Muskogee Cimeter

A wind that's from the rock and sea and scented by the pine. Sweeps through the sycamores today, and where sequoias line The ranks of giant sentinels that guard the western slopes. The balsam of this briny breeze brings heavy hearts new hopes. The mountains and the rivers cry the message that is Maine's For Maine has been the clarion that's heartening a race. Twas shame that sunk the souls of us to depths we never knew In days our flag was honored in the harbors where it flew. When nations paid us homage, for they knew our hands were white. Ere blood of our own countrymen had stained them like a blight. And now again our songs we sing of deeds that we must do To make the dream that passed away come marvelously true; For the sturdy souls that breathe the pine have brought to life again The faith that fills a nation's heart that feels the wind from Maine. EDWARD S. VAN ZILE. N. Y. Sun, Sept. 13. Editorial Comments If you had two dollars to invest would you trust it to the business sagacity of Josephus Daniels? Then, why let him handle the millions that are to be spent on the new navy? Judging by the signs of War Department activity the Administration is cunningly arranging to bring the militiamen home just in time to enable them to vote for Mr. Hughes. A train of thought on a one-track mind has to be composed of shuttle cars. Three years ago Woodrow Wilson was explaining that hard times were psychological, but he isn't trying to squirm out of responsibility for the present prosperity. The disaster to the Memphis caused very little excitement. Americans being used nowadays to seeing the navy on the rocks. This Democratic Congress has passed into history—profane history. President Wilson's speech of acceptance could have been phrased even more succinctly in the graphic words of Boss Tweed, "What are you going to do about it?" We see by the interviews with the Mexican commissioners that the campaign slogan this year in the Sonora bandit belt is "Thank God for Woodrow Wilson." Mr. Wilson's eulogy of Lincoln at Hodgeeville was more literary but less sincere than the one he pronounced upon himself at Shadow Lawn. The new half dollars will have an olive branch on one side and on the other an eagle, in full flight. Wilson money. Motto of the McAdoo shipping law: "The sun never rises on the American flag." A Democrat's idea of an ideal watchdog of the Treasury is a Pommeranian. Mr. Wilson is now busily engaged working the other side of the suffrage street. The campaign agents who two years ago were busily engaged thanking God for Woodrow Wilson seem to be taking their vacations just now. A record wasn't the only thing the late Congress broke—there's the Federal Treasury. Congress didn't want a Tariff Commission composed of $12,000 men, those $7,500 salaries being designed for $1,200 men. President Wilson's scheme for commissions for everything has been adroitly planned to make three jobs for deserving Democrats grow where only one would grow before. Vice-President Marshall says Mr. Hughes is an echo of the past. Quite true. Of statesmanship, of patriotic performance and safe legislation. First fruits of the Adamson bill: The New York street car strike. The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY OCT. 7, 1916. TAMPICO SCUTTLE A CRAVEN AFFAIR SAYS ROOSEVELT TAMPICO SCUTTLE A CRAVEN AFFAIR SAYS ROOSEVELT Constituted So Grave an Offense Against the Nation's Honor and Duty That the Man Responsible Should Be Removed From Office. WILSON CANNOT SHIELD HIMSELF BEHIND DANIELS Authentic Proof That Americans In Peril Were Deserted by Their Own Government Against the Protests of the Senior Naval Officer Present—Most Pusillanimous Episode in the Naval Annals of Our Country. Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to Henry Reuteraldt, the naval critic, criticises President Wilson and Secretary Daniels in connection with the Tampaico affair, when the American warships were withdrawn by order of the Administration. The collegel says: "You have presented authentic proof of how the Americans in peril at Tampaico were deserted by their own government against the protest of the senior American naval officer present. You have shown that the government at Washington had full knowledge of the danger of the situation through telegrams from Admiral Mayo sent by wireless to the navy department on April 11, 12 and 13. You also give the telegram of Mr. Daniels of April 20 directing the admiral to proceed to Vera Cruz. Mayo Feared Loss of Life. "You have shown that Admiral Mayo made an emphatic protest to the navy department, stating that he feared the result of the squadron's leaving would be the loss of American lives and property. You also quote the telegrams sent by Admiral Mayo the following day, containing the protest of the American consul, Mr. Miller, and requesting authority to remain at Tampa. You have shown that, nevertheless, the navy department on the 21st confirmed its previous orders and directed the ships to leave at once. "You have shown that the admiral put out into the ocean eight miles distant, but received a protest from Consul Miller reiterating his demand for protection. You then quote the telegrams and signals of Admiral Mayo, who, in spite of his orders, nobly refused to run from the post of duty while the lives of American men, women and children were in danger." Can't Hide Behind Daniels. Of the President and Secretary Daniels the colonel writes: "President Wilson cannot shield himself behind Mr. Daniels, for Mr. Daniels could do nothing that the president does not order or sanction. When Mr. Daniels' actions have been brought to the attention of Mr. Wilson, and are not repudiated by him, they become Mr. Wilson's; and Mr. Wilson is fully and completely responsible for Mr. Daniels, for all that he has done and left undone. "The proof is absolute that when Admiral Mayo was at Tampico he had received full knowledge of the rioting and of the imminent danger to American lives; but that, nevertheless, he steamed away into the ocean, and that the Americans were rescued by German and British ships. This action constituted so grave an offense from the standpoint of national duty and self-respect, that any man responsible for it should be at once taken out of office. Facts Made Public in U. S. "Shortly thereafter the facts were made public in the United States. If Admiral Mayo had been responsible and had not acted under orders, then the only proper course for Secretary Daniels would have