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Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. as recond class mail matter. THERE ARE OTHERS. But perhaps the Hon. Oscar W.

Underwood doesn't see why he shouldnt "preach the poor man's politics and eat the rich man's dinner." Was not even Mr. Wilson constrained to ask one of his friends, whose intimacy with the Money Power was of the closest, "if he cared anything for his reputation to cease writing in his behalf." SCIENCE AND "GUM." Now comes Herr Doctor Arnold Lorand, of Carlsbad, to put the approving seal of science on a much decried, if an undiminishing vocation. Nothing, it is true, can make it slightly. There be those who would not do it for all the world; or even for a set of shining teeth. But Dr.

Arnold Lorand, of Carlsbad, is nevertheless of opinion that the chewing of gum is "excellent for teeth, throat, and tonsils," and he gives it the benefit of antiquity by assuring us that it originated, not with the American Boy, but with the Aztecs. This and other heresies has Dr. Lorand put into a book on "health and longevity," and it may do something to assuage our anger at the omnipresent assurance that we can "buy it by the package," but "it's cheaper by the INDEED, THE POOR INDIAN. "The poor Indian" is no far-fetched term. This does not refer so much to his wealth as to his health.

The death rate among the Government's Indian wards on the Western reservations is thirty-five a thousand and that 30 per cent of the mortality i is due to tuberculosis. The "great white plague" really knows no color line, and the trouble among the Indians is that, for want of sufficient medical attention, they casily fall prey to this commonest of diseases. In former days the Indians were favored by outdoor life. Today, huddled in towns and camps, they often suffer from lack of proper focd and education. Worst of all, the sick are not separated from the well.

The one room is used for cooking, eating, and sleeping. The dreadful conditions found in the slums of the big cities are duplicated, and they will continue to be, according to the statement made by the superintendent of the Carlisle School, until Congress pays more attention to the Indian's health. WAR IN THE AIR AND THE TREN CHES. As the peace of Sofa becomes more distinctly outlined the alert military historian begins toting up lessons of the war. The aeroplane, first on the list, did not in the six short weeks of Aignting prove revolutionary in changing methods of warfare.

It was of more value in scouting than as an agent of destruction. Over thirty planes were in use all told, flying. at an altitude of from 1,000 to 1,500 feet, only one of the covey being struck by bullets seriously enough to put it out of commission. Bomb throwing was practiced and fires were set by the Balkan allies, particularly in Adrianople, but not sufficient accuracy from heights was shown to make them a menace to small bodies of troops or to batteries. Frederick Palmer's judgment is that to the United States the important lesson is the need by soldiers of trenching tools ready for use in making over, and the need of ample field artillery.

ELIOT'S ADVICE TO WILSON. President Eliot is entitled to get a respectful hearing from Governor Wilson on the subject of appointments to office. Dr. Eliot gave him the full benefit of his support in the Presidential campaign, and now, in pressing his ideas for the Government service, he has the entire backing of the National; Civil Service Reform League. F.I1 all Government offices on the merit system through careful, original selections and careful promotions.

and no civil servant is der obligations to a patron. Require all civil servants to abstain from partisan political activity, and there will be no office-holders' management elther of nominations or elections. This is Dr. Eliot's platform, and Governor Wilson cannot throw it into the waste basket without loss of dignity. He cannot evade meeting the issue in some way.

Wilson himself has been for years a member of the National Civil Service Reform Association. He has stood for its principles and supported its propaganda. He may consider that taking offices out of politics to this extent is pure theory. But he has laid claim to idealism in politics. Whether he is to be ideal or practical will play a considerable part in his Administration.

On the one side there is the 60,000 Demorats demanding $30,000,000 worth of offices to be filled; on the other side the civil service reformers. MRS. STOWE'S MISTAKE. It was F. Hopkinson Smith, who once championed the Turk.

