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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, - OCTOBER 17. 1916.
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; SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION
54,507 Daily Sunday 50,539
DwiaUt Wnilama, circulation menaier f The Be
ynhllahln eamDaii. heln dulv aworn. aava that the
average circulation for the month of September, Ivlto
wao SMS7 dally, and Il,tl1 Sunday.
DWIGHT WILLIAMS, Circulation Manaaer.
Suhaerlbad In my praaenca and cwora to befor m
thil td day of October, Kit.
, . ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public
Subeerikors tearing tlx temporarily
should hava Tha B mail! to I ham. . Ad
drots will b chant ad aa often at roquirod.
Omahs did the honors gloriously in welcoming
hhe next president. , .-,
Betides other benefits of the output, the pres-
(ent political heat puts winter on the sick list for
at least three weekt. . j , . :
. A bslloon station at Fort Omaha may be an
other way of handing ui s package of the admin
istration's celebrated hot air.
; Reports from the Episcopal firing lines at St.
Louis admit that, the laity stormed the divorce
redoubt and spiked the canon.
The certainty of Omaha1 becoming a billion
dollar city in annual bank clearings affords the
(right tonic ;for a Million Population club. Go
to it
- The rising tide for Chsrles E, Hughes demon
strated its force throughout rural Nebraska. The
outpouring at Omaha signaled, the November
flood. : - ' t . ' - -
Price uplifts yield various grades of annoy
ance. Their chief Impressivenett lies in the effi
ciency of the system which fixes the siae of the
touch. i ( . , j
Footwear prices crowd other necettaries on
the escalator. The sole comfort in this stccnt is
that the goods furnish the proper kicking ma
terial. ' , ' .
Fire prevention day in Nebraska it set for No
vember i. Every day before and after offer like
inducements for good work in - that direction.
Safety pyi.V. ,"' ' : ''. ;
' . ' I" .K':?
1, Bass ball magnates talk about excessive ad
mission feet' to world series garnet at though the
dividend! were tainted money. Still their ton
of regret for past offenses ttopt thort of a refund.
, Campaigners in suffrage states are convinced
that women voters are a most uncertain political
quantity. . Similar coyness has been observed
among male voters, and sitten sre adept in the
game. ' , , .
An aroused republican party, bode t ill for the
common . enemy. ,Nebraska republicans are
aroused as never before. Therefore, shrewd
democrats should not delay making' their funeral
arrangements. . t . .
; ; Governor Morehesd wisely chote a date close
to election day for inculcating lettont bf safety
from fire The lettont thus taught impress upon
republicans the duty of stopping short of burning
up the democrats. ' 7 '
The protpect of a revival of life in deserted
Fort Omaha is cheering for two reatone. Deso
lation will vanith from an enterprlting home--
making neighborhood and itt going will mark the
I first symptom of administration good will toward
Omaha or Nebraska. 7. ;'.
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I It is evident from General Funston's remarks
,to the Guardsmen thai conditions on the Mexican
border are not improving. An abundance of prom
ises by the recognized government fails to change
lor the better the causes which prompted the
mobilization of the National Guard. Thus the
situation grows more dubiout. 'Vast expense en
tailed and a large army employed in guarding
American territory and American citizena from
menacing outlawry. Every patting day increases
the muddle precipitated by the administration. ,
' Wheat and Flour
Now Vers Tin
The government's October crop report' reduces
by 3,500,000 bushels latt month's ettimate of the
yield of wheat. There are only 607,557,000 bush
els, and we mutt have 625,000.000 to satisfy our
; own wants. ; But 160,000,000 buthelt were carried
5 over from last year's unprecedented crop, and
this permits the; exportation of about 100,000,000
during the current crop year. The average yield,
for five years immediately preceding latt year's
great crop was 728,000,000. -.,. . -'-,
Europe bought 250,000.000 bushels of our
wheat latt year, and 338,000,000 the year before.
It desires tobuy 240,000,000 here and in Canada
during the coming twelve months. But Canada's
crop, like our own, is thort, only 168,000,000 bush
els, against last year's 376,000,000. At the current
rate of shipment, the surplus that can be spared
by both countries will be exhausted in a few
months, for the average of exports for the last
three months has been K.OW.OOO bushels a week.
