Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, October 29, 1916, NEWS SECTION, Page 5, Image 5
5 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 29, 1916. V BAKER IS LYING OR . " IS SHIRKING DUTY Secretary of War is Challenged to Make Good on His Mexi can. Statement. BLUFF IS QUICKLY CALLED New York, Oct. 28. (Special Tele gram.) The following statement was issued by the republican national com mittee at republican headquarters here last evening: "The campaign of humbug, pretense and falsehood, which has been waged by the Wilson administration and its political managers, reached its climax last night when the issuance at the War department by Mr. Baker, sec retary of war, of his astounding state ment charging that some unnamed and unidentified persons were plot ting a new Mexican outbreak before election day, 'tor the purpose of turn ing the tide of sentiment against Wil- i. Immediately after issuing this charge Mr. Baker left Washington and was not available for questions concerning it until today. This is the 'same Baker, who ten days ago in Jer sey City, likened the heroes of 76 and Valley Forge to the bandits of Villa and Carranza. Having at various times denied that speech, despite the testi mony of stenographers, who reported it, it was to be expected that he would deny or modify his War department statement as soon as he found that it was not accomplishing what he had hoped for it. But denial in fact, was made for him and without waiting for his return to his office. It came from his cabinet colleague, Secretary Lan sing, who protested that 'politics was not thought of in the matter,' and Mr Baker, on his return to Washington today, corroborated Mr. Lansing, by saying that there was not the slightest political- significance in issuing his statement of last night. Statement Shows Its Purpose. "This statement, and the comment on it of administration officials today throw a white light upon the unscru pulous political course of the Wilson administration, and its managers in this campaign. As issued, Mr. Baker's statement said the War department had definite information, confirmed fr tl: W ta oi from other sources, that enemies of the administration's policy toward Mexico had arranged a spectacular at tack on either the American forces or some part of the American border, quoted. Only one interpretation of that statement was possible, and that was that Mr. Baker was charging the political opponents of the Wilson ad ministration with plotting active trea son, and it is incredible that Mr. Ba ker had any other purpose in mind, than that when he issued the- state ment. "Such a charge would be directly in line with utterances of Woodrow Wil son himself. Repeatedly the presi dent has shown himself to be fond of this vague kind of denunciation. "He 1 enjoys making charges , in broad, general terms, which specify nothing, and no one. Especially with regard to the opposition to bis policy toward Mexico, and his handling of the Mexican problem, has Mr. Wilson resorted to this sort of charge. Only a few days ago, at Shadow Lawn, he said: "I do not find that anybody else's counsel is taken in respect of the pol icy that this country should pursue with regard to Mexico, except those who have hitherto acted as the coun sellors for the vested interests in Mexico.' Not once has Mr. Wilson or hii subordinates ventured to make any of the charges specific, or to iden tify any of the men against whom they might have been named. Not once has he or any of his henchmen came into the open. But on several' occasions he or they have talked thus vaguely about the 'disloyalty of un named, unspecified, and unidentified individuals or groups of individuals. On every occasion, when it has been sought to evoke explicit information, they have taken refuge in the coward 'y obscurity of anonymous language. Plays Came of Chief. "Mr. Baker was playing the same game the game of his chief when he issued the statement of lasf night. The charge he was making was of V treason. If Mr. Baker, or anybody in the administration, has information justifying such a charge, it is his sworn duty to lay it instantly before the proper law officials and proceed to hale the traitors before the bar of justice. If Mr. Baker does not do that, he is violating the oath he took to support the -constitution and the laws of the United States. I "The time has come to call a halt upon this reckless disregard for facts, 1 and the truth which premits such un supported and unspecific charges of treason and other high crimes to be Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don't Know It Weak and unhealthy kidneys cause so much sickness and suffering and when through neglect or other causes, kidney trouble is permitted to continue, serious results may be expected. Your other organs may need at tention "but your kidneys should have attention first because their work is most important. If you feel that your kidneys are the cause of your sickness or run down xondition commence taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy, be cause if it proves to be the remedy you need and your kidneys begin to improve they will help all the other organs to health. . Prevalency of Kidney Disease Most people do not realize the alarming increase and remarkable prevalency of kidney disease. While Kidney disorders are among the most common diseases that prevail, they are almost the last recognized by pa tients, who ' usually content them selves with doctoring the effects, while the original disease constantly undermines the system SPECIAL NOTE You mav obtain by -enclosing ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. This gives