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Arizona republican., 1912-06-12
MELONS AND
 CANTAL0UPES
They Made a Good Showing in Yesterdays Market; Peaches Are Now on Dis play; Price of Berries Advances on Coast

Local blackberries are coming on
 the market slowly and there will not
 be many this year They are in very
 good condition however. There are
 still some local strawberries which are sound and good. Photographic advice from California yesterday says
 all berries have advanced there from 15 to 35 cents per crate.
 Local watermelons and cantaloupes made quite d show on the market yesterday
 Local peaches are arriving. The
 price is still too high for canning but will allow patrons to see if that
 taste has been forgotten since last year.
 Potatoes continue to improve. Quite an acreage has been planted this year and the stock shows sound and good. The Arizona Producers company will be sole agents for both the wat ermelon growers associations of the valley and are receiving many in quiries regarding the crop from Wash ington, Oregon. California. New Mex icO. and many far away states, all asking if the flavor will be the same as in times past, that flavor that makes them so popular in the out side market California scenes to be especially interested in how soon the l crop will be ready for shipment. That state. last year, used over half the 1 crop of the valley.
 ! Following are the prices that ruled yesterday on the city market: 1 Dry onions. $150 10 box lot; cwt SITS ! Cabbage, per cWt. t............... 200 l Head lettuce. per dog. 25 1 Potatoes, per cWt............... 300 Fresh recandled ranch eggs dog. .25 1 Summer Squash. per cWt. 1.50 i Stringless green beans, cWt,. 6 to 10c | Green peas. per 1b....-......... OS Apricots per tb................0 ..03 to 05 l Cucumbers, local per 10 ...... .0712 , Tomatoes. local per lb.........0 .05 to .1O Ripe figs, per fb........ ..05 to .1C Green Corn. per dog. 10 to 20 { All bunch vegetables. doz 20, 3 for .05 1 Watermelons by the carload, ,fb.- ,04
 Cantaloupes, local, per each. ..05 to .1C I Springers per fb....... .25
 Broilers, per ID. b...............-.. 50 i Hens per fb ....-............lS to 2o
 Fancy alfalfa. per tOn.......... 9.0C 1 Choice alfalfa. per ton.......... S.5C [ Alfalfa and grain, per ton....... 11.Ot
 Rhubarb ........ ............ .0t F . Local Peaches .................. -lJ
 California Strawberries ......3 for 2J
 Local Strawberries, per box. .15 i Local blackberries, per boX...... |;
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
Isn't Mayor Wilson's Method of Holding Elections LittIe Dangerous, Citizens,
 as a Precedent?

Mayor Wilson, who wants power for the mayor, citizens to authorize debt 2OOO, O0O to build two bridges sadly needed by the trolley monopoly and construct pumping stations the use voting machines in the special election which the people are to pass upon these projects.
 Why not?
 The machines purchased after long argument and discussion to protect and simplify the ballot They have been used in several elections They have given general and almost perfect satisfaction The people know how to them @@7
 The mayor he is going to have vote by ballot.
 is but five days election and the ballot is unknown to everybody save himself.
 When the people get the ballot it will be unfamiliar to them They will have had no chance to familiarize themselves with it.
 This proceeding is most IRREGULAR. Here is an election of the important in Bridgeport which to be entirely without the sanction of law which to be entirely the hands of those who have great if not overwhelming desire, that the be voted upon shall be adopted
 In the little time which is left Mayor Wilson should do what he to make the special election real election
 Bring out the machines. Put the questions the ballot labels Protect the voting. The simplest way, perhaps will be call in the party machinery Otherwise persons, organizations opposed to the bonding should furnish watchers
 <f If Mayor Wilson attempts to supersede the usual election machinery with unusual machinery, devised by himself and kept from the public until the he will throw grave doubt upon the result of the election whatever that result is. @
 It IS certainly unique proceeding that the entire control of election which may result in enormous should be the hands of Mayor Wilson the of all others who has the result excepting of the public services, which desire large debt PREVENT municipal ownership.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
ALMSHOUSE BONDS

