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The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
In His Plan to Organize New
Party by Counties.
He viii Run for County Clerk
Of Lyon County.
For County Offices in Order to
Build From Ground.
Charlie Scott Analyses Bris.
tow's Political Properties.

Local leaders fon county offices n
the plan Of William Allen White. Pro
gressive national committeeman for
Kansas. who may himself be Q can
didate for county clerk In Lyon county
II 1t becomes necessary to draft can
didates for tho local Jobs. That waa
the message which the departing Bull
Moosers carried to their homes yester-
day with the parting assurance from
the state leaders that local ticketU
would be forced In almost every
county in the state.
With tho plan to place men Of state
and nation wide record ON the coun-
ty tickets. the Kansas Moosers win
adopt the Wisconsin organisation
plan. This plan calls for the naming
Of three to five actual workers I'm
each Of the 1880 voting precincts Of
the state. These missionaries In the
Progressive cause will be expected to
bring the voters to the polls and keep
intact the organization which haa al
ready been effected in nearly 30 Of
the los counties Of the state.
ticket in every county ana In every
precinct in Kansas" said william Al
len White before leaving for Emporia.
We want three to five workero-in-
Guiding at least q couple Of women
in every one Of the $500 voting pre-
cincts. We have such IN organisation
in about one-third of the counties and
have q county organisation In al but
seven Of the los counties Of the otato.
For the next two months We win de-
vote almost our entire attention to
bringing about this close precinct or
ganization.
I'VE are going to have q ticket in
every county, too." continued White.
In three or four counties the har-
monizers have announced only one
| ticket for Progreesives and Republi-
cans. We don't care about the OFF,
| lConfinued on Pa9e CRol
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
WITNESSES ATTACKED
Cores Attorneys Try to Impeach Tes-
tfmony Given for Mrs. Bond.

Oklahoma City, Feb. 14.-Instead
of calling Senator Gore to the wit
ness stand when court opened for the
third days session Of the trial of the
$5O, 900 damage suit brought against
the senator by Mrs. Minnie Bond,
counsel for the defense decided at the
last moment to call other witnesses in
the effort to lay grounds for the i'm
peachment of several plaintiffs wit
nesses. The first witness today was
w. F. Fisher. an Oklahoma City
lawyer.
called before Senator Gore takes the
stand
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
HAD TO Be CARRIED.
Mrs. Rockefeller Reached Country
Home Much Enfeebled.

New York. Feb. 14.-Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller has returned to her home.
at Pocantico Hills. from Cleveland.
She was SO feeble that she was car
ried from the train at Philips Manor
where she got off instead Of at Tarry-
town.
Mr.. Rockefeller met her with a
closed automobile.
Mr.. Rockefeller has brought all his
secretaries to Pocantico Hills and
everything indicates that he has set
tied down for an indefinite stay there.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
BACON DROPS OFF
Georgia Senator Dies Unex.
pectedly at Age of Is.
His First Election Under New
Constitutional Amendment.

Washington, Feb. 14-Senator A.
o. Bacon Of Georgia died in a hospital
here today.
Senator Bacon's death was an
nounced to the senate, while it was
in executive session, and just before it
adjourned for the day. The end came
Unexpectedly, it having been an
nounced earlier in the day that he was
doing better and that an operation,
which it had been thought necessary
to perform, for an affection Of the
kidneys, would be avoided
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
TO keep TAB ON talk.
Women VIII Have Recording Devices
At Chicago Polling Places.

Chicago, Feb. 14.-In an effort to
purify the language used at the poll
ing places, women workers announced
today they had obtained telephone
devices which will be placed in each
precinct polling place of the first
ward on the next election day. April Z.
The women said the devices will be
connected with apparatus similar to
thece used Ia the making. of phcno=
graphic records. Records Of abusive
language will be presented to the
board Of election commissioners. they
say. 'f-
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
|. c. C. TAKES IT UP.
VIII Investigate the Affairs Of the
New Haven.