been to order his instant court-martial, and in such case the failure to do so would have shifted the blame at once from the shoulders of Admiral Mayo to the shoulders of superiors. President Wilson and Secretary Daniels. "Therefore, even if these telegrams did not exist, even if there had been no such orders, or those actually issued by the secretary of the navy to Admiral Mayo, nevertheless, his superiors, Secretary Daniels and President Wilson, would both have become fully responsible for the guilty transaction by their acquiescence therein. They cannot, as they have sought to do, shift the blame to the shoulders of the admiral." WILSON CONSISTENT ONLY IN HIS VACILLATION. As it is with "war," so it is with "intervention." President Wilson has again and again said he would not "intervene" in Mexico. As a matter of fact he has intervened continuously * * * but as he never followed any policy of either intervention or nonintervention with any resolution—always yielding at the critical moment to sombandit chief of whom he became fearful—both his spans of intervention and his spans of nonintervention have all been entirely futile.—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. DECLINED TO PERMIT A SQUADRON TO DEFEND AMERICANS. At Tampico there was a general movement of attack by the Mexicans on Americans and other foreigners. We had a squadron of American warships in the neighborhood. The Wilson Administration declined to permit this squadron to be used to defend the lives of American men and the honor of American women, and the commanders of the German and English ships at Tampico had to step in and perform the task our representative had so basely abandoned. At the very time that the Mexican mob had surrounded the building in which the Americans had taken refuge, and was howling for their blood, the American fleet, in spite of the protests of the American naval commander, and in accordance with wireless orders from Washington, was forced to steam out of the harbor and leave the Americans to be massacred by the Mexicans, or rescued by the Germans and English.—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. Political Jottings If plans "to get Villa" are abandoned Villa should reciprocate and refrain from organizing expeditions "to get" American citizens. The fact that Mr. Wilson could endorse this Pork Congress shows that he isn't seasick, anyway. Mr. Pinchot also seems of the opinion that God Hates a Quitter. The man who quotes the Baltimore platform is regarded as a political archologist. "He kept the country out of war," but he robbed it of its peace. Up in Maine they are now rhyming Hughes with Moose. And there is reason as well as rhyme connecting the two words. "Victory," Mr. Fairbanks told Oklahoma Republicans, "surely will perch on our banner." But Champ Clark tied it up in a neater and more compact bundle when he said: "They licked hell out of us." Members of President Wilson's cabinet are ready to do anything to reelect their chief, except resign. Writes a former Princeton man: "At first we called him 'W. W.'; then we made it 'I. W. W.'" That one term plank in the Democratic platform of 1912—it is more than likely to hold, after all. When President Wilson called upon the Mexican commissioners at New London he revived old precedents, but did he wave the Stars and Stripes? A man in Washington has made a bust of the President, thus anticipating Mr. Hughes by several weeks. Discussing the indorsement by the Democratic convention of Texas of Mr. Wilson's Mexican policy, the Houston Post (Dem.) flatly declares: "It is not believed anything like a majority of the people of Texas indorse our Mexican policy, and those in a position to know seriously doubt that the platform adopted expressed the real sentiments of the convention itself." WINE FOR THE FRONT Wine is indispensable to the French soldier. These barrels are intended for the use of the French army in Macedonia. The Colored Rep. Club at Tahlequah held an enthusiastic meeting the night of the 5th, and W.H. Twine of Muskogee, addressed the meeting. There were over 300 persons present and all are pledged to vote the ticket straight. Mr. Harlan the Pres' of the club is an aggressive worker and is ably assisted by the officers and members of 5th club. The colored people of Tahlequah and vicinity are well organized and the votes from that locality will assist materially in electing the County ticket in that County and will swell the majority of Hardy Ward for Congress. We predict a big Rep. majority in that county on Nov. 7th. For the first time in the history of that county the Negroes will vote and have their vote counted as cast. The Dem. are trying to capture a part of the Negro vote but will miscrabbly because the colored woman are on guard out the week; Negro will be forced to vote right. The editor was dwn in Tenn last week and was in the City of Memphis a few days. We found the Negroes well organized and fighting under the leadership of young Bob Church, Dr. Walton and others. Every Negro has paid poll tax and can vote. They are standing loyalty by the Rep. ticket. The local ticket in Shelby County is composed of colored men and their chance for election looks good. We heard white men on the Streets make the statement that would vote the Rep ticket straight and when they were taunted with the question what about the Negro? The answer come straight I am going to vote the ticket straight. This was a surprise to us and we come home encouraged to work harder for our ticket here. By the kindness of Dr. Walton we visited the meeting in the 14th Ward of Memphis and there we saw a large number of voters who were determined to be a factor in the coming election. The young Negro and the old fathers are acting as one for success of the whole Rep. Ticket. We expect to hear good news from Memphis and we hope to be able to send them a wire that Okla. has been redeemed. With Hon. Harry Ward, carrying the 2nd Dist by a good majority and Hon Bert Chandler, raising cain and gabling the first District from Do-nothing Jim Davenport, the Eastern part of the State will take on new life and progress. Vote for them. The colored voters of Musk gee County are organizing quietly and will make a ag od report on Nov. 7th. There is no reason why we should not get every vote in, and that means a housing majority for the Rep Ticket this is an election were w vote for federal office and your vote will be counted as casted. Hon. Vick Anderson, Cong. Chairman for this