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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

A LTHOUGH William Henry Har-
L a rison was elected to the prcsi-
dency as the log-cabin candidate, in
the first of our frenZied, parading cam
paigns, he was born to one of "the
first families Of Virginia" in a manor
house on the banks Of the aristocratic
James. AS a son of Benjamin Har-
rison, signer of the Declaration, with
the blood of Pocahontas in his veins,
and as a descendant of Cromwellian
colonel who signed the death warrant
Of a king, no president has had a
longer, more historic lineage.
In ability William Henry Harrison
fell below the standard Of his prede-
cessors. He was elected not because
he was a great statesman or a great
soldier, but because he was thoroughly
representative of the new West, which
was f1attered to see in the White House
for the first time man created in it's
own image.
At Harrison's inauguration the
presidency entered an eclipse and
was held for 20 years by secondary
characters, who reigned, but did not
rule. With men of the eminence of
Clay and Webster, Calhoun and Ben
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

~ REATNESS and the presidency
" found John Tyler down on one
knee, playing "knucks" with his boys
in pathway of his dooryard in Will
liamsburg, that stately old vice-regal
village Of colonial Virginia. He had
not even heard that Harrison was Ill,
until destiny, without steam, wire or
rail to carry it, sped to him from Wash
ington by boat and buggy with the
news that. the president had been dead
day and that the empty presidential
chair was awaiting the vice president.
Tyler belongs among the third or
fourth-rate presidents. Although
clean n-handed, kindly man of good pres
cnce and polished manners, he was
q mediocre country lawyer and mar
row-minded politician, with a gift for
getting offices that he had no gift for
filling.
AS John Tyler stepped into the
White House, it's door closed against
the party which had elected him only
five months before. Death had turned
out the Wings after 80 days of power
and caused a political revolution.
Clay looked upon the accidental pres
ident as only regent for the Harri-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03
THE most notable event Of Van

"HE most notable event Of Van
i Buren's administration was the
occurrence Of one of the great panics
from which in the nineteenth century
the country regularly collapsed every 10
or 20 years, as in 1919, 1887, 1857,
1873 and in 1893. Those periodic
prostrations always followed wild de-
bauehes in speculation, but since it is
convenient and consoling to blame
some one else for our own sins, the
president invariably has been made
the scapegoat in each period Of hard
times.
No doubt Jackson's removal of the
public deposits from the United
States bank caused financial disturb
ance and his distribution of the fed
eral surplus among the state treasur-
les also was disturbing. The govern
ment, the banks and the people gen.
orally had all merrily Joined in SOW
ing the wind, whose harvest was the
whirlwind Of 1887.
The nation had been indulging in
the first Of its big western booms. The
river steamboat aided to open up new
regions, where. mushroom states, in
ambitious emulation of New York and
its Erie canal, ran wild in appropria-
tions, for the building Of canals. Van
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

son administration and for the Wing
party. Early in the extra session or
congress, that impression Of the SEN
.ator from Kentucky was sharply cor
rccted by presidential veto OF one OF
his own bills-a banking bill.
The Wings were wild with rage;
the Democrats filled with glee. The
Democratic senators fastened in
body to the White House, where they
were patting Tyler on the back While
a Whig mob outside in the yard was
making a vociferous, but futile pro-
test. When the next veto came IN
Clay himself called the cabinet to-
gether and the members, with one eS-
ception, agreed to resign.
The exception was none other than
that of the secretary of state, Daniel
Webster. "Where am | to go?' the
god-like Daniel thundered in his be-
wilderment. Sunse told him to go to
one place, some b another. He held
on for two years! until he had COM
clutled the negotiation Of the Ashbur-
ton treaty, which fixed the disputed
boundary between Maine and Canada,
and then he resigned.
Upon Webster':s retirement, Tyler
installed in the state department his
mentor and idol, John c. Calhoun, and
thus completed the overturn. The
cabinet was now out and out Demo-
cratic and of the pro-slavery brand.
Texas had seeded from Mexico,
which had abolished slavery, and it's
American settlers, who were facing the
choice of slave labor or free labor,
were anxious to be admitted to the
Union. The slave holders OF the
southern states wanted TO expand
their power over the vast Texan em-
pire as an offset to the rapid expan-
sion of the free states in the great
West. But northern sentiment was
opposed.
At an opportune moment for the
anne1ationiSts, the Ubiquitous John
Bull, with his omnipresent gunboat,
appeared on the Texan scene as, a
mediator between MeXicanS and
Texans. His entry gave the slave in
terests the needed villain for the play,
and .he cry went up that we must
annex Texas to keep the British from
grabbing it.
Nevertheless the senate rejected
overwhelmingly the treaty Of annexa-
ton. Thereupon Tyler proposed to
beat the devil around the stump, and
Texas vas annexed the last night Of
the administration by a simple joint
resolution, rushed through the TWO
houses of congress.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

