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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, PRAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNERISED BY GAIN" Department of Archives The "HERE SHE STABLISHED 1862 FAMILIES SPLIT ON CAMPAIGN Wives of Wilson Supporters Will Take Stump For Governor Hughes. DIVERTING CAMPAIGN PHASE Washington. Families are being divided by the present political issues Here are a few examples: J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey is treasurer of the Progressive (genuine) national committee and has announced that he personally favors the re-election of Wilson. Mrs. Hopkins is a member of the Woman's party and will take the stump and do all she can to prevent the election of Wilson. Gifford Pinchot is for Hughes and all the militarism Hughes and his backing can secure. Amos Pinchot, his brother, is a member of the American Union Against Militarism and will support Wilson as the lesser of two evils. Representative William Kent of California is a wild eyed enthusiast for Wilson and is heading a Wilson non-partisan league, while Mrs. Kent is a member of the Woman's party and will stump for the defeat of Wilson. George Middleton has allied himself with the group of writers who have announced themselves for Wilson, while his wife, Fola La Pollette, is one of the members of the Congressional union who will hold Wilson responsible for the defeat of the Susan B. Anthony amendment. Meredith Nicholson is a Wilson supporter, but Mrs. Nicholson will write and stump against Wilson on account of his attitude toward the federal suffrage amendment. Mrs. Louis F. Post is a member of the Woman's Peace party and an ardent Tolstoyan pacifist. Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, is for the administration's "reasonable" program of preparedness. Mr. Wilson says his mind is progressive, but those who try to follow its progress can never tell the direction it is taking. It is just as likely to be progressing backward as forward. Friends of Wilson are still trying to explain what he meant by "too proud to fight." But can they tell us what he meant by "strict accountability?" This administration seems to have sold everything it could, from the nation's honor down to the smallest rural postmastership. Secretary Daniels says this is no time for politics. And it's no time for Secretary Daniels either. Senator Lewis, defending the president on his "too proud to fight" expression intimates that it was due solely to the ignorance of his audience that the popular interpretation that has been put upon it was evolved, and that anyway it didn't mean what it appeared to mean. The latter statement can be taken with some degree of confidence, as it is quite a well known fact that most of the things the president says do not mean what they are supposed to mean. Secretary Redfield has presented another of those living illustrations of the old adage that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread," with one important modification. The difference in the Secretary's case is that he walked right in and turned around and was kicked right out again. The Democratic contingent in the Senate is all worked up over the fact that the terms of the treaty for the purchase of the Danish West Indies "leaked out." "Pitiless publicity," you understand, has been consigned to the scrap heap with a large assortment of vicious other Democratic policies and promises. Housewives in need of pork recipes should address the Wilson administration. QUESTION CRAZE SEIZE THE G.O.P. Democratic WORLD Long Had Monopoly of This Idiocy, but Opposite Party Is Infected. STRING OF INTERROGATIONS TO FEASE WILSON IDOLATERS Questionaire No. 1—Will All the Wilson Notes Be at His Notification? How Did Fool Free Trade Hit Your Line of Business Just Before the Battles Began?—When the War Babies Die Will You Weep at the Funeral? The question habit grows. You may ask a question of any one. Why should the dear old public escape? Here are a few from the New York Sun for the man in the street: Do you approve of the rivers and harbors loot? Do you want tour years more of watchful waiting, with the national guardsmen undergoing military training in tropical climate in midsummer? Do you hold that the duty of the United States is to serve humanity and let its own citizens be killed and outraged? Do you feel proud of notes with nothing behind them? What do you think of the Vera Cruz adventure? Would you like to have been an American soldier at Carrizal? Do you love Carranza? Do you believe in a financial regime conducted largely in the interest of one section of the country? Do you desire to cut the Philippines loose in order that Japan may gobble them? Do you want four more years of Daniels? Do you approve of wrecking the diplomatic service to provide jobs for deserving Democrats? Do you believe in preparedness for a flood of cheap European wares as soon as peace comes? Have you noticed the significant increase of imports in the past year, despite the war? How did fool free trade hit your line of business before August, 1914? And your friends? Were you all cheered up by the Underwood tariff bill? Do you think the doubling of the income tax is fair while millions' worth of competitive imports come in free? Where are you going to be when the war babies die and business slips back to the cold, hard normal basis? Can you conceive of any possible good to you or to the country from another presidential term like the present one? Will you perpetuate sectionalism, greed, ignorance, stupidity—general ineptitude in congress? By the way his opponents are abusing him, it is evident that Mr. Hughes has touched them on the raw. No apology which the Wilson administration can make for its futile and irritating Mexican policy will satisfy the American people. It has lacked conspicuously the two characteristics which Hughes promises—a friendly spirit and a firm hand. Pitiless publicity, says Mr. Hughes; have a heart, say the Democrats. Of Mr. Wilson it may be said he meant well, but he now finds himself buried under the evidence of inefficiency that Mr. Hughes has brought forth. There are those who assert that Woodrow Wilson is a clever politician. But how do they account for his remark to a committee of women, calling upon him, to the effect that if they made suffrage "the paramount issue of this campaign," he would "lose all respect for them?" The women of the enfranchised States assert that this threat will cost Wilson the presidency. REPUBLICAN THRIFT IS SQUANDERED BY WILSON Built Panama Canal Out of Current Revenues, Patriotically