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Among the sincere mourners at the
death of the late secretary of state,
John Hay, there were none who felt
more keenly the loss of a friend than
did the Jews. They have not forgot
ten. The other day, at a convention
of the Independent Order B'nai IVrith,
resolutions were adopted to erect in
Washington a suitable monument to
Mr. Hay. The thing for which the
Jews venerate the great secretary's
memory is his action at the time when
the Kishenef massacres stirred the
whole world to horror. The B'nai
IVrith requested Mr. Hay to forward a
petition to the Russian government;
and although Mr. Hay was definitely,
but unofficially, informed that it could
not be received, he went ahead, and
the representations he made are be
lieved to have done much to check the
massacres.
The Talleyrand and Sagan mansion,
with its magnificent garden in the rue
Dominique, has been sold to a Paris
antiquary. Mme. Anna Gould, now the
wife of Prince de Sagan, is just too
late to save Prince Helie's property,
but, suggests the Boston Herald, per
haps such a trifle as this famous resi
dence does not interest her. It was
In this garden that the late Princess
de Sagan, mother of Anna's second
husband, gave that memorable gar
den party, which the prince of Wales,
who is now King Edward VII., at
tended.
Robert Vernon Harcourt, who was
elected to the British parliament to
succeed John Morley, elevated to the
peerage, is half-American. His mother,
the second wife of the late Sir William
Harcourt, was the daugher of John
Liothrop Motley, the historian t»f the
Netherlands. There are in parliament
a number of other Englishmen with
American mothers, not the least con
spicuous of whom Is Winston Church
ill, grandson of the late Leonard Jer
ome of New York.
Many of the colleges and unnversi
ties are in no-license towns. Leland
Stanford is the largest non-sectarian
institution to enforce prohibition with
in the university domain. Intoxicants
are forbiddden in boarding houses and
fraternity buildings. Similar proper
restriction has long obtained at several
colleges which are under the control
or influence of the churches.
The fact that the end of the world
has been predicted for 1911 will not
discourage the people who like to pick
presidential possibilities, and they are
not expected to forego the pleasure of
selecting candidates for 1912.
A woman lecturer in Bcfston sneers
at men for wearing starched collars.
She is unreasonable. Lots of collars
are only starched when they come
from the laundry, not after they aro
on awhile.
The order of the shah that, one's
enemy's house be demolished every
day shows a considerate moderation
that would seem amazing to some of
his predecessors.
SAME OLD FLUBDUB
NOTHING NEW IN BRYAN'S "AC
CEPTANCE" SPEECH.
Implacable Opposition to the Repub
lican Party All That Is Shown —
Glittering Promises That He
Cannot Fulfill.
Perhaps repeated demonstrations of
Mr. Bryan's highly militant sort of
patriotism and sense of the propri
eties should have prepared us for a
"speech of acceptance" that confines
itself almost wholly to an assault
upon congress, the Republican plat
form and Mr. Taft's "speech of ac
ceptance." There is the inevitable
touch of the flubdub in the preface,
thus:
"Shall the people control their own
government and use that government
for the protection of their rights and
for the promotion of their welfare?"
By all means! If we Americans are
not doing that now and Mr. Bryan
can secure it, we. Republicans and
Democrats, will be very much obliged
to him. And this:
"Or shall the representatives of
predatory wealth prey upon a defense
less public, while the offenders secure
immunity from subservient officials
whom they raise to power by un
scrupulous means?"
Whom does he mean? A "speech of
acceptance" so frankly and courage
ously accusative should at least be
proportionately specific. Mr. Bryan is
also out of all patience with the Re
publican party for failure to secure
tariff reform:
"The influence of the manufacturers
who for 25 years contributed to the
Republican campaign fund, . . . has
been sufficient to prevent tariff re
form."
Mr. Bryan will fix all that —fix it in
spite of history which demonstrates
that when the Democratic party, in
the only two years of the last 48
years in which it was in a position to
enact laws attempted a revision of the
tariff, such a hopeless mess of it was
made and the party was so disrupted
thereby that President Cleveland re
fused to sign the bill and bitterly
talked of party perfidy. Yet Mr. Bryan
is going to do more than Roosevelt
has done, going to do it with a Re
publican senate, probably a Repub
lican house and a hostile wing of the
disrupted Democracy. Clearly Mr.