For the latt two weeks the quantities were 9,747,
55ft and 7,882,217 bushels. Persistence of the for
eign demand can scarcely fail to make prices
higher. - - -, - , -
; Nearly 60 cents a bushel hat been added to
the price of wheat here in the latt three months,
while the increase in the price of flour has been
more than 50 per cent. Merchants cay that our
own people are buying food supplies Of all kinds
freely, owing to nien wages ana the prevailing
prosperity. But a considerable further advance
v of wheat prices may cause a kind of automatic
i embargo instead of the export embargo by ttat
' ute which some demand by reducing domestic
' consumption of wheat and leading to the use of
' substitutes, such aa corn,vof which there is at
i: least a fair average crop.- . ,
' Hughe and the Farmer."
Charles Evans Hughes has tpent two very de
lightful dsys among the residents of the most
fruitful region in all the world. He'has seen the
toil from which springs a never-ending succession
of cropt that bring a steady stream of wealth to
Nebratka. He-has tome into close contact with
the men who till those farms, and garner and
market those crops. . He has spoken to them
plainly, and they have cheered him in reply. It
will be hard, to say on which side the most in
tense interest developed, but it certainly was a
memorable experience for both Hughes and the.
farmer.' The sincerity and candor of one and the
unrestrained approval of the other shows that
both sides felt the sympathy that makes for ac
cord of purpose and sentiment. To these men
Mr, Hughes spoke of America's dignity and im
portance as a nation, of the comprehensive na
ture of our 'ideals, and the integrity of our citi
zenship, to preserve which is the first duty of the
government and the citizens alike. He spoke as
a representative of a people and not of class; he
showed his knowledge of the farmers' problems
and understanding pointed out how their neg
lected' interests may better be served. Above all,
he impressed upon them the quality of devotion
to country which rises above party of Selfish in
terest, and which regards patriotism as the first
and highest duty of the citizen. ' :
I . Mr. Hughes has met the .farmers of a large
section of Nebraska face to face, and there ia no
question as to the mutual regard that is developed
as a result. Nor it there longer doubt as to the
verdict that is to be rendered at the polls in No,
vember. ' ) , - ''-.j
Allies' Answer to Mail Protest. . ',
' The long delayed reply of Great Britain arid
France to the note sent from Washington on May,
24 last, protesting against the . interception of
mailt between neutrals, is in effect a square-toed
refusal to desist from the practice denounced by
our government as lawless. In language politely
formal the note, which is transmitted jointly by
the governments of Great Britain and France, in
sists upon the right and declares the intention of
belligerents to open and examine letters passing
between dwellers in neutral countries, and to de
termine if the communications be such as should
be permitted. In plain terms the censorship hat
been 'made world-wide, and the only escape from
it will be for neutral) to remain at home. I
'The positive defense of the attitude of the
Allies on this question is unequivocal notice' to
neutrals that they are to be granted jutt such
rights as may be compatible with the war plant
Of the belligerent who control the seas and no
more.,' The admission that England and France
accept the principle contended for by the United
States, but differ with ut ss to Its application, is
a sardonic way of 'telling ut that jutt at present
they are in position to enforce their oversight of
all our correspondence of whatever kind or nature
with the world outside, and propose- to do it
Traffic between ihe neutral countries of Europe
and the United States it to be at the pleasure of
the belligerents. International law is to be strictly
observed, with each of the warring parties using
its Own advantage as basis for interpretation of
the law.' ; - , .. -'.:';'' .. , ' ' :-'. ; '., v"
No intimation is hid from Washington as to
whst will follow the reception of this note, which
must be disappointing to all. In May our govern
ment tJemandcd that the Allies desist from their
lawless practic."'" In October they declare ,thcy
will pertitt, ' How wilt this issue be met? , t,
V Straining Our Neutrality. '
Action reported to have been taken by a Com
mittee of Greeks in New York comes dangerously
near to being a violation of United Statea neu
trality.. This committee calls on all Greekt now
domiciled in the United States, said to number
300,000, to join the Veniteloa party. At Venizelos
it in effect leading a revolt againtt the established
government of his country, and for the purpose1
of carrying on war against nations with whom the
United States is at peace, the step said to have
been taken amounts to raiting forces for the aid
of a belligerent, 'This It unneutral in the highest
degree, Our government can not prevent the
Greeks living here from joining one or the other of
the factions that now seek, to divide thejr native
land, but it shduld prevent any activity on part
of either that amounts to carrying on propaganda.
