Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 20, 1908, Page 4

3 MADE MASTERLY SPEECH ON ISSUES OF GAMPAIGN Continued from ‘First Page thousands of articles on the dutiable list to that difference. The work of tariff rivision is already begun. Under a resolution passed last May the finance com- mittee of the senate and the ways and means committee of the house have been at work securing the necessary data for an intelligent and honest division; but the democrats ignore this fact, or else that have not yet heard of it. The speaker claimed some credit for this first step in revision because of introducing a tariff commission bill in the last and present congress, and the resolution under which the work is now going on is a result of the general demand in some quarters for a tariff commission to do this work. Our candidate for president, Mr- Taft, is in hearty syi'npathy with this movement and was the only aspirant for the republican nomina- tion who had declared himself for revision before the national conven- tion met. The speaker stated that the hi- pocracisy of the democratic criticism of the house of representatives and its rules will be appreciated when we recall that they themselves adopted and enforced these same rules when they were in power. Mr. Steenerson stated that he had long favored the modification of the rules so as to take away from the speaker the power to appoint a com _ mittee on rules and increasing this committee from five to twenty-one, so that the different sections of the country could be represented. The hostility to the speaker had originated since his last election, during the last session and is due to his opposition to measures favored by President Rooseyelt. The record of the republican party is not confined to the re-estab- lishing of prosperity and financial | integrity and is characterized by a number of reform measures includ- ing control of interstate commerce and the instrumentality thereof. These measnres—notibly the rate bill, the amendments to the anti- trust law and anti-rebate law, meat inspection and pure food laws—are so well known that an extended dis- cussion of them would be unneces- sary. These measures of reform and the vigorous enforcement of the law constitute the distinct Rooseveltian policies, which have made him the most popular man that ever satin the White House. To the charge of extravagance we reply that none can be éhown, and that the increased appropriation is due to the growth of the country and the continued demand for increased service on the part of the federal government. The speaker spoke of the postal service and its great increase along the line of usefulness. It took $40,000,000 a year in order that the daily mail may be delivered to every home upon the farm. This was a good investment. No democrat would dare to propose a discontinu- ance of this service. So it is with interstate commerce commission, the department - of agriculture and its work, the interior department and other departments of the government where it requires big appropriations to extend the service; and yet under our admirable customs and revenue laws the funds for this great work have been sufficient. Mr. Bryan,in his speech of accept- ance, quotes Mr. Taft as follows: “The strength of the republican cause in this campaign is the fact that we represent the policies essential to the reform of known abuses to the continuance of liberty and true prosperity and that we are determined, as our platform declares, to maintain them and carry them on,” and then continues: “In the name of the democratic party, I accept the challenge and charge that the republican party is respon- sible for all the abuses which now exist in the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!” This is evasion and special plead- ing of the most delusive kind. Mr. Taft did not refer to abuses in the Federal government. He was alud- ing to conditions in the business world; to monopolistic combinations in commerce; to unfair competition to destroy competition in business; to discriminations in railway trans- portation, and dishonesty in corpor- ate financering and like evils. These are the known abuses that Rossevelt reforms have sought to remedy or minimize.- \\ To thisend Congress passed the anti-trust law .against unlawful restraint of trade or commerce among the states; the dntirebate law, the rate bill, the pure food and meat inspection law; the law creat- ing the bureau of corporations to investigate and publish the facts in regard to the operations of large corporations and secure publicity therein. These measures are genuine reforms, for which Bryan claims to TALKED, but which Roosevelt his put in ACTUAL PRACTICE. Iustead of recognizing the great work for reform that the president has done, Bryan denounces him as a subservient official, who has been raised to power by the representa- tion of predatory wealth in order that they may prey upon a defense- less public. Do you think that the American people approve such de- nunciation? or do you not think that their verdict will be, as will be the verdict of history, that Theodore Roosevelt has done more for genuine reform, for higher moral ideals and standards in our business affairs, for enlarging the opportunity of the ordinary business man, for securing a