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Evening star., 1920-01-18
INTEREST STIRRED
|NCOOL|DCE BOOM
Reynolds Selection as Cam
paign Manager and Accept
ance Significant.

BOSTON, January II (SpeciaD.-
The appointment of James B. Rey-
nolds as manager of the campaign
nomination. and Mr.. Reynolds visit
to Boston to interview the leading
republicans, have greatly stimulated
interest in the governors cause. Mr..
Reynolds resigns the secretaryship of
the republican national committee
for this new work, and his friends
believe that he would not have left
every reason to think that Coolidge's
cause has most favorable aspects.
Just say for me-" Mr.. Reynolds
said, that the campaign tor Gov.
Coo .idge is the result of the feeling
of a great many people throughout
the country that the present chief
executive of the Old Bay state pos
sesses just those qualities that the
man who is to be the next President
of the United States must have. My
aim is to translate and crystalline
this country-wide sentiment into
terms of support through delegates
to the national convention. The NOM
ination is going to be made by per-
sons who go there as delegates un-
pledged and uncommitted.'
Ex-senator Cranes Hand Seen.
The Reynolds appointment is inter-
esting in another way. 1t is believed
that he secured his appointment to
the national committee through the
efforts of former Senator Winthrop
Murray Crane. Mr.. Crane has not
been put down as Coolidge man,
but it is assumed that Mr.. Reynolds
would not have undertaken the man.
agement of the Coolidge boom un-
less Uncle Murray" was agreeable
Importance in national politics, de-
spite his comparative retirement.
Coolidge, so far as known, has done
nothing to secure his support. There
have been rumors, however, that Mr.
Crane would look upon the Coolidge
ment, and therefore not dangerous
but perhaps helpful, to the candidacy
of Gen. Wood.
It is a fact, however. that more
has been heard about Hoover
throughout Massachusetts, in the last
other candidates together. Men are
talking Hoover on the trains. in
the hotel corridors. in the clubs and
local forums. Nobody seems to care
whether he is finally classed as
republican or a democrat. 1t has
Deen tnOuSnI tHdl tHC -
not sing the food commissioners
praises. because of the hardships inn
posed upon the kitchens during the
war. but the women of Massachusetts
are apparently as enthusiastic as the
men.
Solid Delegation Claimed.
Massachusetts will send thirty-one
district delegates to the national con-
vention. and most of the candidates.
are already we'll defined. The Coolidge
men claim that there will be no diff
ficulty in securing a solid front for
the governor. That is probably true.
but it is the second choice which is
chiefly interesting. No other candi-
date seems to stand a ghost of a
show compared to Gen. Wood. The
Iieutenants of the general are not
making much noise, but they expect
a decided strengthening of his can
.didacy following his speech in Bos-
ton next week.
FORREST P. HULL.
Evening star., 1920-01-18
GOV. HOBBY, TEXAS,
FOR Mr.. NJ M'ADOO
Controls. Democratic Ma
chinery-Republicans Fa-
. vorabIe to Gen. Wood.

AUSTIN, Tex. January II (Spe-
ciaD.-Gov. w. T. Hobby has come
out sauarely for William G. McAdoo
for the democratic nomination for
President.
McAdoo was the man who picked
Hobby for secretary of the Houston
Land Bank when that institution was
first organized, and Hobby has been
considered his closest Texas friend ever
since that time.
Gov. Hobby was later elected lieu
tenant governor and then became
governor, being elected to the latter
Office in 1918. The announcement from
the Texas executive. that he regards
McAdoo as the most available man
for democratic nominee is taken to
mean that McAdoo will allow his
name used in that connection, and a
statement to this effect is expected
soon.
state Chairman Lauds President.
At a recent meeting Of the demo-
cratic state committee Thomas B.
Love, formerly assistant secretary OF
the Treasury during the war time,
was chosen democratic national COM
mitteeman from Texas. In speech
at that time Mr.. Love took occasion
to laud Mr. Wilson and the present
democratic administration to the
skies.
The fact that Gov. Hobby prac-
tically chose the present state dem
ocratic committee, and every member
thereof is in close accord with him
makes it certain that Love, Hobby
and the entire state democratic or
ganization in Texas will be lined up for
Mr. McAdoo.
On the other hand, the Texas re-
publicans are getting busy in more
dangerous way than in any recent
year 1t is pointed out that thou
sands of republicans have been at
tracted to Texas oil fields and that
other thousands, who have remained
away from the polls in other years
are sufficiently interested to vote in
1920 There are normally about
100. 900 republicans in Texas. although
the vote of that party has averaged
number But in 1920, with leading
business men of Texas managing the
republican campaign. it looks like
100000 votes might be cast
Also, it may be noted that James
r Ferguson-formerly Governor of
Texas and removed by impeachm ent-
might be induced to carry his re-
Gently organized American party
into the ranks of the republicans
and that might swell their vote in
the general election to full 100000
which would press the democrats
closely. even in the CHOICE of state
officials.
Gen. Wood Choice of Republicans.
Whatever strength Texas repub-
ncans may develop will be thrown tC
Gen. Leonard Wood. in the opinion
of best-informed republicans.
So it looks now as though the
fight in Texas up to the time of the
respective national conventions viii
be largely McAdoo VS.. Wood. witt
McAdoo in the ascendency because
of the preponderance of the demo
cratic vote UPSHUR VINCENT.
Evening star., 1920-01-18
New Jersey Leans Strongly
TOwQrd Wood Nomination
State Is Little Pdnicky, With So Many
Candidates Suggested, But the Generals
Chances Appear Best:

