Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1916, Page 4

S S——— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWA VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice as second-class matt TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Carrier By Mail Dafly and Sunday. Daily without Sun Evening and Sunday Evening without Sunda; Sunday Bee only..... 20¢. . Daily and Sunday Bee, three years in advance, Send notice of change of address or irregularity in livery to Omaha Bee, Circulation Department. REMITTANCE. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Only 2-cent stamps taken in payment of small accounts. Personal checks, except on ({m-hl and eastern exchange, not accepted. .00, de- OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—2818 N street. Council Bluffs—14 North Main street. Lincoln——526 Little Building. » ?h“&—sll People's Gas Bullding. lew York—Room 803, 286 Fiffh avenue. 8t. Louls—503 New Bank of Commerce. Washington—726 Fourteenth street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Address communieations nl-uns to mews and editorial matter to Omahs Bee, Editorial Department. SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION 54,507 Daily—Sunday 50,539 Dwight Williams,' circulation manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the average circulation for the month of September, 1916, was 54,607 dally, and 60,689 Sunday. DWIG#’I‘ WILLIAMS, Circulation Manager. Bubseribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3d day of October, 1918, ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. Subscribers leaving the ity nnnn;l:y should have The Bee mailed to them. Ad- dress will be changed as often as required. ———— Winter's advance agent shows the same old reliable line of white goods Old Man Winter wants it known that he has lost none of his blustering faculties. And Mr. Bryan resigned his place in the cabi- net as a protest against Wilson's war-provoking policy! Secretary Baker's break reveals the danger of substituting odious comparisons for the schoolmaster’s celebrated stock of political lim- ericks. pEepeTtE——— Various lines of indoor sport are looking and preparing for a big season. Still, the prospect of wresting the honors from the coal shovel is ot en‘conn(inl As an alternative to the proposed free bridge to connect Omaha and Council Biuffs, a tunnel mdgr the Missouri is suggested. Why not a free airship ferry? Next! When an irresistible impulse meets an im- movable obstacle something must give way. Colonel Roosevelt and an earthquake struck Louisville on the same day. e—— The way his Omaha speech is being picked to pieces and used against him by Hughes and Roosevelt is calculated to make President Wil- son_ wish he had not spoken. A Sm— So long as Sheriff McShane holds the job he will fight for his jail-feeding graft. Put “Mike" Clatk into the sheriff's office and he will help solve the problem so that the county will furnish t‘lfpfl«}lm meals at cost. & Sep——— “Wilson will be re-elected,” says the St. Louis Republic, “because the common man is for him." A similar line of political dope was commoner in 1896, but the uncommon man proved to be a m majority. . oy eim— \ Colonel Bryan displays old-time skill in side- stepping annoying issues, While beating up the political bushes of Missouri for Wilson, Reed and the whole ticket not a whisper is heard about brewers, booze or the dfy amendment. —— That platform covering local igsues promul- gated by the republican legislative ticket con- tains real meat. It promises legislation that the people of Douglas county want, and shows them how to get it by sending republican law makers to Lincoln. 4 WieE——— Filipinos promptly manifested their gratitude for enlarged legislative liberty in characteristic fashion. One of the first bills introduced pro- poses to repeal the law forbidding the use of any other flag but the Stars and Stripes. The object is to revive the use of the Katipunan flag which symbolizes law and order in the Philippines about as much as anarchy’s red banner does in this country. The Free Trade Menace Washington Post: The London Globe is now outspoken in its d. mand for a protective tariff policy in Great Bri ain that will apply specifically to American goods ich enter into competition with those produced England and its dominions and colonies. When reciprocity was proposed to Canada mn‘x of the statesmen of ‘the Dominion argued to the voters there that Canada wduld get the worst of the bargain. The few advantages which the United States would have obtained might have been set down beside the adyantages which nada would have obtained, but this fair method dopted\lzy political orators. The re- t Canada became convinced that it would obtain fewer advantages than the United States. Later on, when the Underwood law w; ‘written, da was given all the advantages it would have received under the reciprocity agree- ment without givin anythin{ in _return. The Underwood law likewise opened the American market to Great Britain and all other foreign nations, with the result that importations increased tremendously, The war has converted Great Britain to protection, and it is now