square deal, for progress and civili- zation, than any man in modern times? Mr. Steenerson then sa'd: “If you desire the continuance of republican prosperity and Roose- velt reforms and honest tariff revis- ion upon republican lines, then you must elect Mr. Taft and a republican’| congress and the work will be done. “Having confidence in the inteli- gence and fairness of the American people, we await their verdict upon these momentous issues with hope and confidence that the wheels of progress will not be turned back but that this great nation will go onward to a realization of still higher ideals and greater triumphs.” In conclusion, referring to J. F Jacobson, the republican nominee. for governor, the speaker said he was a man tried and true, and deserved the support of every repub- lican. No man who believed in the the principles of his party could vote against him, and it was pretty cer- tain that few would. There was a landslide coming, and it was for Jacobson, the true and tried friend of the common people. BLAGKDUGK K. P.’S ARE PREPARING A BIG TIME District Convention of the Order Will Be Held at the *‘Duck” Thursday, October 22nd. The fall convention of district No. 16, Knights of Pythias, of Minne- sota, will be held at Blackduck on Thursday, October 22, and it is ex- pected that the forthcoming meeting will be the very best Pythian “get- ting together” ever held in northern Minnesota. The district includes Park Rapids lodge No. 109, McIntosh Lodge No. 156, Blackduck Lodge No. 182 and Bemidji Lodge No. 168, which lodges include in their membership several hundred loyal K. P.’s, all of whom take much interest in the work of the order in this part of the state. The people of Blackduck are mak- ing extensive preparations to royally entertain the visiting knights on the occasion of the district convention A general discussion for the good of the order will be held in the K. P. hall at Blackduck at 10 o’clock in the forenoon of the 22nd. After this general discussion speeches will be made by volunteers among the delegates, and there will be a brief program of vocal and instrumental music. The Blackduck folks have arranged excellent entertainment all dav forthe visitors, and in the evening there will be work in the third rank at the Blackduck lodge rooms, beginning at 7 o’clock. After the business session there will be a short program of vocal and instrumental musicy recitations, speeches etc. A large number of the members of Bemidji lodge will attend the con- vention and no doubt there will also be a goodly attendance from Park Rapids and McIntosh. % GUILTY ON TWO CHARGES Finding of Courtmartial in Case of Lieutenant Evans. Yokohama, Oct. 20.—Lieutenant Frank T. Evans of the battleship Lou- isiana, son of “Fighting Bob” Evans, who recently was courtmartialed on a charge of absenting himself from his place as officer of the deck, disrespect to his superior officer and intoxica- tion, has been found guilty of the two former charges. ¥ The sentence provides that Lieutan- ant Evans shall lose 150 numbers and shall be publicly reprimanded. " END FOR BILLI Highest Court Denies Peti- tion of Condemned Man. — LONG BATTLE FOR HIS LIFE Chicago Murderer Has Escaped Exe- cution on Several Occasions, but It Is Not Probable That He Will Get Another Stay of Proceedings—Ac- cused of Murdering Three or Four Members of One Family. ‘Washington, Oct. 20.—The supreme court of the United States has dis- wissed for want of jurisdiction the appeal of Herman Billik from the de cision of Judge Landis of the United States circuit court for the Northern district of Illinois, denying the peti- tion for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Billik, who is under sen- tence of death in Chicago on the charge of murdering a number of peo- pla. The petition was based on the plea that Billik had been denied a constitu- tional right by the failure of the trial court to ask him if he had anything to say why the sentence of death should not be passed upon him. By taking the case into the United States courts on a petition for a writ of habeas cor- pus and appealing to the supreme court from Judge Landis’ decision denying the writ he obtained a year’s delay; but it is probable that he will not get another stay of proceedings and there- fore that the sentence of the trial court will soon be executed. Billik ‘was a necromancer and it was charged that he obtained undue control over victims by practicing upon their credulity. A number of offenses were charged against him, but the most serious was that of murdering three or four members of the Vzral family of Chicago, after robbing them and betraying their confidence in many ways. Several Times Respited. Chicago, Oct. 20.—The refusal of the supreme court of the United States to act in the case of Herman Billik of Chicago brings to an end one of the most notable struggles ever made in the history of American jurisprudence to save the life of a condemned man. Billik, indicted two years ago for the murder of five members of the Vrzal family, was tried on one indictment and convicted of the murder of Mary Vrzal. Billik was sentenced to hang, but was thrice respited pending the outcome of appeals to higher courts or the board of pardons. The member of the Vrzal family whose deaths were laid at the door of Billik were Martin, the father; Mary, Tilly and Rose, children of Martin, and Mrs. Martin Vrzal, mother of the children. Post mortem examinations uncovered traces of arsenic in the stomach of each.