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Success Magazine
There is a strong political cast in
this number ot Success Magazine. We
have gone so far as to sacrifice some-
thing of the chartn and good cheer
which our readers have a right to ex-
pect from us every month. We are
presenting, within the vigorous "Can-
nonism'' cover, a complete and auth-
oritative summing up of the effect of
tfhose deep currents of public thought
which are steadily and ineviiably un-
dermining the vicious machine of the
Congressional lords of misrule.
In a word, this is one of our fight-
ing months. And since we are fight-
ing we propose to fight honestly and
hard.
In the course of our attacks on
"Cannonism" we ha>e perhaps ap-
peared to say some pretty severe
things about the speaker and his ring.
But we have never told all we know
we cannot now tell all we know. For
some curious reason the American
public revolts from the ugly, sinister
facts of the amazing misrepresenta-
tion which today makes our Govern-
ment In some respects actually the
most backward In the civilized world.
But there are a few disagreeable
truths which we have no right to with
hold. If the public—if you, the mill-
ion or more of you, who read these
words—could for one short hour look
in on the actual workings of the Can-
non machine; if you could see the
motives which guide it; if you could
feel the atmosphere of dishonesty,
treachery, vice and depravity in
which it moves and breathes; if
through some real persona! experience
you could be brought to comprehend
the virtual daily treason of the men
who compose this machine—well, you
would experience an exceedingly un-
comfortable state of mind as regards
the present welfare and the future
prospects of your nation.
Everybody who knows the life ac
Washington, will at once recognize
the truth of this statement. It is no-
torious that the drinking, the gamb-
ling, the reveling, are the indulgences
of men who in politics are severely
"regular." When the "regular" repub-
licans sought democratic reinforce-
ments, whence did they get them?
From Tammany Hall, the vicious, the
depraved.
These things are significant of the
whole basic difference between the
moral ideals of tlio two elements in
the House. The man who led a demo-
cratic minority into Cannon's camp
in the rules fight (Fitzgerald) was the
congressional lieutenant of the un-
speakable McCarren. The men who
were delivered were democrats of the
kind which has made gang rule in
American cities the shame of the
country.
On the side of the "regularity" are
the expert "fixers" and "jobbers."
There you find the men who know the
art of getting big campaign funds
from corporate interests; the men
who have held up the rotten sugar
trust for immense corruption funds
in political campaigns; the men who
know how to "touch" the franchised
corporations of the city of Washing-
ton; the men who represent "inter-
ests;" who stand for the most cor-
rupt gangs of New York and Phila-
delphia and Boston and Chicago and
Denver and San Francisco; the men
who work the long-distance telephone
to the stock market between roll-calls
on Important votes.
Associated with these men of the
machine are a number of others who
are personally above reproach, but
who lack the visiou and the courage
to oppose entrenched power. For ev-
en these men we have no excuses to
offer, because without their support
Cannonism would be impossible.
If the public could for one moment
really understand the gravity of the
present situation it would rise, to a
man, and remove—by force, should
his "rules" provide no peaceable
method—the stupid, profane, un-Am-
erican obstructor of all progress who
today occupies the marble chair of
the Speaker and wields the gavel of
authority.
These are strong words—-the strong-
est we have ever uttered on this un-
pleasant subject. We utter them now
because we know what the Cannon
Ring stands for.
The Cannon Riugstandsforthesliame
The Cannon lling stauds for the
shameless and complete exploitation
of our national rasources which are
our national assets—by private cor-
porations.
The Cannon Ring stands lor a ship
subsidy, ahigh tariff, a fat pork bar-
rel. dishonest government contracts,
a demoralized and dishonest customs
service, and for every other device
useful In stealing money from a
wide-open treasury
The Cannon Ring stands for tricky
and desperate opj<jsition to postal
savings, parcels post, Income fa*, Im-
provement of the nation s waterways,
scientific tariff revision, direct elec-
tion of Senators —to representative
government and to democracy itself.
