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MR. HUGHES ANSWERS. Those Who Claimed for His Views Are Hearing Them. Those friends of Democracy who clamored so loudly for Mr. Hughes' opinions upon current issues while he still held the high office of justice of the supreme court, are now fully answered by the private citizen, who surrendered his judicial position to accede to the wishes of a majority of the people as expressed through their instructions to their delegates to the Republican national convention. Mr. Hughes has not disappointed those who have reposed confidence in his character and judgment. In his speech of acceptance he has clearly set forth the vital issues upon which the Republican party proposes to conduct the campaign this fall. On the platform he is telling the nation wherein the present administration has been at fault and what is necessary to be done to restore the United States to the place of respect and honor to which it is entitled in the eyes of the world. MR. HUGHES HAS EXPLODED THE "KEPT-US.OUT-OF-WAR" ARGUMENT. Mr. Hughes' attack upon the "keptus-out-of-war" argument has aroused a story of enthusiasm. "Kept us out of war?" he demands. "Why, there were nineteen men—good American soldiers, shot down at Vera Cruz, and many Mexicans were killed by our men. That was war. Moreover, it was a very ignoble war. I have heard three explanations of the Vera Cruz move. "First, it was explained that it was made in order to compel somebody to salute the flag—somebody who had insulted us. But the flag was not sulted and has not been to this day. Then it was said that the salute was not what we sought, but to prevent the landing of a boatload of ammunition intended for Huerta. The ammunition, landed, however, and it has been shown that it reached Huerta in due season without interference on our part. "When that reason was shown to be untenable, a thief one—and possibly the real one—finally was advanced. It was said that our seizure of Vera Cruz was a move to compel the retirement of Huerta. It seems possible that this is true, although we had promised the Mexicans that we would not interfere in their affairs and told them more than once that we wanted them to handle their own affairs. "That is why the Mexicans could not understand us and that is why they show little faith in our promises." MANANA Manana, which is Mexican for "watchful waiting," is the Democratic keynote in the campaign. The Wilson drive is to begin "sometime" after September 1; but no definite engagements have been made, it is announced, for him to commence making political speeches. He has tentative engagements to make some Western visits about the middle of September but nothing positive. Plans are being formulated for carrying on a campaign to capture the woman vote of the country, but who will make the speeches on this phase of the controversy has not been determined. It had been expected that Mr. Bryan would speak in the Maine campaign, but it is now believed he cannot do so, but will make some speeches later. And so it goes. Watchful waiting will prevail while, in the meantime, Mr. Hughes is carrying on a positive campaign and arousing the entire Western country. WILSON'S POLICIES BLOWN UP. Charles Evans Hughes did have explosives with him when his motor car was searched by a Canadian soldier, but they were under the candidate's hat. Mr. Hughes will set them off on his Western tour and some of Mr. Wilson's policies will be blown up.—New York Sun. To Prevent Blood Poisoning apply at once the wonderful old reliable DP PORTER'S ANTISISE TIC HEALING OIL, as a surgeon's first aid. Note it is sometimes not a flame. The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY SEPT. 2 1916 "Mr. Hughes has unequivocally taken the right position, and as regards all other positions he, and not his opponent, is entitled to the support of both men and women, and therefore the women in the enfranchised states who do not in his election support him forfeit the right to say they have done their utmost for their sisters in the non-enfranchised states."—From a letter of Theodore Roosevelt to Miss Alice Carpenter. Need of Constructive Legislation. Just before the European war broke out we had a million skilled mechanics out of work and nearly half a million railroad men were idle, together with nearly half a million freight cars. The railroads were suffering from lack of freight to carry to market, and industry was gradually becoming stagnant. In Louisiana two hundred thousand acres of sugar land were plowed up because of Democratic changes in the tariff law. It is generally conceded by all save the blind that the country was not progressing. Attempts were made to keep courage up by the predictions made by Secretaries McAdoo and Redfield and President Wilson of the great trade booms which were soon to appear but which failed to materialize until the outbreak of war on the continent. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPH8. Two futile invasions of Mexico and six separate and distinct policies on the question of permitting arms and ammunition to be sent into that country are included in the performance of the Wilson administration in its dealings with our southern neighbors in less than three years. It is this characteristic instability of the government that makes people want a change. When Charles E. Hughes said: "The dealings of the administration with Mexico constitute a confused chapter of blunders," he gave an explicit characterization of the Wilson administration's policy in one sentence. Just as it is now obstinately shutting its eyes to the need of industrial preparedness, for three years the Wilson administration refused to see the need of adequate military preparedness. With war on our southern border it was content to rely on a regular army that could only muster 40,000 available men and refused to continue the established policy of building up our navy. When the time came for action, the country had not sufficient troops to police the border and this force has been supplemented by a trifle more than one third the war strength of the national guard. If the national administration had had the ability to interpret the signs of the time military preparedness would have been well under way instead of barely begun. Charles E. Hughes, the Republican candidate, recognizes an important fact that Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic president, appears to have overlooked—that the United States is big enough to help Mexico out of the condition of anarchy in which that country is plunged and, by securing order in Mexico, insure peace on our border. The insuperable handicap of the Democratic party in this campaign is its record. If the Democratic national administration had left on the statute books in 1834 the federal corrupt practices act placed there by the Republicans there would be no occasion for the present administration's campaign publicity measure which, at best, is a very poor substitute for the law repealed. President Wilson's campaign managers are entitled to all the comfort they can get out of calling the roll of Progressives who are going to vote for him. It would be an endless task to call the roll of Progressives who are not going to vote him. For every reason that can be advanced why Progressives should vote for Wilson, ten can be advanced why they should vote for Hughes and the beauty of it is that they know the reasons without having to be told. The Wilson administration went into Mexico to punish Villa for his outrage on American soil. The only punishment inflicted has been on American soldiers who were shot down at Carrizal by order of First Chief Carranza. Financial rain is faced by the hotels of Manitoba, Canada, as a result of the prohibition law of that province according to the following dispatch from Winnipeg to the Minneapolis Tribune: The economic distress of the hotel trade of Manitoba, after one month's experience with prohibition, is strikingly illustrated by the closing of a large number of places and by requests for relief of some character by those remaining open. A conference of the representatives of the government, Commercial Travelers' association, the Social Service counsel and the Hotel Men's league has been arranged to see what can be done in the interest of public accommodation. CHIEF FINDS REAL SALOON CHIEF FINDS REAL SALOON TOPEKA DRY CLEANER HAD CAFE WITH BARTENDER AND GLASS PARSONS, SHERLOCK "There Is Nothing of Special Interest" In Trying a Boetleger, Says Capper's Paper —it's a Daily Occurrence in Kansas Police Court A real saloon, with a bartender and glass has been discovered by the Topeka (Kas.) police. The Topeka Capital, Governor Copper's paper recited the story of the discovery: What promised to be one of the most interesting police court liquor trials in several years was postponed recently. A. W. Vogel, proprietor of the Vogel cleaning establishment at the northeast corner of Tenth and Kansas avenue, and James Richardson, employed there, were scheduled for trial for running a joint. The alleged joint is in the building owned by Gottlieb Noller, arrested on a liquor warrant the day before the Vogel place was raided. There is nothing of special interest in trying a person in police court for selling liquor. Scarcely a session of police court goes by without such a trial. The interest in Vogel centers in the fact that he conducted a place where liquor could be purchased, not by the bottle, but by the drink, according to Harvey Parsons, chief of police. "Detective Thomas Morgan and myself, when we went to the place, found a very nice layout where a customer could step up, lay down his money, pour a drink of whisky from a bottle to a glass of regulation saloon size and toss it down," said Parsons. "We found a copper water cooler. Near it sat a whisky glass and inside the water cooler was a bottle of whisky. A young fellow, supposedly waiting to have a pair of trousers pressed, sat with a half-empty bottle of beer before him when we entered." When the officers entered the place Vogel retreated out the back door. He had nearly reached the corner of the