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The Newark journal., 1912-07-19
DAVIS CONFESS TO MURDER

Mammoth Spring, July 13.- Life Davis, one of the men arrest ed for attempting to rob the Man. moth Spring bank sometime ago, yesterday confessed to the killing of Charles Moore about two months ago from ambush. Davis, Ben Jones and Howard Sayers were all implicated in the murder of Moore, and the reason they gave for killing was because he had threated to kill them over the alleged theft of a COW.
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19
HOW TO MAKE MISCHIEF

Keep your eyes on your neigh bors. Take care of them. Do not let them stir without watching. They may do something wrong if you do. To be sure you never knew them to do anything bad, but 1t may be on your account they have not. Perhaps If 1t had not been for your kind care they might have disgraced themselves a long time ago. Therefore do not relax any effort to keep them where they ought to be. Never mind your own business-that will take care of itself. There IS a man passing along-he Is looking over the fence be suspicious of him; perhaps he contemplates stealing, some of these dark nights; there IS no knowing what queer fancies he may have got into his head.
 If you find any symptoms of any one passing out of the path of duty, tell everyone else what you see, and be particular and see a great many. It IS a good way to circulate such things, it may not benefit yourself or any one else particularly Do keep something going silence is a dreadful thing; though it is said there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour, do not let such a thing occur on earth; 1t would be too much for this mundane sphere.
 If, after all your watchful care you cannot see what they have done anything bad, throw out hints that they are no better than they should be-that you should not wonder if the people found out what they were after a while then they may not carry their heads so high. Keep 1t going, and some one may take the hint and begin and help it along after g while then there will be music. and everything will work like a charm.
 Follow the above directions and you will be pretty sure to make plenty of mischief.
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19
NOTICE

A grand rally of the electors of Independence county who op- pose the enforcement of the cattle tick eradication law, will be held at the court house in Batesville on Saturday, July 20, 1912, at 10 o'clock a. m. Every cIector is earnestly requested to attend, as business of importance will be transacted. Done by order of the county club. BOB HUDD4EsToN,
 Secretary.
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO xxa CONSTITUTION OF THH aTATN
 OF AEHANRAS.

Notice is hereby given that the fol- lowing joint resolution proposing an amendment to the State Constitution. was passed by the General Assembly at the same will be submitted to the electors of the State at the next general election. to be held Monday, September 3, 1912. for adoption or re- jectlon.
 Proposed Amendment No. II,
 That the following article shall be proposed as all amendment to the Con- stltutlon of the State of Arkansas, which, when agreed to by majority of all the members elected to each House tors Of the State voting al the next general election for senators and rep resentattyes, shall become a part of the Constitution of Arkansas
 Every male citizen Of the United States, or every male person who has declared his intention of becoming q citizen of the same, of the age of twenty-oue years or upward, who has resided Tn the State twelve months in the county six months and Tn the pre- cinct, town or ward one month next preceding any election at which he may propose to vote, and who is able 10 read and interpret or interpret when read to him, if he is prevented from read ing the same by reason of any physi- cal disability, any section of the ConBti- tutlon of the State of Arkansas except such persons as may for the commis sion of some felony. De deprived Of the right 10 vote by law passed by the Gen eraI Assembly, and who shall exhibit poll tax receipt or other evidence that he has paid his poll tax at the time Of collecting taxes next preceding such election, shall be allowed 10 vote at any election held In the State Of Arkansas but no person who was, on January l. 1866 or at any time prior thereto en- titled to vote under the Constitution or statutes of any State in the United States. wherein he then resided and no male person of foreign birth who was naturalized prior to the adoption Of this amendment, and no lineal descend ant Of such person, who shall possess the other qualifications described in this article. shall be denied tho right to vote because of his inability to so read and interpret sections of the Consi tutton of this State; provided, that male persons who make satisfactory proof that they have attained the age Of for assessing the taxes for the year next preceding the year in which the election at which he may propose to vote is held. and pos sesses the other qualifications required by this article shall DO permitted to vote; and provided. further, that the said tax receipt shall be so marked by dated stamp or other written endorse 1t may first be presented. as to pre- vent the holder thereof from voting more than once at any election The judges of election shall enforce the provisions of this article and shall be the judges of the qualifications of electors"
 The above resolution was filed in the office Of the Secretary of State On March 16, 1911
 Each eleetor may vote for or against the above amendment
 Witness my official signature this nth day Of February. 1912
 EARLE W HGBafsS
 Secretary Of State
 (Eeall
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19

