The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 22, 1903, Image 7
IT?LKI?S OF SENATOR SORMAN.
His Friends lo Washington Still
Think He Has a Chance
For the Democratic Nomination for
President.
Washington, July 15.-Senator
German's friends in Washington look
with much interest upon the visit of
: Judge Parker to the South. From all
- that they can learn they do not believe
; ? ? that the prestige of the Maryland
V statesman was injured any by the trip
> of the New Yorker, and they believe
glfthat when the time comes for the
^nomination- of a Democratic Pres i
|||;dential fcandidate nest year Senator
Gorman will have very strong support
from the Southern States.
Nothingjlike a brass bi md campaign
is being conducted for Senator Gor?
man. Xb.e Senator himself would not
permit anything of the kind. He has
not put himself in the position of seek?
ing the Presidential nomination and
p- his European trip this summer has
doubtless had the effect of cutting off
Pi a great deal of talk that would have
been indulged in had he remained in
this country.
There will be plenty of time for the
f discussion of the merits of all pros?
pective candidates before the National
Convention meets next summer. Dur
? ing most of this time Mr. Gorman
wi? be in the limelight. , He is the
only man prominently mentioned in
: connection with the Democratic
Domination who will take a prominent
part in national affairs between the
present time and the date of the
nomination. Upon his return to the
Senate at the beginning of the extra
session is November Mr. Gorman will
at once assume a prominent place in
the party councils.- During his ab?
sence from the Senate other Demo?
crats have developed in prominence,
;, but no man has quite taken his place
as the party laader. He will be wel?
comed back by his party associates and
will be looked to for advice by both
pl"Senators and Representatives.
. This conditi on of affairs* while it
will undoubtedly by of advantage in
; many ways to the advocates of Sena?
tors Gorman's nomination, will also
add to the dif?culties ii his path. He
will be recognized by the Republican
leaders as a formidable candidate for
the Democratic nomination and the
. astute leaders of the Republican side
of the Senate can be counted upon to
plac? every possible obstacle in his
path and to endeavor to entrap him
into u|?srances that would injure his
candidacy. The Maryland Senator,
however, can be counted upon as a
match for any of bis Senatorial op?
ponents, and if the Republicans rely
for campaign material ui?on the hope
that he will make mistakes on the
floor of the Senate, they will probably
be woefully disappointed. If any Re?
publican campaign material is based
on Democratic mistakes made during
the extra session of Congress or the
regular session it will probably be
supplied by some one. other than Sena?
tor Gorman. At the same time his
supporters zesJxze. that he will be the
target for Republican attacks and for
misrepresentation and abuse in propor?
tion as be becomes more prominent as
& candidate for the Democratic nomi?
nation, and that his very \ rominence
may thus be si disadvantage to a cer?
tain extent as compared with men who
; will not be so prominently before the
people. The advocates of the nomina?
tion of the Maryland Senator do not
fear the ordeal through which he must
? pass before the meeting of the Nation?
al Convention. They know that
he has the confidence of the
party leaders and of the conservative
business element in the party, and out
of it to an extent enjoyed by but few
men, and they believe that Republican
?criticism of any of his acts or of the
acts of his pa rty in Congress will not
diminish in any degree the confidence
of the party leaders or of the people in
his wisdom and integrity.
P. M. Arthur Drops Dead.
Winnipeg. Man., July 17.-P. M.
Arthur, grand chief engineer of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
?dropped dead at midnight while speak?
ing at the banquet closing the annual
union convention of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers which has been
in session for the past few days.
Mr. Arthur had just arisen to res?
pond to a toast and repeated the
*words: **It may be my parting words
to many of you," when he fell back?
ward and expired a few minutes after?
wards.
London, July 15.-At house dinner
of the National Liberal club tonight,
Earl Carrington presiding, Bourke
Cockran was the guest of honor and
delivered a speech denouncing Colonial
Secretary Chamberlain's fiscal propos
*als. The action of the committee of
the club in inviting Mr. Cochran is
the subject of protests ty numerous
members of the club, because, of his
anti-British and pro-Boer speeches.