Now the same gifted gentleman abuses the memory of Harriet Beecher Stowe. The text of his latest sensation is not at hand, but the nub of it, as contained in a dispatch from Camden, N. where he spoke in the high school, is that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has done more harm than any other book ever written; that it misrepresented the condition of the negro before the civil war, and that much of the bitter feeling left in the South as the result of that war was due to Mrs. Stowe's masterpiece. The only conclusion to be drawn is that if Mr.

Smith had been in Mrs. Stowe's place he would have pictured the men who sold negroes the block as models of humanity and condemned men like Booker T. Washington to remain mere chattels. By the same token, Julia Ward Howe's "'Battle Hymn of the Republic" must be the most harmful poem ever written. It keyed up the spirit aroused by "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Nothing more baleful could have occurred at that time, with the possible exception of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.

In the course of time we may expect 1 from this talented painter, writer, and engineer, but misguided historian, a broadside against the Balkan states for their modern crusade and their liberation of the Macedonian victims of the putrid Turk. BLEASE AND HIS PEOPLE. If the governors' conference had not passed the 1 resolution it did in rebuke of "To-Hell-With-the-Constitution" Blease, condemning the mob law which the South Carolina governor had defended, it would have dodged an imperative duty. No governor taking such a stand, as matter of fact, should be permitted to sit in the council. The four Northern and Southern governors who voted against the anti-mob law resolutions showed a too-nice sense of courtesy to one of their number who brought the reproach it carries down upon himself.

Yet it cannot be denied that the views of the people of South Carolina are fairly well represented by Cole Blease in his lawlessness. They knew where he stood on lynching when they re-elected him. While there can be nothing but contempt for a governor who flouts the laws he is sworn to enforce, he must be credited with a certain kind of courage in publicly expressing what is tactily the policy of numerous Southern governors, though few care to go to the lengths he does upon the public record. They prefer to let lynching go on and they are content with hypocritical attempts to keep their public rec. ords straight.

TEMPORA! MORES! One day just after the President-elect had reached the leisurely shores of Bermuda word came from some faithful Pepys of the press that the great and kindly gentleman had a "wheel" with which he had gone riding, and it was said moreover that those trips to pleasant places were to be a reasonable part of a well-earned holiday. It was a slight thing that the correspondent did thus to mention such excursions, but it was enough to bring back to memory the pictures of many a soft-tinted piece of country side, and with that recollection a regret for the passing of a custom as full of good health as it was innocent of vulgarity. Why it is that cycling has vanished as one, of the pastimes of the well to do we cannot tell. You may ask philosophers and sporting writers; you may inquire of the servants of every trade from tailoring to tinkering; you may search statistics and dwell on the mysteries of social infatuations; but from none of them can you glean any light on this dark puzzle of the disappearance of the "wheel." In favor of the pastime there was much--as there still is -to be said; against it there is nothing. It was not expensive.

It was not dangerous. It was not monotonous. It tobk us afield under the sun and the rain. It gave us clean muscles, a thirst and a notable appetite. It was in derogation of the dignity of neither man nor woman.

And there was a pleasure in mounting the easy slope to coast down into some pretty town that some of us have not even yet forgotten. When the road was bad one could walk across its stoniest places, wheeling the machine by its nandie and smoking the while a pipe of serene contentment. When the road was good it sang a song under the spinning tires that was music to the ear, and gave the calves and thighs a swing of conscious vigor. The pace could be fast enough for and not too fast for the enjoyment of the eye; and the wind whistled past you as you bent over the handies for a spurt on a piece of level highway as it whistles when you stand for'ard near the anchor chains and watch the stars at sea. There were roads between hedges to be passed and miles of sandy strips by the yellow beaches, and there were Inns here and there or a patch of grass to rest on when the sun was low.

Off in the distance at such a time the town yva had in view for your resting place that night would lie snug and comfortable beyond the trees, and there was, perhaps, the plan of an carly rising and a ten-mile ride to, another town before breakfast that you remembered taking that time last year. Sometimes there were punctures and in bad weather the chain would creak a bit with slush and grit; and there were saddles to adjust for a change of body and an occasional cottar pin to tighten. But those things were the modest hazard of the game; tried neither the purse nor the temper; and when the patch was dry and the tube pumped tight you sailed on blithley whistling in the balmy after noon. But the "wheel" with us has gone and of a cause that no mind can fathom. Aproad it still holds its place as the friend of poets and statesmen and even prosperous merchants; whilst we know it only as the scorching steed of some messenger boy who is inspired to an unseemly and rare haste when he thinks that he can make us duck and dodge and double to escape collision.

