Life — September 26, 1912 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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“YE'VE GOT ME, YER RIV'RINCE.” of purification by electing a sound and able Governor. When Governor Dix was nominated at Rochester, Murphy was the master and Mr. Dix was the best man he and Cohalan were willing to have elected. So the Democratic Progressives ac- cepted Dix. He has not done alto- gether ill. He has disappointed the Democratic Progressi but for our part we have not been disappointed in him. He is an amiable man, not a grafter that we know of, and prefers to do right if he can. His aim has been to satisfy the most people pos- sible; to gratify the Progressives by good actions when it did not incense Murphy too seriously, and to gratify Murphy when it did not make too N YOU TELL ME, OFFICER, WHERE I CAN GET A GLASS OF WATER?” many of the Democratic League men throw too many fits. To line up and Wilson s quite es—a fight Tammany as Governor fought Smith in New Jersey v beyond Governor Dix’s ab hig job, to be sure—and also entirely alien to his political ideas. There have been worse Governors of New York than Mr. Dix. He has doubtless done his best, and it has by no means been all bad. Let us be grateful to him for his efforts. But we do not need him for another term of office. We need a much abler and stronger man, We all know that, and of course Governor Wilson knows it So what would he be doing chee jowling with Governor Dix at S cuse? 1847 TR ZS NATE Ree 2 a 1 T° understand why it seemed to General Nogi and his wife a pious, patriotic and devoted act to take their own honorable lives in honor of the dead Emperor, it is neces- sary to understand the old Japanese religion, and the part that is played in it by the ideal of the Emperor, To General Nogi and his wife, to die for the dead Emperor was an offering of their lives for their country and their religion. So, of course, the sui- cide of these distinguished people was as honorable as it was pathetic. But that it was cruelly out of date must have been the impression of all American, and many Japanese, readers here. We presume it was a shock also to the Japanese at home, and a great grief, and that it will lead to the re- nunciation of the beliefs and habits of thought that were at the bottom of it. They are gone, those ideas. Japan knows it, and one of the great prob- lems that engages the best minds of Japan is with what to replace them. Hard Luck with Colonels HE correspondence between Col- onel Harvey and Governor Os- horn, of Michigan, published last week in Harper's Weekly, concerned the use of these words by the Governor of Michigan: Harvey thought for a moment. that Belmont and Wall Street, through him, owned Wilson. Eleven letters were printed, in the surse of which Colonel Harvey found occasion to say: never been associated ina business. way with Mr. Belmont. and have never had a controversy of any kind with Mr. Wilson. have never had any political 4 lationship, discussion or understanding of any kind with Mr. Morgan. T have pronounced your declaration a lic and a slander. We offer Governor Osborn our con- Omicron oil is good for sore places. It will be recalled that Governor Osborn was one of the seven little Governors who carried the candidacy to Colonel Roosevelt. Things did not go to suit him at Chicago, and at last accounts he was uncertain whom he was for. Beware of colonels, Governor! Ihave deliberate dolence: comicbooks.com