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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-09

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Before large and distinguished au-
dience Of men and women of Alex
andria, Miss Mary Johnston, Of Rich
mond, Mrs. Lila Mead Valentine, pres
ident of the Virginia Equal Suffrage
League, and Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett
of Alexandria, three Of the best known
women of the south spoke in favor of
equal suffrage at the Elks Auditorium
last night.
1t was Il most delightful and inter
esting occasion and was far removed
from the idea that the public gener-
ally holds as to suffrage meetings.
The audience as they entered the
Auditorium were ushered to their
seats by number of young society
girls Of Alexandria in evening dress
among them wers: Mrs. Rathbone
Smith, Miss Lila Barrett, Miss kath-
trine Steel Barrett, Miss Lisa Dean
Anderson, Miss Elizabeth Dulany.
Herbert, Miss Virginia Beall Danger
field. Miss Nellie Seider Uhler, Miss
Pauline Nichol, Miss Julia Nichol, and
Miss Mary HoOtf.
Mr.. Robert S. Barrett presided at
the meeting and Hon. Charles {. Car
lin introduced Miss Johnston. Mr..
Carlin said that he hoped his appear
ance would not be misunderstood as
he had not made up his mind as to
his position in the matter. He declar-
ed that "when the women Of this coun-
try SATISFY the m"n they want SUI
frage they will GET it. Mr.. Carlln
paid u graceful tribute to Miss John
ston for her accomplishments.
Miss Johnstons speech was one oi
the most delightful that an AleXan-
dria audience has ever had the priv
lege of hearing and for nearly an hour
and half she held her audience spell
bound with her mastery arguments
and beautiful word pictures. Her
many witty and sarcastic darts at the
men evoked hearty applause.
Miss Johnston made forceful ar
pument. She brought out many strong
facts in favor of woman suffrage and
interspersed her address with occas-
;onal recitals of amusing incidents.
After pointing out many changes
in our social and intellectual view
noints. changes which have been
greater during the last hundred years
than during the five centuries proceed
ing, she discussed the remarkable IN
consistency, in the face of all the
growth and change in the structure
of society, of the objection to any al
teration in the status of woman. Nat
ure commands growth and the stay
ing in an outworn shell is one OF the
most unethical things possible. Man
in the midst of the great discoveries
inventions and advance movements Of
this twentieth century would keel
woman in the same state and position
as in the middle ages. Fortunately
the voice of nature is stronger thar
the voice of man.
Of the one-hundred and thirty wage
earning employments, women are en-
gagged in all but two or three. In ou
own state there are forty thousane
woman operatives, eight thousant
women are teachers and many are
stenoeraphers or otherwise engaged
in supporting both self and others
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-09


Faint Heart Meier Won a
Lady Fair Nor a Trip Across
The Blue Atlantic.
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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
Jacobs Speaks
At The Globe

W. A. Jacobs, late candidate for
governor Of Wisconsin, will speak at
the Globe theatre, 1924 Market street,
at 1880 p. m. Sunday evening.
This will be the big elimination OF
a week of big meetings. The Socialist
campaign was started OF on the date
of the county convention, last Mon
day evening and every night this
week Mr.. Jacobs has addressed large
crowds at street meetings. All Of the
meetings were held in the city, except
on Friday evening, when he addressed
a large audience at Elm Grove.
The Globe theatre meeting will be
entirely free and will doubtless be
largely attended, as his pleasing per-
sonality and powerful manner OF
speaking has made hundreds who
have heard him In the open air meet
ings DESTROYS of coming to the Sunday
evening meeting, when it will be pos
sible to st comfortably during the
evening and hear an excellent address
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
JabObS Talks
On Milwaukee

Just before the convention OF the
Ohio County Socialist Party in the
Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, hall Monday evening, an address
was made on the city of Milwaukee
by W. A. Jacobs, Socialist candidate
for governor of the state Of Wiscon-
sin, and q visitor in this city for a
few days. Mr.. Jacobs is well known
in labor circles in the West and mid
die states, and has had much to do
with the betterment of labor condi-
tons in the cities along Lake Michi-
gan. He spoke on the labor condi-
lions in the city Of Milwaukee, and
and told how conditions in general
were bettered while the Socialist par
ty was in power in that city. And of
how the workers were rallying to the
cause and making laws to help them
selves.
He spoke of the degrading condi-
tons on the traction lines in that city
prior to the election Of the Socialist
party, how after they were in power
the traction company was compelled
10 put air brakes on their cars, make
many other repairs to their roadsS and
repair their equipment in general. OF
how a man was killed in the foreign
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
Belmont Body
Hold Session

