Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee Boy Makes Good Corp. David R. Twine Highest Average In Target Range Muskogee Boy Corp. David Highest A Target We do not know when we shall return, but we hope soon, as we are all hungry to see our mother, wives and sweethearts, and last but not least, dear old Stace Stree. Corp. David R. Twine of Co. C. made the highest average in the Eight, at Leon Springs on the target range, the possible being 50- It will be remembered that Corp Twine won the loving cup for Co C in Springfield in 1914. Capt James Smith of Co C. awarded a prize to Corp. Twine for bringing the bacon home Chicago Defender. David Twine is an Oklahoma boy having been reared in Muskogee, and has parents still live here. All Muskogee are proud of David, he has the Mu kogee spirit and is makng good. He learned to shoot on the plays of Oklahoma. HUGHES FOR ARBITRATION. He Would Be First to Accord to Labor All Rights Found Just After Consideration. "In his Maine speeches Mr. Hughes made it plain that he was not attacking labor or the equity of the proposed increase of wages for the railroad men. He was simply contending for the all important principle of arbitration as the right means of settlement of such questions. Speaking at different places in Maine, Mr. Hughes dwelt upon this question, saying: "I deeply deplore, in the name of labor, in the name of justice, in the name of American ideals, the surrender of the Executive and of Congress to force, instead of permitting reason to reign. "The measure to which I have alluded was not, properly speaking, an eight-hour measure. It was a wage measure. It was a plain proposition for a change in the wage scale. I do not speak of the equity of that. That is a matter to be fairly considered. I want what is just and right with respect to wages. I am for the arbitration and the peaceful settlement of these industrial controversies. We can settle everything in this country if we approach those matters with a fair and open mind and an examination of the facts. "This particular measure shows on its face that it was legislation in advance of the investigation, instead of investigation in advance of legislation. It is said that there was in its favor the judgment of society. The judgment of society in this country has never been passed in favor of legislation, without knowledge of the equity and regardless of the facts of the case. There was no judgment of society in favor of the roads which were excepted from its provisions. If there was a judgment of society, why not apply the rule to electric or other kinds of roads or roads less than 100 miles in length? I say, away with such pretense! It was a surrender to force instead of a clear, candid, faithful framed examination of the facts, and then action in accordance with American principles. "Autocracy represents force; tyranny represents force. Democracy represents the rule of the common judgment after discussion, after an opportunity to know the facts." SURRENDER TO FORCE WOULD TEND TO DISASTER. "That kind of virus in our life—surrender to force—would bring us no end of disaster. If we let capitalists or workingmen, any interest, learn that the way to get what is wanted is by applying pressure and if we continue in that course for a few years, democracy will be a failure, and we might as well give up our form of government."—Mr. Hughes in His Speech at Portland, Maine. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY SEPT. 23. 1916 Hughes Sympathetic With Demands of Labor Which Are Proved to Be Just. "I am sympathetic with every demand to improve the conditions of labor, to secure reasonable compensation for labor. I am in sympathy with every effort to better human conditions, and particularly the condition of those who toil in industrial pursuits, in railroad pursuits, in all these great activities that are essential to our prosperity. But when you have a proposition to change the scale of wage you have a vital proposition which requires examination. You must at least know whether the demand is a just one. "Labor, of course, should not desire anything but what is just. I do not believe labor intends to ask for anything but what is just. What is just can be examined and will survive investigation. Nothing is lost by having the process of reason applied if only that which is just is required."—Mr. Hughes in His Speech at Portland, Maine. NO ONE WAS AFRAID OF HAITI. Haiti did not behave as badly to us as Mexico behaved; but Mr. Wilson intervened, fought the Haitiens, shedding their blood and the blood of our troops, took possession and now has our armed forces in control of Haiti and directing its government. His course of action in Haiti can be defended only if his course of action in Mexico is unqualifiedly condensed; for such action was far more needed in Mexico than in Haiti. But there was a difference in the two cases; and to Mr. Wilson it was a vital difference. Haiti was weaker than Mexico. No one was afraid of Haiti.—From the speech of Colonel Roosevelt delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. DR. HARVEY W. WILEY TO VOTE FOR HUGHES He Says Wilson Has Failed to Enforce Pure Food Law. "I favor the election of Mr. Hughes to the Presidency for entirely different reasons than those held by most of his supporters. It is not because of the Mexican policy nor the foreign policy of the Administration nor by reason of its domestic policies. It is because of the apparent indifference of the Administration of President Wilson to the cause of pure food and drugs. Practically all of the abuses which were injected into the Pure Food Law by the preceding Administrations are still in force. Benzoate of soda is still regnant. The fumes of burning sulphur are marching along undisturbed. There is evidently a lull in the activities of the Administration of the law. A well-known beverage, declared by the Supreme Court misbranded and amenable to the Food Law has not been molested. No attempt has been made to enforce the law in regard to the bleaching of flour. The repeal of the mixed flour law, that splendid safeguard to the purity of our bread has been tacitly approved by the Treasury Department. "Mr. Hughes in his activities on the Supreme Court has stood like a stone wall for the proper Administration of the Food Law. I believe his election would see a radical change in the attitude of the government towards pure food and pure drugs, so vital to the welfare of our people. For this reason, I sincerely hope that Mr. Hughes may be chosen as our next President. "I should expect Mr. Hughes as President to have the same attitude toward the pure food and drug law that he had as a judge on the bench and to appoint a secretary of agriculture with subordinate officers who would be enthusiastic and earnest in the enforcement of the pure food law for the benefit of the physical, user- Notice A meeting is hereby called for the purpose of organizing a Hughes Rep. club. Come to 220 1-2 N. 2nd St. Tuesday Sept 26th, at 8 P.M. Officers out of town Brutes. On Thursday two white men said to be officers from Oktaha and Boynton, arrested a colored woman on 2nd St. and claimed she was insane. The facts in the case as we gather them is, that one of the cuses made an indecent proposal to the woman and she indignantly be rud him, telling him that such white men as he insulted colored women and mobed color d men. T he came the arrest, and the woman was carried before Judge Alcorn our Co., Judge who just as soon as he heard the facts in the matter discharged the woman. The Judge saw at once there was no