pro- posed that this fiscal policy, which built up the in- ~ dustry of the United States, be applied now by Great Britain against the United States, whose ary abandonment of the policy has demon- strated the necessity of restoring it. How Great Britain would profit by its new tariff faith is clearly revealed by the London Globe: . “In order to be able to deal successfully with American competition we must develo) 10 the full extent the resources of the Brilisfl empire. All the needs of the émpire can be supplied from within its own borders, with ‘abundance to spare for the requirements of other nations, but this requires imperial organ- ization and a closer partnership between the mother countries and the dominions.” The question that arises and that becomes important in the campaign is whether the United $ , which had hands full in competing in J markets .with Great Britain even when o had free trade and this country protec- © tion, can keep its head up when the conditions _ are rever Great Britain's costs of production _than those in the United States. If turns wholly to protection, the need of 8 for such a policy will be greater x before in its history. * Two Messages to Business World. A singular coincidence of the presidential campaign is that on the same day the repub- lican and democratic candidates spoke of the future of business in the United States, each outlining his views on the all-important topic. The contrast between the two messages thus de- livered marks clearly the distinction between the republican and the democratic parties. In Omaha Mr. Hughes reiterated his devotion to the principle of a protective tariff, to preserve the home market and foster American industries. But he went further. He pledged himself to the complete protection of American interests, wherever they may be, that our far-flung line of American enterprise may know that it will not be forced to submit to the uncertainties of local and unstable governments, but will always have the support of the great nation, whose growth and perpetuity demands_that these pioneers of commerce go abroad. Under republican admin- istrations they have had the assurance that back of them is the strength of the American nation, and this Mr. Hughes pledges to them anew. Mr. Wilson did nothing of the kind. On the other hand, he made complaint that our envoys of commerce are involving the nation in disputes with local governments, and charged that the “opposition wants to put the army and navy of the United States back of their financial enter- prise in Mexico and throughout the world.” He thus fully substantiated the analysis of his policy made by Dr. Eliot of Harvard, “that hereafter we do not propose to afford full protection by force of arms to those who represent American enter- prise in foreign parts.” Our national life and growth demands that we expand our trade and influence abroad; our national honor requires that we support and pro- tect the agents of that expansion in their legit- imate efforts. This is the Hughes doctrine. The converse of this is that we withdraw from world activities, become a hermit nation and selfishly live for ourselves. This is the Wilson doctrine. ‘Which nearest represents the genius of American liberty? — Norway and the Submersibles. The note from Norway to the belligerents, dealing with the question of treatment to be ac- corded to submersibles, is in line with the attitude assumed by the United States, and has the sup- port of logic if not of written law. Norway holds it has the undoubted right to exclude submarines from sojourn in its ports or territorial waters, but rejects the suggestion that it is the duty of its government to exercise that right. On the con- trary, it proposes to accord to submarine vessels the privileges granted to ships that use the sur- face of the water, under similar restrictions. The only departure is that submarine merchantmen will be required to remain on the surface, fully exposed, while in Norwegian waters. Undersea fighting boats will be accorded all the privileges granted to surface-using war vessels. This de- cision will not meet the demands of the Entente Allies, who have insisted on the exclusion of sub- mersibles of every type from recognition as ordi- nary vessels, but it finds support in reason, and will assist in establishing a precedent that must be respected when the time comes to write anew the laws of the sea. Smm——— Vote Needed to Carry an Amendment. Much copfusion seems to prevail as to the vote needed to: carry or defeat the prohibition amendment pending in this state. The constitu- tion of Nebraska provides several ways for its amendment, but this “dry” measure comes under the head of an “initiated amendment,” ‘and on that subject the wording of the constitution is very plain, It reads: . “All such measures shall become the law or a part of the constitution when approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon, provided the votes cast in favor of such initiative meas- ure or part of the constitution shall constitute 35 per cent of the total vote cast at said elec- tion, and not otherwise.” i This means, if it means anything, that the prohibition