The Belmont Trades and Labor AS
sembly met in Heinlein's hall, Bridge
port, Sunday, June 10th. The attend
ance was fairly good, but not what 1t
should have been. There is no rea-
son why each and every Labor union
affiliated with the Assembly should
not be represented at these meetings,
which are held every first and third
Sunday of each msnth.
Labor unions should take this mat
ter up, and if impossible for regular
delegates to attend meetings, make an
effort to be represented by an alter
nate or substitute. The lack of inter
est is very discouraging to the little
bunch of hard working regulars,
many of whom have refused flattering
offers from the other side Of the ques-
ton becaus ethey have chosen the la
Dor movement as their life work.
Organize Box Makers.
A committee from the box makers
at the LaBelle Box works, Martins
Ferry requested . meeting with the
Organization board 301u.s. { ,sn of
instituting Box Makers local 4ios.
in that city. The board was Instructed
to meet with the box makers at an
early date.
Treasurer Wright on Duty.
O. E. Wright, treasurer of the AS
sembly attended his first meeting
since December 6, when he fell from
a building in Wheeling, upon which
he was working, and sustained several
broken bones. 4
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
CLERKS RECEPTION

The reception rendered the clerks
Of Wheeling at the Elks' Club las
Tuesday evening by the stripper girls
of Wheeling Protectorate Union No. 1
was a great success. The program
was carried out practically as an
nounced, although some Of the speak
ers were unfortunately unable to be
present, and those in attendance en-:
joyed the affair immensely, especially
the refreshments served at the con-
clusion.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

objection, but the latter was wor
only after long controversy.
Carpenters VIII Accept.
The Carpenters Rave not yet &C
cepted the areement. but 1T will be
considered by them at their regular
meeting Of No. 8. the most vitality Of
fected local, FridaySnight. It is be-
lieved that they will accept, though
the sentiment is ont unanimous as
yet
The only concessions made by the
union are the extension of the period
during which all men will be required
to join the union, separate organi-
cation for inside mEa, and the admis-
sion without prejudies Of those against
whom fines are penlng.
Against these con essions they gain
a wage increase 81 rom $500 for the
first year, $40 for the second and
$3.50 for the third year, and the GER
tainty of the closed shop after two
months for outside men, and for in
side men after SIX months.
viii Settle Paklters' Strike.
It is generally believed that this set
Element will have afayorable tendency
toward settigu the intes,e strike.
With union men returning to work
generally, all the pressure will be
put upon the painter contractors, and
they will be compelled to get the
work done. They coud afford until
now to hold off, because the jobs were
tied UP anyway.
BrickIayers Given Credit.
The Bricklayers are being given
credit all through the ranks Of Labor.
Without being affiliated with the other
crafts, they nevertheless answered the
call of their fellow unionists, and by
their action made possible general
strike and complete tie-up of all work
where non-union carpenters were en-
ployed. In this action they were
Joined by al 1.-THE other crafts. -,
This splendid solidarity Of all TIL
building craft unions made possible
the splendid victory which will take
it's place in Labor's glorious annals.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
CARPENTERS ELECT

Carpenters No. elected officers at
the regular meeting Tuesday night,
as follows. President, l.. C. Ice; vice
president, Slater Chambers; financial
secretary, E. J. Weekly; recording
secretary, T. v. Salisbury; treasurer,
John Treiber; trustee, Robert Welsh
ans; conductor, Earl Sheets; warden.
Erlie johnson; delegates to district
council, E. j. Weekly. T. G. Prysock
and Gin Baker. E. J. Weekly was
declared the choice for district. busi-
ness agent.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
LOCAL REoRGANIzEp.

