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PAGE POUR.
WICHITA DAILY TIMES, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, MARCH 7, 1911.
THE BEST FLOUR ON THE MARKET
WICHITA MILL & ELEVATOR CO.
WICHITA DAILYTIMES
Published at
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The TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
(Printers and Publishers).
ma Howard..........General Manager
B. D. Donnell,.......Managing Editor
J. A. Wray...............City Editor
Wichita Falls, Texas, March 7, 1911.
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THAT COTTON MILL IB THE BIG
IDEA—HELP MAKE IT A
REALITY.
No loyal citizen of Wichita Falls
should stay away from the mass meet-
ing tomorrow night. That cotton mill
I proposition is about the biggest and
best thing ever presented to the citi-
zens of this city. 7
At first glance and without taking
the time or the trouble to figure out
just what effect the success of State,
wide prohibition will have on the po-
litical career of Senator Bailey, it
would seem as if the Statewiders
really had by far the best of the con
test so far. Two-thirds or three-fourths
or the counties of the State have al-
ready voted for local option, and are
now what is termed “dry" territory,
and were it not for the tact that Bal-
leyism is as much an issue as la State-
wide prohibition in the contest it is
reasonable to suppose that these “dry"
or local option counties would also
vote for Statewide prohibition. But
Senator Bailey has gone on record as
against Statewide prohibition. Some
of bis political enemies even go so far
M to allege that he waa forced to take
that stand to preserve his political
life, and it may be possible be will ex-
pect hla pro friends to endorse his
Stand on that matter. The question
in: Will they do it? With present
lights before us it looks now M if they
are willing to follow his lead It mat-
ters not in what direction, and if at
any time during the progress of the
Statewide contest Senator Bailey
should become convinced that the sue-
com of Statewide prohibition would
mean his elimination from Texas poli-
tics, and should appeal to his friends
to come to his rescue, in the face of
recent events how many of them will
be able to resist u. appeal? Or, if
things, politically, should so shape
themselves M to make it morally cer-
tain that the success of Statewide pro-
- hibition meant that some of the many
“ able pro leaders would succeed Sena-
tor Bailey before the legislature in
1913, could his ardent friend and
staunch supporter, Col. Tom Ball, cam-
pnign manager of the Statewiders, re-
sort to what to him no doubt would ap-
pear as a groat calamity, the tempts
tion to avert it, knowing that it is
easily in his power to do so? These
are questions that.Statewiders should
have thought seriously about before
organizing for the fight, and if they did
not then, they will be called upon to
both think and act before the time
comes to vote on July 22nd.
DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE AND
THE TARIFF.
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President Taft is entitled to all
the credit that naturally accrues to
his administration for the application
ot Democratic doctrine to the tariff
situation. Not one word just censure
has been passed on the Canadian
reciprocity measure, except from
those who know that a freer trade
and wider markets will serve to re-
duce and regulate the unfair advanta-
ages the protective tariff has gives
them over the consumer. The treaty
opens to producers of both countries
greater trade opportunities than they
have heretofore enjoyed, and at the
same time there must come a reduc-
tion in the price of, necessary commo-
dities. This is one of the fruits of
the recent election. Had the people-
remained sullenly silent and inactive,
the Republican party would have con-
tinued along its course of service to
the protected interests. President
Taft’s policy would have , remained
unchanged. It had started badly.
And it grew worse as it proceded.
Its chief evils, up to the time of the
recent election, were as follows:
First A few day* subsequent to
the Inauguration Preaident Taft Mid:
"Uncle Joe is not a bad sort. I feel
sometimes that he has been misun-
derstood. I like him, and am pleas-
ed to have him visit the White
House.
Second, Cannon and Aldrich fre-
quent visitors at the White House.
Third. ‘The passage of the Payne-
Aldrich tariff bill, increasing tariff
duties despite a distinctly implied
pledge by the Republican party of a
reduction in the tariff schedule.