exits to the next field. Men seem to
act likewise.
Help Wood Boom.
That is why the Wood boom is so
popular, for the instant anyway, in
this state. The Wood boom was
floating around when the red menace
began to appear on the first page.
And the Wood boom is getting the
benefit of every scare that is thrown
into the public. ParadoNical Is 1t
may appear, every time that Attor-
ney General Palmer directs a raid he
drives more folk into the Wood camp.
Even if Palmer could himself be a
candidate just now in some political
contest here against Wood his own
activities would help Wood-not him
self.
Students of this psychology are in
clined to believe that it cannot last.
From 1910 till about five years later
feet of Woodrow Wilson. For the
greater part of this period this SEN
timent was almost alteration. 1t con-
tinued to execrate NugeNt even after
the Wilson spell began to ware. Now
witness the Nugent comeback-from
Elba. What the human herd here
abouts will do if Wood is nominated,
and the fear arises in its heart that
he is. after all, too conservative and
might invite reaction. it is dlfflcuit
to predict. 1t may stampede again.
What it will do if Wood is not nom
mated on the republican ticket is
still another question. Therein are
possibilities of danger to the repub-
lican cause in this state.
Jolt May Await Democrats.
If the republican and democratic
conventions both turn out conserva-
tive platforms and conservative can
didates there is probably severe
jolt in store for the democrats. The
public allows the republicans more
to the democrats. 1t will take much
on faith from the republicans, but
little from the democrats. A highly
conservative democratic front against
highly conservative republican
front would possibly mean that the
democrats would be third IN .he
count election day. For there is a
coalescing of radicals and near rad
icals. too An outstanding figure on
the democratic ticket might enable
it. however. to win even New Jersey
in 1920, provided the republican can
didate developed obvious weaknesses,
There is some shrewd democratic
opinion which believes that Gen.
wood will show just such weaknesses
if he receives the nomination some
opinion leans to that ldea;
too. On the present showing Wooo
is going to win the New Jersey repuo-
lican delegates, especially if the re-
nublican managers try to send an
delegation to chicago.
They cannot beat somebody with no,
body. He may win them anyway, anu
viii certainly do so if the present
trend does not change
There is some sentiment for Lowden,
but it is yet inconsequentiai. Ihe
group that would be ex-
pected to favor Hiram johnson mas
sloughed off into a third party move
ment 1t is affiliated with the COM
mittee of forty-eight. Poindexter
has not made a dent. But the doubt
persists whether Wood would wear
well after the primaries. The pres
ent situation in the state looks very
much like a panic. 1t seems too ap-
normal to last.
Evening star., 1920-01-18
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, January II
With the Kentucky general assembly
now entering into the third week Of
it's session. both parties fighting bit
terly for control of the state senate,
which has bare democratic majority
of two, and the leaders of both sides
sitting on the figurative sidelines and
coaching the plays. Frankfort. the
capital of the dark and bloody
ground" is seething cauldron of
political activity.
Early establishment of a publicity
bureau in this state for the dissent
nation of democratic propaganda has
been decided upon by the party-gov-
erning authorities, in this manner
combating the efforts of the republi-
cans who launched such a movement
year ago that was attended by such
gratifying success. In this conne1-
ton. the purchasing of various smalHl
town newspapers by the natiol1l COM
mittees of both parties and the plac-
ing in charge of young newspaper
men, who are given the opportunity
to purchase the property on terms. is
said to be one of the favorite mesh-
DDS of operation this year.
Open Field for Aspirants.
That Kentucky is an open field. as
far as democratic presidential as
pirants is concerned is proved by
expressions at the capital, where most
of the politicians now are hoiding
forth. The joint resolution of the
general assembly, asking Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer to address
it. was the first invitation to a demo
cratic aspirant. State Senator L. NJ.
Smith of Harrodsburg. who has been
with the adjutant generals Depart
ment, brought back the word from
Washington that Attorney Genera
palmer is "a hot tip there. and that
there is considerable sentlment hor
him in the east. However, kentucky
interest is much divided, and except
for the outspoken Endorsement OF
Herbert Hoover by Gen. w. b. Haloe-
man, democratic national commlt.ee-
man. there is a good deal of beating
about the bush here.
Women l., Both Delegations.
For the first time in the history OF
Kentucky women will be on the deie-
cations to both national conVentlons.
AS the democrats choose elght oeie-
gates with half vote eacn, ~
Highly probable that two women VIII
make the trip to San Francisco Ihe
republican delegation of four Will be
made up of National Committeeman
A. r. Hert, Gov. Morrow, woman
nrobably Mrs. John G. South. chair
man of the woman's division OF the
national committee-and negro.
that Judge Charles A. Hardin of Har-
rodsburg, who was defeated in the
special congressional race in the
eighth district last August by KING
Swope, republican, has no idea OF
stepping aside. but will become a can
Evening star., 1920-01-18
Again Found Guilty.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, January IL
The trial of William F. Cook at MUIR
freesboro, Tenn, on the charge of the
murder of his wife's niece, Lucy Stan
ford, in August, 1913, when his wife
was also murdered, ended today with
a verdict of first degree murder with
mitigating circumstances and SEN
tence of twenty-one years. The de-
fendant moved for a new trial, which
will be argued Monday. Cook is now
serving a prison sentence given for
the alleged murder of his wife. This
was his seventh trial in connection
with the double tragedy, which
shocked Rutherford county at the
time of its occurrence near Smyrna, six
Years age.
Evening star., 1920-01-18
ROADS TO GET ONE BILLION.
Huge Sum to Be Spent in U. S.,
Hectares Expert.

