The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1920, Page 6

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE RETURN 10 PEACE AND POLITICS FINDS MIDDLE WESTERN STATES PRIMED FOR SOME WARM FIGHTS | Eight Commonwealths to Have} jayden of Mlin Presidential Preference -Pri- maries Soon—Twelve to United States Senators— Fourteen to Pick Governors in General Elections of 1920. Chieu Beh. 1. rear sig izes the return to pe and politic: dalveady presidential campaigi well under Way ant state contests for local ollices humming. In the central west th than the ws prestdential tivity and with states in. t holding presidential preference i with twelve states electing nd fourteen | and state ticket to select, politi s<citement will cone | tinue until after the November: clec tion, In addition members of the low er house of congress are to he elect inc Sbite and present cenditions politic these contests more Although — the ment to the fe effect, observers Means eliminate the wet ’ sue from politics. Other factors con- tributing to the bubbling of the poli- | tien) pot are divergent. views heel on the question of 1 tional ownership Ae railroad aL public question owing out of the changed | conditions caused by the world The high cost of living with its and price problems will enter every campaign, close. students — of polities declare, . The central aA WC ted than eve prohibition st sfates and *the dates of the primaries in which the voters may declare their preference for the presidential candidate are North March 16; Michigan, South 1 Apri) 5 Trakota, Minois, April “ 20; Ohio. April and Tne 4. The tw in the centrat United States sas, Minis Kansas, Kentucky, kota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and) Wisconsin, west which ele ator this Indiana, Yo’ souri, North J South Daketa Governors following |state in the sume district: Arkani Mlinois, Lowa.” Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, ALCS ‘Missou- ri, . Nel Ohio, South Dakota cousin, il INOIS Tn Hlinois the greatest political ac- tivity early in the 4 is observed on the republican Governer Frank O. Lowden s tered the presidential race. and is conducting a lively campaign in a number of States hesides. his own, State officials are him and the presidential campaign ap parently has crowded purely state politics to the back ground, though governor, Heutenant governor, and other state offic re to he elected next November, The question cf a senator coed United States Senator 1 x: nm, Who has expressed his determination not to: seek anottie term is likewise being held in abey to suc Wrence tic) party polities in’ T- inois have not begun to hoil and those in touch with the purty chiefs pre- diet that the year will be the most harmonious for the party seen in several decades. MICH \ The election will afford the wemen of “Michigan their second. opportunity mej name on the primar © is more | war. | into | “| throug Mis- j re to be elected in’ the} ed up behind | Frank © is, on the ballot, Onl, one hundred signatures A jing petifion are necessary to phice ballot, A complete state ticket from governor down. including stife senators and Trepresentatives as well as congre |men will be voted-on at. the Novem- ber election, There is little prospect that prohibition again will be a form: onard Wood, and Governor i | {the first states to ratify the federal | prohibition amendment. NORTH DAKOTA In North Dakota, state officer members of the state house of 1 entatives. half the membership of the [state senate, three cougressmen and a will be elected all | United States senator Lin November, In the M idential prefer- Fence primar; al laws, initiated {hy petitions and looking to the repeal ‘to he No fermal peti-- tions for place on the presidential ) primari mllot have been filed. No candidates have filed for Fnomination in the primaries for state offices but tickets within the republi- ted to be in the expected for the existing cepted or » contest i de smocratic nomination. | SOUTH DAKOT South ti rote United HW, At the. pre idential primary, March 28. four on the republican ballot jsiipport: — Matjor® General Leonard ! Wood, Governor Frank O, Lowden of i Senator Jenson of California and Senator Poindexter of Washin; {ton, On the democratic primary j lot the chief names fire those of vdent Wilson and James W. Ge tformer Ambassador to | German, South Dakoty women, for the i time, vote for presidential electors and phigh state clicials this re At the November clection the voters {will decide whether they wish to. le- | sralize the sale of beer and light wines: grocery stores, without} loons, under what is stylpd the legal merit system.” | WISCONSIN j In_ Wisconsin. the Mullyerger ) permitting the manufacture and s of 2.5 pen cent beer is to be i mitted to referendum at the Novem- ber election when presidential électors, congressional candidates and state of- ficers will be, elected. Delegates to the national ina preferen candic are seeking 1 Hinoi convel al primary April 6 and one wing of the republican party is credited with ta desire to elect uninstructed. dele- | gates