In the past the Cannon Ring fought
against the railway rate law, the meat
Inspection law and the pure food law,
but was finally forced to act by an
aroused public and by Theodore
Roosevelt.
Really, this Cannon Ring is perfect-
ly, hopelessly rotten. It is no sense a
republican institution. Cannon was
elected Speaker I*st March through
the assistance of Tammany Hall.
The Cannon Itiag |s sodden with po-
litical vice, it is drunk with long-
continued power. And now, q«ite
aware that its day is over, Cannon
himself is well kaown to ka ready,
when the next congressional <ards
are shuffled, to throw the power to
the democratic kail of the Ring in or-
der to preveat regressive and intel-
ligent men fro* graupiag and wield-
ing this power For Caaaon hates
progress and iateillgeace as Richard
III. hated beauty.
Naturally the little group of clean
thinking, rtght-mindea republican in
the house have no place In the Can
non Ring; so they are called insur
gents. These insurgents know the
truth. They are fighting for two es<
sential things—honesty and progress
It takes courage to be an insur-
gent Such an one finds the whole
power of government apparently bent
on crushing him. The Ring works
busily to discredit him in his district.
Cannon throws him off his committees
1 he Senate machine bears down on
him. President Taft and his cabinet,
with all their powerful allies, work
against him. And yet there he stands
today, wondering sometimes if the
whole world Is conspiring for evil,
but continuing blindly and sturdily
to fight for those essentials—honesty
and progress.
This is why Success Magazine is op-
posing Cannonism and is supporting
the Insurgents.
GKIEF FOR MARK TWAIN
Tile Daughter of (lie Humorist Dead
in it Bathtub.
Redding, Conn., Dec. 24.—"Merry
Christmas to everybody."
Cheery, smiling Mark Twain, who
Is Samuel Clemens In real life, sent
this message forth yesterday in deny-
ing the statement that he is in such
poor health that his death is not far
off.
It Is far from a merry Christmas
that will dawn for the humorist. His
daughter, Jean Clemens, "all that I
have left," as he says pitifully, was
found dead in the bath tub of the
Clemens home here this morning.
Miss Clemens had been a sufferer
from epilepsy for a number of years.
It is believed that she was overcome
with convulsions while in the bath
and drowned without being able to
give the alarm.
Her Health Had Improved.
Speaking of his daughter's death
Mr. Clemens said:
"My daughter, Jean Clemens, pass
ed from this life suddenly this morn
ing at 7:30 o'clock.
1 All the last half of her life she was
an epileptic, but she grew better lat
terly. For the last two years we con
sidered her practically well, but she
was not allawed to be entirely free
Her maid, who has served us twenty-
eight years, was always with her
when she Went to New York on shop-
ping excursions and such things. She
had very few convulsions in the last
two years and those she had were not
violent.
At 7:30 this morning a maid went
to her room to see wny she did not
come to her breakfast and found her
in tjie bathtub drowned. It means
that she had a convulsion and could
not get out.
Ilad talked of the Future.
"She had been leading a very at
tive life. She spent the greater part
of her time looking after the farm
which I bought for her, and she did
muct of my secretary work besides.
Last night she and I chatted later
than usual in the library, and she told
me all her plans about the housekeep-
ing, for she was also my housekeep-
er. I said everything was going on
so smoothly that I believed I would
take another trip to Bermuda in Feb-
ruary, and she said put it off till
March and she and her maid would
go with me. So we made that ar-
rangement.
But she is gone, poor child. She
was all I had left except Clara, who
married Mr. Gabrilowitsch lately and
has just arrived in Europe."
Mack Irani Bermuda Monday.
New York, Dec. 24.—Samuel L.
Clemens returned here last Monday
from his winter vacation in Bermuda
and went at once to his home in
Redding, Conn. The author complain-
ed of a pain in his left chest. Since
the death of his close friend, Henry
H. Rogers, a year ago, Mr. Clemens
has felt much depressed, and the
death of his daughter today, his
1'rlendB hero fear, will prove a ser-
ious shock to the aged writer.
