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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 29, 1916.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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
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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.
Brussel Rugs, &-3xl0-6. .$12.75, $15.50, $16.50, $19.50
Brussel Rugs, 9x12 $15.00, $18.00, $19.00, $22.00
Rugs of Exquisite Beauty
For those perfect shadings of color and design that lend a sense
of luxury to the room, permit us to show you
Bundhar Wiltons, French Wiltons or Whittall Anglo
Persians and Anglo-Indians 1
Our Stock is Vary Complete.
Other Women in
Case, Mrs. Hatcher
Asks for Divorce
Alleging that her husband has re
peatedly sought the society of other
women and invited her to do the
same with men, whereas she has al
ways conducted herself as a loving
wiie. above such conduct, Frances A.
Hatcher has filed suit for divorce
from Ralph B. Hatcher.
The Hatchers were married in
Sioux City in IW, and came to
Omaha in 1910. The husband is an
employe of the Missouri Pacific rail
road. -
Instances in which the plaintiff
claims to have followed her husband
and caught him in the society of
ther women are cited.
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. Full
site or single 1
Each, $8.50
Othars at $5, $6, $6.75, $7.50, etc.
Hoosier Kitchen
water-proof exterior finish.
Headquarters For
Modish Curtains
Duchess Panels
New lace paneling adapted for windows of
any width. Each panel from 9 to 12 inches
wide. As many panels as each window requires
can be purchased in one piece
$1.50, $1.75, $2.25, $2.50 per panel
Duchess Lace Curtains
Made of fine English net in ivory and
champagne color
$4, $5.50, $6, $7, $10, $17.50 pair
An Unusually Strong Line of
Inexpensive Scrims, Marquisettes,
Muslins and Quaker Craft Curtains
Muslin Curtains $1.25 and $1.65
Marquisette Curtains. , .$1.00, $1.50, $2.00
Voile Curtains $1.25, $1.75, $2.25
Net Curtains. $2.00, $2.50, $3.75
Sunfast and Tubfast
Drapery Materials
These materials are guaranteed Sunfast and 'Washable, and in
spite of the unusual condition of the dye market, we are showing as
large a line as ever of these beautiful drapery materials, in all desirable
colors rose, blue, mulberry, green, brown, etc.
Prices from $1.50 to $4.50 per yard.
60 Inches wide, enough to split for the ordinary sized window. ,
Cretonnes
For sun room, living room and bed room
. 30c, 50c, 65c, $1.00
Sale of House Furnishings Continues
Offering Many Saving in Utility Articles.
$1.25 Self-Basting Roaster 69e
J1.00 Savorv Enamel Double Boiler; cooks by
steam
$2.75, 6-piece Kitchen Knife Set; best quality
steel V";?1-78
15c Washable Dustless Broom Cover, for floors,
walls, etc He
30c Wire Dish Drainer .23c
15c Chopping Knife 10c
12 c. 5-yd. pkg. Lace-Edge Shelf Paper... 7c
10c Slotted Cake Mixing Spoon 6a
10c Fiber Scrub Brush
Extra Special
Entire Line First Quality White Enamel Ware
33 Less
The line includes Berlin Kettles and Sauce Pans,
rots, L-Oliee rots, narer rus, vuimnueru aim ruuu.iig miia.
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Dr. Ballsy, Pres. Dr. Shlphtrd, Mgr.
706 City Nat'l Bank Bldg.
16th and Herney Striata,
Omaha.
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Omaha National
JITNEY
TAXI
MAXWELL CARS
Webster 202
Ostermoor
Mattress
This famous felted mat
tress built in layers ia sold
in Omaha only at this store.
$15. $16.50, $18
Chaise Lounge
This popular design Chaise
Lounge is made of mahogany
frame, dull finish; upholstered in
cretonne. An ideal piece for bed
room. Made in very substantial
manner with double pillow effect
in back and seat, full spring seat,
length 68 inches
Price, $39.00
Cabinets ,
Price, $28.50.
6c
Lipped Sauce Pans," Double Boilers,
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