Fourth. President Taft’s swing
around the country to defend the tar-
iff measure as “the best ever adopted
by the Republican Congress.”
Fifth. The exoneration of Ballin-
ger and the dismissal of Gifford Pin-
chot.
Sixth. The denial of patronage to
the Republican Progressives because
of their refusal to be bound over to
the Cannon-Aldrich combination.
Seventh. The President's alliance
with the worst element of the Re-
publican party.—-From Norman K.
Mack's National Monthly for March.
NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF
SEANTORS BY PEOPLE.
Tribute is Paid to Senator Ownen
--By John Temple Graves
Washington, March 6. The last fill-
busier of a filibustering senate was its
most striking and dramatic.
The last lone stand of Owen of Okla-
homa, held the senate in terror and
alarm. Rising like a tone Indian upon
the plains of uncertainty with a chin as
firm as a rock and with an eye as
keen as a hawk’s, he held a whip hand
over eighty-nine senators for seventy-
five minutes and threatened for a time
to let the gavel fall upon his an the
last utterances of the Sixty-first senate.
Owen was ostensibly fighting for
Arizona and the Arizona constitution.
New Mexico's constitution had been re-
ceived and its reactionary provisions
were acceptable to the president and
to the republican majority and New
Mexico was about to be admitted alone.
Owen took the floor to fight for Ari-
zona under a constitution that was pro-
gressive and vitally that It contained
the initiative, the referendum and the
recall.
He planted himself upon the propo-
sition from which the entire senate
failed to move him.
First, that the two great forces fight-
ing for supremacy In this government
were the forces of progress and popu-
lar sovereignty represented by the Ari-
sona constitution, and the actionary in-
fluences of interest and ultra conserva-
tism represented by New Mexico. Upon
this ground be felt be was justified in
detaining the senate to the last mo-
ment of protest In behalf of the people
of the great government in which he
believed.
His second ground was the re-admis-
sion of the proposition which he bad
thundreded for the last five days upon
the floor that the Bixty-first congress
since the November elections had not
been representatives of the people's
will.
Incidentally, but with perfect trank-
ness. Senator Owen declared the sen-
ate majority was about to admit New
Mexico because it would add two Re-
publican senators to the list and he
refused to see Arizona excluded be-
cause its admission would bring in two
Democratic senators.
Planted upon these two positions, the
fiery senator was absolutely immov-
> »'»T.. - able to all the influences' that could
The basic principle of the Federal
At the Theaters
The total number of poll tax re-
ceipts issued to citizens of Texas up
to February 1, 1*11 were 587,364, an
increase over last year of 52,012. The
poll tax recipts for Wichita county
issued up to February 1, 1911 were
2446, as against 2405 for the' year be-
fore. Wilbarger county has 1173 for
• this year as against 1765 last year.
Clay county 2489 as against 2473/ last
year. Archer county 1038 as against
892 last year. Of the 53,013 gain over
the poll tax receipts for the year
1910, 15,381 of the increase was in
the poll tax receipts Issued in the
five counties of Dallas, Tarrant, Har-
ris, Galveston and Bexar. With the
exemptions, and overs the estimated
vote of the State, as made by the
Dallas News will be 675,000 as against
615,000 in 1910.
While there may have been some
difference of opinion relative to the
adoption of a commission form of gov-
ernment, all citizens of Wichita Falla
are agreed that we ought to land a
cotton mill. Harmony and enthusi-
asm will characterise the mass meet-
lagtomorrow night.
The dispatches state that one-fourth
of the entire United States army has
been ordered to move on Texas,
Hadn't Governor Colquitt better call
out the Rangers!
There 4a at least one difference be-
tween Senator Bailey’s and Secretary
Ballinger’s resignation—the latter
stuck.
Constitution is representative gov-
ernment The real purpose of the
fathers in providing that the several
States should have equal representa-
tion in the United States was to pre-
serve their autonomy.
