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‘4 LION BXECUTIE NEETHEREFRIAY Will Discuss Effectiveness of “Get Out the Vote” Campaign. The History of Presidential Elections XXI—The Bull Moose in 1912. RY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Author of “The American Government American politics after 1896 remained for another chance, defled the in- wholly one-sided until 1912. Increased |structions of his party in Nebraska, |gold production in Alaska and else- | which had made him & dele where solved the money question, the [swung to Wilson. | victorious War with Spain bolstered the | Clark had the Tammany support and | Republicans and prosperity satisfled the lno man with New York support must | people with Republican rule. McKinley |ever be nominated. What this argu- was easily re-clected over Bryan in 1900. ment lacked in logic the great orator and Roosevelt won by a wider margin 'made up by his vast persuasiveness, Li International, supervising bfld‘,‘hnm Parker in 1904. An Tter ;mq and Wilson was naméd. e el et !episode of that year was Parker's dra- ; ) i of all Lions Clubs in ths United States ;n‘;"txf"m,y.i‘m D T Many Problems Confronted and four other countries. is promoting vention declaring that he was for the The three-cornered campaign ral.vd # natlon-wide cam- |gold standard and would accept no Many problems about our electoral s.v‘:u paign to R;' b | nomination if the platform advocated l':‘m.mplffl;?;:flhg”:;:n‘:g g the vote." the ef- s | another currency change. 2 feetiveness of L Fryanites ‘sulked through the |cision had gone to the House of Rep- FEEn ey H el o tatives, it would have found that chich will be di campaign. . Thy again nominafed the t R STy cussed at thg '\*{ silver-tongued orator in 1903, but he o] ‘:’lflg’;r\:ndfin'; mnuj;::lv i ecutive meeting o made onlv scattering gains in opposing y . A the governing board e oward Togte 'Three times a |able. The Senate was Republican. but of the interna- | badly beaten candidate. Brvan contin- association ued for 30 vears to dominate his party Mayflower and to withhold support from eandi- Fridar cates who lacked his personal approval. and Saturdas. His followers at the same time violently While caretully cenounced the Tammany Society poli- avoiding any sem- ticfans in New York. whom they charged blance of politi with failure to support the candidates | partisanship. they @isliked. | By 00 menS | Roosevelt Era Outlined. the varied methods of the States in ers, and all other Roosevelt had served more than three nom nating presidential electors. n e e ! years of the second term to which Mc- [North Dakota and Kansas the Repub- voeks hence and | Kinley was elected, succeeding upon the | lican electors had been named by State SRufl the of good citi- | aseassination of the latter in 1901, In | conventions prior to the national con- wenship” by casting their votes in the ! 1904, when electea in his own name, |Ventions. After the Republican split dential election. | Roosevelt had declared that he would | ther announced they were for Roose- o D | consider that os his second term es| velt, thus delivering the party name e & Va. in. | President and would not accept re-|over to the Progressives. To place a Ben 4. Ruffin of Richmond. Va. election in 1908, as he would consider Taft ticket of electors in the field in ternational president. has assumed 8-, 0 valent to seeking A third term. | those States involved finding & new tive leadership in the ballot f“‘“;‘“fl TLater he is said to have declared that | party label for them, as the name Re- and he will come to Washington thi8 ) "oicaq he had bitten out his tongue | Publican had been appropriated. waek fresh from a ,“'hirl“llr;fl f';""lnb,,m, he made that statement. In other States there wat no machinery through many States in behalf of e | g08 he gictated the nomination of his | Provided for naming Roosevelt electors cauge of “good citizenship resident | friend and War Secretary. but _early in|on & new ticket. Most of thase diffi Ruffin recently adgressed Lions C b*‘ e Taft term the popular ex-President culties were settled by naming elactors in the South. And_ the past week ""lbfl*amr highly critical of the progress | through petitions. but if the result had vaced the Middie West of the gdministration. . |been close it is very possible a worse He is expected to report on the Drog- | 4 “events developed a lack of popu- | Situation would have existed than in ng of ol S . bill and other acts of e rey. 8e- mfcmaucna\ at ths Mayflower 'fl;; lflfl'- | velt Tatled to support his friend. and a od citizens] A E insurgents cry! t v 3 - Fobecience to law. intelligent exercise | moccvelt in: 1912, He had been in| w??;';'fl:‘e‘: e "cl;::nt:-.:t:a‘figo:‘::efi and of the ballot and tolerance of one’s fel- { Africa on a big game hunt. stobped 0| Tafy ballots, Roosevelt won 88 elec- fow citizen.” 