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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, DRAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBROSED BY GAIN" SOCIETY WOMEN JOIN IN TOPEKA'S VICE CRUSADE COVER IS LIFTED FROM TOWN WHICH CLAIMS TITLE OF "CLEANEST CITY IN AMERICA" AND SCENES OF INIQUITY ARE REVEALED SAY POLICE ARE ENTANGLED IN NET Charges Are Made That Officers Are In League With Bootleggers and Keepers of Disorderly Houses Whom They "Protect" Sergeant of Police Forced to Resign Following Raid Department of Archives The "HERE SHALL ESTABLISHED 1882. SOCIETY WOMEN TOPEKA'S VIC COVER IS LIFTED FROM TOWN WI "CLEANEST CITY IN AMERICA INIQUITY ARE REV SAY POLICE ARE ENTAN Charges Are Made That Officers Are I and Keepers of Disorderly Houses —Sergeant of Police Forced to R Startling revelations of vice conditions in "dry" Topeka, Kansas, which advocates of prohibition claim is the "Cleanest City in America," were made recently when women of social prominence entered the underworld to obtain evidence against bootleggers. In reporting the result of their activities the Kansas City Post says: Topeka police power is shaken to its very seat. An official shakeup is under way and was felt first yesterday when Sergeant Lon Sauls resigned under pressure. More resignations are expected hourly. And society of the capital is agog. For women of the upper strata—society—descended into the red light district and lifted from it the veil of secrecy. Living in in the confines of the restricted district by day and spying on its habitues by night, the women have revealed to the city the vice which honeycombs the city. With the unmasking came charges from the officials untouched by the revelations, that police authorities have been in league with bootleggers and keepers of disorderly houses. It is charged the police have collected a regular stipend to overlook the sale of liquor and conduct of resorts. Officials long have known there has been vice existent in the city, but it only came to light through occasional arrests. Then the defendants only drew light fines or were discharged for lack of evidence. Women Start Investigation. But with the new administration came a change. And the Purity Squad was called upon to aid in cleaning up the city. Four women—they are left unnamed by the league because of their high social standing—volunteered for service. Down in the tenderloin they went; down where night is day and sin is business. Many weeks they lived there as habitues. They laughed as loud as any and seemed to drink as deeply. Their light burned as bright and as far into the night, did those of the society women gone aspying on the underworld. And when arrests were made down in the "bottoms," there was evidence to substantiate the charges. The inmates soon began to squirm at the For the life of us we cannot understand why the prohibitionists selected the camel as its totem. It has a disposition like sour cider; is the only beast in the animal kingdom, except a man, that will eat tobacco, drinks booze by the washtubful and can go for a month without water. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION [Grape Juice Extra.] THE WORLD IS GROWING BETTER [Knoxville Journal and Tribune.] It has been a long time since William Jennings Bryan has been able to get up anything in the nature of a thrill. regularity with which their secret caches for liquor and private channels of trafficking were uncovered. But they couldn't find the "leak." "Frolics" Are Interrupted. All about them sympathized and danced gaily to the din of the pianos. All cursed the impudence of the law, paid to keep away, for the frequency with which it interrupted the night time frolics. The climax arrived. It came when Mary Chesney, one of the leaders of the underworld of Topeka, was arrested and confronted with a mountain of convicting evidence. She was given the alternative of paying a fine and quitting the city, or serving a term in the penitentiary. She has yet to decide. Tis whispered a member of the Purity Squad lived in her house for several days. And the city authorities announce caustically that the power of the underworld has been broken. But the women—the women of society who shattered its grip—still go unnamed. Liquor in Plain View. The Topeka (Kas.) Capital in telling of the revelations says: Lon Sauls, who resigned last week as police sergeant, believes that an injustice has been done him. Sauls was the officer in charge of a raid on Mary Chesney's place the same night that Kathryn Tassell was raided. He reported "nothing doing," at the Chesney place and did not arrest the woman. Last week a girl who said she was in the Chesney place at the time of the raid, testified in police court against the woman. She also said that Sauls made a joke of the raid; that there was liquor in the room in plain view and Sauls failed to see it. Mayor Jay E. House said: "Before the raid on Chesney's place, which was made on my orders, I had issued instructions to the police to bring in all suspects, no matter whether incriminating evidence was found or not. Sergeant Sauls led the raid on Mary's place and came in without her. The reason the raiding party found no liquor was because they failed to look in the bookcase. In raiding a joint it is always advisable to inspect the bookcase." Captain D. W. Shaffer and Samuel S. Fulker Form a Partner- Announcement was made this morning that Captain D. W. Shaffer and S. S. Felker, who has been living for some time in Parkersburg but has returned, had formed a partnership and will engage in the real estate and insurance business with offices in the George A. Kershner builing, 203 West King street. The gentlemen stated that in addition to handling county and city property they would always have on sale some desirable property in other parts of the state. In the insurance department they will represent the best fire, life, health and accident companies, and will be in a position to write any risk. Both gentlemen are well known in the city and county and need no introduction. WOMEN SHOULD BE FOR CHARLES E. HUGHES, SAYS ROOSEVELT. Mr. Hughes has unequivocally taken the right position, and as regards all other positions he, and not his opponent, is entitled to the support of both men and women, and therefore the women in the enfranchised states who do not in this election support him forfeit the right to say they have done their utmost for their sisters in the non-enfranchised states."