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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-28
Gnard Rumanian Legation.

London. Aug. 28.-The Rumanian Ie-
cation in Berlin is being guarded by
the police, adviCes say. as stones were
thrown through the windows of the
Italian embassy in Berlin yesterday
A dispatch from The Hague says the
German federal council met this
morning on receipt of the news of Ru-
manias declaration of war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-10-03

Any white male person Of good moral character
tventy-one Of entitled To membership this
order
Men in the vicinity Of Rock Island may join this Temple
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-10-03
Benefits $40 per week to Sick and
disabled members for I3 weeks
in any one year by adoption of
the local Temple.
Dues: Only 800 per month.


The Order Of Camels was established il Arabia I'm
prehistoric times it crossed the waters and was establish
ed here; and today the Temples know the sands Of the
desert even a work through them today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-10-03
WHERE - - CoINGI

The Order is established throughout the East and is
going from the Oriental to the Occidental 1t is NOV
ing westward, and its onward march viii not be stayed
until the time when t can be said that the sum never
sets on he Cames of the World.
The Camels here now and asking you to be one Of
Add to your assets the valuable company oF loyal and
true friends Of the 9. o. T. w.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17
Another Bridgeport Woman Run Down in Health, Now Gains Appetite and
 Weight Taking "Wi|derbs'

Here's another substantial Bridge port matron who has found the way back to joyous good health through the use of the "Wilderb" treatment. She is Mrs. William Sadler, who lives at 2559 Fairfield avenue Mrs. Sadler came here from Newark six months ago and says that for five years she has not been herself, because of a general breakdown in health and strength due to indigestion and lack of appetite. Now, thanks to Wilderbs Gull extract) she is once more able to do her own housework with ease and says it is the first time she's been real we'll since she can remember.
 CT feel like a different woman since I tried your 'Wilderb' medicine. You would agree with my husband and friends that I look like a different woman, too. if you could have seen me I'm eating myself out of house and home. We came here from Newark several months ago and for at least 5 years in that city I was sick and dis couraged and underweight. Had no appetite and dragged through each day wondering when 1t would end. At first thought it was the climate, but I didn't improve any by moving here, until one day my husband suggested that try Wilderbs which was helping so many I can truthfully say 1t is the first time in years that I have felt strong and we'll and 1t is the d8ly
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17
Insurance Man Now Worth Twice As Much To Company
 Since He Has Used TanlaC
Agent for John Hancock Life States That National Tonic Relieved Indigestion and Gave Him
 New Energy
'"f>nlac Tonic, Not Laxative" Says Tanlac Ma

The first Bridgeport citizen to pub licly endorse Tanlac, the famous Na- tional Tonic, which is now being in- troduced here, is Charles J. Bedient, we'll known insurance man and the local representative of the John Han cock Mutual Life Insurance Co.,, of Boston, Mass. MT. Bedient maintains offices at No. 83 Fairfield avenue, this city. Recently he called on MT. Och- incoff: the Tanlac Man, at the Atlantic Pharmacy, to tell him how Tanlac had been beneficial in his case.
 'I suffered terribly from indiges- tion, acid stomach and bilious head aches," said MT. Bedient, land was unable to get any relief. It is true l tried many different remedies but they all proved to be nothing but or dinary laxatives and did me no real good.
 ,"One day scme months ago, l came across a New Haven paper and nap pened to read about Tanlac which had then been introduced in New Ha- ven. read the testimonial of a friend of mine and, chancing to be in New Haven a few days later, veri- fled his statement. Then went to the Gillespie Drug Store there and pur- chased a bottle of Tanlac. began using the medicine and was both de- lighted and surprised to discover, after a few doses, that I was feeling much better. I kept taking the medl- cine and soon began to enjoy life
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17
tcontinuea from Page. l.,

