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ie aa ee Tn a Sn ee ee oa aa EE ne en Se premarin i ’ ’ Y% 7 The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, May 26, 1916 She EFA World. The Pendulum = «s@¥hs, - By J. H. Cassel | ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ee , Mow. 68 Publighed Dealty Except Coney. ‘vy the — | -+ -aaa Company, Nos. 68 to Our National Conventions The Story of Their Beginning and Development | 18, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening Word). NO. 6.—Horace Greeley and the Bolt of 1872. V MERICAN politics in 1872 produced some preposterous conventions and 7N candidates. Gen, Sherman, writing to his brother, John Sherman, the Republican leader, said: "Grant, who never was a Republican, is your candidate, and Greeley, ame was a Democrat, but quite the contrary, is the Democratic can- idate.” | Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, meeting Dr. TAvingston in the heart of ‘, Rave Lhe noted missionary the accumulated news of five vears, wind- ip with the American politics. Hold on,” exclaimed Livington. “You have told me stupendous things sand with a confiding simplicity I have swallowed them down, But there ts a limit to all things, and when you tell me that Horace Greeley is become a” Democratic candidate 1 will be hanged If 1 believe 4." Internal dissension developed in the Republican Party during Grants | Administration, resulting in a third party calling themselven Liberal Res publicans. They met in Cincinnati in 1872, @ revolt not unlike the Proe~ gressive split in 1912. i Many eminent men, theorists and reformers joined. Among them were 4 RALPR . J, ANGUS SHAW, PULITZER, =" Entered at the Post-Office at New York ae Secont-Clase Matter. tion Rates to The Evening |For England and the Continent am@ /World for the United States All Countries in the International Ld and Canada. Postal Uniom ee cscs ec ce VOLUME 56.....,ccccseceeeseeeceeeeeenseeseesNO, 20,008 DOGGING THE PRESIDENT. | HY should anybody in or out of Congress doubt the Presi- dent's desire to seize the first opportunity for action that) may hasten the establishment of peace in Europe? Why should restiess persons whose brains have become super- saturated with one idea be continually prowling around him as if to make eure that he is not secretly urging on the belligerente? Tt seems amazing that eo many otherwiee intelligent Americans’ Ge not to be persuaded that the warring nations are keeping on with | Att ing ; Carl Schur, Senator Lyman ‘Trumbull of Illinois, Benator Fenton of New ; : s york, Senator Sumner of Massachusetts, and a host of newspaper editors, f the fight for any other reason eave that no kind friend haa stepped including Horace White of the Chicago Tribune; Samuel Bowles, Springfield } ‘ ! Republican; Murat Halstead, Cincinnati Commercial; Henry Watterson, \ forward and begged them to stop. 4s \ Loutsville Courier-Journal, and Horace Greeley, New York Tribune, ‘There appear to be members of Oongrese, even, who entertain | It was a mass meeting rather than a convention. No delegates had. been © vague notion that if the United States were to repudiate prepared- jGlected in the regular way. A roll was made up, assigning to each State 1 A hi 14] delegates equal to its Congressional representation. f nese, reduce its axmy and ecrap most of its battleships, Farope wou! They str@ggled over a platform first, adopting unanimously many re- ' etand transfixed at a epectacle eo beautiful and cry “Behold at last |form propositions, chief of which wae a demand for speedy removal of ” P' ‘4 political disabilities of Southerners and more liberal treatment of the States our peacemaker {lately tn rebellion, But tariff reform, one of the animating causes of the We are confident the President will not permit himself to be movement, they side-stepped because they could not agree. ri i ae Horace Greeley was nominated for Presidnt on the sixth ballot, Me pushed into @ position of absurdity by insistent pressure from people) | principal opponent being Charlies Francis Adams, who have been too busy deploring