The New York committee deserves to be promptly
checked, before its activity involves the United
States, ,, ' . -.' i" .' ' :
Wilson anlt Labor.
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-Theodore Roaaavalt-
I ' . Running on HI Record.
I . The World-Herald rushes to, defend the rec
ord of Senator Hitchcock In the last three years,
and quotes from ""Tom" Marshall and Ollie James
to prove that our democratic senator is needed
in Washington. He certainly is, by the demo
crats, who have always, been able to rely on him
when a vote wat needed to push over a party
measure, and who could equally depend upon
him to be absent when his Vote might count
against them. In citing the record made by the
senator, the World-Herald overlooks these facts,
and some other small items. It fails to tell that
the democratic senator from Nebraska voted for
the Underwood tariff law, that took the protec
tion off wheat and corn and Sugar and other of
Nebraska's products, and retained it on cotton
and gpat's wool and such other commodities as
the "solid south" is concerned in. To be sure,
he voted to restore the duty on sugar, when the
democrats discovered what a serious blunder they
had made, and he may be depended Upon to vote
to tke it off again, if it be to recommended by
the party's caucus. , f '
Asa matter of fact, the record of the. senate
for the last aix years shows that Gilbert M.
Hitchcock milted voting 523 timet out of a total
of 1,199 votes taken. In other words, his lapses
amount to almost one-half. The timet he did
vote he was held strictly in line by his party's
secret caucus; registering on the floor of the sen
ate decisions reached behind closed doors, and
under the domination of the southern oliearchv. A
Hit record is the one thing on which the sen
ates has earned what the voters of Nebraska will
present him his retirement. ' ' ';. V
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War ha so cheapened human life abroad that
militarist now speak of the "annual crops" of
boys reaching military age with no more feeling
than crops of field products inspire. The human
factor and the food factor, in the eyes of unon-
archs, are on a common level, and one is sacrificed
as readily as the other to conserve monarchial
endt. .'- ' f ' ..
Vrlnnl nuarrhiman on the border are excus.
able for worrying about the homecoming. . To be'
deprived of the felicity of viewing presidential
campaign at, short range is one of the crudest
sacrifice duty exacts, N . , ......
Extract from a Speech Delivered at Wllkeabarre,
Pa, on Saturday, October 14.
Labor leaders who are' shortsighted may at
the moment get from a man in public office who
is not actuated by justice, more than from a man
who it actuated by justice. But the laboring peo-
fie as a whole cannot afford to accept tuch gains,
f unjust legislation is given them for improper
reasons, then unjust legislation against them may
be enacted for improper reasons.' More than any
other people in the country the wageworkers
should insist on just and fair action. There is
grave reason to believe that in the course Presi
dent Wilson hat followed he did violence to his
own real conviction!. Until he became.a candi
date for office, he was a bitter, ungenerous and
often unjust critic -of labor unions. I have be
fore me tpeechet and letters of hit made and
written in 1905, 1907 and 1909, in which Mr. Wil
ton says among other thingt that "labor'unions
drag the highest man down to the level of the
lowest." and in soeakins of the capitalistic class.
he says that "there is another equally formidable
enemy .and it is tnat class tormeo ny tne iaDor
leaders of thil country." and attain "I am- a fierce
partisan of the .open shop," and again "The usual
standard of the employe m our day ti to give as
little as he can for hit Wagei. Labor is standard
ized by trade unions and this it the standard to
which it it made to conform. I need not point
out how economically disattrous tuch regulation
of labor it. Our economic supremacy may De lott
because the country grows more and more full of
unnrofiitahle servanti." These were the utter
ances of Mr. Wilson when he was president of a
university and had neither fear ot nor desire to
profit by the labor vote. In Mr. Wilson's "His
tory of the American People" he explicitly stated"
that the Chinese ought not to be excluded from '
this country because it it better to have them
here than it is to have the immigrant! we now
art from F.urnne. Hit words were: "The Chinese
are more to be desired as workmen than most of
the Coarse crew that come! crowding in every
where at the eastern norts." 1 Now he turns round
and says "Our gates must be kept open" to those
whom he thus denominateda "coarse crew." Since
he went into politic! he has again and again, in
cessantly and continuously, reversed himself on
wnat ne nau proicsscu iu ut uia ureoi vwh.h.-
tions prior to entering politics, and in each case
the announced change of conviction agreed with
what at the moment seemed to be hit political
interest, t . '
If it is alleged that Pretident Wilson has been
actuated only by principle in connection with the
Adamson law, then I ask why he has failed to
apply the same principle to the railway t postal
clerks, where he has full power. Estimating six
days to the week, these postal clerks, operating
between Newi York and Pittsburgh, are required
to run 205 miles per day (for the present ad
ministration has reduced the number of crews
from six to five), whereas the present trainmen s
agreement requires only 155 miles per day, which
is to be reduced still further by the Adamson Taw.