—From a Letter of Theodore Roosevelt to Miss Alice Carpenter. MR. HUGHES ANSWERS. Those Who Clamored For His Views Are Hearing Them. Those friends of Democracy who clamored so loudly for Mr. Hughes' opinions upon current issues while he still held the high office of justice of the supreme court are now fully answered by the private citizen, who surrendered his judicial position to accede to the wishes of a majority of the people as expressed through their instructions to their delegates to the Republican national convention. Mr. Hughes has not disappointed those who have reposed confidence in his character and judgment. In his speech of acceptance he has clearly set forth the vital issues upon which the Republican party proposes to conduct the campaign this fall. On the platform he is telling the nation wherein the present administration has been at fault and what is necessary to be done to restore the United States to the place of respect and honor to which it is entitled in the eyes of the world. HIGH LIGHTS OF HUGHES' ADDRESS IN CHICAGO. "As I was 100 per cent judge I became 100 per cent candidate." "The most serious charge against the present administration is putting incompetent men into important positions." "I propose that when a man goes to represent the American people he shall be looked upon with respect and esteem." "Nobody has the right to pay political debts with the good name and the honor of the United States." "I propose to have no more 'kiss me and I'll kiss you' appropriations in Congress." Those Canadian sentries who searched the car of Mr. Hughes for explosives missed the bombs he has ready to drop into the Democratic camp.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. The New York Sun says that Daniels is the issue, but our opinion is that the Democrats will, in company with several other so called issues, duck this one. Daniels is too difficult a proposition to defend. Instead of getting those Danish islands at a bargain, "marked down from $25,000,000 to $5,000,000," we're going to pay a twenty million bonus on a $5,000,000 value. "WORDS OR DEEDS?" "If anything in this campaign is real it is that we are now facing the question whether we want words or whether we want deeds; whether we want that which is written and spoken, or whether we want American action in the interests of the American people, worthy of the American name, maintaining the American honor and buttressing the prosperity of the United States." — From Mr. Hughes' Speech at Chicago. Women are for Mr. Hughes because the great human values in this country are still to be welded politically into its national life.-Frances A. Kellor EMPTY PHRASES INSTEAD OF CONCRETE ACTION. Not once has President Wilson squarely placed before the American people the question which Abraham Lincoln put before the American people in 1860, What is our duty? Not once has he appealed to moral idealism, to the stern enthusiasm of strong men for the right. On the contrary, he has employed every elocutionary device to lull to sleep our sense of duty, to make us content with words instead of deeds, to make our moral idealism and enthusiasm evaporate in empty phrases Instead of being reduced to concrete action.—From the Speech of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me., in Behalf of Charles E. Hughes. Telling Tariff Points Let these telling points on tariff and protection in the speech by Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate for President, delivered in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, be fixed permanently in your mind and memory during the remainder of the campaign: We are desirous of having strong and sure the foundations of our national greatness in this pursuit of competition among the nations which is sure to follow the cessation of the present struggle. HUGHES' LABOR RECORD. When Mr. Gompers, remembering only that he is a Democrat and forgetting that he is a leader of organized labor, ventured to assert that Mr. Hughes is unfriendly to labor because he concurred in the unanimous decision in the Danbury batters' case, he ventured on very thin ice. The Chicago Tribune promptly reminds him that an honest judge must apply the law as he thinks it is, not as he thinks it ought to be, and asks him to tell those who look to him for political advice something about the record of Mr. Hughes as governor. Read what the Legislative Labor News, the official organ of the New York Federation of Labor, said editorially when Mr. Hughes left the governor's chair at Albany for his place on the supreme court. Here it is: "Now that Governor Hughes has retired from politics and ascended to a place on the highest judicial tribunal in the world, the fact can be acknowledged without hurting anybody's political corn that he was the greatest friend of labor laws that ever occupied the governor's chair at Albany. During his two terms he has signed fifty-six labor laws, including among them the best labor laws ever enacted in this or any state. "He also urged the enactment of labor laws in his messages to the legislature, even going so far as to place the demand for a labor law in one of his messages to an extra session of the legislature. "Only 162 labor laws have been enacted in this state since its erection in 1777—in 133 years. One-third of these, exceeding in quality all of the others, have been enacted and signed during Governor Hughes' term of three years and nine months." Let organized labor take to heart what the Chicago Tribune says on this point: "Mr. Hughes is no demagogue and no visionary. He is a man of courage and conscience, and if labor cannot confide its cause to his rock bottom Americanism there is something wrong with its cause."