Bellefonte, Pa., August 23, 1912.
A CONFUSION OF NAMES
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Wife of Democratic Candidate Gives
Out Letter Taking Strong Stand on |
Smoking Habit.
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New York.—For the first time since
Woodrow Wilson became the Demo-
cratic presidential candidate has Mrs.
Wilson appeared. She attended in
person her husband's daily conference
with reporters, although heretofore
she has made special requests that she
be not quoted nor written about in the
papers.
What Mrs. Wilson wished to have
fully understood was that if she be-
comes the first lady of the land she
will not, as has been said in a widely.
distributed interview, have packages
of cigarettes in her personal desk at
the White House and indulge in smok-
ing them with her callers.
Through Governor Wilson, Mrs. Wil-
son asked that publicity be given to a
letter she had written to the editor of
the State Journal at Columbus, O.,
repudiating an alleged interview with
her in which she defended cigarette
smoking for women. The interview
nad come to her in a letter signed
“American Citizen,” which said:
“Dear Madam-—I can scarcely think
of any greater calamity to the young
women of the nation than to read such
a preachment as your interview offers
tnem. | am a workingman, and I see
men lose their jobs almost every day
because they are incapacitated for
work by the use of the cigarette. If
smoking does this for strong men
what will it do for girls and women?”
The “interview” was indeed a cor-
dial indorsement of the woman smok-
er. Here are some of its assuring
phrases, all credited to Mrs. Wilson:
“A woman writer for a syndicate of
Sunday newspapers asked Mrs Wood-
row Wilson if she agreed with Ger-
trude Atherton’'s opinon of the smok-
ing of cigarettes by women. She smil-
ingly exhibited three cigarette boxes
piled in the corner of her desk, all but
empty.
“‘Why shouldn't a woman smoke if
she enjoys it? she queried.
“ “Why hasn’t she just as much right
to a cigarette as a man Certainly 1
agree with Mrs. Atherton that any
existing prejudice against women
smoking is to the last silly and ab
surd.
“ ‘Smoking cigarettes is a question
of manners, not morals. It promotes
good fellowship.
“ ‘Some women feel that a cigarette
calms their nerves and helps their
brains into working order. Personally
smoking diffuses my thoughts instead
of concentrating them. [ enjoy it as 1
enjoy after dinner coffee. Both are
pleasant ways of ending and finishing
off; both add to conviviality and good
fel'uwship.’”
The editor of the Ohio State Journal,
it was clear, had been much incensed
at the apologies for the cigarette habit
among women attributed to Mrs. Wil.
son, as he wrote on Aug. 10 an editn.
rial in which he called for the defeat
of Governor Wilson or a repudiation
from his wife. If there was no mis-
take about it, he wrote, “Mrs. Wood-
row Wilson shouldn't be mistress of
the White House.”
If the Ohio editor was emphati:
Mrs. Wilson was certainly not less so.
After the reporters had said they
would gladly publish her letter to the
Ohio editor she asked for an hour's
time in which to write one. This was
what she prepared:
“Dear Sir—I have just received a
copy of the Journal with your edito-
rial entitled ‘Smoking Women,’ and I
beg leave to deny indignantly the
statement that I approve of women
smoking cigarettes. The interview
upon which your editorial was based
is a pure invention. I intensely dis-
like the cigarette smoking habit for
women—in fact, so strong is my feel-
ing on the subject that my real danger
lies in being unjust and unkind in my
judgment of those who differ with me
in this respect.
“But certainly no woman in our
household ever has or ever will smoke,
nite apart from the bad taste of it, I
believe with you that it has an e..
tremely injurious effect on the nerves,
“ELLEN A. WILSON.
(“Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.”)
Governor Wilson, in approving the
letter sent out by Mrs. Wilson, offered
what he thought might prove an ex-
planation for the interview.
“I do not think it was maliciously
invented,” he said. “There is a rather
well known writer who signs herself
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and she no
doubt has been confused with Mrs,
Wilson.”
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow was [ormerly
taarried to a relative of Governor Wil.
son, and it is understood that her
views on the matter of women who | &
smoke are different from those held
in the household of the Democratic
can:lidate,
It is reported that papers which are
supporting the bull mooser have or-
dered extra fonts of “I's,” And they
will be needed when Teddy gets to
talking.