Bryan is counting too confidently on
"harmony."
Four years ago the Democratic par
ty found the Republican administra
tion too radical. To-day the trouble
with the Republican administration, in
the opinion of Mr. Bryan, is that it
isn't half radical and drastic enough.
In short, Mr. Bryßn's "speech of ac
ceptance" is based upon the same
sound Jeffel-sonian principles as his
platform—sweeping and implacable
opposition to the Republican party—
and that is about all it amounts to,
when you have properly discounted his
generalities and specious promises.
Ignored by Bryan.
It pains us to observe- that Mr.
Bryan is not quite fair to the Repub
lican party. Why has there been no
anti-trust legislation? he asks; why
no railroad legislation? The Repub
lican senate and the Republican house
of representatives, he pretends, have
been unmoved by the appeals of the
president and the entreaties of the in
terstate commerce commission. Yet
the Hepburn act, a very important and
far-reaching law, authorizing the fix
ing of rates and the restraint of
abuses, the Elkins act, and the act
denying immunity on the witness
stand to corporations constitute a con
siderable body of remedial legislation.
Mr. Bryan knows this very well.
Furthermore, it does not lie in Mr.
Bryan's mouth to reproach the Repub
lican party for failure to revise the
tariff. He made two unsuccessful cam
paigns upon trumpery issues of his
own, practically ignoring the tariff.—
N. Y. Times.
Mr. Taft's Task.
The western country is impreg
nated with the ideas which have been
so much stimulated by Mr. Roosevelt
in his second administration and
which Mr. Bryan in tho Democratic
party has so long represented. This
is not surprising. In Kansas, Nebras
ka, lowa and other prairie states, the
populism of the early -90s came main
ly from the Republican party, and, as
a Republican president, Mr. Roosevelt
has sanctified populism's germinal
idea. The west of to-dav is a populis
tic west, whether it sides with the Re
publican or Democratic candidate;
and Mr. Taft's peculiar task is to hold
it in alliance with the east, which con
stantly reassures itself by contem
plating his own conservative char
acter. If any living Republican can
succeed in this enterprise, it is he.
Mr. Kerr's Hard Job.
Mr. James Kerr of Pennsylvania
has promised Mr. Bryan to raise SIOO,-
000 in that state for the Democratic
cause. As Mr. Bryan will not accept
a dollar from corporations or from
men interested in them, it looks as if
Mr. Kerr had taken a pretty heavy
summer job. Incidetnally, he will get
noihing from Col. Guffey.
A Somewhat Poor Prophet.
Henry Watterson predicts Bryan's
election by a "grand swell" like that
which carried Cleveland to victory.
Henry has the enthusiasm of a new
recruit, but it will be recalled that
his prophecies have had a smaller per
centage of verification than those of
the long-distance weather proguos
tieators.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY SEPTRMBER 10, 1908.
WILL NOT AID DEMOCRATS.
Farmers Know Too Well the Source
of Their Prosperity.
In tho amateurish play to the gal
leries that Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kern
make in the form of the joint appeal
for small contributions, there occuis
this paragraph:
"There are hundreds of thousands
of farmers who are abundantly able to
contribute to the campaign furl.
There are thousands who could give
SIOO apiece without feeling it; there
are tens of thousands who could give
SSO apiece without sacrifice, and still
more who could give $25, or $lO, or $5.
As the national committee has not yet
been organized we wtll ask the Com
moner to call for subscriptions to this
farmers' fund. The farmers' fund will
be turned over to the national commit
tee as soon as its permanent officers
have been selected. Who will be the
first to respond? How many farmers
will join in furnishing the fund neces
sary to present the issues?"
At a guess we should say very few
farmers indeed. There are admitted
ly "hundreds of thousands of farmers
abundantly able to contribute." In
deed, the prosperity of the American
farmer can hardly be overstated. But
that prosperity will not move him to
contribute to help elect Hryan or any
other Democratic candidate. For it is
the result not only of Nature's bounty
but of 12 years of Republican rule,
and is the most complete possible
refutation of the Democratic claim
that the prosperity of the manufactur
ing industries under the Republican
tariff system is gained at the expense
of the agricultural industries. The
farmer's flusliness, cited by Bryan and
Kern as a reason for his contributing
to their fund, is therefore the very
thing that will most incline him to do
the exact opposite. He will con
tribute not to the Bryan campaign
fund, but to the Republican campaign
fund, and he will not have to be so
licited by Mr. Taft to do it, either. —
Pittsburg Press.
