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SBOO for a saddle horse, but no trace could be found of the animal. Ex-mayor Barth was then in the East. Upon his return he informed Mayor Bingham that the horse was in his private stable, and from then on he was subjected to ridicule by his political opponents. The local press, friendly to the Bingham ad ministration, insinuated that Barth had attempted to defraud the city. Barth sent his personal check for the cost of the horse, but the criticism continued, greatly worrying the for mer mayor. In vain did his f iends point out that he was being car tooned more in the spirit of humor than ill will. He grew more and more despondent. Ask Government to Take Control of Telegraph. President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America took official action at Chicago, calling on the United States and Canada to take over the control of the telegraph lines of the Western Union and Postal Companies. He also began a cam paign looking to a congressional in vestigation of the conduct of the companies in this country. Roosevelt Stands Pat. In the presence of a throng that filled the space around the grand stand erected on Town Hill, Prince town, Mass., where the cornerstone of the Pilgrim’s monument was laid, President Roosevelt corrected the 'Speech he had intended originally to deliver, and made the declaration that' it was the determination of the gov ernment, in which it will not waver, to punish certain malefactors of great wealth. With clinched fist the pres ident declared: “Many men of large wealth have been guilty of conduct which from the moral standpoint is criminal. ..... “When in addition to moral re sponsibility these men have a legal responsibility which can be proved so as to impress a judge and jury, then the department will strain every nerve to reach them criminally. . . . “But it may well be that the de- Hermination of the government, in which, gentlemen, it will not waver, to punish certain malefactors of great wealth, has been responsible for something of the troubles, at least to the extent of having caused these men to combine to bring about as much financial stress as they pos sibly can in order to discredit the policy of the government, and there by to secure a reversal of that policy so that they may enjoy the fruits of their own evildoing.” His words were greeted with tu multuous cheering, and the applause was renewed with greater intensity when he continued that the govern ment not only would not waver in its intention, but defined his own per sonal policy. He said: “Let me say that as far as I am (concerned and for fthe eighteen months of my presidency that re main, there will be no change in the policy we have pursued; no let-up in the effort to secure the honest ob servance of the law, for I regard this contest as one to determine who shall rule this free country—the people through their governmental agents— or a few ruthless and domineering man, whose wealth makes them pecu- WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. liarly formidable, because they hide behind the breastworks of corporate organization. ’ ’ The center shots from the presi dent’s Pilgrim speech were as fol lows : “I want to say as to desirable and undesirable citizens that the same re mains true as when the words were spoken. I stand pat.” “Certain socialistic leaders pro pose to redistribute the world’s goods by refusing to thrift and energy and industry their proper superiority over folly and idleness and sullen envy. ’ ’ “The rich man who, with hard ar rogance, declines to consider tho rights and the needs of those who are less well off, and the poor man who excites or indulges in envy and hat red of those who are better off, are alike alien to the spirit of our na tional life.” “'No individual, no corporation, obeying the law, has anything to fear from this administration.” “'ln the last six years we have shown that there is no individual and no corporation so powerful that he or it stands above the possibility of punishment under the law.” “There is, unfortunately, a certain number of our fellow countrymen who seem to accept the view that un less a man can be proved guilty of some particular crime he shall be counted a good citizen, no matter how pernicious his doctrines or his practices.” “But there is a growing determina tion that no man shall amass a great fortune by special privilege, by chi canery and wrongdoing, so far as it is in the power of legislation to pre vent, and that the fortune when amassed shall not have a business use that is anti-social.” “There is no objection in the minds of this people to any man’s earning any amount of money if he does it hones'ly and fairly, if he gets it as the result of special skill and enter prise as a reward of ample service actually rendered.” “Our aim is to help every honest man, every honest corporation, and our policy means in its ultimate an alysis a healthy and prosperous ex pansion of business activities of hon est business men and honest corpo rations.” “I earnestly hope that the legis lation which deals with the regula tion of corporations engaged in inter state business will also d°al with the rights and interests of the wage-work ers employed by those corporations.” “In any good movement, such as that in which we are engaged, noth ing is more necessary than sanity, than the refusal to be led into ex tremes by the advocates of the ultra course on either side.” “There exists no more sordid and unlovely type of social development than a plutocracy, for there is a pe culiar unwholesomeness in a social and governmental ideal where wealth by and of itself is held up as the greatest good.” “One of the favorite devices of those who are really striving to pre vent the enforcement of these laws is to clamor for action of such se verity that it cannot be undertaken because it will be certain to fail if tried?’ “We should certainly not adopt any new scheme for grappling with them (new conditions) merely because •it is new and untried; but we cannot afford to shrink from grappling with them because they can only be grap pled with by some new scheme.” Taft the Choice of the Central West. The Chicago Tribune, the recogniz ed Roosevelt organ of the Central West, has completed a poll of 1,700 editors, congressmen and chairmen of states of the Central West. These questions were submitted to each of them, and almost all of them sub mitted answers. The questions asked were: “Do you approve of the President’s aggressive policy?” “Do you prefer a candidate of the progressive school as his successor?” “Whom do you prefer?” That the Central West is well sat isfied with the policy which John D. Rockefeller has so vigorously de nounced is evident from the fact that 1,435 of the 1,700 men addressed an swered and favored the policy of the president and favored the nomina tion of a candidate who will follow along the same lines. The states to which the questions were sent were * Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon sin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, lowa, Nebraska, Missouri » and Kansas. In answer to the questions as to whom they preferred as the successor of President Roosevelt the votes stood as follows: • Taft 544 Fairbanks 150 Cannon 191 Hughes 184 Knox 19 Senator McCullom 39 President Roosevelt 158 Abolitionist G. F. Talbot Dead. George Foster Talbot, prominent as an abolitionist before the civil war, died at Portland, Me., aged eighty eight. He was a delegate to the Re publican Convention in 1860 that nominated Lincoln for the presidency. Fears Spread of Mormon Power. Senator Dubois, of Idaho, spoke at Aurora, 111., on the probability of the spreading of Mormon political power to all parts of the United States. He urged his hearers to use their influence with congressmen to prevent the continuance of polygam ous marriages, which, he said, were still made among Mormons. Russian Officer Murdered. Col. Schrceter, commander of the Bialystok military station, Russia, was assassinated today. He was ac cused of organizing and helping to carry out recent attacks on Jews there. Marion Story a Suicide. Marion Story, one of the best known clubmen in New York, and for many years a prominent exhibitor at horse shows, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in his magnificent country place, Brook Farm, near Port Chester. To Investigate Superintendent Kelsey Convinced, after thorough consid eration of the force of the charges made against Otto Kelsey, Superin tendent of Insurance, Gov. Hughes, of New York, ordered an investiga tion into the condition of that de partment. Harriman to Escape. Immunity from punishment for granting rebates to the Standard Oil Company was promised by the gov ernment to E. H. Harriman and the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company in return for furnishing the govern ment evidence on which to secure a conviction of the oil monopoly for receiving rebates. This fact was clearly established at Washington between Attorney- General Bonaparte, Special Counsel Morrison, a government expert; Unit ed States District Attorney Sims, of Chicago; Assistant District-Attorney Wilkerson, Robert Mather, General Counsel for the Rock Island Road, which controls a majori f y of the stock of the Chicago and Alton, and Ralph M. Shaw, General Counsel for the Chicago and Alton. There is scarcely any doubt that the government will act in good faith; that the immunity will be granted; that Harriman and the Alton will es cape punishment in this instance, and that the matter of prosecution will be dropped. Until Attorney-General Bonaparte can communicate with Judge Landis, of Chicago, who imposed the fine of $29,240,000 on the Standard Oil Com pany and directed United States Dis trict-Attorney Sims to submit the Al ton end of the case to a special grand jury for the purpose of securing in dictments, no announcement of the decision of the government will be made. Auto and Train Collide. A millionaire’s automobile and the Pittsfield Express, after racing side by side for more than a mile, came together at a speed of eighty miles an hour at Ashley Falls, Conn. The millionaire Charles J. Root, of Bris tol, Conn., and his aunt, Miss Cunaee Roberts, were killed instantly. His mother, Mrs. Joel Root, eighty-one years old, died on her way to the hos pital. His sister, Miss Mary Root, is dying in the Pittsfield hospital. One side of her head is crushed. One of the oldest and wealthiest families of Connecticut was practi cally wiped out of existence by the collision. Root was a manufacturer of brass hinges for pianos and per haps the only person in this county engaged in that business.* His family was one of the founders of Bristol. His mother was a granddaughter of Gideon Roberts, the first clockmaker in America. No Reason for a Panic. Leslie M. Shaw, formerly Secre tary of the Treasury, now President of the Carnegie Trust Company of New York City, authorized the fol lowing interview on the present finan cial and industrial condition: “Our farms produce more than $6,500,000,000 per annum, and the prospect is good for an average crop. Our mines yield more than $1,000,- 000,000. And neither of these sour ces of wealth has been exhausted. The output of our factories, in other than food products, is approximately $12,000,000,000, and no fires have been extinguished. “The railways earn more than $2,000,000,000, and they are all in successful operation. The payrolls of our factories and railways aggregate approximately $3,500,00(1,000, and the (Continued on page twelve). PAGE FIVE