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THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION
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EL PASO HERALD
Editorial and Magazine Page
Friday October Twenty-fifth 1912.
Dona Ana
DONA ANA county N. M. votes soon on a proposed bond issue of $100000
for good roads. While business banking and realty interests are strongly
in favor of the issue it is said that there is some opposition among small
farmers particularly those remote from the main highways. That is a condition
not unusual hut it is worth curious notice none the less. Under our American
system of voting taxes the men who are actually to pay the bulk of the taxes
have no more to say than the men whose holdings are limited to a sand hill a sod
hutch a single head of goat and a rooster. Each "property owner" has one vote.
Yet in a bond election it will generally be found that the opponents are not the
railroads the banks the merchants or the large realty owners whose taxes would
he appreciably increased by the cost of the bonds but instead the opposition
commonly comes from men whose taxes would not in the ordinary course of things
he raised more than a few cents a year by the bond issue.
Large taxpayers cannot defeat a bond issue even if they want to because
there are too few of them in number and each man has one vote. But the small
taxpayer the "little fellow" under our American system has it in his power to
force the large taxpayers to pay and pay and pay for repeated bond issues ancl
thus to force public improvements even over the heads of the people who have to
bear the whole burden of cost of carrying the bonds fn the matter of bond issues
the "little fellow" has all the best of it and the business and political leaders
recognising this have included in nearly all state constitutions and city charters
a provision to curtail this power of "the people" and to protect the large tax-
payers from excessive taxation for the benefit of the small taxpayers who have
the votes.
But oddly enough the "little fellow" often does not appreciate what a tre-
mendous power he has in this connection and we find the "little fellow" often
opposing bond issues for puttie improvements which cost him nothing at all while
the big taxpayers who are to bear all the burden are prevented from taxing them-
selves for the public benefit.
Any opposition that may develop in Dona Ana county to the $100000 good
roads bonds is surely the result of misunderstanding or plumb ignorance. The
mere fact that a small farmer may be a mik or two from a main highway does
not justify him in refusing to sanction the paving of the highway. As well might
a man's hand say that inasmuch as it is remote from the great trunk artery it
has no need of it and will strangle the trunk artery. Good roads are to any com-
munity especially a farming community what the great arteries are to the human
body. Good roads mean healthy circulation and poor roads mean ill health and
deficient vitality.
A good road is as necessary to make a healthy community in a business sense
as a railroad is. The railroad is largely a wasted investment unless it be supple-
mented by good roads so that the farmer can get his produce to the loading plat-
form and so that the merchant can distribute his goods and the mail carrier can
go on his rounds. Any railroad would be justified in refusing to penetrate a region
that does not t""fr enough of its good business health to construct passable roads.
H. E. Huntington never builds a new electric line in the Los Angeles district until
the neighborhood to be served shall first have opened up its healthy circulation
by means of a good highway. Huntington realizes that highways electric lines
and steam railways supplement one another and that all are necessary to afford
to any section the proper transportation facilities to make fanning or other in-
dustries practicable to make merchandising profitable and to make living worth
while.
El Paso hopes that Dona Ana county will adopt the progressive good road's
policy and join up her system with El Paso's to hind these communities perfectly
together
Where Everybody Makes Money
EL PASO'S 1912 Get-Acquainted excursion comprised about 50 representatives
of El Paso's business and industry not counting the eight or ten repre-i
sentatives of railroads who accompanied the excursion all or part of the
time. There were 15 wholesale merchants and five retail merchants seven manu-
facturers seven bankers and the remainder were business and professional men in
various lines. The representation of wholesale trade and manufacture was very
much larger than that of any previous excursion a hopeful sign of the awakening
that is noted among El Paso business men.
One thing that impressed itself upon all the travelers who took the trouble
to inquire into the facts was that in the matter of railroad rates outgoing as
well as incoming El .Paso has an exceptional position and that this city is so
placed that by sharing these advantages with the neighbors the interests of all
wiH. be served alike. El Paso has favorable competitive rates into almost all the
territory within many hundreds of miles. A great deal of the complaint so often
voiced about "the rates shutting us out" from this market or that is the resuU
of three things ignorance laziness and incompetence. Many merchants do not
take the trouble to inquire into the facts about rates and many more are unable
to grasp the possibilities of developing outside trade or are too indolent to at-
tempt it at some immediate cost or investment promising no instant profit.