Hoarding Bonds In Treasury Which Democrats Filch to Hide a Deficit. CARNIVAL OF DEBAUCHERY IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE Senator Penrose Believes the Looted Condition of the Treasury Will Necessitate the Withholding of Contracts For Battleships and Delay the Whole Scheme of Preparedness—Nation's Money Frittered Away to Finance Hare Brained and III Advised Projects. William R. Willcox, chairman of the Republican National committee, has received from Senator Penrose a brief but positive summing up of the extravagances of the Wilson administration during the session of congress just about to close. The senator says: "When the country realizes what this congress has done in the way of appropriations it will be dumfounded. Already it has been shown that over a billion, seven or eight hundred million dollars have been appropriated—more money than was ever appropriated in any one year in the history of the American government. The total will reach nearly $2,000,000,000 before the end of this carnival of debauchery in public expenditures is reached, because no account has been taken of the $25,000,000 for the Danish islands, the $30,000,000 which the government will probably have to refund as a result of the 5 per cent rebate allowed on importations brought across the seas in American bottoms, and other matters which are likely to come up. "It is only too evident that this bill which is expected to bring in some $200,000,000 will absolutely fail to meet even the requirements for the ill advised and certainly not urgent projects authorized by the present congress. "It is now claimed that these projects are to be financed by the issuance of Panama canal bonds. The American people will regard such a proceeding as a very queer one because the issuing of bonds by the Cleveland administration largely helped to bring about the downfall of the Democratic party in 1896. A bond issue has ever since been viewed with abhorrence by the Democracy; now, we find the party leaders compelled by reason of their extravagance and inefficiency, to resort to it. "To defray the expenses of a nitrate plant and of a shipping board and many other needless projects by the issuing of Panama bonds will be in the last analysis equivalent to paying for them by bond issues. These bonds are lying in the treasury unissued as the result of the thrift and economy and wise administration of the Republican party. "Only about $130,000,000 of bonds were put out in the construction of the Panama canal. The balance of the cost of that stupendous undertaking was paid out of current revenues; and now, to advance the novel doctrine that these bonds which represent the thrift of preceding years shall be issued for these questionable projects is to my mind, preposterous. In fact, it was expressly provided in the Spooner act that Panama canal bonds should not be issued for any other purpose than that of the construction of the canal, and the ingenious theory that they can be issued now to repay the treasury and that then the money can be squandered by the party in power to finance doubtful projects and to make good a deficit will not alter the fact that such a deficit exists. "No amount of reasoning on the part of the chairman of the committee on finance will alter the fact that outside of preparedness there has been at least $200,000,000 of wasteful appropriations and expenditures by the present congress. That condition of the treasury will absolutely necessitate the withholding of contracts for battleships and delay the whole scheme of preparedness. "The figures of the secretary of the treasury may be juggled as they may, but when the secretary is up against the brute fact of not having money to pay for these projects he will then find that figures will not make a surplus in the treasury." SACRIFICED COUNTRY'S HONOR AND INTEREST Mr. Wilson's defenders say he "has kept us out of war." As a matter of fact, his policy in Mexico has combined all the evils of feeble peace with all the evils of feeble war. He has secured none of the benefits of war, but he has not avoided war. He has sacrificed the honor and the interests of the country, but he has not received the thirty pieces of silver—From the Speech of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me., in Behalf of Charles E. Hughes. GUARDSMEN PAY THE PRICE OF WILSON'S ABASEMENT. Having condoned the repeated murders of Americans by the Carranzistas and having abused himself before Carranza and having aided in placing Carranza in power, what is Mr. Wilson's reward, and who pays it? The reward is that Mr. Wilson has to place 150,000 troops on the border to partially prevent the raids and murders that his friend, Mr. Carranza, will not or cannot prevent, and the payment is made by the soldiers who are slain and by the families of the guardsmen who go in want because their husbands and fathers have been called to the border to make good Mr. Wilson's refusal to let the regular army administer such punishment to the bandits as to inspire in them a healthy fear—From the Speech of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me., in B behalf of Charles E. Hughes. --- The President himself has tried to appropriate for his own advantage the sentiment of "America first." The Democrats have tried to make his support an act of piety by adopting "Thank God for Wilson" as a slogan. Mr. Hughes, with rare courage, frankness and penetration, is exposing the filmsian foundation for the claims of Wilsonian infallibility. He is laying bare a record of extravagance, partisanship, sectionalism, incompetence, wrongheadedness, vaccillation and insincerity which destroys the attempt to make a loss out of the President. The Democrats must come out of their ecstatic trance and defend their stewardship. The President is to be put on the stump. We are to hear something beside Delphic prose poems.