Perchance a change is coming to this vehicle; it may be that the new President is of a stouter courage than we think; and one fine morning in the spring of the new year the gentleman who guides our destinies may be seen astride his saddle in tan shoes and stockinged calves, pedaling for dear life down the Avenue with a pouch in one pocket and a pipe in the other, and a prayer in his heart for an I hour of windy peace. CENTRAL MISSION SCENE OF FUNERAL OF SCOTISH PASTOR Services for Jamse M. Hamil Are Held by Superintendent. funeral services over the body of James M. Hamil, about torty-five years of age, at one time clergyman in the Presbyterian Moll Church of I'dirburg, Scotland, were held ut the Central Union Mission this alter noon.

The deceased la survived by a wife, mother, and two s'aters, all of Edinburg, and by no brother, Taomas M. Hart. protessor of theology in Belfast Seminal y. Belfast, Island. 'The service wan conducted by the Rev.

F. Lukens, superintendent the mission, und the music the woe fur: nished ty, the vested choir of Sixth Presbyterian Church, and Mias 101: Eldricheon. Interment will be made in When the Rev. Lukens assumed charge of the mission more than three years ago the deceased was then 8 member the home, employed in various pacities. After trying for a and hair to cure Hamil of the drink habit, he had him sent to Keswick Colony, N.

at the Home for Inebriates. has the past twenty months he been entirely cured, and has performed minister al work around the colony. He went to Philadelphia twelve days ago to assume a pastorate and died denly on December 3. When the fact of his death became known his brother was cabled, who requested that the body be interred in under the auspices of the mission. The body was, brought to Washington Friday by Undertaker 8.

H. Hines. WILLIAM H. SWEENEY. dren.

JONATHAN SCOTT HARTLEY. The funeral of William H. Sweeney, who aled yesterday in his home, 42 street northwest. will be held in 8t. Aloysius o'clock.

Church tomorrow morning at The Interment will be Olivet Cemetery. years old, nas been prominent in Mr. Sweeney, me who was seventy-five Ing and benevolent circles for many years. His service in the Government Printing Office covered a longer period than that of any other employe there. He was a member of the Typographical Soclety, the first organization of its kind in this city, and when that was succeeded by the Columbia Typographical Union he joined its local, No.

101. He served two terms as president of the union. Mr. Sweeney la survived by seven chil. Jonathan Scott Hartley, a sculptor, died yesterday in his home, 314 West Eighty-sixth street New York.

Mr. Hartley has been identified with the arfistic circles of New York for many years. eH was president of the Art Students' League from 1978 to 1880, Ident of the National Academy in 1891, and a member fthe National Sculptors Boclets, the Architectural League. and founded the Salmagundi Club, which he and was president of from 1903 to 1906. Mr.

Hartley did man busts of actors and actresses among whom were Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Ada Rehan. and John Gilbert. He did the Daguerre monument in New York city, the statue of Miles Morgan In Springfeld, and Alfred. the fur the appellate court of New York. MRS.

EMMA F. WOODEND. Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Emma F. Woodend, a resident of this city since the civil war, in the home of her niece, Mrs.

Blair In Progress, N. C. Mre. Woodend was seventy-four years old. Mrs.

Woodend was the daughter of William R. Woodend, of Portamouth, and was a descendant of Sir Peale, England. She WAR fer thirty- Government Ave years in in this the employ of the city and until last spring lived with her niece. Mrs. Charles A.

Springer. Mrs. Woodend will be buried in Springfeld. N. in accordance with a desired expressed before her death.

BENJAMIN F. BEERS. The Navy Department has been advised of the death of Chief Machinist Benjamin F. Beers in Venice, on December 1. Chief Machinist.

