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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28
BIDDINCER CHARGES
SUDDENLY DROPPED
Gov. Dunno Recalls Request
for ExtraditiOn--Case There
fore Collapses.
FREE TO TELL SECRETS

Word came from chicago yesterday
that Gov. Dunno in Springfield had sent
notice 70 Gov. Whitman In Albany. Of
hcialiy recalling his reauisition on the
state Of New York for Guy Biddinger.
former police serEean Of Chicago.
against whom voluminous charges Of
grating had been made.
Gov. whitman. who II In New York.
had not received the notice last night.
but II was said that there would be only
one thing for the New York executive
to do since Illinois no longer desires the
man. Biddinger. who Is now under $780,
900 bail. will be formally discharged
and the proceedings quashed.
Tho victory OF Bidd!ngcr comes after
n bitter fight. in which not only New
York and Illinois. but West Virginia
were the parties. and during which
charges were made that A. Leo Well.
a Pittsburg lawyer and leader in many
reform movements. was accused OF try
ing 10 prevent Biddinger. the chief wit
ness against him in n prosecution in
West Virginia, from testifying against
him. The charges were made before
Gov. Whitman In n hearing granted By
him on Wednesday In Albany. and be-
fore Gov. Dunno In n similar hearing in
Chicago on the same day and by Gov.
Hatfield of West Virginia In his mes
sages TO both Governors asking them to
postpone their actions until after Bid
dinger had given his testimony In court
In West Virginia.
Mr.. We'll. under indictment IN Kama
wha county. West Virginia. II charged
with attempting TO bride W members
OF the Public Service Commission OF
that State. The case Grows out OF an
appeal OF Mr.. We'll for his clients. .
natural gas company. from tho rul!ns
OF the Public Service Commission. re-
fusing to permit an Increase In the price
OF gas to consumers.
Blddlnger, then a private detective.
had been in the employ Of Mr.. We'll 10
use a detectaphone in order TO take
down certain conversations. He APP
peared before the Grand Jury which
brought the indictment. The trial OF
the case has been held up by an appeal
10 the United states Supreme Court.
which Is expected to hand down a de-
cision any day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28

TO all such the confidence % the
financial community. which naturally
knows them best, and of the public is
absolutely vital. Without il they SIM
ii, cannot live. TO provide for the
thousands of millions Of dollars an
nually needed by our railroads and other
industries would vastly ovcrtax the
resources Of all the greatest financial
houses n groups taken together. and
therefore the iinanCicr or group of iiuan-
ciers undertaking such transactions must
depend in the first instance upon the
cooperation OF the financial community
at large.
For this purpose such houses or
groups associate with Themselves FOR
every transaction Of onsiderable size
n Ia sge number OF other houses, thus
forming so-called syndicates. But even
the resources thus combined OF the en-
tire financial community woul fail far
short OF being sufficient to supply the
needed funds for more than a very
limited time, and appeal must, therefore.
he made 10 the financial absorbing power
Of the country as n whole represented by
the ultimate investor. Now. let a fnan-
cial house, either through lack OF a high
standard OF integrity In dealing with the
public or through lack Of thoroughncss
and care or through bad judgment, for
felt the confidence Of 'ts nelghbors or Of
the investing public. and the very roots
~ its being are cut
81 do not mean to claim that high
fanance has not IN some Instances
strayed from the highest standard that
II has not made mistakes that II has
not at times yielded to temptation, and
the temptations which heset its path
are indeed many that there have not
been some occurrences which every right
thinking man must deplore and condemn
hut | do say and claim that practically
all such instances have occurred during
what may he termed the country's in
dustrtal and economic pioneer period, q
period OF vast and unparalleled concen.
~tration OF national energy and effort upor
material achievement, OF tremendous ant
turbulent seurging toward tangible &C
complishment of sheer ~individualism NJ, q
period of lax enforcement of the laws by
those in authority, of uncertainty regard
ing the meaning Of the statutes relating
to business. and consequently OF inn
patience at restraint n a weakened
sense OF the fear, respect and obedience
due to the law,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28
Texas UOrUs Luncheon ERNOrs.