District is working like a Trogan for the success of the ticket and we predict that success will crown his efforts. He should have the loyal support of all Rep. Notice By Publication In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: No. 5267 Fr d Allen Defendant. The defendant, Fred Allen, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Maud Allen, for Divorce, for desertion, and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff, Maud Allen on or before the 19th day of November 1916, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In Witness Whor of, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 6th day of Oct 1916. C. H. Shaffer Court Clerk Tom L. Fulter, Deputy Clerk Geo. W. Parker, Attorney for Plaintiff. Midland V "ARKANSAS R NEW T EFFECTIVE SUNDA 2-TRAINS Between Muskogee & Tulsa, Oklan EAST No. 4 [Motor Train] For Ft. S. No. 2 For Ft Smith and points be No. 6 From Pswhuska and Tulsa No.2 Wichita, Ark City and Tulsa WESTB No. 1 For Tulsa, Ark City and No. 5 For Tula and Pswhuska... No. 7 From Ft. Smith and point No. 3 (Motor Train) From Ft. S. FOR FURTHER Phone 1308 or 495 the Price is right T. M 212 N. 2nd Money t Phone 3741 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 Pswhuska and Tulsa 10; 40 a. m. No.2 Wichita, Ark City and Tulsa 6:15 p. m. WESTBOUND MOVED Dr. J. C. PUTNAM, Chicago Dentist Moved to Fite Rowsey uilding Cor. Okemulgee and Secoud Sts. Suites 20-207 Muskogee, Maud Allen Paintiff. PRICE $1.00 A YEAR 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.——. The best Hoe Weather Tonle MOVED FASTNESS and TONLE continues the good, builds up the whole system and will wom tifully strengthen and fortify you to withstand the deprenssion effect of the hot summer. Pictures of Donker Washington Pictures of Benker Washington Sell like hot cakes; our special scheme of giving his book with picture sells everybody; we have the big book, both sell for $12.50; we pay express all guests should write us; my body can sell; two outfits, fifteen cents. AUSTIN JENKINS CO., 7th St., Washing on, J. C. Effective Sunday, May 25, O. & G. Ry. established sleeping service between Joplin, Miami owner, Muskogee, Henryetta and homa City, on trains 3 and 4. Train No. 3 leaves Joplin at 4:15 P. M., Muskogee at 9:30 P. A. M., arriving at Oklahoma City at 0. A. M., the entire train running through to Oklahoma City, via Dustin and the Ft. S. & W. R. K. Northbound train leaves Oklahoma City at 11:60 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 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 enroute enroute, and the convenient daylight service gives passengers a view of the busting Henryetta-Dewarza Kusa smolting district—the plants being in full view from the car windows. Handsome brick depots have just been completed and occupied by the M. O. & G. Ry. at Deware and Kusa. Rock ballast is being installed as fast as possible, and the road-bed is being put in good condition. They say Oklahoma had a big place in the Kansas City parade and Muskogee was "IT." 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. Valley R. R. RIVER ROUTE" ME CARD MAY, MARCH 5th, 1916 S DAILY-2 Between Muskegee, & Ft. Smith BOUND Smith and points beyond 7:45 a.m. beyond ..... 6:20 p. m. a ..... 10; 40 a. m. a ..... 6:15 p. m. BOUND Wienita ..... 8:00 a. m. beyond ..... 5:10 p. m. Smith and points beyond 7:30 p. m. R INFORMATION Muskegee, Okla. if its bought of Millers Loan Opposit of Kress Open Evening Until 6 Sunday 10 to 4 --- 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 paper in the City of Muskogee. The daily Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be in- dependent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h... to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratitude. The Republican party is the ship and all else the sea. The Oklahoma Negro is sure of that from bitter experience. REPUBLICAN COUNTY CANDIDATES. For Congress Second District Harry Ward. For Sheriff F. J. Bays. For Sheriff—F. J. Bays. For County Attorney—H. C. Whipperman. For County Judge—Myron White. 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. State Representatives. John Lieber. O. E. Cramer. Geo. Leopold. A CONTEST OF CHARACTER, NOT OF WEASEL WORDS CARDINAL QUESTION IN THIS CAMPAIGN IS WHETHER THE PEOPLE WANT IN THE WHITE HOUSE A PHRASE-MAKER, OR A MAN WHO BACKS WORDS WITH DEEDS. Woodrow Wilson excels in the artistry of politics beyond the capacity of Charles Evans Hughes to compete. Were the current campaign a game of professional politics instead of a contest of character between two candidates for the highest office in the gift of the people, Mr. Wilson would walk away with the prize next November. All his life he has made a study of form—first of literary form—and latterly of political form. In the first period he mastered a style peculiarly his own, and peculiarly characteristic. The study of words and their multiplicity of meaning always fascinates him, so much that a Princeton classmate recently said of him: "Tommy has lived with words so long he thinks they are real things." Thence comes his collection of what Theodore Roosevelt's Maine Guide calls "weasel words." That is—"he can take a word and weasel it around and suck the meaning out of it like a weasel sucks an egg, until it don't mean anything at all, no matter what it sounds like it means." Thence came also the series of catch phrases, so fascinating in sound, so false in suggestion; so easy to read, so hard to understand. So it is that he is able to be on all sides of every public question, while covering his circuitous course with a flow of words that roll as easily from his pen as a brook through the mendow. It is his artfulness in the use of words that enables him to pose as "an amateur in politics," while playing the game with the skill of a professional. Whatever his ineptitude in other respects, he is easily first among presidents in the artistry of politics, and he would win next November, were that the test. Compare the williness of Mr. Wilson with the straightforwardness of Mr. Hughes. Compare the smooth style of the one with the rugged diction of the other. The one is as complex in the use of words as the other is simple. It is a case of sonorousness versus strength. Mr. Hughes is depending upon the strategy of straightforwardness and the strength of sincerity; upon the force of facts, instead of upon the fiction of a phrase, to win his case before the jury of the nation. His appeal is to the head and not the ear