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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-11
FIGHTS BIG FIGHT TRUST
Eddie Graney May Build Pavilion, but Warfare
Likely to Kill Game in California
By w. w. Nanghfon;

When o'Connell heard this. ne be-
gan 10 hunt about for another loca-
ton and IL is now told that ne has
rented one Of the local skating
Kinks and will adhere 10 his deter
nlination to make a Washington
birthday fight OF the Petrosky- Klaus
affair.
II he does SO and Cofrroth puts on
a. boxing show at Daily City on the
same date, II Will probably be the
beginning of the end so far as pugil-
ism in California Is concerned. But
O'Connell is not the man that the
public expects to see Coftroth be-
come particularly embroilsd with
Eddie Graney, the old time referee,
is one or the new bunch OF promoters
in San Francisco and the enunity
which exists between Conroth and
Graney is something that age can
not Vlther.
1T HE two sporting men were friends
in the old days They became
members OF The notorious fight
trust OF 1905. the other members be-
ing Morris Lew and Willie Britt
There was split ZIP over the ques-
tion OF leadership, Grsney and Levy
taking sides against Coffroth and
Britt and. rs fight combine. the af-
fair made neither profit nor prog
ress. Bad blood was engendered and
In the case Of CoTroth and Graney
there has never been a resumption Of
friendly relations.
ing INDUCED in here prior to the
naming Of the lucky promoters by
the supervisors, Coffroth was slated
for permits for the month OF March,
July and November. This would have
Of Jrly and Thanksgiving day.
whether lie would have made use OF
the holiday dates in the city Is
question. but the chances are he
would have 'pla yed" on ordinary
nights during the mouths named and
would hovc put on holiday attractions
at DAILY City
rOON the programme was changed.
There was a division of opinion
among the members OF the no
lice committee and the supervisors.
and as = result Graney was awarded
the March July and November Per
n1lts And now Coffro:h has declared
himself In respect 10 the Eighth street
arena, the only rooaess pugilisnc
plant in san Francisco q, present.
II all rresaros war. II is said that
Grspey intends building an arena Of
ldr oNn fer use on holidays and that
he is moro Interested in thwsrtIns
cs5roth thsn in makirg profit out OF
the match handling industry,
The RUSTY hstcAst which has not
becn used TO any extent since 1905
Is 10 ne furbisho1 W ard sharpensd
unt.l It VIII shave hair from BIZ
Hard 6all ard. unless something at
rranout unforeseen occurs to prevent
the war of promoters. continuance
OF pvsnistIc nastimes in The tsr West
is ssrlousl. threatened
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-11
[entucky Race Track
W. WillHelp urff1nen
.la to Reopen Douglas Park With Big Stakes to
Attract High-Class Stables.

|NCINNAT Feb 10The conditions governing the six stakes
be decided al the coming spring meeting Of the Latona
Jockey club given today and the derby usual
FEATURE The entries the stakes will close Saturday. March %
less than spring due the
Of the spring dates which will be fixed by the racing
mission of Kentucky until March Is
THE value of the derby this year is $4,000.
LDUSVILE KY Feb 10The long looked for
The stakes of the New Louisville Jockey club for the spring
ting of 1912 has been made despite rmor that there
be shorter meeting Churchill Downs account of the
ng of Douglas park all stakes will be off according
m official statement of General Manager NJ. j. VIM
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-11
School Rife Scores

VAT NsHuNGToN. Feb, 10
M Iowa City h'Sn school
Wv haired iirst place as the re-
sult OF this weeks shooting
in the Interciiy Iiish
School Rifle Shooting league
Among the weeks results are tina
following: as
san Lake high defeated Morris. n.
Y. 91e 20 pol.
Portland. Me-. high defeated ordsn
h'sh. sS TO a9S
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-11
SEVEN TEAMS IN
MANHATTAN LEAGUE

The Manhattan Baseball league has
heen prov cd a SUCCESS for thA coming
season. a thcIe are now seven teams
registered and will be ready for busin ess
his team The meeting for the mana gers
and captains viii be held Monday. Feb
ruary ~, instead OF NIonday. The tesins
already signed up. with their managers,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-30
.RUEPS BOOK Confession MAY
STIR. UP MORE REVELATIONS
Was a Fine Young Mani