Throughout the territory visited last year and this a sentiment of active
friendship for El Paso was found to exist and the principal reason that El Paso's
trade' with the distant outside towns is not larger is that our merchants to a con-
siderable extent refuse to take the proffered hand.
Anything that promotes social intercourse among the communities of the
Great Southwest helps to bind us all together more closely in a trade way. George
Washington in his famous letter to Benjamin Harrison advocating the improve-
ment of the traffic ways across the AHeghanies declared that few or no bonds are
so close or so hard to break as the bond of habit in trade. It rests with El Paso
to establish this bond with all the southwest and then to see that it shall be
maintained unimpaired.
El Paso's slogan on the Arizona-New Mexico trip was "Buy in El Paso what
you cannot buy in your home town" or to state it otherwise "Buy at home but
if you can't get what you want at home try El Paso before you go farther afield."
It is a principle with which no neighbor community can have any quarreL A local
wholesaler is closing out his retail business because it interferes with his wholesale
customers. In a manner that is the way El Paso feels about the local trade oS
her neighbor communities: it is to El Paso's advantage clearly to build up the
trade of the local merchants in her neighbor communitjes for in that way El Paso
promotes the welfare of her own manufacturing industries and supply houses.
Not competition but cooperation is EI Paso's desire and intention when she
goes abroad after more business. It is a game that all can play at and all make
money.
o .
One-Sentence
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(Atchison Globe.)
When a man takes off his shoes the
first thimr after getting home from his
day's work it is a sipn that he is get-
ting old.
Every time we are at the union
depot and see trains go through we
wonder if half the travelers wouldn't
he better off at home.
As a general rule a committee is a
number of persons who try to make
the chairman perforin the task as-
signed to all of them.
We still contend that if a man wants
really good fishing he can only get
satisfaction in the railway folders or
In another man's stories.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(Chicago News.)
The more some women talk the less
ihey seem to think.
Occasionally a man commands re-
spect by merely looking wise.
It is an easy matter for the average
man to live down his salary.
In choosing your wife young man.
use your ears as well as your eyes.
An optimist is a man -who is thank-
ful for a lot of things he doesn't get.
Many a man's real reason for going
down town every evening is that he is
married to the wrong moman.
It's almost as dangerous to be on
friendly terms with a gossip as it is to
be on unfriendly terms with one.
County Roads
Philosophy
QUAKBR MEDITATIONS.
(Philadelphia. Record.)
Iiucky is the man who doesn't be-
lieve in luck.
Never hit a man when he is down
unless he is down to stay.
A thing of beauty is a. joy forever
or until you try to auction it off.
Every cloud has a silver lining and
some people kick because it isn't gold.
Somehow or other when trouble calls
it always finds the latchstring out.
When your friend calls himself a
fool never agree with him if you value
his friendship. t
In the matter of elasticity the aver-
age man's suspenders are in the same
class with his conscience.
JOURNAL EXTRIBS.
(Topeka Journal.)
Nowadays she cooks to conquer.
Many collegians are now giving
much study to the forward pass.
The poorer the card player the
fcjire eager he generally is to gamble.
FvVhat has become of the old fash-
Sned man who used to fight when
RUled a liar?
Why is it that a woman is not afraid
of thunder and lightning when a mere
man is around?
Many persons are obsessed with the
wrong idea that everybody in the world
ha. it- In fey thorn
UNCLE WALT'S
DENATURED POEM
OH 'WILLIAM and Woodrow and Ted! How tired they must be of the noise
of painting geography red and handing out Facts to the boys! How
tired they must be of suspense of rusiors and roorbacks and rot debating
the wbichness of whence and also the thingness of what! How weary and sick
are they all expounding to thickheaded goats why they're for or forninst the re-
call and why they are rustling for votes. Oh Willie and Tefldy and Wood. whose
colors are nailed to the mast! Xo matter which one's to the good when votes
have been counted at last there's nothing but trouble in store there's nothing
but grief and despair there's nothing but walking the floor and thinking up
words fit to swear! I wonder why people will strain and break their suspenders
to get a job that will drive them insane with worry and woe and regret. The
honors don't pay for the grief! I'd rather go fishing I swow than live in the
white house as chief with trouble enthroned on my brow. Oh Woody and Teddy
and Bill! When the sounds of the conflict subside and the roar of the captains
is still and the tail is thrown in with the hide then cut oit political strife the
uproar confusion and noise retire from the strenuous life and live like the rest
of the boys. """
Votes and Ghosts
By Margaret Nevinson.
