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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
FEDERAL PRISONER
SAWS WAY TO LIBERTY.

Montgomery, Ala, June 30,-Fil-
more Wilson, federal prisoner want
ed in threei states for moOnshining.
Joe Benton and Jim Sloan, county
prisoners, ELI white; escaped from the
Houston county jail at Dothar, Ala,
early this morning by saving their
way througksthe steel bars of a win
dow. A blasket was lowered to the
ground then the Jail wal was scaled.
Bloodhounds followed their trial to
the railroad tracks and lost it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
SUBMARINES OF
GERMANY AGAIN
BECOME ACTIVE
Half a Dozen Vessels Are
Reported AS Being Tor
i pedoed and Sunk.
NEARLY A SCORE OF
- AMERICANS ON ONE
Were From Newport News
and Serving as Muleteers
Aboard Armenian.
RY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Washington, June 30.-The Domin-
ion freight liner Armenian, of Brit
ish register, carrying mules from
Newport News, Va, to England, was
torpedoed and sunk Monday night by
the German submarine U-38, off
Cornwall, England. Nearly score
of American muleteers aboard are
reported lost, according to messages
to the state department today from
John H. Armstrong, Jr., consul at
Bristol.
Twenty-nine in all were lost and
zen injured. I
: ne news createda sensation in Of
hcid quarters. 1t is the first case of
American lives lost since the Lusi-
tania was sunk. The action of the
Washington authorities depends al
most entirely on whether the Armen-
ian was chartered by the British gov
eminent and was in fact a transport
of war aboard which the Americans
sailed at their own risk or an un-
armed merchantmen. In the latter
case the vessel was subject to visit
and search and those aboard trans
ferred to safety before the vessel was
destroyed.
Officials declined to say what effect
the sinking of the Armenian would
have on the negotiations with Ger
many. Ambassador Page was asked
to obtain more details. When Secre-
tary Lansing returns tomorrow Am
bassador Gerard, at Berlin, will be
asked to get the German admiralty
report.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
NO CLEAIENCY FOR
CONVICTED MIDDIEs.

Washington, June 3o.-Secretary
Daniels and Rear Admiral Fullam,
superintendent Of the naval academy,
conferred today over the investiga-
ton into charges of hazing at the
4cads. Secretary Daniels said no
xcl mesey would be extended.
II AAy one has been hazing," said
Secetars Daniels, Hhe will get out
q ne Academy. There is no discre-
tEen TO De exercised. Congress has
made the duty of academy officials
plain IN statute prohibiting the
practice. Every midshipman has been
admonished of this, orally, by super
intendent, and IN writing in a letter
to his parent or guardian"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
ALLEGED RIOT
!. LEADERS HAVE
BEEN INDICTED
True Bills Returned Against
Men Arrested Near the
Governors Home
RY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Atlanta, Ga, June 3O.-Ihe Fulton
county grand jury today returned in
dictments charging riot against the
twenty-six men arrested by the mi
litia last Saturday in the vicinity of
Former Governor Slaton's home,
The ofTense charged is a misde-
meanor under the Georgia law, pun
ishable by imprisonment not exceed
ing one year or a fine not exceeding
$1,000 or both.
JUDGE SCORES MOB.
In charging the Fulton county
grand jury to investigate the case of
the twenty-six men arrested last
week by militiamen in the vicinity OF
Former Governor Slaton's suburban
home, Judge Benjamin Hill, of the
superior court today declared that
''mob violence sounds the retreat OF
free government and constitutional
rights" He said it was a sad day
for the history of Georgia if mob Law
existed.
Judge Hill charged the grand jury
to present indictments of riot if il
found that two or more had assem-.
bled to commit an unlawful aci
against the governor or his property
If it was found that two or more wen
on the governors premises, the judge
said, that act would be trespass.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
OTHER VESSELS ARE SUNK
BY THE ACTIVE SUBMARINES

