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14 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1918.' NO NEGOTIATED PEACE FOR U. S., PLEA OF TAFT v Urges-Republican Congress as Check Upon Weak Pol- of Wilson Wih the Huns. Icy Burgess-Nash Honor Boys Who Have Joined Army (Continued From Fa Eleven.) Reclaimed diplomacy of the admin istration. What ate the views of our allies, who have borne the heat and burden of this war and who have saved us from German domin ation? We know generally that there are some of the 14 points which they will not agree to, and that there are other conditions, not ably indemnities, not contained in the 14 points upon which they will insist. "The course of the president has seriously endangered the unaninim ity of the allies in this critical stage In the settlement of the war. Until we know exactly what the allies wish, until they have mads formal declaration of the terms which they demand, we cannot in honor fix what our terms shall be. But w do know that the terms can all be properly settled only after an un conditional surrender by Austria and Germany. How then, can the attitude of our government be made a demand for unconditional sur render by the return of a repub lican congress in the election of next Tuesday? This will push the president, as nothing else can, this will be an expression of the popular will that he cannot ignore, this will be a controlling of will that he must respect. Would Dictate Peace. "The president speaks in all his messages as if he were the sole ar biter in the matter of peace, the participation of the senate in fixing the terms he never mentions and as to the right of the allies to take part in the settlement and have an equal voice he makes only a slight reluc tant referenced i "The return of a republican con- fress will settle all these mat ers to the satisfaction of the Am rican public. . "Third: After unconditional sur render and q statement of the terms of peace, the country will naturally turn to its domestic questions and this subject must be considered by the next congress for a large part pf its term. For nearly two years, the executive of this administration has exercised more uncontrolled power man any administration in the history of the country, and that power has included the expenditure of vaster sums per year than this nation or any other nation has ex pended in the history of the world. , "One of the functions of congress, impiled in the constitution, is the examination into the account ex penditures by the executive under its appropriations. lit other words one of the principal and most salu- tory restraints upon wasteful, ill advised and corsvpt expenditure of money, and tliV misuse of discre tionatyi'eri is the investigation which congress or either house of congress, is authorized to make with view to preventing further abuse with a view to makinjr known to the American people the story of the stewardship of the , executive, to whom such power and expendi- ture have been entrusted. 1 Should Probe Waste. : "Thafthere has been waste in the . expending of money appropriated in preparation for the war goes with' out saying, but the American people can be trusted to note how inevita ble such waste is under the most careful administration where a war . has been thrust suddenly on the government without trained agen ciea to make the preparation there or, . "Such Investigation rhold be made with due regard to the dlffi Cutties that were presented, but it should be made impartially . and without fear and independent of any partisan restraint I need hard' !r say that a democratic congress nder the control of the executive, s a democratic congress will be, is not likely to look with close sera ' tiny into such a stewardship. Only a republican congress can be count . ed on to bring the facts as the peo ple should have them. "W nave contracted enormous , debts to carry on this war, debts ; which our posterity to the third and fourth generation will have to pay. If we have unconditional surrender and a just peace, that which we have secured will be worth the cost But the American people are en titled to know that the money is honestly and effectively expended, or to understand in what respects tho administration and its depart ments and subordinates did not meet the patriotic duty and the proper standard ot ethciency which the American people had the right under the circumstances to expect Wo have during this war, under es- ' pionage acta and under other legis ? lation, given the executive greater power of restraint upon the free dom of speech and freedom of the press and upon freedom of action than in our previous history, , Whether in peace or in war the American people are entitled to ' know byfull and free investigation after the war. when revelations can injure no one but those -.who are guilty, whether that power has been exercised for partisan purposes. , Only a republican congress can be trusted to make such an investiga tion. Post-War Problem "Great - "Fourth; when the war closes and ; the demand for ammunition and