Wonder how the colonel likes being
an outcast?
Mrs. B—It doesn’t always pay to
husband one's resources.
Mrs. W.—Why not?
Mrs. B—Well, judge so from Mrs.
Goodthing’s experience. She let her
husband have the $10,000 she inher
ited from her grandmother and he lost
it all in speculation.
DEMOCRACY MUST BE #5 [NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A WORTHY INSTRUMENT
People Trust It, Says Woodrow
Wilson, and It Must
Make Good.
Sea Girt, N. J.—Woodrow Wilson at
the “Little White House” at Sea Girt
is daily called upon to demonstrate his
ability as a ready speaker.
There is not a day passes but what
he maets various delegations who call
to assure him of their support.
In speaking of political machines to
the Brooklyn Democratic Club Gover-
nor Willson said: “Machines are bad,
but an organization may be very es-
sential. For instance, I have been
surrovnded by an organization here in
New Jersey while doing my best work.
A machine uses its political opportu-
nities for the selfish ends of its mem-
vers. No members of our organization
would ever think of doing that. Pub-
lic opinion in New Jersey has drawn
the distinction. It has killed the ma-
chines, and it is going to keep the or-
ganization going.
“It seems to me that we are stand-
ing in the presence of something high-
er than allegiance to the N:*mocratic
party. The country has been disap-
pointed in the Republican party, and it
is turning to the Democratic party.
‘hat party is willing to show the way
toward those things which must be
realized.
“Some gentlemen seem to find it
easy to make personalities out of poli-
tics, but it seems to me that whenever
that is done politics is debased.
“Men who are in search of reform
are now resorting to the Democratic
party, because, for my own part, I do
not know where else they will turn to
expect the results. There ig no dis-
counting the strength and serviceabil-
ity of a united party, and the splendid
part is that the Democratic party is
united.
“Speak‘ng seriously, nothing affords
me more genuine pleasure than to re-
ceive such greetings from men in Jer-
sey who have at least tested my quali-
ties. Because you have known me
at close range and If you will be kind
enough to vouch for me perhaps the |
rest of the country will be credulous
of your report.
“lI have spent a great deal of time
since I became governor of New Jer
sey defending your character. It was
supposed in the old days, when the
hoard of guardians was in charge of
the state, that you were all of you
disposed to give the most monopolistic
trusts of the country a great ringing
welcome in New Jersey.
“New Jersey was known as the
mother of trusts—a very troublesome
and questionable family—and I had to
spend my time outside New Jersey as-
suring the people of the Union that it
had not been the fault or the disposi-
tion of the people of New Jersey that
there were certain gentlemen who had
undertaken to carry the Republican
party in their pockets and to adminis.
ter independently of the rank and file
of Republicans in the state,
“New Jersey is progressive, but the
United States is progressive, and we
have here merely a delightful sample
of the people of the United States.
“Now, these people are not bent on
destroying anything, but they are bent
on setting everything in order; they
are bent upon justice; they are bent
upon seeing to it that the people in
general are partners of the govern.
ment, as I was trying to show the
other day. And the Democratic party
is now placed under a peculiar respon-
sibility. It has to prove that it is
the worthy instrument of that zeal on
the part of the people of the United
States. Tf it does not prove it now it
will never be given another chance to
prove it. No party that proves un-
faithful to that ideal will ever again
be trusted by the people of America,
And therefore we are standing at a
turning point in our politics. We must
make good or go out of business. In
the vernacular, it is a case of ‘put up
or shut up,’ because words are going
to be discounted. Nothing will be hon.
ored except the actual carrying out of
such programs as sensible men may
unite in for the common benefit.”
THE GREAT DUTY OF AD- §
JUSTMENT.
We are servants of the peo-
ple, the whole people. The na- §
tion has been unnecessarily, un.
reasonably at war with itself. §
Interest has clashed with inter. @
est when there were common §
principles of right and of fair ¢@
dealing which might and should §
have bound them all together, ¢
not as rivals, but as partners. §
As the servants of all we are
bound to undertake the great §
duty of accommodation and ad- §
justment.—From Woodrow Wil. §
son's Speech Accepting the ¢
Democratic Nomination,
Wilson will make the most accessi-
ble president who has ever
the White House. He is typically a
Democratic man.