An Independent View.
We do not question Mr. Bryan's sin
cerity or his devotion to the interests
of the people. Hut we believe that ihe
material welfare of the nation would
be safer in the hands of a president of
Mr. Taft's temperament and calm
judgment, and for this reason we
favor his election to the presidency.
These are the conclusions which we
have reached after mature considera
tion and with the sole desire to pro
mote the good of the nation and the
welfare of the people. We are aware
that they are not in accord with the
views of many of our readers. We
have entire respect for their sincerity.
We recognize their right to follow
their own convictions and judgment.
Every man is entitled to freedom of
political action. Americans generally
have the welfare of the nation at heart
and though they differ as to the means
and methods by which the national
welfare can be assured, they differ
honestly. We believe the election of
Mr. Taft would tend to hasten the
restoration of prosperous business con
ditions. We believe that this adminis
tration will be prudent. Therefore we
support him from a sense of public
duty.—Baltimore Sun.
High Time to Break Away.
It is high time for the southern
states to break away from that anti
quated absurdity of a solid Democratic
south —a south that is always expect
ed togo Democratic, just the way that
Maine once went, for Gov. Kent, de
clares the Baltimore American. There
have been in recent years encourag
ing signs in some of the southern
states of a strong tendency to swing
loose from the dead issues and to line
up politically with regard to living is
sues. The progressive new south,
with its millions of cotton spindles
and its scores of blast furnaces, is, in
its material interests, just as much
dependent for continuous prosperity
upon those policies for which the Re
publican party has stood, and will con
tinue to stand, as is either Pennsyl
vania or New England. No section of
the country has made a more impres
sive progress during the past ten
years than those states generally
classified as "the Solid South."
Neither cotton mills nor blast furnaces
would have sprung into existence un
der a free-trade policy.
The Wisdom of Bryan.
When, in 1896 and 1900, Bryan's
policy, if it had succeeded, would
have placed the silver trust in virtual
control of the government, he was
preaching the doctrine of the rule of
the people. In those two canvasses,
he in substance declared, in his plat
forms and on the stump, that 50
cents was 100 cents. By endeavoring
to force the people of the country to
accept half a dollar where a whole
dollar was due to them, he showed his
devotion to the principle that each in
dividual is entitled to the reward of
his labor. He went up and down the
highways and byways of the country
preaching his political hypocrisy and
denouncing everybody who stood for
the elemental demands of honesty by
the government in meeting its obli
gations, and in paying the laborer dol
lars worth 100 cents, as "enemies of
the human race." —St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
So Col. Bryan detaches himself
from"The Commoner" for a season.
That sprightly sheet will, however,
still be The Commoner—which is
more agreeable than to say it will lie
commoner still.
Mr. Bryan's Delusion.
Mr. Bryan seems to think that the
common people have been saving their
money for the purpose of tossing it
into his campaign fund.—Chicago
News.
REPUBLICANS WIN
BK ABOUT 28,000
ELECTION IN VERMONT SHOWS A
SMALLER VOTE THAN FOUR
YEARS AGO.
PLURALITY IS THE SMALLEST
Of Any Presidential Year Since '92—
Republican Vote 8 Per Cent Less
and Democratic 2 Per Cent
Less Than in 1904.
White River Junction, Vt. —The
Republicans won the election in Ver
mont Tuesday by carrying the state
for Lieut. Gov. George H. Prouty of
Newport for governor by about 28,000
votes over James E. Burke of Bur
lington, his Democratic opponent. The
plurality was the smallest in a presi
dential year since 1892, when it was
only 17,956, and was followed by a
Democratic national victory, but it
was larger than in 1888 and only
slightly less than in 1900. There was
a falling off in four years of about
8 per cent in the Republican vote,
while the Democratic vote fell off
about 2 per cent.
