The Advocate

Speaker Quotes Statistics to Show That State-Wide Prohibition is a Force, no Attempt Being Made in Many Cities to Enforce its Provisions. Although Local nature has Passed Every Conceivable Law to That End. Address of Hon. Cyrus W. Davis, Secretary of the State of Maine, delivered before the Tax Payers' Protective Association of West Virginia, at Charleston, Monday evening, October 14th, at 12. My Fellow Countrymen: It is a rant pleasure to me to look into the faces of this splendid American audience. I regard you as patriots and not as partisans. There is, in fact, little room in this great country of ours for partisanship. There are very many illuminated pages in American history; pages which have lighted up with lustre undimmed, our centuries of colonial and of national life. The first of them were written by the Old Dominion State of which your commonwealth was once a part; and the student of history anxiously scanning the future for a sure sign of what America is to be, can do no better than to turn occasion I think I may safely go further and address you as statesmen and as optimists. My ideas of statesmanship and of optimism may differ slightly from others, but I cannot help feeling that a real definition of statesmanship is not the one given by a facetious congressman of my own state, as a "politician who is dead," but within the average American citizen with a thoroughly educated brain enlightened conscience and devotion to the ideals of the greatest republic the world has yet known. I have but little patience with some of our modern types of statesmanship; with men who see in one political party all the evils of public life and in the other political party all the virtues of public life; the man who insists in changing the national anthem from "My Country," "Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, of Thee I Sing," so that it will read "My Country "Tis of ME, Sweet Land of Liberty, of ME, I sing." I somehow feel that the statesman whom you and I believe in is the man who is able to impress the loftiness of the ideals for which he stands, upon his country rather than his own personality. I am not worried when such a man dies, for I know that his ideals will survive. Party tags are not everything, for citizenship should always be greater than party. Occasionally, you will find notable exceptions to this, as in the case of an arden' democrat of my acquaintance in one Pine Tree State, who has always prided himself on being a member of the party of Jefferson. In a recent discussion of 'the relative merits of the Republican, Progressive and Democratic parties, he expressed himself in this wise: "The elephant is a pretty slow fellow. He can carry a tremendous load, but he hasn't an abundance of gray matter." The Bull Moose is a misfit name for any party. The Bull Moose's naturally a coward. He runs at the approach of danger, he smells badly, he leaves his wife on the slightest provocation, and he devours every green leaf and twig in his pathway. It is true that my party is sometimes characterized by the title Jackass. Now the Jackass has one desirable qualification as a party emblem these days. You who have attended the circus, have, of course, noticed the jackass act, where the clown offers a reward to the fellow who can ride him, and you have seen them make the attempt and with what disastrous results as they were thrown in every direction. Do you see the point? There isn't a political boss on earth who can ride the democratic jackass. My friends, I assure you, that, is my only allusion to anything of political nature, in my address this evening, and you are no, obliged to make any application of it. You men of West Virginia come honestly by your high ideals of citizenship. It is a part of your colocal inheritance. Way back centuries ago on a beautiful day in June all England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales were marching as one man to that historic spot known as Runnymede. They were opposed only by King John and a few barons of the north. They were there for a purpose, and that purpose to establish for themselves the rule of the people, and upon that historic spot that day, there was set up a milestone in English history, for there was enacted that famous Bill of Rights known today by every school boy and girl in America as "Magna Charta." One clause of that famous bill reads something like this: "We will not go out against one man, proceed against him, nor disposses him of his rights, except through the judgment of his peers." The court no longer followed the king from place to place and trial by jury was established. These ideals came down o There are very many illuminated pages in American history; pages which have lighted up with lustre undimmed, our centuries of colonial and of national life. The first of them were written by the Old Dominion State of which your commonwealth was once a part; and the student of history anxiously scanning the future for a sure sign of what America is to be, can do no better than to turn again and again, as I have done, to Virginia past. On a beautiful day in April, 1684, two staircase ships commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to find a northwest passage to China, set sail from old England, and under the leadership of Walter Raleigh, on July 4, a day destined to become the birthday of the nation, landed on the American coast; found a harbor and took possession in the name of his Queen. And this was his report: "A land the most beautiful and sweet in all the world, and the people such as live after the manner of the Golden Age." For this discovery Raleigh was knighted, and the new land bore the Queen's malden name. Virginia. From that time Virginia's history began and has continued unbroken to the present time. Thomas Nelson Page has well said: "Her history belongs not to the present Virginia alone, it is the heritage of every state carved from the mighty empire once embraced within her borders. She brought forth a new civilization where character, sincerity and honor were new badges of citizenship." Washington, Jefferson Madison Henry and Mason were no accidents. They were the natural products of a government with such ideals of citizenship: Virginia like the old New England colonies had remained a beacon light of the world because she has a foundation; a triple foundation, if you please; ownership of soil, self-government, adherence to Christian faith. These foundations were charter rights, renewed again in 1606, 1609 and 1612, and were the basis of the liberties for which we fought in 1776 when England forgot righteousness and forgot Runnymede. These foundations made possible men like Senator Willey, whose broad statesmanship did so much in your time of trial, to safely carve from the 24,000 square miles of territory—this mighty wedge between Ohio and Pennsylvania and Maryland and bounded on the east by the sky-kissed summit of the Allegranies—a state which has become a star in the grand galaxy of states, shining with as pure a lustre as any of them. Senator Wilty saw the future of West Virginia with the vision of a true prophet when in his plea before the United States Senate, in summing up his argument for the state's autonomy, he said: "West Virginia like a newly discovered star—East Virginia and West Virginia twin stars—shall hereafter shine with ever increasing lustre in the zodiac of states encircling our Western Hemisphere." My fellow countrymen, because we believe in foundations of government; foundations which forced their way down through shifting sands and glare and top soil of public opinion to the bed-rock of eternal verities, we are optimists, optimists some of us, I fancy, with the same cheerful temperament possessed by Burdett's hero, who when he fell from a tenth story window could count the stories as he shot downward, and who in passing the last one said "Well, it's all right so far." Let politicians who are afraid take a day off and read history. Let them begin with Virginia, let them go to Mount Vernon and to Monticello. Let them listen again to the patron saint of democracy, Thomas Jefferson, and hear these words of wisdom as they ring down the centuries: "All men are created equal. Governments for their perpetuity must rest upon the consent of the governed." We have been building some worthless scheme of government upon this old foundation, and if we have they will prove a house of cards, and the house will rise no higher than the selfish ambitions of the builders. When our American scheme of government builted upon the old foun- CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1912 NURTLE I THINK I WOULD SAVE THIS ONE! MISS COLUMBIA DEM.PARTY PROGRESSIVE COPE COMMON PEOPLE Tapping Thomas Jefferson An Old Habit Continued by Harry Stillwell Edwards The Recall as Expounded by T. R. Justified by the Economic Writings of T. J., who was Long the Fount of all Blessings on a Certain Placid Daily, Says Author Edwards. We have some authors who are good politicians, and we have some good politicians who are authors. Finally, we have some good authors who are good politically. In this classification comes Harry Stillwell Edwards. His career began quite a number of years ago when he took up a paste brush, scissors, and a trenchant pen in a Georgia newspaper office. He himself best described it by saying that he joined the journalistic brotherhood on a placet Southern daily that dealt six times a week with economic questions and rested on the seventh. Those were the early days. Since then Mr. Edwards has done a number of things. In 1900 he became a postmaster. In 1904 he seconded the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for the South. Incidental to his duties as postmaster, he once took the time necessary to win a $10,000-prize from the Chicago Record-Herald in a field of 817 competitors. This competition was open to the entire world of authors. His prize contribution was "Sons and Fathers." Mr. Edwards not only writes poems and songs, but runs a postoffice, and dictates a novel with equal fine art. Also among his other well-known works are "The Marbeat: Cousins" and "The Two Runaways." Tapping Thomas Jefferson. (By Harry Stillwell Edwards.) It so happened that I joined the journalistic brotherhood on a placid southern daily that dealt six times a week with economic questions and rested on the seventh. The seventh was a day of rest for its constituency also. The fount of all our blessings in those days was Thomas Jefferson, familiarly known about the office as "T. J." The editorial corps, myself trailing, tapped Thomas for economic argument wherever we could find an opening, and where we could not find a ready made opening, we were free to sink shafts, so to speak, and we never failed to strike oil. He was our widow's cruze. It was thus we handled the great theory of free trade, that iridescent dream of every university man who had fed at the Cobden crib. By change of leadership on the journal that commanded our genius, we approached, later, a season of tariff for revenue with incidental protection, taking T. J. with us. He stood ready with the goods when we called on him. And how we bled him! Later, after Mr. Cleveland's first experiments and the southern manufacturers began to jog our cibows, we hardened up into a tariff for protection with incidental revenue. Did we leave Thomas? Never! He still there with better goods hitherto overlooked; and he in better wet From Democrat through Independent we had drifted to Samuel J. Randall, and soon after to McKinley for Randall had been slain by Cleveland's final flop to the Carlisle wing of the Democracy. Believe me or not, as you may, I haven't the time or the documents now, but T. J. went with us right up to T. R., though by this time I had quit the field of unmixed fiction to become the writer of stories that might have happened. Lately, when called on by the patriotic band of story writers, who know a real man when they see him and are now keeping eyes on T. J. to join them in livening up the desolate columns of the press and help in the great fight, which, whether it brings victory or not, must forever remain the guest combat in American history. I got out my thumb-worn Thomas Jefferson and invoked the aid of his many-sided spirit in my search for accomplishments of T. R. It was like going back home. All my old underscored favorites were there, hedges, hypothes and flowery fence corners. And long lost friends stood smiling with hands outstretched across the tariff line from both sides; all the pros and cons and cons and pros. But I was in the treaty-years-after class and nothing seemed to fit T. R. except the general democracy and progressiveness of T. J. You see T. J. was not a Bull Moose. He wasn't even an elk. The good old Latin word "cervus," which stood for deer, held for him no significance. And we would probably have regarded it as a call from the people and have spelled it "serve us." He was the servant of the people, not their warrior. There were no San Juans in his history. In brief, he had no horns. How then to take T. J. for T. R.? Only my faith in this Shakespeare or Bacon of modern politics saved the day. I found a letter of his to John Taylor containing these remarkable words: "My opinion originally was that the president of the United States should have been elected for seven years, and be forever ineligible afterward. I have since become sensible that seven years is too long to be irremovable, and that there should be a peaceable way of withdrawing a man in midway who is doing wrong." A peaceable way! Not by war of words and a battle of passions and a muckrake. Not by impeachment which rests on crime or its equivalent. There should be a way to withdraw him midway! How withdraw him? Impeachment is knocking out. T. J. Means the man should be recalled from the White House to private life—by the people; and those should be some peaceable way; some way not then or now provided by the constitution. Here, then, is the principle of recall beyond even T. R.'s demand. The chief executive of the nation, under the Jeffersonian plan, could be yanked out of his chair and deposited in his old private rocker on the front porch at Cross Keys or Smith's Corners by the flutter of a few ballots, and no bloodshed. Good Old Tom. Encouraged, I dived into the Jeffersonian autobiography. I like autobiographies because, while they always fail to tell the truth they never fail to reveal it. It was so in the case of T. J. He gave us the constitution, and clearly it was the best product of his fine mind. He did not, to my knowledge, criticise his handiwork but he spent the rest of his life knowing that he believed that it could be (Continued on Page Two.) Bullet of Assassin THREATENS THE LIFE OF THEO, DORE ROOSEVELT, PRO- GRESSIVE LEADER. Escape From Death Was Narrow, X-Ray Examination Showing That Missile Came Dangerously Near. Penetrating the Lungs of the Famous Statesman. Milwaukee, Wjis., Oct. 14.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt was shot last night in the left breast as he was leaving the Hotel Gilpatrick, to make a political address. The assassin, who later gave his name as John Schrank, 3790 Tenth street, New York, was seized immediately by members of Col. Roosevelt's party and narrowly escaped summary vengeance. The Colonel spoke to the crowd of angry persons, and prevented any harm being done his assassin. Apparently, Mr. Roosevelt did not seem to mind the incident, and continued across the street, to his automobile. Although wounded, he never finched, and waved to the crowd as he was taken to the auditorium to make his address. Friends and physicians asked him to re-enter the hotel for treatment, but he refused. Perfectly composed, the Colonel went to the auditorium and delivered his address. Gradually he grew weak from loss of blood, and an hour and a half after he was taken to the Emergency hospital. It was found that the wound was not serious, and Mr. Roosevelt left the hospital walking unassisted, at 11:25. "I am feeling fine," he said. At midnight, he left for Chicago. How It Happened. An X-Ray of Col. Roosevelt showed that the ball had lodged in the chest wall and did not penetrate the lungs. The wound, it was said, was not serious. The shooting took place in front of the Hotel Gilparick. After dinner Mr. Roosevelt went to his room, on the second floor of the hotel, and shortly after 8 o'clock left for the auditorium. A big crowd had assembled in front of the hotel to catch a glimpse of the Colonel as he started off. With him were Philip Roosevelt, a young cousin, Mr. Cochems, Mr. Martin, and Capt. Girard. As the party neared the auto, the crowd stood aside to permit the Colonel to enter the machine first. The assassin, who was standing in the crowd, raised his gun and fired. Martin caught the flash and leaped over the car a moment after the bullet sped on its way. The Colonel barely moved as the shot was fired. Before the crowd knew what had happened, Martin, who is six feet tall, and a former football player, had landed on the assassin's shoulders, and had borne him to the ground. He threw his right arm around the man's neck with a deathlike grip, and with the left hand he disarmed him. Colonel Roosevelt stood calmly looking on as though nothing had happened. Martin picked the man up as though he were a child, and carried him the few feet which separated him from the car. "Here he is," said Martin. "Look at him!" "Lynch him! 