London, June SO.-The British
steamer Scottish Monarch, bound
from New York for Manchester with
sugar, was torpedoed and sunk yes
tarday by a German submarine. The
cr2zv of thirty-six took to the boats.
The captain and nineteen were picked
up and landed at Dunmore.
Queenstown, June 30.-Norwegian
bark Ketka was sunk by the gun fire
of a German submarine off Fastnet
today. Twelve of the crew were land
ed here.
London, June 30.-The Norwegian
ship Cambuskenneh, which sailed
from Portland, Ore, February 8 for
Liverpool or Manchester, was sunk
today by the German submarine U-39
Thirteen members of the crew were
landed. Eight other sailors, being
German subjects, were taken aboard
the submarine.
The Norwegian steamship Gjeso
1904 tons gross, also was sunk by 9
German submarine today. The crew
was landed at North Shields. The
vessel was sent to the bottom by :
torpedo.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
Conditions of
Mexico City
Are Dep1o bic
81 ASSOCIATED PREss.

Washington, June 30-DeKlor-
able conditions in Mexico City,
with unchecked naobs Iioting and
locting, are described in dispatch
cabled to the United States gov
eminent tonight from Vera Cruz
by courier who left the Mexican
capitol last Friday.
Other reports from Vera Cruz
to the state department said that
three trainloads Of Carrsnza
troops left there yesterday to re-
inforce Gonzalez. Every available
nan is being rushed to the scene.
OffcfaIs here fear the fighting will
be carried into the city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
TRADE BALANCE THE
GREATEST IN HISTORY.

Washington, June 30---Oficial an
nouncen1ent of the greatest favorable
trade balance in the nations history
more than billion dollars-for the
current year ending at midnight was
made today at the department Of
commerce. It exceeds by nearly four
hundred millions the best previous
record.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
NEW SECRETARY OF
STATE IS DECORATED.

Amherst, Mass, June 30.-Robert
Lansing, secretary Of state, was given
the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws at the Amherst commencement
today. Mr.. Lansing was graduated
from Amherst in 1886.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
cal Summe r Resort

PENSACOLA is THE IDEAL SUMNER az.
SoRT-COOL BREExES, BATHING, BoAYINo
FlsHiNG-EVERYTHlKG FOR COMFORT AND
PLEASURE.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-01
PENSACOLA WEATHER

Showers Thursday and Yesterdays Temperature
probably Friday; light Highest, 81 degrees; low
southwest winds. est 70 degrees
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21
WILLIS DISCOVERY

Governor Willis has made a dis
covery too late. He has discovered
after four months, that an Ohio leg
islature will not do a cused thing
but blather unless some powerful
hand guides them. Governor Cox
tried for a month to salve the colons,
and jolly the Jays of the law making
body, but soft soap did not work.
He began to use lye water, and final
ly resorted to a curry comb before
they would come clean and do what
they had promised the people they
would do. For this, Mr.. Willis went
over the state and beloved boss
and 'one man power" and all kinds
of pleasing epithets, resulting in peo-
Pile changing the administration into
the hands of Mr.. Willis. He has
tried to be kind. He has suffered
much embarrassment, and smiled on
for four months, until Peter Durr,
brewer of Cincinnati, went to Col
umbus last week and torpedoed the
Governor with his submarine. Will
lis is now waking up, and getting
real positive that the Legislature
must redeem party pledges The
awful boss. He is getting to be
like that terrible Jim CoX.-Logan
Record
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21

extreme sensitiyeness- likewise the
feelings. A great many Washington
ians have practiced disappearing of
Bryan until any little thing he may
do causes them the most exquisite
pain, If a member of the ancient ir-
reconcilables in the northwest corner
OF the city feels at any moment an
unclassihed twinge or shudder, he or
she, as the case may be, viii pause as
likely as not and eXclaim: "Ouchl
There! | know that man In the state
department has been doing some
thing Doubtless he has thrown up
window, Now, when l knew the
state department, Mr.. Secretary Ba-
con never threw up a window, He
was the soul of dignity. Besides,
the building was well ventilated in
those days, We had men at the
head of the state department then
Things are so different now"
They gather at teas and dinners
and in hotel corridors and at clubs
and in committee meetings and i'm the
street, these staple and fancy deplor-
ers, and they talk of laws and wars,
Of shopping and cigars, of babies,
books, and bonds. But in the end
the conversation turns to the man
who is at The head of or on the neck
of or part way under the State de-
partment, according to different au-
thorities
The Bryan disapproval is not a
mere political criticism. 1t is com
prehensive, whole-hearted, constitu-
tional, fundamental, temperamental,
social, religious, anatomical, gastron-
omic, and sartorical disagreement,
II is the sort of disapproval which
reaches out, like a corporation, for
more things to clutch 1t falls. like
the mantle of charity, on all objects
within its scope and automatically
any new feature touched or
appertained to by the secretary of
state. President Mckinley served
water and other fiat things happily
and safely through his administra-
ton 1t remained for Mr.. Bryan to
absinth frappe, bitten
cocktails, and extract of tarantula
in Washington by serving grape
juice. People who had never tasted
the stuff rushed out and drank IL in
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21

