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TAFT IS WEAK
An Old Staunch Republican Newspaper
Says He Lacks Ability
SCORES HIS CABINET
Which Is Composed Largely of llailroiul
ami Trust Lawyers?TimPresident
is a Disappointment i?>
the Republicans, Who Expected
Great Things for llim
President Taft pretends to stand
the administration's spokesman, Alsafe
and sane business methods and.
administration in con iucting tne affairs
of the government fr.m too
to bottom; lie make ! ng spepciws ?u
Washington and els wiure, and gets
the administration's spokesmen, A!drich,
to introduce a bill 111 tlie senate
appointing a commission to run
this government on a common sense,
business plan, eliminating aupliv.aU.-ii
/- of bureaus, ohsjlete methods waste
and extravagence.
"But what does President Taft
really stand for?" asks the Washington
correspondent of the Spartanburg
Journal, who proceeds to
answer his own question as follows:
"lie favors bigger appropriations for
the army, more money for the navy,
building of islands in tlie Chesapeake
bay for stragetic purposes in case of
war, creating many kinds of special
courts, judgeships and running gear
at salaries in keeping with 'national'
plans?all down the line ho is for
J spending tho people's money unstintedly,
and yet all the time lie favors
those projects, lie harps on economy.
"He is beginning to prove a disappointment
to many of the old, reactionary,
dyed-in-the-wool republicans
who hailed his advent to the presidency
as a relief from tho turbulent
Itooscvelt. Here is the way the Philn/lnlnl.ln
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Tafts cabinet, and the North American
is as republican as South Carolina
is democratic. In a recent leading
editorial that paper says:
j>v . "'There is loss of faith in President.
Taft. That is the whole story.
Faith in his integrity has not been
lost. Faith in his ability has. And
it is simply because he is surrrounded
by such influences as make it
impossible for him to do what the
people believe ho would like to do.
Grouped about him from the beginning
have been his official family?
the cabinet. Let us survey, briefly,
the group of men to whom he avowedly
intrusts more power that has
been the case in any administration
* : i 106 Be han?is
" 'We do not think tha'. the sentiment
of any nunP er of those western
men lwts been altered because ( f
the handling of our foreign relations.
But the record of Knox certainly
has been a contributing cause.
Within a year the work * of Hay in
the orient and of Root in Soimh
America has been undone. The ultimatum
to Chile and the bluster
about Zelaya have been futilities that
made all Latin America our enemies.
The Manchurian proposal, for the
\ benefit of Wall street, made America
the subject of contempuous laughter
In every civilized land, and with the
Crane scandal practically ended our
Influence for the 'open door.'
" 'MacVeagh, as secretary of the
treasury, we do iiot think has driven
many followers of Taft from him,
because, to all Intents and purposes,
the country has regarded Aldrich as
the head of the currency and finance
of this administration. Rut Mr. MacV
Vcagh, as champion of oleomarger-v
> ine, has had his share in the creation
of enmity.
"Attorney General Wlckersham?
former attorney of the sugar trust
and writer of embarrassing letters
in accordance with his earlier affiliations.
" 'Rallinger?unfit, exposed, discredited
and a natural disgrace?
and still upheld by the President.
" 'Hitchcock, the administration
0
Heathhil Qualities f|
to the Food J
ortomizes Flour, f|
latter sad Eggs
y tHsmuiy puwuer r
Royal Grape Cream %
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fa Lime Phosphates poflice-broker;
the man to whom other
cabinet otlicers are compelled to
refer applicants for positions; the
revivor of a system of spoils unknown
since before the first administration
of Cleveland?this debasor
of an ollice of the greatest public
utility to the rottonest depths of petty
political scheming is allowed by
the president to he regarded as the
controller of national patronage.
"'Wilson?patron of the dopers
and accomplice of food poisoners,
breaking down the pure food laws
as Hitchcock is crushing the civil
service.
| "'Dickinson?the TTarriman lawyer,
groomed now for the senate by
the Louisville and Nashville and Illinois
Central railroads in the Tennessee,
has shown Ills hand by blocking
an independant line of steamshins
to Panama.
" 'And these are the men who,
with Aldrich and Cannon, have stood
between Taft and his countrymen.'"
WILL BE IN FIGHT
LAllOlt UNIONS LINING VI* FOK
POI I'I'U ' \ I ItiTTI W
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Will Seek to Fleet as National and
State Representatives Only Those
Who Help Labor.