'Kill him!" cried hundreds in the crowd, which pressed in on them, until Martin and Captain Girard, who had followed Martin, were caught in the midst of a crowd of struggling, maddened men. It seemed for a moment that he would be gored to death, and it was Colonel Roosevelt who interfered on his behalf. He raised his hand, and motioned the crowd back. "Stop, stop," he cried, "don't hurt him." Colonel Roosevelt's party were quickly driven to the auditorium and on the way the Colonel reached his hand beneath his coat and brought it out stained with blood. "It looks as though I had been hit," he said, "but I don't think it's serious." The crowd at the auditorium was notified and sat thunderstruck. A cry went up suddenly, and all was confusion, until Colonel Roosevelt advanced to the edge of the stage, when all became silent. "I am going to ask you to be very quiet," he said. He then delivered his speech, and was taken to the Emergency hospital. --- "Catching up with Europe" A Story of the Progressive Party Platform Planks by Merwin Since the days of His Youth Some Twenty and 40 Years Ago, Samuel Merwin has Been Living an Active Life. One Moment as an Editor, and the Next as a Writer of Virile Fiction. He is Author of "Calumet K," "The Citadel," Etc. BY SAMUEL MERWIN The platform of the National Progressive party marks the first intelligent, consistent effect on the part of any American political party to insure "the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice." The carrying out of this sweeping promise means nothing less than effective legislation looking to the prevention of industrial accidents, occupational diseases, overwork, involuntary unemployment and other injurious effects incident to modern industry. June 30, 1899; April 12, 1906; July 18, 1907; May 29, 1909. SPAIN. Law of Jan. 30, 1900 de Reformas Socales...pp. 9-13, Madrid, 1905. RUSSIA. Law of June 2, (15) 1903, Concerning Compensation for Accidents to Injured Workmen as Employees, as Well as to Memb of Their Families in Factories, ing and Metallurgical Establishments. Of the lesser European nations, Norway enacted laws covering these evils in 1894; little Finland in 1895; Denmark in 1898; Netherlands in 1891; Sweden in 1894; Luxembourg. The problem of yesterday was to build up industry and commerce. The problem of today is to build up a strong people, for without a strong people the industries themselves would fall. The new understanding of "social and industrial justice" is based on this tremendous fact—on the fact that an industry which in building its own success tears out the heart and fiber of its workers and throws its human husks on the great national waste heap as an unconsidered charge on the community is an unsound industry. The new party recognizes at the start that in this day of colossal industries whose operations are necessarily interstate, that have really nationalized themselves, no uniform, consistent legislation and control can be expected from forty-eight different and differing states. The problems are national; the solution must be national. Therefore, the national government must be committed to the great task of establishing, for the first time in our history as a people, something approaching this "social and industrial justice." The solutions proposed are new—to us. Are they new to the rest of the world? If not, must we admit that the United States is behind the rest of the world in approaching them? Must we face the thought that perhaps we stand today as the most ignorant and backward great nation in the world? We chuckled, a few years ago, when a speaker of the National House declared, "this country is a hell of a success." Must we now admit the chastening thought that he and we were wrong that these rather revolutionary new proposals are not in any sense daring and dangerous experiments, are not at all devastating "anarchistic" dreams, but are actually today part of the settled governmental policy of the great commercial nations that are our rivals in the world's trade—that this particular country which was founded on the supposed "rights of man" today limps hattingly one, two, three decades behind Europe in the very essentials of progress. Everey detail of the social and industrial plank in the Progressive platform is today a settled fact of law, of business policy and of governmental action in Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain and Sweden. All of these nations have adopted the general principles of "social insurance" covering (1) accidents, (2) sickness, (3) maternity, (4) invalidity, (5) unemployment, (6) widows and orphans. Disregarding acts affecting only selected groups of workmen, the following list shows the order in which the various countries enacted laws providing for national systems of Accident Compensation or amending laws already in force. GERMANY. Employer's Liability Act ( Reichsgesetzblatt, 1871; p. 207; 1896, p. 616. Industrial Accident Insurance Law, Reichsbesetzblatt, 1900, pp. 347 and 585. Law of June 30, 1900, amending the Accident Insurance Laws, Reichsgesetzblatt, 1900, pp. 335 and 573). AUSTRIA. Law relating to the insurance of workmen, (Reichsgesetzblatt, Jan. 1, 1888. Law relating to the Extension of Accident Insurance, Reichsgesetzblatt, Aug. 8, 1894, No. 168). GREAT BRITAIN. Workman's Compensation Act of 1906 (Public General Acts, 6, Edward VII., 1907, pp. 325-348). ITALY. Codified Text of the Law Relating to Industrial Accidents to Workmen (Codification Approval by Royal Decree, No. 51, Jan. 31, 1904) FRANCE. Act of April 9, 1898. Relating to the Responsibility for Accidents in which Workmen Are Injured During Their Employment, as Amended by the Acts of March 22, 1902; March 31, 1905, and April 17, 1906 (other Acts extending and amending the provision of this Act, June 30, 1899; April 12, 1906; July 18, 1907; May 29, 1909). SPAIN. Law of Jan. 30, 1900 de Reformas Sociaales...pp. 9-13; Madrid, 1905). RUSSIA. Law of June 2, (15) 1903, Concerning Compensation to Accidents to Injured Workmen at Employees, as Well as to Memb of Their Families in Factories, ing and Metallurgical Estaments. Of the lesser European nations, Norway enacted laws covering these evils in 1894; little Finland in 1895; Denmark in 1898; Netherlands, 1901; Sweden, 1901; Luxemburg, 1902; Belgium, 1903; Hungary, 1907. In the Eastern Hemisphere, New Zealand met the problem in 1900; South Australia in 1900; Western Australia in 1902; Queensland in 1905. The Transvaal enacted compensation laws in 1907, following the Cape of Good Hope, in 1905. On our own continent we find British Columbia enacting such laws in 1902; Alberta in 1908; Quebec in 1909. Beginning with the year 1871, moving far forward in 1884, and enacting advanced legislation as recently as July, 1912, our two greatest industrial rivals have carried through far-reaching, really revolutionary programs designed to work out in the conservation of human resources without laying any real additional burden on legitimate wealth or on the productive activity of their people. In fact, Germany's industrial development since 1884 has been one of the marvels of modern history. The belief that this development is due in large part to Germany's pioneer work in making the democratic campaign of life-saving a conscious national policy appears to be supported by the fact that of Germany's European rivals have been compelled, one after another, to follow her along this same road of conscious social reform. Says Prof. John L. Stewart, of Lehigh University, "Through our industrial Codes Great Britain, Belgium, France, Austria-Hungary, and particularly Germany, have safesafeguarded the present generation by comprehensive laws relating to the labor of women and children. In the United States the disparity in state laws is a source of great confusion. Not only does such inequality render enforcement of law difficult, but the states with regulation well advanced law burdens upon merchants and manufacturers against their competitors across the state line which they consider unfair. The delegation of Germany establishes a minimum standard for the protection of women and children and it is expressly provided that nothing shall prevent the different states of the Empire from enacting more stringent laws. The industrial position of children and women in many of our states has no parallel in modern economic Europe. In view of this halting attitude, which may be expected in many of the states where the need of reform is greatest federal action is necessary. This would establish a standard below which the nation cannot permit any of its parts to fall. "As an additional instrument for protecting the economically weak there has been developed the minimum wage standard. This was first applied in 1896 in Victoria and later in the other Australian states and New Zealand. Ninety-one trades are now regulated and wages have risen all around the standard instead of the minimum wage becoming the standard wage, as Governor Wilson asserts would be the case. Great Britain in 1909 passed a Minimum Wage Act which fixes the minimum rate to be paid for time or piece work in chain-making, tailoring, cardboard box and machine lace-making. As a result of this law the lowest wages paid in these trades have been raised from 50 per cent. to 80 per cent. This year Great Britain enacted a minimum wage law for all underground workers in coal mines. Germany has also provided for wage boards; and France, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland have similar bills under consideration." These are a few—a very few—of the facts behind the proposal of the Progressive Party platform. in the light of these facts does that platform appear very "nangerous?" Does it not rather seem to be the case that while we of the United ©€@RRESPONDENCE | ALL WEEK | Free WITH EACH SUIT Consisting of Coat. Pants and Vest or Overcoat Ordered ‘(ESUITS AND OVERCOATS § ai $14 . / WITHOUT VESTS y $13 Mc to Measure | ade to fit CAM KELLER ' 11 Capitol St. ; * Next Door to Kanawha Valley Bank le pee HARPERS FERRY On Friday eveniag, Oct. 11th, i réfebtion was tendered the new stu cehts under the direction of the Wo ‘man’s League and Lincoln Debatin- Fobiety of Storer college. ‘The first part. of the brening as given ove: eto,a musical and liéfdry program: After the program, wps panslered th reteption took the' ferrsor a soci! affair. The new students were in- troduced and made to feel at home. Games wore playel,.and refyesl- ments served. Everyone had an en- Joyable ume. It was with regres thit the party: browRaap withs ‘tic sounding of the qua agri ten bell. Mr. Best, the chain at the com- mittee on nominatiny of new Sunday scHool officers for 1912-12 reported as follows: Superintendent, Proi ‘Sgunders, assistant superintendent, Mr. Winters; Treasurer, Miss BE. V, Smith; secretary, Lioyd Po Fisker agsistant, William Reddix: organist. Miss Florence Young; assistant, Join Zeigler; chorister, Miss. . Virginia Crawford; assistant, \iiton Johnson The W. C. 'T. U. fad a good meet. ‘mg last Wednesday night ai Mrs. Moorés;"in Boliver. They are very enthusiastic workers im the tem: horance ‘cause. The members are loyal, upholders of the prohibition chusd? Mrs. Mary Harris Armor. of Geor- gia, orator on temperance, made a chapel speech on Friday morning Mrs. Armour is an ¢xceptionally fine sieaker, She has the power of cas. nying her audience along with het ‘The students gave her a great ovat ign when her speech was finished ‘The young ladies of the Senior class have formed tthemselves into Literary Club, under the, direction Of Miss Smith. The young ladies meet each Thursday evening and dis- gyre some eurrent topic. Much in- rest and enthusiasm is shown by (ye members. "Mrs. Me. Donold 1s able to iake her Mlace in the school. Her classes greeted her sladly.. yj Miss Horton, muste teacher of last year, has this fall accepted the cail 8 take charge of the music depart- ent of Wilberforce university. ©The young ladies of Myrtle have Yoluntarily formed ‘themselves ints a bible study class. Each Sunday afternoon the class meets. Mis: Smith kindly gives her time as it structor aid heljer, ¢ EAGLE, Rev. B. A. Brooks closed his twe Weeks meeting last Wednesday night He had the aszistance of Rev, J. ¥ Bryant, of Huntington, the first week Ten ‘ave been added to the church, M:s. Lizaie Winston went co the Sheltering Arms Hospital Thursday ‘for treatment. She was accompanied by her daughter Mrs. Eva B. Ross. * Naval Lewis and vi-ter, Miss Louice of Montgomery were calling on Mrs Willie J. Miller Sunday afternoon. Miss Ada Lewis and Mr. — Jessie Carter were quietly married Wedhes- day evening at the home of bride’ parents, Mr, and Mrs. Chas. Lewis, in the presence of a few friends. Rev B. A. Brooks officiated Mrs. Dora Simons was shopping in Meatgomery Friday Jas. Ross visited his mother-in: law at the Sheltering Arms Hospital Sunday, Mrs. Eva B. Russ and Mrs. Williv J. Miller met with the Womans Im Drovement League, of Montgomery, at the home of Mrs. Ada Shepard Thurs- day. Mrs, Lucy Dow, Hattie Clayton and Stella Cosby were shopping in Mont. Komery last week Mrs, Willi: Whiting, of Montgom- ely ws the guest of her aunt, Mrs Emma Teagne, Sunday Mrs. Orange Page — catertained friends at dinner Sunday CHARLESTON HOTEL BROWN ARRIVALS: Mrs. Mattie Mitshell, Smithers. Mr. and Mrs, Adams Clifton Forge, J Vay Mr and Mrs. WH. Washington Louisa, Vie; J. H. King, Riverside: OMe and Mrs RO. Cary, Sewell: Mes L. MeKinley, Roanoke, Mpp Mrs B. Penn, Mostzomery; C.D King, Lexington, Va; L. Chandler, Fairmont: J. H. Caxpbell, Clenden- Onin: 1. W. Willams, Columbia Sot. Mrs. Blanche Waris, Mrs. Mamie | Briscoe, Newark, No J: Mrs. Jyh Layton, Washiagton, D.C.; Mrs, Lau.’ ra Smith, Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs, Anderson, Boomer: Chas. Lee, Ray mond City: Mr. and “rs, Fred Quar- les, Covington, Va.: Miss Lizzie Bas- gy. Lynchburg, Va: H. S. Sterling. Collier: Hannah "iis, Covington, Vac: Mr. and Mrs. tas. McCarver, Carbon: Harvey ‘Taempson, Wit fred; and Waoe Keat, South Car- bon. were guests at Hotel Brown this week Te Discuss Probibition Amend. ment.—The proposed amendment to the constitution to prohibit the sate of intoxicants throushout the State will be thoroughly discussed by 2 number ot able speakers at the K. of P. hall, Monday night, it is annouced A band will be. on hand to furnish: music and those having the meetine in hand are hopefi? of a large attend- anee. Opening cf Vance Season—Prep- arations are about completed for the opening of the dance season on the evening of the 25th, instant. When Muss Gilmer's piyéteal culture club whi ‘ove its initial pall, Wright's saxa; ove orchestra of Columbus, 0. has oem secured, orders have been , Placed for plants, flowers and bunt- ing for Gecorative.».:1poses, and the refreshment committee shas decided upon the menu. It has leaked ont that the competition between the ladies as to whose costume will be the prettiest will preduce some won- derfu) creations in that line. | Undertaking — Establishment.