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Beguiled by Crafty Men ?
YKSTKIIDAT John P. Connelly, chairman
of tho Finance Committee ot Councils,
protested that there In "not ot.e single waid
.long- the river where one person has died
because of tho present housing conditions or
because of filth." Bishop Garland, who Is
not a politician and serves no interests save
those of humanity, la not bo sure, "t am
not Judging tho tenements from what I have
heard," declared the Bishop. "I have seen
the houses nnd have been inside many of
them ' If our physicians were to In
scribe the real story on every death certifi
cate of Infants and children who die In the
tenements, we would And the majority of
deaths were directly due to living conditions
in tho tenement dens." Possibly Mr. Con
nelly Is simply Ignorant of tho facts, or has
been beguiled by crafty men. Yet Mr. Con
nelly hna enjoyed unparalleled opportunities
for knowing the truth
Create the "Safety First" Habit
ADULTS are set in their Ideas and fixed in
. their habits; to induce any change In
their modo of thinking or line of action re
quires destruction of the old before there Is
any construction of tho new. Children aro
plastic and pliable, quick to learn nnd easy
to shape.
Camden is moving along well ascertained
psychological lines by teaching "Safety
First" in tho public schools. In lmpiesslug
a series of "Dont's" upon the receptive
memories of the children lifelong habits of
vigilance and caution will be established.
"Don't steal a ride on a car, wagon or
automobile " "Don't carry matches loose In
the pockets." "Don't hurry up a Are with
oil." "Don't walk on a railroad or trolley
track." "Don't touch fallen wires, electtlclty
kllU quickly " "Don't look for a gas leak
with a. match." "Don't cross stieeta except
at regular crossings."
One motto, that covers all the bj -laws and
S .roisljt -well be put nt the top ot all copy.
rooks, even for the youngest children. Is:
"Work, Play, Travel, but always Think."
Eliminate the Lying
"CAMPAIGN LIES" are bad enough.
J War lies, stories of atrocities and In
humanities that destroy national honor, are
ten times worse. All tho world clear-minded
Allies as well as Teutons should rejoice tho'
the American Belgian Relief Committee has
nailed the lie that Germany Is taxing tho
flour sent to the starving refugees. And
America may rest assured that the commit
tee would have nailed the fact as quickly as
the He. Nothing- shall Interfere with so great
a charity as this to a whole nation.
Budget or Pork?
EX-PRESIDENT TAFT has returned to his
attack on one of the most serious faults
In our governmental arrangements. To
remedy the evil he advocates In strong terms
a real national budget. "We must pursue,"
he; says, "the policy that other governments
avef found necessary In order to keep out
lanUruptcy."
"7
he problem of budget control, slighted by
e language of the Constitution, Is becom
ing acute with the disappearance of our old
State and national Isolation. It Is the lack
of co-ordination between governmental In
come and expenditure that Induces profuse
wastage of the public money A committee
of the Senate, which accomplished few re
cults In the way of correction, declared a
few years ago that many millions of dollars
could ba saved annually by the application
of business sense to this problem, and Sena
tor Aldrlch set the figure at J300.000.000, No
corporation could waste money at that rate
and keep out of bankruptcy a week.
When Mr. Taft was President he learned
how hard a thing It Is to work for reforms
which strike at congressional patronage,
Budget reform Is In that category Piecemeal
e4iamy is possible under the, present sys
tem, but no thorough, comprehensive econ
oxfty Th people look to the Chief Executive
if do what he is denied the means of doing,
"lien there. Is a unified system of budget
making and of Jurisdiction over appropria
tions, when there is but one key to the
treasury and that key Is In the custody of
tfee President; when our representatives in
Congress are prevented from getting- their
own hands Into the till, and when a good
watch a kept over those who handle the
money. Including' the custodian of the key,
tett PorK. barrels will become eurious rellos
,IE a, uygunti up Kuvornjusmai mcumpe--TMpee
antf stultification.
City Government as a Social Force
myrotJlClPAL government has upruoir in
i.VX tea years from a dirty political game te a
civic surt. Tlwit in the meatns at tbe mt
isjpi of the UUiitiea Bureau and the National
UttftleJgal League here and U Baltimore, of
rtMi wly organised convention of eity roana-
tsft t 8fuwrfJd. Ohio, and of the dlcw-
ttfoa fW -ttB4pi wogjnewing- oy weer
tfEip 1w the American Society ot Me
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strongest minds among political and social
leaders are working on the problem of widen
ing and deepening this power of the city for
good.
the Plot to Stunt Philadelphia
fTIHE Interests which are using Peter K.