The Independence league appeared
for the first time and polled about
1,000 votes, while the Prohibition and
Socialist vote remained about the
same. An unusually large number of
local contests for members of the leg
islature, athough bringing out a heavy
vote and resulting in Democratic
gains in the lower branch of the leg
islature, apparently had no bearing on
the gubernatorial fight.
As Vermont is the first state to
vote during the presidential campaign,
there was much interest throughout
the country in the size of the Repub
lican plurality.
The Republicans retain complete
control of both executive and legisla
tive branches of the government of
Vermont, the voters electing to con
gress from the First district David
J. Foster of Burlington for another
term, and from the Second district
Frank P. Lumley of Northfield for the
first time, and choosing a majority of
the state legislature which will select
a successor to the late Senator Red
field Proctor.
In an unusually large number of
local contests the Democrats were, as
a rule, successful. The Republican
majority in the next house will be
considerably reduced. The voters
were urged to support the Republican
ticket by speakers of national im
portance who stumped the state dur
ing the past two weeks.
SEVEN PEOPLE DROWNED.
Sloop Capsized in Penobscot Bay and
Only Three of Its Occupants
Escaped.
Deer Isle, Me. Seven summer
visitors out of a party of ten
were drowned by the capsizing of a
35-foot sloop in Penobscot Bay, off
this island, Tuesday. The drowned:
Miss Alice Torro, Washington, D. C.
Miss Eleanor Torro, Washington,
D. C.
Miss Kellogg, Baltimore.
Lutie Kellogg, Baltimore.
Mrs. Lucy S. Crawley, Philadelphia.
Miss Elizabeth G. Evans of Mount
Holyoke seminary, Mass.
Jason C. Hutchins of Bangor.
The saved: Capt. Haskell, Deer
Isle; Prof. Edwin S. Crawley, Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
husband of Mrs. Crawley; Henry B.
Evans, Mount Holyoke, brother of
Miss Elizabeth Evans.
With Capt. Samuel Haskell, the
party started out for a sail in Penob
scot Bay. It was drawing near the
close of the vacation season for most
of them and' they had planned this as
their last outing together. The sloop
was of the "open" variety. It had no
deck forward and no cabin, and it
contained no ballast, as the party of
ten weighted the boat down quite
heavily.
The party had scarcely been gone
an hour before the wind freshened
up, heeling the sloop well over and
dashing the spray upon the occupants.
There was no thought of danger un
til the afternoon was drawing to a
close, when Capt. Haskell decided
that the wind was too heavy for his
boat and the sea too choppy, so he
brought the sloop around and started
homeward.
All the party were perched high up
on the weather side, as the sloop cut
through the waves with the water
almost coming over the gunwales on
the lee side, when Capt. Haskell gave
a shout of warning that he was going
to tack and then threw over the tiller.
Just at this moment the boat rose
high up on a wave, exposing hen to
the full brunt of the wind. An unusu
ally heavy gust struck her and' in a
twinkling the sloop went over on her
beam ends and the party of ten were
thrown into the water.
Four Sailors Suffocated.
Boston, Mass.—Succumbing to tho
deadly fumes of burning pitch and
oakum down in the forepeak of the
British bark Puritan as she lay at
anchor Tuesday in President Roads,
four seamen were suffocated.
Separate School Law Is N. G.
Guthrie, Okla. Judge Hunston
in the district court here Tues
day declared unconstitutional the Ok
lahoma separate school law providing
separate schools for negroes in tho
new state.
THEIR HATCHETS ARE BURIED
TAFT AND FORAKER HOLD LOVE
FEAST AT TOLEDO.
Foraker Promises to Take the Stump
for Taft and the Latter Eulo
gizes the Senator.
Toledo, O. —That Taft and For
aker are politically together is not
only the public admission of both Taft
and Foraker here, but also the politi
cal sensation of Ohio. Foraker is a
candidate for the United States sen
ate to succeed' himself, and his serv
ices in the national campaign have
been sought by National Chairman
Hitchcock and the senator has prom
ised to take the stump.