—1t _ is currently reported that J. C. Cam»- bell, who came over from Washington _ for a few days last week, has secured | an option on the eq tipment former!y owned by Hazlewood & Garrett, fun- , eral directors, and will soon” return "to this city to reopen the business. This being Mr: Campbell's birthplace end the home of his people he would doubtless meet witl success shoult , he determine to enter into the ven- ture, : PERSONALS AND LOCALS. W. J. Thompson, formerly Iosted here rs Grand Cnancellor, of the Knights of Pythias, passed throus't the city last night going from his | home at Thomas to Raleigh county to deliver a few speeches for the Re- publican state ticket. G. E. Mitchell,‘ siness. manager of the WW. Va. Colored Institute, and A. W. Curtis, head of the depart- ment of agriculture in the same in- stitution, went to Louisville, Ky.; ; Wednesd:y night to purchase a num- ber of mules for use on the farm Dr. J. B. Brown, who has been coaching for a number of years the foot ball team of thy W. Va. Colored Institute, accompaaied the team to Wilberforce where trey have a game scheduled for Friday. Mrs, Bo R. Reed nd Mrs, Julia Henley are making preparations +0 serve dinner to the ~4or. Donations Will be received by the ladies at 606 Pemberton Ave Mrsc. Rose Thompson was hostess to the Loyal Union, Monday evening, |The “trip around ihe world" will start from the home of Mrs. Maria Alexander, Sentz St The Improvement League was enter- tained by Miss Webster at the hom of Mrs. Muse, last veek. Mrs. Bal- lard Brooks will be Lostess to the League, this week A reception will he tendered Rey. ©. H. Sheen, the naw pator of Si, Paul A.M Be-ohurea Monday ever: ing, ‘The affatr will be given at the chureh, Mrs. Rosa Warre: entertainted at her home of Summers street Monde} evening complimentary to Miss, Julia lrving, of Malden, H. UW. Hundley, past Grand Master of the Masons, was « business visitor bere yesterday, . Mrs. Rosa Brgnch, of Page was a guest of Mrs, Nanaje Warren, last week. oF) Miss OvaHt¥ Wittyon entertained a dinner party, Suntay, In honor of Mrs. J. M. Minor, of St. Louis. * Otho Warren went Sunday at Spring Hill with his mother. , Mrs. H, L, Jackson is ill at her home on Bullitt st * D. W. Buder is visiting relatives ‘in Kentucky, The Social Helpers of the A. M. BE church thet with Mrs. Moss, Craty St.. Monday evening. Miss Reavely Hayes, of Lexington, Va. is in the city. Rufus Penn entervainted a few frends at dinner at Hotel Brown, Sunday . st Mrs. Daisy Nelson has returned from Chester, S. C. where she spent the summer with her parents. Mrs. Carrie Jennings has returned from a visit to New Yark The married Ladies Whist Club held its first meeting Thursday af- ternoon at the home of Mrs. J. W. Viney, Jacob st ed Quite a number 0F young, people enjoyed themselves Monday evenin: at the home of Miss Mande Viney, Jacob St. J. ©. Campbell, of Washington, D. C., was a business visitor to the vith last week . 2 Miss Hattie Peters spent the week end in Sissonville. Miss Moss Clay returned to the city Sunday after visiting retatives in Clarksburg. Tapping Thomas Jefferson (Continued From Page One.) bettered, First, he wanted a way 0 withdraw the unsatisfactory — Presi- dent. Then he gave us ese vigorous suggestions: “I repeat that I do noi charge the judges with wilful and jil-intention- ed error; but honest ¢rior must be arrested when its toleration leads to publi¢ ruin. As for the safety of society, we commiz hoxest maniac: to Bedlam, so judges should be Withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous bias are. leading. us te dissolution. it may indeed harm them in fame sand fortune, but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.” T. J. doesn't want judges im- peached. at least he doesn't sav that they should bs, H2 waives the question of guilt and goes aiter the men of “honest eiror.” We don't punish the honest and the — purely erroneous; we arrest the error and net the maa to save the public. Did T. J. mean that the judge should be tecalied? . Uadoubtedly. How other- wise—under what existing or possible law could you get rid of an honest error. And should the error, his dangerous decision threatening as law and sprecedent the public, remain? Logically it had to be iecalled too, and. only the people can recall it. The first and supreme law is to save the republic, so Jeff<rsou thought. « So thought Lincoln cad so thinks ‘Theo: dore Roosevelt evidemtiy. — Only ne woints out a clear, peacable® method; and Jefferson did not, while: Lintotn was driven into battle and the vfdla- sion of the constitution as a war méas- ure : But T wonder what ‘tHe! dear ofa ladies of the editorial sartetuits would do to T. R. if he stdtuld® call our honestly erreneous judges—ant God knows the fence corners are alive with them—naniaes and suggest that they be locked up among the feeble minded! Catching Up (Con'inued From Page One.) States have been content to look at the mere size and activity of our in- dustries with self-satisfaction and to speak of them with boasting, the ‘complex life of the great world, ever Mnoving on and on in an endiess process of change and growth, has swept far beyond us toward the real civilization whieh we have only he- kun dimly to perceive? Does it not ‘begin to appear that we must pocket our pride, face the fleeing tacts, and make a determined effort ta catch up with the life of the world? And may it not be that this “social and industrial justice,” far from. be- jng a dream of “visionaries,”. is the Most “practical” matter | in the World today for really “practical” ‘men to consider? One of the most vital of our prob- ‘lems as a nation today is the not-so- simple matter of “catching up with Europe.” The Progressive Party ta peinting out the first necessary step. ‘The experiment need not be very Mangerous; ail the civilized. world has taken the step before us. |. ‘a, "sion J - COMMS and DEA, pigghion . rns, Mt. Reed ? <. iy Reet es Shoe unions / : This is the Place to get them, Weare collecting atl the corns and bunions in F town — giving in, exchange perfect, Bealiy: normal feet—free with every | pair of the famous Dr. A, Reed Cushion Shoes, > on snp can't nave fois bana you wear Dr, A. Reed Cushién Shoes. - “ie meas Dir oAe eee Goan, Shore hiaerarede 9 Siesh MS Eo ara? [see the wonderful changein your foot. $ & ‘ ‘he reason simpy this: Ym Dr, A. Reed. Gamisesenieeiny NDE A Rect ea (Goetics Barre es foo ils 5 soe conten asl the rere cree : Bill Berea iho A But best of all, you'll enjoy walking— for when your foot sinks into thecushion yee or Insole~your weight iespread evenly over eo Li seteae ane in ere cway ae & \ Gmnlteetta ttscreibes 8 a MP Aa j se eaene Iss ; j seater eecrny ase rh <a 4 is S tga Se JE e555 ein ,. SS) \ SP iF 3g YORMALE PLET AR, rent 7 (Sse scammers ors 708 KanawhaStreei | — ouR—— Iee Cream -Parlor STRANGERS AND TRAVELING -PERSONS BEST SODA WATER ONLY 5 CTS. OUR PLANS UP-TO-DATE . SERVICE IS. OUR WATCHWORD _ TRE PEOPLES’ GROCERY C0. q WM, H. PARKER, Manager. zs) THE ADVOCATE. Poles Show Big wo hieréase Yor T. R. ee cen ohh: & pel Pxbcudien are Appreciating his Sup- and port and Decided Sentiment in his Favor is Shown in Big Factories. | The volts Being Haken phrpushout the countr contingg Wp an ins creas lonel.. Ri Ith ‘This net a reatbes:jipto mig and farming bsectigh ght al into the tedocay “Abeer Mts.As Bn evidence of the truth | dé those gstatemonts. a few of the pdfS! takel at random. are given below: “Poll CARB “Hach in shop, Trit- ed States Navy Yard, Washington, showed: 3, an . Rocsopghd Oy, Walséngie: Tart, 1: Debs, 15+ 8%" re i A poll taken among the plate printers on the night force in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ‘showed? . \ | Roasevelt, 33; Wilson, 10; ‘Taft, 3; Debs, 1. That labor appreciates Colonel Roosevelt's .gypport,. and sandy ‘ready to give him its votes. 3 straw vote was taken in Buffalo among the industrial establishments [there indicates that the workingmen are lined up solidly. In the works fof the American Radiator compang ,3,000 men were asked their Bret jerences and 1,780 came out ° tor /Reosevelt. Here are some turtiler ‘interesting results taken in the city ‘of Buffalo, N. ¥.: | Larkin Soap company (office ‘force)—Roosevelt, 123; Taft, 0: Wilson, 2, : | Kurtzman Piano Factory-—Roose- velt, 81: Taft, 14, Whison; 5. New York Steel plant—Roosevelt, 165; Taft, 27; Wilson, 24 Smith “and Davis, insurance— Rocsevelt. 15; Taft, 0; Wilson, 3. Buffalo Veneer company—Roose- velt, 58; Taft, S: Wilson, 4. Buffalo and Rochester train— Roosevelt, 36; Taft, 12; Wilson, 2. Crystal Beach —boat—Roosevelt, 44; Taft. 11; Wilson, 7. Lake Shore trainRooseveit, 62; Taft, 26; Wilson, 11. i Lockport trolley war—Roosevelt, 52; Taft, 6; Wilson, 1, Buffato Southern railroad__Roose. ivelt, 17; Taft,1; Wilson, 0. A straw vote taken ~among, the workingmen’ In the Culebra, Cut in the..Panama Canal zone, showed Roosevelt received 80 per cont; Wil- gon 1d per cent, and., Taft .5..per cent. of tie total vote. A. stmtlar poll four years ago gave Taft 25 and Bryan 73 per cent, a a LITERARY NOTkS. ~~. Price’ Collier's “Gormany, and the Germans fom -anyAanariéan Polit of; Viw" began fn its i ner with’ an artick ar ie ha whieh he calls wher kadisereetf is a remarkable pandid’ gtudy oft of the moet plet iresque’ and at Mucnsiai personalities. gf” the world. It wilh be dale reng r Igarn! what Germans will tlnk ‘of the. author's characterization, However they may differ with regard to detatis, they will uo doubt appreciate Its acutenesgiand friendlines:. Sir Sidney Colvin nas collected some “Stovensoniania”—wxpublished, articles and letters of Robert Louts Stevenson. tliat appear in the Novem- ber Scribner. ‘There is long let- ter written from Samoa delightfully full of fun and drotlery. ‘Phe story of how he tamed the parrot is an amusing one, iF Brand Whitlock, knowa everywbexe as, AUR rform mayor: of Toledo, ‘has ;a scholarly and convincing articl: son-the “City and Civilization” in. the November Scribner» He says it has been the citles- that have made for progress and even for morality. Francis Wilson’s daughter, who married the French etche, Huard, has én article on “Parisian Cafes” in the November , Scribner) She says the old cafes“are passing «way,. though the "Theure de la verte” is still o- served on the boulevards as of old. President Finley's article on “The French in the Heart. of America” in the November Scribner tells of the adventurers who mate their way down the rivers in their canoes and over. the. forest paths. to, barter. with ‘he Indizas. The caureurs de bois were a, picturesque group, compara. ble in their lives to the“old trappers of the plains. ~ oe. , MHbitsp st Ocrober 17,3919: GEETHE HABIT =~ Miinond Shozs' ee Diantond SHOE Store: : ee eee 5e Three New Pietiires 5e. THE AIRDOME Comfortable Seats. Plenty of Room, Your Patronage Solicited |, Each Picture is. a First Run: Never Shown: in, Charleston Before. ' th a | ! DRY CLEANING 4 y SHOE REPAIRING 415 Summers st.‘ oe Phone 790 _,, Charleston, W. Va. - I TE ER i a a 8 is CROWN AND BKIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY ® HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. BM. 2:00 to 6:00 P.M. : Dr. JAMES B. BROWN | Dental Surgeon Officg; Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. ‘ Home Phone 429 HENRY( T. M'DONALD, N. C. BRACKETT, President. - Treasurer, Harper's Ferry, W. a. Founded in“1867 ~ : More than 400 men and women have graduated here, The vldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Elevation high, Remarkably healthful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BE ING ADDED TO OUR PLAN THIS YHAR. The regular faculty of six~ teen highly educated,’ earnest teachers does not imclude assistants, Our Library catalogued according to the Dewey System, is one of the largest in the State. ‘ FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM-, BERS OF THE GRADUATING CLABSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE BOARD OF BDUCATIGN. Storer is interdenominational in its faculty and student body. Its whole influence is toward Christian liv-' ing. Jjterary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics, COURSES: Academic, State Normal, Industrial, Muale, For illustrated catalogue and other printed matter write to . The President, S. BERMAN — ~ LOAN OFFICE | ‘Money Loaned on Jewelry and Clothing ° 605 Kanawha. Street | i a > - tw 3 yee — eee OE wie Sip ie eR Pet ments BG Re Re ee Cee ach ek nL eras har mde He a Roa prea scien MS ee 8) a RS % Gris Retreat HRN TAE GR, I MIT Se Sot ae aCe aR Saye oe aA alr ook: : yo Ye ager steterrs icine aaa oa nek 7 beatata cult alereeds PIS ae ee ets be rf sebyn svat Bets gc IMARMRSEIY jonas canta cael : ie ars os p : ee dba : ava ander BoRSn Pe CY alae MOR RoE Wea Gh orceten tes ea Nec ee eS PN < ! 2 ‘ 5 | ; / E y | ; ; | ; : : ? FY ‘ett ; y B e ‘ y | 1 i it. ee : { ‘ : j F % gaq 4 ‘ a { Best Bottled in Bond Whiskey pes 0 Ae In onc 1s ey ge Teale “RV, oney an buy. | Old. Modeniat,-per quart,.:...... $1.00; per pint s....0s..+,.50e; per 1-2 pint croining Diep De Coye “Spring, per quart. 0.00000. 90; per pinter.....0...50e; per 12 pint oo... B50 | “Black and Green, per quart. (2.5 (955 per pint... .4....5..506} per 1-2. pint .......0.60....35e | Old. .Chartér, per quart. go. 60. 1455 per pint 64.2... ..2.600; per 1-2. pint .seseeeeecece. 806 Sunny Brook, per quart.....:..7°1.00; ‘per pint seteee esses 6005 por 12 pint 00... ...... 2800 | . | es Whiskies in Wood, N Better iskies in Wood, None Better £01488, 10° years old, por gal.....$4.005) per quart..::.... 41.00; pint 50¢; per 12 pint... .25¢ : yMMeHwood; :por gal............... 3.50; per quart 2.22.2... 90; pint 50c; per 1-2 pint......25e 2 Siler ‘Spring, per gal........... 3.00; per quart .......4. .755 pint 4c; per 1-2 pint... 200 Bod Home, per gal.............. 800; per quart ........... 75: pint 400; per 1.2 pint......40e Business / Wi Best o Mark. ‘Ines, Dest on the Market Sherry, per gallon,..............4200; per quart....).).1..40e5 Pet pink sw ches, dewket ee L260: © Port per gallon ........e.s.. 01+ 2.005 per quart sneseaepgeen MOGs per pine aly clsayts cape. DBE Blackberry, per gallon.......... 2.00; per quart ...........40¢; per pint searnea taauhareset Oe. Small Bottles of Beer, per doz... .75e; Large Bottles of Beer per doz... -....6....$1.25 eee 2 ‘Gye apg OO gs _ J.D. Garten & Company : MORRIS STARK, Manager 7 122 Lovell St. Phone 2251 Charleston, W. Va. The Old “Saunders Place” SS es Prohibition is.a Failure! ye wet. 1 lank aa tas ena ee es eet | I come from ‘a siate where state- 3¢ribe.”” = Sing adibiitiaret, cancscecs {wide probition has beon im the basic, Put that piece of.legislation in the daticas is complete it will pierce ihe eternal blue of beaven, <But my friends, my mision here to- night is not té discuss with you the so-called political issues of the hour. ‘These are being ably handled by men of each and all parties. These quer- ‘tions are vital and every man will de- cide for himself, It is a healthy sign when the government is geting near- er to the comon people; when the States are adopting the initiative and referendum ,idrect primaries, public- ty of campaign contributions, corrupt pratices acts, election of United States senators by the people, laws to prevent‘ the filling of our mills and shops with children of school age, conservation of our grea! ‘aatuial resources, both of life and property, Those activities, my fellow countrymen, do. not indicate a deca- dent government, but rather a Boy- ernment seeking to hulld on the idea! of Its founders. ‘The questions of the hour are both political and moral, and demand the most loyal attention of every man and woman in America who placts good citizenship first. 