Costello as a catspaw have done Phila
delphia a great service. By proposing an
ordinance, tho passage of which "would be
an unthinkable betrayal of a public trust,"
they have nwakened the whole b'ody of citi
zenship to tho dangers of delay and made
It Imperative that Councils at once estab
lish definitely Its portion nnd officially
record Its approval of the Taylor plans.
Were It not generally understood that
Mr. Costello Is a mere manikin, hi pro
posed ordinance would require no comment,
it would be laughed out of Councils and
behind It there would be massed no strength
whatever. But whon Mr. Costello does any
thing or pioposes nnj tlilriR It Is always ob
lous that he Is noting at the behest of
roncealed Interests which dare not come
Into the open, but hire whom thoy enn to
do the work In sight. Wherefore, It Is clear
Mr. Costello's program Is the plan adopted
to hinder the gicat movement In favor of
real rapid transit and sidetrack It for the
benefit of particular Inteieits. Kianehlse
grabblng nas n remunerative enterprise In
this city at one time. It Is not now, nor
Is It a very healthful community for gen
tlemen who nuclei take to do the grabbing.
It is doubtful If any more shameless pro
posal has ever been made. The Taor plan
promises Philadelphia the most ndenuutc
and satisfactory system of rapid transit ex
isting In the world. It sweeps away the
intolerable exchange tickets, provides a
practically universal five-cent fare, assures
every section of the cltv equality In fa
cilities, protects the municipality, which
within 30 or 60 cais, as the case might be,
would own the new svstcm nbsolutely, gives
to capital Invested In existing lines fair
treatment and piotectlou, and offers, in
short, a scientific and complete solution of
the entire urban transportation problem.
Not oply that, but the city holds the whlp
band, for It In competent financially to un
dertake the whole piogram as outlined and
successfully achieve it.
The Costello project, on the other hand,
proposed by a man who confesses that he
does not even know what the Talor plan
is, is designed to localize the transit remedy
by applying It to one section only, and In
such a way that It would forever prevent
the achievement of the co-ordinated enter
prises except under conditions which the
city could never afford to accept. It offers
to the Philadelphia Bapld Transit? Company
a franchise of enormous value, for which
It exacts no compensating return whatever.
Indeed, under its teims the operating com
pany would be ielleed even of the pay
ment of taxes, for It would be required to
pay to the city only a part of Its profits.
There nre ways In which this profit' could
be made to disappear in bookkeeping. Not
only this, but such a line In Itself would
deprive Frankford of many of the special
advantages which would accrue to the sec
tion under the Taylor program.
The ordinance will not be passed, of course.
The Mayor would never sign It and the
Public Service Commission would never ap
prove It. There are eamest citizens who
would assemble by the tens of thousands In
the environs of City Hall to prevent It.
Theft of a city's assets, even under the guise
of legality, Is not so easy as It once was.
Nor are a people aheady worn out by strap
hanging likely to acquiesce in being plun
dered. They know too much. The campaign
of education has made the situation too
olear.
The Hands of Esau, hairy and Itching, aie
recognized and identified The black shadow
back of Mr. Costello is seen. The wanton
purpose to sacrifice the necessities and fu
ture of the city to greedy interests, to ham
string Philadelphia, to betray and outrage
It, to sell It out, to hand It over bound hand
and foot tp pillagers, Is evident in the ordi
nance. Its passage would be footpad work
and worse. The fact that a manikin has
dared introduce It should be a bugle call
to all Phlladelphlans. They must make the
mass-meeting on January 14 so vast and
representative a gathering that no body of
men, no Hands of Esau, will dare stand in
the way.
The Introduction of the Costello ordinance
must convince every citizen that he must
join with hie neighbors in demanding the
prompt Indorsement by Councils of the Tay
lor plans'. Put them through that the dan
ger of betrayal may be removed for all time.
Let publlo opinion prove itself by compelling
Councils to stand up now for Philadelphia.