building, with every indication of preparing to take to his heels, when Chief Parsons commanded him to halt. The chief thinks that other persons preceded Vogel. Clothes hanging in the room were flapping as though they had been stirred by a breeze. No wind was blowing, and the chief thinks the stlr was caused by a rapid exit of patrons. Wrapped Up For Auto Trade. Almost a full case of whisky in half-pint bottles was found in the place, and a full case was found in Vogel's residence on Douthitt avenue. The bottles, however, were not wrapped in the customary way to be shipped by express. They were bound in burlap in a manner convenient for carrying in an automobile. Richardson, it is charged by the police, acted as bartender for Vogel. The trial was postponed yesterday because the city wished time in which to produce more evidence. "I think we should set aside a day for the trial of Nollar, Vogel and Richardson, when other cases will not demand the time of the court," suggested Paul Heinz, assistant city attorney, to Judge Robert Yates. The trial is set for Thursday. POLITICAL JOTTINGS At that, however, from beginning to end this has been more of a "you kick me and I'll kiss you" administration. Vance McCormick says the Progressives are stampeding to Wilson, and it's a ten to one bet he wishes he could believe it. The Democrats are finding out that pork comes home to root out their standing. The men and women who prefer a man who does things to a man who writes notes about them will vote for Hughes. Government by correspondence takes too long to get anywhere, but government by deeds is always on the job. Those who are concerned to know what Mr. Hughes would have done had he been in Mr. Wilson's place may rest assured he would not have done as Mr. Wilson has. And that is answer enough. Mr. Hughes is not only going direct to the public, but the public is going direct to him. A genuine American fifty-fifty! President Wilson's alarm clock is ringing at 5 o'clock these mornings. He can reach out of bed and turn it off the morning of March 5. Postmaster General Burleson is too foxy a politician to adopt for his department the McAdoo rule forbidding Treasury department employees participating in politics. Mr. Burleson realizes that postmasters are entitled to some exercise for the money. There are no strings or mental reservations to the public pledges of administrative reform given by Charles E. Hughes. His record as governor of New York guarantees the fulfillment of every promise. Democrats are now convinced that Charles Evans Hughes is a warm proposition. Pictures of Booker Washington Sell like hot cakes; our spacious scheme of giving him a book with his picture tells everybody; we have the big book, both sell for $12.95; we pay express; all agents should write us; any body can sell; two outfits, fifteen cents AUSTIN JENKINS CO., 7th St., Washing on, J. C. OFFICERS ELECTED Of Queen Bethsheba Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star. Mr. W. L. Waid, Grand Worthy Patron, Muskogee, Okla. Mrs. Lillie Taliferro, Grand Worthy Matron, Muskogee, Okla. Mr. N. J. C. Johnson, Grand Asst. Patron, Guthrie, Okla. Mrs. Jennie M. Hill, Grand Asst. Matron, Rentiesville, Okla. Mrs. Emma Goodlow, Grand Conductress, Eufaula, Okla. Mrs. Eliza Bailey, Grand Asst. Conductress, Muskogee, Okla. Mrs. Fannie Barbour, Grand Treasurer, El Reno, Okla. Mrs. Pollye S. Baucaum, Grand Secretary, Anadarko, Okla. Mrs. Ruxie A. Price, Secretary and Treasurer E. S. B. A., Hennessee, Okla. Mrs. Lula M. Johnson, Secretary of Temple Department, Perry, Okla. Mrs. Dora Wells, Secretary and Treasurer of Burial Department, Tulsa, Okla. Mrs. Mayme E. Thompson, Grand Lecturer, McAlester, Okla. Rev. J. E. Toombs, Grand Chaplain, Guthrie, Okla. Dr. A. B. Whitney, Chairman Auditing Committee, Oklahoma City, Okla. Mrs. Annie M. Smythe, Chairman C .F. C., Oklahoma City, Okla. This was the greatest session the Grand Chapter ever held. Peace and harmony prevailed. W. L W.aid was unanimously elected as G. W. P. This was a splendid recognition of the ability and progressive spirit of the executive head of the organization. Under the leadership of Mr. Waid and Mrs. Talliaferro the G. W .M., this Grand Chapter bids fair to take the lead of all others in the United States of America. Much can be said in praise of the other officers, but space will not permit it. and Valley R. R. ARKANSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD ACTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5th, 1916 RAINS DAILY-2 & Tulsa, Okla. Between Muskegee, & EASTBOUND ] For Ft. Smith and points beyond h and points beyond ka and Tulsa. City and Tulsa. WESTBOUND Ark City and Wichita. Pawhuska. with and point beyond. ) From Ft. Smith and points beyond. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION for 495 Muskogee, C CHANGE of time on the sco Line Active Sunday, April 3 normor will leave Muskogee 11:45 p.m. City 7:15 a.m., twenty-five minute train, sleeping car, chair car and c. Sleeper ready for occupancy at agement of schedules affords urnoon Service to Oklahoma Midland Valley R. R. "ARKANSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5th, 1916 2-TRAINS DAILY-2 Between Muskogee & Tulsa, Okla. Between Muskegee, & Ft. Smith EASTBOUND No. 4 [Motor Train] For Ft. Smith and points beyond 7:45 a.m. No. 2 For Ft Smith and points beyond ..... 6:20 p. m. No. 6 From Pswbuka and Tulsa ..... 10; 40 a. m. No. 2 Wichita, Ark City and Tulsa ..... 6:15 p. m. WESTBOUND No. 1 For Tulsa, Ark City and Wichita ..... 8:00 a. m. No. 5 For Tula and Pswhuska ..... 5:10 p. m. No. 7 From Ft. Smith and point beyond ..... 11:45 p. m. No. 3 (Motor Train) From Ft. Smith and points beyond 7:30 p. m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Phone 1308 or 495 Muskogee, Okla. FRISCO LINES Change of time on the Frisco Lines The Governor will leave Muskogee 11:45 p.m., arrive Oklahoma City 7:15 a.m., twenty-five minutes earlier. The whole train, sleeping car, chair car and coaches will run through. Sleeper ready for occupancy at 9:30 p.m. A re-arrangement of schedules affords Leave Muakogee 1:50 p. m. Arrive Sapulpa 5:15 p. m. Leave Sapulpa 6:50 p. m. Arrive Oklahoma City 10:20 p. m. A parlor car is operated on this train Sapulpa to Oklahoma City. For complete schedules and additional information, see Frisco Agent. C. O. Jackson, R. H. Phinney, Division Passenger Agent, Oklahoma City, Okla. General Agent, Muakogee, Okla. Negro Democrats have a hard row to hoe when all of us can vote and that we will do in November. Holy rollers on the north side of town, the Seven Day Adventists on the south side and the regulars between them. They should have the devil on the jump. They say Oklahoma had a big place in the Kansas City parade and Muskogee was 'IT." John D. Epps is the colored lawyer at Eufaula, a bright, able young man who should have the support of the people. Every citizen regardless of color, race or creed, can vote next November. The men who attempt the disfranchising act will catch H——. WE WANT THE AMERICAN FLAG UNSULLIED. "Now, my friends, we want not only American efficiency in business, in efficiency in the organization of business, in the protection of the factors of human industry and commerce, we want the American flag unsuilled and the American name honored throughout the world." —From Mr. Hughes' speech at Chicago. RUB-MY-TISM Will cure your Rheumatism Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and Burus, Old Sores, Stings of Insects Et. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally and externally. Price 25c PRICE $1.00 A YEAR ALLEY R. R. VER ROUTE" THE CARD Y, MARCH 5th, 1916 DAILY-2 Between Muskegee, & Ft. Smith FOUND with and points beyond 7:45 a.m. ond ..... 6:20 p. m. ..... 10; 40 a. m. ..... 6:15 p. m. FOUND Wichita ..... 8:00 a. m. ..... 5:10 p. m. beyond ..... 11:45 p. m. with and points beyond 7:30 p. m. INFORMATION Muskogee, Okla. Change of time in the No Lines Sunday, April 30th Muskogee 11:45 p.m., arrive ... twenty-five minutes earlier. car, chair car and coaches will ly for occupancy at 9:30 p. m. medules affords ce to Oklahoma City this train Sapulpa to Oklahoma City. ditional information, see Frisco Agent. R. H. Phinney, General Agent, Muskegee, Okla. The Youth's Companion IT is more than 52 numbers filled to the brim with delightful reading—it is an influence for all that is best in home and American life. Three Weeks Free The Companion is $2.00 a year, but to those who do not know the paper we shall be glad to send three current issues free of charge, so that they may test its quality, read its wholesome, diverting fiction, its contributions by famous men and women, its various departments, etc. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION 114 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED AT THIS OFFICE THE MUSKOGEE CIMETER, W. H. Twine Editor P. R. Price Associate Editor E, D. Nickens Associate Editor W. H. Twine, Jr. Manager E. H. Twine Collector THE N. A.C. W. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican Raper in the City of Muskogee. |The ly Phoenix is sometimes Republi- gf Ard sometimes independent but at le present time it claims to be inde. pendent, such a changing in not worth ree whoops in h——-I to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got Fich at the Republican pie eranter. hat base ingratitude. . REPUBLICAN COUNTY CANDIDATES. For Sheriff —F’, J, Bays. For County Attorney--H. C Whipperman. For County Judge—Myror White. For County Treasurer—A .A Coupland. For County Assessor—J. W. Hubbard. For County Clerk—W. S. Har- sha. For Court Clerk—Dr. J. M. Coon. For County Superintendent — Miss Alice M. Robertson. For County Surveyor—M. A. Earl. For County Weigher—F. T. Swift. Commissioners. No. 1.