Miss Jean Clemens was one of the
two surving daughters of Mark
Twain and was the one most Inti-
mately associated with his recent
literary work. The other daughter,
Clara, recently married the Russian
pianist, Osslp Gabrilowitsch, and only
two weeks ago hade her father good
by and departed for Europe with her
husband. This left Miss Jean as the
remaining member of the family with
Mr. ( lemens at the family homestead
at Redding.
) A Woman of Literary Tastes.
i The daughter was the constant
companion of her father, acting to
some extent as his assistant, secre-
tary and literary amanuensis. She
was a young woman of varied aceom-
plisnients, having traveled widely and
lived for a time In Germany. ,
Her literary tendencies followed
those of her father, and she had his
vivacity of manner and to some ex-
tent resembled him In personal ap-
pearance. Her tastes were literary
rather than social, so that she did not I
often appear at social gathering:; In
New Ycrk.
Ilcr devotion to her father was
sliov. u only yesterday when she per-
sonally telegraphed to the Associated
Press a statement from her father,
humorously dismissing the report that
he was dying. Miss Clemens at the
time spoke affectionately of her fath-
ers good health atid made cheery ref-
erence to this happy family condition
at the holiday season.
1 ho statement Mr. Clemens made
yesterday follows:
I hear the newspapers say that I am
living. The charge Is not true. I
would not do such a thing at my time
folife. I am behaving as good as I
can. Merry Christmas to everybody.
New ^ ork, Dec. 24.—The board of
governors of the explorers club met
today In executive session, and, stand-
ing I nsilence voted with bowed heads
that Dr. Frederick A. Cook be dropp-
ed from the rools of their club for
frauds practiced on its members and
on the public. Coming hard upon the
heels of the crushing verdict lately
rendered by the University of Copen-
hagen, the action of the explorers
club today is the result of Indepen-
dent investigations which in no way
touch upon the polar controversy and
the weight of Its disproval thus be-
comes culmulative.
Preliminary to its vote of expul-
sion. the board met to pass upon the
report o fits committee, which had
been investigating the validity of Dr.
Cook's assertion that he reached the
summit of Mount McKinley. This
committee in concluding its exhaustive
report, recommended that "Dr. Cook's
claims that he ascended to the sum-
mit of Mount McKinley in 1906 be re-
jected by the explorers club as un-
worthy of credence."
The committees recommendation
was based on its finding "that Dr.
"ook had repeatedly made statements
that have not been in accord with the
facts that he had entered into agree-
ments which he has failed to keep
and that the mlstatements and broken
agreements deal not only with matters
appertaining to discovery, but to or
lie
mt
further ti
i make a single
mil ti k during the
ng a c'.iargu that |
made, he
known to bo lu
alts and would
in getting out of
dinary financial transactions, so that
no credence can be given to state-
ments made by him.
Cook's Friends Sifrn too.
Among the seven signatures appen-
ded to this agreement, are those of
Casper Whitney and Anthony Fiala,
both personal friends of Cook.
The committee is further explicit
in its statement that it understood its
investigation only after apprising Dr.
Cook of its purpose, which he ap-
proved in person; and that it has dis-
regarded entirely the testimony of
jdward Barill, Dr. Cook's guide, and
f Frederick Printz, his packer—al-
though such testimony was before
them—because it wished no cloud of
partisan contention, or question of
financial interest to dim the integrity
of its verdict.
In addition to the findings of the
committee as a whole which are
signed by Anthony Fiala, a polar ex
plorer of note; Frederick S. Dellen-
baugh of the American geographical
society; Profesor Marshal S. Saville
of the chair of archaeology in the
Columbia university, Walter G. Walsh
secretary of the explorers club and
Gasper Whitney—individual signed
reports are submitted by Herschel C.
Parker professor of physics at Colum-
bia and Belmore Brown both of whom
are members of the Cook-McKinley
expedition; and by Charles S. Heldon
who has recently returned from a
year's residence on the slope of Mount
McKinley where he went with the ex-
press purpose of studying the consid-
eration of the mountain with a view
to the possibility of its ascent.
