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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01

plurality of 100000 in the popular vote.
His election indeed rested on the same
basis as Cleveland's in 1884 and Will
sons in 1916. But in 1876 the Repub-
licians had not yet acquiesced in the
suppression of the negro vote in the
South. And If the negroes had not
been persuaded" by various means
from going to the polls, Tilden could
not have been elected.
Both the Republicans and the Dem
ocrats claimed to have carried Louisi-
ana, South Carolina and Florida, and
from those states two sets Of returns
were sent to Washington. Who should
decide between them? The COnstitu-
ton provides merely that the president
of the senate shall, in the presence of
the senate and house, open the certi-
ficates, land the votes shall then be
counted"
But when there are two sets Of
votes, who shall say which shall be
counted? 1.-THE president of the SEN
ate," answered the Republicans be-
cause the president of the senate was
a Republican. "The two houses" said
the Democrats, because one of the
houses was Democratic.
Compromise was necessary to save
the government from chaos and the
country from another Civil war. The
bitter dispute was left to 10 men, one
third of whom were senator's and an
other third were representatives,
equally divided between the parties.
To guarantee a calm, judicial decision
the remaining third were justices of
the Supreme court.
Nevertheless, the commission pro-
ceeded to decide every essential ques-
ton in favor of Hayes by a strict party
vote of s to 7. Alas, the partisan
zeal of that feverish hour burned just
as fiercely beneath the gowns of the
iustices as under the frOck coats of
the legislators.
The Judgment of the commission
was without force in law until adopted
by the two opposing houses, and some
disappointed Democrats in the house
baked at ratifying the decision against
Tilden. But representatives of Hayes
whispered to certain southern Demo-
Gratis in a secret conference at Worm
ley's hotel that if they would let the
Republicans have the presidency, the
Republican president would let them
have their own state governments. The
bargain having been struck, it was
kept. After a turbulent night session
of the house the result of the election
was declared at four o'clock in the
morning of March 2, 1877, just SO hours
before the Inauguration.
For three months Hayes himself had
been alternating from day to day be-
tween expectation of success and de-
feat. Even when he started for Wash
ington on March he was still so I'M
certain that he frankly told the peo-
ple of Columbus in his parting speech
that he might be back with them and
In the governors chair again in less
than q week ..... .....
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01
SsHE serves his party best who

SHE serves his party best who
serves his country best"
with those watchwords Hayes had
sacrificed himself and his administra-
ZION to reunite North and South, to
cleanse the civil service and to regen-
crate the Republican party. So quiz
city, so coldly, so automatically did
ne go about all those great objects
that he remained to the end of his
term one OF the most misunderstood
most underestimate presidents, the
Republican leaders hating him as an
apostate and the Democrats despis-
ing him as a fraud.
He selected one of the most dis
tlnguished cabinets in history. But
he did 1t without consulting party
leaders or considering the claims of
factions, and the offended senate
threatened and muttered for nearly
a week before it confirmed the nomi-
nations. To the disgust of practical
politicians" he, threw away" a high
class foreign mission on a man like
James Russell Lowell, "a dashed lit
erary feller," as Senator Cameron
said, and he enraged Roscoe Conk-
ling by flinging the political machine
of the imperiOus senator out of the
federal offices In New York city. He
would also have made a start toward
the removal of the civil service from
politics and spoils-mongering had not
both parties combined in congress to
thwart his every effort In that direc-
ton.
Hayes boldest challenge to the
Republican politicians was his aban-
donment Of their 12-year struggle to
reconstruct the Southern states from
Washington. Ever since congress
had seized from Lincoln's lifeless
hand the control of reconstruction,
the entire proceeding had been a
tragic failure.
Hayes came to the presidency in
the depths of an industrial prostra-
ton when wandering bands of
tramps thronged the highways of the
land, and soon the first great railway
strike paralyZed transportation be-
tween the Atlantic and the Missis-
sippi. In response to the popular cry
for "more money" both parties in
congress were for repeating or modi,
flying the resumption act and for in,
fating the currency with greenbacks
on silver coinage. The president
firmly resisted such a surrender. Had
not his veto of the silver bill been
overridden he would have saved the
country from taking the first step or
the road that led it TO the brink OF
free silver in 1896,
All this independence cost Hayes
the support of the political time serv
ers and the applause Of the partisan
press. These united in denouncinf
and ridiculing him as a renegade In
politics and as a sniveling hypocrite
in private life.
The White House event dry" fol
the first time under the Hayes, anG
the president was held up to con
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01