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Wilson now virtually admits that all his own ideas were wrong four years ago. He has changed his mind on every public question. On some of them he has changed twice or even three times. Even if his friends could satisfy the public at this time he is exactly right, what assurance could be given that he would be right a year hence? The president says he has no interest in any political party "except as an instrument of achievement." If that's it then how did he happen to select such a poor instrument as the Democ- nial party? Curranza isn't a candidate for president of the United States, but he did one for American preparedness in two weeks than Woodrow Wilson did three years. --- WILSON KISSED THE HAND RED WITH AMERICAN BLOOD. President Wilson explicitly shows that the Carranzistas, not once, but repeatedly, made attacks on American towns and killed American citizens and mutilated them in September, 1915. Yet on Oct. 19, 1915, less than a month later, this same President Wilson, through his same secretary of state, formally announced to Carranza's agent that it was his "pleasure" to take the opportunity "of extending recognition to the de facto government of Mexico of which General Venustiano Carranza 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 Carranza, who, less than two months previously, on Aug. 2, 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 slapped 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 Colonel Theodoro Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me., in behalf of Charles E. Hughes. ```markdown ``` Roger Sullivan steps aside.—Newspaper headline. Students of Democratic politics know what a thin line divides stepping asido 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 mustmelon. 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 dispatches 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 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me., in Behalf of Charles E. Hughes. --- Se len cic oi ak ice o dg, cr pie ties rapt Serie A RA ee ie a ih Mal ia cies a i eh a AR Re ie ant ie aR ra Teena aT a a i ub eS Ak Sc RS Se TN iy i oda ORT ee a vat Dionu. geh 24S —— ee w:.athe to the Moral, Religis.. and +. anclal Development of Ha anity. "ATES OF SUBG6CRIPTIC s x pout enuvessnewasxe JO 2 MONLDB ceccereseceeses « 1G +o: ‘ot gl advertisements 1 iue in ao-uac’ unless advertising | ‘uu oy yearly -cusract, in which case the ad- Vertes Days every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. HARIAE cecesase veo rressen BOO amtuced Rates to Clubs. toue Jor Sample Coplos. Gutored In Post Office at Martins. ours, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. » «. Chford, Editor and Proprietor. Vrawer 869, and Bell ‘Phonon 60K, dHartinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 1916. Hewho is taught and believes that color of skin is a tay of superi ority, loses in the morning of youth, that which all eternity will never find. We notice where Thomas A. Ku- ison is going to support Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency. As all know, the former is a wizard when it comes to things clectrical, but it will take more than an electrical genius like Edison to place the sage of Princeton in the presiden- tial chair again. Editor J. Finley Wilson, of the Washington Eagle, passed through town the other day enroute home, and taking advantage of a favorable opportunity, sent his card to the editor. By the way, it gives us great pleasure to state that the Eagle is a good paper, carrying a fine line of news, and is a distinct credit to the Capitol City. Colored people everywhere, and lovers of honest sport in all races, will hear with regret that Howard Drew, one-time world’s champion sprinter, is paralyzed, and wiil most likely never enter into another running race. Drew is a gentle- man, was always clean when deal- ing with his opponents, and was the pride of both Harvard Univers- ity and the University of Southern California, and his enforced drop- ping out of the running game at this stage of his highly triumphant career is a serious handicap to him and those who admire his great prowess as one of the greatest run. ners the world has ever known. The question, when is white not white? would have graphic illus- tration in the case of the young girl who was arrested on the Cum- berland Valley Railroad not long ago charged with a violation of the Virginia separate car statute. She was taught she was white, brought up byand in a white family; had gone toa whitechurch all her life and she believed she was white. She unerderwent a medical test as to her color which, had some med- diesome Matties kept silent, could not have been ascertaind, but as the know-alls remembered that her mother was white and her father “could pass for white,’’ the test proved a howling success. Howev- er she was fined $7.00, and the prosecuting attorney of Frederick county imposed the brand of nigger on her and authorized her to keep out of the white church. What a travesty on the religion of Jesus, that perfect gentleman,—the son of God. | “All men are equal in Gou's sight, | There is no black and there is no white, | There is nohigh and there is no low, | ‘There is no friend and there is no foe, | And the fires of hell burn just as bright, Forthe rich or poor the black or white,” | It is.with qititen deetmn ef plow ure that the Pierce: Press pet the successfi! intro teton of co! ored labor from the Sonth into the Connecticut tobacco fields. Best of all, the grade of our people, gen- erally, who went North to help harvest the staple product of the Nutmeg State were way above par, and reflected great credit upon themselves by their genulemanly bearing both on and off the job. Many of them were college boys bent on saving money, and in not a single instance can it be said that any of them were untrue to. the trusts imposed. Of course, as_ is natural, and almost always i. vari- able, a few undesirables got into the neighborhoods where they were working, and made themselves somewhat objectionable, bus these xentry were given to understand that their “‘room was better than their company,’’ so their stay was short. So well did the colored boys please the Connecticut tobac- co growers this year, that all) who want to can go back next summer, and many like that section so well that they will remain there through out the year. Most important of all in connection with this new field of labor which has been opened to Negroes, is the shattering of a time-honored tradition that none but foreigners could harvest tobac- co in Connecticut. Atthe time that the Hon. Danicl Willard waselected to th: Presi- dency of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Pioneer Press mave the prediction that as a_ railroad presiclent, he had few, if any supe- riors, and that he would bring the famous old B. & O. up to the very highest standard of efficiency along all lines. He has done this, as everybody knows, and as proot of ‘the correctness of our estimate of the man, it is only necessary to take a casual view at the vast corp- oration which claims his careful attention. Aside from the person- al supervision given his own road, Mr. Willard'’s opinions regarding railroad matters are sought by men in his particular walk of life from every section of the United