—Boston Herald. President Wilson is now anxious to have it thought that there was no withdrawal of troops from Mexico at the request of Carranza. Why not go one better and declare that we never had any troops in Mexico to withdraw? It was stated that the president would work on his acceptance speech during his week end trip on the Mayflower. Among the salt billows there should be some inspiration for ringing sentiments on naval preparedness. LIQUOR IS SMALL FACTOR IN CRIME Asserts Prosecuting Attorney Who Was Elected On "Dry" Ticket Do you believe that liquor is the real cause of crime? Prohibitionists say it is; liberal people say it isn't. The following view of Prosecuting Attorney Henry Simms, of Huntington (W. Va.), who was elected on a "Dry" ticket, was expressed to the Huntington Herald-Dispatch. West Virginia is a prohibition state: "Liquor cuts a smaller figure in crime than most persons believe. In eighty per cent of criminal cases in Cabell county, liquor had no connection. Crime has increased since the Yost prohibition law went into effect, and the police and prosecutors' office have had more to do since that time." Prosecuting Attorney Henry Simms made this statement to the Herald-Dispatch, but adjudged his interviewer not to feel that he was drawing any conclusion. "The conditions are simply facts, not deductions," declared Mr. Simms. "They stand for what they are worth." Mr. Simms declared that criminals are born in eighty per cent of the cases instead of being made by environment or other outside causes. "There should be a remarkable decrease in crime, according to the statements of some persons regarding the prohibition situation, but the fact remains that there is no such reduction." There are now eighty-one prisoners in county jail, Mr. Simms stated. The number is the largest ever confined in the county bastille. The jail expense for feeding prisoners is forty dollars a day, or $14,300 per year. No previous year, Mr. Simms believes, has anywhere near equaled this figure. "There have been no 'liquor crimes' in Huntington for sometime," concluded Mr. Simms. BEING A SHERIFF IS A TOUGH JOB Anyway, It Is In "Dry" Washington State, Says This Officer The following is from the Anaconda (Wash.) Standard: The job of being sheriff in any county in the state of Washington is not an easy one, according to Sheriff Barnes of Walla Walla county, who is in Butte awaiting developments in the hunt for J. W. Wilson. The search and seizure feature of the Washington law, whereby any person making an affidavit of knowledge and belief, can force an officer to search the home of a person suspected of having liquor above the atlotted amount, is a disagreeable feature of the law, and there is no comeback for the person whose home is raided, although no liquor may be found there. Some cases have been observed in the search and seizure feature and a Washington man under suspicion is liable to be awakened at 3 a.m. and his premises searched, if any enemy will take the trouble to swear out an affidavit. The Washington law allows a given amount of liquor to be shipped in every 20 days on a permit, but many Washington people who do not like to go to the county auditor, who is referred to now as the county bartender, get friends who are not so careful about their reputations as drinkers to get the permits in their names and then transfer the liquor to the person who wanted it, but hesitated to ask for the permit. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1910 Moving picture shows should only amuse and not teach educationally, at least that is our opinion, may not be right, but we think so. Judge Dayton's and Judge Woods' courts are both in session busy as bees. Too bad they begin the same day and date. I dispute with no man how he should vote, nor do I allow a man to dispute with me how I should vote, for it is a matter of every man's own business. Vote? That's the business and duty of a close reading thinker, and he who does neither, ought not to vote. They are the very ones that lying deceptive politicians blab to on or before elections, knowing they are deceivable. Does it pay to take human life unless justified by law? It is better to keep in mind that it is an established fact in law that, before a person, whether officer or civilian, can be justified in taking human life, he must show that his own life was in danger. But it seems that Jim bit by the same dog as Jack, favors it regardless of law. The Pioneer Press would like to know what has become of the McDowell Times, that valiant champion of the race which does herculean work for us in the very busy little city of Keystone, this State. Let us hear from you, Editors Hill and Whittico, because we certainly enjoy conversing with you weekly through the medium of the Times. The man who contends that there is no inequality among—not races, for there is only one race—but in the one blood family is a fool, for as long as one class dupes, uses and abuses and lives on the labor of other classes, just so long will there be inequality, but be assured there is a growing and deadly boomerang to self-styled superiors, for Lincoln said—punishment must follow sin. After a lapse of some time, the Pioneer Press pleasurably welcomes the Portland, Oregon, Advocate to its exchange table again. The Advocate is a good paper, and Editor and Mrs. Cannady are to be commended for their push in keeping this sprightly publication alive in the great Northwest, a section where people of their ilk are not as plentiful as they are in some parts of our country. "I say to you that I stand, if I stand for anything, for equal and exact justice to all. I stand for the maintenance of the rights of all citizens regardless of race or color. The one word that I love above all others is the word "justice." We want in this country what is right and fair. I am sure you do not wish particular things done because of color. You want what is right and fair. I desire to see such fair and decent and just treatment as will make you proud of your manhood and womanhood."