SAINT production by the need OF making
money. Although his wealthy moth
er's purse was open to him, her dis
approval Of his marriage and hfs work
was so irritatIngly expressed that he
finally had to refuse her assistance.
The consequent driving necessity ac-
counted somewhat for his facility and
his quick sense of what the public was
going to like next.
BY means of sparkling epigram In
his fashionable novel, "Petham," he
early achieved a reputation as "A man
of the world. He then occupied himself
with the crime-novel and the romance
of mystery. The satire OF Thackeray
and others I'm Fraser's Magazine drove
him away from the field of burglary
and homicide, and he delved into his
tory for subjects. This produced f"Fhe
Last Days of Pompeii," F'Rienzi" and
E"rhe Last of the Barons." In "The
CHxtons' he founded the 'strue cult of
his best works responded to the pOpu-
lar demand for domestic novels. Tales
of terror next attracted the public and
BuIvver created n sensation by "Fhe
Strange story" which came to him I'm
a dream, and "The Haunted and the
Haunters," one of the most perfect
ghost stories In English literature.
Finally, he wrote novels and satires
of society. His very versatility per-
haps prevented his digging deeply into
reality.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01

tempt as man too stingy to stand
treat and too weak to resist domi-
neering wife.
Hayes found the North and South
divided and he left them more nearly
reunited than they had been IN a
generation. He found the national
currency paper and he left it gold
and silver. He found the prosperity
of the country at dead low tide and
he left it at high tide.
1t fell to Hayes to ring down the
curtain on the epoch of the Civil
war and to usher in another epoch.
The voices of the past cried out
against him, but in his complete re
tirement from politics he lived to hear
the voices of the new time give h
more favorable and a more just ver-
dict on his administration.
Copyright. 1890. by James MorganI
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01

= listen to an English nobIeman
paint picture of the rise in his
@ country of that trading bour-
geOisie which is so much in the talk
of today. The leaders in the strife are
Edward the Fourth, trader-king, and
Richard Neville, earl of Warwick, king
maker and last of the Barons."
Around them cluster the lives of many
others In the great struggle. The
scene is set for the Battle of Barnet
April IA, 1471, in the Wars of the
Roses.
Raw, cold and dismal dawned the
morning of the fourteenth of April, the
Caster Sabbath. In the fortunes of
that day were involved those of all
the persons who hitherto in the course
of this narrative, may have seemed
to move in separate orbits from the
fiery star of Warwick. Now, in this
browning hour, the vast and gigantic
destiny of the great earl comprehend
ed all upon which dts darkness or it's
light had fallen; not only the luxuri-
Gus Edward, the perjured Clarence,
the naughty Margaret, her gallant son,
the gentle Anne, the remOrseful Isa-
bel, the dark guile of Gloucester, the
rising Fortunes of gifted Hastings
but on the hazard of that day rested
the hopes of Hilyard, and the interests
of the trader Alwyn, and the perma-
hence of that frank, chivalric, hardy,
still half Norman race, of which Mich
olas Alwyn and his Saxon class were
the rival antagonisttc principle, and
Marmaduke Neville the ordinary type.
Dragged memorable into the whirlpool
of that mighty fate were even the very
lives Of the simple scholar, Adam
Warner, of his obscure and devoted
child, Sfbyll. Here, into this CORY
ocean, all scattered rivulets and
streams had FASTENED to merge at last.
"But grander and more awful than
all individual interests were those as
signed to the fortunes of this battle,
so memorable in the English annals
the ruin or triumph of a dynasty; the
fall Of that warlike baronage, of which
Richard Neville was the personifica-
ton, the browning flower, the greatest
representative and the last-associ-
ated with memories of turbulence and
excess, it is true, bur with the proud
est and grandest achievements in our
early history; with all such liberty as
had been yet achieved since the Nor
man conquest; with all such glory as
had made the island famous-here
with Runnymede, and there with Cres-
sy; the rise of a crafty, plotting, Inn
per.ous despotism, based upon the
growing sympathy of craftsmen and
traders, and ripening on the one hand
to the Tudor tyranny, the republican
reaction under the Stuarts, the slav-
cry and the Civil war, but on the 9TH
er hand to the concentration of all the
vigor and life of genius into single
and strong government. the graces, the
arts, the letters of a polished court,
the freedom, the energy, the resources
of commercial population destined
TO rise above the tyranny at which it
had first connived, and give to the
emancipated Saxons the markets of
the world. Upon the victory of that
day those contending interests, this
vast alternative in the future, swayed
and trembled."
Despite the stilted language of an
other day and the portly size of the
volume, 1.-THE Last Of the Barons' is
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01
, EDWARD BULwER LYTToN

