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How Roosevelt Backed Wiley Now Made Public Henry Leach Needham Accuser Willey of Being "Notably Unfair to T. R. The Man Who Stood Back on Him in the Bitterest Fight of His Official Career at Washington. --- Henry Beach Needham is several things—a good writer and a better Washington correspondent, in short a man of alert eyes, of satisfying memory and facile pen. He has done work for a great many newspapers, and a great many magazines. He knows all about Washington politics. He ought to. He has been on the ground for years and knows the situation from every side—Republican, Democratic, Progressive, inside and out. He has probably written more interviews with Roosevelt than any other writer. So when it happened the other day that someone said something about Roosevelt, Mr. Needham had his own opinions about the matter. Moreover, he had the facts in his own possession. He has put them down here with fine feeling,—the feeling that comes from deep-rooted conviction of the truth. But why go on? Let Mr. Needham speak for himself. He wrote his own title for this article, and it follows: T. R., AND "DOC." WILEY By Henry Beech Needham. A bill designed, supposedly, to regulate, if not gradicate "the great American fraud" was passed at the last session of Congress and approved by the president. Forthwith, "Old Doc." Wiley, as the newspaper men affectionately call him, rose in his wrath and pointed out a "joker" in the law, which, he claimed, would serve as an avenue of escape for the patent medicine fraudsmen. No doubt he was right; but the question naturally raises why did not the doctor discover this "joker" before the bill became a law? The doctor is at the head of a well equipped magazine bureau in Washington, and presumably it is "up to" him to examine bills relating to food and drugs and in every way safeguard the interests of the consumer. Either we must conclude that, like Homer, Dr. Wiley occasionally nods or that at the time the bill was before Congress the call of the Chataqua circuit was clarion. In his speech at Indianapolis attacking Taft and also Roosevelt the good doctor again nods. It so happened that one of the incidents touched upon by him is familiar to me, for the reason that Dr. Willey sought my help in the premises. I would not detract in the slightest degree from the unselfish, courageous battles which Dr. Willey fought often single-handed, against the food dopers and poisoners. But in his new found avocation as a political orator, Dr. Willey is notably unfair to the man who stood back of him in perhaps the bitterest fight of his official career at Washington. I refer to Mr. Roosevelt, who was president at the time, and I speak with authority, because of the fact that at Dr. Willey's urgent solicitation I helped him to carry his fight over Secretary Wilson's head to the president. If pure food is to be an issue in this campaign, the public is entitled to all of the facts. For many years Dr. Wiley, aided in splendid manner by the food and dairy commissioners of many of the states, urged food and drug legislation by the federal congress. On two occasions such an act was passed by the house, but the upper branch of congress—then known as "the senate of special interests"—throttled the bill. Indeed, for seventeen years the senate would not permit pure food to come to a vote. Such was the situation at the session of 1905-1906. On or about this time several magazine writers turned their attention to the subject of pure food and drugs. Everybody remembers the remarkable series in "Collier's" written by Samuel Hopkins Adams. I tried to do my part with an article published in the "World's Work." The cumulative effect of this editorial brodged brought results. In the early spring of 1906 the Senate passed the pure food bill. The fight was won—so the reformers said. But at that period of our political history there was a working agreement between the senate and house. As a sop to public opinion, a bill would be passed by one house without opposition, only to pigeonholed in the other branch of congress. Undoubtedly this was the program of the Aldrich-Cannon machine. If not, why did the bill slumber in the house for about four months—until the very last days of the session? Right here Dr. Wiley nods. He gives President Roosevelt no credit whatever for the achievement of pure food lexis. lation, saying that the then President's interest in the subject was confined to a "short paragraph without accentuation" in one of his messages. This published statement of Dr. Willey's is surprising, to say the least. Either the worthy doctor is growing forgetful or political speaking is making him ungenerous. After the passage of the food and drugs bill in the senate the friends of pure food packed their grips and went triumphantly home, believing the fight won—all except Dr. Willey, who was stationed in Washington, and Robert M. Allen, of Frankfort, Ky., who was at that time secretary of the State Food and Dairy Commissioners national organization If anyone worked harder or more efficiently for a federal food and drugs law than Bob Allen, I did not happen to meet up with him in Washington. Allen knows—if Dr. Wiley fogets—what part Mr. Roosevelt played in the pure food fight at this, its most critical stage. And I happened to know, because at the behest of Allen and Wiley I was keeping tabs on the president. In my presence Mr. Roosevelt wrote and dispatched a number of notes to Speaker Cannon—all relating to the pure food bill. These communications ran the gamut from indorsement of the bill to an "unconstitutional" demand for its passage in the house. At this time President Roosevelt was making his fight for federal meat inspection, and the two closely-related legislative projects were linked together by Mr. Roosevelt. He did not say, "give me one of the two bills." He demanded both—and he got them. Those familiar with the "inside play" in the pure food fight must admit, if fairminded, that there would have been no food and drug law enacted in the long session of 1905-1806 except for the persistent efforts of President Roosevelt. And if the bill had failed at that crucial time its subsequent success is merely a matter for idle conjecture. So much for getting the law; now for its enforcement. Although Dr. Wiley does not mention his ancient enemy by name in his political review, he will not controvert the statement that at one time he uttered more harsh words about the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association than about any other set of men who crossed his official path—and with reason. This association (they make and sell over 90 per cent of the whiskey sold in this country), publicly boasted, on two occasions, that they had defeated the pure food bill in congress. Certainly no other special interest gave us so much trouble in the contest for pure food legislation and afterward. Selfish greedy and arrogant. The National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association was the first to demand consideration and special privilege when the pure food law was on the statute books. The act contained a clause defining "blend." It was a general clause relating as much to coffee and tea as to whiskey, and mark this fact—if the loose construction asked by the fake whiskey people were adopted, then a dealer could mix tea and willow leaves and call it "blended tea," or coffee and chicory and call it "blended coffee." No wonder Dr. Wiley was indignant. Oms might say that he was warm under the official collar. You see his chief, Secretay Wilson, has backed down and surrendered to the fake whiskey interests. Certainly Dr. Wiley was hard pressed. He came to me at this time and asked if I were in a position to go to the president with the matter—to President Roosevelt. He said that honest and efficient administration of the food and drugs act was involved. He said that he would be humiliated and forced to resign if beaten by the National Wholesale Dealers' Association, and much more to the same effect. No one sincerely interested in the cause of pure food could have turned a deaf ear to Dr. Wiley's plea. So it was that I went to Secretary Loeb and explained the matter, and Bill Loeb, able citizen, got busy. In a short time we had President Roosevelt more than interested. He sent for Dr. Wiley, who came laden with a basket of bottles. In the President's office the doctor gave a demonstration of true blended whiskey on the one hand and of ethyl alcohol plus prune juice—in the discard. Mr. Rosoevelt took his cue from Dr. Wiley and the fight was on. (Continued on Page Three MI'HI GET BUSY HERE! NEVER MIND THE PASSER BY! CONSTRUCTIVE STATESMANSHIP BUILDING BRYAN THE COLONEL Hatfield in Ritchie Co. REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOV. ERNOR IS GREETED BY HUNDREDS OF FARMERS Of the State is Being Made by the Next Governor, Who Exposes Attempt of the Democrats to Disfranchise Republican Voters of Both Colors. Cairo, W. Va., Oct. 9. From every noon and corner of Ritchie county today came hundreds of people to welcome and hear the candidates and representatives of the Republican party and the two meetings held in the county were unsurpassed in enthusiasm. Over other meetings held by Dr. aHfield on this triumphal tour of the state. It was a gala day in Ritchie county and the people turned out in surprising numbers, both at Harrisville, the county seat, this afternoon and tonight at Cairo, to hear the tidings of Republicanism and attest their loyalty to the nominees of the party in the state. Especially so at Harrisville was the day celebrated in a manner appropriate for a fourth of July celebration, and the occasion was made all the more realistic by the elaborate decoration in honor of the Republican host. From the time Dr. Hatfield entered the county at Peunsboro, this morning, until he wound up his days tour at Cairo, late tonight, he was hailed as a popular hero, and nowhere on the tour of the state has the strength and popularity of the Republican gubernatorial candidate been more favorably and forcibly impressed and the other candidates on the state and congressional tickets shared honors with their leaders. This delegation from Harrisville met Dr. Haffield and his party at Pennsboro this morning, and accompanied by the Pennsboro band came to Harrisville on a special train. A large crowd was at the local depot and gave the candidate an ovation on their arrival here. They were escorted to the court house square where a large platform had been erected and from which the speakers hurled their bitter invectives against the common enemy, the Democraey. Dr. Talbert presided at the meeting this afternoon. Besides Dr. Haffield and Mr. Lilly who had been speaking together since the opening of the state campaign, there were several other orators on the program today, including Judge Hunter Moss, of Parkersburg, nominee for Congress, and Joseph F. Gray, nominee for state senator in this district. While the sun beamed down on the various speakers they reached the highest flights of oratory and eloquence and heaped on the representatives of the Democratic party charges of misrepresentation and betrayal of the confidence of the people placed in them two years ago, when they turned the reins of government over to them. Dr. Haffield who had been attacked in an address delivered here yesterday by D. E. French of Mercer county; a Democratic state senator replied to the undargounded charges made by French, who is a representative of the Watson-Chilton combination. DR. Hatfield exposed the attempt made by French in the last legislature to procure the enactment of a law that would have, disfranchised sixty thousand voters of the state and taken from the masses and placed in the hands of the classes, the absolute