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"DERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" Department of Archives e Pi SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE 82. MARTINSBURG, HUGHES PITILESS ON MEXICAN DISGRACE The ESTABLISHED 1882 WILSON'S PERU PROTEGE IS WORSE THAN HUERTA Recognized Benavides as President After He Had Obtained Power in a Sister Republic by Treachery and Violence. ACT DOES NOT SQUARE WITH SMUG DICTUM IN HIS SPEECH Latin American Diplomate Amared When They Read the President's Explanation of His Mexican Policy—Informed Their Governments That Mr. Wilson's Personal Whims Doubtless Were to Be His Guides In Conducting This Government's Latin American Policy. Latin American diplomats are amused at the stance in President Wilson's speech of acceptance: "So long as the power of recognition rests with me, the government of the United States will refuse to extend the hand of welcome to any one who obtains power in a sister republic by treachery and violence." This is the president's explanation of his refusal to recognize Huerta and of his Mexican policy. Yet the records show that President Wilson has deliberately violated this dictum in several instances since the case of Huerta arose. The most fragment example was the president's recognition extended to Colonel Benavides, head of the revolutionary government in Peru, in February, 1914. His government was founded on assassination, established by assassination and had no vestige of constitutional authority back of it. It came into power on Feb. 4, 1914, when Colonel Benavides led the garrison troops against the national palace at Lima, imprisoned President Billinghurst and assassinated the minister of war and all others who opposed the coup d'etat. More Flagrant Than Mexico. Minister McMillan reported these facts fully to Washington and assumed that this government would decline to sanction the newly established regime. The case was identified with the Huerta case in Mexico, except a much more fragment violation of the spirit of popular government. Huerta had Madero and Vice President Suarez imprisoned, but he became president of Mexico under provisions of the constitution providing for the succession of the minister of foreign affairs upon the disability of the president. Huerta's accession to the presidency was confirmed by the Mexican congress. Benavides came into power simply by killing those who opposed him. His acts had no basis whatever in the constitution of the country and were not confirmed by the Peruvian congress. His sole backing was a junta of conspirators, which forced their will on the unapproving people by means of ready rifle bullets. Under those circumstances Minister McMillin naturally assumed that President Wilson would have nothing to do with Benavides and his junta. The president shortly before this had stated in a speech at Mobile, Ala.: "We must follow the course of high principle, not expediency, no matter what the pressure. To do otherwise would be untrue to ourselves." Envoy is Surprised! Mr. McMillin was therefore initially surprised when he was instructed by President Wilson to call on the newly established Renavides and graciously confer the recognition of the United States Government upon him. In explaining this the President simply said that "experience dictated the recognition of the revolutionary government of Pern." He told his advisers that he had not liked the personality of Billinghurst. He was chagrined also with the news that Billinghurst had in Pioneer In His Mind and on His Tongue More Than Any Other Single Problem With Which Mr. Wilson Has Paltered. CRAZY CHAPTER OF BLUNDERS No One Can Hear Him Speak Without Seeing: the Reality of His Indignation Over the Heartless Policy of the Democratic Administration Toward American Men, Women and Children, American Citizens' Soldiers and Sailors Along and Across the Rio Grande. Soon after Mr. Hughes was nominated a friend said to him, "Governor, if the American people forget the Mexican disgrace they do not deserve to have you for president." Quick as a flash he replied, "The candidate who dodges the Mexican disgrace does not deserve to be president." He did not pass around his address of acceptance for compliment or criticism in advance of its delivery, but the amount of space he devoted to the Mexican disgrace—"that' confused chapter of blunders"—surprised no one who had talked with him since his nomination. It has been in his mind and on his mind more than any other single problem with which Mr. Wilson has paltered. To talk with him is to see at once the reality of his indignation over the heartless manner in which American men, women and children, American citizens, soldiers and sailors have been abandoned by the administration along and across the film Grande, the victims of Mexican armed forces, outfitted with American ammunition and American rifles, Mexicans, whom Mr. Wilson has coddled one day na patriots only to chase the next as bandits. It is apparently the belief of Mr. Wilson that the people of the United States are not interested in Mexico. His defenders have declared that it was an "old story and out of date." Mr. Hughes has a better opinion of his fellow countrymen. He has proved himself a better judge of their feelings. He has made "the Mexican disgrace" a foremost issue of his campaign. He has assailed the record of the administration in that respect in almost every speech he has made. He has never failed to strike a responsive chord in the hearts of his audience, whether speaking in Carnegie hall, New York, from the platform of his team at Grand Forks, N. D., to a vast audience at Portland, at the exposition at San Diego or in the prairie states of the middle west. He has refuted the glander, sometimes heard in the efface, that the people of the great west do not care what happens to their fellow citizens in Mexico or to the flag beyond the border. No man born in the west has a finer faith in the fundamental patriotism and "dominant Americanism" of the people of that section than Mr. Hughes. He holds them responsible in large measure for the encouragement and support he received while governor of New York to his war upon political graft and political bossism. He thinks they had much to do with conscripting him as the champion of nationalism in the current campaign. He showed his confidence in their practical idealism when he made "the Mexican disgrace" an uppermost issue of his campaign. He has been implicated by the response his appointment of the administration on this score has everywhere evolved. From Maine to California "the Mexican disgrace" is a sore subject with red blooded Americans today. But nowhere between the oceans are the outrages inflicted in Mexico upon American honor, life and property more keenly resented than around the firesides of the great west. Mr. Hughes is no stranger to the west. His straightforward talk on Mexico proves it. --- FINNEGAN'S PHILOSOPHY. On The. Merry-Go-Round. "Faith an' now Wilson's for protection. Four year agone he was agin it, for it was agin the constychooshun. Now that he is for it, that import instrument has also changed its mind. He makes me head shwin. "But I've good company. Bryan a Garrison, the civil service Dinyerats and the tale Dinyerats, the Passylists un' the vulgar sowls that none "Faunt to Flight'—they've all been on the Merry-go-round. Some iv thin turned sick." "Iodd bless ye-ye're a good man but ye make me dizzy," says Bryan Jepun' from the Hobby-Horse and run mil for the woods, "I've a ginwine rawwet at lashi' ye,' says Windbush wowin' like a Cocked-Hat by the vhite of two." "Here's the Army bill," says Garrison, "How does it suit? he axes. "Fine," says Wuthrow, "darrin' a few changes. 