Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 13, 1911, Page 1

ot VOLUME 9. NUMBER 193. PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT NOW-ONIN EARNEST Decision of Republicans to Meet at Chicago in June First Shot in Coming Campaign. DEMOCRATS TO TAKE NEXT STEP Gather in Washington After Holi- days to Name Convention City and Name the Date. TAFT SURE OF RENOMINATION | But Opponent is to Be Picked From Bunch of Candidates Eager for the Fray. BY WINFIELD JONES. Washington, December (Special)—National political paigns are inaugurated at the meet— ings of the two national commmit- ! tees of the parties immediately be- fore the convention dates are fixed. | This has been the practice for half | a century and the coming campaigns will follow the usual course. The Republican National Committee met in Washington yesterday, mapped out the preliminary work and decid- 13.— cam- ed to hold the national convention at Chicago, June 18, and the Demo- cratic committee will meet imme- diately after the holidays. | Looks Rosy to Democrats. The tremendous importance of the Congressional election a year ago is an evidence of the desperation with which the parties will clash ten months from now. That the Demb- cratic party was swept into control| of the House of Representatives and came within a few votes of control- | ling the Senate has been taken as a harbinger of success in the presiden- | tial contest by the Democrats. Yet the far-sighted leaders of Lhal{ party are none too confident of the! result next November. Republicans Hard to Keep Down. | No political organization in the history of the country has been able to sustain such terrific assaults as has the Republican party. Almost every contest since the Civil War has demonstrated this. Twice, it is true, the Republicans have lost con- trol of the government, but they were able to regain it in four years in each of these instances. This is the reason why the Demo- cratic leaders are calculating upon This is why they are councelling “karmony” at every opportunity, and are work- ing hard to prevent any disruption either before or after their conven- tion meets. These leaders know that the Re- publican party is never whipped un- til the last state is heard from, and while conditions now are in their favor they are guarding against over confidence. all possible conungencies. Many Democratic Candidates. There are many Democratic can- didates and all of them have friends on the national committee. They are looking to these friends to lose| no tricks and are depending upon them to see that their opponents gain | nothing worth while, either in re- “gard to the place for holding the convention, or in any other detail of | the committee's action. Of course, there is always the possibility that Colonel Roosevelt will come forward at the last minute and-“save his par- ty” by allowing himself to be nomi- nated, but if his own declarations are to be taken seriously and the assurances of his friends are to be| believed, he will not under any cir- cumstances allow his name to be presented. ‘This leaves the Republican con- vention with nothing to do but to nominate President Taft, and then do what it can to frame a platform which will win back into the party the rank and file of the insurgent forces. If this platform fails to heal the break in the Republican ranks, then the president’s- re-election is remote. ‘Whatever may be the final out- come, the fact remains that within less than a month the campaign will be on in earmest, and for months to come the country will give its at- tention largely to political affairs. i mittee. R R R R R R R CRCRC) < QUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. © PO0OPOROCOOOCOOGO The weather: fair Thursday; moderate temperature; variable ‘winds. - William Jennings Bryan, now at Colon, Panama, will leave tomorrow for the United States by way of Ja- maica. * | Bishop Farthing, head of the Ang- lican synod of Montreal, quietly cele- brated his fiftieth birthday anniver- sary today. . Theodore Roosevelt refused to talk politics when seen at Back Bay sta- tion in Boston last night. He de- clined to look at any of the Washing- | ton dispatches concerning the meet- {ing of the national republican com- . i - i The St. John, N. B., Globe issued | a special 50 page edition today to mark the completion of the fiftieth | vear of the editorship of John Valen- tine Ellis. Mr. Ellis is believed to be the oldest daily newspaper editor in America in point of continuous| service. | = i At