Judge Taft left Middle Bass Island
Wednesday morning on a yacht, and
after a tempestous voyage of four
hours, reached Toledo. He was taken
direct to the reviewing stand. Taft
said on his journey that he knew of
no arrangement whereby he was to
meet Foraker. But the people of To
ledo seemed to know about it, and
when, after the candidate had been
in his place a few minutes, a car
riage, which headed the parade,
stopped in front of the stan,d and dis
charged' its passengers, there was a
tremendous shout as the thousands
who were within sight Of the stand
caught sight of the senior senator, his
colleague. Senator Dick, Gov. Harris
and Mayor Whitlock.
Foraker was the last of the party
to reach Taft's side, but when he did
and reached out his right hand, Taft
saying "Hello, senator," and Foraker,
"I am glad to see you, Judge," and
then shook hand's, long and heartily,
and smiled cordially, there was a
mighty shout from the crowd. The
two sat down together and remained
in conversation for more than an
hour.
Before Judge Taft was allowed to
depart on an automobile ride which
had been arranged for him, he con
sented to shake hand's for 20 minutes
with an enthusiastic throng. The ride
ended at the Lyceum theatre. When
Mr. Taft had been cheered by the au
dience, Foraker appeared. He was
also enthusiastically greeted as he
took a seat beside the candidate, after
the latter had risen and greeted him
with a handshake.
Then the speech-making began.
President Mulholland of the club in
troduced Mr. Taft.
"It is a pleasure for me to be here
With Senator Foraker," said Mr. Taft,
"because when governor of Ohio he
gave me my first chance, and took a
good deal of risk in putting a man oi
29 on the bench of the superior court
of Cincinnati.
"We have entered a great oratori
cal campaign. It is a pleasure to
think in this presence that we are
going to stand in the campaign shoul
der to shoulder."
Foraker was then introduced and
said: "When the Chicago convention
nominated Judge Taft to be the Re
publican candidate for the presidency
this year, that instant he became my
leader. He has been my leader ever
since, and he will be my leader until
the polls close on the night of the
election." He paid a glowing tribute
to Taft's fitness for the presidency
and predicted Taft's election. Sena
tor Dick made a few remarks and Gov.
Harris eulogized the old soldiers.
IN SIGHT OF 25,000 PEOPLE
An Aeronaut Falls 500 Feet and Is
Killed.
Waterville, Me. ln full view
of 25,000 horrified spectators as
sembled on the Central Maine fair
grounds here late Wednesday Charles
Oliver Jones, aged 40 years, the well
known aeronaut of Hammondsport, N.
Y., fell a distance of 500 feet to his
death. Among the witnesses of the
'frightful plunge were Mrs. Jones and
child, and they were almost the first
to reach the side of the dying man.
The aeronaut died an hour and a half
after the accident.
Jones hail been at the fair grounds
with his dirigible balloon Boomerang,
known as a Strobel airship, since
Monday. Wednesday he arranged to
make a flight between 3 and 4 o'clock,
but such a high wind prevailed that
a delay was necessary. At 4:30 con
ditions had modified and he gave the
word to have the machine released.
When the aeronaut reached a height
of more than 500 feet the spectators
were amazed' to see small tongues of
flame issuing from under the gas bag
in front of the motor.
Many persons in the crowd endeav
ored to apprise Jones of his danger,
but several minutes elapsed before he
noticed the flame. Then he grasped
the rip cord and by letting out gas
endeavored to reach the earth. The
machine had descended but a short
distance when a sudden burst of flame
enveloped the gas bag, the framework
immediately separating from the Tjag.
Jones fell with the frame of his
motor, and when the spectators
reached him he was lying under it.
The gas bag was completely de
stroyed.
Prouty Wins by 29,376.
l V hite River Junction, Vt. —Com-
plete returns from the state elec
tion in Vermont on the vote for gov
ernor show the following result:
George H. Prouty, Republican, 45,281;
James E. Burke, Democrat, 15,903.
Dynamiters Wrecked a Canal.
.Toliet, 111. Unknown persons
on Wednesday dynamited the Illi
nois and Michigan eanal at Chan
nahon, 12 miles southwest of .Toliet.
The breach made by the explosion is
100 feet long. The district is flooded.
ACTOR CHOPPED
WIFETOPIECES
PORTIONS OF HER BODY WERE
FOUND IN A TRUNK AT
BOSTON.
HEAD WAS HID IN A FURNACE.