Local No. 1870, of Martins Ferry, O.,
was reorganized by L. F Sprouse and
Ford Darr of Local No. 81, of 1. B.
or s. F. On last Sunday. A complete
set of officers were elected and IN
stalled. and the new organizatio gives
good promise for the future.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
Socialists Nominate
Strong County Ticket
Labor Foes On
COP. Committee

Chicago. June 19.-(special.)-
There are six avowed enemies of la
Dor on the Republican National Com
mittee, according to the official record
of the United States Congress. They
are:
Boise Penrose, Unite Estates Sena-
tor from Pennsylvania; D. Murray
Crane, United States Senator from
Massachusetts; Richard Bartholdt,
Representative from Missouri; Nathan
B. Scott, former Senator from West
Virginia; James A. Tawney, former
representative from Minnesota; Frank
o. Lowden, former Represen@ alive
from Illinois.
Penrose and Crane, who are prob
ably the two strongest men on the
Republican National Committee, have
the two worst labor records in the
United States Senate.
On every labor question these Sena-
tors voted in the interest of the ruling
and exploit class. -Penrose not only
votes against labor legislation on the
floor Of the Senate, but for years has
managed to kill such legislation in
the committee room, he being a mem
Der of the Committee on Education
and Labor. Penrose is the successor
of the notorious Aldrich as the Re-
publican leader of the Senate.
The third man on labor's political
unfair list Richard Bartholdt, also
voted against the railroad mems six
teen hour bill. He voted on March l,
1907, for one of the most notorious
ship subsidy bills ever introduced in
Congress.
One of the bitterest foes Of labor
who ever sat in Congress was James
A. Tawney, of Minnesota. AS chair
man Of the Committee on Appropria-
ton he always "economized" at the
expense of labor employed by the gov
eminent. ITawney is the man who had
the eight-hour law repealed on the
Panama Canal. He also joined the
reactionary Charles E. Littlefeld in
that infamous movement to repeal the
lawothat compels ships entering Ameri
can harbors to hire experienced pilots
10 steer them past dangerous shoals.
Fortunately that attempt failed mis-
erably.
When Nathan B. Scott was mem
Der of the United States Senate, no
friend of progressive legislation ever
appealed to him to vote for such legis-
lation. They knew it would be use
less. Scott was standpatter of the
worst sort, The records show that he
voted against the sixteen hour law
and also against the 1908 employers
liability law. Scott supported two
amendments which crippled the child
labor law for the District of Colum-
bia. !.
Bowden was one OF the most influen-
tial members of the House Committee
on Post Offices and Post roads. But
he never used his influence in behalf
Of the oppressed postal employees. In
fact. he always fought labor bills be-
fore his committee. Lowden's record
is similar to that of Tawney, but with
this addition: He voted forsthe motor
ious Dick Military law, which puts
every American citizen in the United
States army against his will.
It would be a hard job for person
to pck out six persons with legislative
records more shady from the stand
point of Che worker other than Pen
rose. Crane, Bartholdt, Scott, Tawney
and Lowden. In this respect they
can't be beaten.
And these six men today Wlei0 a
tremendous power in the Republican
National Committee. =.
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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
BARRIERS PICNIC

Barbers' day will be on Thursday,
July 25. The BARRIERS have arranged
a great picnic for Wheeling Park on
that dav. and some interesting events,
including a shaving contest. SHOPS
will be closed after II .. m.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

STRUCTURAL IRON WORKERS.
Detroit, June 1s.-The local union
of Structural Iron Workers has secur-
ed an increase from SOC to go per
hour. the advance scale taking effect
May 1.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

Union Label League Buttons for
sale ct Majority office.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
Names Candidates
For Every Office
Claim That This Year They
Will Elect For First
- AAAAOo
THE TICKET
For State Senate
RAYMOND BAUER, .(Farmer).