4 meeting | VI In Europe on his return. and | ioral “votes, carrying _Pennsylvania, This will be the first board meeting | ayerywhere received far more attention | Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, of the organizstion since the Interna- | and acclaim than was accorded Presi- | Washington and 11 of the 13 from Cal- tional eonvention at Des Moines, Towa. | dent Taft. After a triumphant return | ifornia. Taft received only the votes of 4n July and an accumulation of business | Roogsvelt, for weeks kept silent about | Vermont and Utah. will be disposed of at the sessions. Local |being a can and when he finally | The outcome clearly showed that the arrangements for the meeiing are jannounced “My hat is in the ring” the | convention system had permitte® the being made by & committee of the party was completely divided. | party leaders to nominate for President Washington Lions Olub, headed by Dr an unpopular man, against a very | popular one. The machinery of select ing delegates. and of deciding contests about delegates, had been In the hands of the Taft men. Ths rank and file of the Republican party had been over- whelmingly for Roosevelt. This led to numerous efforts at refarming the con vention machinery. Many States passed laws for .electing convention delegates in_popular primaries, and others pro- vided for expressions of popular choice there would have stood with their party choice for Vice President. A deadiock of some sort was high pos- sible. Would Taft's Secretary of State have inherited the presidency on March 19132 If so. would Congress have called & new election? No one was certain. Another question arose because of Mr. Rufin. Party Split Elects Wilson. Wilson won the election with an Convention Favors Taft. In a dramatic convention at Chicago !the older leaders, supporting Taft, re- jected the credentials of all the Roo: velt contesting delegates and sexl@d‘ the Taft delegates. These contests dem- | onstrated piainly the lack of any law or even uniform system of choosing | delegates to the conventions which | name our Presidents. In some sum‘ party conventions choose them, in erd W. DeGeast, secretary, President Thomas W. Brahan; Ruffin and Melvin Jones, international secretary general. of Chicago. conferred here with the local committee a few days ago regarding plans for the meeting. ‘Te Honor War Dead. H . and | His excuse was that no one could tell that the Progressives | In | overwhelming electoral vote of 435, al- | An outstanding event of the program { will be the dedication of a bronze placque 2\ the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier next Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The tablet is a tribute by | Lions International to the patriotism of | American youth. It will be placed in the memorial room of the tomb with impressive ceremonies, presided over by | President McKeever of the local club. The Wer Department is lending its co- operation. | Members of Lions clubs in the Dis trict of Columbia. Maryland. Virginia | and other nearby States will attend the | Arlington ceremonies. All officers and directors of the in-| ternational body are expected to come | hers for the meeting. together with three pest presidents, members of the | executive council of the board of gov- ernors snd a number of district gov- ernors. Officers, in addition to the president and secretary-general, are Rey L. Riley of Sacramento, Calif. firct vice president; Earle W. Hodges. | New York. second vice president; Julien C. Hyer, Fort Worth. Tex., third vice president. and these directors: Vincent C. Hascall, Omaha, Nebr.;: Charles H. Haston, Wichita. Kans.: C. H. Jameson, | Tulsa, Okla.; Dr. M. M. Nielson, Salt| Lake City, Ttah: G. Hastings, | Winston-Salem, N. C.; Horace S. Kerr, | Columbus, Ohio: Arthur C. Call, Ander- | |and “Onward Christian Soldiers” as his others party committees do it, and in some ceses a mere four or five leaders, acting as an executive committee or under some other guise; make the choice. Often no law covers the, make- up of these selecting groups. At the Chicago convention in 1912 it was hard to tell whicn group of Re-| publicans from many States had the | right to be considercd representatives of the party voters. The