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All Convicts Are Not Good Men.

The Joliet convict who is under
suspicion Of raplng and numbering
the Warden's wife in that institution
Is entitled to the presumption OF in
nocence. He was a prisoner on in
d%eterminate sentence for manslaugh-
ter, a trusty assigned to household
service, and he protests his innocence.
He appears TO have enjoyed to their
full extent the privileges accruing to
prisoners under the humane, or golden
rule, ~dispensatlon that lately has
made such progress in penal lnstitu-
lions all over the country, and though
he Is not to be condemned without a
hearing, this occurrence may be the
mems of putting a period to the
excessive sentimentallsm, inevitable
whenever prison reform is under
taken, which has lately attained dis
quieting and offensive proportions.
Not content with giving convicts a
square deal. many persons. once their
interest Is aroused, 90 to an extreme
OF sympathy that must work harm
to the cause they seek 70 advance
and to the population generally. IT
Is not invariably superior virtue or a
sure indication Of social injustice
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0undA.

Gunda came to the end Of his
troubles yesterday. A merciful bull.
let put a period to his captivity and
freed him from suffering. Visitors to
the Geological Park will rejoice that
he has been killed; there was a con-
polling pathos in his plight that
touched all who watched the ease
less fretting of the great beast.
An offensive impudence, an intoler-
able affront, lay in the hobbling of
Gunda, in his confinement in man
made walls. He belonged in the
jungle, where. under natural condi-
tons, he might have lived his allot-
ted days In the enjoyment Of those
pleasures which invite the elephan.
tine disposition. Gunda in chains
was pitiful he aroused sympathy.
His evil passions were redeemed
and made tolerable BY the sorry rec
ord Of their cause. His noble bulk,
his amazing strength. his inherent
dignity protested effectively against
the humiliations It was his lot to
undergo.
This fine pachyderm was a con-
slant reprOach to the park that shell
tered him. He protested as well as
he might against the caging of wild
animals. Many who saw him were
brought to doubt the wisdom, the de.
cency, Of dragging a free citizen Of
the painless forest to the crowded
city to crafty the curiosity of chill
dren. We r told that by such
methods science profits. We are glad
to believe that this Is 50. Did We
doubt it, we might be tempted to
urge the dissolution Of the menag-
erie and the return Of its population
to the wilds from which they have
been dragged.
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Rumania's Price.

Rumania's new demands, which
must in every way fulfil all the
dreams Of her aggressive politicians
for a Greater I%tumania," are being
enforced upon the Allies at IA time
most oportune to her. While the
Russians are being driven back from
their hard won positions in Galicia
to their own border, Rumania asks as
the price OF her aid at this critical
juncture almost the whole OF Buko-
wilma and Pennsylvania.
In both of these AustrO. Hungarian
possessions there is n large percent
age of people of the same race as
form the kingdom of Rumanla. They
have considered themselves for a
victims OF aggression, asserting that
while they have borne their share of
the taxes their language has been
Disseminated against, and that they
have been without representation in
the Government. The Rumanlan poll
ticians have foStercd this spirit OF
discomfort and have no doubt aided
in the agitation. hut until the devel-
"pment OF the present situation II Is
doubtful If even the most sanguine
expected more than a small part of
what they now demand.
This new territory would add Ia
Inc Rumanian kingdom the rich agri.
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cultural lands Of Bukowina and q
wealth Of highlands in Transylvania.
1t would give to 1t the fine town Of
Czernowitz and all those interesting
places that grew up and thrved
within and along the old Military
Boundary. 1t would add to her pop
ulation almost 100000 people, more
or less homogeneous. 1t is wealth OF
territory that even a larger State
would not scorn as the price Of arms
or diplomacy.
Russia Is said to have acceded
to the demands. In the way Of the
success Of the negotiations there
stands only little Serbia, who asks
that she may protect her ever vul.
nerable capital by n triangular strip
of the Danube valley that extends her
northern border from Mitrovica to
P%ancsova. But with so good a
neighbor on the north as herself
Rumania thinks that Serbia will not
need this protection. Russia may
persuade Serbia to the same way Of
thinking, for with 100000 men and
the moral IL not active support Of
Bulgaria to throw into the balance
at this crisis Rumania Is worth 1t at
almost any price.
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RUM IN
4 Citizen Of Mr.. Longfellow's Town
Finds It Not Extra Dry.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sfr: For
a man to make a statement such as
Mr.. Waterman made In THE In OF June
16 or prohibition not alone convinces
mo that he Ia hitting the pipe" but
that his name IL really a play on words,
and that he should have signed II sleep
man.
The men from Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire show that they know what
they are talking about and ! am really
sorry hat they did not 30 further. As
a resident Of Portland I feel I should
help 'em out"
No later than yesterday twelve new
barrooms opened up and Centre. Free
and Fore streets were having q great
time. The kitchen ba rrooms were doing
a great business. and any time Mr.,
Wakeman 80 desires. a pint or half pint
OF third rail" can be purchased At any
Of the local drug stores.
There have been days when We have
had as many as nifty arrests for intoxi-
cation. and OF course that II not taking
into account the ones who get by"
Lot Mr.. Wakeman come to Portland whom
we have pay day at the forts and see our
boys IN blue going home ~inoculated with
the amber mud. Still a better sight Is
from one TO two freight cars of wet
goods" hauled into the Boston and
Maine station from Boston daily.
Such men as Mr.. wakeman harm the
cause OF prohibition rather than help.
We are all coming to tho point when
We realize that prohibition will never
prohibit. We must depend upon q slow
process OF education.
JAMES WHITE.
PORTLAND, Me, June 20.
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WOMEN TO CRITICISE
CONSTITUTION TO-DAY
Physiological Antiquities TO
Be Assailed in Hearing
at Albany.

