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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-09-12
ACTED WITHOUT AUTHORITY:
MUST REfUNO TO PATRONS
Orders Of Corporation Commission
Final in All Such Matters. .-OtheF
Opinions By Court

Ihat the Pioneer Telephone com
panY aad 40 authority 10 raise lts
rates in Oklahoma without permis-
sion of jhe corporation commission,
aud thar city ordinances authorizing
the automatic raise for every addi-
tional a000 subscribers vas void, n
hc holding Of tine supreme eonrt in
AN opinion handed down Weduesdas
bA Chiel Justice Turner lhe opinion
places the final authority N rate mat
ters with the corporation commission
The decision II Of especial import
ance in oklahoma City. AS The com.
pany was required bv James s. Tw,
tand. W#o Was city atornev I'll the
time. to give bond to reimburse It's
subscribers for the additional amounts
ID ahom - per cent Of all charges
collected from subscribers IA Oklabn.
ma civ since April 1909 MIR. Tw1
FORD wiH take u0 Inc matter with tAe
present eitv administration 10 assis,
III securing this refund for the suG
seribers. The refund VIII aggregate
abcut 100000.
The decision anpies also to C,uth
RE and other cities III which the
Pioneer telenhone peoplo operafe.
There Nia he no rebate In Guthrie for
excess was not charged, although
states that il ii held In abeyan
rcndne j decision 10 be handed down
bv The courts. IF the courts had
handed down a 4ecision in favor 0f
ne telephone company tile natrons
here would fhen be comBpiled 10 pav
A..
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-09-12

Maria, Tex. Sept l2-Battle near
Ojinaga, still continues The federals
who are defending the town have near
~ exhausted their supply Of ai1lmuni-
ton.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-09-12

Chancellor Bradford ot the Oklaho-
ma Methodist university has return
ed from his lecture trip over the
northwestern Chauiauqua circuit He
delivered seyenty-eIght lectures In as
MANY different towns and made one
address each day during his absence
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-09-12

an AssocIated press.l

New Orleans. Sept. 12-Ionisht anu
Friday unsettled
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1912-05-18
WHATS The News:2 ?"
Everybody Guessing.

nROBABLY never before have the American
people reached the middle of the month
- preceding the nominating conventions with
so much uncertainty to the nominees of both
parties. In the Republican Party Taft and Roose-
velt seem to become more and more evenly
matched; and in the Democratic Party Champ
Clark has gained at the expense of Wilson, while
Underwood's prestige has been greatly strength
ened in the last few months. In fact, in case of
a long deadlock, Underwood would have probably
as good chance to win anybody.
1t is also likely that there has never before
been so many voters in doubt as to which party
they will support. 1t all depends who the can
didates are. How much muddled is the present
situation as indicated by the following paragraph
from letter have received from very able,
thoughtful Republican, who is living in
the South, and who thinks have been unfair
to Mr.. Roosevelt:
IL it comes to Mr.. Taft against Woodrow
Wilson, I, as Republican, will vote for Mr..
Wilson. If it is Taft against Harmon I will
vote the Socialist ticket not because believe
in Socialism I do not), but protest
against the leadership in both parties My
choice is Mr.. Roosevelt in whose honesty,
patriotism, ability and statesmanship have
the utmost confidence. have the same
fdence in Mr. Wilson's honesty, patriotism
and ability, but in those views of public
question wherein these men differ, would
stand with Roosevelt"
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1912-05-18
Other News Matters.

TN HE Senate has passed bill authorizing the
Government to appeal its case against the
- American Tobacco Company. The effect OF
this bill will be to allow the United States SUI
preme Court to review the decree of the United
States Circuit Court and decide whether not
the dissolution of the tobacco trust Is genuine and
in accord with the requirements of the antitrust
law. $50
The Maryland Presidential primaries resulted
in favor Of Mr.. Roosevelt and Speaker Clark
Governor Wilson seems to have carried South
Carolina. and Oscar Underwood won in Missis-
sppi.
The Southern Sociological Congress. at Nash
Vile was well attended and cannot fail to be of
great value in awakening the people Of the South
to the Importance OF many things which they
have neglected. Governor b. w. Hooper was
elected President. A. J. McKelway, Vice Presi-
dent, and Dr. J. e. McCulloch. Nashville, Tenn,
Secretary *s%
Representatives Wickliffe OF Louisiana and
Beal of Texas, have introduced bills to establish
a Bureau of Markets in the United States Der
partment of Agriculture
The Southern Commercial Congress win hold
II rnxt nesslon HI Mohdla. Ala. .s@Szu
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1912-05-18
t11) SO

