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Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18

There, is no immediate political cam
patgn before us. A presidential cleo
tion has just been held, a new admin
istration put In charge of the nations
affairs. Politics, except the internal
politics of the Democratic party
ought normally to be dead.
Yet recently a crowd of four thou
sand gathered at the Philadelphia sta
tion to meet Mr.. Roosevelt. The
Philadelphia opera house was packed
to overlooking by those who wished
to hear him-a recently defeated can
didate-speak. Considering occasion
and season, the meeting probably
was unique among all the political
gatherings that have been held in the
last half century.
What Mr.. Roosevelt said is of less
importance than the public sentiment
that secured him his audience.
Strange things are happening In
Washington. The man in charge there
is leading senators and congressman
into unfamiliar ways. Why was Mr..
Wilson nominated? Why are sena-
tors and congressman submitting to
the overthrow Of their old privileges,
trying to accustom themselves to the
novel idea that something more than
politics is involved in the manage
ment Of the nations affairs?
That meeting at Philadelphia last
night gives us the answer. That such
a meeting could be held. at such sea
son, is clear intlmation of what will
happen II the old-fashioned among the
members of the house and the senate
refuse to let President Wilson have
his way.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
CH|NA'S ADDRESS
TO THE WORLD
Its Declaration of independence
Received Here.
FORMAL RECOGNITION SOON.
State Department Officials Assert
: That Document Reflects the In
fluence, Of Young Chinese
Members.

Washington.-The Chinese declara-
tloR ot Independence, which took the
form pf ~ ADDRESS d fha gorid, wps
0a13e m sisAlia Id stfef
being fead ~ K. 4 AIR ievsf--
made pabiic State Department Off
cials declared that it rejected the IN
nuence of the young Chinese members
who have been educated In American
colleges. The President and his Cab
met praised 1t enthusiastically, and
formal recognition of the republic by
the United States awaits only the
actual organization of the Constituent
assembly.
The text of the address follows:
"0n this eighth day OF the fourth
month, in the second year of the re-
public of China, the date fixed for the
first opening of our permanent ma
tional assembly, the members of the
Senate and the House of Representa-
tives, having met in these halls to
celebrate the event, now make this
declaration of their sentiments.
Will OF Heaven.
"The will of heaven is manifested
through the will of the people. That
the hundreds of millions of the peo-
pie possess the authority of the state
is not proclaimed now for the first
time. Monarchy, so long corrupt,
proved unworthy of the grave respon-
sibilities entrusted to it by the will Of
the people. but with the introduction
of popular government the representa-.
tives of the people must share the
likes and dfslikes Of the people. They
are TO give expression to the desires
and voice the will of the people; they
hold the reins In behalf of the nation
to govern with severity or leniency,
with parslmony or extravaganza; they
become the pivot upon which the pros
perity of the state is made to turn.
For the success or failure, safety or
danger, adversely or good fortune,
theirs is the merit or the blame.
"Can we be otherwise than anxious?
Yet, through great tribulation, the
spring comes TO prosperity, and our
very bad management and anxities
are means to happiness. Now,
therefore, we unite to form this as
sembly and presume to publish our
aspirations. May ours be a Just gov
ernment May our five races lay
aside their preiudices. May rain and
sunshine bring bounteous harvest and
cause the hnsbandman to rejoice. May
the scholar be happy in his home and
the merchant conduct his trade in
peace. May no duty of government
be untitled and unhidden wound go
undressed. Thus may the glory be
spread abroaf and these our words
be echoed fai and wide, that those in
distant landf who hear may rejoice,
our neishbors on every side give us
praise, and may the new life of the
old nation be lasting and unending.
Who of us can dare to- be neglected of
his duties?"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
SHOTS FIRED At
KING ALFONSO
The Would-be Assassin Cap
tured by a Guard.
FOUGHT THEM WITH DAGGER.
Fires Twice While Secret serv-
Ice Man erapples With
Him on The
Ground.