A delegation, consisting OF Nj flar-
riot Stanton Hatch. Mrs. John Winters
Brannan and Miss Alberta Hill. rtHr.
senting the executive board ~ A..
Women's Political Union, and '
Carrie Chapman Gait of the EN- a
State campaign committee will VS. 80
Constitutional Convention At Alhar" toe
day for the purpose OF calling at'C.'77
to certain antiquities of laugNnsr %
the old Constitution which the Vow
will 10 we'll To avoid. Tho dr',r1. o.
will rave n hearing ut 3 = NJ l,f %
Louis Marshalls bill OF rights CON.
tee.
II tho Constitution il to he ana
cratic. ~anti-suffrage document. saw
women. let IL be so openly, and r.' "
its aristocratic intent under drw
phrases, Such as the ore I'm n.
Constitution, which a y that CO...
GERS whose offices may hcrcg'..r '
created by law shall be elected
people"-when only mon are 0r.
The Constitution trainers OF N
Grafton & Disseminated
women politically and didn't dare s.
so,' said Mrs. Blatch ycs'orlH
their successors to-day are G. .' ..
as unfair let them come ont a'' p. 81
openly. Let them begin the Gov
ton 'We.' the voters of the S'.'
New York. and let them keep pie '
voters in every phrase d,a' '- 90
political power and rights
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The Nations Complexion Will Not
BE Tanned.

The decision Of the Supreme Court
erasing from the constitutions Of
Maryland and Oklahoma the grand.
father clauses designed to restrict
TO white citizens the privilege OF vOt'
ing will not deliver any State gov
eminent to the negro race. 1t may
render necessary revision OF the pres
emit practices in some States, and
compel the adoption Of new means
for the preservation of existing con.
dittons. But the Caucasian will con-
tinue to rule. 1t Is conceivable that
in rome communities the exclusion
Of black meme votes may be less COM
plete in consequence Of the decision,
but the practical effect will be Of NO
moment.
There is no sentiment Of substan.
tial Importance North or South for q
radical change On the political status
Of the negro In the Southern States.
For years the House Of Representa-
tives through its committees on con-
tested elections has uniformly refused
to overturn the results Of ballotings
in which the pr%otestants based their
claims on the refusal to allow negroes
to vote. In these refusals there has
been no p~artisanship. The supremacy
Of tho white race has been as much
the care Of Republicans as of Demo
Gratis Of Northerners as Of Southern
erA. II 1t cannot be achieved in one
way, It will be In another. for no
where Is there a serious desire to
subordinate the whites to the blacks.
Already in a number Of States the
possibility of such a political tragedy
has been eliminated BY the adoption
Of restrictions whose legality is un-
questioned, and these, or others equal
ly unassailable, will be put in opera
ton wherever the necessity exists.
The political hue Of the South will
remain white, Notwithstanding the
mistake of 1870.
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Mr.. Tumulty.

