The Washington County Sentinel And The Weekly Enterprise (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1912 Page: 1 of 4
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SAID TEDDY OF IAFI
SENATOR H. F. ASH HIST OF
AltIZOXA DFXOI'XCFS THE
UNITED STATUS SENATE
FIX-PRESIDENT riUTH’ISKS THE
PRESENT ONE.
“YOU ARE REACTIONARY”
DISPUTES TAFT'S STATEMENT
HE IS PROGRESSIVE.
■RooNcvelt Gives his Definition of
Progressive.—liii Louisville Speech
lie Roviews Administration.
I^uisville. Ky., April 4. — Bresi-
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■dent Taft's statement that, he was
a >progre-3lve was disputed by Col-
onel Roosevelt here last night. The [
former said that. Taft in some of!
his acts had shown himself to be
reactionary. In spite of this con-
tention, Colonel Roosevelt went
over the record of the present ad-
ministration in certain particulars
and criticised it sharpely.
“Every man who fights fear-
lessly and effectively against special
privilege in any form to that ex-
tent a progressive. Every man who
directly or indirectly, upholds privi-
leges and favors the special in-
terests, whether he acts from evil
motives or merely because he is
puzzle-headed or due to mental
pathy, or whether he simply lacks
interest in the subject, is a re-
actionary.” Declared the speaker.
“In his recent speach at Phila-
delphia,” began Colonel Roosevelt,
“President Taift stated that he was
a progressive and that raised the
question as what a progressive is.
More is involved than any man’s
say so as to himself. Any well-
meaning man may vaguely think of
himself as a progressive. Vision
and intensity of continuation .must
be the goal to his makeup if any
mAh who is to lead the forward
movement and have good Intentions,
are ‘ essential.
“The essential difference, is old as
civilized history, is between the
men, who with fervor and broad
sympathy and imagination stand for
the forward movement, the men who
have faith in the people on the one
hand, and on the other men of nar-
row vision and small sympathy, who
are not stirred by the wrongs of
others and .with these men stand
those 'other men who distrust the
people, but wish to keep them help-
less so as to exploit them for their
own benefit.
“Merely to announce one’s be-
lief in the rule of the people, while
openly or covertly trying to prevent
such rule from oeinig effective, would
be demagogy of peculiarly mean
type. These persons must be Judg-
ed by the way they square with their
actions. The doctrine of the ‘rule
of the people’ amounts to sheer
nothingness if we are forbidden to
apply it when the failure to do so
means the failure to get and to do
justice.”
Referring to the method he has
evoked of letting the people of a
state decide upon the constitutional-
ity of certain acts or their courts,
Colonel Roosevelt declared:
“To denounce sucRi a proposition
RAGING
1 < d stores have
I factory district,
been set up.
where the levee
SCEME A T THE 'RECEJVT LVMCHIflG OF A
broke Monday night, is submerged.
ROLLING W ATERS ( OX’NM F, TO
RAVISH SOUTHLAND.
only the peaks of the cottages, for-1
merly occupied by tlie w rkers,
showing above the water, while the
belongings of the victims are float-
ing into the river.
19 VEA-R OLT> JVEG'RO AT FO'RT SMITH. A *R#C..
FOH SHOOTING A VEVUTV COJVSTA 'BLE
SITUATION NOW SERIOUSj ACQUIT AN AMERICAN
CAIRO, ILL., SURROUNDED AM)
TRAIN SERVICE ( IT OEI’.
Railroads Under F’ive la Siftecn FYet
of Water.—$5,000,000 in 1’i-np-
erty Submerged,
Phoenix, Ariz., April 4.—Address-
ing a joint session of the legislature j
V. ' j
after his election ns one of the1
state’s first United States senators,!
Henry F. Ashurst, attacked the Unit- j
ed States Senate, the entire federal j
.judiciary /and Washington society. |
"The United States spnate has been
Cairo, III., April 4.—Cairo is with-
out train service and almost sur-
rounded by water by the breaking
of tile -Mobile and Ohio levee which
protected the drainage district. All
railroads which pass through the
has liecn thrown around the Cairo
levee, raising and strengthening the
ievee so it will be safe.
The gauge shows 53.0 feet.
The Illinois Central tracks are
| now out of water mid trains are Ik>-
ing operated. The city is be.ieved
to he safe.
