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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
M|SSTATES
L|NCOLN'S PRINCIPLES
Statement Sent to Taft by the
Son of the Martyred
President.

President Taft last night made public a
letter he had received from Robert T.
Lincoln. son of President Lincoln in
which Col. Roosevelt is charged with
having perverted President Lincoln 9
declarations of principles.
The letter. in part, follows:
Not Critic Of the Government.
President Lincoln wrote many letters,
made many public addresses. ana was the
author of many documents. do not
know of the existence in any of them of
a word of censure, or of complaint of
our government, or of the methods by
which it was carried on. He was sin
cerely and faithfully obedient to our Con-
stitutiOn. In the single act for which he
is most remembered-the issuance of the
emancipation proclamation-he expressly
supported it as an act warranted by the
Constitution upon military necessity.
Gettysburg Address Misstated.
HE hated slavery, but his reverence
for the Constitution and law was such
that he said publicly again and again
that II q member of Congress he would
faithfully support a fugitive slave law.
His attitude toward the bred Scott de-
cision Is urged as in support Of the PERM
popular
vote of judges and of judicial decisions
He thought 1t an erroneous decision, but
his chief point in reference to 1t was not
its error, but that 1t Indicated a scheme,
and was a part of it, for the nationalist
ton of human slayery. He never sug-
gested change in our government under
which the judges who made 1t should be
recalled but said that he would resist 1t
politically by voting. if in his power for
an act prohibiting slavery in United
States territory, and then endeavor to
have the act sustained in a new proceed
ing, by the same court reversing itself.
He loved the government under which
he lived. and when at Gettysburg he
prayed Of I may use that world that
government of the people. by the people,
and for the people may not perish from
the EARTH he meant. and could only
mean. that government under which he
lived, a representative government Of bal
anced executive, legislative and judicial
parts. and not something entirely differ
ent-an unchecked democracy.
These often quoted words of President
Lincoln are now deliberately altered, and
argument founded on their altered form.
II may be permitted to say that 1 do
not think the public wishes the Gettys-
burg speech to be rewritten and its words
changed by any one, however distin-
guished, for any purpose. least Of all in
order to support a proposition that Pres
ident Lincoln could not possibly have had
In mind"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
BELIEVES FATHER WILL WIN.
Robert Taft, Presidents Son, Makes
Election Forecast.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. April 29.-Robert
Aiphonso Taft. son of the President. win
cast his first vote at the primaries here
tomorrow. Although more than a hun
dred Harvard students were disqualified
by the election officials because they
were not self-supporting. young Taft's
right to claim residence was supported
by evidence showing that he could exist
even IL he had no allowance from his
father. He gave his last place OF resi-
dence. previous to entering college, as
Washington. stating that he had not
lived in Cincinnati for six years.
Father will win the nomination with
out doubt" Taft junior told the regis
trars. and expect to vote for him for
lean who believes in the square deal
should assure my father a denomination
and reelection"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
OBDURATE CLERK BARS
COURSE OF TRUE LOVE
Youthful EIopers Unable to
Furnish Evidence Required
to Secure License.