Chester Jordan, Aged 29 Years, Cor*»
fesses Killing His Wife After a
Quarrel at Their Home in
Somerville, Mass.
Boston, Mass. —The most brutal'
crime committed in Greater Boston
since the death of Susan Geary, a
chorus girl, four years ago, and one
much resembling it in its details, was
disclosed Thursday night by the dis
covery of the torso of Mrs. Honorah
Jordan, an actress aged' 23 years, of
Somerville, in a trunk in a boarding
house at 7 Hancock street on Beacon
Hill, this city. Later the head and
bones of the limbs were found in the
furnace of the Jordan home at Som
erville and the scalp, hair and other
grewsome remains were taken from,
the kitchen range of the house.
Chester Jordan, aged 29 years, an
actor, of Somerville, is held by the
police charged with the murder and,
according to the officers, he made a
complete confession of the crime.
According tot Jordan's confession,
he accidentally killed his wife Tues
day night in a quarrel at their home
and, becoming desperate over what
he had done, he went out and bought
a butcher knife, razor and shears, cut
up the body and placed the torso in
a trunk. He then planned' to take the
steamer Harvard Wednesday night for
New York and throw the parts of the
body overboard.
The fact that the Harvard was laid
off owing to an accident disarranged
his plans and he was obliged to hire
a hackman to take the trunk to a
Boston boarding house to await a
more favorable opportunity.
The discovery of the crime was due
to the suspicions of the hackman,
George Collins, who had in mind nu
merous robberies which have taken
place about Boston recently and, sur
mising from its weight that the trunk
contained silverware, notified the po
lice.
Collins reported that he had taken
the trunk from the North station, it
having come in from Somerville on
a local train. The hackman said he
left Jordan and the trunk Thursday
afternoon at No. 7 Hancock street.
Sergeant Michael Crowley was de
tailed togo to the house and investi
gate. Jordan was not in, but the offi
cer was shown the back room on the
second floor which Jordan had en
gaged and found the trunk. At this
time the trunk was not opened. About
5:20 Jordan returned and was com
manded to open the trunk.
Jordan did' not appear alarmed, but:
hesitated to open the trunk and it
was not until after considerable argu
ment that he produced the key to the
trunk and inserted it in the lock.
Turning his head Jordan threw up
the cover of the trunk and then sank
back on his knees, burying his face,
in his hands and sobbing.
Crowley staggered' back aghast at'
the disclosure, for in the trunk before
him lay a sickening mass of hacked
flesh, a woman's torso filling the
greater part of the trunk, while pieces
of flesh from other parts of the body
were stuffed into the corners.
Jordan stated that he was married'
in September, 1904, to Mrs. Honorah
Eddy, whose maiden name was
O'Reilly and whose home was in
Somerville. He did not know who
his wife's first husband was or what
had' become of him. The couple went
on the vaudeville stage, Mr. Jordan
taking the part of a tramp and his.
wife that of a nurse, in a sketch.
FAILED TO DO THEIR DUTY.
Grand Jury Indicts Four Policemen
in Connection With Riots at
Springfield, 111.
Springfied, 111. —The special grand
Jury called to probe the recent
race war adjourned Thursday night
after returning 17 more indict
ments, thus making a total of 117'
during the session. Among those re
turned Thursday were indictments
against four Springfield policemen,
Oscar Dahlkamp, Joseph Ferendez,
George H. Ohlman and George W..
Dawson. They are indicted for al
leged failure to suppress the riot
when detailed for that duty.
The grand jury has been in active
session 14 days, during which time
hundreds of witnesses were examined.
Abe Raymer, "Slim" Humphrey and
Mrs. Kate Howard were indicted' for'
murder in connection with the lynch
ing. Mrs. Howard, when indicted for
the murder of Burton, committed,
suicide.
Left Millions to Schools.
Owego, N. Y. More than $4,-
000,000 is left to charitable institu
tions, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art and Yale university by the will
of Frederick Hewitt, who died here
last Sunday. To relatives less than
$500,000 is left.
Wilbur Wright Makes an Ascension..
Le Mans, France. —Wilbur Wright,
the aeroplanist of Dayton, 0.. made.-
a ten-minute flight here Thurs
day at an altitude of 75 feet and cov
ered six miles.