T was is the year of grace 1920 and
the first general election since wo-
men had been granted the suffrage.
Most of the male voters welcomed
the women goon humoredly -as the
world always welcomes the successful
and only a few old men growled out
curses familiar to the elder women
who had worked in the stormy days of
battle.
It was noticed that all the women
were sober.
Within one of the Westminster
booths strange things were happe-
ng.. As the presiding officer described
it. "Men seemed to have suddenly
gone mad beating and fighting off
hnseen enemies or arguing frantically
with the empty air." He heard such
sentences as these: "Oh heavens be
quiet! I voted according to my con-
science. Go away go away how hor-
rible!" "Oh! Mary have pity! Don't say
that! I did not understand." S
Others cursed and swore horribly
and some crossed themselves and mut-
tered a prayer. These phenomena did
not manifest themselves to all the
voters; the women neither saw nor
heard anything neither did the ma-
jority of the male voters quite the
minority in fact were affected.
As the day wore on matters got
worse and it was openly stated that
the polling booth was haunted. The
crowd however held that the suffer-
ers -were drtink.
Several men fainted and others
were seized with a fit and foamed at
the mouth. One well known alienist
had a seizure and a policeman took
him in his own motor car to his own
asylum.
One man as he stood at the booth
was seen to be white and trembling
great beads of sweat running down
his face. He dropped the pencil and
ran for his life followed by a great
crowd of police and bystanders. He
was run in for pocket picking but
as no one could be found who had
lost a purse he was remanded for the
state of his mind to be inquired into.
As night drew on enormous crowds
assembled round the booth and extra
HEM REGQRJQS IN
DYNAMITE CASE
Jury to Hear Ironworkers'
Talks as Eecorded by;
Telephone "Spy."
Indianapolis. Ind Oct. 25. Records
takes by government stenographers of
conferences held in the offices of the
International Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron workers after the
officials of that union had been indicted
for alleged complicity with the Mc-
Namara brothers were produced for
Identification at the "dynamite con-
spiracy" trial today.
Ralph W. Douglass a newspaper
man. was called to testify as to the
presence of a telephone "spy" system
in the union headquarters. For two
months government stenographers
hidden in a room below recorded what
was said in the "Iron Workers" office.
Douglass said the sound receiver
was under president Frank M. Ryan's
desk. Secretary Herbert S. Hockin was
in the same room at a desk formerly
occupied by J. J. McNamara the con-
fessed dynamiter.
The government announced that" the
stenographers' reports are to be read
to the jury-
H. W. Pohlman testified that Eugene A.
Clancy of San Francisco was in Seattle
in August. 1910 before the Los Angeles
Times building was blown up. J. B.
McNamara was in Seattle at the same
time experimenting to find a way to
make an electric spark for bombs with-
out the use of a fulminating cap. On
August 31 a Seattle office building un-
der construction by an "open shop"
firm was dynamited.
Pohlman said he afterwards met
Clancy in San A-rancisco and saw Olaf
A. Tvietinoe secretary of the California
building trades council in Xios Angeles
for the first time eight months ago.
Hauled fXItro In Wagons.
How J. B. McNamara and Ortie E.
McMamgal carried away nitroglycer-
ine by the wagon load was described
by Charles C Kiser.
Kiser who now lives at Tulsa Okla!
was manager of a plant for the manu-
facture of explosives at Albany Ind
when in 1908. he said the dynamiters
began buying nitroglycerine from
him and hauling it away in wagons to
Muncie Ind. TUe government in
charging the 45 men on trial "with
complicity says that the McNamaras
resorted to nitroglycerine in blowing
up jobs after they found dynamite was
not strong enough and that they rent-
ed a house in Muncie to house the ex-
plosives. McXamara Posed as Clark.
"One day. in response to a telephone
call from Indianapolis" Kiser said "I
met J. B. McNamara at Muncie. He
represented himself as being George
J. Clark a contractor of Peoria 111.
and said he wanted nitroglycerine to
blow up some ditches near Indianap-
olis. He said he had tried dynamite
and it wasn't strong enough. I agreed
to sell him 20 quarts and I delivered it
to a farm three miles from Albany
on the road to Muncie.
"A month later he bought 30 quarts.
I didn't hear anything from him until
a year later -when he and McManigal
bought 120 quarts. When I took it to
the farm they had two rigs waiting
and had prepared 12 boxes in which to
pack the cans. Afterwards I wrote to
Clark at the address at Peoria but the
letter was returned."