'We'll redraw it,' he says, 'to provide,' says he, 'voluntary universal service in a Federal Mishy,' 'says he, 'controled be the states,' says he; 'an recruited to spiritual comulsion,' says he, shud he mayher too large nor to small says he; 'or maybe both,' he says; 'an ammyntion,' says he, 'must he mayher too much, nor little,' says he, 'I've to see Italy, to force I decide the daytales, for its joedy to hape an open mind,' sa, Wuthrow. "Stop the muscle and have me off says Harrison. 'Are ye crazy or not! Y' Harrison mouns, layin' on his ban gazin' wildly at th' sky. 'God be ye,' says Wurthrow. 'I've a near raygat at losin' you,' he says. And Harrison boots it to Jersey the Mao go Round plays a side step. "If what I the Navy,' says Kitchin' it shud be thurly adaquate Ivy where,' says the Great Baylist, cept in Maitland, where we need to Navy,' says he, 'and in St. Louis where it shud be the biggest in the world. We'll be none extravague like thin Raypublicans,' says he. 'Here's the Dilaycat bill ye'll pass says he. " 'But this same is the Rayputh- car's tilt,' says Kitchen starin', 'Yo- go an' pass it,' says Wudthrow, pour- ing the desk, 'Houray,' says the blue Rayputhlos voth' for the bill, 'he I dream,' says Kitchen, 'If I live drunk, I'll think I was boozed,' so Kitchen in a threemblin' vica. And I faith off. " 'How about the Army bill,' axe Hay. " 'Through an' instant preparatio- for defense must be the wudh,' say Wudthrow, wid herole ris'lution is be- ye. "I have here a bill,' says Hay, 'providid' for an increase in five hundredths a year for twixty years,' he says, 'and annual sum for six hours' a season' he says, 'I will make us out from uncleverer, nunses, our sisters, our sisters' will usen and hospital bill' Hay, he says, 'and we'll catch Willy before he discovers he doesn't die before we catch him here Hay. "Willy once me,' says Willie. Oh, Hiss, a rather all preparerous is a mother by the heart on not of greece or forts. Bill (leveland) I give you a job by theoses sleight' short like. "Lovell i wain' says Hay. 'This says Woolthrox shinkin' the helix is that Hay's hands coolish like, for yer pari- ple service in so bravely support par- tie matilies, he says 'to all their plays, he says, it makes a prince of youth' says he, as well as yer trivial that he put in the docket' says the Wildhist 'Howly Sudra' says the fire marshal Shifters. "This waint does this mean at all at wild' they axes. 'I've the wain thruck mud' says the tresdidn't 'not' ye so all through me rain lv thought before ye org' so the park car' says he 'Are ye out' axes the Apodite lv Com- munion Doobers. "We're on!" says the Sinters, falling off. "An' the Merry go round play a Wilson Waltz (which we know, Jawn is wah, she forward, two steps back, hesitate and side-step. An' Tumulty goes out to spread the glad tide's that the preparation p'rade will be led be the President in person. "How does he save his face?" asked Malumphy. "Wid his mouth,' respugded Finne Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED OCTOBER 28. 1916. VO Editorial Comments. If the Democratic leader who advocates putting dyes on the free list to encourage the industry were a surgeon the method of setting a broken limb would be to amputate the patient's leg at the neck. Optimism is what makes the Democratic party, which has fooled some of the people only three times in fifty years and has never yet fooled all of the people some of the time, think that it can now fool all of the people all of the time. President Wilson hasn't been able to figure out yet whether he is going to be on the stump or up one. If the paper shortage becomes much more serious the first thing we know the machinery of the State Department will be coming to an abrupt stop. Then, too, according to the Democratic campaign book that among the more important enactments of the Wilson Administration may be mentioned Magna Charta and the Ten Commandments. Secretary Robbins converses glibly in terms of billions until it comes time to make a campaign contribution, when it is disclosed that all he really knows about mathematics is $100. Everything has gone up under Wilson except the price of dead Americans. Senator Jimham Lewis has purchased a new volume of "Unfamiliar (quotations)" and expects to be able any day now to give us the classical derivation of "pitless publicity" and "strict accountability" in the original Baby-ionan. Add famous sayings of history: "I will surrender on this line if it takes all summer!" The Democratic revenue bill, as completed, is regarded as so perfect that the chances are that the taxpayers of New York, Massachusetts and Illinois will be able to build 3,000 more miles of good roads in Alabama next year. Mr. Hughes is talking to the women of the land in the homely language of the tireside and we expect to witness an impressive rallying of the sex on the first ironing day after the first wash day in November. MR. WILSON TOOK PLEASURE IN EXTENDING THE HAND OF WELCOME TO CARRANZA. One of these "uncivilized" acts was committed on September 29th, when some of Carranza's soldiers captured an American trooper, killed him and cut off his head and ears. Exactly twenty days later, on October 19th, Mr. Wilson expressed "pleasure" in informing Carranza that he recognized him. Since the recognition, Carranza's troops by his orders have treacherously attacked and murdered American soldiers on at least two occasions. If the acts above recited—which are merely samples of the course of conduct Carranza has already pursued—do not constitute "intrigue and assassination, treachery and violence" then the world have lost their meaning. Mr. Wilson took "pleasure" in ostentating the hand of welcome" to Carranza, whose own hand is red with the blood of murdered man and women of his own nation, and whose hands, unlike the hands of Huerta, were also red with the blood of murdered Americans, of murdered American civilians, and of murdered American soldier wearing the American uniform. But President Wilson cared as little for the deaths of these men as he cared for the honor of the uniform. He with "pleasure" "extended the hand of welcome" to the man guilty of their murder.