Edward Bu1wer,
Lord LyttOn, was
brilliantly versa
tile. AS States
man, he was far
sighted and as
tute; as dramatist,
I'm "T'he Lady of
l. y o n So 'SRiche-
lieu" and "MOney"
he struck and held
the popular tasteJ
as novelist, he
d r o d N C e d some
I w e IA I y-Odd rO-
mances of widely
varying typey as
poet and political
assayist, he was
less notable.
During the early
years of his mar
rage HuIyver was
- A-AA
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01
An Improvement.

"Has prohibition helped your nus
band any?'' ,,.,,,
81 can't say that it has. But l VIII
saw this for him, since he's taken 10
a,;nEino nerfumes and toilet waters
his breath smells a whole lot SWEEPER
than it used to-"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01
Carpets and Rugs
Made Like New
er Ave. Long Beach. Calf

REMOVED by DIR. Berry's
Freckle Ointment---Y Your druggist or by
mail, SIC, Free book. Or. c. n. Berry
Cos 2S7S Michigan Avenue, Chicago
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01
Hates Carving.
Catarrh Can Be Cured

Catarrh is local disease greatly infiu-
enced by constitutional conditions. 1t
therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
" taken internally and acts through
ttO Blood or the Mucous Surfaces of
the System. HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE destroys the foundation of
the disease, gives the patient strength by
improving che general health and assists
nature in doing it's work.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01
FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT
OUR PRESIDENTS
By JAMES MORGAN
A NEW EPOCH

le/I-ApriI, President Hayes
withdrew Federal troops
from Southern State cap
itals.
sanished alcoholic liquors
from the White House.
June and July, ordered
out Federal troops in the
great railway strike.
1sT8-Vetoed Silver bill, which
was passed over his veto.
1s7e-sPecie payments resumed.
1ssa-Jan. II, death of Hayes
at Fremont o., aged 20.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01
CASCARETS
'sThey Work while you Sleep"

Do you feel all tangled up-bilious,
constipated, headachy, nervous, full OF
cold? Take Cascarets tonight for your
liver and bowels to straighten you out
bv morning. Wake up with head clear
stomach right, breath sweet and teel'
ing fine. No gripping, no inconvenience
children love Cascarets too. 10, 2o'
so cents.-Adv.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-01
Smart.

He-Isn't that beautiful girl?"
She-Oh, yesi She's vogue on the
outside and vague inside.-Cartoons
Magazine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-01
ROTARIANS TO HELP
SOLVE FOOD. PROBLEM
Adopt Resolutions to Support Junior
Achievement Clubs-Results of
Contests at Springfield.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April New
England Rotarians in annual conven-
tion yesterday, attended by 1000 delegates
from SIX states, adopted resolutions to
support the Eastern States Agricultural
League Junior Achievement clubs to help
solve the food problem; also to use their
influence to stamp ont incendiary prop
aganda and Danish the Reds Senti-
meat was voiced in favor of changing the
method OF electing officers at the inter
rational conference In Atlantic City in
june.
Contests followed These included rope
and jute mill work, shoe fitting and bi
cycle mechan;cs 1t was stated that S45
n00,0 is lost annually from bad eggs, and
there was demonstration in preparing
waterglass for the preservation of eggs
Hope Brothers Of West Springfield CAV,
n exhibition of rora tv:ng and Horace
~cs-,hr~1s' OF Rrrlingham school ex
planned qardcn work
The sFesc'c mechanics ~ test. eansiste,
Cf the tolljng apart and rutf:}g togethe1
BICYCLES, by teams of two bows aa.h Tn
contest was won by team No. , il ~
30s The final team to complete the worl
did it in 5m ABS. Members Of the win
ming team were Frank Montague Of 3
Railroad strcot ana Carl Vincent Of til
West Springfield Faales club.
| After the bows had been presented wit
| medals thev were surprised by the pre-
sentation OF SO to the winring team b
the Boston Rotary club and so to til
team which finished second by the Wol
cester club. The Springfield Bows clu
gave s. each to the other three team
| entered
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-01
Field Marshal FOch Has no
Authority Over Amer
ican Troops
ANSWERS INQUIRY
FROM THE HOUSE
American Troops on the Rhine Governed
by Terms of Armistice-Major Gen
eral Allen Can Use Them For Preserv-
ing Order in Occupied District.

