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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-01-12
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-01-12
Theodore N. Vail

The refusal of Theodore N. Vail to
allow his friends to further use his
name in connection with the Vermont
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-01-12
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Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
RAILROADS ASK FOR HEARING
 BEFORE BAR IF PUBLIC OPINION
ExATToRNEY GENERAL JOHN WRIGHT AND FRED ATHEARN
 WILL ADDRESS THE TONIGHT AT THE YUM>
 THEATRE AT ZOO O'CLOCK SHARP; TIME-LEeIsLA-
 TURF PASSED LAWS DETRIMENTAL TO RAILROAD PROGRESS F.

"All that the railroads ask is a chance to be heard, said Edgar Rhein- hart, who is in Yuma, making prepara- tiOns for the meeting at the Yuma theatre, at 7:15 o'clock, this evening, when the bills that are to be voted upon on election day will be discussed by former Attorney General John B. Wright and Fred G. Athearn.
 The last legislature passed a num- Der of laws that are considered detri- mental to the railroad progress of Ari- zora, is the opinion of the railroad of ficials, and they have invoked the ref erendum, thus submitting to a vote Of the reople. Under the rules of the In terstate Commerce Commission, rail road construction must be accomplish ed with new money-that is, it can not be done with earnings, and th railroads insist that they cannot bor-
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

We now have a homeseeker's rate in to the state, for the purpose of bringing in settlers who will build up the coun try. This rate is one cent a mile. The rate, of itself, does not pay, but only in so far as it tends to increase the population. This rate will be abolish ed. Excursion rates will become a hing of the past.
 Kansas has tried fixing a flat rate md the result is that there are no eX. cursion rates in that state. It is not even possible to get a reduced rate across the state.
 Arizona has only IS persons per square mile of territory. If this pro- posed reduction of 9 per cent in main line passenger fares would stimulate travel, there might be some justifica- ton for the rate. But it is an absolute nmpossibility to stimulate travel with only Is persons per square mile.
 We have to borrow money to build rew and more roads. Arizona needs railroad development more than any hing else, and we cannot borrow honey unless we can show the people r rom whom we borrow that we can pay a reasonable rate of interest. If the railroads lose on passenger business, the loss must be made up in some oth- CT way, and the shipper, must finally pay the bill.
 In Arizona we have regularly con- stituted Corporation Commission, whose duty it Is to investigate these questions; take evidence on both sides, weigh the testimony, and ren- der an impartial verdict. Why not submit these questions to them? They have full power to act. It may be that there are places where a three cent fare could be put in. Certain it is that there are many roads in Arizona where a six cent fare would be confis- catory. This law fixes uniform rate whether it be good or bad. There is little likelihood that Commission will depart from a law enacted by the peo- pie.
 I invite your most earnest consid- eration of the enclosed pamphlet, treat ing of all these bills.
 Yours sincerely,
 EPES RANDOLPH.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

row money from the banks and capital ists when such laws as these scare the capital away.
 The railroads do not deny that they should be regulated, but they insist that regulation should be done by a competent commission, elected or ap- pointed for that particular purpose. The state corporation commission has that power and the corporations should be handled by that body, is the claim of the roads.
 There is a considerable interest in the meeting of tonight, and the Yuma theatre has been engaged in order to accomodate the crowd that, il IS ex- pected, will attend. Arrangements have been completed for band con-
 ert in the open air prior to the meet
 ng, and free moving picture show will precede and follow the speaking.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

More replies-lots of them-were re ceived at the Commercial Club this morning in reply to the invitations to attend the Siphon Celebration. Here are few of them:
 From Riverside's Mayor
 Riverside, Cal, Oct. 25. '12. Yuma Commercial Club,
 Yuma, Arizona
 Gentlemen:-
 I am in receipt of your letter of October P; also formal invitation to attend the Siphon Celebration to De held in Yuma, November IS to 20.
 I have also looked over, with a great leal of interest and pleasure, the book 0f views in colors, showing the dam md many other beautiful and instruct we views of Yuma and vicinity. want to congratulate you upon the booklet you have put out. It is cer. tainly something to be greatly admir- ed
 I am somewhat familiar with the lesert, but not with Yuma, and must ;ay that many of the views are partic- llarly lifelike.
 I certainly wish your section the great prosperity which feel sure will De yours on the completion of the 5iphon and the realization of the tre- nendOus possibilities in store for you.
 This is little too far in advance to know whether I can be present or lot It will give me the greatest pleas
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
.EPES RANDOLPH WRITES ON
 BUSINESS AFFECTING RAILROADS
POSITION SIX BILLS TO BE VOTED oN BY NEXT TUEsDAY-sAYs BILLS ARE UN JUST AND SHOULD DEFEATED-TRAvEL CANNOT BE sTMU- LATED WITH ONLY 8