controlling leaders selected the Taft groups in eagh ase. Progressive Body Formed. ‘Taft was fenominated and the Roose- | velt men cried that it was a fraud. They called a convention of their own, and a few weeks later in the same city | formed the Progressive party and nomi- nated Roosevelt. The champion selected the. bull moose as the party emblem campaign hymn. Republicans every- | where began bolting their party to supe port the colorful, acgressive leader. Meanwhile the Democrats had been | through plenty of grief with the nomi- | nating_system. Champ Clark of Mis- | souri, Speaker of the House, had won A majority of the delegates at Balti- more. but could not secure the two- thirds needed to nominate. Woodrow Wilson was the next strongest candi- | date, and Bryan, after long jockeying, | s to candidates. In the Southern | Etates the Republican vote had for | vears been negligible, and a handful of | politicians _controlled the party ma- chinery. The party decided to reduce | the representation in national conven- | tions of States which did not support | the party candidates. This lessened, | without eliminating, opportunities for juggling with Southeérn Republican del- | egatiens. Party Ranks Disrupted. The Democrats also considered abol- ishing their two-thirds rule, but nothing | has ever been done about it, and two | conventions almost as bitter as that of | Baltimore have since tended to disrupt the party ranks. | The Innovations have not been wholly successful. _ Presidential pri- maries have Deen the resgon or long campaigns and greater campaign penditures. and political manipulation as not been wholly removed by any means. - Electoral laws remain the work of parties in power in th> States, and lean to their advantage against any independent form of action. Re. formers continue to clamor for some of the changes advocated by the Roose- velt followers in 1912. The net result of that campaign was to give ths Dem- ocrats eight years of power during a period when world history hung in ths balance. ex- | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. 0,000 IN DISTRICT WILL VOTE BY MAIL 1500 Aoply Daily to League of Republican Organ- izations. According to estimates by the League | of Republican Organizations, more than 50,000 residents of the District of Co- Ilumbia will avail themselves this year of {the absentee voters' service of the | teague. Applications for gegistration forms. { ballots or information are being réceived | !at the league headquarters. 823 Fif- teenth street, at the rate of about 500 a day. Last week a total of 2,593 persons applied at the bureau for information nd bianks. . The first ballot on record at the {league bureau for this election was i marked Octaber ® by an absentee voter {from Maine. To date, the largest num- ber of ballots have been marked for Ohio. | It Is estimated that between 75,000 | and 80,000 residents of the District of Columbia are eligible to vote in the 34 | tates which permit absentee voting. Nearly 60,000 of these are Government employes, while the remainder are pro- fessional people who have retained a voting residence in oiher localities. Regulations concerning absentee regis- tration and voting differ widely in the varlous States, since each State has t! right to lay down rules governing elec- tions. The function of the information bureau of the league directed by’ Chair- man William Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Representatives, and A. E. Chaffee. vice chairman of the Repub- licen State Voters' Association. is to furnish Information concerning the voting laws of the 48 States and blank forms for those wishing to register or apply for official ballots. There are 18 States in which registration may be effected other than in person. and 34 States which permit voting by mail Practically all ‘States exempt Govern- ment. employes from loss of residence through absence from the State. \GALLOWAY TO SPEAK AT REPUBLICAN RALLY| Hoover and Curtis Club Meeting | to Be Held at Wardman Park Hotel Tomorrow. | | i | torney General, will be the principal | speaker at ths Republican rally to be | held under the auspices of the Hoover | and Curtis Club of the Republican State { committee at the Wardman Park | Theater, Wardman Park Hotel, tomor- row night at 8 o'clock. There also | will be Hoover Minute Men talks by | Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Republican national committeewoman of the Dis- trict: Robert V. Fleming, president of the Riggs Bank: Mrs. Pearl Bellman Klein, representing the Republican Professional