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Semi-weekly herald., 1914-04-23

The Aztec people can look for a
big bunch of autos Sunday if the
weather is favorable.
Semi-weekly herald., 1914-04-23

Administration had to back water
in the matter of firing return salute.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
From Another Point of VielO


s22OOO alleged breach OF promise
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
Two Horses

On a certain farm are two horses.
One, as dainty as woman. is tender
ly petted. kept in padded stall and
never has TO do a stroke OF work ex.
cept once In while 10 run. Then 1t
ia expected 10 run its head or be-
cause ON one race whole fortunes de-
pend.
The other is plain, plodding pack
horse Like the man with the hoe 1t
goes to It's routine OF toll with ma
chine-,ike precision every morning at
sunrise, works steadily throughout
the day, and returns TO the stall at
sunset, wearied and spent
The horse that does the useful, nee
essary work is valued very cheaply.
You can buy one any day for $500.
The dainty thoroughbred. on the 9th
or hand. comes high. You can't get a
speedy one unless You spend thou
sands OF dollars.
But, then, an American Beauty rose
costs more than daudelion. II has
always been our Injuries which have
threatened our incomes.
BE kind TO work horses. They don't
expect justice
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
The Direct Primary and the Presidential Method

ants-certainly legitimate plurality
choice
This in brief is the general form or
the preferential plan or voting. Ger
tain slight notifications are found in
most Of the charters, injected to meet
some real or fancied local demand,
In Alabama, in the cities OF Mobile.
Montgomery and Birmingham. limit
ed system OF the preferential plan
OF voting exists in which the electors
are allowed 10 have two choices This
is an unfortunate mistake in that II
arrests midway the selective process
OF the system To limit the voter to
but two choices, with six candfdates
contesting, permits a two-thirds ma.
jority to be divided into three equal
parts, none large enough to defeat
the solid one-third concentrated by
the machine" upon the single gang
candidate Added to this defect. the
Alabama law provides that II none
OF the candidates secure a majority
In the first election, the two highest
candidates are compelled TO 20
through second election This sec
ond election may very easily end, not
in the selection OF the most popular
man OF the original SIX cOnteSUng
but the least unpopular OF the Two
who remained in the first race when
II was summarily stopped by the lin.
its set by the Alabama law
The first election under the prefer
entail system occurred in Grand juno.
ton in November, 1909 IL was
striking success. In a few months
the city OF Spokane. Wash. followed
Grand Junction and held a successful
election. Then came Pueblo. Col:
Duluth, Mimi; Portland. Ore Col.
orado Springs, Col; Denver Col.
and Cleveland o. During this time
the charter committee OF the city or
Cambridge Mass, under the leader
ship OF Prof. Lewis Jerome Johnson.
81 Harvard University, formulated a
charter which contained the prefer
entail system This charter failed or
approval when submitted 70 the peo
pie at the polls. II viii soon be re.
submitted.
CTOmOrrow--MeritsO of the Preferential
SYSTEM
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28

China imports wood pulp from Brit.
ain. Sweden, Norway and Germany.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
Br GILSON GARpNER.