dictation of all selection for public office. He charged that French was one of the Democratic senators who plotted to secure control of the state senate at the last legislature by any means required and that he was one who knew of the conspiracy with thugs furnished by the Watson aggregation who intended to kidnap one of the faction Republican senators in order to get a majority in that body. In substantiating that charge he declared it could be established that Pat Crow, the kidnapper was brought to Charleston to assist in carrying out this plot. Dr. Hatfield attacked the record of Senator W. C. Peterkin of Parkersburg, Democrat, elected from this district two years ago and charged that Peterkin had failed to carry out a single promise he had made. Especially was this shown on Peterkin's position in connection with the investigation of the election of the "Gold Dust Twins." After Peterkin had given moral obligation he would see that an investigation was started, if postponement of the resolution calling for immediate investigation for a few days in order to allow the Democrats to submit an amendment, Hatfield declared that Peterkin ignored his promise not only to the senate but the whole people of the state, and was responsible to a great extent for hushing an investigation of the wholesale debauchery of the legislature. Dr. Hattfield and Mr. Lilly appeal for the election of the congressional and legislative ticket, to preserve the prosperity of the nation and state. Tonight's meeting at Cairo exceeded in the attendance in the afternoon meeting. General Romeo H. Freer, a man who has done valiant service in the battles of the Republican party for the past forty years, was in attendance at the rally in his home town this afternoon. Although very feeble in health, he is still a fighter and if his health improves will be on the stump before election day arrives. He was greatly impressed with the rally this afternoon and declared it was one of the most auspicious in the history of Ritchie county. Doddridge county Republicans will open up their campaign at West Union tomorrow, when Dr. Hatfield, Mr. Lilly and other candidates will speak there. --- Isaiah Isaacs was called to Cabin Creek Monday because of the illness of his father, Wm. Isaacs. Andrew Baker was a business visitor to the city Monday. Mrs. Minera Woodley is ill at her home on Washington Street. Mesdames Annie DeHonney, Anna Frilks Davis, R. B. Reed, and Julia Henley were the guests of Mrs. Carnie Robinson, Institute, Wednesday. Miss Eva Jones, of Columbus, O., passed through the city Friday enroute to Sissonsville where she will teach this term. Edwards is A Candidate MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DESIRE TO REPRESENT STATE IN SENATE Principles Declared Progressives Are Regular Republicans in That They Starid for the Policies Enunciated by the Founders of the Republic, he Says. In making the announcement of his candidacy for the United States Senate before the immense audience at the Burrell opera house, Wednesday night, Colonel William Seymour Edwards said: "In times like these, the welfare of the many is recognized as paramount. Individualism in terms of bossism must go. The people, not the bosses, are to rule. In this brief sentence is summed up the issues of this campaign. "Men are asking are we, the people, to find in our government the expression of our sovereign wills," or are we to subserviently lick the boot that kicks us! We know how it has been in Kanawha county, when ballots were burned and primary and state elections set up, until manhood surrogacy became a jest. And it has been the same in other counties of this state. "Nor are these crimes against the people altogether banished in West Virginia. But, at any rate, political crimes of this henious sort are growing less. Each year they are more difficult to commit. Men's consciences are beginning to wake up. And, right here, let me declare that no influence in American politics has done more, is now today doing more, to arouse the conscience of the American people against the continued commission of like political crimes, than the straight-forward, courageous leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. "Nor will the people of West Virginia longer tolerate the slick manipulation of the state-wide political interests by unscrupulous state and county committees, who have heretofore attempted to set at naught the people's will by means of set-up state and county conventions; to cure these grave ills we have declared for and demand state and county primary elections, honestly conducted under just and efficient laws. We are for that remedy if it can be obtained. And consequently, although as yet imperfect in the working, we nevertheless stand by the primary election of June 4th, 1912, and the state and county tickets we then helped to nominate. "I speak plainly, and I speak of things at home, for I wish to be clearly understood that this is not a season of personal ambitions-to-be gratified. "It is not a time when you or I can ask, or ought to ask, or dare to ask, for honors or rewards, however merited. "These are times when, one and all, we must subordinate desires and ambitions to the welfare of the people must take upon ourselves whatsoever burdens the people shall choose to lay upon us. It is in this spirit that we approach the great campaign that is now here. "I will not seek the senatorship, whatsoever of glory it may bring to me. No! I will not accept it only for what service I may be able to render to you, to you, to you, the people of this great state!" "I will not take upon myself the burden of this campaign for what distinction it may bring to me. No! I will stake up the burden along with you, and you, and you, in order that we may join hands and stand on the fighting line together and win together and win together, or perish together, if the forces of selfishness, of greed, of money-plunderers shall be too strong for the moment, for the moment, mark you, and temporarily set us back. For in the end we are bound to triumph. "Nor will we permit, if we can help it, that the United States senatorships shall be any longer put up at auction to the highest bidder. Nor Colorado mines, nor abundance of bank securities, nor railroad bonds and watered stocks, shall determine the fitness of your candidate for the senatorship of the United States!" "No more orgies of prostituted gold Like two years ago, when the welkin rang with the roar of the gilded chariots of our modern Attiliae, as they Notable Night Messages Offered to the Public by Richard Washburn Child Telegrams, Which, Please Note, if Sent by the Brave and Free, Might Have Changed history—Unwritten by Tatt, McAdoo, Wilson, Bryan, Underwood, Archbold, Hedges and Hilles. Richard Washburn Child, lawyer, novelist, reformer and "muckraker," was writing vivid and artistic stories for the leading magazines before he had finished his law course at Harvard. Before he had been in print two years, he was recognized as one of our best short story writers—a rank whie was given substantial recognition when he twice received a $1,000 short story prize from Collier's. The actual conditions which he encountered in his law practice led him toward reform; and in the past two or three years he has given up Arcady to do his part in the greater work of national journalism. Notable among his contribution were his attack on the Wool Trust and Schedule K in Everybody's Magazine and his articles on the Lawrence strike in Collier's. NOTABLE NIGHT MESSAGES. By Richard Washburn Child "The sadest words of tongue or pen Are the words that were not wired then." To William Barnes, Republican Convention Hall, Chicago:— Do not nominate me if the votes of stolen delegates are necessary. Regard this as a moral and not a political question. Remember that the rank and file of our party in direct primary states were nearly two to one against me. They probably feel that we are too reactionary. My desire to serve the people again is insignificant in comparison to upholding in our party the standards of common honesty. Show this message to Root and say that whoever may be the nominee, the old Republican party must go before the people with clean hands." To Woodrow Wilson; As a man familiar with large business I know full well the foolishness of fighting to break up the trusts by lawsuits. Taft tried this and it was a farce comedy. Standard Oil, American Tobacco and the rest of them love it and grow rich on it. My elevator boy knows all this. We cannot fool the people. The day to restore competition with a trust is to prevent the trust from using unfair means to keep a grip on its monopoly. Government regulation is what I have advocated. The great body of laboring men and capitalists know I am right. Call off Brandeis on this subject. He has a bad habit of misrepresenting his opponents. This may result in injury to you. William McAdoo. To Charles Muphy, of New York, and John F. Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts: I did not seek your support in obtaining my nomination for president, and I do not solicit it in this campaign. Let this be your notice that I am aware of the character of the political machines which you control and which represent financial interests with sinister purposes. I intend to rid the New York and Massachusetts democracy of your dominance, and the democratic party of bosses. I believe the voters of the country will approve my course. Woodrow Wilson To Champ Clark: I assume that I was partly instrumental in procuring the nomination of Woodrow Wilson and in blocking your nomination. I thought at the time that Wilson was an ideal progressive. I find, however, that in spite of good intentions, he is out of sympathy with the people. He was born an aristocrat and has spent his days in an exclusive university atmosphere. This accounts for his unfortunate remarks against the honored name of Thomas Jefferson, against foreign-born laborers, in favor of freer Chinese immigration, against a minimum wage for women to protect motherhood, etc. I fear he fails to grasp the true significance of true progress. Possibly I have made a grave mistake. Forgive me and regard this as strictly confidential until the campaign is over. To John Smith, Laborer:— In answer to your inquiry about the democratic tariff plank, let me be honest and frank. It is probably true that the tariff revision proposed would cause a violent disturbance in the bus- ness, wor' no greatest suffering, as always, & borne by the wage payers. statement in our platform that riff for protection was unconstitutional was a new one on me. I wonder you are puzzled about you ask what "tariff for revenue only" means. No one can answer because it all depends upon how much revenue we desire to resist. A tariff for revenue only" means as much as the question: How large is a piece of ice," or "How old have you ever seen a young big." The truth of the matter is that all this is pure buncombe. I ought to know. But don't quote me. To Senator Penrose:— Your plans to discredit Roosevelt by talking about campaign contributions will fail unless to assist you in giving testimony you obtain one hold in high esteem. How about Charles W. Morse or Abe Hummel? John D. Archbold. To Chairman, New York Republican State Convention;— I am supposed to be an entertainer and have a fine sense of humor at banquets, barbecues, etc. My running against Oscar Straus for governor of New York strikes me as being immittably funny. I trust everybody will take the joke. Job Hedges. President Taft has instructed me to inform you that under no circumstances will he allow those who campaign in his behalf to indulge in false accusations concerning your personal morals, temperance, probity. He has to say that he has telegraphed today to J. Adam Bede and John