Fargo, N. D., yesterday George “Rathouse” Miller was found guilty | of accepting the earnings of a pros-; titute. The penalty is from one to] | five years in state prison. Miller will | receive sentence December 15. He is 72 years old and crippled with | rheumatism. . The man who shot and Kkilled| Sheriff Moody and was himself hunt~ {ed down and shot to death, is Burt Hudson and not Charles Moline, the escaped lunatic. The positive iden- tity of Hudson was made by O. C. Reimenschneider, a farmer who lives near Wahpeton. * Jesse Reimer of Des Moines and Henry Ordemann of Minneapolis, who are to engage in a finish wrestling bout at Minneapolis tomorrow night for the championship of the North- west, have completed their training and are ready for the timekeeper’s signal to start them on their contest. N Today the various cable companies | put into effect a fifty per cent reduc- tion on all press messages from the British TIsles to Canada, Australia and the United States. Ordinary messag- es in plain language subject to de- ferment will also be accepted at half the present rates, beginning the first of the coming year. | » Six riders were victims of one of ! the worst spills that ever occurred in New York in the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden. The tires of “Eddie” Root’s bicycle exploded and dropped him in front of thirteen riders. Four piled on top of Root. Menus Bedell, “Jumbo” Wells, Root, Cameron, Thomas and Demara were | injured. . The Sherwood service pension bill, which would add upward of $40,- 000,000 government annual expen- ditures by granting increased pen- sions to Civil and Mexican war vet- lerans on the basis of length of ser- {vice, was passed by the house last inight despite the -determined oppo- sition of many democratic leaders. The bill now goes to the senate where its fate is uncertain. . The enormous number of divorces g:anted in Detroit, Mich., this year, 1,002 up to the end of November, caused a little investigation, which shiows that Detroit is outdoing Reno. Men and women who have heard of the easy manner in which divorce cases are put through the Wayne Circuit Courts go there because it iz easy to get work and thus main- tain themselves until they have es- | tablished a residence. i - A country wide campaign to urge {upon Congress the creation of a bu- ‘reau of national parks, to have charge | of all national parks and reservations | | with a view to preserving and adding to their beauty, is to be launched by the American Civic Association at its ! seventh annual convention which be- gan in _ Washington today. The movement already has received the indorsement of President Taft and Secretary of the Interior F?sher, . | A commission of eminent experts appointed te investigate the work of the missions in the Far East sailed from San Francisco for Japan today on the steamship Shinyo Maru. The commission was appointed some time ago by the International Bible Stu- dents’ association as a result of criti- cisms from various sources in regard to the methods pursued by the Am- sion are Gen. W. P. Hall, U. 8. A; E. W. V. Kuehn, Toledo, 0.; R. | Maxwell, Mansfield, O.; J. T. L. Pyles, Washington D. C.; Dr. L. W. {JANES EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS | by the names of Duval and Fisher, | the “Blackduck job,” Ibeen sworn out against him by Ed- 1swore he witnessed the money trans- {E. McDonald and Thayer Bailey will | hearing. erican missions in the Asiatic field. | {Among the members of the commis- | B.|Arliss in “Disraeli,” is so taken with Jones, Chicago, and Prof. F. H. Rob- inson, Ontario. 2 L |2lso 2 popular actress. GEARLDS HEARING T0 BRING SURPRISE Resumption of Preliminary Hearing Expected to Result in Arson Case Complication. STATE’'S WITNESS IS MISSING Brandt, Who Swore He Saw Money Transaction, Still Dodging Offi- cers of Law. Displeased With Viggo Peterson But Believes Beltrami Will Pay All Debts. Pending ihe hearing of Edward Gearlds, charged with being a party to a plot to burn the Bacon & Brown building at Blackduck last March, which is 1o be resumed tomorrow be- fore Judge H. A. Simons in munici- pa lcourt, developments in the arson cases are at a standstill. The preliminary hearing of Mr. | Gearlds came up in November at which time A. B. Brandt, also known | was the principal witness for the state, giving testimony to the effect that he had been present when Gearlds paid “Sandy” Young $50 for Surprise Expected at Hearing. Since then Brandt has disappeared & warrant charging perjury having ward