Save for the benefit Of fly swallow
ers and the reproof of malicious in
ventors and circulators Of falsehoods.
1t was superfiuous for Mr.. JOSEPH p.
TUMuLTY. secretary to President WILL
son. to deny certain rumors as to his
relations with Mr.. WILLIAM +. Nc
COMBS, the present chairman Of the
Democratic National Committee. That
able citizen Is quite equal to taking
care of himself, but II any OF his mis-
guided friends" as Mr.. TUMuLTY puts
1t. were under the impression that the
latter was looking for MIR. McCoMBs's
not too pleasant post. the secretary's
denial may relieve them Of an illu-
sion. 1t Is to be regretted, even II It
Is perfectly natural, that a certain in
fusion Of bad blood may be detected
in some Democratic politics and poll
ticians; but Mr.. TuMULrY's straight
forward character and loyal, intelli-
gent service to Mr.. WILSON entitle
him to more than this certificate
which he gives himself and to which
probably most of the rest Of us will
subscribe:
II am not engaged in any campaign
to exploit myself at the expense Of my
party's welfare. My time here 10 wholly
devoted TO serving In q modest way the
interests OF the President and the causes
for which he stands"
Mt. TUNuITTs place requires &C
complished diplomatic tact, patience.
knowledge Of human nature, q gift of
firmness and q GIT Of iextbility, q
sense Of humor and q talent for self.
effacing faithfulnesA He seems to all
the bill. Such q man 10 invaluable
to his chief. Many moro censpicuous
officers arc much less important. We
take It that Brother TvxuDrY 10 one
Of the last men 70 insert himself in
other folks business o. seek other
folks Jobs; and We avail ourselves
Of this opportunity to renew the a.
surance Of high consideration for
this estimabls secretary, man and
Jerseyite.
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PROF. NEARING AND SUCH.
The TaIkcr and the Institution That
Alone Gives Weight 10 His Talk.

To ~ EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sfr:' l
have wondered why you give so much
publicity to the dismissal OF an insig-
nificant assistant professor at the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania. The real
cause for this action. as 1 see IT, was
not hat Nearing was radical but that
he lacked the poise and common sense
a man in his position should possess.
He traded in the honored name and
prestige OF the university to obtain for
his fantastic ideas a hearing they other
wise would not nave received.
Freedom Of speech should also carry
with It some responsibility for accuracy
OF statement. particularly when the
speaker advertises himself In his official
capacity.
{. | and n number OF other alumni have
during the past year protested to the
university authorities about this mans
methods. and I have no doubt that the
pressure upon the trustees has been
largely OF his character rather than
political. as has been alleged.
J. STEWART.
GLEN RIDGE, n. j., July 20.
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FAVORS SHORT L
Senator wadsworth Tells How "a
stop 'Tog Rolling"

Albany. June 22.-United States Sen
ator James w. Wadeworth, Jr.. told the
constitutional convention committee on
Governor and State officers to-day that
he favors the short ballot and "A State
budget system. His father Is a member
OF that committee.
WAS there any log rolling over ap-
preparations while you were a member
of the State Legislature" Senator
Wadsworth was asked.
Log rolling is n part OF human ma
ture. OF curse there was some" de-
clared the Senator.
This evil. he declared. could be met
by the application OF a State budget
system, under which the appropriation
bills would come from the Governor TO
the Legislature, instead of tho Legisla-
ture to the Governor, as at present.
The Comptroller, Senator Wadsworth
thought, should be elected, because Of
the Importance of having an inde-
pendent auditing officer,
Ex-Chief Judge Edgar NJ. Cullen OF
the Court of Appeals before the Judiciary
Committee declared he not only opposed
primary but any other candidates for
public office,
ut IL AZ pure and unauthorized a
piece of freak legislation as has ever
been tried" declared Judge Cullen,
speaking OF the direct primary law.
Judge Cullen believes the election OF
JUDGES should he continued without dues-
ton He opposes the creation OF n court
OF criminal appeals mi the fractional
verdict OF a jury. even In civil cases.
believing the unanimous verdicts re-
CURED at present should be continued.
Judge Cullen also opposed imprison-
ment for debt. He also condemned the
present condemnation proceedings sys-
TEN In vogue In New York city.
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The Mental Maximum,