Marshall Harlan, the short-weighted son of the late lamented and honored Justice of the supreme court, to cease their campaign of abuse on the stump. Further than this he desires at this late date, but in some fitting manner, to acknowledge that your statement in regard to accepting another term was made by you only when it was necessary on that occasion; I ensure My Taft's nomination in 1908. The president believes that he has been ill-advised during the administration by Crans, Guggenheim, Aldrich, Cannon and Barnes, and that there can be no hope of his success unless he takes reins in his hands and acts according to his own natural, honorable inclinations. Charles P. Hilles, Campaign Manager Garrett in Jail Wichita, Kan., Oct. 8—R. Lee Garrett, newspaper man, undertaker and colored financier, later of Charleston, W. Va., now at the city jail, has met with reverses in his business adventures in Wichita. He is being held at the city jail on charges made to the county attorney that he uttered bad checks. Mr. Garrett came to Wichita in the summer, set up an undertaking, establishment on North Main street opposite the court house, and later purchased the Wichita Searchlight a weekly paper published for colored citizens. He made a payment on the Searchlight and moved it, type, press subscription list and all to his undertaking establishment. Mrs. W. N. Miller, widow of the founder of the paper, sold it to the undertaker. N. B. Copeland, a relative of Mrs. Miller, worked for Garrett. He drew pay by check and is now carrying a check across the face of which is written "no funds." Mr. Copeland says that he is not the only person carrying similar cheques. The Kansas National Bank has had some financial experiences with Mr. Garrett that officers of the institution desire to get strengthened out. The offense which got him in the toils was collecting on a check on an East St. Louis bank made payable to himself and signed by a fictitious person. When the check marked "no funds" was returned to the bank here which had cashed it, a warrant was issued for Garrett's arrest. CORRESPONDENCE ALL WEEK Free RAINCOATS WITH EACH SUIT Consisting of Coat, Pants and Vest or Overcoat Ordered SUITS AND OVERCOATS $14 WITHOUT VESTS $13 Made to Measure ade to fit CAM KELLER 11 Capitol St. Next Door to Kanawha Valley Bank MONTGOMERY Woman's day exercises at the M. E. Church Sunday were well attended. Rey. I. V. Bryant, of Huntington, was here several days last week. Mrs. Ethel Anderson, teacher at Boomer, was shopping here Saturday. The teachers of District met Saturday at the home of Mrs. E. Donnally Thaily and organized a reading circle with Mrs. Railey President, and Miss Clara Stewart Seey. Miss Edith Bryant, teacher at Kimberly, attended District Institute here Saturday. Mrs. P. W. Wright is visiting rela- tives in points in Ohio. Mrs. Alpha B. Jones, teacher at Auttall, spent the week end here with relatives. Teachers of the Simmons graded school will meet in reading circle work Friday at 4 o'clock. ADVOCATE —15 ETAOINN Mrs. Amanda Brown, teacher at Carbondale, attended a reading cir- cle here Saturday. Miss Minnie Carr, teacher at Harewood, was here Saturday. Mrs. Minnie Hurt, teacher at Hundley, was here Sunday as the guest of Mrs. Goldie Page. Rev. Warner Brown officiated at the funeral of Mrs. Amanda Scott at Pratt. Tuesday. Dr. Gortan, and James Ellis of New River, were here last week. CHARLESTON HOTEL BROWN ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Holmes, of Handley; Rev. S. P. West, Xenia, O; R. T. Jackson, Cedar Grove; H. Rufus White, Huntington; W. Johnson, Hinten; A. Hill, Richmond, Va.; Thos. Patterson and family, Fire Creek; Wm. Johnson, Keystone; S. A. Bradfield, Layland Watter Davis, Lynchburg, Va.; S. W. Weeks, New York City; Robt. Whitted, Ed Hirclen, Dorothy; Eva M. Jones, Columbus, O.; Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Napper, Institute; Dora Stephens, Prince; Will Daniels, Baltimore; Md.; Rev. Robt. Johnson, Pl. Pleasant; C. Banks. St. Albans; Mr. and Mrs. A. Spurlock, St. Albans; Miss Alice Payne, Wellsville, O.; Miss Frances Woodsan; Columbus, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Boomer; C. L. Beal, of Stone Cliff; Jno. Thines, Raymond City; A. J. Smoot, Elkins; Geo. Gray, Cleveland, O.; Lula Brown, Lester Efield, Waldrum, Eccles; R. Cromwell, Cleveland, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Montgomery; J. L. Hines, Shrewsbury; Mr. H. A. Barnett, Keystone; Rhoda Bevers, Lownoot, Va.; P. P. Davis, Winnema TO WORK AT HAMPTON Miss Mary S. Booth, who for the past five years has been head nurse at the Holly Sanitarium, Hinton, W. Va., has accepted a position at the Hampton Normal Institute, Va. for this term as bookkeeper in one of the departments. While at the Institution Miss Booth makes her home with her sister, Mrs. R. R. Moto. Ladies Art Club reld their first meeting of the season with Miss Violet Wright, North Rand street on Tuesday afternoon. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. Cornelia Johnson, Sentz street on Tuesday. Little Francis Stephenson is indisposed this week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Borzster, Bradford street, last Tuesday evening a nine-pound girl. Miss Sallie Burke has returned from a trip to New Hampshire and Virginia. Miss Minnia Burke-Smith is a guest of her sister. Mrs. John H. Page, Bradford street. Miss O. Q. Smith, of New York arrived Saturday, the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. H. Page of Jacob st. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Napper left Sunday for Columbus, O., where they intend to live. Mrs. M. M. J. Hazelwood has returned from an extended visit to relatives in Columbus and Springfield, Ohio. Mrs. Minnie Burke Smith of New York City is the guest of her sister Mrs. Jas Page, Bradford street. Jno. Henderson of Institute, was in town Sunday. Miss Estella Jones has entered the Normal Class at the Institute. Miss Helen M. Truston, the former teacher of Domestic Science of this city, has accepted a position at the High School in Cambridge, Md. where she will supervise and instruct in Domestic Science and Arts. Braxton County For Roosevelt is the Report of Chairman of Bull Moose County Committee After a Careful Survey of the Field. "I made a trip through a part of Braxton county last week," said O. K. Sutton, chairman of the Progressive party in Braxton county, "and I found but one man out of about four hundred who insisted he would vote for President Taft." "While Braxton county is considered a Democratic county, I am satisfied it will be on the Republican side this year. John B. Morrison will be elected judge of the circuit court, and the legislature will have Republican representation from Braxton. "If and the counties of the state," said Mr. Sutton, "are strong for Colonel Roosevelt and Governor Johnson as is Braxton, the Taft forces will find little support and the President and Sherman will receive very few votes in West Virginia." The newspapers of West Virginia that are now so insistent that President Taft and Vice President Sherman will carry West Virginia were just as sure last summer that Taft would defeat Roosevelt for the delegates from this state. The actual number of delegates secured for Taft in the State convention was so small as compared with Roosevelt's representation, that it reminded the onlooker of a bunch of Democrats trying to get into a Republican convention. West Virginia is a progressive state; that fact was clearly demonstrated in the primaries and district conventions earlier in the year, but there has been no sign of a change Taft did not then stand for progressive policies and doubtless has not changed his mind because West Vir this would not support his views. It showed that two years ago when four of the five congressmen chosen belonged to the democratic faith: it repeated its demand when candidates were selected earlier in the year, and it will continue to sustain that position by voting for the man standing for the policies the voters expressed themselves in favor of. It is not a fight between Taft and Wilson, but a contest between Roosvelt and Wilson, and efforts to force the voters to cast their ballot for Taft are working in the interests of Wilson, the democratic nominee. According to reports received at the Progressive headquarters in this city, in not one county has the Progressive sentiment gone back. On the other hand those who recognize the wishes of the people as being supreme, and who recognize the fact that the contest is between Roosevelt and Wilson, steadily concede, that Taft's effort in West Virginia is nothing more than an effort to assist in electing democrats to Congress, returning to the United States senate democrat, and of trying to hand to Governor Wilson the electoral vote from the Mountain state. Whether they will succeed in their efforts remains to be seen. There are enough Progressive leaders, however, who appear to be conservant with the political situation in the state, and who believe that the combined forces will not be able to prevent Roosevelt from receiving the electorate. Sentiment toward Roosevelt is growing, not receding, and the Democrats becoming more and more confident that a vote for Taft only means a half vote for Wilson, and that the democrats can well afford to deal with the Taft forces. Hon. Ira C. Culp, of Maryland, will be one of the Progressive speakers, to spend some time in this State for the Progressive party. DELIVERED AT THE BURLEW WEDNESDAY, BY FRANCIS J. HENEY. Of President Taft Fully Explained by Speaker Who Also Devoted Attention to the Fallacies of Wilson Regarding the Tariff. --- An audience that filled every available niche in Burlew theatre Wednesday night listened to the greatest political speech ever made in this city. That expression was attested by many of the "old war horses" of both the old political parties. Nor were the events of the night confined solely to the wonderful speech of Hon. Francis J. Heney of California. Besides this, was the public announcement of Wm. Seymour Edwards that he was a candidate for United States senator from West Virginia, and the declaration of Ex-Gov. Wm. O. Dawson "that he was for Col. Edwards and would do all he could to assist him. Celungi Edwards also took occasion to put at rest the statements through the Democratic press that the Progressives were not for Dr. Hatfield for governor by having a banner of the distinguished Doctor placed conspicuously on the stage, and declaring himself as well as the Progressives for the election of Dr. Hatfield. Ex-Governor Dawson called the meeting to order, and following a short speech named Col. Edwards as chairman. It was when he took the chair that Col. Edwards delivered an address and defined the policies of the progressive Republicans. Ex-Governor Dawson in his speech at the Burlew last night expressly stated that he was not a candidate for the United States Senate. He branded this story as one which has been used against him by the Chilton crowd for the last twenty years. He said that every election it was brought out deeked in a new garb and used as campaign material by the Chilton aggregation. Ex-Governor Dawson said that not only did he have no idea of running for the Senate, but that he felt that in espousing the cause of Col. Scymour Edwards has was supporting the logical candidate. Mr. Heney devoted some time in the early part of his address to the frauds committed in the seating of the Taft delegates at Chicago, declaring Taft has received no nomination. He went over the California, Texas, Washington and Perfect Feet Free From Corns and Bunions This is the place to get them. We are collecting all the cornis and bunions in town—giving in exchange perfect, healthy, normal feet—free with every pair of the famous Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoes. You simply can't have cornis or bunions if you wear Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoes. They're made to prevent and to do away with cornis—and inside of a month, you'll see the wonderful change in your feet. The reason is simply this: In Dr. A. 