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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

The large increase in public work
demands the services OF a high-grade
man in the Office Of county surveyor
IA man who is competent engi-
gseer. Such a man is found in Charles
" G,olgin, the Democratic nominee
for The office. Mr. Colgn is qualified
by education and experience to per
form the duties of the office in very
capable manner.
Several hundred Germans, now
l'AninrSan citizens in Crawford coun
Ty, have shown their resentment at
the non-American tactics attempted
by Republican leaders and followers
,uf candidate Hughes They have
come out in a public statement ac
knowledging peace and prosperity
which they say is due TO the states
manship and patriotism OF President
Wilson. For that reason they are
supporting him.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
TIMBER
ON "BlsHoP's BACK BONE" DE.
sTRoYED BY FIRE WHICH
STARTED FROM MATCH OR A
ClGARET.

Raging from Sunday noon until
late that night fire destroyed all of
the timber ON the side of bishops
backbone" near Gambler, including
the new timber which was recently
set out by some of the adjacent farm
ers.
The fire probably resulted from a
match or cigaret being thrown into
the great heaps Of dry leaves along
the hill. No efforts were made to ex-
tinguish the blaze. as there were no
facilities for even an attempt. How
ever, the blaze was carefully watched
by number of farmers until nothing
but embers remained Of the fine new
timber that had been set out not long
ago
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
AFTER THE WAR, WHAT?

Driven to the dismal failure OF their
aae TO advance issue the Kepohch press anu
oraoyu that phrase there IS gen.
Ale concession be reelected ana supe
ou that in the entire history o tue o
Btates-wii vanish liz, 40. no oh,o
To imply that the United states WI" not %
whose youth oed OUT crppu
intelligence of reasoning man
the case of and recall the years anu
conditions were restored 10 "a
were before absurdiy of this hnsy argument A
wha too evident
European conflict rive million
nave been mamed The balance VIII DO u %
These people VIII be the compeoS " e %
cd the
After the war which all shall benefit as at present
u wilson Is elected Prosperity far the bulk OF
Hughes the tool OF poeeonss wan street ana
special nterests 3
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
| LINING UP FOR WILSON
Big Manufactured

Now York-Jackson Johnson of st.
Louis, chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the international Shoe Co., and
one of the biggest manufacturers in
the world, has announced that he will
vote for President Wilson.
81 have balanced the great con
structive measures of the Wilson ad-
miastration against the ill-advised
measures of previous Republican rule
and have concluded to support Mr..
Wilson for a second term" says Mr..
Johnson "Mr Wilson has faced the
most trying times Of any president
since Lincoln
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
REPS. BOOST MEETING

w. A. Hosack stated to The Ban
ner Monday morning that he had
just received a telephone message
from Gen. Coxey that he would be ir
Mt Vernon this evening to make q
speech. Immediately upon the news
getting out of Coxey's visit, Republi
cans got busy boosting the meeting
by spreading the word. Coxey is run
ming as an independent candidate fol
U. S. senator and seems to be devot
ing especial attention to opposing
Senator Pomerene.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
MONUMENT SQUARE

In a Senate In which were Borah OF
ydabo, Cummins OF Iowa. Brlstow Of
Kansas, Clapp Of Minnesota, La Fol
Ictte Of Wisconsin and Norris of Ne
braska, all strongly progressive but ali
Republicans, It was the Old Guard.
Aldrich and Penrose. smoot and Gal
Einger, that dictated all the important
Asgislr ton that got through that body.
And just 40 It would be In any other
Republican Senate. The Old Guard
put through the Aidrich-Payne tartG
and would drive through another Of
The same character.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

DR.. A. F. Sheperd,. Republican mem
ber of the board OF sizninistration,
.appoiltel by Governor Harmon, came
out in a public statement strongly
endorsing Governor Cox for re-elec.
tion. He says that Cox, as governor,
never nterfered by word or deed
with the work OF the administration
of the board. He credits Governor
Cox with the passage OF more hui
manitarian laws than any other gov.
ernor in the United States.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