what is going on in Europe ever The Democrats, who had Langs in hopeless minority since the Civil War, ; ' met in national convention at Baltimore two months later. Thinking (o to meke an effort to understand it. ; ; ie play a strategic political trick on the regular Republicans, they adopted the He eeems to have made clear to Representative Hinley of Mis-; | Liberal Republican platform and nominated Greeley as their candidate. ‘ ‘ ii | The Republican Old Guard refused to be bluffed and meeting at Philadel- conti at least why this nation should not allow itself to be used by any | phia renominated President Grant and stood pat on their record. belligerent or group of belligerents as a handy stick with which to) For a time during the campaign there was indication that Greeley would * if anuendd } win, but before election day the preposterousness of his nomination and the Prod the rest into a discussion of peace terms. : | \\mporsible combination of Liberal Republicans and unreconcilable Demo- In the epeech which he is to deliver to-morrow night before the crats became apparent. Leagne to Enforce Peace the President will have a still better chance GRARE Was ‘Gverwmeliane’y vicooHous) Al the <pdllei) GrSeley wiepint wee f d : | shattered and in three weeks he died. F to explain to the country his watchful, ever-ready attitude toward | PES ESN Oa ne sibility which rests on h to keep th f mediation end eis the responsibility which bbtohod a Kin has many toola, but @ He ts a handle which fite them all.— y netion from being thrust into a false position where it could only be HOLMES ; rebnffed or made ridiculous. | (Just a Wife--(Her Diary) Edited by Janet Trevor. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl CHAPTER XVIII, Loeiblend less than two months, and ‘aU MA 5 *m only twenty-two. UGUST 11—1t ts 8 o'clock tf the)" "Noy came home carly, bringin morning after the dinner-dance| me a at Mrs, Denford's, three eden toe my gown. He so obviously since we returned. Ned is asleep.|&dmired it—and me—that I felt quite The light from the shaded candle be- | cheered ia dike vets eee es. side me does not disturb him, 1 have Fy superd in ther not been able to close my eves, Per-| Above @ broad We wish Sir Fdward Grey, the French Minister of Finance, M. Rihot, and Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg could briefly address} the meeting by “long distance.” | ———_—_=+. DEFYING DARKNESS. T HE WORLD invites Americans to provide the means to illumine by night the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The fund required is not large. There are scores of individual Americans of wealth who could easily subscribe the amount and never miss it. But how much better for all citizens, men, women and children, to brighten Liberty with their eagerly offered dimes, nickels and pennies, even as 120,000 of them built the pedestal for the statue thirty years ago. ~ & | The lighting plan has been carefully worked out. Tt will eur- panse of white es seem twice as black as usual jand the dinner coat accentuates just as tt happened, I can forget tt/every line of his splendid shoulders. for a little while and sleep. ‘Dear, I love you,” id dis- But why did {ft all happen to-|tinctly, as we walted for the tele- night? Why can I never think with- ree ee would tell us our cae out wincing of the first party I at-| “You'll put it all over everybody tended as Ned's wife? What have Ij We see to-night,” he declared. Then bent his done to those other women that they| pe pent og pee sae the ¥ e should hurt me so? Ned, darling, ts! you do love me! And it doesn't m: ‘it true that I oughtn’t to have mar-|ter what they say—you always will . Sigg : PORE she y ba a mitt-| love: me 1y The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World ried you; that I shall only be a mill-|' 1) the darkness of the car I *feased haps if L write it all down clearly round the majestic figure with a soft, revealing radiance upon which the eye may rest without strain or fatigue. Tiberty thus aglow will for years to come inspire and thrill the millions of visitors and tray- Ellabelle Mae Doolittle The Jarr Family “on tong arrive in or depart from New York’s great harbor efter — By Bide Dudley — — By Roy L. McCardell — | In the present state of the world the whole idea appeals with Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). \ Copyright, 1916, bare : A LLABELLD MAH DOOLITTLE, Slats Baker said to me and” 66 (TXAN you let me have a little {money in tho savings bank in one of Stone around your neck; that Tam 1 was a bit frightened. 