—From the Speech of Colonel Roosevelt at Battle Creek, Michigan, in Beneath of Mr. Hughes. --- SHIFTY WILSON ON COLONEL'S BODKIN SHIFTY WILSON ON COLONEL'S BODKIN Elusive Balancer on String of Words Pinned Down by Proof That In Fifteen Public Utterances He Took Forty- One Different Positions on Preparedness. EACH STAND CONTRADICTED FROM 1 TO 6 OF THE OTHERS Democratic Certificate Said That Our Army Was Simple and That We Did Not Have Enough Troops to Patrol the Border; That We Were on the Verge of a Maelatrom and That There Was No Critical Situation; That the National Guard Would Not Do and Then That It Must Do. In the fifteen months extending from December 18th, 1814, to February 18th, 1815, there were fifteen messages, letters and speeches of President Wilson which I have read. In these fifteen messages, letters and speeches, during those fourteen months, President Wilson took forty-one different positions about preparedness and the measures necessary to secure it; and each of these forty-one positions contradicted from one to six of the others. In many of his speeches the weasel words of one portion of the speech took all the meaning out of the words used in another portion of that speech, and these latter words themselves had a weasel significance as regards yet other words. He argued for preparedness and against preparedness. He stated that our army was ample; and that we did not have enough troops to patrol the Mexican border in time of peace. He said the world was on fire, and that sparks were liable to drop anywhere and cause us to burst into flame; and he also said that there was no immediate danger. He said that there was no sudden crisis; and then again that he did not know what a single day would bring forth. He said that we were on the verge of a maclostrom; and then that there was no special or critical situation. He said the danger was constant and immediate; and also that we were not threatened from any quarter. He said that there was no fear among us; and also that we were in daily danger of seeing the vital interest and honor of the country menaced and the flag of the United States stained with impunity. He said that we were in very critical danger of being involved in the great European struggle; and also that there was no need to discuss the question of defense, or to get nervous or excited about it. In one and the same speech, he said that a sufficient number of men would volunteer, and that if they did not he would be ashamed of America; and he also said that he did not know of any law which laid upon them the duty of coming into the army, if it should be necessary to call for volunteers. He said that we needed 500,000 volunteers, and that if there was any legitimate criticism of this demand it was because it was too small; and as soon as Congressman Hay objected to the plan, he promptly abandoned it. He said that the National Guard was not the proper body upon which to rely; and then not only changed his own mind but forced his own Secretary of War out of his cabinet, because this Secretary possessed less flexible convictions and was unable instantly to reverse himself when going at full speed—From the Speech of Colonel Roosevelt at Battle Creek, Michigan, in Behalf of Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes is seeing how big the west is, and the west is seeing how big Mr. Hughes is. It is a happy arrangement. So oO ott Pionw. wah 4G ee ee evot-e to the Moral, Rellgi:.> and “ianclal Development of Hoo snity. “ATES OF ZUBSCRIPTic. - VOWS SSUES ESSE eee we CGM 2 Mivathe Joccsrsueesesd oe. SOAR ceca dosgesces « ANS, xu 4 all advertisements : Io ec-an. anless advertising . a oy yeerly Cuiract, in which case ie ad- verte, “ays every three wenihs. Adveriielng 1 inch cne time ‘Se. Se a Metvend Rates to Clubs. venc ‘or Sample Coptes. | @ntered in Post Office at Martins- park W.Va. +5 Second Class Matter. +“ “hftord, Editor and Proprietor. Vrawer 869, and Boll "Phonan eK, dartiasburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 98) 1916 eo SEO LOS & we a NM Be oR nL é $e Sol A } an if ed Lees ger AS G MES & Xa SRG ag Pain ae The more we submit the heavier our yoke. In politics as well as in’ other matters, it behooves our expressions to be wary and few Hughes is winning and Wilson losing daily. fhe same is true of Robinson and Cornwell. The Negroes who voted for Wil- son were deserted and bitten by him who was put in power. A party which fails to Protect its citizens deserves execration of the civilized world, —_____ At sun down on the 7th of next November, Perry's declaration will be ours— “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.’’ Every real man voter of darker skin must eschew Wilsc nism, as he would the hellbroth mixed by Mac- beth’s witches on the “‘blasted heath.’’ Back to the old Progressive Re- publican John Brown, Lincoln, Sumner, Butler, Garrison, Love Joy, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Grant days, as God decrees, ‘The great storm on Lake Erie this week that caused the sinking cf four vessels, and the loss of fifty odd lives, ought to be taken as an ill omen to the party in power. Brown A. Payne. Fsq., of Beck- ley, Raleigh Co., W Va., spent this week in Berkeley, warming up the boy’ for the battic of ballots on the 7th of November There is so much asking for and comments on whac appeared in last week's issue relative to Wilson's conduct toward the Newroes, that we deem proper to reproduce it. Read it and vote! As our fathers wring from the reluctant hands of King John the great Chart of freedom protecting every freeman’s person against as- sault and arrest without due process of law, so will the electorates wring from Woodrow Wilson tie freedom of this country and the tight for men, women and children to live in peace and quiet. Don't fail or forget to see to it that you are registered, or if you have moved from) your former voting place, get a transfer, and be ready wholeheart tly to vote fur Hughes and Robinson and all trac and tried Republicans on the ticket, Nov. 7th next. If success perches not on our hopes in this campaign. it will be because and omy becanse God is not ready. He will want more afflir- tion to come to the Republicans and more jubilance within the ranks of the destructive elements of democ racy, urged on by which, the saner people will not stand for the injuries inflicted. In justice to my manhood, I take the common sense theory that noth- ing is settled till it is settled right. Will the Republican party adost my theory? If not, it is going to have troubles it need not have has if itlived up toand practiced Abra ham Lincoln's gospel of equality and justice to his emancipated slave avd their descendants. ‘The idea of the color