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Under the abeve heading the Literary Digest (New York) of Dec. 9 prints
an article which is of great interest, especially since Roosevelt’s late declara
tion that he would not refuse a proffered nomination. The article is too long
for reproduction in full, but is given below minus numerous lengthy extracts
from other publications: ■ „
“Say what you mean once, and let it go at that,” An
drew Carnegie quotes himself as recently admonishing
Theodore Roosevelt. But however willing the ex-President
may be to act upon the iron master’s advice, the press and
the politicians seem to be in an unconscious conspiracy
against bis compliance with the latter part of it, at least.
Everybody knows that on November 8, 1904, immediately
after his election to the Presidency, Mr. Roosevelt publicly
declared that “under no circumstances will I be a candidate
for or accept another nomination.” This unqualified state
ment, however, did not prevent the development of a vigor
ous Roosevelt third-term movement and the attempt to
stampede the delegates for the colonel in the Republican
national convention of 1908. Within the past few months
he lias assured his friends, and given wide publicity to the
assurance, that he would regard any movement for his nom
ination for President next year as “a calamity.” Neverthe
less, his recent article on trust regulation is immediately
made the occasion, by both friends and enemies, of a new
outbreak of discussion around the ever-fresh theme of his
possible candidacy. Nor is this discussion silenced by The.
Outlook's assurance that those who really know the mind of
its contributing editor “know that he is not a Presidential
candidate, that he does not desire to be such a candidate,
and that the thought of such a candidacy never occurs to
him in his discussions of questions of public and national
interest,” nor by the even more emphatic statement pub
lished by his authority in the Philadelphia North American
(Prog. Rep.). Little more than a week ago, according to
the Philadelphia paper, the colonel agreed tnat it should
put an end to “unwarranted reports and deductions” by an!
authoritative statement of his position. This statement,
which is of considerable length, ends with the following
concise and definite paragraphs:
[Here follows quotation from the JNorth American saying Mr.
Roosevelt will not support any man for the nomination; and as for
himself, be wishes the statement accepted at its full value that he
desires talk of his supposed candidacy to cease.]
“Mr. Roosevelt may cry desist, but there will be no de
sisting,” predicts the Washington Star (Ind.), and the New
York Globe (Rep.) remarks with evident irritation that “the
country faces a protracted period of ‘Teddy will and Teddy
won’t.’ ” With the Outlook article, it points out, the
“Teddy wills” had an inning, until the North American
statement gave the “Teddy wou’ts” their turn. The next
thing, it goes on to say, will be the pulling of this state
ment to pieces:
[The Globa is quoted at length on the “will’' and the “won’t”
of it—its own opinion favoring Roosevelt’s sincerity in saying he
was no candidate, but says he probably did not know himself what
he would do in case a universal demand should arise for him.]
Very significant, thinks the Brooklyn Times (Rep.), is
the persistence with which Theodore Roosevelt’s name comes
up in any discussion of candidates for the Presidency.
“Them are those,” it says, “who believe the ex-President is
the only Republican who can win the election next year,
and they are not likely to keep quiet when they happen to
be men of strictly partisan spirit.”
[The Times said Taft h as displeased some very powerful in- j
terests and has not pleased the extremists; that it believes Taft
could be re-elected, but it must face the facts: that Americans be
lieve in Roosevelt’s rugged integrity and especially in his courage;
and that it is idle to try to create a sentiment contrary to an
opinion so universally held. The Times frankly admires Taft and
considers his candidacy for renomination the natural thing, but it
is possible to imagine a situation which will compel a shift. If
Roosevelt should be nominated in a whirl of excitement at the
national convention nobody would be surprised, for he is a man of
surprises; nor is ,t true that he would be breaking a precedent by
lunning again, for he has had but one election, although he served
for seven years. It is urged that “insurgency would prefer to
have him for a leader instead of La Follette,” that “he can muster
greater conservative support than Taft,” “lie is capable of kind
ling a blaze of excitement throughout the country,” “he would in
sure a whirlwind campaign,” “tie would sweep aside every obstacle
»nd rush on to overwhelming victory”: these things one constantly
hears, says the Times.]