Was Fine Young Mani
Ruef makes it appear that he was
fine young man when he came out
of college,. says Kelly. "and that he
was corrupted by the bosses after he
had fought them for years. Ruef, as
matter Of fact, was strictly business
from the ground up-but his business
was never straight. His early en-.
vironment and associates were bad,
and by the time he got into politics
there was nothing left of him to be
tainted. II he'd been left to himself
he'd have landed in San Quentin long
age. He says he was affiliated with
Kelly and Crimmins for ten years. l
never asked him to do a thing in his
life. = / well remember meet
ing Ruef in 1890. That was when |
first got onto his game. He was then
young in politics but he knew where
the stuff was. : He had no vices
but he had no virtues either. 4 said
'Ruef, the trouble with you is that a
man can't bet his money on you over
night-that is the opinion your con-
duct compels me to have"
Kelly goes on to tell how Ruel was
constantly seeking to control the Pub
lie administrators Office. Tom Rior-
dan, who wanted to be the Admins.
traitors attorney for a while in place
of Ruef, finally objected to Ruefs con-
troll "Ruef whined, said he made no
money, said he was getting poor in
politics. ! went out to the City Hall.
cot the Public Administrators reports
and got line on Ruef's fees. found
he had made thousands of dollars.
When showed him the figures, he
said: oh, those figures are phoney.
swelled them to make Tom Riordan
jealous Now what can you do with
fellow like that?"
And now, just to make some more
interesting reading, Schmitz, with
hand appraised, says he is going to
write book telling what really hap
pened the inside and outside, seams
and all, writing frankly aid without
bias or prejudice, telling slCthing but
the truth, the whole truth, so help
me Schmitz. Hand still appraised.
So wiIh eRuef, Schmitz and Martin
Kelly all telling the truth and no one
Of them telling the same hing, it be-
gins to look hard on Truth.
Maybe Patrick Calhoun, Tirey Ford
and other capitalists, formerly in
dicted. will also unbosom themselves,
by which time 1t is expected that
Truth VII have wrapped lei 4. aperies
about her and fed to parts unknown.
The final chapter would be {; put
4 L.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-30
THOMAS v. LAWSONCL
sixty MILLION OBEAT BRYAN

tenn through them full control Of the
great office.
Never since the country was formed
has there been such q scandalous and
degrading contract entered into. Com
pared with it the blackjacking Of the
Big p sast Bosses at Chicago was le-
climate craftsmanship.
This baltimore thing is vile. lep-
rous1y vile, and It is up to you to null
lily it. Authorize me to say that with
Roosevelt at the head of the Progress
i've ticket you will accept the Vice
Presidential nomination, he resign af-
ter the first two years and you to
serve the other two. and we will sweep
the country and roll the Big Beast
Bosses into the hell they will so fit-
tingly ,grace.
Do this now, publicly, as nothing
can prevent the Baltimore deal from
going through on schedule. Remem-
Der, told you of the five million dol
lars raised on the eve of the SO cleo
ton te buy five States and defeat you.
Remember. telegraphed you on the
floor of the convention in 1900 that the
Pat McCarren- handled deal to n0mi-
nate Parker was System matched
plot and entirely in the interests Of
the System You will remember that
afterward you had my statements
proved to your complete satisfaction.
Now rise to the opportunity: show
yourself to be the peoples real friend
that you are.
In those long hours in Chicago last
week. when we had walked the Lake
Front until after midnight had passed
into morning, you finally said that |
did, that they would never hitch with
did, that they were never hitch with
Parker after you had opened on them.
/ told you the Democratic Big Beast
Bosses. like their fellow tribesmen the
Republican Big Beast Bosses. would
hitch with the devil himself If neces-
sary to successfully blackjack the peo-
pie / ask you now who was right?
In the light of my past advice VII
you not now take it and prevent Ills
new wrong2 Take it and by prevent
ing this new degradation be to the
people the hero in fact that you have
been in their imagination. Bear in
mind the nomination of this man by
those bosses and by their methods,
when exposed. as it will be, with com
plete and absolute proof. will be the
scandal of the age, and upon 1t the
candidate of the new peoples party
viii ride to victory as easily as rides
the hoquois chieftain's canoe propelled
by the spring freshets.
THOMAS w. LAWSON.
Boston. June %. 1912.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-30
Schmitz Says He Win Unbosom
Himself at So Much
Per Line Also
BY ERNEST N. SMITH