According TO President Lowell OF Har
ward, In his haccalaureate eerrnon II
reached at the age OF 20,
! used to think when twenty-thres
That I had reached the limit.
But time II seemed had made me see
then could merely skim II;
Yet now has DR.. Lowell come
And set this mental maximum"
No doubt ne tnstanced Chatterton,
And sidney, Astrophelfy.
And Philips son OF Mncedon.
As well as Keats and Shelley:
or coming 10 a later stripping,
Made reference to Rudyard Kipling.
Yet models are no numerous
That contra may be cited.
One thinks the doctor humorous,
His Views are 80 b%enighted;
Or else suspects intoxication
From slipping apt ALTERATION.
Well, let the controversy rage.
or which this IL a sample,
While tones are fingered page ny page
In search OF meet example:
Youth sian viii think It's at tho height.
And oldsters know themselves are tkghti
MAuaIos AoSAis.
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The railway president must have
read this impressive document with
awe and somo apprehension. Here
was a vocabulary % largo that It
would undoubtedly have to be checked
whenever the gentleman in the secre-
tarial position travelled by rail; and
this, under the Cummins amendment,
might be no trifing matter of expense.
Perhaps that Is why the student Of
unity and clearness, although equipped
with tho t~aciturnity and discretion
necessary to association with 9
tives, was not invited to meet the
requirements Of this particular execu-
tive's vocat1ve and avocative CORE
spondence.
Here Is a fearful example Of the
consequences Of too much efficiency
training, shall we venture to say toe
much Kulturf
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FOUNT.
The District Caucus: There Popular
Rule May Really BE Enforced.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str. /
nave been a voting Republican fifty-nine
years and latterly In active politics. I
aver that the direct primary is the most
ridiculous device that could be adopted
by n democratic form of government,
for the reasons that the people TAX no
interest In II and II encourages only
office seekers who ave the lunacy. time
and none to circulate petitions.
The conventions are bossridden only
through the neglect OF the people Of
the election district caucuses. which are
the fountalnheads OF popular rule. They
were simple. cheap and expeditions.
Owing to our pursuit of luxury and
money making the people stayed away
from them and so the convention maxi
ing FELL into the hands OF about 5 per
cent. of the electorate, who we're mere
heelers for the bosses. Now here was
the little. quiet. obscure. black headed
worm that was silently gnawing the
vitals out OF our representative princi-
pie 1t was Just at this little spot and
this little nick OF time that our whole
political system was polluted.
The trick OF the. bosses was this !:
In the 'heeler" captain appointing the
nominating committee to put up the
cations balloted for Only the patronage
suckers being present, the captains APP
pointments were adopted.
Every member Of the present Legis-
lature has been asked by a circular
TO pass a law by which all delegations
OF two leading parties shall be balloted
for in the election district caucuses (;
and every member of this constitu-
tional convention has been asked to
favor an article that shall command
this principle and practice. the adop-
ton of which will lead the people TO
tho caucuses. where there can be no
cut and dried work that has always
driven the people away Inc been their
universal complaint.
The old system Of home district eau
cuses and representative conventions
was a natural evolution. the boiled
down political common sense OF the
American people and no better sys-
TEN could possibly be devised. The
only trouble was that the people neg
lected It. You may depend upon 1t that
unless the people go TO their home dis
trict fan caucuses there will be no
progress or reform and until the Con-
stItution takes hold OF this engine lever
Of government, the town meeting prin-
ciple as applied to cities. we shall go
from bad to worse.
WILLIAM HEN STREET.
BRooKLYN, June 81.
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The Stenographer Who Did Not Get
the Job.

The stenographer Who Did Not Get
the Job.
We assure our readers, gentle and
otherwise. that the W1bjoined letter,
applying for a Job ~ prvate secre-
tary or stenoErapher 70 a railroad
president, Is genuine in every respect:
"DHAR SIR: I wish to lay before you
my application for a secretsrial position.
to be given consideration at such time as
you may require the services of n with
tho qualifications as touched upon In
this letten
"A competent and qualinsd stenog-
rapher. experienced in charting statis-
tics, possessed Of the taciturnity and
discretion necessary to association with
executives. broadly read OF matters ger
name to railroad operation. . student Of
unity and ~clearness In composition. with
an acquisition Of that uncommon
knowledge Of Misunderstanding the
study Of word acknowledgements
to the highest grade s~tsnoGrsphio work.
an omnivorous though ACTIVE reader With
. vocabulary suficiently largo 20 meet
the requirements Of both you vocative
and avocatvs correspondence. I am
fitted to give such service a would be
demanded by one in your capacity.
II shall be glad to give to any des-
isnated subordinate an oral sxpatiation
Of my fitness and experience.
Respectfully yours.
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Pr0siti
Suppose that wars horrid front Is