—Charles Evans Hughes Our friend, Editor W. P. Kemp, of the Detroit Leader, is a candidate for Estimator-at-Large in his city. Mr. Kemp is a gentleman of great ability and if elected, will reflect credit upon himself in the way he will handle the affairs of his office. The elevation to office of such a man is a good way to show the capabilities of intelligent colored men. The filthy immoral condition in the head of our school would have been brought to the fore long ago, but for the scheming by the sworn governors of said school. Had the lowest pale-faced man in Martinsburg preferred as grave charges against any of the principals of the schools they head, an investigation would have been made, but "anything is good enough for a nigger" precluded it. The board would do well to realize that it can sue and be sued. To back up Judge J. M. Woods' charge to the grand jury that a host of Berkeley County voters are purchasable, this paper can establish the fact that in one section of this county, 63 men sold their votes. The highest amount paid to one man was $3, and the rest got from $2 to $2.50, and at one voting place in Martinsburg, whiskey was used, boldly declared to be "Bowers whiskey" and that two of the officials at a certain voting place were partially drunk. THIS MAN IS "WHITE." Mountain Grove, Mo.—M. E. Smith, a justice of the peace, living a few miles north of here, pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court of Wright County today to statutory charges, preferred against him by three of his daughters, and was sentenced to eighteen years in the Penitentiary. Smith's arrest followed the recent marriage of his eldest daughter to a young farmer, who caused the warrant to be issued. All mentioned are "white." The above excerpt was taken from the Cleveland Gazette, and it shows up the "superiority" of this "Southern white gentleman" to such an extent that comment thereon is hardly necessary. Sheriff Sherman Ely, of Lima, Ohio, is a man among men, and deserves both a Carnegie medal and a place for his name in the Hall of Fame. Grim determination to do the right thing is an ever-prevailing trait of this man Ely's nature, and when a mob of murderous scoundrels tried to take a prisoner from him not long ago, he saved his man, but came near being lynched himself, the lynchers putting a rope around his neck and choking him until his tongue protruded from his mouth, beating him shamefully, and last, but not least, causing his dear little daughter's death. Now mind you, dear reader all of this savagery happened in Lima, city in Ohio, one of the greatest states of the Union, and in the face of it all, America has the gall unfathomable to make representation to Turkey about her brutality to Armenians. No wonder Rustem Bey said what he did about Americans generally, (there are notable exceptions,) and their utter hypocrisy. The unfortunate thing anent Negroes they fall in too rapidly and out the same. A few weeks ago they excoriated R. R. Moton for his cowardly conduct in connection with his wife-by far the better of the two. Now most of them are not only in again with him, but being and admitting they are "electrified" by a spread-eagle talk he gave before the "National Baptist Convention. Forever and aye down with any man who tamely submits to the foul discrimination that was wreaked on his wife. We add to our former assertion that not only is he not fit to teach our children, but unfit to talk to our grown people. He is vastly mistaken when he praises the Negro preachers as the bulwarks of our leaders and greatest men. They are not, on the contrary they are generally our worst foes and greatest curse. The class to which we refer are blabbing for money, and in many instances destroying our women. ARE THERE MANY COUNTIES LIKE THIS? A few years ago the country was startled by revelations of wholesale electoral corruption in one of the counties of Ohio, where large numbers of voters were disfranchised as the result of the systematic sale of their ballots. Quite as bad a state of affairs seem to prevail at present in Berkeley county, West Virginia, according to the statements made at the opening of the Circuit Court at Martinsburg Tuesday by Judge John M. Woods. If 2,200 voters out of 6,700 are purchasable, and if elections have degenerated into "an auction," wherein votes are sold to the highest bidder, a very unusual condition of political demoralization must exist. Time was when Maryland could not criticize other states on this score, but with all the open traffic in votes that formerly took place in some of our counties we doubt if the proportion of purchasable voters ever reached one third of the total electorate. We still have voters who are open to a bargain on election day, but they are neither so numerous nor so unblushing as in the good old times of undisputed boss domination. In Berkeley county it would seem that corrupt election methods are not confined to the poor and ignorant, but extend to the best circles—to the F. F. V's., as it were. The continuance of present practices, says the Judge, "would result in an upheaval that would bring disgrace to many families." Let us hope the "upheaval" will occur. A mere lecture does little good in such cases as this. The way to make this sort of thing unpopular is to force those who indulge in it to wear the striped suits of the convict and to deprive them of the suffrage right which they have dishonored and degraded.