“The question of what Roosevelt may do about the
Presidency is only one phase of the great question what
Roosevelt will do about anything; which is something that
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cannot be answered fully in any ease until lie does it.” de
clares the Brooklyn Standard-Union (Rep.) “Everybody
knows that Mr. Roosevelt is not a candidate, and does not
want the nomination,” remarks the Cleveland Leadei (Rep.),
“but there is no man in this country, not excepting Theo
dore Roosevelt himself, who is big enough to resist tiie
expressed will of the Republican party. Conditions may
arise which will make it the obvious duty of the former
President to return to party leadership. It is not impossi
ble that the next Republican national convention will face
the alternative of a Roosevelt nomination or party destruc
tion. And with such conditions possible no man will be
lieve that Theodore Roosevelt would shirk the responsibility.
The former President has never yet declared that he would
not accept the nomination at the party’s command. He is
too good a patriot and too good a partisan to make any
such declaration as that. And in the absence of such word
from him Progressive Republicans throughout the land may
go forward in their battle for better things, confident that
if, when the hour strikes, they ntrd Theodore Roosevelt’s
leadership, he, the greatest Progressive, will lead.”
[The Springfield Union (Rep.) is quoted as saying that irre
spective of his wishes the Presidency may be forced upon Roose
veit. The New York Press (Prog. Rep.) remarks that whether it
is a Taft, a Roosevelt, a Hughes, or a somebody not yet dreamed
of, the man who goes at the head of the Republican ticket should,
above every other consideration, be one upon whom all the ele
ments of his party can unite. “Many believe that Colonel Roose
velt is the most consummate politician that this country has pro
duced,” says the Savannah News, Dem., “and more will believe it
if he should get the Republican nomination.” It professes sur
prise at the willingness of Wall Street to even consider the possi
bility of Roosevelt’s nomination. The New York Evening Post,
Ind., declared that Roosevelt could end the discussion of his posi
tion by saying, “If nominated I will not accept, and if elected I
will not serve.”]
FAIRBANKS SOURDOUGH WEDDING
Fairbanks News-Miner, Jan. 16: The
fortunes of two well-known oldtime
sourdoughs of the North were united
today at noon when the Rev. John
Parsons read the marriage ceremony
that made Richard Greenham and Mrs.
Annie L. Krouse man and wife.
The wedding Look place in the church
parlors. Mrs. McCook was the only
witness.
Mr. Greenham is a plumber by trade
and is known to all of the oldtimers of
the camp. Mrs. Greenham is also a
sourdough of many years residence. At
one time she was a mining operator on
Hunker creek in the Klondike. Last
summer she came in from the Outside
to the Iditarod, but did not find any in
vestments that appealed to her there,
so came to Fairbanks on the last tri
of the Samson and took up her resit1
dence here.
Annual assessment work blanks at
Pioneer office.
New York society was startled on a recent Sunday afternoon by
Talbot Smith Hanan, son of John Henry Honan, who entertained ioo
guests at a “musical tea” at the beautiful Ilanati borne, 1073 Fifth ave
nue, with a unique program of music and dancing. The “feature” of
the program which furnished a new thrill for society was the native
dance given by Dognreua, a young Fiiipiuo girl.
Dogmena danced in her bare feet and true native costume Some
of the guests appeared a hit surprised when the Baroness von G10 ss,
under whose chaperonage Dogmena danced, introduced her to the
fashionable audience ol young men and women. But as the little brown
girl danced, spear in band, sometimes getting dangeron.-.ly near the ad
mit ing guests, the latter forgot all about her scant eoslume and wildly
applauded The dancer’s costume consisted of chocolate-co'.ored trunks,
a broad striped red sash and several long strands of native pink and
white beads
The native dance represents a head-hunting scene, typical of the
savage tiibes i . the islands, and Dogmena furnished the climax to the
dance when she fell fainting to the floor. The guests were relieved
when informed immediately after that this was part of the dance.