Pittsburg, July 15.-Hudson Sam?
son, known in Methodist Episcopal
Church circles throughout the United
States for his charity and philanthropy
and as the builder of a score or more
churches throughout Pennsylvania and
the middle and far west, died at his
home in this ciy last night of acute
indigestion. He built the first public
crematory in the United States in
Pittsburg 20 years ago, and many
prominent persons have been cremated
in the establishment.
'Society Hill, July 15.-There was a
shooting scrape at a negro baseball
picnic near here on Saturday last.
Several negroes began disputing
over a trivial matter when one whose
name is unknown shot James Young
and was immediately shot by Carey
Young, a brother of James Young.
He is thought to be fatally wounded.
The other negro has only a flesh wound
in the arm.
Tuccso, Ariz., July ll.-A special
to The Star from Wilson, Ariz., says:
A fight has occurred between the men
of I and M troops on one side and
E troop on the other, all of the Four?
teenth Unted States cavalry at Bonita,
three miles from Fort Grant. Cor?
poral Seidensticker of Troop M was
fatally wounded in the groin and
Trumpeter Davis, also of Troop M
was shot through both thighs. The
men who did the shooting are un?
known at present. One hundred shots
were fired and a house wrecked,
knout 50 men are implicated.
! PRESIDENT MAY FINIO.
He is Hunting an Excuse to Get
Out of Sending Jews' Petition
to Russia.
Oyster Bay, L. L, July 14.-An im?
portant conference was held at Saga?
more Hill today between the president
and representative Jewish citizens of
the society of the B'Nai B'Rith re?
garding the petition to the Russian
government on the Kischineff out?
rages. Besides the president < the
parties to the conference were Simon
Wolf of Washington, Oscar Strauss
and Leon N. Levi of New York.
The administration has been embar?
rassed by the delay of the representa?
tives of the B'Nai B'Rith society in
presenting the petition. A draft?of the
documet was handed to President
Roosevelt several weeks ago by Mr.
Wolf, but it was decided after some
consideration to modify the text of
the petition before presenting it fpTm
ally to this government for transmit?
tal to Russia. This was desired too to
obtain to the petition the signatures
of representative citizens of the
United States of all the religious
faiths. As a result the document was
not placed in the hands of the presi?
dent until today.
The result of the conference at
Sagamore Hill has not been disclosed
but a strong intimation is given that
the petition may not be forwarded to
the Russian government. The desire
of both the president and Secretary
Hay is that the Kischineff incident
should be closed as soon as possible,
as further delay in its consideration
might prove embarrassing to this
government in other negotiations
with Russia.
Inasmuch as the Russian govern?
ment has indicated by the adoption of
severe measures a genuine disposition
to punish adequately the perpetrators
of the Kischineff murderers and in ad?
dition those who instigated them, it
is a problem for the presidentr and
Secretary Hay to solve whether repre?
sentations concerning the incident
now are either desirable or necessary.
Members of the Jewish committee to?
gether with Dr. Albert Shaw, editor
of the Review of Reviews, and his
friend from England, Maurice Amos,
were the guests of the president at
luncheon.
RUSSIA SHOWS HER HAND.
Denies Authority of China in
Manchuria.
Port Arthur, Manchuria, July 15.
The conference of prominent Russian
officials has ended and the last special
train departed for Moscow yesterday.
Most of the visiting officials have
gone. Exultation over Russia's in?
creasing power in Manchuria was the
dominant note in the gathering. The
possibility of taking any backward
steps is scoffed at if mentioned by
outsiders.
The evidence of the increase of war?
like preparations since the arrival of
Gen. Kuropatkin, the minister of war,
and uf the intention to bring more
troops to Manchuria is abundant.
The officials explained that Russia's
objection to opening Manchurian towns
to foriegners was not based upon op?
position to foreigners whose trade
is desired, but to consuls ac?
credited to the Chinese Government in
towns which are practically under
Russian control, which would give the
subjects of countries so represented the
enjoyment of extra territorial rights.
They asserted that such an arrange?
ment would be certain to result in
great friction, such as occurred in New
Chwang.
HAY STILL NEGOTIATING.
