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68th YEAR. --NO. 25
HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1011.
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"$2 For Less Than Two Minutes Work Looks Good
To Me" Says Fred Gregory
KONTEST OPEN TO ALL; BETTER TAKE A CHANCE, YOU MAY WIN
A PRIZE. FOUIt PRIZES EVERY WEEK. JUST KICK.
Fred Gregory, the snappy office boy In The Citizen office, was the only
winner In tho prize kicking contest which started last week. However,
Fred won two prizes; one for the excellence of his kick and the other he
cause It was expressed in less than ten words.
His kick was as follows:
Hdltor The Citizen:
I kick for a raise.
Respectfully yours,
FREDERICK GREGORY,
Honcsdale, Pa.
Answer:
All right, Fred, you get it beginning with May 1.
For details of the contest see Page 2.
FAIR AT CAPITOL
W. C. Norton, Waymart Former Ice King Losing
To Head Commission His Mind From Worry
IF JONES HILL PASSES AS ! CONVICTED BANKER HOPES FOR
SCHEDULED HARRISBURG ! PARDON HUT HAS LOST CON
WILL LAND STATE FAIR. FIDENCE.
Luzerne county will not land the
State fair. It will be located in
Harrlsburg, either at a point near
Rockvlllo or on the Cumberland
aide of the capital. This is the pro
gram mapped out and it will be car
ried to completion notwithstanding
the contrary wishes of all the north
eastern legislators.
Tho Jones bill is scheduled to go
through within a fortnight. It pro
vides for a commission of nine per
sons who are to take full charge of
nil the arrangements for the fair,
such as erecting the buildings, ar-,
xangfng with transportation com
panies for special rates, encouraging
exhibits and spending $160,000 each
.year, tho last-named 'duty depending
pf course, ton whether .or' not the ap
propriation committee .'wlllallQW,
$ 3 0 0,0"0 0 thonmmasUea runfcthe
State fair for the coming two"' y ears"
W. C. Norton, Waymart, "Wayne
eounty, an ex-leglslator' and tho one
person who for twelve, years has
been leading tho flght for a State
fair, will head the commission. He
was in Harrisburg last week In con
sultation with the g6vernor regard
ing the project, but they only talk
ed over the subject generally. Un
like his predecessor, Governor Tener
appears to be anxious for the estab
lishment of a Pennsylvania State
fair. He has knowledge of the good
such an Institutions has done In New
York state and feels tho opportuni
ties for benefits in the Keystone
state are even better.
The purpose of a State fair Is to
encourage industrial activity, me
chanical science, llvo stock breeding,
domestic arts, and, of course, all
matters pertaining to agriculture.
According to Mr. Norton the horse
racing end will not be a feature of
Pennsylvania's State fair.
Residing in northeastern Pennsyl
vania, Mr. Norton would like to see
tho fair go to Luzerne or Lackawan
na county, but believes that such a
scheme would not bo countenanced
by the powers that be. Williams
port and Lancaster are also appli
cants and the last named county
has some formidable backing. But,
as already stated, Harrisburg has tho
call and will get the fair if the fair
bill Is enacted. Harrisburg is con
sidered the best railroad city in tho
state, being a veritable hub for eight
lines to every part of tho common
wealth. The men who cast legisla
tive destiny are opposed to tho fair
going to any place but Harrisburg
and in their efforts to locate the ex
hibition grounds on tho capital city
soil they have the hearty support of
the powerful Pennsylvania Railroad
company.
GUARANTY LAW NO GOOD
OKLAHOMA HANKERS DISLIKE
IT FAILS TO AVORIC WELL
AS TAFT PREDICTED.
A stampede of Oklahoma State
bankers to get from under the pro
visions of the Oklahoma State guar
anty law Is lu evidence. Tho offices
of Comptroller of the Currency Mur
ray are flooded with applications of
thoso desirous of converting their
institutions into nntlonjHKianks.
Tho guaranty law went into effect
in Oklahoma on October 1, 1908. In
the year 1908 only one State bank
was converted to the national sys
tem. In 1909 there were three, In
1910 there were seven. Thus far
In 1911 there liavo been eighteen
conversions, and during the last three
months the applications for conver
sion have numbered between seventy
flve and a hunderd, about slxty-flve
of them coming in within the last
thirty days. Action on nearly all of
these is yet to be taken.