For House Of Delegates.
A. L. BAUER. (Carpenter).
PETER BOYD, electrical Worker.)
HIP. CoRCoRAN,e (stogiemaker)
WALTER B. HILTON Labor editor).
For Sheriff
c. WE1SK1RCKER, (Stogiemaker).
For County Commissioner.
WILLIAM H. FoLMAR, (Farmer)
For Assessor
1. W. SMITH. (MachinisD.
For Judge Of Criminal Court.
E. A. HARRIGAN, Railroad Trainman
For Prosecuting Attorney.
ANDREW NIEHAUs, potter.
For President Board Of Education
v. E. HEIMBERGER, (Carpenter)
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

C0NTTNUED ON PAGE "a
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

E. A. HARRIGAN, Railroad Trainman
For Prosecuting Attorney.
ANDREW NIEHAUS, potter.
For President Board Of Education
V. E. HEIMBERGER, (Carpenter)
/ Monday evening the Socialists of
Ohio county, meeting in convention,
named a4complete county ticket, and
they claim that this year they will
elect for the first time. The ticket
can be best described as labor ticket,
for from top to bottom the candidates,
almost without exception, are not only
wage workers, but trades unionists
GRho haze .waRked Tctnsf+ently upon
t l34F5 49,. p,he political
'tield for the inre19los ! their fellow
members Of the working class.
The Convention.
The convention was called to order
by w. A. Peters, secretary of the
county committee. at 8 o'clock lp m.
in the Ohio Valley Trades and Labor
Assembly hall. The attendance was
larger even than was anticipated, and
the feeling OF harmony and good win
and deliberate intention to win was
pronounced.
Joseph jain was elected chairman
of the meeting and Peters elected per-
manentf secretary.
The committee on rules was elected
as follows: George L. Burger, Charles
Weiskircher, Max shafer, E. A.. Har-
rigan and Peter Boyd.
Senatorial Convention.
While the committee on rules went
into session to plan rules for the mass
county convention, the delegates of
the First Senatorial District were
convened as a senatorial convention,
Chairman jain and Secretary Peters
still acting in their respective capac-
ity. Raymond Bauer was nominated
for the state senate. Bauer is farm
er, and is we'll known in Ohio county,
having been a mill man for years be-
fore taking up farming. :r.
Convention dominates.
With the adjournment of the sena-
torial convention the county mass CON
vention reconvened and the committee
on rules reported The report was
adopted as a whole, and nominations
were declared in order, the nominal
lions resulting as given above.
Victory in the Air.
The Socialists are convinced that
they will elect upon their county ticket
this year. The vote of last election,
1900, was gain Of several hundred
per cent over the preceding election,
and if a gain this year of only 100
per cent is secured, Socialists will be
elected and for the first time in the
history of West Virginia. the voice of
the Laboring class will be heard in
the halls of legislation.
Jacobs Speaks.
W. A. Jacobs, candidate last cleo
ton for Governor of Wisconsin, was
in attendance at the convention and
made splendid address. an account
of which appears in another column.
His address was well received by the
party members, coming as it did from
man who had been one of the hard
est workers through the hard work
ting years of building up the movement
in WISCONSIN, for they felt that they
could profit by his experience and ad-.
vice.
Campaign Starts.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
ONLY LABOR PAPER

:. Abe Ohio Valley--The
vi, - shop of the world
..tsrin0 to 125, 600 Indus
trial Population.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

of any Weekly or Monthly
Newspaper published in
Wheeling, the Ohio Valley
or West Virginia.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

The campaign started on the night
of the convention and from now on
until the votes are counted on Novem-
Der 6, the Socialists in Ohio county
will be waging a fight all along the
line, a fight that they are is certain
this year to end in a glorious victory
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-02-02
CRAVENS FEARS TO
MEET BERT WELTY
Threat Made by Former Pal He Left
to Die Depresses the Outlaw
to Tears.

Guthrie, Okla, Jan. 29.-"Is there
no other prison to which they can
send me?" asked Ben Cravens, the
last of the Oklahoma outlaws, of one
of the jar guards, and that question
carried the first impression that the
Ben Cravens of old has finally lost
his nerve or Belt Welty, his former
pal spoke the truth here recently
when he told Isaac D. Taylor, assist
ant United States attorney, that "Ben
Cravens has a big yellow streak in
him"
Cravens will be sentenced Monday to
Leavenworth for life. He does not
want to be taken where Welty is also
imprisoned for life. His statements
would indicate that he is afraid as
death of his former comrade, whom he
shot on the Otoe prairie after the Red
Rock robbery eleven years ago, and
then abandoned him to die.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-02-02
If a Woman Had Done 1t.