Madrid.-For the fifth time in his
reign King Alfonso narrowly escaped
Using tie vleNm 81 an anarchist vt;
tisejii llip ifa
saa q
i've b Barael6na. Rareel 5seueas.,..,,
legro. who was Immediately overpow-
cred.
King Alfonso owes his escape to his
own courage, quickness and skilled
Workmanship Accompanied by his
staff, he was riding along the Gale
de Alcala on his return from the
ceremony of swearing In recruits,
when a man sprang from the side
walk and seized the bride from the
Kings horse with one hand, present
ing revolver point blank at him
with the other.
The King, realizing the situation,
with lightning rapidity dug his spurs
into his horse, which reared vio-
lently. This movement saved his
life. The bullet. instead of burying
itself in the Kings breast, struck
the horse on the neck, but so close
was 1t that the Kings left-hand glove
was blackened by the powder dis
charged
Two More Shots Fired.
Before the aSsailant was able to pull
the trigger again a Secret Service
man sprang upon him. The two fell
to the ground. locked in each others
arms, struggling furiously The as
sassin managed to free his revolver
arm and fired two more shots in
rapid succession, but the officer
knocked his arm aside and the bull
let's few harmlessly through the air.
At the sound of the first shot the
Kings staff forced their horses on
the sidewalk and made a ring around
the assassin, who fought fiercely in
the grip of four policemen before he
was overpowered and handcuffed.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
LIVES LOST BY FLOODS.
Hundred Thousand Are Made Home
less-Damage $25o,ooo, 900.

Columbus, O.-Figures announced by
the American Red Cross Society show
ed that the Ohio floods cost nearly
500 lives, rendered 100000 persons
homeless and caused a property dam
age approximating $3.50, 100000.
Dayton, Columbus and Hamilton
suffered most severely. The loss of
life at Dayton is placed at $50, at
Columbus SO and Hamilton 72
Money and provisions in large
quantities have been distributed
through the Red Cross, the Ohio Re-
lief Commission and Citizens Commit
tees, The state relief fund, including
the $250,OO0 appropriation by the Ohio
legislature, totals s800,OOO
The Red Cross now has in the
Washington treasury $1,37O,OOO for re-
lief throughout the Ohio and Mississ-
ippi Valleys.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
MoReAN's BODY LAID AT REST.
impressive Services Held At New
York and Hartford.

Hartford, Conn.-The body of ]. p.
Morgan is at rest. 1t was buried
Monday on the crest of Cedar Hill
Cemetery the sixth of the house of
Morgan to find resting places here.
His grave is to the west of the great
monument of red granite that marks
the family plot, To the east lie his
father, Junius Spencer Morgan, his
mother and a brother who died in
boyhood. To the north are the graves
of his grandparents, Joseph and Sarah.
Like the others, the grave of the new
conner will be marked by a small
brown headstone, inscribed John Pier
pont Morgan, 1S36-1913.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
DANvILLE VOTES DRY.
Liquor Element Is Defeated BY a Ma

JorIty Of SO.
Dangille. val ~ faur wards 10
ttss ci,g entltie1 10
tici, 81 iidu6r casi tloriJs ggAs 'ss
So against lie saioo & The tctSf yoie
was 1,9f4; vets. s2s. drys, 69l.
Not a speech was made during the
campaign, which had been waged DUR
ing the past month. The surprise came
when the vote of the First ward was
announced, giving a dry majority of So.
It had been expected to break even
or go wet by small majority,
The opposing forces were at the
polls early, vehicles of all kinds be-
ing kept busy during the entire day
bringing out the voters. The vets
confidently expected victory. while
from all reports the drys kept fight
ing gamely until the close of the polls
and expected to lose out by small
margin.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
FACE A REAL PROBLEM
SITUATION WHICH coNFRoNTs
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
As Matter of Fact, the Organization
Has Lost the Confidence Of the
Country, and That Must
Be Regalned.