"We are tired of tho guaranty
law," say tho bankers.
"The guaranty law Is too expen
sive," ono writer says. The banking
board had just levied against him an
assessment of 1 per cent, on his aver
age deposits for tho last year,
amounting to more than $2,00u,000.
Such expressions as "Wo have had
enough of tho guaranty law," "We
aro disgusted with the guaranty
law," ' We have no faith In the guar
anty plan" and "The law Is too ex-
10 THE "DEVIL"
IMORSE GOING
Charles W. Morse, tho former Ice
king, is becoming insane in his cell
at the Federal Prison, Atlanta, ac
cording to the statement of John F.
Gaynor, just released from that in
stitution, after serving four years for
grafting in army contracts.
"Morse," said Gaynor to-day, as
he paced a Pullman car which was
carrying him North, "Is In bad, bad
shape. He is losing his mind from
imprisonment and worry. He is
surely going crazy. Even now you
can see his mind is failing, and I
feel sure I know ho will be In
sane before long unless ho gets out.
I told Mrs. Morse about it yesterday,
and she Is prostrated. He's awfully
bad-" ...
According' to. Gaynor.tf-'Morso. , Is
;hydly2abl6VtoIeavhislt;eHe;iSlts
i foPHonHatImMo?)ianghrankly
at the walls of the prison. He dis
likes to see visitors, eats little and Is
In poor physical as well as bad men
tal condition.
Gaynor says Morse constantly
hopes for a pardon, but has appar
ently lost confidence in the move
ment in his behalf.
THE TWO ANDREWS
CARNEGIE TO AID TOTH, THE
WRONGLY IMPRISONED MILL
HAND.
Andrew Carnegie has Interested
himself In the case of Andrew Toth,
the man who served nearly twenty
years In the Western Penitentiary for
a murder he never committed, and is
having an investigation made to as
certain whether the iSEfortunate man
Is a worthy object for his bounty.
Secretary F. M. Wilmot, of the Car
negie Hero Fund Commission receiv
ed a letter from Mr. Carnegie. Tho
envelope was addressed in the crab
bed handwriting of Mi. Carnegie and
within was a clipping from a Now
York newspaper telling of the re
lease of Toth and his penniless con
dition. At the bottom of the clip
ping Mr. Carnegie had written with
an indelible pencil: "Glad to help If
true. Please investigate and oblige."
The resources of the commission
wore at once turned loose and a re
port will be prepared under Mr. Wll
mot's direction as thorough as any
possible to make.
What 'Mr. Carnegie will do for
Toth lies with himself. The money
will not come out of the horo fund,
for Toth Is not a horo; nor will It
come from the relief fund, because
Toth did not serve tho required num
ber of years with the Carnegie Steel
Company, though he was in the em
ploy of the Carnegie company at the
time ho was adjudged guilty of the
crime committed by another at the
Edgar Thomson furnaces. Mr. Wil
mot said: "Mr. Carnegie often does
things of this kind, and what he does
In this instanco will come from his
own pocket and not from any of the
established funds."
Representative A. C. Stein by re
quest Introduced a bill Friday to pay
$10,000 to Andrew Toth, recently
pardoned and released from tho
Western Penitentiary as compensa
tion for detention through miscarri
age of justice. The details regarding
Toth's conviction aro set forth to
gether with the fact that he served
nineteen years and two months. The
bill will never get out of committee,
however, as it Is unconstitutional.
The State cannot appropriate money
for such purposes.
pensive and altogether unjust," are
of frequent occurrence.
In nearly every case the applicants
demand that the bureau take "hur
ried" action. The bankers of the
State aro harassed by rumors that
another assessment is In Immediate
prospect and they deslro conversion
in time to avoid It. Their complaint
is that tho law operates Into tho
hands of speculative at the expense
of tho conservative bankers. Their
argument Is altogether in line with
the one advanced by William How
ard Taft during the last Pedsrnio
ard Taft during the last Presidential
campaign.
FID
THE WORLD
Summary of Important Events
All Over The Country Told
In Paragraphs.
FACTORY FIRE'S DEATH LIST NOW TOTALS
145. TRAGIC SCENES REPEATED. IN
VESTIGATIONS STARTED.