about 500 members of this notable family, with several thousands of the same name over various parts of the United States.
 Every person by that name in the state, are asked to communi- cate with the seeetary, ". A. Ramsey, Fayetteville, Ark, for luther particulars.
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19
GOV. DONAGHEY FAV0RS
 GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
Would Eliminate Negro From PoI- itics---Denounces the Present
 Process of Intimidation

Little Rock, July 13,-Goy. Don- aghey today gave out a statement favoring the proposed grandfath- CT clause amendment to the state constitution. He says:
 T am in favor of the passage of the grandfather clause amend ment to the constitution. From every viewpoint 1t Is better to eliminate the negro from politics. In the South racial conditions will not permit of his engaging in poli- tics. Several states in the south have the grandfather clause. It is better for the negro, because when he does not engage in politics he will cease to antagonize the white man, can look better after his own affairs and in every other way ob- tain a better recognition.
 Then so long as we do not per init the negro to vote any way, why not do 1t legally instead of by the process of elimination? It Is true that there are a few negroes who ought to be permitted to vote hut as T race if would un- occasionally be bad policy to per init their voting by the wholesale.
 Statistics show there are in the neighborhood of 100000 negroes of voting age in Arkansas. If one of them is entitled to q vote all are. This number would be sui fcient to carry any election in the state. In Jefferson county alone there are about 6,000 negroes of voting age, and 5000 white vot- CTS. The same ratio exists in many other counties of the state.
 By all means let us pass this amendment to the constitution, and then let us have absolutely fair elections between white men. Let every white mans vote be counted just as he votes 1t. As the matter now stands, the state board of election commissioners is WorIi- ed to death all the time just prior to elections by committees and factions from the black districts of the state wanting the appoint ment of certain election commits sioners, the excuse being that the Democratic ticket is imperilled be- cause of the excessive number of negroes in those districts. As a matter of fact, the real purpose is to deny the negro the legal right he now has to vote.
 Again this practice has been carried on until it has not stopped with the negro, but has been ex- tended by the dominant factions to the counting out of white mems votes.
 Let us be sincere and honest in what we are doing; be open and fair, and state openly what we in. tend to do.
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19


 Our office Is a sort of free con- gress. People of all ages, of each sex, of all political beliefs and re- hgious creeds, come in to discuss their isms, argue questions, ask for information and seek consola- tion in their troubles. We do our best for them and the generally go out into the cold world feeling refreshed. Come and see us-the ''latch-string' is always out, chairs furnished and spittoons improvis- ed when necessary.
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19

Yes, it's the little things that hurt. A common everyday meas ly little fly will make an ordinary man swear forty strokes to the minute, while if the same man had his head taken off by a July tor nado he wouldn't say a word about 1t.
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19
FArIIl.Y REUNION AT FAIR

At the 1912 Arkansas State Fair the Ramsey family are to hold a reunion, the day sit apart for this event is November F, and will be known as Ramsey Day"
 There is in this state alone
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19
LoDGE MEETINGS

Newark Eastern Star Lodge meets on the first Thursday in each month at o'clock D. m. Visiting members cordially welcome.
 Mrs. J.I. Sturdiyant, Worthy Matron
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19
TELEPHONE SERVICE

The Newark Telephone Con- pany's operators have been in structed to charge all parties, that are not subscribers. We can no more afford to give you free talks than your grocer can give you free sugar.
 We are not climbing poles for the fun of il.
 It will cost you no more to have a telephone in your home than 1t costs your neighbor
 II. D. FILLER, Manager.
The Newark journal., 1912-07-19

If you want what you want when you want it, advertise in The Journal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20

yariably hold over into a new admins
tration until their successors qualify.
There being no President in sight on
March a vacancy in that Office would
exist. and ii would be no great stretch
Of the spirit and purpose Of the sue
cessiOn act TO hold that the same pro-
cedure would apply in filing the va
cancy as would apply in case OF the
absence of President and Nice-Presi-
dent in the course Of term. The Sec
rotary Of State would naturally issue
a proclamation converting Congress and
then leave TO that body the task OF
providing for the choice Of q President
and Vice-President through new cleo
ton.
Nature abhors q vacuum III gov
eminent as we'll as in physics. The
for filling vacancies in the
office Of President is not perfect. Yet
1t is probably sufficient in pinch, and
there can be little question that 1t
would be equal to the emergency In the
improbable event that no President and
Vice President should be elected before
the terms Of the present incumbents ex-
Dire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
THE FoREIGN-BoRN VOTE.

