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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-17

John Neville Figgis, D. D.. Lit D, was one of the best known writers on historical subjects in England. He was born at Brighton, on October 2, 1866. He was lecturer at Harvard in 1911.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-17
REV. FIGGIS DIES.

London, Apri l16.-The death of Rev. John Neville Figgis is announ- ced here. He died Sunday.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27

electricity; promises to work for
terminal markets if elected, and is in
favor of keeping schoolhouses open in
summer vacations as playhouses; more
Fairgrounds, recreation centers, use
of voting machines and authorizing
certain classes of purchases without
public letting for small purchases
only.
Mr. Moran answered that he was in
favor Of all the measures suggested in
the QUESTIONABLE except the one about
voting machines, because they had not
proved practicable. He favored doing
without public letting for city pur-
chases "when better prices may thus
be obtained"
All candidates were asked to give
the facts concerning their age, educa-
ton, public life and party relationship
Mrs. Mary NJ. Lilly. the only woman
member OF the Assembly, who is a
candidate for reelection in the 7th AS
sembly District, answered: "I'm in
favor of what the district wants in these
two questions.' She said she was in
favor of all the suggested reforms
with the reservation as to health in
surance "if it does not interfere with
physicians business" She was against
the abolition of party emblems at the
head of ballots, which the suffragists
proposed as a means of making voters
learn to read English.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Fight Against 'sDry" Bill
''Bolshevism'' to Bugbee
Republican Candidate for Jer-
sey Covernorship Assails Null
lificatiOn Program

TRENTON, N. j., Oct. 26-Newton
A. x. Bugbee Republican candidate for
Governor, assailed the New Jersey
Democrats program Of notification Of
the Eighteenth Amendment as Dol
shevism" in an address at Central Bap-
tist Church here tonight. He said, in
part:
at is proposed that we nullify the
Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment
because many persons in New Jersey
do not favor it. If we have arrived at
that period in our history as a state or
nation when we are ready and willing to
nulllfy any law we do not favor, then
the entire structure of government is
tottering over the abyss of destruc-
ton.
There can be no other name fo1
this proposed program of law nulli-
ticatlon than that dreaded word Boil
shevlsm. The only way to successfully
fight Bolsnevism is to teach and
preach Americanism. Bolshevism is
opposition to law and order. Ameri-
canlsm IS observance of law and order
and the foundation of all civil and re-
ligious liberty
This present notification program
if it should succeed, is only the begin
ming. All who are opposed to any law
will become emboldened by such sue.
cess until all of the terrors OF con.
tlnental Europe, due to opposition tc
law and order, will hold US in hondage
more bitter than death. We must not
permit this to be brought upon US. We
must stand for law and order more
firmly now than ever before in the
history Of the country"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
''lnvisib1e Government
Still Kicking Around
Hvlan's Brain Child of Two
Years Ago Is Terrible
Reality. Saws Curran

Let us turn to page 23-ominous
number, that" said Henry Il. Curran.
Republican candidate for Borough
President Of Manhattan, last night.
~lhe book is the 'Tammany Book of
Bunk compiled by that distinguished
literary light. Boss Murphy. Or that
page | find the following, written by
Citizen Hylan when he was campaign
ing for Mayor in 1917: My fight is to
Danish invisible government and boss
rule from City Hall
Has he succeeded? Ask the tax
payer as he reads the staggering total
Of record breaking budget, the handi-
work of the best camouAaged admin
istration-J should say misadministra-
tion-the city has ever known.
Who made it up? No one knows.
l didn't do it, says Promising John.
You can't hang it on my neck says
Craig. And then these onetime politI-
cal twins. both members Of this club.
namely, the Tammany Board OF Esti-
mate, clinch and hammer each other
with verbal jabs and jots.
They break away. What's this
item ?" jabs Hylan. This is new 20 me;
when did they create that JOB :? upper
cuts Craig.
And the other members o. the Tam
many Estimaters get into action. When
the scrap is over and the wreckage
cleared, the budget total IS up several
millions. And the groaning rent
payer is the victim. who's doing I'll"
he asks. Invisible government that's
the answer; the invisible government:
which, according to the 'Tammany
Book of Bunk Boss Murphy, editor,
was going to be wiped out by Citizen
Hylan, better known to-day as John
the Prom ser.
THE invisible government, brain
child of Hylan's two years ago, is a
terrible reality to-day. 'I'll throw OUT
boss rule said Citizen Hylan. Has ne :!
Boss Murphy is still smiling and the
Tammany Tiger was never 30 ist'
Tammany budget to date -s3ls,ooo'-
00O -
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Cummings Expected to IN
form National Committee
at January Meeting That
MIR. Wilson Isn't Candidate
His Breakdown Reason
Bryan Waiting i'll Wings
While Cabinet Men Hustle
for Center of the Stage