Everybody in Yuma knows Colonel Epes Randolph, head of the Southern Pacific lines in Mexico. For many years the Colonel has been closely as sociated here, in a business way, and he is now one of the directors of the Yuma National Bank. His opinions on the new bills and amendments, to be voted on next Tuesday, will, there fore, prove interesting reading at this time His letter follows:
 Tucson, Ariz., Oct 2S, '12. MT. W. H. Shorey,
 t Yuma, Arizona
 My Dear MT. Shorey:-
 I am a railroad man. I have been in the business practically all of my life. Because of this fact, feel my self competent to speak on matters af- fecting the railroads. Furthermore, believe that it is not only my right, but my duty, to talk in defense of the business in which I am engaged, and against measures that jeopardize it.
 The purpose of government is to es- tablish rules for the guidance and pro- tection of the people, and is not for the purpose of enacting laws that take the management of a business out ot the hands of those best qualified, both by training and experience, to handle it. and place it in the hands of poli- ticians, or any other class of men who know little or nothing about the busi- ness. That sort of thing is wrong, and all must admit it.
 There are six bills to be voted on at the coming election, November D. These bills affect the railroads ad- versely, without conferring any bene- fit on the community. They are a positive setback to the growth and to the prosperity of the state. They should be defeated, every one.
 wish to call your particular atten- tion to the three-cent fare bill. The passenger business of tn railroads Of Arizona, as a whole, is not profitable. We are now selling mileage books to merchants and others who travel a great deal, that make travelling two and one-half cents per mile. These books will be done away with, should the three-cent fare bill become law.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

and authority, and will absolutel dominate Democratic legislation ju. as trey have dominated in the presen. House.
 l do not suppose that the averag man throughout the country follow 5 Congressional affairs sufficiently clos to be aware of what this means. The :. feel, in a vague way, that CannOnism has been oyerthrown That is true so far as the power of the Speaker is concerned, but, in point of fact, it wa not so much an actual overthrow Cannonism, as it was a transfer of the power exercised by Cannon, as Speak CT, to the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, whoever it ma be. Now, everybody familiar with the Congressional situation knows jus what that means in a Democratic House.
 The present Chairman of the Way and Means Committee is Oscar Under wood, of Alabama. Underwood is reactionary and a tory of the very old school. He knows nothing but the ta if, and he has a false idea of what ought to be done with that. There is not another idea in him. You can frisk his pockets; you can search hi shoes; you can examine him under microscope and you cannot get any thing else out of him. He does not know anything about the great curren cy question. He has not an idea on the subject of trusts and corporations control or the regulation of interstate commerce. He IS a states tighter and against Federal activity in so man. of the ways in which it has been dem onstrated that the Federal Goveroment must take active part. He scOrns the suggestion of anything looking toward the betterment of conditions of life an; labor for the average man. Social ana industrial justice is an anathema foi him and, in a word, he is completely tory.
 Mr. Underwood will be the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the next House to an absolute certain ty if it is Democratic. He is the dom inant figure of the House today. His standing on these questions is clearly shown by the public assault made up on him by Mr. Bryan last year. As Chairman Of the Ways and Means Committee Mr. Underwood will be the dominant figure in the selection of all the other standing committees of the House Chief of these committees in importance, as affecting legislation of vital moment to the country, are Ap- propriations, Judiciary and Interstate Commerce.
 The present head of the Committee on Appropriations who is as certain to be returned to that post in the next House as is MT. Underwood in his present post, is John J. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, the Pat McCarren, Demo crat, who helped Cannon to retain his post as the Speaker of the last Re publican House, and who was of vital assistance to the Cannon gang in the adoption of it's rules and in the organ ization of the House. He is the man who. more than any other, has been responsible for the extraordinary fias- co of political legislation attempted to
 (Continued on Page Four)
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
ARIZONA SURE |S A GREAT COPPER STATE HAS PRODUCED NEARLY THREE AND A HALF BILLION
 POUNDS OF IT

Arizona has a recorded production of 3,494 4,333,111 pounds of copper, or 2l. 9S per cent of the total output Of the United States since mining began. In 1911 Arizona produced 303, POP, ,5Sz pounds of blister copper, as compared with 297,250,53S pounds in 1910. This is the largest output in the history of the state, according to B. s. Butler, of the United States Geological Survey, and continues Arizona in first place among the copper-producing states. She produced 2763 per cent of the total output of the country for 1911.
 The steady output of copper from Arizona began about 1875, though there was intermittent production pri- or to that date, the earliest record oi
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
From Mayor of Salinas, Cal.