Myroh T, ierrick went all the way
to New York TO complain TO the ma.
tional committee that his opponents
in the primary election, whom he de.
feated by the lavish expenditure of
money, are not breaking their necks
for him in the state campaign.
lie also, of course. represented the
campaign committee in appealing to
Wall street for funds to add to the
100000 slush fund now raised In
Ohio. He is the Wall street man.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

DR.. Paul S. Stokes, the Democratic
candidate for coroner, is resident
of Mt. Vernon, and as his practice is
largely at his office, he would always
be accessible when his services as
coroner would be needed.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

Judson Harmon says: by supporting
the course Of the Wilson administrR-
hon with our voteB we win lessen the
likelihood Of having to support the
course of some other administration
with our lives"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
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/. WILL OCCUR SOON i
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1t'The w. h. NJ. s. of Pike and
Ebenezer churches will hold regu-
lar meeting Tuesday, Oct. 81, at 2
o'clock at the home OF Mrs. John
Paige. Members are urged to attend.
*%*There will be box social and
Halloween entertainment at the
Friendship school house on Thursday
evening, Nov. 2. Everybody invited.
Ladies' bring boxes.
10
"+*Mrs Harriet w. Dixon, lectur-
or OF the state grange, viii meet with
Pleasant View grange on Thursday,
November 2.
'*tAll-day meeting OF the ladies' of
Pleasant View grange at the home of
Mrs. j. R. Drake on Friday, Nov. 3,
Mrs. Harriet Dixon win deliver an
address.
*tfThe Cleaners class OF Beulah
church of Bangs will meet at the
home OF Mrs. Arthur Bell Wednesday.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

Reactionary leaders found they
were mistaken when they assumed
that the American farmers wife was
not just as sensitive to the fact that
her boys have been saved from war
as we're any other mothers in the
land.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
Independent Newspaper

Elmira, N. Y.-The Elmira Star-Ga-
zette, leading newspaper of southern
New York and northern Pennsylvania,
independent in politics, today came out
for President Wilson after maintain
ing an absolutely neutral attitude in
the campaign. The Star-Gazette bases
its decision ON President Wilson's rec
ord and the absence of any particular
issues against him, now that the ar
guments of both sides are all In"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
PROGRESSIVE LEADER
To Speak In Mt. Vernon Saturday II
Behalf OF President Wilson's
Reelection

Hon. Randolph w. Walton, lead
ing Progressive of Ohio, and who is
supporting President Wilson for re-
election, will speak in Mt. Vernon
Saturday night. Mr.. Walton is very
eloquent speaker.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
When to Apply Lightly

For cuts, burns, scalds, sores and
open wounds apply Hanford's Balsam
of Myrrh lightly, but be sure that it
covers and gets to the bottom of the
wound. A few light applications will
relieve the above class of difficulties
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

Upon Penrose and Roosevelt--a
strange combination when you recall
1912 and later, but after all not an un-
natural one, when you get to the last
analysis of their -Repub-
licans are basing their hopes OF saw
ing Pennsylvania to Hughes.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
BE FRANK, WILLIS


Frankly Willis the
he charged deficit in
entered
economical
million dollars He must
expended
machine the of the
Wills silence these points is like unto
hat Of he dead.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

One by one the old reliable Repub-
ucan states are slipping their moor
ings. Massachusetts, and Ohio are
about as certain to go Democratic this
year as Arkansas and Texas
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

measure If you we're not returned to
the senate" No local candidate has
ever received stronger presidential
endorsement.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

What a grand time Wall Street and
the Republican Old Guard would have
correcting President Wilson's mis-
takes" and re-establishing the "Invis-
ibIe Government
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

Tho Republicans don't like the pre-.
vailing prosperity. It's Democratic and
therefore taboo. Give them a chance
and they'll put 1t out of business.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

President Wilson has just written
10 Senator Pomerene expressing con
fdence In the results in Ohio and
saying, at would distress me beyond
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

The tissues" have petered out-ex.
cepting the main one, the issue Oa
anything to beat Wilson"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

C. F. Vented of Southern avenue
departed for Pittsburgh, Pa, Monday
where he viii spend several days on
business.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
PEACE OR WAR?

