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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
Cnnna.en Issue.

president wilson's attitude toward
the Baltimore platform will be Will
oIt doubt q. very live issue in the ap-
preaching campaign not merely WI
reference to the congressional elec-
tions but especially in Pennsy wanna
where the Democrats are going -
nut forward the administration 5
record as a reason for the election OF
Democratic governor and Demo-
cratic senator.
THAT there will be much to eXptain
and that the Democrats will toe
placed on the defensive IS now pc
coming apparent as result OF Lile
scrutiny to which President WI
sons actions with regard to the plat-
form are being subjected.
President Wilson put himself to
very. severe test. when, In talking 70
the sufrragets, he asserted that the
Baltimore platform was his supreme
law and that he could not recon-
mend ANYTHING outside of that docd-
ment. He was in sympathy with the
movement for equal SURFACE Du
felt that he could do nothing because
nc was merely the spokesman OF -
great party Those who were ciosa
to the president described his deep
EN- otion when he was forced to re-
iect the appeals of the working wo-,
men who pleaded with him to rec
onrmend to Congress an amendment
to the constitution to permit the en-
fro rSo.lisement of women.
The presidents friends say that
he was greatly depressed that he had
to reject the plea, but that ne tett
that his own wishes should not count
against the edict of the Baltimore
platform. The platform did not OPP
pose woman suffrage, but by failing
to recommend an amendment 1t TIED
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

= =
3 MI gllty effort less there l9 "a = IL
8 number OF very large contI.t El
lions something Improbable. stare
moneys used for the purpose Wo1tia
aae affair arrangement as the citizens
cs the state would contribute theln
share according to Their properly ~
se lent
from home, they spend mliEn Of l1elr
time looking for other West yir-
ginfans and there Is always nap. ~
reunion. State buildings at WQrE4 2
fairs meet this situation Iney ar
rear Necessities for home folk VINO
attend the fairs Not to have STATE
buildings at the two coast expos,
lions would be a hum;liatton ane
bring a. feeling OF being without 9
home. Can the state ahord to nave
such experience2
These expositions will also ne
excellent fnstrumentalities in cfest-
ing up some wrong Impressions IN
coast and other sections OF the coun-
try have about West Vffg ma
as shown BY the Huntington
Herald Dispatch, when it declares
itself MS follows:
The exposition affords West VT II
ginlans a splendid opportunity -
give the lie to the blackentng repoFLs
Circulated In socialistic and yellow
magazines anent mining and social
conditions in the state.
And what would the English cap,
,talists. who have heard much %
West Virginia, and some who have
undertaken to buy little slice o.
our coal lands to the amount -
$50, 600, 900. think; we're they to ar
rive MT San Francisco and find nc
such place as West Virginia on the
map2
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
a NIiniature co1ony school

Making the school grounds min
failure colony, with the pupils DUSTY s.-L
engaged in all kinds of productive
occupations, is the device of the blI1
ley House school, an open-a.r schooi
in England as described in Dulis-
tin just issued by the United statues
Bureau of Education.
Various mfnerals-coal, iron ore,
copper ore, lead ore, and goIo
uuartz-are buried IN different parts
az the school garden, and the emil
dren go out prospecting Tor them
The finders become captains on ~
dustry. To work the mines the cap
tains OF industry engage laborers o.
the labor exchange, which Is man
aged by one of the pupils. Boring
= then proceeded with, shafts are
sunk. winding apparatus IS con-
structed. and the mineral is brougnt
to the surface.
Here arises the need of coal, ana
a system of transportation IN Luz
form Of miniature railway - OF
yanized, furnaces are set up, actor actor
les are planned, the possible mar hels
FOR the product are considered, anu
the Importance of merchaHt no
rine is ecognized.
In close connect on with the in
tlustrial side of the coIonlzatl'ol
scheme the agricultural plan is ue-
yeloped A portion of the garden -
cleared, miniature farm OF slH
fields Is prepared, and the tineren J,
methods of fencing are appieo -
these fields. The ground is ploWea
and crops are sown in rotation
wheat, potatoes, barley, oats, clover
and cabbage. A matched log hut :
built and furnished to serve as
homestead for the farmers, and 1ile
necessary outbutldings-b STA
,hle. wagon shed, pigsty, poultry
house and. dog kennei-are Dull
around it. -
All the school work is done N
close relation to the community az
tiyities practice in woodworkihs
and carpentry Is obtained by making
q rabbit warren, an aviary, insect
cases, garden frames, cases for
weather instruments, etc. The use
ar pudding clay and the m1xins
az concrete and cement are Hlustra-
ted by construction of a pond, IRAN iran
pines and other mason work. There
= practical arithmetic in the meas
sIrement of lengths and distances IN
estimating costs and quantities, IN
finding heights by means of simple
instruments, m making records o.
rainfall, barometer, thernometef
sunshine. etc, and in other calcutta
lions required in garden and man
nal work
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
Democratic Doctrine.