of skin —God's work, depriving soul of its glorious devel- opment, and pigment the heirshiy from heaven, ‘Three thousand five huadred Ne- gro slaves followed Washington to York ‘Lown, and helped him win a vreat victory and after the war was over he sent them back into slavery. On the 7th of November next fully two million Negro voters—are go- ing to follow Hughes to the polls and win for him a victory as great After that is the Republican party going to stand with arms folded and lips closed in view of the hu- miliation and shimeful disgrace heaped on us illegally by southern democrats? Forbid! Almighty Go] forbid! CAPT. GEO. A. MacDONALD. He was a rare man in whom pu- ity of character, greatness of soul, g004d, ess of heart, cleanness of head and readiness of hand were so com- bined that all who knew him inti- mately loved him, and all who were in any way associated with him ad- mired him; and while he lived, not man’s alloted age, he did vastly more than any man's share of work to his family, his friends, his coun- try and his God, and the feeling that he cannot be spared is general and the sense of personal loss caused by his deata is wide spread, sincere and deep. He was a self-made man, His principal inheritance from his parents was his character, shaped by their trainingand example. He was pure in mend, in word and decd. Happy be your eternal lot, is the sincere wish of one who loved Ou Members of Prestdent Wilson's enbt- net are ready to do anything to re-elect their chief, except resign. Writes a former Princeton man: “At first we called him ‘W, W.'; then we made it ‘LW, Ww." That one term plank in the Demo. cratic platform of 1912—It is more than likely to hold, after-all, KANSAS GENEROSITY. [Chicago Tribune.} Leavenworth, Kas. — (Special) — A Leavenworth policeman went to church one day. It was the first time in his life he had ever attended serv- icos, and when they passed the plato the officer displayed bis star. TAKE THAT, WILLYUM! [Philadelphia Inquirer} “The Republicans made a mistake in not nominating Billy Sunday."— Charleston News and Courier. Don't werry, anxious one. The Re- publicans will find some way to finance their campaign without resortias to desperate methods. Our brother, Isaac Clinton Clif- ford, who died last week, wes a peaceful citizen, honest, and never wronged a living soul, or tried to harm one. THE NEGRO UREER Veen Elimination, Segregation end Fertoiea Followed False Promises Mota by f2s0n to ieztors of the Race in 1812 Ganpeize, SIX PREPSSS GRIMES RGMNST GUR PEOPLE. Repibticaa Dectrine. “The ty rans tiled to Ris chance. le ts co Ao ae to an opportunity to prove by hi works whet is in hin, rnd he is entitled to the rewards which his character and industry de serve. “In this lind the Geox of apr tunity must be wile coe to eur citizens, We want rete ¢ ze hor serfs, ner any boly uo ety permanently below tthe tet ot which mrt be fer ut Preservation of the opuities From speech of Goveraor Hazhes delivered at Corerie ital, New York, January 17, nus. “The Nation has appreeinted the valor and patriotism of the lsc! men of the Uniled States. ‘They not only fought in Cuba, but in the Philippines, and they are still carrying the flag as the sym tel of liberty and hope to an opp people.”—Hon. William MeKinley “Whenever called upon, the Né ro has never failed to make sacri fices for this, the only country ye has, and the only flag he love When we regard the history of thr ferty years through which the co ored man of this country has be obliged to struggle, the progre which he has made, material and educational, is wonderful."—Hoa Win. W. Tait. “I do not believe that any man needs to apolosize to any people at any piece or at any time for standing tor the open door of op. portunity to the colored boy an? the colored girl, T shall oppose all discriminations that attempt — to hinder any race in its efforts to befter itself—-Shreon p. F > in Congressiona! Record, April $4 1916. (By Henry Lincoln Joinson, forine: Recorder of Decds in District of ¢ lumbia.) Kwer since Washington City hi heen the Capital of the nation, eve: during tho slavery period, colored mei nave served acceptably in the Gov rment departments, They have held positions varying in rank and import- ance from the humble positions of ut skilled laborer, messenger, and ti like, to high-class clerkships, and ever prominent official positions, such a Assistant Attorney-General, Collector of Internal Revenue, New York: ite ister of the United States Treasury Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia, Auditor of the Navy, ete ‘The ordinary visitor can wander abort the city of Washinzion and fing o colored meh and women in their 60" 70's, 80's and 90's who heretofore, at ome period in their fives (for cho most part under Republican Adminis trations) have been working for the United States Government. and hav faithfully performed their duty under Civil Servier, in times of peace, even as loyally as many of them hay served under the “Siars and Strip in Cimes of war. Wor sears and ye the nenro tes ked in frionast nd WHR etetoney 4 eo white brothes fr re + ‘ ment dovartent ne + party, prios ia the Vaodroie WHaer, (ie “ic edents.” hae evar rate the neve ervicn Ect qHaee reves jand’s Admin ‘ ‘ considere:! port ‘ on, and orase’ t tn be ae etent and depetitie Any Some of ty ett» ad ree a General Ane on's t ow nero stares us eners, ay even nerve clerks on the Governnon haveatt Fairy Play Association. But whon President Wilson was ¢ Augurated a well organized effort wa made to change all this, and the por sistent aim of the Democratic part has been to ciiminate and humiliat» the negro. ‘The Senators and Repr« eatatives from the South were he Sieged by thousands of their Deno: cratic constitnents, who swarmed {9 the Capital City in search of Gover ment jobs, and who (regardless of Civil Service rule) demanded that no- Sr0_employes be remoyed to make Dereceratic Doctrine, “We stuffed indlat hoses, we shet Nesroes: ove gre not asharaed of it.”—-Senator len ‘Tillman, in U.S. Senate speech, “I favor, and, if elected. will urge with allmy power the elimination of thé Negro from politics.”—iioke Smith, Governer of G orgia (now U.S. Senator), “The white men of the South ind shall bo distraiciised every. here i is necossary.—Win, Jone. tings Eryan, at New York, 108. MENS Y 3! ‘le Varty is the While mantsensete Pomntry, iv the Novi ss we'll as South Ndward S. Paytoy, Meinber ef Con gress from Olio, ' my: 'soour countess, as Wo was ‘ tre of our fathers, ‘Phe Clave. 3 rool Congress front Hon oft tperiority of the white thing, Wheee as nothing otren shows if ere conclusively than v compelling of Negroes ta ride Vers marked for their especial use."—i1, D. Wilson, Author of the Louisican “Jim Crow" car law. “Pam epnosed to ta xing my peo- ie ii Georgia to give all sorts of Diadutin curley-cues in the way of siucation to a crowd of Wasting: ton NIGGENS that is of no benefit to thom, That is what Tam op Fesed t0."