Mexican Rebels Did Not Convict
Paso Man.
El Pa»0, Tex., April 4.—Powell i
/Roberts, an American arrested at
Jua/rez was taken secretly to Chihua-
hua and tried yesterday by a rebel
count charged with being a Mad cr-
ista spy and was acquitted. He will
return to El Paso tomorrow.
ADVISE MINERS
Those of All
Urituin
Work.
to Koiuru
district are now under live to fifteen
feet of water. Property valued at
$5,000,000 is submerged.
Cairo proper is protected from
the flooded section by a system of
London, April 4.—The miners’ j
federal ion, after a long conference
today, decided to advise cell miners
of Great Britain to resume work.
The national conference Saturday
will decide cm the committee de-
cision.
t ress levees. A l»ig force of men are
aptly termed the ‘American house of |Rt "ork on the drainage lete<- which
lords,’ and the ‘millionaires’ club,’” Hickman, Ky,, April .. F.ootl
he said. “Its luxuriant bathtubs •; WP,P p,,e6rpd af(p'' !»« *«
and barber shops are typical of “W* vl«il at lhp ,pvpps- b>' t1,p
much of its personnel. Not all sen-
ators have succumbed to its enticing
luxuries, but many have. I pledge
you that I shall spurn the gay and
grafting swirl of Washington soci-
ety, which has proved the undoing
of so many men elected as servants
of the people. 1 want none of the
dinners of the wealthy, none of the
palatial senatorial bathtubs or bar-
ber shops for mine. T shall demand
the 'prompt passage of a bill subject-
ing the entire federal judiciary
from highest to lowest to the recall,
which has bopn incorporated in our
glorious Arizona constitution. The
crcoked decisions of these arrogant
judges have scandalized and enrag-
ed the toiling masses. They shall
he made to feel the rule of the peo-
ple. I am net afraid to speak my
miind fearlessly. I shall denounce
wickedness and graft in high places.
I will be heard.”
noiincenieut that trains would roach
Hickman this afternoon bringing
food and clothing. The situation is
serious. Three thousand refugees
are here.
The distribution of food and tents
to about four thousand refugees
gave a brighter nspert to the situa-
tion today. Refugees eontinue to
arrive from all directions, in boats,
afoot, on horseback and in vehicles.
Fresh supplies have lieen received.
Would Locate Here.
Dr. H. H. Wynne of the Wynne j
Eye and Ear hospital of Oklahoma/
City, lis here today with a view of |
locating in Bartlesville, or at leaat
of arranging to spend a portion oif
h!s time here. If suitable arrange-
ments can he made the doctor will i grand
GOVERNMENT PROVIDES FOIt
NEARLY n MILLION FOR THEM.
LATE TELE6RAPH
PRFXIDEXT TAFT TALKS OF
ECONOMY IN DEPARTMENTS.
Speaker Clark Displays Courtesy to
Woodrow Wilson Hjr Not Run-
ning In N>w Jersey.
Washington, April 4.—The Indian
appropriation bill, carrying seven
and a hit 1 f million, dollars was tak-
en up in the house today. Three
million is for the extension of the
reservation school systems and the
support of schools not on the res-
ervations, but in which Indian child-
ren are educated. Irrigation pno-
Jects on the reservations are also
taken care of.
locate here.
Monthly Tein.j>eraturos.
During March the highest tempe.r-
Smith, Ark., April' 4:—The
lA’j j i
jury investigation of the
lynching of Sanford Lewis, who was
suspected of shooting Deputy Con-
stable Andrew Carr, .may disclose
the fact that Lewis, was iunqyent of
ntnre was 7?amf the lowest Vf”,’40-;Uhe criitfe. * Headers ,©f thelnoK that
cording to Dr. A. P. Owens, local j stormed the jail and hanged Lewis
shire, Messrs. Turner, Cannon and
McKinley of Illinois; he was op-
posed by practically all tbe men of
the stamp of the Ouggenhelms and
Evahs In Colorado and Mr. Patrick
Calhoun of San Francisco. These
men were not progressives then and
they do not pretend to be progress-
ives now. But unlike the president,
they know who is a progressive.
Their judgment in the matter is
weather observer, while the average
mean temperature was 40. There
was four inches af rainfall during
the month.
Hickman is Deserted.