The boxes referred to by Kiser later
were found in the house in Muncie
which the government charges were
rented by Herbert S. Hockin now sec-
retary of the International Associa-
tion of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers. Children of the neighbor-
hood thinking the house vacant en-
tered it to play and according to the
government's charges skated over the
floors near where explosnes were
stored.
Threatened By Tnlon.
John !Ki Gliilon foreman pi a con'
The Candidates I By Walt Mason
The Herald's Daily
Shert Story
reinforcements of policemen had to be
summoned. Finally many voters lost
courage and turn.-ni away not daring
to record their vote fearful what
might happen in that sinister room.
The next day it was known at
breakfast time that these curious phe-
nomena had been observed all over the
kingdom; and in the country where
everyone knows everyone else's busi-
ness it was noticed that the sufferers
from these strange delusions had been
well known enemies of women's free-
dom particularly certain politicians
magistrates prison doctors and men
who had opposed their women folk in
the struggle.
One man was the husband of a
woman who caught rheumatic fever
from the strain and chill of much out-
door speaking. She had lived crip-
pled for some years arid then died
end all the time he had mocked at her
and insulted the cause.
Another had cast off his young
daughter for going to prison and she
had died later from the effects of
forcible feeding. A third refused to
speak again to his wife because of
her opinions. This had preyed upon
her mind and she had gone mad in
prison after serving an unusually long
sentence.
Many of the sufferers were feverish
and delirious and perfect quiet was
ordered as their mental condition
gave rise to serious anxiety.
All England was startled over these
strange phenomena and harassed
newspaper men took long week ends
whilst the public wrote the major part
of its own newspapers for nothing.
The transaction of the Physical Re-
search society grew thicker than
ever scientific bodies held special in-
quiries the "Lancet" published ar-
ticles on "Political Hysteria and the
New Bacoillus" whjlst one distin-
guished physician wrote the "Times'
to say he had told us so. This came of
admitting women to public life I
went to see a dear old lady who after
70 years of struggle was singing her
"Nunc Dlmittis" as she knitted by the
fireside.
"What do you thing of it all??" I
asked.
"The vengeance of God" she said.
struction company described three ex-
plosions on the same job at Cincin-
nati in 1909. He said after two of the
explosions Edward Clark who has
pleaded guilty visited the job and .
"If you don't put union men on there
we'll fix you."
Ghilon described two explosions on
Jobs in Cleveland in 1906. One of them
in September on a railway viaduct he
said a satchel containing 12 sticks of
dynamite fuse and a clock that evi-
dently had been thrown out of a pass-
Ingtrain -was found.
William H. Medley Fall River.
Mass. a police officer told of the
blowing up of a bridge across the
Taunton river in April. 1908. when
pieces of fuse were found.
No "Xltro" In Union's Office.
Mrs. Grace Cayler Wallis. former
stenographer for John J. McNamara.
identified many letters received at and
sent from the headquarters of the In-
ternational Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers just before
McNamara's arrest on April 22 1911.
The letters were between McNamara
anil v.MAllo of fllole n9 1.& .. -.. ..!..
are on trial. (
Mrs. wants denied that James B.
McNamara. who blew up the Los An-
geles Times building was about the
headquarters much. She said she had
seen him only twice after he was be-
ing searched for. The witness also
denies that any nitroglycerine cans or
packages of dynamite were kept about
the office.
Andrew J. Dilling an employe of a
Cincinnati trunk manufacturer testi-
fied concerning the manufacture of a
fiberoid case made for J. J. McNamara
and which the government charges
was used for carrying nitroglycerine
on passenger trains.
Henry W. Legleitner. of Denver for-
mer member of the union's executive
beard is charged with carrying the
case from Pittsburg Pa. to union
headquarters in Indianapolis.
I GOVERNOR OP MICHIGAN
IAJURED IN CHICAGO WRECK
Chicago 111.! Oct 5. Governor Os-
born of Michigan was one of the 13
persons injured here in a street car
and train wreck due to a dense fog.
The governor escaped with a slight
hurt to his right arm. and Mrs. Osborn
who accompanied him was unhurt but
four of the victims of the several ac-
cidents will die it is said.
The first wreck occurred when a
Big Four train crashed into the rear
end of a Michigan Central train at 17th
street crossing. Governor and Mrs.