Women's League; John W, Fihelly, assistant_district attornev: Hall Keough, Milton Barrett, George E. Mc- Neill and Judge Lodinger. The program will be composed of music and speeches and is as follows: Trooping of the colors by an escort of | Civil War, Spanish-American War and World War veterans. with a bugler sounding “the colors,” followed by “The Star Spangled Banner.” sung by Mrs. Flora McGill-Keefer, and instrumental musie, John Lewis Smith. president of the | Hoover .and Curtis Club, will preside, jand Edgar C. Snyder, United States ! marshal. will act master of | ceremonie: ROY 0. WEST TO HEAD HOOVER-CURTIS RALLY | e 7 | Harry A. Garfield and John Grier | | transferred to Pitsfield. Pa., where he | Herman J. Galloway, Assistant At- | & | property owner in the State of Rhode | Legister in person at the City Hall In | griday afternon at 12:30 o'clock at the said to have been due to his own hop DEMOCRATS SCORE GEORGIA BOLTERS' State Committee Threatens‘ Tomorrow: Recent Election: HOUGHTON ACCEPTS SENKTE CANDIACY Speech Acceding to G. 0. P. Nomination Covers Farm and Tariff Issues. son, In Carl E. Croson, Seattle, Wash., and Albert Thornton, Tampa, Fla. The past presidents are Irving L. Camp. Johnstown, Pa.; Benjamin F.| Jones. Newark, N. J., and William A, Westfall. Mason City, Iowa. Dr. W.| B. Wells, chairman of the board of governors, will be present. Distriet gov- ernors expected to attend include Clarence W. Whelton, Salisbury, Md. covernor of the Mary Ehepherd. Virginia district ) Gilmore, Mississipp} district: Dr. A. §. Haines, Pennsylvania district, and Al- bert Burling, New Jersey district. | to Bar Them From Fu- ture Primaries. GLOVER PARK CITIZENS | ADOPT SIX RESOLUTIONS | oo | Civic Group Asks $400.000 Ap- By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, October 20.—Democratic doles . nominees and members of the executive propriation to Start Busi- | o rmittees of the party who are, ac- ness School. | tively opposing the Democratic national | Resolutions covering a half dozen |ticket were asked to resign and given | . civic projects were adopted by the |notice that they might be excluded from Glover Park Citizens' Association. meet- | future Democratic primaries, in a reso- | ing at the Home Industrial School Fri- | lution adopted at the first mecting of €av night. The resolutions were: | the r::;p Ifimfig;;‘; State executive | agreement with the policies enunci- e 'Z;,;’J;‘:{;’,‘,"‘,,,“fii’,‘,;};:.,””cgflfi"’?‘.{i‘ it resolved,” the resolution. which | 8ted by Herbert Hoover, who “repre- dren, a movement sponsored by the | Was unanimously Adopted by the 43 sents. as perhaps no one else, the ad- Kiwanie Club. | committee n;:mbe:g D"E;f"{‘ read: | ministration of President Coolidge,” Mr. o St e s Bl SO0 | g o b the momince o the om. | Houghton sald it appeared io him that Protesting the location of ihe pew OCratic party for any office. and of | the question of whether “we shall con- tinue undisturbed a protectionist coun- House of Detention at 908 B strest | every member of the party executive southwest. committee, State or county. in actively | yy or o« '« tyrm to one of the we | many variations of & tariff for- rev- Indorsing rezoning for Glover Park.|OPPosing the Democratic national Aoking he Pighway Comminsion to ticket. 1t hereby condemned. 4nd we | cut Benton street through from Tunlaw | hereby call upon each and ail 6! them | enue only,” more than any other “in- rozd toc Wisconsin avenue, -xplalnm.\;:r{:!mnfiix;l: nominations or official | Yolves the well-being of us all.” that under Dresent conditions restdents | PN’ That this ‘committee reserves the | He referred fo the “henevolent” atti- Urging extension f bus service fram | FiSht. and hereby puts every one on tude of the Democratic party toward Thirty-seventh and T sireets by way | Potice, thereof, to adopt the policy of | protection as a death bed repentance,” of Thirty-seventh and Tunlaw road O O e eppanente of ‘the | Ad added “that until I see evidence of end Wisconsin svenue. T | o | more fruits worthy of repentance than resided. & ' president, | " The resolution was introduced by G.|yet have been produced, I shall have e, | Ed Maddox of Rome, chairman of the | " o ; committee, who declared: 2 § “The issue is now whether Georgans ng:’nh&?z'or his service sbroad, he as- will show themselves to be Democrats °'ied that permanent peace among o Republicans—there 15 no middle Dations could be aided by this country Ee best “if we hold resolutely to the tradi- FTOUNd, | ace - that the entire South lion of Washington and keep ourselves Br the Associated Press. CORNING, N. Y. October 20.