each citizen is simply trustee for public
good. 1t is as shameful to sell ones vote,
as 1t would be for guardian to sell the
property belonging to ward of his. In fact,
the crime of vote-selling is worse, because Of
its debasing influence on public morals and its
tendency to undermine the very foundations
of government and civilization. The negro
who steals ham at midnight is good citizen
compared with the man who sells his vote
that long generations of martyrs and patriots
have fought to win for the common man as a
weapon for the public good
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1912-05-18
The Defeat Of Governor BIease.

N THE Democratic primaries In South Carolina
! last week, Governor Cole L. Blease seems to
- have been overwhelmingly beaten by Hon.
Ira B. Jones, who resigned As Chief Justice Of
the State Supreme Court some months ago In
order to oppose Blease.
Governor Blease's defeat Is significant He
has openly declared from the beginning Of his
term that tt was his intention to reward his
sfTtends;s that he believed it mans duty to
sstand BY his friends" and that he was going
to conduct the office Of Governor on this plat
form. TO many Of Governor B1ease's supporters
this policy seems right; but the people Of South
Carolina, ~ whole, seem to have recognized
that while IL Ii commendable trait In man
In his private relations to .stand by his friends,
40 an Official it is his duty to know no friends
-or at least to be equally the friend Of every
man. As an officer he is entrusted with power
not for his own good, but for the good of the
whole people-because the people believe he can
be trusted to use the power for the good of all,
and not for tho good Of himself. He occupies
the same relation that bank cashier does to
the depositors In bank. Grover Cleveland put
the matter clearly when he said that "a public
Office is public trust;' but it remained for Mr..
Bryan to give the statement its full significance
when he pointed out that the man who uses
public Office for his personal profit in any way.
politically or otherwise is IAN embezzler Of
power" The phrase is strikingly apt. II a
bank cashier takes other peoples money for his
own use, he is an embezzler of the money with
which he has been trusted; and If an official
uses for personal profit the Office with which he
has been trusted, he is an embezzler of power
1t is disgrace for an officer to say that he has
done "favors' rewarded friends" in politi-
cal appointments. It is his sworn duty to ap-
point only the man who will best serve the public
good; and we must develop sensitive patriotism
which will rebuke any official who Is IAN embez-
zler of power" regardless of whether he gets
gain in the form of tangible graft and money
or only in the form Of personal advancement or
power.
But let not the humblest voter lay the flat
tering JUNCTION to his soul that he is exempt
from such responsibility, and that he may be
negligent Of his duty without being regarded as
guilty in like manner. The subject Is so inn
portant this campaign year that we hope our
readers will pardon Ms for repeating what we
said some weeks ago:
"The state does not give the right Of
suffrage to man as present for him to
have and to hold as he might piece of or
binary property. "a the capacity g. xo313s
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1912-05-18

4. ,nm nm the situation then, we believe that
3. magazines have painted their pictures too
~. We believe that the poorer women in the
-.trv fare much better than the poorer women
..o city. AT the same time, we realize that
:. f.rmer,s wife has not secured conveniences in
.....t wears as rapidly as her husband. It is the
~ of the farmers and all agencies of agricul-
-, nnft, to see that this condition is remedied
ust as rapidly as possible.
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1912-05-18
A Rebuke to Fire-Eaters.