THE TOTAL DEATH ROLL RESULTING FROM THE FIRE ON THE
EIGHTH FLOOR OF THE TEN-STORY ASCII BUILDING AT UNIVER
SITY PLACE AND GREEN STREET, NEW YORK CITY, WAS INCREAS
ED YESTERDAY TO 145 KNOWN DEAD. IT ALSO DEVELOPED THAT
MA'NY MORE PERSONS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN BURN
ED TO DEATH THAN HAVE BEEN REPORTED LOST.
It is believed now that tho cause of Saturday's horror was a match
which had accidentally fallen to the floor and was stepped on. The re
sponsibility for the terrible loss of human life is laid directly on the Build
ing Department. Twenty-nine bodies of the 145 known victims still re
main to be identified. .Many of the coffins containing the dreadfully mu
tilated remains aro tho very ones used at the time of the burning of the
General Slocum which catastrophe numbered over a thousand deaths.
The heartrending srenes of anguish continue unabated except that the
staeo on which the awful dramas of life and loss was removed from the
Charities Pier to tho Morgue at the foot of East 25th street. The diminish
ing number of coffins were laid in two rows, head to head, In the middle
of the floor. From overhead in the dome a single arc lamp cast an un
natural light on tho dead underneath.
The solemn effect of the whole atmosphere was Increased by the fact
that the remaining unidentified dead were mostly charred shapes, almost
unrecognizable. It is likely that most
Around the .cofflns circulated the crowd. Nothing was heard but the
subdued shuffle of feet and now and then an exclamation or a sob from a
woman. It seemed as though tho crowd, in this smaller, more sombre
place felt it was nearci tho dead than had been the case the day before on
the long pier.
Now and then low cries and moans came from a little room off the
chapel, where a score of old women were washing the bodies before they
were removed.
Collapse Reside
In one case a young girl came
sister from among the dead. They Anally approached a body a portion ot
whose face seemed recognizable. With a screun the girl throw herself
on the coflln. As she reached it, she fainted. Tho doctors took her outside
and worked fully fifteen minutes before they could restore consciousness.
She then said she felt strong enough
for the second time, however, she lost
Ing before it. This time it took nearly
The peculiar stitch used in darning her stockings was the means by
which the body of Sadie Nussbaum
Iflnatzia Bellottn of 625 Washington street, Hoboken, was identified
bv her father through the heel of .her .shoe. He had taken her shoe to be
repaired atidtthe shoemaker put In
TecognizediJThe glrl'.wasij.byears
JRelM'fUndjUflaidf Inthroughithe ted,Oross, .the Charity-Organization,
'tffeTShtrtwalsi rMakeTs'nldntheAYofla Trad&UniDn -League reached a
total during .the day of'$20,000. -Andrew Carnegie -gave' $5,000; the 'State
Legislature appropriated $3,000, and
The Grand Jury Investigation of
ity tne matter will not ue presenieu until next, ween, wnen me April urana
Jury is sworn In, Then the special Grand Jury will have the matter In
charge and will devote its entire time, and possibly continue its services for
three months, to a thorough investigation.
The worst horror of Saturday's lire disaster remains. This (superlative
degree of tragedy is in the fact that these bodies will In all pfbbublllty
nover be Identified. They aro nothing but black objects under White
cloths; all except two. These two bar recognizable human heads. The
others are without skulls, without hands, without feet. There aro slender
possibilities that relatives may come to know some of them by remnants of
clothing left clinging to their blackened bones. Little things did serve this
purpose through yesterday and the day before. A pair of home-made gart
ers that a woman wore; a single cuff cutton sticking In a tattered shirt
waist cuff; the upper of a girl's shoe, on which a little sweat-shop slave
had sewed a tan button among black buttons such little Intimate tokens
saved more than a dozen bodies from going to unidentified graves.
The Arst formal Investigation Into the lire, begun yesterday by Fire
Marshal Beers at Fire Headquarters, served to show how a fire drill might
have prevented the loss of life which occurred.
BAD STORM KILLS
HEAVY FINANCIAL LOSS IN
PHILADELPHIA AND PITTS
BURG. A windstorm throughout north
eastern Ohio, a portion of West Vir
ginia and western Pennsylvania late
Monday afternoon caused at, least
one fatality in Pittsburg, Injured a
number of persons and resulted in
heavy financial loss. In that city
the wind reached a velocity of fifty
two miles an hour. Many wires,
billboards and plate-glass windows
euffered. In the country districts
tho wind played havoc with barns
and fences.