/ Hugh J. Lavery. chairman of the Democratic town committee, was grand marshal for tl- parade. The district chairmen were his aides, i.4arching behind the Wheeler & Will son band which followed the Stam- fordites. The Glilfoile club of Water bry rode in automobiles, which bore banners Identifying the delegation.
 The Young Mems Woodrow Wilson league had 70 excellent appearing young men 5 in line. The Woodrow Wilson Marching club, all enthusiasm, had more than 100.
 When the Wilson & Marshall banner at Main and Wall streets was reached the parade stopped while the band played 'The Star Spangled Banner"
 In State street large crowd greeted the marchers. Cheers for Wilson and the, candidates who were riding came from the men and women at the curbs.
 The procession broke up at Norman street, and the paraders mingled with the crowd that was fiocking /to the Casino. Seats in the body of the audi torium were quickly taken and the crowd overfiowed into the galleries and lobboy. Many women were in the galleries.
 MT. Cummings was the bright star
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medicine that ever did me good. Be- fore I started it my stomach was so bad that when I would sit down to a meal I was forced to turn away from it in disgust. The most pleasing |dishes wouldn't tempt me to eat. was always weak and had no color in my cheeks and was hardly able to do my housework. In something over a
 week after starting your treatment I began to notice distinct improve ment in my condition. found I was |eating hearty and anything I ate did not distress me. I was fifteen pounds |underweight, but Wilderbs began to ouild new flesh right away and have gained steadily about 3 pounds la week until am now back to normal |again. I sleep well, have a brand new ambition in life and just feel fine.
 Your Wilderbs is truly a wonderful medicine
 T. s. Jackson, health expert and Laboratory representative for Dr. Pierce of Golden Medical Discovery tame, Is meeting continually increas- ling throngs of Bridgeport people daily until at night and taking the blood pressure when desired, at Hindle's Main and State streets store. Today The said:
 "The case of Mrs. Sad1er is highly gratifying. It is just like hundreds of others that are being reported to me |here, however. so I am not surprised" |-Adv.
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that. What would happen if some- body cross the line. Suppose some body slipped across the imaginary line. Suppose he did not realize what Ebenezer's imaginary line amounted to. Suppose he didn't know there was any line there. It is only an imaginary line and suppose he had passed over the line. We would find that Ebenezer would fire on him and then there would be war and then Ebenezer would be in it. Now, if there is going to be any war, I want Ebenezer to go. I don't know of anybody whom we would more glad ly spare. M
 ' Now, my friends, that Is ali very funny, and it is all very sad too. It is very sad that in this juncture-a ship and American history, that we should have running for President of the United States and for Congress- man in this district, men who would propose such outlandish. ridiculous. Lnheard of suggestions, Now, if that is the kind of people that we are go- ing to intrust with the management of this country, you might just as we'll begin and sharpen up your knives and get out your old guns, because we will be in trouble before six months will pass.
 Why say to you, my friends, that there has not been one moment with in the last two years when 1t would not have been easier to go to war than to keep out of war, and we have kept out of war. l%l
 We find a lot of irresponsible, inn ipulsive, blood thirsty Republican statesmen going around the country. ,criticising the President. But with all the advantages of hindsight and none of the responsibilities of action, they cannot even agree among them selves on any policy as an alternative policy to that of the President of the United States. We have prosperity and we have peace. It is not a ques- ton of how to get them but how to retain them. And they have come under the leadership of Woodrow Will son. N i
 influences in this country that are try ing to regain control of our govern ment They arc the influences, my friends, that NIT. Duffy has been de- scribihg. They are the influences that Henry Ford describes as the 'un- seen hands, and these influences are sqeither to be trusted with the honor nor the prosperity of our country. . 'Why,i my friends, do you know what 1t means for our country to be lat peace? All the rest of the world is at war. All of the great nations of the earth are at war England France. Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy. Turkey. Bulgaria, Roumania, 16 of them, all at war. and in a few days Greece too wiN be dragged into this war. America is the only land in the world where the earth does not tremble with the marching hosts that are proceeding to the front and that pathetic, stream of boys that goes on and on toward the front and that wretched stream that comes back from the front, back to the hospitals of pain.
 My friends, there are men like Roosevelt around the country say ing that the President is too proud to fight, saying that the President has no courage. saying that the Presi- dent has lost his sense of the honor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17
CASIN0 THR0NG CHEERS CANDIDATES

speak, They said Here is a great intellect. Here is a man who pos sesses such keen powers of analysis that we will go to the Supreme Court bench and break the American judi cial traditions of century and drag him into politics in order that he may endeavcr to frame an indictment of the Democratic administration
 And the country listened and they are still listening. There is not a man or a woman in this audience who is able to tell today how Mr. now before the people. There is not single human being that can tell the American people with authority what MT. Hughes would have done if he had been President instead of Mr. Wilson or what he proposes to do If he by some unhappy chance should be elected President.
 ''It is a most astonishing thing that we have been able to progress thus far in the political campaign with out being able to seduce MT. Hughes into one definite suggestion as to what he would do He has been pursued across the continent and back again by interrogators, by questions and ev- cry question he has been asked has been lodged with an adroitness that well justifes him in describing him. self as 100 per cent candidate.
 Why, my friends. perhaps have done him slight injustice. was reading a paper few nights a$o and came across a great big headline and it said: MT. Hughes Tells What He Would Have Done When the Lusitania was Sunk and said, At last, we are going to find out And so read the article, and ! it appeared that MT. Hughes was making a speech at Louisville, Ky, and some inquisitive individual in the audience arose and said, MT. Hughes, may ask a ques- tion? and then his supporters said Put him out Whenever anybody asks MT Hughes an embarrassing question, his supporters say. Put him out And often they throw him out. It is the easiest way to get rid of the issue. Z But when they said, Put him out at Louisville, that had been done so often all across the con tinent that. MT. Hughes said, No, don't put him out. Let me answer the question. Please, sir, state your question And the inquisitive in dividual thus encouraged arose and said, MT. Hughes, with all the respect in the world, what would you have done if you had been President when
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17

due to the American flag, saying that the President is afraid to fight. Some times I think he Is afraid to fight, afraid of the broken hearts of the mothers, afraid of the tears, of the widows, afraid of the pleadings of the orphans. afraid of the ghosts of the slain, afraid not of his own life, but to send others to death, afraid of the verdict of history and the judg- ment of humanity"
 MT. Duffy, candidate for secretary of state, created a great impression. He is a former Progressive a delegate to the last national convention of that party. Prior to that he was Re- publican. He is a plain man, a farmer, tremendously sincere and his sincerity won his hearers last night He reviewed the heart-breaking dis appointment of the Progressive con- vention, the treachery of Roosevelt, and the shattered hopes of those men who had tried to reform the old Re- publican party. He spoke for many brother Progressives when he said that President Wilson has carried out and is still carrying out the best prin- ciples for which the Progressive party stood.
 MT. Duffy, introduced by the pre- siding officer, as a "charming man and an eloquent speaker" opened his address by stating 'I am farmer, not a speaker, and don't know how
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17

again. My indigestion was completely relieved as was the acid condition of my stomach. I found with joy that Gould eat food which I had formerly dared not touch. My appetite be- came keener and began to look for ward to meal time. I am no longer troubled with bilious headaches and feel fine all the time. In addition to toning up my stomach, Tanlac has been beneficial for my whole system giving me new strength, energy and ambition. I am sure I am worth twice as much to my company as for merly because I am always full of life and energy"
 After thanking MT. Bedient for his glowing statement, Mir Ochincoff the Tanlac Man, said: '"The most of the medicines on the market today which |claim to do what Tanlac does are merely laxatives such as MT. Bedient found them to be. They give tempor |ary relief but regular use of laxa- tives, as scientists tell us, eventually paralyzes the bowels and an increased dose from day to day is constantly necessary to get the desired results. Tanlac is a vegetable tonic which eliminates the cause of the trouble and lets nature assert herself"
 M. M. Ochincoff. the Ta1lac Man. lis at the Atlantic Pharmacy, No. 80 Main street, daily where he meets the public and courteously explains Tan |lac-Adv ft-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17

wonder that he pleads with you. If any man has forfeited the right to lead the Progressive party 1t is the man who dealt the death blow in the moment of expectant hope. A "I am delighted most q all at the personality and reception accorded the last speaker, Homer s, Cummings). One of the things that brought me to Connecticut was to see how he was faring among his own people. I have known him for more years than he, himself, is conscious of, have watched him with respect and admiration. When find in your distinguished candidate one of national repute realize that I am simply asking an ex- hibition of common sense when ask you to take this man who has risen without your aid and crown him with your ballots to service in higher sphere.
 I am here tonight, to discuss briefly the issues of our national campaign. I do not need to tell the people so highly intelligent that this is the most tremendous campaign -his republic has ever known We are here today be- cause we feel in our ,own conscience the necessity for one result. I believe that it Is not so much the political speaker, not so much the political pamphlet sent out, nor yet the voice of the newspapers as 1t is the solid fundamental common sense of the vot- CT himself that brings him here I be- lieve that when this election comes to it's continuation on that great day of judgment scarcely three weeks away, that it will not be decided by the voice of the orator, the newspaper or the pamphleteer, but by the awaken ing of patriotic people, thinking of the issues of the hour and of their tre- mendous meaning to our civilization, our liberties and our lives.
 Some men are saying the President is not responsible for the prosperity of the country. You can argue, but the common sense of the people simply looks at the white faced fact that bus mess is here, that it came under Will son, that it will prevail under Wilson and that we enjoy business with a promise of perpetuity and continuance.
 T believe that when election day comes, the farmer in his fields. the laborer at the bench and the mer-
 chant in his shop are going to put be- hind that which has disturbed for the moment, and with solid serious consid-
 erations of interests, duty and dom mating issues that confront ua, is go-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17