The course of true love. proverbial for
its lack of smoothness, has had bumps
in the case Of y. l.. Johnson and Mary
Brown. youthful clippers, who have been
in Washington since Saturday. trying
vainly to obtain the matrimonial permit
that is a necessary preliminary to an
exchange of marriage vows. Up to noon
today the stony hearted officials of the
marriage license bureau at the city hall
remained obdurate and Mary Brown was
still Mary Brown. while her youthful
sweetheart was battling vainy against
the obstacles he has encountered in the
road that leads to the altar and a coy
little cottage just built for two
License Bureau Closed.
y. I..-he declined to say what names
the initials stand for-and Mary arrived
in Washington last Saturday afternoon and
registered at the St. James. the young
man giving his residence as Covington,
Ky. while Cincinnati appears on the
register the young woman's home.
1hey arrived a little after O'Clock IN
the afternoon and the marriage license
bureau was closed. Robert P. Belew
cIerk In charge, withstanding all pleas
refused to open up and issue license
either Saturday evening or Sunday
1he youthful couple remained at the
hotel over Sunday. Johnson being as
signed to room A. while Miss Brown was
placed in No. "A. two floors and the Width
OF the building away from the boy she
had hoped would be the one who would
pay her board for life.
When the marriage license clerk an
peared in his office this morning johnson
was on hand. But the clerk had heard
Tumors to the effect that the Young peo-
pie had not given their right names. and
also that they were not of legal age and
no license was forthcoming.
Remonstrance of No Avail.
Johnson demonstrated: Miss Brown
waited at nearby apartment hotel But
circumstances did no good and johnson
went back to his fiancee minus the coyet-
ed document. A scornful toss of her pref
~ head was Miss Browns reply to sus-
Eestion that Rockville is a pretty handy
sort Of Gretna Green.
The young people are fearful least irate
parents get on their track and stop pro-
ceedings by taking them home Just
where home may be neither is willing to
disclose. though ii is believed they come
from Wytheville and that their names
are pretty close to the ones they gave
when registering at the St. James. John
son admitted this morning that he is
barely twenty-one and that Miss Brown
is barely eighteen, and said their mar
rage must be kept a secret for at least
two years because of their youth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
Late Roosevelt Claims.

Roosevelt headquarters claims that the
primaries thus far held in the state OF
Washington indicate that he will carry
that state. According to further claim
West Virginia counties completed their
vote Saturday and Roosevelt won every
where. Out of a total of 923 delegates to
the state convention Roosevelt has 694
beating Taft three to one This insures
solid delegation Of sixteen from West
Virginia to the Chicago convention for
Roosevelt
Six republican counties in east Ten
nessee, having forty-five delegates to the
state convention. elected Saturday thirty
delegates instructed for Roosevelt, four
instructed for Taft, eleven uninstructed,
and with the majority of the uninstructed
for Roosevelt. Roosevelt carried four
more North Carolina counties Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
WRITING PAPER COSTS MORE.
Radical Increase in All Grades ia
Be Made Next Month

HoLiOkE, Mass, April %, radical
increase in the prices of all grades of
writing paper is to be announced next
month by New England mills UnofficiaIly
IL il stated that the increase will range
from > to ~ per cent The cost of pro-
duct:on. ii is stated. has increased stead
lily III recent years without correspond
iEg increase in the price of output. Re-
cent concessions to labor i'm large inde-
pendent mills are said TO have started the
movement.
The American Writing Paper Company
is revising its wage schedule, and also its
price lists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
WILL BE TAUGHT TO SWIM.
Free Instruction to Be Given Chicago
Schoolboys.

CHICAGO, April 29.-Ffve thousand
schoolboys have made known their desire
to the Y NJ. C. A. to learn to swim.
School children who want to take advan-
tage of the opportunity will be taught to
swim free of charge In four gymnasium
tanks In various parts of the city.
Fifteen hundred pupils are expected to
appear today for the first lesson. The
children will be given three lessons In
which the instructors say they Will be
taught to swim the width OF the tank. or
about twenty-five feet. in that time.
The crawl stroke Is to be taught gen.
orally. 1t is said by the instructors that
pupils as q rule master 1t more easily
than they do the breast stroke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
PROMOTION OF EDUCATION.
Fostering Of Relations Between
United States and Latin America.