-Damaging testimony was given against Billik by Jerry Vrzal. It was the story he told, in fact, which friends of Billik declared made the conviction of the defendant certain. A sensation was created later when Jerry retracted this testimony before the board of pardons. He claimed that his evidence in court had been given under duress. The defense relied largely on this retrac- tlon in meking the fight to save the prisoner from paying the penalty for the crime charged against him. DANGER LARGELY OVER. Forest Fires Now Under Control in Michigan. Alpena, Mich,, Oct. 20.—Complete reports have been received from all of the points north of here which were in danger from the forest fires and the danger now seems to be largely over. No new fire losses have been reported. Four of the seven bodies which were found between Rogers City and Metz have been identified as the wife and three children of Her- man Erke, whose cremation in a log- ging camp was reported. Rogers City, Mich., Oct. 20.—After a three days’ battle with forest fires this city is free from smoke and no buildings in town have been destroyed. It is estimated that the homeless vic- tims of the forest fires in Presque Isle and Alpena counties number at least four hundred families, with an average of four to six in each family. Completes Circle of Globe. Portsmouth, N. H.," Oct. 20.—The United States battleship Maine, after making a circuit of the globe, was sighted off the entrance to Portsmouth harbor at 7 a. m,, under a convoy of three tugs, which had waited outside to meet her. A thick bank of fog de- layed the arrival somewhat, but the Maine was successfully docked at 8:15 a. m. As she swung around Hender- sons point under her own steam her guns boomed out a rear admiral’s sa- lute of thirteen guns, which was im- mediately answered by a commander’s salute of seven guns by the navyyard battery. St. Paul Physician Suicides. St. Paul, Oct. 20.—Dr. Marcus Tess: ler, prominent surgeon, was found dead by his wife lying on a cot in his office. He had ended his life by tak- ing poison, He left a note asking for- giveness from his family. Mental weakness was the cause of the suj cide. AUSTRIANS LAND TO PROTECT CONSUL Naval Guard Has Skirmish With Munten_sgrln Mob. A Berlin, Oct. 20.—According to the 3 A ¢ | Vieina correspondent 61 the Tage- LuuKs LIKE THE blatt there. has been a Bkirmish be- tween an Austrian naval guard and a mob of Montenegring at Amtivari.- The correspondent says in his dispatch: “It 1s reported here from Antivari that a crowd of Montenegrins threat- ened the Austrian consul. " A guard for the protaction of the consul was sent ashore from Austrian warships, two cruisers and a torpedo boat. The guard had a desultory skirmish with the mob, which lasted several hours.” Arms for Montenegrins. Berlin, Oct. 20.—“An Austrian tor- pedo boat,” cables the Budapest eor- respondent of the Tageblatt, “has ar- rested a British steamer near Cattaro, on the Bay of Antivari, laden with arms and ammunition destined for Montenegro.” . Italy Agrees to Programme. London, Oct. 20.—The British for- elgn office has been rotified that Italy adheres to the draft of the programme for the international congress to set- tle the Near Eastern situation made public last week. ~ GENERAL RODZU DEAD. Commanded Army Corps in Russo. Japanese War. Tokio, Oct. 20.—General Count Mich- itsura Nodzu is dead here. General Nodzu was born at Satsuma in No- vember, 1840. He fought as colonel in the civil war in 1877, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1885 and was made a full general in 1894. He com- GENERAL COUNT NODZU, manded the Hiroshima division and later was commander of the First army during the Chino-Japanese war in 1894 and 1895; was appointed in- spector general of education and com- mander of the Fourth army corps in the late Russo-Japanese war. YOUNG WOMAN GETS HER GHOIGE OF LAND Name Drawn First in South Dakota Lottery. Dallas, S. D., Oct. 20.—The winner of the first number in the Tripp coun- ty land opening was Miss May A. Melser of Kennebec, S. D. She is thirty-two years of age. She lives with her parents on a farm about four miles from town. Her application was mailed from Presho, S. D, and her affidavit was sworn to by a notary at Presho. The next names drawn were Peter Swift of Ponca, Neb., second, and E. Hannen ot Meadow Grove, Neb., third. The opening of the heavy iron cans containing the names was quickly done. After Thomas W. Cale had fin- ished speaking the little girls, Dema Rose and Virginia Wagner, were in- troduced by Judge Witten. They were heartily cheered. Just twenty-five minutes after the cans were opened and thoroughly stirred Dema Rose‘was carried to the front of the platform by Judge Witten and told to walk anywhere she pleased and pick up an envelope from behind her back. The little miss, who is only four years old, was frightened and about ready to cry. She walked over to the middle of the pile of en- velopes and reached down and picked up the winning envelope. BRAKE FAILS TO WORK. Three Trolley Cars in Collision at Kansas City, Kansas City, Oct. 20.