The federal Census Bureau recently
issued bulletin showing the strength
of the fOreign-bOrn element in the
voting population Of the United States
In this city, If all the foreign-born
males Of twenty-one years or over were
naturaIized, they would constitute much
more than q ma ority of the electorate.
But that Is an exceptional ratio, since
New York is in population predomi-
nantly foreign. Here less than 40 per
cent Of the alien element has become
naturalized. In the country at large
the proportion Of foreign born is much
smaller, but the tendency to seek natu-
ralization is more pronounced. OF the
G.646,S17 aliens of voting age in the
United States in April, 1910, 1904, H.
or nearly 80 per cent, were naturalized.
The allen voting strength Is therefore
only about II per cent Of the total
voting population III the United States ;
but II is so concentrated in a few states
including New York. Pennsylvania, Hi
nois. Minnesota and North Dakota, as
to be powerful factor in a national
election.
The bulletin covering the whole cOun-
try cOrrObOrateS the fact established by
the enumeration I'm this city that the
natives of the Southeastern European
countries are the least anxious to as
sumo citizenship. Germans get natu-
rallied more freely than any other
aliens. Their percentage Of naturaliza-
ton for the whole country was 60.
In New York City 1t was 65.5. The
Irish come next, with a record Of GT.S
for the country and G3.1 for New York.
The percentage OF Swedes naturalized
was 62S and that Of Englishmen 59.4.
On the other hand, only III per cent
of the Italians In this country have be-
come citizens. and Of the Russians only
26.1. The Hungarians are still more
backward in seeking the ballot, their
percentage of naturalization being only
1913, and these facts may help TO allay
the apprehension Of the Democratic
campaign managers caused by Gov
ernor Wilson's indiscreet illusions to
the Poles, Hungarians and Italians In
his History Of the American People
The foreign-bOrn voters do not hang
together politically. In fact, the natu-
raj antagonisms Of race and nationality
tend to split them up among the leading
parties. and probably 100000 to 10000
Of them are socialists They form an
element not TO be reckOned with as n
single mass thrown In one scale, but as
an important contribution TO the cleo
torate. influencing in various states the
general attitude Of the voting majority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
PRICES IN JAPAN.

The old theory Of a perpetual con-
ditiOn Of pauper labor and extreme
low prices in Japan must now be
abandoned for a recognition Of the fact
that that country has aligned itself
with the rest Of the world industrially
and economically as well as in educa-
ton. diplomacy and war. II is true
that wages are still somewhat lower
there than in most other civilized cOun-
tries. but it is probable that in no other
has their increase in late years, largely
under the stress Of strikes, been COM
parable with that I'm Japan, nor has
the cost Of living elsewhere advanced
much if at all more rapidly.
If the scale Of prices In 1887 be
taken as the basis, 1t appears that In
twenty-five years the cost Of building
has increased - per cent; that Of cloth
ing, 46 per cent; of furniture, Al per
cent: Of food and drink, Al per cent;
of various forms Of service, 81 per
cent. and Of the chief articles Of food
us ulSllllE uiSllttl llOtll Nll' 100 BN' 'Ni'N'
These advances have not, however,
been uniform. but have been subject
to marked fluctuations, excepting In
the case OF the chief articles Of food,
which have steadily risen in price.
Thus. the cost Of building rose In 1900
to 122 per cent above 1887; Of cloth
ing, to 104 per cent; Of furniture, to
1913 per cent: Of food and drink IN gen
eral, to 0S per cent, and Of service, to
Jos per cent. The chief articles Of
food, upon which the cost Of necessary
sustenance depends, did not share this
fuctuation, but had risen % per cent in
1895, SO in 1900, 154 in 1905 and 159
in 1910
The increase in wages has been con-
tinuous, without fluctuation, and much
greater than that Of prices Of goods.
From 1872 TO 1887 there was an in
crease Of 80 per cent. Beginning again
with the rates Of 1887 as a basis, the in
crease was Is per cent I'm 1890. "a I'm
1895. ia in 1900, 137 In 1905 and 214
I'm 1910. The advance has occurred In
all departments Of labor, though not
uniformly. Thus the wages Of car
penterS, masons and others engaged in
house building have risen I'm the last
twenty years from II or Is cents a
day to 40 or 80 cents. In the clothing
trade in 1890 they ranged from 6 to Is
cents and now they are from ~ to
40 cents. The wages Of common labor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
FALLING FOUL OF HISTORY,