ton, latterly Cass and Houston, Doug
las and Davis, Case and Wade, Sew
ard and Sumner in the senate, dis
tinction and leadership passed from
the White House to the capitol. It
was an ignoble period in our politics
when both parties were lodging the
irreRressi5le issue of slavery, and the
smaller the candidate for president
the better chance he had to dodge the
question.
In the teeth of piercing northwest
wind, the old farmer president-elect,
bareheaded and disdaining the protec:
ton of an overcoat, rode horseback to
the capitol. After addressing a great
crowd that shivered in its shawls and
furs, he insisted, though half-frozen,
on remounting his horse and leading
the inaugural parade. :.
No sooner was the first Whig presi-
dent in the chair than the claims of
factions and the clamor for patronage
assailed aim. Clay had declined
cabinet honors-and labors-in the
confident expectation Of playing the
easier and more powerful role of the
power behind the throne. The i'm
perious manner Of the Great Com
moner wounding 'the presidential
pride, he was requested to make his
calls at the White House as infre-
Qtlent and inconspicuous rs he con-
veniently could. Thereupon his total
absence became embarrasSingly con-
spicuous.
The one clear mandate of the elec-
ton of 1910 was to turn out the Demo
Gratis and give the jobs to the Wings.
Straightway a hungry horde fell
upon Harrison and literally devou:ed
him. In month to day ne was dead
of pneumonia, the first president to
die in office throughout the more than
so years Of it's existence.
This briefest Of administrations is
pathetic little story of a simple
lonely old man, lured from hia arm
to be the sport Of politics. Ailing in
body and harried in mind, he was
without the care and comparioEshlp
OF his good wife, Anna Symmes Har'
rison. daughter OF q New Jersey colo
mel in the Revolution who became
one Of the pioneer soldiers Of Ohio.
Broken by the hard toll OF frontier
household and sorrowing for the less
Of eight of her ten children, this wife
of one president and grandmother of
another, still was making ready to
take MP ter duties as mistress of the
White House when the news of her
husbands death came to her.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-09-03

Buren, was the first president-elect to
ride in a train even part of the way
to Washington, and the expansion OF
the steam railway system was begin
ming to inflame the national imagt
nation.
When the day Of reckoning and re-
morse came; when bread riots broke
out: when laborers stood in line near
New York to get jobs at wage OF
81 a month and board; when banks
suspended payments in coin, and when
business houses were tumbling into
bankruptcy, the bankers and business
men, who had always been violently
anti-D Democratic, turned upon Van
Buren, and pointed their accusing fin
gers at the White House. The fore
most man of business in conservative
New England, Abbott Lawrence, did
not hesitate to hint to public meet
ing in Boston, the incendiary sugges-
tian that the time might come for
forcible resistance to the government,
when the crew, aS,he said, would have
to mutiny and seize the ship of state.
Van Buren faced the gale without
bending. He rose above political
maneuvering and the temptation to
fatter the mad passions of the hour
and preserved an attitude OF mas
terful inactivity!
The president did call congress in
extra session, but only to recommend
the adoption of the sub-treasury Sys-
tenn. The banks having failed, he pro-
posed that Uncle Sam, like timid OLD
woman, should lock up his money in
the bureau drawer. And the economic
folly Of the sub-treasury was persisted
in until the establishment of the led
eral reserve system.
1t was squally weather all around,
with the costly Seminole war dragging
it's slow course through the malarial
everglades of Florida; with embarrass-
ing revolutions on both sides of US,
in the revolted Mexican province OF
Texas and in Ontario.
The defeats of the Democratic tick
ct in the off years plainly foreshadow'
ed the ill-starred presidents own de-
feat In mis- candidacy for reelection
in 1910. No prophet was needed to
write the refrain of the popular cam
paign song of the Wings:
Van! Van!
~, lis a used up man.
Nevertheless Van Buren remained IN
active politics 10 years. For still an
other 10 years he lived on in retire
mert ut Underwood, his country estate
In his native village, where he died
In the midst of the Civil war.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30
WHITE PASS HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION 10
 ELECT NEW OFFICERS