insanitity and his prompt discharge of the woman was a rebuke to the officers. We are glad to say these officers curses do not belong in Mukogee and it's better that no relatives of the woman was present when the arrest was made. It is just such brutal and cowardly white men as these officers are that makes trouble between the races. The cowardly hounds think every colored woman a fit subject for their hellish lust. Only the cooler heads prevented our young men from giving the hounds of hell what they deserve and another such break by them will be resented in the way it deserves. Reporter Ex-Senator Burton, of Ohio will open the campaign for the Republi-cans in Muskogee on Monday night september 25th Senator Burton is one of the most able speakers in the United States, and the people of Muskogee and vicinity who hear him will have the issues of the campaign presented to them in first class order. Ohio people who live in Muskogee r gardless of their political isanings will try to make things pleasant for the Senator while he is in our midst. We are waiting patently to learn what the State organization will do to protect the Negroes on the east side in their right to vote. A number of them were denied registration, while on the West side all of the Negroes were registered. It is said that some of the Republicans on the East side are simply playing for the federal offices and don't care what happens locally. We hope this is not true because if our leaders play that kind of a game the Negro may show A. W. Marshal officers arrested ed Woman. ge Alcorn ed the Woman. of town Brutes. The second Congressional District is Republican by a good majority and this will be shown if the Republican leader play the game according to the rules, and one of the rules is that every voter should have the right to vote and have that vote counted as cast. If the Republican organization will see to this Mr. Ward will be elected by a splendid majority as every Negro in the District will stand by him loyalty and ther are at least nine thousand Negro voters in the District. Is it not worth fighting for. McIntosh, Okmulgee, Muskogee and Wagoner Counties will give large Republican majorities for the National ticket because the Negroes are going to demand the right to vote for Congressman and President electors. If they don't vote the County ticket it will be on account of the laxity and carelessness of the local organizations in the different Counties who are playing the game for the Post offices and other federal plums. On the west side of the State Counties like Logan and Lincoln have taken care of the situation from a local stand point and all of the colored voters were registered. We wish we could say the same about the East side but we can't because most of the fellows out here did not give a tinker's dam, whether he colored voter was registered or not. The Republican convention held at Oklahoma City on the 12th was a hummer. The Republicans from all parts of the State were there in large numbers and full of enthusiasm and the indications are that the campaign will be vigorously fought and a victory won. Mr. Fairbanks addressed the convention and at night delivered another address to an overflow audience. After the adjournment of the convention the leading Colored men from the different counties of the State held a caucus and appointed a committee to present certain resolutions to the State Committee. The Committee was composed of Hon. G. W. F. Sawyer of Chandler, Okla. Editor Dungee of Oklahoma City and Rev. Bucanan of Guthrie, Okla. The committee presented the resolutions and were promised answer within ten days. At this time we will not print the resolutions but shall await the action of the committee. It is sufficient and Valley R. R. ARKANSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD ACTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5th, 1916 RAINS DAILY-2 & Tulsa, Okla. Between Muskegee, & Ft. Smith EASTBOUND [n] For Ft. Smith and points beyond 7:45 a.m. h and points beyond ..... 6:20 p. m aska and Tulsa ..... 10; 40 a. m City and Tulsa ..... 6:15 p. m. WESTBOUND Ark City and Wichita ..... 8:00 a. m. Pal vluska ..... 5; 0 p. m. in and point beyond ..... 11:45 p. m. Fr m Ft. Smith and points beyond 7:30 p. m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION for 495 Muskogee, Okla. Change of time on the sco Lines Active Sunday, April 30th armor will leave Muskogee 11:45 p.m., arrive City 7:15 a.m., twenty-five minutes earlier. train, sleeping car, chair car and coaches will Sleeper ready for occupancy at 9:30 p.m. agement of schedules affords armoon Service to Oklahoma City Midland Valley R. R. "ARKANSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5th, 1916 2-TRAINS DAILY-2 Phone 1308 or 495 Muskogee, Okla. FRISCO LINES Change of time on the Frisco Lines Effective Sunday, April 30th 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 Muskogee 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 th For complete schedules and adde C. O. Jackson, Division Passenger Agent, Oklahoma City, Okla. is operated on this train Sapulpa to Oklahoma City. schedules and additional information, see Frisco Agent. O. Jackson, Passenger Agent, Oklahoma City, Okla. R. H. Phinney, General Agent, Muskogee, Okla. Open Evening Until 6 Sunday 10 to 4 MOVED Dr. J. C. PUTNAM, Chicago Dentist Moved to Fite Rowsey uilding Dr. Okemulgee and Secoud Sts. Muskogee, Oklahoma. Price is right, if its bought of . Milers A parlor car is operated on this train Sapulpa to Oklahoma City. For complete schedules and additional information, see Frisco Agent. C. O. Jackson, Division Passenger Agent, Oklahoma City, Okla. R. H. Phinney, General Agent, Muskogee, Okla. MOVE Dr. J. C. PUTT Chicago De Moved to Fite Rows Cor. Okemulgee and S Suites 20-207 the Price is right, if its T. Mil 212 N. 2nd Money to Loan IMPROVED PASSENGER SERVICE ON M. O. & G. Effective Sunday, May 21st, the M. O. & G. Ry, established sleeping car service between Joplin, Miami, Wagoner, Muskogee, Henryetta and Oklahoma City; on trains 3 and 4. Train No. 3 leaves Joplin at 4:15 P. M.; Muskogee at 9:30 P. M.; arriving at Oklahoma City at 6:55 A. M., the entire train running through to Oklahoma City, via Dustin and the Ft. S. & W. R. R. Northbound train leaves Oklahoma City at 11:00 P. M., reaching Muskogee at 7:30 A. M., and Joplin at 1:00 P. M. Parlor cars have been placed in service between Muskogee and Oklahoma City on trains 5 and 8, leaving Muskogee at 9:30 A. M. arriving at Oklahoma City at 5:35 P. M. and leaving Oklahoma City at 9:30 A. M. arriving at Muskogee at 4:50 P. M. Luncheon is served enroute, and the convenient daylight service gives passengers a view of the bustling Henryetta-Dewar Kusma smelting district—the plants being in full view from the car windows. Handsome brick depots have just Phone 3741 212 N. 2nd PRICE $1.00 A YEAR Opposit of Kress 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. THE MUSEOGEE 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 HOCKEY BOOK ASSOCIATION The Cinetete the only Republican paper in the City of Mississippi. The daily Phoenix in sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be inde- pendent, such a changing as not work three whoops in 1 to any political party and yet Bobby. His editor, got pick at the Republican pie counter. What have ingenuity. The Republican party is the ship and all else the sea. The Oklahoma Negro is sure of that from better experience. REPUBLICAN COUNTY CANDIDATES. For Congress Second District Barry Wood. For County Attorney—H. O. Whipperman. For County Judge—Myron White. For County Treasurer—A. A. Coupland. For County Assessor—J. W. Hubbard. For County Clerk—W. S. Harsha. 