"rhe Labor World" Of Pittsburgh,
which has been deyOting a good deal
of attention to Governor Wilson's
awkward efforts 10 reverse on Tn"
stump the attitude toward labor qucs-
tions which he assumed for years in
the study. commented recently on
passage in the Democratic candidate
speech in Scranton, Penn, as showing
his unfamiiarity with the lines OF his
new role. Mr. Wilson, II reports, SAID
to the Scranton miners:
You know that by the action OF
Democratic House only two years ago
the Bureau Of Mines and Mining was
fully equipped to act as foster father
of the miners of the United states ana
10 go into these so-called private prop
critics and see that the lives or human
beings were just as much safcguardcd
as they would be on the streets OF
Scranton.
No claim could he more unjustlhed,
even on its face, than the one MADE
above. There was no Democratic
House of Representatives two years
ago. As "The Labor World properly
saws. the law creating the Bureau OF
Mines was passed by the Glst Con-
gress. which was Republican in both
branches. 1t was approved by Presi-
dent Taft on May 1G 1910, nearly six
months before the election ut which
the present Democratic House Of Rep
resentatlves was chosen.
Governor Wilson's lack Of acquaint-
ance with the history made at Wash
ington in the last four years has be-
trayed him into many foolish remarks.
He needs the counsel on his stumpino
tours Of some Democrat who knows
enough to know that his party elected
n majority in the lower branch of Con-
gress I'm 1910. not in 1908.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
NO VACUUM PROBABLE.

A former Attorney General Of Mas
sachusetts. Mr. Albert L. Plllsbury, has
raised the point in an article in "rhe
Independent" on the Presidential sue
cession that should the election Of a
President and Eice-president be thrown
into Congress and the House Of Rep
resentatives should fail TO choose q
President and the Senate fail to choose
q Vice-President before March next
there would be no means under exist
ing law Of continuing the government
Mr.. PillsbuTy's view is based on
the fact that the trainers Of the present
Presidential succession law were not
contemplating the contingency of a
failure on the part Of the people and
of Congress TO elect a new President.
They were dealing only with the prob
lem of vacancies occurring in the
course Of a Presidential term, and the
succession law accordingly deslgnates
the order of succession "in case Of re-
'moval, death, resignation or inability
"of both the President and Nice-Presi-
"dent Of the United States There can
be little doubt that The present statute
was not intended to guard against Il
hiatus arising through the breakdown
Of the electoral machinery. Yet 1t is
not at all clear that it would not serve
to tide the country over such hiatus,
if no President and no Vice-President
were on hand TO qualify on March 4,
1913. ..
Mr.. Pilsbury would be obliged,
in order to prove the absolute INSULT
cheney of the statute. 10 assume that
the terms OF the Cabinet officers would
end on March 4 with the term Of the
outgoing President But such is not
the case. Cabinet officers are not APP
pointed for specific terms and they in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
BUTTONS OFF.