order to loathe Il with more yigor. If
we were TO take too seriously the
groans Of Bryan dinner victims, we
would think that In times past people
went to state dinners for the purpose
of being hauled out by the legs in a
condition of alcoholic coma where
as American state functions have al
lways beer comparatively arid AFFAIRS.
| IL simply became borne in on the
amalgamated deplorers that there
must be something blighting about
sobriety because Mr., Bryan INDUCED
in &C.
The Chautauqua incident was dis
cussed all over the country In
Washington Il became brooding
horror A lot of Washington people
had never heard of chautauquas un-
I'll they found that Secretary Bryan
was frequenting them, Then they
tried to read upon the thing in Ga
boriau's library of crimes. II wasn't
the awfulness of the deed which
shocked Washington. 1t was the lack
of dignity. No secretary of state had
ever ehautalked before. 1t hadn't
been done at all. IL was impossible
to conceive. The smallness of the
salary was no excuse Knox and
Bacon and Hay couldn't live on their
salaries either, but nobody saw them
rushing around the country exhibit
ing in tent They sawed wood in
the back yard and eked out their pit
tance in proud silence And besides,
anyone who spends that much money
is eXtravagant. Nothing contributed
more to the popularity Of economy
i'm Washington in 1914 than the fact
that Bryan couldn't live on $4,000
a year. 1t was almost impossible for
some time to find a republican con-
gresham who would complain about
his little old $500 and mileage to
Australia. Some of them went so
far as to brag that they saved money
on S7500-whereas the general line
of conversation had previously con
veyed the idea that when a congress-
man draws his trihing donation from
the government, he hands il over to
his landlord and borrows enough
from some friend to stake him to a
light lunch in lean over restaurant.
still, Secretary Bryan could live
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21

on $4,000 year and serve his state
dinners I'm a beer tunnel without com
ling any nearer TO suitlng his Wash
ington critics. II Is a hopeless case
with him. He just naturally doesn't
suit. He wears his hair long No
secretary of state has ever worn so
much hair In the same place. His
clothes are out OF focus. His shape
is obsolete and annoying, He is said
to perspire In hot weather, Emf
nent visitors have caught him using
a palm leaf fan. He wears slippers
at home, John Hay never did this
or, If he did he set guard around
the house and kept his shame to him
self. His trousers bag worse than
Cleveland's, He wears a plug hat,
Everyone in Washington wears a
plug hat-but If Bryan keeps on do
ing IL, II will make the custom unpop-
.ular. and ruin an investment of hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars.
He Is too polite. He is also heart
less and unfeeling, He makes ora
tions instead OF pronouncing speech
os, ns q secretary of state should do.
He has made changes in state de
partment customs He walks too
much and mngles shockingly. He
is austere and rides In automobiles
to excess. He gets down to work too
early He takes work home with
him. one would think he was paid
by the hour He doesn't work at all
on Sundays No man ought TO inn
peril the dignity Of the government
for a religious scruple. The state,
war and navy building is running
down. The climate has been bad OF
late Gas bills are higher. If they
start jitney busses, he is likely TO
ting into the trees in the district
ting into the tres in the district
What can you do with man like
that!
These are serious indictments and
not easily quashed, But they cover,
il seems, only Mr.. Bryans minor pee
cadillos. II takes an old time fight
ing republican to discuss his large
sins. When the remnants of official
republicanism get busy around the
capitol on his case they criticize him
with a whole hearted enthusiasm
which must be great relief for some
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21
BRYAN IS SURE
DEMOCRACY'S GOAT