NEW YORK, January 17.-More
than $1,000, 100000 will be spent this
year in the construction and mainte-
nance of roads and streets throughout
the United States, F. l.. Powers, sec
retary of the American Roadbuilders'
Association, declared today.
This estimate is based on tabu :
lation of appropriations already made
by federal. state, county and munich
pal governments and a careful ap-
proclamation of the customary appro-
priations in localities where 1920
sums have not yet been voted, Mr..
Powers said.
Evening star., 1920-01-18
TO HOLD CHINA TO ACCOUNT.
Japanese Address Note in Regard
to Losses of Their Merchants.

PEKING. Thursday, January IS lby
the Associated Press) the Japahese
consul general at Tientsin has ad-
dpessed q note to the Chinese commits
sioner of foreign affairs in that city
declaring that the Japanese govern
ment will hold the Chinese author1ties
responsible for losses incurred py
Japanese merchants through the poy
pniId and similar Japanese organiza-
tiOnS.
Evening star., 1920-01-18
Soldier.pead Charge Denied.

NEW YORK. January 17.-Denial of
charges that the undertakers of this
country, from pecuniary motives, were
behind the movement to have Amer
ica's soldier lead returned from
France, was made today by John F.
Martin of Elizabeth, N. J.. president
of the National Funeral Directors AS
s0ciation
Evening star., 1920-01-18
Thaddeus N. Fletcher Dies.