amendment will carry only if it has a majority of the votes cast on the amendment, which majority shall be not less than 35 per cent of the total vote polled for any or all purposes in the election. As there is no question in the mind of anyone conversant with the situation as to polling the 35 per cent, the question resolves itself uncondi- tionally into that of polling a majority of the votes recorded on the proposition. e— In the Early Days of Wilson. Cotton is selling on the market in America at 18 cents a pound, and growers are prophesying that it will go to 20 cents or over. Yet it was only two years ago that we were besieged with appeals from the southland to “buy a bale of cotton," 10 cents a pound being the price, to save the southern planters from utter ruin. Of course, Wilson wasn't responsible for that; he had only been in office a little longer than a year, and had only then succeeded in getting one of his wonderful remedial measures, the Ugderwood tariff law, into working order. Have the people so soon forgotten how they were urged from Washington to cut out luxuries and return to the simple life? Hundreds of thousands did it, and other hundreds of thousands stood in bread lines in response to that appeal. And the president advised our finagciers to loan no money to a na- tion at war, and Nebraska's democratic senator undertook to forbid the sale of goods to nations at war. Oh, yes, we have always been prosper- ous under Wilson! Greeks Make Another Mistake. Subjects of King Constantine in Athens are in a bad fix politically. A portion of their coun- trymen have revolted against the king and set up a provisional government, which has been given recognition by the British and French, who have taken possession of the Greek navy and occupied the ancient capital of the country. In their ex- tremity the Greeks still loyal to the king appeal to the United States for aid and protection, a mistake that is natural to them, for they are only familiar with the United States in its capacity as the champion of freedom and the opponent of all oppression. They do not know that we are liv- ing under “the new freedom,” and have denied protection to our own citizens when abroad in the world. The Greeks are no better than Amer- icans, and undoubtedly may expect the same treatment from our government. Senator Hitchcock voted for the holdup wage increase bill with complete consistency because he believes in holdup methods. The senator himself played the holdup game to force Presi- dent Wilson to disgorge on federal patronage demands. _— | I Why Hughes Should Be Elected l Winner Philadelphia Ledger $500 Prise Contest. To say that Charles Evans Hughes should be elected president of the United States because his record as a public servant of extraordinary efficiency, fidelity and courage has demonstrated his presidential stature is an excellent reason so far as it goes, but it is not definitive. Pages can be written concerning his eminently useful career as the people’s lawyer, progressive governor, wise and constructive jurist. But the point it is neces- sary to hammer home is that Mr. Hughes would be ‘a better president than Mr. Wilson, Broad- minded republicans welcome not merely the op- portunity but the logical necessity for a clear- cut comparison of the chief candidates’ achieve- ments, their personalities, the policies to which they stand committed and the manner in which they may be expected to put them into effect. Why do we need a change of presidents at this time? Because Woodrow Wilson's four years of misrule have brought about a combination of undesirable and even dangerous conditions which nothing but a change of administration will rectify. Here are a few leading counts in the indictment: Our nation has been humiliated and weakened in_the eyes of the world by President Wilson’s failure to protect the lives and property of its citizens. Mr. Hughes declares: “I stand for the unflinching maintenance of all the rights of American citizens on land and sea.” Although boasting that it has kept the country out of war, the administration has burdened it with oppressive and irritating taxes entirely un- warranted in time of peace. Increasing cx;l)cndl- tures to an unprecedented extent, it has rejected the logical and least oppressive method of raising the revenue necessitated by its own extravagance, namely, a protective tariff which would serve as a bulwark against the inevitable assault upon our industries and labor to follow the close of the European war. Mr. Hughes demands “a simple, businesslike budget to avoid financial waste. I believe in a protective tariff. Our severest tests will come after the war. We must make a fair and wise readjustment of the tariff, based on the sound protective principle, to insure our economic independence.” The administration’s vacillating, self-con- tradictory course toward Mexico has incurred the hatred of its people and the contempt of our own. Vera Cruz, Columbus, Carrizal, are names at which patriotic Americans blush with shame. Mr. Hughes proposes “a new policy with regard to Mexico, of Ermness and consistency.” The administration has flouted the principle of civil service to