while another section is believed ent for Sent to be seeking endorsem lot fator Lalol The United States senatorial elec- tion is expected to be warmly contest- ed. I. 1. Lenreot, seeking | er-el mn. has a possible opponent in James Thompson of La Cro who | nolitical observe choice of the 1 say is the probable ollette wing of the OHTO The republican org: tion in Ohio s striving for a solid delegation to !the republic national convention in- {structed for Senatoy Warren G. Har- j ding, for presidential candidate, * __ The presidential preference primary wil 27 and two possible candi- for the democraiie nomination overnor James M. Cox and Sen- Atlee Pomeren: ‘hited States sen- ator, “congressmen and state legisla- | Gives are to he elected aud women suf- frage will be again before the voters to exer¢ixe the franchise won through A amendment to the state constitution, | tt the f on the question Both republicans and demuerats’ al- | Of ratify jon of the te ready are. secking the support of the | legislature jin accepting the federal women - yoter wemen § ve amendment. ‘ While nominating petitions for the The tixht over the United States presidential preference prigna April is being held in abeyance un- i » et yet been tiled F an F the Chicage conyention, the candidates, it i rded virtue | Ohio prima y Not requiring candidates ally certain tl republic: will i yer nen petition until eh taares f Major General Le- | Shortly before the August primary: have the nit of Major General 1 | INBIA n 1 mkS, THUMAS? WORD TG WOMEN Tells of the Great Good Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable .Compound Did For Her. 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The A complete state ticket v dates for the state leg’ smen and a United States jin he elected by Indiana voters: this ; fall. . The presidenti ith candi- preference primary ) the opening of the | political year which promises contests for nearly every oflied. The probable effect of the men's vote is already theing disenssed by politiciahs. The tax law is deelared to be the issue on which the state oltice fights will be joined and the wet er dry issue iis expe since the F state dry «ted to he in the background 17 legislature ory ; SBRASKA | The presidential preference primary, April 20, in Nebraska holding the attention of most voters to the ex- clusion of the campaign for state of- Hicers to he elected this fall. prineipal y is in’ the al camps of the supporters of Gen- 1 John J. Pershing and of Major General Leonard Wood, The admirers of General Pershing claim him as a son of Nebraska by seen of his ‘long residence in that The lines in the gubernatorial con- j test have not yet been closely drawn and no United States senator {elected from Nebraska this made the ear, n K fTUCKY Kentucky prem to become one of the most interesting battle. grounds of the country atthe November elec- tion. Tt ha a republican state ad- min{stration which was swept into power at the biennial election Jast November by a 40,000 majority ‘and a congress delegation. preponder- ately democratic chosen: in 1917. At the August primary under the present primary law candidates for congress from the eleven dixtricts and a United States senator will be nom- al issue, Michigan net only voted | {itself dry in 1916 but aflirmed the}. faction two years later and ymony { | | law | on the con 196° when; 92 vote Was over Taft, have There wil ed States and lature, public’ in officers, United Spencer, election j cer, James ation” ant se primary, congres ficers voters at There will enc caused by t of United ul he contest wi ocvatic stat Former heads administrat faction has “fighting it if it finds trol. Texas wi complete st: to be elect to be! senator is fices from presidential men and a Lis pa prohibition ple. The voters at the fall’ election Will | inated. Phe contést. for the States senator at the November clec- | return of the nermal republican ma jority of approximately 100000 in the election this fall, With the anditay and truction Selection of a United ‘Siates mer 1 Cummins state 7 hokl the place ef yr EX tional conve political observer tx complete eighteen) Texas cc United States set complete tickets in the field. second election in forty will be no prohibition ticket, as iho : : { \Leo Carillo and Grace Valentine in “Lombardi, Auditorium, F United tion now appears’ to be Hetween United States senator J.C. Mo Beek. ham, deniocrat and Richard P. EB vist, of Covington, republicen. MINNESOTA Minnesota yepublicans look for a basing their views tention that conditions of Hughes car ts and 1912, when Wilson helmingly a yictor over changal completely. 