The election of Senators by th/
State Legislatures to a mere incident
to the plan of government adopted
by our Constitutional Fathers. The
nomination and election of United
States Senators by direct vote of the
people to not intended to change
the representation of the States in
the Senate, or to change the represen-
tative character of our Government.
It is only and simply to provide a
new plan for the election of Senators
which will be In entire harmony
with the originally conceived scheme
of government, and will in no re-
spect be in discord with it.
How can the form of selection ser-
iously affect constitutional principles?
I do not believe that amen iments to
the fundamental law of the land
should be suggested or made except
for the very weightiest of reasons.
It was not conceived during the con-
stitutional debates that a situation
would arise in our political history,
when the selection of a United States
Senator would be made either by the
manipulation of potlitical machines,
or by the corrupt and extravagant
use of money. Americans were then
secure in the belief that men who
would elect others to the United
States Senate, or who would aspire to
seat in that body, would be actuated
by the highest of motives, and always
above any suspicion of venality. We
know that some of the States have
selected men for the United States
Senate who have not represented the
will of their constituencies. Too of-
ten they have reached the goal of
their ambition by the aid of political
machinery, or by the corrupt use of
money, when they would not have had
the courage to announce their candi-
dacies before the election or submit-
ted their ambitions to a vote of the
people. This situation, Id its pres-
ent proportions, I dare say, was not
even contemplated by the fathers—
Atlee Pomerene in March National
Monthly.
be brought around him.
Senators were In terror over the
fate of individual bills. Other sen-
ators were in terror over the fate at
the last moment, of certain important
remnants of the appropriation Mils
and there were one or two who cher-
ished the faint hope that at the last
hour some lingering reaction toward
reciprocity might bring that matter to
a successful conclusion and save the
senate and the people the terrors of
an extra session.
Greve and dignified senators swarm-
ed around the desk of Owen of Okla-
homa. Senator Carter of Montana,
came and pleaded, but the Oklaho-
man only shook his head and went
on. Mr. Gore, Owen's blind colleage,
came and was turned aside. Bacon
came to no avail. Senator Stone was
refused; the venerable and beloved
Hernando Money, made the last per-
sonal appeal he has ever to make in
the senate, but the stern young sena-
tor turned from each of them and
tranquilly continued his argument for
Arizona.
Then finally the vice-president of
the senate himself stepped down from
the chair of the senate, and, leaving
Smoot in his place, went over to plead
with Owen to relinquish his position
of advantage and give way to other
business. Even to the vice-president
the Oklahoman turned a smiling face
but an absolutely obdurate ear and
went cooly on.
A message came from the president
of the United States then in the
marble of the capitol, offering that It1
Senator Owen would come to the pres-
A healthy crank is as much of a
nuisance as any other kind of a
crank. • 3
winning an equal consideration for
Arizona. The last filibuster of the
Sixty-first senate was clearly indicated
to the floor and to the galleries that
the young senator from Oklahoma
must be reckoned with in deliberations
of the Sixty-second congress.
And then, at 11:30, by whose au-
thority the press galleries did not
learn, the clocks of the Senate were
turned back just twenty-seven' min-
utes. Under the constitution the time
for congress to expire is 12 noon.
Therefore it would seem that all ac-
tion taken for the last twenty five
minutes of the Senate’s actual ses-
sion is of questionable constitutional
right. At least it raises the question
for discussion.
Senator Owen's additional motive
for the striking filibuster, it is said,
was his fixed intention to force an
extra session in order that the demo-
cratic party might enact the legisla-
tion to which they had been caned by
the people.
It is significant that the last party
expression on the floor of the senate
was an Intense assertion of progres-
sive democracy by the senator from
Oklahoma. It was a declaration in
favor of the Initiative, the referendum
and the recall and for the substitution
of the Oregon plan as amplified in the
Arizona platform.