—W. S. Howard, in Con: ressfonal Record, April 24, 1916. hae % . To bring aliodieits ‘ ine too great tint a ube seotiment, a secret « iow beewn as “The Deron May Association.” Sas for. od Ad netnally incornomted in the ent ‘cordon of Dee in the } oY Columbia, and such noied ean Po the nese ray Senaior Seehof Georgia: s. alan. ¥aee Wf Mikwiceipa: ee ‘oe 4 ; Hy Caraltae Aiea BvnES t seit . Teaies IncBIR Wee: ande! oft 4) eet most of v vom the Gove! ament service, ip order to make way t white Democrats. ant turtherniore, reduce the few resroes remaining y omenint service and humiliating orking conditions. But before this scheuie wis fully consummated the “Sew York itvening Post™ (edited by Me. Oswald Garrison Villard, grand: wn of William Lloyd Garrison, the Eumortal friend of the nero): yo “Washington (D. C.) Herald,” and others, learned of the real object of this Democratic Association ard ox-. Posed its nefarious plans in derail— fa facet, to uch an extent that it caused the disintesration of the whole propaganda, It was not only the idea of this Democratic crowd to segrecate the negroes in the Government Serv. ice at Washington, but. as plainly will be seen by Democratic bills recently introduced in Congress, it was their avowed purpose to “Sim Crow" the nesroes of Washington City, both as rezurds separate street car accommo- dations an’ sneciol sections of the Nation's Capital in which they were to Lo pernitted to live, Never before in th hist f our government Dave Herre cl} "id ether employees been sresaled Iv because “of their mee pnd we has been the case mider P, vi Wilean's: Administra: ion i Woodzow Wilson. is, 1 shouite hell responstile, for pe but filo effect thronshout ho vartous donartments in. Washing. t by meniers of his Cabinet, and he brazen ! determined effort on he part of e.me of the members of Ms “oftcial farctiy" to ruthlessly dis- miss, disered: humiliate, and segre. ‘le hegre et soyees is not only rep- rehensible in tho extreme, but makes President Wilson himself responsible herefor. The negro race will never | ‘orgive Mx. Wiison, Mr. McAdoo, John Skeiten Wfams, Mr. Burleson and fer t rnwonted and unwar- “i uit ty Uncir self respect, viv Gntellizence, their loyalty and heir American iwenhood. aa aoa ae at net ins us snen as he | .° anpticntion ta enter a Civil mpetitive examination, : feuilsed § ai tiie Levlnted t tose his reetat Ment, Peuaratie § 1BE: OF Hise igi inctions may be anisieadi lor: ike Letocratie Administration has heen vecuired to enctoss his phe tesraph Worn his examination paper heh torvaph fs kept on file fox LUPO Use ‘Vnere is no dod a ‘act that the required details as to yhysical appearance, ete, are het stepping stones or “helpful hinis’ leading to an exact knowledve of the telat status of the Civil Service n nlicant. ‘To keep from aveu g the suspleion of the negro, epplicanis + fold that the photogrank is necossa:+ to identity on appointee and to n= vent “substitution.” ‘This imeenty thouga infsocusly unfair method barring intelligent Americans of color trem appointment to Civil Service po- sitions is an original Yea and tle wa botented invention of the Derzocratic Party; indeed, it is direetly in line wiih distranchisement iaws and other focns of diserimingtion against the Loore so noticeable im almost. every Siace over which Democrats have con- Now, ien the Postoffice or any other department nee «a. elerk, a : her, a iypewriter, a Totter var or, or any other subordinate. they pole @ call upon Mr. Meliherny, of Louisiane, President of the United Stites Civit fervice Commission. who semis to the ceparteat in’ question the names and photographs of tee Successtnl npoticants whe have passed the Civil Seoviee examination. if they are all undesirable for any reason, or “persona non grata” because of their rsee and color, the Civil Service Commission sends three more. ‘Thus, the appointing power under the pres- ent Democratic Administration ned onty look at the photographs submit. ted to resonably insure the elimina- tion of any intolizent nezro applicants who may have successfully passed the Civil Service examination. Sezregation. Yeo: ayo ONsY Mas the Democratic Party proctically closed the Civil Service “door of hope” to the negro, but dur- ing the past three and one-hal! years of the present Pemucratie Adminis. tration, there has been more segre a Non -or senaration of colored frum Whit emplosces—in the Executive Departments at Washington than in all of the 127 years of ovr Govern. ment’s history, including the Cleve land Administration, ‘Take, for exam- ple, the Postoflice Department. and its adjunct, the office of the Auditor for the Postoffice Department, whose out: razeous and un-American policy of seg resating Government emplovers re cording to color is closely imitated in many of the other departments. ‘The present Democratic Administration found nearly two hundred colored eax ployees in these two offices, with sak rries ranring from $1,800 down, ore. tically “dl of whom had been od or promoted under a Republican re- zine, Now there are less than one hasdred, with anything lke a decent salary for ihe efficient services they* perform. Every colored elerk in the offce of the Auditor for the Postoffice Department has been reduced except two. Negro clerks in the Postoffice Department under Postmaster Burie- son, of Texas, have had “hard sled- ding,” scores of them have been re- duced in rank and practically foreed to accept lower pay as skilled and un- skilled laborers; some have been dis-: missed’ outright; all have vanished | save one, and, in line with Democratic precedent, he has been “segregated” | boyond visibility! Ee In the Postoffice Department the! colored employces have been assignedt to obscure quarters, hidden away ast it were in some remote section of the! oftice or building, and when the de-t partment had many visitors, the chiefs‘ and lesser satellites would «ce to itt that the colored contingent was ‘epi close to work. and on one occasion many of the employees of the Poste office Department—national meeting of postmasters in Washington City, 1915—were actually locked in, mani festly for the purpose of impressing certain visitors that they were in an office free from negroes. These col ored clerks and employees have been given to understand that there are too! many of them there, even though their! former numbers have been radically. reduced, and that they had better be slad to remain on the payroll in any} position and at any salary wmder a Democratic Administration. They are liscriminated against In evercthing .. Continued on page 3, service of this kind Notwithstanding that they take on hundreds of clerks every year, they always endeavor to keep the colored man or woman out. They contrived a unique and very effective plan to get rid of