[By George Fitch, in Golfers
These are slow dull times for the
frosted layer of Washington society
which official Washington enjoyed it
self in the brave old republican days.
The said days lasted sixten years,
during the last stretch of which lot
of Washington people got vested in
terest in the social joys of the gov
eminent. Things got sort of settled
socially after the Republican party
! became a national habit, and many
of our leading citizens moved to
| Washington for the purpose of sit
! ting in with the government, inform
ally, over the dinner plates. And then,
! just after many of these citizens d
! invested large sums in new palaces,
precedent was outraged by the cleo
tion of democratic president.
1t is difficult for the outside world
to appreciate the fullness of this ca
| lamity. 1t has been very poignant.
In the first place President Wilson
| has omitted the social end of his ca
reer entirely. This would have been
cruel enough in itself, but he has, in
addition, loaded down the cabinet
and the other high places with lot
of people no one has ever heard of.
They are democrats-that strange
breed which has been confined hith-
erto in the two branches of congress
where one needn't fall over them so
cially. But now the whole place
swarms with them, They override
the constitution by giving receptions
and forgetting to invite people who
have called cabinet ministers by their
first names for sixteen years. Friends
of theirs from Texas and Nebraska
and other weird sections come up to
Washington, having learned to drink |
afternoon tea by correspondence |
school, and have an enormous time
socially while the real people who |
knew viii and Theodore and Elihu |
and dear Chauncey DePew sit around |
at home and wonder what the dick
ems is going to become of the govern
ment.
Even the diplomatic corps is very .
little comfort nowadays. 1t didn't |
change with the administration, but |
since the war the ministers of the af-
fected countries have remained al Il
most unanimously at home as the
best way of avoiding embarrassing
encounters. In TaCJ tnere is nothing II
for the eX-friends to do socially now
days but meet around and deplore
Bryan.
This has been the great indoor pas
time of the outs for the last two year
Their zeal at it is unfagging They Il
have developed the occupation into a
fine art. Other usurpers of awesome
places have come in for a mild disa-
proval, but only in half hearted,
dilettante way. They can not be
said even to compete. The govern
ment really ought to investigate the
methods by which Secretary Bryan
has acquired his sweeping monopoly
of condemnation for everything that
goes wrong or differently in Wash
ingtOn.
ALAS! WHAT TIMES ARE THESE
BY long practice the ear or the eye
or the finger tips can be trained to
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21
AMERICAS VOICE
cleveland Plain Dealer.1

[Cleveland Plain Dealer
Few documents have been fraught
with greater significance than the
American message to Germany on
that message depends not only the
determination of the present grave
international issue, but also the flu
ture of American alooihess. of Amer
ica's ability to live her own life in her
own way, unswayed by the Quarrels
of Europe. and unhampered by the
iealousies and hatreds of a continent
gone mad
Weighing well the momentuous-
ness of the message, the president
has constructed it with surprising
skill To Germany rs offered a di-
rect choice and the better way is
made easy Not In terms Of haugh-
tiness or of menace, but rather as a
definite clarifcation of conditions
which had become murky and obscure
the United States depicts to Germany
the uncomfortable results of a policy
which has tended to destroy the fun
damental rights of humanity.
Statesmanlike and firm, yet care
fully avoiding any terms of oifense
the note correctly and adequately
mirrors the sentiment of the Ameri-
can people.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21

of those older statesmen whose prin-
cipal duty has been TO be conserya-
tive and cautious in everything.
Bryan Is safety valve for them
There has been great disposition
among republicans 10 be 80 fair with
the new administration as far as com
ment goes. They have given the
president the benefit of the doubt and
have been as bipartisan toward the
cabinet as could be expected from a
party which hopes TO eject said ad-
ministration with loud shouts in
1916. Everybody speaks kind word
for our honored president and then
gives the secretary of state both bar
rels with nails In the charge. II Is a
beautiful system and keeps the re-
publicans feeling broad minded and
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21