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In the California case it was shown he said, that Col. Roosevelt received more votes than Taft. Written: In Follette combined yet Taft was given two delegates and how Roosevelt defeated Taft more than twenty to one in Seattle yet Taft was given the delegates, how much primary in Arizona co. Arizona Roosevelt defeated 951 votes to eleven for Taft, and yet Taft was given the delegates. In the Fourth congressional district of California in the district which Taft people alleged they carried by about one hundred in the primary last May, Mr. Heney stated, was this carried by the Roosevelt men over the Taft men several weeks ago by a majority of over twenty seven hundred thus showing the folly of the statement that California was either for Taft or Wilson. The tariff question also received some attention by the speaker, Wilson he said had but one remedy, and that was don't elect Roosevelt. The inequality of wealth, he contended, was due to the "rules of the game," by which a few have been able to swell their own fortunes at the expense of many. He pointed out that the greatest evil in this country was the "invisible government and the only way to eliminate that was the direct primary, the initiative and referendum and the recall of judges. "We have the recall of judges in California now," he said "and ch, what a change there has been and we have never recalled a judge either," he showed the folly of the assertion that the people would be always asking for the recall of judiciary by citing the customs in California when the Southern Pacific railroads always named the judges. "They have taken their car He favored women's suffrage and the government into its water power rights, and pointed out how the democrats were now trying to give away these things for which Roosevelt has so long stood and was still fighting for. THE REAL ISSUE Palls taken by Progressives, polls taken by Democrats, polls taken by Republicans all show Mr. Taft running a very bad third. Everywhere the testimony of the strikewote is the same. For the voters of the United States there is not a choice as between the election of Mr. Roosevelt and the election of Mr. Taft. Says the New York Press. Not a choice as between the election of Mr. Wilson and the election of Mr. Taft. Beaten at the start and falling further behind every day, Mr. Taft is altogether out of it. The only question before the country is, shall it be Roosevelt or shall it be Wilson? Failing Mr. Roosevelt, the alternative is Wilson and Free Trade. There are Republicans who would rather have Taft in the White House than Roosevelt, but that is not the question, because that is not the thing to be decided. The thing to be decided is whether they would rather have Wilson than Roosevelt. Whether they would rather have Roosevelt and experience or Wilson and inexperience; Roosevelt and tested condition; or Wilson and theory; Free Trade, with distilled industry and lost wages, or Protection, with busy mills and wage earners on full time and good pay. The man who would rather have Wilson can consistently vote for Taft. He can't help Taft, who is beyond help; he can help Wilson if that is what he is willing to do. But if he wants to keep Professor Wilson and the Democratic party from gaining control of the Government the only effective vote he can cast to that end must be for Roosevelt and the Progressive party. The foot ball team is here at work each afternoon. Storer greets two new members to her faculty this year. Miss Church who is superintendent of the Lockwood house and the teacher of Latin. Miss Dudgeon comes as music teacher. She is a graduate of the London Conservatory, London, Ontario. Miss Dudgeon is a very accomplished musician being able to teach piano, piano, nine and violin. Mrs. McDonald has been kept out of school for the last two weeks on account of ill health. Lighthouse Service Costly. During the last fifty years the lighthouse service of the United States has cost a total of $150,000,000. 5c Three New Pictures 5c THE AIRDOME Comforable Seas. Plen y of Room. Your Patronage Solicited Each Picture is a First Run. Never Shown in Charleston Before. DRY CLEANING N! WAY SHOE REPAIRING More than 400 men and women have graduated here. The oldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Elevation high. Remarkably healthful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regular faculty of sixteen highly educated, earnest teachers does not include assistants. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Storer is interdenominational in its faculty and student body. Its whole influence is toward Christian living. Literary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics. Old Moorman, per quart.....$1.00; per pint.....50c; per 1-2 pint.....25c Cove Spring, per quart.....90; per pint.....50c; per 1-2 pint.....25c Black and Green, per quart.....95; per pint.....50c; per 1-2 pint.....25c Old Charter, per quart.....1.15; per pint.....60c; per 1-2 pint.....30c Sunny Brook, per quart.....1.00; per pint.....60c; per 1-2 pint.....30c Whiskies in Wood, None Better How Roosevelt (Continued From Page One.) It is doubtful if ever more pressure was brought to bear in an official controversy than in the whiskey fight—certainly never in my experience as a Washington reporter. Arrayed on the side of the fake whiskey interest we two members of the President's cabinet, Taft and Wilson; Mr. Roosevelt close and personal friend, Senator Lodge; Speaker Cannon and a score more of prominent men. On the side of Dr. Wiley were Attorney-General Bonaparte and Secretary Loeb. In the face of all of the pressure of close advisers and personal friends, President Roosevelt gave the verdict in Dr. Wiley's favor. Was it not unacundid of the good doctor to admit all reference to this service? In his political speech at Indianapolis, he declared that President Taft "stood from his high office to do a favor to the worst" lot of adulterers in Christendom"—in other words, that Mr. Taft reversed the whiskey, ruling of his predecessors. But, according to the reports of his speech printed in the Philadelphia papers, Dr. Wiley ignores President Roosevelt's services to the cause of pure food, and his assistance to the doctor himself. Why? The writer yields to no one in his admiration for the public service which Dr. Wiley has done (perfect tense). But even the doctor's friends know him to be this sort of man—that every fight with him is more important than the preceding fight, that's what makes him such a splendid fighter. But this very quality warps his judgment of men—particularly when the doctor nods. He wom the whiskey fight, but afterwards lost his fight against benzoate of soda—and having lost, he will never forgive Theodore Roosevelt, who appointed the Remsen board. In his political recital of this controversy Dr. Wiley is ingenious—If I may judge from the report the doctor made to me immediately after the meeting in President Roosevelt's office, attendant by Secretary Wilson, Congressman Sherman, two catup manufactures and Dr. Wiley's arch enemies, McClause and Dunlap. The President asked Dr. Wiley if the use of benzote of soda in food was injurious to health, and when the chief of the bureau of chemistry replied In the affirmative, Mr Roosevelt turning to the self-seeking manufacturers and shrieking the table a ringing blow with his fist, exclaimed "Gentleman, if this drug is injurious, you shall not put it in food." Here Dr. Wiley's report made to me at the time and his very recent political speech part company. As he recounted the incident "in the shadow Phone 2251 Charleston, W. Va. The Old "Saunders Place" THE TRUSTS NOT FOR SALE REPUBLICAN PARTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY of the crime," he said that after the secretary of agriculture and his three associates left the executive offices and got into the official carriage, Secretary Wilson opined that the way to settle the matter—the matter already settled—was to refer it to a commission of exports. In that hour Dr. Wiley put the blame for a commission entirely on the shoulders of Secretary Wilson. It was the secretary who made the suggestion to the president, and Mr. Roosevelt—here I speak from personal knowledge thinking in this way to quiet the howling of certain food manufacturers, reluctantly agreed to the proposal. I know for a fact that he expected the commission to sustain Dr. Willey. I know he was disappointed in the decision. The trouble was that the details were left to Secretary Wilson, a politician first, last and all the time. I hold no brief for the Remsen board, which decided the benzocate of soda question against Dr. Willey. I do know, however, that President Roosevelt endeavored to obtain a board composed of acknowledged scientific experts; that he wrote to the leading college presidents of the country and from their recommendations determined the personnel of the board, and that from these scientists, of all men, he looked for a fair, impartial verdict. Dr. Wiley is now electioneering in behalf of the Democratic ticket. The doctor knows that the house of representatives as in control of the democratic party. The doctor also knows, --- Morris in Spokane Spokesman-Review. the three and the military little battled ex- the was motion by this time, that at the lost session of congress, when the agricultural and propriation bill was considered in the house, a motion was made, the effect of which was to strike out the appropriation for the Remsen board. Does the good doctor forget that the democrats saved the obnoxious board for "future usefulness"—or "to prey upon the people"? Even Homer nods. Visitor (seeking information)—"Excuse me, but are you the oldest inhabitant?" Native—"No, sir; I be only the village idiot."—Punch. PONDER THIS No man can be for the preservation and improvement of the present superb system of taxation which the Republican party introduced in West Virginia and be for the candidates that Watson and Chilton have nominated in the name of the Democratic party. Just think that over for a while. Just remember that there never was an audit of a county office under Democratic administration. It was never done until the Republican party got control. CHARLESTON'S BIG GROCERY MODERN Dead Issues and Bosses RULE ROTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, SAYS COLONEL ROOSEVELT Human Welfare Is the Program of the Progresives Who Would Use the Machinery, of the Government to Secure the Birthright of the Whole People. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 11—"There are three tickets in the field, but only two sides to the present campaign," said Colonel Roosevelt here today. He opened his tour of the Middle West by speaking in the Armory here. "You needn't take my word," said Colonel Roosevelt, "for the statement that the Republican and Democratic parties occupy substantially the same ground. I quote you from the solum public utterances of the head of one of the parties. Governor Wilson, in a message to the Legislature of New Jersey on January 9 said he was interested and encouraged to see that the platforms of the Republican and Democratic parties were substantially the same in recent years." Mr. Wilson's supporters, Colonel Roosevelt said, took issue, with him when he said that the Republican and Democratic parties took substantially the same position and that he would refer them to Governor Wilson. "I'm interested," Colonial Roosevelt said, "in the statements of Mr. Bryan and other Democratic leaders that Mr. Taft has grown in strength. What the leaders of both the old parties desire is to beat the Progressives and they are willing to coalesce to accomplish this purpose. "There are three tickets this year, but only two sides. If you believe in special privilege, dead issues and the boss, vote for the old parties. If you believe in faclag the new issues, that economic injustices must be wiped out, then vote the Progressive ticket. Roosevelt went to Flint and Saginaw from here. "Human Welfare" Program. Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 11-Colonel Roosevelt reached here tonight and spoke to several thousand people in the Auditorium. He made a defense of the Progressive party's "human welfare" program. He criticised Governor Wilson's position, and declared for a governmental inquiry into the conditions of modern industry. "There are many different kinds of steps necessary for the people to take, said Col. Roosevelt. "in order to secure genuine social and industrial justice. But it is absolutely necessary that there shall be governmental action both in the nation and in the several states, not only in order to get rid of unhealthy industrial conditions, but also to build up our working capacity as a nation. To act effectively through the Government—and it is only the power of the government which offers a sufficiently efficient instrument with which to do much of the task—we must firmly grasp the fact that the national welfare is a national concern. We are interested in the people's rights, and not in state rights as such or nation's rights as such. We are contending for the birthright of the whole people, and sooner or later the people will insist that no old cleavages of interest nor worn-out inhibitions of tradition shall cramp and hamper and defraud them as they struggle for their birthright. "We of the Progressive party pledge the resources of the Government to lift the load of illiteracy from the young men and girls of the nation. We cannot afford to have the capaci- ty of our future citizens stunted. Education must not stop merely at the school door; the adult worker must gird himself as he goes along for a larger and more efficient share in the working life of the nation, and vocational training must receive development." Record of Social Uplift and Economics [From the October Crisis.] An invention which promises to revise the signal system on various railroads of the land has just been patented by Percy Clay and George Washington, two colored men of New Orleans. Among the guards on John D. Rockefeller's estate are, eighteen armed, colored men. A permit has been issued in Jacksonville, Fla., for the erection of a five-story masonic building at the corner of Broad and Duval streets. The building will cost $10,000 and will contain a bank, business offices and lodge rooms. In Providence, R. I., 600 colored women, sold tags throughout the lay in order to pay an indebtedness of $10,000 on the Watchman industrial School. There was a station in each of the department stores and the young women also worked on the streets. Plans for a $100,000 Y. M. C. A. to be erected in Atlanta, Ga. are well on the way! There will be reception rooms, lecture rooms, kitchen and dining rooms, baths and swimming pool; two floors will be used for dormitories; separate boys' departments will be maintained. The building will be seven stories high. Strenuous effort is being made in St. Louis by both colored and white people to lessen the friction between the races due to the expanding Negro population and the demand for better houses. The committees for social service among colored people, organized in 1910, devotes itself entirely to social and industrial problems affecting colored people, the special object being to remove discrimination on account of color in the work of public and private agencies for social betterment. The committee is in no way a touching to offer a will for the "care problem," other than by securing for colored people the same forces for relief, employment, medical care, recreation, education etc. as exist for the rest of the community. During the last year it's committee has been instructing thirty-nine people in methods of social service, has secured admission of colored organization to the new delegate body, the Central Council of Social Agencies, has arranged a general conference to discuss the social problems of colored people. State provision for the care of deliquent colored girls has been advocated and a start made. A joint committee composed of both white and Negro members from the social-service conference and the committee for social service among Negroes has been formed to study the question of housing Negroes in St. Louis. The first step will be the construction of a map showing the location of the Negro population and the movement of population in the last ten years. An inquiry will be instituted into housing conditions, including a comparison of rents and locations. At the same time the committee will make a country-wide investigation of segregation and friction between the races, particularly in the border-line cities, including Washington, Baltimore, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, New York, Chicago and Kansas City. This will form the basis for a statement of the facts for and against segregation, which will be published by the committee. The committee will act as a board of arbitration in specific cases of friction and attempt to prevent fraud and misuse of Negroes and whites in real-estate transactions. A modern hospital for colored people is being planned in Knoxville, Tenn. ROBERTS & AULT DEALERS IN Pure Whiskles, Wines, Gins, Brandles, Beer, Gigars & Tobacco LUNCH COUNTER IN CONNECTION Phone 1705 508 Kanawha St. CHARLESTON, W. Va. DR. B. A. CRICHLOW OFFICE 805 1-2 Kanawha St. Charleston, w. vr. RESIDENCE 304 DONNALLY ST. Office Phonc 1102 - - - Residence Phone 1118 Office Hours: 9-11 a. m.; 2-4 p. m.; 6-8 p. m. Mutual Loan & Jewelry Co. H. GALPERIN, Prop. MONEY ADVANCED ON DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, BICYCLES AND ON ALL GOODS OF VALUE GREAT BARGAINS IN UNREDEEMED PLEDges 720 Kanawha St. . . Charleston, W. Va. IN THE KANAWHA VALLEY BANK BUILDING EAGAN JEWELER CHARLESTON, W. VA. RIGHT PRICES ON CLOCKS AND JEWELRY FINE WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIALTY A. N. H JEW 806 QUARRIER ST. RIGHT P DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CLOCKS A FINE EACH IN HIS OWN WAY. FIRST PRINCIPLES DRIEST DRIEST —Carter in Philadelphia Times FIRST PRINCIPLES BIGGER PRIVILEGES ROBERT CABYER the census reports that in 1910 there were in continental United States, as a whole, 9,827,763 Negroes, of whom 2,050,086, or 20.9 per cent., were reported as mulattoes. In 1890 there were 1,132,060 mulattoes reported, or 1,572,060 cent. of all the Negroes, and in 1870 a total of 584,049, or 12 per cent. Thus the figures taken at their face value show that about one-fifth of all the Negroes in 1910 had some admixture of white blood, as against about one-eighth in 1870. This report is, of course, far below the truth. There is little doubt but that one-third of the colored people of the United States have white blood. Economics. One of the oldest amusement places in Los Angeles, Cal.—Luna Park—is about to be purchased by colored people. The total investment will be about 270,000 if arrangement are completed. The three counties with the largest amount of land owned by Negroes are said to be Macon County, Ala., with 51,688 acres; Liberty County, Ga., with 55,048 acres; and Louisa County, Ky., with 53,268 acres. The Alabama Petty Savings Bank, a colored institution, celebrates its twenty-second anniversary, by the occupation of a new building. This modern fireproof building is being erected on 18th street, between Third and Fourth avenues. Birmingham. Colored laborers are being employed entirely. The Birmingham Age-Herald, in a report concerning the colored people of Memphis, says that there are ```markdown ``` 500 families there owning hands valued at $5,000 and upward. One widow owns an estate of $300,000 and a colored letter carrier is worth $150,000. The collection Savings Bank has over $100,000 in deposits and there are sixy colored letter carriers in the postoffice. The report to Congress on taxation in the District of Columbia shows how the burden of taxation falls upon the colored people and poor whites, while the rich people escape. The laborer's house is taxed at 90 per cent. of its value while the houses of millionaire are taxed at about 50 per cent. Hannibal Mo. is the seat of the largest colored insurance society west of the Mississippi. It is known as the Home Protective Association and has a membership of over 20,000. A factional fight has broken out between the colored and white branches of the longshoremen's union in Galveston, Tex. The locals, it seems, demanded that equal numbers of white and Negroes be employed in the cotton "jamming." It seems that only Negroes were employed and the whites are in bad temper. One feature of Labor Day this year has been the growth of its observance as a Negro holiday by workmen in the South. In Nashville, for instance, there were large crowds in colored parks and parades of colored unions. Colored playhouses had special bills. Published every Thursday by The Advocate Printing and Publishing Co., Inc. J. C. GHLMER, Editor. G. L. CUZZENS, Business Manager. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Charleston, W. Va., under Act of Congress of March 30, 1879. Office: Room 11 K. of P. Building. Phone 2185. RATES BY SUBSCRIPTION. By mail, one year..... $1.50 By mail, six months..... $1.00 By Mail, three months..... .50 "WE STAND AT ARMAGEDDON AND WE BATTLE FOR THE LORD." PROGRESSIVE-REPUBLICAN TICKET For President, Theodore Roosevelt, of New York. For Vice President. Hiram Johnson, of California. STATE TICKET. For Governor, Dr. H. D. Hatfield. For Secretary of State, Stuart F. Reed. For Supt. of Free Schools, M. B. Shawkey. For Commissioner of Agriculture Howard E. Williams. For Attorney General, A. A. Lilly. For Congressman-at-Large, Howard Sutherland. For Judges of Supreme Court, George Poffenbarger, Chas. W. Lynch. CONGRESSIONAL TICKET For Congress, Third District, Samuel B. Avis. SENATORIAL TICKET. For State Senate, 8th District, L. T. England. JUDICIAL TICKET. For Judge of Circuit Court, 10 District, S. C. Burdette. KANWAHA COUNTY TICKET For Sheriff, Bonner H. Hill. For Prosecuting Attorney, Thos. C. Townsend. For County Commissioner, Dr. M. P. Malcolm. For Assessor, Henry A. Walker. For House of Delegates, John Bannister, G. C. Reynolds, Adolph E. Scherr, A. C. Vandine, W. W. Wertz. Fog Justice of the Peace. C. W. Dering. Marion Gilchrist. G. D. Acree, Hansford F. Jenkins. THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY "The Miner, published at Hill Top, in Fayette Co., in which there is an Independent ticket supported by the Progressive party says: "Three, Independents were sent to Charleston two years ago and they voted with the Democrats to rob the Negro of their secret orders. Let us see to it that Horan, Midelburg and Gordon graze the house of delegates this year. Let us not endanger our rights by being fooled." That the Independents in the last Legislature did vote for the passage of the Carr Fraternal Society, bill, is true as The Miner states, but The Miner does not give all the facts in the case. The journal of the Hotse of Delegates for the regular session of 1911—page 510, shows that the iniquitous Carr bill received sixty-four "ayes" and four "mays," eighteen delegates being recorded as absent and not voting. The four who voted "no" were Epling, Republican, Ice, (of Barbour), Meridith and Smoot Democrats. If The Miner wanted to be fair why did it not say that the