States. and no matter how weighty the question at issue, the executive of whom we speak is invariably there with counsel fraught in wisdom and calculated to show that his vis- ion is not at all narrow. Even in the recent negotiations between the railroad presidents and the Chief Executive of the Nation, President Willard’s contentions were those of the master mind whose ultimate conclusions were arrived at with the idea of serving the railroads, likewise the employees, and last, but not least, the public, whose in- terests are paramount to those of both the employer and the employ- ee THE WASHINGTON CONFER ENCE. | ‘The conference minutes of 1906. pages 37, 38.and 70, contain the following respectively: "A resolu was offered relating to paying our board at conferences. It was Jaid over until the evening session. | ‘The resclution offered at the af- ternoon sessiou, relating to the payment cf board at the sessions of the annual conference was read, and on motion of Daniel Collins was laid on the table. Be it re- solved that the District Superin- tendents apportion — throughout their districts an amount equal to three dollars per charge, the same to be known as Annual Conference Support, and paid over to the church entertainjng the confer- ence.’’ Page 84 of 1910 minutes’contains the following: ‘‘Resolved, That it is the sense of the conference that fii yeentution on page 70 of our meoeran of 1909, regarding the conference entertainment be per conest end apply anmnnally. ‘Amendment by Rev. D. W. Shaw: Provided, ‘That in case'avy church may not feel the need of help, it may release the fund and pay it over to the conference: treasurer to be applied on conference's claimant fund.’” The above is the record of the Washington Conference attitudes toward paying its board at its vari- ous syssions. This Confereace Mntertainment business that we now hear so much about was in its initiative Paying BOARD at con- ference. When tne motion to pay board was tabled, then others in order that the aim of the resolittion be not defeated, offered the Confer ence Support One. For several years the purpose of the original resolution was carried out, anc the conference was well entertained and the hostess weil please, and the conference was never minus invitations for the enteriainment for the next session. ‘But now said spirit of the resolu- tion has been lost, the money mis- applied, the conference poorly en- tertained, the hostess aispl ased aud invitations of entertainment tor the next session very few. ‘The spirit of the said resolution, the original resolution should — be guarded, its purpose carried out, or else the conference will soon have no place in which to hold its sessions. ‘This is a conference ar- rangement and the couference snould appoint a commission to look after this money ,and not leave it entirely with the entertaining church and pastoi Sylvester H. Norwood. The Houston Post reasons that it was easter for its own beloved Democ- racy to indorse the president's Mexican policy than to detine it. While he was about it Senator James Hamilton Lewis also might have ex- plained that the Rome that was “too Proud to fight” died u rather disastrous death, “In all fairness," asks the Boston Transcript, “shouldn't the expense of financing Carranza be borne by the Democratle campaign committee?” Democrats really haven't any objec- tion to big appropriations for army and navy and internal improvements, ‘They expect the Republicans to rustle the ‘Tevenue to fovt the bills for tho next ‘four years, POINTS FROM HUGHES’ SPEECHES + Reckless extravagance of the + +e Democrats {s an insult to the + +e American peoppe. + +e Deserving Democrats! Deserv- +4 + ing in heaven's name of what? + ** We have a splendid systein of + + government, on papor, but we + ce want that system vitalized, + + The pork barrel bill brings a + ++ binsh of shame to the cheeks of + + every American. + + Tam here because I have a + +b vision of what America needs. + An idle American will always + +F feel uncomfortable, + + America will not nold her own + + by high sounding phrases. + + Are we not a nation great + +t 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 + + firm and determined manner it. + +e should carry conviction. There + ck should be no vacillation in con- + + nection with that assertion, + & ee We eb de lesbo he be de oe eee eee oe oe de Democrats are now couvinced that Charles Evans Hughes is a warm prop- osition, It is gratifying, indeed, to find that Mr. Wilson still stands on the suffrage «uestion where he stood at the begin hing of hig administration. He has changed on about everything else— Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Mr. Hughes says there should be rm dealing in Mexican affairs, May- be ao, but we have had enough of the &rm of Wilson, Carranza & Co. pode ote ode fe ole ode ote te te ote ote tee te be oe WKINLEY'S $18 C857 LESS , RESORSHPS TEAN Bet SUN'S PkACE : + BY Thesddte Reosevals: + & Under President MeKintey we $e obed a wae with Syn. Under se Presiden: Wikon we ave assured bo that we fave hed opence with ce Mexico. ‘These ave Cie words. New for the ceeis During the HF owar with Spatu fewer Auericans: were killed by the Spaulards than have boon iiued by Moxie e With Mexion, Let ane repeat + this Aj teaver naciber ot Amer. ye deus Lave been billed by Mex- ye fens durins these years, when ye We are offichilly ivformed: that y we have been at peace with + them, than eve Killed by the Jj Spaniards durhies eur entire war fe WH Spain, Moreover, when the fe War wilh Spain was throwei, it qe Was through, dut perce siiilcon- fe thuves to rege as furiously as } ever in Mexico, Nor is ths al The instant eifect ot the one 4 come of the war wit Spain was, oto put a stop te the diesdful butchery aid starvation in Cuba Foand the Philippines, and the Fooutry of both Cuba and the © pailippines on a carecr of ehht- cen Nears ef pesee aid pros: perity ceuele as thor dnl never + inown beture In all their chock ered history. Gur during these ® three years of ate, Wilson's : “peace™ the Mexicans them yp oselves have beon butchered by gy their own bandits steadily and q Wihoat jatertiston: and Mex- y dean women and children have gq (led by thousands probably by {scores of (hoteunds of starva- yp tion and of the diseases incident y tostarvation. In other words, Mr, g MeKinley’s war cost less than yo perce; and ff reflected high hon- for on the American people; f whereas Mr. Wilson's peace 4+ has been one of shame and dis- i honor for the American people, # and one of ruin and bloodshed {+ for the Mexicans. ede ole de ete ele ole ale te ele ele dete te ete oe ae A PICTURE OF HUGHES. The New York World, which once was outspoken in tts admiration for Mr. Hughes, now declares that the people do not know where Hughes stands, or what he stands for, ‘This Wilson organ had no such eriticisin to make when Mr. Hughes was gov ernor, The World said on May 17 1910: “He dictated no nominations. controlled no convention, tratieked in no patronage, made no bargains with office-holders. He has rewarded no- body for supporting him and punished nobody for opposing him. What in- fluence he has wielded over public opinion has come through his appeals to the voters themselves.” ‘That is the estimate of Mr. Hughes given by the World six years ago. It is a pretty fair letter of recommendation. Could the World say as much for President Wilson? Ilardly, for the president has done all of the things from which the World absolved THughes.