LopECAd4 otdE-DuiAtttu OOlIccftOtluctLCcl
SAN FRANCISCO. July 20.-The
Ruef confession, being printed in a
daily paper, is enlightening, but not
as exciting so far, as people really
thought 1t would be. Ruef may be
telling the truth: he is certainly too
tiresome in his long. accurate details
to be telling fiction. His writings
have the ring of sincerity so far as he
goes. but they are unusually clever
in giving not one single detail of his
private life. You learn nothing but
what he did in a political or semi
public way. He admits that he starts
in a comparatively poor boy just from
college; in short time he is giving
you details of how he personally
spent $4,000 on a political campaign.
IL the articles are no more self-an-
alytical in the future than in the past,
one will learn all about everybody
and everybody else and only know
that Ruef was in the game for all he
could get. In other words, you feel
as though the magician after fooling
you shows how the trick is done "be-
fore your very eyes, yet for the life
OF you 1t can't be done at home before
the looking glass. You can readily
see how it could be done, but you are
not dextrous enough to do it yourself.
Sympathy Aroused.
Meanwhile the precious rascal and
his friends have aroused good deal
of sympathy for the convict, and have
secured innumerable signatures to a
petition for his parole, the principal
reason therefor seeming to be that
Ruef was caught and the others were
not, therefore release the one who
was.
Be that as it may, Ruef's article is
an illuminating discourse on what he
and other people did, during the hey.
days of the Crimmins-Kelly political
regime, but it has remained for Kelly,
now home-loving, quiet citizen with.
drawn from the firing line. to throw
some sidelights upon the things Ruef
doesn't write about.
Kelly paints no rosy view Of him
self. He lets bis past stand for itself
any way you want to take it, and sur
rounded by his five daughters and
four sons he hugely enjoys the frantic
efforts of the "hDlier than Thou re-
formers to purify the political arena
and provide jobs for themselves.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-30
Spectacular Bostonian' Wrote
Open Letter Exposing
Alleged Plot

Thomas w. Lawson furnished a
lively chapter in the story of me
Democratic convention at Baltimore
that L. L. McCandless. local Bourbon
leader, says is one of the most re-
narkable things in the national cam
paign
In the Baltimore Evening Sun of
( June 81 Lawson, the spectacular Bos-
ton financier,> published an open let
ter charging that pool of sixty mil
lion dollars had been raised to elm
mate Bryan and nominate a dark
horse. Lawson wrote as follows:
William Jennings Bryan. Baltimore
Dy Dear Mr.. Bryan: In Chicago,
last Thursday. while the Big Beast
Bosses in the employ of the System
were blackjacking the people from the
Republican end of the game, / laid
before you the plot by which the Dem
ocratic end was to be knockout
dropped told you the arrangements
had been made down to the last de-
tail
You were to be eliminated: Clark
and Wilson were to be deadlocked: a
dark horse, certain progressive
God forgive the profanatiop) was to
be sprung and bowled through ! told
you that one million dollars in cash
was the Bosses plum: five hundred
thousand furnished by the dark horse
five hundred thousand by certain
Wall Street System master. told you
that a sixty million dollar stock pool
had been organized, participation in
which was to do the trick with all
kicking delegates.
When I told you these things, you
were astounded You said it was inn
possible. told you the first leg was
the election of Parker: that if the NOR
row showed me wrong in the Parker
part, / would admit 1 had been a
dreamy ass. You now admit told you
straight.
Let me tell you further-up to date
everything mapped out six weeks ago
has gone through on schedule and
without slip. 1t will go on to fin
ISL on schedule and without a skip.
You agreed with me the Bosses to-be
nominee is the rankest counterfeit
ever mentioned for Presidential hon.
ors.
Listen:-This man has entered into
a hard and fast bargain q should say
a signed and sealed contracD with the
Big Beast Bosses that if they give
him the honor. he will give the Sys-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-30

legislation at the next session OF Con-
eIess making it obligatory for manu-
factuFers to mark their fabrics pure
dye' or 'adulterated, as the case
may be-
NO manufactured article in which
gold is part may be sold as gold un'
less it contains at least 10 karats, OF
approximately 40 per cent OF the pure
METAL says Mr.. Toohey. Yet dress
silk are sold daily that do not contain
rauch more than 25 per cent Of the
pure fiber, the remaining Is per cent
being of inferior material
''The most serious part Of the whole
matter is not the actual adulteration
or the silk, but the selling of it to
the average consumer as pure silk
f9bric."
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EXPERT URGES PURE
SILK LAW BECAUSE
OF ADULTERATl0NS

NEW YoRK-LegisIation requiring
that adulterated silks sold in this
country be branded as such. is urged
by p. A. Toohey, of Bedding Brothers
& Co., SIG Broadway. This applies to
imported as well as domestic silks,
and the situation has become so seri-
Gus, he say, that definite teps are De-
ing taken to obtain the enactment 9
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-01-03
WASHINGTON POLITICS.
Democrats Plan A Triple Trust In
vestigation.

The shipping combine, the Inter
national harvester company and the
so-called money trust are to be in
vestigated in the house of represen-
tatives at this session of congress by
one special committee, the creation
of which will be recommended by
the committee on rules. Representa-
tive Henry, chairman of the COM
mittee, said yesterday at Washing
ton that in the opinion of a MAORI
ty of the members of the rules COM
mittee, a committee of seven would
be large enough to conduct the joint
inquiry.
This is in line with the democratic
plans for economy. The rules COM
mittee members think that the three
subjects can be taken up by single
committee instead of three separate
committees, because all of them are
allied. The purpose of the proposed
inquiry in each case is to determine
whether or not there are violations
of the Sherman antitrust, the inter-
state commerce and the national
banking laws. The program is de-
clared to have the support of vir-
tually all the democratic leaders in
the house.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-01-03