1 epecial force to the imagination. In the minds of most Americans the poetess with a heart and Pie ahe Cer aie anata ALND, more money this wee ur fits of economy by which I al- ‘impossible wife"? Oh, 1 can't} dmitted it to anybody but ' the euperb figure with torch uplifted—mever to be lowered—stands soul, demonstrated to the MEM=| over had came out of a prize pack= asked Mrs. Jarr, with a sigh. |Ways suffers I'd have plenty of | believe it My husband pyessed my hand res (+ for P ell as Liberty. When darkn: done halt of ctyls| Cort ct tie ave end Lat Zave Beovic? jage” “You don't have to pay the bills; you | money!” But I must begin at the beginning:| agsuringly. “You'll be the prettiest { OF Fence a8 weil a6 y: larkness envelops half of civi-| o¢ the Delhi Women's Betterment | “Order! Intense order!" commanded| don't know how it i “All right." said Mr, Jarr, “Go All to-day—yesterday, 1 mean—I| thing there,” he repeated earnestly. i Mzetion, ie it not fitting for this country to make sure that Liberty,| League at a meeting at Hugus Hall aaNet ay tter the moeting,"| "You talk like my Uncle Bill," said downtown and take it out. 1 don't thought about Mrs, Denford’s dinner. You'll have a good time, toom-s08 it | : . en 7 eply to that a neeting, : A ees aA eeacania ¢.| You don't. Mrs, Denford 1s a fad- } as it understands liberty, shall be irradiated with never-failing light? ) Wednesday the ease with which One| snapped Mrs, Baker from the rear ‘of| Mr, Jarr, hen he was out of work | cure. I wondered if my rose-colored evc-| Gist hut she knows how to 40 ii genuinely gifted with the ability to| the hall. for three months and his wife com-| “Ill draw the interest you were talk- ring gown was nice enough, It is 3" : a Oe write poetry can turn out rhymes.| Again Miss Doolittle rhymed: plained there was nothing to eat in|ing so much about, anyway,” said my pretttest, costliest frock, and Ned|" We had been in the Dig Toute if EA FOOD NEVER CHEAPER ‘The news that she was to do this hud) — Mm, Skeeter (Brien ia in the trout rom, | the house he said he guessed they'd | Mrs, Jarr, . told me once that it made me took| Quinze salon only a few ininutes i Ss . been ctreulated among the ladies and.) — wale "tis, bliny? tickieton," they aay, have to take in boarders.” Her husband only grinned, but /tike the spirit of June, But tt wasi't| SPO Weiner Nie AROUnCSN na i As a result, the attendance was large. J, bas 0g ta, Books “well, I {made no reply, and Mrs, Jarr went | made to wear just east of Fifth Ave-| ¢y; ; , : : 5 child. Freeney Ricke’ Well, I'm not going to take in} no reply, @ rs, Jarr I had worrled # bit about ITH lobsters that cost eighty certs a pound two months) virq, Elisha Q. Pertle, Promptress of] — ;,is'tucha litte cane.” bourders.” replied ‘Mra, Jarr, “and|downtown to draw the interest. Ue eer ee ae bility to entertain the man who ago now quoted at from twenty-five to thirty cents, while|the section, presided. Kicking grandpa in’ the face! lyou needn't complain about nothing} ‘Take your place in line,” sald the ieintt pe Tim People” are any better | Might take me In to dinner pBut ge ; Pr “Love ic "Brie " SHawat % athe ‘<u Nt was m s'8 younger brother, sea baes and bluefish have dropped from thirty to twelve oetiar te. the introduction of el “hovely!™ waid Mra, O'Brien. Jio eat in the house, ‘There's plenty to {uniter a att naant ia th ban or any more inter an other! Mr. Richard ‘Thorndyke, and just : oolittle Mrs. Squash Artz read a MNGw. dat oe © how case ie eat in this house, If 1 didn’t set such |“ What you want to do, put in or) people who don't p 6 arls=| nice hoy. Tle reminded ine so much } and fifteen cents » pound, there ought to be a good chance to refute} paper on “The Advantage of Know- | t!