WARRENTON. Va, January H.
Thaddeus N. Fletcher, prominent Con-
federate veteran and former clerk of
the circuit court here, died last night.
He was the father of Judge Latham
Fletcher.
Evening star., 1920-01-18

For Flowers Rare
hos digulay of choice blooms.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-14

| loungers go home to supper. Not &
sound out of the ordinary rode the air
The sheriff in common with his neigh.
bors, was probably at that moment
around the table with his family. Wher
he had finished his meal, he would
probably carry some of the left over
food across to his prisoner.
The Pearlhunter went back to the
broken chair. For what seemed to
him long, long time he figeted and
waited, specializing on the chance of
the sheriff's coming alone. Curiously
enough, he found himself planning just
how he would strike and where-and
how hard. He tried not to think of it.
but it would throb back into his mind
In spite of him. until it finally became
an obseSsion.
His impatience, the pitch to which
he was keyed. the insistent throb of
that thought: how; where; how hard
finally drove him back to the east
window. The house was just as it had
appeared since the dark fell--lights at
he back window, with the s.lhouettes
OF woman and children bobbing
across the curtains, The shadows gave
the Pearlhunter something to think
about. What If he struck too hard!
He promised the shadows not to.
AT the moment, door opened on
the back porch of the sheriff's house.
A square of light picked out the rough
boards The sheriff appeared with
flat basket in the hollow of his arm.
A woman's hand pulled back the mus
lin curtains at side window and held
a candle close fO the mana 20 Iybt
him across the Jail yard.
The Pearlhunter stepped back to
the bed: picked up his stove leg; hid
it beneath his blouse and lounged
down on the broken chair. A mo-
ment later a key, scraping unbeliev-
ably loud on the dull silence of the
Jail, hunted its way into the lock.
The outer door whined back A
match scraped; the suffering flame
was laid to the stub of candle; an
arm held it through the bars of the
inner door.
CONTINUED tomorrow.)
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and standpipe OF $1,000 gallons ca
pacity on reinforced concrete trestle
100 feet high. The plant has a cana
city of Id million gallons per dav
Wood is the principal fuel used under
the boilers and a reserve stock ample
for 80 days is always held in reserve,
There are about 1000 taps in service
and about 43 applications for build
ings under construction. Ninety five
per cent of the water used passes
through meters. There are SIS fyd-ants
for fire protection and street use and
26 miles of mains from 10 inches in
diameter down.
During the past three years, the
cost of operation has averaged $4,000
annually, while during the same period
the gross income has averaged about
$4,000. leaving a net income of SIS 500.
Surrounding the plant is a small park
where abundance of flowers and semi
tropical shrubbery and careful atten-
ton to the neatness of the entire prop
erty make it an attractive spot.
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OVER ENTHUSIASTIC.

Editor Pensacola Journal: In your
editorial of August 10 on Getting
Ready" calling attention 10 the i'm
portance of Pensacola as the first
stopping place in Florida of the Ma
tionaI Editorial Association on their
trip TO Florida next March, il seems
to me unwise TO misrepresent any
thing that Pensacola may have. 1t
would be far better to not say any
thing. Among other things mentioned
in connection with our city IS this
statement: They will find the great
est fishing business in the world" 1
am sure every editor in that party
viii know that is not true if anyone
tells him that when he comes
If you had used the word Gulf in
stead of world" no doubt il might
with safety pass. / presume everyone
knows that Billingsgate Market in
London, England, has the largest fish
business in the world; then / believe
Boston comes next with its million
dollar fish pier; then perhaps Glouces-
ter, Mass. next; then perhaps some
place on Puget Sound next. and with
out doubt there are several places in
Nova Scotia. Canada, that have a
larger fish business than Pensacola.
In our enthusiasm we are prone TO
use the word world too freely. 1t re-
minds me Of one Of our series of pic
ture postal cards showing some of the
interesting views OF PENSACOLA. the L
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-14
Iiisr FOB SPITE.

nobody will be afraid of train rob-
bers after the twentieth. After paying
The fare there will be nothing to rob-
Miami Herald.
No longer shall we fear brigands
While riding on the train;
wheree'r we travel DER the lands,
They'll search our bags in vain;
Upon our person we shall wear
No wallets filled with money
They've taken even cent we have,
And we don't think it funny
Although we laugh and make our joke
And say I'VE pay the freight,
We've made our minds up to get back
At them, ip spite of Fate;
We meant to go to Milton,
Or maybe to Mulat-
But now we shall just stay at home,
And how will they like that?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-14
WATER AT pELANp.