Gearlds, who asserts that he has proof to show that Brandt could not have been here on the date he| action. At the timé the preliminary ex- amination was postponed, Attorney George Spear of Grand Rapids, rep- resenting Gearlds, informed the court that when the hearing was re- sumed he expected to present some | testimony on behalf of his client. Bribe Charge Held Up. Because of the disappearance of Brandt it is not improbable that the resumption of the hearing will de- velop some surprising results. E. represent the state’s interests at the No further intelligence has been received from St. Paul as to what use the attorney general proposes to make of the affidavit executed by Sheriff Hazen in which he charges that efforts were made to bribe him to “pack” the Dumas jury. It is presumed that action, if any is contemplated, along this line will be keld in abeyance until after the Gearlds hearing. Janes Compliments Beltrami. Assistant Attorney General Janes, in a lengthy interview with a St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter, ex- pressed his belief that 95 per cent of the residents of Beltrami county are in favor of paying all necessary bills in connection with the prosecu- tion of the arson cases and adds that he is keenly disappointed because of the acquittal of Dr. Dumas at Brain- erd last week but that he has no fault to find with the jury. The as- sistant attorney sharply criticized the attitude assumed by Viggo Peter- son, chairman of the Beltrami board of county commissioners. Is Provoked at Peterson. “He said,” Mr. Janes is reported to have exclaimed, “that he was not in favor of our form of government and of course if he doesn’t believe in our government he doesn't believe in paying bills for prosecuting erim- inals.” | Mr. Peterson maintains that the| assistant attorney general is placing him in an improper light and that he stands ready to o. k. all legal bills. Those who have been familiar with (Copyright, A@Mfl%fl@w REALIZATION (CHRISTHAS PLANS LAID| Programs for Aunual Observance of | : Year’s Greatest Holiday Being Arrnaged Here. SHOPPERS HAVE 9 DAYS LEFT Eleven more days to Christmas, And for shoppers this must be cut to nine days, for there are two Sun- days to be taken out. _ Ea=os The holiday rush is on and Be- midji stores, carrying larger and more complete lines of Christmas goods, are crowded daily. From now on all the stores will be open in the evening until after Christmas. In many places extra salespeople have been employed. Various programs appropriate to the yuletide spirit are being pre- pared.” The public schools, which close on Friday, December 23, for a two weeks’ vacation, will have spec- ial exercises. The churches are preparing spec- jal Christmas entertainments and the Salvation Army will have a pub- lic Christmas tree loaded with pres- ents for the poor children of the city. There will be no special railroad rates this year. The lines running into Bemidji at present have low rates on to the cities but the time limit will have expired before the holiday travelers can improve the opportunity. Incidentally, Northern Minnesota is doing much to spread Christmas cheer to all parts of the country as many Christmas trees are being shipped to city dealers, one Walker firm handling more trees this year than ever before. CHRISTMAS GIFT MAIL WARNING Use of Other Than Lawful Stamps on Face Mea.m Return of hreel Although fl;e government permits the use of Red Cross seals. on the back of letters and packages, the postal department warns | placing these stamps on the face of the article to be mailed. On July 1 the department sent out the follow- ing order to all postoffices: No adhesive stamps, or imi- tation of stamps, of any form or design whatever, other than lawful postage stamps, shall be affixed to the address side of do- mestic mail matter, but such ad- hesive stamps, provided they do not in form and design resem- ble postage stamps, and do not” bear numerals, may be affixed to the reverse side of domestic mail matter. All domestic mail mat- ter bearing, on the address side, the work of the state in connection | ‘with the arson case prosecutions con- firm the report that interesting de~| velopments may be looked for within | the next few days but declare they| ‘have nothing to say for publication at this time. Tan Maclaren, a popular young English leading man, who was im- ported as leading man with George this country that he has brought his wife over and will make his perma- nent home here. Mrs. Caclaren is adhesive stamps