¢;, Now, do you seo how easy It} tr oo table 1 might have more|tuke out? t °. y men and women be- lof my young cousin George that T H the. old Boston theory that New Yorkers never see enough fish to] ing the Habits of One's Husband."| “roo darned easy!” growled Mrs.|money to spend on clothes and things “I might huow there would be Crus {hes ain ia, fe Nil A elt at home with him at once, par. } know what it’s really like as a regular article of diet. In it whe declared that @ woman| Baker, i. then Ie f T need.” something humiliating about a suv-/they are blue-blooded. But one may| George had gone 10 the same colleKe. } Tea fact that we don’t eat ch fish ae folks aM should know tt if her husband wero| Miss Doolittle then leaped off tha) wriere you go!" said Mt. Jarre, ings bank,” said Mrs, Jurr, grimly, to|have one's own standards and yet| “Wa talked about It, for T had ate a at we don’t eat as much fish ae around Massa-| irciined to intemperance, roe aae Ietsat baled, entivied anes {Vou are like ail the rest of the herself, “L went to Mrs, Stryver'a| avknowledge the existence of others, tended several dances an George's ohusetts Bay. One or two varieties of first rate sea food well known| “This ts @ vital necessity,” said on Bent the Hibow Over Gyp Me-|women, taking everything sald ag banka beautiful, marble bank, not |" the wortl around one, pe lsat, ion wo disnovered a itn in the Bay State—swordfish for instance—are practically unheard of| Mrs. Artz "We should study is) Canny tae ag ian great | emsome Nareaye Ue Lut te eae It aM Five Mat Mrs, Dentord and her frlends 1 followed my hostess inty the draw. 4 g S ? drinking tendencies in order that ‘ae 4 . . te “This is & povsonal matter,” replied there was a ladies’ room where there are the “bost people” in New York. ing room, where coffee was served, } is Newicork, | Many's New Yorker would have to confess that lob-) when we fnd him Iving on the front| * i ware pleased. ‘Mrs, Jarr, “and if you hadn't put that Were screens to go behind to put the | admit that 1 did want to make @/ 7 jad almost lost my chilling sense : sters, clams and oysters are about the only kind of fish he ever] porch we may know he {s intoxicated, Ps heave money in your stocking or to take it) Sood Impraxsion on them, and thut T jh TT ES not dead.” 5 Parry anil p : , 5 out.” their sophistication, their other women: Iaght hankere after. eed fect AY Binh atamall eral he| She was roundly applauded, and We Nay Saclalt Mi HI AO: Jerous Seek bi dae ” a pane However, she took her place in line, | Searching, insolent eyes, Wor U never| cigarettes. With the price of beef, mutton and lamb steadily climbing, the| enon mies Doolittle wan prosented by| ‘ *rcnuously; aller work to do for our delight, und that to be don fuming inwardly, and in due time played with them before, Iva been (To Ra Continued » Phenomenal catches of fish brought into the city daily and sold at| Mrs, Pertle, the poetess congratu- Neoe Uilve nelihor- i it folk daneiby Maion or aMt/tai nis with@ ie reached the Interest window, \ ’ ishingly low prices come as a timely hint which housekeepers| lated Mrs, Artz, | and what Is not worth this effort is not to be done at all.—RUSKIN. MAAS IBY intrest" aie sai. is Pasta Not anit. Manila ‘ ! Le Hee > “It was @ fine paper,” said Miss | “There's no interest on this,” #a W w should be quick to make the most of. Tf New York were suddenly . . rante. abl . ; Y} Doolittle. Mollie of the Movies the clerk. “Its only twenty dollars to get a new taste and go on a fish diet this summer, there would he| “you know it!” sang out Mra. ind there won't be any Interest pay By Arthur Baer some mighty quick revising of prices on the part of the meat harong,| Skeeter O'Brien, tn the front row, — By Alma Woodward --— ble UM it has been in six months, bony 1016, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New Tork Evening World) s Ee Se —{| “Order!” was Mrs, Pertle's stern Coprright, 1916, by The Press F ing Co, (The