A severe electrical storm, accom
panied by a high wind, which at
times blew with cyclonic force, swept
over the northern section of Phila
delphia shortly after 6 o'clock Mon
day. Buildings were demolished,
houses unroofed and tho New York
division of tho Pennsylvania Rail
road was placed out of commission
temporarily.
Arrest Gct-Hich-Quick Thieves.
Two get-rlch-qulck swindlers were
arrested yesterday by tho U. S. au
thorities and a Plnkerton detective.
Ono was A. L. Wlsner arrested in
New York and the other was Chas.
B. Seldon arrested in Pittsburg. Tho
sums fleeced from tho public by
these "promoters" are almost be
yond belief.
ONEONTA RANK SUSPENDS.
Tho First National Bank of Oneon
ta suspended business last Friday.
The bank has about $800,000 re
sources and the deposits aro about
$500,000, with an equal amount of
loans and discounts.
The withdrawals have been moro
extensive for the past sixty days. Un
less there should be a marked shrink
age In the loans and discounts col
lectable it Is expected the bank will
pay depositors In full.
BRYAN AS A HAIR TONIO.
Tom Robertson, sixty-flvo years
old, of Macon, Mo., who took a vow
In 1896 that he would not have his
beard or hair cut until William Jen
nings Bryan was elected President,
died last Friday as the result of a
fall downstairs.
Ho had kept his vow and was look
ing forward to a Democratic triumph
in 1912. His hair reached half-way
down his back.
AT LARGE
of them can never be claimed.
Their Dead.
with her father to try and' pick out her
to go back. When she saw the body
self-possession again and fell faint
half an hour to restore her.
was identified by lier motner.
a.pjate whose peculiar construction he
old.;, -,
several citizens gave $1,000 or more.
the Are Is certain, but In all probabil
WHY BOYS LEAVE FARMS
VICE PRESIDENT OF MINNEAPO
LIS RANK HOLDS CITY GIRLS
RESPONSIBLE.
"Tho city girl who goes into rural
communities to teach Is a menace to
tho agricultural future of the na
tion. She strikes at the backbone of
the country's prosperity.
"From her position on tho rostrum
of the little red school-house tho
teacher from tho city turns the
thoughts of her boy pupils into oth
er channels than those leading to the
raising of cattle and corn."
Joseph Chapman, Jr., Vice-President
of the Northwestern National
Bank of Minneapolis, pictured the
city girl in this new role In a talk In
Chicago.
Not ony teachers, but the city girls
on vacation, give the young men sug
gestions on city life that take them
from tho soil.
"They hnvo much to do," he said,
"with the big migration of boys to
tho cities."
TO TAX SPINSTERS
WISCONSIN ASS E M It L Y M AN
THINKS WOMEN TO BLAME
FOR BACHELORS.
Assemblyman Carl Hanson of Mad
ison, Wis., thinks women are respon
sible for tho prevalence of bache
lors, and to force weddings upon
spinsters he lately Introduced a bill
providing for an annual tax of $5 up
on all unmarried women over 25
years of age. Tho measure falls to
provide any means for determining
the ago of the subjects.
WOMAN TO RUN U. S. MINT.
Secretary 'MacVeagh has approved
an order which will place a woman
In direct charge of all the mints and
assay offices in the United States, for
short intervals at various times dur
ing tho year.
The woman Is Miss Margaret V.
Kelly, of tho Mint Bureau, one of the
three highest paid women In the
Government service. George E. Rob
erts, director of the mint, Is obliged
to bo absent from the treasury much
of his time, and R. E. Preston, the
mint examiner, is also away much.
In such cases Miss Kelly will be act
ing director with full powers.
HARRISBURG NEWSTHE PAUPACK DAM
1200 Bills Offered; No
Date Yet For Closing I
SCHOOL CODE FAILS TO PLEASE;
RIG SALARY INCREASE;
OTHER HILLS.