Osborn were passengers on the lat-
ter coming to Chicago. Besides the gov-
ernor three women were slightly in-
jured in this "Wreck.
A second wreck occurred when a
Pennsylvania train struck a street car
at 106th street. Owing to fog. the
gateman did not see the car or the
train and left the gates open. Seven
passengers on the street car were hurt
of whom four will probably die.
THOUSANDS OF POSTMASTERS
TO TAKE EXAMINATIONS
Washington D. C Oct 25. Plans for
the administration of the executive or-
der of president Taf t placing all fourth-
class postmasters under civil service
are announced by postmaster general
Hitchcock who divided the 3623 of-
fices affected oy the order into two
classes; class A to embrace postoffices
at which the compensation is $500 a
year or more for postmasters and class
B at which it is less than $500.. The
order is now in effect and the civil ser-
vice commission is ready to hold exam-
inations to create lists of eligibles for
appointments to fill vacancies. Here-
after all vacancies in the postmaster-
ships of fourth-class offices will be
filled without regard to the political
affiliations of the applicants.
Postmaster general Hitchcock has
recommended that all postmasters ir-
respective of class be placed under
civil service.
NICARAGUANS TO ELECT DIAZ.
Washington D. C. Oct 25. Nica-
raguan election Sunday will be a one
sided affair according to advices re-
ceived by the state department and
Nicaraguan minister Castrillo. Presi-
dent Diaz is expected to succeed him-
I geif.
WHIGS SHOUTED THEMSELVES W VICTORY
residential Campaign of 1840 Was Fonght Without an Issue Custom of
Stumping Started in That Stormy Battle.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
WASHINGTON D. C Oct 25.
The presidential election of
1840 was fought without an
issue. The opposition to the dominant
Democratic party was made uo of so
many diverse elements that It was im-
possible to adopt a platform upon
which all could unite. Therefore the
Whigs passed up the making of a
platform nominated Gen. Harrison a
war hero and sung and shouted them-
selves to victory.
The Democrats had their troubles
in this campaign -when they got into
their convention which by the way
like several others had convened upon
the call not of any national Demo-
cratic organization but upon that
of the Democratic members of the
New Hampshire legislature. When
the convention tried to nomi-
nate a vice president to run
with Van Buren. there was a
hopeless split Vice president Johnson
had been elected to that position by
the senate no one having received a
majority of the electoral vote for vice-
president in 137.
The opposition to Johnson had not
forgotten its grudge against him and
his friends were the more firm for
him because of that fact The result
was that the convention adjourned
without choosing a vicepresidential
candidate. This 4ed the Whigs to re-
mind the country that the Democrats
could not agree on a candidate which
brought the retort that it was better
to agree on issues and disagree on
men that it was to agree on men and
be split hopelessly over principles.
Hard Cider Campaign.
There have been two occasions in
the history of the presidency where an
unfortunate remark by the opposition
gave a party its cue and swept it into
the white house. One of these -was
when the editor of a Baltimore paper
wrote of William Henry Harrison that
if he were given a barrel of hard cider
and a pension of $3000 a year he would
sit content by his "sea coal" fire in
his log cabin in Ohio the rest of his
days and study moral philosophy.
That settled it What finer oppor-
tunity could there be for an appeal
to class prejudice? The Whigs took
it up and straightway U became the
log cabin an-i hard cider eajnpalgn a
campaign in which a war hero was
simply sung and shouted into the
presidency. There was absolutely
nothing tc it after that With such
a rallying cr- as a Democratic editor
had given the Whig forces arguments
were wholly lost and a supply of
songs and shouts and campaign lies
the like of which has never been
equalled in American politics was
soon on tap.
Harrison and Tyler.
The Whigs got busy early in the
campaign of 1840. They held their
national convention the first week in
December. 1839. Before that time the
party leaders were busy appealing to
the rank and file to send uninstructed
delegations to the convention. What
was wanted was a man upon whom all
anti-Van Burean sentiment could
unite. Victory was the thing the
Whigs were seeking and they sin-
cerely wante4 to pick the strongest
candidate. Henry Clay was again in
the race but his Freemasonry weak-
ened him in the east and his tariff
views hampered him in the south.
It was admitted that Gen. Harrison
had carried the Whig banner nobly
four years before and many leaders
thought him the strongest entry in the
lists. Clay wanted to be president but
he early announced himself as for the
man who had the best show to -win.
