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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1916)
THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1916. HAPPENINGS IN THE JAGIC CITY Campaign Goes Along Merrily, With Democrat Meetings Poorly Attended. STUDENTS TAKE INTEREST The last week of the campaign finds the South Side in no particular excite ment unless the chagrin or exaspera tion of a few democratic managers is considered. Democrats held three meetings of unsuccessful nature. The attendance at all three was very small. At the stock yards a poll was taken by a democrat Saturday morning which showed a plurality for Kennedy and Sutton. Both the Hughes and Fairbanks club and the South Side Republican club will be active this week. Nightly street meetings are planned, with speakers of local and state prom inence. Sweet Shop Girls Lose. The A. B. Sweet shop girls invaded the South Side after a season's leave Saturday evening and suffered a de feat at the hands of Oarlow s ret Colts at the Brunswick alleys. John ny Devine, probably the most consist tent bowler among the younger heav ers of the wooden sphere, held up the alley shark's end and bowled a high score of oZ9. f Laura Bruch, as usual, was the high point gainer for the Sweet Shop quin tet, totaling 512 in three games. The scores: SWEET SHOP OIRLS. 1st. 2d. 3d. Tot. Nlsblt 128 133 161 410 Oiierns 161 116 180 6 Bruch 202 146 186 612 Miller 113 160 127 430 Hughes ...140 180 186 606 Handicap 71 71 71 213 Total 133 804 871 2616 OARLOW COLTS. lat. 2d. 3d. Tot. Itagen 207 140 132 488 Helten 161 201 160 612 Baker 168 162 103 663 Devlne 210 188 223 (20 McDonald 109 177 113 481 Total! 164 007 810 1 Students to Elect. The presidential campaign is being vigorously maintained at th; local South Side High school. For the first time in years students have taken an intense interest in the race ot candi dates for national, state and local of' fices, the interest being initiated in class rooms presided over by Miss Celia Chase, head of the department of history. An election will be held on Novem ber 7, the ballot to contain the names of the national, state and county can didates. Several heated arguments have taken place among students. An organization was soon under way and leaders placed in charge. A raid was made bv the republican forces on the headquarters of the Young Men's Hughes and Fairbanks club last even ing and a number of Hughes pins and a Quantity ot campaign literature tak en. A delegation of the democratic managers went to the North Side to obtain similar basis tor the campaign- Charles Evans Hughes and John L. Kennedy are the popular candi dates at present, while Henry Mur phy and Judge Reed have loyal boosters. Funeral of E. J. Sullivan. The body of Ed J. Sullivan, who died in Colorado Springs Thursday, has arrived at the South -Side and the funeral will be held from the home of his wife's parent's Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curran, 1702 W street, at 8:30 this morning, with services at St. Agnes church and interment at St. Mary's cemetery. Dance at Keno Club. The beautiful new club rooms of the Keno club were devoted for the first time to a club dance and Hal lowe'en party Thursday evening. Members twenty strong accompanied by young women, gathered for the evening and passed a splendid time The spirit of Hallowe'en pervaded and decorations corresponded. Cider, apples and doughnuts consti tuted the refreshments, which were passed out in mischievous style. The dance was the most successful in a long time. Those present were: Messrs. Leo Lowry. George Hauptman, Paul Jordon, Russell -Barclay, James Koulsky, George Schmidt, Edward Schmidt, J. Waldo Laur. Minis Miller, Ciyde Parsley. Walter Oalloway, Martin Johnson, Fern Roberts. Harold Hill, Harold Chambers and Ray Jesse. Misses Marie Krug, Ellen 8mith, Ruby Norgaard. Gladys King, Helen Tyner, Ann Nelson. Jennie Hall, Aurora Peterson, Elsl. Pjerson. Lillian Tront, Madge Stur ' rock. Gladys Van Sant, Cathrlne Crawford, Viola Wtliiams, Clara Stargaard and Hasel I.austen. Frank Anderson. Otto Hallgren, Mr. and 61 rs Leonard Blessing. Magic City Gossip. -A Woman's Fight" Is the five-act Paths play at the Bees tonight. This Is a new Gold Rooster offering and Is unusually good. "A Woman's Fight" If you wish to avoid seeing this picture hind side foremost, try hikI arrive at 0:30. 8:00 or 9:30 P. M., this will Insure you starting the play on the title reel. The Besse. "My Conception of the Presidency" By CHARLES EVANS HUGHES One the eve of election day the American people are entitled to a summary of the things I have stood for in this campaign, as they are the things I shall stand for as president. No man can tell in advance what unexpected de mands the next four years may present, but one whose conception of the president's duty rests upon funda mental principles can described with entire sincerity how the problems of administration would be ap proached and in what spirit they would be solved. A man charged with the duty of reaching a desired goal knows that the road to it is found in following that path which sound judgment and clear vision open up step by step. I can show the road I expect to travel. I propose first of all to start right. The president is primarily an executive. It is his supreme duty to attend to the