Beers was born in New York, January 9, 1864, and was appointed machinist in the navy in 1890. after serving for nine as an enlisted man. He was appointed chief machinist in 1900. He WAS retired in 1912. and since that time has been living in California, JAMES M.

DARLEY. James M. Darley, for fifteen years an operator in the Western Union Telegraph Company's office In this city, died Friday night in his home. 1210 street southwest. He la survived by his wife, children.

Mrs. Bessie M. Darley, and Ave MRS. MARY E. EBEL.

Mrs. Mary E. Ebel, the wife of Charles E. Ebel, of 3520 Georgia avenue, died this morning at 3:90 o'clock after a short illness. She is survived by four children.

Martha, Adolph, Gules and Marie, and her husband. Mrs. Ebel was born in Switzerland and came to the United States with her parents forty years ago, Since that time she has lived in Washington. The funeral will be from the home Tuesday at 2:80 o'clock. The Interment will be In Rock Creek Cemetery.

MRS. PAULINE E. MOFFETTE. Funeral services for Mrs. Paul'ne E.

Moffette, seventy-four, widow of Col. Hunter P. Moffette, of the Confederate army, who died suddenly yesterday afternoon held while on A whopping tour, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edward M. Taber, at 1346 Fairmont street northwest.

Interment will be made in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Moffette was stricken with apoplexy In one of the downtown stores ness ut the Emergency Hospital. and died without regaining conscious- Uncle Sam's Sleuths After "Ginger" Sellers LAUREL. Dec.

sensation was created in this local option seewhen it was declared that two attaches from the Unite 1 States revenue service In Baltimore would make a number of arrests of violatora of the Federal liquor lawn, und take the alleged offenders to Ington for trial. Merchants who bave been selling A form of "ginger" as a beverage and social clubs where Intoxicants were disposed of without Government licensee are under the ban. Fifty- five dollars worth of the "ginger" was found beneath the cour tor of a Laurel merchant. DISTRICT IS READY TO ANSWER CALLS FOR NAVAL FORCE Department Hopes to Build Up Body of About 50,000 Trained Men. Washington 18 expected to contribute rathe more than its quota to the Naval Reserve, which the Navy Department hopes to build up Into a body of 50,000 experienced men who will be ready to rush to the defense of their country at the call of the President.

Enlisted men honorably discharged, members of the Naval Militia and skilled seamen and sailors comprise the three principal classes from which the Navy Department expect to build up this reserve. Ay there are in Washing. ton a larger number of men of these classes than in many cities the size of the National Capital it is anticipated that the Naval Reserve here will prime a considerable body of men. The outline of the Navy Department' plan for such a reserve follows in the main those of similar organizations in other countries. Under its requirements all persons who enroll agree to respond to a call by the Presklent for service in the regular navy in time of war or when war threatened.

The will stand at all times subject to the of the President, who shall have power. in him discretion, to call into service any or all the reserves for limited period to be fixed by him, but not to exceed two years. At. any time during enrollment the Naval Reserve may enter all drills, orcises or instruction prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy and during that time shall be amenable to the rules of the service and be entitled to the same pay and allowance. SEEKS LIGHT HERE ON COURT ABUSES Judge Wanamaker, of Ohio, Talks' With Supreme Court Justices on Proposed Reforms.

Judge R. M. Wanamaker, elected ed to be a justice in the Ohio supreme court last November on a ticket, started today to make word his pledge to reform the highest tribu-1 nal in the Buckeye State. He is in Washington watching the work of the United States Supreme Court, and ing to the justices about just what should be done to hasten trials and put an end to court abuses. Judge, Wanamaker, who long has been an ardent advocate of on Colonel Roosevelt, and who is classed as a gressive, stopped here on his tour of the variou State capitals to see first hand the different methods court dure.