1 pity the man or the woman who isn’t @ politician; who has no time.or in- clitiation to mix into the great q ues: tions which»concern the present aid futtire welfare of thestate and of the nation. If such @ man and such a woman gets poor government they get what they-deserve. Let me lay down this proposition right here and now. In a republic.like ours, govern- ment, whether town, city or federal ts just what all the people make. ‘The man who stays away from the pells on election day has as much in- fincnce in shaping legislation as the man Who deposits his ballot/‘and 4t has often happened that such neglect of Amercanship has defeated or re- taided many a good measure, Neither the time at my’ disposal nor your patience would warrant a discusion of many of these great pol feal questions which are _ stirring our country from center to circum: ference. There is, however, one ques. tion which I am hete to discuss with you frankly this evening: A ques- tion which, while it has been made by some a moral fssue solely, amd by others a political Issue solely, is pri- marily and essentially a question of domesite policy. Tt is a question lim- ited to no municipality in all this broad land. Us right solution means as much to the future of America as perhaps any and all other questions combined, and at the very outset 1 beg you to believe | come to you at tht soHeN ation AwarataRe. | Business| Men's Association with the earnest desire fo ald you in a right solution of the liquor question. in its state- tide Spee Rye tis ¢ i | T come fyom ‘a’ siate where state- "wide probition has eon im the basic Jaw of the state for twenty-eight years. A careful observation of that law and its workings begun by me in the legislature twelv» ysars ago ‘convinced me that the cause of tem- ‘perance in Maine has had ho greater ‘draw-back than this same law; and {hat by comparison with out sister- ‘States which once had the law, and discarded it, Maine has suffered by ‘the comparison. I have »therefore been zealous for its repeal, and for » sane regulation which would meas- ure at all times the exact, wishes of ‘the cities and towns and where the question coujd be handled at short range and not long range through ‘the constttutica. During the past eleven years, while Representative from my home city to thx Legislature, and as candidate for Governor, I have done what I could to bring about the Tepeal of this law. I Lave done tt al my own oxpense and with abiding conviction of-the Justice of my cause. Tn discustag this questton it is well te slate at the very outset that the opinion of the fanatic or the ultra- Prohibitionist is worth but little, for the, simple reason that thig class al- ways Insist that we Ive in Altr@la and have neither locks to our doors or bars to our windows. ‘They ser jconditions ‘as they want them and not as they are. They vtterly ‘forget the patent fact in all history that the inguisition never made a saint, nor a man-made Jaw, statutory or con. atitutional ever made a teetotaler. “Temperance, ‘virtue, —_patriotiem Where ever found are always the pro- cess of evolution and not the resu'l of logical enactments from:. without Thirty-seven states handle the liq: Nor question locally through properly ecastituted municipal or couniy oF. ficers,Three states are under license, while eight slates only have prohi- bition; and T want to to record my belief that real prohibition territory has nowhere suffered in local option states, ‘The amendment to your constitution on which you are to vole in Novetn: ber provides: “That -on and after the Ist day of July, 1914, the mann- facture, sale icid keeping’ for-sale of. malt, vinous or | spiritous liquors, wine. ale, porter or beer, oy any in. loxicating drink, mixture or prepar- ation of like nature, except as here. inafter provided, are prohibited . jn nia state. “PROVIDED HOWEVER that the manufacture and sale and keeping for sale of such liquors for medicival pharmaceutical, meeoanical . sacra- mental and scientific purposes, and he manufacture and salo of dena-' lured alcohol for industrial purposes, rests permitted under such .regwla- tion# as thé-Tegi@latire “may pret seribe,"" ap mine . hed Put (hat piece of legislation in the basic law of-your state, gentlemen, and you will strike'a blow at temper: ance in your, state from whieh it, will ‘sot vecover "in years, “3 = 8 You will substitute for local sett. government state-wide -niliification, Your state dispensaries or -agendies for the selling of Mquors for medici- !nal and pharmeceutical purposes, “Toi which the proposed amendment pro- vides, will become your biggest, rum shops and you will make rum shops of a large proportion of your drug stores and more degrading than all else, you will set’ up in every city and large town in your state, rum \express, bootleggers, kitchen dives and sécial booze elubs. 1 can’ prove ‘that t6° every fair-minded man and jwoman in this ball, and prove it ‘trom vmiscalled prohibition Maine, ‘and in proving {t, aside from history and my own personal opinion. 1 will--ptove ‘it from prohibition evidence dtéhe. In discusing this question I am. not ‘detracting from tho fair name of my state. I hold'no brief in the National Brewers’ Association, although ‘that has been charged by the prohibgtan |press of Maine. I am presenting the ‘situation as I found it when T first began o expose the useledsness of the law; and as the situation is today, af- ter twenty-eight years of fair trial; and shall ccntinue to. so present. it, until my state joins the other New England States and returns to a sane lreatment of the rum question. Maine has had a fair trial of state- wide and constitutional prohibition by law. She became a prohibition state In 1851, and in 1885 prohibition went {nto the constitution by a ma- Jority on popular vote of 40,000, elder and liquor, for mechanical purposes being exemptsd. Previous to this there had been mutch agitation on. the question. It had been the sub: Jéct of countless leeiures - addresses and messages. from governors of the slate... ay ,,Séme--opposed “and sonre tavoraa GHantic loginiation, ‘The trienda of. tlate-wide prohibition were by no theans a unft gn Ate. wider of suet legislation: and when through the ¢f- for(s of General Neal Dow of Povi- Jand in “1884 to make prohibitfon # part of our constitution, jr could on ly be done by capturing the former vote with cider, and the balance of the, Gpposition with a state agency sye- ifm. There exemptions alone made it. possible to pasa the law, for until, Whiskey, brandy, wine, gin, porter, cocktails and cider were exempted the legislature stood 84 to 58 against AMEN ARE ARBeC ONAL ROD 1 5c these exemptions, which largely nul- Mfled prohibition, ft became a part : CHARLESTON'S BIG GROCERY [\ODERN Market and Cash Grocery Co. Wateh Our peiaiy and Saturday Specials ‘This act marked the end of ‘about’ all, the real work for temperance’ tor which “Maine- was) tioted. The ' Jez- lureships and. the temperance orgin- zations gradually became a’ thing of, the past? Moral suasion Tost‘ “tis force, and the leattier-bound’ volipio inthe archives.of the state bedting the ames of the legislators of those dayp affixed to a “tetal ' abstiitonie® pledge is a mute reminder of the ‘days in Maine when men’s higher natures were appealed to, * ‘One significadt fact in the ‘effort to. secure constitutional prohibition must not be overlooked, ‘The’ hardest worker in the interest was the dive Keeper. Although a. mere boy’ then I marveled at this unt{l « friend waid:" “The dive keeper -is .wiser- than you, He knows that if the rum question gets tucked away into the constitu- tion of the state the fanatic will go to sleep-and he can-then do a-thriv- ing business,”* and’ the dive keepér was right, as I ‘will show you later. ° Another significant tact for you ‘to bear in mind in this ‘discussion, for it has a great significgnce. in “itd eli: tion to temperance. “evn to con- situtional » prohibition, beer, wine ale and thé lighter non-alcoholic drinks wero“sold. “After these Be- came outlawed it was easter ~ and more profitable for the saloon to deai atmost. wholly’ “in” cietilled Hquors and whiskey of his own manufacture. Thus was dealt. to the cause of tem- Peraiee, morality and,ealth a stag- gerag blow.” Ataimes the reign of medi option, for that is: what we hed, was well nigh unbearable. ‘The holes, the dives, the’ pocket-.peddiing, the rum Dxpresses and jmail order business thrived, and Maine began to wake up to-the fact_that constitutional prohi- bitfon was a failure. \ Do yousbelfva it? T present .the record. ‘Hvery. statue law which the Monds of ‘astute aitorney could de- vise was passed -by .he legislature to back. up the” constitution, Common Nuisanee Search and Seizure, Con- demning’ of Property where Liquor was Sold Spotter Evidence, Imprisoh- ment on second offence ahd more recently Authority placed in the hands of the Goveraor with the Treasury of of the state behind him to supercede the-authority of the sheriffs who had been elected by-ponular vote of tha people, $ Sach was our prohibition law, gen- t1é bien, and such were the attempts to make ‘the law effective by drastic Statutes. Is Ite exiniance In the bas- y Jaw, of our state warranted, and its4t° one single good result to ite credit? The right answer to there questions concerns you people of Charleston to- night. In 1901, seventeen years af- ter constitutional prohibition was en- acted, nullifteation was practically at high-water mark. Tho Internai- Rev- enue Department at Portsmouth, N. H., showed 1513 liquor license held in Maine, one to every 460 of.the: pop ulation, which wag just about the same proportion as vi Mr and other local option states. Only seventy-nine out of 520 towns in Majae were willioul license, At ‘this time the average arrests per year for drunkenness were, in Boston 35, in: New, York 13,“in Chicago 23, and in Portland,’ Maine, 42 to each 1,000 of por ulation: %. Dibrlhy they twetiy-bevond” youre ot} Ponstitittionak: pzohibition tha number of licenses in Maine have run from: 1,000 to 1500 per year, the year 1911, showing 1213. During these sears: the agency sysjem, until the time of its abolishment in 1903, had a recor t in sales of Hqnors aggregating $5,000. | 000. These are facts gentlemen, and from sources waich ave not’ dis- puted, 7 Now, what are the present condi-! fons in Maine? 1 will give you the inswer to this question from our pro-! hibition frienés themselves, the Maine Civic league and the ‘Temper-| ince Press of thé State; and in so do- me Lehall abpigesl escape theygharge ! of vilifving my slate or of misrepre- jemting facts. Lot mo first give yau| Henry N. Pringle. This is what she sala in the September, 1911 Outlook On pkgs 51: “Ihave talked with two ‘Ullrds of thé thousand clergymen of Maine. and egilmate that sevonty-nve ot them and ten per. cent. of the church membira ate opposed to pre-~ hibition, Five daily parers, 12 week. ‘Jy papers are gpposed to prohibition two. daily gnd ix weekly papers are silent. T have 100 ‘photographs of Maine bar.rooms, and have consider- able kmowledge of the liquor businéss ‘throughout the state. Saloons are conducted in seven of the twenty cities and ten villages, also there is ‘selling in the towns and ‘more open Vending at bitnting camps and ‘along tote roads. I have seen bar rooms in Portland, Rockland and Bangor ‘which inust have cost $1,000 for fur- nishing. I have heard that the 140 wholesale liquor dealers of Boston (Bonfort’s ‘Directory, yp.’ p, 71-78) |who have established’ a mail order jbusiness in Maine, prefer prohibitlow in this state. In’ 1907, 719 parties jpaid United States iquor taxes in /106,,¢ities and villages, which’ is lees than the present numer,” And Mr. Pringle might have added |some of ‘these licenses are held- by |social’ clubs; of which there are mot ‘less than 150, and with a membe:- [ship of approximately 20,000. He | might also have ‘stated that-no ‘ace c: tate estimate can 2 made of ‘the ‘duantitics of liquors coming into -'¢ state daily by express and the quan- |tities sold without the trouble on the |Patt-of the dealer to tak’ out and pay \for a United States licenge. | Let me give you the conditions un- |der prohibition in the city of Lewis- tca, Maine, a3 seen through the eyes jot Prof. L. C, Bateman, a member of | *he-Patrons-of Husbandry, a news. | paper man and a public speaker of ability. Prof. Bateman says: “Take | the condition of Lewiston ay one ex- jample, Never was there such. a relgn of corruption and public det pautchery as We now see. Rum shops are wide open on every side, gamb!- Ang jJotats Keep their watches at: he Hontside dot’ to entice young men to ‘their ruin, while bragen-taced demt- ™ondes apply their trade on our pub- Me streets. without ever a rebuke trom constituted authorities. Thugs and criminals are almost immune as ex hold up men or knock dowa wo- men. Every element and slgn that marks the decay of people are in our midst. When the basic elements contral elther ‘a nation, sttate or com- ‘munity ruin and desojution are not fap, away." |. The Kennebec Journal, one of the leading prohibition organs of the state, in commenting on this, said: “It will oceur to thougands of read ers that Prof. Bateman, who knows ‘the public pulse on Maine, is. voicing a sentiment that is daily becoming stronger,” = The Kenlebec Journal, commenting on the lquor ,Bituation..in Somerze!, City ‘sive “editorially: “Halt sur- rounded by a territory in which of- ficlals brazenly, nullify the law. Som- ertiest hoozers are not troubled in se- curing the booze, but they are promp!- ly arrested when they become obmox- ious to sober citizens In that county; while in Kpnnebee and in several other countics, such fellows are un- Molested by police officer: or are vent home to avoid arrest, thus keeping down the number of arrests for drun- kenness in nulification citios and countics. The following bit of evi- dence from the Civic League Record of Maine will also be of interest. In one of their March, 1912 isues they say: "A recent investigation in Waterville, Augusta, Gardiner, Hallo- well and Randolph dic stozed two facts. First, a large number of places were found where intoxicants were freely sold to strangers, where a lafge stock of liquor was openly kept. “Liqhors are sold openly at forty Places in Waterville, over twenty of Which are fitted with bars, Some oft the influential dealers have pall enough ter exempt ‘themrelves,’ thelr bartenders and their gocds from any, prosecution or offictul interference, @ 4 ROBERTS & AULTZ “4 DEALERS IN” ee Pare Whiskles, Wines, Gins, Braudies, Beer, Gigars & Tobace "’ LUNCH COUNTER IN CONNECTION . ! Phone 1705 . 508" Kanawha St.’ ' CHARLESTON, W. Va." i | DR. B. A. CRICHLOW OFFICE 805 1-2 Kanawha SSS Charteston, W. ve.’ *. RESIDENCE. 304 DONNALLY st. Office Phone 1102 - = = Resldence Phone 118-4 HOMce foun! Wl Gama alba eo om, : oa ie ecg ate ae ee Mem, Mutual Loan & Jewelry Co. i a H.GALPERIN, Prop. i a \ MONEY ADVANCED ON” apm =< DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, BICYCLES ' ai eae AND OW ALL GOODS" OF VALUE, 8)! 1% | N EtAcdmmmg) GREAT BARGAINS IN UNREDEEMED PLEDGES. NGM) 120. Kanawha st. =. Ghiteston, W.Va ie ~ V INTHE KANAWHA VALLEY BANK BUILDING) ost. A. N. EAGAN®3 JEWELER a ae 806.QUARRIER ST. CHARTESTON, W. VAL? RIGHT PRICES ON en Seg DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY a FINE WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. : ETT ere The following st of arrests for; drunkenness in the city of 12,000 population: published also in the March Record {s of interest: | Year, Arrests, T9001. EEN i es 9120 4901 |” penedigurnege tase docoes UNE A902 svig lide Avec mae 208 1903 Seeeeener been seer tewees 120 104 cteotecenta weet tpveawaseaet abl WOR ever eileereereees 280 FOGG cries eccubscwanteewimwine 350) PUT ccmunsieonaveuimurnanerce: 410 1908 swueceugeetesliacitigsees) 480) 1909 eevee eee ee eee cece eee 220) TIO pepsi eawcpsan@anaxaioaie 513| Et eee sy eer eee | The Civic League Record of the |same month dnd tho same issue sayz as to fines imposed in four terms of jcourt In ‘Kennebec county, $17,150 |Were Imposed in 76 cases, the average fine in the city of Watervilie being ‘$170, | The Record says as to Imprison- jment “Inthe © municipai court of ‘Waterville three: defendants accept- ed sentences aggregating five months and thiry-seven defendants appealed from sentences aggregating five years and ‘ale months. In the Superior court the jail sentences with no al- ‘ternative of fine at four (erms for the ‘entire county, aggregated ten months and were against three respondents.” As showing conditions in the Cowu- ty of Penobscot, in which is located ‘tho elty of Bangor, the” Civic Leagte Record says: “It is reported that County -Attor- ney Thompson recently bought a $2.