Show San Francisco and Future Conventions IT HE San S. Francisco papers arc pluming themselves THE J- J 1 Jover over the success o of their first attempt to stage a great national convention The absolutions of praise adopted by the convention cOIn for the hospitality of the city and its facilities for lor entertainment of largo large numbers of i visitors its climate in the tile summer timo time the tho lack of of gouging on the part of caterers etc as well as the tho encomiums encomiums encomiums en en- heaped upon t the city by the newspaper correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents seem to be 10 interpreted by San Francisco to mean menn that it is a foregone conclusion both parties will go right along holding their conventions there every overy four years Editorial comment of eastern papers however is not noto so o complimentary and the Democratic party managers are aro being blamed for what the most of the editors regard re re- rc- rc gard gurd as a stupid folly which can only o be explained upon the theory that like most Americans they were vere willing willingto to try anything once The rhe New Yo York k Times says sas In this case certainly the first trial will bo be the last is all right Nobody has a word wora In En n It Itself San an Francisco against and everybody has man many words to say for or to sa say the way vay It has lodged fed ted and in general cared for tor and th their lr entertained the delegates and their friends and guides and guardians But nut San Francisco has one great gret and t unpardonable fault as a convention city city It it stand standa on n the side tide of the continent last reached b by the sun In his dailY dally journey journer The Tho consequence is that for the whole country east of or the Pacific coast const news from San Francisco is delayed and for tor a largo large part of the country the delay is of ot serious extent Some Californians in their haste have said that their convenience and interest also deserve consideration implying that the they would be bothered as much by a a. convention convention convention con con- in the tho east as u the east Is by one In the tho west But that Is not so 50 The difference In time favors them to the same sante degree that it disfavors us In this matter of news neW's gath gathering ting and distributing Had Mr Cox been nominated In New York York- at lU In ln the morning all of San l Francisco would have havo known it at 1038 in the evening before before by by their clocks Others of the eastern dailies attribute the selection to toa toa toa a desire lesire to c coddle California for being bein the decisive factor in the election in 1916 of W Woodrow Wilson It Itis Itis Itis is is quite apparent if it far eastern newspapers will wiIl- have any influence ce in the selection of future futuro meeting places San Francisco by reason of three hours difference in time tune will be thrown into inlo the discard Maines Maine's Centennial fp T m HE state of Maine Elaine line is celebrating its hundredth an- an Of course course there was a Maine before its admission into the union In 1925 it will have been HOO years since the first permanent settlement was made in Maine Draine The first recorded visit to the Maine Mainc coast by a son of a a c civilized country was made b by John Jolin Cabot in only only six years after the historic voyage of Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic In Inthe the centuries that followed up to 1820 when Maine was cut off from Massachusetts and carao camo into statehood romance war trade exploration and pioneering gave wide ide variety to the history of this region Maines Maine's rugged mountains its picturesque coast its splendid rivers riverS and alluring lakes its forests of pine and spruce and white birch its scenic grandeur and its enchantment for the devotees dc of rod and gun have haye been written into literature rc sung sting by poets and praised by sportsmen for generations It is a distinguished list of native sons and daughters daughters daugh daugh- I fers which a contemporary has compiled who have ha helped to make the name of Maine honored and renowned renowned renowned re re- re- re Longfellow the t poet oct Hiram Maxim Inventor of or machine machine machine ma ma- chine gun Lillian Nordica grand opera star Artemus Ward humorist Franklin Simmons and Benjamin Paul Akers sculptors Rev Elijah Kello Kellogg Kellog g. g who wrote that Immortal immortal immortal im Im- im- im mortal Spartacus S to the thc Gladiators f Maxine and Gertrude Elliott stars of ot the thc stage John S. S C. C Abbott hl Elizab th Al Akers ers Allen author of ot Rock Me to Sleep Mother Mother Mother Moth Moth- er Harriet Prescott Spofford Sarah Orne Jewett and Bill Nyc Nye writers Cyrus H. H K Curtis Cuitis Frank A. A Munsey and George Palmer Putnam publishers Hannibal Hamlin vice president with Abraham Lincoln Gen Joshua Chamberlain Cham Chani- who received the actual surrender of Lee at Appomattox Appomattox Appomattox Ap- Ap Gon O. O 0 O. Howard and Gen James A. A Hall hail civil war commanders In public life Maine has offered either as native nathe or acquired citizens Thomas B. B Reed speaker of or the House of ot Representatives JohnD Long secretary of ot the nav navy Rufus Kin King and William P P. Frye diplomats Lot M M. M Morrill secretary of ot the thc treasury and senator Melville W. W Y Fuller jurist Nelson Dingley and Eu Eugene ene Hale statesmen Hugh McCull financier Nathaniel Parker Willis popular essayist Walter Valter M M. Brackett painter of ot fish John 1 1 Stevens engineer Richard Hawley Tucker astronomer Robert E. E Peary Pear explorer James G. G Blame the plumed knight Gen Geri Henry Knox first secretary of ot otar war ar William Pitt Fessenden secretary of the treasury under Lincoln Emma Eames grand opera prima donna Prof Donald B. B MacMillan explorer and the sons eons of ot Israel Washburn Wash Wash- Washburn Washburn burn Cadwallader one time governor of or Wisconsin I Israel rael Jr who was four tour times elected governor of Maine William Drew United States senator from Minnesota Elihu who served with great distinction as minister the the United United States in Paris during the siege of or 1870 Charles Ames editor and Samuel Benjamin a distinguished naval officer For or many years Maine with its carl early state election 1 coming as as it does doeskin in Sep September was looked upon as the the political barometer of or the country in presidential Jea years and the sa saying ing As goes Maine raine so goes the nabon nation nation na na- na- na tion bon became almost proverbial Of recent years how- how T rever ever the barometer