The American Federation of Labor
this year will take a more active
part in politics than ever before.
The votes of the laboring liven
are to be used as never before to
gain for the great laboring class all
the benefit possible. Plans of active
political labor campaigns in every
state in the union were made public,
this week, by the executive council
of the ocganization, which adopted
a ir solution, reading in part:
"Resolved, that the American
Federation of Labor most firmly and
unequivocally favors the independent
use of the ballot by the
trades unionists and workmen, united
regardless of party, that we may
elect men from our own ranks to
make new laws and administer them
along lines laid down in the legislative
demand of the American Federation
of Labor, and at the same
t iii< ? secure an impartial judiciary
that will not govern us hy arbitrary
injunctions of the court, nor act as
the pliant tool of corporate wealth.'
A series of questions will he put
before every candidate for the House
Of Represent at iVI s nml pvorv r?nr?i-H_
(late for the legislatures of the various
states this year. If a candidate's
answers are evasive or unsatisfactory
he will he put in the class
of "indifferent or hostile" and will
l>e designated as a target for the
opposition of organized labor.
The candidates will he asked to
declare themselves 011 the following
legislation sought by the labor
leders: Ant iMnjunct ion Sfpialatjon,
eight-hour bill, and amendment to
the anti-trust law, emompting labor
organizations from its provisions,
and the employers liability bill.
The Federation 1 adors regard anti-injunction
legislation as the most
important of their demands, and every
effort will be made to elect representatives
who will favor a bill
limiting the authority of Federal
judges in isnuing injunctions in labor
disputes. Thte record of every representative
throughout the country
has been carefully watched and the
Federation is informed as to how
t very member has voted on matters
affecting organized labor.
ii Bi>uiiKimi or tno now campaign
Frank Morrison, secretary of th'v
Federation, say: "We have nearly
1,500 district organizers in the country
and the machinery in all the
districts nee ssary to put this political
programme into effect. We are
starting up a general campaign to
j defeat candidates who are hostile or
| indi Akron t to our friends, irrespccj
tive of whether they are liopubli*
leans or Democrats.
Three Workmen Killed.
Three men workmon were klllod
and Reveral. injured when tons of
earth fell on sixty workmen in al
trench at Flat llush, N. Y. J
AWFUL DEATH
Avalanches of Snow Sweep Down the
Mountain Carrying With it
RUIN AND DESOLATION
One Canyon Almost hilled With
Snow uiid a Town Almost Completely
Wiped Out.?One Old Woman
Uom lied Alter lleing Ituried
Tldrteen Coot ruder the Snow.
Twenty-three are known to he dead
as the result of the snowslides
Sunday and Monday in the mining
districts of northern Idaho. To the
1 S known to have perished in the
snowslides at Mace and Hurke,
Idaho, Sunday and Monday morning
are rdded two more, who died in a
similar district about noon Monday
when the camp of the Catenate Hill
Mining company at Mullan, Idaho,
was destroyed. Two more were killed
at Horsey, Idaho, late Monday aft
ei noon.
The tight against time and cold at
Mace and Hurke has been waged
bravely and persistently by the little
artnv of men who hope to find under
the heaps of ruins in the ravine
some who have escaped death.
The rescuers have dug for many
hours. Kvery available able-bodied
man has been pressed into s> rvice.
old men and boys joining the rescue
forces.
Mace is situated on the creek bed
and the mountains rise high on either
side of the town.
The main body of tlie avanlanehe.
which started from the top of Custer
mountain, passed beyond the
town and striking the opposite slope
with terrific force, rushed up to the
opposite mountain side. The canyon
is filled to a death nf from .in
to 5 0 feet.
The damage to the town was done
by a branch of the main slide, which
carried a construction train on the
track, as it plunged into t7ie ravine.
As it rolled up to the other side, it
demolished the houses in its path
and stopped a short distance beyond
the Pascoe home. The boarding
house of the Standard mine, where
about 300 miners were sleeping, was
missed by 120 feet.?
The tirst slide, which almost wiped
out the town of Mace, occurred at
10:45 Sunday night, while all except
the men on tho night shift in
the mine were sleeping.
The Hurkc avalanche occurred at
5:30 o'clock Monday morning. That
more lives were not lost at Burke
is due to Seamans Howe, foreman
of the llecla mine. Realizing the
danger that threatened the sleeping
citizens of the town, a mile furthei
up the stream, he sent Bert Clement
to Burke to arouse the inhabitants
and urge them to seek safety. Koui
of those who lost their lives at
Burke were members of the rescue
party that had been at work all
night at Mace.
