| Show Vice P President Sherman Obeys Final Summons Need Not Affect Election ICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN'S SHERMANS SHER IANS IAN'S death is none the tho less a shock to V VICE the nation that the tho previous pre da days s. s o of serious illness I had nd given warning While death loves a shining mark and is 15 the inevitable end of high and low poor human nature can never ncr accustom itself to the tLe passing of the great The pedestal upon which winch we e p place ace those who have touched our imagination we endow with the imagined power to repel even cen the grim rim invader that never strikes in vain nor Dor knocks more than the door of once upon any Another capable servant of the people has gone to his reward the government t has lost an efficient honest and trusted d bulwark the party which honored him so signally and had once again named hIt him for the honored has been deprived of a high office which he so go conspicuously faithful faithful leader lender a wise counselor and a gifted exponent of its principles That his party appraised appraise him at his full value is attested by the fact that it him for vice president an honor vouchsafed to none non a other since the republic was born bora bores The moment of thought and introspection and the tho brief halt that would be forced upon mundane affairs will wilI be le lessened ened because of the political conditions Coming as it docs does in the closing week of a n great national campaign Vice President Shermans Sherman's response to the final summons summons summons sum sum- mons will incline men more to consider its probable and possible effect upon the tho fortunes of the various parties than to contemplation of the tho virtues of the man who has just vacated one of the seats scats of tho the mighty The vacancy on the Republican national ticket caused by the demise of Vice President Sherman need cause no DO uneasiness to members of his party for it will not cause a single one of them to lose los his vote ote for vice rice president The situation wot would d be extremely embarrassing if each voter balloted directly on President and vice president in that event a 8 vacancy occurring only a few days before election and too lato late t to replace on the official ballot the name of his Ids successor would deprive those voting the Republican ticket from registering any choice for second place plaice on the ticket for the second highest office within tho the gift of the Am American rican people As it is however however however how how- ever the electoral system rescues the party from its dilemma and gives it ample opportunity t to choose and Commission a candidate long before the Electoral College u as as' the instrument of the people registers their will It is possible under the for the Republican publican national commit committee ee to meet select a n candidate c for vice nce president and so diss disseminate disseminate dis dis- dis- dis s information concerning its choice that every qualified voter will know before next neat Tuesday the identity and qualifications of the associate chosen for Mr r. r Taft a procedure that without doubt will be followed Obviously the name could not go upon the ballot since that would be impossible at this thi late day but the duty of Republican presidential presidential presidential electors to support the candidate so named would be equally as us great as though hough he had been chosen by the representatives of the party in in national convention assembled The obligation upon the Republican presidential electors to support the candidate thus selected would be no less than it now is to vote for Mr fr Taft since the hold the party has upon them is merely nominal no means has ever been devised or attempted to force a presidential elector to cast east his ballot in in the Electoral College for his party candidates candidates candi candi- f clat dates s since since noue IJa has ever his honor or earned the contempt of his Ins fellow citizens by acting otherwise than in conformity with custom custom custom cus cus- tom and tacit understanding It would possible h be hp p W l als also J o fo for r the choice of a vice president to be I referred directly t td to the Republican members of the Electoral College without an an guidance at least cast previous to next nest Tuesday by hy the governing governing governing govern govern- ing committee Ommittee of the party The Electoral College will not meet until th the second Monday in next J January to cast its vote ote as a matter of fact no President or vice president will be elected until that time no matter what may be bo tho the result of the balloting next nett Tuesday It is obvious that long before that body goes into session the Republican electors can ha have vc agreed reed upon the candidate they will support for vice vice president even though the governing committee of the party had taken no action to present a 3 candidate in the regular way It is undoubtedly true however that the national committee will meet and exercise its ri right h to fill any vacancy on the ticket t by nominating a aice vice ice presidential candidate It is difficult for many voters to understand that although the names of the candidates are on the ballot banot which they cast they are actually only voting for presidential electors and that so far as concerns concerns con con- cerns anything the people could do to prevent it a majority of the Electoral College could easily fix upon some aspirant who had never II been een nominated or suggested and of whom the people knew know nothing and elect him bim Nothing of that sort ever eer has happened and undoubtedly never will yet it affords a an illustration of the case ease with which the electoral system adjusts such a question as now arises through the death of a vice presidential candidate on the eve of an election The death of Mr Sherman therefore does not leave the Republican lican party without a candidate for vice president Beyond the natural regret at the loss of so great an American and so loyal an adherent to the basic basie principles of the party the campaign moves mo on as before confident that the national committee in its fits wisdom will select a suitable sUccessor successor on the ticket or the Republican presidential electors will employ the weeks that intervene before their formal meeting in agreeing upon the proper person It- It 8 Ste z I A MERICA'S ERICA'S system of judicial procedure is I Justice Is IsOn A f on trial in the great state of New York On 1 7 rial vial Becker who loosed a pack of killers I In Modern upon the gambler who was about to expose ose the great graft system that binds Tammany police Gotham and the criminals of the metropolis has been sentenced sentenced sen- sen tented to the death chair for his crime But the struggle to vindicate indicate the law has only begun The accomplices whose testimony aided materially in the conviction of Becker dare not be he released from the prison in which they are cowering with fear They know men meIl and aull conditions and they solemnly assert o that their appearance upon the streets of Gotham would be the signal for their death The judge who presided at the trial with conspicuous efficiency efficiency effi effi- and find fairness walks in the valley of the shadow as does the fearless fearless fear fear- less and able district attorney for the thc lives of both have have be been threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened by those who stand ready rendy to do more Men highly placed and influential fattened b by the graft aft wrung from New Yorks York's underworld live in hourly terror that Becker will expose them and the system before he dies There are millions of dollars at al his command to fight his bis conviction through the last court of the state to employ clever counsel who know the tricks of the tra trade e and to whom every legal avenue of evasion of technicality anc and of absurdity is is a well-trodden well path They have ample funds to take advantage of every ery resource criminal procedure offers to delay temporize P and final finally Y t and successfully to evade t the tho o sentence I These men behind Becker whom he can destroy with a w wi word and who fear that he lie will i speak it when the last hope is gone and lie le is f about to step before his Maker will fight bitterly frantically and with tho courage of desperation to rescue him in ill saving saing b his life t they save tJ their reputations their fortunes their ability to look their wives and children in the face and to walk unafraid the paths of pleasure Because Because Because Be Be- cause of this justice has a 3 task of proportions never attained since the days of the Tweed ring Becker is the key to the system to uncover which the instruments of the law must now address themselves How high it reaches readies what whal I personages of impeccable lc respectability ity arc rc concerned in in it int into what avenues of business S social an and political life of New Now York it reaches a rigid inquiry alone can cati tell teU To solve this problem to vindicate the the law n s 's s one of the thc really great t problems of or civilization Justice is on trial r plan to drive Jack Tack Johnson from Chicago o. Which will I afford something g for in some other city to d do I J F Fur Four men were ere b buried under two tons of dough I. I Bakers Bakers' dou dough h or United States treasury dough 7 says au an e o. o I. I New York girl kills policeman in mistake 1 for b nut a burglar Put But is it certain in that she site made a mistake I J. J ij i. i J f 1 41 t. t I Jo w. w t ro y yS 1 S V r C I. I 4 |
