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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
HIT BY AUTO, MAY DIE.
Nicholas Beck Darts Before Ma
chine on Roller Skates,

Nicholas Beck, years old, of 116 Rut-
ledge street, is in the Eastern District
Hospital with little chance for life. The
boy was the victim of an automobile ac-
cident while speeding along Bedford
avenue on roller skates. He was I'M
able to get out of the way of the fast
moving automobile.
Charles d. Lamont of 952 Andrews
avenue, Highbridge, was driving the
machine. AS he neared Lynch, he saw
dozen youngsters in the street and
sounded a warning. Everything looked
clear, when suddenly young Beck
rounded into Bedford avenue from
Lynch street. Lamont quickly turned
his machine but not enough to clear the
boy.
The youngster was struck with con-
siderable force and thrown against the
curbstone. Lamont brought his car to
quick stop and hurried to the boys
side. DR.. Swartz was then summoned
and stated that the youngster had re-
ceiyed a fracture of the skull. The
chauffeur was taken to the Clymer
street station and after explaining
the accident was released. - Brooklyn
Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
Taft Men Bolt in Missouri.

Poplar Bluff, Mo-, March 19.-Re-
publicans of the fourteenth congress
sional district today elected two sets of
delegates to the Republican national
convention. The Taft men named
George L. Greene of Taylor and Byrd
Duncan of Poplar Bluffs. The Roose-
welt followers elected Sam Ulen of
Dexter and John C. Harlan of Gaines
vile.
Two conventions were held in the
same hall. Soon after announcing the
appointment of committees the Taft
faction bolted the convention and met
on the sidewalk. The Roosevelt men
continued in session and then adjourned
until this afternoon.
Earlier in the day the Roosevelt men
elected their own chairman and secre-
tary of the congressional district COM
mittee. These officers were on the
platform with the Taft chairman and
secretary, who were ousted as officers
of the committee by the Roosevelt
men.
The Roosevelt faction claimed ll2
delegates to the congressional conven-
ton and the Taft followers 80.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22

declared that it was the best tariff bill
ever enacted. This, with his scan
dalous foreign appointments and many
other matters too numerous to mention,
found the country strongly democratic
in 1910.
Taft seemed to have wrecked himself,
and in proposing free trade for northern
farmers may possibly have wrecked the
republican party, for do not see how
any self-respecting farmer, or any
other republican who wishes to see
square deal, can ever vote for Taft del
egates.
When man comes through here try
ing to burn our barns or poison our
cattle or render us any other equivalent
injury, how can we be expected to vote
for him as a candidate for president?
If Vermonters want just man for
president they must begin by turning
out to the caucuses and instructing
their delegates to instruct our national
and district delegates not to vote for
Taft.
JOHN L. BARSTow.
Shelburne, Vt, March IL, 1912.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22

the way and. from outlying portions of
the Middle West, asking to be put on
the schedule of the tour.
Senator Joseph M. Dixon was at work
today upon an itinerary for Col. Roose-
welt. The wishes of the latter will
probably determine the point where
speeches are to be made, but the cam
paign managers in Washington say he
may have to make many short speeches
at stations along the way and additional
speeches in the cities where his main
addresses are to occur.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
UOIfIV Ii 1J1fIkhJ1 y
Shelburne, Vt, March IL, 1912.
Lorimer to the Rescue.

Senator William Lorimer of Illinois
signalized his return to his duties in
Washington by making public state
ment in opposition to the nomination
of Col. Roosevelt. The Illinois senator
twill use his influence in behalf of the
President and against Roosevelt, whom
he accuses of preaching anarchy"
Of course he will. Lorimer, whose
election to the United States Senate
was a scandal and a disgrace to the
nation, sees the fitness of things.
Lorimer, Penrose, Du Pont, Aldrich,
Stephenson. Mckinley, all are working
fiercely for Taft. They could do no more
for the beef trust, the lumber trust or
the powder trust. Their activities are
intense and their hatred of Roosevelt
outspoken. They are grouped at the
head and front of the Taft manage
ment in a: solid stern group. They
represent the attitude of the interests
in this campaign as nothing else could
do. Contempt for the rights of the
people could not be written across
their campaign more plainly if it were
flashed in electric letters ten feet high
They were fighting Taft four
years ago-Lorimer. Stephenson, Crane,
Penrose, Aldrich, Mckinley, and the
interests they represent. They are the
brains and power of the Taft campaign
today.
Could anything tell more clearly that
the Roosevelt campaign is against en-
trenched privilege-both political and
financial?
" 1t is straight contest for the cause
of human rights, and the politicians who
have put their grip on the party ma
chimes in the past are fighting desper-
ately to hold it today. Boston Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
FRIDAY, MARCH az, 1912.