all , kinds of war equipment ceases ; abruptly and the intense activities in many fields of production are to be turned from war instrumental Ities in supplies to stores of peace necessities that are now so limited in quantities, it is essential that such a business transition shall take place with the least disturbance to labor and capital. In any event and under the widest legislation, we must expect a halt in business that will trv our oeoole. "The exigency must be met by wise legislation and careful admin istration. This is a matter for earn est counsel and deliberation. It is a problem for the solution of which both the legislative and the execu tive branches must be responsible wa must therefore have a legisla L I m If T " ,sf The Burgess-Nash company has, within the past few days, done honor to the boys who have gone from their ."rm to do their part in "making the world safe for democ racy," by placing a beautiful bronze plate bearing the honor roll of'the firm in large letters, in a conspicu ous place at the entrance to the elevators. It was the plant of the firm to accompany the installation of this honor roll by a suitable ceremony of speeches and songs, but the epi demic of Spanish influenza induced them to dispense with any form ality of that kind. Besides the 52 names which the plate now contains there are ten more to be added to bring the list up to date. More than two-thirds of these men are now overseas, and the Burgess-Nash people rejoice that so far as they know, not a single fatality or accident of any conse quence has befallen any of them. RUSSIA SCENE OF BLOODSHED UNPRECEDENTED Lord Cecil Says Present Gov ernment Surpasses Worst Days of Old Regime in Denial of Justice. London, Nov. 1. Discussing the position of British subjects in Rus sia in the House ot commons to day, Lord Robert Cecil, assistant secretary ot state and toreign at fairs, said that the government's information was that the amount of blood shed bjrthe present govern ment of Russia greatly exceeded any thing that ever took place under the imperial regime. "There has been no pretense of justice, he said. Teople ot all na tionalities have been arrested and imprisoned without any reason be ing given. Moreover, there has been a large amount of casual murder and brigandage throughout all ofc European Russia. mere has also been reckless destruction of all means of subsistence. "The British government will shrink from nothing within their power to get every British subject out of Russia and unquestionably mean to exact justice on the people guilty of these outrages when they are able to get them into their power." American Casualty List LIEUTENANT PAT O'BRIEN GOING BACK TO FIGHT. tive branch which shall be indepen dent and courageous in its proposals and in its legislation and not sub ject to the dictation of the executive. Job Too Big for Wilson. Fifth: The measures which have been adopted to organize industry, transportation and other great agen cies so as to concentrate industry and transportation and these great agencies to intensify production and transportation of war necessities have thrust on us many problems of government ownership and opera tion and stirred jjp so many ques tions as to relations of labor and capital that the whole country is roused to the need of constructive measures of an economic, social and political character to keep pace with the progress of ideas generated by the war. "These measures need the deliber ation of an independent and courageous congress, not under the control of the executive, and not subject to academic ideals and theories, except as they are modified and made practical by a considera tion of existing conditions and a practical knowledge of what can be achieved in human nature's daily regime. The Question of mvprnmnit Ownership of railroad and nttir public utilities, and of the regula- uun oi production irom tne eartn and in the factory to human neces sities, must all be considered with progressive, but practical states manship. These are questions which were not rifa when the president was elected. The president was elected on tht platform of peace. and on the ground that he had kept us out of war. The war came on notwithstanding, but we h vad no formal and elector?! exi .on from the people, sine his mandate of power antedates the present emergencies and the questions that force themselves upon us. "It is of the utmost importance. therefore, that we have in the legis-, lative branch of congress represen tatives wno snail speak their will, unrestrained by the control of an executive elected on other is sues. For that reason, again, a re publican congress must be returned. Would Avoid Restraint. "An unmistakable postulate of this appeal is that during the period of the next congres, the present presi dent rmift be the sole director and judge of the proper course, not only as the head of the army but as set tling the terms of peace and all civil matters. The war may end before the new congress begins its term. In any event it will end be fore the first regular session of that