three Independents from that county voted with the Republicans and the Democrats "to rob the Negroes of their secret orders, for there were twenty-three Republican representatives and only one of the voted in the negative." From personal knowledge, the writer is able to exonerate from any evil intent many of those who voted for the measure, which bore a most innocent appearance and had no united opposition in the House. The lobby which opposed it was not organized; till it was on its third reading, and some of the gentlemen sat in the gallery of the House when the vote announcing its passage was read. They had arranged to make their fight in the Senate, with what success is a matter of history. What is here said is not intended to palliate the offense of the Democrat who introduced the bill nor of these who, knowing its purport, supported it. It was a Democeratic measures and the Democratic party must shoulder the responsibility, it is not all together fair to link Independents with the Democrats and let the Republicans escape what measure of condemnation is theirs. AT THEIR OLD TRICKS There is a remarkable unanimity of opinion among impartial observers of the political situation as it exists today, that Mr. Taft can not be elected, Mr. Roosevelt can be elected, and Mr. Wilson may be elected. Despite the frantic reiterations of the administration forces to the contrary, the belief is widespread that the President's hopes of re-election are not entertained by any considerable number who are in touch with political affairs. These make no secret of their belief that Mr. Taft is going to find himself, when the returns are all in, the most humiliated man who ever tried to succeed himself as President. Mr. Taft's defeat being certain, just as sure as death and taxes, why vot for him? It will simply be voting indirectly for Gov. Wilson. To do so on the grounds of party regularity, is to confess one's self-wedded to dead issues and reactionary policies, one to whom the idea of popular rule is abhorrent and who does not believe? "Thou Shalt Not steal!" The opposition press, the latest vermit to, which is, the McDowell Times, attempts to muddy the wa- ters by saying that a vote for Col. Roosevelt is a vote for Jim Crow cars, disfranchisement and racial oppression, because the Progressive party refused to allow Negroes to control its affairs in the Southern States. Allowing this to be true just for the sake of argument, would not a vote for Mr. Taft, who can not be elected, also be a vote for Jim Crow cars, disfranchisement and racial oppression, in that it would be cast indirectly for Gov. Wilson? But a vote for the Progressive ticket is not an endorsement of the evils to which these gentlemen allud, and they know it is not. True, the Progressive platform does not make any empty protest against these, as does the Republican platform according to aged custom, but the leading candidate of the Progressive party stands alone in offering a logical solution of the vexations problem of the races which the Republicans and Democrats alike have helped to complicate. By the adoption of his plans, the strained relations existing between the black man and the white man of the South would be wiped out, and the former would in time come again into his own. That, at least, is the hope. But should that hope fail of fruition, no harm will have been done, for surely conditions can not be any worse than they at now through Republican hypocrisy and Democratic ill will toward the Negro. COL. EDWARD'S CANDIDACY Of the men who have announced themselves as candidates for the United States Senatorship from this State or have been mentioned in connection with such a candidate, it is not possible to find one more available in every respect than William Seymour Edwards. It fills every requirement of this responsible position, lacking nothing in character, learning, experience nor wealth to make him the peer of any man who sits in that august body. Heretofore in West Virginia as in many other States, too little attention has been paid in the selection of Senators, to these first three qualities possessed by Col. Edwards to a marked degree. "Wealth" has been the open sesame to our highest legislative chamber, and no longer than 1911 here in Charleston was there verification of Bryce's statement to the flect that some men are Senators because they are rich. If Col. Roosevelt is elected President, and the prospects are growing each day that he will be—he can not carry through his progressive policies unless he has the support of a Progressive Congress composed of such men as Col. Edwards. If you are a Progressive, willing to participate in the movement to bring the government back into the hands of the people, you will vote for Republican candidates for the Legislature that these candidates, when elected, may recall Senator Watson and replace him with a man who will be a credit to the State. In its issue of Oct. 5th, the West Virginia Register says: "We are for Taft," and under that heading lauds the President and condemns Col. Roosevelt for his attitude toward the Colored brother of the South. There is something queer, devilish queer about this change of front on the part of the Register. About three weeks ago its editor expressed his faith in Col. Roosevelt, and the Progressive party and stated that his publication would support both, if a little money was forthcoming. Now, money is as scarce as hen teeth around Progressive headquarters; consequently, "there was nothing doing what he was thinking about." The Register, then Progressive, suspended publication a few weeks. It resumes, announcing itself for Taft. What's the answer? In their desperate attempts to estrange Negro voters from Col. Roosevelt, some portion of the subsidized Negro press and all the Negro Federal office-holders have harked back to the Brownsville affair. These gentlemen have evidently not heard of the effective manner with which Col. Roosevelt met this same old charge during the primary campaign in Ohio. Mr. Taft, with Mingo Sanders as exhibit "A." made it once. That was enough. Col. Roosevelt asked him if he had not recommended the discharge of the Black Battalion and, if he thought an injustice had been done to them, why he did not, exercising his authority as commander-in-chief, reinstate them Mr. Taft has not replied. Isn't there something significant in that SEVERAL MORE Says the Star of Zion: "Any church would be proud of Dr. Ransom (meaning Reverdy C.) for what he is, as the real man, and this reality of the true self often blooms and blossoms under circumstances seemingly at variance with the laws of growth; but it is there, and like the protoplasm it will not lose its identity, like Banquo's ghest, "it will not down." And we had been thinking all the time that any church placed a premium on sobriety and chastity in its pulpits. Evidently there is another thought coming to us. THE OLD FOX CAUGHT The credulous ones hereabouts who were film-flammed by R. L. Garrett, who struck this burg first as a newspaper solicitor and, finding such rich pickings, opened an undertaking establishment in partnership with the late J. M. Hazelwood, these credulous ones, his creditors, may get some comfort from the report that he is now languishing in jail at Wichita, Kansas, for being mixed up in a shady transaction. HOW IT ORIGINATED When Col. Roosevelt was leaving New York for Chicago to prevent, if possible, the Republican nomination being stolen from him, his reply to a query as to how he felt was: "Like a Bull Moose." The Progressives having appointed a national advisory committee, the Republicans followed suit. Which gives rise to the hope that in their next national convention they will have a few Negro delegates from the North. When you enter the polls on election day mark a cross on the ballot in the circle under the picture of Theodore Roosevelt. You will then have done your duty to the State and the Nation. Mr. Cyrus Filed Adama having published his regular quadriennial edition of "The Republican party and the Afro-American," will now return to his head and drawn work After a woman has been married a few years she quits trying the plans she cut out of newspapers to make home happy for her husband. With three big parties appealing for his vote, the Negro will begin to think that he is somewhat of a political factor—before election. The county courts in the several counties will sit Monday to revise the registration books. Are you registered? The official government report shows that the high cost of dying is almost equal to the high cost of living. There is absolutely no hope of beef getting cheaper, so let's return to our muttons. Your name must be on the registration books; otherwise, you cannot vote. The newspaper patriots of the Republican party are exerting every effort to win back the sympathy of the Negro voter. No subterfuge is beneath their solicitation, their last batch of news sent out for the consumption of Negro newspapers contains numerous highly colored misstatements for the purpose of showing the man of color how awful will be his lot if Colonel Roosevelt is elected. It is remarkably strange that the old line Negro leader still lives, exists and has his being in the dead past. They are seemingly unconscious of the fact that we live in an age of unusual intelligence. Their charges of which there is no proof or probability but which in themselves are wholly impossible to be true to the effect that the election of Colonel Roosevelt will mean the stagnation of business and the destruction of the Negro's rights in this country are too absurd for intelligent consideration. Yet it is this class of falsehoods, which by continued repetition thrue the many Taft paid organs of distraction and abuse, are circulated to mislead those who are already far misled. For forty years this same Republican Party that has the united support of the Negro voters who set idly by and permitted the disfranchisement of the Southern Negro with out a moral protest, yet we are told by their chief news disperser, Mr. Phil H. Brown, whose duty it is to convert the colored brother at any cost to the colored brother's honesty and respectability, that the Referendum, Initiative and Recall spell dire distress to the Negro race. Why does not that distinguished writer discuss the issue? The Progressive Party contends that the supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. The bone and sinew of chief Brown's argument is to the effect that the Negro must help to elect Taft in order that this remarkable prosperity, which he says goes "tagging around" with the Republican administration be continued. There is, of course, a difference between the kind of prosperity of which Mr. Brown writes and the kind the Progressive Party is fighting for. The Republican prosperity of the past has been distributed among the favored few, true enough that a few Negroes have been benefactors and if these few benefactors can justify themselves for having surrendered the rights of their race in order that they might accept the purchase price, they then ought to be permitted to rest in peace. Prosperity does not come from mismanaged administration. Prosperity springs from the boundless resources of the earth and with popular government and justice it travels hand in hand, meeting in good faith and returning to the honest toller, some of his legitimate fruits of his labor—the Progressive party contends that the true test of prosperity is the measureless benefits it confers upon the plain people. The Republican Press Agent seems to take delight in telling the country that the Republican party is alone responsible for prosperity. Does not that distinguished writer know that prosperity cannot be produced by legislation? Let it be understood once for all the debts cannot be paid by