or imitation of stamps other than lawful post- age stamps, will be returned to the sender if known, otherwise they will be forwarded to the division of dead letters. If stamps are improperly placed on letters or parcels they will be re- turned to the semder, if the return card is to ‘be found, but in the rush of the holidays. d.lnm\ohfing ‘delays are sure to result. against [ : Uncle Sam Gives His Saving I Depositors Tip on Bond Sales * The Postal 'Savings Bank, started here on January 3 of this : : year, and the first to be estab- : : lished in the State of Minnesota, : : has a large list of depositors and : nouncement was made today : that all those holding the Sav- : ings Bank certificates should {: turn them into Government : |: bonds which will be issued on : !: Jannary 1. These bonds will be : |+ issued twice a year and those in- : terested may avail themselves of the opportunity, since by so do- ing, they may continue to invest : |: their money in this bank, the : : limit of all deposits being $500. : PEACE MEETING ENDS IN RIOT New York Effort to Back Taft Treat- ies Causes Wild Scenes. New York, Dec. 13{—A riotous outbreak interrupted the mass meet- ing held in Carnegie hall last night to support arbitration treaties which Taft proposed with England and France. Twenty-eight reserve po- licemen hurried to the hall. The outbreak occurred after Nich- olas Murray Butler, president of Co- lumbia university, read resolutions urging the senate to ratify the treat- ies. Alfonse G. Koelble, of the Ger- man-American Citizens' league, of New York, moved that the majority resolution of the United States senate committee on foreign relations be adopted as a substitute to the But- ler resolution. “This declaration is not a promo- ter of peace, but a breeder of war,” he exclaimed, and the words were scarcely out of his mouth when men jumped on either side of the stage and raised their hands as an appar- ent signal, whereupon pandemonium let loose in the upper galleries. In the midst of the noise, Chair- man Choate announced the Butler resolution unanimously adopted. An- drew Carnegie was down on the pro- gram as the next speaker, but sat in apparent amazement at the dem- onstration and in his place, Rabbi Stephen Wise asked for a hearing. He met with “Shut up” and “throw him out,” from the galleries. Final- 1y the police reached the gallery and ejected the leaders, but no arrests were made. NOT GUILTY OF STEALING HAY Adelbert Seneer Freed of Charges Bronght By Nick Hirt. Adelbert Seneer was acquitted in Municipal Court yesterday after- noon on a charge of stealing baled hay. Attorney J. L. Brown appear- ing for the defense. Seneer was ac- cused by Nick Hirt of Rice Lake, jof taking several bales of hay from his premises, where he was engaged in pressing the hay for Wes Wright. Hirt also accused Seneer of previous- from his eabin. Seneer acknowledged taking the hay under the impres- sion that he was taking it from the ‘premises of Wes. Wright under con- ‘tract, asserting that he offered af- terwards to pay for the hay, which offer, he said, was refused. A trial whflwwmm;va—- : the list is growing daily. An- :| 1y taking articles of_ various kinds!|" | | Department of the Interior. iconception of “my duty” seemed to “PUSSYFOST” DENIES IT Declares Adams Accusations False and That He Did Not Resign to Avert Charges. SENDS OUT LENGTHY DEFENSE “Pussyfoot” Johnson's anger has been aroused by published assertions of Samuel Adams, assistant secretary of the Interior to the effect that “Pussyfoot” had funds and that he had to resign in order to avert serious charges be- ing preferred. In a communication sent out from Laurel, to every daily newspaper in the country, Mr. Johnson takes Mr. Adams severely to task and accused Mr. Adams of being at the head of a department “rotten to the core.” In concluding his defense, “Pussy- foot” says: ! “You mention a charge of ‘inat- tention to duty’ but sdate nothing of what the charge consists. The Tec- |ords show that the Service, under my direction, filed during the last fiscal year, 1717 new cases, secured 1168 convictions, and had only 34 acquittals at the hands of juries. We have secured approximately 3,400 convictions since I have had charge of this Service. All this has been accomplished in spite of the subter-| ranean intrigues of that bedlam of incompetency officially known as the Your be that of sleeping on my job. From that standpoint I am justly accused. “You gave out your letter of No- vember 29th to the newspapers be- fore