--Baltimore Sun. EDITORIAL COMMENT. The fact that the Democratic campaign managers have booked Secretary Daniels for a speech in Maine seems to indicate that they have abandoned all hope of carrying the state and simply don't care what happens to the ticket in the September election. Senator J. Ham Lewis, a spokesman for the administration, in attempting to apologize for the president's mollycoddle expression that we are "too proud to fight," explains that it is an old Latin quotation. But the people already know that it is out of date and the expression of a decadent nation. Secretary Baker is developing an agility in changing his mind that must endear him to his discoverer. Mr. Wilson's administration must confess itself incompetent in one respect or the other. It either has appropriated for an unneeded navy or it has neglected a needed navy. It can select its fault to suit itself. In one respect or the other it must be wrong. "I believe in efficiency in politics just as much as in anything else," says Mr. Hughes. Efficiency is an excellent watchword, and its use in the campaign is merely a forerunner of its use in the White House when he gets there. DENIES ASSAILER DR. HUGHES Percy Mackaye, playwright, whose name appeared as one of the signers of the so-called 'authors' letter," published in the newspapers last week, knew nothing about the matter until after publication, according to a statement given out yesterday at Republican national headquarters. The letter attacked Charles E. Hughes' criticism of President Wilson as "nonconstructive" and propounded ten questions for Mr. Hughes to answer. In a letter to Mr. Hughes Mr. Mackaye said: "My attention has just been called to an open letter addressed to you, printed in the New York Herald of August 2, signed by a number of professional writers, among whom my name is included. I beg to send you this word, to say that I did not sign the letter and never saw or heard of the letter until it was shown to me in print." It was stated at Republican headquarters that neither Mr. Hughes nor any of his staff had seen the letter except as it appeared in the newspapers. THE GREATEST OF READJUSTERS [From the New York Times] [From the New York Evening Post] We do not see way there should have been any stir in the senate over the discovery that President Wilson has completely reversed himself in the matter of the proposed child labor law. Senator Borah was able to show that Mr. Wilson described this legislation in his "Constitutional Government" as unconstitutional and "obviously absurd extravagance," carrying the congressional power to regulate commerce beyond the "utmost boundaries of reasonable and honest inference," and making it possible, if sustained, for congress to legislate over "every particular of the industrial organization and action of the country." That, we must confess, has also been the Evening Post's view. But the Evening Post and Senator Borah are old fogies, dating back to the time when it was the custom to have fixed beliefs and principles and stick to them. The senator has evidently not read Mr. Wilson's letter in explaining his change of front on the tariff commission—that it is only a narrow man whose mind is stupidly closed to new ideas, who does not alter his opinions. By this test Mr. Wilson is obviously one of the broadest minded men this country has ever produced, for he has changed his mind to date on the initiative, referendum, recall, woman suffrage, the tariff commission, tariffs for revenue only, a permanent diplomatic service beyond politics, the merit system in the civil service, the proper place of Tammany Hall in the scheme of the universe, child labor legislation, preparedness, Bryan, a continental army—but why continue? It is a long enough list to prove that Mr. Wilson's political views are not fossilized by any fear of inconsistency. IDEALS OF THE SUCCESS OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE. "If I did not believe that the Republican party was the party of true progress, which was prepared under its leadership to take the country along the way of adaptation to new needs and exigencies of the future, I should have no pride in representing it. But the party of Lincoln is reunited today, and we consecrate it to the ideals of Lincoln, and those ideals are permanent. These are the ideals of the success of the plain people. They are the ideals of the achievements under free institutions, of success in all the activities of the co-operative energy of the plain people."—Charles E. Hughes in a Speech Delivered at Plattsburgh, N. Y. ```markdown ``` Editorial Comments The Democrats continue to ignore Mr. Hughes' speeches to the extent that all they do is to sputter and gasp. Let it be conceded there are really strong grounds for the opinion that President Wilson may carry Texas next November. If these indications are taken at their full worth some enthusiasts will soon be going out to bet that the tide will sweep on until Mississippi and Alabama are also enrolled in the Democratic column. Headed In Every Direction 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. Hartford Courant. PATRIOTISM BY ORDINANCE The attempt of certain citizens to regulate the lives of others through legislation, notably the efforts of prohibitionists, is indirectly hit at by the Cincinnati Enquirer, in this editorial entitled "Patriotism by Ordinance." In countries across the sea it is the custom when the national anthem is rendered by musicians for the audience to rise and remain standing until the air is completed. Efforts have been made in the United States to induce the people to imitate this patriotic exercise, but they have, generally speaking, failed. One of the reasons is that there exists widespread confusion as to which is the national anthem. Latost of the renewed efforts is found in a city ordinance of Baltimore, Md., which fixes the "Star Spangled Banner" as the