rA
 in the matter of fheS proposed aims house. the qnesio1. as xars as this newspaper is concerned,s ,sI5 not to the necessity of a. new building, or its un- necessity, but, to the manner in which Itsis proposed, to pay for tHfe improve u7ent- 7szzsss.zs...,
 Mayor. wilson proposes bonds to run the -'nfe of the improvement 2 by which he means, doubtless the ordinary bond issued in Bridgeport which runs for 50 years.
 sThisssort of debt means paying dou- bie. 1t is a debt thsx iss practically an paid at fae end of the first score of years, and then it must be paid all over again.
 There is, no Justification whatever for a fifty year bond for any improve rent.
 The1deal ID ethpd for g community whisk ssse mo sts asSit goes is to pay as soon -s as ssi 1t can. d1strfbu uting the debt over the smallest number of years in which it can be met without being unduay burdensome. The a1mshouse Improvement may be delayed until pubifcs servants are obtained who are willingtto go slowly and wisely into debt T0 s.1 --is.s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
LIBEL SUITS ,. PILE IN POLICE
 CRAFT SCANDAL
Alderman Curran Brings Action Against Mayor Gaynor For $1OO,O0O - Capt. Keith Af- fidavit Causes Sensation

New York. Sept 1s.-With several libel suits already started and a dozen today that, if the Aldermanic and criminal John Doe proceedings now under way to uncover the graft scan daI in this city fail, the real truth must be. brought out in the civil court. . The Keith affidavit overshadowed all else when the investigate of the all dermanic committee was resumed, to- day Attorney Buckner. chief counsel for the committee, declared in advance that he intended questioning ComInis- sioner Waldo at length regarding it connected with it would be called to testify before the committee. Waldo admitted that Captain John T. Keith made an affidavit saying that for s10,- 900 or $15,00o a. captaincy could be ob- tained. A. J. Johnson, then an under sheriff. is named having told Keith promotion, demanded s15.000.
 There is no doubt that behind the affidavit lies grave scandal. John son. who is named the o-be- as back fret to head off a story of. police graft of which he was famil- jar. He declared that when the inside facts are made known the public at large will be astounded.
 Captain Keith is called a perjurer by Johnson who said, today, that he will demand that the district attorney take up the charges made by him and probe them to the bottom.
 The summons in a libel suit begun by Alderman Henry H. curran against Mayor Gaynor for s10O, 900 was served on the Mayor yesterday. The suit is the outcome of the letter writ ten by the Mayor to Alderman Curran on Sept g in reply to one from MT. Curran asking the Mayor to appear before the AIdermanic Investigating Committee as witness The Mayor said in his letter to the Alderman that he was obliged to speak plainly to him, and that he refused to ally | Iii caJf rxyifI7 in eff fort to discover wrongdo1ng in the Police Department. Then the Mayor referred to the miserable grating carried on by members of the Board of Aldermen in respect to the licensing of news stands and the like throughout the city.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS
 1st Dis.-AUGUsTINE LoNERGAN

evening for clerks, Sunday school scholars, boys who are employed by banks to run errands or collectors. and self-styled respectable young men to be hanging around stage entrances. In New York it has been determined by the police to round up men and boys found on Broadway after mid night, who have no reasonable excuse for being out. They gather about ho- te1s and restaurants and at street cor ners. accosting people who pass by So far has this habit gone that it is dangerous for respectable person to be on the streets at late hour. The only thing to do is to arrest all loaf CTS, photograph them, and subsequent ly publish the photographs. This will in a short time weed out the good from the bad, if there are any good.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
STORK STARTED VANCE
 ON CAREER AS AUTHOR.