Salinas, Cal, Oct. "A, '12. Yuma Commercial Club,
 Yuma, Arizona
 Gentlemen:-
 I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind invitation to the Siphon Celebra- ton, to take place November IS, 19, and 20. I am not certain at this time that I will be with you. I want to go to Yuma and it may be that I can ar range to be there during your Festi- val ' I also desire to thank you for your booklet which is certainly a credit to any community. I have shown it to some of my friends who expressed a desire to procure duplicates. If they are available, will you please send me half a dozen and I will at once remit the amount of the purchase price.
 Yours very truly,
 C F. P. FELIZ, Mayor.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

men in the country have not walked up to the fact that behind the ma chimes of both parties stand a compar- atively small group who never appear openly in connection with either party but who certainly exercise an almost complete practical control over both. Our hope lies in breaking down this bipartisan control and it is absolutely ] necessary to smash both the Demo cratic and Republican parties in or der to do so.
 ! All over the country people are aware of the fact that in their muni- cipal governments there has been a bipartisan arrangement in power. Ad- ministrations have changed but not the government. It is that way in cit ies all over the country, in many states also, and it is pretty much that way in the nation.
 i Now, at the risk of making this let ter mile long, I am going to point out some of the things that will hap pen in case MT. Wilson should be cleo ted to the presidency. He said the other day in a speech in Jersey City that it was absolutely necessary to have good men, not only at the head of the ticket, but in every place on the ticket. He added that it was amazing to him that good men everywhere did not see this. Now, if we cOncede 100 per cent of sincerity, integrity, abil- ity, patriotism and progressivism to Nr Wilson. we can still demonstrate that his election will not, and cannot, possibly accomplish what it is in the hearts of good people who now intend to vote for him, to have accomplished. This because MT. Wilson's national and state tickets in no manner con- form to his own prescription as to what is imperatively necessary.
 NIT. Wilson's running mate on the national ticket Governor Marshall, is one of the most notorious reactiOnar- ies of the country. His entire record from the time he entered politics, as a young man, to date, is intensely re- actionary. In Indiana, and throughout the Middle West, where they know him, there is no question of that fact That, however, is not specially import ant. What is important, is, that if MT. Wilson should be elected, Fe would undoubtedly carry Congress with him overwhelmingly in both houses. That would put in the house a great number of new men, There are already among the Democrats, a large number of men who are serving their first term in Congress, but there are also a very substantial minority of men who have been elected for years from the Solid Democratic districts of the North and from the Solid South. These men have a practical monopoly of experience in House management. They form an in- vincible ring which cannot, possibly. be upset by the mass of the ineXperf enced new men. The new men may be the best. who ever wore shoe leather, but it is a case of veteran soldiers go- ing against a mob. This ring will cer- tainly repeat in the organization of the House, and the selection Of the House committees, the procedure followed by the organization of the present House. This means that the same old gang sters will be in control of al the inn portant places, the centres of power
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

Special correspondent for the New York Sun, and for Harper's Weekly at Manila during the Philippine Insur- rection, and in China during the trou- bles of 1900; New York Herald cores pendent with the first Japanese army in 1904; author of "Dewey's Capture of Manila" "Our Conquest in the Pacif- ic," etc.; chief of the Washington Bur eau of the New York Times and the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 So much for his record. Personally, 0. K. Davis is best described by his own initials. He may also be relied upon to know what he is talking about when he writes. As an insurgent, he dates back a number of years-to the time when, with John McCutcheon and others, between battles, he signed the Round Robin of War Correspondents in the Philippines, calling attention in America to the false impression con- veyed by the censured Philippine dis patches given out by the War Depart ment officials at Washington.
 MT. Davis is now Secretary of the Progressive National Committee, but the facts in the following letter came to his notice when he was serving as chief of the New Yorw Times Wash ington Bureau, watching the political highbinders of America. Finally, the letter is just what it purports to be an actual letter. Bob" is a cousin.
 "Personal"
 New York. September 26, '12. MT. R. s. Weed,
 No. 216 Main Street,
 Buffalo, N. Y.
 Dear Bob:-
 I am very glad indeed to have your bully good letter of the 24th instant. The fact of the business is that We are not able to make the campaign that we ought for the simple reason that we haven't the money. The real truth is that we have been cursed dur ing this whole campaign by the reputa- tion for having lot of money when, as matter of fact, we have been pow erty-stricken all the time. It is very curious thing to me that this should be so. I asked a bunch of newspaper men, who were in here this afternoon, what they thought about it. There are two millionaires, MT. Perkins and Mr. Munsey, who are supporting the Pro- gressive party. That fact is constant ly in the newspapers and is constant ly used to make the public believe that this committee has all the money that it can possibly use. Now, as a matter of fact, neither MT. Perkins nor MT. Munsey is an exceptionally wealthy man; besides, even if these two men are e-AtoxHo. ,dcmfwypvbgkqjffi were able to finance the whole cam- paign it would be very bad thing for them to do so, and both realize it as clearly as the rest of us do. We are making very strenuous efforts to raise money by popular subscription, but our solicitors constantly meet this notion that we are extremely well provided for and thus far have not been very successful.
 The fact is that the Democratic par ty is hopelessly in the grip of the re- actionary gang, as is the Republican Earty. The only trouble is that the people generally do not appreciate that fact yet. A great many honest
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
CARNIVAL CONCESSIONS ALLOWED ID yUMA|TES