Barely Hake Their Escape.
Professor Parker reports that he
was a partner with Dr. Cook in the
McKinley expedition both physically
and financially. Dr. Cook assumed
the lead with a plan which proved un-
feasible and the party escaped with
their lives thanks to the local know-
ledge of Belmore Brown one of its
members.
"It was perfectly understood,"' says
Profesor Parker, "that after the mis-
adventure all further attempts were
abandoned for the season. Otherwise
rofesor Parker would not have left
the expedition."
Instead of this Dr. Cook, it is charg-
ed, side-tracked all members of the
expedition until there remained only
( ook. his guide Barrill and one pack-
er, who was subsequently got rid of
also. These defections left Dr. Cook,
lays Professor Parker, no instru-
ments capable of measuring the alti-
tudes he says he attained. Moreover,
he adds, the summers experience had
showed that, of all the party, Dr.
'ook and Barill were the least fitted
physically for arduous .mountain
limbing.
Betlmore Brown in the main con-
firms Professor Parker, and savs al-
so that in Dr. Cook's book there is not
onte data given from the time he left
the ( hulitana river. This makes in-
telligent criticism impossible he de-
clar
never saw Dr. Coc
aneroid barometer
whole trip. Conftro
has previously beei
that Dr. Cook was
serious financial s
have great dilllculty
Alaska If ho had not reported that
he attained the summit of Mount Mc-
Kinley.
Improbable Tilings Told.
Brown fortifies his charges with the
declaration that Cook and Barrill had
no ice creepers and that, though Dr.
Cook afterwards told Professor Park-
er that he (Cook) and Barrill were
roped together every foot of the last
stage. Professor Parker and Brown
birth remembered that they destroyed
the climbing rope as defective before
they quit the expedition. Further-
more. iu none of the pictures publish-
ed in Dr. Cook's book does a climbing
rope appear.
Brown and Sheldon also report that
various photographs in Dr. Cook's
book do iv represent the peaks they
are said to picture, and Sheldon de-
nies that he is the author of the ap-
pendix C, in the book, which Dr.
Cook credits to him.
The committee as a whole, there
fore, concludes in part that "Dr.
Cook's account of the ascent is not
only such as to be unconvincing to
the experienced mountaineer, but that
under analysis it becomes .incredible.
"That he entered into secret finan
cial agreement with a publisher which
resulted in embarrassment to his as-
sociates.
"That he broke his engagement
with his fellow club members to sup-
ply his original data upon which his
book was based."
| Other conclusions of the committee
may be summarized as follows:
"That the Mount McKinley expedi
tion abandoned the asent of the moun-
tain in 1906, agreeing that no further
attempts should be made to reach the
summit during that season, and with
the understanding that Professor
Parker set out at once for the coast.
"That Dr. Cook persuaded Mr.
Brown to commence the colection of
natural history specimens in a locali-
t ythat would take him well out of
the neighborhood o fthe last opera-
tions of the party.
How He Hoses ltrown.
"That Dr. Cook, taking with him the
guide, Barrill, proceeded further to
ward the mountain with the declared
object of examining glaciers, but ap
parently to ascend some readily acces
sible part if the mountain to secure
photographs and other data upon
which to base a claim to having as-
cended the highest peak and to re-
main absent a sufficient length of
time for the possible accomplishment
of the ascent alleged.
"That he did not have with him
the proper equipment and facilities
such as foot wear, proper life lines,
instruments for recording altitudes,
etc., for such an undertaking.
'That Dr. Cooks action in attempt-
ing the ascent (whether possible or
not) immediately upon the departure
of the rest of the party after enter-
ing into an agreement with them that
no further attempt would be made for
the season, was unfair to his asso-
ciates.
"That the evidence before the com-
mittee is to the effect that it would
be utterly imposible to ascend the
glaciers and frozen snow slopes wear-
ing the rubber shoe packs which Dr.
Cook states in hi shook he wore while
making the ascent.
"That Dr. Cooks description of the
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