We call attention to the official call
for the Republican State Convention to
choose four gates-at-large to the
Republican National Convention. A
statement is also given of the number
of delegates which each county may
elect to the State Convention. 1t is
very important that there should be a
full attendance at the town caucuses
and none but men of sound judgment
be elected as delegates.
We also call attention to ex-Gov.
Barstow's second letter, which appears
upon this page.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
Ex-Gov. Barstow's Second Letter.


Mr.. Taft was nominated in 1908 on a
platform explicitly promising protection
to farmers, and between his nomination
and election made many speeches all
through the West in which he inter-
preted the republican platform as mean
ing revision downward. This idea
pleased the western people for they
nearly all favored lower tariff.
Candidates for senators and represent
tatives to Congress took up the slogan
of revision downward" and on this
issue many were elected.
When Mr.. Taft met his extra session
in 1909, at Washington, he was called
upon by Messrs. Cannon, Payne and
Aldrich, who said to him, in substance:
Mr.. President: You have made many
speeches since your nomination con-
corning the "revision downward" of the
tariff. In order that we may, if ossi-
BILE, work together in harmony, we have
called to get your views in detail on the
different schedules.
To this the President replied: | shall
do nothing of the kind, the details of
the tariff belong to Congress.
This statement was greatly applauded
by nearly all the great city papers, they
saying, we now have a president who
proposes to attend to his own business
and let Congress attend to its own bust
ness.
Soon, however, it was found that the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill had very few
downward revision" clauses. West
ern members and senators could not
turn their backs upon the promises
made to their constituents and they
were soon called insurgents" and
were told that they would be deprived
of their patronage. But this was after
wards officially retracted by Mr.. Taft's
private secretary.
When the Payne-Aldrich bill had gone
before a conference committee, Mr.
Taft is reported as saying that no
article on which the tariff had been re-
duced, in either house, could be re-
stored. In this way the duty on hides
was removed. 1t was the first direct
abandonment of the repubicfn plat
form which promises protection to
farmers.
Senator Bailey of Texas says that
free hides cost the farmers and cattle
men SIS, 0O0 600 yearly; Senator Carroll
S. Page demurred to this and estimated
the loss at one-half of these figures.
Albert Clark estimated the loss to Yer
mont at $3.50, 900 annually.
When the Payne-Aldrich, bill became
A law Mr.. Taft, in his Win ona speech,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
ROOSEVELT MEN IN NEW
PORT HEAR BASS.
Governor Charges Machines With
Ate mi pit to Stifle Peoples
Will.

Newport, N. H., March 18. Greeted
by several hundred enthusiastic Pro-
gressives, Governor Robert P. Bass
and Senator Moses E. Clapp addressed
Roosevelt mass meeting here tonight.
Governor Bass told in a definite,
straightforward manner his reasons
for supporting the colonel, and
charged the party machine with at
tempting to thwart the peoples de-
mand for a preferential primary. He
asserted that the Progressive demand
for primary twas based on the prin-
ciple of majority rule. He said in
part:
Ever since have had anything to
do with the politics of New Hamp-
shire l have worked for the principle
of.allowing the majority to rule and
not the minority. l stand for that
principle today and expect always to
stand.for it.
"Under.date of March 10 we sub
mitted complete outline of the method
byswhich the preference of the Repub-
lican voters might be obtained. We
proposed that the Republican State
committee.prepare ballot containing
the names of the candidates for the
Republican nomination for the presi-
dencY and that this be placed in the
hands of every Republican voter at the
caucuses at which delegates are to be
elected to our State convention.
every voter will then have an
opportunity tosmark his ballot for the
man he prefers as presidential can
didate. e. These ballots would be counted
by the party officers in charge and
returned to headquarters, where the
official. countgwould be registered and
madeEpublic.
1.-THE principle for which the Roose-
welt organization is contending is that
the majority shall rule in determining
whom the. delegates from New Hamp-
shire to. the Chicago convention shall
support. And that any man elected
delegate, who has any regard for this
fundamental principle underlying our
form ofkgovernment, would be bound
by the expressed wishes of a majority
of the Republicans in the State.
eff such free, direct expression of
opinion is provided for and an honest
account made, it will do more to help
the Republican party in this crisis than
any other action the State committee
can take. 1t is an absolutely fair pro-
position, simple in it's application and |
know it has the support of nearly all
the people of the State.
"This delay in getting a definite !
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
Plan Itinerary for Roosevelt.