congress. The military reasons for his unified leadership therefore have little or no application. As to the settlement of the terms of peace the constiution requires the co-ordinate action of the senates and refutes at once his claim that he must be the unembarrassed spokesman of the country in settling finally what those terms of peace are. "One important duty of the next congress is to demand account of the president's stewardship. Upon what theory of republican govern ment can it be claimed that matters of character and importance should be under the unrestrained control of the man whose stewardship is to be examined. "Another important duty is the legislative provision for reconstruc tion. Upon what view of democratic government is that to be entrusted to the uncontrolled will of the ex ecutive. The remarkable character of the appeal Ms its demand for a power during the next two years equal to that of the Hohenzollcrns in war and peace and accounting and reconstruction. In assuming that he will be embarrassed and will . be free from control if a renublican congress is not elected he demon strates his belief and it is well sus tained that a democratic congress will be no restraint upon his will at all. "He fails to recognize that without the republican minority his prosecu tion of the war would have been a failure. He asks the American peo ple to entrust him with an unlimited power over the settlement of a peace which will affect them for a century, when he has given many evidences of the wish to pursue a course against which their faces are set. The president's expression of the fear that election of a republican majority in either house will em barass him abroad as a vote of want of confidence in his prosecution of the war, is . wholly without force. The return of a republican congress will confifm our allies in a knowl edge that the American people in sist on unconditional surrender and repudiate a peace by negotiation." Three Billion "Cigs" Are , Bought for U. S. Troops Washington, Nov. 1. Orders for 3,000,000,000 cigarettes, enough to provide two smokes for every per son in the world, have been placed by the War department-, to sunnlv American soldiers for the balance of th year, The following Nebraska and Iowana appear in the casualty list given out by the government for Saturday morning, November 2: WOUNDED; DEGREE UNDE TERMINED. Errol Grisman Leyda, next of kin, Jno. Frederick Leyda, Bloom field, la. Lewis Wuncnell, next of kin, Mrs. Christ Wunchell, Wall Lake, la. SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. Sergt Clyde Anderson, next of kin. George W. Anderson, Have lock, Neb. Corp. Glen I. Murray, next of kin, Floyd J. Murray, 1427 How ard street, Omaha, Neb. William B. Morrissey, next of kin, W. T. Morrissey, Albia, la. The following Nebraskans and Iowans are named in the casualty list given out by the government for Friday afternoon, November 1: WOUNDED SEVERELY. Harry Distelhorst; next of kin, Mrs. Alice Distelhorst, Burlington, la. WOUNDED SLIGHTLY. Elmer E. Folander; next of kin, Mrs. Eleanor Folander, Davenport, la. MISSING IN ACTION. Corp. Arthur M. Hamilton; next The Drawl KM Sajfl Dad buys m Sttd ' Shod ShoM btcans ht doMn't kav to buy them often." A Boy's Shoe That will outwear two pairs of ordinary Boys' Shoes will have lots of friends ancTthat is ex actly why STEEL HOD HOES are worn by thousands of happy boys in Omaha. If yourJ boy is not a Drexel Kid we both lose. . Bring him in tomorrow. Boys' !! 1 to 5!i $3.25 Little Men. 9 to 13 M .....$2.75 Drexel Shoetlo. V 1419 Farnam St. Mail Orders Solicited. . Parcel Pott Paid. PERRY WHEELER LAWYER - v for Municipal Judge Lt. Pat O'Brien of Momence, 111., the American boy who, as a mem ber of England's Royal Flying corps was shot down back of the German lines, imprisoned and later made his escape, is going back to fight the Huns. Lieutenant O Bnen is going back to the front despite the fact that he was rejected by the British, Canadian and American recruiting officers as unable to fight because of his wounds. of kin, John Boyd Hamilton, Des Moines, la. RETURNED TO DUTY, PREVI OUSLY REPORTED MISS ING IN ACTION. Private Vincent Placek, Prague, Neb. The follahving casualties are re ported by the com'maading general of the American expeditionary torces: Died ot wounds. 6: died from airplane accident, 1; died of disease, 17; wounded severely, 113; wounaea sngntiy, lsu; missing in action, 31. Total. 