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. Gibson. No. 2.—J. C. Rhodes, Webbers Falls. No. 3—Irvin Dlinchard. Haskell. State Representatives. John Lieber. O. E. Cramer. Geo. Leopold. EIGHT-HOUR DAY. "It is said that the judgment of society has made the demand for the eighth-hour day. This was not an eighth-hour day, and the judgment of society had nothing to do with the proposition laid before Congress and passed by Congress. The proof of this is found in the bill itself, which proposes an investigation to find out whether Congress had any business to do the thing which it was asked to do, and which it did do."—Lith. Hughes in His Speech at Portland, Maine. WE CHOOULD CONSIDER WHAT IS RIGHT THEN DO IT "Our Government is based on the idea that we have Legislatures to investigate, to consider what is right and to do what is right. It is based on the idea that public opinion is formed from discussion of questions, and that we can come possibly to right solutions. It is not based on the idea that the Government must act without knowing the justice and merits of the cause in which it acts."—Mr. Hughes in His Speech at Portland, Maine. THERE SHOULD BE NO ACTION UNDER PRESSURE, UNDER DICTATION. "We have one priceless treasure in this country, and that is the reign of good judgment after public discussion. In the long history of the people, victory after victory has been won over tyranny and force. We have a free press, we have a free form of public discussion, to the end that there may be a general understanding of our activities and a general appreciation of what is necessary to the improvement of our conditions. We may disagree about this measure or that, but we have confidence in the public judgment in the long run. Hence there is one thing which we must always maintain, and that is that there shall be no action on the part of our elected representatives, taken under pressure, under dictation. We must know what the facts are and what justice requires."—Mr. Hughes in His Speech at Portland, Maine ```markdown ``` Editorial Comments. The Democrats continue to ignore Mr. Hughes speeches to the extent that all they do is to sputter and gasp. Let it be conceded there are really strong grounds for the opinion that President Wilson may carry Texas next November. If these indications are taken at their full worth, some enthusiasts will soon be going out to bet that the tide will sweep on until Mississippi and Alabama are also enrolled in the Democratic column. Many big Democrats willing and ready to speak for Wilson are careful that their money shall not say anything on his side. President Wilson says he is utterly indifferent as to his re-election. Perhaps that explains a good many things nobody has heretofore been able to understand. "Help me, Cassius or I sink!" For "Cassius" read "Congress." The notion seems to be that the Democratic national chairman is claiming more than he will get, but not any more than he will need. As further evidence that he is warm-hearted and intensely human, Mr. Hughes likes apple pie. No man is going to be elected—or re-elected—to high office by votes gained from States' rights declarations this late in the game. The States' rights question was settled some fifty years ago to the evident satisfaction of a considerable majority.—Kansas City Star. "Adequate preparedness is not militarism. It is the essential assurance of security. It is a necessary safeguard of peace." Candidate Hughes has left nothing to be said on this subject. He has snuffed out counter argument at the very outset. "Are we weary of a nation of bunglers? Yes, the New York Sun. It would be harsh to answer this in the affirmative—and, anyway, we elect a Democratic president only every once in a while. Charles E. Hughes cannot get so far away from Washington that the men in charge of the charlot of government there do not feel the loiting of his crittlesmen. In fact, the Democratic leaders at the capital city show symptoms of sea-sickness from the way in which the ex-justice of the Supreme court has shaken them up. Mr. Hughes is pursuing the only proper method, which is first to take the deadwood out of the way so that the path to righteous and propitious government may be made clear. --- OF PONTIUS PILATE But as soon as the need for deeds arose, Mr. Wilson forgot all about "the principle he held dear." He promptly announced that we should be "neutral in fact as well as in name, in thought as well as in action," between the small, weak, unoffending nation and the large, strong nation which was robbing it of its sovereignty and independence. Such neutrality has been compared to the neutrality of Pontius Pilate. This is unjust to Pontius Pilate, who at least gently urged moderation on the wrongdoer.—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. --- The President gets up early during the hot spell, and there are some who think he may have to continue the practice until November if that man laughs continues to be so undignified—Pittsburgh Dispatch. --- WILSON'S IGNOBLE, UNSUC FESSULF LITTLE, WARS. President Wilson took Vera Cruz in 1914, as we were officially informed at the time, to get a salute for the flag, and to prevent the shipment of arms into Mexico. He did not get his salute. He did not prevent the shipment of arms. But several hundred men were killed or wounded; and then he brought the army home without achieving either object. President Wilson sent an army into Mexico in 1916, as we were informed at the time, to get Villa "dead or alive." They did not get him dead. They did not get him alive. Again several hundred men were killed and wounded. Again President Wilson is bringing the army home without achieving his object. Of course it is a mere play upon words to say that these were not "wars." They were wars, and nothing else; Ignoble, pointless, unsuccessful little wars; but wars. They cost millions of dollars and hundreds of lives, squandered to no purpose; they accomplished nothing; but they WILSON KISSED THE HAND RED WITH AMERICAN BLOOD President Wilson explicitly shows that the Carrannasism not once but repeatedly, made attacks on American towns, and killed American citizens, and mutilated them in September 1915. Yet on October 19th, 1915 less than a month later, this same President Wilson, through his same Secretary of State, formally announced to Carrannas a agent that it was his "pleasure" to take the opportunity "of extending recognition to the de facto government of Mexico, of which General Venustiano Carrannas is the chief executive." President Wilson thus recognized the government which, his own Secretary of State declares, had been less than a month previously engaged in repeated assaults upon Americans, and in the invasion of American soil the government at whose head was General Carrannas, who, less than two months previously, on August 2nd, 1915, had contemptuously refused to pay any heed to any representations of President Wilson on behalf of mediation, saying that "under no consideration would I permit interference in the internal affairs of Mexico." President Wilson did not merely kiss the hand that shipped him in the face. He kissed that hand when it was red with the blood of American men, women and children, who had been murdered and mutilated with, as President Wilson, through his Secretary of State, says, "ruthless brutality."—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewisville, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. Roger Sullivan steps aside.