Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 2, 1916, Page 1

J i WILSON IN ADDRESS . SAYS PROMISES ARE MADE T0 BE KEPT Acceptance Speech of Presidential Nomination Outlines Party’s Efforts. d BRANDS REPUBLICAN PARTY AS A FAILURE ives List of Sanguine Promises; Says That All Were Kept and Redeemed. (By United Press) Long Branch, N. J.,, Sept. 2.— President Wilson spoke for his re- election today. Before an immense crowd massed over the beautiful grounds of Shadow Lawn, the presi- dent accepted his re-nomination at the hands of the Democratic party, outlined the achievements of his ad- ministration and scored the Republi- cans as ‘“‘a party of masterly inac- tivity, standing pat to resist change.” { The Democratic party, the presi- ‘ dent said, holds to very definite ideals. “We believe the energy and initia- | tive of our people should be set free i as we have set them free and not . concentrated in the hands of a few ‘4 powerful guardians, as our opponents "Abave again and again sought to con- ',,“ ntrate them.” The day of “little Americanism, with its narrow horizon, when meth- ods of ‘protection’ and industrial nursing were the chiet studies of our provincial statesmen,”” are past and done, he said. The people, he said, would not re- ject “those who have actually seryed them” for ‘‘those who are making doubtful and conjectural promises of service.” Outlining the legislative record of his party, the president said the Democrats have virtually created commercial credit for the farmer, 3 , had given a veritable emancipation to ! the working man, had released the hildren of the country from ‘“hurt- / ful labor” and in addition to many N other things, had put through na- i tional defense legislation greater than ever ‘seriously proposed upon the responsibility of an entire poli- tical party.” "Al?d,"yhe concluded in this dis- cussion, “we have come very near to clearing up the platform of the Pro- gressive party as well as our own, for we also are progressives:" The president said his policy was uilt on two fundamental principles, “chat property rights can be vindi- /cated for claims for damage, but the 7 loss of life Is irreparable. “] neither seek the favor nor the displeasure of that small alien ele- ! ment amongst us, which puts loyalty b to any foreign power before loyalty ] to the United States,” he said. i The president advanced his Mex- f ican policy as an issue upon which he would stand in the face of any eriticism. While admitting the pos- ‘«' sibility of mistakes “in this perplex- I8 ng business,” he flayed thqse who i would have recognized ‘“‘the inspeak- able Huerta.” Tariff Revised. “The tariff has been revised, put on the principle of repelling foreign trade, but upon the principle of en- couraging it, upon something like a footing of equality with our own in respect of the terms of competition, and a tariff board has been created whose function it will be to keep the relations of America with foreign business and industry under constant observation, for the guidance alike of our business men and of our con- _gress. “The laws against trusts have been “idarified by definition, with a view to making it plain that they were not directed against big business but only against unfair business and the pre- tense of competition where there was none; and a trade commission has been created with powers of guidance and accommodation which have re- lieved business men of unfounded fears and set them upon the road of hopeful and confident enterprise. “By the Federal regerve act the supply of currency at the disposal of active business has been rendered elastic, taking its volume, not from BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, SATURDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 2, 1916. DOLLARS FOR NOTHING; READ THE BACK PAGE Season Tickets, Bank Accounts and Candy, as Well as Watch Movie Free. Turn to the back page now, just for fun. Why, of course, you couldn’t win a prize. You never did have any luck, but what’s the “dif,” it will cost you nothing to try and name the good lookers on the last page. Someone is going to win. There will be a prize for eight or ten or maybe more. Look it over and see which you want. Candy, season tickets, bank accounts and more tick- ets are among the gifts for those who can name the movie stars on the back page. Get the movie proprietors to tell you who they are and then go to the merchants who are advertising and ask them to help you name the stars. a fixed body of investment securities, but from the liquid assets of daily trade. Recreation of Trade. “Effective measures have been ta- ken for the recreation of an Amer- ican merchant marine and the re- vival of the American carrying trade indispensable to our emancipation from the control which the foreign- ers have so long exercised over the op- portunities, the routes, and the meth- ods of our commerce with other countries. ) “The Interstate Commerce commis- sion is about to be reorganized to enable it to perform its great and important functions more promptly and more efficiently. “For the farmers of the country we have virtually created commer- cial credit, by means of the Federal reserve