Hickman, Kv., April 4.—'Last
night Hickman moved ‘to the resi-
dence section on the hills and has
given over her business and factory
districts to the flood, .and is caring
for the refugees from the surround-
ing lowlands. In every /home from
a dozen to a score have found ref-
uge. “Spare” rooms arre filled, at-
tics and cellars have been convert-
ed into living quarters and even the
cattle have been turned out of the
barns so that some -unfortunate may
have a sleeping place.
Refugees came to Hickman last
night by the boat loads, in wagons
and on foot. From the Missouri
shore, xvhere the levee broke yester-
day, men and women with their
children are being rescued from
housetops and tree branches. Some
•are pulled /from the water but so
far no loss of life has been reported.
Jess Curti.s of the Oklah Oarage
is arranging for a series of motor
cycle races :o be held here April IS,
which is during the “Old Home
Week.” Roy Goode who drives the
motor truck for the fire department,
and Wells Bennett, a professional
rider from Chanute, will be among
those entered. Bennett has beaten
(loode at several meets recently but
the latter now lias a new' motor-
cycle and expects to win from Ben-
nett at the meet here.
are likely to be severely punished.
The authorities have been criticised
for inaction in connection with the
affair, and the police chief has been
removed. Lewis was nineteen years ’
old and the son 01 a negro minister
at Moffitt, Okla.
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BIRD MIX VICTIM OF’ HIS OWN
CARELESSNESS.
persona on the pier to relax his hold
on the level's and then, seemingly
realizing that be was In danger, be
made strenuous efforts to pull the
neec ijf his machine into a level po-
sition.
Falling in this, lie managed to
turn his craift further in shore, and
nil Instant later the craft crashed
into the edge of the surf, not 500
feet from the spot where on Decem-
ber 10, Last, he had finished hie
ocean ft) ocean flight. Many men
rushed to his aid. Ernest Scott and
•lames flood win, life guards, were
first to rqacb him. They said Rodg-
ers' head was Jiang! .'g qyer.or.e wing
of the machine, 'the heavy engine
was on his back and his feet were
drawn up, nearly doubling over his
shoulders.
Rodgers waS lifted front the
wreck and hurried to the balth house
hospital. He died on the way.
Examination showed that his
neck, jawbone and hack had been
broken. A telegram was sent to the
aviator's widow, who lives In Pas-
adena, Calif., and a cablegram to his
mother, Mrs. H. S. Schweitzer, who
is now in London. The body was
prepared for burial and sent /to Pas-
adena last, night.
NEVER WILL BEAR REPETITION
OCEAN 1T0 OCEAN NO MORE
A. S. Ru,pnrd Is here today from
Eldorado Springs, Mo., on business.
*15EAR ADMIRAL LKUTZE,
WHO IS TO RETIRE AS HEAD
AVIATOR RODGERS' SPECTACU-
LAR FATAL ENDING.
! OF NEW
♦
YORK NAVY YARD
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good. After three and a half years
of association with and knowledge .Last night boats crossed the river,
F’ell 200 F’ect and Was Crushed to
Death.—Near Scene of Former
Triumph.—/Rack Broken.
of the president these and their
fellows are now the president’s
chief supporters.
“The president says he is a pro-
gressive. These men regard him as
being precisely the kind of a pro-
‘aa putting the axe to the tree of gressive whom they approve. How-
freedom’ without proposing any
more or better remedy,is to cham-
pion the cause of the special inter-
ests in Vhose favor, as against the
people and against the cause of
justice, the courts have decided.
“When the president supports
these courts which declare that the
people have no right to do so, and
ever good the president's intentions,
I believe his actions have shown
that he is entitled to the support of
preeisely these men.
“The republican party*is now fac-
ing a crisis. It is to decide whether
it will be the party of the plain peo-
ple or whether it will be the party
of privileges and of special inter-
-
when be opposes the effort to give \ csts.
to the sober judgment of.the people j “Prosperity can only come to this
due effect as against the decisions country on a basis of honesty and
of a reactionary court, then he of fair treatment for till. Those
shows hlmeelf a reactionary. When men of enormous wealth who bitter-
the president characterizes a moder- j ly oppose every species of effective
ate proposal to’render effective the'control by the people through their
sober judgment of the American j governmental agents, are, I believe,
people as against indefensible 1n re- j most short-righted as to their own
actionary court decisions in favor of ultimate interest. Most surely if the
each time returning with a human
cargo. From behind the levees on
the Kentucky side, farmers and their
families have come in droves, the
women and children, staying, but
the men returning to watch their
lands and dwellings.