ANON q. Carter vice-president and
general manager 81 the Fort Worth
Sidr-Tcle0rdm CAV II luncheon AT the
Waldorf Astoria Yesterday In honor of
Erman j. i.idgwaN, head Of the But
terich Publishing Company, Nor" than
ION publishers and editors received the
horns 81 a Texas steer ~ souvenirs, and
d'ned On Fort Worth sausage and
0eaks from TcXae steers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28

Capt. Carlson said hat when he
reached the African coast. after a sew
enty-two day trip from this port. he tried
TO get green stun for himself and his
men. He found nothing procurahle but
the tops OF sweet potatoes. The water
that ~ got by sending a boat up the
River Cess was blackish and he a to
utilize on the trip hither the water that
he took aboard in New York bay months
before. salt horse was The chief ration
Of the crew. but the cook says Il was
mod fled somewhat by pea soup and
beans. ". said that he had plenty ~
flour and baked breaH many days on the
long trip. Thc ccok vas the first man
TO feel the effect az the disease, hut the
attack did not seem TO be so serious as
that which overlook the German scamen.
The cook was the port. starbuird and
all other watches melted into one. like
the hero OF the Nancy brig, and II he Lad
not been In good shape when. after weeks
In the doldrums. the schooner ran afoul
Of a gale south of iiatteras. the skipper
thinks that all hands would be swapping
sea warns with pavv Jones.
We had too much sail on" the skipper
said. "and We had nobody but the cook
and mo to take IL in. The squai! hit us
so suddenly that it whipped the mainsail
from the bolt ropes and carried the Ny
ing lib down 10 leeward like a little Yep
pelin. Then the cook and me and the
cabin hoy. who is "A handy l~andlubher.
got her up in the win and dashed the
wheel and took in as much sail as we
could. Down IN the forecastle the Ger
mans seemed dead or dopy We were
forced back to the southeast later about
zoo miles
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28

Charles NJ. SChwab talked Of the
growth of the steel industry and OF the
part that big business interests will play
in the scheme Of national preparedness.
He said industry viii stand by the Gov
eminent at all costs in time Of need. and
his listeners caught ar intimation OF hts
opposition to Government ownership OF
munitlon and arnor plants when he
added that II WAS the duty Of the Gov
eminent to stand by industry In time OF
peace.
I'm the present year although II Is an
abnormal year. the United States will
produce close to 5000, 900 tons Of steel"
he said. "Many people think this great
output In due to the war. and undoubt-
eddy money spent In connection with the
war has dom much to develop the indus
ivy, hut as "A matter OF fact. less than 10
per cent. Of the steel manufactured In the
! United States has been used outside Of
the United States.
''rle development of the industry has
been due to American ingenuity AMI
, enterprise. We have reached the posi-
, hility that no other nation will ever
ovcrtake ms"
| Consolidation. one of the latest de.
velopments " tho growth Of business.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28