Washington, Feb. 14.-Formal or
ders for investigation Of financial
transactions of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford, issued today by
the interstate commerce commission,
as a result of q senate resolution.
named the following roads in addi-
ton to the New Haven, as respond
ents: Boston and Maine: Maine Gen.
tral; Central New England and New
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
PRESIDENT IS UP.
He win Not Be Able to Attend Grid
iron Club Banquet.

Washington. Feb. 14.-President
Wilson was up today and though his
physician did not permit him to leave
his bedroom, his cold was better and
resp ,nding to treatment. The presi-
dent will not attend the Gridiron club
dinner tonight. at which he was to
be the guest of honor. He was kept
away from the Gridiron banquet last
December because Of q cold.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
The hourly readings:
The Day I'm Congress.

Washington, Feb. 14.-Senate met
at noon. Continued discussion of q
resolution to compel the Louisville Z
Nashville railway to furnish certain
information to the I. c. C. House met
at noon Debated the Indian appro-
prfations bill. Naval committee con-
sidered appointment of a committee
to investigate the subject OF a gov
ernment armor plant
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14
PUT HIM IN TOOL BOX,
Vigilance Committee Send Undesir
able Citizen Oct of Town.

Springfield, Mo-. Feb. 14.-Friends
of Jerry Malone, a railway employee,
said to have been sent out OF Spring
field locked in the tool box Of a loco
motive, after a committee Of ten
fathers had horsewhipped him for al
legged improper conduct, still were
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14

Weather Forecast for Kansaa.
Fair tonight and Sunday: a1ighfly
over temperature tonight.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-14

Newton, Mass, Feb. 14-Rev.
Theron Brown, associate editor Of
Youths Companion since 1870, died
here today, aged 80. He was a grad
uate Of Yale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-22

Rappahannock river and below the rail-
road bridge, is the Stafford county farm
of George Washington's father and moth
err This is the farm where George Wash
ington passed his boyhood, where he cut
down the cherry tree. broke the neck of
an untamed colt and threw a silver dollar
across the river-so run the olden stories
perpetrated or perpetuated by the veneer
able Parson Weems. The farm is much
reduced in size now, but that part which
Is still called the Washington farm con-
tains 100 acres surrounding the site Of
the old Washington dwelling house, on
the foundation Of which has been built a
dwelling which dates from some time Just
after the close of the civil war
People who live roundabout and whose
ancestors have lived in the neighborhood
since the days of the Washingtons will
point out where the historic cherry tree
grew and the assurance Is given that
present cherry trees growing on the farm
are relics or descendants Of the cherry
orchard or cherry walk Of the WASH
ingtons. They win point out the pasture
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1t was not long after George Wash
ington's birth on the Popes creek
farm in Westmoreland county. that
Georges father and his second wife
removed to the farm across from Fred
ericksburg, a city named for Prince