In order to promote educational rela-
tions between the United States and
Latin America, the Pan-American Union
plans to establish July 1 section on
education. The study OF Spanish and
Portuguese and the J tory Of Latin
America in the colleges OF this country
will be urged, and the universities and
schools here will be asked to give more
scholarships for the benefit of Latin
American students.
Encouragement will be given to students
in the United States to do work in some
of the schools of the other American re-
publics, while full information in regard
to the schools Of this country will be fur
nished TO young men and women in Latin
America who have any idea of coming
here to secure educational advantages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29

CHICAGO, April 29.-Philip Schrader,
fourteen years old, last night came in
contact with a live wire carrying 2.2OO
volts. but escaped DEATH One Of his
hands was seriously burned and he was
hurleu several feet against a building
He was found lying in an alley near his
home a short time after the accident. He
was revived at q hospital and later taken
to his home. He will live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
mind Poisons. /"

The fourth of DR.. Eugene Lyman Fisk's
health articles. entitled Mind Poisons
and Their Antidotes." appears in our next
Sunday Magazine. The theme of this
discourse is, of course, the publicity given,
in q certain kind of publications, things
that ought to be buried, rather than writ
ten about. 1t Is q strongly composed
article. and 10 bound to make . profound
impression.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
PAVES WAY FOR PENSIONS.
Provision for Care of Widows With
Children in Massachusetts.

BOSTON. April 29-One OF the bills just
signed by Gov. Foss may pave the way
for pensioning widows with children.
The bill creates a commission to invests.
gate the desirability of law whereby
the state. instead of caring for widowed
mothers and their children In separate
institutions. as at present. win. through
its charity department, pay these women
pensions varying according to the num-
Der Of children until such time as the
children's earnings make the family self.
supporting. i-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29

York, Pa.-When Jacob Ilgenfritz was
sentenced to twenty years In the peniten-
tiary for the murder OF his wife he show
ed no signs of emotion. His children
were present in court, but there was no
farewell parting. both his sons and
daughters having testified against him at
the trial and their testimony nearly sent
him to the gallows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
CAPT. VELTMAN'S BODY FOUND.
Remains of Huntsman Washed
Ashore Near Fire Island.

The body OF Capt. Thomas Veltman of
New York. who set off on a hunting trip
more than a month ago with Dr. Carl
Clemens of this city and was lost in the
ice fields of Great South hay, n. Y, was
recovered yesterday, washed ashore near
Fire Island life saving station. Confir-
nation of the news has been received by
S. /. Kimball, superintendent of Iife-say.
ing stations.
The body Of Edwin Bailey of Bay Shore
n. y, the other member of the party,
has not been recovered, but ii is the opin-
Jon OF the life-saving men that the body
will be washed ashore during the prevail
ing warm weather. Capt. Veltman's body
was Identified by cunning license found
In one Of the pockets of his coat DR.
Clemens body was recovered about three
weeks ago.
shorty McCabe at his best. See Going
Through With Alec in our next Sunday
Mosr zir,o
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
Candidates to Speak in Maryland.

Marylanders will have opportunity this
week to hear several of the presidential
candidates talk. Here is the schedule:
Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
at Towson, Baltimore county, Monday
afternoon; at Baltimore Monday night.
Gov. Judson Harmon of Ohio in west
ern Maryland Thursday morning and
afternoon; at Baltimore Thursday night.
Col Theodore Roosevelt at Beiair Fri
day afternoon; at Baltimore Friday night:
in western Maryland Saturday afternoon
and night.
President Taft at Aberdeen. Belair and
Havre de Grace Saturday afternoon; at
Baltimore Saturday night.
An effort is being made to have Speaker
Champ Clark make an address in Balti-
more Friday afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29

Staunton, Va.-The Virginia Federation
Of Women's Clubs will hold its fifth an
nual convention in this city May 1, 2
and 3. 1t comes at the invitation of the
Staunton Civic Club and the Ladies' Aux
Hilary to the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
Beats kaGsskas,d Plaster.
Does N0f RLIsfor !