Before being 4 private detective Biddin-
ger had been a detective sergeant in mi
cago, resign!nG that position for the other
work. In order ~ impeach the CREDIBLE
ity of the man who was TO be the chief
witness aga!ns: him Mr.. We'll, according
to a written statement made by him.
went to Chicago TO investigate Bid
dlnger's record. The result of that were
nfty-one charges made before a Munic-
ipal Court judge upon which warrants
were issued. The request for extradi-
ton vas made upon the warrants.
Gov. Whitman at once honored the
,N'radition and BiddinCer woul have
been taken back at once II his counsel.
Moses II. Grossman. William :. Butler
and Hyman Tourchin. had not obtained
n writ Of hab"as corpus. which stayed
proceedings.
IN the meantime counsel and friends
here and IN Chicago became active. Not
only was il cha ged by Biddinger's law
yers. but by r. e. Townsend. the West
Virginia District Attorney, who will try
the We'll case. that ii was all a scheme
10 ruin the case. bur the atildavits made
In Chicago Mere attacked as false, as
made by criminals and even Il correct
all beyond tho statute Of limitations.
AZ the reoucs, OF the attorneys or
Thursday Of last week Gov. Whitman
granted a hearing IN an Application to
revoke his warrant. GOV. dunno
granted a similar application. Mr..
We'll. who has been in New York. was in
ALBANY Wednesday when the case came
up, but not present A. the hearing, al
though Moses ~ Grossman demanded
tNat he he called \: tina. hearing the
case was attacked in its whole aspect.
In Chicago Robert T.. Cantwell did the
same. The decision Yesterday followed
Mr.. Well was at his hotel up to :
O'Clock Yesterday afternoon. He left
then and the hotel men said he did NOT
leave a forwarding address.
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Mayor Mitchell. vino was me first
speaker, touched the first spark TO the
preparedness finder box. and the re-
Spouse vas an instant revelation Of the
spin, Of the publishers. He strongly adj
vocat"d the training OF citizens and the
alIgnIng OF tue ndt!Onal Industries in
such a way that their resources will be
Instantly available IN the cvert Of war.
Il; IS largely at your will" said Coy.
Whitman, that men In public life tax
TO the vast electorate instead OF to the
comparatively small group OF men who
may be in the sound ~ their voice. IL IS
10y your rleasur" that the citizenship ad-
dresses itself t. the public servant.
Whether such a condition contributes on
the whole TO good government may be a
question. nut that II exists cannot be
questioned.
1T Is not altogether true. as is often
said. that the papers Civ. tho people
what they want. | mini that II is true
that tn. people ONE In time TO want the
kim ~ things that the papers train
them to expect. II continual emphasis
Is placed upon the mean and the petty.
the vicious and the obvious. il follows
naturally that the readers In time Will.
10 a degree at least, lose perception ~
the things that are good and fine and
that are constructive and worthy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28
BERI-BERI STRICKEN
SHIP CREEPS HERE
Gallant Cook and Boy Help
Captain Bring Schooner
From Africa.
STRUGGLE OF 80 DAYS

Never has Yankee fore and after come
into port in such r~amshackle shape as
the four rnasted schooner Triton. eighty
three days from the west coast of Africa
and nearly all her crow down with beri-
beri. which anchored yesterday afternoon
OFF Stapleton with sails unfurled. sagging
over booms and bowsprit. Four OF her
crew. including the mate. Tom Murray. q
Blue Nose navigator. who lost ninety OF
his original 100 pounds in his struggle
with the disease. were taken from the
schooner at Quarantine and sent to hos
pital. Murray fell on the deck as the
Quarantine surgeon was examining him.
The skipper. Capt. Emil Carlson Of
Boston. who has been sailing deep sea In
square ringers mos: OF his life. but re-
Gently has been going coastwise. was a
bit p%essimistic about his crew as he
limped about his cabin last night and
told about his voyage. lie said the port
side of his head was dead" but that he
could scratch the starboard side and
realize that he was alive and was glad
90 IL. II anybody ever said Africa TO
Lin again. he added. he would tell him
to go to a warmer place. If there was
any.
Cook. lie says. Only seaman.
II was a refugee German crew. he
said, that he picked up at his port
when he sailed away for Monrovia on
October .. and he was still saying things
about the crew when the tugboat Of
the ship news men headed for the Bat
terry last night. lie scratched the side
Of his head that sim had feeling and
remarked 'They tried to kill me, and
II We had still stayed out another week
Id have gone with the whole lot Of
EN- to hell. and that's where they be-
long. They are all Germans. and the
poorest. miserable lot OF am I've
ever seen. They are too slow to catch
II cold n I wonder how they caught
beri-beri SO soon. II all Germans are
like them the Allies ought to have no
trouble licking EN-"
The skipper said these things as he
staggered around his cabin, praising the
cook as the only able seaman on the job.
The cook. Fred bred.n. a middl. aged
Swede. used to sail in the old fashioned
New York pilot boats and thus 20, "A
mighty liberal nautica! education. He
was almost !mmune from the disease
that paralyzed the schooner for more
than "a month.
II was not hard 20 manage the ship
IN the Month OF calm that followed her
departure from Cess River. Liberia.
There they shipped Carl Schneider, "A fine
looking German Of 30. who speaks Eng
iiSh wei. and who was q sub-agent for
the Woermanu line Of Hamburg before
the war. and was looking for a chanc.
10 get TO America. lie brought ABOARD
IA lot OF q%u,ninc that he used FOR allsyiug
coas; fever. and when the first symptoms
Of beri-beri appeared he supposed. bs
did the skirp"r. that the fever had
broken put on the schooner. Noh"dy
aboard had ever seen a case of Der -beri
and non WAS aware OF It's existence.
aboard until the surgcon at Quarantine
enlightened them and took Off the suf-
ferers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28