—John L. Cooper, Ft. Gib- son, No, 2—J. C. Rhodes, Webbers Falls. No. 3—Irvin Blanchard, Has- kell. State Reprpesentatives. John Lieber. © E. Cramer. Coo, Leopold. Tl> Pepublican party is the s! ‘p_ard all else the sea, The Oldihio” + Negro is suve of that from bitter experience. For Congress Second Distrtet Harry Ward. Every man, woman and child who fs opposed to lynch law should come to the A. M. EB. chureh, Ninth and Den'son on Tuesday night, Sept. 5th, and hear Miss ESlivabeth Freeman. Admission free. We want to see the chureh crowded. ‘The Cimeter asks you to come, The nominee for congress in this district, Mr. Henry Ward, is an ag- gressive Republican and with a united party can win, We want to’ see an aggressive compaign and surgest fo the congressional com- mittee that every school district in every county be thoroughly tested, The Republican state convention Will be held at Oklahoma City Sept 12th. We hope some of our people from cach county will be there as we should have a get to gether meeting of our own. There are many things of vital importance to Tan take Cas oa th caeher’ ann The U. BR. F. Grand Lodge raised Grand Master Delancy’s salary to $500. ‘This shows the craft Is sat isfed with his management. All claims that are due have been paid and there is money in the treasury. Therefore 206 todges and temples in the jurisdiction, ‘This shows prosperity, In the trial of Will Towery, ebarged with murder at Bufauia, Lawyer J. D. Epps, one of the attor- neys for the defense, made a most telling speech to the jury and was highly complimented by the court The people of Eufaula and Metntosh county are justly proud of this young man, “We are certain he, is the right man in the right place, Mr. Hughes, the Republican can- didate is making a brilliant cam- paign, Me is a winner by a tre- menduous majority. — Watch — the count, T. R. Roosevelt will shake up the dry bones in Maine next week, Teddy 18 a whole team and the re- sult in Maine will show he is still the {dol of the people, If the Republicans of this county will make @ real agressive campaign the Democrats will be routed from Alpha to Omega, (From Hell to breakfast.) It look good to us. Wagoner, Muskogee and MeIntosh counties in the Republican col- umn where they belong is the pre- diction of this paper. The Democrats in each of these counties are on the With a real live competent man as president of the U. 8. there never would have been any danger of a railroad strike. When Roosevelt gets into the western theater campaigning just watch the fur fly, Teddy knows how and will show up the weakness of the Democratic administration, The change is coming and the Ameri- can people need it. Judge Clay of Mangum, Okla,, was presiding at Eufaula during the trial of the Towery boye and we de- sire to aay that he is @ splendid jurist and believes in a square deal to all men regardless of color. it takes an awful big white man to ve a Negro @ square deal and Judge Clay can. and did do. so. tn | 333 777 13th Annual Session | of the Knights & Daughters of Tabor’s SETH NEAL, Re-lected also his Cabinet Wiggins Defeated Anderson for Attorney General The Fight Was Hot ) INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF IWELVE, The thirteenth annual session o the Knights and Daughters o ‘Tabors in Oklahoma, has closed on of the most successful meetings tt the } of the organization, i order ranks as the oldes Negro secret order in Amer. (his order had {ts conceptior vy st) The controling principles wei. ccod upon the freedom of the ‘Negro slaves. ‘Those principles were organized and vutured in the fertle [brain of that grand old man, Mosee Dixon, who was to the Americar Neste what Moses was to the child: ren of Israel. From a band. oi small believers it has developed Inte ‘one of the strongest Negro organiza. tions in this country. ‘The Jurisdle tion of Oklahoma is In better condi: tion financially than any order in the state. This is not an extrava- gant claim. Physical facts and con- structive evidence eliminates all doubt and supersition ‘The personel of this organization most particularly the cabinet, stim- ulates conmidence and generates en- thusiasm. The chief Grand Mentor, Hon, Seth Neal is a man of studious habits and executive abllty, He po- sesses all the qualities of a true leader. He has been chief Grand Mentor for several years, He is never re-elected by any ellek, buneh or machine nor does he seek re-nom- ination bis honesty in office, pro- sressive ideas are such that an at- tempt to defeat him) would be a huge joke. Not only is this true of Sir Neal, but it is equally true of his cabinet. Sten like S.rs Toomb, Franklin, Smaliwood, Jackson and Anderson. The ineurgents, if any there be, get but lide consolation in this great organization, The organiza- tion is placed upon such a igh plane until it would be next. to sacreligious for one to attempt to Hisript Cinky to qatisiy his person: al epleen, ‘This order ts consplenous for the ubsence of the “trickster,” “medi cine makers” and “general fixers.” it is indeed a pace setter for other orders who spend much time each year in try ng to deteat the head of he organization Here is the real condition of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor in the International order of Twelve: Membership, 2,500, Collections this year $8,500, Paid death claims, $3,050, Claims unpaid, $80, Cash on hand endowment depart- ment $6,256. Cish in other departments $1,500, |yers in the case were treated with the same courtesy as the white law: yers and the judge was kind in many other ways to them, — ‘The sheriff and his deputies were cour- teous and obliging as was the county Jattorney. ‘The people of Butaula Jus a whole had a different opinion about the ease when it closed from the one held before trial, Will Tow- ery case will go to the criminal court of appeals, 1. 8. Young, G. 8. of Ardmore, while in our city recently, arranged ith the Lantern for the publica- lion of the local mews of lodges and myles throughout the jurisdictton, The officers of lodges and temples are respectfully requested to write up the local happenings in their community and send the same to the Lantern ‘not later than Tuesday of each week, eon, 04 ve P. Brown, G. A. or the U, B. F. spent Tuesday in Me- Alester on legal business, Mrs, Hattie L. Lott, princess of Morning Glory Temple, of Holden- Ville, Was in’ the clty’ Wednesday, Mrs. Francis 1. Lands, of Holden- ville, was here this week attending the Grand Lodge o Sir Kn'ghts ani Paughters, Hon. P. M.Delancy, J. 8. Young, 4, 8 and wile, of Ardmore, made With such an authenticated report is not this order far alead in tan gible results? ‘The collateral in the form of real estate, fixtures and paraphernalia amounts to many hundreds. ‘The membership of this order is Jon a steady increase. ‘This article would be incomplete if the great women who are the life blood would be omitted. Such ladies as are daughters, Lilly Tallaterro, Huteh- ins, Lyons, Wood, Thompson, Smith, Derauiline, Steiner, Glass and Byas. | These are some of the leading la- dies of not only this order but of our race. Chief Grand Mentor's Recommenda- tions. First: [ recommend that the Chie. Grand Mentor of Oklahoma and Jurisdiction shall give bond to ‘secure the prover application of the money that passes through his hands, said bond to be fixed by the ‘Board of Grand Curators trom time to time and tiat the same shall be a surety bond. | Second: I recommend that chief ‘seribes and chief recorders shail give a good and sufficient bond same to be fixed by the Temples and Tab- ernacles, and that said bond shall be given and approved by the Tem- ple or Tabernacle before the officer named sball enter upon the dis- charge of his or her duty. Third: 1 recommend that that the 20th day of May of each year be established and known as Ta- borian decoration day and that on that day the Temples and Taberna- cles and Tents shall turn out and decorate the gravid their dead and hold such apM@®Ppriate memor- jal exercises as may apply within the various communities. Fourth: 1 recommend that the laws governing the Endowment De- partment be amended so as to make it lawful to issue two hundred dol- lar polie'es instead of one hundred and fifty dollars and that the En- dowment dues be raised trom seven- tyafive cents to $1 per quarter. ‘The new policy to become effective af- ter Jan, 1, 1917. 1 recominend that the clause now In our policy which makes it be- come effective and worth $50 after nine months of membership be amended to read six monthe instead of nine months. Fith: 1 1ecommend that the price for Charter and supplies to Royal Houses be reduced from $25 as heretofore to $18. Sixth: | recommend that we con- tinue the premium of $50 to the deputy who organizes the highest number of Temples and Tabernacles during the year above Sve, night to he in attendance at a ban quet given by the lodges and tem. ples of Wagouer in honor of Grand Master P. M. Delaney, Grand Prin cess M. £. Hardridge ‘and the dele gates who attended the Grand ses. sion held at Roley, After the re ports of the delegates speeches were made by J. 8. Young, G. D., Hon. P.M, Delaney, Mrs, J. 8. Young, Prof. Pressly, Prof, @. H. Wallace and Mrs. M. E. Hardridge. D. Bum- pass acted master of ceremonies, Re- freshments were served by Mrs. 8. A. Alexander and others, Watch the Republicans win. We have a clean ticket and the old barnacles have been cut lose, We predict a victory in County, State and Nation. The Demo- crats are on the run, Read over the Republican tick- et and get acquainted with our next officers, We reach the people. Adver- tisers take notice. Our readers patronize those who advertise, The Republican party is united in State and Nation and they ho invincible. AN ADMINISTRATION TOO CONTENT WITH LEIS. URELY DISCUSSION. I do not put life and property on the same footing, but the Administration has not ouly been remiss with respect to the protection of American lives; it has been remiss with respect 0 the protectica of American Property and American com merce. [t has been too much disposed to be content with lolsurely discussion. —From Mr, Hughes’ speech of acceptance. “TAY OFFICER [3 ARRESTED SLR pain uaa GREET AGCUSERS Foreign “Bootleggers” Say They eet he 18 Cizens On Charge of Vo That prohibition does not prohibit in Iowa, which has been “dry” (2) since last January 1, is attested by the following from the Mason City (la.) Times: R. D, Mason, beer censor and liquor inspector, was arraigned in Justice Kimball's court yesterday on the