War with Germany White House several times the past
two nrmness has swept away lie was
against Wilson repud
ton OF his policy with Germany invitation Germany
happen between Nov and March
Hughes Is edg inevitable result the United
still maintained This question
by war;
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
trapping:

Farmers in Howard and Brown
townships who forbid hunting and
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

FOR SALE-overlan automobile,
five-passenger 1914 model; electric
equipment; run $500 miles; first
class condition, A bargain Fred W.
Kahrl 1l-Sd3lS
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

FOR SALE-Driying mare, coming
3 years old. Citizens phone 40, Gam
bier. S1d9S
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

FOR RENT-Small place; house,
barn and fruit. Price reasonable,
Horse and buggy for sale. Citizens
phone $40 red. SOdSls
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31

There has been no reasonable eX'
planation advanced as yet as to the
cause of the fire. 1t has been said
that possibly there was a lighted
match accidentally dropped in the
barn, but no direct evidence to sub
stantiate this has been produced.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
CUT OFF FROM WORLD

A little after o'clock, the Homer
operator called the Brandon operator
and informed her not to put through
any more calls as the building was
threatened and was going to be aban-
doned by the exchange. With this,
Homer was cut off from the world,
as far as telephone communication
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-31
Wanted, For Sale, &c

RATES cents per line, each lnser
ton. Six words 20 line.
FOR SALE-A farm of 109 acres,
with good nine-room house, large els
tern and cellar A barn 50x55 IT, %
feet to caves, new granary, hog-house,
wagon shed and corn crib. Situated
2 miles west of Frederioktown on
mail route and close to school. In
quire of j. M. Mckinney, II. d. 8,
Fredericktown O. los
FOR SALE Fresh COW. Call l-24,
Brandon exchange, Citizens phone.
31da3S
FOR RENT-Small place; house,
barn and fruit. Price reasonable,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
Makes Stubborn COuoFaS
Vanish IN a Hurry
Surprisingly Good Cough Syr.p
Easily and Chcaply
Made at Home

If some one in your family has an OBJ
stlnate cough or a bad throat or chest
cold that has been hanging on and refuses
to yield to treatment, get from any drug
store 212 ounces of PineX and make it
into pint of cough syrup, and watch
that cough vanish.
Pour the 21A ounces of Pinex $50
cents WORTH into a pint bottle and fill
the bottle with plain graduated sugar
SYRUP L he total cost is about 81 cents,
and gives you a full pint-a family
supply-of a most effective remedy. at 4
saving OF So. a days use will usually
overcome 4 hard cough. Easily prepared
IN minutes-fuIl directions with Pinex.
Keeps perfectly and has a pleasant taste.
Children ike it.
It's really remarkable how promptly
and easily it loosens the dry. hoarse or
tight cough and heals the inliamed mem
branes in a painful cough. 1t also stops
the formation of phlegm in the throat
and bronchial tubes, thus ending the per
sistent loose cough. A splendid remedy
Tor bronchitis, winter coughs, bronchial
asthma and whooping cough.
Pinex is special and highly concea-
trated compound of genuine Norway PING
extract, rich in guaiaeol, which is so
healing to the membranes.
Avoid disappointment BY asking YOUR
druggist for '-Z1. ounces of Pinex," and
do not accept anything else. A guarantee
of absolute satisfaction goes with this
preparation or money promptly refunded.
The Pinex Co., Fit. Wayne, Ind
ADVERTISEMENT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
He CALLED HIM bal"
Bob johnson Preached About Bal
shazer to a Large Audience.