of the people; to their intelligence and not to their emotion; to their heroic side and not to their hysterical side. It is an appeal to the courage of the country and not to its cowardice. Mr. Hughes could not, if he would, perform in a year the political tricks that Mr. Wilson can do in a day. The question today is whether the people want in the White House for the next four years a phrase-maker or a history-maker; a man of many sayings, or a man who backs his words with deeds. There is a fundamental difference between the two candidates, which marks the PROHIBITION IGNORANCE POVERTY BOOT LEGGER BLIND TIGER DRUG EVIL CHILD LABOR THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION In Kansas capital punishment is deed the law and reserved for the mob. AND IOWA IS "DRY." [Des Moines (la.) Tribune] Over 1,000 arrests in this city during the month of August! Looks as if Billy Sunday could put in another six weeks here to good advantage. QUICK: THE CYCLONE CELLAR! [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] We would hate to live in a prohibition state when aeroplanes get to be as plentiful as automobiles. Imagine having to dodge a shower of empty booze bottles all the time. NOT HOPELESS Jones (in prohibition town)—Where can I get a drink? Native—Of what? Jones—Not prussic acid! I've only got to stay here two hours. MAC MUST EE DESPERATE. Secretary Daniels will take the stump this week, thus indicating that Vance McCormick has reached the point where he does not care what happens. JURY DRINKS EVIDENCE. [From the Morning Oregonian.] After the conviction today of Andy Vicevitch on a charge of "bootlegging," E. W. Bell, attorney for the defendant, gave notice that he would attack the verdict on the grounds that the six jurors had each taken a "swig" at a bottle of whisky while in the jury room—New York Sun. But we thought Oregon was a "dry" state. MONTGOMERY (ALA.) FREE SCHOOLS MAY CLOSE Ever since prohibition went into effect in Alabama financial troubles have beset that state. Now comes the news that Montgomery, Ala., contemplates abolishing its free schools because of this difficulty. The Louisville Herald says: Free public schools, regarded as the pillar of the American republic, will no longer exist in Montgomery, if the action of the Board of Education is sustained by the City Commission. The Board of Education has announced that tuition fees will be charged by the board for all pupils entering the schools. They say this is necessary in order to meet current expenses. There are many other cities in the state where the schools are only partly free. In most of these places no fees are charged for the lower grades, but tuition must be paid in the higher schools. Montgomery is the capital of the state of Alabama and has 35,000 popula DULUTH SUFFERS FROM "DRY" LAW May Not Be Able to Send Delegates to Cincinnati Meeting Duluth, Minn., is undergoing the hardships that have been endured by other cities which abolished the saloons and the revenue that the saloons give. The Cincinnati Enquirer states: Facing a reduction of $180,000 in the income of 1517, due to the city having "gone dry" is the reason given by the authorities of Duluth, Minn., for failing to indicate whether that municipality will be represented at the convention of the National Alliance of Legal Aid Societies in Cincinnati, October 11 and 12. In a letter to the Free Legal Aid Bureau, Duluth, the Legal Aid Society, Cincinnati, stated that similar bodies in Kansas City, Mo., and Dayton, Ohio, will be represented at the convention, and it was to be presumed the government of the Northwestern city would find it advantageous to send a representative. Replying to this letter Frank Hicksa, manager of the Free Legal Aid Bureau, wrote: "We presume that this municipal government is just as wide awake to the advantages offered by the convention as Kansas City, Dayton, or any other city. The item public welfare under which we are operating will be materially reduced for the year 1917 hence we do not feel like incurring any additional expense at this time. The matter of sending a representative will be submitted to the Mayor after October 1, and will be deter mined by his decision." THE PROFESSIONAL REFORMER This is an excerpt from a story by L. B Yatea, entitled "The Reformation of Mayor Miles," in the Saturday Evening Post: "My idea was that wherevah yo' met a professional refo'mah yo' met a man who was lopsided. Accordin' to my notion his definition of success was to marry a meal ticket an' sit down close to the pot licker an' preach. To me he was full of cheap platitudes as an elephant's trunk is full of tricks; but of his own initiative he nevah did enough to start a wheelbarrow in motion. I classes him with th' kind of man who would tie a baby-blue ribbon on a garbage can' an' take credit fo' doin' away with th' odor of its contents, an' his ideas of eternal fitness would be put to stained glass windows in a pigpen. "It's fashionable nowadays," continued the Major after a brief pause, "to classify an' catalogue an' index humanity, an' to dominate human nature by th' card system until yo' can wind it up like a clock an' it will run just so long an' accomplish certain functions in just such a way. "If I pick up a newspapah I find that everything I touch, cat, drink or smell is full of microbes; that Death lurks in th' today, an' the Grim Reaper is PRECIPITATED WAR When Mr. Wilson forgets himself he admits that we have been at war; for example, on May 11, 1914, in an address over the dead marines at the navy yard in Brooklyn, he said that the marines had been engaged in "a war of service." A war of service to whom or to what? Certainly not to the United States; nor to Mexico; nor to humanity at large. Was it to Mr. Wilson?