So the champagne erop went quietly on
"cropping" la spite of the bombardment qf
RheJms,
The price of diamonds Is due for an ad
vance on account pf the war. Some one ia
always deviling the poor consumer.
In making the statement that the people ot
the Unit4 States are too wealthy, Mr. EdN
sen give evidences of Inventing a new brand
of hwmr-
The soi speaks for Hrage in a very cer
tain vaiee.-when the Sfrgea of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey declare fer vote for farro
women. Peaee 1 t& baeball war has not been
suvterWJf. agyajieed by tlte signing- of Wah
t JohWgiRube Marquard and Eddie
Ffcuek wJK-y3ral.
Hit pqpietfBal huaaert! wh sae their
Hviur AT mtrMnrl JkB are doubtl
fliva to tear that the vr-l&jt do a-c
Krfy to marriage Italti.
If th i the fort of wio4 t ao
i ww-thr holding, away over the Tnnhrillilii.il
(teach of S-jrepe, wonder th hi
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WHO WILL PROFIT BY
PRESENT WORLD-WAR?
Atnoricau Finance ltccovoring From the
Shock Industry's Bright Future.
The Man Who Said War Doesn't Pay
nnd GaVe Some of the Reasons.
By KENNETH MACGOWAN
INVESTMENT Is getting to Us feet again
after the terrible blow that fell upon it
when War broke out The reopening of the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange for restricted
trading Is the local evldonce, while tho
fnlted States In general responds eagerly to
the prophecy of Edward E Pratt, chief of
the Bureau ot Foreign nnd Domestic tlom
merce, that America's foreign trade will In
crease by half a billion dollars In the first
ear ot the war.
International Stock-taking
All over the world there Is a similar icvlval
of inlet est In commerce nnd a similar stock
taking. Perhaps It la too soon for genetal
statements, yet there nre signs abroad that a
great many dltteens of tho waning nations
have given up the notion that their countries
are going- to get any material ndvantago oven
It they prove victors. They are coming lound
to a point of view expressed bj an English
man font vears ago In a book, "The Gicat
Illusion " Wm doesn't pay.
At the end of July it would have been a
considerable task to push home that thesis
Norman Angoll al any rate, found It so A
week later 'he doubting world supplied proof
At tho very shadow ot war, credit collapsed
Tho stock exchanges of the wot Id shut down
In a desperate effort to save some shred of
the commercial fabric. Ocean traffic ennic to
a standstill. Industry in Germany, Ftanco,
Russia and Austria largely suspended as the
men were called to the colois, while England
lost a huge foreign trade and curtailed man
ufacture materially. No estimate of the dally
loss Is possible. It is too staggering. Even
with the partial reopening of bout sea and tho
resumption of part of the ocean-borne trade
of England and France It Is still so stagger
ing that any advantage won by the llnnl vic
tor can never compensate him for the losses
now suffered.
All this was what a man named Norman
Augell told the world In n book which In
four years inn Into 13 editions and reprints
In England alone nnd was tinnslated Into n
dozen tongues nnd et could not turn tho
tide against war. Tho only significant fact
to comfoit Mr. Angell was that, while many
English manufacturers called for a "long
war" and kept an eye on German competitors
boxed up in their harbors by the British
navy, a considerable element, tepresented by
tho powerful Manchester Guardian, saw
commercial dlaster In the conflict and re
sisted bitterly.
Does War Pay ?
Notman Angell never denied that war
might pioflt the specialists In government
loans, and he never denied that war might be
useful In enting up an overpioductiun which
the comriiPiclnl mechanism could not tnko
care of without a panic. There he agreed
with the Socialists But he went beond
them in pleaching that war doesn't paj. He
tried to show that not ev en business men
can make money out of conquest
Loot is admittedly a thing of the past,
along with tiibuts. We must look to com
mercial advantage or a heavy Indemnity for
modern pioflt fiom war But the conditions
of Imlusti.v and commerce, the present com
plex organization of the civilized world, said
Norman Angell. lender the Hist unattainable
and the second unprofitable.
Here aie the facts. No modem country Is
self-sufficient. There Is hardly an Industry
that is not elaborately dependent on other
Industries in other countries an International
division of labor. Nations are both sclleis
and buyeis. the prospeilty of the customer
Is essential to the man with something to sell.