Problems Of Retiring Parties" is
the caption Of gentle soliloquy in
Republican contemporary. 1t finds
that the Republican party, about to
vacate, has left the house in good
shape. Not a room needs repapering
or decorating, the furnace is all right
and the larder well stocked. The new
occupant can step in and find every
thing as comfortable, clean and cozy
as II 1t had been running the estab-
lishment itself. Just why such a de-
sirable tenant should have been GUST
ed is a problem in the psychology OF
proprietorship which the contempo-
rary does not understand and hasn't
the heart to tackle. 1t merely records
the writ of custer, congratulates the
successor on the estate it has come
into, congratulates the evicted on the
character of its tenancy, fumbles the
historical ball bit and awaits the
future with some hope but more mis-
giving.
ALI of which has nothing to do with
the problems of retiring parties. The
caption more appropriately might have
been, "The Fortune of the Success
sor." Had the test been adhered to,
though, an interesting discourse
might have been delivered. For.
surely, the Republican party, as the
party about to retire, has its prob
lens. We're It able to, it would won
der why, If it has really made the
showing its friends accredit it with
and which it itself has claimed, it
was so emphatically ordered to get
out. 1t was more than an order; 1t
was a most violent election. Had the
people been acting as official bouncer
/ they could not have done more COM
plete job. When the Republican party
recovered its breath and slowly
climbed to sitting posture after the
November eviction it found It's hat
stove in, its apparel ripped and torn
Lore shoe gone, tears streaming down
checks, aud, looking about Tor q
Ans Wafa 8r erierdly hand saw
~ ssspp9snaiy losai s-..- - ~
Nag In derisioR from the ch3rtllng
ranks of the enemy.
We'll. said the Republican party.
speaking in cracked voice, what
are we going to do now??"
Vermont shook its head, Utah shook
its head and the Republican party,
with groan of despair, fell back
unconscious.
Its problem now is to come to.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
EXTRA SESSION CALLED.
New Jersey Legislature To Meet On
May 6.

Trenton. N. J.-Governor Fielder
issued a proclamation calling the New
Jersey legislature into special session
on May 6 to take UP the subjects of
jury reform, of calling convention to
revise the constitutions and of pro-
viding municipalities with smaller
boards of freeholders.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
sTILLWELL is INDICATED.
Charges of Extortlon Against State
Senator Not Sustained.

Albany, N. Y.-The Senate decided
that the charges of attempted extor-
ton preferred against Senator Still
well by George H. Kendall, president
of the New York Bank Note
Company, have not been sustained.
rhe-vote was 21 in favor of sustaining
the charges of 28 against
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
CORPORATION EARNINGS UP.
Net Per Cent. More Than In 1911,
Per Cent. Above 1910.

Washington.-The net earnings Of
corporations of the United States for
the calendar year 1912 were $S,OOO,-
100000, an increase of $3.50, 900, 900
over 1911. This amount will yield an
income to the Federal Government
under the Corporation Tax law of $780,.
100000, which is $2,5O0,O0O, or per
cent, than a year ago. Net corpoi a.
tions earnings for 1911 decreed 2 per
cent, as compared with 1910 The
figures for 1912, however, showing an
increase of about per cent. over 1911,
were per cent. greater than 1910.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
RACE SUICIDE IN PARIS.
Only One Birth To Every Thirty Fam.
lilies Last Year,

Paris.-The birth rate in the French
capital for 1912 was the lowest since
1861, according to municipal report
just made public. There was only
one birth for every 80 families. The
infantile death rate was 143 per 1000.
Prohibitive rentals are said to have
been the chief cause for the decrease
in the number of births.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
WRECK HURTS FIVE.
Shifting Engine Crashes Into Two
Cabin Cars at Butler.

Freeport, Pa.-Five railroad men
were severely injured at Butler juno
tion when a shifting engine crashed
into the two cabin cars in which the
men were riding, pushed the cars
over the end of the track and down
an embankment. The cabin cars top
pied over.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
BOY KILLED BY 8ATTEo BALL.