—In ®n address devoted almost to tariffl and agriculture problems, Alan- son B. Houghton, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, tonight formally accepted the Republican nomination for United States Senator. Declaring that he in complete WOMAN ASKS PROTECTION| Threatened by Colored Man. Shel ith- and Bond Is would remain in the Democratic column | #100f from direct participation in pol November 6 was expressed by Maj. John | ¢al systems not our own. .This man has followed me all over 5’ Conen, Democratic national commit- | | The nominee ' pledged ~himself, it the country threatening to kill me"| feeman and publisher of the Atlanta | flected, to aid in working out a solu- £2id Ollie Porter. colored, complainant | Joraal. I an address after the reo- tion of the agricultural situation which against William Jenkins. also colored. ' jution was adopted. he sald was “the most Important prob- of New York. whom she had r‘hqrfi'd’ 9 lem confronting us as a people today. With threats The new building at Mount St. Alban | 3 ‘The woman told of enzounters with | o . for the College of Preachers of Wash-| Coal should vary with the geographical Jenkins in Chicago. New York and 8 location of consumer, declares a Euro- i v Cathedral will, cost $250,000 b eecwrmaviopibvimirestad 10, ERL LR R Toria inicome | DeRniGrrert h e s hRL thost Mvid Jenking declared he was a proprietor | of $50.000 annually to be used in the in high altitudes should use a denser of bootblack shop. Judge John P.|activities of the coliege. | tuel than those nearer sea leve McMalion ordered him to give $300 e — — - shond or serve 1:0 dayg. HORNADAY APPOINTED. dvertising Man Named Business i Head of Forestry Association. |u \.. aseciated press Fred E. Hornaday. a member of the | . J., October 20—A advertising staff of the United States | SHESOELON, f" Princeton campus | (©F the presidential election. Although Daily since 1926, has been named busi- |fir® alerm on the Princeton Campus|tpere have been threats of boycott, ness manager of the American Forestry | last night was the rallying signal for|nothing was gdone until the fire en- Association to succeed C. V. Maudlin, | 1.500 undergraduates who started a|gine’s arrival on the campus. who leaves November 1 to organize a | parade and tore to pieces A Smith po-| The fire was a small mattress that commercial bureau of applied economics. litical banner in front of the college had hsen lighted by students near Mr. Hornaday it a graduate of the |campus. Helf an hour later the crowd Holden Hall. Wharten Scheol of Finance and Com- | set. out for a banner proclaiming Hoo- | Town policemen tried to arrest a rerce, University of ennsylvania, | ver's candidacy farther up the street youth who was alleged to have cut £nd for severa] years was a fleld secre- |and fore it down. down hoth political banners, but & tz=v fer the Chamber of Commerce of The campus has been In 8 ferment mass of students kept them from gets the United State:. ef diser uring the past three |ung near smough to ldenlfi him, Says, Required. ‘[Hoover and Smith Banners Torn Down |At Princeton During Student Rampage 4 ,days becsuse of the town election | board's refusal to let students register the | Hibben to Speak Here® Wednesday. Secretary of the Interior Roy O. West will be ehairman of the Hoover-Curtis | university committee mass meeting, to be held at Washington Auditorium | Wednesday at 8 p.m. At that time President Harry A.| Garfleld of William College and Presi- dent John Grier Hibben of Princeton University will discuss the issues of the campaign. o President Hibben will be introduced by President Cloyd H. Marvin of George | Washington University, and President | Garfield will be introduced by Chan- | cellor Charles F. Carusi of the National University. FEDERAL EMPLOYE PROTESTS CAR SERVICE 1 5 Miss Maude M. Anderson Hits Rush-Hour Schedule From Potomac Park. : A complaint against the Capital Traction Co.'s rush hour service be- tween Potomac Park and Eighth and F streets northeast was filed with the Public Utilities Commission yesterday by Maude M. Anderson, an employe of the personnel classification board. The service, Miss Anderlon declared, “is absolutély wretched.” Only one car leaves Potomac Park for Eighth and F streets after 4:30 o'clock, she sald, and if she misses that one and is | forced to transfer it takes 50 minutes | to reach her home at 532 Ninth street northeast. “During the past year I have been in nearly every large city in the United States and must say I do not know of any that had poorer car service,” Miss Anderson told the commission. “The fares all through California are only 5 cents with wonderful service. Other cities have 6 and 7 cent fares. I know of no higher.” GEORGE BEBAN LEAVES $400,000; SON GETS BULK Movie Star Bequeaths to Family, Employes, Friends and Actors’ Fund. IB.V the Associated Preas. NEW YORK. October 20.