The national systems of credit, on which In
dustiy Is conducted, have become Just as
elaborately interrelated. New Yoik, London
and Berlin are all In tune.
Wrecking Commerce and Credit
And here nre Mr. Angell's deductions. A
war between such countries as England and
Geimany means first of all a giavc disturb
ance on the bourses and In industry, which
will continue to a large extent until peace Is
made. The end of the war can bring no ad.
vantage to the victor great enough to Qffset
this. Tho shattering of the losci'a ciedlt
means as complete a disruption of the finan
cial system of tho conqueror. The destruc
tion cf the victim's commercial wealth can
be accomplished only by the destruction
of the population which cieates it by its
work. Aside from the human Impossibility of
such nn action, It would entail also the de
struction of a valuable market for the
conqueror's goods.
. It is physically impossible to "capture" the
carrying tiade ot a count! . if Germany
"owned" Belgium, Belgian merchants and
Antwerp ship owners would still compete
with Germany The same conclusion applies
to colonization. "Navigation acts" destroy
themselves, colonies must be given such
virtual independence that, as in the case ot
Canada, the foreigner the German or the
Swiss, for instance takes as much profit as
the mother country. In all cases of annexa
tion of land, the conqueror annexes with It
the inhabitants who profit by that land. In
only one way does he benefit from even the
most favorable example, ah undeveloped,
savage country: in order and security. And
the nation that takes up the role of police
man baa the disadvantage ot paying for
something- that will benefit other nations as
much.
Germany's Coatly Indemnity
As to indemnity, we have the illuminating
ease of the Franco-Prussian War. In this
regard it was the most successful ever waged.
Germany exacted an enormous indemnity
Ye,t that indemnity could not pay the ex
penses of preparing for war and of guarding;
against a subsequent war qf retribution,
while In its collecting sea the financial rec
ords of Berlin and ParlsMbe victor Buffered
more by depreciation of currency and by the
orippllng ot the purchasing powers of a con
sumer than th victim Buffered by the pay
ment. When Norman AnseJi left the. purely eora
merelal, material side of the argument and
went on to prove that war did net preserve'
the AL but rather exterminated tbem, he left
one or two points in his favgr atljl unde- t
veleped. Ignoring the fact that capital re
coveted with surprising qulaknew frqm the
drabs www it i the NapjdteBle wip and Jn
the CtvU "War, hase of the greatly atlmu
lt savaMc- aMKUee f the aambatanta, he
alee negteeteat to point out that such "saving
141 no virtue when the capital u used up in au
proJltieM an undai taking as destruction
fki ttasdard of uvm ut iovyaj-ed. i'ht m
Far mor imprtt, Mr AujUell left out Qf
ewwii? ration ttui PMWtfcMUy nt noa-sow
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Europe battled. England nnd Germany,
fighting as thoy think for the markets of
South America nnd all the undeveloped
icglons of the globe, find the United States
taking advantage of theli commercial stag
nation to eel.a their trade. Our credit has
begun to disentangle Itself from waning
Euiope, and with Its aid our manufnctuiers
nte seeking new worlds to conquer while our
fnrmers piepare to sell giatn to Europe at
fancy puces. AVhere will the victor profit?
What About America?
Of cuuise, it Is quite as necesear to ask
how America will profit, to understand It
clearly, and to Inaiuc that pioflt leaching
the mass of the people. It is absurdly evi
dent that tho producers of food pioducts will
got big prices for their crops next jear from
baircn, hungry Europe. But that Is mora
than likely to mean only higher pi Ices and
less food In Amerlcu; the crops cannot ba
doubled nt will. Manufacture can grow In
productive volume, in trade men. nnd in
pioflt it will mean larger employment for
Amcilcan labor. But how is American labor,
facing "war prices" in foodstuffs, to get Its
share in tills piosperlty thrust upon us?
Will the manufuctuiers be wise enough and
Just enough to pass on tho profits In In
creased wages, or will labor unionize still
moio rigidly nnd foice a sharo by lndustiial
conflict that will Itself leturd the pi ogress
of Ameilcan commerce while It sows bitter
seeds of social antagonism, discontent and
unrest?
WOMEN FLOCKED TO THE POLLS
California Election Proved Their Interest and
Vindicated Their Judgment.