anthem to be thus honored, and provides a penalty for the failure to observe the prescription of rising and standing. For the present it applies only to musicians, performers or other persons" who are engaged in rendering the air, and the excuse for the being of the ordinance is that indiscriminate playing and singing of the anthem tends to lower the esteem and reverence in which it should be held by the people of the nation. It is to be expected that the next step will be toward compelling those within hearing of the music to rise with the performers, failure to do so being punishable by a fine of not more than $100, the same being the penalty in the present ordinance. One cannot withhold the comment that this performance is typically American. If anything is wrong here, if something is required here, or if something would please an element by rewarding or punishing a certain group here, the thing to do is to proceed with haste to the seat of the lawmaking power and have a suitable statute or an ordinance enacted, always with a penal clause. This done, no further attention is given to the subject or, at least, the minimum of enforcement follows. It is not cynical to predict that this will be the case in Baltimore. Some policeman will seek to arrest a plano-player for not rising and remaining upright while playing the "Star Spangled Banner." The pianist will plead that such a posture is impossible in the very nature of things, and the common sense judge will dismiss him. Gradually other members of the orchestra who must sit down to play or remain inactive will enter similar defenses, and the ordinance will pass into innocuous desuetude to be used occasionally in a tyrannical or despotic way. No one has evidently stopped to consider that this ordinance is typically sumptuary and therefore offensive. Nor has it occurred to the proponents of it to remember that education and lofty example are the real instruments for the inculcation of patriotism. To rise in salute of the national anthem because of the fear of a fine of $100 would be a sacrilege and not an act of devotion. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION [Kansas City Journal.] There is still much uncertainty regarding Villa. Some say he is alive and full of ginger, while others insist that he is as dead as Bryan. wow! Why should Henry Ford run for President on the Prohibition ticket? He's got all the joke advertising he needs now. HE'S A GRAND LITTLE BUTT-IN. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer] W. J. B.'s latest enterprise was to visit the prisoners at Sing Sing. Most of W. J. B.'s time is occupied in doing something outside of his own affairs. LOOKS LIKE 'NOTHER FORD JOKE. [Detroit Free Press.] The Prohibitionists offer to nominate Henry Ford for the Presidency, if he will take it. Henry has a hard time dodging trouble. The sheriff of Genesee county will have to move out to make room for prisoners on account of increased business. DRY. LOCAL NOTES. The fair season is now in full sway, and the genial fakir is now reaping a rich harvest. Miss Helen Clifford is up from Washington for a short stay as the guest of her parents. Mrs. Sallie Hopewell is again at home after a trip to Winchester, which was occasioned by the death of a sister-in-law. Miss Emma Lloyd, of Baltimore, has returned home after a pleasant visit to relatives and friends in our city. Rev. M. C. Moore, of Harper's Ferry, spent several days in town during the past week attending to church and other business. Miss Julia Morgan, who is teaching the "young ideas how to shoot" at Bunker Hill, spent Sunday last in town. --- Rev. Sylvester H. Norwood, pastor of Mount Zion M. E. Church, is busy arranging for the big rally which he is going to have tomorrow. Miss Lena Fox, an estimable young lady of this town and the "Bower", has resumed her studies at Storer College, Harper's Ferry. Rev. F. F. Martyn, Dudley Baptist Church's new pastor, seems to be making quite a favorable impression on his congregation. The Press hopes he may succeed. Mrs. Cornelia Fletcher, of S. wickley, Pa., has returned home after a visit to the place of her birth and many other points in Berkeley County. She looked well and hosts of friends gladly greeted her. Mr. William W. Wilson, formerly of Bunker Hill, but now of Sewickley, Pa., has our heartfelt sympathy in the recent loss of his dear mother, to whom he was a dutiful son in both life and death. Messrs. J. Paul Clifford and W. H. A. Nesbitt of Mechanicsburg, Pa., joyfully whiled away some happy hours with loved ones and friends recently. Invited again when our next concrete pauement is ordered down, and especially if it be raining. Rev. J. T. Reed, the energetic young pastor of Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church, is again down to hard work after an absence of a few days, during which time he visited Baltimore, Washington and several other places. Mr. Carl Carter has returned to his work in Steubenville, Ohio, after a pleasant visit which he spent with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian L. Carter, this city. The young man named above has an excellent position, in the Ohio town and for that reason could not remain in his old home very long. Miss A. A. Shaw, a popular and well known kindegarten teacher in the Washington, D. C., Schools, is spending sometime in our city. During her stay here she is the house guest of Mrs. Louisa Blakey, and has been the object of much social attention at the hands of both old and new friends. She is a very pleasant lady. 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 Doeds. 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 meadow. 