Washington, March l9.-Col. Roose-
velt's trip to the Middle West next
week promises to develop into a more
comprehensive speaking tour than either
he or his managers contemplated.
Since the announcement was made that
he would speak in Chicago, st. Paul or
Minneapolis, and st. Louis, the national
Roosevelt headquarters have received
scores of kilograms from cities along
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
Thinks His Boils Beat
the Record

"I believe I had the most painful bols that ever
afflicted human being. They were big, came one
after another, and held on a long time. had read
so much about Hoods Sarsaparilla for the blood
that was ready to try it. Inside of month it
seemed to me had jumped from torture to bliss.
realized to the utmost the good of the best medicine
and think the only medicine that would cure me-
recommend Hoods for the blood" Geo. N Mill
gan, 181 Winthrop ST., Roxbury Boston, Mass.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22

AS will be seen by referring to an
other column, Mr.. A. w. Dickens an
nounces himself a candidate for the
position of States Attorney for this
county. Law abiding citizens are quite
dissatisfied with the way the office is
conducted and desire a change. We
think Mr.. Dickens would work for the
impartial execution of the law without
favor to any one and would prove him
self valuable officer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
ROOSEVELT TESTS TAFT'S
DECLARATION ON THE
PRIMARY.
Endorsements After Vote % Not
Count for Much

New York, March 10. Col. Roose-
welt today issued a pungent statement
in comment on President Taft's speech
before the Massachusetts Legislature,
suggesting very simple way in which
the Taft Endorsement of the preference
primary could be tested.
1t is that of waiting to see whether
the Taft men in four Legislatures now
considering primary bills continue to
oppose them.
Col. Roosevelt said:
President Taft is reported as saying
at Boston," Col. Roosevelt says, that
the voluntary primary power, as he
calls it, the soapbox primary that is a
method adopted by the people as the
only way in which to express their
wishes when their Legislatures deny
them any other opportunity to do So
is worse than nothing. But the Presi-
dent continued to say that he favored
preferential primary for the presi-
dency.
81 am exceedingly glad that the
President has taken this ground, and if
his campaign managers will sincerely
back him in the proposition he will be
able at once to get the presidential pre-
ferential primary in Michigan, Illinois,
Maryland, the District of Columbia and
New York.
'On the 5th of this month Matthew
Hale of Boston, acting on behalf of the
Massachusetts progressive Republi-
cans, who were making a desperate
tight for the passage of the presi-
dental preference primary bill, wired
the President at the White House ask
ing him for his moral support in secur-
ing the passage of the Massachusetts
bill.
MIR. Hale referred specifically to the
fact that the Presidents adherents in
Massachusetts were using every means
to defeat the passage of the bill.
ION the 9th of March the Presidents
secretary, Mr.. Hilles, wrote Mr.. Hale
brief note saying that his message
had been received and by direction of
Mr.. Taft referred to his campaign
manager, Congressman Mckinley (who
at that time was doing all he could to
defeat similar measure in Illinois,.
Nothing further was heard from the
President or from his campaign mana
ger, Mr.. Mckinley, by Mr.. Hale, or by
anyone else in Massachusetts as far as
| know, and no moral aid, comfort or
support was given by the President or
his managers to the men in Massachu-
sets who were making a more desper-
ate fight to overcome the efforts of the
Presidents supporters in that State to
defeat the bill.
However, public opinion was aroused
and the bill went through, and l am
exceedingly glad that the President
now nearly week after the bill has be-
come law-should say as he does that |
he favors it and welcomes it.
but earnestly hope that the Presi-
dent and his supporters will in other
States support such legislation before
it passes and not after it passes.
There is pending in the Legislature
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
Held for Death of Automobile
Victim