MEYER LlSShlt, In lha California Outlook
One thing was settled at the recent election
The women vote.
Everywhere where suffrage is agitated the
main telUnce of the amis has been, "The
women don't want the vote, and they won't
Use it If thoy get it."
California once and for all answered that
ai gumem on November 3.
Wl.cn. in n State with le than 3,0Q0,000
population, nearly 1,000,000 men and women go
to the polls on election day and cast the larg
est percentage of the total registration In the
whole history of the State, It means Just one
thing that the women were at least ns leady
us the men to avail themselves of the right
of suffrage. In fact we truly believe that an
Investigation would nhovv that u. larger per
cetuge of women than men voted at the recent
election. We trust that tome of our pioneer
suffrage leaders will take enough Interest In
that pilot to get the actual proof, not alone
for tin. I r own satisfaction but because the fls
uics will be n.ost valuable la other States
where the suffrage victory la not yet won.
Another point dlscoveied by those who have
been tiling to get the ps etiological slant of
the feminine voter's mind is this- Women
don't allow sentimentality or Intuition to guide
their voting as much a it was thought they
would, or hardly at all In fact we believe
that the average man In politics ia much more
likely to be governed by prejudice, to be
awajefl by personal Influence, to Jump at a
conclusion, In short, to have a hunch, than the
average woman. The feminine mind wants
information It seeks light. It has got to ba
shown Without doubt the most Intensive and
most intelligent study of the propositions sub
mitted at the recent election was on the part of
women, Tne California Federation of Women's
Clubs made a special campaign for the four
referendum measure the blue sky law, the
red light abatement act. the water commis
sion act and the non-sale of game measure,
as well as for the minimum wage amendment,
and while the State vote on these measures
has not et been complied and the vote on one
or two of them may he close, we believe that
If all have carried that splendid result Is due
largely to the very efficient campaign mad by
the fcituty organization of club women. In
churches. In schools, by clrcularizatlon, and In
every possible way, the women gave thought
to and spread Information concerning the com
ing election, aim Just because the average
woman had more time to give to thinking and
studying politics and actually did give it, we
believe she voted more Intelligently in the re
lent election than the average man.
We believe, too, that the heavy negative
vote on soma measures concerning which there
Is very little difference of opinion among intel
ligent people, was cut by men. Your average
man when he dpesn't understand a proposition,
votes "Ho." Your average woman when she
doesn't understand, doesg't vote at alt And
this latter observation aucounU for the x
tromely heavy woman's vote at the resent
citation the heaviest woman's vote since suf
frage came.
WHERE HAROLD SLEEPS
Whtre Harold sleeps the night U Meet.
In the Gfreat Mother's easeful breast
He )le the brave and sweet among-.
Who. loved by the wt s4. die young
Th goaj aehteved without the quest.
The wind of autttwjj irpa the Wee
May rn4t)y roaW the liarteW-red neat,
Yet shall all toy of spi-tug b us
V here Harold it.
Snd e uur humau giief lonfMsi
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FOR SANTA
WASHINGTON ON PREPAREDNESS
Handicap of Untrained Soldiery Prolonged
Revolution Experience in Civil War.
That trained soldiers nro far superior to
tintinincd soldiers in efficiency und ef
fectiveness Is a fact that would seem hard
to deny through any process of lensoning,
but theie Is one such piocess which arrives
at tho conclusion that a soldier Is a soldier.
Thus, one man plus one gun equals one
soldier, nnd thnt ends tho mattei. Colonel
Swinton, of the Intelligence Depnitment of
the British expedltlonmy fmces in Krance
nnd Belgium, thinks thut this mistake Is
Important enough to be corrected, and
though ho Illustrutes what he has to say on
the subject by citing tho gteat losses of tho
now German tn millions on the battle line In
Belgium, his lemarks apply to the military
fotce of an nntlon which, in an emergency,
has to send Ill-trained or oven untrained
recruits to the front. That emergency would
ailso almost Immediately In this country If
the United States became Involved In wai.