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 to day 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 line of cleavage in this extraordinary campaign—"Hurges means what he says." LABOR VOTE NOT DELIVERABLE This Is the Outstanding Fact Which Political Philosophers Deduce From the Defeat In Maine of Representative McGillicuddy. From among the numerous lessons or conclusions which the political philosophers can draw from the Maine election one lesson or conclusion stands out more sharply defined than any other. It jumps at you. The labor vote, for the sake of which the Poltroon Congress tarred and feathered itself with its own hands only a dozen days ago, is not deliverable by traders who pretended to sell it. This salient fact of the election is illustrated conspicuously in the Second Congress district. There are few places within the confines of our republic where labor is relatively stronger than in the city of Lewiston, the home city of Representative McGillicuddy, and he has made a specialty of it in his own political practice. In the Second Malne, if anywhere, would there be indications of any return, in the shape of votes, for the surrender of Congress to the four Brotherhoods. After a campaign which might almost be called desperate in its effort to save McGillicuddy and one Democratic seat in the House from the Republican onset, Mr. McGillicuddy was defeated by an adverse plurality of nearly 40, whereas he had been elected to the Sixty-second Congress by a plurality of 1,389 and to the Sixty-third by 1,281. First they said that Hughes was an iceberg; now they are saying that he is a mud slinger. He cannot possibly be both and, as a matter of fact, is neither. The Democrats must feel in a mighty bad way when they cry out "mud and treason." Japan is "doing things." Julian Hertz FARE $3.00 DAILY BETWEEN CLEVELAND & BUFFALO The Great Ship "GEEANDELL" The largest and most costly steamer on any island water of the world. Sleeping accommodations for 1600 passengers. 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Louis Schroeder, a travelling man and a resident of Baltimore, dropped in at The Sun office Thursday to say that State-wide prohibition, which became a law in Alabama something more than a year ago after much tinkering with the subject on the part of the Legislature, was not prohibiting, but had become a farce. "I have been traveling in Alabama since 1889," said Mr. Schroeder, "and I know just how ridiculous the law is in its operation. First, there was a State-wide prohibition law; then a local option law, in which Birmingham and other large cities voted themselves 'wet.' At the last election for Governor the successful candidate ran on a local option ticket, but after his election the Legislature passed a State-wide prohibition law over his veto. Now the State of Alabama is $300,000 behind in its payments to its school teachers. FIND BIG STILL Another "moonshine" still has been found in "dry" North Carolina, and concerning it, the Lenoir News remarks: Saturday Sheriff Triplott with the aid of several other men located a blockade distillery in full operation a short ways out of Hudson and brought it to Lenoir with a man by the name of Joe Crump, who they captured while operating the plant. The still outfit was a good copper affair. In addition to the still they found about 1,500 gallons of beer and one gallon of whisky Crump is being held in jail awaiting trial. NOT U8, GLADY8! The Prohibition party, by adding to its platform a plank advocating the free and unlimited coinage of frosted chocolate, could win us away from Our Candidate. Mme. L.C. Parrish Hair Culturing Scalp Treatment THE Largest Mail Order House of its kind in America. All kinds of Toilet Articles for sale. Human Hair Goods of the finest quality. Our Hair Food and Skin Food never fail. 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Y=, Lj LO ea ey oe Gore, IE? ey Nee We Ls; ys i We YUM ORS) WLLL]; 2 be // 7 y | Mp // Yj; Sly Wi //}. Fe pee hs tetra NG ON eae IN Zz Di ZA) AL Pj} YSN ee SS All national politicial conventions have rejected the national prohibition plan, believing that each state should settle its own problem. The Pro- Zressives, the only party to ballot on the question, defeated it by a vote of 5 to 1. Even the Prohibition Party turned down the scheme, declaring it was not conducive to temperance. Pi i Ne £ Py be La os i i ‘. a ro eR. hemes SC ees 6 eS me (a. ZG ed >@ by Pach Bros, CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, ie You a Wemca ? | cagllg yt Take Gard Tha Woman's Tonie | FOR ste ki a DSUERSTS SORES ee = Si a h ee ee f oh y ee St ee ee BIR ees s as a 6 Ve Ey A 1) aie <n . YADA CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANK@, HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE Ahal The Bcer Hounds! ) According to the Des Moines Regis | ter and Leader | Chief Jackson will use dogs to aid in locating booze camps in the future, he announced today, He has ordered two deer hounds. which will henceforth be called beer hounds, from the fowa state kennels at Cedar Rapids, Ia. | They are expected to be shipped to Des Moines ut once. From the Davenport (Ia.) Democrat, dated Sioux City, Ta: Raiders in search of bootleggers struck it right when they pounced on the St. Charles hotel. Nineteen pints of whisky, 69 bottles of beer were found, in addition to 25 people who were “destroying” the booze as iast as their ability in that line would per mit. The liquor and men were taken lo the station. ‘The liquor will be turned into the sewer and the men will Jhave to stand trial as inmates of a disorderly house, }_ ‘The following appears in the Des | Moines Capital: The biggest booze raid for two months was executed by Detectives Brophy and Hollivaugh todsy when they swooped down on the Rock Is land depot and confiscated 2% barrels und 12 cases of beer. To the Oskaloosa (I.) Morald, from Dubuque, Ia., comes this: John Kleintin was fined $200 in dis. [trict court this morning on a charse (of iNegal sale of liquor, A raid on } Kleinlin’s place bust might reswlied in ithe confiscation of beer and whisky. | A Taxi Crharet. | Here’s another from the Des Sloines Regisier and