Lower coast gazette., 1913-08-23

lieutenant Governor Glynn, who is p
friendly with Tammany, has declared G
himself acting governor. sulzer re-
fuses to recognize Glynn in that ca 7
nscitv and has put the governors seal r
in the safe in his private office, Whlcn
is securely locked and guarded. II
,ind;cation of Sulzer would make Sui {
,or a national figure with a possibility
Of the presidency. The popular ap' Z
plause which always is UNANIMOUSLY
eiven to it's hero when he emerges
safe and triumphant from the pullt
abysses of his enemies would acclaim
sulzer as a hero and make him ana
b,s triumph an event of immortal po-
l;tical history. The seventeen Repuo
lican senators will no doubt Vote
against removing sulzer. Only nine
teen votes against removal Will Dc
nodded to thwart the tricks OF Tam
many.
After a drought of a month with
the thermometer continually hoVcrlng
around the 1OO-degree mark, Okla
homa has received rain relief IN, tne
shape of scattered showers Wnich
threatened to become general. the
temperature has gone down from ~
to 20 degrees. Kansas and the otner
Middle Western States still blister
c.tt,a because of the scarcity OF
water. are being riven to the markets.
water, are being driven to the markets.
time of low meat prices is imminent
There is no reason for cheer, for the
scarcity that will follow will drive the
,r;ce mountain high. Prayers are be-
inc offered up in all the churcnes lof
t rain and cooler weather.
Harry X. Thaw, the slayer OF Stan
ford White, escaped from the New
York State Insane Asylum at Mattea'
van Sunday morning. A 7O-miles-an'
/ hour automobile was waiting for him
There were four men in it. There
was also a limousine which followed
the fleet Packard, which was IN con
necticut in less than thirty minutes
y after he escape. Twenty-four hours
q after he was still at large. He is ou1
side the State, the authorities zee
j certain. It will require months, pei
II hans years, of litigation to bring mn
u hack to Matteawan, then only II ne D
10 adiudged insane by the authorizes .
az the State he is residing in. 1t ~ Of
Iieyed by some that he headed Io
~ Long Island Sound. where 1t was SUI
posed a yacht With steam up Wa
waiting ready to carry him 10 Eufop
le- 4 reward of $500 was offered for n
IN annrehension. The attendant at tn
gate through which Thaw passen
his escape, Howard Barnum, Is und'
arrest. Besides the money spent II
this new method of gaining freedoi
mt Thaw or his family have spent w
90, 81. 100, 900 since he shot Stahio
re- White in the Madison Square roof q
its. den. June rs, 1906, because his NIL
to had been poisoned against stanfo
Pc White by his chorus girl wife, EVei
Nesbit.
an During the conference of judges a
chancellors at the State capitol
TN Mississippi last week, Judge W.
lo'' Henry, chairman Of the committee
lsis criminal procedure, advocated IN
report the amending Of the law so
100. to permit wives to testify agal
na husbands or vice versa. SIEVE
Oh iudges present recalled their exp
ius ence with cases where the TESTING
ccu Of such related people was necesss
The law closed the mouths OF psO
ies whose testimony could have 81
anu more reasonable basis for an acqul
ar q conviction. 1t should be the IL
tion of courts to decide as Justly a
nas nossible. How with so much Kno
hut according to law made some"
mysterious, can q judgment DC
possible justice? That closed me-
may hold, and often does hold, the
Tue 70 tho whole situation. This lay
nngoyernmental as it now reads
eA that provision of silence. 1t shai
'po. only a necessary and vital corree
if that law is recommended as y
-. Henry suggests.
Next year the present Repupl
g., congressman from Illinois n I
$50 Republicans who We're defeated
-,,;th wear will run again for re-eie
and vindication. Among those
/, che fell by the wayside under the bio
!, tho Democratic ballots are Uncle
Cannon, William B. Mckinley
tempt WIN. a.. noueDu a.
,,sed come back.
Kansas has felt the eHect
lapse heavy rain, which, though force
sierra. to be slight and scattered, has II
New turned out to be excessively
lis de- and shows signs of becoming ge
whose Thaw sent a letter to his moth
it was surfing her of his safety and ex
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