—Three trolley cars on the Troost avenue line col- lided at Thirteenth street and Troost avenue here and were badly wrecked. One man was killed and fifteen other passengers were more or less serious- 1y injured. The airbrake failed on one of the cars at Tenth street and Troost avenue and it rushed back down a steep hill. There were two cars com- ing up the hill back of the first car and for two blocks these cars backed away in @ thrilling attempt to escape. The cars were crowded with passen- gers bound down town, many of them being prominent business men. For three blocks before the cars finally collided men and women jumped fran- tically to the street and many were hurt ip their efforts to escape. R, L. Smith of Nevada, Mo. was killed when the front end of the rear car was crushed in. A wrecking car collided with the runaway trolley car after the latter had come to a standstill and the crew were forced to jump to save their lives, the foreman being badly hurt. woman Burned to Death. Schell, W. Va,; Oct. 20.—Mrs. John A. Blackburn was burned to death near her home while fighting forest fires. The situation in this vicinity is serious. Tornado in New Mexico. El Paso, Tex., Oct. 20.—A report re- ceived here says that a tornado swept through Clayton, N. M., killing several persons. It is reported that the court- house was badly damaged and a num- ber of houses blown down. THINKS IT WILL BE A LANDSLIDE Chairman Mack Positive of Bryan’s Election. CLOSE STATES CANVASSED Democratic Manager Declares His Figures Show Heavy Republican Losses as Compared With Four Years Ago—Candidate Taft, Now Speaking in the East, Will Wind Up the Week in Indiana. New York, Oct. 20.—Massing all the forces of the militant Democracy in the final struggle of the campaign to capture the Empire state Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic na- tional committee, bearing prophesies of victory, came from the West to take personal charge of what he de- clares will be the hardest fought fin- ish of any presidential campaign in this state. Not only Mr. Bryan, but other Democratic speakers of note, in- cluding several United States senators, will swing through the state in an effort to capture New York's elec- toral vote for the Democratic ticket. Mr. Mack held several conferences with Fastern leaders looking to the devisement oi plans for the final on- elaught. The national chairman as- serts that Bryan will be elected by a lendslide and in support of this dec- laration made public some results which he had obtained from precinct polls made in many of the so called doubtful states. Mr. Mack said: “I am firmly convinced that William J. Bryan will be elected by a land- slide. Within the last two weeks I have caused a careful poll to be made iby captains in hundreds of precincts In New York, Indiana and Ohio for the purpose of obtaining the percent- age of Republican loss over four years 8go. The results of the poll were emazing and in no instance did they Indicate anything but an increase in the Democratic vote.” TAFT WILL BE KEPT BUSY Programma Mapped Out for Balance of Campaign. Washington, Oct. 20.—Before leav- fng Washington Judge Taft discussed the future demands of the campaign with interest, saying that while the programma mapped out for him was extensive he hoped to be able to com- plete the work by conserving his voice as well as he might. His itin- erary for the day covered New Jersey and Delaware, ending with a big meet- ing in Raltimore at which Secretary Garfield presided. Tuesday night Mr. Taft will spend in traveling to his home in Cincinnati, where Wednesday will be given to complete relaxation. The last three days of the week will be devoted to a whirlwind dash through Indiana in company with Vice President Fairbanks, Senator Bever- idge and other leading Indiana Repub- licans. The last week of the cam- paign will be given to New York and the last speeches will be made at Cleveland and Youngstown, O., on Mr. Taft's way home the day before elec- tlon, BRYAN IN ILLINOIS. Begins Tour of That State at East St. Louis. East St. Louis, Ill, Oct. 20.—Will- fam J. Bryan began a day's speech- making in Illinois with a talk to a large crowd of workingmen at the de- pot here. The Democratic candidate discussed the issues of the campaign generally, but he paid particular at- tention to the party platforms on the subject of court injunctions and also emphacized tha action of the campaign managers in making the contributions to the party’s treasury public. ‘The speech closed with a plea that the rival candidates for the presidency be allowed “to fight out the campaign between themselves” so that the peo- ple may decide between the issues “unhampered by executive interfer- ence,” FIRST OF THIS CAMPAIGN La Follette Makes Speech in Support of Taft. Mount Horeb, Wis., Oct. 20.—Unit- ed States Senator Robert M. La Fol- lette made his first speech of the cam- paign here. Senator La Follette was in fine voice and he spoke with a seri- ousness which showed he believed great issues were at stake in this campaign, Both William J. Bryan and William H. Taft were mentioned by name by Senator La Follette and he ‘declared that he had the highest re- spect for Mr. Bryan as a man of patri- otism and sincerity, but he was sup- porting Mr. Taft because he believed through the agency of the Repub- lican party the progressive movement eould be best carried out. President to Become Editor. New York, Oct. 20.