—From the speech of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. --- LOADING ANTI- SALOON LEAGUE "PORK BARREL" "Drys" Will Spend Millions to Beat Liberal Congressman The Anti-Saloon League is going to spend a lot of money trying to defeat candidates for Congress who voted against the Hobson resolution, according to newspaper reports. New York is considered too big a job to tackle, so the campaign will be directed principally in the Middle Western States. We understand that South Dakota is raised $200,000, Ohio and Illinois are collecting $300,000, and other States equally large amounts. Grafters flourish and the harvest is bountiful when elections approach. Knowing the practices of politicians pretty well, the question arises how much of this money the Anti-Saloon League is now collecting will be spent legitimately. How much of it will find its way to the pockets of the "Powers that Be?" Our advice to those who contribute is to watch and see what the results will be, and then determine for themselves if they have been "buncoed"—National Hotel Gazette, Washington, D. C. NEWSBY ARRESTED FOR SELLING "WET" PAPERS. The extremes to which prohibition may go is illustrated by the following from the Cincinnati Enquirer, dated Atlanta, Ga.: Matthew Mindy, a newsboy, was held under $500 bond here today charged with selling New York, Jacksonville and Cincinnati newspapers containing liquor advertisements. The case, which will be heard Friday, is the first of its kind to be brought here under Georgia's SALOONS CLOSE IN MAINE DURING STREET CAR STRIKE MAYOR WOODMAN, OF BANGOR, SAYS PROPRIETORS OF CAFES SHUT UP "OUT OF COURTESY" TO THE AUTHORITIES CHIEF OF POLICE GILMAN RESIGNS After Disagreement With Chief Executive—There Are 112 Oases In That City—Drunkenness Is Common—And the State Went "Dry" In 1852! SAYS AMERICA HAS GONE "LAW CRAZY" Investigator Finds 62,250 Bills Are Passed In Ten Years That the American people have been seized with a mania for making laws is the opinion of Edward Trefz, of the United States Chamber of Commerce, who has just completed a nation-wide survey of legislative activities. The New York Sun, in its report, says: The field secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Mr. Edward Trefz, has been counting the laws passed by Congress and by the State Legislatures in the last five years. He reports a grand total of 62,250. The contrast with the number of laws passed by the British Parliament in ten years, 1,500 in all, is either painful or magnificent, as you choose to view it. To Mr. Trefz it is painful. He suggests that we, the people, are "law crazy." Perhaps he has not taken into account the fact that an American legislator measures his statesmanship by the number of bills he gets passed. "At last this district has come into its own," the hero tells the voters. "I have secured the passage of the bill permitting the taking of seven-inch porgies in Buttermilk brook on rainy Thursdays in May. In spite of the opposition of the bosses I have put on the books a statute allowing noiseless bouquet holders to be placed on motor cars costing less than $683. Send me back and I pledge you that I shall not rest until I have passed a law abolishing sharp corners on dog biscuit." What would happen to a legislator who went home at the end of a session and said to his constituents: "I did not make a new law, but I voted for the repeal of sixty-three idiotic ones, and I hope next year to prevent our august body from passing any laws at all?" He would be stoned as a stand-patter and obliterated as an obstructionist. Life will not be perfect until each citizen has a code of lawyer-made law applying to himself alone. SALOONS CLO DURING STREET MAYOR WOODMAN. OF BANG CAFES SHUT UP "OU THE AUT CHIEF OF POLICE After Disagreement With Ch Oases In That City—Dru the State Went Although Maine went "dry" in 1852, and thereby became the first prohibition state, a special dispatch to the Boston Herald says that there are 112 saloons in Bangor, alone. The article, under a Bangor (Me.) headline, states: Something of a sensation was caused to night when Chief of Police Lindley W. Gilman tendered his resignation to Mayor John F. Woodman on account of differences of opinion regarding the closing of the saloons during the street car strike. Though the resignation had not been accepted up to a late hour to night, and Mayor Woodman intimated that the disagreement would be settled, the chief of police is inclined to be firm in his stand, which, according to those in his confidence, is that the saloons should remain closed until the strike is over. Four Arrests Made. When the strike started on August 25, Mayor Woodman promptly ordered the saloons closed, and, in his words, they shut their doors "out of courtesy" to the authorities. They have kept them shut ever since, except four dealers, who were quickly prosecuted after raids by plain clothes men. It is the contention of some persons, including executives of the Bangor Railway Electric Company, that the street car strike is over, as the company has been running its cars for several days, and Mayor Woodman is apparently of the same opinion. Yesterday, with one accord, the saloons opened and began doing business as usual. The mayor admitted knowledge of the opening of the saloons and is quoted as saying that the dealers thought it all right to sell with strike conditions practically over. The chief of police it is understood HIST AND HARK! REAL WHISKEY IN A CHURCH! Here is an account of a little happening in prohibition Tacoma, Washington, as reported by the Tacoma Ledger: Andy Vicovick is in the county jail in default of $1,000 bail because Deputy Prosecutor Thompson and County Detectives Shaw and Jacobs "went to church" Friday night near Elbe. The edifice was quiet and empty when the officers entered at dead of night. They made straight for the pulpit, crawled underneath and dragged out by the necks—not some of the members of the congregation—but 12 empty whisky bottles and a half gallon demiljohn. It was after this that they took Vicovick into custody and charged him with violating the dry law. It is alleged that the prisoner kept a cache of liquor just over the line in Lewis county and used the church for a hiding and distributing point for small quantities. J. M. Blanton, aged 64, was locked in the county jail on a federal warrant charging him with retailing intoxicating liquor without having a government license. It is said at the jail that he once served a short term for violating the state prohibition law and that the federal charge is a follow-up on the matter. WHAT PROHIBITION LAW DID TO DENVER The ensuing is culled from the Omaha (Neb.) Protector: "The prohibitionists argue that if we will destroy the saloon, the brewery, the winery, it will only be a short time before the employees in these trades will find jobs in other industries. They told us in Colorado more bread would be consumed, more meat eaten, and more clothes worn. Has this been true? Colorado has answered the question. We found in organizing the unemployed in Denver, following the enactment of prohibition, there were over 300 bakers and more than 200 butchers absolutely without of a job. The very class prohibitionists told us would have more work were thrown out of work."