the many colored clerks of the Postoffice and City Postoffice who had neither been dismissed, demoted nor segregated under former Republican Administrations. They did this by transferring the colored clerks, eight or ten at a time, to a certain branch office, and after they were there awhile, suddenly the branch office would be abolished, and, of course, these colored employees were no longer needed. Then within a very short time the Civil Service Commission was called upon to furnish additional clerks, and new men who were certified (not negroes) were given the places of those faithful Americans of color who were ruthlessly persecuted out of their hard-crowned positions. There are twenty-three (23) former clerks in the office of the Auditor for the Postoffice Department who have been "declassified" and are now serving as messengers, skilled laborers, etc., in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. For more than fifty years the elected clerks and employees of the Government departments have been working side by side in perfect harmony and good will, but during the past three and a half years of Democratic control, this policy of "seem action" for which the Democratic Party ever stands in State and Nation has produced more ill will and discontent, more race friction and more prejudice among white and colored employees of the Government than have ever obtained in the history of the departmental service. No more Encouragement yet. The Republican Party believes in the political equality of men without reference to race or nationality, and this belief it has supported by the most costly andanguinary war in our national history. The Democratic Party believes in restricting the privilege of citizenship to a particular class, and has written its opinion into the statutes, constitutions and practices of nearly every Southern State where that party is dominant. The Republican Party believes in the doctrine so broadly expressed by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, "All men up rather than some men down," and it has always encouraged the colored citizen in his efforts and ambition to rise higher in the scale of civilization. The Democratic Party would deny to the negro the incentive to high applications, and because through its representatives of a purpose to exclude colored men from any vote in the control of both local and national affairs, in so doing has underestimated representative government to the extent that a single white Democratic vote in every Southern State, with the exception of Tennessee and Kentucky, is equal to four votes cast in every other State of the Union. The courts cooperate under R. publican control in sufficiently shown by the fact that in every state that is Democratic, the stance looks are covered with itself franchise and laws, labor contract laws, the Cory law, segregation laws and other forms of discrimination law. institution based on race and color, while in every State classified as the publican, without any condition, there is not a stricter law which subject how from the publican's body nor how any such coercive law ever been proposed by Republicans. "Wilson Words" vs. "Wilson Doodle" When Wesley Wilson was inaugurated as President, he found twenty-five or more distrubished colored men from all sections of the country, holding office by appointment of the Republican President and confirmed by a Republican Senate. During his campaign for the high office it was generally understood, and, according to reliable information, it was actually promised, that all of those Presidential appointments held by colored men would be filled by other colored men, and quite a number of credulous groves acted on this faith. Those were "Wilson's words." After his election all of these colored men were dismissed and white men, without one exception, were appointed in their places. Among the numerous particulars in which his preaching has differed from his practice, President Wilson can point to his record in the matter of race discrimination. In his speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1914, President Wilson said that we make no difference between one race and another, and that we (Democratic) did not set up any barriers against any particular people. On other occasions, particularly while he was a candidate for the Presidency, he gave assurances that he would not discriminate against colored citizens of the United States. Notwithstanding these assurances of support of the principle of equality before the law and in governmental affairs, great discrimination has been practiced not only in the departments over which the President has control, but also in appointments that are made by the President himself. Under Republican administrations the policy was pursued of appointing a colored man to fill a vacancy created by the resignation, death or expiration of term of a man of that race. This policy was reversed by the, Democratic Administration, and the following colored persons have been succeeded by white men: William H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney-General, $5,000. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury, $4,000. Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue, New York, $4,500. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, $4,000. Ralph W. Tyler, Auditor for the Navy Department, $4,000. Joseph E. Lee, Collector of Internal Revenue, Jacksonville, Fla., $4,500. N. W. Alexander, Register of the Land Office, $2,500. J. E. Bush, Receiver of Public Monies, Little Rock.-Ark., $2,500. Charles A. Cottrell, Collector of Internal Revenue, Honolulu, $4,500. T. V. McAllister, Receiver of Public Monies, Jackson, Mass., $2,500. General Robert Small, Collector of Port Deevort, S. C., $1,500. James A. Cobb, Special Asst. District Attorney, Washington, D. C., $2,000. Whitfield , McKielay, Collector of Customs, Georgetown, D. C., $3,700. W. D. Johnson, Special Agent Agricultural Department, $1,500. James N. Alexander, Deputy Collector, Los Angeles, $1,600. P. B. S. Pinchback, Inspector (New York), $2,600. S. Labor Williams, Asst. District Attorney, Chicago, $2,600. William C. McNews, Asst. Dist. Attorney, Boston, $1,600. Mrs. N. P. Booze, Postmistress, Mt. Bayou, Miss., $1,800. William L. Jones, Postmaster, Boley, Oklahoma, $1,200. L. J. Price, Postmaster, South Atlanta, Georgia, $—. H. R. Belsher, Deputy Collector, Brunswick, Georgia, $1,000. George A. Reed, Postmaster, Beau- fort, South Carolina, $1,800. Isaiah J. McCottrie, Collector of Custions, Georgetown, South Carolina, $600. Edward A. Burrill, Vice and Deputy Clerk, St. Ulbricht, France, $7,000. Numerous other instances can be cited where colored men and women regularly employed under Republican administrations, have been summarily dismissed by the Democrat, notably in the United States Pension Office, the Washington City Postoffice, the