When you start to consider it from all sides literature turns out to De considerable of proposition, what er,' explains Irwin s. Cobb, the man of letters from Baducah. In the case of Louis Joseph Vance, author of The Black Bag, The Brass Bowl" '.The Bronze BeH,'' 'sThe Band BOX and the Pool of F1ame,''y and creator of Terrence ORourke, Gentleman Ad- venturer,' the first one thing and
 then another includes the well known stork. Of course. all authors, in com mon with humanity in general, ult1- mately owe much to the stork, but MT. Vance became one of us writing fel- lows because of the arrival of a baby at his house and the necessity of pro vfding money for his family man with the expectation of acquiring money would usually be fool, but Mir Vance made good on the proposi- tion.
 Louis J. Vance was born in Wash ineton tl1irty-three years ago to-mor- row, and was educated in Brooklyn at the, Polytechnic Institute, and in New York at the Art Students Lea gue It was his intention to become an artist and an illustrator, but his success in that endeavor was not re- markabIe His experience as an art student was not wholly proftless, however, because through it he met Nance Elizabeth Hodges, who became his wife in 1898. Since her marriage Mrs Vance has become well known as portrait painter, but. in the early years of their welded life the wolf had habit of hanging around. their door with great persistency. In 1900 the stork brought boy to the happy but paverty-stricken father, and it was up to him" to get busy at some thing more profitable than art. How he solved the problem MT. Vance re- gently told in the course of an article in the Bookman.
 .-In 1900 my boy our child. was born,'' wrote MT Vance. Tt was very important event not only in my life but in the history of American letters. No one apprecia tes that as much as I do. If it hadn't been for the responsibilities Ca polite way. Of spelling debts) of fatherhood it might never have occurred to me that peo- pie make money by writing stories.
 ''I began to try. to write year or so later sold my second short short to the Mcclure Syndicate for S25- The first one ever wrote stuck around for about three years before I disposed of it. But that $25 sealed my fate. IL was something more than I was then earning a week as an employe Of a big public service corporation. Oh, mean enough to question it; at all events I get weekly wage. My nights were consecrated to my art. For three years I kept up a pretty steady routine of night Work-writing from D. m. to a. m. in addition to keeping a strangle hold on the day light job kdn, T WfGes bicb an so1d aIfu lot or
 MT Vance's first novel of 100000 words, entitled .Milady of the Mer- cenaries '' brought him $500 for the serial rights, but has never been brought out in book form. In the next six months his literary earnings were s60. Terrence ORourke" and '-The Brass Bowl'' started him well on the road to prosperity, and enabled him to devote his entire time to liter arv work. MT Vance's record Is four ,fx- he io10 a hardly developed by any other writer of DOpuIar novels.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
SENATORIAL NOMINATIONS

The Democratic Senatorial conven- tions nominated wisely Senator Mo- Neil made an excellent record in the last Senate, accom- plishing more in the way of definite reform, perhaps, than any other member of that body. He played a large part in bringing about the revival of direct primaries legislation, a bill for which passed the Senate. He put through the Sen and referendum, and a hill~'granting the municipal franchise to women. He voted for the public utilities bf1I although his business interests were such as to make this an act of esspe- cial devotion to the public interest. pensation. employers liability, for re- peal of the death limit, and for labor legislation generally. The occasions upon which he can be deemed to have voted in error were exceedingly few. Mr. Whitcomb. who has been nominated from the 23rd District, has distinguished himself as a member of the Board of Health, by the zealous- ness with which he has sendeavored to protect the citizens of the East Side from the garbage nuisance, an Interest which has been carefully cherished by clique Powerful in Bridgeport politics MT. Whitcomb may be depended upon to read care fI,11v the 1latforua T9Iedges of his nar ty. and to carry. them out to the let ter when he takes his scat in the Senate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
FIRST THINGS


 The first dismemberment of Poland, marking the beginning of the con- spiracy to wipe that unhappy nation off the map of Europe, was arranged 140 years ago today between represen- tatives of Russia, Prussia and Austria. About one third of the entire kingdom was seized at that time, but this mor- sel only whetted the appetite of the Powers for more The first dismem- berment was the result of a compa ct between Frederick the Great of Prus- sia ana Catherine the Great of Rus sia, in which Austria was invited to take part. Another partition of Poland followed in 17SS. and two years later a third completed the work and swallowed up the entire kingdom, which then ceased to exist as an in dependent nation Poland had long been distracted by reckless and waste ful government, and fell an easy prey to the schemes of the imperial rob berSI
 The cornerstone of the first Capitol at Washington was laid by President Washing ton 119 years ago today. The edihce was burned by the British in 1874.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
manhood would never De repeated.