The only possible explanation of Mr. Wilson's
action in one case and inaction in the other is
hat only 400 men are affected in that case whie
the government has full control of the hours of
labor, whereas 400.000 men are supposed to be
affected by the Adamson bill. ;
Americans in Mexico
-WaaMtea Peet-
The traeic story of Chamal deserves a separate
chapter in the history of American .foreign rela
tions.1 ' .
Chamal is a pleasant valley in the state of
Tamaulipas, Mexico, near where the one hun
dredth meredran crosses the tropic 01 cancer. An
American discovered its possibilities, and, obtain
ing possession in the closing years of the last
century, began to dispose of it in small parcels to
American colonists. Making use of the Dial
propaganda then flooding this country and of the
enthusiastic reports of American consular agents
in Mexico, he had little difficulty in exciting the
Interest of substantial American farmers imbued
with the old pioneer spirit, so that by 1910 more
than 1,100 Americans had settled upon the land
and developed it to the point of favorable com
parison with similar undertaking! in the United
States. Then came the revolution. .
' At first the colonists suffered comparatively
little inconvenience except 'from the lack of a
market and from occasional exactions by passing
troopers. Gradually conditions grew worie, how
ever, and the future looked 10 black that many of
them drifted away to the United States, leaving
their property in charge of more adventurous
neighbor's. After the Vera Cruz incident And its
Teflex at Tampico their live! were endangered,
and most of ihem fled the country, leaving what
they were unable to carry to the mercy of the
bandita, who were then beginning to infest the
country.
Robbed and abused by federalists, Villlistas,
Huertistas and Carranzistas, following in rapid
and alternating succession, the colony was so far
depleted that in May of this year only il35 per
om remained, of whom an even 100 were women
and children. Following the invasion of Mexico
by United States troops, 1 and especially after
Parral, the attitude of the natives toward them
became to embittered that these few gathered up
what arms and supplies they could and went up
into the mountain! to the west, where they in
trenched themselves, warding off occasional at
tacks by bands of stragglers from the Carranza
army.' There they remained until July 24.
At this time, after numerous appeals, secretly
and circuitously conveyed tq our government rep
resentatives, one of the border consuls obtained
permission to send a special agent to the relief of
the colonists. During thirty days thereafter they
returned in small parties to the border, debili
tated,, travel-stained and weary, penniless and
stripped of every possession. Thence they were
scattered about the country, dependent upon rela
tives and strangers. . i
So much for the protection afforded by' the
American government to its citizens abroad I
.' Mr. Lovett's Position
Si. Loula G ooV Democrat -
The announcement of Robert S. Lovett, presi
dent of the Union Pacific, thatihe will support Mr.
i Wilson for re-election might cause some aston
ishment, but for the reasons he gives, when ana
lyzed in the ligtt of Mr. Lovett's antecedents. It
should be recalled that Mr. Lovett is a lawyer,
born and educated in Texas and that he has been
a democrat all his life. Mr. Lovett professes to
be resentful about the Adamson act, but he finds
that outweighed by other considerations. It is
not improbable that Mr. Lovett recognizes that
the Adamson act is an invalid measure and that
if valid it would supersede the railway schedules,
so what the railways might have to pay extra to
freight trainmen they would saveJon passenger
trainmen. In behalf of Mr, Wilson he recalls how
he used the prestige of his office to influence the.
Interstate Commerce commission to grant an in
crease of railway rates, batik when time! were so
psychologically had.
But the old '
Texas lawyer's antecedents creep
out in his reference to the tariff. He charges the
republicans with having revised the tariff upward
after promising to revise it downward. He is
wrong at to both statements. A revision on the
basis of the difference, of cost of production at
home and abroad was promised, but the tariff was
revised downward, false estimates while it was
still a mere paper tariff to the contrary notwith
standing. The reduction in duties op all imports
for the first thirty-five months of the Payne tariff.