According to prominent Democrats
in New York who arc in touch with the
White House. Homer S. Cummings.
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, at the meeting of the com
mittee in Washington on January G
and will make a statement to the eff
feet that President Wilson in no cir
cumstances is to be considered for a
third term.
The statement will be definite and
comprehensive in its meaning, and will
leave no room for speculation with ref
erence to the wishes or intention of
the President to retire from the White
House at the end of his term.
TIE Presidents physical breakdown
on his speaking tour. ending at Wich-
tia. where he was prevented by nervous
exhaustion from continuing, will be
the reason assigned for his decision.
Outlook Entirely Changed
The Pres ident's collapse at Wichita
has entirely changed the aspect Of af-
fairs in the Democratic party as re
CARDS the Presidential campaign next
year.
Last summer Mr.. Cummings made a
tour of the West and the Pacific Coast,
and leaders on plans for 1920. IT. is
understood that his report to President
Wilson and his advisers was that while
Democratic prospects in the West were
anything but bright there was a strong
sentiment for the denomination of the
President. Everywhere along the route
where the President spoke on his West
ern tour last month the Democratic
leaders afterward said in effect, at will
ho Wilson in 1920 if ha a copuI
date"
The Presidents physical breakdown,
whether temporary or not, has changed
the situation. Local Democrats believe
the party next year will make the rec
ord of the Wilson Administration their
platform and pick new candidate for
President.
Whether there is formal abdication
by President Wilson as leader or not,
the impression is spreading among
leading Democrats that by the time the
natiors' committee meets the field will
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27

be cleared so far as the President is
concerned, and that it thereafter will
be free -for-all race by the various as
plrants
The Marshall Boom
Ia the event of the Presidents dis
ability making it necessary for him to
lay down the-duties of his Office at an
early day 1T is assumed that Vice
President Marshall will be the acting
residcnt, and it is argued by Mr.
Marshal's friends that as soon as he
begins to function he will be able by
ms political ability, coupled with the
tore" OF circumstances, to demonstrate
that he is the logical candidate for the
succession. The Indiana delegates in
the national convention will demand
this. But this is merely the Indiana
polnt of view and it does not follow
that the various aspirants will be bound
by logic or rule.
The active booms for the Prcsiden-
tial nomination are not very we'll de-
veloped at this time Democrats gen
orally agree that former Secretary OF
the Treasury McAdoo, the Presidents
son-in-law, would be among the first
three favorites in case of the abdica-
ton of the President. According tc
current political gossip, the McAdoo
Baruch and powerful Wall Street in
tcrests. On the Pacific Coast the tit
has gone around that of it is not Will
son it will be McAdoo."
Another conspicuous boom is that OF
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
who, according to announcement from
Washington last week, is to make q
one-night stand political swing cover.
ing most Of the states from coast to
coast, with the high cost of living as
his lecture topic. The politicians pro
cereals and "spuds" in the proposed
trip.
Many Favorite Sons
Following these two names trails d
long line of "favorite sons" whose
home papers are enthusiastic about
their qualifications for Pres ident. Two
other members of the Cabinet, Secre-
tary Daniels of the Navy and Secretary
Baker of the War Department. are or
the eligible list. The big trouble with
the Baker boom is that it conflicts tc
some extent with those of Senator
Pomerene and Governor Cox of Ohio
all being members of the "Buckeye
Club"
Other possibilities" are Speaker
Champ Clark of the House Of Repre-
sentatives, Senator Oscar Underwood
Of Alabama; Senator Owen, of Okla
homa, reputed to be one of the most
extensive landowners in the United
States; Senator Hitchcock, of Nebras.
ka; John w. Davis, of West Virginia
Ambassador to Great Britain, and last
but Perhaps not least, the battle
SCARED hero of three Presidential
wars, William j. Bryan, of Lincoln
Neb, Asheville, N. c., and "Commoner'
of the whole country. Colonel Bryan's
friends say, and he himself smilingly
admits it, that the case Of Democracy
is getting desperate enough for the
party to hand him the nomination fol
President once more. His friends urge
that he is now, and has been, fright
on woman suffrage. government own
crship. cheap money, prob hibition ane
anti imperialism, each Of which at one
time or another has been prominen
number in the Bryan repertory
The next big turn in the, road is the
meeting of the National Committee O,
January 6 and z, at which time, a
stated. the withdrawal of Presiden
Wilson is cXpected
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Senator Announces Inten-
ton of Entering Repub-
lican Race; Gives His
Views on Vital Questions
DenOunces Radical Wave
Promises 10 Assist in RestOr-
ing Normal Conditions;
Assails Foreign Policies