WASHINGTON, April American
troops on the Rhine are subject only to
the orders of the President of the United
States as commander-in-chicf OF the army,
President Wilson wrote congress today
in response to resolution OF inquiry
adopted by the house The American
troops aud the territory they control still
are governed by the terms Of the arm
istice, the President said He disclosed
that the American government had dis
approved plans to have the troops and
the territory placed under the orders o.
the Rhineland high commission.
Field Marshal Foch has no authouts
over the American troops, the President
said. Major General Allen, commandin.
the forces, 'ahas full authority, Mr.. VII
son added. . utilize lis tfs.s,- f,r th'
police of the occupied district, the preser
Ivation of order and to repel any attach
which may be made upon him..
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-01
MISS ELEANOR BLACK
RESIGNS POSITION
Superintendent of Mutual Aid Associa-
ton to Be Married-Succeeded Tenn
porarily by Miss Harvey.

Miss Eleanor Black, who came here last
July to assume the position as superin-
tendent of the Mutual Aid association,
has resigned that position. She left yes
terday for Waltham, Mass. Miss Black
is to be married soon. Miss Elizabeth
Harvey, child welfare nurse, Is taking her
place at the Mutual Aid association tenn
porarily. Last Saturday the members of
the committee of churches of the associa-
Miss Black surprise visit, also present
ed her a mahogany tray. On Tuesday
evening" the attendants and nurses at
the association gave a party for her at
the rooms, all appearing dressed in fancy
costume. She was presented at that
time with mahogany clock and an elec-
tric grill and toaster.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-01
RAZING HOUSE FOR
NEW GARAGE SITE
Fred A. Betterley to Build West of Alb
bott Store on Elliot Street,. E.
Helyar Contractor.

Good progress is being made on raz-
ing the brick house and other build
ings west of the Abbott store at 81
Elliot street which was bought recently
by Fred A. Betterley from Frank E.
Barber. Several men are employed on
the job under the direction of james
E. Helyar, who has taken the contract
to erect new brick garage for Mr.
Betterley.
The garage, which will be 5S feet
wide by los feet long, will be one
story high. It will be of brick and
concrete construction. The foundation
and floor will be of concrete, while the
side walls viii be of brick with tap
estry brick front The foundation will
be sufficiently strong to allow another
story to be added later if such move
is thought desirable. The contract
calls for work to be started April
and to be continuous until completed
but on account of uncertain conditions
| of labor no date was specified for the
| completion of the building, but Mr.
Betterley says he hopes to be able to
| move his automobile business there
| late in June or early in July. He plans
| to sell his present garage on Canal
street
While the building which is being
razed is an old landmark it haC
reached such rundown condition that
| its removal will be a welcome chang,
in that section. In recent months the
house has been unoccupied. 1t wa,
known by many of the older resident.
as the Bugbee place, but in recen
years it has been used for a cleanin.
establishment and boarding anC
rooming house.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-01
GRANITE CUTTERS
GET So A DAY
Will Be Allowed After September 1 :
Compromise With Granite
Producers.