Lawton, Mich.-Paul Murphy. .
years old, was killed here by base
ball batted by his 13-year-old brother
Joe. Paul tried to catch a high fly,
but the ball slipped through his hands
and struck him over the heart. He
died instantly.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
DUEL WITH KNIVES.
A Woman and a Man Carve Each
Other Up.

Fort William, Ont-Mrs. NJ. Benja-
min, aged IS, and Sam Jacobs, aged
29, fought with knives in the woman's
home here. Both are in the hospital,
the woman with cash in the abdo-
men and the man with 13 wounds in
his chest and stomach. There is lit
tie chance for either. Mrs. Banjamin
claims that Jacobs attacked her.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
BRYAN FIVE TIMES GRANDPA.
Former Ruth Bryan, Wife of English
Lieutenant, Has Son.

Washington. - Secretary Bryan re-
ceived congratulations upon the birth
of his fifth grandchild, Reginald Bryan
Owen, at Elphan, Kent, England. This
newest grandson of the Secretary of
State is son of Lieut. Reginald
Owen, of the Royal Engineers, and
Mrs. Owen, formerly Ruth Bryan.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
HAWAII WOULD sEcEDE.


Honolulu.-The Star-Bulletin says
that petition is being prepared de-
claring that Whereas, Hawaii is com.
mercially made to exist under free
sugar, it be allowed to withdraw from
the Union and resume its previous
status OF independence ii a free sugar
provision be enacted by Congress"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
THE JAPANESE
MAKE PROTEST
Formal Representations to the
U. S. Government.
AMBASSADOR IS INSTRUCTED
Declared the Proposed California Land
Legislation Will Be Disastrous
For Trade Between the
Two Countries.

Tokio.-Viscoun Chinda, Japanese
Ambassador to the United States, was
instructed by the Japanese Foreign
Office to make formal representations
at Washington in regard to the anti
Japanese legislation of the State of
California.
Irritation over the California land
legislation is increasing throughout
the country. All the political parties
have sent deputations to the Premier
and to the Foreign Minister asking
them to adopt measures to preserve
the Japanese treaty and interests in
America.
The Constitutional party has pro-
posed an anti-California boycott and
the Chamber of Commerce here has
telegraphed to similar bodies in San
Francisco, Los Angeles and elsewhere,
asserting that the result of the legis-
lation will be disastrous to trade be-
tween the United States and Japan.
The Japanese Premier told the
deputation of the conservative party
which called upon him that he trusted
implicitly the high sense of justice
and fairness of America. while Baron
Nobuaki Maxine, the Foreign Minis
ter, spoke in the same strain.
The newspapers here contend that
the proposed California legislation is
as much breach of treaty
as the Panama Canal bill, while the
foreign press retorts that it is an
object lesson for Japan in reciprocity,
since foreigners are not allfsSed e
lown land III Japan 10 spite ol F
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
insane father
MURDERS FOUR
Grazed Man Then Sends Bullet
Into His Own Brain.
VICTIMS TRIED TO ESCAPE.
Morsehner, of Fltehburs, Mass, Called
Children To Hls Bedroom, Where
He Shot Them Down In
Cold Blood.