Dr. Koo proved TO be a good deal OF
a humorist
"One morning." he began, "at the
ia yhreak a man was found around n
lamppost by "A policeman. The officer
asked him where he had been during
the night, and the man replied that he
did not know and that all he remem-
bered was that II was a splendid sue
cess.
The chairman OF your dinner COM
mittee asked me TO repeat tonight what
| said at the Gridiron 1T dinner some
two months ago. Well. the truth Is that
! do not remember exactly what ! said
during that night. hut II was a splen-
did success"
President Wilson sent a telegram Of
congratulation TO the association, II
Editor Rridginan telegraphed the follow
Ing reply
franks for message. American News
pa per Publishers Association stands for
the first word of its name and will
defend il against all Corners
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-28

Not a single "aggle'
among our boys Spring Nor.
folks.
They're all "realers."
Built for real live boys,
Four different models.
Worsteds. cheviots, cassi-
meres and Donegals.
Tested for fast color, the
same way we test our suits
for men.
Put together to stay to-
gether.
All sizes with special pro
vision for extra stouts,
fats and very fats
Prices moderate.
Boys hats and fixing, OF
the same high quality.
Boys shoes
In particular ''WcSt'
pointers"
Built for boys whose PA:
ents are especially particula.
about their boys feet the
last is the same as that ap'
proved for the West Point
Cadets.
ROGERS PEEr COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
AZ 18th St. "The ct gath 81
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave
az Warren al llst ST.
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cannot be copied in cheap
materials - blue and
green, and wonderful
brown shades with touches
of soft reds and lavenders.
S35. Sizes 81 to a..
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-10
Is tEle State Of Georgia 90 be
Raped by Wilson's Ad-
miniStrat;On?
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE.)

the case to which Hon. VIM. II. Fleming calls
my attention; namely % Federal Reporter,
page 902 where that very point was expressly
decided.
Mr.. Fleming assures me that this ruling
has never been reversed, or even questioned.
1t was that decision, probably, which saved
the Western editors when President Roose-
Welt tried to drag them to Washington City.
When the Richmond, Virginia. paper pub
lished the filthy details of the Beattie case,
where were the publishers indicted?
In Richmond; and the Federal Judge
quashed the Indictment, just as Judge Rufus
Foster quashed the Indictment against me.
When the Atlanta dailies published the OBJ
scene evidence given against Leo Frank, were
they prosecuted? Oh, no.
Is it too late to drag Clark Howell, James
r. Gray. John Cohen, and James Nevin into
New Jersey, and try them for mailing that
filthy stuff? Oh, no.
I did not publish it, but the State of Geor
gia did, in her supreme Court Reports: why
not indict the Judges of our Supreme Court
and Charley Byrd, our Public Printer?
1t would be fine spectacle-a Democratic
Administration sending y. S. marshals to
arrest our editors and Judges, and hauling
them off to Rhode Island for trial
The most obscene and filthy cartoons that
ever saw daylight, were those which the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-10
PAGE SEVEN