He will 80 'to Trenton, Albany. Boston, and Harrisburg on the trip. 10 too much delay in court procedure. Judge Wanamaker declared today. are away behind In their work, and this must be stopped.

am planning to prepare a of procedure whereby much detail work will be eliminated. This will be presented to the other justices for their approval." Cane and Proclamation Are Gifts to President President Taft has received from Col. William L. Siebert, Engineer Corps, U. 8.

member of the Panama Canal Commission, cane made from a log discovered fifty-six feet below sea level In the excavations for the Gatun dam. The President also has received him Thanksgiving day proclamation done in Latin, as the gift of Glenn E. Walsh from the students of Canislus College, Buffalo, N. Y. Wife Blames "Mary." "A woman who travels under the name of "Mary" Is named as a co-re-1 spondent in a suit for an absolute divorce fled in the District Supreme Court today by Mary E.

Bates Pagan against Robert 8. Pagan. PROGRESSIVE HOST MEETS IN CHICAGO (Continued from First Page.) orgnaisation, to study legislation and administration there. The fond and foolish old ides that the Americans haven't anything to learn from Europe, in in the discard with the Progressives. They want to.

know everything Europe has from for the us that Income would and help; Inheritance everything taxes, to' the Raiffelssen similar BY tams of rural finance. They propose' to bring home accurate, adequate understanding the great systems which have become well night the central idea of agricultural ization 11 Ireland, in Denmark, and various other parts of Europe, The Progressive campaign, in short, going to slacken at for all. It legislation, is Ing to be a campaign while, alongside this scheme of inteleducation. and results generally. lectual appeal and constructive work, there will be carried forward the other and equally necessary program of tical political organization.

The whole country will be organised thoroughly; the temporary machinery that was patched together In hurry of and the last perfected, campaign and by two yeure hence the will be reconstructed party menta as well as an effective will have record of accomplishtion through which to work. Immediately after election, there was feeling that the Congressional tions of 1914 would mark the first crisis for the Progressive party, because it would have to make national paign without the magic talisman of Roosevelt': name. That was regarded As presenting difficulties in holding Kether that great strength which was this year aggregated together. have But, been with suggested, series it is belleved the the of projects that party will not only hold its country, place but the second party in the will be able to increase its representation in Congress, and the State legislatures and the State and local trations, to the point where it will force recognition as In very fact the only real opposition to the Democracy, Everybody Gathering. "How are going to take care of all these people?" was the despairing wall of the local managers of the gressive National convention in the last few days before it met here on August 5 lest.

"It looks as if everybody were comIng." is the present echo of that pression of surprise, as reports come in Indicating a huge attendance for the national conference of the new party. they are plainly going to break some more records. They're coming by hundreds. The conference will take place Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, and the demanda for commodations and promises of big egations are coming from all directions. "We thought when the conference was called that we might get ple together," said Medil! McCormick.

vice chairmah. and one of the local managers, today. "Now it looks 88 it we would have thousand, and that number would be passed if there were occasion to make A showing of bers." Great Enthusiasm Shown. However, the number will be welcome. The piled up announcements of great numbers of those who contemplate descent on this town Indicate an thaniasm, determination to push the Progressive party that has more than justined the utmost hopes of the lead.

ers. The only people who are still full of political ardor seem to be these Progressives. The Democrats are satisfied for the time being, and resting on their oars: the Republicans are Alled with deen, darksome sense of disgust. All over the country the serious ness of perfecting a lasting tion the new party. of planning for fights in States legislatures to secure progressive legislation, of arranging for the local, municinal.

county and State campaigns of next vear. of strengthenIng the representation in Congress two hence: these matters are commanding just A8 much atten tion and interest, seemingly. if the countr were just entering into a great rampalen Instead barely emerging from one. Nothing has been 50 surprising or gratifying the report of activitics everywhere. all looking to the future.

Down at the grass roots the partv vastly stronger than it ever was before, Gains in Strength. "1 th epeople who really wanted to vote with had known how many votes we were going to get, we would have got enough more to carry the country," declared Judge W. H. Evening Services in the Ghurches MASS MEETING--For the moral uplift of social conditions in Washing. ton, the First Congregational Church, Tenth and streets northwest, 3:30 p.

m. "THE RELATION OF THE Y. W. C. A.