New York.—Connolly, the well-known investigation writer and
whose sensational articles in Colliers have from time to lime been the
attractive features of that weekly, has prepared for the coming issue of
Everybody’s Magazine an article wherein he charges that the whole
system of American justice is rotten. Connolly declares that be has
been engaged on the expose for 15 years, and that he has thoroughly
prepared himself for the article. He has probed peeply into the means
whereby those business interests always had resoit to the courts to de
fend themselves as a last resort, when they were abusing the confidence
ot the public. Connolly contends that business interests can any time
and anywhere litigate a pjor man out of his rights and have reduced
this system of robbery through legal resort down to an elaborate sei
ettce. He further s tys that the “interests” are going to make their last
stand behind the judiciary, and will ser 10 it that legal decisions are
merely elaborate humbugs to fool a public, who, whether it be
tru* or not that they like it, have accuuomed themselves to be hum
bugged. Immense importance is attached to the article by Connolly
He is an able writer, a clever and penetrating investigator, and as a
lawyer of some note is thoroughly equipped for the work. Friends of
the writer say that they have been aware that lie has been making a
painstaking investigation along the lines of his article in Everybody’s
ever since th v knew him.
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Evidences of surgical operations performed with blunt instru
ments by prehistoric men were the feature of a very interesting
communication made to the Academy of Sciences in Paris by Prof.
Guyon on behalf of Dr. Marcel Baudouin.
The latter some time ago discovered a large tomb dating,from
the polished stone age at Bengy (department of Seine et Marne).
He examined 130 skeletons and discovered many facts which are
quite new to science. Many of the bones showed traces of regular
surgical operations which must have been carried out by flint in.
struments. Some of them gave indications of fractures that had
been treated and cured, and more than one of the skulls had been
trepanned. While in certain cases these operations had been only
partly performed, in others the operation had proved a complete
success.
J ckson, Ga . Jan. 20 —Rev William Turner , the negro preacher
who incited the race riot \v rich r.-suited in the killing of Jess* Sing ley,
a wealthy planter, was hanged here yesterday in King’s opera house.
The she. iff hid iaten led to lung the u‘groin thrjbl yard, hut the
weather was very disagreeable, and the relrtives of the slain man
wanted to he present. He decided to have the execu'ion in the opera
house. The gallows was erected on the s'age, and the execu.ion
passed off without a hitch. The boxes and front seats were ocenpied
by relatives and friends of the slain man. Only a few persons in addi
tion were admitted. Before the trap was sprung the tregro confessed
he fired the shot which killed Singley, and warned members of his race
against w hiskey d: inking Three sons ol Turner are in jail, awaiting
■rial for the same crime lor which their father was hanged.
WILLOW STREET BUILDING
BID IN BY CREDITORS
Under a writ of execution in favor of
the Cleveland sawmill people and
against Jake Mutchler, the North Star
blacksmith shop, situated on Willow
street., was sold at marshal’s sale last
Tuesday. It went for $300, the only
bid being by C. K. Taylor, who repre
sented the company.
Formerly Mrs. Silborstein's,
Are Now Cain? Sold al Very
Reasonable Fsices
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purchased will be free of charge.
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OHtce at City Drug Store, Tel. 36
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First. Avenue and Willow Street
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Gold St., Fiat City, Opp. Grand Hotel
Phone 4
ALFRED E. MALT BY,
Attorney at Lav/
Notai.y Public
Office Simpson Hide. First and Willow
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Iditarod, Alaska
GEOHSE WOODRUFF rS-GREChT,
Attorney nt Law
H!cfi:3?R, ’31 Alaska, ’10 Kentucky. '31
The Pioneer Attorney of this Camp
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Anderson & Pierce, Props, r. M. Pierce, Baojar.
Our Jolly Bullard will be on the
scene,
Helping to entertain, lie is declared
to be in,
For he is here, there and every
where within,
On the 9th of March at the Roof .
Garden Jamberin. —S. B.
After several weeks hard work
Charley Words n and associates
have succeeded in bedrocking a
hole on Bonanza creek, near the
mouth of First Chance. It proved
a blank, notwithstanding 30 cents
had previously beeu taken from a
drill hole there.
The hole was pretty costly.
Three pumps, altogether, were in
stalled on the ground before the
water could be handled, and a boat
could have been poled up the creek
that the operation caused.
The party have moved the outfit
onto First Chance, and will con
tinue prospecting Failure to
strike pay has not discouraged
prospectors of the Bonanza side,
seven or eight outfits being still at
work over there.
Select Outside Lumber, coirugated
iron and roofing paper at Ross & Nes
^ tor’s.
Roof Garden Night, playing, dancing and singing
galore,
Such that you will enjoy and persistently call for
more;
All did'ngs will be such you never, never saw before,
For the Kennel boys are for good clean sport as of yore.
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