Edwin M. Chamberlin, 81 years old,
Of 2 Avon street, Cambridge, the Rindge
Technical School teacher who gave him
self up to the Cambridge police Sunday,
appeared at the Cambridge District
Court yesterday morning on the charge
of manslaughter in causing the death of
Peter Wormley, a negro, of Boston,
Saturday night, by running into him
with his automobile at the corner of
Broadway and Trowbridge street, Cam
bridge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22

answer seems to me entirely unneces-
sary under the circumstances. If the
people of the State, whether supporters
of President Taft or somebody else,
want to express directly whom they do
prefer, why should they not be allowed
to do so? I'll tell you the only
reason
Because certain politicians are not
sure what the result may be-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
ROOSEVELT COMES TO PEO-
PIE WITH OLD TIME
FERVOR.
Their Right TO Rule Championed
in Housing Speech to Hall
Jam m cd with Followers.

view 1 Ork, Marcn ~. In the nrSt
speech of his campaign for the presi-
dental nomination tonight Col. Roose-
welt contrasted his position with that
taken by President Taft. The real
issue, he said, was whether the Ameri-
can people should govern themselves.
Col. Roosevelt came to the people
with all his old-time fire and fervor. 1t
was an immense throng that greeted
him, and he opened the contest in way
that left no doubt with those who saw
him that the campaign had reached a
new stage.
1t was Roosevelt in the open contend
ing for a cause and principle for
popular rights against privilege.
Carnegie Hall was jammed to the
doors and the efforts of big squads of
police were required to keep things in
order. d.
So many persons wished to hear him
that an overflow meeting was held in a
smaller hall within the same building.
The street in front of the hall contained
a throng of persons who were unable to
gain admission to either meeting. Col.
Roosevelt was received with marked
enthusiasm.
He devoted the greater part of his
speech to recall of decisions and he put
it with tremendous force and power.
President Taft's recent speech at To-
ledo was referred to several times by
Col. Roosevelt, who devoted large
part ofIhis remarks to reply.
Mr.. Taft again and again, in quota
lions have given, and elsewhere
through his speech, said Col. Roose-
welt, expresses his disbelief in the
people whenithey vote at the polls.
He asserted that the Presidents po-
sition was that I'VE have in this
country special class of persons wiser
than the people, who are above the
people, who cannot be reached by the
people, but who govern them and ought
to govern them"
Col. Roosevelt said that this was the
"old, old doctrine" which has tended
to create a bulwark for special priv
ileges."
'"This doctrine is to me a dreadful
doctrine said the speaker, "for its
effect is, and can only be, to make the
courts the shield of privilege against
popular rights"
81 stand on the Columbus speech"
said Col. Roosevelt, 1.-The principles
there asserted are not new, but believe
that they are necessary to the main
tenance of free democratic govern
ment."
After his opening declaration Col
Roosevelt continued:
Il believe in the right of the people
to rule. believe that the majority of
the plain people of the United States
will, day in and day out, make fewer mis-
takes in governing themselves than any
smaller class or body of men, no matter
what their training will make in trying
to govern them. believe, again, that
the American people are, as whole.
capable of self-control and of learning
by their mistakes. Our opponents pay
lip-foyalty to this doctrine: but they
show their real beliefs by the way in
which they champion every device to
make the nominal rule of the people a
sham.
WANT of space prevents US from re-
porting this speech further at this time.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
To the Editor Of The Mddle6ury Register

To the Editor Of The Middlebury Register
Sir;
After consultation with friends,
have concluded to stand for the nomina-
ton for States Attorney at our next
Addison County Republican convention.
So far as am concerned, there will be
no "whirlwind campaign, nor anything
approaching it, Should the Republican
voters of the county decide to honor me
with the Office, trust would be prop
erly appreciative and endeavor to show
that the confidence had not been wholly
misplaced.
will take it as favor if you allow
space in your paper for this brief an
nouncement.
A. w. DICKENS.
Middlebury, VT, March 81, 1912.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22