WASHINGTON, May 2S.-A unani-
nous Endorsement OF the Bryan Dill
for the governmental seizure and op-
Grafton OF the Rockefeller coal mines
ia Colorado as the only solution oil
the strike troubles there was the re-
suit OF the mass meeting held in this
city which listened TO the stories or
the horrors OF Ludlow from the lips
OF the women who came 10 tell the
president the real story.
Two thousand men and women
crowded the hall TO hear Judge Ben
b. Lindsey, and the committee OF
women who accompanied him 10
Washington. rose TO their feet and
cheered Lindsey's statement that as
God Almighty put the coal into the
ground OF Colorado, he could not
have intended IL as the exclusive pos
session OF John d. Rockefeller and
the mine owners"
Representative Bryan spoke for III
minutes after the women had told
OF the sacrifice OF mothers and babies
In the Ludlow massacre. The root
OF the trouble in Colorado" he said
lis the private ownership OF the coal
which the Almighty put in the ground
! for the use OF all the people. The
only solution or the difficulty Is 70
| take from John d. Rockefeller his
private ownership OF these mines
which he has not seen in years. and
| from which he is only interested In
Extracting private profits, at the ex
pense OF the workers and the con
sumers OF the country We don
[ have strikes in the postoffice depart
ment." continued Mr.. Bryan. And
we wouldn't have strikes In the Goa
| mines, II the men had decent condl
lions under which to work. The gov
ornamental ownership and operation
OF these mines, providing fair wages
for the miners, and fair prices TO the
consumers and cutting out the pri
vate profits that go TO enrich Mr.. John
d. Rockefeller, who owns. but does
not work In these mines is the only
solution OF the problem"
! Judge Lindsey told the audience
! that he believed President Wilson
had done everything in his power W
| TO the present time to aid In the solu
ton OF the difficulties. I'VE told the
president" he said. that II the fed
eral troops are withdrawn from co
! dorado there will be civil war-and II
| will be worse than that which has
preceded it, We told the presiden'
| that we believed under his constitu
tional power TO maintain republi
can form OF government in every
state In the union; under his police
powers TO maintain order at the re
quest OF the governor, under his pow
er TO protect the lives and property
OF foreign citizens. OF whom there
are many in the strike district, he
would be amply justified In setzing
and closing the mines until the power
! of public opinion should force Mr.
! Rockefeller TO arbitrate the differ
ences with the strikers, And If be
still refuses to arbitrate. then we be
! lieve that the mines should be taken
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
COlOradO-and the
Women of Colorado

on April rs 1000 women voters OF
Colorado marched In body TO me
capitol in Denver and demanded OF
Coy Ammons that the awful slaugh-
tor o. men, women and children IN
the coal fields be stopped. They
polnted out that as the state militia
had oyer.stepped all bounds OF civil
ized treatment OF their fellow eoun-
try men. had trained their machine
guns on the tents where women ana
children we're sheltered had consti-
tuted themselves, not the defenders
but often the aggrayators OF their
own people. making things worse IN
stead OF ameliorating conditions, IL
was time the federal government was
asked 10 aid IN restoring order. that
the real condition OF the miners ana
their grievances be heard. GOV. Am
mons finally yielded when told that
the ! 900 would be swelled TO two,
-four. FIVE thousand women should
more persuasion be necessary.
This VAS no indirect influence.
The women camped about the CAP
ltol Until the telegram was sent and
for many hours more until the an
promised the assistance OF federal
troops. Since the coming or these
troops the atrocities have stopped.
but Gov Ammons rs anxious 20 be
rid OF them and send his own militia
back to the battlefield On May II
he announced his intentions and the
women or Colorado Immediately
brought together a delegation head
ed By Judge Ben Lindsey TO go 10
Washington and tell President VII.
son the exact facts In this delega-
ton is the wife or miner whose
three babies were killed by the ma.
crime guns OF the state militia while
asleep in tent, and also several
miners widows.
The women OF Colorado say that
things have been misrepresented 10
the president, he having been told
that committee on mediation had
been appointed by the legislature
whereas only committee OF investi
CATION had been appointed and had
found no way out OF the trouble
III the Federal troops are withdrawn
'it Is thought and conceded by the
strike leaders that nothing will hold
the miners in check. as the treatment
they have been subjected to has in.
Named them past all reason. The
condition OF practical slavery in
which they have worked and lived
combined with the slaughter OF their
families and friends and the attitude
or the state militia. are not likely 10
have cooled their blood.
The women who go to Washington
VIII ask OF the president the further
protection OF the federal troops and
Tue closing down OF all coal mines
In Colorado until the strike is set.
tied; also federal board OF arbitra.
ton TO settle the strike Justly.
Judge Lindsey says: I'm the judg.
ment OF our people. President Wilson
Is the only man who can settle the
present difficulties" Again: There
Is nothing In civilized or savage war.
rare that Is any worse than the
atrocities committed by the state
troops"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28