Government Printing Office, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and then about the departmental service. And, indeed, the whole record of the Democrat Party shows but two negro appointments made by President Wilson and confirmed by the Democratic Senate. Specific Contrast of the Two President Taft had signally honored the negro race in the appointment of William H. Lewis, Esq., of Boston, Massachusetts, as Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, whose parents were formerly slaves. President Wilson made it one of his first concerns to remove Mr. William H. Lewis and installed a white man in his place. Under Republican administrations we had great negro leaders, such as Senator Bruce Judson W. Lewis, Esq., J. C. Nunnor and Dr. W. T. Vernon as Registers of the Treasury. Under the present Democratic Administration two Indians have been appointed "Register of the Treasury," namely Gabe E. Parker and Houston B. Teehoe. President Wilson later appoints Gabe E. Parker, the Indian, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, but removes Henry W. Furniss, a negro, as Minister to Hayti, a negro Republic, and sends a white man there. Under President Wilson's policy even an Indian must be first in Indian affairs, but no negro must be first in negro affairs. This fact is notably illustrated in the case of Hayti just cited. The first step in segregation in Washington, upon the advent of the Wilson Administration, was the isolation of the white and colored help at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at lunch hour, followed up by other forms of racial discrimination. The employees did not petition for this change from fifty years of uninterrupted peace and harmony. It was imposed on them by the White House. Under Republican administrations we have had John R. Lynch and Ralph W. Tylor as Auditors under the Treasury Department. The Democratic Administration has given us a white man to fill the position formerly held by colored men. Under Republican administrations we had Frederick Doughless, Henry P. Cheatham, John C. Daney and Henry Lincoln Johnson as Recorders of Deeds for the District of Columbia, and even President Grover Cleveland gave us James M. Trotter and C. H. L. Taylor to serve in that office. But Mr. Wilson, contrary to the precedent of decades, puts a white man in this place. When the last Immigration Law was put upon the statute books by a Democratic Congress two years ago, the mongrous proposition was made by Representative Aswell, Democrat, from Louisiana, not only to return all American negroes to Africa, but even to cut them out as aliens from coming into this country, and in this regard to class them with Asiatic and other so-called "undesirable people." President Wilson mourns because 75 per cent. of the Mexican people were disfranchised and had no voice in their government, but does not regret that as large a per cent. of negroes in America have no franchise or voice in American state affairs. Clearly the contrast shows an unmistakable bias against the negro on the part of President Wilson. Sympathy for disfranchised Mexican bandits, but no sympathy for disfranchised negro patriots. Note These Democratic Measures. The real attitude of the Democratic Party toward the negro is best found in the laws that they have enacted and proposed. Bills have been introduced by Democrats in Congress without number looking to the following discriminations against the negro, viz: 1. To repeal the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. (H. J. Res. 32, 33, 40, 167, etc.). 2. To repeal Section 5509 of the Revised Statutes, now Section 10 of the Penal Code, which punishes as crime complicity of two or more persons to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States. (M. I. 19553, etc.) 3. To provide Jim Crow cars. (H. R. 13, Dec. 6, 1915; H. R. 274, Dec. 6, 1916, etc.). 4. Providing for segregation in the Governmental Service. (H. R. 1957, February 30, 1915; H. R. 598, June 10, 1913; (H. R. 41, December 6, 1915; H. R. 529, December 6, 1915; H. R. 5797, December 15, 1915.). 5. 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For twenty years I resided in central Maine, and if there is a whisky question anywhere on earth it will be found in that state. "Governor Cobb of Maine, who during his term of office endeavored to give the people of Maine what they voted for (prohibition), significantly said after his experience, with prohibition: 'If I, for the moral, social, and economic welfare of the young people of my state, had to choose between prohibition—such prohibition as I found it possible to enforce—and free rum, I would stand firmly for handling whisky over the counters of my stores as freely as I do sugar.'" 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 cider 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 moonahis 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. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION A clean-up campaign in a dry town is usually remarkable for the number of empty jugs found in the back yards. Mr. Hanly says the Prohibitionists will poll 1,000,000 votes. Mr. Hanly chases rainbows with a grace and abandon remarkable even in a Prohibition presidential candidate OOOOF! [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] "The Drys are humbugs, I insist," Remarked the angry Mr. Gest; "I saw a Prohibitionist Interested." Intoxicated with success." OF COURSE NOT. [Butte (Mont.) Miner.] Nothing dry about those speeches that some of those anti-prohibitionists make. 8ORT OF 8ILENT TOAST. That was a noble and notably eloquent tribute to William J. Bryan that the President failed to utter in Omaha President Wilson's scheme for compi- sions for everything has been droitly planned to make three jobs or deserving Democrats grow where any one would grow before. Vice-President Marshall says Mr. Inghes is an echo of the past. Quite true. Of statesmanship, of patriotic performance and safe legislation. First fruits of the Adamson bill: the New York street car strike. INFUL MUTILATION We notice that the editor of the democratic campaign book, made up of samples of "Woodrow Wilson's Wit and Wisdom," has tampered with one pecimen speech by omitting the phrase "too proud to fight." This smacks of lese majeste, to say too least. The only possible excuse for this sin of omission that we can think of is that there may also be times when a haughty handbook compiler is too proud to print. FLAYS DRYS AND SUNDAY CHURCH ORATOR SAYS LAWS CAN NOT ELIMINATE INTEMPERANCE HITS EVANGELIST Dr. W. R. Wasson in Address Warns Hearers Against the Man Who Goes About the Country With a Patented Cure for All Human Ills The following appeared in the Omaha (Neb.) Bee: In attempting too much the law accomplishes nothing. If the American citizen can not be trusted to handle his own tastes and desires, then citizenship