you the opporturity to prove the remarkable merit of this medicine. They will also send you a book of valuable information, containing many of the thousands of irrateful letters received from men and women who sav they found Swamp-Root to be just the remedy needed in kidney, liver and blad der truhles. The Value and success of Swamp-Root are so well known that our readers are advised to send for a sample size bottle. Address Dr. Kil mer & Co., BinKhamton, N. Y. Be sure to say you read this offer in The Omaha Sunday Bee. banded about so loosely, and unchal lenged by high officials of the govern ment. To quote the language of the president himself, it is time to put up or shut up. "Mr. Baker knows thst he cannot put up, and he seeks to evade re sponsibility for this charge, just as, he seeks, by absolutely false denial to escape the responsibility for his astounding utterances in Jersey City ten days ago. But even in his efforts at evasion, Mr. Baker does not free himself from culpability. "Challenged in Washington today, Mt. Baker, joined with Secretary Lansing in saying that the conspira tors to whom the statement of last night referred were not Americans, but Mexicans, who had come to the American side of the border and were carrying on their plotting in the United States. " 'Everyone knows,' he said, 'a large body of men who have withdrawn from Mexico to this country are con stantly aggressive against the Mexi can government.' If Mr. Baker knows of a single man to whom his assertion applies, and does not in stantly invoke the process of the law against the man, then he is guilty of violating the oath of his duty and his oath to support the constitution, and the laws of the United States? Statute Easily Found. V "Mr. Baker is himself a lawyer, and if he does not know that the acts that he charges against these un named Mexicans in United States territory are violations of the United States penal code, the poorest office boy he ever had working for him, could tell him, and could find the statute violated in ten minutes or less. Whichever alternative Mr. Baker chooses to take, convicts him of dere liction of duty and of unfitness for the bffice he holds. Somebody in the Wil son administration is acquainted with the provisions of the federal statutes regarding such offenses against the United States as Mr. Baker so lightly charges in his statement. "Somebody invoked those provis ions not so very long ago, when Vic toriano Huerta was arrested at El Paso. Huerta died, "a prisoner of the United States, in El Paso, last Jan uary. How does it happen that the laws which were sufficient for the needs of the Wilson administration in the case of Huerta cannot apply to the cases of these conspirators thus denounced by Secretary Baker and Secretary Lansing? "It is time to have an end of fales hood and concealment and hypocracy and politics in this Mexican business, and to have the introduction of firm ness and vigor and honesty and fair dealing." WOMEN SHOULD GET THIS HABIT AS WELL AS MEN Don't eat bite of breakfast until you drink glass of hot water. Happy, bright, alert vigorous and vivacious a good, clear skin; a nat ural, rosy.-complexion' tnd freedom from illness are assured 'only by clean, healthy -blood. If only every woman, and likewise every man, could realize the wonders of the morning inside bath what a gratifying change would take place. Instead of the thousands of sickly, anaemic-looking men, women and girls with pasty or muddy complex ions; instead of the multitudes of "nerve wrecks," "rundowns," , "brain fags" and pessimists we should see a virile, optimistic throng of rosy cheeked people everywhere. An inside bath is had by drinking, each morning before breakfast, a glass ti real hot water with a tea spoonful of limestone phosphate in it to wash from the stomach.Nliver, kid neys and ten yards of bowels the pre vious day's indigestible waste, sour fermentations and poisons, thus cleansing, sweetening and freshen ing the entire alimentary canal be fore putting more food into ' the stomach. Those subject to sick headache, bil iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism, colds, and particularly those who have a pallid, sallow complexion and who are constipated very often, are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at the drug store, which will cost but a trifle, but is suf ficient to demonstrate the quick and remarkable change in both health and appearance awaiting those who prac tice internal sanitation. We must re member that inside cleanliness is more important than outside, because the skin does not absorb impurities to contaminate the blood, while the pores in the thirty feet of bowels do. Advertisement. A Trial Will Convince Anyone, Thousands of people have testi fied that the mild and immediate ef fect of Swamp-Root, the great kid ney, liver and bladder remedy, is soon realized and that it stands the highest for its remarkable results In the most distressing cases. Symptoms of Kidney Trouble. Swamp-Root is not recommended for everything, but if you suffer from annoying bladder troubles, fre quently passing water night and da, smarting or irritation in passing, brick-dust or sediment, headache, backache, lame back, dizziness, poor digestion, sleeplessness, nervousness, heart disturbance due to bad kidney trouble, skin eruptions from bad blood, neuralgia, rheumatism, lum bago, bloating, irritability, worn-out feeling, lack of ambition, may be loss of flesh or sallow complexion, kid ney trouble in its worst form may be stealing upon you. Swamp-Root is Pleasant to Take. If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, you can purchase the regular