—Kansas City Jourual, “Adequate preparedness is not mil- tarism, It fs the essential assurance of security, Tt is a necessary. safe- guard of peace." Candidate Hughes has left nothing to be said on this subject. tle has snuffed out counter argument at the very outset, “Are we Americans a nation of bunglers?” asks the New York Sun It would be very harsh to answer thir in the atirmative—and, anyway, we elect a Democratic president only. ev- ery once Ina while, Charles E. Hushes exnnot get so fas away from Washington that the men in charge ef the chariot of government there do net feeb che jotting of his criticisms, in faot, the Bemocratic leaders at the Gagial city show symp. toms of scasiekucss fiota the way. in which the ox justice of the supreme court has shaken tach up, Mr. Uithes is pursuing the only proper method, Which is [est te tke the deadwood out of the way so tiat the path to righteous and propitious government may be made clear. According to the week's latest work of fiction, the Democratic campaign book, the waxe earners of the country received during the Wilson adminis- tration $3.000.000.C00 more than. they reecived under Taft. And all it cost them to keep something in the dinner ail was $6,000,000,000 more, There are no strings or mental res- ervations to the public pledges of ad- ministrative reform given by Charles BE, Hughes. [lis record as governor of New York guarantees the fulfill ment of every promise. Brean retrerates that he is out for Milsom. Tilak from the tomb a dole- fol sound.”—Phitidelphia luquirer. Phe stopnt Governor Hughes? wute by 2 Nan soktics will not beatter, in ist us the band wagon's: PPosress .6 ast to be interrupted Democrats whe Learbored hopes that: desephus woalld cate the virus from the Bryan wad Goarvisen vesisnations bre sti! nursing their disappointment. Nothine vensins for them but to res isn toa realization that Josephus will hot resign, “Inadeqrate” aptly chaincterizes the Wilson administration, but almost any Puonyt of unsatisfactory will do. When Charles E. Hughes sald: “The dealings of the administration with, Mexico constitute a confused chapter j of blunders,” he gave an explicit char- ‘acterization of the Wilson administra- tion's policy in one sentence. 5 Just as it is now obstinately shut tins ibs eyes to the need of indnstrial prepareduess, for three years the Wil- son administration refused to see the need of adequate inilitary prepared- ness. With war on our southern bor- der it was confent to rely on a regular wiiny that could only auster 40,000 availible men and refused to continue the esiabtished policy of building up euranyy. When the time eame for ace fon the comntiy ud not sudicient u tw police the border, and. this focco has boon supplemented by a trifle eoee thes amethird the war strength ee pas cah guard. 1f the national ediauistation had had the ability to creek (he sins of the time military isepaveduess would have been well un- der way instead of barely begun. Chavies Eo Unshes, the Republican cuudidate, recognizes an important fret that Woodrow Wilson. the Demo- cratic president, aevenrs to have over- looked—that the United states is big enough to hetp Mexico out of the con- “dition of anarchy in which that coun- (ry is plunged and, by securing order in Mexico, insure peace on our border. | The insuperaMe handicap of the Democratic party in this campaign is its record. If the Democratic national adminis- tration had left on the statute books in 1894 the federal corrupt practices act placed there by the Republicans there Would be no occasion for the present | administration's campaign — publicity | measure, Which at best is a very poor | substitute for the law repealed, { — { President Wilson's campaign man- ‘agers are entitled to all the comfort | they can get out of calling the roll of | Progressives who ure going to vote for | him, It would be an endless task to | call the roll of Progressives who are | not going to vote for hii, | For every reason that ean he ad-{ vanced why Prozressives should vote | for Wilson ten can be advanced ms they should yote for Tughes, and the beauty of it is that they know the rea- sons without having to be told. The Wilson administration went Into Mexico to punish Villa for his out- ‘rage en American soll, ‘The only pun- Ashment inflicted has been on American soldiers, who were shot down at Car- tizal by order of First Chief Carranza. | “Franklin Roosevelt, assistant secre- tary of the navy, sees a strong trend for Wilson in Maine.”-News Dispatch. | Who can blame a man who for three years has been assistant to Josephus | Daniels for “seeing things?” | Siok Even Woodrow Wilson could not! save the infamous Clarke amendment to the Philippines bill. Te lost. the! }ablost. member of his cabinet, Secre- tary Garrison, beenuse of his advocacy Hof the poliey of scuttle. but even the’ | sacrifice of Garrison could not save tt. WILSON'S POLICIES BLOWN up Charles Evans Hughes dtd have ex: plosives with him when his motorcar was searched by a Canadian. soldier, but they were under the candidate's hat. Mr. Hughes will set them off on his western tour, and some of Mr. Wil. son's policies will be blown up—New York Sun, Mr. Gardner should not quote what Mr, Wilson said while president of: Princeton, tis utterances are outlaw- ed by himself in seven days, That man Hughes is causing the Democratic newspapers an endless amount of worry, Apparently they Will never be satisfied until he turns the management of his campaign over to them, Mr. Hughes’ speeches are giving poor satisfaction to the Democratic press which proves they are very good LOCAL NOTES. Mr. Charles Williams and wife of Fairmont, passed through here on their way to Charlottsville, Va. Miss Hilda Hopewell is visiting friends in Winchester and other Virginia towns. Mr. Daniel Holmes, well known janitor at the Baltimore and Ohio passenger station, has the sympathy of the community in the beavements which have lately been experienced by him, he having buried another brother, making the second one to die in the past few months. Thompson and Thompson have the most attractive stock of men's ready ma clothing to be found in the city, and the nobbiest and nattiest stock of hats, shirts and summer wear you ever saw. Give them a call-144 North Queen Street. The concert given at Mt. Zion Church Monday evening was a brilliant success. One cannot give a correct estimate of Madame Bruce, she must be seen and heard to be justly appreciated. At the conclusion of the concert Rev. Norwood suggested that she sing one of her sacred melodies, and she complied leaving the audience electrified by her personal charm and the sweet tones of her wonderful voice. Mrs. Husketh her co-worker and pianist cannot help but please the most aesthetic. 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. ```markdown ``` 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 rats 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 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me., in Behalf of Charles E. Hughes. HOME OF AVERAGE MAN. "But America is not simply a land for the man of special talent or of distinguished aptitude. This is the home of the average man, the ordinary man who is doing his best, whatever, by talent or aptitude, and in our large industrial occupations, where thousands are gathered together in one service, we want a recognition of human brotherhood in providing for the welfare of those who make the wealth of this great country. "We want workingmen to be safeguarded from every injury that can be prevented. We want the health of the workingmen looked after; every means provided which conduces to the proper standpoint of living; every means provided for proper recreation; appropriate means for education, for vocational training. In short the workingman who is on the job and expects to continue in that job ought to feel that he is doing something worth while for a community that appreciates it and gives him a fair chance to lead a happy and decent life. —From Mr. Hughes' Speech at Detroit. --- OPPOSES THE REFERENDUM DOES J. FRANK HANLY, PROHIBITION CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT ALSO THE RECALL Indianapolis Star Whacks Camel's Jockey for His Open Distrust of American Citizens —If State Goes "Dry," He Believes There Shall Be No Reconsideration Concerning J. Frank Hanly's frank distrust of the American people, the Indianapolis Star makes this editorial comment: It is entirely in keeping with Mr. J. Frank Hanly's views that he should repudiate the declaration in the national Prohibition platform in support of the initiative, referendum and recall. His idea presumably is that when prohibition is once made a law of any state there shall be no recall, no matter what the popular feeling on the subject. Once accepted, means, in his lexicon, that it is permanently cinched, and there shall be no reconsideration. Other legislation may be subject to a referendum to the people without Lisaster, as experience in Oregon and Washington has shown, but it is the intention of Mr. Hanly not to permit such liberties to be taken with a prohibition law. His opposition to the principle of the recall was well understood before the adoption of the Prohibition platform, but as he did not explain what is without doubt the chief cause of his objection to it, the platform makers, who have regarded this plank with special favor, probably did not take in seriously and so included it. Mr. Hanly hardly needs this empty honor of the Prohibition nomination to the presidency to give him an excuse to talk. He needs no excuse, talking being his profession, but it will give him publicity in certain quarters that will profit him when the campaign is over. Though it can not approve their judgment, The Star has the highest respect for citizens who sincerely believe that prohibition is the one important issue before the country, but it has never counted Mr. J. Frank Hanly as one of these. A KANSAS ALIBI An Atchison reporter was horrified today when he thought he smelled whisky upon the breath of a prominent Atchison banker who has the reputation of being a teetotaler. Investigation revealed instead of whisky the banker had been eating onions and was chewing champagne-flavored tobacco. NO PROHIBITION HERE Harrodsburg, Ky., June 7.—Thomas Washington, 82 years old, was tried here to-day on a lunacy charge and ordered to an asylum at Lexington. Washington has been married four times and each of his wives presented him with 11 children. WORKING FINE! [Washington (D. C.) Star.] "I understand you are now one of the officials of Crimson Gulch." "Yep," replied Bronco Bob. "I come in on the Prohibition ticket." "And how is Prohibition working out?" "Fine. We've got it fixed now so that nobody but the particular friends of us authorities can buy or sell a drop." "THE MOIST MUSE." "Hush, little Barroom, Don't you cry; You'll be a Drug Store By and bye." —Seattle Argus. "Hush, little 'Dry' Town, Don't you fret; After a while again You'll be wet." —Mida's Criterion. ATTACK ON DRY OFFICER WEST VIRGINIA BOOTLEGGER WIELDS ICE PICK DURING A BIG RAID Prohibition Sleuths Find That Wheeling Is Very "Wet" and Confiscate Much Liquor Cop Shoots at Lawbreaker Carrying Liquor, But Latter Escapes West Virginia has been technically "dry" for two years. Whether West Virginia actually is "dry" can best be determined by the following account from the Wheeling (W. Va.) Register: A vicious assault with an ice pick upon Prohibition Officer Martin Neider, a shower of bullets directed at a fleeing auto by Bert Phillips, and one of the largest quantities of intoxicants confiscated in several months, is but a brief summary of the day's activities experienced by the Wheeling prohibition officers. The attack upon Neider was made during the pull of a Benwood speakeasy when the proprietor seized an ice-pick loaded at the handle and sharpened to a needle point and jumped at Neider with the evident intention of either breaking his skull or puncturing his chest. A straight left to the jaw floored the belligerent and as he hopped to his feet a right cross to the jaw laid him in a reclining position until the officers were ready to adjust the wrist manacles. Eight kegs of beer and six gallons of whisky were found in this place at Benwood. Neider's assailant and three men and three