charge of bribery and bound over to the grand jury which will convene in September. | Greek Bootleggers. John Cazonas and William Pappas, the principal witnesses for the state, testified. Cazonas stated that he had been selling liquor illegeiiy since March, 1915, and that he had from time to time solicited orders trom Greeks. Cazonas asserted that he had paid between $15 and $40 per month to large sums monthly to Mason for Passing on liquor. Cazonas asserted that on July 5, 1916, that he had paid Mason the sum of $85 for passing 340 barrels of hoor and that on the 10th of the same month he paid Mason $100 for passing on 400 barrels of beer, He claimed that William Pappas and Nick Nicko- lopalous were with him when he paid the money to Mason, William Pappas corroborated the testimony of Cazonas, He asserted that he had been carrying on illegally the sale of liquor in the city, and that during the past few montis ko had been a partner with Cazonas, fowa Liquor Raid. | More proof that Iowa 1s still “wet is furnished by an article from Keo kuk (la) printed in the Ft. Madison (a.) Democrat, as follows Information against 18 Keokuk men charging violation of the state laws: against the sale of Hquor were filed | in the superior court here today. ‘The | informations are the outcome of | Weeks of detective work by the Keo: kuk authoritie,. Lvideuce against the 18 was secured by two paid detec. tives who made purchases of lquor| At places operated by those charged | in the informations, | Three police raids were mace on| Saturday night and a quaniity ot| Mquor confiscated, Informations| against the proprietors of the places raided will be filed also, making the total number in the toils of the law 21, ALLIGATORS IN KANSAS Pratt is a dry city, but its citi Zens have been seeing things re- cently. ©. J. Bowman, living near the Rock Island tracks, was sur- Prised to see an alligator wacdling up the path in his front yard. He captured his alligatorship. The next morning a harvest hand was lying on a grassy spot resting whon another ‘gator strolled up to him and began to make friends. The man was #0 scared at first that he was unable to capture the creature, but later took him under his care and protection, Many rumors as to where the strange visitors hailed from were heard, but it is belicved that the mystery has been settled. One of the soldier trains that passed through Pratt had six alligators with them, and it is believed that three escaped to give the citizens Tt 18 gratifying, Indeed, to find that | Mr. Wilson still stands on the suffrage question where he stood at the bexine hing of his adininistration, He has changed on nhout everything else— Philadelphia Evening Ledger. It strikes one that instead of wildly hustling for the State of Maine, Vance MeCormick might do better work by taking bis wrecking erew to the West to repair the Democratic bridges thut are beng dyoumited by Justice Hughes, ~ | According to the week's latest work of fletion, the Democratic Campalyn Look, the wage-earners of the country received during the Wilson Aduinls tration $2,000,000,000 tore than they recelved under Tuft, And all it cost them to keep something in the diuner pail was §$6,000,000,000 more. | At the annual meeting of postmas- ters in Washington recently, the first ussistant postinaster-general lauded the postal savings system, That must Rave heen a bitter pill for Postinstor- General Burleson, who sat o the same Vuttorm with his assistant, When the Postal savings bill was passed, Mr Burleson, then a Congressiian frou Texas, voted against I. Every vor cast against It was cast by a Dene erat. Not one Democratic Congress. man voted for it. Yet President Wil son says the Republican party has not had a new idea tn thirty years, Whose Idea was 1c? Tt was the Instinct of a lawyer for Hughes to support iis damning eb: ng es ugalnst Wilson, by calling Wilson's: own secrotary of state as, a witness to prove them, Mr. Hughes says there should be firm dealing in Mexican aftairs. May- be so; but we have bad enough of the firm of Wilson, Carranza & Co. ‘The Impression ts growing at the White House that Mr. Hughes ts delily erately unfriendly, Look out for notes. If those Democratic notifiers put off thelr notifying much longer they may find Mr. Wilson in no mood to accept. POINTS FROM HUGHES’ SPEECHES es Reckless extravagance of the | Democrats ts nn insult to the | American people, | Deserving Deniocrats! Desery. ing In heaven's name of what? | We have a splendid system of government, on paper, but we Want that system vitulized, ‘The pork barre! bill brings a blush of shauie to the cheeks of every American. Tam here beeause 1 have a vision of what America needs An idle Awerican will always feel uncomfortable, Atwerica will got hold ber own by high-sounding phrases, Are we not a nation great enough to have suficlent fore: sight to protect our borders in & sensible fashion by means of sensible preparediess? If we state our rights In a firm and determined ~wanner tt should carry conviction, —Thoge should be no vacillution In eon neetion with that assertion, To the Most W, hi’s, W. P's, W. Secretarys, Officers and Mem: bers, Greeting: As we haye just closed the | Srand Lodge, one the t | 4 in the histe 1 € 2 in rfect peace and my, we ) ow start out on another year’ | ourney, trusting that each lodge fund temple thereof to do their whole duty. As some of the odes and temples sent in a part of their G, L, T., Widow and Or- han Home and N. G, L. T., and ome did not send any, "There- ‘ore, those of you who did not nd in apy must comply with| he law, The Seeretary of each Ige and temple must collect $1.00 from each member who has ot paid the $1.00 for Widow and Irphan Home, and send it to 3, 3, Young of Ardmore, not later than October Ist, I further notify you that aul must send in your roster, I mean the name of your temple or lodge and Number and location and also send to J. 8. Young $2.00 for your roster and stationery and the name of your Princess and Master and Secretary not later hen Oct. Ist, as the Grand Lodge voted tha: the Lantern 2 the oficial ovgen of the Grand Lodge and that each lo)ye and emple shall take out their roste ind stationery, Send this money to7 §. Youne|. | Ardmore and notify me at]; nee, : This must be done under pen-| Ity and the vases werd will not!! «test intil this law is come] lied with, f t Fach lodge and temple will re-| od 8 copy of the Lantera each ; reok, All brothers who have not paid] ' au ore Lotgs Tes must ‘ en in . tf pe TEM Pa PR peel en) A) The white Republican who ad- vised Negroes to vote the Demo- ratic ticketis an amusing fat cuss anyhow and a lily white to the core. Hell is full of such monstrosities. Hjs statement that the action of the Negroes at the Battle of Lanninsg Hall caused the defeat of the party is a pure fabrication made to hide he contemptible Republican who sold owt alter ho had been elected through the help of the Negro ter. It’s his ilk that will help feat the party if permitted to fetate the policy. ' { accordingly. Given »my hand and seal his the 25th of ust, 1916, P. M, DeLANCY, @ .M. {MPROVED PASSENGER SERVICE ON iM. 0. & G. Effective Sunday, May 21st, the M. ), & G, Ry. estadtished sleoping car i voptin, Miacti, Wage er, iivaryetca and Okla- *, wins 3 and 4. Train 2 lowes Joplin at 4:15. PL Mug lush 4 P.M, arriving at Iklahoma City at 6:56 A. M,, the en- ire tr running threagh to Okla- oma ¢ via Dustin and the Ft. 8, &W. RR N ‘ud train leaves eaiege city at 11200 2. SL, reaching Muskogeo at 1:30 A. My and Joplin ae 1:00 i M. Parlor cars have been placed in ser- ice between diuskogee and Oklahoma “ity on trains 5 and 8, leaving Musko- ve 9:30 A. M. acriving at Oklahoma ity at 6:50 P.M. and leaving Okla- oma City at 9:30 A. M. arriving at fuskewee at 4:60 P.M. “Luneheon is enroute, and the eénvenient fay rice gives passengers a iew 0 ust icnryetta-Dewar- tus neliing dit ‘the plants be- ng in fall view fvom the ear windows, Handsome Lrick depots have just een completed and. occupied by the . 0. & G. Ry. at Deware and Kuss, tock ballast iS being installed as fast 18 possible, and the road-bed is bee ng put in good condition, LYNCHED noy vr MALOR'S WINDOW, LEABERS Ol hOB KNOWN, National Association Making strong Fieht to Bring Perpettatory of Hovitle Crime to ‘Triek—Mias Froeman S Conraxe—Brooke lyn Contributes $103.41 to Antic Lynchine fund, preokiva.—-Cue of the most sue cesfil mect nes ever held in. this ‘ he ausplees of the Na- tonal Assoctetion ior the Advances : I Colored people took place t the Coneuid baptist church om leh evening, Aug. 3, ‘The ob- eciine was to Inform the public of the facts retative to , teoont Iynching at Waeo, ne Jelse Washington, © ) hoy ¢ venteen, on’ a charge of murder, and to raise funds ( t tho association In its efe 1 Iynchers to trial. N I \ presided and in his htroduetory address commended the Work of the association and urged the audience to give its hearty ‘co- poration to the object of the evens ing. We do not most as anarchists r undue alarn’sts, he sald, but as coatle eltzens exercising the right of protest ¢ t wrong and the : © of tion to the powers Hat be to crant rellet. Continuing, ho speakey’ re erred ‘to the Waeo 1 toonday Tuncheon ith bits of kuman flesh and: bones ‘ivcovations for 1,500. eltte ng-of N with the dead vietim only Colored porson. present a3 there egainst his cone ho mooting was enthusias- atmosp-ere of disgust and eos scemed to pervade every heart, ‘Tho contribution to the fund amounted to $108.41, Thoughtful diiesses wero made by Mise Blign- beth Freeman, the young Engllshs oman who made the Waco investi: ation for the national associations Owon M. Waller, M, D,, one ot nr N's oremost citizens; Rector Georse Frazier Miller, well known advocate for equal. justice for the race, and the Rev, i, Re Artist, whore brief address was warmly ape Iiuded “iss Freeman rave a full account > her investigations of the Waco yuching, She said in part: When 1 saw the sherlf (Fleme 10 beantitul story to tell, We had his story fixed up’ so that he on ponsibility wes shitted m dre The judge admitted te coult have had a change of fenive, het