act and the rural credits act. They now have the standing of other business men in the money market. Child Labor Laws. ‘“We have effected the emancipa- tion of the children of the country by releasing them from hurtful labor. ‘We have instituted a system of na- tional aid in the building of high- roads such as the country has been feeling after for a century. We have sought to equalize taxation by means of an equitable income tax. We have taken the steps that ought to have been taken at the outset to open up the -resources of "Alaska. “We have provided for nationdl defense upon a scale never before seriously pro- posed upon the responsibility of an entire political party. “In foreign affairs we have been guided by principles clearly conceiv- ed and consistently lived up to. “We have been neutral not only be- cause it was the fixed and traditional policy of the United States to stand aloof from the politics of Europe and because we had had no part either of action or of policy in the influences which brought on the present war, but also because it was manifestly our duty to prevent, if it were pos- sible, the indefinite extension of the fires of hate and desolation kindled by that terrible conflict and seek to serve mankind by reserving our strength and our resources for the anxious and difficult days of restora- tion and healing which must follow, when peace will have to build its house anew. Rights Involved. “The rights of our own citizens of course became involved; that was in- evitable. Where they did this was our guiding principle; that property rights can be vindicated by claims for damages, and no modern nation can decline to arbitrate such claims; but the fundamental rights of hu- manity cannot be. The loss of life is irreparable. Neither can direct violations of a nation’s sovereignity await vindication in suits for dam- ages. The nation that violates these essential rights must expect to be checked and called to account by di- rect challenge and resistance. It at once makes the quarrel in part our own. ‘“While Europe was at war our own continent, one of our own neigh- bors, was shaken by revolution. In that matter, too, principle was plain and it was imperative that we should live up to if we were to deserve the trust of any real partisan of the rights as free men see it. We have pro- fessed to believe, and we do.believe, that the people of small and weak states have the right to be dealt with exactly as the people of big and pow- erful states would be. We have act- SCANDINAVIAN ART SOCIETY OPENS EXHIBIT AT MINNEAPOLIS (By United Press) Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 2.—Ar- tistic things that Scandinavians do were eulogized today when the Scan- dinavian Art Society of America put a large exhibit of the artistic work by Scandinavians on exhibit here. The exhibit will be maintained through- out this month. Formal public open- ing of the exhibit will be tomorrow. A private review of the pictures was held today. “GAPTAIN MAC” TO OPERATE MONDAY —— New Tow Boat of McLachlin’s Ready; to Operate by Kerosene; 64 Horse Power. The new tow boat constructed by Captain W. B. MacLachlin was given a trial trip today and proved satis- factory. It will commence towing operations Monday. The new boat has been named “Captain Mac.” It is 60 feet long and has a 64 horse power engine. It will be operated by kerosene. FUNERAL OF TOSTERUD BOY HELD AT LIBERTY The funeral of Lester Burnet, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tosterud, who live on a farm 22 miles northwest of Bemidji, was held yesterday afternoon. Interment was made in the Trinity cemetery in the town of Liberty. Services were con- ducted by Rev. O. P. Grambo of Ny- more. GUN CLUB WILL SHOOT SUNDAY MORNING AT 10 Members of the Bemidji Rod and Gun club are urged to attend the last shoot of the season at the new shoot- ing grounds in Fairview addition Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. An invitation is extended to all citizens, whether members or not, to join the club_in_this last shoot., It is planned to meet at the Markham hotel at 10 o’clock where automo- biles will convey those wishing to go to the grounds. If you’re going hunting birds at the opening of the season, better get the practice. ed upon that principle in dealing with the people of Mexico. No Violation, “‘Our recent pursuit of bandits in- to Mexican tierritory was no violation of that principle. We ventured to enter Mexican territory only because there were no military forces in Mex- ico that could protect our border from hostile attack and our own peo- ple from violence, and we have com- mitted there no single act of hostility or interference even with the sov- ereign authority of the Republic of Mexico herself. It was a plain case of the violation of our sovereignity which' could not wait to be vindi- cated by damages and for which there was no other remedy. The authori- ties of Mexico were powerless to pre- vent it. PLAN TO FEED (00 BEMIDJITES AT DINNER Sunday Will Be Last of 6 o’Clock Affairs; Orchestra Will Fur- nish Music. There will be music and merry- making at the season’s last six o’clock dinner to be given at Birchmont Beach hotel Sunday evening. More than 100 guests are expected to at- tend the feast. Special tables may be engaged, as the exodus of visitors owing to railroad strike threats, will accommodate all who desire to come. The chef and many of the dining room girls will be let out after Sun- day. Last season’s tickets will be good. ' Athens, Sept. 2.