He wrote that if his name should
create anr obstacle to union and har-
mony then "away with it" Clay led
on the first ballot but Harrison -was
nominated on the third. John Tyler
was nominated for vicepresident it
was claimed as a result of a deal be-
tween Henry Clay and Tyler over a
Virginia senatorship.
Tyler rather than obey instructions
from the Virginia legislature resigned
his seat in the senate and he and
William C Rives were candidates for
the senatorship in 1839. Clay agreed
with Tyler that if he would leave the
senatorship to Rives he would use his
best efforts to put Tyler into the vJee-
presidency. If this well attested story
be true Tyler got to be president sim-
ply by giving up what seemed a losing
fight for a senatorship.
Iag Cabins oa "Wheels.
The Whigs worked themselves into
a fine frenzy over their candidate.
They built log cabins on wheels with
bunks in them for traveling cam-
paigners; cities and towns had Whig
cabin raisings and house warmings.
Miniature cabins with a barrel of hard
cider and a coonskin nailed on a piece
of plank by the door were everywhere
in evidence. In big parades there
would be log cabins on wheels -with
live coons disporting themselves on the
roof and loyal Whigs sitting Inside
eating johnny-cakes and chewing home
grown tobacco. The latchstring in the
Harrison establishment they were
given to understand was always on
the outside.
"Contrast with the simple life of this
man of the people." exclaimed the
Whigs "that of the court of Van
Buren with its Tuffled shirts its
dainty clothes satin chairs and da-
mask sofas. Listen to the fawning
minions of power casting sneers at
the venerable hero of Tippecanoe on
account of his poverty. Hear them
urging against him that he is only a
clerk in a county court He who has
fought more and harder battles than
any other warrior now living in the
United States (this notwithstanding
Jackson was alive) who gained more
splendid victories than any other liv-
ing American who was governor of
the northwest territory a representa-
tive in congress a United States sen-
ator and a minister to a foreign
court has come out of all these of-
fices poor. Had he been as unscrupu-
lous as they he might have been as
rich as Jackson and as wealthy as Van
Buren."
Attacks on Van Buren.
In attacking Van Buren they ex-
claimed from every husting. "What
do you think of the democracy of a
president who sleeps on French bed-
steads walks on royal Wilton car-
pets eats his pate de foie gras from
silver plates with forks of gold dips
his soup a la Reine with a gold ladle
from a silver tureen and rides in a
gilded maroon coach of British make?"
The Democrats complained that they
could not get the people to listen to
argument or reason. At last they
jumped into assailing Harrison. "Keep
it before the people" they said "that
Harrison supported the odious alien
and sedition laws that he wore the
black cockade that he voted for sell-
the white men into slavery a law that
would make it possible for a free
negro to buy a revolutionary hero and
to administer 39 lashes if the latter
attempted to escape. Keep it before
the people that as governor of In-
diana he cut out all citizens from the
right of suffrage who did not own 50
acres of land and that he resigned his
commission in the army in the hottest
of the fight in the last war."
"Whigs Started Custom ef Stumping.
On both sides there was a world of
campaign lies and half-truths but
the Whigs had the edge on the situa-
tion and thev never let up The Dem-
ocrats forced the Whig candidate to
take the stump and thus started the
American cjstom of presidential cand-
idates demoting much of their time to
speechmaking. They charged that
Harrison was a fitter subject for a
session of a lunacy commission than
for the white house and asserted that j
he was kept in the background be-
hcause he would ruin his cause if he
should open bis mouth. The whole
Whig party was declared a party of
padlocked lips. The result was that
Gen. Harrison went on the hustings
and won many a vote by his speeches.
Greeley Wrote the Slogan.
Horace Greely became editor of the
"Log Cabin" that year and his tren-
chant editorials and sharp paragraphs
were copied by Whig journals
'throughout the country. His paper
was a repository of more campaign
slogans and political songs than any
other campaign paper ever brought
out It mattered not that Johnson the
vicepresidential candidate on the Dem-
ocratic ticket -with his own hand had
slain Tecumseh the chieftain for
whose defeat Harrison became "Tip-
pecanoe." He could not get into the
hero class -with Harrison at all. and
in spite of the fact that his friends
tried to make the most of his feat
the hero-worship still continued with
Harrison.