—Newspaper headline. Students of Democratic politics know what a thin line divides stepping aside and sidestepping. The Democrats seem to realize, to their dismay, that if they can't persuade Mr. Hughes to change from plaintiff to defendant the case is lost. The President "will not take the stump," but "will accept invitations to speak at different places." Chairman Vance McCormick is as Machiavellian as a musk melon. It is not what Wilson has kept us out of but what he's got us into that counts at present. VILLA AIDED BY WILSON'S FAVOR AND BACKING In March last, Villa made a raid into American territory. He was a bandit leader whose career of successful infamy had been greatly aided by Mr. Wilson's favor and backing. He was at the head of Mexican soldiers, whose arms and munitions had been supplied to them in consequence of Mr. Wilson's reversing Mr. Taft's policy and lifting the embargo against arms and munitions into Mexico. They attacked Columbus, New Mexico, and killed a number of civilians and a number of United States troops. On the next day the president issued an announcement that adequate forces would be sent in pursuit of Villa "with the single object of capturing him." On April 8th, the announcement was made from the White House that the troops would remain in Mexico until Villa was captured. It was furthermore announced in the press despatches from Washington that he was to be taken "dead or alive." Fine words "Only—they meant nothing. He is not dead. He has not been taken alive." From speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. Mr. Wilson during the past few days has become such a life-long opponent of the pork barrel that he is almost sorry now he didn't veto some of those bills. Secretary McAdoo warns Treasury employees against too much political activity, and if they don't disobey the order they are likely to be bounced. A HEARTLESS ADMINISTRATION This Administration has displayed no more feeling of responsibility for the American women who have been raped, and for the American men, women and children who have been killed in Mexico, than a farmer shows for the rate killed by his dogs when the hay is taken from a barn. And now the American people are asked to sanction this policy in the name of peace, righteousness and humanity!—From the speech of Col. Theo- MUGHES SPEECHES Reckless extravagance of the Democrats is an insult to the American people. Deserving Democrats' Deserving in heaven's name of what? We have a splendid system of government, on paper, but we want that system vitalized. The pork barrel bill brings a blush of shame to the cheeks of every American. I am here because I have a vision of what America needs. An idle American will always feel uncomfortable. America will not hold her own by high sounding phrases. by high-sounding phrases. *Are we not a nation great enough to have sufficient fore-sight to protect our borders in a sensible fashion by means of sensible preparedness?* If we state our rights in a form and determined manner should carry conviction. They should be no vacitation in connection with that assertion. TRUTH ABOUT PROHIBITION GIGSLATIVE CANDIDATE TELLS OF SPOKANE'S SAD PLIGHT J. F. Howard Says Washington City Has Suffered Financially While Women Have Drunk Themselves to Death With Adulterated Liquors. and Lavabiding Citizens Have Been Branded As Criminals --- The truth about Prohibition in Spokane, Wash., has been brought to light and J. H. Howard, legislative candidate, is the main responsible. Standing squarely against Prohibition he has described the havoc wrought in his home town by sumptuery legislation. The Spokane Chronicle has the following to say of Mr. Howard's statements: "A dark picture of the horrors of Prohibition in Spokane is painted by J. F. Howard, of Kiesling, aspirant for the Republican nomination for state representative in the Third district, in campaign literature that he is sending out, addressed to the voters "It's time you were waking up and investigating the deptorable and disgusting state of affairs that prohibition has wrought on your city," says his circular. "Tons of liquor are rolling into Spokane and thousands upon thousands of dollars are rolling out. A number of men have been murdered in the streets of your city. Homes have been entered and women outraged. Women have drunk themselves to death in Spokane hotels with poisons and adulterated liquor. "A number of former law-abiding citizens are being branded daily in police court as criminals. Your money is being used by the police department to wind and dine stool pigeons thanks to a community that is lawed inspected and taxed to death. "The state of Washington is millions upon millions of dollars in debt; you have the interest and principal to pay on this great debt, regardless of whether your family have bread to eat or not. We don't want any more laws. Every new law means thousands of dollars out of the people's pocket. Small Boys; Blackberry Wine; "Jags"; Hospital Under national prohibition citizens would be entitled to manufacture all the home-made wine they desired. Blackberry wine would be much in favor, for blackberries are plentiful. The Tacoma News describes the results of some blackberry wine on children of "dry" Washington state, as follows: An 11-year-old boy, together with several "guests," are at a hospital under the care of a physician today as a result of drinking too much blackberry wine yesterday afternoon, while the parents of one of the boys had gone shopping. The wine was two years old and is said to have had a wonderful "kick." The youngster broke up the chicken house and killed the rabbits of the boy who was treat- UNCLE SAM MAY HAVE ISSUE $200,000,000 IN BON INCREASED TAXATION ECESSARY TO MEET VAST AP PRIATIONS BY CONGRESS—INTERNAL REVENUE ASS MENT ALREADY THREE BILLIONS. OR $30 PER C "Wet". Industrial. Urban Districts Bear Greater Boundability. While Rural. Prohibition Sections. With Only a Country's Population. Benefit Thereby. Says Joseph President of National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Assoc "It is estimated that the federal government will have to bonds for from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000 to furnish enough bonds to meet the enormous appropriations made by Congress. "Industrial states and cities have had to bear the burden of taxation, while the rural districts have paid but insignificant to the federal government under these new laws. "On the other hand, many millions of dollars have been approved for public buildings in country villages, education of farmers, elec of swamp items, prevention of floods, building country roads, erase of farm posses, rural sanitation and many other things which were done by the people themes ves without government aid. "A number of towns admitted that they had maintained sanitary measures as long as they were permitted to license Prohibition laws having cut off that source of revenue, with no means of securing additional money, sanitation failed and epidis diseases followed. "The same argument was put forward for the building of roads by federal appropriations. "The 19 states now under prohibition law, have $0,000,000 per and $46,000,000 of wealth. These received larger per capita privation from Congress last year than did the licensed states, paid less than $10,000,000 of the $513,000,000 collected by the Council of Internal Revenue in the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1916." "In other words, these 19 prohibition states, with nearly on the population and one-fourth of the total wealth of the United paid