Now another senator has accused
the president of being inconsistent
The senators should restrain them
selves. They should realize that be-
cause a man exerts every possible
effort to overtake the last train go
ing HIS ways he is not expected to
keep on running after he gets aboard.
Those campaign proclamations rep
resented the high pressure required
to catch the train. Having caught
the train, previous promises are ex-
cess baggage and may as well be
thrown overheard. That is good
Democratic doctrine, and has aeen
since the foundation of the party and
any criticism of it borders upon the
sacriIegious.- Telegraph.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23


the pfesi dent ~ hand
From this statement st was pre-
Etfgned THAI the president regar1ed
the baltimore platform as the con-
science az his. party. It had been Cd
served ti1at when the president went
to the capitol and read his message
1refn3 direct presidential primaries
he made NO reference to single
term for president, to which the plat
form had committed him. but u Wa
presumed that he would take TINS
matter mp later on.
The ruling OF the baltimore pla pa.
form with regard to Single PRES =
dentiaT term was very speclllc.
was as follows: -,
eve favor a single presidential
term and to that end urge the adoRz
ton Of an amendment TO the conss.
tuition making the president OF tne
United States ineligible tor re-etec-
ton and we pledge the cand1date o.
this convention to this principe
i There was no posstbtes way u
which President Wilson coutu LOUISE
this issue. The edict of the Demo
cratic party was clear AMI uIfIl p p
taxable. It pledged Mr. Wilson 80 70
the principle Of a single term IL
president. He did not repudiate 1ns
plank before election, but he hss
taken no action upon It since eiSe-
ton and the time is rapidly passlns
when action may be made enectlNe'
~ the president remains s!lent mu W.
longer there will be no time TOT Tue
provision to affect the present al
ADMINISTRATION.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
He nidn,t Know the Game.

nant Georgia editor squelched scan
Dial thuswise:
are always throwing the game CT
poker at our unoffending head We
want to say, once for all, that we
don't know the game. If we had
known it we'd DC richer, att his wrlt-
ing, by a house and lot, gold
watch and chain, and real diamond
stud .''-Parkersburg Sentinel.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

Civil service examination for ELI
gtbles for appointments to positions
Of postmaster are being duly held by
the Civil Service Commission with
ali the sincerity the law has but no
Republican who passes successful ly
has the least assurance that he W II
he appointed. The official state
ment that politics Is to play no Inquire
is a mere sham. The jobs are for the
Democrats ana the fiinlsiest charge
keeps Republicans out. Democratic
oretense is not better exemplihed
than along tbs dine.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
An a. Same TO Thern.

II appears that Mr.. G. W. Osenton
fusion proposition as laid down to the
Fayette county Progresstves, amounts
practically, TO straight Dem ocrat-
t. ticket. Fusion, adhesion, coalition
with Democrats, or unamalgamated
opposition to Republicans, is all the
same to them-the Democrats
Huntington Herald-Dispatch.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

The benton murder seems to indt-
cate that the British look after tae
welfare of Britons In other countries
better than the United states does al
ter It's citizens in other countries. Who
knows Just how many Americans
have been killed in Mexico since the
Mexican war began? 1t is safe TO
venture the statement that the state
department does not know and ey-
eryone knows that It has never told
the number.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

The Exponent int'mates that Har-
nv b Curtin seeks a reunited Re-
publican party on the ground that
he desires a rich appointive office.
Mr.. Curtin has never held public
position, has never sought one ana Il.
is not now asking for one. That an
swers the Exponent
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
n,he I.ip Onestion.

The big question is not Whetner
West Virginia can afford 70 nave an
whether she can afford not to have
ne.--Wheeling News.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

Mexicans are all very much alike
it seems. Wilson q against Huerta
because he is an assassin, or tine
beneficiary of assassination, ana VIII
son has been for Villa who is now a
murderer because rof personal al
front. There is but little distinction
Between the two. .
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

Wilson's threat to veto the immi-
grafton bill, if it passes IN its present
form, indicates that Il he can nor nor
have his way by persuasion, he will
have it by force. Int 'midating ana
using Improper Influences with
Congress have frequently been CEN
sured by him, but it now seems that
it depends altogether upon who does
it. The threat should deter no meTn-
Der OF Congress from carrying cut
his honest conviction. Congress q q
its responsibility and the president
has his. Let both act accordingly.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
q smitnhIe Place.