—George Beban. movie actor, bequeathed all but $75,000 of his $400,000 estate to his son. George Beban, jr, of New York, it was revealed today when the will was offered for probate. The actor died October 5 in Los Angeles. ‘To Mrs. Mary Beban Smith of this city. a cousin, the will leaves $20,000 in cash, Jewelry and a life annuity of $6,000 on condition that she maintain a home for young Beban. The will also provides a life annuity of $1,300 for Willlam J. MacBride, father-in-law of the actor, and a $2,600 life annuity for Florence Andrie of Roselle Park, N. J. Miss Andrie, Beban's secretary, slso receives $500 outright. Other bequests were $5,000 each to the Actors Fund of America; Edwin 8. Bettelheim, Beban's manager, Florence E. Bax, a friend of Los Angeles; $21,000 to Louis E. Beban and $20,100 to Isa- dors P. Beban, both brothers, of San Franelsco. . The corporation operating the rail- ways of Peru under condition that they | be_ turned back to the government in 1956 has proposed terms for taking over the lines permanentiy, OCTOBER 21. 1928—PART 1. Do You Know How to VOTE BY MAIL? nians who home to vote this vear. eclve the necessary Information by diresting Inquiries fo The Evening Nar, as 1 ing Infermation. eare News el The auestions and answers will be publishe . Is it possible in any way to cast a \Q e whflp\ol person_has not lived in the State "a year? In January, this year, my husband was transferred from | Milwaukee, Wis., to the State ol New; York. We located, temporarily, in Meamaroneck, N. Y. We left there in August to reside permanently in New Jersey. We have not been registered | anywhere because of business. This is the first presidential election I have been of age and am very anxious to| cast a_vote.—Mrs. D M. A. A. The New Jersey constitution re quires one to have lived in that Stat for one year in order to acquire resi- dence, and you will, therefore, be in- eligible_to vote in the coming election. Q. My son was born in Winthrop. Mass., December 30, 1905. He lived in this town untfl August. 1927, at which time he returned from the Aberdcen. Md.. R. O. T. C. training camp with a second lieutenant’'s commission, and immediately went to Claremont. N. H.. and associated himself with the 8ul- | livan Machinery Co. of that town,| with whom he is still connected. Last anuary_or February they transferred him to Boston, Mass., and he lived at his parents’ home in Winthrop, Mas: June 14 last he was transferred t Baltimore, Md., where he remained | until about a week ago, when he was 1s now located. While in Winthrop he had one date in which he could have registered as a voter, but for the fact | that he was out of the State on a busi- | ness trip. When, how and where can | he register as a voter for the coming presidential election? . A, N. A. From the facts stated. there is no | question but that vour son is eligible to register and vote in Massachusetts, | his absence in the several points to the several States having been temporary in character and with no intent to abandon his Massachusetts residence. 1. will be necessary. however, for him 1o | return to Massachusetts to register and pay such poll taxes as are assessed against him, after which he will be | eligible to vote without further regis- tration so long as he continues to vote. Q. I was born and raised in the Dis trict of Columl In 1920 went to Chicago, IIl, to make my home and | have lived there ever since except for visits back here. I would like to vote in Chicago. but have never registered there. Is it too late for me to register now and can I do so through the mail I want to claim Chicago as my legal idence as I have been employed there and expect to return there to make my living.—M. E. A. You are eligible to register and vote in Chicago, but you are too late to register for the coming election, as th> last day for registering in person was | October 9 and. for absentees to file af- fidavit, October 8, at noon. Q. Will you kindly inform me if a Island can vote by mail>—D. A. B A. There is no provision in the Rhode Island election laws for voting by _mail. | Q. Could you tell me whether I stand any chance of being able to vote? My home is Philadelphia, Pa, and I am not able to go home for the election. I have not registered. Is it possible to register and vote my mail?