make places for ‘“deserving democrats.” Efficient experienced diplomats have been ousted in favor of political appointees. Mr, Bryan’s Estimate of Wilson Five-Year-Old Statement of the Nebraskan Quoted in Collier's Weekly. “The simple fact,” spid Mr. Bryan (to Col- onel George Harvey) “is that Wilson is an au- tocrat by training. He has been dealing as master with school boys all his life, until now he has reached a point where he cannot meet anybody on a basis of equality. If he should be elected president, everybody else would have to be a servant. Neither you nor I nor anybody else having self-respect could serve a full term in his cabinet. And when he got through there wouldn’t be any democratic party left. There might be a Wilson party, but the old democracy would be gone.” Hughes says: “I stand for our civil service laws. “Nobody has a right to pay political debts with the good name and honor of the United States.” The threat of 400,000 railroad employes to tie up the nation's transportation system caused President ‘Wilson to surrender the principle of arbitration for industrial disputes and dictate rapid-fire legislation by congress fixing wages for a special class of workers. He defends hi course by calling it eight-hour day legislation. Mr, Hughes says: “I stand for the principle of fair, thorough arbitration and for legislation on facts. I am opposed to being dictated to by any ower on earth before the facts are known and in the absence of the facts. The Adamson law ‘fixes wages. It does not fix hours of labor.” Mr. Wilson having been weighed in the bal- ance and found wanting, the independent voter will say: “If Mr. Hughes will fulfill his prom- ises he should be elected. How do I know he will make good his word?” There is but one answer: Turn to his record. In public life the name Hughes connotes character. For more than a decade it has been synonygous with an en- lightened conscience translated into terms of ag- gressive action. Hughes brings right things to pass. The nation's pioneer progressive, he re- ceived and deserved the title long before it possessed a partisan political significance.’ The most/ constructive set of laws put upon the statute books of an American commonwealth within a generation are Hughes-made laws stamped with the indelible imprint of his ori- ginality. In those days of strenuous discussion when the country was awakening to a new civic consciousness, to be labeled “a Hughes man” was a brilliant badge of honor. Its bearers today are equally proud, but the distinction is less ex- clusive; there are so many of them. A pecularity of Mr, Hughes' platform rhetoric is his reitera- tion of the phrase, "I stand for” this or that prin- ciple or policy. This is not accidental, but springs logically from the man’s mental make-up. It is a sign of his positive character. Does any- body known what Woodrow Wilson really stands for? \ Fearless investigator of evil in high places, virile, independent governor of a great state, justice of the supreme court, scrutinize every chagter of his record for an indication, however slight, that ever in the course of his distinguished career Charles Evans Hughes has departed one hair's breadth from the path of sincerity and honor. Twice chosen chl’erexecutive of the state of New York, in neither campaign was there a single questioning of his character, the trace of a reflection upon his unbending rectitude. There is every reason to believe that President Hughes would be, as was Governor Hughes, the scru- pulous keeper of faith with the people, the ef- ficient performer of his promises. Woodrow Wilson has giyen the cquntry an academic, anaemic, theoretic, epistolary and dan- gerously experimental administration. © He is a demonstrably uncertain quantity, a perpetual con- undrum, and the country is ready to give him up. And so it turns to the great Administrator, of proved capacity and judgment, of splendid un- selfishness, of devotion to purpose, the judicial mind harnessed to the driving energy of the re- former, true republican, true progressive and, above all, true and typical American, man of the reople and their logical choice for the highest honor within their gift, Charles Evans Hughes. People and Events Little things oft lay the mighty low. Axel Anderson, known as the “powerful Swede” among the ironworkers at Gary, Ind., in his thirty-one years of life did not experience sickness, yet a bad tooth gave him the knockout and the finish- ing blow. A Minnesota victim of auto thieves proposes a remedy for the evil that combines simplicity and efficiency. He suggests that every buyer of an auto secure a bill of sale from the manufac- turer, the bill to go with each sale of the auto. Then ownership would be established by the bill of sale, provided every buyer of used machines |r,|lsisled on the ccrtifir:ale of ownership., There's the rub. THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1916. Thought Nugget for the Day. A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its lovliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. —John Keats. One Year Ago foday in the War. Russians advanced along Styr river, capturing Czartorysk. Bulgarians