Among the last to be taken out of
the snow alive at Mace was Mrs
George Hooper, an old woman, who
lived on the outskirts of the town
She was buried fifteen feet under the
snow and it took four hours to reach
her. She had suffered from the cold,
hut was not badly injured.
The little town of Burke, it was
learned, is buried fifty feet under a
mass of snow and earth. The slide
is 300 feet long and completely fills
the canyon.
James Rodgers, who was supposed
to have perished, was rescued at
Burke, late Monday afternoon. He
had been buried in the snow eight
hours.
M\l>i: r.VT.Mi MISTAKE.
Took Poison in Tonic Believing it
Was Quinine.
'At Salina, Kan., Andr.ew Bell Monday
gave up his life to stive that of
his father, ICnoch Dell. Death was
caused by the drinking of a tonic
in which strychnine had been placed,
in the belief that it was quinine.
The father prepared the medicine
and to assure his son that the tonic
was properly made, tasted is first.
Both m n soon became violently ill.
When a physician arrived, the son
insisted that the father be cared for
first. The doctor complied but when
he turned his attention to Uv younger
man, it was too late and the son
.is.. i
w.v.i 111 Kii-ni iinoiiy wiiniii the next
hour. Enoch Dell, it is stated, will
recover.
?
Kills llis Wife.
Samuel Cochran shot, and killed
his wife at Tom's Creek, Va., late
Saturday night. On tire returning
home he found Mrs. Cochran in company
with Thos. Turner. Cochran
shot his wife three times. She died
almost instantly. Turning the weapon
on Turner, Cochran snapped It
hut the gun did not go off. Turner
tied from the house and notified the
ofp.ccrs. Cochran was arrested.
Militia Withdrawn from Cairo.
The five militia companies that
have been on duty in Cairo, III., since
February 17 because of tho fear of
race riots wero withdrawn Sunday.
I TAUGHT HIM A LESSON
(oi.oki:!) .jamtoic of tiik Atlanta
tostoi i ici;
IIniilcil I p Ilefore (lie < it.v .IikI'Jso
anil (iiven Heavy Sentence lor Delving
Oily Laws.
1
The popular fallacy that goverumen
employes are exempt from!
state and municipal authority in ease J
of law violation committed on federal
property was exploded hy He- |
corded llro-ilc of the Atlanta City i
Court in the trial of Tress Logan, a,
negro janitor ut tin* Atlanta ]><> -t->
ofl'tce, for calling a small hoy a \ i 1 '
name because the latter failed to.
move from in front of his broom
with the respectful celerity that he
seems to have thought his due.
"I'll lino you $:?<) or lilt days at
hard labor on public works for cursing
this child," imposed the wrathfrl
recorder, "and an additional fine of
the same amount for contempt of
court."
When a policeman went around to
serve Logan with a copy of the
charge ho refused to recognize the
paper, and informed the ollleor that
ho was exempt from recorder's court
authority by virtue of the dignity of
his position in Uncle Sam's employ.
"Alright," said the ollleor, "thai
may be all true, but if you don't
come to court tomorrow afternoon
we'll come and get you, and you
can tell that to the judge."
When he had delivered Logan's
son t ("ice, the recorder paused long
enough for Logan to comprehend the
full significance and then delivered
himself of a very severe roast.
"it is just, such negroes as you.
Logan, that incite race riots in which
innocent well meaning members of
your race are killed and wounded.
You needn't think because you sweep
the Honrs in the postotlico that you
can defy the law. You arc just as
much subject to it as the negro who
tries to paint Decatur street a lurid
crimson. And for your future guidance
I would suggest that you take
yourself down a peg and behave
voinsolf with :i tiffin mnm i-nciu?>n'i.l
decency in tliis hallowed precincts of
the federal building."
i>m:l ovi?:it a <;ikl.
Father and Lover Fought Willi (heat
(
Bitterness. i
Alleging that the reputation of 1
the girl in the case had been blasted, s
Charles Melelo, the father of the
young lady, and Anthony Speradino,
her friend, and the on 1 accused of
having made the accusations, got (
together on the front lawn of Mele- '
lo's residence, in (Jreenwich, Conn., j
one afternoon last week in what was
to have been a duel to the death.