Frederick, father of King George II.
The date of the removal of the Wash
lnGtons from the Potomac to the Rap
pahannock is uncertain. but 1t was be-
tween 1875 and 1870, and pres,Imabl y
nearer the former than the latter date
Inc Kappa hannock farm had for sew
erai years before the removal been
owned by the elder Washington. and
Delng close to a city while his otbar
holdings were distant from one II fs
Juoseu that the Nashingtcns wanted
a taste OF urban life. This farm has
varlously been called pine Grove" ana
me Ferry Farm" the latter name h.
ing due to the fact that the firm WIS
at one end of the Fredericksburg ferr,
Georse Washfngton's father died in
I.i3. me Ferry farmhouse was de-
stroyed by fire at time after Gear.,
mad changed his place of living 10 hi
han-brother's tLaMrence) home, Nourt
non. p 10 the time of the fire =,
was occupied by Mrs Washington h,,,
AFTER its destruction she moved into III,
outage in Fredericksburg, In when
she died. "h''h
One of the original Washington farm
S-AiSS 10 SlIi STANDING OH the nlaca
about a hundred yards from the new
house on the old foundation 1t is n
frame shanty and the story goes that
1t was the Office of the farm, old-time
Planters always having building apart
from the dwelling in which they conduct
ed much of the business OF the farm
Mary Washington was born at Eppinr
crest in 1907. and was married to George
WashinSton's father March g. 1880 He,
father was Joseph Ball. son of William
Ball. who as an infant was brought TO
Virgins by his father in 1919 1t was
Joseph Ball, Mary Washington's father.
who, With several brothers and sisters
fell heir to the tract OF land in the Rap
pahannock country and who built the
house and called the estate Epping For
est his first wife was Elizabeth Rom
ney, who bore him several children. His
second wife was a widow named johnson.
and she was the mother of Mary Rail
WASHINGTON. Joseph Ball on his death
divided the farm between his son Josepb
and his daughter Mary. and they retained
the ownership Of the place until 1912.
The house in which Mary Ball was
born long ago passed away, but a sec
ond house stands on its site The fam
lily burying ground. close to this house.
holds the ashes of Mary washfngton'o
father and mother.
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the United States. expressions of regret
were universal. Her death was written
of in all the papers of the country, and
was preached on in pulpits without num-
Der. Congress passed a resolution to
erect monument at Mrs. Washington
grave, and members of Congress wore
crepe on their coat sleeves for thirty days.
When the President was informed of the
action Of Congress, he responded in a note
saving, among other things. that Il at
tribute all my success in life to the moral.
intellectual and physical education which
I received from my mother"
Despite the resolution of Congress, the
government never erected a monument at
Mrs. Washington's grave, nor was one
reared there by private funds till more
than century after her death. The
young republic had it's troubles There
were Indian wars. the whisky insurrec.ion
and Shay's rebellion, the threatened war
with France. the wars with pirates in the
Mediterranean. the Louisiana purchase.
the troubles with England over the right
Of search. the Lewis and Clark explora-
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The Only George.