The supply of food stuffs in Hick-
man is running low. but the loaf is
being shared with the hope that re-
lief will come from the outside.
Since Monday no trains have enter-
ed the city. Today a passenger train
came within eight thiles with mail
and express matter, which xvas haul-
ed by wagon the rest of the journey.
Passengers came by 'the same meth-
od.
Railroad officials promise a re-
sfl nipt ion of traffic today. The first
train will bring tents and ifood.
Yesterday the city’s only bakery
went out of commission. Four thou-
sand leaves of bread was among the
express matter brought in today.
Up to a late hour last night the
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Business Man Has Found That Hi Can-
not Repeat Verbal Caatigatlon
Over Phone.
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th<» privileged clagf**« as Maying title j wisp and moderate control was ad- government levee west of Hickman
axe at the foot of the tree of well- j vocateil. these men or their descend- j was holding, although the waiter is
ordered freedom,’ then the president, ants will have to face the chance of, lapping the top and the embank-
is simply standing against the sane' some movements really dangerous j ment ,s sloughing. Fifty thousand
and moderate movement for social and drastic of character directed ! sand hags have been piled on the
justice and in favor of privilege and against them. j levee. This exhausted the supply.
\he ranks himself against the pro-1 “I stand for the adequate control, but another consignment will arrive
gressives, against the cause of jus-1 the reason of all miriness, anil ea-, today and those directing the vork
tice for the helpless and wronged peeiaMy of all monopolistic big busi-'say the levee will stand and the in-
and on the side of the reactionaries,! ness, where it proves -unwise to imitation of farming lands wi 1 bp
on the side of the beneficiaries of break out the monopoly, notably the averted
privilege and injustice. (standard Oil and Tobaed®
“Four years ago the progressives junder the Sherman law, should be, farm hands and government labor-
supported Mr. Taft for president: kept on the Iw-oks to be used \vher-!ers.
and he was opposed by such repre-1ever possible against monopoly. It] The business district of Hickman
eetuarives as Mr. Penrose of Penn-! was., by itself, w holly unable to af-,is practically entirely under water.
rvp-aaK Mr Aldrich of Rhode Is- ford the relief demanded by the and merchants have e-rried their
Mr. Galligner of New Ham?- A® eric on people.” - stocks to the tOsj where lmprovls-
ffcDMlRAt LEUTaE'
Washington, April 4. -Captain
A Uteri Cleaves. ;n command cf the
Newport naval station, wili succeed
Rear Admiral
commandant of
yard on June U
tv-nine years’ s
Long Beach, Oa!., April 4.—Gal-
braith U. Rodgers, the first man to
cross the American continent in an
aeroplane, was killed here almost
instantly late yesterday when his bi-
plane, in which he had I teen soar-
ing over the ocean fell from a height
of 200 feet and buried him in the
wreck. His neck was broken and
his body badly mashed by the en-
gine of his machine. He lived but
a few moments.
Rodgers for a week had been
making daily flights here, and had
taken up with him many passen-
gers. both men and women. Yester-
day he started from his usual place
anti soared out over the ocean, cross-
ing the pier, and then turned and
dipped close to a roller coaster in
In police count this morning Grant
F'tover, arrested x>n suspicion, was
dismissed. Rosa Lynch was fined
$11.To on a vagrancy charge,
a beach amusement park.
1 -Keeirg a flock of gulls disi-orting
j themselves among a great shoal of
! sabdines just over the breakers,
'Rcdge-s again turn?! and diver!
When the telephone bell rang the
senior partner said to the Junior part-
ner:
"If that Is that man Bailey, Just you
tell him what you think of him, even
if you lay yourself liable to a fine for
violent language.”
The junior partner relieved himself
of a few abusive epithets, but present-
ly, after a brief pause, he expressed
tue same sentiments couched in much
milder terms. Said the junior part-
ner:
"There you go, crawfishing again.
Why can’t you stick to what you said
In the first place?”
The junior partner dropped the
celver.
“Supposing you come and say it
yourself,” he said.