cut the Nish-Saloniki railway, fifty miles below Nish. Announced that England had of- fered Cyprus ta Greece on condition the Greeks join the allies. Germans made strong attacks on six-mile front east of Rheims and drove French from first line trenches, but soon lost the ground gained. In Omaha Thirty Years Ago. Georfe Schell, a traveling represen- tative of Richardson & Co., the St. Louis druggists, has recelved a tele- gram from J. Clifford Richardson, stating that the St. Louis establish- ment had bought out the C: F. Good- man company in this city and that they would take possession of the place January 1, 1887, The new street sweeper manufac- tured in Chicago for Fanning & Slavin of this city, has arrived and will be immediately put into use. The little 4-year-old son of Charles Barbeau, brother of Mrs. F. A. Nash, wandered away from the house and was traced to the Chicago Lumber company, thence to Stephens, thence to C. J. Ryan on the Lowe road and finally to a spot northwest of Walnut Hill, where he had fallen into the water and was rescued by a carpenter, The second annual banquet of the Omaha Gun club took place at the Millard hotel, at which toasts were responded to by the following: Gen- eral Smith, B. E. B. Kennedy, Dr. Worley, J. J. Hardin, Dr. Hyde, Yank Hathaway, C. E. Snyder of the Re- publican; J. R. Clarkson of The Bee and Dr. Peabody. At the close of the banquet President Bechel gave a short address. . . A club has been organized, to be knowh as “The Owl Chess, Checkers, Cribbage and Whist Club.” The tem- porary officers, who will serve until the first annual election in January, are: George Barker, president, and J. L. Swartz, secretary. About twenty members have been secured. Mrs. G. M. Lambertson entertained the following young married people of Lincoln, at her home: Messrs. and Mesdames D. D. Muir, Carle Kunke, Frank Sheldon, A. G. Beeson, W. M. Leonard, Lippincott, A. J. Buckstaff and J. D. McFarland. This Day in History. 1816—James W. Grimes, governor of Iowa, United States senator and chairman of committee on naval af- fairs, born at Deerfield, N. H. Died at Burlington, la., February 7, 1872, 1827—Combined fleets of England, France and Russla nearly destroyed the Turkish and Egyptian fleet in bat- tle near Navarino, Greece. 1844—Rev. Carlton Chase was con- secrated at Philadelphia first Episco- pal bishop of New Hampshire. 1860—Prince of Wales (Edward VII), concluded his American tour and embarked at Portland, Me., for home. - 1863—Confederates under General Longstreet defeated the Federals at Philadelphia, in East Tennessee. 1870—Amadeus, duke of Aosta, made king of Spain. 1888—Congress adjourned holding the longest session history. 1894—James Anthony Froude, fam- after in its ous English historian, died. Born April 23, 1818, 1904—The president invited the signatory powers to a second peace conference at The Hague. 1916—United States declared an embargo on the exportation of arms to Mexico, except to territory con- trolled by Carranza. The Day We Celebrate. George B. Dyball, vice president and treasurer of the Alamito Sanitary company, was born in Chicago, Ill., October 20, 1869, which makes him 47 years old today. Dr. William M. Gordon, practicing physician, was born October 20, 1863, at Shelbyville, Ky. He is one of the few colored graduates of Creighton medical college and has been practic- ing successfully for sixteen years. Emil Relchstadt is today just 34 years old. He writes himself down as a mechano therapist. He was born in Olten, Switzerland. Congressman James R. Mann of Illinois, republican minority leader in the house, born near Bloomington, 111, sixty years ago today. Bouck White, pastor of the Church of the Social Revolution, New York City, who recently ran afoul of the au- thorities by burning an American flag, born at Middleburg, N. Y., forty- two years ago today. Edgar Selwyn, theatrical magnate an dauthor of several successful plays, born in Cincinnati, forty-one years ago today. % Elliott W. Major, governor of Mis- souri, born in Lincoln county, Mis- souri, fifty-two years ago today. Dr. Willlam L. Poteat, president of Wake Forest college, born in Cas- well county, North Carolina, sixty years ago today. John Titus, former outfielder with the Boston and Philadelphia National league base ball teams, born at St. Clair, Pa., thirty-two years ago today. Timely Jottings and Reminders. Today is the one-hundredth anni- versary of the birth of James Wilson Grimes, one of the early governors of Iowa and later a prominent member of the United) States senate. The Interstate Inland Waterway league, which aims at building an in- tercoastal canal from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande, begins its annual meeting today at Lake Charles, La. The school of fine afts of Yale un- versity 18 to hold exercises today, commemorating the fiftieth anniver- sary of its founding. Former President William H. Taft 18 scheduled to preside at a republican mass meeting at New Haven tonight. A dinner in honor of W. Cameron Forbes, president of the National Hughes Alliance, is to be given at the Hotel Astor tonight by the Woman's New York City committee of the Hughes Alllance. Storyette of the Day. / In their morning walk Jessie and her mother passed the home of a lady who was so ill that a large quantity of straw had been strewn over the street to deaden the noise. The straw aroused Jessie's curiosity, and she asked many questions about it. “It has been put there,” her mother explained, ‘“‘because last week they brought a little girl baby to the lady who lives there.” Jessle cast one last contemplative look at the straw. “Well, all I've got to say is that they t brought her well packed,” marked.