L compared with the twelve years of the Dingley
tariff, was 21 per cent, according to treasury fig
ures. Mr. Lovett's defense of the Underwood
tariff affords another measure of his judgment
and information on such subjects. That tariff
was paralyzing industries and throwing millions
out of employment, when the war. brought a
Check to its normal operations. Everybody who
can remember for two years, and a half knows this
to be a fact. : ., .v ,, ,.
ITOHAVI
Thought Nugget (or the Day.
Knowledge, In truth, Is the great aun
In the nrmament Life and power are
scattered with all lta beams. Daniel
Webster.
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One Tew Ago Today In the War.
Bulgarian! captured Egri-Palank
and cut the Nlah-Uakub railway at
Vrania.
England declared Bulgaria's .Aegean
coast blockaded. . ' '
French aviators bombarded railway
station at Metz. . , - .
Germans in Russia continued on the
defensive and claimed the repulse of
Russian attacks in Dvinak, gmorgon
and Wessolowo sections. . v .
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.
At the opening reception" of the Im
perial club the Italian band furnished
the music for dancing and the twenty
five couples present had a most en
joyable time. Thw officers of the club
are as follows: Loula Littleneld. pres
ident; D. H. Christie, vice president,
and E. G, Solomon, secretary and
treasurer. ( -
Mrs. Will Millard, firs. Hamilton
and Guy Barton made a pleasure trip
to Denver. i
A movement Is on foot to organise
a chess, checker and whist Club In
this city. Rooms are to be secured In
some central location down town.
C. A. Jacobson, proprietor and
editor of the Swedish Posten, an Influ
ential Swedish paper published In
New Tork, Is In the city looking for a
favorable site for a paper mill. Mr.
Jacobson ias become so very favor
ably Impressed with Omaha that he
has decided to move his paper from
New Tork to this city and the material
Is now on the way. . ,
Work upon a second' observatory
has been commenced on the campus
of Crelghton college, which will be
completed before "he close of the
S resent month. When flnished It will
e supplied with an excellent set of
scientific Instruments, one of which
will be an astronomloal clock and an
other a telescope of even greater power
than that now used In the observatory
which was erected a couple of years
ago. - - ,
A team belonging to J. Kaufman
became frightened on Farnam street
and ran away, colliding with a tele
graph pole and throwing Mr. Kauf
man out He auataiued several severe
cuts, but was not seriously Injured.
The newly elected) officers of the
North Omaha brass' band are: C. J.
Langer, leader; Charles Walker, pres
ident; George Reed, secretary John
R. Reed, treasurer. A. R. Tooser has
acted as tutor' and the "present effi
ciency of the banM la largely due to
his untiring efforts. ,
This Day In History. .
K1777 Surrender or the British army
under General Burgoyne at Saratoga.
1838 Edwin Forrest first appeared
In England, at Drury lne. -
1841 Expedition by Texans under
General Hugh McLeod captured by
Mexican troops near San Miguel, and
marched under guar to the City of
Mexico. ' - - '.
1863 Filibusters under, Colonel
Walker sailed front San Francisco for
Lower California, i
1866 Cornerstone laid tor the Kan
sas state capltol at Topeka-
1870 Emperor Napoleon III de
clared that "there can be no prospect
of peace on the basis of ceding to
Prussia a single foot of French terri
tory." . l
-4899 Henry E. Abbey, operatic and
theatrical manager, died in New York
City. Born at Akron, O., June 27,
184. ' . N
1897 Algernon 8. Paddock, former
United States senator from .Nebraska,
died at Beatrice, Net. Born at Glens
Fails. N. Y., November S, 1830.
19(0 Betrothal was announced of
Queen Wllhelmina of The Netherlands
and Prince Henry of Mecklenburg
Schwerin. 1907 First wireless dispatch over
the Atlantic ocean for commercial pur
poses. , i
in 12 Turxey lormany declared war
against Bulgaria ana Serbia.
The Day We Celebrate. -
Charles K Moyer of the Mover Sta
tionery company was born October 17,
1859, at Lock port, N. Y. He went into
bueiness in Lockport In 1874 and has
been in bueiness In Omaha since 1881.
'Harold C. Evgrta, telephone en
gineer with the Nebraska Telephone
company, Is 85 years old today. He
was born m Hartford, Conn,, and Is a
graduate of Yale. He has been en
gaged in the work of telephone en
gineering for eleven years.