When we stop to think that our standing
army could he accommodated on the ginnd
stand of tho Talc Bowl, that both our regu
lar army and ourrgunlzed militia, rue main
tained at less than half war strength and
thut vo have at present no men to fill up
the tanks of our peace armies, we can teadlly
see that there would be little tlnle, after the
out'bieak of a real war, to train citizens for
the nctlvo service to which they might be
called at once' Some system by which this
training might bo given In advance ot such
an exigency would obtain for our people
what has been called "a social efficiency, a
discipline, a sense of International responsi
bility that, guarded and guided by .our In
stinctive faith in the ultimate triumph of
Justice, will do much to hasten the day of
the parliament of man and the federation of
the world.' "
Our Civil War should have taught us the
peill of dependence on an ill-trained or un
trained soldleiy. At the beginning of that
gigantic struggle both officers and men were
handicapped by a lack of knowledge of the
rudimentary elements of discipline and mili
tary science. The story of the first few
months of that conflict was a story of handi
cap on both sides. The battle of Bull Run
left the victors only less disorganized than
tho defeated Those first months showed the
Confederacy and the Union that a man and a
gun do not make a soldier.
Washington had some woeful experiences
with an army of militia soldiers who were
impatient with the discipline which might
have made them efficient and who wero
utterly dismayed at any prospect of having
to stay on the Job after a campaign had
moved from the neighborhood of their own
homes. Following the defeat on Lonff Island
great numbeis left the ranks dismayed "In
some instances," as Washington wrote to the
President of Congress, "almost by whole
regiments, by half ones, and by companies
at a time."
If Washington could have had at his back
through tho campaign in New Jersey an
army of militia which had been trained, not
only in the forms of military service but in
appreciation of the patriotic function of that
service, there -would have been no Valley
Forge, This is what he wrote after several
years of hard experience;
"Had we formed a permanent army In tha
beginning: which had been capable
pf discipline wa never should have had to
retreat with a handful of men aeross the
Delaware in 17J6 trembling for the fata of
America We should not have been under
the necessity of fighting- Brandy,
wine with an unequal number of raw troops,
and afterward seeing Philadelphia fall a prey
to a victorloua army. We should not have
been at Valley Forge . destitute of
everything, in a situation neither to resist
nor to retire. We should not have
been the greatest part of the war inferior "to
the enemy, Indebted for our safety to their
inactivity, enduringr frequently the mortifica
tion of seeing opportunities to ruin them
pass for want of a force which the, epurjtry
was able q afford, and of seelrg the cqujtry
jravaged, our towns burnt, the inhabitant
.hindered, abused, murdered with' Impjinity
from tbjB same cause.' ' T"
aimaw aaaayaptlli n n- , ,n. f
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A BRYAN WORSHIPED
EXPOSES SOME SECRETS
The Advantages of iJcing on tho Tam.
many Payroll Explained Plenty to (
Eat and Coal to tfum for Nothing. ,
Vociferous "Farinct" Scott, ,
liyTcTilEMPlULT.
"lTy NAME Is AV. A. Scott," he said last
JLV1 night. "'Farmer Scott' Is nty souri
quet In Wall street, and they alt know me.
I nm the' original Wall street Bryan man.
Thoro Is nobody else like him In this land
nor In any other. I was talking to Arthur
Brisbane about him not long ago and told
him that If Bryan should dlo I would like to
write his epitaph, nnd would put It In these
wolds:
'"Here lies The Commoner!
America's Greatest Nobleman.
Democracy's Greatest Benefactor,
William J. Bryan.'
"That would be enough, as it would tell
the whole story of tho man who has spoilt
his life for his fellows nnd has made over
tho Democratic patty Into a real fighting
machine with a definite purpose. Why, Mr.
Bryan is tho most wonderful man this coun-
l try tins ever known In public life. Ho can
do things no other would attempt, and he
hns the people with him whether he be
dressed In broadcloth or In overalls! it
doesn't matter to them It Is tho truth as he
expounds It that they know will make them
free And wherever he speaks tho people
listen. r
"I was with him over at Baltlmoie
and saw theie, ns 1 had seen many times
before, how with his voice assemblies wero
swayed to his purposes. Rising when the
convention was in confusion, he said, 'Mr,
President, and the tumult was staved, and
added, "I should Ilko to see my friends at
Room 123, tho Belvcdore, this evening to take
counsel with them ' Thnt was all, but It was
enough. Every word ho had spoken had
been heard by everybody in tho great armory,
while the shouting of the captains perished
among tho rafters. Said I to him, 'Mr.