The triumph of the Whig cause in
the states which cast their vote early
was the occasion of great rejoicing. In
one great rally a huge ball ten feet
in diameter was rolled through the
streets at the head of a procession
of "young Whigs." When It had done
service in Baltimore it was rolled to
Philadelphia. It was supposed to
typify the gathering-as-it-goes pro-
gress of the Whig cause. But in the
midst of the Philadelphia procession
it collapsed and the Democrats
promptly asserted -that the Whig
cause would collapse "with it
But the returns showed them In pos-
session of 234 electoral votes to 60 for
Van Buren and in very truth "Little
Van was a used-up man."
Tomorrow: "The Democratic Split
in 1848"
Years Ago To-
Prom The Herald Of J3T7
Thtertel898 UtV
Judge Lew H. Davis has returned
from a visit to the Jarillas.
The work of laying track in the T.
P. roundhouse commenced yesterday
Sixteen carloads of cattle went
north on the Santa Fe yesterday aft-
ernoon. Albert H. Postel and Frederick Tur-
ner jr. reached the city last evening
from Philadelphia.
Division superintendent Martin of
the G. H. has returned from a hunting
trip to the Sacramentos.
B. J. Kuhn commercial agent for
the Mexican Central left today for
points south of that line.
Jose Espalin one of the Don Ana
county deputies came in on the south-
bound Santa Fe this morning.
Early in November Miss Greenieaf
will give an entertainment for the
benefit of the public school library
fund.
E. J. Goodair was among the arri-
vals on the T. P this morning from
Midland. Tex. where he has a large
ranch.
The citizens of Alamogordo will give
a ball on Thanksgiving day to which
residents of all neighboring towns are
invited.
The first American newspaper ever
published in the Philippine islands is
now on exhibition in B A. Allen's
show window.
Frank Sawson. a New Mexico
"Rough Rider" of Capt George Cur-
ry's troop reached the city this morn-
ing from Las Cruces.
The fire at the Blossburg coal mines
near Raton. N. M has caused a scar-
city of coke at all the smelting plants
of New Mexico and Arizona.
Only a short time will elapse until
the taxpayers of this city will be given
opportunity to vote for a bond issue
of $30000. for the benefit of the El
Paso public school system.
The authorities on the other side of
the river are busy fortifying their
shores against overflow by putting in
new mattress work for several hun-
dred yards above the Santa Fe bridge.
The number of voters registered up
to 3 p. jn. today was 2249 which will
only make it necessary to get 51 more
before 8 p. m. tonight to make the
largest registration ever held in El
Paso.
Mayor Magoffin. superintendent
Martin civil engineer Cunningham. Dr.
Turner Moses Dillon and Joe Crosby
have returned from their outing in the
Sacramentos near Alamagordo. They
made the trip in superintendent Mar-
tin's private car and made it their
headquarters while in the mountains.
W. X- Fence manager of the big
Nelson-Morris ranch near Midland is
in the city a guest at the Sheldon.
Mr. Pence is here to look after his
cattle interests and to witness the Os-
Aple parade.
14
Ponderous Personages BY
THOMAS BABING-
TON MACAULEY
-N OCTOBER 25 1800 the newly i
1 3 installed I9th century- made good
S by producing a baby who was
promptly wrapped np in the name of
Thomas Babington Macauiev.
It would take the ordinary baby 30
vears to grow up to a name of this size
but Thomas was no ordinary baby. He
had a two bushel head and large serious
eyes and at the age of SS he was reading
the newspapers. At 7 he was so skilful
in debate that the only defence of his
elders was to send him to bed by way
of rebuttal. At 12 he could compose in
Latin and Greek and could pnn in five
languages. Even his enemies admitted
that Thomas Babington Macauley would
grow up to be a big man and stretch his
name all out of shape.
And yet with all his magnificent
start. Macauley was a faQnre. Be failed
in his life's ambition which was to
write a history of England. He knew
England's history by heart and had an
enormous stock of well-oiled easy run-
ning words which people would rather
read than go a-fishing. et he struggled
for 20 years with his task and then
when he realized that he had onlv com-
pleted 15 vears of history and was five
vears worse off than when he started
he ga-ve up and died As a historian he
was one of the world's greatest failures
being 33 percent slower than time itself.
Men have failed from -many causes
but few have failed as Macauley did.
He failed because he was too infernally
capable in too many wavs. He was the
best essayist in England and a rattling
good journejman poet. He was also a
spell binder politician and statesman
and could pack up on 24 hours' notice
and run a colony with fair success. All
of this was bad on the history business.