—Allied warships have seized four German Levant liners. | SENATE IS EXPECTED TO PASS EIGHT HOUR LAW STATE FAIR OFFERS BIGGER INDUGEMENTS THAN PREVIOUS YEARS Big Feature of Monday’s Program is Opening of the Baseball Tournament. WORK OF 25,000 CHILDREN HOUSED IN NEW BUILDING Complete Program for Opening Day Closes With an Aviation Flight. St..Paul, Minn., Sept. 2.—Practic- ally everything is in readiness at the Minnesota State Fair for what is generally believed to be the banner fair week in history. An army of men and women is putting the finish- ing touches to exhibits, grounds and concession stands, and things will be in spick and span shape by Monday morning. The big feature of the Monday pro- gram will be the opening of the base- ball tournament for the state cham- pionship, a horse racing program in which a large number of Grand Cir- cuit horses are entered, the exhibi- tion flying of De Lloyd Thompson in a Curtiss warplane, and the big eve- ning ‘spectacle, “The Last Days of Pompeii,” before the grandstand. The leading baseball game will be one between the independent teams of Minneapolis and St. Paul for the Twin City championship at 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon. Two other games will be played in the morning. The judging of all exhibits will begin early Monday morning. Horses will be judged in the Livestock Pa- vilion in the morning, and cattle will be judged there in the afternoon. Sheep and swine will be judged in the sheep and swine pavilions. Poul- try, fruit, vegetables, honey, grain, county exhibits and women’s work will also be taken up by the judges. The new school exhibits building, in which the contest work of nearly 25,000 children will be housed, is certain to prove one of the featurgs -of ~tHe fair.* ~“This building’ adjoins the Agricultural building and has just been completed at a cost of about $10,000. In it will be held the state bread-making contest for girls, the canning contest for the state championship, and several other feat- ures of interest to children. There will be a large display of rural school, graded school, high school and con- solidated school work. A girls’ camp, in which nearly 125 girls have applied for admission, is a new 1916 feature. These girls will take part in the bread-making and canning contests for the state cham- pionship. They are all winners of local contests throughout the state. During the entire week they will be housed in the dormitories for girls at the Minnesota Agricultural school, under the care of a woman from the state extension department. There will be nearly half a dozen more bands and orchestras this year than formerly. Seventeen organiza- tions of this nature are coming. The First Regiment band, Minnesota State band and the First Field Artillery band lead the long list. Bands from St. Cloud, Springfield, Brook Park, ‘Waseca, Nashwauk, Keewatin and Lake City are coming. The Minne- apolis Working Boys’ band avill play each evening. A herd of elephants has been en- gaged to interest the children this year. They will perform twice each day before the grandstand. Three stages of vaudeville will be played at the afternoon and evening shows. Children will be admitted free Mon- day if accompanied by an adult, and an attendance of approximately 100,- 000 persons is expected. Monday ) Monday, Sept. 4, is Children’s Day. All children 14 years old or under, accompanied by adult, will be ad- mitted free. 7:00 a. m.—Admission gates open. 9:00 a. m.—Judging begins in all departments. departments. Winsted vs. Blooming Prairie, preliminary baseball game for Class C championship. 11:00 a. m.—Women’s and Misses’ Style Show opens in Woman’s Build- FORTY CENTS PER MONTH AR e SECTIONS CONTINUETO A AN A A A A A A A A GOUNTY"AUDITOR REMOVED FROM OFFIGE BY GOVERNOR Governor Burnquist Appoints Attor- ney M. J. Brown to Investigate (By United Press) St. Paul, Sept. 2.—Governor Burn- quist today removed from. office Coun- ty Auditor Slocum of Koochiching for nonfeasance and malfeasance in of- fice and appointed L. W. Wilson in his place. A complaint filed by four Interna- tional Falls citizens alleging that the auditor acted in collusion with con- struction companies in'the building of hghways. Two hundred thousand dollars are involved. M. J. Brown, Bemidji, attorney, was appointed by the governor to con- duct the investigation and make a re- port. Mr. Brown stated that he had talked with the governor regarding the matter, but had as yet not re- ceived official instructions to proceed with the work. JEFFERSON HIGHWAY SIGNS WILL BE ERECTED HERE F. 8. Lycan, chairman of the local Jefferson Highway committee, stated today that the stensils for the paint- ing of proper signs on the Jefferson highway had arrived and that work in getting up these signs would be pushed as rapidly as possible. Auto owners who can assist the committee in any way should advise Mr. Lycan so that the work can be assigned to those whp will help. GITY DRUG STORE INSTALLS ‘MAGAZIHES Laliberte mdm i:o‘ Mfle Complete Line of All the Publications. The City Drug store yesterday in- stalled a complete line of magazines. They plan on carrying one of the lq.