—Building Trades Council and Unions of California. OSE IN MAINE ET CAR STRIKE GOR, SAYS PROPRIETORS OF OUT OF COURTESY" TO AUTHORIES GILMAN RESIGNS of Executive—There Are 112 inkenness Is Common—and "Dry" In 1852! tude, so much so that this afternoon he placed his resignation in the hands of the mayor. To a Boston Herald reporter he said that he and the mayor could not agree on "present conditions." The mayor said to the Herald man that he and the chief disagreed on the saloon question, but thought that it could be settled without resignation of the chief of police at a time when matters are admittedly rather serious. Who Pulls the String? As suddenly as they had opened, each of the 112 saloons in the city closed at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and have remained closed since. No one can be found who acknowledges control of the situation, but it is apparent that the saloon keepers are acting under orders from some central authority. Bricks have been hurled through windows of suburban cars at night from automobiles, and also by persons on foot, and have narrowly missed passengers. A block of granite was placed across a track in Hampden and loosely covered with a newspaper; the car crashed into it and was derailed. The New York Sun, one of the most reliable papers in America, reprints this article from the Bangor (Me.) News: Drunken men, and women, too, were everywhere to be seen in Bangor on Wednesday. The police patrol automobile was kept busy and the police station was soon filled. Some were so overcome with liquor that they collapsed in doorways in Pickering Square, and in that section of the city leading one veteran officer to remark: "Say, when they can't stand in your way." HUGHES PITILESS ON MEXICAN DISGRACE In His Mind and on His Tongue More Than Any Other Single Problem With Which Mr. Wilson Has Pallered. CRAZY CHAPTER OF BLUNDERS No One Can Hear Him Speak Without Seeing the Reality of His Indignation Over the Heartless Policy of the Democratic Administration Toward American Men, Women and Children, American Citizens, Soldiers and Sailors Along and Across the Rio Grande. Soon after Mr. Hughes was nominated a friend said to him: "Governor, if the American people forget the Mexican disgrace they do not deserve to have you for President." Quick as a flash he replied: "The candidate who dodges the Mexican disgrace does not deserve to be President." He did not pass around his address of acceptance for compliment or criticism in advance of its delivery but the amount of space he devoted to the Mexican disgrace—that confused chapter of blunders—surprised no one who had talked with him since his nomination. It has been in his mind and on his mind more than any other single problem with which Mr. Wilson has paltered. To talk with him is to see at once the reality of his indignation over the heartless manner in which American men, women and children, American citizens, soldiers and sailors have been abandoned by the Administration along and across the Rio Grande, the victims of Mexican armed forces, outhitted with American ammunition and American rifles, Mexicans whom Mr. Wilson has coddled one day as patriots only to chase the next as bandits. It is apparently the belief of Mr. Wilson that the people of the United States are not interested in Mexico. His defenders have declared that it was on "old story and out of date." Mr. Hughes has a better opinion of his fellow countrymen. He has proved himself a better judge of their feelings. He has made "the Mexican disgrace" a foremost issue of his campaign. He has assailed the record of the Administration in that respect in almost every speech he has made. He has never failed to strike a responsive chord in the hearts of his audience, whether speaking in Carnegie Hall, New York, from the platform of his train at Grand Forks, North Dakota, to a vast audience at Portland, at the Exposition at San Diego or in the prairie states of the Middle West. He has refuted the clanier, sometimes heard in the effect East, that the people of the great West do not care what happens to their fellow citizens in Mexico or to the flag beyond the border. No man born in the West has a former faith in the fundamental patriotism and "dominant Americanism" of the people of that section than Mr. Hughes. He holds them responsible in large measure for the encouragement and support he received while Governor of New York in his war upon political graft and political bossism. He thinks they had much to do with conscripting him as the champion of nationalism in the current campaign. He showed his confidence in their practical idealism when he made "the Mexican disgrace" an uppermost issue of his campaign. He has been vindicated by the response his arrangement of the Administration on this score has everywhere evoked. From Maine to California "the Mexican disgrace" is a sore subject with red-blooded Americans today. But nowhere between the oceans are the outrages inflicted in Mexico upon American honor, life and property more keenly resented than around the fire sides of the great West. Mr. Hughes is no stranger to the West. His strightforward talk on Mexico proves it. "Against Mr. Wilson's combination of grace in elocution with futility in action; against his record of words unbacked by deeds or betrayed by deeds, we see Mr. Hughes' rugged and uncompromising straightforwardness of character and action in every office he has held. We put the man who thinks and speaks directly, and whose words have always been made good, against the man whose adroit and facile elocution is used to conceal his plans or his want of plans. The next four years may well be years of tremendous national strain. Whole of the two men do you, the American people, wish at the helm during these four years; the man who has been actually tried and found wanting, or the man whose whole career in public office is a guarantee of his power and good faith? But one answer is possible; and it must be given by the American people through the election of Charles Evans Hughes as President of the United States."