manhood would never be repeated
 And the marvel of it is that these outrages are of common occurrence in the middle and far west-that glorious country of progress. that enterpris1ng section which is fighting the good fight on the part of Democracy! They strike on behalf of the Initiative, Referen- dunn and Recall, equal suffrage, di- rect primaries, popular election of sem ators and other progressive measures, and yet tolerate an iniquity so heinous that one unconsciously recoils in ter TOT from it.
 Nothing more debasing and less call culated to reform, a criminal could possibly be conceived than to lash him fast, make the ordeal more exquisitely painful by covering his quivering flesh with sheets saturated in salt water, and then beating him with a heavy strap or sanded barrel stave Ghe latter is preferred by some of the more artistic among penitentiary wardens> until- in many instancesEinsensibil comes to his relief. or-aH too often-death itself
 If woman possessed the ballot in Michigan, there might be some hope of reforming this brutal practice, but Michigan is one of the backward states of the west in this regard There is nothing for it except to patiently await the civilizing influence of evo- lution in Michigan-which will probab- ly require at least two or three hun dred ears---meanwhile shut our ears to the shrfeks of anguish. close our eyes to the de-humanizing of fellow creatures-created in our image and shut our hearts to a great, surging throb of pity for. the miserables sub jected to the altruistic and elevating ministrations in the Jackson prison.
 And forget not to thank whatever power of Fate is kind enough to keep out of his fell clutches
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

Ten convicts in the modern peniten- tiary of Jackson, Michigan, were re- gently fIogged by the slap barrel, method. It is rumored that one pris- oner died as a result of this delicate attention Warden Simpson denied this. but refused to. comment on the noegings.---4n the slap barrer' mehtod the convict is stripped to the waist placed face downward across d barrel. and sheet drenched with salt water -is spread over the bare pack.
 Then a water soaked strap is ap- plied74lntil the victim has the sensa- ton of being stung by a thousand hornets. The sheet protects the flesh slightly, but the torture is rendered deubly sagonfzing by the penetration of the salt water into the b1isters.
 1t is understood that hanging by the wrists, the .'bulI ring and many other refined and humane methods of punishment are included in the reper- loire Of this prison.
 And yet. after all. who is responsi- ble- for these odtrages against decency and justice? Is it the hairy armed. low browed brute who administers the actual f1ogging. the mediaeval fn- qusitader who orders 1t, or the col leetivity--ttes comm unit ity-whfchs per -ri:.ts and sanctions it?
 If the public did not approve of this prutalitZ. if they reeoiIed -in horror from s7these savage toftures-ass in decenry. shou1d--it is only req sonabIe t6 suppose that such 8 storm of protest would -wolley- up after the nrzt logging. that this degradation of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
AUTOMOBILE
REGISTER IS OUT
Shows 2,5OO New Cars For State
 Since June 1.

The new automobile register for the stale, showing the regisura tions in the office of the state secretary up to September l. made . it's appearance yesterday and to judge from it's con tents hard times have not struck into Connecticut yet, for since July l over 9 300 cars have been registered The register issued June 1 contained d list of 14.47S registered cars owned privately, while that issued yesterday contains the registration of 16, 9O6 privately owned cars. Since the book was sent to the printer, over forty cars additional have been registered and more are being purchased every day.
 A similar increase is shown in the motorcycle depar tment, there being 2,- 368 registered as against 1,760 In June, and twenty-four dealers as against tyenty-two in June The liEerymen have increased from $50 to 46s and the automobile dealers from 420 to 70 The manufacturers remain the same. fifteen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
MIR. HILL AND MIR. CUMMINGS.