At a meeting of the carnival com. mittee last night the following carnival concessions were awarded to Yuma people:
 Julius Levy, nigger ball game priv ilege, $2O.0O.
 Jas. H. Kinsler, merry-go-round, $20
 J. T. Alxander, hot dog, $2O.
 R. l.. Bechtel, wheel of fortune, S20
 R. L. Bechtel, roulette wheel, cigars $2O.
 R. l.. Bechtel, popcorn, peanut and lemonade, $20.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

production being for 1862. Since 1880 the growth of the industry has been steady and rapid.
 Nine copper-smelting plants operated within the state during the year.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
RETURNED FROM PHOENIX

County School Superintendent John M. Hess has returned from Phoenix, where he was elected secretary of the Arizona School Superintendents Asso- citation.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
From L. M. Lawson
 Los Angeles. Oct 9.

From L. M. Lawson
 Los Angeles, Oct. 9, '1z. Yuma Commercial Club, Yuma, Arizona Gentlemen:-
 Please accept my many thanks for your invitation to the Siphon Celebra- tion. It will be great pleasure to at tend. In the meanwhile, if 1 can be of any service here, don't hesitate to call on me-. Yours very truly,
 l.. M. LAWSON, U.S.RS..
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
ocoTILLo CLUB MEETING

The Ocotillo Club will meet Satur- day, November ?, at the home of Miss Anita Post
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

ure to do so, if it is in the bounds of possibility. Yours sincerely.
 WILLIAM l.. PETERS, Mayor.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

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Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

Get new Magazines at Shorey's.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31
A Letter to Bob" From Q. K Davis on Democratic Gan
MANY PROMINENT MEN WILL
 ATTEND S|PHON CELEBRATION

WILLIAM PETERS, MAYOR OF RIVERSIDE; MAYOR SALINAS, AND SEVERAL OTHER NOTE HAVE BEEN IM PRESSED WITH THE SPIRIT OF YUMA AND WILL HELP US BOOST THIS COUNTRY
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-31

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Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-19
CHANCE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

The sentiment is growing each year
 that trade schools should be given
 more prominence and be so located
 as to give greater benefit to the boys
 and girls of the state than they do.
 It happens in many cases. though the
 number is decreasing, that when @ boy
 or girl completes their grammar
 school course, the state is through with
 them. While with some it is not so,
 yet with many it is, though 1t should
 not be. It is possible to prepare for
 the professions in large or small schools, public and private, but there
 is not general provision in the shape
 of schools for giving the added in struction to those who may become salesmen, milliners or mechanics. EX- perience becomes the school for most of these, and while that is a good school it is not providing the same opportunities for all young people, to let part choose their course in higher education and make the others enter the school of hard knocks.
 There are in this state two trade schools, one at Bridgeport and the
 other at New Britain, which are con- ducted by the state and offer excel lent opportunity for instructions in various trades. and turn out first class workmen. New Haven is to have such 1 a school which the city is to conduct 1 but in this end of the state no pro- 1 bision has been made for this addi- 1 tional help to the young men and wo-
 men. though the opportunity is ripe.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-19
IDEAS OF A PLAIN MA!
individuality.

The very hardest thing in the world, my son, you will find to be this: to form your own opinions and stick to them.
 3 All around you is mass called pub lie opinion. It is the belief of the mob. As the atmosphere encloses your body and exercises a pressure of fifteen pounds to every square inch of your skin, so this common opinion con stantly forces itself upon you.
 Sometimes it is good, sometimes bad, never wholly either good or bad.
 You are man just in proportion as you can yield to it and resist 1t wise ly.
 It is as bad always to oppose cur rent notions as it is always to yield to them. To be a professional rebel is as silly as to be professional camp follower
 Be neither. Weigh things for your self. Accept nothing that does not convince you. Don't go with the mul- titude just to be agreeable; don't be stubborn just to be peculiar.
 The one thing worth fighting for,