TO THE CHURCH." -The Rev. James H. W. Blake, the Rev. J.

M. M. Gray, the Rev. Paul R. Hickok, and the Rev.

Earle Wilfley, the Y. W. C. 936 street northwest, 4:30 p.m. EVANGELISTIC MEETING--The Rev.

Thomas Harrison, the Rhode land Avenue Methodist Protestant Church, 8 p. m. SERMON- -The Rev. Howard J. Bell, the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, 8 p.

m. "THE FRIENDS OF THE -The Rev. John E. Briggs, the Fifth Baptist Church, 8 p. m.

LEAGUE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD Patrick's Catholic Church, 7:30 p. m. "THREE SOT EMN QUESTIONS" -The Rev. John G. Meem, the Church of the Epiphany, 8 p.

m. "SIMON OF -The Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 8 p.m. "THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF SOCIAL SERVICE" -The Rev. C.

Macleod, the First Presbyterian Church, 8 p. m. "THE DOUBI E- MINDED MAN" -The Rev. James Shera Montgomery, the Metropolitan Memorial M. Church, 8 p.

m. "WHICH WAY ARE YOU SAILING?" -The Rev. Joseph M. M. Gray, the Hamline M.

E. Church, 8 p. m. "WHY BECOME -The Rev. J.

J. Muir, the Temple Baptist Church, 7:45 p. m. "THE GREATEST WORLD- WONDER" -The Rev. E.

Hes Swem, the Centennial Baptist Church, 8 p. m. "THE KING: REPROVED AND REJECTED'-The. Rev. Samuel H.

Woodrow, the First Congregational Church, 8 p. m. "THE BATTLE OF Y. P. C.

the Church of Our Father, Universalist, 7 p. m. "PROPHETIC INDICATIONS OF THE END OF THE Memorial Seventh. Day Adventist Church, 7:45 p. m.

"GOD, THE ONLY CAUSE AND First Church of Christ, Scientist, 8 p. m. "PLEASURE AND The Rev. Charles Wood, the Church of the Covenant, 8 p. "PLANES AND PHASES OF SPIRIT LIFE'-Mrs.

Zaida B. Kates, the First Spiritualist Church, Pythian Temple, 7:30 p. m. DEFINITE SCHEME ON RURAL CREDIT IS NOW PLANNED Himebaugh, of Ottawa, Ill. Judge Himebaugh is 0.10 of the two dive Congressmen elected in Illinois.

He defeated C. E. Fuller, Republican, who has been in the house ten years, and A Democrat in the Twelfth trict. "There's no of it so far Illinois in concerned," continued Judge Himebaugh. "If the people had known that we were going to land second, would have been certain to land Arst.

They'll know It two years from now and then watch us pile up an increased representation in the Early this week a meetint of Progressives from fifteen counties in ern Egypt" they call It here-came' together at Centralia. It represented no outside simply the local enthusiasm. There WAs a huge attendance, and organisation. county by county, was the business In hand. State Mass Meetings.

Next week three counties will hold mass meeting for like purpose at Peoria had like gathering for its section. At least a half score of county mass gatherings have already been reported in Illinois. Missouri had had mass conventions at Kansas City and st. Louis for the and western and eastern parts of the State, Nebraska has had big State ing tion and is now at work with activities that reach to every county. ins The what South they Dakota leaders are figure are going to call selves, Some of them want to call their party Progressive Republican in local aftaira and in National, and there serious talk og pushing measure In the State Legislature to settle their status.

Away out in Utah, where was enlisted the Western wing of that noble Taft phalanx of seven electoral. votes, there an anti-machine movement on foot that younger crystalised element in a State meeting. The of Mormons, it develops, are disgusted with church domination and determined to set that institution driven out of politics. Progressive ideas have reached the mass of the people and they are getting ready for a great fight to retire Smoot from the Senate. Plan Obstructive Tactics.