BOSTON, April AFTER a week OF con
ferences here, representatives of the Gran
ite Cutters Union and the Monumental
Granite Producers association reached an
agreement last night and voted to rec
ommend TO their respective organizations
the adoption of compromise wage scale,
thereby averting a possible tieup of the
granite working industry Of this coun-
try.
By the terms of the agreement, the
granite cutters will receive an increase OF
80 cents day over their present wage OF
S6, until Sept. |, 1920, when a wage OF
So a day, or 81 an hour, originally de
manded by the union, will become ef
fective until April l, 1922
The telegraph and telephone was used
by tPresident James Duncan and the
other officers of the union, Immediately
after the agreement was accepted, in or
der to notify the locals of the interna
tional union, in all sections of the coun
try, that an agreement had been reached
Special meetings of all the locals were
held last night to act on the situation
brought about by the expiration Of the
wage agreement last night.
After the agreement was reached, Pres
ident Duncan stated that the employer
| would not grant the original demand
| Immediately, because of the large con
tracts on hand, which were accented un
der the present wage scale. Fer thi
reason, the union leaders agreed to Civ
| the EMPLOYERS number Of months t
| clean up these contracts.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-01
Can Vote For Wilson.

WASHINGTON. April I.-Presi-
dent Wilson took no steps to pre-
vent his name appearing on the
presidential primary ballot in
Georgia, it was said today at the
White House. The President had
until o'clock, Washington time,
today to act. 1t was understood
that he did not reply to the tele-
gram from Secretary Gardner of
the Georgia Democratic state COM
mittee asking whether he wished
his name to appear on the ballot.
A petition signed by the neces-
sary number of Georgia Democrats
asking that the Presidents name
be on the ballot in the Georgia pri-
maries April 20 was filed with the
the state committee last Monday.
1t was said at the White House
that the President did not author
ize the use of his name and that
the telegram from Secretary Gard
ner brought the first news to the
White House that the petition had
been filed.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-01
NEW YORK ASSEZNBL Y
ELECTS SOCIALISTS
FROM MEMBERSHIP
F. A. ROWLAND
SUCCEEDS HARTNESS
Appointed Member of Board of Education
by Governor Clement-Prominent
Vermonter.

MONTPELIER, April 1-Governor
Clement has appointed Fred A. How
land of Montpelier a member of the
state board of education, to succeed
James Hartness, resigned.
Mr.. Rowland is one of Vermont's s
leading citizens and is the executive
head of one of the largest financial in
stitutions in the state. He graduated
from Dartmouth college in 1887 and
was secretary of civil and military af
fairs in 1855 He was admitted to the
bar in 1890 and practiced law in Mont
pelier as a member of the firm of Dill
lingham. Huse and Rowland. From
1896 to 1898, he was the state s at
torney for Washington county and for
two terms was clerk of the house of
representatives. Mr. Rowland was see
retarv of state from 1898 to 1902. In
1916, he was appointed 2 member of
the board of trustees of the permanent
school fund.- to fill the vacancy caused
bv the decease of Honorable Joseph A.
DeBoer.
During the World war, Mr. How
land was an active worker on the Yer
mont committee of public safety, serv-
ing as a member of the executive com
mittee, and was secretary of the com
mittee until he resigned to direct the
war savings stamp campaign, which
he conducted successfully.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-01
SEATS VACANT
PERMANENTLY
Cannot Call Special, Elec-
ton NOw-First Time in
American History That
An Entire Party Delega-
ton Has Been Elected
from Any Legislative
BOdy-WOmen Members
Divided

ALBANY. n. Y. April l.--Five Social
ists-Louis Waldman and August
Claessens of New York, Charles Solomon
of Kings and Samuel A. Dewitt and
Samuel Orr of the Bronx the entire dele
CATION of their party in the New York
assembly, were expelled from member
ship in the lower house of the legislature
early today. The majorities in favor of
unseating the men suspended on the
opening day of the legislative session on
charges of disloyal;y were substantial.
The vote oa the expulsion of Wald-
man. whose case was the first to be
voted upon by the assembly. came at the
cnd Of p hours of oratory, parliamentary
wrangles and filibustering.
Owing to the fact that the men We're
expelled after midnight on March 81
there can be no special elections to fill
their seats in the assembly unless an
extraordinary session of the legislature is
. convened
BY its action the assembly established
a precedent unique in legislative history
i'll the United States as never before has
an entire party delegation been elected
from any legislative body. Party lines
disappeared in the voting OF the Two
women members one voted for and the
other against expulsion.