—Miss L.i V. B. A. You are eligible to register and | vote In Philadelphia, Pa. but it will | be necessary for you to go home for both. as there is no provision for either registering or voting by mail. You can | Philadelphia any day up to and in- cludin{ October 27. Q. 1T was born in the District of Co- lumbia and spent some time in the State of West Virginia during my mi- nority. My mother and father were both born and lived there, and my father (now dead) exercised the right of franchise in that State. I have never voted, although I have paid taxes in the State. Can I register and vote either in person or by mail?—Unsigned. A. If you attained your majority as Ae member of your father's household and hfve always Pegarded Wesy Vir- ginia as your legal residence, you would be eligible to vote by mail: on the con- trary, if you have abandoned West Vir- ginial for residence purposes, you would not be entitled to register or vote. JOINS AIR-RAIL HOOK-UP. | B. & 0. Move Will Cut Down Timé | From West to East. | ST. PAUL. Minn.. October 20 (#).— The Northwest Airways Co. today an- nounced completion of negotiations with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad | whereby that system is joined with four | other roads in the air-rail hook-up over the Northern transcontinental route. ‘This move opened up & new territory for the Northwest Afrways cutting down the time schedule from the Twin | Cities to Baltimore, Philadelphia and DANIELS ATTACKS | North Carolinian Says Re- | ventions that you fully recognize the | present administration this | $8.500.000 a year. | Hudson, chairman o | ship commitiee, presiding. | W. is the | committee, New York. Between You and the Cold of The Atlantic Heating Company’s su- perior Home-Heating Plants installed and tested by heating engineers and guaran- teed. A written guarantee insures every plant. HOTWATER HEATING SYSTEM 6 Rooms—300-Foot B Radi 1f You Wish—At SIi Our_shewraam Is_convenlently located at Ston in to aee this canipment ar. it you prefer. Iin 3654, and ove representative will eall and give you full informa- ation in your home at our vers low price, No tlon regarding | ohlization whata 1203 Eye St. N.W. Open Evenings 'Til ion and 6 Radiators AS LOW AS N THREE YEARS TO PAY Atlantic Heating Co. Heating Engineers HOOVER DELEGATES| ASSAILED BY REED publicans in South Merely Deal in Offices. By the Associated Press, LEXINGTON. Ky.. October 20— Aiming his fire directly at Herbert | Hoover, Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy in President Wilson's cabinet, in an address prepared for delivery here tonight, charged that the national Republican organization feeds the im- ! potent Republican organization in the South “In order to secure the delegates to perpetuate itself” and that the R publican presidential candidate is the pressnt. beneficiary “of the pocket bor- ough system of Southern delegatesz." “Having profited by the system there is no reason to believe he will change,” | said Mr. Daniels. 1 Recalls Taft's Bid. 1 Reviewing the bid of President Taft for Southern support before the 1912 | election, Mr. Daniels said few short- sighted Southern men accepted Mr. Taft's invitation. joined the Republican party, and were thrown small plums. “Although Mr. Taft, the best-beloved President of his party,” Mr. Daniels continued, “was sincere in his inviia- tion to Southern Democrats, he could hardly expect they would do so. He had no comprehension of their deep devotion to Democratic principles. Sev- eral years before his invitation, Mr. Taft warned Southern Republicans that self-respecting men would not join heir party. ! ‘You have no prespect of success | and you do not deserve success unless you show in the nominee of your con- obligations you are under as a party,' " Mr. Daniels quoted Mr. Taft as saying in a speech to North Carolina Repub- licans, and added: Denies Party Is Real. “If some Southern Democrats should consider leaving the party which they love because of some disagreement with the candidates, where could respectable | Southern Democrats go? You know there is no Republican party in th South. What passes for it is a skel ton in armor or rather a corruption, | putrefied corpse. covered with the armor | of hypocritical respectability. It stande only to deal in offices. It exists oniy to provide purchasable delegates to n: tional conventions. “Investigation has shown that in the Southern skeleton in armor has received the patronage of the Post Office Depart- ment, headed by New, and the Trea: ury Department, presided over by Mel- lon. It has been brought out there a: more than 4,000 Federal offices in the South not classified under the civil service, which carry salaries totaling ‘That pay roll is the only reason for the existence of the Southern Republican party.” 