less than one-tenth of the revenue for the support of the firm environment. Incidentally, the total federal revenues from alcohol is amounted to $245,385,000 or more than one-third of the ceilings of the government. "The prohibition states paid $3,000,000 of the $98,000,000 under the head of income tax. "Official figures show that the people in the industrial cities are paying a larger part of the cost of government thishibition states, paying it in emergency and income taxes as liquor taxes. "In plain words, these 19 prohibition states are the poorest of Uncle Sam. Whoever heard of a poor relation describing son to get the benefit of his uncle's revenue or to see his uncle reduced to the point of necessary curtailment of his benefits Joseph Datar, President of National Wholesale Licensing Corporation. --- The following statement has just been given to the press by Joseph Dobar, of Cincinnati, President of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association: "The revenue law enacted at the last session of Congress, with the Underwood law and the Emergency revenue act of October 22, 1914, placed more kinds of Federal taxes on the people than they have ever borne before, even in time of war; but these taxes will not furnish enough revenue to meet the enormous appropriations made by Congress. It is estimated that bonds for from $120,000,000 to $200,000,000 will have to be issued to make up the deficit. The Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee estimates that the new law will increase the internal revenues by $200,000,000 and most political economists believe that we have reached the limit of internal revenue taxation, since it now amounts to more than $3,000,000,000 or $30 per capita, for the support of the Federal, State and municipal governments. Cities Pay the Bill. "It has been the claim of those who advocated the corporation tax, the income tax, and the inheritance tax and the stamp taxes, that they would equalize the taxation among the people and in different sections of the country; but the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the last fiscal year shows that this theory was in error. These taxes have fallen upon the industrial states and cities, and the rural districts have paid but insignificant taxes to the Federal government under these new laws. More than that, the new and unusual appropriations made by this and the preceding Congress have been largely for the benefit of these rural communities, for introducing Federal activities for purposes that have in the past been conducted by the States, or by the people themselves. Many millions have been appropriated for the improvement of rivers that never had any commerce, for public buildings in country villages, for the education of farmers, for the drainage of swamp lands, for the prevention of floods, for building country roads, for the eradication of farm pests, for rural sanitation and for many other things which in the older sections of the country were done by the people then selves and without government aid. "One cause of these extraordinary demands upon Congress has been the effort of rural States and communities to lighten their local taxes. The demands for large appropriations for rural sanitation came from rural districts and small cities that had been subject to epidemics of typhoid fever, and the argument was that these towns and rural communities had no reasons to maintain proper sanitation. Number of the towns admitted that they had maintained proper sanitation measures when they were permitted to license saloons, but prohibition laws cut off that source of revenue and, with no other means of se lowed. The same argument forward in benefit of app Congress to build country in rural education and education activities which has been purely local. Under laws many states and cut off revenue from the state and instead of asess taxes, they turned to Co and Congress assessed the industrial states assure the revenue to co protects and aid the protection states "There are 19 states under prohibition law 000,000 population and of wealth they receive capita appropriation last year than did the but they paid less than the $513,000,000 which sloner of Internal Revenue the fiscal year ended in other words these states, with nearly population and one-four wealth of the United than one-tenth of the support of the federal The other 700,000 states which do not paid $463,000,000, or total revenue to monetary appropriation of the prohibition capita collections withhibition states and prohibition states amounted to $1.09 prohibition states $1,000 of wealth states. The new taxes noress are paid in the The 19 prohibition of 000 of the $84,000 venue raised by st business and amountecd to 27 of 17 cents on each the prohibition state the non-prohibition per capita or a ta each $1,000 of wea of emergency rever times the tax rates sons and wealth in states over the prohibition states. "The prohibition 000 of the $88,000 the head of incom- cents per capita. $1,000 of wealth ple in the 29 pay paid $65,000,000 in 93 cents per capita each $1,000 of woe rate in the nine times and times that in the speaking of In other words, states are the po- Sam and whole- lation desiring or the benefit of be- to see his uncle the point of ne THE MODERN OLD KING COLE ANTI-SALUOM LEAGUE ROONSHINER PROHIBITIONIST PAID AGITATOR DRY-TERRITORY "Old King Cole was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he, He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl, And he called for his fiddlers three." FINNEGAN'S PHILOSOPHY BALAAM. "Well do I mind the story," said Finnegan. "Balaam was a bighbrow that knowed less than his Jackass. He took an office to curse the people, The Jackass saved them. 'Tis all in Number Twenty-two. Och, hone! 'Tis different these times. The Jackass knew better till Balaam tamed him. "Lave me ride ye', says Balaam, 'an' I'll make ye the biggest Ass in the world!. "Grant,' says the Ass; 'what dye feed?" "Pork,' says Balaam. "Me savior,' says the Ass. "So Balaam mounts. But soon the Jack balks. "Phawat is it? says Balaam. Phwnt is 177 says Baham. " 'Snakes,' says the Ass; 'Ut looks like the jawbone uy me mother.'" " 'G'wan,' says Baham, bittin the Ass a clip, 'tis me furren' policy, he says. " 'Phwnt's ut for?' axes the Ass. " 'Ut defends the mashun,' says Baham. " 'How?' says the Ass. How, says the Ass. "Faith;' says Balaam, 'ut takes a bigger Ass than you to know that. Lave it to Brine,' says Balaam to the Ass; an' the Jack walks on meditatin'. "Hee, haw,' says the Ass, balkin' an' kickin'. "What now?' says Balaam. "What now? says Balaam. "Dilla a Jackass ever seen the like," says the Ass, "Ut could be a frog," says he, 'for ut stands up in front, and sits down behind; an' its mostly mouth," says the Ass, 'Ut has white feathers," says the Jack, 'wid yeller streaks, that changes, he says, to Very Crooz Red, or Niagary Blue, an now they're Carrysall Yaller again," says he, 'Hlvins, have I been drinkin'? screams the Ass to Balaam. "Saints be praised," says Balaam, 'Me Watchful Wailin' can still change its mind," he says, 'Gwan, where glory waits," he says, 'Gwan, in the service uv Mankind,' says Balaam, to the Ass, touching him up. An' the Ass shuffles ahead, wavin' his ears in admiration. "Hee-haw! Hee-haw!" says the Jack, rearin up wid his eyes bulgnt. "Phwat's grippin' ye now? says Balaam, impushn like." "I dumno,' says the Ass. 'Ut looks like the Flyin' Dutchman with a Socialist Crew,' he says. "'Tis me Ship Bill.' says Balaam. 'Side step to the right,' he says; 'side step to the left,' says he, waltin' him. 