These are samples of what is going on everywhere. Indiana will send fully 100 representatives to next week's fully ference; Michigan Iowa, and 'nesota will do as well: Missouri 1a full of purpose to have's delegation second only to Illinois in point of numbers. The conference 18 going to be a busland ness means, performance, dealing with ways organization and the like. incidentally it will have some tall polltics on its hands, for in an Important group of States the Progressives have elected a sufficient number of members of tal the Legislature to make them a pivopower. Thus Illinois llhave Legislature made up thus: In licans, the Senate 25; Repub2; Progressives, 2.

In the House -Democrats, 75; RepubIn licans, the 47; Progressives, 28; Socialists, Michigan Legislature the Reall, publicans but have a small majority over the Progressives have. about of members, and there 18 a group Afteen who avow progressively disposed Republicans they will never vote for liam Alden Smith for United States Senator. So in these two States the Progressives are in position to make themselves power that must be to use that power way of getting oned with. a and they are laying plans some big. solid results.

Are After Referendum. They intend, for instance, at Spring. Meld, to introduce at the very outset 1 of bills enacting Into law the various social reform declarations of their national platform. Illinois voted years ago in favor of intiative and refhave erendum, but persistently "Jackpot" repudiated legislatures instruction and refused to enact legislaton carrying out the mandate of the people. This winter the Progressives will make it their particular business to get that legislation into the statutes, along with minimum wage, hours of labor and many other human measures of the new party.

Illinois has two Senators to be elected this winter. Either the Democrats or the Republicans could elect with the aid of the Progressives. The latter are hold. Ins off. They want to get their legielative program assured.

and it looks as If they were likely to dictate the age of the advanced measures because of the anxiety of the old parties to court their good will. Enter City Politics. So it stands in various other places. The Republicans in Chicago have almost exhausted the town's supply of qGinine, trying to overcome the attack of chills they suffered when, the other day, the Progressives calmly announced that next spring they would have full aldermanic ticket in the neld. Such move means that the Republicans can't expect to elect an alderman in the town.

The uncompromising straight-ahead, middle-of-the-road disposition of these Western Progressives holds forth mighty little cheer for the progressive group of Republicans, who are talking excitedly about the plan of Senator Cummins to have a Republican tional convention caled right away to reorganize the baste of representation. cut down the South to a nominal strength, and invite the Progressives back into the fold. There are just two apparent difficulties with that plan: Reactionaries Are Peevish. First. the reactionary leaders of the old Republican party hate the Cummins- La Follette-Bristow crowd quite as enthusiastically as they hate the Progressives.

They know that a convention under the present circumstances and for the purpose Cummins has indicated would end the reactionary control of the party, and they inslat they will never consent to it. The plan would require the retirement from the National Committee of such men A8 Barnes of New York, Crane of chussette, Gallinger of New Hampshire, Mulvane of Kungas and like machine men. WIll they accommodate Senator Cummins by stepping aside? Hardly, body dreams it it the Penrose-CraneBarnes leadershin did make the feint of standing aside for the nonce. They aren't doing business on that basis. They are inepired by an absolute fidenco that everything is coming their wAY--Progressive Democrate, Progres.

LIve Republicans and all the elements that will he sure to accumulate a lareg stock of disaffection with the efforta of the Democrats to run national affairs. The time for talk about compromise is past. That is what all the siven and it le what most of the despondent. demoralized and disgusted Republicans think. Maryland Delegates Prepared to Start For Chicago Meeting BALTIMORE, Dec.

by National Committeeman Edward C. Carrington, Maryland representatives of the national conference of Progressive leaders will leave, for Ch'eago tomorrow morning. The conference will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, and will be attended by Colonel Roosevelt and the men who led his Presidential fight. Among those who are expected to attend from Maryland besides Mr. Carrington are Galen L.

Taft. of Montgomery county: Gen. N. Winslow W'Illama. William F.

Cockran. and Dr. Thomas H. Buckler. Special Committee Appointed to Report to Meeting of Governors Next Year.