NT7HE new currency bill will i'm
prove our reputation abroad
said Jerome, S. McWade, the Duluth
collector and financier. Abroad. Won
know. thanks to the methods. now re-
formed. of big business we are re-
garded as a pretty sharp and tricky
race.
"Once. in Devon. 1 asked a little bow
some questions in history.
WHO was George Washington l
began.
GA great general. sir he replied.
Right. my little fellows said I.
And now tell me, il you can, what
George Washington was remarkable
for
He was an American said the
urchin, and he told the truth"
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Most Stupendous Me-
mortal Now Projected
Is the Conception Of a
Woman-She Describes
1t in an Interview
Will Garry Out Gen.
Washington's Pet Ideas
Congress Has Already
Appropriated Land for
1t at the Capital-How
Women Are Caring for
Washington's HON e
and Tomb Number of
Pilgrims to That Shrine
IN Past Year-The
Memorial Highway.
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Mt WRNON
TO-DAY

methods 20 agree With changing condi-
tons The first idea of our society was
to erect a university building. But the
country is full OF universities-every state
has one more within its borders. We,
as association. are now accomplishing
the same end-George Washingtons plan
weil-that of the general diffusion OF
knowledge in different but none the
less comprehensive manner.
l. ::
our Presidents who come later can
be inaugurated in the memorial hall;
tuberculosis congresses, which now meet
in barns anywhere, can be accommodated
there; International assemblages of scien-
lists and artists will have a convention
hall in Americas capital. and state So
cieties can have permanent quarters to-
gether Thus will our two-m. llion-dollar
hall prove the worth of its existence.
The membership of the George Wash
ington Memorial Association is composed
entirely of women. and the hall for which
they are now negotiating architectural
plans is entirely their idea and their
work. Mrs. Dimock herself is the moth
er of the memorial hall idea.
Members of the association were sitting
in her home in New York city one after
noon when one of them remarked how
strange it was that no person had ever
built a memorial to our first President
with the direct purpose of carrying out
his wish for the promotion of science and
literature in this country. Mrs. Dimock
pondered on the idea for some time and
at the next meeting announced that she
had conceived a b-and-new plan that the
association should assume to complete.
Her plan was received with enthusiasm
and the procedure necessary to effect it
was agreed upon.
The George Washington Memorial
Hall will be situated in the National
Capital on land already donated by
Congress. The site was formerly &C.
cupied by the old Pennsylvania rail-
road station. where Garfield was as
sassinated. 1t will contain a hall large
enough to accommodate six or seven
thousand people, and this room will be
a memorial to the First Continental
Congress and to the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. Paintings
of these distinguished men will hang
upon the walls. Also included in the
plans are several smaller halls and
rooms where states may have exhibits
to show what they are doing along in
dustriai lines. Other rooms will be
given to state educational societies
for permanent office quarters. Then.
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trying out your new jack knife given
you for a birthday gift or a Christmas
present? Most boys brought up in the
country have done some sort of dam
age like that. Also, many colt has
been MANNED or killed in the breaking.
And good base ball player could send
the sphere across the Rappahannock
river at Fredericksburg. There were
the remains of old cherry trees on the
Washington farm at the outbreak of
the civil war. They were wiped out
during the firing and the struggles
across the Washington lands. Hosts of
the armed men of the north and the
south camped on, marched over and
shot across these old Washington
acres
Because of the incompleteness of the
land records of Stafford county. an in
completeness due largely to destruc-
ton Of papers during the civil war
there is no continuity of title Of this
land from the time the Washingtons
bought 1t. There is now a proposition
that the farm shall be taken over by
one Of the ancestral-patriotic sssocia-
lions. ~
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my mother. never expecting to see her
more. Your anectionate brother,
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
The funeral of Mary Washington was
solemn public event at Fredericksburg
Her grave was dug in the grounds of
Kenmore. at place slanting down into
shallow valley between the high
ground Of Fredericksburg and Maryes
heights, ridge of bloody memory,
which runs back of Fredericksburg.
Near the grave site is a group of gray
powders shaded by q big tree, and
which command fine view of the field
which was Redeemed and corpse-strewn
during the civil war
The story goes, and II is no doubt true.
that Mrs. Washington used to sit on these
rocks. knit. read the Bible and pray for
the success of the general commanding
the continental army. her son. Hence
these powders are called, and for time
out of mind have been called. the "ora-
tory rocks" or simply prayer rocks. "
1t Is believed that Mrs. Washington was
buried at this point in the Kenmore
grounds because it was favorite place
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MD MONUMENT OF WASE1lNGTON'S MOTHER ONE