Edward B. Lefterta is Just 29 years
old today. He la superintendent for
the American Smelting and Refining
company's plant here,
Brigadier General Frederick W.
Sibley, who led the Fourteenth cav
alry in pursuit of the Mexican bandits,
born In Texas sixty-four years ago
today. J i
Robert Lansing, secretary of state
In the cabinet of President Wilson,
born at Watertown, N. Y., fifty-two
years ago today.
Earl of Selborne, who resigned his
position In the British ministry be
cause of differences with his colleagues
over the settlement of the Irish ques
tion, born fifty-seven years ago today. .
' James R. Garfield, secretary ot the
Interior under Roosevelt and now one
of the directors of the Hughes cam
paign, born at Hiram, O., fifty-one
years ago today.
J. One Crandall, former National
league pitcher, now with the Oakland
Pacific Coast league base ball team,
born at Fowler, Ind., twenty-eight
years ago today. ,. , -
Timely Jottings and Reminders. ,
Colonel Roosevelt is to leave New
York today on a speech-making tour
that will carry him as far as Albu
querque, N. M.
Stockholders of the Denver k. Rio
Grande railway are to hold their an
nual meeting today .at Denver.
- Charles E. Hughes to carry his
campaign tour across South Dakota
today, concluding with a night speech
at Sioux City, la. ' ; "
Representatives of , the . hardware
trade throughout the' country are to
gather at Atlantic City today tor the
twenty-second annual convention of
the National Hardware! association. -
The National Rerorm association
has called a convention to meet today
in Tremont temple, Boston, "to con
sider the relation of the European war
aad the world's distresses." 1
Claims of Pennsylvania cities to the
location of one of the proposed fed
eral farm loan banks will be present
ed to the Federal Farm Loan board
at a hearing to be held at Harrisburg
today. (
The establishment of the first rail
way poatofflce , service In the United
States' on October 15, 18(4, between
New York and Philadelphia, la to be
commemorated tonight, by a dinner
party to be given by tne New York
City branch of the Railway Mall asso
ciation. , , ., . . .
Bepresentative Government or
. Autocracy.
Sliver Creek, Neb., Oct. 14V To the
Editor of The Bee: If one would un
derstand President -Wilson's utter
ances (very many of them are of the
sophomorlc order, and Wilson prob
ably don't understand them himself),
he must "Interpret" them to use a
Wllsonism in the light of the fact
that he considers, and knowsA him
self to be a great autocrat, having ab
solute power a big boss, in common
phrase but Is too modest to say so.
To Illustrate this from his speech
of October 1 at Long Branch:
"You know that it (the- democratic
party) Is united as never before, and
you know that there is no conflict of
counsel within Its ranks."
And with the above rule in view,'
what does that mean? Simply this,
that there are no conflicts within the
ranks of the democratic party for the
reason that It lets Wilson do all the
counseling and follows him like a
poodle dog at the end of a string, or
cringes before him like a measly cur
under its master's lash. (Please take
note that this ia no figure of speech
but a plain statement of actual fact)
' - Again this from the same speech:
"Some very Interesting things have
happened in the democratic party In
the last three years and a half. When
I went to Washington I went with
certain men In my mind who had long
been influrtntial In the counsels of con
gress and who, I was told, were re
actionaries, men, I mean, in the demo
cratic ranks And I want to' say for
these men that no tvheelhorse in har
ness ever pulled harded than they did
In the direction of the party's pro
gram of progress. So that I can tes
tify that back of me as leader of the
party there is an organised, enthusi
astic team that Is ready to do team
work and obey every signal."
"The party's program!" And who
made that program? "Why, I, me,
Woodrow Wilson. Who else should
make It?" says Woodrow Wilson. "I
am the democratic party."
"I can testify that back of me as
leader of the party there Is an organ
ized enthusiastic team that Is ready to
do team work and obey every signal."
Do you hear that, you free born
American cltisen; do yotr hear the boss
talk? Obey every signal. . Yes, do
what Wilson commands to be done,
as in the case of the repeal of the
tolls clause of the Panama act;, the
senate in reversing itself in the mat-
. -1 th. Akii lahiv hill, the Adam
son strike measure, and all other ad
ministration measures, t
And who Is It that commands this
congress of ours that we have fondly
considered to be a great Independent
body of legislators voicing the will of
100,000,000 people the congress of
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Zach Chand-
rjnn WaAa Slranhen A. DflltalHJi
Charles Sumner, William H. Seward.,
O. P. Morton, James u. oiaine, ana
scores ot other Illustrious Americana?