—Roccevelt SHOWING HIM IN HIS TRUE LIGHT THE FAILURE OF PROHIBITION PROHIBITION BLIND TIGER AND SALOON LEAGUE BOOT LEAGER STATE REPORT GIVES THE LIE TO EXTREMISTS Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics Discredits Statement of "Drys" and Shows That Very Few Deaths Are Caused By Over-Indulgence In Liquor The Cincinnati Enquirer editorially gives the list to those extremists who, ignoring facts, declare liquor responsible for thousands and even hundreds of thousands of deaths annually: Without any intention of entering upon a discussion of the merits of the age-long controversy over the use of alcohol as a beverage, and without seeking to establish any standard for seeking to establish any standard for future polemical warfare, attention is directed to the recent report of the State Bureau of Vital Statistics concerning the number of deaths in the past year from the excessive use of that spirit. It is the practice of salaried agents and lecturers of the eminent practical prohibition leagues to assert that thousands die daily from the effect of their pota- tions. Indeed, Richmond Pearson Hobson reached the absurd point of asserting that more people died from drinking alcohol than were removed altogether by the death angel. The report shows that for the year ending July 1 there were 56 deaths, according to corrovers' reports, from acute alcoholism, or 42 fewer than the preceding year, while the remainder of the document shows that deaths with alcoholism as the predisposing cause were diminishing. Proponents of the liberal view of alcoholic absorption might make many interesting comparisons with these statistics. There are quoted here, however, merely as the reply of medical science to the grotesque assertions so frequently uttered to create false impressions in the minds of sympathetic people. WOMAN IS HELD AS BOOTLEGGER Arrest of Boardinghouse Keeper Follows Conviction of Chauffeur The following story of bootlegging in "dry" Seattle (Wash.) is told by the Post-Intelligence of that city: After having testified for Gus Johnson, a chaplain, at his trial on the charge of having violated the dry law, Mrs. A. Olson, proprietor of a rooming house at 123½ Ninth avenue, was arrested on the same accusation. She was released on $250 ball. Johnson was convicted and fined $100 by Acting Police Judge Thomas B. MacMahon. THE ONE BEST BET. Ex-Governor Handley, the prohibition candidate for president, says he does not expect to be elected, but is building sentiment. He will probably not be disappointed in his anticipation of election-results. CALIFORNIA "PEP" GETS TWO WOMEN IN TROUBLE The general disregard for law, bred by the attempt to enforce prohibition, is causing the arrest of women as well as men. A special dispatch from Portland, In "dry" Oregon, to the San Francisco Chronicle, says: For serving "California pep" at so much per finger to a select trade, Mrs. C. W. Montgomery, 24, and her sister, Frances Ward, 20, were arrested today. The trial lasted ten minutes. Both women were convicted of violating the prohibition law. tions. Indeed, Richmond Pearson Hobson reached the nondoor point of asserting that more people died from drinking alcohol than were removed altogether by the death angel. The report shows that for the year ending July 1 there were 58 deaths, according to coverters' reports, from acute alcoholism, or 42 fewer than the preceding year, while the remainder of the document shows that deaths with alcoholism as the predisposing cause were diminishing. Proponents of the liberal view of alcoholic absorption might make many interesting comparisons with these statistics. There are quoted here, however, merely as the reply of medical science to the grotesque assertions so frequently uttered to create false impressions in the minds of sympathetic people. DRY LAW MAKES IOWA TAXES SOAR Council Bluffs General LevyMay Reach 120 Mills As Result of Losing Saloon Revenue A sure result of national prohibition, it is said, would be the imposing of a tax on every citizen, to replace the $325,000,000 a year now furnished federal and state governments by the liquor interests. "Dry" Iowa already is feeling this result of state prohibition. The Omaha Bee says: The city council of Council Bluffs will meet this afternoon and fix the tax levy for 1916 to be certified to the county board for collection next year. The levy will have the distinction of being the largest ever made in the history of the city, and added to a large increase in the school tax levy, with a probable increase in the county, will bring about high tide of taxation altogether unprecedented. Last year, to meet part of the deficiencies brought about by the closing of the saloons, the levy was raised to 47¼. This, with state, county and schools, raised the general levy on all city property to 105.3 mills. Just what the total levy for 1916 will be is problematical, but it looks now as if it would be at least 15 mills higher than 1915. LUKE M'LUKE SAYS: If Billy Sunday really wants to find real "Hell Holes" he should keep away from the "wet" cities and visit the towns in the prohibition states. There are 83 blind tigers in Leavenworth, Kan. There were 600 arrests for drunkenness in Topeka, Kan., last year. But Billy knows that a town that contains one brewery is a "Hell Hole," while a town that contains 83 THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION WHAT! GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT. [Luke McLuke, Unarmed Enquirer] Every Prohibitionist is a booze fighter. A Dubuque bootleger told the judge he resorted to it because he couldn't get work. Perhaps the excuse was as good as any. [Butte (Mont.) Miner.] And it is very evident that the prohibition laws in some of the "dry" states do not prevent visitors from making some very caustic remarks about "prohibition failing to prohibit." A KANSAS ALIBI [Atchison (Kan.) Globe] An Atchison reporter was horrified when he thought he smelled whiskey upon the breath of a prominent Atchison banker who has the reputation of being a teetotaler. Investigation revealed instead of whiskey the banker was eating onions and was chewing champagne-flavored tobacco. DON'T, OUR LIPS ARE CHAPPED [Philadelphia Ledger] It will be observed that William Jennies Bryan is campaigning for the President with a self-sacrificing energy which leave no doubt of his devotion. "THE WILY BOOTLEGGER" Says the Minneapolis Tribune: One hundred and eighty pints of liquor is a bit too much to be carting about the prairies of "dry" North Dakota. That's why Robert Dixon and Adolph Anderson, intercepted on a country highway, near here, by the sheriff, face charges of bootlegging. Dixon however, is at large, having escaped the official by a ruse. The sheriff and the pursued staged a spectacular race across the prairie in automobiles. THE BRITISH TAKE "TEA" Photo by Paul