Dispatch-News, If John HanllItuII
wants to run for Congress IN @
Democratic newspapers, why -,
1en1t that a suitable place ?-Parkers-
burg State Journal.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

The word comes. that the Repuibli-
can and Progressive county COM
mittees of Monongalia county have
held a joint meeting and agreed 70
place but one county ticket in the
field this year This is an example
for all the counties which are OPP
posed to Democratic triumph ana
control and it ind Gates progress. on
the part of the get together spirit.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAY
In a Ouandary.

Mexican leaders are in a auandary
as to whether they prefer to De
caught going or coming.-Wheellns
Telegraph.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
WHY Not?

Now! Millions of dollars year de-
acit in the postoflce department
Why not tax organs income from dee77
tnres to make up the dedciency?-
Pntnam Leader.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

After all there was no difficulty in
selling the city bridge bonds and the
fears OF those who dwelt SO strongly
on that phase at the memo2r q p,
mass meeting have been dispeiitesa,
Those fellows tried to cross the
bridge before they came to it.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
Evervhodv EIse Is.

The West Union Herald THANKS
Cod that Sherman Denham has at last
been removed as postmaster al
Clarksburg. First we had heard that
the Lord was mixing in politics.
Spencer Times-Record.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23
An Evening Echo

A few words OF Simple palHOS
will penetrate the soul to the quick
when hundred lines OF defamation
shall assail It as feebIy and incl
fectualIy as a gentle gale the noun
tain OF PlinIimmon.--KlNO Il
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

The big question is-Who win fslll
drst, HueFta or Lincoln Beachey-
The man who Is always knocking
the town he Is living IN should be pre-
sented with a railroad timetable.
Z A Baptist minister in Georgia lived
with a so-caIled .soul mate" and
got away with II" But that was
Georgia, you know.
If II was known that everyone
would live to see the end of the Harry
Thaw case, the insurance companies
would, no doubt, be satisfied.
Some of those aviators had better
see that their accident insurance pol
icies are In a safe place before they
start on that transatlantic journey.
A law has been passed making 1t a
mtsdemeanor TO impersonate a CON
gresham. It is safe to say that no
one viii ever go to jail for violating
this law, though some may be sent to
the asylum for the criminal insane.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

About so per cent of the remnant
of the divorce colony in Reno, New,
are women.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-23

The big question is---VEho win TAIL
drst, HueFta or Lincoln Beachey-
The Washington herald., 1914-04-07
Menace of the Red Mob.

The New York police have begun none too earl,
to deal sterny with the anarchists and i. w. W.
disturbers, whose demonstrations were becoming
constantly bolder and more menacing. In fact it is
to be feared that they are not yet cured or dscour
aged from their program of assembling idle throngs
and delivering incendiary speeches, for a new l. W.
w. leader proclaimed on Sunday in Rutgers Square
their principal rallying ground:
"Our masters have fixed can't work. be-
cause we're hungry! But we amt too hungry to
raise hell in this town. Wen show them next Sat-
urday that mean real business. And if the cops
pull any nightstick brutality on US theren be
bloodshed for fair. They amt got us down yet and
they never will make us stay down."
The truth is, as the police and all who have wit
messed the demonstration understand these agitaors
and preachers>of violence have nothing in common
with the honest unemployed. They are not hungry
and the last thing earth they would is work
but by the dangerous doctrine they proclaim they
attract and urge to reckless deeds the floating GRIM
inals of great CITY, at the same time, of course,
making occasional recruit of a man willing to
work If he could get work to do. So far these
gatherings have been easily dispersed and the leaders
put to flight under pressure from the polcemen's
nghtsticks, but there must be no relaxation of the
vigorous campaign, because the longer they per-
mitted to flourish the greater will become their in
fuenoe and the greater the danger of bloody
climax.
In several sections of the country conditions now
not dissmlar to those that existed in Chicago in
1896, eliminating in the Haymarket tragedy with this
difference, that while in 1886 the bomb was terrible
and strange weapon in this country today is almost
as common as the pistol in New York. Indeed, bomb
explosions, frequently resulting in DEATH occur so
often that they are accorded only passing notice in
the metropolitan press. The bomb is the weapon of
the lowest element sent to us from abroad and it is
this class which focks to the anarchistic l. W. w.
meetings to be nAamed by the wild harangues of those
enemies of order and industry who thrive on the
notoriety they achieve. Hence the danger of pos
sibe bloodshed brazeny predicted by the l. w. w.
eader.
The remedy is for the police to drive the dis
urbers back into the holes they from every
lime they show their heads
The Washington herald., 1914-04-07
Alcohol and Insanity.