sald the mob anywhere vould have done the same thing, “The crowd began pouring into he town the day bevore the lynch: ne occurred. ‘The court room was acket full and a crowd of 2,000 en the outside. ‘The jurors ould senrecly get in and out rom he'r se 1 asked the judge it could not have cleared the court: 1 he rered that 1 did t knox the south, 1 sald, “It a eraon Is be enough he ean get up hd stop the btewest mob," {I went over the route the boy heen token and saw that they Hered him between a quarter and halt a mile from the courthouse te bridge and then dragged Mm » two blocks and another block er to the elty hall “The naked bor won etahbed and e chain ont over the tree, He lod to Kot away, but eould not. reached up to grab the ghain, 4 they ent off his fnenses, °A big in struct the boy on the back of e heck with a knife just as they ve mulling tim un on the tree. > was lowered Into the fire save ul tines by meanssof the chain PROHIBITION BIG FAILURE ANKER AND MERCHANT CALL "DRY" LAWS A FARCE AND FALLACY Business Men. Farmers and Taxpayers Suffer From Evil Effects of Sumptuary Legislation While Much Liquor is Consumed at Enormous Prices The detrimental effect of prohibition upon the business man, the taxayer and the farmer is shown in newspaper interviews with two business men of the "dry" states of Washington and Idaho. The Butte (Mont.)iner, which printed the interviews, says: Fred M. Hinkley, a banker of Clarkston, Wash., who has been in Butte on business, says that prohibition in Washington is not only a force, but that it has hurt business to a remarkable degree. Property values have depreciated, while there has been a burden of taxes taken from the citizens, and the working of the law recently voted by the people of the state is turning out in just the same fashion as elsewhere in so-called "dry" territory, he said. "Can you get a drink in Washington?" Mr. Hinkley was asked. "Get a drink?" Uh, you can get a barrel of the rottenest stuff in the world and a little bit of good liquor if you want to pay triple the price that ordinarily prevails, and the price is being paid. "The working of the prob'tion law in Washington is the same as in other states, not only in the west, but in the east as well. There is bootlegging galore and the situation has become rile," continued Mr. Hinkley. "For instance, the man who would never think of taking home with him a quart of liquor, but who would be satisfied with a drink or two at an open bar, now must get a lot of not gut' in quarts and plints. The man with money can, of course, secure all he wants and at a fair price, but the working man, the laborer with a family, who wants a little stimulant after a hard day's work, has to dig down deep to secure a personal privilege. "Not only that, in respect to drinking, but the community is suffering directly from the effects of the law. A burden of taxation will have to be placed to meet the running expenses of every city, county and the state. Idaho Man Talks. P. W. Green, a well-known business man of Idaho, who makes his headquarters in Lewiston, Ida., was also in the city yesterday and had about the same story to tell. He says that it is getting almost impossible to secure farm and orchard labor in his locality, for the simple reason that man won't work in "dry" territory, yet Idaho is far from being dry. "The farmer is suffering, the orchardist is suffering and the business centers are suffering," says Mr. Green. "People who vote for prohibition don't stop to consider all the angles. The farmer and his help, who used to visit at periods some business center find it unnecessary. They go there only to get what they actually need to return home with most of the money they brought with them. How About Business Many? "The larger cities of Idaho are absolutely bad. Heretofore, when a man would make a trip to the city from his farm, with his money to spend, he would also take along with it a little relaxation. He would take a drink or two, go to a show, visit his favorite merchants and spend his money freely but judiciously, and return home with little bit of the small amount of happiness doloed out in this world. Now it's all changed. The man who has to go to town does his 50 per cent less business, returns to his farm or country home as quickly as he can and leaves the business man or merchant standing sadly in the doorway. "Prohibition is the greatest fallacy the world has ever seen among many. It never has worked and never will." PROHIBITING THE PROHIBS. Under a Baton Rouge date line, the Crowley (La.) Signal carries this story: Representative Zaunbrecher of Acadia parish, announced last night that he will introduce a bill requiring all prohibitionists in the state to register with the clerks of the district courts and with the registrar of voters in the parish of Orleans. The bill will prohibit a prohibitionist from buying, receiving or drinking intoxicating liquors, and liquor dealers or saloonkeepers will be prohibited from selling intoxicating drinks to a prohibitionist. Violation of the act will be made a widemeanor, punishable by fine or ONLY AMERICANS! WATCHFUL WANTING ROBERT H. CANTER The fact that the Democratic campaign managers have booked Secretary Daniels for a speech in Maine seems to indicate that they have abandoned all hope of carrying the State and simply don't care what happens to the ticket in the September election. Senator J. Ham Lewis, a spokesman for the administration, in attempting to apologize for the President's mollycoddle expression that we are "too proud to fight," explains that it is an old Latin quotation. But the people already know that it is out of date and the expression of a decadent nation. "We don't want to maintain a political abushouse," remarked Mr. Hughes to the North Dakota farmers, and a nation applauds him. Americans are beginning to see a possibility in the near future of regaining their self-respect. The administration seems to have sold everything it could, from the nation's honor down to the smallest rural postmastership. Secretary Daniels says this is no time for politics. And it's no time for Secretary Daniels, either. Senator Lewis, defending the President on his "too proud to fight" expression, intimates that it was due solely to the ignorance of his audience that the popular interpretation that has been put upon it was evolved, and that anyway it didn't mean what it appeared to mean. The latter statement can be taken with some degree of confidence, as it is quite a well-known fact that most of the things the President says do not mean what they are supposed to mean. Secretary Redfield has presented another of those living illustrations of the old adage that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread," with one important modification. The difference in the Secretary's case is that he walked right in and turned around and was kicked right out again. The Democratic contingent in the Senate is all worked up over the fact that the terms of the treaty for the purchase of the Danish West Indies "leaked out." "Pitiless publicity," you understand, has been consigned to the scrap heap with a large assortment of various other Democratic policies and promises. Of Mr. Wilson it may be said he meant well, but he now finds himself buried under the evidence of inefficiency that Mr. Hughes has brought forth. Mr. Wilson has made no reply to the charges of Mr. Hughes. Is he still too proud to fight? FLEETING PROSPERITY IS FOOL'S PARADISE Don't Let Smoke From Munition Factories Cloud Your Brain With Belief It's Abiding. PROTECTION. OUR BULWARK Forget Not the Dire Conditions Which Depressed This Country Under the Democratic Free Trade Tariff Prior to the War—They Will Return to Plague and Hunger You Unless the Republicans Are Restored to Power. "When we contemplate industrial and commercial conditions," says Mr. Hughes, "we see that we are living in a fool's paradise." This is the condition to which the administration and its supporters have deliberately closed their eyes. When the cloud broke over Europe, this country was experiencing the most serious depression it had known since 1893, when the Democratic party and its policies were in full control of the United States. Suddenly there came from over the sea a demand for munitions of war, clothing, food, supplies, everything needed by vast armies and by countries whose sons were taken from the field and the workshop, never to return. As a result our exports and the balance of trade in our favor have reached figures far surpassing any ever before known. Temporarily, especially in the East, there is no lack of work at high wages, for Europe must pay whatever price America asks. No thoughtful person would imagine that this condition is anything like real prosperity. How false it is, we in Oregon, who have the clearer vision, because not clouded by the smoke from munitions factories, have fully felt and fully appreciated. What the Republican candidate for president says about it the Democrats know to be true: "Our opponents promised to reduce the cost of living. This they have failed to do, but did reduce the opportunities of making a living. Let us not forget the conditions that existed in this country under the new tariff prior to the war. Production had decreased; business was languishing; new enterprises were not undertaken; instead of expansion there was curtailment and our streets were filled with the unemployed." The suspension of these conditions is not nation-wide, only sectional, and depends upon the duration of the war. Those who think otherwise are, indeed, living in a fool's paradise—Portland (Ore.) Telegraph. THE RIGHTS OF AMER. IN CITIZENS DO NOT STOP AT THE COAST LINE. "When I say that I am an American citizen, I ought, to say the proudest thing that any man can say in this world. But you can't have that pride if American citizenry is a cheap thing, if it is not worthy of protection this wide world over. There is no man who could successfully present to an American community the platform that an American citizen's rights stop at the coast line and that beyond that American life is to be the prey of any marauder who chooses to take it."