There will be a general meetins Of the members of the White Pass Hos pltoI Association held in the White Fass Club room on Tuesday, Nov. ? at 500 p. m. for the purpose of cleo ing the followiug officers. Chairman oud Secretary Of the association, and three Trustees. One Trustee for a one year term, one for two Year term, and one for a three year term Also an Auditing committee consist ing of three (3l members for a term of three (S) years. Any other bus ness relative to the Hospital may be brought beefore this meeting.
 (Sngned) II. Ashley,
 Chairman Board of Trustees.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30

The man who heads the RePuhli can ticket this year is'so'weIl'kao"l to the voters i Alaskak that a. introduction may seem super1ous,p but tho publis generally has no bcen made acquainted With the Dub lie work of Senator Sutherlandllcr the very good reason that the Press Of the territory or at lcast'thOs wLo control the same have thot i mere expedient to give as little put ncity as Possible to his Political ei t1rls.
 Senator Suthc1land Was born APT IF, 1869, in Pleasant Bay, Cai gretcn Island, Canada, not far tr0 taeh Newfoundland fiehing banks He is of Scotch Amodca1 extraction h his childhood he was taken to Gloucester, Massachusetts and Ere" to sturdy manhood ia that city, SC curins his edGcational training 8" Essex subeio of Gloucester. 4 a boy hhe was a fisherman so that aftc- he moved to Salem his ex periunce had given him a good start for taking hold o the business end the fish business until 1898 when, siarted for Alaska, at a time when thousands Of youug men were Ieaving the East, the Middle States and the West for the new Fl Dora do, Senator 3utherland spant the winter of 1898, 99 in the koyukuk district, and zU Rampart, engaged in mnlng. He went to Nome in the spring of '99 and in the following year became interested in a Ight erase business under the firm, namo of sesnoa and sutherland. 'Thi venture was the origin of the John J. SesnoR company, with whichpear ly all Aiaskans are famHiiary, es especially the Nomeites.
 In 1902 and 1908 Senator Suther land made a comfortableI fortun from a placeil mine at Council, which he worked with a hydraulic e.:uipment.
 Late 1903 he was emp1oyed by c D. Lane in working the first hy drauHc Plant on Ophir Creek. I 1904 he represepted the Alaska min ing properties owned by the 'Liebe tamilyI of San Francisco, which'also tolerated. at counciIl.
 The Fairbanks mining district was Senator Sutherland's field of opcration in 1905, when he operatcd as q layman on Cleary Creek. He spent the following season In the
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30
Dan Sutherland Candidate For Alaska
 Delegate.
AJQskQ

Alaskan rangc. prospecting that dis trict extengivcly- He then return cd to Nome and in the simmer of 1908 he prospectcd and mined op'the third beach IiHo. While he was 2 en.agcd he Was appointad by Pres dent William Howard Taft to be United states marshaI for the First Division With office in Juneau. He took office in July, 1909 but after the sensational Political war of which Senator Sutherland was a victim. he WAS removed from office qlcng With United States Attorney J5hn J. BOyce. Senator Sutherland left office in May 1910, and i'm mediately rcturned to mining in the Gewyl discovered Iditarod district, and at Ruby, which was struck shortly after the Iditarod eXcitemen had faded.
 When the first legislative electl ion Was held 5anator Sutherland' wa successful being given the llarge est vote of any Senatorial candidate from the Fourth Division. At the close of the session he tossed coin with senator Henry Rodens, and wo the holdover, eiving him the 4,year term. He was re elected in 191 which term eXpires this year.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR ON FINAL
 HEARING