Chief among the advantages which
the citizens of DeLand. Fla, claim for
their city is supply Of artesian water
unlimited in quantity and of excep-
tional purity.
The water works are in charge of
City Engineer George Hill, who has
been identified with every engineering
project in and near De Land. He OPP
Grated the first locomotive over a short
road between De Land and the st.
Johns river, later was chief meehani-
cal engineer of the largest saw and
planning mill in this section Of the
state, and has been in charge of the
water works since 1909.
The water works was installed in
1890, its first equipment consisting on
a so horsepower boiler, small pump,
stand pipe and one of the present
wells. The population then was slight
" under 1900. Today the population
is over 5000 and the equipment com
prises a so horsepower. Ames boiler, a
80 horsepower Casey and Hedges
boiler. one 10-inch well 270 feet deep
and one 6-inch well 400 feet deem
each operated by a duplex steam pump.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-14
AMERICANIZED CHINA
OPPOSED BY FRENCHMAN

Toxic. Aug. 13.-Former Premier
Paul Painleve OF France who stopped
here on his way from America TO Chi
ma was quoted as saying as he disem-
barked at Toxic:
The peace OF the world has nothing
from an Americanized or an Anglicized
China. Without in any way meaning
to offend our friends or allies, we feel
that to the French belongs the moral
obligation to encourage and develop
the intellectual scientific and techni-
cal relations which exist already be-
tween China and France.
France must not fail. at thiG time,
while China, seeking to modernize her
self, is calling for intellectual guides
and technical councillors, TO answer
that call. Anything that fails 20 pre-
sent French culture to China leaves
the way open for German kuitur. 10
our hurt"
NJ. Painleve said his mission TO
China, which is his destination. had
nothing to do with finance. but was
purely educational. scientific and tech
nical, with the idea Of laying a foun-
dalton for a more thorough knowledge
OF the Far East Above all It was his
aim to guide toward, France the Chi
nese who are seeking a higher educa-
ton.
His visit is deemed here 20 be i'm
portant in view of the preparations
under way in France 20 receive
Chinese students who are increasing
in number. A project has been start
ed at Paris by Senator and Mime.
Hughes lie Roux 70 found a social club
for visiting Chinese.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-14
MODERN FINANcIERs.

The forty thousand disappointed in
vestors who have been defrauded by
Charles Ponzi will probably never be
able to recover a cent of their invest
ment And for a short time the lesson
will be taken to heart by the Ameri-
can public. Then another Ponzi will
come along and the simple minded
will turn over their money to him,
with eagerness to be duped.
The career of Ponzi bring to mind
that of w. F. Miller, who spread
wide net He began his financial ca
reer with a ten dollar bill loaned him
by two friends. He ended It
after handling millions in states
prison. Through the newspapers of
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and
other cities he held out the glittering
bait of ten per cent a week on an in
vestment of twenty dollars. And he
paid it-for a while The timid pion-
GERS who sent him their little capital
found themselves drawing the as
founding interest of $50 per cent, and
every man-jack of them became, on a
five per cent basis, willing agent to
coax others to send their savings to
this wlzerd with the Midas touch.
The advertisements continued, the
money poured in. One week saw $780,
600 withdrawn from Boston and Phila-
delphia saving banks to swell the
flood which at high tide reached
mark not far from s5.00o,000. Miller's
press agent styled him a Napoleon of
Finance. His scheme was certainly
Napoleonic in its audacity. Nothing
be more simple. He paid the divi-
dends out of the principal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-14

Form 1871. stating the tttle-cf the ex-
animation desired, TO the Secretary OF
the Fifth Civil Service District. Post
office Bldg. Atlanta. Ga. or 10 tha
secretary, Civil Service Board. Post
office Bldg- Key West or Pensaccaz,
Fla.
Applicants should be properly exs-
cuted, excluding the medical certificates
and filed with the District Secretaxy.
Atlanta, Ca, prior TO the hour OF
closing Business on September 6. 1874.
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IRIS a LONG TIME SINCE WE'VE
BEEN kIpDEpI

That was very nice piece that Herb
FeIkeI published about Bromides and
sulphites. Being suiphite he can ar
ford to tag himself as a Bromide AS
for MS, we are very well aware that
we don't need any tag to show which
side we are on. But we are humble
folk, and. like the great author whom
Herb played up with so much disunc-
ton, we just don't give darn. 1t Is
bad enough to recall the old stand bys
without trying to evolve something
that is stimulating, out Of nothing
Pensacola Journal. You are there
with the sulphite stuff. kid; Wen say
you are. 'Tis we who are Bromidic.-
st. Augustine Record.