Washington, July 15.-At the State
department today it developed that the
conference between Secretary Hay and
Theodore Hansen yesterday regarding
the Manchurian situation as one of the
most satisfactory nature. The result
is that the Secretary will further ad
vise the American treaty commissioners
atfPeking of what transpired yester
day, and it is hoped these additional
instructions will pave the way for an
early settlement of the question of
ports in Manchuria, which is the one
point in the controversy.
The Japanese minister, Kagora
Takahira, who was compelled to forego
his trip to Japan because of the con?
tinued delay of the departure from
Washington of Count Cassini, called
at the State department today to in?
quire regarding the conference yes?
terday between the Secretary and Mr.
Hansen. The Japanese minister has
been given to understand that Mr.
Hay's policy in Manchuria is solely to
secure open ports of the world.
That Kishineff Petition.
Washington, D. C., July 15.-The
Jewish petition laid before the Presi?
dent yesterday by the B'Nai B'Rith
committee, has been received, and
Secretary Hay has cominunicted by
cable with Mr. Riddle, the American
charge of d'affaires, at St. Peters?
burg, respecting* the means to be em?
ployed in bringing it to the attention
of the Czar. It is beleved that Mr.
Riddle's instructions are to notify the
Russian Government of the existence
of the petition and ascertain whether
it is willing to recieve it. No further
announcement will be made until Mr.
Riddle has been heard from.
St. Louis Boodler Convicted.
St. Louis, July 15.-The jury in the
case of Julius Lehmann, former
member of the House of Delegates,
charged with bribery in connection
with the passage of the city lighting
bill, returned a verdict this afternoon,
finding the defendant guilty. His
punishment was fixed at seven years in
the penitentiary, the maximum punish?
ment under the law for the crime of
which he was convicted. It took the
jury just seven minutes in which to
reach its verdict.
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MUNICIPAL FRANCHISES.
Cities Should Own and Operate
Their Public Utilities.
By Prof. E. W. bernis, Superinten- |
dent of Waterworks, Cleveland, O.
By the franchise question in ;
cities is meant the relation that cities
bear, or should bear, to street rail?
ways, lighting, water, telephones
and other companies that receive
rights from the city to lay pipes and
conduits under the streets, or to occu?
py right' of way upon them or over
them. It is recognized that these en?
terprises are vital to the development
of the modern city, and the welfare
of its citizens. tThe heatlh as well as
the comfort of a community depends
upon the extent to which cheap and
convenient transportation is furnished
to suburbs, and an abundance of light,
pure water, etc., are supplied to the
streets and buildings. The larger the
city grows the larger even the per
capita use of such public utilities,
that are in their nature monopolies.
The fact that they must look to the
city for rights in the streets, and that
in cities of much size they are able to
earn a much larger return on the cost
of their physical property than is the
case in other business involving simi?
lar slight risk, places th?se monopolies
in most intimate relations with the
city governments and taxing bodies.
The owners may be our best, as they
are often our nblest citizens, but they
have a tremendously larger temptation
to secure weak and inefficient city
governments than have physicians,
merchants, manufacturers, wage-earn?
ers, or other social classes. No other
business, unless it be saloons, or
school textbooks, is at once so profi?
table and so dependent upon the favor
of all city governments as are public
utilities.'
Everyone is familiar with the scan?
dals that have attended these enter?
prises in nearly all our large cities,
although in few cases has so much
publicity attended them as in the re?
cent cases of St. Louis and Philadel?
phia. But it is more important to
consider some ways of improving the
situation than to further unfold the
grewsome tale of existing demoraliza?
tion, that the fault of this condition
has not always lain in the management
of these companies, but often with
unscrupulous city counclis. The fault
seems to be rather in the nature of the
casse than in any particular badness of
character in the men in charge of
these public necessities.
Turning to remedies, there is much
to learn from the recommendations on
this subject of the National Municipal
league, in its famous municipal pro?
gramme, or model charter and pro?
posals of necessary State legislation.