women found in the place were taken to Moundsville and imprisoned in the Marshall county jail. Benwood was not the only town that received the dry "kicks" yesterday. A number of places in Wheeling were visited. In this connection Earl Earp was found with four gallons of whisky and 12 quarts of beer at 3705 Jacob street. In company with Earl were found nine thirsty ones who will be held as witnesses. A visit to 1019 Main street resulted in a storage at the county jail of one gallon of whisky and two quarts of beer. The proprietor escaped in the rear of 2223 Main street, but left behind five baskets of beer and a quantity of whisky which Phillips and Neider placed in safe keeping. About 4:30 in the afternoon a high powered touring car packed with beer rolled off the Twenty-fourth street ferry. It had no more than crossed the railroad tracks at the head of the ferry incline until it was noticed by Deputy Phillips, who was lying in wait for such violators of the law. Phillips commanded the driver to stop, but the command went unheeded. Putting on the highest speed his car was capable of, he started up Twenty-fourth street, down Main with Phillips in close pursuit. Following closely on the trail of the fleeing auto Phillips saw that he was being outdistanced. Leaping from the car he drew his revolver and in a last attempt to stop the lawbreaker he fired three shots into the rear of the machine, but the car sped onward. NEITHER ARE WE UNK [Washington (D. C.) Star] "You have declared for prohibition, haven't you?" "Yes," replied Uncle Bottletop, "I also sing 'I Want to Be an Angel,' but I ain't in any great hurry about it. YA, DAS BANE SO! Under the Swedish License law no one can buy a drink without buying something to eat at the same time. Must be a great country for indigestion. THIS WOMAN SAYS DRY LAW RUINED SEATTLE To the Editor of the Los Angeles Times: I was reading in the Seattle Times of August 4 about "Los Angeles Paper Shedding Tears Over Seattle" in regard to the dry law. Well, I have lived in Seattle over ten years, and prohibition has about finished the place. We have all the troubles that come with the dry law. Seattle is a fine city, but we have not the right people in office. We have more preachers and reformers, talking politics and siding in with a Mayor who is nothing more in the estimation of many people than an I. W. W. destroying property. This will not stop drinking. I think the State that can not regulate the liquor question is a weakling, and sooner or later will fall. Everywhere you go in the city of Seattle today you see the sign, "For Rent." Any person seeing so many signs can come to one conclusion—that something is wrong. Tourists are not very many this year and they make connections so closely that Seattle does not see them. Many go by way of Vancouver to Alaska and return home by way of Canada. It would pay you to visit Seattle and see the empty stores. On First avenue I think everyone is selling out. Second avenue has plenty, too; plenty of offices to rent, also, and houses. You get tired of counting them. Thousands of people have left Seattle; had to leave; could not get any work, as the work was taken from them. Times are dull and taxes are awful. I know, as I own property. I have advised many of my friends in the East not to think of coming to Seattle at the present time. Seattle is a big blow town, and the drinking is going on just the same. Prohibition is a farce, and I hope the people of California will keep their minds and will not bring poverty on their heads and have to go to another State to make a living. I know as soon as I can sell what I have I will go back to Detroit. Warn the people! MRS. HANNA WOOD. WEST VIRGINIA HAS BOOTLEGGERS' FRAT Mysterious Brethren of "Dry" State Unite for Mutual Benefit and Fool the Cops The correspondent of the Pittsburg Gazette-Times wired the following to that paper, from Wayne, W. Va.: That a bootleggers' brotherhood, with its secret passwords, its obligations and its oaths, in which members are sworn to be true and faithful to the standards of the organization, exists in this county is charged and cognizance of the charge was taken by Judge John B. Wilkinson of the Circuit Court in his remarks to the grand jury. It is charged that so cleverly does the brotherhood operate that, although liquor is always plentiful about Wayne county, it is difficult for officers to secure evidence against the bootleggers. SHOOTIN' THE MOON. Prohibition leaders predict that they will elect a president of the United States within five years, this being the open season for political predictions. Apple Cider Alcohol. Nor is that all! Out in Oregon the recent drought brought on by statewide prohibition seems to have set minds to work in other wise. A farmer of Clackhamis has discovered that it is possible to make practically pure alcohol by running apple elder through a cream separator. Is it, therefore, possible that the cream separator of the famous Hood River apple country may become a more serious menace to the internal revenue of the country than the moonshine stills of Georgia? Dry, old Kansas, the "angel state" so long, has produced a citizen who has discovered that a very high, if not fine, grade of alcohol can be secured from the residue found in silos. It is claimed that this particular brand of prohibition whisky carries with it a stronger and heavier "kick" than any one brand to be had under license. WOMEN IN FIGHT AGAINST "DRYS" California Wives and Daughters Battle to Save Grape Industry—Their Song Women of California are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the men, in defense of their homes. The Prohibitionists are attempting to vote California "dry." But the 150,000 employees in California's wine industry, the greatest in the United States, are confident that they will repel the invaders this coming fall. Describing one feature of the battle, the Los Angeles Times says: A campaign song to be used by the California Prosperity League and its many friends in combating the attack of the "drys" has just been written by Mrs. Lucy Long of San Diego. The song, entitled "God Save Our Fruitful State," is to be sung to the tune of "America." The title page is to display a picture of growing grapes. The words follow: Vote for each vineyard's fame Enchanting valley's claim, With sovereign power. Confound "dry" politics. Frustrate their selfish kicks, Vote down such knavish tricks. God save the state. Should hostile votes ensnare, Danger to millions care, Show freedom's right. 