1 be no United States sen- ator elected this year Jut the voters will select. state etficers men and close contests i of congress: ed. ional districts are expect- MISSOURT year will complete ticket for a from presidential election to state of- | ficers including the selection of a Unit- senator and congressman 59 members of the state Jegis- | tioned as a pos exception ‘of the the state superintendent of! 1 the elective state demo tates senator Selden, TP elected in 1918 at a special | g t republican, Senator Speu- L. Minnis and Dwight § i ‘e republ senatoria! idge Leng. I for the while Brecken pevetary of the amounced his candidacy on the dem- ocratic ticket. The prelimi sen- atorial fight will be at the August! TOWA governor © made this the Neve he no presidential prefer- Outside of the contest | develop ovey the yacane; he expiration of (he te States Senator Albert me paramount already has appeared on the | political hori Zon whether a, pro-Wilsen delegation nt to the De ntion from this state, Th 1 be decided at the dem. » convention May 25, enator Joseph W mocratic na a faction of Texas dem- that takes issue with many important acts of the W ion. While the B declared out within tie party’ predict if will piace » ticket in the field that it has not party con- MN elect a governor and a ate ticket next fall. ‘ed but to he el K no United States sted this year. _ Kansas will run the gamut of elec- | tion possihili es this year district re clectors nd including a complete state ticket. The republican, democartic and so- to put For the years there rties- are expected issue is, hefore the peo- 1 the state} x: senator, | ses are expected to} i | - 1 Governor | den Trade its intention ot The gressmen , are ‘also filing of- id oyerseers to itor. eight congress- at The Ltd.” ebruary 18. \ RAR eee be asked to express their views on three amendments to ‘the state con- stitution, Thesejare the farm tenantry amendment, the good roads amend- ment authorizing the: state to build and the tax amendment for a reclassification of taxation purposes. OKLAHOMA Oklahoma voters this year will elect United States’ senator, eight scon- ressmen tind stite legislators, The governor and most of the state officers holding four year terms were: elected two years ago, The, tight for the democratic nomi- nation for United States senator re- providing property for volves on the stand taken by United States Senator Thomas P, Gore on ad- \ min ion war. policies, Senator [Gere will be 2, candiate, to succeed nimsbif and in’ opposition will be Scott Ferris, congressman from, the Sixth district and Attorney General S. Prince Freeling, J. W. Harreld. Trecently elected: col man from {the Fifth district ig prominently men- ble republican eandi- date for United States senator. With the possible exception of the question of ratifying the federal wo- an sulfrass~ amendment no serious {es es have been defined, Okla- | hom is heen in the dry column nee statehood and prehibition. will Jmot be an issue. | ARKANSAS Arkansas has returned a large dem- ocratic majority in every state and national election since reconstruction | days and no-one seriously expects this | to be or “| at next November's: | election. However, *the republican pparty intends to nominate a full state as well as a Complete list of Nential electors, fer the coming ction, emocratic candidates for congress dnd for state offices will -be nominated at a‘ state primary: The republican candidates will he nominated at a state convention, Arkansas this year will clect a complete state ticket a | United States senator nd seven rep- Senator William r. kin ‘ho was elected to fill the unexpired ‘term of the late Senator James’ P. Clarke. {In the demecratic primary Senator Sirby will he opposed by Thaddeus H. { Caraway. of Jonrebire, representative {from the Pirst Arkansas dis Charles He Brough, who his second term has an- nounced that he will retire from pub- lie life at the conclusion of his pres: | net term, i | RHEUMATIC PAINS Quickly Exsed By Penetrating Mami Wizard Olt is servin A safe and harmless preparation PLUMBERS NOT ALONE AMONGST RICH OF LAND Street Car Conductors and Mo- tormen Among Those Mak- ing Income Retyrns BOOTBLACKS INCLUDED Now York, Feb. 16.—Plumbers who pay income ‘taxes are. no lenger the “aristocrats of Taber,” according te William. H. Edwards, United States Internal Revenue @olleetor, for the Second and Third. Districts of New | York, in’ whose districts this year’ More than $1.500,000,000: will ha auth- ered Up for Unele Sam. . High wages and profitable over- time, says Mr, Edwards, have raised to the income tax paying dist such, workers’ as Jongshdremen, ’ garment’ makers, paper hangers” .raifroad brakemen, chauffeurs, sailors, truck drivers and piano movers. “And dont forget the chorns girls, the movie stars, and the hotel waiters,”. declared the collector, adding that some of the lat ter are making more than $5,0000 a year in tips alone, | STREET CAR MEN RICH Street car conductors and motormen in Brooklyn, for instance, he said. have made as much as #60 a week and, if theiy yearly income exceeds $1,000 for a single man or $2.000 for the head of a family, they wil be re quired to contribute their re tO- ward the cost of running the govern- ment. Mr. Edwards cited a few i- stances without, of course, mentioning names, of hootblacks, milkwagon a < and bellboys who in 1919 enrn- ed in-excess .of their exemption and who Will be required ‘to file veturns, Payment of the income tax began on January 1 will continue until mid echt of