New York Erening World! ha roe ae ol ees ee keg Dow l get discouraged if a colander leaks, That's its nature. * : response, 4 Scene: Studion of (he Gi struction of this studio building. How pala ase fetta Hits From Sh arp its The poetess then took up her dem= | gigi he Muliding alin wo obtain the maximum Het trom [six monthel” asked Mrs Jari There are some uncivilized tribes in the New Hebrides who have never lensteatics,, ehall ow? dhe Mall, to bes thatthe. message the minimum space, It isa healthful | “Forty cents," said the clerk.) tt hae aoa triaia the sidewall When opportunity knocks very | much of the world's philosophy i9 the] iran euny It is for one to. welte {amity hf tate hae place to work. Our employers do not | “Next!” Lscen an intogicated chauffeur chase pedestrians up on th loudly, better atop to Investigate |result of Indigestion. —Toledo Blade, | "how ay jera, PARing. to te In members. the Arte? pout tho raive In the price of | uivorty conta!” repeated Mra. Jarr.| — Whether It 1s not something else dis-| eee | poctry « i OLA (peevishly)—Now don't| Cruse, for they never need druga-|... 10 1 gue myself. Give me ny] An embabier varely gets a complaint from hrs customers Kulsed The Russian who colned the ex-order to do ao 1 shall compose a ature iv their physician. | iealka pr you go and get all upstage,} “Mollie ciears her throat and glances at the |monay back | pacaee ‘al as ee pression You cannot sew buttons poem right here on the stage. Bracken, When that aorrel- [Zp¥srima ttranenr onliieiso "Go See the etfert ney SARA IR TEP Ee j ie fad a Teiaina thmsle that alt dsowml ada one © look on while others|on your neighbor's mouth" probably | ve Pe « f of her uplift. bun jo 'a;yeare pleased.) ‘uke your place ine a space economist has invented a folding thim 1 cc work could accomplish much if they |lived mext to a young lady who was| “Hop to tt!" sald Mrs, O'Brien. | aiteq Mercury comes sliouting you} Mollie (encouraged)—{ suppoue that | window and turn in your book," aaid | one.enid the space used by the bulky and awkward thimbles now tn uae, would employ their time usefully in-| "taking votce.”-—Macon News. Expurgate the remarks!" snapped | now it's a preseription from the high {YOU Will be interested in seeing @| i en uNextl’ atead.—Albany Journal eee Mrs, Pertle, who was plainly exas- ‘a gotta be filled. Hey, | cove being taken. They aro doing @ —— Oe a) Applythe all remedies recommended | perated RON BRS 0 Bee be Niles: 7 | Qeriag pletute dunt naw. Wasleaae| Mie varr yas in erage by tale 4s the floor uniter a bureau is now practically a dend lose, 0 Baltmore , be t e, here Ta as ow, ltime, but she took her plac 6 A woman reveals her age only when | for u cold serves for diversion while| Miag Doolittle then began with the | etuelstan : ms aa, the driven snow, 1 might |time, but she took her Wace In line! 10) voived a acheme to ulilise the space by putting yours grey she is very young or very old.—Balt!- | nature se the cure. i} Roy (with hushed emphasis) Boss een to mere t will do hisrd hears behind an extremely curious set of . menial more American, | | 8 e fahewing a wana: you in Mie cmos Qube os |auoh ae tl is. T ahull take you to | P wna finally reached the win. hounds under em and training them to be dachahunds. vhe Jover who proclaims his readi- re. Bheate m io in the front row, | Molile Ce! ME OM i e the floor where it is being taken: jdow. "L want my money,” she said, a Ue a waste of time to listen to an| ness io go through fire for ¢ 1 oce her cherry red lochs, Boss (with Pinkert he ear ’ . ene ossibl At a cigar by touching it toa third rail uninteresting lar,—Toledo Blade Of hin affections thay make the has,| “Don't kid the custome J1tw a ticklish fob and otras ATa near tai |," sit, down on tbe benen over It {8 possible to tig gar by ¢ 2. -® band who growls when the heater! Mra, O'Brien, interrupting | som “ like you, ste anvroat there and walt tll your name is 4 is ES Perhaps we shall never know how needs his attention. Albany Journal.