—From a speech of Mr. Hughes in the West. --- TELL HOW WOMEN VOTERS WILL CONTROL POLITICS Congressional Union Leaders Explain the Movement in Opposition to President Wilson. Just how the decision of the woman's party to oppose President Wilson for re-election is expected to change the national political situation was explained in a statement by suffrage leaders at the headquarters of the Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage at Washington. It was pointed out that unless he wins the West the defeat of Mr. Wilson "seems inevitable." Needed to Offset Loss of Ohio. To counteract the loss of Ohio alone, which, judging from indications at the primaries, will go with its twenty-four electoral votes to the Republican count, the Democrats will have to win in the West, California, with its thirteen electoral votes; Nevada, with three; Colorado, with six, and Arizona, with three, woman's party representatives here asserted. "In Idaho the Progressive party is dissolved," they continue, "so that the Democrats will have to work hard to get any electoral votes there. Illinois is practically conceded to the Republicans, in the view of woman's party members, three-fourths or more of the Progressives there having returned to the Republican ranks. Conditions in Other States. "In Kansas the Progressives and Republicans are practically one again. In Montana there is great dissatisfaction over the proposed Democratic tax on copper. Oregon and Washington are expected to go Republican. These two states were hit hard by the Panama Canal tolls act and the Democratic tariff is seriously felt by the lumber industry there. Utah is considered safe by the Republicans. In Wyoming the Progressives and Republicans have joined hands." QUESTION CRAZE SEIZES THE G.O.P. Democratic WORLD Long Had Monopoly of This Idiocy But Opposite Party Is Infected. STRING OF INTERROGATIONS TO FEASE WILSON IDOLATERS Questionnaire No. 1—Will All the Wilson Notes Be at His Notification? —How Did Fool Free Trade Hit Your Line of Business Just Before the Battles Began?—When the War Babies Die Will You Weep at the Funeral? The question habit grows. You may ask a question of any one. Why should the dear old public escape? Here are a few from The New York Sun for the man in the street? Do you approve of the Rivers and Harbors loot? Do you want four years more of watchful waiting with the National Guardamen undergoing military training in a tropical climate in mid-summer? Do you hold that the duty of the United States is to serve humanity and let its own citizens be killed and outraged? Do you feel proud of notes with nothing behind them? What do you think of the Vera Cruz adventure? Would you like to have been an American soldier at Carrizal? Do you love Carranza? Do you believe in a financial regime conducted largely in the interest of one section of the country? Do you desire to cut the Philippines loose in order that Japan may gobble them? Do you want four more years of Daniels? Do you approve of wrecking the diplomatic service to provide jobs for deserving Democrats? Are you in favor of inflation? Do you believe in preparedness for a flood of cheap European wares as soon as peace comes? Have you noticed the significant increase of imports in the past year, despite the war? How did fool free trade hit your line of business before August, 1914? And your friends? Were you all cheered up by the Underwood tariff bill? Do you think the doubling of the income tax is fair while millions' worth of competitive imports come in free? Where are you going to be when the war babies die and business slips back to the cold, hard, normal basis? Can you conceive of any possible good to you or to the country from another Presidential term like the present one? Will you perpetuate sectionalism, greed, ignorance, stupidity—general ineptitude in Congress? ATTRACTS BUSINESS MEN. Mr. Hughes has not tried to scare anybody, but has merely portrayed the errors of the present Administration and set forth certain principles on which the affairs of the country should be managed in the future. There is a political logic in this portrayal, the culmination of which in the mind of the voter is expressed by the frequent remark: "He is the kind of man we want to steer us through." This has been said by many a business man. The qualities seen in Mr. Hughes are poise, a strong, sane mind, sincerity and a willingness to sacrifice life, physical or political, to the good of the country. Nor is there any question as to the quality of nerve to meet the emergencies of the four years beginning March 4, 1917. HOME OF AVERAGE MAN. "But America is not simply a land for the man of special talent or of distinguished aptitude. This is the home of the average man, the ordinary man who is doing his best, whatever, by talent or aptitude and in our large industrial occupations where thousands are gathered together in one service, we want a recognition of human brotherhood in providing for the welfare of those who make the wealth of this great country. "We want workingmen to be safeguarded from every injury that can be prevented. We want the health of the workingmen looked after; every means provided which conduces to the proper standpoint of living; every means provided for proper recreation; appropriate means for education, for vocational training. In short the workingman who is on the job and expects to continue in that job ought to feel that he is doing something worth while for a community that appreciates it and gives him a fair chance to lead a happy and decent life. From Mr. Hughes speech at Detroit. FARMERS SIZE UP HUGHES AS "PRETTY GOOD FELLOW" Fargo, N. D.—Charles E. Hughes campaigned for the first time among the sturdy farmers of the eastern part of North Dakota and left behind him the reputation of being a "pretty good fellow." He was forced to undergo a critical scrutiny before the verdict was given. Mr. Hughes preached the doctrines of government efficiency. Americanism, tariff as protection to the farmers and preparedness, and in each instance won applause, despite the fact that the farmers are not the strongest advocates of the last named issue. They cheered for preparedness the loudest when Mr. Hughes told them that it meant not militarism, but ability to uphold national honor. As they cheered for Mr. Hughes, one broad-shouldered old farmer said "it's because there's something about him that makes you believe he's telling the truth." DENIES ASSAILING MR. HUGHES. Percy Mackaye Writes He Never Saw "Authors' Letter" With His Name Appended. Peroy Mackaye, playwright, whose name appeared as one of the signers of the so-called "authors' letter," published in the newspapers last week, knew nothing about the matter until after publication, according to a statement given out yesterday at Republican national headquarters. The letter attacked Charles E. Hughes' criticism of President Wilson as "non-constructive" and propounded ten questions for Mr. Hughes to answer. In a letter to Mr. Hughes Mr. Mackaye said:— "My attention has just been called to an open letter addressed to you, printed in the New York Herald of August 2, signed by a number of professional writers, among whom my name is included. I beg to send you this word, to say that I did not sign the letter and never saw or heard of the letter until it was shown to me in print." It was stated at Republican head-quarters that neither Mr. Hughes nor any of his staff had seen the letter except as it appeared in the newspapers. PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS FROM HUGHES' SPEECHES. "What is the President's policy—does anyone know? Has the Executive ever had a policy for more than six months on the Mexican question?" "If I am elected President I will see to it that American rights in Mexico are respected." "There is no man who could successfully present to an American community the platform that an American citizen's rights stop at the coast line." "We will get through with this old strife between capital and labor. We are not laborers and capitalists in this country. We are fellow-citizens." "All that the workingmen want is a square deal." "We want the United States efficiently managed. I want to see men in office who believe in prosperity." "The Republican Party stands for a prosperity produced by sound American policies." "We have removed from office men of experience and substituted others to satisfy partisan obligations. This must stop." THAT FULL DINNER PAIL. Relying fully upon the full dinner pail to accomplish for them what it has so often accomplished for the Republican party, the Democrats proceed to pile extravagance upon extravagance and to make flabby claims of being at peace, even when we are at war, says the Detroit Journal. For the dinner pail has been filled with munition money, which presently must be supplanted by the true coinage of protected American industry, after the war. And while the dinner pail is full, observe with what inflated foods. This administration promised the worker a lower cost of living. But, as a matter of fact, to the worker Democratic prosperity is a false prosperity. It is a mirage. Every man with a dinner pail knows that, unless his wages have been increased 20 per cent. under Democratic munition prosperity, he is poorer than he was four years ago. For Wilson rents are from 20 to 40 per cent. higher; the Wilson meat, the Wilson sugar and the Wilson wool are 40 per cent. higher, and the Wilson steel and tin and household goods are from 20 to 40 per cent. higher. The Wilson bread has advanced faster than the Wilson wage, and the Wilson taxes have risen higher than the Wilson prosperity. Democracy may have enriched the munition manufacturer, but has it enriched the worker, whose cost of living has increased faster than his earnings? If the Administration can re-elect itself on the ground that the worker is obliged to move out of his home into an inferior one, or has to double up in tenements and to take in boarders to make up for his loss of economic advantage under the present increased cost of living, then there is no reason why the Administration