yirtuous because criticlzing Bryan
doesn't count, The open season on
him has lasted about twenty years
now.
Naturally one would expect that q
gentleman who has been so unani-
mously deplored might show some
marks Of the fact. But Mr.. Bryan
seems to carry the burdens of the
state department as comfortably as
he carried the comatose democratic
party fifteen years ago, That every
thing he does is regarded with cold
disapproyal by large number Of
spectators does not seem to lessen his
weight, his cheerfulness, or his ae-
tivities. Undoubtedly he fell heir
to the largest mess Of international
snarls since Stewards time.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21
IohIo state Journal. lRepll

tOhio State Journal, (Rep)
No one ever saw the time when the
Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics
United Bretheren, Christian Scien-
lists, Baptist. Episeopalian, and all
the other l73 sects and denomina'
tions We're so sincerely united as they
are now, In commencing President
Wilson for his noble attitude and his
strenuous efforts TO keep this nation
out of war Let Cardinal O'Connell
speak for them all. Referring to the
presidents Philadelphia speech, he
says:
Il Is the expression of a noble
heart and a truly illumined
mind. II Is sublimely catholic
and national at the same time
the broad love for our fellow
men and the devotion to the
country to which we have dedi-
Gated ourselves, while yearning
for that eternal fatherland to-
ward which our faith and hope
are leading us. God bless our
calm, noble and high minded
president
Yes, IL was sublimely catho-
lie, and sublimely Congregation
al. and sublimely Methodist and
Baptist. and all the rest of them
too. This is because the presi-
dent reached down to the depths
OF the divine spirit. where alone
the truth is and where all sects
and denominations agree. There
is a point in human faith where
every man can shake hands with
every other man, 1t Is only
when we get out into the weeds
and stony paths that we separ-
ate and lay down platforms and
creeds to differ about and dis
cuss. The Christian faith, If
rightly inquired OF, viii bring
all mankind together. When
men drop their hate and meet
heart TO heart they will agree.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21
WITH PRESIDENT TO FINISH

u speak for myself, and, I believe,
for the great majority of German
Americans when / say that we are
with the President of the United
States to the finish in all matters af-
fleeing national honor or national
prestige. Herman Ridder
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21

President Wilson's note to the Ger
man Empire, which was brought
about by the sinking OF the Lusitania
viii be found on another page Of the
Democrat of this issue. II Is con
ceded a remarkable state paper and
our readers should not overlook il.
All OF the great newspapers of the
United States commend II. with the
exception OF Hearsts and the German
press. though an occasional German
paper indorses Il. As for Hearst,
well. why waste words
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21

ion OF the attorney general who was
elected with him as his advisor
Nor did he explain that this was done
so that he might take care Of an Ada
graduate who had been promised a
place In Columbus so that he might
lobby In behalf of the school book
trust
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-21

Bright displays
will
ideas in Dress coming
1t will be the your
with all the additional helpful dressmang
days hou
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-22
WILSON TO REPLY SOON
PRESIDENT TO CONSULT CABINET
ABOUT LAST GERMAN NOTE.
Telegram From Cornish to Secretary
TumuIty Indicates Executive Has
Arrived at No Decision.

Washington, July 15.-The first Off
cial announcement of the immediate
plans of President Wilson for deal
ing with the situation that has arisen
between Germany and the United
States came on Tuesday in telegram
from Cornish, N. H., to Secretar7
Tumulty, stating that the president
would return to Washington soon to
lay the entire subject before his cab
met.
The White House statement was as
follows:
Referring to statements appearing
in certain morning newspapers with
reference to the attitude of the presi-
dent toward the reply to the German
government, Secretary Tumulty this
evening gave out the following tele-
gram which he had received from the
president:
Please say that from the moment
of the arrival Of the official text of the
German note have given the matter
the closest attention, keeping con-
stantly in touch with the secretary of
state and with every source, that would
throw light on the situation; that so
soon as the secretary of state and l
have both maturely considered the sit
uation l shall go to Washington and
get into personal conference with him
and with the cabinet and that there
will be as prompt an announcement as
possible of the purposes of the govern
ment.'"