Tho Legislative mill grinds slow
ly. More time seems to be devoted
by the members to tho preparation
and introduction of new bills than
to getting through thoso which are
before the lawmakers for action. So '
far upward of 1200 bills have been
offered, and if the past Is any cri
terion, at least half of these will fall
by the wayside. To enact this lot of
stuff into laws, and this means
amending, cutting out, changing and
classifying, would require two ses-1
slons a day for at least three months I
and this will not be possible. Speak
er Cox Intimated this week that the
Rules Committee might nrrange to
forbid the Introduction, of new bills
after April 4, and Ax a dnte for ad
journment In May, but that has not
been definitely decided. So many
members have pet measures that
they wish put through that they hes
itate about fixing an early date for
adjournment, and on tho other hand
the country members don't wnnt to
stay here later than May, so that
the date of adjournment is likely to
become n bone of contention. To a
man up a tree it looks as though the
Legislature would hardly get away
before June first, for, to paraphrase,
"Of making many laws there is no
end." Ono member remarked .that
it would be a good thing for the
state if the Legislature met quad
rennially Instead of bl-ennlally, and
another voiced his belief that It
would bo well to repeal all existing
statutes and start in with a clean
sheet.
SCHOOL CODE.
The school code still falls to
pleaso. Not only must it be whip
ped into shape to please the Phila
delphia delegation, and the Alle
gheny delegation, but lots of the
country members are prepared with
amendments when It gets before the
House, and it seems possible that its
parents will fall to recognize It when
the House has done its worst. What
suits one section displeases another,
and'-the outcomot must of necessity
he a compromise," for a measure of
some sort will be put through this,
year.
llEVENUE BILLS.
A whole raft of revenue bills. In
tended to equalize taxation and pro
duce tho necessary funds to meet the
growing expense of the state and Its
institutions, has been propared by
the committee appointed by the last
Legislature on Taxation, and placed
before the lawmakers. In addition
to these individual members have
placed a largo number under way
for action. As a sample there are
no less than four bills before the
House, amending the act taxing the
gross receipts of transportation and
lighting companies, whereas all
should have been combined In one.
There are duplicates in other direc
tions which will of course be elimi
nated In the weeding out process.
Most of the revenue bills are aimed
at corporations, and if they all be
came laws stockholders would have
to be content with lesser dividends,
while the rule would be no divid
ends, most llkoly. Companies en
gaged in the manufacture of gas are
asked to pay a tax of Ave mills on
their capital stock and a tax of olght
mills on their gross receipts, the
same as electric light companies do.
All corporations have another mill
added to their capital stock tax. In
surance companies are asked to pay
a three .per cent, tax on their gross
premiums received from business
done within the state, Instead of two
per cent, as at present; an increase
of fifty per cent. In the tax. These
are samples.
AUTO OWNERS GROWL.
Automobllists are doing consider
able growling over the Increased tax
or license required of them. They
think $75 is a big fee, considering
how many poor roads we have, even
though the money is all to be used
in the construction and maintenance
of roads. Wo shall however, have a
lot of good roads, if the Sproul bill
is enacted into law, and the Consti
tution may be amended so as to per
mit of the Issuing of $50,000,000 of
bonds. But, as Kipling says, that Is
another story.
SALARY RAISES.
The state will need a big increase
In revenue to meet all tho salary
raises now before the Legislature.
A local paper summarized theso bills
some time ago, showing that It
would require at least $2,500,000 to
pay the increase, to say nothing of
the former salaries, and there have
been a lot of bills to increase salar
ies put in since then. Certainly
some of the States' employes aro
not adequately compensated, and this
condition the Legislature should
correct, but the lawmakers aro like
ly 'to do a lot of hard thinking before
all these bills aro passed and the
question put Up to tho Governor.
Tho Judges' salary bill is still before
the Senate, waiting for a nice day.
And there are a whole lot of Im
portant bills, romedlal, reorganizing
departments, providing revenue, tak
ing caro of the charitable and bene
volent institutions, that deserve and
should receive the most careful con
sideration, which may be lost in tho
final shuffle, or put upon the books
In imperfect form. This Legislature
has some very Important work ahead
of It, work that should be- consid
ered in a patriotic spirit, having in
Vivid Description Of The
Immense Project
COMMENT BY PROMINENT 1IAW
LEYITES; POSSIBLE EFFECTS
ON GROWTH OF TOWN.
"It looks good to me," said Mayor
R. .W. Murphy to a Citizen reporter,
Friday, commenting upon tho gi
gantic $5,000,000 dam pjoject of
the Paupack Power Company, who
have planned to turn the wasted en
ergy of Paupack Falls Into electric
watts and kllowats.