sending it to me. I have no ob- Jjections to that. I will give out cop- ies of this letter to the newspapers. Let everything come out. Suppose that you now give out copies of the big report of Inspector Singleton on the rotten condition of your admin- istration in New Mexico. People are clamoring for it and you are stand- ing them off with letters saying that the ‘report is still under discussion,’ etc. You have had it ‘under discus- sion’ for seven months. Why not turn it loose and let the people ‘dis- cuss’ it for a while?” SOCIALIST COMES ON TUESDAY ‘Ernest Underman to Deliver Second Lecture in Series of Five. Ernest Unterman, the well known Socialist lecturer will speake at the city hall next Tuesday night on “Why things happen to happen.” The lecture is the second of the series given under the anspices of the Socailist lyceum bureau, which has arranged for more than 3,000 lec- tures on Socialism to be given throughout the United States. The cause of present day conditions and their natural sequence will be| discussed at length by Mr. Unter- man. Masten’s 15 piece orchestra will furnish the music. misappropriated | jment: GORDON STILL PONDERS OVER EXTRA SESSION Attorney General Refuses to Say Flat Footed That Lieutenant Governor Has Power. DECISION T0 BE MADE SO0ON Conference Now On in St. Paul to Determine What Final Move Is to Be. “POLITICS,” SAYS EBERHART Executive Informed at Pittsburgh of ! Proposed Move to Take Advant- <‘ age of Absence. i St. Paul, Minn., December 14.— | (Daily Pioneer Special Wire Ser- vice)—Lieutenant Governor Sam Y. |Gordon has not yet decided as to | whether he shall call an extra session |of the legislature. | The lieutenant governor is in con- sultation with friends this afternoon {and his deciion is expected this ev- ening. Mr. Gordon stands ready to call the special session but Attorney Gen- eral Simpson has, to a degree, thrown cold water on the plan. Simpson Attempts Compromise. The attorney general today an- 5nounced a decision in which he said |that the courts appeared to sustain the contention that a vacancy occurs when the governor is cut of the state. Mr. Simpson adds, however, that every absence from the state does by no means establish a vacancy. “As 1 understand.it,” he says, “the constitution and court rulings do not favor the possibility of the lieuten- ant governor slipping into the gov- ernor’s chair at the disposition of the latter.” The attorney general assumes that there must be some important and urgent duty to be performed before the lieutenant governor can legally act in the governor’s place. Can Do It at Certain Times. “Yet, it must not be supposed,” adds the attorney general, “that un- der certain conditions, the lieutenant governor can not exercise the duties of chief executive.” It is the feeling here today that Mr. Simpson is attempting to assume a strictly neutral® position and that his efforts are toward a compromise. Mr. Gordon and his advisers are somewhat at a loss to understand just how far the power of the lieu- itenant governor can go and if they conclude that such power is sufficient the call for the extra session will | be made this evening. Wheelock Not Alarmed. Ralph W. Wheelock, Governor Eb- erhart’s private secretary, declares there is no oceasion to become alarmed over the situation. “Why even if the lieutenant gov- ernor makes the mistake of calling an extra session it only means that | every bill passed by such a legisla- | ture will be attacked by the courts. “It would be unfortunate because { it would cause the state to become ‘entangled in legal complications that would take much money and time to untangle.” The Gordon sugporters, on the oth- er hand, are urging Gordon to issue the call. Politics, Says Governor. Pittsburg, Pa., December 14.— (Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service) —Governor Eberhart, here with the special train of western governors, informed of the proposed extra ses- sion attempt, gave this brief com- “There is no excuse for an extra session in Minnesota. Such a move is politics, pure and simpie. 1 shall not alter my plans.” ARIZONA ELECTION VICTORY FOR DEMS Phoenix, Ariz, Dec. 14.—(Daily Pioneer Special Wire Service)—In her first election, Arizona today went s,momc:mmwxm democratic, electing a demoeratic mnleumem&mssuhinlaflflame, congressman and state.. Bemidji continues to grow. Morejofficers. Recall of judges was elimi= m’smummmm:mm. Mark Smith and Henry A. sold by Bemidji dealers and another | Hurst are favored for the Uniud ,m«tsowmnmw suum