Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 29, 1916, Page 5

v treason. BAKER IS LYING OR . I§ SHIRKING DUTY. Secretary of War is Challenged | to Make Good on His Mexi- can, Statement. BLUFF IS QUICKLY CALLED New York, Oct. 28.—(Special Tele- gram.)—T{e following statement was issued by thé republican national com- mittee at republican headquarters here last evening: “The campaign of humbug, pretense | and falsehood, which has been \vagcdi by the Wilson administration and its | political managers, reached its climax‘ last night when the issuance at the| War department by Mr. Baker, sec-| retary of war, of his astounding state- | ment charging that some unnamed | and unidentified persons were plot- ting a new Mexican outbreak before ! election day, ‘tor the purpose of turn- ing ’the tide of sentiment against Wil- son. “Immediately after issuing this charge Mr. Baker left Washington and was not available for questions concerning it until today. This is the same Baker, who ten days ago in Jer- sey City, likened the heroes of '76 and Valley Forge to the bandits of Villa and Carranza. Having at various times denied that speech, despite the testi- mony of stenographers, who reported it, it was to be expected that he would deny or modify his War department statement as soon as he found that it was not accomplishing what he had hoped for it. But denial in fact, was made for him and without waiting for his return to his office. It came from his cabinet colleague, Secretary Lan- sing, who protested that ‘politics was not thought of in the matter,’ and Mr Baker, on his return to Washington today, corroborated Mr. Lansing, by saying that there was not the slightest political. significance in issuing his statement of last night. Statement Shows Its Purpose. “This statement, and the comment on it of administration officials today throw a white light upon the unscru- pulous political course of the Wilson admipistration, and its managers in this campaign. As issued, Mr. Baker’s statement said the War department had definite information, confirmed from other sources, that enemies of the administration’s policy toward Mexico had arranged a spectacular at- tack on either the American forces or some part of the American border, efore election day for the purpose quoted. Only one interpretation of that statement was possible, and that was that Mr. Baker was charging the political opponents of the Wilson ad- ministration with plotting active trea- son, and it is incredible that Mr. Ba- ker had any other purpose in mind, than that when he issued the state- ment. “Such a charge would be directly in line with utterances of Woodrow Wil- son himself. Repeatedly the presi- dent has shown himself to be fond of this vague kind of denunciation. “He enjoys making charges in broad, general terms, which specify nothing, and no one, Especially with regard to the opposition to his policy toward Mexico, and his handling of the Mexican problem, has Mr. Wilson resorted to this sort of charge. Only a few days ago, at Shadow Lawn, he said: “I do not find that anybody else’s counsel is taken in respect of the pol- icy that this country should pursue with regard to Mexico, except those who have hitherto acted as the coun- sellors for the vested interests in Mexico” Not once has Mr. Wilson or his subordinates ventured to make any of the charges specific, or to iden- tify any of the men against whom they might have been named. Not once has he or any of his henchmen came into the open. But on several’ occasions he or they have talked thus vaguely about the ‘disloyalty of un- named, unspecified, and unidentified individuals or groups of individuals. On every occasion, when it has been sought to evoke explicit information, they have taken refuge in the coward- 'y obscurity of anonymous language. Plays Game of Chief. “Mr. Baker was playing the same game—the game of his chief—when he issued the statement of las¢ night. The charge he was making was of If Mr. Baker, or anybody in the administration, has information justifying such a charge, it is his sworn duty to lay it instantly before the proper law officials and proceed to hale the traitors before the bar of justice. If Mr. Baker does not do that, he is violating the oath he took to support the -constitution and the laws of the United States. “The time has come to call a halt upon- this reckless disregard for facts, and the truth which premits such un- supported and unspecific charges of | treason and other high crimes to be banded about so loosely, and unchal- lenged by high officials of the govern- ment. To quote the language of the president himself, it is time to put up or shut up. “Mr. Baker knows that he cannot put up, and he seeks to evade re- sponstbility for this charge, just a he seeks, by absolutely false den to escape the responsibility for his astounding utterances in Jersey City ten days ago. But even in his efforts at evasion, Mr. Baker does not free himself from culpability. “Challenged in Washington today, Mr. Baker, joined with Secretary Lansing in saying that the conspira- tors to whom the statement of last night referred werc not Americans, but Mexicans, who had come to the American side of the border and were carrying on their plotting in the United States. “‘Everyone knows,” he said, ‘a large body of men who have withdrawn from Mexico to this country are con stantly aggressive against the Mexi can government.” If Mr. Bake knows of a single man to whom his assertion applies, and does not in- stantly invoke the process of the la against the man, then he is guilty of violating the oath of his duty a his oath to support the constitution, and the laws of the United States? Statute Easily Found. “Mr. Baker is himself a lawyer, and if he does not know that the acts that he charges against these un- named Mexicans in United States territory are violations of the United States penal code, the poorest office boy he ever had working for him, could tell him, and could find the statute violated in ten minutes or less. Whichever alternative Mr. Baker chooses to take, convicts him