business of the nation, to safeguard it interests, to anticipate its needs, to enforce its laws. The first act of a president who takes this view of his duties is to call about him the ablest cabinet the country can furnish, men who can deal with the tremendous international and domestic problems which will confront us in the next four years. My conception of the presidency differs absolutely from that of Mr. Wilson. I look upon the president as the administrative head of the government. He looks upon the president as primarily the political leader and lawmaker of the nation. In the two departments of government most closely touching our foreign relations the Department of State and the Department of the Navy he choose men whom he knew to be wholly unequal to their duties. Administrative obligations was subordinated to politi cal exigency. I can assure the country that any ad ministration under my direction will stand upon sound administrative ground with the ablest cabinet the country can supply. Across the road we are to travel this next four years, even though we start right and move with prudence and courage, serious hazards are thrown like breaks in a roadway made by a torrential rain. These all rise out of the war torrent which has over whelmed Europe. The first has to do with our foreign relations. It is the president's duty to safeguard the interests of our own nation and to preserve the friend ship of every other nation. No man is more determined than I to maintain the peace which the United States. Spain, Sweden. Norway and all the American republics now enjoy. But I should seek to maintain that peace by a firm and courteous insistence on the rights of our citizens at home and broad. An American in Mexico is subject to Mexican law, but he is an American still and is entitled to the protection of his own government in his lawful busi ness. For one I shall never consent to a policy which leaves Americans helpless against the lawlessness of any country in which they have a right to do business. There confronts labor in the next four years a condition more serious than any that American laboring men have been called upon to face. When this war began over a million American working men were seek ing vainly for employment. When the war ends and the developed energies of a new Europe are thrown into commercial production, our nation will face a competition such as it never knew. One of two things must happen either millions of men will be seeking work in vain or else there must be thought out in advance the problem of com mercial organization as France and England and Ger many are seeking to think out the problem today. Every one of these nations is preparing to defend its own market by a protective tariff. The end of the war will end also the opportunities for labor created by the war. The millions in the trenches today will be our industrial competitors tomorrow. If we are to save our laboring men from a catastrophe we must plan a tariff protection along sound, just and economic fines. To this endeavor 1 pledge myself and the men who are to be my colleagues. In this matter again I differ absolutely from the policy of the present administration. Democratic plat forms have declared that the government has ' no right to levy tariff duties except for income. This is the fundamental faith of the democratic party. 1 pledge myself and those who stand with me to deal with the needs of laboring men the country over, whatever their trade or organization, upon the princi ple of giving the largest protection possible to every American working man and the largest participation possible in the prosperity of our industries with special favors to none. Finally it is to be remembered that every European government is putting itself behind its industries; organizing them, encouraging them and suggesting economies. When the commercial struggle begins anew, the industries of every European country will go into the world markets, backed by the effective co operation and intelligent oversight of their govern ment. Our national( policy requires that government main tain a strict supervision of business organization. This can be done effectively and yet leave the government free to encourage legitimate and wholesome business enterprise. I stand for such supervision and control of business, but I demand also that business, great and small, (and especially the small business) be treated fairly and justly. Only under such conditions can business pay living wages or compete with foreign manufacturers. In this respect again the present administration holds a policy entirely opposite. It has viewed busi ness enterprises with suspicion and has made the gov ernment a brake to stop the wheels of legitimate in dustrial progress. It has treated the business men of this country as though they were suspicious characters. It has assumed that capital and labor are natural ene mies. In four years it has put this country further on the road to class war than has been accomplished in a generation before. The menwho stand with me believe in the honesty of the American working man, they believe no less in the honesty of the American business man, and they believe that the common good is to be found not in class war, but in mutual justice and fair dealing, not as between capital and labor in the abstract, but as between men and men. You know the road we have traveled this last four years. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Daniels are its monu ments of executive efficiency. Our murdered and for saken citizens in Mexico reveal a conception of Ameri can citizenship plain enough to see, but a new one for American patriotism to adopt; the monument of class bitterness raised by this administration throws a sinister shadow across our political horizon; the unjust ac cusation against business men has left a bitter taste in our national life. If you prefer this path it is plainly marked.. And the end of it is class war. You ask what road I propose to travel? These are" the milestones which mark it an executive re sponsibility to the whole nation, a cabinet chosen from the ablest Americans, a foreign policy that stands cour teously but firmly for American rights, a flag that pro tects the American in his lawful rights wherever his legitimate business may take him, a preparation for trade competition which shall protect all groups of American workmen, a government oversight of busi ness which will fearlessly eliminate abuses, but will act on t,he assumption that the average business man is honest, and finally a domestic policy which looks to industrial peace, and to sound and permanent pros perity based upon the development of American trade and the building up of American industries. We Americans are in one boat. You cannot strike a blow at one group without injury to all. Common justice and fair play will settle our difficulties if sus picion and bitterness are let alone. These are the prin ciples by which I propose o be guided. RESCUES PART OF USHIP'SCREW Thirteen Men of Vigilant Are Picked Up by the Dutch Steamer Ryndam. BOAT WAS RECENTLY SOLD London, Oct. 30. Lloyd's shipping agency announces the receipt of the following wireless message from the Dutch steamer Ryndam by way of Valentia, Ireland, October 29: "Sixty degrees, ,10 minutes north, 12 degrees. 40 minutes west. Rescued thirteen men of the crew of the American tug Vigilant. Three men remained in the tug, which proceeded on its voyage." The Ryndam left New York Octo ber 21 for Rotterdam. Cleared From New York. New York, Oct. .10. The tug Vigi lant cleared from New York on Octo ber 11 for Sydney and Falmouth. It had recently been sold and was to be placed under British registry. It is a vessel of 226 tons gross. J. H. Winchester & Co. cleared the Vigi lant from this port. Hughes Leads in Straw Vote Taken By Big Drug Firm Extra I Hughes elected 1 Calm yourself. It is only a straw vote, but Charles R. Sherman (demo crat) declares it is the first compre hensive straw vote yet attempted and executed. Mr. Sherman's show windows at Sixteenth and Dodge streets are crowded all day with political fans scanning the returns which now show that Hughes is in the lead. Louis K. Liggett, head of the United Drug company, controlling 8,000 agencies throughout the states, arranged a straw vote covering all of these stores from ocean to ocean. The returns were mailed and tabulated and the tabulations sent back to all of the drug stores. This straw vote includes 135 points in Nebraska and 300 in Iowa, and the same proportion throughout the country. It is believed to be the most representative of any straw vote ever taken. Mr, Liggett, who handled this big task, is a prominent Boston business man and mentioned in connection with the next governorship of Massachusetts. Land of Ukelele Cursed By Monotonous Weather "Seasonal weather, even sudden sleet storms, are blessings for Nebraskans, according to W. A. Smith, vice presi dent of the street railway company, who, with Mrs. Smith, spent the re cent month in Hawaii. The land of the ukelele furnished a good time for the Omahans, but the monotony of the weather (it was always about 75 degrees) grew irksome. Hawaiian farmers have the best of Nebraska's rural citizens in the ma turing of crops. Pineapples and sugar cane ripen every month down in the semi-tropics. Canneries and mills run ten months of the year, closing eight weeks for repairs. To Start New Station at Grand Island Next Month Plans for the Union Pacific new passenger station in Grand Islandn have been completed and it is antici' pated that work on the construction of the structure will begin next month, continuing so long as the weather Will permit of brick laying. The new station in Grand Island will be of pressed brick construction two stories high, ninety-four feet wide and 150 feet long. The first floor will be used for depot purposes and the second story for railroad offices. There will be a large restaurant on the first floor. Spiritual Vision Is Life's Essence A man might as well be one of the blind fish in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky as to be without spiritual eyesight, a sight of the mind and soul, according to Rev. Robert French Leavens, newly installed pastor of the First Unitarian church, who spoke to a large congregation Sunday morning at rwentv-eiRhth and rarnam streets "Though Milton lost his eyesight, as a poet and seer he had a wealth of vision,' said the speaker. "Fulton, Morse, Bell, Vail and Hill capitalized their vision. It was vision that trans formed the American desert into fruitful farms and gardens. 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