. i. nwMrlricnt nf the ITnittxl
States he would have no right to
command tnem out ia a greater
than the president namely Woodrow
Wilson, the "leader" of the democratic
party. - .' - ,
And so the really great overshad
owing question in this campaign is, or
ought to be, this: "Shall we elect a
'leader Woodrow Wilson to domi
nate congress and tjie whole country
with autocratic, usurped power;, nr
shall we elect a president Charles
E. Hughes to serve the people as
their chief magistrate, himself sub
ject always to the constitution and the
law?" CHARLES WOOSTER.
SUNNY OEMS.
Bhe-iEtfore you to I muat enow you ihc
handeome clock mr aunt aent me.
He (faeetlouely) some of my friends tell
Ue that 1 am homely enough to atop a
ilock. I '
une jn, mar won r. mMin. iv n uu
etarted again. Boaton Transcript.
' "
Patlence-Tou ear be married under a
mleapprehenalon ? 4
Patrice Tea; he thought he understood
women, Tonkera Statesman, j
HIM?
NO- fttf tCRrU0H
OF HlMjVCa MtettY MARK.
"How tru It ' t .
"WhfttT" ; ' -
"That th rain Uli alike oa th juut
and the unjust" '
"Ho about thoM wh6 work tn th sub
way T" Inquired the New Yorker. New
Tork Sun. . ,.-
"Does my practising mskrou nervous?"
asVd the man who Is learninf to play the
cornet ' .
ut did when I first heard the people
round about discussing It," replied the sym
pathetic neighbor. "But now I'm getting;
so I don't care what happens to you."
Christian Register. ;
LOOK OVER A
WCHESTBk
w
AND YOU WILL
FIND NOTHING
OVERLOOKED.
That's what has made the reputa
tion of in6hester Rifles, aside
from their own peculiar 'and sue- 1
cessful constrmiriaon. The systeo
being all right, the next thing is to
make them right This the Win- ,
chesteV people, have always done.
They spend large sums of money
in testing 'materials, in inspecting
and gauging parts, and in testing
finished guns for manipulation and
shooting, so when the gun reaches
you it's a perfect shooting iron.
There are Winchester Single Shot -,
Rifles, Repeating Rifles and Auto-
- a.
matic Rifles, and you can get
them in various calibers suitable
FOR ALL KINDS OF HUNTING
FLORIDA
VIA
ILLINOIS CENTRAL H R.
Th SEMINOLE LIMITED Train, coneietinf of Exquleito
Sua Parlor Observation and up-to-dat Stal Pullman Cart, runs
daily throughout th year.
Dirsct Barries to the south anal ssuthaast.
Tickata on sals daily on and aftar October 15th, food return
ing until Juno 1st, 1917. . . -
RATES TO PRINCIPAL POINTS AS FOLLOWSi
Jacksonville $54.56
Tampa ......... $66.16
Daytona .$61.?6
St. Petersburg . . . .$66.16
Tickata to othar' points at
For doacriptivo litoraturo, tickets, ate, call at City Ticket Office,
, or write.
Palm Beach $73.06
Miami ........ . . $76.66
Key West ...... .$87.66,
Havana, Cuba . ,1192.15
proportional ratal.
407 S. 16th St.
S. NORTH
Diatrict Paatangar Agen(
Phono Douglas 264.
POIJTICAL, ADYKKTTSEMEXT.
rouncAX advebtisement.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana
. On Oetober t7th. Senator Bevarldt of Indiana, who need m tatroduetion to the
people of Omaha, vitl speak in the Auditorium. .
' Oetobar 17 to the latt day for registration. If you do not register Wfore that
time yon eannot vote. If you have not already registered go to the Sleetton Com
misilonsr's office in the Douglas County Courthoasa any day and do so. If you havs
moved sinee you registered yon must register again. - W
We urge every republican voter to ask himself this question t "Have I registered V
If not, do eo, at once. To be a voter carries with it a slight burden, but one which
ought to bo cheerfully borne by all eltiseni who are interested in government
, F. 8. HOWELL
Chairman Bepubllea-t County Central Committee.
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