has been unreliable 3 r The Case of Wanderer T THE HE story told by Carl Wanderer the Chicago double murderer who says he hired a a man to act the part of a up bold so that he ho might kill ill hi his wife and give out afterwards he shot her by mistake while aiming at the up bold and who killed the thc deluded up hold-up also so that he ho might tell no tales is all so terrible as to be unbelievable yet et it is the most reasonable explanation offered offered of of- for the tragic and mysterious crime Doubts are arc beginning to be expressed as to the truth of th the confession the tUe on theory that he made it to escape es eg es- es e nape cape p the torture of his questioners ruthlessly continued by the police for many hours and attention is called to the fact that such form of torture not infrequently has I elicited confessions that afterward were Avero retracted and Efforts Efforts are also also active to prove rove tha that even if Wan Wan- c derer's confession c lOn is IS t true ue he be is either cither insane or 01 mentally men- men tally tally ab abnormal and that perhaps he was mado so by the trains strains of bf 1 war ar which for for him must have ave heen been many and nod ands s tere e abr earne earned on ii t the e firing l line ne in In Prance both both i the tho croix r dc de gu guerre c and aud the distinguished service service medal I On the the latter theory it is argued that he might bo be a 3 aman aman obscure and unusual lorm man still suffering from an of H shell shock and that this raises somo some delicate questions as to his responsibility before the law Moreover More fore Moreover over in in his defense it is plea pleaded did that his story is is not corroborated corroborated cor cor- to be bc convicted on and that no man ought purely evidence criminal the benefit of 01 accused It is is well to give an every doubt Our system of jurisprudence demands it and und justice demands it It is better that ninety nine e guilty men Inca escape than that one innocent one should suffer Yet when a criminal has confessed his guilt has hns brazenly admitted the tho motive motivo was to get rid nd of a wife wile whom ho he didn't didn care for and of a man who was the only witness to tho the crime and that ho was led to mako make tho confession only after both of tho the pistols used were traced to his possession and when his confession cannot be it seems a n. clear case for a 3 con conviction in order to meet and such penalty as the tho law prescribes in tho the ends of justice and possibly prevent the perpetration tion Lion of still other crimes The service nee to l his s country n y and should which tho the man performed is no palliation Tet that additional r regret not be considered except as an such honorable service should not have inculcated better belter and nobler impulses No W War err President HEN former Ambassador Gerard the other day arraigned arraigned arraigned ar ar- ar- ar w WHEN both national conventions for not recognizing recognizing recognizing in their preferences for the tho presidency some hero of the thc gaiety added to of the great war his suggestion the neglected the nation because he included himself in considered Gerard as ns anything anything anything any any- list and of course nobody ever notwithstanding the hero thing approximating a war Years in conspicuous place he lie has occupied in My l Four Germany and incidentally in the thc movies mo Yet the thought that he be conveyed that out of the thc American participation in the tho greatest war in history no noI noname f I I sufficiently magnetic as to attract the interest name was national conventions is after niter all II I of either of the great considerable of an anomaly Revolutionary Revolutionary Washington in tho The services of George made him the tho first President John Adams war committee which the and Thomas Jefferson were on which was at wrote the Declaration of Independence made them successively successively success success- that time heroic war service and it the President Monroe when chosen President ively ely had been at various intervals secretary of war He had also been a colonel in tho the revolutionary re war Andrew Jackson the popular hero of the war of 1812 though at the into first he failed of election was ultimately swept White House and stayed there thero for two terms The Mexican war made mado Zachary Taylor the thc Whig candidate in and Gen Winfield infield Scott the Whig candidate in 1852 1832 Taylor was elected but Scott was beaten heaten by Franklin Pierce who had also been a a. general in the Met Mexican can war Ulysses S. S Grant the commander in chief of the union armies in the civil chil war was elected President in 1868 and again ain o-ain in 18 1872 2 Hayes elected in 1876 and Garfield elected in 1880 were both union generals Benjamin Harrison J had been a general and Villi William am McKinley a major Coming down to the Spanish in 1901 IDOl war it made Theodore Roosevelt Hoose vice president and President in 1905 Gerard In the present campaign as ns ex-Ambassador ex lugubriously remarks all American precedents h have hilve ve been upset No soldier or sailor or person even remotely connected connected con con- with the war in any authoritative way way save save only of the Navy Roosevelt Roosevelt- young Mr l Assistant Secretary has received any consideration Speaking p purely rely from a standpoint of military achievement the discussion excludes es President Wilson Vilson because because be he- cause of third and possible disabilities of a physical nature It also excludes General Wood who was a foremost candidate in the Republican convention But tho the query is why did not the war bring conspicuously conspicuous conspicuous- ly to the front Baker Daniels Pershing or March or orsome orsome orsome some gallant officer in iu the fighting front formidable for his distinguished service in the world war The answer ma be that there occurred nothing in the war to inspire may excessive enthusiasm for any of our leaders lenders in it The rhe conventions probably felt like the soldiers that they and the people behind them fought the tho war ar and won it not because of leadership but in spite of it detail of active troops is that new It is gratifying ng a assigned to Fort Port Douglas and anel that the thc war department has decided to retain it as a permanent garrison All of the agencies that have contributed to this desirable end are to be congratulated d. d It shows what operative co-operative effort will do It is of such significance as to be entitled to a celebration the peerless beer- beer Colonel Bryan is now designated less and cheerless leader |