\ fiuence the agents of the National
Life Insurance Company to work in
aid Of his candidacy, or the candi-
dacy of any other man, he would be
/ censurable and censured. Would he
not be properly censurable if he
should attempt to influence them not
to work for himself or any other
man? The only ethical question in
volved in discussing the relation of
Mr.. DeBoer to the agents of the
company in regard to politics is
whether it is proper for him to at
| tempt to exercise any control over
them, positive or negative.
The carefully maintained effort
to escape responsibility crops out
again in the course of the editorial
when, after quoting from several
state papers, all of which it would
appear received their first sugges-
ton from this same unknown, it
says:
''Now this paper does not profess
to know what if anything is being
done or who if anybody is doing it
in behalf of Mr.. DeBoer."
Then, in the name of common
sense, what is it talking about?
Is it willing to use as it's weapons
the unsupported statement, or rath-
er suggestions and inuendoes of
other papers, inspired by we know
not what influences? 1t makes not
a single accusation against Mr.. De-
Boer but qualities what it has to say
with an abundance of "ifs," hedges
it's utterances about with such a
rampant of modifying words, that
while its attack may have all the eff
feet of a direct imputation and all
the sting of vicious assault it pre-
sents no issue that can not be
squarely met, makes no statement to
be denied or disproved and rests
so much of it's case as has yet ap-
peared on hint and fnuendo-the
meanest kind of warfare, the steal
thy ambush of the Indian, not the
open warfare of the white man.
While this paper holds no brief
for Mr.. DeBoer, and supports his
candidacy merely because he is a
foremost citizen of the state and in
our opinion abundantly qualified,
far better qualified than any other
man now under consideration or
likely to be considered, for the po-
sition of governor, it would be glad
to answer this attack if the attack
has never concerned itself with poll
tics, as such, but has striven to rep
resent the citizens of Montpelier and
their interests.
Mr.. DeBoer's attitude is plain and
unmistakable. He has not changed !
it. He is willing to be governor if
the people desire it. If they want |
to see and hear him he is willing to
accept their invitations and state
his views. He leaves the people, |
whether they be agents of the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company, |
farmers, millionaires or just plain |
people, entirely at liberty, without |
any suggestion or attempt at control
from him, to follow such course, |
in support or opposition, as their in
terest and judgment may prompt.
AND HE FIGHTS FAIR AND IN |
THE OPENi-[ Montpelier Argus.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-01-03
Unfair Fighting.

Among all honorable men an an
Onymous attack is justly and prop
erly considered the most repre-
hensible. 1t is the method of the
coward, the ambushed shot of the
assassin, the stiletto of the Camorra
1t is not merely brutal, it is shame
full, and will shame him who makes
use of it if his identity is ever dis
covered. There was honor and chiv-
airy in the duel; there are rules OF
fair play in the prize ring but he
who shoots his poisoned arrows from
behind the shield of anonymity
lacks all sense of honor or fair play
and cannot claim even the poor mer-
it of courage, for his attack is es-
sentially that of a coward.
All this applies in full measure
to the editorial comment on the
candidacy of Mr.. DeBoer which APP
peared in Montpelier's morning
paper on Wednesday. The owner
ship of that paper, with the respon-
sibility which ought to attach to such
ownership, has been carefully, per-
sistently and studiously concealed,
even from those actively engaged in
the details of it's publication. The
public and the employees have been
kept in the dark as to the man be-
hind the money for some years.
There can be no doubt, therefore,
that this policy Of secrecy and con-
cealment was deliberately planned
for a purpose. What that purpose is,
or a portion of that purpose, is now
being made clear. Tt was to afford
an opportunity to forward the inter
ests of one man or set of men, or to
injure the prospects of others, with
out mourning the responsibility that
ought to attach to such a course,
the responsibility that brave man
and honest antagonist would prefer
should attach to his acts.
This policy of anonymity has been
enlarged since the first notice in that
paper of Mr.. DeBoer's candidacy by
removal from the head of the edito-
rial column of the name of the NOM
ina1 editor. We would not be so
unfair as to charge to the man
whose name has thus been removed
any responsibility for the policy that
paper is pursuing in this matter of
for the governorship. He
is we'll known to be a friend of Mr..
DeBoer and well disposed toward his
The common fairness
which the owners of that paper de-
cline to use urges us to relieve him
from any imputation of responsible
ty, more than that which attaches
TO his continuing to hold his post
and being held out as the man who
writes the matter that appears in the
editorial column.
The attack itself is not only bru-
al but vicious. 1t is an attempt to
hold Mr.. DeBoer responsible for the
course of those over whose actions,
aside from the business relations he
has with them, he can exercise no
proper control.
Should Mr.. DeBoer attempt to in