—New York Times. she re- -\ A Wonder of Words. Omaha, Oct. 19.—To the Editor of| The Bee: W— W- Watchful Waiting. Woefully Wearying. Weasel Working. ‘Wonderful Wabbling. Wretched Wailing. Wizzard Winking. Willful Wasting. Windy Wiggler. Wily Wheedler. Wordy Wonder. Worthless Writing. Wholesale Weakness. Wanting Wisdom. Waning Wrestler. Weighed Wanting. M. . SHERWOOD. Open Letter to Senator Hitchcock. Omaha, Oct. 19.—To the Editor of The Bee: I have addressed the fol- lowing open letter to Senator Hitch- cock: \ I notice that your paper, presum- ably by your directions and with your consent, has a great deal to say (and says it well, I am bound to admit) about the dissensions and differences among the various brands of republic- ans. It may be admitted, without any serious contention that the republic- ans have their differences. But how about yourself? A strong minority of your own con- stituents who claim to be the only simon-pure democrats in the state, charge openly and vociferously that you are, always were, and always will be a republican; that your sympathies and predilections are all in that line, and that they can prove it by your every act since you went to congress the first time. To a man up a tree, il certainly looks like, when you wanted to do something sensible and right, notably in securing modification of the reserve bank act, you had to act with and get your support from republic- ans. Is it not so? 1If it isn't, a lot of the good, consistent, untroubled-by- dissensions democrats of whom you are so proud, are greatly mistaken, because they stand ready to swear tc it by all that is holy—I hear them dc it every day. Now this is not to criti- | cise you. I believe you were right in| many of the stands you have taken, but you ought not to be too gleeful at other people’s dilemmas, having some of your own. I don’t believe anyone, you least of all, will sericusly question that the Bryan democrats are after your scalp. Bryan doesn’t say so (openly), but many of his followers do say it, and are proud of it as evidence that they are real democrats. Unless you get a whole lot of republican votes (and you will get a good many), to offset the votes of these dwell-together-in- harmony brethren of yours, your name will have a decidedly hibernian flayor after election. Being a sort of political orphan this year, I find‘it much easier to be fair to both sides and consider mat- ters on their merits, also to see the fun in the thing. One of the funniest of the bunch has been to read the World-Herald in the morning and then lunch with democrats at noon. Most of them love The Bee like the devil is said to love a certain variety of water, but a lot of them think you are such a good democrat that they are reading The Bee daily as the more democratic of the two. Yet you find time to poke fun at dissent- ing republicans. Isn't it to laugh? H. W. MORROW. Hughes’ Talk a Reminder of Lincoln. Omaha, Oct. 19.—To the Editor of The Bee: I was asked to see and hear our next president, Charles Evans Hughes. I am an old Grand Army of the Republic man, 78 years old and don’t go out at night, but I could not stay at home, so went and I liked his talk. I heard Abranam Lincoln in 1860 at Springfleld and Hughes' talk reminded me of Lincoln's talk and I voted twice for Lipcoln, and, if I live, I will vote twice for Hughes. I was very sorry that the democrats and toe-kissers tried so hard to break up the meeting, but am glad that they failed and they will fail the seventh of November, thank the Lord. G. B. SMITH. Argument of an Old Soldier. Omaha, Oct. 19.—To the Editor of The Bee: Please give me space for this open letter to Comrade W. J. Broatch: I see you statevgnur intention to vote for President Wilson. Now, Cap- tain, 1 care not for whom you vote, but I wish to call your attention to the following paragraph in your letter: “In reviewing President Wilson's administration I find it has made a record without parallel in the history of our country. I dislike to admit it, but it is a matter of record and can- not be controverted.” Now, Captain, I will call your at- tention to the record of your old com- mander-in-chief, President Abraham Lincoln. He took charge of this gov- ernment March 4, 1861. Do you re- member his first inaugural address was the greatest ever delivered by any president. A matter of record. Do you remember seven states were al- ready out of the union and the nation on the verge of destruction from the disastrous defeat at Bull Run to the glorious victory at Appomattox? Do you remember all that occurred be- tween? Do you remember Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Antietam, Chic