- 500 automobile an $11,000 house in Bangor, The alary of the county ‘attorney in that conty must be very large to warrant sach expenditures, But i Is also rumored tat there are 200 locally licensed Hauor sellers in ‘Bangor'and as many more in tho rest at the county. [t Is reported that each of these liquor sellers pays some one $250 a year.” : And the Civic Leagne Record mignt have added that the 490 licensed liq- hor sellers in Penobscot County are no new thing, for Bangor and some other, of the larger cities and towns of .the county have Dereistently and consitently openly onposed and vio- lated comstitntional prohibition. Gepplemen i could multiply this ev- idengg until midnight and from the sme, prohibition authorities, but of what uve would it be? It is the same nullification record in practically ev- ery city and town in the state; and our prohibition frieads, white they know ft to be true, ant parade the record at election time, are so wedded 'o the idea of state-wide prohibition as a theory that they minimize, if not actually ovelook. real conditions ‘This question in Maine has become a political question, and has perforce fgiarded the progress of the State Mong the lines of its material devel- opment, ‘Phe* Repitblican, party, which | has been the dominant pariy in Maine for a generation, previous to 1911 and tee +e: 2912, ‘allied ‘itself. with: the: pranibe. Uonists by incorporating In its plat- forms a statement of belief ti» the Prohibitory law and. in tte: ‘ ingoreey ment, ant this declaration ‘of: belivt has invariably’ caught” the ** prowy ft tion vote atid Silenced: the Republican press on the rum ‘question, ‘while “the actual and normal condition on. tlie rum question were nullification » purée and simple. ‘ The prohibition answer to m9” ar- sument Is, yes, these conditions exist? but they are largely the: results’ of Democratic administration and demo; cratic attitude. OY tes If that wore true wad the preceding, twenty-six—yeart—wore—years_of on forcement, then Maine's Prohjbitory, law would have a reason for its éxis- tence, Suppose we look at the facts, ta 1901 and 1903 and during Governor Hill's administration when the dem- ocracy had but 22 memberg im tho House and but 1 member in the Sen- ate, Maine had 1506 liquor Icense, in force; one of them held’ by: the Proprietor of the Augusta House har, and under the very shadow: of the dome of the State House was want $5,000 per year to tts bolder. ij cities as now, wore wide open,» From 1884 to 1893° the Attorney Gdneralls reports show 10,000 -violetioas of the Hquor law. ‘The state agencies, ag, 1 have already shown hed to thptr crodit’sales aggregating $5,000,008 55 spirituous Nquors: (for stéketiess’ % course). Courts would not pasé seppt tence. Rum cases wore then, ag 10 filed, nolle prossed or s¢ttled wit! fines. Conditions during ‘howe veatd Were #0 deplorable that Governde Cobb openly charged his party (thg, Republican party) ‘with a “tong ack of nuification.”" Let me give You ony. illustration of the way in which thi party then in power evaded the plainy provisions of the conétitiition. 5" # The recently elected Repudlicar- Governor of Maige was County, 4 torney of my home county of Kennel bec for four years ana during that poriod,, and asisteh attorney, he ha in his court seven hundred and. forty thre eMIOlALOMRBRY thes py | law: “Every one of thene cathe re Aled: ndtié: Brossed Yor’ récoived” mdfieyl fines which was the approved. stuligtt, Hution for the plain. provision -of Bk Sb al spiman recat jail sentence’ This was also trucol ther countigs in the state, and wot Governor Hines wa: etected latrow margin largely:-ane: bisaiher: jon that the prokibitory law could ind should be, enforced. ‘ 5 Gentlemen. it is a sad record, hut t belongs ¢xelusively to no party. rhe jight regard which onr people: rave for this unworkable law ee ents a Indricous as well as a seq ious side. ty 1991 Chief Justice; *elers, one of Maine’s grand men tex ired from the bench...The Court dn onor, of, a " (Continued on Page Six.) Published every Thursday by The Advocate Printing and Publishing Co., Inc. J. C. GILMER, 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 ARMAGEDION AND WE BATTLE FOR THE LORD." PROGRESSIVE-REPUBLICAN TICKET For President, Theodore Roosevelt, of New York For Vice President. Hiram Johnson, of California. For Governor, Dr. H. D. Hatfield. For Secretary of State, Stuart F. Reed. For Supt. of Free Schools, M. P. Shawkey. For Commissioner of Agriculture, Howard E. Williams. For Attorney General, A. A. Lilly. For State Treasurer, E. D. Long. 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. For State Senate, 8th District, E. T. England. For Judge of Circuit Court, 104th District, S. C. Burdette. 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. CHARLESTON DISTRICT TICKET For Justice of the Peace. C. W. Dering. Marion Gillechrist. For Constable, G. D. Acree. Hansford F. Jenkins. THE ASSAULT ON ROOSEVELT. I was more deeply impressed by what I read in the newspapers and after having this dream (that Roosevelt was McKinney's murderer) was more convinced than ever that I should free the country from the menace of Roosevelt's ambition, is what John Schrard said in part in explanation of his attempted assassination of Colonel Roosevelt. I mean what he had read in the newspapers, andank was impelled to make an attempt to show the life of the greatest living American, yes, upon the greatest living human being in the world. And what had Schrard read in the newspapers? The poor weak-minded man had read that Theodore Roosevelt is a trust booster, eager to use fraud, a dangerous aggrandizer, an Aaron Burr, shameless, hypocritical and dangerous, a dangerous and self-seeking autocrat, a Theodore Arnold, a master prevarication, insane madman, bully, maniac, bragart, betrayer, the most cunning politician who ever appeared in Amerios. He had read that his enemies are witty statements, nowonical play-acting, utter disregard for truth, ridiculous contemptible shocking demagogism, baseless and. dangerous appeals, revolutionary and subversive, blatant insincerity, damning proof of insincerity, hollow and insincere, unblushing effrontery, unspeakable deceit, undisguised treason, revolting shamelessness, impudent appeals, insane, pretetual lying, yawping and attempts at wholesale robbery. The newspapers which oppose the Progressive party have told him that the leader of that party is guilty of insincerity, deep and hopeless hypocrisy, shocking unscrupulousness, unparalleled viciousness and dishonesty, insensate ambition, charlatanism, plain abberation, bad faith, unworthy ambitions, horrible glibness, indecent performance, crazy socialistic schemes, shabby tactics, duplicity, shrewd political trickery, utter untrustworthiness, squalid banding of words, no, respect for truth, hoodlumism, frantic rage, unrepentant deprivacy, a seamy record, and cuttle fish politics. And he had read that one of "his antics" as he "shrieks his hostility" against constituted government to win the howling mobocracy is "gnashing his teeth." All this and more, if he has waded through one half the yellow journals, Schrank read. Convicted by what he read that Col. Roosevelt was an actual menace to the country, that his election would plunge the United States into a state of chaos unparalleled in the world's history, he was led to offer himself up as a martyr that this country might be saved from the dangers which were said to threaten. Who, then, is responsible for this insane attack? Schrank alone? No impartial jury acquainted with the facts would so determine. For every drop of blood that Col. Roosevelt has shed, for all the anxiety his wife, his children and his thousands of admirers have experienced since the attempt was made on his life, the yellow press. J. Adam Bede and the small-calibre son of the lamented Justice Harlan must some day answer to God. If it should be that our leader's life must be snuffed out at this time when he is needed most, if the fates have willed that his sun shall set at its meridian, that his speech at Milwaukee shall be indeed his valedictory to the American people, after the name of Schrank—a mere instrument—"murderer" will follow the names in the Book of Life of all those whose utterances inflamed him to commit the horrible deed. For just so guilty as was the Hearst publications of the murder of McKinley will be the agencies which have villified Colonel Roosevelt in a manner which should bring shame to any civil nation. Let no Negro jump at the conclusion, from what is written above, that, as heretofore, we have been neither principals nor accomplices in a crime which has shocked the world, for, unfortunately, we can not plea it "not guilty." The Advocate records it with the greatest reluctance that among the principal offenders, among those who have been loudest in this silly abuse of Col. Roosevelt has been a coterie of pin-headed Negro editors whose limit of abuse of the former president was the extent of their vocabulary reinforced by what they could plagerize from the white newspapers. Taking their cue from the opposition press they have revelled in vituperation of the Progressive party leader and have wallowed in the deepest pits of slime to find a missile to hurl at him and his range. But "God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform." A bullet made Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States once. Who knows but that He has used his traducers as the motive power behind another bullet to make him President again? Who knows? CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. For a number of weeks there has been carried in the advertising columns of The Advocate an appeal for contributions to the campaign fund of the Progressive party. Some few responses have been received, but they have been compulsorate neither with the worth of the cause nor with the ability of those to whom the appeal was made. Some of those whose attention has been called to this difference have attempted to excuse it on the ground that contribution on the part of the masses to campaign funds is a new 'stunt; that they have been so long accustomed to being contributed to that they have not yet adjusted themselves to the idea of being contributors. That is largely a matter of fact, and it is this fact that is responsible for the small part the Negro plays in the game after the ballots have been cast. Men who have financed the campaign, have, spent their money to get the desired results, very naturally have dictated the division of the spoils. The Negro, having been a beneficiary, though to a limited extent, before the election, is considered to have received his reward and does not, therefore, participate in the distribution of offices. The Progressive party—a party of the people—must be financed by the people. Its attitude on the question of big business renders assistance from that source impossible, even if the party were willing to accept it. If then, becomes incumbent upon those who have hitherto stood on the sidelines to get into the game—the spectators must become players. Just little over two weeks remain before the campaign closes. In its last days the need for money will become more imperative. Our leader Hes wounded in a hospital and a large reinforcement must be sent to fill up the gap where he stood and fought so valiantly. This reinforcement will cost, money. Will you help to the extent of one dollar? GRASPING AT STRAWS Every Negro Taft organ in the county has carried a news item sent out from Republican national headquarters stating that, the National Baptist convention endorsed the administration of President Taft and urged the Negro voters of the country to rally to his support. In our news columns we carry a direct denial of the truth of this statement. The Baptists, say the officers of the convention, took no such action and all report to that effect are false, circulated for the purpose of bolstering up a lost cause. This misuse of the name of the largest Negro organization in the country goes to show to what straits Mr. Taft's supporters have been reduced, how desperate is their plight. They know that the Negro voters, those who think, have grown tired of their empty pledges and broken promises. They know that the plans proposed by the Progressive party for political rehabilitation of the black man at the South is daily growing in favor among his kind, steadily growing as it comes to be understood. Hence, this resort to deliberate falsehoods. The Negro ote must be retained at any cost. Bishop this anil reverend that must be "influenced" to sigh a statement for publication that the Republican party is God and Taft is His prophet. Every little two-by-twice Negro sought to have a following must be approached with a proposition to "come out for Taft." Anything, anything to give Mr. Taft one more term in the White House. But these old tricks deceive no one, gentlemen. They have been staged too often to get a single hand clap. The average Negro voter is "on to" this scheme of preachers selling out their congregations, of this or that organization endorsing' some party. Either the reports of such action are false, or some one has been "influenced" to bring 't about. But a drowning man, 'tis said, will grasp at a straw. Mr. Taft is entitled to the same privilege. THE TICKET TO VOTE. With the exception of Winfield H. Turley, a Lincoln county candidate for House of Delegates, The Advocate can not use language too forcible in urging its clientele to support the Republican state ticket, which will appear on the Progressive ticket from Dr. Hatfield down to and including the candidates for constable in the several magisterial districts. There is nothing to be gained by voting for any Democrat. That party as a whole has shown so persistently and consistently its hostility to those to whom we now speak, that none of them, except at the risk of being considered knaves or fools, can afford to support any Democrat. This is not the time to put Democrats into office. They have not yet arisen from the depths of civil and political prejudice. Once in they are too likely to fix it at our expense so that may stay in forever. So, vote the Progressive ticket on which are names of the Republican candidates for State, congressional, county and district offices. MAKE TURLEY SHUT UP Mr. Winfield H. Turley, Republican candidate for the House of Delegate in the county of Lincoln, has issued a pamphlet, says the Huntington Advertiser, outlining his position in the campaign. In one paragraph he states: "Second—I am in favor of and will vote for a "Jim Crow car law." If the managers of the Republican state campaign have any thing to say in the matter, they ought to make Turley withdraw the t leaflet and apologize with some sort of excuse, even if he has to say that he was drunk or crazy when he wrote it. This ought to be done, for the publication of such a platform by a Republican will certainly not help the Republican party as a whole. It may benefit Mr. Turley in Lincoln county where the Negro population is extremely small, too small to rebuke him at the polls as he deserves, but it will react against the party in the State. So, muzzle Turley, stoc his mouth, else the animal will do some other darn fool trick. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. The National Republican headquarters have called off the meeting billed for Bede and Harlan. These gentlemen were blood to trail Col Roosevelt and sling mud at him. With the Colonel lying in a hospital it would have been extremely bad taste to continue their program, and, being without an issue, they were recalled. Mr. Hilles 'r to be congratulated upon his beloved sense of decency. The national headquarters of the tive here, named Syphax, repugnant tive here, named Syphax, repugnant even to Big Chief DeHonney of "Black Tammany," the headquarters of which are at the city crematory. Syphax certainly must have been rotten From Captured Silver. A silver set was recently sold in London sold to have been made from silver recovered from the Armada. UNCLE SAM HITCHIN' UP It's a darned important journey, an' I'm calculatin' which of the crittors in my stable it 'ud be the best to hitch: (He'll be up against some haulin, for I'm loaded like the deuce), 'The Elophant? The Donkey? or the When last I tried to make it, with the Elephant along— Well, you'd hardly blame me, for he looked so good an' strong; Put he wasn't oachydermis any deeper than his hide. An' as soon as he got started there was somethin' also inside! he's standin' here a-trumpetin' that he's olphant all through. But he's got so mean an' ornery he's not a bit of use. So I'll have to hitch the Donkey—or the Old Bull Moose. The Donkey's done some haulin'— just around the stable yard. But he's never had to tackle any goin' that was hard. And because the trip I'm takin' ain't related to a cinch. Why, he'll mebbe go and founder when I need him in a pinch. Then, there's some in' free an' easy in the way I've heard him bray. An' I wouldn't want him smashin' every tollgate on the way! No, I never knew a donkey, any donkey, to produce— So I better be a-squintin' at the Old Bull Moose. I haven't druv him lately, but he's prancin' in his stall. An' he looks as if his layoff didn't hurt him none at all; Theo' it wouldn't be so awful if he is a little slower, For that other time I used him—jumpin' hemlock, what a goer! When we'd hit the billy places you could bet your bottom dollar He'd either pull 'er over or go climb in' through the collar! It's a darned important journey, an' I'm calculatin' which Of the crittets in my stable it 'ud be the best to hieh; But he's got to do some haulin', for I'm loaded like the deuce. So I guess I'll put the harness on the Old Bull Moose. Nation's Capital AUTUMN SEASON IS IN FULL SWING, BEING USHERED IN BY USUAL FUNCTIONS. Bethel Literary Offers Fine Attractions—Honors won by Negro Bandman—Odd Fellows Journal May Not be Moved. In Theatrical Circles. Washington, D. C., Oct. 16—David D. Rogers, for many years an attache of the Internal Revenue division of the Treasury department, reached his 34th milestone last Saturday night under happy auspices. A group of his intimate friends gathered at his cosy home on 1339 Wallach Place and celebrated the glorious occasion. Cards and music followed by a magnificent luncheon, prepared by Mrs. Rodgers, and a flow of oratory complimentary to the hero of the hour, constituted the elaborate program, all of which was hugely enjoyed. The parlors were beautifully decorated with flowers, and the table was a "dream." Mr. R. W. Thompson acted as toastmaster, and those who responded in witty and appropriate speeches were Messrs. W. B. Harris, district grand master of Odd Fellows, James B. Smith, E. W. Brown, Jesse C. Powell, Arthur Grimshaw, E.-B. Woodford W. H. Terrell, Chas. M. Miller, and Alex. Middleton. Mr. Rogers is a native of North Carolina and is one of the most popular and useful young men connected with the great Treasury Department. Many beautiful gifts were received and a general wish, that he live to see countless more such delightful anniversaries was expressed by his host of friends. At last Friday evening's meeting of the Mu-So-Lit. Club the following new members were elected by ballot, in a nominating list of more than a score: Messrs. J. B. Allen, J. C. Bruce, W. A. Wells, Chester A. Carpenter, F. H. M. Murray, H. P. Slaughter and C. A. Wright. Prof. W. J. Decatur, who has gone to Wilberforce University as a member of the faculty, was placed on the roll of honor. The roster 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. On sale, too, are the Progressive stamps. Affixed to your letters, these picturesque little emblems are effective advertisements for the Progressive party. is limited to one hundred and memb erships are highly prized by the professional, educational and busi- At the opening night of the MUS. Lit Club on the 11th Prof. M. Grant Lucas, principal of the Bruce School, made a ringing speech for Taft, and was vigorously applauded by the "flower of Washington's business and professional life." R. A. Pelham procll. THE M. LAURIN-JOHNSON NUPTIALS One of the prettiest of the autumn weddings was that of Miss Elizabeth Johnson, who was led to the hymenical altar by Mr. Sylvester Laughlin McLaurin at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, 1928 13th street, northwest. Rev. M. W. Clair, pastor of Asbury M. E. Church, performed the impressive ceremony. The bride, who was given in marriage by her brother, Mr. Charles Johnson, was gowned in white satin, trimmed with real point d'esprit lace and pearls. She wore a white veil caught with rosebuds and carried a shower bouquet of white roses. Miss Lena A. Meyers was the maid of honor. She wore pink mousseline de soie trimmed in silk fringe over pink. She carried a shower bouquet of pink rosebuds. Miss Alice Barlow, the bridesmaid, wore white batiste heavily trimmed with hand made eluny and German valenciennes over canary messaline. She carried a bouquet of pink rosebuds. Mr. Oliver Randolph was "best man" and Mr. John D. Drake was the other groomsman. The wedding march was played by Miss Pauline Johnson, the bride's cousin. The house was decorated with flowers and palms. A reception followed, after which Mr. and Mrs. McLaurin left for a wedding trip to Canada. Mrs. McLaurin traveled in a dark blue suit and a large white hat. The bride, Miss Johnson, is a Virginian, and attended college in Lynchburg. She is a most cultured young lady and is much loved in her circle of friends. Mr. McLaurin is from Mississippi, a graduate of the Howard Law School, and is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia. He also holds an important federal position, being chief of the property division in the forestry service. Department of Agriculture. He is a B. S. of Alcorn University. The presents received were numerous and beautiful. Bethel Literary and Historical Association continues to prosper under the paintaking guidance of President S. M. Dudley, who seems to have struck a popular chord among the literary people of the community. Last week's meeting was given over to a discussion of "Votes for Women," and strong arguments for equal participation of the sexes in the right of suffrage were presented by Miss Margaret Gruening, of New York City, Dr. V. Morton Jones, Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Coralie, Franklin Cook, Miss Mariette J. Hifton, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Daniel Murray, Mrs. Marie A. NEWS COL. ROOSEVELT BELIEVES IN THE RECALL OF THE PRESIDENT TAFT Morris in Spokane Spokesman-Review. If you cannot buy certificates or stamps near home, cut out this coupon, pin it to a bill or check, and mail it to D. Madre and others. Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, the head of the women suffrage movement in the District, presided. On last Tuesday evening, Prof. John R. Hawkins, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church, spoke on "Spiritualism vs. Materialism." Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook is to be the attraction next Tuesday evening and on the 29th, the Amphion Glee Club celebrates its twenty-third anniversary. This will be one of the most notable events of the year, and Director J. Henry Lewis is preparing a program that will appeal to all. Some of the speakers announced for an early appearance are Bishop G. L. Blackwell, Presidents J. B. Dudley, J. E. Shepard and W. H. Goler, Prof.' S. G. Atkins, Register J. C. Napier and others of like note. Howard University, Tuskegee Institute, Wilberforce, Hampton Institute, The National Negro Press Association, the Business League, etc., will have "evenings" in the course of the year. WILL THANK PRESIDENT TAFT Arrangements have been made by a large body of colored citizens of the District and the states to call upon President Taft upon his return to Washington for the purpose of thanking him for the interest he has manifested in the educational advancement of the colored people. The chairman of the committee is Rev. S. L. Corothers, president of the National Civil and Political League, which is putting in some hereulean work for the Republican ticket in all of the so-called doubtful states, where the Negro holds practically the balance of power. IN THEATRICAL CIRCLES The big bill at the Howard Theater this week embraces. The Chicago Trip: Blanche Deas, the Towels, Bud Minus, Charlie York and At Dudley s're holding forth: The Goodmans, Dixon and Han- son and Eddie Green. Miss Susie Sutton holds over the Blue Mouse in her versatile impersonations, and Effie and Lottie Gee are in their third week at the Fairyland. Paul Floyd and Russell, at the Howard last week, is an Indianapolis boy who has gone East and made good. Clarence Powell, the eccentric comedian and monologist; was prominent among the specially inviited guests last Friday evening at the famous Mus-So-Lit Club, and delivered an address that was the "last word" in wit, humor and sage philosophy. Mr. Powell is one of the most original performers on the stage and knows the business from the ground up. He made an excellent impression upon the members of the club. Mine, Anita Patti Brown, the renowned colored soprano, is to be here in stat concert next month, under direction of Miss Lulu Vero Childers, of Howard University. "The Brown Girls," Babe and Maybelle, are to be top-liners at the Howard next week. HONOR WON BY NEGRO BANDSMAN The War Department has announced that five bandsmen of the United States Army will soon begin a year's course of instruction at the Institution of Musical Art in New York City. The bandsmen will be admitted to the Institute on scholarships offered the Army by Frank Damrosch, the men selected having won their honors by a rigid competitive examination. One of the five men thus chosen was Alfred J. Thomas, a colored musician chief bandsman of the 10th Cavalry. ODD FELLOWS' JOURNAL MAY NOT MOVE It is by no means certain that (Continued on page six.) | OBBRRS THREE LEPRRARY COURSES - ENGLISH, ACADEMIC, NORMAL a Katies oS Oe ‘ P i i i ie ; g » af PVavious Industrial Courses are Offered. Climate Health- Et “ fal. Surroundings Good. 1 al . ‘CATALOGUE. FREE 5 oe - ADDRESS ; : : BYRD PRILLERMAN, President ,’ : : Institute, West Virginia ave, Women in Car Iipaign DRAW LARGE AND ENTHUSIAST- 1G AUDIENCES IN 'TRN-DAYS' TOUR OF STATE Gets in Some Good Work for the Progréssive Party in the Seven , Meetings held ‘in Scuthern West Virgifa tho Past Vortnight. ‘The capacity of tue halls was the limit of the audiences which heard the Progressive “Flying Squadron" — In its ten days’ tour through — the southern section of the state. Start. Ing at Hinton, Moncay night of tast week, the party, composed of Mrs. Jwia—Mason Layton, of Washington, D. C., Mrs. H. B. Hartis.and Mrs. Ma- mie Briscoe, of Newark, «finished their itinerary at Ward, ‘Tusday evening of-this week. In the mean- time they had appeared at Glen Jean, Tuesday, at‘Bluefield, Wednesday, « Pt. Pleasant, Friday at Charleston, Saturday and at Raymond Citty, Mon- day, . At each of these points large and enthusiastic crowds greeted them. Attracted largely by the novelty of Negro women sent cut to campaign by the national comittee of a political party, hundreds who heard them re- mained to appladd the sweetness of thetr singing and the logic with whien they presented their cause. The “Flying Squadron" was seni out primarily to influence — colored voters, but with tW> possible exce)- tions the audiences which heard them were more than half white, Bs- pecially wag this tree at Pt. Pleas- ant and Ward where the ‘crowds were recard breaking. The report which reached this ‘ty from the last named place showed a situation so unusual as to demand more than passing notice. There, at Ward, M. Peter Jones ® white man, had heen previousls billed to speak for the Progressive rational and congroesional tickets And so was Mr. Littlepage, the Dem ocratic candidate for judge of the Circuit Court. ‘The opera house har been engaged for Mr. Jones, the school house for Mr. Littlenage, Mr Jones very courtesusly allpwed the Jadies the first place on the program The singing of Progressive songs. b: Mrs, Harris and Mrs. Briscoe, par ticularly of that one composed — 03 William Seymour Fs ards—"They'r Calling From ,the Mountains” evoked the wildest/spplause. But the songsters were not alone in re colving their full mcd of praise, for the address of Mrs. Layton was © frequently interenuied by shouts o approval from all parts of the on era house that it woa with difficulty that they confined themselves to th limit whith they themselves had set Following the “Sanadron,” Mr fonee snoke a little ever an hour Then the sttrorise of the evenin: rome, Mr. Littlenae fatling to at tract any one to hear shim at thy schoo! house. asked for and obtaine. hormiasion 10 addroey the Progress Ivar mooting. Mp fg cenorted to hav rambled nearly tw9,paurs about, “pit Dillies" and other ‘subjects whitn show his utter anfitness for the office to which he aspires. There was presesied the wstusual spectacle of colored women and white mien speaking from the same plat- forn-anid one of those men a Demo- erat. “'Surely,”” as. one entthusiastic colored Bull Moose :vas heard to say, “these certainly are strange times and the Lord is moving. through the Progressive: party (© bring — the black man and the black woman into their own.” At the meeting in this city, Satur- day night, the attentonce was more than half ladies. In the audience sat former Governor William M, 0. Pawson, and Mr. H. B. Buster, sec- ‘retary of the, Progressive State com- nites, and Judge terry B. Brannon, ‘the president and nestor of, the £u- breme court of appeals of the State, Mr. J. W. Cilappelte,” attorney-at- law, presided, introducing the ladies in a few well-chosen words. ~ Mrs, Layton shattered into smitf- ercens the argument by the stand- patters that the Negro owes © an etérmal debt of grativrde to the Re publican party for i's freedom. She raid the 178,975 black soldiers who enlisted and fought under the “Stars and Stripes” had cestainly contribut- ed something to the ireedom of their race, and. she quoted President Lin- coln (o show (hat the -Rmancipation Proclamation was si ply a war meas- ure intended, as it lid, to undermize the cause of the Rebellion, “But even if," she exclaimed, “the Negro oes his (reedom soleiy So the Repub- jican party, the years that his vote has kept it in power in the nation and the poor retura ke has receiv 1 for his devotion, must cancel any debt of gratitude ie owes,” ‘The Democratic party’ came in for some hard knocks ot her hands, but knowing that-very few of them her? Zhouts WII he foolish enough to cast thoir lot with that party, she con- fined he> efforts to showing the su- perior advantages ever both ald par- ties that tne Progressives offer, ‘Ther her audience was in sccord with ber aim was. attested ov the vociferous apphiuse which grecied every men- Lion of Col, Roosevelt's name. In koeping with the policy of th party, a sequestt was made for a gen- eral contribution to ihe popular cam- paign fund. In resyonse to the ap- peal a cotlection of $11.43 was {aken up and forwarded to the nationst headquarters, an extraordinarily [large sum when it is considered that ‘requests for contributions at a po- lical meeting are unique in this neck Of tie woods, | Mrs. Leyton and her party left Charleston, Wednesday noon, for In- dianapolis, Ind. to fill a four days’ engagement Colored Twins Die an Hour Apart With Two Heads and Two Sets of Lower Extremities for one Body They Lived to Ripe Old Age. Word was received herf yvosterday afternoon that Millie, one of the cel- ebrated Milke-Christine. twins, known all over the world, had died at the home of the jair near White ville, Columbus county, and Wed- nesday night a messsage was re- ceived stating thay Christine died at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoons, some. hours after the death~of the other. Born in Columbus county in slav- ery times, the women, who were col- ored were sold in their youth for $40,000 for exhibition purposes. being shown in Philadelphia, a few years after their sale, they ‘were stolen and nothing was heard of them by their owner for a number of years. Finally 'e located them in the cily of London and re- gained possession of them, He again placed them on exhibition and they appeared befo,e many of the crewned heads of Europe, as well as being exhibited throughout the old country and America. They were seen in Wilmington the last time with a carnival a year or two ago. e = Millie-Christine had two heads andi two sets’ of lower extremities, but only one body. What one dis- Uked the other disliked, the came things made each sick, but they had their differences and were known to have quarreled with themselyes.