It was the annunciation of the new
democracy which Is just as new to
that party as insurgency is new to the
republican party. it is notable that
Owen's chief supporters is his dra-
matic stand were La Follette of Wis-
consin, and Beveridge, of Indiana.
This fact maxes all the more
striking the startling statement which
ran through the capitol half an hour
after adjournment that Bailey, of
Texas, had wired his resignation as
senator to the Governor of Texas and
had requested the vice-president just
before adjournment to announce that
bo had done this thing.
Bailey came into the senate while
the vote was being taken under
Owen's consent for the joint admis-
sioa of Arizona and New Mexico and
expressed his profound regret that he
had not been in his seat to protest
before the vote was allowed. He de-
clared emphatically that he would
vote "No" to the proposition. It is
said now that the basis of Bailey’s
resignation was his unwillingness to
stand for the type of democracy enun-
ciated by the senator from Oklahoma.
Whatever the outcome, it is from a
democratic standpoint rather a sinis-
ter close to the Sixty-first Senate that
so sharp and fierce an antagonism
should have been aroused in its clos-
ing hours between two brilliant rep-
resentatives of the two divisions of
the democratic party.
The Blue Mouse at the Wichita.
This widely discussed Blue, Mouse
comedy which appears at the Wichita
Theatre March » has had good
runs in Vienna, London, Paris, New
York and Chicago. The company play
Ing here March 9 is the same which
played Ban Antonio, Dallas, Houston,
Austin and all the principal cities
South and the comedy will be present-
ed here with all the special scenery
and effects used In the cities. Miss
Gertrude Hitz, who is being starred in
the title role was especially selected
by the Shuberts for the part of The
Blue Mouse on account of her pleas-
ing personality and ability in nor-
fraying parts where cleverness and
action is essential.
The company throughout is excel-
lent and a fine performance is assur-
ed. The Temple Daily Telegram
says: “The Blue Mouse, one of
Clyde Fitch's latest oomedy of er-
rors was the attraction at the Ex-
change Theatre last evening and in
spite of the inclement weather played,
to a full house. The Blue Mouse
slips from one laughable predica-
ment to another so rapidly that one
hardly has time to catch one's breath
between the climaxes. From the rise
of the the curtain to the last fall,
there is not a dull moment. It to a
battle of wit from beginning to end
and one in which in the end all are
confounded. The Blue Mouse is de-
cidedly the best attraction seen here
this season.”
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TEXAS PARAGRAPHS.
The "Jupeculottee," which is %
to be French for “baggy pants” for
aid
women, is said to be the style in
Paris now and threatening to come
to this county. This will make hotels
look like harems.—McKinney Courier
Gazette.
And next month is the month when
we mix with the “human seldiitz pow-
der." We respectfully request that
the world keep hands off and watch
the bubbles.—Houston Post.
-7
Atlanta, Ga., has a Methodist min-
ister who lives on six-bits a week.
That must be cheering to the tight-
wads of his congregation.—Gainesville
Register.. . ’
ident, a sincere effort would be made
to reach agreement on the Arizona
matter. At this Owen shook his head
with emphasis, snapped his black '
eyes and refused to enter into any
conference looking to a compromise of
Arizona’s life. There was never so
dramatic a filibuster seen upon the
floor of the senate or a filibuster upon
Which was leveled such wealth and
personal and political Influence, all in
vain. .
Finally Senator Owen, in his own
good time, agreed that if the senate
would vote there and then for the hd-
mission of Arizona and New Mexico
upon equal terms, he would surrender
the floor. This was accomplished at
11:80. The vote was advene to the
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The
City National
Bank
Will
new
move into their
quarters about
March 15th, 1911
And now comae Morris Sheppard,
our own Morris, and terms the for-
mer Rough Ridir and President “the
human seldiitz powder." What an ap
propriately applied appellation——Tex-
arkana Texarkanian.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
Two souls with but a single thought
generally want to double up.