WASHINGTON, Oct &c. - Senator
Miles Poindexter, of Washington, to-
day announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for the Presl-
dency in 1920.
In statement "to the people of the
United States," Senator Poindexte1
outlined his attitude on vital questions
and declared his intention of attempt
ing, If nominated, "to assist in re-
establishing these principles in ou,
domestic and foreign policy"
Urging that the elements of Ameri-
can ity-"lifc, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness"-are being men
accd by revolutionary doctrines which
are arousing unrest and dissatisfac ,ion
the statement declares:
lhlS revolutionary movement is in
ternatlonal in its scope and purpose
1t has received powerful encourage.
ment from the Administration Many
Of its advocates have occupied high
place in the government.
Says United States Should Act
"Instead Of encouraging class
dictatorship, it is the business of the
government to preserve the ordered
liberty of the people and to protect
by every means in it's power the insti-
euIlOilS OH WHICH IL IS IOunQcU. De-
Tenders and advocates of those who
have been convicted by due process OF
law of crimes Of violence, committed
IN pursuance of revolutionary anC
communistic program, should be dis.
missed from the government service
There can be no compromise with
anarchy" the statement continues
Revolutionary communism, by what.
ever name it may be called, must be
met and put down wherever it ap.
pears"
Discussing foreign relations of the
United States, the statement saysA
The process of making a Supreme
sacrifice of America and Of Joining
our fortunes with the fortunes of mel
everywhere should be stopped. The
opposite and ancient policy of our fa
theirs must be restored-of saving in
stead of sacrificing our great institu
tons and of promoting in every honor
able way the interests of our people
The process Of internationalizing oul
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Chief Republican
Nominees Indorsed
By Citizens Union
La Guardia and Curran Are
Named Worthy of Votes
of People; Boss Rule of
Judiciary Is Condemned

Representative F. H. La Guardia and
Magistrate Henry H. Curran, Repub-
lican candidates for President of the
Board of Aldermen and President of
the Borough of Manhattan, respec-
lively, have been indorsed by the Cit
liens Union.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph E.
Newburger, who was turned down for
denomination by Charles F. Murphy,
was also indorsed, as was his running
mate on the Republican ticket, Philip
J. McCook
The union also indorsed City Court
Justice Richard H. Smith, like Justice
MED denomination by Murphy. In
running mates on the Republican
ticket, William H. Chorosh and Harry
X. Davis. Two of the Democratic
candidates for City Court Justice were
indorsed. The third, Louis Wendell
failed of Endorsement.
AS to Senator James A. Foley, Dem
ocratic candidate for Surrogate Of New
York County, and James O'Malley, his
Republican opponent, the organization
says: James O'Malley, Republican
is a lawyer of high standing and abil-
ity and of wide experience and train
ing in the courts. James A. Foley
Democrat, has been in public life fol-
decade and has proved an excep-
tionally useful public servant in his
long Legislative career. He is law
yer of excellent professional attain.
ments. The Citizens Union approves
both Mr.. O'Malley and Mr.. Foley as
eminently fit candidates"
But no doubt was left as to where the
Citizens Union stood on the question
of an Embossed judiciary.
"The action of the Tammany boss ir
refusing a denomination to Justice 10
seph f. Newburger, Democrat, with {
generations experience on the bench,
says the Citizens Union, "has squarely
presented the issue of political inter
ference with the courts, and ha:
aroused the public to a demand for ar
Embossed judiciary"
Arnon l.. Squiers, Republican candi
date for Supreme Court justice in the
I'd judicial District, was indorsed il
| the following language:
"The career of Arnon l.. Squires, Re
publican, in public office has marked
him as wise and faithful public ser
want. His high character and profes
sional standing are unquestioned. Th'
Citizens Union believes that he is un
ouestionably the best qualified candi
date for justice of the Supreme Cour
in his district, and urges his election t
| that Office
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Brief Statements on Record
and Aims of Office
Seekers To Be Distrib-
uted by League i'll City
Hope to Show Benefits
Need for State to Pay
for Sending Out I'M
partial Reports Is Urged