(Hartford Times.)
 Tn New England we are not accus- toned to political debates, that is, to formal political debates with candi- strained by the rules of parliamentary procedure. Out west and in the chiv aIrous south they are still popular The whole countryside comes in to hear them. Congressman E. J. Hill would revive them here. In his speech accepting renomination at Bridgeport on Saturday at MT. Cummings he hurled this defiance:
 now challenge him on every stump in this district to discuss the free trade views of his party as against We'll introduce a novelty in campaigns in this district, debates on great issues instead of an exchange of personafi- ties.
 The courtly Cummings and the az gressive. highly statistical Hill should make an interesting and informing is a standpatter of standpatters. He sets no store by the maxim, "Be sure you are right; then go ahead He prefers something like this: "Be sure you are right; then stand still" And he is always sure he is right. Mir Cummings is somewhat more flexible.
 Of course, the national platforms up on which they stand are different. MT. Cummings party said at Baltimore:
 We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that stitution has no right or power to inn pose or collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of govern nent honestly and economically col lected.
 MT. Hill,s party at ChicagoE declar- ed we reaffirm our belief in a pro- tective tariff" And then, after gener- ously admitting that some of the ex- isting import duties are too high and should be reduced,'' it went on with several hundred words apparently de signed to mean nothing. There is plenty of room for talk.
 If we are going to argue tariff with MT. Hiu-which same would be a hard job to tackle for anybody up to and including MT. Cummin should ask him why, if this high protection is so blessed, his party should contin- uaHy promise it's reduction during Saaga ghe m end of thsa f9a prosey after it got back to congress Mir Hill might be regular Child's Guide to Knowledge on this subject if he
 And again. should turn to that section of the Democratic tariff plank, which asserts: Tn the most highly protected industries, such as cotton and wool, steel and iron, the wages of the 1aborers are the lowest paid in any of our ustries-" Considering the reveIa tions which came to light after the Lawrence strike, and the interest ing compilations which are to be dis covered in somewhat obscure gov ernment publication, we can 1ma zine that Mr Hill might have some trou- bIe refusing that claim with anything like convincing power.
 Anyway we should like to hear the debate if 1t ever comes off. Meanwhile we note that although MT. Hill is still a candidate for congress and still an ardent protectionist, they aren't mak- ing anything like the display and up- roar over full dinner pairs that they used to make in the Fourth district of. .Cnfla ecticIIt -.-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
BALDwIN.s DENOMINATION.
(Roston Post)


 The renomination of Governor Sim con E. Baldwin was made by the Dem ocratic convention at Hartford, Conn.,, not only unanimously but by acclama- tion When the-i chairman put the usual question whether other names were to be presented, he was answered from the floor, Not SC yous would mo- tee it!'' And then the shout went up; no ballot was required.
 This was not an ebullit1on of excited enthusiast it was an expression of the high regard in which Governor Baldwin is held as a man, jurist and an administrator of public eaf- fairs. During the half century elaps- ed since his admission to the bar, Gov ernor Baldwin made a name spoken with the highest respect intellectually and professionally throughout the land; and when called to the executive chair of his native state he displayed earnest progressiveness with wise conservatism.
 Governor Baldwin is an old-fashion- ed Democrat, one of the right sort.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
GOVERNMENT OF
 THE BEST TYPE.

(New York Evening Post.)
 In Connecticut, there is trouble about the Democratic situation. Gov Baldwin has been renominated by un- animous consent, and the party is therefore in shape to go before the people of the state standing for government of the best type. To say that Governor Baldwin is not subject to boss rule in any shape would be absurdly superfuous; he represents and embodiesf the idea of public ser vice by high-ninded men, fully equip ped for the performance of difficult duties willing to devote to them their undivided energies, and beyond all sus- picion of being influenced by an desire but that of promoting the welfare of the common wealth. At the end of his two years term of of flee, he finds himself confirmed in the confidence of the citizens of Connec- ticut, and his party can enter upon the campaign, both for it's state ticket and the national ticket, in the spirit that leads to victory It is by such candidates in the several states that the cause of the Democratic party in the great contest for the presidency can be strengthened, and the bright prospect now opening to it for the first time in a score of years be made an assured reality
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18

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