Xo sooner did he seat himself in a large
arm chair with four acres of references
around him and chapter two of his
torthcoming work on his knee waiting
to be finished than a magazine editor
or book publisher or the V. lug partv or a
prime minister would come around and
interfere He had to stop his historv
to write i.ns. becau- ' the p'ople cried
lor them. He had to emerge from the
Abe RMartin
It must be toagk oa sane folks when
tfl' children are too big t' ride f er nothin'
an' too little f leave at borne. Nothin'
is ever too expensive fer folks that have
things charged.
TEDDl C5T ME 1ST GOTT.
Der kaiser of dis Vaterlandt
Unt Gott on high all dings commandt
Eggsept. of course you understandt
Dere's Teddy.
It used to be dot me unt Gott
Could run der vorldt as veil as not
But now of help ve got a lot
From. Teddy.
Who toldt us two and two make four
Unt nefer either less or more
Unt all about our ancient lore?
Vy Teddy.
Who tolst me vat mem army needts
Und how vords doesn t count nut deeds'
Who valks unt talks der vile he reads ?
Do Teddy.
"Who saidt to me "I like you BOJ"?
Who helped me not to keep right still
"Lnt talk of animals to kill? '
Dot Teddy.
Who toldt me dings I nefer know?
V- ho told me vat I ought to do
Und how to say "Dee-lighted" too?
Dot Teddy.
Dere is no bleak unt lonesome spot
Vlch ve don't cheer I ten you dot
Der vorldt is bossed by me unt Gott
Unt Teddy.
PROGRESSIVES HAVE
RECEIVED $304244
Frank A. MaBsey Iads Unt ef Con-
tributors "With ?7te ami George
W. Pcrkias CoBtribated $4500.
New York N. Y- Oct 25 The Pro-
gressive party received contributions
for Its campaign fund up to October 17
of $304244; spent $9234T and ha i
unpaid bills and contract obligation
for $41341 more according to the off -cial
statement of receipts and expend -tores
sent to the clerk of the house a
Washington by treasurer Hooker ui
the Progressive national committee
FrankA. Munsey who gave $7ft.0u
George W. Perkins who gave $45 mO
and W. Emlen Roosevelt who pa .
$31000 appeared as the leading mc
vidua! contributors. The balance car
from nearly 7000 individuals whose
gifts ranged from the $15000 given b
Douglas Robinson CoL Roosevelt
brothennlaw to two anonymous con-
tributions of 10 cents each.
The statement of Mr. Hooker filed
in compliance with the campaign pub-
licity law requiring a publication of
financial affairs 10 days before th
election is the first complete state-
ment to come from any of the three
principal parties. It embraces all re-
ceipts and disbursements from July 1
to October 17. The Republican ani
Democratic statements will be filed at
Washington Saturday according to an-
nouncements from the respective coir-
mittees toda.
The chief items of expenditure np to
October 17 were:
Printing $58444- printing bills un-
paid and contracts in force. $28 74.
advertising $20565: traveling expense
of candidate and speakers $45665 sal-
aries of employes $32713 postage and
"general campaign expenses" $11 34o
telegrams and telephone $10298 office
rent $6-24? The sum of $95563 was
sent to 37 Progressive state comm -tees
for the. work of state organiza-
tions. The national Progressive committed
received $4687 contributions of $1 each
16 of 25 cents each 1! of 50 cents
each and a large number of from $-"
to $250. The total contributions of Me-
dill McCormick. ice chairman of the
national committee were $1000.89
GEOR&E F11CH
Ah&ot Of "At Good OW Siwasfc'
vitals of the past to become a member
of the Whig ministry. He had to drop
his pen for four years and govern the Ei -T
India company at $50000 a year. He
bad. in fact to write his history while
being shaved and while dodging oppor
tunity in 40 forms and when he d.oJ
he had only five volumes finished out o:
a possible 300.
The five volumes which Macauiev did
write became best sellers in England and
his death was a sad blow. English peo-
ple had been reading of their past with
feverish interest and the reign of WiU-
U"11 - 'I
"But Thomas was no ordinary baby''
iani ol Oransje under his pen became
mere interesting than loe and romance.
It Macauley had been less gifted in
other lines he might ha'ie exhumed a
whole centurv ot English history in col
ors more vmd than the irescoes at Pom
pen. but all h m..eeded in doing w i
to make other historians -.ei m dull and
tamo
A historian houIJ (arefulh weed out
In- other taUjita bttore attempting to
make up 1000 vears on Father Time
(Copj righted by Geoige Mathew
A?ams
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