March 15 at which time all ‘ns must be in-to escape the pos: sibility of a miximum of $1.000 fine for delinquency While Collector Fa- wards was opening his mail the other day out fell a check for $2 883515. representing the payment. of a cérpor ation tax with penalty and interest. The next letter he opened was from Montclair, N. J. which is also in his distri It had been registered to pay an income tax of $1.37. NET ENCOME 65 CENT A recent caller at the cellector's of. fice was a woman whose net income was, 6 cents, Her tax amounted to four cents. She wanted to know if she would bey permitted to make the pay- ments “quarterly.” When told she could: she smiled and said she guessed she would pay it all at once handed over four shining pennies and took her receipt. Another partriotie citizen -— foreign bern — filed a careful return, showing that he had no income which was subject to taxation. At the ‘bot- tem of his return was, the following notation: “No tax due fat would lik to pay some tax and enclose for $100." Collector Edwards said that, under the law, he “was. net. permitted to ac: cept the ch but thet he forwarded it to Comm mer Roper in Washing- ton. to dispose of he saw fit. This year thes income tax rate less’ than last, Mr. Edwards said, the normal rate being 4 percent on the first $4,000 of net income above the exemption, and S percent on the remaining net income instead of 6 and percent as in 1918 | LONGSHOREM QUALIFY “Offhand,” s: the collector, “ene would hardly ‘think ttat a longshore- man came within the requirements or the income tax law. Certainly he did not a few years ago when many of them found it hard to make a living, In. the past year or two, however, many longshoremen have heen making fr $3,000 to $5,000 mun, he income tax a hits some members of the theatrical profession pretty hard.’ Some of these actors, in- cluding motion picture stars. perhaps mike as high as $200 and $800 a week for six months in the yea They live well and by the time ‘their income tax payment is due may be out, of an en- gagemené, They are confornted with 8, a good-sized tax ‘without any: immedi-. ate means. get it. Tt is then up to them’ to st’ year My investigators found mond | merchants have been four or We got ifer thom and iereased our tarns by more than $1,000,000. Some of the actresses who were delinquent last year said they did not pay he- cause fhey could not figure out just how much they were exempt because of the cost ef -their gowns, taxicabs and other luxuries. A 50 percent pen- alty was imposed because of their fa ure to pay when the taxes were due. FIGURED AS LIABILITY | -“Income taxes,” said the collector “should be ured as a liability just as insura interest on a_ mortgage of your winter's coal pill. Then when the time ‘comes for payment it will not pe a hardship. Nearly 20,000 per-' sons were fined last year for failure to file returns, _ A certain stockbroker made $200,000. He filed his return showing a tax of $40,000. He default- ed in his payment, however, and {In a personal interview with me, said he didn't have the money. 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Guaranteed. just. $2,000," The Second and Third New York districts, Mi’, Edwards said. raise more than one-quarter of the total amount elected. throughout the entire Unites j States, FAMOUS NORTHWEST 4 MOUNTED POLICE OF CANADA PASS OUT Regina, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1920 Closing Out Sale CONSISTING OF Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dry Colors, Wall Paper, Crockery, ‘Glassware, Tin: and 'Aluminum Ware, ” Hard- ware, Tools, Show Cases and Count: ers. Here is where you get your Bargains now. E. L. FAUNCE | F ourth Street. HOLLAND APPEALED TO BY ALLIES TO TURN OVER FORMER KAISER 16.—A_ new allied note to Holland regarding the ex- tradition of former Emporer Wil- helm will be dispatched tomorrow, according to the evening Standard today. - London, Feb. for a man characterized as the authcr of the world’s present trou- ble. From other sources, it was learned this afternoon, that the council was engaged in ‘complet- ing the note to Holland. The note was being drain, it was state, The note, says the newspaper, in a form,to entphasize to the con- makes a strong appeal to the certed view of the allies that the Duteh gyvernment not to create presence of the former emperor gerater difficulties in Europe by in Holland Ss a danger to the insisting on the right of asylum i peace of Ew ODO tional force, known as the Royal Ca-| will be lodated at Sydney, Cape Bre- nadian Mounted Police, ton. The new force, which is really noth-| Enforcements of federal prohibition ing more than the Mounties in every | regulations, such as destruction of province instead of in the western ter-| illicit stills, will be in the hands or ritory, includes squadrons at Mount-| the mqunted police. ‘Their territory real, Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, and St.| stretches from the American boundary John’s. It is probable that a squadron! to the Arctic ocean. 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