In he Court of the Commissioner for the Territory of Alaska. Division No. 1, before the Hon. J. J. F. Ward Ex-Offico ProDate Judee sitting in Probate, at Skag- way, Precinct.
 h the matter of the Estate of George Mowl, deceased.
 Notice is hereby given by the d. rsigned, administrator of the tate of George Mowl, deceased. that a final report and petition for distri button has been filed with the above named Court ty the Administrator of Ehe above named estate; that the Court is asked to Settle such reporl distrbute tho property to the hei
 Psrsops enCitied to the same and discharge the administrator, and th Thursday the 23 day of Decembel 1920, at p. I'll. in the Court Roc of the above entitled Court. has bee fixed as the time and place for the hearing of such final report and Pc tltion.
 Dated at sEagway this 27th day October, 1920.
 (Signed) A. c. Blanchard,
 Administrator First qualification, Oct. S0th. 1920. Final qualification Nov. Eth. 1920
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30
"cleopatra's Needles"

Cleonatra's needles are two Egyp- tIan Obclisks of red sycnites, which were transported from HcliopoIfs 10 Alcxardria II F. C., where they re maincI until 1877, when they were pre- sentpd to the governments of Great Britain and the United States by the Khcdive Ismail Pasha. They bear in- scriptions of Tholhmes H., about 1900 B. C., and Ramcses II. One stands on the Thames embankment London, the other in Central park. New York city. This one is about 69 feet high; the base is seven feet sev- en inches square and weighs 200 tons.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30
LETTER ID
 SRAGHAY VOTERS

As Republican candidate for the Territorial Senate from the First Division, l submit the following do claration of principles, to Wit; believe that Alaska's deTelopv nent should De directed by those Tho have establlshed homes with in her borders and endured the pri yatioas incident there.
 Every encouragement should be offered for Inc. inyestment of capit al iG legitimate. Permanent, in dustriall enterprises.
 A system ot Conseryation should be established and enforced, that will promote deyelopment, While Pro tecdpg Alas1a's naturall resources from wauton Waste and destruc tior.
 More adequate Provision should be made for She care and comfort'of ageG Pioneers and the in sane Patients O: the Territory, where by Political trafficiEg in connection, With it, Is eft-ctuauy eliminated.
 Present traHsportation ratcs ap rear exorbitant and. constitute an effective and serious barrier to the esta'bIishm,nt of essential en torprises, to setJlemtnt and to gen eral welfarel and advancement O the Territory. It is imperativetha Some measure of reIef be'secured.
 Capital and Labor are the Prime essentials to t1e development of tho Territory. caPI:aI is theh result of lasor, and 1n turn, Labor Is re imbursed by Capital; Pubic Vel fare and general prosperity demand that the Iights of each should be cartEuIly safeguarded.
 Liberty and loyalty constitute the foundation uoon which our nation, Vas built; they must be maintained, in Alaskal if We are to prosper. favor labor oreonizatons among loyal Ameri an citizens, on con structive and educational basis.
 Tc those who have Proven their devotion to our nation by respnding to their Couutry's call, should be given the preference in situation of remuneratige employment, ac cording to tn.ir various capacitic,
 4 Public office IS Public trrst and ine duties should be faithfully performed in a non parti san manner for the Welfare of the Public.
 GIVE ALASKA 4 SQUARE DEAL.
 Forest J. Hunt.
 Netchikan, Alaska.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30
Packet Beck Strangely Lost.

4 young woman dropped her pock- ct book containing $40 down the ele- vator shaft of a Hartford, Conn.,, bust- ness building. Thorough search was made for it, but the pocket book was not found until two months later. It was resting on the elevator weight, so that when the elevator went down the pocket book went up, and 1t was dis covered by accident by a man who was looking down the elevator well from the top story to see if the car was coming up.
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30
Odessa's Fine Harbor.

The harbor Of Odessa, in south Rus sin, is formed hy several stone piers and long breakwater and is pro- tected in every direction. It is the only port in southern Russia where ships drawing 30 feet can come di- rectly to the docks, and the docks are large and better equipped than those of any other Black sea port. The depth is 50 feet on one side and 13 to r OF the other
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30

F-FHD:-A Partial lower Bet of false teeth Owner can have
 slme by calling at Kelier Bros. l
The daily Alaskan., 1920-10-30

Keller Brothers have just receiyed a supply of leads for the popular,, ETersharp Pencil. Keep your pencil full. If
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-04
COMPERS Sees
DANGER Of war
Labor Leader Predicts Conflict
Certain if Senate Committee
Recommendations Carry.
DEMANDS IMPOSSIBLE
Americans Engaged In Exploit
ing Mexican Natural Wealth
Charged Desiring War.