Trust the suffragettes to make capt.
tai out of the merest indiscretion Of
mere man! The following is an ex-
ample, taken from one Of their publ
cations, the Newsletter, for January:
"a lovely little press item floating
up from Chatham Courthouse, Va,
made the editor laugh and laugh. 1t
said that a juror sneaked out of the
jury room while the rest of the jurors
were asleep, and went and MIXED his
COW. He laid out to get back before
the others walked up but somebody
saw him and told on him, and the
trial had to begin all over. If a wom-
an juror should do that out in Wash
ington or Idaho, wouldn't 1t be a
proof of the incapacity of the sex for
the duties of citizenship"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-02-02
BURN BUILDING TO KILL GERM
Only Way to Get Rid of Them, and
Occasion Was Made a Good
Object Lesson.

A ramshackle building In Winston
Salem was recently burned at the re-
quest of the local Anti-Tuberculosis
league, because it was said to be alive
with tuberculosis germs and could not
be properly fumigated.
For days before the building was
burned huge placards announcing the
hour of obstruction and giving rea-
sons for the burning were hung about
in prominent places. Among other
things the placards said: within the
past Is months two men who sold
fruit, ETC., here have died Of tuber-
culosis but unconsciously left millions
of tuberculosis germs by careless
splitting. The building Is so open that
1t cannot be effectively fumigated.
The only practical means of disinfect-
ing is by fire.
At the appointed hour, while mil
lions of tuberculosis germs were be-
ing burned, 5000 pamphlets telling
how to prevent consumption, were dis
tributed to the crowd looking on.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-02-02
WILLING TO BE A THIRD TERMER,
ALTHOUGH NOT A CAM
DIDATE.
50 SAYS GOVERNOR Stubs
Kansas Executive a Guest at Luncheon
at Oyster Bay-T. r. and Pros,
perity-Good Times Will Come
Again With Teddy, Vows
w. Roscoe.

New York, Jan. 29.-Theodore
Roosevelt is not candidate for the
presidency, but nevertheless will be
nominated and elected, according to
a statement issued by Walter r.
Stubs, governor of Kansas, who
lunched with the former president at
Oyster Bay. Governor Stubs is the
second governor within twenty-four
hours to say that he is going back
home to work for Roosevelt.
There is no doubt whatever that
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will be
nominated by the Republican conven-
ton in Chicago and elected the next
president of the United States" reads
Governor Stubbs's statement. 81 say
this, knowing from his personal state
ments to me, repeated during a per-
sonal conversation today, that he is
not candidate and will not be a can
didate for the nomination. | am fully
convinced he means exactly what he
says and that he honestly and sincere
ly feels that he personally has nothing
to gain by another term as president
But Colonel Roosevelt never has
said to me nor to any other living hui
man being to my knowledge, that he
would refuse the nomination if it came
to him as the result of genuine de-
mand on the part of the American peo-
pie.
There is such demand at this
time. All the information have been
able to gather from all parts of the
country indicates that that demand
will persist and grow and force the
convention to offer him the nomina-
ton. His patriotic spirit, his courage
and his keen sense of the duties and
obligations of a citizen will forbid him
to set his back against task which
the people demand he perform.
There is a vast difference between
a man stating that he is not candi-
date, for, and does not want office, and
a statement that he would refuse to
accept that office when the public well
fare was at stake ana there was a
widespread general demand for him to
serve his country.
"Coolnel Roosevelt was seven years
president of the United States. Dur
ing that time reforms of vital import
ance to the people were inaugurated.
There was general prosperity through
out the country. The people realize
what they owe to him, know that he is
for their interests as whole and be-
lieve in him"
Judge Albert D. Nortoni of st. Louis,
who was present at the luncheon, also
issued a statement tonight in which he
said, speaking only for himself, that he
was confident Colonel Roosevelt can,
not, and will not refuse the nomina-
ton.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-02-02
Indian Sacred BUILDINGS.

The rock-hewn temples of Elephan-
ia, in Bombay harbor, which were
visited recently by the king and
queen numbered six, and four of them
are nearly complete. They date from
the eighth century A. D., or somewhat
later The Great Cave, $50 feet above
high-water mark, belongs to a class
of sacred buildings very common in
India. 1t is a silva temple, fully $50
feet long, the main body being a
square of about 80 feet, hewn from
the rock so as to present three open
sides, and supported by six rows of
stone columns.