'Back up,' says Balaam, near wrenchin' off the Jack's jaw. 'Now forward for the Merchant Marine an' fifty millyun pork.' says Balaam wid a shower uv blows; an' the Ass goes on threnblin'. "'Wah-hee!' Wah-hee!' Wah-hee!' says the Jack, shiny' so he near threw his rider. "I'll learn ye to sham at me Naval Bill.' says Balaam, laryrupin' the baste so he cud scarce stand. "Ye can't pass ut widout wearin' Republican clothes,' says the Jack in a coarse whisper. "Ye Ass', says Balaam. 'Don't ye know that anny cloos is better nor nakedness? G'wan', says Balaam, in tones uv thunder. So the poor bastе lopes on, limpin' wid pain. "I've not time to tell ye all the adventures they had, but they kep' on over rough roads, now an' then crossin' a ditch on a wan term plank, which made even Balaam unalsy, Ivry time the Jack kicked, he got short rations an' a wallop. So when the journey was near over, the poor bastе was all in, and far too proud to fight. Any Jack-Ass can be that when he's licked. "Wan stormy night, the Jack blooms into a harmony like a Dimyer Tariff Hymn played on a gaspipe wid the feet. "Phwat ails ye now? calls Balaam, clubbin' him wid both hands. "Niver did I pass the like,' yeils the Ass, sweeting and thremlink.' 'Ut says ut's an eight hour law. Oh phwat is ut?' screams the Ass to Balaam, feebly waggin' his ears. "I dinnno phwat ut is meself,' says Balaam, 'but I know phwat its got,' Balaam says. "Phwat? axes the poor Ass. "五 hundther thousand votes,' says Balaam, wid a pious air. 'G'wan, ye big Ass, an' donnt ye argue wid an Idaylist,' says Balaam to the Ass. "We can't pass ut in the dark,' pleads the Ass. 'Lave us wait for light,' moans the Ass. weepin' "Nix," says Balaam, "There's a hot time comin' an' the votes'll spile. Do ye thurst for sixteen more years in the wilderness? Giddap, says he, 'purgia' ye heart,' says Balaam, 'iv tivry thought that's selfish,' says Balaam, 'or personal,' chants Balaam to the poor Ass ticklin' the Jack's slats wid a couplein' pin. "By this time the Ass was so wore out wid his ardyous labors, that he knew no more than Balaam himself. So, wid one despairin' cry, he dropped his ears, as he an' his master stumbled forward into the dark." It All Depends. "If Hughes wins an Oregon town will get a new shingle mill employing fifty men," says the Olympia Recorder, "according to an announcement of the individual who took an option on timbered land. If Wilson wins the option will be allowed to lapse. That's the way with a thousand and one enterprises, all waiting to see which way the wind blows. The moment it is assured that Charles E. Hughes is elected, just watch the wheels of industry spin and listen to the hum of CHARGE CHIEF OF .POLICE CONDUCTED A "BLIND PIG" Deputy Sheriff and Others Also Caught in Prohibition North Dakota - One Defendant Alleges That State's Attorney Who Caused Arrests. Helped to Form Drinking Club From Mandan, in "dry" North Dakota, comes the following story to the Valley City (N. D.) Times-Record: State's Attorney Langer today caused the arrest of Chief of Police Mike Knoll, John Ehret, Deputy Sheriff Cabe Eckroth and August Ussellman, charging them with the conduct of a blind pig. The chief is further charged with aiding and abetting the maintenance of a common nuisance. Ehret and Knoll are further alleged to have sold memberships in the German Kultur Society at $5, then charged members with drinks, and then split the profits between themselves with no return to the society. Eckroth and Ussellman were originally director and secretary of the organization, before Knoll, treasurer, and Ehret, president, are said to have seized it for their personal profit. On June 1 State's Attorney Langer raided the Winbauer hotel, where it is alleged the society held forth, but at that time failed to find any evidence. It is then alleged that the German Kultur Society of the Ehrut-Knoll combine secured rooms in the old Badger & Wayman building. To Deat the Law. It is further altered that memberships were sold for $5 each, and that fully 100 members were secured, including many from the surrounding country as well as in Mandan. The state's attorney claims that he has positive proof that the official received and paid for 92 gallons of whiskey and 80 casks of beer; that the whis PROHIBITION PARTY IS OFF THE TICKET "Drys" Fail to Qualify in West Virginia and Massachusetts The strange, not to say, startling, predicament of the Prohibition Party failing to put up a ticket in a "Dry" state is hereby told in an Associated Press dispatch from Charleston (W. Va.) to the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press: The Prohibition party is not a political party in West Virginia and has no legal right to have its nominees for presidential electors certified by the secretary of state, according to an ky was sold for 15 cents a dink and the beer at 25 cents a bottle; that the members were by their membership cards permitted to resort to the place for the purpose of drinking and that they paid cash for their drinks. Langer alleges that Chief of Police Knoll installed his cousin, Matt Knoll, as custodian of the place, and that while originally started as a society, the place developed into a blind pig in which affairs were wholly controlled by the chief of police and John Ehrat. What happened to the defendants is thus told by the Bismarck (N. D.) Tribune: Gets Back at Langer. August Usselman, one of the defendants, fired back at State's Attorney William Langer, who caused his arrest, by charging that Mr. Langer had assisted in the organization of the club, known as the German Culture Society, and that it had been used to further his candidacy. Mr. Usselman said that he had been told by Mike Knoll, Gabe Eckroth and John Ehret, also defendants, that the prosecuting attorney had given his permission to the sale of liquor and that he had said that if any complaints were made the club would be warned before any action would be taken. Mike and Matt Knoll and John Ehret were bound over to the district court, while Eckroth and Usselman were released from custody because it was shown that Usselman had resigned as secretary and that Eckroth was only a trustee and had nothing to do with the management. opinion rendered by Attorney General Lilly here today. The attorney general held that the Prohibition party failed to poll for its candidates at least five per cent of the entire vote at the last general election. The Boston Transcript details a similar happening in Massachusetts: The failure of the Prohibition party to file papers for a complete state ticket was the feature of the last day for filing nomination papers. The Prohibition party at the time of closing, 5 p. m., yesterday, according to the election division of the secretary's office, had not made any nomination for United States senator, and had failed to secure a sufficient number of signatures to put their candidates on the state ticket below lieutenant governor on the ballot. No papers whatever, according to the secretary's office, were filed for Eugene N. Foss as a candidate on any or the tickets for United States senator. 