fifty-cent and one dollar size bottles at all drug stores, a sample size bottle of Swamp-Root REMAN CLEARED; HE WILL GO FREE Coroner's Jury Holds He Stabbed Fogle to Death in Moment of Insanity. WILL BE NO PROSECUTION A coroner's jury, sitting in the case of Henry Reitman, Swift and Com pany janitor, held by the police on a charge of murder, returned a verdict declaring that the defendant com mitted the deed in a moment of in sanity. The jury further recommended that he be released from custody. County Attorney Maguey, who con ducted the investigation, stated last evening that he would not prosecute, should the jury so recommend. The morgue, where the inquest was held, was crowded. Former Mayor P. J. Trainor of South Omaha, Mrs. Burns, well known property owner; Captain Tony Vanous and others tes tified in defense of iteitman. Reitman was not called on the witness stand, but others who saw the cutting testi fied. Sol Fogel, victim of the tragedy, was .buried Thursday afternoon from the family residence at 2516 Q street. Police are ready to release Reitman as soon as the county attorney acts this morning. Gift Shop "Plant on Hallowe'en ' and it blossoms Christmas Morn." We have bulb bowls that will take any of the water growing varieties of bulbs, priced from 35c to $35 Furnish Your Home Here i I I !j j! Library Table 28x48 Mahogany table, Adam style, flut ed posts, metal drop polls and full width draWr Price, $26.00 Brass Beds A full size genuine Brass Bed at' . , $7.75 and up. . ' ' A Seamless Square Tube Brass Bed aa low as $25.00. Others at $29, $30, $33.75, etc. We Are All the new You Can Choose Best Where There's Most to Choose From For example, our Showing of Axminster Rugs comprises a world of patterns and colorings as well as many grades and all sizes. Not a few rugs priced low to attract you, But an immense assortment that impresses you. Axminster Rugs, 9x12 $22.50, $24.00, $27.50 Axminster Rugs, 27x54 $2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $3.50 Most patterns can be matched in all sizes including such unusual sizes as 7-6x9 and 9x9. 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Mrs. Hatcher asks (or $75 a month alimony, the household furniture and that her maiden name, Frances A. llolekanip, be restored. New Company Gets Long-Term Lease Omaha has another new industry. Yesterday the T. G. N'orthwrll company, dealers in farming imple ment;" and automobiles, closed a ten year lease for a six-story building on Karnam street between Ninth and Tenth streets. They will occupy the entire building and basement. The Armstrong-Walsh company ne gotiated the lease. Orchard Careful attention to quality and the correct detail of design and pattern makes it possible for us to present home furnishings at moderate prices that rival those that are far more expensive. ' Ladies' Spinet Desk Very similar to cut. Finished in English brown mahogany. An ex ceptional value at .' $37.00 : Othen at $35.00 and up. Exclusive Agents models shown. Hoosier Cabinet Special Demonstration Copper-Clad Malleable Ranges During this week a factory representa tive will demonstrate fully the many desir able features of the Copper Clad Range. its rust-proof Copper linings, Its unbreakable malleable Iron construction, " its fuel-saving Thermo construction its combination Draft Door, and many other exclusive features that every pros pective range buyer is interested in knowing about. BOMB IS DROPPED ON KAISER'S TRAIN Swiss Dispatch Says Explosive Missile Hurled from Airplane Kills Engineer. DETAILS ARE NOT GIVEN Paris, Oct. 28 A bomb dropped hv an aviator of the entente allies has killed the engineer driving the train of Emperor William of Ger many, according to information re ceived at Zurich, Switzerland. Emperor William recently was re ported to be at Bapaunie, on the Sonnne front, personally overseeing the preliminaries for a counter offen sive for which the German troops there were said to have received strong reinforcements. Apparently during this visit he de livered a brief speech to the German troops, thanking them for the "heroic manner" in which they had (ought for four months. On Monday, last, the emperor was in Berlin on a brief visit, conferred with the imperial chancellor and visit ed the palace at 1'otsdam. His move- ents since then have not heen re- ported. Where is Wilson Money? Brookficld Wants to Know Ben Brookfield of the Union Pacific legal department has implicit confi- & Wilhelm Co, 414-416-418 South 16th St from Complete Jacobean Oak Rocker (Uki Illustration) Tapestry covered spring ,seat and back. Turned post and paneled under the arm. Price of rocker or chair to match $15.00 for, the Celebrated with all interior white enamel, Have Music In Tour Home Our Offer $109 Victor Victrola, Style XI Complete with twenty-four selections of music, your own choice-, on twelve double ten inch records $109 Our Record Stock Is Most Complete November Records now on sale China Matting, 10c Matting used at the Ak-Sar-Ben Coronation Ball a few pieces are left from last week's sale. Pieces large enough for fair sized rooms. Formerly 35c Now 10c Yard October v Tea Kettles, lea dence in the election of Mr. Hughes and to show his confidence, has bet $250. even money, that Wilson will be defeated in the race for the presi dency. He has some more money to wager on the same kind of proposition. The same for 30 years Honest Goods-Fair Prices Anniversary Sale Starts Wednesday Thompson-Belden & Company Stocks at Moderate Prices Metal Beds (Like Cut) In Vernis Martin, white enamel or oxidized finish, 2-inch continu ous post, with -inch fillers. 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