your request and previous to both 1
was prepared for the event by advices
of her illness coming from your son
Robert. Awful and affecting as the
death of parent is. there is consola-
ton in knowing that heaven has spared
ours to an age which few attain. and
favored her with the full enjoyment
of her mental faculties and as much
bodily strength as usually fall to four
score. Under these circumstances, and
in the hope that she is translated to
a happier place, it is the duty of her
relatives to yield submission to the
decree of the Creator. When was last
in Fredericksburg ] took final leave of
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riously and affectionately called THE
Ross OF Epping Forest Belle of Lam
caster The Roman Matron" and "Old
Madame She was called Rose of Ep-
ping Forest a. u compliment to her APP
pearaucc and because Epping Forest was
the name Of her fathers farm: and she
called Belle OF Lancaster because
in her youth. before and during the time
George Washinston's father, augustine
Washington. woocd her tor his second
wife, she really was a rustic belle and
ner bone Eppins Forest, was in Ian
caster county, Viz. -ins. Lafayette called
her The Roman Matron.
IL was soon after the surrender of
Cornwallis mt Yorktown that number
Of American and French officers were
entertained at a ball IN Fredericksburg.
one of the brilliant balls of early re-
publican times. IL was at this ball that
Lafayette met Mrs. Augustine Washing
ton, nearly always spoken and written of
as Mary Washington. the mother of
Washington. II was at this ball that
Lafayette SPOKE of her as The Roman
Matron. When Lafayette made his celc-
hrated pilgrimage to the United States
in 1875 he visited the grave of Mrs
Washington. then thirty-six years dead,
The grave of Mary Washington and her
Ii.ohdlHtHl are ono Ol tne SnTIltS OF
Fredericksburg. Va. and in that old city
by the Rappahannock still stands the
small frame cottage 1T the corner OF
Charles and Lewis streets. III which she
lived for :. good many years and in which
she died. August %. 1889. II is owned
by the Society for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities and is maintained
AS nearly as possible as when Mrs.
Washington lived. Much Of her furniture.
chinaware crockery. kitchen utensils
and the like are to be seen in that small
house
The last time George washington saw
his mother was four months before her
death. He made visit to her, coming
down from Mount Vernon. just before
beginning the long trip to New York
for his Inauguration as the first Presi-
dent of the United States. He took his
final leave of her In the little frame
cottage. The news of Mrs. Washing
toms death came to New York in a
letter from Col. Burgess Ball, q kins-
ner with him Baron Won Steuben and
Gov. st. Clair. The letter was handed
to Washington's private secretary,
Robert Lewis. a son Of his sister, Betty
Observation-Disclosures, and by young Lewis
the letter was handed to Washington.
lie read 1t calmly, excused himself from
his guests and retired to his chamber.
Betty. the wife of Maj. Fielding Lewis
who lived at Fredericksburg in q
splendid house in broad and shady
grounds called Kenmore:
My Dear Sister: Col. Bells letter
gave me the first account of my
mothers death. Since then 1 have re-
ceived Mrs. Carriers letter, written at
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fame of the paternal chief be cherished in
story and song! Nor will be forgotten she
who first bent the twig to incline the tree
to glory. Then and not till then will
youth and age, maid and matron, aye
and bearded men repair to the now neg
lected grave of the mother of Washing
tom
In the twenties there started public agi-
tation looking to the erection of q monu-
ment over Mary Washington's grave, and
in 1880 the people of Fredericksburg
raised the sum of $1,000 and were work
ing to obtain a larger sum when a New
York banker, Silas e. Burroughs, wrote
to the mayor Of Fredericksburg, Thomas
Goodwin, and asked that he be allowed
to furnish the money required for an ap-
propriate monument. An elaborate design
was approved and the corner stone was
laid May /. 1888, by President Andrew
Jackson. who made one Of the longest
speeches of his career. There was q mill
tary parade. Washington City being rep
resented BY Capt. kinsey's company Of
rifiemen and the Marine Band. Capt
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ton and the Burr conspiracy. So that
Mrs. Washington's grave was marke-
only by simple stone slab erected by
her family.
That slab was in place when Lafayette
visited the grave in 1926. But the grave
had then fallen into neglect. George
Washington Parke Custis of Arlington
wrote of this condition of the grave in
1928. saying: Had she been of the olden
time statues would have been erected to
her memory at the capital and she would
have been called the mother of the Ro-
mans. When another century has elapsed
and our descendants shall have learned
the true value Of liberty, how will the
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with her and the supposition is that she
may have expressed a wish to be buried
there. In Mrs. Washingtons day these
rocks were in grove of old oak trees,
and those oaks stood until they were shot
away during the battle of Fredericksburg
in 1862. New oaks have grown there
The ground around Mrs. Washington
grave WIS torn up by shell and cannon
shot. and Union soldiers fell all around
that mound.
On the day of Mrs Washington's flu
neral business was suspended in Freder-
icksburg, and nearly all the people of the
town and surrounding country attended
AS the news slowly circulated through