The senior partner did so, but after
a little he, too, repeated his harangue
with all the backbone left oot.
“It’s no use," he said. “You can’t
curse a maa twice over the ’phone
who answers your first outburst with
‘I beg your pardon. I didn’t quite
catch that. Say it again, please.’ That
is Bailey’s way. You try to say It
again, but the second time it sounds
pretty rank even in your own ears
and your tempest of rage moderates
luto a tranquil breeze.”
Chicago. April 4.—Three peneoa*.
including a women and a baby wesre
killed and engbteen injured when
a Chisago ft Alton train crashed In-
to a street oar here.
Trenton, N. J., April 4 —Hpeeker
Champ Clark, in a letter to Secre-
tary of State Crater, wlthdrawe hie
name from use on 4he ballet in the
New Jersey primary election to
choose delegatee to the Democratic
national convention. It la believed
Clark’s action 4a meant aa a eourteay
to Woodrow Wileottt
CHRISTl DEATH
Memorial Services At the
Church! fwannew.
Recognized His Limitation.
"But,” her father objected, “you
have never shown that you are capa-
The services, memorial! (it 4M
death of Christ, ere Of a nature Im-
pressive and aaicred. The service*
open on Good FHday by a profound,
and humble prostration of the priest
on the floor and stdj>a'of the niter
In mark of abaaeman and eorrow
of the events commemorated. The
priest commences the reading df
prayers for all classes of peopls so
that all might: benefit by Christy
death. Here history of the. suffer-
ings and death of Christ is read.
This brings the formal annouaos-
ment and statement that Christ died
for the people, which the priest
does by uncovering a veiled crucifix,
showing it three times to ths peo-
ple. The cross is then placed on a
cushion In the center of the churcfit.
The priest and afterwards the peo-
ple kneeling three times in adora-
tion as they near the cross, kiss de-
votedly the feet qf the crucified.
This ceremony is followed by a
procession to the repository where
the blessed sacrament has rested/ *11
day and all night of Thursday—the
priest surrounded with a crowd of
hie of supporting a wife." “Oh," the worshippers carries back to the *f-
young man replied, “if you want her to
marry a widower I’ll have to confess
that l can’t qualify.”
Careleas.
A good many men try to climb the
ladder of success without first taking
the trouble to see that it is set on
lometi.ing firm.
E. L.
Business and professiona’
trusts, {men are working in the ganrs with
and tin
jand,
’aptain Cleaves co
ships of the Asiati
nttleship Alabama.
1 ought North Dakota. T
ommandant. Read Adrni
tins been in the navy forty-fix
and served a year in the civil w
s a Volunteer. He served oa t
Monterey with Dewey at Manila
had n
Hardesty, W. \V. Catlin. L.
r. <:. B. Foyster and J. W.
were arrested by Enforoe-
fieers Geary and Burke last
d are being heM in the city
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yea
id-, nor. Th
fror
deck.
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Washington, April 4.—President
Taift submitted today to congrees a
message in which he made strong
recommendations bearing upon the
greater efficiency and economy in
the methods used <ln transacting the
public IniSTnf88 of the various execu-
tive departments and other govern-
ment establishments The preeident
referred to the “advantage derived
from plaedng In claesifted service lo-
cal officers under the deportment*
of, the treaaury, postoljlce, justice of
interior and commerce and labor."
and stated, “that indirectly 4ha
changes proposed -will result In th*
saving of many millions of dellan
of public funds” and greatly Increaw
ing the effirtoiry ofaAh# sertfe* a*
fepted.
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tar the eacrament which is given
every’ honor In a ceremony m«eta
like an ordinary mass.
In conclusion the iprieet strlppe
the altars of the church which re-
main without decoration and orna-
mentation all day in sign of sorrow
and mourning These services take
place at 9 a. m.
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Fred C. Woodard, as guardian for
j Anna Anderson filed suit in the dis-
trict court today against Marguer-
: ite Harrington. A. R. Harrington. A.
'barge of introducing llq-; lx>renze. Hattie Lorenze, Byron
first t wo mentioned were! Smith, the Arkansas Valley Oil Co ,
s they stepped from the' Joseph Sterm and the Bartlesville
north at eight [state Bank, asking judgment on
[notes amounting to ?3,0o0.00.
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