A definite plan, set forth on paper no that it will admit of criticism or advocacy, for the establishment rural credit system in this will he reported one year from now to the Congress of Governors to be held at Colorado Springs, This was determined at the conference held at the White House yesterday afternoon and the following committee of governors was named to draft the plans: Plaisted, of Maine, chairman; O'Neal, of Alabama: Mann, of Virginia; Harmon, of Ohio; McGovern, of Wisconsin; Hadley, of Missouri; Foss, of Marsachusetta: Carey, of Wyoming, and Johnson, of California. resolution thanking the President for calling the of rural credita to hte attention of the. governors Was adoptetd. The committee appointed comprises all political elements and represents parts of the country. As a result peculiar conditions obtaining in the various sections will be considered In drafting the plans for the establishment of rural bands or banking societies.

DISAPPROVES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT Senator Gallinger Would Alter Form of District Administration. Senator Gallinger, chairman of the Senate District Committee, In a statement to a subcommittee of the executive council of the District Delegate Association, declared the form of ment for the District is unrepublican and came out in favor of a District delegate in Congress. The subcommittee consists of Roy C. Claflin and Ellen Spencer Mussey. "I Armly believe," said Senator Gallinger, "that more responsibility should be placed upon the people of the District of Columbia.

The form of government here is absolutely unrepublican, and am heartily in favor of the passage of bill providing for an elective delegate to Congress from the District. It seemed 80 strange, when I had always studied in my history from vouth that the revolutionary war was fought over the false principle of taxation without representation, and then to come to Washington over 100 years after that great struggle to find the very same principle existing at the very heart of the great The total membership of the association is now 14.000. This is the statement of Mr. Claflin. URDERWOOD OFTEN GUEST OF RYAN His Friends Confess Intimacy Which Public Hadn't Suspected.

Uproar among the House Democrats over the fact that Majority Leader Underwood attended a dinner at the home of Thomas Fortune Ryan, of New York, last Wednesday night, a dinner attended by former Senator Aldrich, Senator Bailey, and numerous big Ananciers, has not yet subsided. Informal conferences among gressive Democrats of the House still are being held over it, and the contest over the places on the Ways and Means Committee which will be cant after March. 4 is getting sharper. Criticism of Mr. Underwood continues.

Efforts will be made to take from the Ways and Means Committee the pow. er to name the committees. Mr. Underwood thus far has made no comment on dinner. His friends are saying he often has been a guest at the Ryan home, and that he attended the dinner simply as he would have attended any other social event.

Men in Public Eye Have Birthdays Today Walter Irving McCoy, who has been re-elected to Congrees from the Ninth district of New Jersey, 1s fifty -three years old today. He was born in Troy, N. Y. After attending Princeton versity for two years he entered the Harvard law school and was graduated in 1882. Since 1886 he has been engaged In the practice of law in New York city.

Congratulations may be extended today to William Cardinal O'Connell, of Bogton, who is fifty-three years old. and to Harrison Charleston Randolph. Charleston, president of College, S. who is forty-one. Forty Bullets Shown By X-Ray Photograph what the wonderful BRIDGEWATER, Dec.

X-ray photograph ever taken, showing the position of forty bullets in his head, Dr. Lillie Burbank, of Bridgewater. hopes to restore the sight of Samuel Thorpe, who has been blind since he was shot with a gun, twelve years ago by Pearl Ashley. The photograph shows the brain cavity of the head and how deeply the bullets are imbedded in the skull. G.

A. R. Officers Make Inspection of Home An annual Inspection of the Home for ex- Union Soldiers and Sailors, at Third and streets northwest, was made last n'ght by officers of the Department of the oPtomae. G. A.

with the board of directors a and several members of Congress. A musical program was given during the banquet, consisting of several violin selections by Miss Amy G. Sloan, accompan'ed by MigH Florence Charlotte Canber and several vocal solos by E. A. Dange, the accompaniments being by P.

C. Addison. To View Paintings. A private view of the fourth exhibition of contemporary American oll oll paintings, at the Corcoran Art Gallery, to be attended by Pres'dent Taft, has been arranged for December 1. The exhibition will be open to the public from December 17 to January 26..