| “shalt have to aak you to be quiet, {ten 4 Why pave alate when @ulled,” said the clerk at the window 4 Flatbush baker 4s putting a reversible biscuit on the market that sae arene omen |e session at nie, eet ieee See em Gia]. Mollie (nervously)--Of course wo, “Well, did you ever!" remarked; ¢astes just as good on either side L tt F I P l Daatieaetea ttaccenial hp | iim Company going to be pinched or| ave to have a few thrillers on our | Bra larr, “Why should I have to bi . x " |*Miss Doolittle cannot show us her Sra Giibt and # programme — t or to decade it, wh ould a o si | otters rom the copte Jart If w tot of buobeascaa are to Ine | Were “thontecls) Liason! A mun|taates.. Hut on the whole cane liver anould Y Bave 10 stand in) 4 nowresitadte fountain nen ie the driftiant ieajo/ 9 New York aebiae | 0 joarsely) Dissent J | . ine, why" | Yens Yea) No, told moe she was charged admission, | torrupt lev." jumt came into the building. An’ | hs with the Intenalty of | HNP: WH : r to prevent ‘em from spilling in your pocket admission, 7 4 oe, rate Wifts hf jock Please sit down on the bench," said etm’, Merriame Hoanees now | re. frlonde wore not required to pay. | | only comment Jing around incog to see what he can |fa. the wntee ‘whiskes “Bis eee x’ thee | Nes, Jarr sat down, tapping’ her Owing to the vibration of numerous subways under New York's hotela, marta f Miss Doolittle continued ‘ "he guy that al aban) . he y yossible to acre calves-foot jelly tha between first cousins permitted in| No. 200 Fifth Avenue, Ys. ¥, Clty, u ! aelnied pin pote a oe guy teat alpped Mollie (gaaping)—Why--what—who | Parasol and regarding the people who vhefa find it impossible to arrve calves-foot jelly that will not quiver some of the States? Do all the States) 1, ie puiitor of ‘Thm hioning Workd we, aig rat rom sversthing go lm going to play this}re you? caine and went, Various names were nervously Feaulre the mas $0 he twenty one 12 Can you alive mie the address of While Mrs, Dlley Paklolon,’ they ay | pill see? ‘Take him all over the oenen (pompousiy) gr Fran. called Finally one was repeated — — rs arry consent of his] 4) i fae ane resign lace, Mollie. Be choice tn your lan- me monnaker, ¥: : 'L think that’ parents? Mw |G Blatbnal Weadauertene ce the) Hie mvt he cian te bee Bunge. Goo goo a bit. But exercias! imme a steer about wantin’ a real | even ty” sald the uniformed tan, “ON, Tecan write all right," remarked ,her maiden name, her age, her whole ee z UW. P. I Just @ minute!” ald Mie. Plokte-| your Prisciltn perk, “Sh! “Here he lightwolght fer ® pug pitcher over | name, la ' MAD, 1.6 stout lady: “only I have the lum-|pedigree, ‘Then she signed and was Phas Ranks With Army Colone ton arising. “Where do you get that Nemember, be choice In your | oant ati 1 come $o opel ye eee {coming over. i hago in my back so terribly that for| handed a twenty-doller bill. we fe Ue PAitor of The beening World Jato? My ri ten | ANKUARE! | stand fer eeain’ a lady hans “Clara Jarr led @ voice loudly, i i { o or y ring is being repaired, I'm rough like that! I got th’ ewipe—I three w --- “Well, this teaches me @ lesson, } fo the PAitor of The Evening World To decide an argument please in-!a lady, and no lady ever hocks any of ane Mollie’ Marta Moceg | gota nifty pair uv trippere an'~ Mrs, Jarr was going to expostulate, | VE! Oe" Overs cata the clerk, ana |Mid Mrs. Jarr, as she walked out, i Can I take out of town visitors to/ form me whether or not & naval cap-| her jewelry.” shop.) ‘Mollie (faintly)-Holy smoke—the!but she was led lo the window behind ang 84) bas . “I'll put my money in Mrs, Btryver’s the Metropolitan Museum of Art with-| tain ranks the svine or higher than an! “No offense!’ responded Miss Dor Mollie (prunes and prismly)-You langwidge | wasted—gone, never to a stout, middle-aged woman, Mrs, Jarry edged in, Here she had to!hank after thie—she i @ut paying admission? One friend|army captain. GEOKGE HEALY, dittle, “1 was only quoting whet Mrs, will observe, al, the warvelloug con. return! 5 per am ‘Please gigu bere,” said the clesk, give bw name, Ley busband’s game, dollars with ng trouble at c

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