1t is good news that Woodrow Will
son has begun 10 sew on buttons.
Having, in his own language, 'loSt a
button at a strategic point while on
his travels, he borrowed a needle and
thread and closed up the gap in his
attire It ought to be an easy transit
ton from his physical to his political
clothing so 1t is TO be hoped that
before long he will begin to sew but
tons on his political principles, for
there are many loose flaps about them
sadly in need of pulling together and
buttoning up.
For instance, he seems to have lost
the button off the single term declara-
ton Of the Baltimore platform, and has
been utterly unable 10 wear II during
the campaign. In fact, he will prob
ably have to search for it among his
discarded effects in order to Turkish it
up and appear in the complete uniform
OF a Democratic candidate. 1t is an
essential part of that costume, and the
Baltimore convention pledged him to
wear it; but he neglected to put It on
and has been going about half dressed
all the fall.
Then there are the pr0teCtive-duties-
unconstitutional trousers. They are
supposed to be held up and made wear
able by OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
harm-to-protected-in suspend
ers. Mr.. Wilson has been proudly dis
playing the suspenders, but has never
worn the trousers. perhaps because he
saw from the first that the convention
tailOrs had bungled about the buttons
and the two couldn't be made TO fit.
Possibly now. with his ready thread
and needle, he may fix up the gar
ments and make them hang together
after fashion. There seems also to he
q button off his tribute to THE great
people of liberty loving Poland, the
ancient italian people, whose love OF
"liberty runs back to the days of the
"Roman Republic; the great Slavic
people. the great peoples out OF
Sicily" 1t won't button up to his
description of "multitudes Of men
"Of the lowest class from the South
"of Italy and men Of the meaner
"sort out Of Hungary and Poland
The latter garment he was fond of,
and it's pity for him TO have to hide
il because it doesn't conveniently
fasten to the new which political ext
gencies force him to wear. Moreover,
there IS Il bad gap in his anti-bOss coat.
The New Jersey side Of 1t looks well
since he sponged off Jim Smith, but
the rent in the sleeve shows Murphy
and Taggart up it, smiling in the hope
that he will carry them to power ut
Albany and indianapolis.
So il Is high time for Mr.. Wilson to
get out his housewife. His costume
was rather harlequin. anyway, with
it's patches of radical expediency
basted on to scholarly conservatism,
and the seams have been badly split
by his aCrobatic endeavOrs to FIT every
pose to every audience. Needle and
thread at strategic points are much
needed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-20
IN THE BERKsHIREs

by Telegraph to The Trlbun.I
Lenox' Oct. l9.-George W Folsom
presided at the annual dinner NJ the
Lenox club tonight. One long table was
ialu III the clubhouse. the decorations for
"hich were candelabra and green and red
vines. oak leaves and chrysanthenun,s
AT the table were Samuel Frotbinpbs m.
Dr. Henry p. Jacques, Frederick S. Deia-
neld' DAVID T. Dana, Dr. Henry c.
Haven, j. Woodward Haven. Glraud
Foster Louis Taylor ]. Van Ness Philip.
Harris Fahnestock. James Barnes. DR..
b. Austin Cheney. F. Burial. Hoffman,
jr.. Albert r. Shattuck, Richard c.
Dixey Hayden Claiming, Thatcher NJ
Adams. Bayard c. Hoppin, Howard Dick
inson and Herbert Parsons.
Mrs Morris X. Jesup and Mrs Francis
c. Barlow entertained dinner parties to-
night.
Miss Civilise Alexandra won nine
hole handicap at the Lenox golf course
to-day. Playing were Mrs. Bayard
c, Hopptn, Mrs. Frederick S. Delahed.
Misses Irene Turnure. Mary Shotter.
Elizabeth Turnure, Leila Belden, Anna
Alexandra, Anita Delafeld and and Cor
stance Folsom.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lawrence are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. William d. Sloane.
Mrs Henry Willard and Gerald s. vil.
lard. who have been at the Aspinwall.
have returned TO New York.
Mrs quincy Adams Shaw, OF Boston,
has arrived at the Gavitt Cottage, In
Stockbridge. for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chalmers Wood are visit
ing Mrs. Oscar Iasigi, In Stockbridge.
Mrs Arthur p. Hadley, of New Haven.
Is a guest Of Mrs. Reginald Il. Belknap
In Stockbrldge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peyton ]. Van Rensselaer,
have closed their cottage on Prospect
Hill and are at the Red Lion Inn, stock
bridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur H. Veasey ana
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shields Clarke
have closed their cottages and gone 70
New York
f. Burial Hoffman, jr.. is visiting MI
and Mrs. Albert II. Shattuck