MUSTEROLE is clean. white ointment mace
with the purest oil of mustard. II does all the
work Of the old fashioned mustard plaster-DOES
1T BETTER AND DOES NOT BLISTER. You
Amply rub Ii on briskly-and the pain Is gone!
MUSTEROLE is what Twentieth Century sci
ence has made of the remedy that your mother
snd grandmother depended on. Thousands VINO
have used MUSTEROLE will tell what RELIEF II
gives from Sore Throat-Bronchitis-Cro
Neck -Asthma-Nsuralgia-C Observation-Disclosures
Observation-Disclosures and Aches OF the
Back or Joints-Sprains-Sor Muscles-Bruises-
Chiiblains-Frosted Feet-Colds Of the Chest ut
prevents Pneumonia.
For sale by leading druggists everywhere.
Many OF these display the MUSTEROLE sign
(saown below in their windows. MUSTEROLE
comes in jars OF two sizes, 2Jc and SOC. Accept
M substitute. TX YOUR druggist cannot supply
you send PC and we will mail you a jar postage
preuaid
The Musterole Company. Cleveland. Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
Reports Favorable to Harmon.

Reports from Tennessee and Texas
were given out by Harmon headquarters
last night, as follows:
Assurances that Tennessee. Texas and
Delaware will be in the Harmon column
at the Baltimore convention came today
from J. Frank White, manager OF Gov.
Harmon's 'compaign In Tennessee; Judge
Rice Maxey, democratic state chairman
of Texas, and State Chairman Bayard at
Wilmington The Delaware delegation,
like those Of Kentucky, Virginia and
West Virginia, will go uninstructed to
the convention. Manager Whites tele-
gram from NaEhville to the Harmon
Washington headquarters follows:
The finishing touches are now being
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
On Trip to the Philippines.

1.-THE official records of the War De-
partment show that l left Washington in
June of the same year and went to Muir
ray Bay, Canada; that 1 remained there
until August, when 1 visited Oyster Bay
on August ID, and then went to Washing
ton on the 14th, and left Washington on
August Is for western trip through Ok
lahoma, Missouri, the Yellowstone Park
Oregon and Washington, reaching Seat
tie on September q, and sailing from Sc
attic for the Philippines on September 49,
did not return to the United States I'm
til the 10th of December, 1907.
Il have a letter from Herbert Knox
Smith, commissioner of the bureau OF
corporations, written at my request, in
which he uses the following language:
On November Z, 1907, which date
fix from my personal diary, I telephoned
Mr.. Perkins, at the Presidents order
that the President took the view that the
bureaus investigation should come be-
fore the suit
This indicates with certainty the time
when the matter was decided, and shows
that If the matter did come before the
cabinet at all, it must have been after
September "a, and on or before Novem-
Der Z, 1907, period when ] was out of
the country. and could not have been
present, and certainly could not have
made motion or suggestion in the icabi-
net that no suit be prosecuted until after
the Investigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
PERKINS TALKS BACK
Attacks on His Mo-
tives in Aiding Roosevelt.
WRITES TO MCKINLEY
Wall Street Man Declares He Sup
ported Taft in 1908.
TELLS OF CONTRIBUTIONS
Stimson and Barnard Also Assisted
by Him in Campaigns,
He Ayers.
LIS OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Senator Dixon. director of the Roose-
Welt bureau, last night gave out letter
from George w. Perkins to Director Nc
kinley of the Taft bureau. 1t is in part
as follows:
You and your associates have repeat
eddy tried to place me. as a citizen. be-
fore my fellow-citizens in the light of be-
ing a man actuated only by sordid, i'm
proper motives in what / say and do. In
every possible way attempts have been
made to convince the people that 1 am
against your candidate and for Mr.
Roosevelt because of my connection with
the steel corporation and the harvester
company. Cannot you see that it is i'm
possible for me to be opposing Mr.. Taft
because of the filing Of the steel suit or
the threatened suit against the harvester
company? For if l were actuated by the
base motives that you impugn to me
would be with you heart and soul in your
efforts to renOminate Mr.. Taft. for what
more could a sordid. selfish corporation
man want than to have his corporation
dissolved, on paper. in such way as to
bring increased profits to inside stock
holders and increased cost to outside con-
SumerS. as in the case of the Standard
Oil and tobacco COMPANIES?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
Delay on Suit Explained.