The candidates secure their noml-
nation by petition. The number or
signatures required is generally few,
ranging from so TO 100, although In
Cleveland, where they do not have
the pure commission form OF govern
ment by any means, they required,
for some not clearly defined reason,
$500 signatures Tor the mayoralty
candidate and 200 for the aldermantc.
The form OF the ballot is similar TO
the Australian except that instead or
one voting column after the names
of the candidates there are three
headed respectively. first choice,
second choice" and other choices. F."
To vote for candidate, place cross
after his name In the column of pref
erence desired, voting in the first
column for first choice, in the second
column for second and in the third
column for third and other choices.
Only one choice may be voted for
any one candidate In the best form
OF the plan the voter is absolutely
free as TO whether he will vote for
one choice or as many as he desires,
the only restriction being that he
must certainly cast a first choice IL
he votes at all.
IL a candidate secures majority
OF all the votes cast in the election
in the poll OF the first-choice votes,
he is elected then and there and
the contest ends. II no candidate Sc
cures this majority then the first
and second-choices OF each candi-
date are added together II still no
candidate secures a majority (of the
voters), then the first and second
choices are added 10 the third-choice
votes. The high man wins. The re
suit is, as has been stated, generally
majority choice. unless by some
peculiar happenstance the list OF can
didates contains no one upon whom
majority, in free field and after
full opportunity. can unite. This is
clearly not a fault of the system But
even in the face of this unusual com
blnation or circumstances the voters
get the next best thing-the election
OF the only possible candidate (of
equal strength in the list OF contest.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
Capital Mass Meeting FaUOrS
Governmental Mines

over and operated by the federal gov
eminent"
Mrs Thomas, who was under hre
continuously during the battle 81
Ludlow" and who aided In resculhs
many women and children from inc
tent colony, said that II the president
withdrew the troops, and the condl'
ton OF civil warfare resulted, tha'
the women would fight beside the
men. I'VE will never submit TO the
insults, 10 the unnentionable thlhsS
which We had 10 endure every "a!
from the mem won't call them SOL
diers. for they were not but hlreu
gunner OF the mine owners. II woulu
be better TO be shot than 10 20
through again the things We went
through before the federal troops
came. The men will fight II they are
forced 10, TO protect their women ana
children. and the women will nsht
with them"
In his speech on the trust question
Victor Murdoch charged that big bus
mess is playing for further delay, ana
that the bills introduced will not DO
more than delay the final settlement
OF the problem. "The milestone
around the neck OF the honest busi'
ness OF the nation, waiting for solu'
ton. is delay" he said.
THE crying necessity of the hour
the need OF decent trade. the demand
OF honest competition, the rights OF
labor. the exigency OF the people is.
In this matter OF remedial legislation
1ala l., h. 10
device OF our money overlords. They
have gorged upon II for 40 years and
grown fat. Upon this meat each day
they have added TO their insolence'
their brutality. their Unsuitable hun
ger for more and irresponsible power
They have brihed, stolen, per1ured.
debauched. for delay. They have, in
cynical contempt or the law. In scorn
OF the public veal, plundered the pub.
lie estate, fed upon the substance OF
labor, taxed the people, polluted the
public service, by means OF delay
They have frightened their control OF
various corporation practices, they
have perverted the benefactions or
the principle OF cooperation; they
have distorted the advantages or
steam, electricity and OF invention;
they have preyed upon human life II.
self--all by the simple instrumental.
! ity OF delay They have played the
rights OF the states against the ma
ton, the nation against the state, the
decree OF the court against the edict
OF the legislature, the Legislature
against the court. for delay. Their
creed is the divine right OF vested
lproperty-their quest. possession and
its superior rights In the law, and
! their weapon-delay."
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
Be Careful