"I hud a good deal of faith in it,"
ho continued, "for fifteen years. It's
just now being worked out. They
hnvo acquired all the properties
above the Falls, and nearly all be
low. "It will help Hawley a lot. If
they are going to have power to use.
there will be Borne manufacturers
here who will want to use it as well
as at other places.
"They aro getting ready, clearing
off the hillside and building a saw
mill. They're doing business red
hot. They are going to build an
electric road from the Erie right
back to the woods.
"From Wllsonville to Hawley there
Is a fall of 300 feet in the Paupack
River. Up tho river from Wllson
ville there Is a fall of less than a
foot to the mile. By building a dam
forty feet high at the Falls It will
throw the water back enough to
cover about 7,000 acres. That Is
supposed to develop 20,000 horse
power for twenty-four hours consecu
tively. 7,000-ACRE LAKE.
"We will soon have a lake In the
mountains covering 7,000 acres, with
a shore line of 100 miles, dotted with
bays and Inlets. Think what a sum
mer resort that would be. The shore
rights would pay if turned into lots
and sold for cottage purposes, even
if thoy never turned a wheel.
Mayor Murphy waxed enthusias
tic In describing tho boundless pos
sibilities of tho now enterprise
which is to make Hawley blossom
like a rose. He Is the secretary and
treasurer of the Keystone Cut Glass
company, and as proprietor of one
of the leading industries of tho bor
ough, as well as its official head, is
ever alive to anything that will
make Hawley grow.
James' Butler, Mooslc, representa
tive of the Paupack Power Company,
whose offices aro located In Scranton,
has done the purchasing; of tho prop
erties, tho deeds of which are In his
name. He has had many years ex
perience in the same business, hav
ing purchased the "rights-of-way"
for a number of largo corporations,
notably the Laurel Line.
According to his statement the
men back of the scheme are Col. L.
A. Watres, L. H. Watres, C. D.
Simpson, L. Stlllwell, tho man who
built the Niagara Falls Power
Houses, and C. A. Marcoe, all names
of men to conjure with In the fi
nancial world.
S.-.,000,000 SCHEME.
He said that it was the Intention
of the company to erect a dam at
Wllsonville, and back tho water as
far as Ledgedale. The lake will
have an average width of a mile
and a half. About 10 or 18 years
ago a company came In hero and
spent $30,000 to $40,000 in attempt
ing to develop electric power. Mr.
Butler thought the scheme an en
tirely feasible ono. "It could eaBlly
cost $5,000,000," he said.
Thomas Mangan, president of the
Hawley Bank, when seen in his cosy
offices, said:
"The enterprise is not devised for
tho destruction of local interests.
They want to Increase tho number
of manufacturing plants, and be a
benefit, not a detriment to the re
gion. In buying up tho properties,
they gave every man more than he
asked. No man but got moro than
twice what it was worth. Tho ob
ject of the corporation is not to do
any damage to any local Industry.
Wo don't want to cripple any in
dustry In the town. The people
who are back of the project have the
welfare and progress of tho com
munity at 'heart."
Mr. Mangan was quite anxious to
make It clear that the Company, In
which It Is said ho Is financially In
terested, would be a help, Instead of
a hindrance to Hawley, as many are
declaring it was bound to bo.
AMERICAN LABOR.
When asked ns to whether they
would employ American labor on tho
job, he said: "I'd like to seo nothing
else. But where In the world would
yon get American labor? I'd have
(Continued on Page Elght.
mind the needs of a great and grow
ing Commonwealth.
"HOW TO REORGANIZE."
When this cruel war (among tho
Democratic organizers and the old
guard) Is over, Messrs. Guthrie and
Palmer will be quite competent to
lecture on "How to Reorganize."
The old guard never surrenders and
there Is still in prospect a very pret
ty fight. Tho men who have borne
tho brunt of the campaigns for
years are not disposed to givo up
their places so eaBlly to the theor
ists who have stood back, offering
Euggestlons and advice, buc doing
little or no fighting for the cause,
usually the lost cause. While they
are fighting It out and trying to find
out "Who's Who," Republicans can
congratulate themselves on the bet
ter prospects for victory, caused by
our ancient foo. '"Tis an ill wind,
etc,"
N. E. IIAUSE.