Melelo was armed with the faniil>
ax, while Speradino chose a keenbladed
knife as his weapon. After
gravely saluting each other, while a
half dozen frantic women, including
Miss Melelo looked on, they began
::t each other and hack d and slashed
at each other for a period of
ten minutes. At this time both foil
from exaustion and friends took
charge of the wounded men. Surgeons
discovered that Melelo's ax
had indicted a bad scalp wound on
Speradino, while the hitter's knife
had slashed M' lelo's right hand, the
one in which he grasped the axe, to
ribbons. Both men will recover.
The young woman who was the
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the flight and was hysterical for several
days after it. Speradino and
she were good friends and friends of
the young man declare that 'evilminded
gossips, inclined to jealousy,
started the stories that resulted in
the trouble.
ixsam; rito.m i: \TiXfi a.\i;n.\< i:
Lived on I'ood Collected From Yards
for Three Years.
Disdaining to ask for town aid and
too proud to heg a family of six
persons, three of them children, for
three years have been living on garbage
which the father of the family,
seventy years old, has daily collected
from yards in Darlington, Vt., ostensibly
to feed his "pigs."
This was the startling fact revealed
Sunday when the local authorities
were called in to take charge of two
insane, middle aged women, l?'d r.
wr i / I /\ urci f Vi/J ? f'>l h/v.. -- ' A ' - 1 1
oiwwtv n, i m. u Itllliur illiu ( II I'f'M ?*!1.I
dren, 1, 7, and 14 years of ago,
respectively. To the nnspp.ix iM.diet
upon which the two women,
Mrs. Mattie Sipples and Mrs. lOmery
Lcavitt, have subsisted for 3G months
is attributed their present insanity.
Panic on Steamer.
A general panic among the 7f> passengers
on board the steamer Nowport
News followed that boat's collision
with tbe British tramp steamer
Dord Roberts Tuesday off VVolg Trap
light during a heavy fog.
Dropped Ten Stories.
While fighting a disastrous blaze
In a twelve story structure on Murray
street, New York, Marry Ilurghs,
a fireman, walked into an elevator
shaft, dropped ten stories and was
Instantly killed.
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A cablegram from Koine, Italy,
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was crowded Sunday morning, the
congregation including many American
visitors, who were attracted by
the subject of I'astor It. M. Tipple's
sermon?"Why Methodism is in
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church that Charles \V. Fairbanks,
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States, delivered the address which
shut him off from being received in
audience by the pope.
The 11ev. Mr. Tipple said that the
Methodist church was meeting with
great success throughout Italy. Such
an inference could he drawn from the
extraordinary action of the Vatican
with regard to the proposed visit of
ex-vice President. Fairbanks to the
pope and also from the bittter resentment
of the Catholic clergy. As
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Methodist church the pastor said it
was fitting that from the same pult
> i t the charces nrefoirn-l
Methodism should bo considered. |
"With reference to the assertion
that Methodists have no right to be
in Italy," said the preacher, "the
answer is that we are here under the
Italian laws guaranteeing religious
freedom. Another assertion by the
Catholics is that Methodism is not
needed in Italy. But Methodists believe.
that the need is urgent, as the
Catholic church is always more efficient
for good when compelled to
compete with aggressive protestantism
as conspicuously evidenced in
America.
"Tlio Catholic church suffers cmbarassmont
when it is required to
satisfy the deals of a great, libertvlovlng
republic contemporaneously
with heeding the demands of tin*
Vatican, which is still bound by the
deals of the middle ages. This is
proved by the experience of Archbishop
Ireland, when he was here a
year ago studying the Methodist
propaganda.
"A great Lincoln banquet was arranged
by t he American colony. Very
properly Archbishop Ireland was asked
to speak. Very properly, as a
patriotic American citizen, he accepted
the invitation. But suddenly the
good archbishop recalled his acceptance.
The Vatican had forbidden
him to speak or attend the banquet
because a toast to President Roosevelt
was followed by a toast to the
king of Italy.
"Italy n eds Methodism because it
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"The Issue in Italy today is not
Protestantism versus Cathollslsm but
faith versus atheism. Archbishop
Ireland lias said that every convert
to Methodism costs $1,400. If that
is true, can not the American Methodists
bettor afford to pay it than
every throe Italian laborers who ca#rry
one priest?"
Ho urged that Archbishop Ireland
specify the dishonorable Methodists
hero and he added:
"It is playing with Are for the
Catholic church to open the subject
of moral methods in Italy."
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