The League of Women Voters will
distribute by mail this week 100000
leaflets containing information about
the candidates for political office in
the coming election. This information
was compiled from the answers to
questionnaires sent out by the league
early in the summer to all candidates,
and is in accordance with the non
partisan policy Of the league, which
sent the same answers to men and
answers of all without comment The
leaflets are in the form of yellow fiers.
They are accompanied by the num-
bered questions sent out and the an
swers are set down by number.
Mrs. Charles Tiffany, chairman of
the Borough of Manhattan of the
League of Women Voters, was in
charge of the questionnaires, and has
raised a special fund to pay for the
mailing of the circulars.
The league hopes to demonstrate to
the voters the value of this un-
biased, nonpartisan information so
that some day it may be part of
regular campaign procedure, paid for
by the state.
To Circularize Six Districts
Six Assembly districts will be cir
cularized this year. They are the
7th, 10th, 18th, 18th and 23d Answers
to the questionnaires from candidate
from other districts are on file at
league headquarters, and can be in
spected at any time by voters, men or
women.
The women asked candidates fol
the Assembly their attitude toward the
enforcement of the prohibition amend
ment, direct primaries, proposed
Americanization amendments to the
state constitution and the women's
welfare bills, which were closely con-
tested in last years Legislature
Candidates for the Board of Alder
men were asked about their views or
the control of public utilities, public
markets, increased Fairgrounds and
voting machines. No0 one of then
gave direct answer to the question
about strict enforcement of the prohi.
bition amendment Fiorello II. La
Guardia said: "There is no use en-.
acting legislation which cannot be en-
forced" Robert l.. Moran said: "Not
until this question is decided by q
referendum vote of the people" The
Socialist candidate James O'Neal, de
clared himself in favor of strict en-
forcement of all constitutional amend
mcnts.
La Guardia's Views on Topics
Mr.. La Guarda answered that he had
actively supported equal pay, minimum
wage commission and an 'eight-houl
! day for men and women; that he favor~
municipal ownership Of gas, water ana
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Craig Denounces
Pay-as-You-Co and
Educational Laws
In Explaining S68,OOO,OOO
Increases He Urges Part
of Expenses Be Deferred
to Tighten City Budget