Statistics quite at variance with the generally
cepted theory of the effects of alcohol the human
system presented by Dr. Edward Huntington Will
Jams article in The Medical Record Alcohol has
been blamed for almost every known i'll, from chill
blains paresis with few challenges to the indct-
ment, until there comes DR.. Williams, an eminent
practitioner of New York. of wide experience in hos
ptals and asylums for criminals and the insane with
with ncreduty the part of the prohibtionists
and possibly many of his fellow-scientsts.
DR.. Williams, quoting the census reports as his
authority, says there gain of ~ insane persons
per 10000 population committed to the institutions
of the country during the period But during
this period the gain in the eight prohibitive
States 7,3 per Iooooo-almost twice the gain in
the country a whole. In Maine the number of
insane increased 2I-z per each 100000 inhabitants
while wet Nebraska holds the record the opposite
extreme with decline of 276 per 10000 during the
same period"
Turning to the relation of alcohol to crime the
author asserts:
The record for homicides in 1912 went to Mem
phis, in prohibition Tennessee, with 643 homicides
per 100000 population. against license Philadel-
phias Io, which is the lowest record for the year
Bangor, Ne, prohibition city for thirty years, has
record of arrests for drunkenness in that year of one
to every nine inhabitants and Kansas, the veteran
seventeen of the wet States scattered across the cou
try, and more paupers and convcts than her un-
regenerate neishbor, Nebraska"
II may. with reason, be contended that the doc
tors comparison of the State Of Tennessee with the
The Washington herald., 1914-04-07
Voters and the Tolls Issue.

Oscar underwcods opposition to the President on
the Panama Canal tolls question had nothing what
ever to do with his victory in the Alabama Sena-
torial primary (which is indicated in latest dis-
patches. He was chosen by the people be-
cause he is a. statesman more Of achievement
than Of stump oratory, because he has been per-
forming the duties for which he is paid $500 year.
while his opponent Richmond Pearson Hobson, has
been whiriing about the State on motorcycle and
chattering: And If o'Byrne. Democratic candidate
for Congress in the Seventh New Jersey District is
defeated in todays election, it win not be rebuke
by the voters of the administrations repeal policy 1t
viii be because the Republicans poll something like
their normal vote, due to differences among the Pro-
gressves resulting in half way support of their
didate.
The suggestion that the tolls repeal Dill is in
danger in the Senate because Republican members
will vote against it for the purpose OF coming po-
litical capital for use at election time need cause
no alarm, for two reasohs First every day is bring
ing new evidence that tie people of the country re-
gardess of party, are in the heartest accord with
the President in his courageous insistence on up
holding the nations honor The candidate who would
take issue with him would be lily rewarded. Second,
as President Wilson, himself, ventures to predict,
the tolls question will be forgotten it is not
economic question which the masses of the people
regard vitally affecting their material welfare The
President further and the prophesy that
by next November prosperity will be spreading over
the land and crowding all other issues off the map
With the country busy and prosperous-which re-
mains to be seen-one song will do well an
other for the Republicans to sing.
Senator Hoke Smith quoted as saying IF all the
Republicans who in their hearts believe that the bill
should pass voted they really believe, we would
have majority of twenty for the BILL By the time
the Senate is ready for vote the indications are
that the Republicans will be ready to vote "as they
really believe" and the Georgans hazard of twenty
majority for the bill may be wide of the mark
Every day the issue is becoming clearer cut and
great public sentiment for repeal is being developed
1t is question of right against wrong, and the
people may be trusted.
The Washington herald., 1914-04-07
Unworthy of Congress.

The system under which each Representative in
Congress is given the services of private secretary
at taxpayers expense makes the disposition of the
money dependent the Representative word. A
member who does not scruple to certify wrongfuly
in drawing the money can put it in his own pocket
The system is vicious in its possibilities for petty
graft but the Congressional benehciaries who in
stituted it resist every attempt to change it
Defeating a hopeful effort to reform its mileage
graft the House proceeded reclessy to enlarge the
pckngs from the clerical hire graft 1t has increased
the allowance for secretary from $500 to 81 BOO
for each member. Members who approved it virtually
voted to increase their own salary
The action cannot escape the odum of an i'm
pudent salary grab 1t would be unworthy of Con-
gress at any time. 1t is particularly unworthy of
Congress that not only is wrestling with the problem
of restoring the government to the people but is
under pledge of economy.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch