New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-10-11
REPUBLICAN FILM
= TOO RAW TO SHOW
'SWatchfui Waiting" Insult to
President SheIved by Ma
tionaI Committee.
at DRAGGED IN RELIGION
picture Prepared by Hal Reid Showed
Convent and Sisters of Charity
/, -
in a Story Grotesquely
Revolving.

1t was remarkable piece of cam
paign news the New York World let
loose a few days ago-a story of dirty
methods to bolster up the political
fortunes of fioundering candidate.
According to the World the Republic
can National Committee had a null
tiple reel film prepared, entitled
''Watclful Waiting" to be distributed
,ny the committee and displayed under
the auspices Of or by arrangement
with, the various Republican State
Committees. The Committees even
had prepared circulars advertising the
picture to be sent broadcast over the
country to County Chairmen. .
According to this circular, the
@'movie' story begins with the be-
etrothal of John Martin to Marion Lom-
bard. Martin, United States troop
er, is called to Mexico, where he is
killed by one of Villas followers.
Upon the death of her betrothed
Marion becomes Il Sister Of Charity
and is sent to Mexico to nurse wound-
ed soldiers.
''In the meantime" says the circu-
lar, 'the followers Of Huerta shoot
down the American flag. Mr.. Wilson.
organized fleet OF hattleships, which,
he sends to Vera Cruz to demand
that Huerta apologize and salute the
American flag, but with orders to the
United States marines to withhold
fire.
"Sometime later Villa and his fol-
lowers make 4 night attack on Column,
bus, n. NJ. Immediately follows the
'Carrizal fight. Villa and his followers'
make an attack en- the convent and;
drag the Sisters into the brush, leav-I
ing them to die. Marion, rather than
meet such a fate, kills herself.
"The heads Of both the Protestant,
and Catholic churches sent petitionsi
TO Wilson, whose ears are deafened to;
their entreaties, and he sleeps peace
fully at his desk.
"Views Of both COL Roosevelt and
'Goy. Hughes will be taken in con-,
emotion with this picture but cannot
be described at this writing"
Denounced by Reid's Own Friends.
That film was prepared at cost:
of $4,000, and it's director, Hal Reid;
years ago was sentenced to prison on.
a charge of assault on a variety &C.
fress. He served thirteen months I'M
the Saltwater (Minn.) Penitentiary
when he was pardoned and exonerated
of the charge.
Some of Mr.. Reds friends, when
tod of his new photoplay, expressed
themselves, in substance, as follows:
Il do not believe that I have ever
listened to anything that shows so
much real rottenness in politics as this
lea Of the Republican National Com
ittee.''
1T is the most disgusting thing 1
er listened to-"
ut constitutes a series of deliberate
md studied insults to the Nations
chief executive"
Il think it will go a long way to-
ward beating Mr.. Wilson," said Reid
to a reporter for the World. "First, I
show Villa peering through the BUSH
.es. Then there is subtitle reading
why didn't President Wilson stop
z the war in Europe by putting an en-
barge on all exports to all European
countries alike, except on foodstuffs?'
'Next I show Vera Cruz A launch
filled with American sailors is seen
approaching the wharf. Then l show
the wharf and Mexicans, armed, stand
1ng there. They fire on the boat. I
show the officer in the boat picking uD