— Morning Star. ode Negroes and the Bull Moose Party John IL, Moseley, a eolored man has been nominated for Presiden- tit lector on the Bull Moose ticket in the State-of Hlinois. Forty-eight colored‘ men were delogates to the Bull Moose State Convention at Columbus, Ohio. Thirty’ of these colored delegates cane from Hamilton county, which Neppens to be the homeveatity éf inesident, ‘Taft. After camiting the colored delegates My,.deury ‘Taylor, of Cleveland, pala te is the largest: number of Negroestthat ever sat in a politieal conyention in Ohio. 1 guess that answ§id the aiitude of the Evoereseive [init toward the Negre.”? { ty Gver twenty colored men ‘were delegates to the recent State Bull Moose “Convention which met at Syracuse and nominated Ion. Os- iat 8. Straus for Governor of New “ak, The colored delegates took an active part in the prosedngs cf the convention. Several eoiored delegates: made ‘speeches, and one of them’ seconded the nominsition ef Straus for Governor. Through (be influence of the colored dele. gates two important planks pTcei- ing the colored people were pur Yn- te the platform. One plank put ine party on record as denouncing ice discrimination in cafes and places of public amusement, while the other plank favors the eniist ment of a colored regiment in the National Guard of the State of Now York Al a recent meeting of the New York Progressive State Committer the following named — gentlemen were elected as members ef that body: John R, Gleed, New York county; HL. Scott, Brie: Rev, W. MH. Byrd, Monroe; and Dr. 9, MeBlendon, Westchester, All of thom are Negroes. This is the larg. est representation that the ealored people of New York ever had on the State Committee of a political par. ty. For over twenty ypang, ghere his beame bat one-colpretl Tin On ‘THE: ADT OOA TE, W. HL HiR CHE Dene ae New and Second Hand | _ FURNITURE 617 Kanawha st. " | Phéng No: 852 BF | FOR RENT-- Four room. cottage with te “Large Int, tog x: 200. ft., adapted: to raising chitkenis and hogs’ Rent: rea- sonable. See T. G. Nutter, 6047 Kan- awha Street. _ Phone 2405, For prompt and j boon Courteots Service | to Passengers and. safe delivery of bag- gage---Call ae Taxi Cab Co. DAY OR NIGHT... 211 Hale St. _ Phone 84 JOHN'M, CAMPBELL, Mgr. —_—_—_——— the Republiciin’ State Coniniittee: With but thre exceptions all of the Negro Presidential appointees in Washington were appointed by Col. Roosevelt. while he was Presi- dent. Almost all: of the colored government. employees in the city of Washington: who are now hold- ing positions either came in ox were vetained in. offiges while, Reosevelt was agadnt | bebvege As has, 1, Adams, the Negro “assistant regis- ter of the Treasury, who recently compiled,.a Republican campaign hook for Negroes, in which he er- roneously gives the Taft adminis- tration credit for all the Negro’ap- pointments, was himself holding the same office that hé ‘has t6w un- der Roosevelt. ME Adis got out a similar campaign béck in 1908, giving Roosevelt credit for the same Negro appointments which he now gives. Taft credit for: in’ hig» new ‘book. . J.C. Gilmer, of ‘Charleston, W. Va., a staunch Bull) Moose, is Li- brarian of the Stute of West Vir- ginia, and is‘also the editor of the Charleston, (W. Va.,) Advocate, a strong Roosevelt paper. / Dr. S. G. Bibert, of Deleware, is ‘a’ Bull Moose. He is one ‘of the ‘wealthiest colored mem in his state: His residence is one of the ‘finest wned by any colcred man in this otintry, : WHAT ROOSEVELT SAID APTER HE WAS S07, “And now, friends, I want to take advantage of this incident to say as solemn word of warning as know how to my feliow Ameriedias, “Kirst of all I want to say this about myself. 1 have altogether too many important things to think of'to pay any heed or feel any concern over my own death, ~ “Now, I would not speak to you {n= sincerely tvithin five minutes of being shot. : “Iam telling you the Iteral truth when I say that my coucera 18 for many other things, Tt tz hot in the least for tay own Ite. “I want you to understand that 1 am ahead of the game, anyway. No man has had a happier Jife than 1 have had, ve “I have been able to do certain things that 1 greatly wished to do, and 1 am intercated in doing other things. 1 can tell you with absolute truthfulness that I am -very much “uninterested:in whether Fam shot or not. : : “It was just as when Twas Colonel of my regiment. 1 alweys felt that @ private was to be excused for feeling at times some pangs of #txiely alon! his personal eafely, bui T cannot un- derstand a man fit to be Colonel who can pay any heed to his personal safely when he is occupied as he ought to be occupied with the absorb- ing desire to do his duty, “Lam inthis cause with my whole heart and gow; 1 b-lieve tn, the pro- LAR COTS. Siren Ne ecepepm arin Ce nea oN FORE ee : IS Ter Ee es Tt hi Se eee ee ears ete amie edici as ee Salah saat Ging Og NOW'S THE TIME i fe pres Peon ier so Nera ie why sy for We 2 Spa . Cee eth © NOW'S THE TIE, MENLO RET OUEY ie S FALE, Suit,” »DUN'T?’ WATT "NTH, TE Ue: 9 SONS HALF OVER—GET ER-NOW AND“ * cA PLEASURE OF WHARING TALL THROUGR, | y "W. ps THE BRISK FALL WEATIER WIEN abi: @ \p Q YOUR FRIENDS ARP: SA ERRSENG Up ooh 5 syd a | = . Pag sey aN | p tes HAVE YOU SEEN THE BEACTIBUL GUS «> | =) . ie GREYS BROWNS, TANS, AND. PURPLES DHA f \ y PS “WE ARE SHOWING MIS SEASON AN'tHORH b KZ s SMARA NEW. ENGLISH: KORM Riri. MODY iS . Ss ote: ELS THAT THE WELL-DRESSED YOUNG FR. Ai t ae LOWS ARE WEARING NOW? “PORE cg G05 é Ai a { ‘ vied ea oe ha F Di an GAGES > oh a \ \§ ‘WB GAN. SHOW YoU A LINE, O8,SWBLE {i foes | aa © SULTS THAT YOU CAN'T MATCIL BE ‘ 8 | ee pias ¥ AT ANY PRICE, AND HIGHER PRICED SUFES’, 4 | he en ae mi i TF YQU WANT THEM. as ai hae pees ; ae. How Abeat Your Fall. Hat. ah TIME KORA NB WONE—DON'T-¥Ot/ vant “ we! AW TREPOLD-ONE IS PRETTY WLU oun “OF Bien S | DATENOW. WE HAVA BARGESHAINBETOS eee Sea Pun erne SELECT, FROM IN DERBY'S AND SOFT FELTS) Son egg iy ARS Ca ce pd a Phe Bretol, Suit Fl URNISHINGS ‘ Pieris Sea Gtarger | THD, NEWEST AND LATEEST NOVELITES: Bacivix Brand Ginthes : FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN, | aus Smart, Snappy Styles for the Chap That Wants to belt. Let ts: "show you the new styles---Whether you wish to purchase or not. SLRS eLNeae RAR) s0/% mrt amie : We Press all Clothing Bought of us Free of Charge: wedges at INDIVIDUALITY 5 29 LIBKKAL EY Ire Gone “dead to Foot Outfitters”... ,, OUR METHODS i ac i ey EN gressive movement—a movement for the betterment of mankind, the move- mont for making life a little easier foi all our people, a’ movement to try to take the burdens off-she men, and especially the women in this country who is most oppressed. ! am absorb- ed in the success of that movement. I feel _uncommoniy—prond—in—beiong- ing to that movement. Friends, 1 ask you now this evening to accept. what I am saying ‘as absolute truth when f tell yon T am not thinking of my own neces, I. am not thinking of my life’ or anything ‘coarected with me personally ———+-____ . Success In Audacity. ~~ | Great effetts come of industry and | yétheverance; for audacity doth al- | mont’ bina and mate the weaker sort [pf mfiide.“Bacon, Help and Be Happy. | Happfhess fs not a task. It jg not even an occupation. It {9 a quality | of Ife. Happiness depends on help- tulhess. \‘That’s the reason joy 19 |socldt. ‘Yelpfulness keeps happiness because’ It adds to tho area of Aaffec- ('tlon.’” People are not happy’ ‘when | they’ week after happiness. They be- | come steeped In happiness when they "undertake to promote the Joy of oth- | ers,—-Waiter: Williams. Is Anxious to Meet Him. , The vicar of a Kew. (England) |ohurch is advertising for the person who has been In the habit of placing in the offertory bag an envelope von- taining a dirty and somewhat greasy | balfpenny,siamp, so that he may be able “to exchange the stamps for cur- Tent coin of the realm, and have the | Opportunity of making the acquatnt- ance of a most interesting parieh- | toner.” Got Back at the Judas, A célebrated engineer, betug oxam {ned ata trial where both the judge and counsel tried in vait 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.mechanie.” “Why, my lord,” said the engineer, méan that power which enables a man to tonvert a goat's tail into a Judge's wig.” Something Cruel About It. Benevolent Party — “Don't you think fishing is a very cruel sport?” Angler—"Cruel? Well, I should say 40. I've sat here three days and not had a bite, been nearly eaten up by gnata and stung by two wasps, lost ™y pocket-knife in the river, and the sun bas taken all the skin off the back of thy "néek." —-* egret teas eee THURSDAY, OCT Ae |. THE BAUER — MEAT AND FISH CO. 28 and 30 Capitol St. Beef, Veal Mutton, Pork Fresh Pork Sausage, j Our Own Make oad Try Our Machine Sliced.” ‘Hams and Bacon OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY ‘The best qualiden ii alt i I popular kinds of cat CHEESE we have complete stock in’ our lines and you can get it when ydu want more. _ “ts wi : hu eae 1b ea geen aie tote lata ocnopenae: ga bie ROOSEVELT INTEGRITY HAVE THEM ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS Here are some questions that every Democratic voter should ask his party's candidates for the legislature, for he is entitled to have a direct, unequivocal, truthful answer to each and every one of them. Do you favor the abolition of the tax commissioner's office as proposed by the Democrats in the legislature of 1911? Do you favor the repeal of progressive tax legislation and a return to the antiquated, corporation-favoring tax system such as was proposed by the MacCorkle bill, introduced in the senate at the legislative session of 1911, and by Lacy in the House, and passed by that body, at the same session? Do you favor the election of Watson to the United States Senate? Will you, under any circumstances, vote for him? Do you approve of the manner of the election of Watson and of Chilton by the legislature of 1911? Do you favor the kind of Democracy proclaimed by Watson in his interview with State Senator Bland, prior to the assembling of the legislature of 1911, or do you favor the kind William Jennings Bryan has written in his Baltimore platform? Do you believe in Bryan and Wilson Democracy, or are you like Chilton, opposed to "peanut" politics, and aligned with Ryan, Murphy, Belmont and Morgan? Do you favor a disfranchisement law, such as proposed by the Democratic State platform of 1908, but which cowardice and deception relegated to the rear in 1912? Do you favor the "jim crow" car law, such as the Democratic platform of 1908 demanded, but which was eliminated from the platform of 1912 at the behest of Democrats of Fayette and Kanawha counties, who expect to get a large part of the colored vote? No candidate who will not give a positive answer in writing to each and every one of these questions has a right to solicit the vote of any man. Prohibition is a Failure Prohibition is a Failure (Continued from Page Three.) banquet, it was a notable banquet, at which many of Maine's leading citizens were present. A menu was spread worthy of that or any other occasion, and this in prohibition Malne was the bill: Blue Points sur coquille, Green Turtle Imperial Sherry Lobster a la Newburg Dressed Tomatoes Haute Sauterene Spiced Jelly Rolls Mummy's Fries-Dry Toaster Crackers Neufchatel Chees Brute Imperial Maraschino Ice Brandy Sauce Cake Cafe Noir There is a companion piece to this banquet that presents another side. A few days later an express wagon backed up to the curbing in one of the poorer sections of the City of Portland. Two deputy sheriffs alighted from the seat and weed into a tenement house nearby, soon returning with a keg of beer and followed by a coal heaver and his wife who were vainly protesting against the seizure. The next morning this man and his wife appeared in court and received the due penalty of the law imposed by the honorable court. A few years ago Hon. Frank Jones a brewer of the city of Portsmouth. N. H. died. He had been a valuable patron of the Maine Mehodist Con- ference, and seminary at Kent's Hill. His gifts to the Conference were thankfully received and consecrated, quite properly, to the lord. The President of the school at that time and a beneficary of the. Brewer's fund to the extent of his salary, at least, was Rev. WiPur F. Berry of the Maine Civic League, a zealous believer in Maine's prohibitory law and also the man who brought the Rev. Geo. W. Morrow, of Michigan (the self confessed colonizer) into Maine in our "Yes" and "No" campaign of 1911, to tell our people what he thought he knew about prohibition. To show you the insincerity of the proponents of actual constitutional prohibition one incident will perhaps suffice. In our last Spring municipal election in the city of Waterville, the mayor, who is also the Attorney General of Maine, made this public statement in a public meeting in reply to attacks upon the administration's record by one of the clergymen of the city: "Another thing, they say they want the liquor law enforced. There are not twenty men who deep down in their hearts want to see the law enforced. When you talk actual enforcement they shie. I never will take a different stand than I took when I said that the man in the factory had an equal right; to his glass of beer as the man in the club rooms. Therupon the said minister proceeded to secure his petition of twenty men who their signatures would ask for enforcement. The mayor stipulated that the owners of building drug stores, club members and violators of the law of high or low de- gred should each and all be served with warrants and should suffer the due penalty of the law. It is needless to say that the minister failed to secure his petition. Well, what does Maine now think of constitutional prohibition? If a success her people would endorse it pretty nearly unanimously, would they not? The conditions which I briefly portrayed have disgusted our people and they are equally divided on the advisibility of retaining this law. The Democratic party in 1911 in legislature gave the prohibitory amendment back to the people for endorsement or rejection. In the election which followed the 44,000 majority by which brobibition went into the constitution in 1884 was wiped out. In 1884, 23,422 voters voted against constitutional prohibition. In 1911, 56,433 voters voted against it. Eight counties of the sixteen counties of the state voted against constitutional prohibition. All the cities except one by an aggregate majority of 10,0000 votes voted against it, and this after the hardest fight by prohibitionist in the history of the state, backed by such foreign talent as Hobson, Glenn Morrow, Blaire and Littlefield, all under large salaries and with the further aid of campaign fund exceeding $100,000. Gentlemen, Maine has changed her mind, she has tried state-wide prohibition and has found that it does not work. The democracy after the declaration of the vote on the retaining of the law, called a special session of the legislature and submitted another amendment which in substance gave local regulation to the cities and allowed towns to remain under constitutional prohibition, to change only when a majority of the voters of the town requested a change. This amendment was acceptable to a majority of the House and Senate, but did not have the necessary two-thirds majority to get it before the people. Now, why this condition, this dissatisfaction in Maine, and why should you good people of West Virginia keep such condition out of the constitution of your state? Let me give you the following reasons, which I believe are sound: 1st. Your constitution is no place for criminal or police regulations. In the constitution they become a dead letter, as they have too broad an application. 2nd. Constitutional prohibition makes the entire state the unit and nullification of the basic law of the state follows logically in every city and town where actual prohibition is not in the majority. 3rd. Constitutional prohibition leaves you no method of regulating your liquor traffic in the cities. 5th. You establish in all except dry territory a diregard of constitutional law and place a premium on hypocrisy. 