It was there proposed that the State
should have very little control of the
subject outside of a limitation of the
life of the franchise to 20 or 25 years,
but should throw the responisbility
upon the communities concerned. They
should have the right entirely untram?
meled by State legislation to either
own and operate or lease any of these
utilities, and in case of a lease to fix
such terms as they may wish and be
able to secure from the operating com?
panies.
Carrying out this thought somewhat
further "than the league has done, the
writer would urge that all cities should
arrange as soon as possible to have all
their franchises of a certain type, such
as street railways, expire at the same
time, and should therefore refuse to
grant any franchises for any definite
term, but should provide that at any
time, or soon as State legislation
should be secured rendering it legal,
cities might have the right to buy
these enterprises on paying the struc?
tural value plus some fair percentage,
perhaps 15 per cent., to cover
net monopoly values, but not
such value as might accrue
to such business merely from
its being a "going concern." Such
power of purchase, however, and such
leases and renewals, should always be
referred to popular vote by the coun?
cil, or should be subject to such a vote
whenever 10 or 15 per cent, of the
voters might sign a petition demanding
such a referendum.
It is not here meant that all cities
should at once proceed to the owner?
ship and operation of such public
necessities ; in fact, it is believed that
the time is. not yet ripe for this, in
many places, and that the people would
not vote for it. A somewhat general
belief in civil service reform, or the
merit system, and the ability of the
people to own their own government,
and not submit it to be "boss rid?
den," is the prime requisite for any
large success in municipal ownership.
All that is here contended is thaat
every community should have the right
to determine its own policy in these
matters, and in tases for local pur?
poses of such public necessities. When
communities once possess the right it
will not be important in many cases
to actually exercise it, as it now ap
pers to be. When, Nashville thus
secured the right to issue 8600,000 of
bonds to construct a gas plant in 1892
the price of gas at once fell from S2.10
to $1.50 and has subsequently been re?
duced to a much lower figure. A
similar decline took place in Baltimore
within the past three years. A com?
pany that declared that it could not
sell street arc lights in that city for
even as low a price as $125 per year
per light without loss, found it en?
tirely possible to sell at a r~V?t for less
than $100 as soon as the city had secur?
ed the right to issue bonds for a
municipal plant.
The so-called Massachusetts method
of dealing with city monopolies is not
as effective as this would be likely to
be. In Massachusetts no franchises
are granted to public utilities, yet it
is practically impossible for a city to
take any action of any kind in deal?
ing with them, without the approval
of the State board, whicli is very con?
servative in its regard for several in?
terests, while the State legislature of?
ten shows still greater conservatism.
Where franchises are not to expire at
a certin definite date in the near fu?
ture, but at different times on lines,
as is especially the case with street
railway in many cities, and where
valuable routes for new lines have not
yet been secured by the old company
or companies, it would often be possi?
ble to do what Mayor Johnson has
undertaken to do in Cleveland, viz:
s. euro by competitive bidding some
new company to bid for the unoccupied
streets where street railway facilities,'
are desired, and bid underspecifica?
tion? which call for public purchase at
10 or 15 per cent, advance over the
physcial vaine whenever a vote of the
people shall call for it. S ach a com?
pany is then in position ?to take over
existing, expiring grants of the old
companies, as their franchises run
out, and to do so under favorable terms
to the city. Municipalities having
successful waterworks plants could
well afford to establish municipal elec?
tric lighting plants in connection
therewith for botli street and arc light?
ing. In such cases it would be fair to
buy out the old companies at their fair
physical value plus 10 or-15 per cent,
if they care to sell.
The trouble with existing conditions
of private ownership is that city coun?
cils and other branches of the city gov?
ernment are under such suspicion of
undue influence that able men of high
character will not accept oflice there?
in, as they will do on hospital, educa?
tional or park boards. Hence the vari?
ous branches of a city government
become filled up with weak, if not
actually corrupt; men. Such men are
not only incompetent or unwilling to
deal properly with monopoly questions,
but are too weak to deal adequately
with other problems, such as schools,
streets, public buildings, parks, etc.,
which are in no way connected with
.these monopolies. The utter feeble?
ness and amazing incapacity of many
a city government is thus accounted
for.
