cent The pro-
ducers and mddlemen who are talking
Of 50 or 90 cent butter next winter
may not have reckoned with the public
temper, which IS now encouraging the
tesua ~ email poiOz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-04
INVISIBLE ICEBERGS
On a Starlit Night They Seem only
a Part Of Sky, Says Observer
~ thn Edlinr az The Trihune

To the Editor OF The tribune
Sir: The THAMES disaster, like that OF
the Arizona, years ago. seems only 10 DC
explained by the suppostion that navisa-
tors share the mistaken. but universal
idea that white has an intrinsic power I'd
show at night II Is high time, If only TOT
this one purpose, that optics were stuulsu
in our schools White upper slopes or all
oh jects-mountains, roofs, icebergs, while
TONED animals-seen against a starry
moonless sky are so perfectly Illuminated
and tinted by the starlight as TO be almost
sure 10 pass for the sky, making you tnirN
there Is no solid object there.
one may prove this any night, out on the
sea or In an open field, away from artiAciel
lights Law a white cloth SMOOTHLY over
the top of any round topped dark-coloreo
obiect-a hay cock or a stuffed gunny SACK
so that It covers the top ana the ADJACENT
SLOPES toward your eye. Look at 1t from
below IFS level, so as to bring II against the
sky. and you will learn. once for all, that
officers Of steamers should renounsa all
bona ~ seeing bergs at night and act ac-
cOrdingly.
In the press reports OF April 10 we nave
both the fact that the THAMES watch ga"
f. which means that up 10 that moment
II had stood undetected before them against
background OF clear sky duplicated IN
the CLASSY sea, and later, from rescued
passengers IN the boats, two miles away
from the Titanic. that her great ouik OUT
lined In black against the starry sky ana
that thew watched the Titanic. tower
ing I'D above the level OF the sea and loom
inc black against the sky" This SHOWS
that the berg was not slack! The black
ship showed: the berg didn't
By day even the spotless ice and sno"
OF an iceberg arc always liable 10 look dark
AGAINST a sllghter sky beyond, especially
at morning and evening. but at night unier
a starlt sky. without a moon. and with the
sky reflected in a calm sea. the illumination
is uniform, and every part Of the berg thdt
faces more or less upward, Ike hillslde'
IS invisible against the SKY. $50.
ABBOTT II. THAYER
Nonadnock. n H.. May 2, 1872.