Viilson is the best equipped man
nominated for the presidency since
Lieoln.
George W. Perkins is sure a “bully”
Progressive,
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Thurlow Weed
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Ex-President Was Too Thrifty to Per
mit His Wife to Return to Fi
nancier Railway Stock
He Owned.
By E. J. EDWARDS.
Recently I told of the bow that |
reconciled Millard Fillmore and Thur-
low Weed, two men whose names can-
not be disassociated if one is to get
a clear understanding of either’s char-
acter or career. To-day my story is
of the $10,000 that the ex-president
kept the great New York politician
from getting; and it goes to illustrate
William H. Seward's declaration that
“Fillmore is an exceedingly good busi-
ness man. He is very methodical,
somewhat cautious, and as a lawyer
he has been well trained to take
nothing for granted. He is one of
those men who believe that every-
thing should be committed to writ-
ing.”
“I repeat the anecdote as it was told
to me by a gentleman who had inti-
mate knowledge of Mr. Weed's pe-
cuniary affairs.
“I don’t know exactly when it was
that Mr. Weed became a stockholder
in the railroad known as the Albany
& Schenectady,” he said, “but I do
know that he always had a sentiment-
al interest in it. I often heard him
describe his first ride upon it. He
was one of the passengers who made
the first trip on the railroad after it
was built, and you may remember it
was the first rallroad in the United
States to run regular trains.
“He became the owner of 100 shares
of the road's stock some time before
its consolidation with what is now the
New York Central system. The stock
appreciated in value untl. it was at
last worth par, so that Mr. Weed'’s in-
vestment represented about $10,000.
“I don't know what the reason was,
but Mr. Weed did not hold the stock
in his own name. It was held in the
name of the president of the railroad,
Mr. McIntosh. I have always pre-
sumed that Mr, Weed bought the |
stock of Mr. McnlItosh, and, possibly |
because of his political leadership, he
did not wish to carry it on the books
in his own name.
“At any rate, not until some time
after the widow of this railroad presi-
dent had become the second wife of
Millard Fillmore, who was then an ex-
president, did it occur to Mr. Weed,
who was notoriously careless about
money matters, that it might be well
to have his stock transferred to him.
He thereupon wrote to Mrs. Fillmore,
who was a most charming woman,
stating that a block of 100 shares of
stock in the Albany & Schnectady
railroad, of which he was the owner,
had always been held in the name of
Mr. McIntosh for reasons that were
satisfactory to both of them. But
now he thought it expedient that the
stock be transferred to him by her as
the executrix of the estate left by Mr
Mcintosh.
“Mrs. Fillmore, who was ready
enough to take Mr, Weed's word,
showed his letter to Mr. Fillmore, as
a matter of courtesy, probably.
“ ‘Surely, in a transaction of this
kind,’ sald Mr. Fillmore, ‘there should
be some acknowledgment, some docu
mentary proof of real ownership. Mr
Weed cannot object if you write te
him and say that you will be glad to
transfer the stock to him if he will
show you some memorandum showing
that the ownership was really in him.
“That settled it, for Mrs. Fillmore
was devoted to the ex-president, and
she so wrote Mr, Weed. In reply Mr.
Weed simply said that he had ne
memorandum. His relations with Mr.
McIntosh had been close and confi
dential and mutually trustful, and it
had never occurred to either of them
that it would be necessary to put any
obligation into writing. If his simple
word was not sufficient to prove his
ownership of the stock, then he would
not carry the matter further.
“Once again Mrs. Fillmore consult.
ed her husband. ‘Yes, yes,’ he said, ‘I
don’t doubt Mr. Weed’s statements in
the least, and I feel that he is not try-
ing to take any unfair advantage of
an opportunity. Still, I feel that it is
not just that so great an amount as
$10,000 should be paid on the simple
word of another. I would advise you
to write Mr. Weed that you are sorry,
but you cannot surrender the stock
unless he first shows decumentary ev-
idence of ownership.’
“This Mrs. Fillmore did; and Mr.
Weed, with scarcely a thought of the
his old enemy, Mr. Fillmore, should
apparently doubt his word, let the
matter drop for good and all.”
(Copyright, 1909, by BE. J. Edwards.)
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the modern woman who knows the
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“The judge rfald as there was a
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