of the evening. He quelled riotous demonstratiohsFfo for him time and time again, to .shatter with his incisive wit the shame of Hughes and the vapor- ings of Hill. He made the audience laugh. and then he made 1t see how sad 1t is, how menacing, that men Sconsecrated to what is least for the c6untryss good, are being supported for two high positions. VI
 Mir. Cummingsf oratory was of a su- perior order. Fromsthe ridiculous, as represented by MT. Hill. he led the audience to the sublime, the achieve- Jments of President Wilson. And he i've and tear-compelling picture. of or phaned children, widowed mothers. bereft sisters and brothers. who are in. the majority in nearly every important country of the globe but the United States \ He s.--Svs.sl -~that President { Wilson has accomplished and showed the danger that would strike should an untried man usurp the seat he had
 held.s s,N Y.
 Mr. Lavery opened the meeting shortly after S:30l o'clock, introducing Charles Stuart C8nneld, chairman of the meeting. Seated on the platform NsreA John Temple Graves editorial Representative of the Hearst news papers, and noted writer; MT. Cum minss; Mir. Guilfoile; Jeremiah Dono van, candidate for Congressman from the Fourth district; Frederick E. Duffy, candidate for secretary of state; George UlEich. candidate for state gtfeasurer; Alton q. Miner ca1didate for comptroller. and Henry F. Lyons. candidate for Bridgeport judge of
 The entry of the Candidates evoked a burst of cheers and throughout the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17

evening the candidates were the re- cipients of applause. 5.s
 There was a large delegation of Progressives in the hall. s'
 The crowd was on its feet when MT. Cummings was introduced. He stopped the demonstration when it gave no signs of abating after minute and a half.
 MT. Cummings address follows:
 MT. Chairrnan, ladies and gentle ndehs It is a great pleasure for me t6 have an opportunity to greet the racy of Bridgeport And it is es- .pecially agreeable to meet my friends in Bridgeport upon the eve of great national victory. There is no longer Sany occasion for doubt as to the out come of this scampaign- The case .has been argued out The people have listened to the indictment which the leaders of the Republican party have endeavored 10 frame and they are now waiting simply for the oppor- tunity to express their opinion and to re-elect by a majority overwhelm- ing the present chief executive. Wood row Wilson
 We have always believed, my friends, that the more the case was argued, the more clearly the justice of our case would appear. The first assault was made some months ago by MT. Wilson, but it did not seem to arouse an adequate response. Sena- tor Lodge has tried his hand at it. Roosevelt himself has endeavored to convince the people that Wilson was wrong, but to no, avail Then the people waited for MT. Hughes to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-17

any could for a moment make the mis- take of thinking was an orator" Loud applause.)
 'I am one who makes his living by tilling the soil,'' continued MT. Duffy. "All my life I was a Republican un- til the formation of the Progressive party, when I joined the ranks of the latter body polite. In 1914 I fought and fought hard in tne ranks of the Progressive party. For my political conduct in the past. I have no apolo- gies to offer-I intend to improve it in the future.
 with other American citizens, I have had handed down to me the most precious of heritages, that of American citizenship. It is priceless and hence is worth while. It was made. so by men who have gone be- fore and it is your duty and my duty to pass it on to posterity unimpaired.
 ''As a Republican noticed the hands of the Roosevelt administration tied by that sinister, corrupt thing, called Invisible government I was opposed to Taft when he was a candi- date for the presidency until I heard him make an address in New Haven, which converted me to his cause. When he assumed office however I saw his promises broken. his pledges never kept"
 The speaker then told how looking upon Roosevelt as the truly progress sive statesman of America, he was a staunch supporter and follower of his until the shameful betrayal at Chi cago." 0A N
 Duffy then read public endorse ments of Woodrow Wilson. by Thomas E. Edison and President Emeritus Charles Eliot, ,of Harvard College which were greeted with shouts and handclappihg. 1.ll
 Touching on the Mexican situation the speaker said, "The Republicans are going, about the country saying, Go in and clean them up.' But Will son wisely maintains, No. we'll go in and build them up.'" a Duffy maintained that Roosevelt's statement that following the Lusitania sinking, he would have seized every interned German ship in America, an illegal act" would have embroiled this country in war;
 "This situation reminds me of a story.," said Duffy. "A bull noticing an express train coming down a track out west, rushed head-on to meet it.. An Irishman standing by, stirred by the animals mad folly, remarked, Go it. old boy; bully for your pluck, but