A fellow never suffers from ennui
till be gets tired of doing nothing.
Every church has a nave, but un-
fortunately it isn’t always spelled that
way.
Some fellows can’t raise the wind
sufficiently to blow the froth from a
glass of beer
No, Maude dear; there is no sim-
ilarity between a clearing house and
a filtration plant
Of two evils a man is apt to choose
the least if it happens th' be the one
he hasn't tried before.
"Night Riders in Kentucky and
Tennessee" will be the feature at the
Colonial Theatre tomorrow and Thurs-
day nights, when the thrilling story
of the dismay svamps and Reelfoot
Lake and the Black Patch district
will be presented.
Hood and Brown Co., who own and
control the Night Rider Pictures have
been on Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., in the
heart of the night rider district and
also in the famous "Black Patch” of
Kentucky and are familiar with the
terrorising methods used by “The
Men Who Rode by Night." They were
members of one of the posses who as-
sisted in running down this lawless
and desperate band of men, who have
kept their communities in a reign of,
terror for years. These pictures are
realistic portrayals of actual scenes
just as they happened there. Hood &
Brown Co., will present - the or-
ganisation of the Night Riders, show-
ing the captain and leader of the band
the many crimes they have committed
including the whipping of men who re-
fused to obey their warnings the burn-
ing of houses, the destruction of
property, etc., the planning and plot-
ting of the murder of Captain Quen-
tin T. Rankin and Col. Robert Z. Tay-
lor, two prominent attorneys of Tren-
ton, Tenn. The above is only a Rtrld
synopsis of this sensational produc-
tion. An interesting feature through-
out the rogram by Messrs Hood *
Brown, who are familiar with the
Night Rider situation.
“How Hopper was Sidetracked
Opening last night at the Ruby for
the three performances was “How
Hopper Was Sidetracked,” a comedy
drama, produced by Benton's Come-
dians. It was produced in the usual
good manner that this company has
made its reputation on. The play
is very pleasing having a good laugh
with each speech. A handsome cen-
ter table was given away last night
and another present will be given
away tonight and leach night this
week.*
Rohatch’s Mineral Water.
Is highly recommended by physicians
and patrons who have tested its mer-
its, for indigestion, catarrh of the
stomach, kidney and bladder trouble.
This water stimulates the secretions
of the stomach. increases digestion
and favors a more complete absorp-
tion of the food, and prevents the no-
tion of germs that cause typhoid and
other infectious diseases.
This water can be purchased at the
well or delivered in jugs or cases.
This well to located one mile south
of Alamo school building in Floral
Heights, two deliveries daily mornlag
and afternoon. G. J. Rohatech, Own-
er, Wichita-Falls, Texas. Phone 1601
1 long rings- R. F. D. No. 3,
Plumbing, Heating,
Gas rating
w. w. COLEMAN.
905% Indiana Ave.
Auction Sale
Saturday, March 11th
At 1 O’clock sharp I will sell to
highest bidder a nice line of house-
hold goods.
One extra good Majestic Range
Cook Stove.
Also some
Sale
office.
near
new furniture.
Marlow Brothers’
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A. L. LANE, Sr., Auctioneer
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We are serving Alta Vista Ice
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You are cordially in- *
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Marchman’s Drug Store
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brought to your city. 2
702 Indiana Ave.
Phone 408.
Phone 121
Announcement.
Having succeeded Dr. Waller in
the practice of denistry in this city,
I desire to announce that my dental
offices are the best equipped in this
end of the State. Everything abso
lutely clean and sanitary and I al-
ways have a lady attendant in my of-
fice. My prices are as reasonable as
is consistent with first-class material
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All my work absolutely guaranteed.
And the very beat of reference can
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dentistry. I solicit your patronage In
my line. Dr. R. M. Garrison, Dentist,
office over First National Bank-
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March 17th.
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