{gest lines of publications in the city. Monthly, weekly and daily publica- tions will be sold there. The Daily Pioneer may be secured there as soon as off the press each afternoon. Erickson & Laliberte, proprietors of the store, also expect to receive a complete line of Spalding football goods soon. _—— ing. Final game between winner of Winsted-Blooming Prairie game and a game between Lindstrom and Way- zata played at Lexington Park, St. Paul, Sunday; Class C championship and cash prize of $100. 1:00 p, m.—Special demonstration by judges of reasons for awarding prizes in cooking, Woman’s Building. 1:45 p. m.—Special program of horse racing, vaudeville entertain- ment on three stages, and music, be- fore grandstand, featured by 2:05 Duluth purse for $2,000. 2:30 p. m.—Final game between Minneapolis and St. Paul independ- ent baseball champions for Twin City championship. 4:00 p. m.—Public demonstration by judges of reasons for awarding ?rlzes in needlework, Woman'’s Build- ng. 4:30 p. m.—De Lloyd Thompson, aviator, fancy flying in warplane. 7:30 p. m.—Evening Horse Show opens in Coliseum, lasting until 10 o’clock. 7:45 p. m.—European Hippodrome and production of ‘“‘Last Days of Pom- peii,” a fireworks spectacle, before the grandstand. 9:45 p. m.—Evening flight of De Lloyd Thompson, aviator. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 2.—Rail- roads were today asked by Minnesota to disinfect their stock cars to pre- vent an epidemic of horse influenza. SCOOP v —WitH TH' CUB T HIRED N NYOUR, .%mmmm ;Defictive Page By "HOP" PREPARE FOR STRIKE Think When They Appeal Adamson Bill to Courts Strike Will Occur by Jan. 1. FORD WIRES WILSON HE WILL CLOSE FACTORY IF STRIKE IS ON It is Practically Certain That the Senate Will Pass the Bill ag Passed by the House. Chicago, Ill., Sept. 2.—This after- noon, J. W. Higgins, chairman of the General Managers’ association, an- nouncel that practically all central western railways had lifted embar- goes. He said, barring the ynex- pected, that the railways expected to move freight normally. Chicago, Ill., Sept. 2.—Optimistic rail reports sent out this afternoon - sent wheat up three and three-quar- ters to four four and one-quarter. ‘Washington, Sept. 2.—Henry Ford sent a message to President Wilson today that he would close his plant Monday if the railroad strike was called. ‘Washington, Sgpt. 2.—*“As soon as the house eight-hour bill unamended becomes a-law the brotherhoods will cancel the strike call.” This statement was made by Spokesman Garre_tson for the brotherhoods. Hill Says, “God Bless You.” Su. Paul, Minn., Sept. 2.—“Good- bye and God bless you” was the trend of a message Louis W. Hill, presi- dent of the Great Northern, addressed to his veteran employes on his return from Washington today. N ‘Washington, Sept. 2.—It is prac- tically certain that the senate will pass a duplicate to the Adamson bill tonight. ' Long Branch, N. J.,, Sept. 2.— Democratic senators have telegraphed President Wilson here that the eight- hour law will pass the senate by an v overwhelming vote before night, thus averting the strike. Chicago, Sept. 2.—Western rail- ways will continue to prepare for the strike. The rail heads think that when they appeal the Adamson bill to the courts it will cause a strike before January 1. GOUNTY OPTION CONTEST PAPERS FILED TODAY Attorneys in Case Prepare Documents Which May Result in a Dry County. MAY ASK FOR RECOUNT IN ALL PRECINTS OF COUNTY Lllege Many Irregularities, Such as Minors and Dead Men Votning. Contest papers in the county op- tion fight were filed today by the attorneys who represent J. J. Opsahl and in whose name the fight for a recount and dry Beltrami county will be made. Much evidence has been gathered since the county option election was held, which will, in the opinion of those who are concerned throw out votes in precincts which went decid- edly wet. It is alleged that among the alle- gations charged there will be those of cases where minors, dead men and absentees cast their votes. The contention also is that the In- dian vote at the Red Lake agency will be thrown out and a recount asked in several of the precincts. It may be possible that the éntire coun- ty will be recounted. Attorneys H. J. Loud and J. L. Brown prepared the petitions. ST. PAUL ROUNDROUSE MEN QUIT WORK TWO HOURS—BACK - (By United Press) Aberdeen, S. D., Sept. 2.—This was the day set by the Chicago, Milwau- . kee & St. Paul line roundhouse em- ployes here to strike. Earlier this week the men walked out. demand- ing higher wages. They were out two hours when they came back, and. gave the road until today to meet their demands. FOOTBALL CANDIATES ASKED . TO REPORT AT BALL PARK Candidates for the city foothall team are requested to report at the new baseball park for practice Sun- day morning at 10:30. Come dressed in your best football togs. b