Speaking OF Kansas City, by the
way. there is a danger that conrronts
the administration much more Sc
rious than the Mexican situation or
any part OF the legislative program.
That Is the danger OF making too
many appointments that destroy the
confidence of independent men in the
localities affected. President Wilson
cannot look after these matters per-
sonally. Any member OF the cabinet
10 whom the task is delegated Will
be doing a poor service IL he tries 10
play too much politics. The Kansas
City case does not stand alone, but
IL Is salient. The last time in the
world even to consider X. Il. O'Mal-
ley for Office was when the franchise
forces with which he has been so
long identified were lined up for an
other fight A bunch or old-schcol
politicians are scrambling to get on
the Democratic band wagon. shouting
how strong they are for Wilson
Harpers Weekly
China imports wood pulp from Brit
ain. Sweden, Norway and Germany.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28

puCO AOA F@@OtVNV Al oAAN bN0 SN~s~NN
the plaintiff like the man with the
dough.
II wasn't Salt river because the col
onel knows that had been previously
discovered and sailed up.
A Detroit joy-rider lost his life while
attempting TO frighten a pedestrian
in the road. The pedestrian survived,
however.
Huertas persistence in having that
German ships cargo landed will sug-
gest to many that It may have on
board some kegs which do not con-
tain gunpowder.
A South Chene car ran into and
overturned Forrest. car at cross
ing, injuring many. II this was &C
cording TO the new summer schedule,
the schedule would appear 10 need
slight revision.
Woonsocket, r. l., is purchasing
steam rollers There was one for sale,
cheap. at the Light Guard armory
Tuesday.
Statistical Note
Uncle Joe" Cannon is 10 years old.
BY the time he has been again defeat
ed for reelection 10 congress, he will
be 80.
A British soapmaker is to be elevat-
ed 10 a peerage. That's what II said
In the item we read-eleyated
A Columbus man who went barefoot
ed the year around. 10 dead. Presnm-
ably he didn't die with his boots ON.
aHe called me sweet little nothings."
says the girl who charges billy sun
days choir director with breach OF
promise. She has used four sweet
little nothings herself I'm her suit for
S6O,OOO.
Scientific note says the American
typewriter has been adapted TO
Bengalese. We can't understand the
one our stenographer uses, either.
Because her pet dog was killed by
reckless auto driver, Philadelphia
woman has sued for $1,000. Perhaps
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
ny KARI A. BICKEL

BY Karl a. BICKEL
(Newspnper publisher OF Grand
Junction, COlOradoD American Review
OF ReViewsI November, 1913, page 500
500.
The Preferential system: The preT-
erential system Of voting is develop
ment of the single transferable vote,
which was a minor feature in the
widely known Hardware plan OF pro
portional representation. IL was first
evolved in a practical fashion by
state Senator James w Bucklin. OF
Grand Junction, Colo. Senator Buck
lin, who is one OF the really funda-
mental thinkers on economic topics
in the west, was president of the
Grand Junction charter convention.
In seeking for an election method
that would offer a remedy for the
faults OF the plurality system and at
the same time oDyiate the weak
nesses OF the municipal direct pri'
mary, as used by Des Moines, or the
pure double-election method. as adopt
ed by Berkeley, Cal. he hit upon the
preferential plan. Previous 10 this
a method OF "frst"-and second -
choice voting. in a limited and un-
satisfactory shape, had been Injected
into the Idaho direct-primary law in
cropping effort to break the power
OF the closely organized minority to
dominate the unorganized majority,
as is so frequently possible under
the ordinary form OF the direct-pri-
mary system. After months OF study,
Senator Bucklin developed a plan that
he believed was simple and practical
for use in the average American mu-
nicipality He presented his plan to
the Grand junction charter conven-
ton, which adopted II.
How IL Works The general work
ings OF the preferential system are
as follows:
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
Naw let's see.