318. Nordyke and Marmon Win Liberty Motor Honor Pennant Indianapolis. Nov. 1. The Nor dyke and Marmon company of this city won the first honor oennant of fered by the United States govern ment to the concern building and shipping 12-cylinder Liberty motors the most rapidly in October, it was announced here today. The contest began October 1, and ended last midnight. The Nordyke and Mar mon company made a production record of 225 per cent of its allot ted quota. A. E. F. EVOLVES NEW AUTOMATIC SUPPLYTRAINS ''teen, Each of Thirty or Thirty-Five Cars, Leave ' One Great Base Every" . Day.1 American Regul ting Base, Ad vance Zone, France, Nov. 1. The automatic train" is one of the strange devices which has sprung out of the war, and there is nothing quite like it in the whole range of railway transportation. It has been developed by the American military authorities here as one of the neces sities of keeping up an automatic daily supply of food, forage and all requirements, to every unit of the American expeditionary forca in France. To dp this with unvarying regularity each day, so that every man in every division -stretching over a vast area along 300 miles of front, would have his daily needs supplied was a huge problem. The only solution was to secure absolute uniformity, or a standard ization of trains by which the make up would be automatic day after day. And out of this has come the "automatic train" of the American army, which is one of the wonders of American organization. Like Great Puzzle. Watching the make-up of"the "automatic trains" as they go for ward to the American divisions on the fighting front, is like watching some gigantic jig-saw puzzle, for there is the same fitting together of confused parts, until at last all the pieces form a completed whole of fifteen of these so-called "automatic trains," SO cars to a train, each train moving off to one of the American divisions. Here at a small interior village of the American advance force is the center fro.a which the automatic trains move out daily. The place is well forward in the advance zone, just far enough away from the fighting to be out of reach of hostile raids and yet near enough to permit the supplies to move forward with the greatest facility. ' One Thousand Cars Daily. It was a sleepy village last October, with 2,000 inhabitants, to day it is a center of intense activity, with an American working force of 22,00011 times the population a year ago with 72 miles of yard trackage, 45 enormous warehouses and railways radiating to every point of the long front held wholly or in part by American troops. Last month 32,000 cars were moved, or over 1,000 a day. in this stupendous stream of supplies go ing forward to the fighting forces. Colonel Hilgard, commanding offi cer, and Captain Bigger, regulating officer, explained the details of these automatic trains, and later there was an opportunity to see the trains assembled like parts in a huge puzzle and started on their way to the front. The basis on which the automatic trains are made up is as follows: Two cars of refrigerated fresh beef. Two cars of fresh bread. Seven cars of food comprised in th soldier's ration. Four cars of fuel for cooking. Fourteen carj of forage for horses. One car of gasoline, mineral oil and lubricants for motors. One car of mail and packages. Consist Is Invariable. These are the fixed and practically invariable elements of each auto matic train, the same wants of food and forage being repeated day after day. In additioin each division has varying wants of clothing, ammuni tion, medical supplies, etc.. as it may be in the midst of the fighting or further back in a calmer section. These varying elements are added to each train, according to the needs of the division. 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We believe that he knows the hearts of the people of Nebraska and that, if elected, he will faith fully reflect their sentiments and ideals. Mr. McKelvie was born and reared on his father!, farm in Clay county, where he remained until he be came of Rge. All his interests are and always have been in Nebraska. For more than thirteen years he has been directing the destinies of Nebraska's pioneer farm paper, "The Nebraska Farmer," of which he Is publisher 'and principal owner. This has kept him in immediate touch with industrial business and social conditions throughout the state. Mr. McKelvie's political record is an open book. He was Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska from 1913 to 1915, a member of the State Legislature from 1911 to 1913, and a member of the Lincoln City Council from 1908 to 1909. The following is quoted from Mr. Mc Kelvie's platform : "I stand for th prosecution of the war until the un conditional lurr.nder of our enemiei. And 1 beli.T. that T.rjr individual should be permitted to do hit (hare re gardless of party affiliation. Partisanship must be elimi nated from all war activities. I denounce profiteering and discrimination in price fixing. I favor state and na tional prohibition. I favor equal suffrage. I favor the development of all natural resources of the state. More efficient and economical distribution of the products of the fields and factories of Nebraska must be encouraged. Waste, graft and favoritism in public office must be dis placed by efficiency and honest service." McKelvie is definitely opposed to the Hitchcock-Mullen-Gooch Machine, which has for so long domi nated Nebraska politics. McKelvie's election will mean the return of representative government to Nebraska. A vote for McKelvie is a vote against the machine. Swat the Machine By Voting for McKelvie for Governor Republican State Committee i j i j i , .in. - i i i'ii I,,.