The above is warning to our farm
ers who are the worst sufferers and al
ways will be in State like Vermont
from this automobile nuisance.
We use this word nuisance after care
fully studying its different meanings, as
the best word that presents itself in
the .Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
which says:
ut is derived from the Latin
nocentto guilt, from nocere to hurt,
harm; akin to necare to kill.
~. That which annoys or, gives
trouble or vexation; that which is often
sive or noxious; anything that worketh
hurt, inconvenience, or damage
(Blackstone.)
when anything works legal damage,
it becomes a legal nuisance, which is
defined by Sir Frederick Pollock: The
wrong done to man by unlawfully dis
turbing him in the enjoyment of his
property or in some cases, in the exer-
else of common right CAS- the COM
mon right to the highways.)
"A nuisance affecting the public or
community in general is a public nui-
sance."
In recent drive of not over IL miles
we passed by three large signs appar-
emily quite recently lettered and painted,
each of them forbidding automobiles to
to be run over six miles an hour, -"by
order of the Selectmen.'
This is a provision by statute to en-
able the inhabitants of a town to pro-
tect themselves in measure from the
automobile nuisance.
In the two Cantons of Switzerland.
most noted for scenery, by vote of
nearly to l, automobiles have been en-
tirely forbidden. If Vermont protected
her mountain scenery, or her highways,
in the same way, which she now practi-
cally has the power to do, she would
largely increase her summer guests, and
decrease the expenses and dangers of
her highways.
Morgan horse breeding is one of the
important industries of our State, the
home of the MOrgahs. Strangers come
here from all over the United States to
purchase Morgans. Nothing interferes
to such an extent with this industry as
the presence of automobiles. 1t is the
duty of our farmers to protect their
own interests.
The Selectmen should make special
effort to see that the regulation re-
ferred to shove is enforced.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
Collision Mixes Strange unpaIa-
table Omelet.

Springfield, March 6. An unpalatable
omelet of 5000 eggs, mass of butter,
butter milk and kindling wood, dead
horse, fifteen squawking chickens, a
wrecked dairy wagon and a sprained
ankle were exhibits which George Short
of this city had to show today as the re-
suit of collision in the suburbs.
AS short was returning to the city
with supply of farm products he was
run down by an automobile driven by
Worcester man.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
Terms Strictly i'm Advance.

Terms Strictly I'm Advance.
ONE YEAR IN VERMONT -- 81 90
SIX MONTHS IN VERMONT ---- 80
THREE MONTHS IN vEMoNT $500 40
ONE YEAR Outside of Vermont, - $1.25
ONE YEAR Outside of U. S.. --- l.50
The Register will be found on file at
the Congressional Library reading room,
Washington, D. G.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
M1DDLEBuRY REGISTER

PUBLISHED BY
JOSEPH BATTELL,
vALLETTE BLOCK
MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT.
Entered at the Middlebuyy Posto6tce as Second
Glass Matter.
The evening world., 1912-03-12

piainsd 70 Magistrate Brssn. "ysu wsuM
understand me. No other men svsr
won such Q prize a. Minnie. We are
going to Be married Tomorrow. From
the minute she takes charge o. me-
there viii bs no more sliwowits. 10
more sweet whiskey. no booze Of any
kind for Schin, but steady work and .
happy home all the time. 50 I have
just been crowding all the hurrah Of .
lifetime into to-day. Don't you zee the
point, Judser
schi1's appeal was % frank and
touch q drop after his wedding MaSis-
trate Breen let him 20 home. Schiff 10
q house painter, ~thirty-thres years old.
and lives at Nc. NC East Thirtesnth
street.
The evening world., 1912-03-12
'MANHAND[ES COP
WHO REFUSES TO
SHOUTFOR MINNIE
Who's Minnie! Why, She Is to
Be lsaac's Bride Toll Day, Al
though He Took Chance.

That Isaac schinf VIII wed Minnie to-
Gay u due to the thoroughly sympa-
thet!c attitude of Magistrate Breen, who
accepted lsasc's' word for II ana save
judicial approval to the declaration mat
Minnie II right. 1t was On the strength
Of her willingness to marry him -
ssen a. he could st . license that Isaac
etarted on his Joyous way yesterday.
He took two glasses Of well susarsd
whisSey on the way from her house
in Jersey City TO the ferry. and
topped that foundation with nvs
glasses Of siiwowits in the neishbor-
hood of Canal street and the Bowery.
BY that time he had no secrets from
the general public. The result was that
he landed In the Might Court on com-
plant Of Policeman Archibald Of Traf-
40 squad B, whom SohiR had rolled In
the gutter because Archibald failed TO
declare himself nrst, last and all the
Vine FOR Minnie.
If you knew Minnie" Schi6 Ak