should not be as extravagant in its taxes as it chosen. POLICE RAID DRUG STORE ALSO CONFISCATE "MOONSHINE" WHISKY IN SEATTLE WAREHOUSE Headgear Important Factor In Making "Bootleg" Liquor, Which Was Strained Through It—Life In Washington State Is Just One Darned Raid After Another Life for the police of "Dry" Seattle is just one darned liquor raid after another. Most of the illicit goods are found in drug stores. The Seattle Times describes the latest raids, in this manner: The known holdings of the Billingsley family in Seattle—a drug store at 1625 Third avenue and the warehouse stock at 2128 Westlake avenue, passed into memory the other day when a wrecking squad headed by Sergeant V. R. Putnam of the police department and armed with firemen's axes, reduced everything of value into splinters. Beer, bitters and two barrels of high-proof grain alcohol were confiscated. Besides the secret trap doors and the "lookouts," interest of the officers centered largely on the crudity of the tape alleged whisky-making outfit destroyed at the warehouse. One feature of this outfit was an old felt hat through which officers said it was apparent that gallons of alcohol colored with a burnt sugar substance were strained, thereby becoming whisky. The raid on the drug store was watched by several hundred persons who flattened their noses against the window panes and saw the destruction of perfumes, candies, a costly soda fountain, valuable show cases, cigars, tobaccos, a miscellaneous drug stock and a quantity of other smaller and less valuable items. A Second Raid. The wrecking crew then hastened to the Westlake warehouse, where the Monday raid had delivered over two other barrels of alcohol to the police. The axes started swinging merrily as soon as the officers arrived and in forty-five minutes every stick of store fittings, every bottle and all valuables had been destroyed. The loot from the warehouse included among other things the complete "whisky"-making outfit with which the police allege the Billingaleys manufactured their liquor. According to the officers, the "cologne spisits" or 190 proof alcohol was diluted with water to which had been added "caramel," a burnt sugar coloring matter, the finished product being strained through an old felt hat to remove sediment. The hat, stained with the coloring matter, and several containers, were removed from the secret room back of the partition in the warehouse. The United States revenue officers assumed charge of the "whisky"-making apparatus, and announcement was made that morning that the Billingsleys will be charged with the illegal making or rectifying of liquors. Experts state that each gallon of the high proof alcohol made seven gallons of the "whisky" said to have been sold by the Billingsleys. What! Here's Rald Three. This is from the Tacoma (Wash.) Ledger and bears a Spokane date line: Besides seizing more than 100 packages of liquor in the Spokane hotel in a raid made here by the city's entire detective force, aided by other officers, the police found a room on the ground floor completely equipped for enabling applicants to obtain liquor without the formality of sending their liquor permits outside the state. Fifteen men who called for liquor while the detectives were in charge of the room acting as clerks were taken to police headquarters, but subsequently released. While the raid was in progress a Northern Express Company wagon drove up to the side entrance of the liquor permit room with 30 packages of liquor, to none of which was attached the permit required by the state law. The liquor was seized and the driver arrested. Four hotel employees were taken into custody, charged with violating the liquor laws. With every means of exit guarded, ANTI- VALOON LEMUR DRY TERRITORY PATENT MEDICINE 260 ALCOHOL MOONSHINE SPRAY PEASY DRUG EVIL ENRANCE CHILD LABOR HAND TIGER BOOTLEGGER C. COOPTE IT'S HARD CIDER NOT HARD CIDER? WHEN IT'S VINEGAR! The New York Times says: The case of State vs. Matthews before the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine was a prosecution for selling an intoxicating beverage consisting of old, or "hard" elder. The defendant contended that what he sold was vinegar, and not a beverage at all. The evidence showed that when the defendant was asked if he had any old elder he replied, "No, but I have some vinegar." The trial judge then asked the witness, "Was it old elder, which the respondent may have called vinegar with a twinkle in his eye?" The defendant complained on appeal of this interrogatory by the court, and concerning it the highest court said: "But we think that expression was nothing more than a suggestion to the jury, for their consideration, of the possibility that, even if respondent in answer to Marshall's inquiry for old elder, called what he sold him vinegar, nevertheless he did not mean it and so indicated to Marshall." The court then goes on to argue that it was plain from the evidence that this was what was meant, because otherwise Marshall, who was after old cider, would not have bought three gallons of what he was told was vinegar and use it as a beverage. The court then say: "It is the authoritative expression of an opinion as to an issue of fact arising in the case which the statute prohibits and not the suggestion of an obvious inference from admitted facts and circumstance, made to assist the jury in coming to a clear understanding of the law and the evidence. PROHIBITION AND DRUGS In an interview in the Denver (Col.) Post, the Right Rev. C. H. Brant Episcopal bishop of Manila, said recently: "In the Southern States where prohibition has almost become universal, the increase in the sale of drugs per capita is greater than the increase in population. The legitimate amount of opium calculated as absolutely necessary for medical and commercial purposes for one year's consumption is 60,000 pounds. Last year over 480,000 pounds were brought into the United States through the customs house. This, of course, does not include the vast amount that is smuggled over the borders. The use of opium, cocaine and other such drugs is, I regret to say, largely on the increase all over the United States, especially in localities where the sale of liquor is prohibited. The pure food laws have done good work regarding the sale of patent medicines, but the drug store has taken the place of the saloon in many of our cities where the sale of liquor is not permitted."—Texas Freeman, Houston, Texas. SAY, FRIEND, EVER DRINK A TOPEKA SHIRTSLEEVE? No, It Isn't Really One-That's the Kansas Name For Beer And Whiskey Is Cream, Says Woman Who Reveals Bootleggers' Code Topeka (Kan.) police recently learned something new in the bootlegging line when a woman revealed the bootleggers' code in doing business. The Topeka Capital relates the story as follows: If you are ordering beer by telephone to be delivered by jitney, ask for a shirtsleeve." If it is whisky you want, order "cream." The booze sellers' code was explained in police court yesterday afternoon by Iva Tipp, a good-looking woman who testified that she had been in Topeka three months, had lived at a half-dozen locations in the city; did not work; did not need to and had plenty of money. She was testifying in the trial of UNION OFFICIALS DENOUNGE SUNDAY Labor Men Declare Evangelist is Trying to "Put U. S. On the Bum" The Kansas City (Mo.) Times is responsible for the following item concerning an event happening in that city: Billy Sunday was denounced at the meeting of the industrial Council at Labor Temple yesterday afternoon, and a motion recommending that members of organized labor organizations be urged to attend "when possible" a labor meeting which Mr. Sunday will hold was voted down. The motion caused spirited debate, advocates of it urging that there was no intention to coerce men of different religious opinions into attending the Sunday meeting, but asserting that, as the tabernacle was built entirely by union labor and as Sunday was a warm advocate of the labor movement, he should at least be given a hearing. Opponents of the motion declared Mr. Sunday was "speaking for the almighty dollar" and "trying to put the country on the bum by prohibition." "Every time we indorse Sunday we indorse prohibition and vote to throw thousands of working men out of a job," said one delegate. INSANITY GROWS IN "DRY" REGIONS The Philadelphia (Pa.) Evening Bulletin states: Dr. Hobart A. Hare, of Philadelphia, addressed the twenty-seventh annual meeting of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Doctors and Surgeons in the Alline Hotel today. Dr. Hare quoted statistics to show that insanity and other evils often attributed to liquor had increased in prohibition States within the past few years at a rate much greater than their increase in "wet" territory. George Seymour, proprietor of an auto-livery at 116 West Fifth street. "Seymour told me that whenever I wished to order beer over the telephone, I should tell him I wanted a 'shirt sleeve,' and that if I wanted whisky, I should call it 'cream.' I telephoned to him that I wanted three 'shirt sleeves.' In a short time one of his drivers delivered three bottles of beer at my house." Charles White, who said he was a glassworker, and visiting in the city, testified that he had purchased a quart of whisky from Seymour and was in the city park drinking it, when an officer surprised him and he was taken before W. E. Atchison, county attorney, and subjected to an inquisition. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION AND A FORD HEARSE. [Seattle (Wash.) Times.] A gentleman named Coffin has given $50,000 to the Prohibition party. That sum ought to assure a first-class political funeral next November. MEN ARE BUT BOYS. ETC. [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] When we were boys there was all ways some old grouch who claimed that the things we liked to eat were not good for us and should be barred. And when we grew up we found that there were a lot of old grouches who claimed that the things we liked to drink were not good for us and should be prohibited. WONDER WHO THAT ONE IS? [Macon (Ga.) Telegraph] [Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.] The 100,000,000 people of the United States, or all but one of them, accept the defeat of "Cyclone" Davis philosophically. ALL DEAD ONES. Ex-Governor Foss. ex-Goxernor Hanly and ex-Governor Sulzer are all on hand for the Prohibition convention to-day. What do they think it is? Resurrection Day? GREAT IS THE BOY "ORATOR." [Philadelphia North American.] Bryan aided Wilson in 1912 with a lot of speeches. This year he is aiding him more effectively keeping silent. HAVE THEY CHLOROFORMED BILL [Anaconda Standard.] The campaign is now a month old and Mr. Wilson's candidacy seems not to have been irretrievably ruined by Mr. Bryan's advocacy. BUT IT KNEW CYCLONE, ALL RIGHT. [Minneapolis Journal.] "Cyclone" Davis, late of Texas, finds this country drifting rapidly to the bow-wows. It does not know its statesmen when it has them. —Photo by Paul Thompson, New York Public interest of late has been shifted from the German army to wonderful French legions. In this picture is seen one of the auto-ba that the French government sends to the front and from which the se may purchase wines and other delicacies at cheaper rates than char civilian traders. DOES J. FRANK HANLY, PRO-AFRAID TO LET THEM VOT HIBITION CANDIDATE FOR ON THE QUESTION OF PRESIDENT NATIONAL PROHIBITION ALSO THE RECALLFAVOR POLITICIANS Concerning J. Frank Hanly's frank "It is perfectly plain that the 'drys distrust of the American people, the are still afraid of submitting the question of national prohibition to a vote Indianapolis Star makes this editorial of all the people." comment: It is entirely in keeping with Mr. J. seph Debar, president of the National Frank Hanly's views that he should Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association repudiate the declaration in the nation, in reference to the proposed amendment to the Constitution which national Prohibition platform in support specifically refers the question of of the initiative, referendum and national prohibition to the state legislature. His idea presumably is that lature, when prohibition is once made a law "Further evidence of hypocrisy on of any state there shall be no recall, the part of the Anti-Saloon League no matter what the popular feeling on comes from a statement made by the subject. Once accepted, means, Wayne B. Wheeler, national attorney in his lexicon, that it is permanently for that organization, claiming that cinched, and there shall be no recone the resolution to present an amendment for national prohibition to the states is for the purpose of submitting a referendum to the people without the question to the people. disaster, as experience in Oregon and "Attorney Wheeler says, referring Washington has shown, but it is the to a candidate who refused to obey the intention of Mr. Hanly not to permit dictates of the Anti-Saloon League, such liberties to be taken with a pro-He seems to think that the people in hibition law. His opposition to the principle of or intelligence to pass on this question the recall was well understood before election or to amend their own constitution the adoption of the Prohibition platform. A senator who does not trust form, but as he did not explain what the people, should not be trusted by is without doubt the chief cause of his them.' This statement is a paradox objection to it, the platform makers, and further evidence of hypocrisy on who have regarded this plank with the part of the Anti-Saloon League, special favor, probably did not take because the proposed amendment does him seriously and so included it. not as explained by Attorney Wheeler. Mr. Hanly hardly needs this emptyer, submit the question to the people honor of the Prohibition nomination in the several states. to the presidency to give him an ex- The injustices of it. cause to talk. He needs no excuse. 'On the contrary, it specifically subtalking being his profession, but it misles the question to the legislators will give him publicify in certain (that is, the politicians), the result of quarters that will profit him when which will be that a state like Idaho the campaign is over. Though it can with less than 200,000 population, will not approve their judgment. The Star have the same voice in determining has the highest respect for citizens the question as New York state with who sincerely believe that prohibition nearly ten million population. Arl is the one important issue before the zona with less than 200,000 population country, but it has never counted Mr. will have the same voice as Pennsyl- J. Frank Hanly as one of these. Indianapolis Star Whacks Camel's Jockey for His Open Distrust of American Citizens —If State Goes "Dry," He Believes There Shall Be No Reconsideration Concerning J. Frank Hanly's frank distrust of the American people, the Indianapolis Star makes this editorial comment: It is entirely in keeping with Mr. J. Frank Hanly's views that he should repudiate the declaration in the national Prohibition platform in support of the initiative, referendum and recall. His idea presumably is that when prohibition is once made a law of any state there shall be no recall, no matter what the popular feeling on the subject. Once accepted, means in his lexicon, that it is permanently finched, and there shall be no reconsideration. Other legislation may be subject to a referendum to the people without disaster, as experience in Oregon and Washington has shown, but it is the intention of Mr. Hanly not to permit such liberties to be taken with a prohibition law. His opposition to the principle of the recall was well understood before the adoption of the Prohibition platform, but as he did not explain what is without doubt the chief cause of his objection to it, the platform makers, who have regarded this plank with special favor, probably did not take him seriously and so included it. Mr. Hanly hardly needs this empty honor of the Prohibition nomination in to the presidency to give him an excuse to talk. He needs no excuse, talking being his profession, but it will give him publicity in certain quarters that will profit him when the campaign is over. Though it can not approve their judgment, The Star has the highest respect for citizens who sincerely believe that prohibition is the one important issue before the country, but it has never counted Mr. J. Frank Hanly as one of these. "LIQUOR DAY" IN TENNESSEE COURT Five Bootleggers Before Judge Tried and Bound Over to Grand Jury Five Bootleggers Before Judge Tried and Bound Over to Grand Jury The Chattanooga (Tenn.) News gives the following account of a day in the city court: Tuesday was "whisky" day in the city court. Five cases wherein the offenders were charged with selling the "John Barleycorn" fluid came to the attention of Judge Martin Fleming. Those charged with dispensing the intoxicant were P. Kalodkin, Fred Nelson, J. Helfand, S. Helfand and Charley McClure. Fines of $10 and costs were assessed against them in addition to their being bound over under bonds of $250. Charged with procuring whisky, Oscar Burkeen, arrested by Patrolman Miller, was fined $10 and costs in the city and was bound over in the state. Vant State Legislators. Instead of the General Public, to Ballot—Joseph Debar, President of National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association, Criticizes Desert Folk's Attitude ink "I. is perfectly plain that the 'dry shee are still afraid of submitting the que tion of national prohibition to a vote of all the people." This was a statement made by Jo Joseph Debar president of the Nationa Wholesale Liquor Dgalers' Association, in reference to the proposed amendment to the Constitution which specifically refers the question of national prohibition to the state legislature. law "Further evidence of hypocrisy on all, the part of the Anti-Saloon League comes from a statement made by is, Wayne B. Wheeler, national attorney ort, that organization, claiming, that the resolution to present an amendment for national prohibition to the states is for the purpose of submitting but the question to the people. and to a candidate who refused to obey dictates of the Anti-Saloon League. He seems to think that the people in the states do not have enough sense of intelligence to pass on this question or to amend their own constitution. A senator who does not trust at the people, should not be trusted by is them.' This statement is a paradox, and further evidence of hypocrisy on the part of the Anti-Saloon League, because the proposed amendment does not, as explained by Attorney Wheeler, submit the question to the people in the several states. x. The injustices of it. e. "On the contrary, it specifically sub- mits the question to the legislators (n that is, the politicians), the result of which will be that a state like Idaho with less than 200,000 population, will have the same voice in determining is the question as New York state with nearly ten million population. Arle- zona with less than 200,000 population will have the same voice as Browne. viana with nearly eight million and Ohio with nearly five million population. "Proof of the fact that the drys are opposed to this question being left up to all the people is much in evidence right now. Ex-Governor J. F. Hanly, of Indiana, accepted the nomination as president of the Prohibition party, but only on condition that the plank favoring the initiative and referendum adopted at the St. Paul convention should be eliminated. The initiative and referendum primarily stands for rule by the people instead of rule by the politicians. "This is not only the attitude of Attorney Wheeler, but of Ex-Governor Hanly, presidential nominee of the Prohibitionists, who refuses to run as a candidate of that party until the plank granting rule by the people is eliminated from the platform." AND STILL THEY DRINK. Iowa has been "dry" nearly a year, now. Yet actual conditions in Iowa are illustrated by this squib from the Des Moines Capital: Thirty-two persons were charged with intoxication in municipal court to-day. The arrests included those made Saturday and Sunday. Most of them pleaded guilty and were presented with Gaol.