On the other hand, the tendency
under public management, as often
seen in the case of the waterworks, is
more and more to exclude politics
and enlist the sympathy of the taxpay?
er in economical, honest administra?
tion.
When private mangement prevails,
as prevail it undoubtedly will in most
places, ands in respect to most mono?
polies save wter and electric light, for
some years to come, efficient service and
low charges should be sought by the
community rather than high taxes.
JLow charges by these monopolies im?
prove the standard of living of the
many and even increase the business
of the companies to such an extent as
to prevent any large fall of profits
with reduction of charge. To make
taxing bodies of gas and street rail?
way companies where the alternative
of reducing charges is at hand is a
great social blunder. Where, how-1
ever, as in many cases, there are legal
difficulties .in the way of public re?
gulation of charges, it is only fair and
just to assess these bodies in at
least the same ratio cf the market
value of their securities and their
net earnings as prevails in the case of
city and village real estate and the
estates of orphans in the probate court.
Even a further and special franchise
tax woad be ethically and economical?
ly sound. Some State constitutions
now permit this, if once public senti?
ment makes the demand. In most cities
today, however, the tax on the aver?
age man's home is far higher than on
the true valuers a going concern of
the lighting and . railroad monopolies
that go by his door.
Until the people are ready for a busi?
ness or for a merit system of admin
isration of public utilit?s in public
hands, and until they are willing to
take tlie time and energy away from
their moneymaking in order to truly
own their own government, about the
best that can be hoped for is the secur?
ing for every city such home rule and
such power to regulate and tax these
utilities as has been above suggested.
When that is done, then, to some de?
gree at least, private companies will
be on their good behavior, and will
seek to deserve that continuance of
public favor which would become ab?
solutely necessary for their continued
profitable enjoyment of their rights
of the streets.
RUSSIA WILL NOT RECEIVE PETITION
Cablegram From Mr. Riddle So
Informs President Roosevelt.
Washington, July 16.-It was learned
tonight that the state department has
received a reply from Russia stating
that it neither would receive nor con?
sider the matter of the Jewish petition
on the subject of the Kischineff inci?
dent. This information came in the
form of cablegram from Mr. Riddle,
the American charge at St. Petersburg,
to whom was committed the delicate
task of inquiring of the Russian
government as to its attitude with
respect to the presentation of the peti?
tion.
It is believed that this will end the
mattter and that no further steps will
be taken by the goverment to bring
the views of the petitioners to the at?
tention of Russia, although as yet no
consideration has been given by the
president to the course to be pursued
in the light of Russia's response to our
inquiry.
Jailer George W. Hancock had
Something by Which to Re?
member the Early 760's.
Hero in Sumter there are few people more
generally known than George W. Hancock
keeper of the jail. Mr. Hancock is an inter?
esting talker and tells a story well. Of war
stories he has an ample store. Seen one day
at his castle on Canal street he told the fol?
lowing :
"I have been down in bed on account of my
back several times and suffered the most in?
tense pain right across the small of my back
which felt just as if a log of wood was laying
on it and crushing the life out of me and I
was unable to get from under it. could not
turn over without taking both hands to pull
myself. The kidney secretions wore very
dark, full of sodimen* and called me out of
bed every little while. I think I contracted
the disease during Hie war, away back in
1862 and lSt>3 laying out in all kinds of weath?
er, exposed to heat and cold. Since then dur?
ing later years I have suffered everything a
man could suffer and I i vi'. I used everything
I could got hold of but nothing seemed to
touch it. I finally saw Doan's Kidney Pills
advertised and went to Dr. A. J. China's
drug store and procured a box. They acted
like a charm. I have used three boxes and all
tiie pain in my back has left, the kidney se?
cretions have become natural and I feel A
No. 1. Doan's Kidney Pills are the best back?
ache remedy on earth."
Por sale by all dealers; pr?ce no rent s. Fos
ter-MHburn Co.. Buffalo, rs. Y.. sole agents
for the United St ates.
Remember the name Doan's and lake no
other. 2
The hammocks being sold by H. G.
Osteen & Co., haven't a superior in
Sumter, at the price.
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