" HE fre-eaters, those professional South
erners who prefer to exhibit spleen anG
= bitterness instead of following the dig
nifed and generous example of the immortal
Lee-au these received singing rebuke from
the brave Confederate veterans themselves al
their meeting in Macon, Ca, last week. At the
opening session of the Veterans Reunion COM
munication was read from Gen. III. M. Trimble
the commander and chief of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, asking that arrangements be made
for having the veterans Of the blue and the gray
join together In celebrating the fftieth anniver-
sary of the battle of Gettysburg next year. The
small committee to which the resolution
first referred decided on technical grounds to
report the plan unfavorably, but when the re-
port was put before the great body of veterans,
an entirely different sentiment was Immediately
manifest. AS the press dispatches go to say
General Walker, General Carr and others rose
to declare that the breach was forever healed
that not anywhere could be found in the ranks
of the Confederacy animus toward the soldier,
OF the Union, and that the Gettysburg reunion
would forever wipe out what fragment of i'll feel
Ing there might possibly be left. The objector
made haste to ally themselves with the over
whelming pacific element and the resolution was
passed with cheers"
It has long been said--and the writer's father
who was Confederate soldier echoed the SEN
timent-that the men who actually did the Tight
ing in the Civil War cherished no bitterness
against their opponents and that sectional feeling
was largely confined to those who had never
smelt powder Considered in all its signiAcance
there are few finer events In our history than the
action Of the old veterans In Macon--the men
who "once wore the gray Of their country, and
now wear the gray Of God"-in unanimously
emulating the spirit Of General Lee. urging that
an bitterness be forgotten by the citizens Of
reunited Nation. The resolution they adopted
regarding the joint celebration at Gettysburg con-
cludes:
Resolved, That the United Confederate
Veterans most earnestly and heartily unite
with the Grand Army Of the Republic In tho
hope that this event may mark the final and .
complete reconciliation Of those Of the op-
posing armies of fifty years ago. and the per-
manent establishment of harmonious and
fraternal relations between the North and
South, and that it may gladden. the hearts Of
all our countrymen."
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1912-05-18

Prevention Of Mississippi River Floods.
rrR. B. F. YOAKUM, Of the st. Louis and
MI San Francisco Railroad Company, has a
~ very thoughtful article on "How to Remedy
| the Mississippi Floods in the May issue of Re-
| view Of Reviews. Mr.. Yoakum says and very
/ Justly
"More than $2o0, ,00o, 600 has been spent
BY the Government on the Mississippi and it's
nayigable tributaries, and yet but little of
permanent nature has been accomplished in
the Improvement of their navigation. The
Government has not followed the same course
as other countries by carrying on it's drain
age and reclamation work under compre-
hensive and systematic plan. 1t has wasted
money through unwise expeditures at various
locations in an unsystematic manner
Mr. Yoakum is confident that the Mississippi
] can be controlled to prevent the recurrence
Of such floods the present one and says that
the completion Of the Panama Canal will leave
tree for use by It's owner, the Government, the
greatest collection Of powerful dredges and other
Machinery for such work to be found In the world.
/ Be suggests that this machinery be utilized by
ne Government to dredse the Mississippi and con-
sfuct levees. With it, and with the Organization
4 IL Governments nov has tn Panama. he believea
I at aample dredging and adeouate 1evea work
\ q be done cheaper than ever before.r
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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25

as q basis for his talk on national
issues. s
He commended that Intensity Of de-
sire" had q. part in fixing value,
though he agreed that he would not
like to have the coal dealer fix the
price of his coal by gauging his (the
doctor's) intensity of desire for the
coal. He also sidestepped his claim
that Socialism could not be right be-
cause it would demand pay for man
who might work all day producing an
article that would be of use to nobody,
and admitted that Socialism demands
as a first consideration that product
shall be Of definite use-value.
Agrees to Debate.
During the half hours questioning,
DR.. Temple became much wrought up,
as shown by his repeated attempts to
discourage it, from belittling the ques-
toner from the dizzy eminence of his
college professorship to direct insist
ence that he should be questioned
only upon actual misstatements. -
Once he said: '.This is becoming a
debate, and is firing the audience, .
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25
Indict A State
Republican Boss