Washington, June 3.-Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. declared in for
NAL statement today war between the
United States and Mexico would re-
suit from carrying out recommends
tions Of the senate committee that
investigated Mexican affairs.
The report of the senate sub-com-
mittee investigating conditions in Mex
leo under the craftsmanship of Senator
Fall, Gompers said, amounts to the
declaration that unless the govern
ment of Mexico rewrites its consti-
tuition in accord with the ideas OF
American oil and mining interests the
government of the United States will
intervene in Mexico"
Those who know Mexico and Mex
lean people understand fully that such
action would mean war between two
countries" Gompers continued and
said war with Mexico. long desired
by American interests engaged in ex-
ploitation of the natural wealth OF
Mexico. A.
Washington, June 3.-Reduction OF
the Mexican army has been started
at the suggestion Of General Obregon,
according to advices here today from
the Defacto government, which said
the army will be cut to half it's pres
ent size. Organization of force of
rurales to police outlying districts has
begun, advices said.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-04
YOUNG WOMEN
CUT HIGH COST

Austin. Tex. June 3.--Young wom-
en- students in the home economies
department at the University of Texas
are learning how to cut the cost Of
feeding a family. At the beginning the
prime thing is TO get meal, but to-
ward the finish Of the course the
young woman has also TO turn out the
finished product cheap.
The university expects its young ex-
perts to cut about half off the cost
of a lunch by switching deserts and
leaving off biscuits. Here is a SAM
pie of its before and after college
menus:
For As cents a plate for four per-
sons: Salmon croquettes. mashed po-
tatoes. ice tea, tomato salad. buiscuit,
Strawberries and ice cream.
For "a cents plate for four per-
sons Coward the end OF the course):
creamed tuna fish on toast. French
friend potatoes. apple and celery salad.
hot tea, lemon pie.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-04
READ TELLS OF
FAMOUS FLIGHT
Commander of NC-4 Gives XII
wanians High Lights Famous
Transatlantic Flight.
DOBSON FOR U. S. S. B.
Cant Suggests Former President
of Chamber of Commerce
for Gulf Coast Member.

Commander Albert c. Read of the
famous NC-4. hero of the first trans
Atlantic air voyage. gave the oral
boost at the Kiwanis club luncheon
yesterday. Commander Read made no
attempt to go into detail of the flight
but touched the high lights only. He
told of the fire which DESTROYED one
wing OF the plane the night before the
flight was scheduled to have been
made, and how the Curtis people had
replaced the wing within 4s hours.
The famous seaplane pilot said that
much of the trans Atlantic flight
from Newfoundland to the Azores was
at $500 feet and that the water was
visible only at intervals, through holes
in the heavy cloud bank over which
he was flying. When he finally spot
ted the Azores, and came down close
to the water, Commander Read saii a
little farmhouse on one of the island
hills looked to him like the finest place
in the world
After leaving the Azores. Comman-
der Read said the NC-4 had a you-g
hurricane on her tail until almos. to
the coast of Spain. The last 80 miles.
Commander Read said he almost held
his breath. lest something should hap
pen to keep them from finishing the
flight. Once inside Lisbon harbor, he
said all his worries were over he
cause no matter whether they went
to Plymouth or not, the Atlantic had
been crossed.
The commander then told of the trip
up the Mississippi and the time he
was missing but not lost off the coast
of Louisiana. He said he landed near
a place where a town showed on the
chart and found no town. Later he
learned the town had been washed
away 26 years before.
Chairman Cant of the public affairs
committee introduced a resolution ask
ing the president to name c. E. Dob
son, formerly of Pensacola, as the
Gulf coast member of the new ship
ping board. Copies of the resolution
will be sent to Senator Fletcher and
the Florida congressional delegation.
The question of financing the re-
cent trip of the county commissioners
to Tallahassee was referred to the
board of directors for action
Harry Thompson reported that the
landing field was practically complete
and that planes could now land at
Kiwanis field with perfect ease and
safety. Much of the work was done
by teams loaned by Cary & CO.