—President Roosevelt has signed a contract with the Outlook to act as an associate ed- itor after his retirement from the presidency in March next. This is made subject to the existing contract to write the story of his African tray- els for Charles Scribner’s Sons. His work in connection with the Outlook tion at Braddock and bothtrains were running at full speed at the time. It 18 thought the accident was caused by the crew on No. 17 running by a block elgnal. Forty head of cattle were Killed. Snow Storm in Colorado. Denver, Oct. 20.—A storm, accom penied by rain which changed fre quently to snow, has prevailed through: out Northeastern Colorado for nearly forty-eight hours. In sections of the ‘mountains heavy snow has fallen. Con- siderable damage was done to electric light wires and telegraph wires are seriously affected. Railroad and in- terurban electric lines have been in- terrupted and at places completely blocked. Several accidents and at least one death have resulted from persons coming in contact with broken electrie wires. SENATOR NEWLANDS ILL Breaks Down After Three Weeks of Severe Campaigning. Reno, Nev.,, Oct. 20.—United States Benator Francis G. Newlands of Ne- rada has broken down after three SENATOR NEWLANDS. weeks of severe campaigning and is on his way to San Francisco to receive treatment. MRS, HAINS LOSES IN PRELIMINARY BOUT Gourt Denies Allmnny and Cus- | tody of the Children, New York, Oct. 20.—The application of Mrs. Claudie L. Hains for alimony and counsel fees to defend a suit for divorce brought by Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr., awaiting trial for killing William E. Annis, was denied by Jus- tice Carr in Brooklyn. Mrs. Hains’ re- quest that she be granted the custody of her children also was denied. Annis was named as corespondent in Cap- tain Hains’ suit for divorce. Justice Carr, in his decision, said that Captain Hains has no means from which to pay either alimony or counsel fees, as his salary has been suspended since his imprisonment and his own small means are needed for his own defense. The court also gave as a reason that Mrs. Hains is in a comfortable home with her parents In Massachusetts. “As to the custody of the children,” sald Justice Carr, “a similar embar- ‘tor of the Warren Avenue Baptist is to cover political and economic topics. TRAINS IN COLLISION. Engineer Killed and Twenty-two Pas- sengers Injured, Newton, Kan., Oct. 20.—Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train No. 17, westbound, collided head on with an extra stock train, eastbound, near Braddock, fifteen miles east of Newton. David Roberts, engineer of the stock train, was killed and twenty- two passengers were more or less in- Jjured, none, it is believed, fatally. The ion occurred just east of the sta- rassment exists. The children are with the father’s parents outside this state and the defendant has no home In this state and declares that if she gets possession of the children she will take them {o Massachusetts. I feel it inadvisable at this moment to disturb the situation.” In her afidavit replying to her hus- band’s suit for divorce Mrs. Hains de- nied that she had been guilty of any fmpropriety with Mr. Annis and con- cluded: “I believe that my husband’s act and the charges which he has made against me have been prompted by his brother, T. Jenkins Hains, who threatened to injure me for refusing his advances. He endeavored several times while my husband was away to make advances, going so far as to en- ter my room. I repulsed him and he declared that he weuld be revenged.” MINISTERS WILL ORGANIZE Boston Pastors Hope Thereby to Bet- ter Their Conditions. Boston, Oct. 20.—Declaring that many Boston preachers are unable to support their families on the small salaries they receive and that several of them are forced to till the soil for a living Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, pas- church, advocates the formation of a ministers’ union and a meeting of Boston pastors of all Protestant de- nominations will ba called. The proposed union is to be based on the same principles as these of or- ganized labor and is intended to have the same sort of restrictive and pro- tective features. There will be a clause covering a movement on the part of the clergy answering to the “strike” of the workingmen and there also will be a functionary of the na- ture of the walking delegate. “Conditions among ministers here in Boston are such that something must be done,” said Rev. Mr. Johnson. “A number of my friends in this city are actually preparing to leave the min- istry. They have bought little farms in New England, to which they will retire, because they simply cannot live on their salacies.” Plants to Cost $1,000,000. San Francisco, Oct. 20.—The South- ern Pacific Railway company has an- nounced its determination to spend $1,000,000 in the near future in the construction of plants for pre-cooling fruit and vegetables, the object being to permit of long hauls of perishable WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. AN~ 7t WANTFD—Good girl for general housework. Inquire of Mrs. S. E. P. White. FOR SALE. 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