Clarksburg, W. va. The special
grand jury Of the criminal court,
which has been given the explicit duty
to examine the report Of the state tax
commissioner in which it is plain,
beyond doubt, that theft had been
committed, found true bills against
Sherman G. Denham, the republican
ring leader OF matchlessly corrupt
and diabolical combination, which
gang would not hesitate at violence
to gain their objective political point,
and A. "A. Lang and his brother, John
G. Lang, the tool and vassals of the
indomitable boss. Against Denhan
the jury found four indictments with
two counts each, embezzlement and
larceny, while upon the Lang broth
ers was saddled the responsibility for
eighteen counts contained in twelve
indictments, for the same offenses.
The money involved amounts to
about $4,000.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25
Debate Probable Between Dr.. Temple and W B. Hilton

similar snatnre were de By Dr..
Temple during the questioning that
followed his lecture last Friday even
ing. In fact, he told much more in
answer to the questions than he had
permitted himself to disclose during
the whole of his three lectures.
Questioning Permitted.
Following the many complaints that
had poured in since the preventing of
questions at. the first and second lee
ture, DIR. Temple took the bull by the
horns this time, and with splendid
courage, backed to the wall and said
he was ready for questions. w. B.
Hilton, editor of the Majority, began
by asking the doctor If he would not
correct the statement he had made
that the Socialist "ideal'' was one
thing, and their demands another
and entirely different thing For some
reason he showed reluctance about
admitting this, and did not accept the
request to read the parts of the So
cialist platform that he had carefully
omitted. He confessed that he was
using the platform Of one lone state
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25
HITCHCOCK ADVOCATES
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP

Washington, D. c., Jan. 24-One Of
the things which Labor has advocated
for many years has been government
ownership of the telegraph. Some
twenty odd years ago Senator N. p.
Hill, of Colorado, introduced in the
Unite States Senate what was then
known as the postal telegraph bill.
The senator was importuned to let his
bill remain in committee and cease
his activity in supper tot it. This he
refused to do, although there appar-
emily was no hope for its even being
reported from the committee. jay
Could was then at the height Of his
power and controlled the destiny Of
the telegraph business, and when
Senator Hill became q candidate for
reelection, the Gould interests spent
$3.50, 900 in Colorado and defeated the
senator. Since that time. there has
been no well directed or earnest eff
fort to pass legislation looking to TAX
ing over the telegraph business BY
the government. But;noW comes Post
master General Hitchcock, without .
word Of warning, and announces that
he proposes to recommend that the
government acquire all the telegraph
lines of, the country and that they be
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25

DR.. r " Temple, who. IS lecturing.
against Socialism every Friday even
ing at the Carroll Club, believes that
it is right and proper for q working
man to get less than he produces; and
perfectly right and proper for the
capitalist to make a profit from the
laborers, wages.
He also believes in warfare, with
the killing Of human beings, and the
maintaining Of the great armies and
navies at the expense of the workers.
In this he admits that he improves
upon the impracticability Of Jesus,
who did not believe this.
He acknowledges that the working
man does not now receive fair share
OF his product, but he is unable to
definitely FIX what that share should
be, he IS only sure that it should not
be all of the product, for the invest
ments OF the non-producing capitalist
must be provided for.
These declarations and others Of a
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25
Hauled In Patrol,
Charged NlldONSlO

Mrs: Buschwing, 5 Merritt street
claims that she was charged $40 for
her husbands death ride in the city
patrol wagon. And then had to pay
SIS for the coroner's inquest.
Old August BuschWlng and wife
conducted a little store at the number
given above. They managed to make
living. by selling groceries and pro-
duce. In the hunt for the cheapest
prices the old man used to go early
to the railroad cars with his horse
and wagon. On january he was en-
gagged at loading his wagon in the
yards at Main and Twentieth when his
hose frightened at a passing overhead
train and ran of. He was thrown to
the ground
Mrs. Buschwing insists that the
patrol wagon. instead Of the ambul-
ance, was sent for him, and that he
was hauled to the city building instead
Of home, or to a hospital. He was
dead when the city building was
reached.
Her savings were wiped out by the
funeral expenses. She is now all
alone with the tiny store as her only
hope Of getting livelihood. and her
chance win be less now that her aged
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25