6th. Local regulation making the city or the county the unit enables you to reach the question at short range through local officials, and this is majority rule; and majority rule in America is safest in the end. 7th. Constitutional prohibition transfers the control of domestic issue in your cities to a rural legislature who cannot possibly solve your question. These conditions are the experience of Maine and were the experiences of the other New England States, which have returned to local option as Maine will surely return to it in time. All honor to the men and women of high ideals, but we must deal with conditions as they are. Locks on your doors and bars to your windows, prisons, jails and reformatories, are not admissions of lack of faith in humanity, but they are necessary until the ideals of the founders of this government and the teachings of the Nazarine become the highest rule of the average American citizen. Regulate, limit confine within proper bounds what you are not ready to discard altogether. In addition to Maine's history on this great issue what more can I say than to quote from your historian: "Obedience to law is one of the highest qualities of a people and one of the first elements of national greatness. A law cannot be overridden without creating a spirit that will override all law." Men and women of West Virginia, you live in a wonderful state. Your wealth in men, women and in the natural resources of the soil is incalculable. You are giving to this great country in natural resources and in high quality of citizenship what she most needs. Do not I be seevetch you, take any backward step by incorporating into the basic law of your state a question which can enter only unfavorably into your public life and which will prevent many measures of progress for your state. ADVERTISEMENT THE ADVOCATE Nation's Capital Continued from page four the Odd Fellows' Journal will move back to Philadelphia, although a resolution was adopted at the Atlanta meeting of the B. M. C. ordering that the change be made. The present editor, H. P. Slaughter has developed a finely-appointed office here and has organized an office force who make their homes in this city. To break up and move this expensive plant to Philadelphia for no other reason than to gratify a foolish whim, will prove to be a costly proposition and the thinking men of the Order are impelled to ignore the command of the legislative body on the ground that it was issued hastily and without proper information on the subject. The issue will be threshed out at the next meeting of the Sub-Committee of Management in Philadelphia in December. If Editor Slaughters wishes are consulted, and it is likely that they will be, the Journal will remain here in Washington, where it belongs. PROMOTION OF BEASON AND CARPENTER The merited promotion of Messrs. George T. Beason and Chester A. Carpenter to $1,000 and $900 places in the office of the Register of the Treasury is the direct result of a persistent effort on the part of the Hon. J. C. Napier to see to it that worthy colored men on the eligible list for advancement shall be given their just dues. Both of the young men are faithful and efficient workers and are fairly entitled to the recognition given them by the record they have made through several years of the test service. No official under the government deserves more credit than does Mr. Napier, for his zeal in helping worthy men of the race to come into their own. He never hesitates to exercise his influence for his brethren when an opportunity presents itself for him to be of benefit to them. Mr. Napier is a leader who really leads. DR. J. S. JACKSON'S NEW HOME AT BIRMINGHAM Word comes that Dr. J. S. Jackson, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Church, has accepted a set of plans from Architect W. A. Rayfield for a handsome residence at Birmingham, Ala., where he has decided to locate the headquarters of the financial department of the church, removing the same from Philadelphia. The change of base will bring the great substantial force of the church—the money branch—much nearer to the center of the church's population and save much precious time in reaching the masses of the people the energetic and resourceful secretary is serving. Dr. Jackson's new home is to be a modern structure throughout, 40 x 40 feet, hot-air heat, up-to-date plumbing, electric lighting, metal-shingle roof. Experienced architects who have examined Mr. Rayfield's plans say it will be one of the finest residences in Birmingham, regardless of race. Dr. Jackson indicates his sincere faith in the ability and skill of his own professional men by having his plans drawn by a colored architect. Not long ago he demonstrated his confidence in the financial integrity of his race by urging the selection of the Penny Savings Bank at Birmingham, carried on by Dr. W. R. Pettiford, as the principal repository of the funds of the A. M. E. Zion Church. Dr. Jackson's new home and the new headquarters of the Zion Church will be valued additions to the "show places" of Alabama's thriving metropolis. BLUE PRINT; INSPECTOR IN NAVY DEPARTMENT It is not generally known, but it is nevertheless a fact, that the principal blue-print operator in the great Navy Department is R. S. Penn, an enterprising colored man, who has for years made all of the important blue-prints used in showing the diagrams of vessels, location on the seas and indicating stages of construction. The highest officials of the Navy Department speak in glowing terms of Mr. Penn's character and ability. The Monacans are getting ready for their first assembly of the season in December. Dr. Arthur S. Gray and Lieut. Walter A. Pinchback took in the world's series in New York City last week. Miss Ella Wiley shows signs of improvement. Register J. C. Napier is campaigning for Taft and Hooper in Tennessee. Dabney's Theater is being turned into a pool room. The whist clubs have started for the season. The Woman's Guild of St. Luke's P. E. Church, gave a concert typical of "Ye Olden Tyme" in the parish hall of the church last night. The affair was directed by Mr. W. Scott Mavo, precenter of the choir. The revival at Ebenezer M. E. Church, Rev. W. H. Dean, pastor, has resulted in 120 conversions. A baptizing is set for the latter part of this month. The inauguration of President S. M. Newman, of Howard University, is to take place next month. It will be an imposing ceremony, Prof. Kelly Miller spoke at the Y. M. C. A. meeting last Sunday af- ternoon on "Life." Tomorrow Wudge W. T. Norris will be the speaker, his theme being "Immortal Man." An uptown hotel for colored people is wanted in Washington. Attorney G. C. Scurlock has been admitted to practice in the District Court of Appeals, on motion of the Hon. W. D. Baker. A banquet in honor of Dr. C. H. Marshall, the new member of the Board of Education, is proposed. E. L. Scott announces himself as a public accountant. Dr. W. H. Conner, formerly of the Pension Office, is practicing at Indianapolis, Ind., and is doing well. Lawyer L. Melendez King is pushing the Order of Malachites. Miss Jeannette Carter, notary public, has returned from New York. Ditto, Miss Minnie A. Crews, Phar D., of Gray & Gray's pharmacy. Register J. C. Napler opened the Howard Law School this year. He is an alumnus of the institution. Waters and Wilson have established a bureau of contributing editors, general correspondents and general investigators, offering to furnish information on any subject. Prof. Kelly Miller had the objectionable charts, reflecting on the morals of the Negro as a race, removed from the exhibit of the recent Congress on Hygiene and Demography. Fred W. Hamilton has been appointed to a place in the Pension Office on the recommendation of Representative Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati. Mr. Hamilton hails from the Queen City and from the county which bears his name. R. W. Thompson. Baptist Did Not Endorse PRESIDENT TAFT AS REPORTED BY REPUBLICAN NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Report Brarded a Lie By Officers of the Baptist National Convention who are Deeply Incensed that Organization was used to Further Taft's Candidacy. Indignation among the Negro Baptists of the city and the state over what is purported to have been a shrewd political trick played upon the denomination, it is feared by some men who are high up in the councils of the denomination, grows worse instead of better. It appears that the politicians and a number of the political ministers who never lose an opportunity to get their party and their men before any large organization in their effort to turn these organizations from well beaten paths were not asleep at the Houston meeting of the National Baptist Convention. Early last week there reached Nashville from the political headquarters of New York and Washington circulars stating in bold type "Baptists for Taft." This letter was sent to an energetic young man of the city, who at once displayed it among the big guns of the Baptist forces, as they had always claimed their conventions and gatherings took no active part in politics, but that the sessions of their state and annual organizations were devoted almost entirely to the work of religious uplift in the race. Each man, however, they claim, reserves the right to vote as he sees fit. The contents of the circular declare that "By an overwhelming majority the delegates advise the Afro-Americans of the country to vote the Republican ticket straight." It states further that these delegates represent a constituency of two and a half million Baptists. Then comes the resolution which sets forth in political style the whereas and resolves. "There is not a scintilla of truth in it," said Dr. R. H. Boyd, who was present at the National Baptist Convention. "It is positively false," declared Dr. C. H. Clark, who is chairman of one of the boards. "It is an outrage upon the dignity of the Baptist Convention," asserted Rev. W. S. Ellington, pastor of the First Baptist Church, who was also at the National Baptist Convention. "Our convention is not in politics," said the Rev. John Slaughter. However, the matter remained undenied officially until the following was received by a Globe representative from the Secretary of the National Baptist Convention: "Selma, Ala., Oct. 7. "No, the Convention did not indorse Mr. Taft, his administration or anyone else. The records of the proceedings of the meeting on this are as follows: 'Dr. E. J. Fisher, of Chicago, Ill., was recognized to offer a resolution. The resolution had reference to politics and was declared out of order." "R. B. Hudson, "Secretary National Baptist Convention." This frank denial coming from the records of the National Baptist Con- ONE PART TO BE REMEMBERED When the present state administration ends on the 4th day of March next it will mark the end of 16 years of Republican management of State affairs during which time West Virginia has made almost unparalleled progress in growth and prosperity and the development of her great resources. While it is generally recognized that it has been under Republican administration that West Virginia has reaped her greatest share of prosperity through the development of her vast coal fields, the manufacture of lumber, the cultivation of orchards and the establishments of immense manufacturing plants, it is not so well known that during the last four Republican administrations that more money has been expended by the State in the construction and equipment of public buildings than was spent for that purpose in all the preceding administrations since the admission of the state. The MacCorkle-Chilton ring, which is once more in control of the Democracy of the State, were the last Democratic occupants of the state-house. This ring, which is making a last effort to regain full control of the State government, were driven from the capitol by the ballots of the voters in 1896. The Democrats had held the control of the State up to 1897 for twenty-four years, the Republicans having manned the ship of state for a few years after the admission of the State. From 1864 to 1897 was a period of 33 years and in that period there was expended by the State for public buildings, lands and equipment the sum of $2,644,478.00. From 1897 to 1912, a period of 16 years, the State spent on public buildings, lands and equipment $2,942,804.63. More plainly, the four Republican administrations, Atkinson, White, Dawson and Glasscock, spent $300,000 more for the improvement of public buildings in 16 years than had been spent in the 33 years preceding. The greater portion of the money expended in the past 16 years has been for the University, the Keyser and Montgomery preparatory schools, the hospitals for the insane, the colored institutes, Girls' Industrial home, capitol annex, miners' hospitals, reform school, tuberculosis sanitarium and the purchase of additional ground for the capitol. MOO! THE INTERESTS WILSON HASSLE THE LIFE THE PEOPLE vention will in all probability throw the matter out of the minds of the people, but does not allay the rumor current throughout the United States that men connected with the Convention have from time to time flirted with one political party and then another for favors, using the Convention as an inducement of recognition from the individual. In the course of investigation by the Globe reporter it develops that a rumor had already reached Nashville that a big Baptist pastor in one of the large cities of the United States had offered to a press representative $5 to have a similar resolution appear in the papers as having been passed by the convention. This is said to have taken place during the sessions of the Convention at Houston. But the emphatic denial and the vigorous protest by the leaders of the denomination in this city, who still assert that their rights as citizens to vote as they please and absolutely refuse to carry politics into their Conventions, together with the assertion showing that the presiding officer ruled the matter out of order, are calculated to serve as a foundation upon which the denial can be made by all the Baptist papers. The circular, while sent out from New York City, shows that it was printed by some union printing office in Washington, D. C., and that it perhaps found its way to the Republican headquarters in New York, from where it was dispensed as campaign literature. The editor of the Union-Review, the official organ of the denomination published in the city, said: "The whole thing is information to me. Our Convention would not so forget itself as to leave off the affairs of the denomination with the great work of the Boards to endorse any political party. There are enough political conventions in the United States held annually and from time to time to get all the Negroes to enforce whoever they like best. Our Convention at Houston did not go on record as favoring any political organization." Dr. E. W. D. Isaac, Secretary of the National B. Y. P. U. Board, made the following statement to a Globe reporter: "The resolution in question was not voted on by the National Baptist Convention. Dr. E. J. Fisher, of Chicago, presented it, but President Morris ruled it out of order, and it thus passed from the notice of the Convention. That having been done, the author of the resolution and any or all persons connected with getting it into public print are false to the denomination, and guilty of misdemeanor, for which they should be severely censured and punished. "E. W. D. ISAAC." With this the matter has been left up to the Baptists and their organs for further denial—Nashville Globe. Professor Paul van Dyke, writing on "College Life" in the November Scribner addresses himself especially to fathers who haven't been to college who have boys that want to go. It's about as good a document for the times as could be written. Even the layman can hardly find fault with the author's point of view. It dissipates a lot of nonsense about college snobbery and aristocracy. Senator Lodge gives some vivid impressions of his boyhood days during the war, 1860-1866, in his "Memories" that appear in the November Scribner. He recalls the impression made upon a Boston boy upon hearing of the firing upon the Sixth Massachusetts in the streets of Baltimore and the fall of Sumter. There's a good story of the artistic temperament in the November Scribner by Virginia Tracy. It is about an actor and his wife and what happened at the Thanksgiving matinee.