has deteriorated. Preachers who turn their churches over to political agitators are crippling the power of the gospel. Beware of the type of reformer who goes barking about the country with a patent remedy up his sleeve guaranteed to cure all human ills. Temperance is a matter of individual decision. Every man must work out his own salvation. "The prohibition problem is a question for every man to decide for himself. It is not a question to be passed on by legislators. Intemperance is as old as civilization and the individual who expects to wipe it out by the mere writing of a law is deluded," said Dr. W. R. Wasson of New York in a forceful address delivered at All Saints' Church Sunday morning. Berating the "Billy" Sunday methods of conversion of sinners, attacking systems suggested by so-called reformers of legislating the drink evil out of existence and impressing his audience with the truths of self-control, will power and determination, Dr. Wasson concluded his address with the remark: "The law goes far enough when it suppresses vice and crime. We require the services of the police and other officers of the law, but the big struggle lies with the individual." Beware of Reformer. "Salvation is often confounded and confused with conversion. Conversion is the first step for the man turned in the right direction. A man is not finally saved until he is perfect in holiness. These bombastic 'conversions' may be likened to get-rich-quick schemes. No man can be a devil one minutes and an angel of light the next. We must work out our own salvation. Beware of the long-haired reformer who goes about the land declaring that he has a patient device up his sleeve that will give you salvation at a moment's notice. "The church and the minister can not save you from sin. It is up to you. Knowledge, desire and power are demanded in the settlement of salvation as well as the temperance problems. Conscience plays a prominent part. Revelation is the voice and conscience the ear. Salvation is impossible without conscience. Trouble comes when men do not act on the knowledge they have assimilated. Their consciences are hardened. "There is no such thing as total deprivation. There is a spark of goodness in every man if you can but reach it. Again I say, we must work out our own salvation rather than having it thrust upon us." AN ADMINISTRATION TOO CONTENT WITH LEISURELY DISCUSSION. I do not put life and property in the same footing, but the administration has not only been miss with respect to the protection of American lives. It has been remiss with respect to the protection of American property and American commerce. It has been too much disposed of content with leisurely dis-ion. -- From Mr. Hughes' each off Acceptance. EUROPE'S WAR PROVES PROTECTION IS RIGHT Elihu Root Shows That the Republican Party's Cardinal Principle Has Won the Only Decisive Battle of the Contest. WE PROSPER BECAUSE THE HOME MARKET IS OUR OWN When Peace Comes and Foreign Commercial Confederations Look Hungrily Toward America, We Shall Deserve What Happens to Us If Provision Is Not Made Against Disaster by a Tariff Quite Different From the Underwood Folly. There is one particular subject with which the United States must deal in order to meet the revulsion in production and trade which will accompany the close of the great war. That is the Tariff. I think there is very general agreement upon that. When the demand for supplies to the armies in the field has ended great numbers of men will return to productive employment in Europe and great numbers of operatives will be thrown out of employment here and will have to find other work. Europe will have little money and be heavily in debt. She will be under strong compulsion to pay her debts by making and selling goods. She will be on a basis of strict economy and high organization and she can make and sell cheaply. The United States will have an abundance of money and vast purchasing power. Our market has always been attractive to European producers. It will be far more attractive after the war. It is highly probable that even England will resort to a protective tariff, so that our production will meet protective barriers in all foreign markets. What are we going to do then? We must do something. We must protect ourselves or we shall become the dumping ground of the world and our workmen will beg in the streets. Even the Democrats have seen that something must be done, for they have provided a tariff board to ascertain and report the true facts to which a tariff law is to be applied. In Mr. Taft's Administration the Republicans provided for a tariff board to report to the President and it was appointed and doing excellent work. When the Democratic House elected in 1910 came in they starved it out of existence by refusing appropriations. In the last session of the 61st Congress the Republicans passed through both Houses a new bill for a tariff board to report to Congress. There were some slight differences of detail in the two Houses, which were agreed upon in conference, but the Democrats filibustered against the final conference report and so killed the bill. So the tariff board was dead—slain by the Democratic party. It has now been resurrected by that party because they see that something must be done about the tariff when the war closes. Now, we can all understand that if the country wants a tariff for revenue only they may put the making of it in the hands of the Democratic party. But, can any sane man contemplate that party making a protective tariff? In the first place they can't do it honestly. They don't believe in it. They were born and bred in a different faith. They have been crying so long that protection is an abuse of power and an abomination that they can't reconcile themselves to a protective tariff, and they regard the Underwood tariff as a model. That is what we are to have if the Democrats go back—the Underwood tariff still, with perhaps here and there a slight modification regarding dye stuffs and some other articles which can be shown to gentlemen from Missouri and elsewhere. Well, if there ever was a clumsy, ill conceived, misfit law, it is the tariff which bears Mr. Underwood's name. We had already discovered what its effect was when the war in Europe began. Many mills and factories were closed or running but a part of the time. Great numbers of laborers were thrown out of employment, and the market for American products was still further reduced by the destruction of their purchasing power. Enterprise halted, discouraged and apprehensive of the future. New enterprises were no longer attempted. Old plants were no longer enlarged. The Underwood tariff had already failed when the war in Europe began. That war furnished and continues to furnish to American production the most absolute protection because it has to so great a degree stopped production in Europe. So