An attack on the pay-as-you-go pol
icy and one the educational law is
contained in seventeen-page printed
pamphlet, semi-folio in size, comprising
the second installment of Controller
Craig's explanation of the S6S,000,OO
increase in the proposed 1920 budget.
Controller Craig suggests that these
but just how he does not specify.
The document which is a summary
of the larger increases in all items
other than those for salary increases
and new jobs, attributes the jump to
$45 100000 for supplies and like pur-
poses to the increased cost of fuel,
food and materials.
The loss of revenue from the liquor
tax licenses, the Controller declared
was responsible for $550,O0O increase
in the appropriation for the police pen
sion fund and $33600O for the pensions
fund of other city employees. Pensions
for widows and dependent children
were also increased 100000. This in
crease, the Controller said, 'is due
largely to the aftermath of the Spanish
Influenza"
List of Larger Increases
Some of the larger increases follow:
Libraries, museums and public gardens
l99,5S9; fuel $277,274; paving OF
streets, $3,oo0,000; police department
100000, for typewriters, bicycles
motor vehicles, booths, typewriters, re.
pairs, horses, and the contingency
fund" which is used by the Commits
sioner for confidential" work; Fire
Department, $1OS,OoO, for fire hose
horses and plant equipment; Charities
Department, $93S,0o0, for repairs, fooc
supplies, medical and household equip
ment; Street Cleaning. $415,000, fol
horses, buying horses and shoeing and
feeding them; Department of Plants
and Structures, $313,o00, for repairs to
ferry boats and bridges, materials and
plant equipments; Department OF
Docks, $1S5,000 for repairs and re-
placements and dredging; City Record
$155 900. for publishing.
The $4,000 600 item for new schools
the Comptroller bellies, can be financed
by corporate stock or serial bonds
This would eliminate it from the bud
get. He thinks the same could be
done with the $3,0O0,000 increase for
street paving.
Suggests Tax Notes
He suggests that the proposed
$1,0OO000 for dredging d channel in
Jamaica Bay could be financed by tax
notes. If this could be done it would
mean difference of about "A points
in the tax rate.
The Comptroller denies the charge
that the proposed budget was deliber-
atey padded to enable the Board of
Estimate to make spectacular reduc-
tions.
In an earlier statement the Comp
troller explained some of the increases
in salaries and items for new jobs, to-
falling S23 100000.
The public hearings on the proposed
budget will be resumed at City Hal
to-day
New-York tribune., 1919-10-27
Voters Called On
To Gag Murphy,
BOSS Meddler':
W. H. Chorosh, Judicial Can.
didate, Issues Appeal for
Defeat of Entire Hand.
Picked Tammany Ticket

William II. Chorosh, who is a canS;.
date on the Republican ticket for c;.-
Court Justice, with Justice Richard "
smith, who was turned down by Char,..
f. Murphy for denomination, and Harr,
X. Davis, issued an appeal to thss
voters OF the city Yesterday to rehnLs
Mr.. Murphy's meddlng with the hencS
by voting against the entire Tammar
slate. "'aay
The voters must not forget" said
Mr. Chorosh, that any candidate who
has accepted a Tammany nomirot;nu
oy that very act has openly applaudeS
and approved Tammany's --latest cr;",o rHea
against the judiciary " ING
Mr.. Chorosh reviewed other nor,;
tlons made in the past by Mr. Mnrnh~
showing that the turning down -
supreme Court Justice Newburoer an1
City Court Justice Smith was nor
novelty. ''' =
Same Old Tiger
lhe tiger" continued Mr.. Choro,h
does not change its stripes. II is m.
same old tiger that rurred it's annSouns ~ ~ ,ns
of Richard Croker twenty vears o'a, asa
when he turned down Supreme Conr. 49,
Justice Dalv for denomination II -
the. same old tiger that winked know.
lngly at its keeper in Queens when he
sold nomination for the Sunroms
Court for $4,000 not many years later
1t is the same old tiger that il now
lying down beside Charles f Mnrnh,'
purrlng the same notes of approval for
Murphy's refusal to renominata
Justices Newburger and Smith.
ION Tuesday week the voters will
nave an opportunity to pass judgment
on Charles f. Murphy's crime aea;nst
the Judiciary. And if they 90 to the
polls IN sufficient numbers-as | am
coniicent they will--their judgment
VIII not be unlike that which they
passed upon Richard Croker and the
clque That ruled Tammany twenty
years ago. Then the people rebuked
Mr. Croker by electing Colonel
theodore Roosevelt to the Governor
ship, with the result that Croker wa.
forced INTO retirement.
Lieutenant of Croker
And the people of this CITY must
keep IN mind that Croker's chief lion.
tenant at the time is the same Charles
I; Mu phy, who succeeded him. and
VINO now, with MANY of the same old
cllque' presldes over the nominations
counter at the Wigwam department
store on Fourteenth Street And from
all boroughs the Tammany aspirsnts
tor office troop to the same cid counter
Even from Queens they come. which
knew not the presence of Mr.. Murphy's
Vlce-regent after he was sent to State
Prison for his crime against the
judiciary.
while there is no statute operating
against the more cowArdly crime of re-
tuslng denominations 70 judges who
have been faithful to their trust to
make way for the young sons of gen
erous millionaires, the punishment lies
in the hands of the voters.
But this punishment, to be ade-
quate, cannot be meted out by merely
voting against one or two of Mr.
Murphy's hand picked candidates. His
entire ticket from top to bottom must
be defeated.'