Strauses published in their salacious Puck
magazine, last summer. Those cartoons
grossly and coarsely lampooned the State of
Georgia, her courts and her people
They also pictured me, again and again, as
tie Kept parom0ur Of big, dlach brute Of
negro ecench.
Could you conceive Of a more dastardly in
suit to your wife and children, than vile
cartoon of that sort!
If this Democratic administration is sin
cerely concerned for the chastity Of literal ure
and the virginia. purity Of tie mails, why
does it not have The Strauses indicted III At
lanta and brought from New York for trial?
Why Is 1t hat lie GoreynnoehH nerc.
notices 'obScc1@ty', until the Roman Catholic
church gets hit?
Almost every Sunday supplement of Mr..
Hearst violates the section under which was
indicted: why not employ Alexander A,er-
man, Esquire, to get a bill, in Macon, against
Mr.. Hearst Mr.. Brisbane, Mr. Curvclho, and
Mr.. John Temple Graves?
The Union Library Association Of New
York sells and mails such ooks as the De-
cameron, the Heptameron, Madame Bovary,
and Rabelas: why doesn't a Dlue-aw adj
mlnlstratlon put the New Y orl1 company out
of business!
The New York firm, Renzigcr Brothers,
sell St. Augustine "City OF God" which con-
tains passages so sickenngly obscene and
filthy that they dare not translate them: why
doesn't this virginia. administration of, the
chaste Woodrow Wilson. put that Catholic
publishing house out of business?
Last week an Ohio jury acquitted Paterson,
the Cash Register man: will the Govern
ment blacklist Ohio, because it failed to con-
Wet Patterson?
Is Connecticut to be put into the pen of the
black sheep because it failed to convict our
vlrtuous fellow citizens William Rockefeller,
George Baker, Lewis Cass Ledyard, in the
New Haven cases?
The entire South is besmirched when the
Government grossly insults one typical
Southern State,
What has Georgia done to the Democratic
party, that an Administration which owes it's
existence to the South, singles her out for an
outrageous libel, never before published in
any State of the Union?
All jurors in Georgia are black-listed, all
courts stigmatized, by the utterly unwar-
ranted assertion that a Democratic admins
tration cannot get fair trial IN this pathcti-
cally patient and loyal Democratic state
Georgia Jurors are connected by blood and
interest with all other Georgians; and the
whole white citizenship CT our proud old
commonwealth is indicted, held up to the
scor7o Of the aoorld-just as the Strauses
cartooned her In their nasty little magazine.
President Wilson ao0u2dn't dare to int7'ct
such an meAeard Of outrage UPON Il PO-
LITICALLY DOUBTFUL STATE.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-10


at Thomson, and a citizen of Pennsylvania
taxes 1t out, for the purpose Of circulating It,
ne is guilty OF a violation Of law provided
me paper IS obscene; but his act was, indie
pendent Of the Company's, and his offense is
ipdiUiduUJ
And the law does not say that one word
OF sentence, or article can be indicted: the
paper must be indicted as a WHOLE Judged as
whole; and it is for the jury to say whether
the entire paper is rendered obscene by one
article, or two articles, one passage, or several
1t that IS not tbe law, then Congress did
not know how to express itself when it wrote
Section 211, Uh&ch the Roman Catholic priests
hare seized upon, as the manifest qceapon to
6ludge0n the freedom of the press.
You can mail just as many filthy pictures
as you like IN the Sunday papers, and in the
prurient novels: you can ''tell it all" on the
Mormons, on the White Slavers, and upon
the Red Light district; but the minute you
crltlclse, expose and persist in assailing this
foreign ecclesiastical political organization,
then Uncle Sam gets Wonderously concerned
lest his mail pouches be contaminated.
To prosecute citizen outside his State
and In several States, is not an honest effort
to uphold the Law: it is a vindictive use Of
Governmental power to ruin one man, and to
satiate q malignant passion for recenge
My learned brother, Gregory, may rest
assured that the State of Georgia will so
understand it, that the other States will SO
understand it, and that the fearless, unbiased
papers everywhere will so understand it.
Some malevolent interest wants to wreak
vengeance upon the State, and upon the citl-
zens who defended her against mercenary
abuse and misrepresentation
Not being able to indct the whole State,
l.
suit and outrage the State and they select
the man who defended her for sacrifice.
That's what it really is, and all intelligent
Georgians know it.
Whether my learned brother can unearth
several Grand Juries willing to set revoIu-
tionarv precedent and endanger the personal
liberty of every citizen Of this Republic, re-
mains to be seen.
And whether or not the U, S. Judges in
Georgia will become parties to the contem-
plated revolution in procedure, also remains
to be seen.
LII the meantime, all I can do is to 'wait
for the wagon"
= Can you conceive of a judicial policy more
ruinous to men who have little, or no money!
Torn from their homes, dragged off into
distant States, how could poor men employ
lawyers and pay witnesses to travel thousands
OF miles!
What would become of the families of these
men, during the months they are imprisoned
in remote jails?
All citizens are endangered, when the Gov
eminent adopts revolutionary policy, viola
tive of the precedents and the principles Of
centuries
All States are menaced when the u. s. Gov
eminent treats with contempt the reserved
rights of any State.
P. 81 trust my learned brother, the At
torneyGeneral, will admonish his District
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