Thompson, New York City. This is a scene in the English lines in the Oise. There is no prohibition at the front, as the bottles of liquor indicate. GRAND JURY INVESTIGATES R. A. MACK, LEADER OF DRYS PRODES CHARGES THAT ONLY SMALL NUMBER OF NAMES ON HIS PETITION FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO, WERE BONA FIDE HE RAN ON "LAW ENFORCEMENT" TICKET Cincinnati Prosecutor Declares Most of Signatures Were False - Case Recalls Candidate's Failure to Prove Fraud Charges Against the "Wet" at a Similar Inquiry When the liberal element showed prohibition under by an overwhelming vote in Hamilton County, two years ago, Rudolph A. Mack, of Cincinnati, O., campaign manager for the Anti-Saloon League, charged that grandlion voting had resulted in the defeat of the "drys." The Grand Jury investigated the case thoroughly and found that there was not a coinilla of evidence to substantiate Mack's allegations. Now, the shoe is on the other foot to speak figuratively. The Hamilton County Grand Jury is investigating alleged fraud in connection with alleged false petitions insisting Mack's candidacy for Governor of Ohio Mack ran on the "new Environment" party which he and his manager Matt Gilson, created after both quit the Anti-Saloon League under an alleged agreement that this orination way to support Mack. Mack once made the statement in an interview that he would never resign as manager of the "drys" until he "put over" the prohibition law in Hamilton County. His leaving the Anti-Saloon League is regarded as an indication that he has given up all hope of accomplishing his purpose. Here's the Story. The story of the alleged misfections is thus told by the Cincinnati Enquirer. "Petitions nominating Rudolph A. Mach as a candidate," for Governor were received yesterday by County Prosecuting Attorney John V. Campbell from Secretary of State Hildebrant, to whom they had been sent by the Hamilton County Deputy State Supervisors of Elections. No instructions nor suggestions accompanied them. Before they arrived at the Prosecutor's office, however, Secretary Delbrant called Mr. Campbell by long distance phone and told him they should be given attention. "How any one could expect to get by with such stuff is beyond me," was the Prosecutor's first comment after making cursory examination of the petitions, which had shown a small percentage only of the names on the 100 petitions to be genuine. "With the assistance of Assistant Prosecutor Walter M. Locke, Prosecutor Campbell scrutinized the petitions. He found, he said, that scores of the names on the petitions were in the same handwriting, while the addresses were fictitious on their face. The Prosecutor said: "It simply is appalling; it's an insult to the intelligence of the members of the Board of Elections for any one even to pretend to think that he could get by them with such rot. Some of these petitions are so obscene as to indicate that the one who wrote the names and addresses intended to make a mockery of the election machinery. "A number of the petitions show upon their face that a great many of the names and addresses were written by the same persons. This is not supposition; it is obvious, and an expert is not needed to discover the fact." "The strenuous language was called forth from the Prosecutor by the fact that obscurity had been substituted for names of streets. An illustration, in an exceedingly mild form, was the address, '8989 Dirty alley,' which appeared upon one petition. No street numbers in the city run to $800, and it is unnecessary to say there is no alley of that name.' was the Prosecutor's comment. "One petition sworn to by Matt Glaser, Mack's campaign manager, contained the names of three Lockes all obviously written by the same person. Attorney Nicholas Klein's name was issued as Notary upon this petition. The Board of Elections found 31 of the names correct, while 12 were not registered and seven were not in the directory." The same paper also has the following to say: "In position of all names on the petitions nominating R. A. Mack as the candidate for Governor on the Law enforcement party ticket was completed by a special force of investigators at the Board of Elections yesterday afternoon. The total number of signatures on the 101 petitions was 4656, of which only 852 were found in the registration lists of City Directions, leaving 4166 irregular. In several cases the same names were found on two petitions. "The most glaring friend was the slight signatures of members of the Nassau family on the same petition, and all in the same handwriting. Men were registered from factitious streets and alleys." "Bouches in Washington Park were utilized as residences by one circulator of the Mask nominating petitions, according to disclosures made at the Board of Elections yesterday. The address of one signer was given as the West Thirteenth street, which would fix his abode in Washington Park." Ilhaskena Criticize Mask Added zett was given to the case when several ministers of the West Ohio M. E. Conference declared that Mack had presumed on former friendship and published endorsements bearing their names. This endorsement, they said, is not the one to which they had placed their signature. The Anti-Galoen League, through its official newspapers, has disclaimed all responsibility for the action of its former member, but Mack's letter of resignation to Sungerintendent J. A. White, of the League, at Columbus, is said to be evidence of a "working agreement." Mack concludes with this paragraph: "I hope to have the loyal support of the League, of which you are the head, in my efforts for a better government for the state." MOB LYNCHES MAN IN "DRY," DEVILISH, KANSAS "Dry" Kansas evidently is following in the lead of "dry" Georgia which holds the world's record for lynchings. When prohibition went into effect in both these states, the "Drya" promised that crime would cease. Whether this Utopian condition prevails is best answered by the enciling article from the Cincinnati Enquirer, concerning a "neckle party" in Olathe, Kan.: Bart Dudley, charged with the murder of Henry Muller, an aged German, and his wife, was taken from the Johnson County jail today by a masked mob and hung from a telephone pole. The mob came to Olathe in motor cars supposedly from near Stillwell, where Muller had lived. Sheriff Lon Carroll refused to give up Dudley and the mob overpowered him. They then battered down three jail doors. Several shots were fired, but no one was injured.