Mr.. Roosevelt asks why suit has not
been brought in this administration
against the harvester trust. A report
made TO me by the attorney general
shows that shortly after the decision by
the Supreme Court of the Standard Oil
and tobacco cases the Attorney General
was about to begin suit against the In
ternational Harvester Company, when its
representatives requested an opportunity
in apparent good faith. to submit a rea-
sonable plan Of reorganization or dissolu-
tion which would meet every just cause
of complaint. With my approval the At
torney General delayed bringing suit
pending the consideration Of this propo-
sition, and during negotiations which en-
sued looking to the accomplishment Of
such result.
by reason of the time required to make
vester company, and. second. because OF
aminers, due to the fact that they were
complete their work on the steel trust in
tinued until April "a, 1912, when. as l
conclusion, and it waS determined that
government could accept: and on that
to bring suit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
Charges Falsehood.

1.-The rumor is even being circulated
that Mr. Morgan and others are Sc
cretly behind me in the present fight and.
in some roundabout way, are furnishing
the money that is being used. This is
downright falsehood. There is not a
scintilla of truth in Vt.
las your campaign is making a spe-
cialty lust now of publishing correspond
ence, personal and otherwise. on various
subjects. why don't you publish all that
has occurred between the present admin
istration and the Harvester company dur
ing the past twelve months! Such In
formation, if made public, would give the
people an excellent opportunity to form a
fair judgment as between the Roosevelt,
way of doing things and the Taft way OF
doing things"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
Never Heard Matter Mentioned.

Il am able to say the same thing. So
far as my recollection goes l never heard
the harvester trust matter mentioned in
any cabinet meeting that 1 attended; and
l cannot be mistaken in the statement
that ] never saw or knew of Mr..
Herbert Knox Smiths letter of Septem-
Der q to the President until after my ad-
minstration had begun. and the time
when the question of the prosecution
came up in 1910 or 1911 And l never saw
or read the letter until two months ago.
This correspondence shows that the
subject of the prosecution of the Inter-
national Harvester Company came before
President Roosevelt August 22, 1907,
which is the date Of his letter to Attorney
General Bonaparte; that Mr.. Herbert
Knox Smiths letter discussing the ques-
ton and advising against suit was dated
September n. 1907, and that Mr.. Smith s
letter was forwarded, by direction of
President Roosevelt, under date of Sep
TENDER "A, to the Attorney General, with
direction to the Attorney General to bring
the letter to the President that week to
talk over the matter.
The official records show that Presi-
dent Roosevelt left Washington in June,
1907 for Oyster Bay, and returned from
Oyster Bay to Washington September "a;
that on September - he left Washington
for trip down the Mississippi river, re-
turning to Washington October 3D. 1907,
and that he remained in Washington from
that time on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-29
"Wall Street Laughing"

Because of the farcical results of the
trust-busting program of the Taft admin
istration Wall street knows that it has
nothing further to fear from Washing
ton. 1t is laughing in its sleeve at what
has been going on. 1t is behind Mr.. Taft
almost to a man, and no one knows this
better than you and Mr.. Taft's other
prominent supporters.
You have persistently connected my
name with the Harvester company. in
particular. in giving out information to
the effct that / was contributing money
10 the Roosevelt cause-and have done
this in such way as to try to convey
the impression that it was a very I'M
proper and wicked thing to be going on
a thnc most abhorrent to you and your
assoc. ates, and which should be so re-
garded by every decent American citi-
zen, and that the Roosevelt committee
ought TO be ashamed to have me or my
money connected with its cause.
The latest attempts in this direction
have been to call attention to the con-
tribution l made to the New York cam
paign prior to the recent so-called
primaries, and also the publication of the
Harvester correspondence