Leader When the heb exp came off the wheel of a taxicab at Bast Fire-nth and Walnut streeis at 1 o'clock thi morning the seven occupanis of the vehicle Gid not hasten te a. repair shop to Vohotee sor their beauty sleep, and as a consequence they slept last night at the police station. Officers Mattern and Garrison found the six occupants besides the driver in- dulging in liquor. At the station the men gave their names as J. W. Jones and John Kelly of Springfield, m1, and Charles O'Neil of Peoria, Ill. ‘The women were Hazel Cole, 21; Billie Lytell, 21, and Sadie Brindley, 27, all of Des Moines. And the Des Moines Capital says: Sixteen persons were arrested for intoxocation Tuesday night. “Temp brew seems to be losing its grip and liquor is coming into’ its own once more,” remarked Municipal Judge Carlson. Most of the prisoners pleaded guilty j and were sentenced. The prohibition law in Iowa, accord- ing to the press of that state, isn't pro- hibiting. Iowa became “dry” last Jan- uary 1. The “wets” are predicting that Iowa will leave the prohibition column very soon. A few of the stories of liquor raids are contained below, The following is from the Des Moines Register and Leader: City and county officers shortly after midnight escorted twenty-five men and women from a luxurious beer camp on the north bank of the Des Moines river just above the Flint Valley brick yards, to the Polk county jail. Unlike the average raid the guests of the camp traveled to the city in their own automobiles, an even dozen of them, each with an escorting oflicor of the law. . After Four Years of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave Upin Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky.—In an interesting letter trom this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock writes as follows: “I suffered for four years, with womanly troubles, and during this time, I could only sit up for a little while, and could not walk anywhere at all. At times, I would have severe pains in my left side, ‘The doctor was called in, and his treat- ment relieved me for a while, tut I was 800n confined to my bed again. After (hat, apthing seemed to do me any good, With the party came three barrels of empty beer bottles and at the camp were left several tons of ice in a cave and complete pisaplernalia for an up- to-date “ib! n@ pie” Most of the outfit Was store | in small shack where the main office gud parlors of the camp were located. On Exploring Expedition. At § o'clock County Attorney George A. Wilson, his assistants, Ward Henry and Arthur Wallace, end five deputies, acting for the county and accompanied by Officers Crawford, Brophy and Cuthrie for the city, set out on a trip »Lexploretion of the country surround- ug Des Moines and in search of just uch game as they found shortly after midnight | When the camp was discovered the Larty separated and Wilson and Henry pproached as customers. They sue} cceded in buying beer in spite of a warning shouted to the proprietor, Monty Montague, that the newcomers looked liked stool pigeons, “I'll take a chance on them," said Montague. The chance cost him his camp and his liberty for the remain- ‘der of the night After leaving the shack the county oilicers rejoines, their posse and a rush ‘was made upon the camp from all di- rections at once, ) Auto Parade Cityward. | Three iarvels of beer bottles, the twenty-five occupants, beds, a phono- graph and all the outfit of a well es- tablished bootlegging institution were seized by the raiders, ‘They were loaded into their own autoniobiles, wie h, according to County Attorney Wilson, included some taxis and into fhe cars in which the officers had Fede their expisietions and were ‘uansported to the county jail. liere Montague and two partaers of his, a man and a woman, were held without bail and charged with main- taining a nuisance. The depositions fot the other members of the captured ‘party were taken last night and they were released. This is from the Waterloo (Ia.) Courier, under a Mason City, a. date line: An interchange of police officers by the cities of Iowa in order to cope with ‘the activities of the bootlegging ele- ‘ment and provide reputable men \versed in prosecution of liquor law iviolations, was suggested to the Iowa | Association of Chiefs of Police and | Railway Special Agents by Chief M. J. Jordan of Fort Dodge. The idea meets with much favcr and it is probable some such plan will be worked out. Those Pesky Bootleggers. Most of the sessions of the conveh- tion have been devoted to handling of bootlegging and auto thieves, the two principal pests of Towa officers. A special from Dubuque to the Cedar Rapids (Ia.) Gazette, says: Headed by Chief of Police John Glellis, a small band of patrolmen late Wednesday night raided the Malta parlors conducted by John Kleinline at ‘Twenty-second street, this city. More than a dozen mon were found in the place, drinking intoxicating I- quor. Quantities of several different drinks were confiscated by the police. ate yesterday Kleinline was fined $200 and costs, which he paid. ‘ As a result of the raid it was im: possibie to procure a bottle of beer in any of the other ten joints in the city seid to be dispensing the stuff @aily. The authorities hope by taking 1 had gotten so weak 1 could not stand, and I gave up In despair, At last, my husband got mea bottle of Cardul, the woman’s tonic, and I come menced taking it. From the very first dose, I could tell it was helping me, 1 can now walk two miles without its tiring me, and am doing all my work,’” If you are all run down from womanly troubles, don’t give up in despair, Try Cardui, the woman’stonic, Ithas helped more than a million women, in its 50 years of continuous success, and should surely help you, too. Your druggist has sold Cardul for years, He knows what it will do, Ask him. He will recome mend it, Begin taking Cardul today. iS ae Sas freien you tat te Salen Dek. a?