We Edison genius and mind have Henry
great humane instincts the friend of animals and
birds and have Dr. Wiley greatest nservaOnist side
AGAINST cigarettes.
On the other side, FOR cigarettes, whom have WEI
We told that cigarettes harmless breath of country air
mountain dew first by the American Tobacco Co., whose bus
mess is the making and selling Of cigarettes FOR PROFIT
The opinion of the cigarette manufacturer also Endorsed by
papers upes against offering cigarettes
These print the advertisements of cigarette
right freside with their invitations
give poisonous puff a first trial.
Whose the opinion do think which should carry
weigh-the opinion atruistc
interest the boys of country the opinion the cigarette
whose Of dollars
paper which willing boost his sales much per
Consider the increase in this the drugs
schools juvenile overed
homes stuffed and aums and early graves
look cigarette smoking has increased in few years
This bound conclude that those OPPOSE
manufacturers and the identified with the manufacturers
departments in their view everlashngly right.
The manufacturer who defends his defends
newspaper which accepts his advertising cigarettes which
has silent when cigarettes attacked OR LOSE
ING is part of the curse.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28
THE CIGARETTE WITS EFFECT UPON
GROWING BOYS, A NATIONAL CURSE

Opinions differ seems the matter OF the eff
fects of cigarette smoking upon the boy,
vigorous campaign being wagd against the cigar
evidenced appropriations by manufacturers for
paper advertising.
The Times will get none of this money
accept cigarette advertising
The opinion cigarettes and it is that
cigarette isn't help when
1t comes to possibly and prepared citizenship
things beneficial TO has country and
whole world and all civilization that matter but he has rendered
quite distinct giving his opinion the harm
fulness deadiness of the boys smoke
opinion Edson couragus expressed will have its
egh-because people it comes from man
life unsfhy WORK and thought on
feowman and the welfare of his feowman
will carry weight again. because is Endorsed by Henry ford
unselfshne the whole world knows
his workers 100000 of the profits from their
labor
Wiley who forciby demonstrated to US that
horde of thing worry when the public health
Is q
Wiley goes further than condemn the cigarette He to-
bacco any nuus-tha the cigar injurious the smoker
and that the pipe is, also
The the who hew tobacco knows
he is doing thing that is harmng him
10 he will tell that ne realizes ne would be bet
o. quit the stuff.
young always what bad for him. and
setting him bad and selling their
make him cigarette smoker somebody has to TELL hmm that
cigarettes bad for him. and Dr. Wiley does that thing
He sounds this warning
cigarettes making strength Of the
especially tender years who smoke
think that the smart The effect not be bad
Of years but not matter how old
q is smoking helpful.
when ball smoking chewing quite
going his game when boy INDUCING
these practices have fears for his future"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28

IL would have gone harder with reck.
less drivers in Detroit in the past, II
the citizens they killed had been pet
dogs.
An Englishman harnessed fly TO a
tiny wagon and found IL could draw
Nv times It's own weight.--News Item
However IL may be only an adver'
usement for some tug or whiffleuee
concern.
Tell 1t TO his face II you don't be
heve he found that river. We dare
you.
Before Colonel Roosevelt and Uncle
Joe really get together we want TO
propose mediation We're that strong
on the side OF humanity
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28

Complaints are made in Paris that
tomatoes. melons, cucumbers, squash.
es-nearly everything except pota-
toes-have become so high priced
that they are beyond the reach OF
working people whose daily earnings
do rot exceed so cents or 81.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28

tThese articles, dealing with the dl-
rect primary and the preferential
method OF voting. are or particular in
terest in Detroit at this time, and are
printed by request or earnest citizens
who defend what is known as the
Grand Junction system. much referred
TO since the issue OF a reform ballot
has been up in Detroit.)
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-28

BY * tRL a. BICkEL
(Newspnper publisher OF Grand
junction, COlOradOD American Review
OF ReviewsI November, 1913, page 500
SOB.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-20
NEW HAVENERS IMpLORE RAILROAD TO RATTLE
 AGAINST DISSOLUTION

New Haven, March 2o-"Rather than surrender to the demands of the attorney-gen of the United States for, the dismemberment by agreement of any part of the New Haven rail- road system the New Haven cham Der of commerce yesterday passed resolutions calling upon the president and directors of the railroad to resist to the utmost such demands, and com pei the attorney-general to argue his case in court ''
 The resolutions say that the present plans of the attorney-general mean "the destruction of the present trans portation system of New England, with consequent paralysis of the busi- ness and manufacturing interests of this important and popu1ous territory and with enormous and unjustifiable loss to thousands of New England stockholders.