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Yes, and the same policies that have led Judge Hughes and others with a deep sense of shame" have sent any other Americans to their graves. The president has changed his mind out sending more troops to the border, thus running true to form. When Tom Taggart talks economy to him it is time the Democrats stopped their extravagance. The Hughes smile is beginning to attract favorable attention. President Entertains Five Progressives. — Headline. Others he simply causes. Democratic papers chide Hughes because he says he is "100 per cent candidate." The Wilson papers naturally prefer a fifty-fifty candidate. POLICE RAID DRUG STORE ALSO CONFISCATE "MOONSHINE" WHISKY IN SEATTLE WAREHOUSE AND FIND OLD HAT Headgear Important Factor In Making "Bootleg" Liquor, Which Was Strained Through It—Life In Washington State Is Just One Darned Raid After Another Life for the police of "Dry" Seattle is just one darned Liquor raid after another. Most of the illicit goods are found in drug stores. The Seattle Times describes the latest raids, in this manner: The known holdings of the Billingsley family in Seattle—a drug store at 1525 Third avenue and the warehouse stock at 2128 Westlake avenue, passed into memory the other day when a wrecking sound headed by Sergent V. R. Putnam of the police department and armed with firemen's axes, reduced everything of value into splinters. Beer, bitters and two barrels of high-proof grain alcohol were confiscated. Besides the secret trap doors and the "hookouts," interest of the officers centered largely on the crudity of the alleged whisky-making outfit destroyed at the warehouse. One feature of this outfit was an old felt hat through which officers said it was apparent that gallons of alcohol colored with a burnt sugar substance were strained, thereby becoming whisky. The raid on the drug store was watched by several hundred persons who flattened their noses against the window panes and saw the destruction of perfumes, candies, a costly soda fountain, valuable show cases, eigars, tobaccos, a miscellaneous drug stock and a quantity of other smaller and less valuable items. A Second Raid The wrecking crew then hastened to the Westlake warehouse, where the Monday raid had delivered over two other barrels of alcohol to the police. The axes started swinging merrily as soon as the officers arrived and in forty-five minutes every stick of store fittings, every bottle and all valuables had been destroyed. The loot from the warehouse included among other things the complete "whisky"-making outfit with which the police allege the Billingsleys manufactured their liquor. According to the officers, the "cologne spirits" or 190 proof alcohol was diluted with water to which had been added "caramel," a burnt-sugar coloring matter, the finished product being strained through an old felt hat to remove sediment. The hat, stained with the coloring matter, and several containers, were removed from the secret room back of the partition in the warehouse. The United States revenue officers assumed charge of the "whisky"-making apparatus, and announcement was made that morning that the Billingsleys will be charged with the illegal making or rectifying of liquors. Experts state that each gallon of the high proof alcohol made seven gallons of the "whisky" said to have been sold by the Billingsleys. What! Here's Raid Three. This is from the Tacoma (Wash). Lodger and hears a Snouto date digs. Bouger and bears a Spokane date line: Besides seizing more than 100 packages of liquor in the Spokane hotel in a raid made here by the city's entire detective force, aided by other officers the police found a room on the ground floor completely equipped for enabling applicants to obtain liquor without the formality of sending their liquor permits outside the state. Fifteen men who called for liquor while the detectives were in charge of the room acting as clerks were taken to police headquarters, but subsequently released. While the raid was in progress a Northern Express Company wagon drove up to the side entrance of the liquor permit room with 30 packages of liquor, to none of which was attached the permit required by the state law. The liquor was seized and the driver arrested. Four hotel employees were taken into custody, charged with violating the liquor laws. With every means of exit guarded, and even the telephone exchange watched to prevent any alarm being given, the hotel was searched from top to bottom. In the "permit room" the officers found stacks of liquor in cartons, a cash box containing $231, piles of telegraph blanks, claim cards for the use of patrons, and price lists of liquor. ARIZONA KILLED BY PROHIBITION Labor Leader Says "Dry" Laws Have Resulted In Great Depression The San Diego (CaL) Sun reports as follows a speech of E. J. Warren, labor leader, in which he declares prohibition has "killed" Arizona: Local labor men last night beard E. J. Warren, president of the Arizona State Federation of Labor and president of the trades council of Phoenix, speak against prohibition. The speaker, before the Federated Trades and Labor council, declared that Arizona now regards prohibition from a new and very different angle. "If it were not for the boom that is on in the copper industry at present," said Warren, "Arizona would be the deadliest place in the country. When the copper boom breaks that is the condition that will exist all over the state. The trades and commercial enterprises that do not deal with copper are now experiencing the greatest slump in the history of the state. And it has been brought about by prohibition and will continue while prohibition remains." CLARENCE DARROW ON PROHIBITION "Live and let live. Be men and let us govern ourselves, if we die in the attempt. This is the only theory of life. We have but one hope and one dream—Freedom."—Clarence Darrow, Labor Attorney. "LIQUOR DAY" IN TENNESSEE COURT Five Bootleggers Before Judge Tried and Bound Over to Grand Jury The Chattanooga (Tenn.) News gives the following account of a day in the city court: Tuesday was "whisky" day in the city court. Five cases wherein the offenders were charged with selling the "John Barleycorn" fluid came to the attention of Judge Martin Fleming. Those charged with dispensing the intoxicant were P. Kalodkin, Fred Nelson, J. Helfand, S. Helfand and Charley McClure. Fines of $10 and costs were assessed against them in addition to their being bound over under bonds of $250. Charged with procuring whisky, Oscar Burkeen, arrested by Patrolman Miller, was fined $10 and costs in the city and was bound over in the state. 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.