1 Governor Hughes' visit to Detroit opened the presidential campaign of 1916 and if we may forecast the events that are to follow by the omens of Monday we would prognosticate an intensely warm, vivid and humanly interesting period in the next few months. Setting aside the auspices of meteorological conditions in this provision of the future—although they are approved by numerous professional augurs and by a host of commonality as well—we base this prophecy on the characteristics of the candidate whose too brief stay with us has been enjoyed by all with whom he came into contact. The misguided individuals who have been expecting Charles E. Hughes would prove to be a cold proposition and therefore easy to beat are in for a shock that will make them think they have been hit by an uninsulated trolley wire. There is nothing cold about Mr. Hughes, Detroit has learned. He is about as intensely human a piece of humanity as ever captured the hearts of a crowd, and the more people in the United States he meets between now and November the more votes will be cast for him. As a campaigner he is a revelation. He likes his fellow beings, and they like him because they see he likes them. And what his personality begins his remarkable powers of intellect and utterance finish. He drives his points home with tremendous force. What he says sticks. There are thousands of Americans today who can retell every step in the arguments he made eight years ago on the Bryan trust policy, yet in 1908 Mr. Hughes was not especially a prominent figure and there was no particular reason why his address more than others should have remained clearly in the memory except the gift of the man to send his own thoughts so deep into the brains of others. They are clear in his own mind first, undoubtedly. He knows precisely what he wants to say because he has reasoned it out before he speaks it out. Probably that has something to do with the ease with which he conveys his meaning. But it is a very rare quality he possesses in his ability to master subjects so thoroughly as to make the most abstruse simple to himself and his hearers. It is a quality eminently desirable in a political candidate; it is infinitely more to be desired in the president of a great country like the United States. Detroit's impression of Charles E. Hughes is all favorable. The thousands of people who have studied him at close range are convinced that if he is elected president next November he will be a great president, one of the greatest this nation has known, worthy to stand in history with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, a custodian of ti. public's fate to whom that fate may confidently be intrusted. If that conviction is shared by the people of other states whom he is still to meet, the outcome of his swing around the great American circle cannot fail to be propitious for him.—Detroit Free Press. TAKES "WET" GOODS TO "DRY" MEETING Says the New York World: When Jacob Vander Clock, of Clifton, N. J., is arraigned there today on a charge of running an automobile at night with no tall light, he will be asked to explain why he had a keg of beer in his car while he was on his way to a Prohibition meeting in Passaic, when he was held up Tuesday night. CHARLES E. HUGHES Vander Clock is well known as a Prohibitionist and when he was stopped by Policeman Duhly in Lake View he said he was on his way to the Prohibition meeting. Duhly says he saw the keg of beer. Vander Clock gave cash bad at the station house. PROHIBITION PUTS A CRIMP IN CANADA Returned Tourists Declare That Thousands of Houses Are Vacant In Calgary and Lethbridge Prohfbition has not proved beneficial to Canada, in the opinion of many persons who have paid recent visits to that county. The following little story is from the Butte (Mont.) Post: "Canada is a dull place, with little business, Prohibition in force and thousands of houses vacant in Calgary and Lethbridge, according to A. C. McNeil, 824 West Quartz street, who returned with his family from a motor trip to Calgary, where they were the guests of Mrs. McNeil's father, Mr. Pasco, who is well known in Butte. He said that the roads and crops are good in Canada, but otherwise conditions are very quiet." CHARGE CHIEF OF POLICE CONDUCTED A "BLIND PIG" Deputy Sheriff and Others Also Caught in Prohibition North Dakota One Defendant Alleges That State's Attorney Who Caused Arrests, Helped to Form Drinking Club USE GLASSES IN DRY RAID BUT THEY WEREN'T THOSE YOU DRINK FROM Colorado Police Prohibition Squad, Peering Through Them From Afar, See Men Unlawfully Delivering Liquor—Two Japs Arrested At Another Place The "Dry" law is still working badly out in Colorado, according to the Denver Times, which relates: Field glasses were added to the equipment of the police prohibition squad yesterday and resulted in the arrest of Ed Tayman, 3127 Lawrence street, for violation of the dry law and the filing of the additional charge of perjury. Gus Mosconi, of Twenty-first and Market streets, was also arrested on the same charge. Detectives Cook, Klein and Schneider assert that both Tayman and Mosconi perjured themselves by signing false names to liquor shipping affidavits. They produce the affidavits as proof of this assertion. The officers say they had been certain for several days that Tayman was violating the law in a clever manner and suspected that he was receiving his liquor shipments under another name. Field Glasses Aid Them. They secured rooms at the Clayton hotel yesterday and for several hours kept watch on the entrance to the Tayman place with field glasses. Every person who entered and eery vehicle which stopped in front were closely scanned through the concealed glasses. When a delivery wagon drew up before the place and commenced unloading suspicious appearing cases the officers made their entry on the scene and arrested Tayman as he was signing the affidavits. According to the shipping receipt, Tayman was receiving liquor under the name of Leon Smith, which he swore was his own. He was placed under arrest and several cases of liquor, which were being delivered, were confiscated. Tactics resembling those used in the Tayman case were brought into play in the arrest of Mosconi. Mosconi was also arrested as he was signing another name to shipping affidavits, it is said. In his dealings, the officers charge, he used the name of R. F. Bloom. Detectives Cook, Klein and Schneider, in all, made five seizures of liquor and arrested the alleged dealers, while Officers Johnson and Armstrong made two arrests yesterday. Two Japanese, K. Tomora and K. Karata, were taken in custody at Twentieth and Lartimer streets and several cases of liquor seized. Jugs filled with a golden colored liquid were found. HINDSIGHT AND FORESIGHT In an editorial labelled "Hindsight in Duluth," the Buffalo Enquirer shortly gleefully because as it represents the people of Duluth, having abolished the saloons, are at loss to know where to raise the $170,000 which has been sacrificed in license moneys. The Enquirer says the charter limit on the tax levy must be raised in consequence of the city's lack of foresight in doing away with the saloon. "The wisdom of the people sometimes makes strange demonstrations," says the Enquirer. Hughes says the country can't be saved by letting it drift. That's where he and W. Wilson differ. Washington reports that a new apology has been sent to First Chief Carranza. Looks like a habit. Mr. Bryan is mistaken when he says Hughes is "vitriolic." The candidate is merely applying the acid test. A messenger of President Wilson found out that Colorado women were for the administration. No messenger, of course, can be blamed for making good. Political opponents are beginning to find that why Mr. Hughes kept silence so long wasn't because he had lost his tongue. Another encouraging feature about our new navy is that when it is completed, Mr. Daniels will not be Secretary of it. Having discovered that the Democrats don't like what he is saying. Mr. Hughes doubtless is convinced that he is on the right track. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION HOW DRY IT IS IN KANSAS. [Sailna (Kas.) Union.] The drought has reached the stage in this section where the fish appear at the farmhouses asking for a drink. ADDING INSULT TO INJURY. [Charleston News and Courier.] It is said that Mr. Bryan is going to become a citizen of North Carolina. And poor old North Carolina hasn't yet recovered from those awful floods. IN DRY IOWA. [Des blains Tribune] It was an unlucky bunch of drunks that lined the prisoner's bench in municipal court today. Thirteen bleary-eyed, unshaven individuals answered to the bailiff's court roll. KANSAS GENEROSITY. Leavenworth, Kas. — (Special) — A Leavenworth policeman went to church one day. It was the first time in his life he had ever attended services, and when they passed the plate the officer displayed his star. TAKE THAT, WILLYUM! [Philadelphia Inquirer.] "The Republicans made a mistake in not nominating Billy Sunday."—Charleston News and Courier. Don't worry, anxious one. The Republicans will find some way to finance their campaign without resorting to desperate methods. WHO INVENTED REFORMER? [Luke McLuke, "Cincinnati Enquirer] Sunday was intended as a day of worship, rest and recreation. A space was devoted to worship of the Creator. A space was devoted to rest. And a space was devoted to recreation after the six days of toil. Our fathers liked to see Sunday come around. But when the Reformers get through tinkering with Sunday they will fix things so people will hate to see the day come around. CHARGE CHIEF CONDUCTED A Deputy Sheriff and Others Also Dakota - One Defendant Alleg Caused Arrests, Helped From Mandan, in "dry" North Dakota, comes the following story to the Valley City (N. D.) Times-Record. State's Attorney Langer today caused the arrest of Chief of Police Mike Knoll, John Ehret, Deputy Sheriff Gabe Eckroth and August Ussellman, charging them with the conduct of a blind pig. The chief is further charged with aiding and abetting the maintenance of a common nuisance. Ehret and Knoll are further alleged to have sold memberships in the German Kultur Society at $5, then charged members with drinks, and then split the profits between themselves with no return to the society. Eckroth and Ussellman were originally director and secretary of the organization, before Knoll, treasurer, and Ehret, president, are said to have seized it for their personal profit. On June 1 State's Attorney Langer raided the Winbauer hotel, where it is alleged the society held forth, but at that time failed to find any evidence. It is then alleged that the German Kulur Society of the Ehret-Knoll combine secured rooms in the old Badger & Wayman building. To Beat the Law. It is further alleged that memberships were sold for $5 each, and that fully 100 members were secured, in including many from the surrounding country as well as in Mandan. The state's attorney claims that he has positive proof that the official received and paid for 92 gallons of whisky and 80 casks of beer; that the whis PROHIBITION PARTY IS OFF THE TICKET "Drys" Fail to Qualify in West Virginia and Massachusetts The strange, not to say, startling, predicament of the Prohibition Party failing to put up a ticket in a "Dry" state is hereby told in an Associated Press dispatch from Charleston (W. Va.) to the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press: The Prohibition party is not a political party in West Virginia and has no legal right to have its nominees for presidential electors certified by the secretary of state, according to his ```markdown ``` J. Political Jottings. The Houston Post reasons that it was easier for its own beloved Democracy to endorse the President's Mexican policy than to define it. While he was about it Senator James Hamilton Lewis also might have explained that the Rome that was "too proud to fight" died a rather disastrous death. "In all fairness," asks the Boston Transcript, "shouldn't the expense of financing Carranza be borne, by the Democratic campaign committee?" Democrats really haven't any objection to big appropriations for army and navy and internal improvements. They expect the Republicans to rustle the revenue to foot the bills for the next four years. Hughes says he would like six months to investigate the Administration, but the Administration figures he's doing very well as it is. Yes, and the same-policies that have filled Judge Hughes and others with "a deep sense of shame," have sent many other Americans to their graves. The President has changed his mind about sending more troops to the border, thus running true to form. When Tom Taggart talks economy to them, it is time the Democrats stopped their extravagance. The Hughes smile is beginning to attract favorable attention. President Entertaina Five Progressives.—Headline. Others he simply amuses Democratic papers, childe Hughes because he says he says "is 100 per cent, a candidate." The Wilson papers naturally prefer a fifty-fifty candidate. DEF OF POLICE A "BLIND PIG" also Caught in Prohibition North ages That State's Attorney Who l to Form Drinking Club CHARLES E. HUGHES OH HOW WE LOVE THE CRIMINALS! TALK SAFETY FIRST NOT TOO PROUD To Quit TALK CONCORD HUMANITY SOFT SOAP ky was sold for 15 cents a d ink and the beer at 25 cents a bottle; that the members were by their membership cards permitted to resort to the place for the purpose of drinking, and that they paid cash for their drinks. Langer alleges that Chief of Police Knoll installed his cousin, Matt Knoll, as custodian of the place, and that while originally started as a society, the place developed into a blind pig in which affairs were wholly controlled by the chief of police and John Ehret. What happened to the defendants is thus told by the Bismarck (N. D.) Tribune: Gets Back at Langer. August Usselman, one of the defendants, fired back at State's Attorney William Langer, who caused his arrest, by charging that Mr. Langer had assisted in the organization of the club, known as the German Culture Society, and that it had been used to further his candidacy. Mr. Usselman said that he had been told by Mike Knoll, Gabe Eckroth and John Ehret, also defendants, that the prosecuting attorney had given his permission to the sale of liquor and that he had said that if any complaints were made the club would be warned before any action would be taken. Mike and Matt Knoll and John Ehret were bound over to the district court, while Eckroth and Usselman were released from custody because it was shown that Usselman had resigned as secretary and that Eckroth was only a trustee and had nothing to do with the management. opinion rendered by Attorney General Lilly here today. The attorney general held that the Prohibition party failed to poll for its candidates at least five per cent of the entire vote at the last general election. The Boston Transcript details a similar happening in Massachusetts: The failure of the Prohibition party to file papers for a complete state ticket was the feature of the last day for filing nomination papers. The Prohibition party at the time of closing, 5 p.m., yesterday, according to the election division of the secretary's office, had not made any nomination for United States senator, and had failed to secure a sufficient number of signatures to put their candidates on the state ticket below lieutenant governor on the ballot. No papers whatever, according to the secretary's office, were filed for Eugene N. Foss as a candidate on any of the tickets for United States senator. THESE PIPING TIMES OF PEACE CARRANZA and WILSON----The Experts, ---