Suppose that vars horrid front Is
still frontally horrid in 1916;
Suppose that In convention time.
1916, the Greatest Yodeller OF Lin.
coin, Neb., is still yodelling and suf-
fering from cacoethes loQuend1, as he
will be II he IS then in the enjoyment
Of his usual faculties;
Suppose that Deutschthum still
watches on the Rhein in 1916;
Shall these rejoicing eyes see in
that year Of wonder a rallying Of
German Americans around the Tup.
manian form OF Brother BRHEIN and
Prohibition ueber Allies?
We are living. we are moving, in a
grand and wondrous time. But the
beloved GAMBRINUs, d~iscrowned, de-
throned, dealcoholized, quafing grape
juice-Nur die Menschen trinken
Biere, and 20 on-Prohibition ueber
Allies! A wonder-beautiful spectacle.
The brewers Of beer and the brewers
Of buncOmbe! Prosit!
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NEWSPAPERS BEST
AID OF ADVERTISERS
Delegates at Chicago Con,rn.
ton Agree on Daily Pub
licatiOns' Virtues.
PULLING POWER OF Truth

CHICAGO, June c2.-"1ium,n Interest"
advertisements and tempcrau.. were
placed on pedcstals beside truth fee .lo,ts
to-day by delegates attending tho ~.
nual convention here OF the Associated
Advertising Club OF the World.
Henry d. Estabrook Of New York
chief orator OF the convention. boosted
the cause OF temperance. and Jos,gE H.
Appel, also OF New York / T. Parsons
of Chicago and others advocated tie
daily newspaper as the natural aIvot.
Using medium and the policy uf iti,''-
ing the punch" and human %lu'ores,
idea In the paid matter columns
"The word news as printed in our
| American newspapers" said M. Appel.
has come to mean human interest
stores must tell their own news In a
human interest way. Such advertising
ls bound to be most widely read
III a store does not advertise enough
TO make the daily happenings Of lts
business known or to keep the public IN
formed OF the advantages Of every kind
which II offers. whether they be o,
monetary or simply educatlonai con-
sideration. that store is Just as much
lacking In its plain duty to the public as
Is the store which resorts 10 methods
OF VereNploltdlloH' saiu WI. ihIsprh,
Urges "Truth" ms Al Mems Motto.
Mr.. E.tabrook lauded the action OF
European rulers and parliaments in
curbing the sale OF liquor in time Of
war, n told the ad men that they had
founded n brotherhood nobler than tina,
of Arthur and his Round Table II thsy
intended TO work. fight and live tr
'truth"--the ad mems motto,
Joseph II. Flnn of Chicago eaid that
present day newspapers are better al
vertising mediums than ever, because
they have a more gripping national
power-a power that should be studied
by every thinking advertiser.
Mr.. Finn spoke of the Newspaper,
the Advertiser and the Advertising
Agent" He said that advertising IL
the news about merchandising. and tina,
there Ii nothing closer 20 the hearts n
the reading public than the live news
concerning buying opportunity"
II believe in the efficiency or news.
paper advertising" said Mr. Finn. DO
cause / have seen what II can do in
such a variety OF lines. covering such
a divergency OF propositions that .he
possibility Of u or accident must ne
eliminated from consideration"
II Is the paper which publishes ths
tfue news that pays the advertiser
best. the speaker said.
Generally speaking. the best news
paper Is the n which secures the hest
Advertising" Mr., Finn continued. And
the best advertising is what helps make
II tho best newspaper. Truth IS ne
slogan OF this convention. Truth Is
tho slogan OF the newspaper that hopes
TO win the most lasting succoss--tAs
widest influence.
TT Ia tho truth that good times arl
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We Don't Think SO.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir
Would not this he the m &c
abolish the celebration OF the Fourth
OF July? II IL n celebration often spoken
OF, particularly by the English. as beinG
not In good taste. II one stops Il
think OF It, why are we celebrating the
day, now that the large majority OF
Americans think and feel exactly the
reverse about England OF what they
thought IN July I. 1875?
CLARE WooLsoE BENEDICT.
CooPERsTowN, June 20.
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In the trial OF General CHRISTIAN
DE WET at Bloemfontein on a charge
OF high treason, and alternatively OF
s%editlon, n ENGELBREcHT testified
that at the meeting of Beers at
Kopjes, where the rebellion was
started, General DE WET declared that
if 1t turned out that Colonel MARITz
had entered into any agreement with
the Germans, he, DE WET. and his
burghers would return home. This
testimony explains why the famous
Boer veteran pleaded not guilty to
treason but admitted sedition.