maugua, Murfreesboro, Gettysburg, | and many other battles of that awful war? All these four years Abraham | Lincoln and his administration made | a record unequaled in the civilized | world. Yes, greater than all the presidents and administrations since, including your great Mr. Wilson, FOR THEY SAVED THE NATION. You were a soldier and went through all that awful time, and don't remember Lincoln. One of the great- est orators, statesmen and patriots in history, and don't remember the suf- fering, the bloodshed, the thousands, yes, hundreds of thousands of widows and orphans made. The 500,000 lives sacrificed and bil- lions of money spent. Where is your memory? Has senile decay, aberation of mind, dotage and lapse of memory | combined destroyed every vestige of your once active intellect and given you a new personality intensely demo- cratic? Take your old coat of faded blue, your commission, your discharge, vour pension certificate (for I sup- pose your pension is a liberal ome), look them over, get the history and speeches of Abraham Lincoln, the history of the war from 1861 to 1865, read again of his death by the hand of an assassin, but remember he lived to hear the shout of victory, to stand amidst the universal joy, under the outstretched wings of peace, he lived till cesession was dead, till Lee had surrendered, till the doors of Ander- sonville and Libby opened and the gaunt forms of freedom’s brave de- fenders walked forth into God's sun- light to behold once more a free land with every star of the old flag and every foot of soil intact. He lived until liberty and Lincoln were united forever. The great liberator, the foremost man of. the civilized world. Yes, see if you cannot bring back some vestige of your former patriot- ism and love for the beloved Lincoln, who will live in the hearts of the na- tion, their tenderest memory as long as the nation lives, whose place in history is second to none. Then re- member this: “That this nation under God shall have a new birth of free- dom, and that government of the peo- ple, for the people and by the people shall not perish from the earth.” I am an old soldier, who helped to elect you twice mayor of this city, but who still loves and reveres the memory of Abraham Lincoln. LEW PIXLEY, Formerly of Company H, Seventy- fourth Regiment Indiana Volun- teer Infantry, Third Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps. —_— Wray Never a Republican. York, Neb., Oct. 19.—To the Editor of The Bee:r Since Arthur G. Wray has caused be published his thir- teen ‘‘reasons” for supporting Wilson, I have thought it timely to advise Bee readers that while Judge Wray was one of the leaders in th eorganization of the progressive (republican) party in York county and the state, he was never a republican. 'Tis true he has browsed in repub- lican pastures and been fed and groomed in its feed lots, yet, in twelve years of acquaintance we have never heard him advocate a distinctive re- publican principle. In 1896 he is said to have been for Bryan and the sacred ratio of sixteen to one. At various times since he has stood for single tax, government own- ership of railroads and other social- istic and populistic tenets, but never in any campaign has he attempted to deal the democratic party a body blow, even while enjoying a lucrative position as a republican. Mr. Wray is a very amiable gentle- man. So are Woodrow Wilson and W. J. Bryan all very amiable gentle- men, but not the material of which America's greatness was built. Give ws a Jackson, a Cleveland, a Roosevelt or a Pinchot—all of whom have shown they can be partisan, but in a crisis like the present are first American. While the thirteen reasons (?) may be satisfactory to Mr. Wray, they will be satisfying to neither republicans nor progressives who have been grounded in republican doctrines and faith. Neither do we see how they could satisfy a Cleveland democrat who had reason to be proud of that statesman when he handled Governor Altgeld during the Chicago strike, or when he took diplomatic correspondence from the hands of Secretary Olney and perforce of his Americanism set- tled the Venezuelan question. Americanism first, Brother Wray, personal ambition and partisanship thereafter. The notes of Charles E. Hughes ring true in.these ears, and we confi- dently await his election. C. E. CALLENDER. “Rousing” Meeting All Right. South Side, Oct. 18.—To the Editor of The Bee: That ‘“rousing Sunday afternoon meeting” described in the W.-H.: Nineteen, all told, including officers of the so-called German- American club, candidates running for office and the bartender and porter of the house, the janitor of the court house and the street cleaner under the city administration. However small the gathering had been, the meeting was not alone rous- ing, it was also prousing. The speaker was frequently forced to stop for lib- eral bursts of applause because they could not afford to let the pint bottle stay too long uncorcked. ‘And so lib- erally had they been supplied with wet stuff that they pretty near forgot that the lights are shining along Twenty-fourth street. Hon. 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