Fitchburz, Mass.-Ernest Moschner,
sB years old, murdered his four chill
dren and then killed himself by shoot
ing at his home here. Continued i'll
health made the man temporarily In
sane, the police believe.
Moschner's wife upon returning
from work discovered the bodies of
her children and husband with bullet
holes In their heads.
The murdered children we're:
Elsie. aged 12; Myrtle, aged IL;
Norman, aged 8, and Ernest, aged 6.
According TO the police the children
were playing in the yard, when their.
father called them upstairs to his bed
room. There from the marks of the
muddy feet the officers believe he
lined them up in front of the bed.
While the children, half frightened,
were gazing at him, Moschner drew a
.S2-caliber revolver and fired at his
elder daughter, Elsie. The bullet en-
tered the head near the left ear caus-
ing instant death.
Children Flee From Parent.
The other children evidently broke
from the room madly. Ernest, the
youngest child, was found crumpled
lireless on the floor of closet in the
front room of the same floor. The
shot had entered the, left side of the
head just below the temple.
Myrtle and Norman fed down
stairs. There Myrtle sought vain
refuge In closet, but the maddensd
tsther's5 unerring aim brought her
,ss ahs ,atiileblsEl 9geF the
h ,ssAs ~ liaA'Psi-ss sisil3. e ai2t.| "A q
From APPROPRIATENESS ouiy one 81 tiie
children hsd any chance for aelfde-
fense Norman, the older boy, was
found In the coal bin, his torn clothes
and a blood-spattered club beside him
giving mute evidence of brave but
| futile struggle,
Moschner then retraced his steps,
first covering up Norman's body with
rags and boards. Hating at the
closet on the first floor he covered
Myrtle's body. Then entering his bed
room he drew a sheet over Elsie's
form as it lay on the bed, and stand
ing beside it he sent bullet into
his brain, causing instant death.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18
CHINA GETS 100000, 900.

Russia Said To Have Promised I'm.
nense Sum To Republic.
Berlin.-Tt is reported here that Rus
STA has given China loan of s6O,OOO,-
900.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-04-18

Madrid.-For the fifth time in his
reign King Alfonso narrowly escaped
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-12-04
Raw! Raw!
After. Shaving?
Use zEmO /!
That Rough, Drawn, Singing Feeling
Goes Like Magic-Leaves Face
Cool and Comfortable.

Got $50 Bottle Today and Prove It.
Rub little ZEMO on your face when
you are through shaving. Wonder Of won.
dersl Your face will feel a. fresh as O
June morningi You'll Just love to shave.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-12-04

False Theories OF The time.
Dark Ages. In carrying out
this arrangement. God gave Israel Pal
estine but explained that this gift was
because Of His favor toward them In
pursuit Of His own great plans. previ-
ously outlined to Abraham He fur
Their explained that the Canaanites
were not making progress. and that
their continuance would be neither for
their good nor for His glory-as It was
with the Sodomites.- 1919. So
t We should remember that the Bible
hell. to which the slaughtered Canaan
ties went. is not the hell VI torment
pictured In the creeds. Their destruc-
ton by Israel sent them to SheOl.
Hades. the tomb. There they sleep
with their forefathers. waiting for the
glorious resurrection Morning. when
Messiah's Kingdom will eventually
bring back every man In his own or.
der. From this viewpoint. the giving
f, Of Palestine to Israel was not injustice,
b1t wisdom.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-12-04

Bannock county to enter or cause to
be entered upon the assessment roll
OF said county the valuation Of said
property Of Franklin & Hays in the
amount fixed in said order Of said
board. The alternative writ is quashed
and the peremptory writ of mandate
denied No costs are awarded in this
proceeding
AiIshie concurring
In concurring Chief Justice Ailshie
says separately:
u concur in denying the writ. 1t
seems to me from an examination OF
the whole aact creating the tax com.
mission and the simultaneous act EN-.
bodying the revenue laws, that the
le .islature had no intention Of confer
ring any such power on the commits
SIGN as Is claimed for it. The rev.
erre law was passed and approved
he same day as the tax commission.
act and must be considered and con-
strued as a simultaneous act under
the same rule of construction as II
part Of this act. When We consi-
der it, there can be no doubt but that
the legislature intended that the as
SCISSOR and the county board of eQuah'
cation and state board of equalization
should still retain the same powers
and exercise the Same functions that
have heretofore been exercised By
them. Indeed, the revenue act specf
fically so provides.
Again, If the act were open to th<
construction claimed for it, we woult
then be met by we'll established rult
to the effect that where a statute II
open to two constructions, one o
which would render it demonstrations
and the other constitutional. the cour
should adopt the construction which
will hold the act valid and give i
force and effect"