legislation. True, the debts may be abolished, in fact we may transfer property to visionary, violent laws, but we deceive both ourselves and our constituents if we falter either ourselves or them with the belief that there is any relief against the conditions which exist otherwise and under a system of constructive regulation of legitimate business free from confusion, uncertainty and fruitless legislation. This, and this alone, will produce a normal response to the energy and enterprise of the American business man. It is almost inconceivable that some learned, really well, meaning Negro editors and leaders should try to give the impression that the initiative, referendum and recall will jeopardize the liberty of the American Negro. Faith must indeed be wanting in the breast The New Party of the People Must Be Financed by the People The Progressive campaign fund is being raised by individual contributions from Progressive men and women Have you done your part in this proper and necessary work? Every person contributing one dollar to the Progressive campaign fund at any place where certificates are on sale or through the mails will receive a certificate as a CHARTER MEMBER of the Progressive party. Different certificates are given for larger amounts. Each one will come to have an historic interest, for each will prove its owner's active share in the most notable American movement since the Civil War. of any man who can see himself again in servitude. If he is honest in his convictions he is an unsafe leader by reason of his weakness and if he is making the argument, which the majority of them are, as paid advocates of the Republican party, they are unworthy of the confidence and respect of the race. The man or woman who would attempt to obscure all distinct views of public good, to overwhelm all patriotism and eulighten self-interest by loud cities of false danger is indeed an enemy to his race and should be so It would not be amiss at this time to turn the searchlight upon the record of some of those standup leaders of the race. What substantial progress has been made by reason of their leadership? Their record shows that in every real crisis they have abandoned the race to selfish motives. Their much boasted leadership had its birth in self-seeking selfish desire to enhance their own success at the expense of the race. Edwards a Candidate bore down upon the feeble ranks of a Democratic legislature, decimating its honor, destroying its virtue and committing a rape upon the Democracy of West Virginia to the exaltation of the Golden Calf and the shame of a noble state! "No more of these, no more of these! It is the spirit of service to the people that we will take up the fight for the rule of the people, for the rights of the plain people, and for the greatest principles of progressive living, political action in whose success we believe the salvation of the generation of today depends, the happiness and hopes of the generations of this republic yet unborn! "And right here, let us clearly define our position and declare to all men where we stand: "We stand for the same principles that Thomas Jefferson and the Revolutionary fathers stood for when they declared that "all men are created equal." We stand for the same principles that Abraham Lincoln stood for when he declared "that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." "We stand for all these! We are REGULAR Republicans in these! We are REGULAR Republicans since, standing for these immortal principles, we thereby stand for common honesty and against THEFT! For the regularity of HONESTY and not the IRREGULARITY that depends on and is delivered from the womb of THEFT! "So we declare ourselves to be REGULAR Republicans, and we do not yield the name to those political bandits who have the brazen effrontery to dare assume the name of Regular Republicans in order to shield their enornities behind the name! "We declare that the Progressive principles for which we avowed and openly stand are no less than those great principles enunciated by Thomas Jefferson, by Abraham Lincoln expressed again in this year of our Lord 1912, in the great Covenant with the People, the Platform of the Progress- THE WILSON TREATMENT "FOR LIBERTY." LIMITATION OF GOVERNMENTAL POWER INTEREST TRUST ROBERT CHAPTER Adopt the philosophy of limitation of governmental power and you will turn the industrial life of this country into a chaotic scramble of selfish interests, each bent on plundering the others and all bent on oppressing the wageworker.—Roosevelt at San Francisco. If you cannot buy certificates or stamps near home, cut out this coupon, pin it to a bill or check, and mail it to sive party in terms of modern, present day demands. "We Republican Progressives, We Progressive Republicans stand for the sublime enunciations of Thomas Jefferson for the glorious declarations of Abraham Lincoln, reincarnated in the equally glorious declarations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Chicago platform, of August, 1912." "We are fighting for a great cause. It is the people's cause. It is not the cause of the rich and the few. It is the cause of the not-rich and the many. It is the cause of the people in plain sight! We stand against those invisible and sinister forces which make for the stealthy and malign concentration of power and plunder in the hands of the few, the very few! We stand with Thomas Jefferson for the common man, with Abraham Lincoln for the plain people, with Theodore Roosevelt for all the people! And we declare to you that sooner, or it may be later, the people shall triumph and sham rule! "Withm this understanding.. Mr. Chairman, and with my feet planted upon these declarations, I will head what I believe to be the call of the people, and will go into the campaign and do my best. I will be your candidate for the senate of the United States." Unwelcome Visitor A pair of large eagles which are nesting on an inaccessible rock on the Daserberg mountain canton of Schwytz, Bavarla, have during the past two weeks "captured" four lambs, four kids, and one fox, which they have taken up to their nest before the eyes of the peasants. Cartor in Philadelphia Times. Novel Boudoir Clock Among curious clock novelties is the shadow boudoir clock. With it there is no need of getting up to strike a light or turn on the bulb. All that is necessary is to touch a button and the time is flashed on the wall, after the same fashion that signs are flashed on the sidewalk. When the owner of the clock retires he turns a night dial to the ceiling and when he presses a bulb the electric light reflects from the dial through the lens and appears, giving the correct time in shadow on the ceiling. In England and some other countries great progress has been made in recent years in the prevention of infant mortality. In this country an association has been formed, known as the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. The object of this society is to coordinate all the sanitary agencies for the express purpose of reducing the number of preventable deaths of babies. Nothing Much to Do! The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toll awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back—Semms. Got Back at the Judge Got Back at the Judge. A celebrated engineer, being examined at a trial where both the judge and counsel tried in vain to browbeat him, made use in his evidence of the expression, "the creative power of a mechanic," on which the judge rather tartly asked him what he meant by "the creative power of a mechanic." "Why, my lord," said the engineer, "I mean that power which enables a man to convert a goat's tail into a judge's wig." OFFERSTHREE LITERARY COURSES ENGLISH, ACADEMIC, NORMAL The image provided is too blurry and pixelated to accurately recognize any text or content. It appears to be a blank or heavily distorted image. Various Industrial Courses are Offered. Climate Healthful. Surroundings Good. DR. MARSHALL ON BOARD OF EDUCATION The appointment of Dr. Charles H. Marshall as the new colored member of the Board of Education while a total surprise to most people, gives eminent satisfaction to the rank and file of the citizens of the District of Columbia. He was the unanimous choice of the six Justices of the District Supreme Court, to which body the duty of electing the Board is delegated, and his associates freely express themselves as delighted to have the benefit of his wise counsel in the solution of the thousand and one delicate problems that confront them from time to time. Dr. Marshall is splendidly equipped for the work he has accepted at the hands of his fellow citizens. He has long been identified with the highest educational interests of the community and knows to a nicely the needs of the people at large and of his own race in particular. Of broad sympathies and ripe experience, he is acceptable alike to the masses and the classes, and is strong enough in mental poise and independence to be his own man on every proposition that is likely to confront him. He belongs to no clique and is the creature of no faction. He will be controlled by no influence save that of the honest and maturely-formed convictions of Charles H. Marshall. This is the opinion expressed of him by all who know him, and this policy will make his administration of the people's trust a brilliant success. Dr. Marshall is a graduate of the medical department of Howard University and has practiced in the District for twenty years. He is president of the Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Alumni Association of Howard University; a member of the Board of Censors of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia; member of the executive board of the National Medical Association; member of the consulting staff of Freedmen's Hospital and assistant in clinical gynecology in Howard Medical School; deacon of the 19th Street Baptist Church and chief of the staff of the free dispensary maintained by that church; member of the International Tuberculosis Congress held in this city in 1908; and was an alternate delegate elected by the citizens of the District to represent them at the republican national convention at Chicago last June. By thrift and industry the business acumen, Dr. Marshall has acquired considerable property in the District and may be reckoned as one of our "solid men." He is the first resident of Georgetown to be named on the Board of Education, and this growing section is proud of the honor that has come to it. Dr. Marshall is modest and unassuming, and will indulge in no "grand stand play" as a member of the Board. He knows how to work, and his usefulness to his constituents will be told in deeds and concrete results. rather than in glittering promises o showing pretentions. STUDY OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO The new attitude which Southern college men are assuming toward the matter of race relationships is most encouraging. In the tolerant, broad-minded friendliness of the rising generation of college men lies the hope of the Negro race. Eighteen months ago the Young Men's Christian Associations in colleges of the South launched a movement for a definite study of the problem of the Negro by white college men. Our most sanguine hopes did not lead us to believe that we would be able to get more than two thousand Southern college men studying this question within the first year. In fact, so timid we were that at our student conference, where we gathered leaders from all of the colleges of the Southast, we planned to invite personally a group of more mature and broad-minded students to enter this study. We felt that if they became genuinely interested each man could go back to his college and start a similar study group. We had no hopes that we could secure more than fifteen or twenty men in this conference for this study. The Negro course was announced as one of the seven courses in the study of home and foreign missions, and what was our amazement when we found that more than one-third of the students in the conference enrolled in the class of Negro study. These men going back into various colleges so encouraged a problem that during the term of 1910-11 we were able to enroll some four thousand college men in small groups in the study of this question. During the present college year of 1911-12 we have already enrolled six thousand men. Thus it will be seen that in the last eighteen months ten thousand Southern white college men have been giving some genuine study to the big problems that connect themselves with race relationship in the South. DR. BARNETT MARRIES Dr. C. C. Barnett, one of Huntington's most important colored citizens was married Wednesday night at Ironton, to Miss Clara Mathews, a nurse at the Barnett hospital on 8th avenue. The wedding came as a complete surprise, no indications having been made by either Dr. Barnett or his bride prior to the marriage that such a thing was contemplated. Dr. Barnett is a leading figure among members of his race in this city. He has practiced medicine here for many years, and has an established reputation for efficiency. A short time ago he founded the Barnett hospital for colored persons. His bride is a native of Farmville, Virginia, and a graduate of Lincoln hospital in New York City. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Irving, pastor of the M. E. Church at Ironton. THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. The banquet season will come on as soon as the campaign leaves the centre of the stage. "Bob" Pelham, the witty president of the Mu-So-Lit Club says there will be peace on the Board of Education now that it has a "Marshall." Certain voteless citizens of the District of Columbia make up in noise what they lack in the way of suffrage. The honorary roll of the Mu-So-Lit Club embraces Judge M. W. Gibbs, Little Rock, Ark.; W. T. Vernon, Jackson Miss.; W. A. Joiner, Wilberforce University, Ohio; J. Gerald Tyler, St Louis, Mo.; Charles H. Fearing, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.; Albertus Brown Toledo, Ohio, and J. Rosamond Johnson, New York City In the estimate of its needs for the coming year, the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia has asked for an appropriation of $5,000 for an industrial home for Negro children at Blue Plains, where a thriving industrial school for colored children has been established for a number of years. On the Board of Charities is one colder member, Professor George William Cook, the secretary of Howard University. The annual session of the General Baptist Association of the District of Columbia will be held at the Nineteenth street Baptist church on November 6, 7, 8, and 10. The Woman's Auxiliary will meet at the same time. The Association is composed of 38 Baptist churches in and around Washington, and is the medium through which these churches carry on their home and foreign mission work ministerial education and temperate reforms. Rev. M. W. D. Norrigan is president of the Woman's Auxiliary. W. H. C. Brown, of Washington and Norfolk, prominent in realty circles in both cities, has purchased the handsome property known as 1912 13th street. Clarence Cameron White, formally of this city, has written a berceuse for violin with piano, and the same has been published by the Thompson Music Company of Boston. Joseph H. Douglass, a noted violin virtuoso, a member of the faculty of Howard University, recently gave successful recitals in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Frankfort, Ky. Dr. Charles S. Harrison, for many years a clerk in the pension office, and one of the most popular young men in the society circles of the capital, died last Thrusday, after a brief illness, and was buried Monday, from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Stafford, with whom he had made his home for a long time. Miss Alice M. Hershaw, daughter of Mr. L. M. Hershaw, and a recent graduate of the Normal school has been appointed as a teacher in the night schools. Bright young men and women from many states have matriculated this year at Howard University. A record attendance is in process of enrollment. FOR RENT--Four room cottage with gas. Large lot,100 x 200 ft., adapted to raising chickens and hogs Rent reasonable. See T. G. Nutter, 604 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Kanawha Street. Mr. John Francis Wilkinson, Sr. one of the oldest Masons in the country, died suddenly last Saturday at his late residence, 901 E street, southwest The funeral took place Wednesday afternoon from Israel C. M. E. church, under the direction of the grand lodge F. A. A. M. for the District of Columbia, of which N. E. Wetherless is Grand Master and W. H. Myers is grand secretary. By the terms of the will of the late Miss Mattie V. Robinson, Lincoln Memorial church is given $10. Other bequests went to a friend, Miss Ida M. Better, the remainder of the estate was devised to her mother, Mrs. Lohisa L. Robinson. Mr Frank M. Langston is named as executor. The executive committee of the MuSo-Lit Club was handsomely entertained last Friday, evening by Mr. M. Graut Lucas at his cosy home, 2215 Fourth stret, northwest. Mr. G. Luther Sadgwar, chairman of the committee, conducted the ceremonies. A delightful luncheon was served by Mrs. Lucas. Mrs. Lucas, by the way, is studying medicine at Howard University and is in the last year of her course. The enrollment in the public schools has now overtopped the limit reached last year. The total in all white schools is 34,836 and the total in the colored schools is 15,306. There is, however, a decrease in the attendance of the colored children, of 233, and an increase in the white attendance of 224. In the night schools, which opened Monday the white enrollment stood 1,100 and the colored total was 1,199. The formal inauguration of Dr. S.M. Newman as president of Howard University will take place some time next month. Elaborate preparations are being made for the occasion, and visitors from far and wide will be present. In response to an urgent call from the chairman of the state and local committees, Register J. C. Napier, has gone to Tennessee to assist in the reelection of President Taft and Governor Hooper. Mr. Napier is an effective campaigner and his personal popularity with the citizens of both races in his home state will go far to bring that liberal commonwealth into line with the "grand old party." Mr. Napier will be gone until after the election. Assistant Register Cyrus Field Adams is "sitting on the lid" at the treasury department here. The fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the First Baptist church of Georgetown is being celebrated in fine style at the church, corner of 27th street and Dumbarton Avenue. The services are covering a period of two weeks, and are being conducted by Rev. E. E. Ricks, the energetic pastor. The church was established in 1862 by the late Rev. Sandy Alexander, and in its early days was called "The Ark." When the improvements are completed the church of today will be one of the most substantial edifices in the city. ARTER ASKS FOR $9,000 To all pastors, ministers, deacons and S. S. Superintendents, to all our churches, sunday schools., B. Y. P. U.'s, Women's M. Societies, F. M. Clubs, Men's Clubs, to all our people over the entire state greeting and gratitude for what you have done. We set out last year to raise $12,000 for Education. We raised somewhat over $3,000 and paid about $2,000 on the outstanding debt besides paying the president and financial agent and doing several hundred dollars worth of work on the building. Remember "not failure is crime, but low aim." We "How Will This Cloth Look When Its Made Up"? You can't judge before hand how cloth in the piece will look when its made up. A man picking a suit from a sample of the cloth has been disappointed in the final result. SOPHIA HILL. ALFRED DICKER. Then, its too late to change his selection. That’s the advantage in buying Frankenberger’s Ready for Service suits. You can try suit after suit until you find the only suit fits your fancy and your form. You need not make your purchase until you are satisfied. There’ll be no disappointment if the quality of the clothes and the making, either for our clothes are guaranteed all wool and to give absolute satisfactory service. Its the only safe way to buy clothes. You’re protected against disappointment from the time you try on the suit until the last day you wear it. We are showing the largest and best line of Suits and Overcoats in the city at Society Brand Clothes Franken OUR MOTTO: "BEST FOR TH Frankenberger & Co. cannot afford to aim low. Let $9,000 for Education be the goal aimed at this year. Many churches and schools, W. M. Societies, F. M. Clubs, etc., did nobly last year. Let those that did little last year make special effort this year. Let us all, God helping us, determine to do better this year than, last. Begin now, mend your paces at once, 14 rooms have been plastered but not finished. We have the names of societies and individuals who have pledged to finish five rooms. The Women's Convention of the Flat Top Ass'n sent $100, to finish 2 rooms. The Women's M. Society of Prudence, W. Va., have sent in $28 on their room. Others have sent in $1.00 or more on their rooms. 9 rooms yet of the 14 remain to be provided for. Now is the time to show your colors, your loyalty, your patriotism, your big heart. We need the rooms, Students are coming in and we have to find homes for them on the outside. The president and financial agent plans to reach every church community this year, begin to get ready for his coming right now. Don't say when he comes if you had let us know. Remember he is coming let us save more and work harder this year. Beef, Veal Mutton, Pork Fresh Pork Sausage, Our Own Make Tip Philosophy. "Pink, I'm afraid you are wasting your time brushing my hat. I don't seem to have anything smaller than a $10 bill." "I kin change dat all right, boss." "Then you don't need the tip. So long, Pink"—Chicago Tribune. The best qualities in all popular kinds of Fact 1. Taft cannot be elected. Fact 2. Roosevelt can be elected. Fact 3. Wilson might be elected. Fact 4. The election of Wilson surely means tampering with the income of the business man the wage-carner and the rest of the American public. We want your patronage for we have complete stock in our lines and you can get it when you want more. Fact 5. It is up to the American voter to defend his income, upon which must always depend his outgo. Fact 6. The only way for the American voter to defend his income is to prevent the election of Wilson by voting for Roosevelt. Who Will Pay It, YOU, Or The Prohibitionists? "The amount of West Virginia's part of the Virginia State debt, as ascertained by the Supreme Court of the United States, exclusive of interest, is something over $7,000.000. There are about 250,000 voters in West Virginia and a simple calculation shows that the finding of the Supreme Court saddles a debt of $28.00 per voter upon the people of the State" ---Parkersburg Sentinel, Sept. 30. In round numbers the State of West Virginia collects annually from the liquor interests, revenue amounting to $650,000.00 This is nearly one-half the total revenue for state purposes. Wipe this out by adopting the Prohibition Amendment and every voter will have an additional debt of $2.60 to pay, or a total of $30.60 added to his taxes. How many voters will stand for increased taxes? Look over your last tax receipt. Add $30.60 more in taxes to it and then ask yourself---Will Prohibition pay The Taxpayers' Protective Association of West Virginia