but the audience made It quite plain
that the tiresome point was over
when the questioning began. Again he
said: "This was not to be q debate, :"
but when the audience laughed right
out loud, he snapped out his willing
ness to debate. This was promptly
accepted by Hilton, and the arrange
ments will likely be decided upon
after the next lecture, Friday evening,
January 26.
The doctors failure to get away
gently with his ridiculing Of Socialism
was not enjoyed by Boss Ogden and
others who were present and who had
gone all the way to Washington to
find a man who could say a word
against the theory of Socialism that
is being advocated so unanswerably
by the mere workingmen Of Wheeling.
The debate, however, which the
doctor has agreed to with w. B. Hill
ton, will doubtless result in even
deeper gloom settling down upon the
political 8 dodgers and intellectual
false alarms of this capitalist-cursed
community.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25
'lFTIRINC PRESIDENT MAKES
Good RECOMMENDATIONS

nection I wish to thank the arbitra.
tiun committee for their eficient and
faithful service.
Organization.
The Organization Committee was
called ON mny times to take up mat.
ters Of organization. Their principle
work being that Of calling on the 10
Gals and urging them to become am
lated with the assembly. this was
accomplished with good results. ! de
sire to thank the Organization Com
mittee for their efHcient and faithful
work
Legislation.
The matter Of legislation having
risen to 4 high position in the work
of the assembly and becoming a re-
cognized factor IN the labor move
snent, too much space cannot be given
ito this important branch Of the AS
sembly,s work. IN the past year the
IsLegislative Committee has been cali
ed on to conduct the affairs pertain.
ing to Labor Legislation. wish to
briefly enumerate some of the most
important work done by this commit.
tee. At the very outset this committee
took the tiresome task Of trying to
secure better laws for the protection
Of the workers OF West Virginia. they
fostering number Of bills in the in
terest Of the workers then pending
before the legislature Of the state,
while their EFFORTS were not crowned
with success. it was no fault Of theirs,
this Legislature being one of the most
reactionary in the history Of West
virginia. Only one consolation the
workers can have from the last Legis-
lature is that the Sleeps clothing has
been torn from the backs Of many
who pr0fessed their friendship for
Labor. Another important work Of
yosir Legislative Comimttee vas tI'a
municipal election held tke tore paI
81 the year, the Assembly having aes
clared nineteen candidates for the
various ofices IS enemies Of Labor.
BIZ the Wise ana eticlent manner II
which the committee conducted this
campaign they were successful in de-
feating ffteen out Of the nineteen for
ONCE. This is q record that any
ccmmiffee NAV. wen feel proud of.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25


Rev John c., Granbesrs. president Of
ne Child Labor i:oa.a's - pf West
trsinia, comes ,lt fearlessss on the
ne of the down .trodden workers Of
ibis state.
= de realizes what we hagA been try.
ING 50 Intellectually to have the church
realize nd. while he announces TIT be
speaks without express authority, be
neOges his strength to bring the
sfotestant churches Of West Virginia
INTO line for social progress IN the
aphft of the men and women and
calidren who toll.
Ills letter is addressed really to eli
ae Labor organizations Of the state.
Inc Majority takes leave to print the
communication in the hope that Il
Will reach wider circulation BY this
means than by any other, and trusts
'nat all workers will bring the matter
~ In their respective. organizations
ano have a communications sent Il
HeV' Cranberry. telling him in whal
way thew orkers can hest be helped
~ 'neir upward struggle.
The Letter.
The letter follows:
BarbpursTille. W. Va.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-25
Crescent Lodge
Dance Will Be
One Big Event

Crescent Lodge No. s, Amalgamated
Association, will give another dance
Arion hall on Saturday evening. Jan.
q, and all Indications point to q sue.
cess that will even succeed the stan
dard that has been reached By the
lodges past events. In addition to
the best of music and all the other
trimmings, as somebody is going to
get nice. fat turkey, free Of charge.
The committee in charge comprises:
Thos. Monslow, Pat McGeary. John
Heslin, Sam Bridge, Pat Quilligan, "A.
Aaaoney, Louis Leonard,