of dere- liction of duty and of unfitness for the bffice he holds. Somebody in the Wil- son administration is acquainted with the provisions of the federal statutes regarding such offenses against the United States as Mr. Baker so lightly charges in his statement. “Somebody invoked those provis- ions not so very long ago, when Vic- toriano Huerta was arrested at El Paso. Huerta died, a prisoner of the United States, in El Paso, last Jan- uary. How does it happen that the laws which were sufficient for the needs of the Wilson administration in the case of Huerta cannot apply to the cases of these conspirators thus denounced by Secretary Baker and Secretary Lansing? “It is time to have an end of fales- hood and concealment and hypocracy and politics in this Mexican business, and to have the introduction of firm- ness and vigor and honesty and fair dealing.” WOMEN SHOULD GET THIS HABIT AS WELL AS MEN Don’t eat bite of breakfast until you drink glass of hot water. Happy, bright, alert—vigorous and vivacious—a good, clear skin; a nat- ural, rosy-complexion &nd fréedom from illness are assured ‘only by clean, healthy blood. If only every woman, and likewise every man, could realize the wonders of the morning inside bath what a gratifying change would take place. Instead of the thousands of sickly, anaemic-looking men, women girls with pasty or muddy complex- ions; instead of the multitudes of “nerve wrecks,” “rundowns,” “brain fags” and pessimists we should see a virile, optimistic throng of rosy- cheeked people everywhere. An inside bath is had by drinking, each morning before breakfast, a glass f real hot water with a tea- spoonful of limestone phosphate in it to wash from the stomachpliver, kid- neys and ten yards of bowels the pre- vious day’s indigestible waste, sour fermentations and poisons, thus cleansing, sweetening and freshen- ing the entire alimentary canal be- fore putting more food into " the stomach, Those subject to sick headache, bil- iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism, colds, and particularly those have a pallid, sallow complexion and who are constipated very often, are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at the drug store, which will cost but a trifle, but is suf- ficient to demonstrate the quick and remarkable change in both health and appearance awaiting those who prac- tice internal sanitation. We must re- member that inside cleanliness is more important than outside, because the skin does not absorb impurities to contaminate the blood, while the pores in the thirty feet of bowels do. '—Advertisement. Tho;isa_xnd; Have lédney : Trouble Weak and unhealthy kidneys | cause so much sickness and suffering | and when through neglect or other | and Don’t Know It A Trial Will Convince Anyoney | Thousands of people have testi- fied that the mild and immediate ef- and | § who | REITMAN CLEARED; Other Women in HE WILL GO FREE Case, Mrs. Hatcher Asks for Divorce ’ roner's Ju s H : Co! ry Hold % e‘ Alleging that her husband has re- Stabbed Fogle to Death in | jearedly sought the society of other | women and invited her to do the| Moment of Insanity. WILL BE NO PROSECUTION same with men, whereas she has al-| ways conducted herself a loving | wife, above such conduct, Fran A Hatcher has filed suit for divorce | from Ralph B. Hatcher. The Hatchers were married in| Sioux City in 1909, and came to| Omaha in 1910. The husband is an| | employe of the Missouri Pacific rail-| | road. | Instances in which the plaintiff claims to have followed her hushand | and caught him in the society of | other women are cited | Mrs. Hatcher s for $75 a month alimony, the household furniture and | that her maiden name, Frances A, Holekamyp, be restored New Comipany Gets Long-Term Lease| A coroner’s jury, sitting in the case | of Henry Reitman, Swift and Com- pany janitor, held by the police on a charge of murder, returned a verdict decl#ring that the defendant com- mitted the deed in a moment of in- sanity. The jury further recommended that he be released from custody. County Attorney Magney, who con- ducted the investigation, stated last evening that he would not prosccute, should the jury so recommend. 1 The morgue, where the inquest was held, P, J was crowded. Former Mayor Trainor of South Omaha, Mrs. cll known property owner; Tony Vanous and others tes tified in defense of Reitman. Rei was not called on the witness stand, but others who saw the cutting testi- | fied. Sol Fogel, victim has another new industry. the T. G. Northwell lealers in farming in iles, closed a ten- of the tragedy, | year lease for a six-story building on was buried Thursday afternoon from | Farnam street between Ninth and the family residence at 2316 ) street. | Tenth streets. They will occupy the Police are ready to release Reitman |entire building and basement. as soon as the county attorney acts| The Armstrong-Walsh company ne- this morning. gotiated the lease. Orchard Gift Shop “Plant on Hallowe'en * and it blossoms Christmas Morn."” We have bulb bowls that will take any of the water growing varieties of bulbs, priced from— 35¢ to $35 m f = Library Table 28x48 . Mahogany table, Adam style, flut- ed posts, metal drop pulls and full width drawer— Price, $26.00 —_— Brass Beds A full size genuine Brass Bed at— $7.75 and up. A Seamless Square Tube Brass Bed as low as $25.00. Others at $29, $30, $33.75, etc. Ladies’ Spinet Desk Very similar to cut. Finished in English brown mahogany. An ex- ceptional value at— $37.00 Others at $35.00 and l‘lp. You Can Choose Best Where There’s Most to Choose From For example, our Showing of Axminster Rugs comprises a world of patterns and colorings as well as many grades Not a few rugs priced low to attract you, ENotiastew i rugs NprIc ot oW e o But an immense assortment that impresses you. Axminster Rugs, 9x12. . .. ... ..$22.50, $24.00, $27.50 Axminster Rugs, 27x54. . . . .. $2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $3.50 Most patterns can be matched in all sizes including such unusual sizes as 7-6x9 and 9x9. 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