Bryan, If you wish, I have 600 men hoie and
can stampede tho convention right now,
nnd said ho to me, 'No, Scott, I don't think
this convention is for me,' and we let It go
nt that: but I had then nnd I havo now not
the least doubt that If he had said the word
the convention would have gono for him and
that he would have won In a walk at the
election,
"Did he havo any Intention of being a
candidate for President when he went Into
the convention? Well, he probably had
thought It over In his own mind that if he
should be named he would not be true to the
party or to himself If he refused to accept
tho scivlcc required of him. Thoro Isn't any
question that he dominated the convention
and named the candidate and won the elec
tion Will he bo a candidate In 1916? I
don't know, probably he has not thought It
nil out for himself, but If he should be he
will he nominated and elected. I do not
know whether ho will let Mr, Wilson be a
candidate foi le-elcction: but don't you know
that there was a contract that would malts It
impracticable, not to say Impossible, for Mr.
Wilson to mn again'' I am not saying who
made the contract: but I am willing to bet '
10 to 1 thnt Mr. Wilson will not be n candi
date. He may bo foiced into It, but he will
not be a candidate.
l"ay Money From Tammanv Hall
"Yes, I know all about Tammany Hall.
At one time I was wot king with Tammany
It was bnck In 1S98, when A'nn Wj,ck was
running for Mavor of Greater Now York. !
had come East and I didn't have but $30 and
needed employment. I got It. I went into
tho fight and spoke day and night for the
ticket. After It was over I was asked by
one of the leaders If I did not want some
thing and I told him I did, and ho said, 'Well,
jou go down to l.aUewood on Sunday (the
Van Wjck crowd had moved their head
quarters down there after the election) and
see Mr. Croker. I went, taking my two little
chlldien with me. I was sitting; In the lobby
with my youngest on my knee. Mr. Croker
came out Into the lobby, looked at me In
tently for a few moments, then enmn nrw to
me and said 'Mr. Scott, you have done som,
very goou worn jor us. is mere not something ;
we can do for you?' Ho took my child by on)
hand and I took her by the other and we
walked up and down the hotel three times,
and I said to Mr. Croker that I would like to
have something, nnd he said 'What Is Jtl'
and I answered 'I should like to be made
purchasing agent for the Department of
Charities and Corrections,' and he said, tak
lng out a little bit ot a card and writing on
it, 'Do what you can for Mr. Scott.' And I
said, 'What am I to do with this?" and he
sold 'Take It down to the City Hall.' And I
did. I had been told by my adviser, 'Dont
ask any questions and follow instructions,'
and I did. I went to the City Hall and pre
sented the card, and the man in charge said, f.
wen, Mr. Scott, what can I do for you?'
and I said, 'I would like to be purchasing
agent for the Department of Charities andH
Corrections,' and he said, 'All right; there is
your desk, and there I was.
Free Groceries and Coal
"The next day a man came to me with
note from one of the leaders, saying. 'Mr.
Scott, do what you can for Mr. Blank.' and
I said, 'What Is it I can do for you?' and h
repllsd, 'I should like to sell the groceries la
tne department," and I said. 'Very goodii
make out your requisition for SO days .' and J
he did. That night when I got home my wiff
saia, -io you send any groceries home?" and '
I said, 'No,' and she said, 'Well, there has'j
been delivered here enough to supply us for?
six montns.- -tne next day another mnf
came In with a card from one of the leaders,
saying, 'Please do what you can for him', and
I did. He wanted to supply coal and a
maae out his requisition for 60 days, and
when I got home that night I was asked l?j
i had sent any coal, and I said I had not:
but during; the day six cartloads had beeoj
dllver4 and placed In the cellar And ao lUjj
went all alone the line and all tha time IS
did not know where any of it had come from? ,
there were no names or addresses left with
tno goods, ana J had no means of knowiajf ,
how the business was done. That was the-
way Tammany did business, and I have bee"!
trying, ever slnee qultllnjr the service, ta pajf '
Tammany baek by exposing its corruBt-
method of doing things. It ia rotten to tWj
core, it will vote for anything or anybody
ong tha seal of the Wlgwajn ha been ai.,
iwmeo au P Vim continue t.o. work in tB ,
way niu u ss croiien up for goad "
WashlngJUm, P. C.t Pecejrober -
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