'WORLD-FELLOWSHIP | MEETING SERIES SET Gathering at Y. W. C. A. Friday Will Open Organization Sched- ule for Winter. The annual series of world-fellow- | ship meetings in Washington will open with Miss Helen : he world-fellow- Y. W.C. A Bufld\n?. 1] { Luncheon meetings will be held each | month during the Winter, at which | prominent persons from foreign coun- | tries will be ihe speakers. Members of ! the National Board for World-Fellow- | ship and members of the local commit. tee of the Y. W. C. A. include Miss | Elizabeth Eastman. Mrs. Robert Lan- | sing, Mrs. Edwin B. Parker and Mrs. William Adams Slade. | ‘The Y. W. C. A. sends 106 American | secretaries to ather countries and in 47 | countries the blue triangle of the Y.‘: ymbol of a “fellowship of | women which reaches round the world.” | Also on Friday at the Y. W. C. A.| a meeting will be held of the inter-! racial committee in the third-floor ls-{ sembly room. The speakers will be Hollingsworth Wood of Fiske Univer- sity and T. Arnold Hill, director of the | department of industrial relations of | the National Urban League. This! meeting is aranged by the afliation comprising Mrs. Frances Boyce, Miss Marian P. Shadd, Miss Alice N. Willlams. Mrs. Martha McAdoo, | Mre. Albert H. Putney, Mrs. John T. Schaaf, Miss Eastman and Miss Hettie P. Anderson. representing the Y. W. C. A. in the city. Foot pontoons have been added to the equipment of Austrian soldiers who pa- | trol along the Danube River so that! they may walk on the water. Winter oiler 300 Square Feet No Down Payment ight Additional Cost 03 Fye St enhane ne. Frank. N, W, Fr. 3654 9—Sundays 'Til 2 HOOVER'S RECORD Senator, Making First Talk for Smith, Hits at Relief Work. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis.. October 20.—Sena- tor James A. Reed of Missouri, in the first speech he has made in behalf of | the candidacy of Gov. Ared E. Smith, | ropean markets wa: put the Democratic microscope on the | to $5 a bushel.” career of Herbert Hoover here tonigi® The Republican presidential nominee's long residence in foreign countries, his record as food administrator during the World War and his past political align- ments drew the fire of the Senate vet- eran whose address was broadeast over a network of Midwest stations, Blaine Also Speaks. A speech by United States Senat: John J. Blaine of Wisconsin, who re cently announced he would support Go Smith. also was broadcast from the same meeting. g Mr. Hoover has so long posed as the savior of Belgium that many peo- ple almost believe that out of his own private fortunes and by his own in- dividual efforts he fed the Belgians during the war,"” Senator Reed said. “That myth might as well be ex- ploded now. In feeding the Belgians, Mr Hoover, was in fact performing a great service for the British and Prench governments, for both countries real- ized if the Belgian people were not fed the morale of the Belgian army would be broken. Senator Reed charged Mr. Hoover with coming to the United States as | food administrator “with the purpase |in his ‘heart of fixing 4 pride upoh | American farm products for the bene. | fit of England and France and Bel- |gium.” Before he left England. Mr Hoover “rigged” the market for the purpose of beating down the priee nf American farm products. declared the Senator Charges Price Breaking. 3 “Mr. Hoover's eulogists tell of how he bouzht vast quantities of provisions and supplies. an having arcumulatér | them would ‘suddenly hurl them upon | the market. break the price. and then buy in at low prices upon the broken | market.” he continued. | Tracing Mr. Hoover's gradual acqui- | sition of power as food administrator m the United States, Senator Reed said | “While our American farmer was | receiving $220 for his wheat after de- | ivery at the market. less chargss and discounts for quality, wheat in the Eu- running from $3 Senator Blaine declared that Wiscon- sin is for Gov. Smith because he st “-mur-wmp on paramount issues.” He said that the “corruption, bribery and | debauchery™” of the last seven years touched every member of the cabinet whenever it touched the cabinet. MAN STABBED TO DEATH. 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