Evangelist Bob Johnson stepped on
Tabernacle after preaching twice earl
Ter in the day and preached without
a sign of fatigue and with all of his
characteristic vim to an audience that
packed the building to its capacity.
Calling BalshaZer BAL" as if that
ancient ruler of Bible days, had been
an old pal Evangelist Johnson wove
his sermon that evening around the
Bible story of BalshaZer and the hand
writing on the wall and chose for his
subject Thou Art Weighed in the
Balances" He declared that God was
weighing those people west of Kan
sas avenue in His balances just as
much as those east of the Avenue.
Four characters We're weighed in the
imaginary balances which the evange-
list has created for his purpose-an
infidel, the moral man, the church
fraud and the worst man in Topeka
An old church fraud, who does all
those things which a Christian should
MT do and still belongs to the church,
was dubbed a ''gink' by Bob" After
he had pictured this old fraud" at
the circus and drew from his hearers
repeated roars of laughter as he por-
trayed with word, gesture and plat
form acting the old fellow spending
his money at the circus. the evangelist
said, And then you and 1 go to ask
this old guy to give some of his time
and help at the meetings, and hear
him say, 'Aw, it's money, money. all
the tim 1 don't believe in taber-
nacles- No-and neither does the
devil" shouted the evangelist And
.'-en when he gave the call for trail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
PARIS CRIES REVENGE
Declares Franco mistress of the Air"
and Able to Exact It.

Paris, Feb. 1.-The press unani-
mously demands reprisals for the two
Zeppelin raids on Paris and also calls
for greater efficiency in the aerial de-
lenses of the city.
1T is not enough to be indignant at
such tactics, which dishoncr war it
SELF" says the Matin. public senti-
ment expects something else. It de-
sires reprisals-immediat and exein-
plary reprisals.'
stephen Pichcn, former foreign
minister says in the Petit Journal.
The people of Paris will preserve
their calm, but will not spare any per-
sons who may have been guilty,
through negligence incapacity or lack
of foresight of not employing that
mastery of the air over the enemy
which the people had been led to be
lieve France possessed
Alfred Capus, the dramatist says in
the Figaro:
Paris is entitled to a striking re-
venge iE the near future. One cannot
doubt our air service is able to exact
if -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
MANY CASES
OF RHEUMA-
TISM NOW
Says We Must Keep Feet Dry, Avoid
Exposure and Eat Less Meat.

Stay off the damp ground. avoid ex
posture, keep feet dry, eat less meat,
drink lots of water and above all take
spoonful of salts occasionally to
keep down uric acid.
rheumatism is caused by poisonous
toxin. called uric acid, which is gem
Grated in the bowels and absorbed
I into the blood. 1t is the function of
the kidneys to filter this acid from
the blood and cast it out in the urine.
The pores of the skin are also a
means of freeing the blood of this i'm
purity. IN damp and chilly, cold
weather the skin pores are closed,
thus forcing the kidneys to do double
work, they become weak and slug
gish and fail to eliminate this uric
acid which keeps accommodating and
circulating through the system, event
ually settling in the joints and muscles,
causing stiffness, soreness and pain
called rheumatism.
At the first twinge of rheumatism
get from any pharmacy about four
ounces of Jad Salts; put a table
spoonful in a glass of water and drink
before breakfast each morning for
week. This is said to eliminate uric
acid by stimulating the kidneys to
normal action, thus Kidding the blood
of these impurities
Jad Salts is inexpensive, harmless
and is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with Hthia
and is used with excellent results by
thousands of folks who are subject to
rheumatism. Here you have a pleas
ant, effervescent Whitewater drink
which overcomes uric acid and is ben
eficial to your kidneys as welL-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
HAMMERS ARE out
Kansas Editors Are Knocking
on the Censor Board.
FesectiOn OF "The Birth of a
Nation" Is Condemned.
CALLS IT SERIOUS MISTAKE
Clyde Knox Says Fear OF the
Negro Voters
Was Responsible for the Ac-
ton of State Officials.
CALLS IT SERIOUS MISTAKE

Kansas newspapers. particularly the
Republican press. have directed TOWARD
w. D. Ross, state superintendent anu
motion picture censor, most severe
criticism for the rejection of the
Birth of a Nation" picture. Almost
without execution the action of the
state censors has been branded as a
play for negro votes.
When the spectacular war picture
was shown in Topeka ten days ago,
praise came from almost every one
except members of the state censor
board. To the censors the picture
was immoral, distorted history and
left an evil influence. The appeal
board-the governor, secretary OF
state and attorney general-upheld
the censors in rejecting the film. me
following day wives of state house
officials went on record as declaring
the picture the greatest screen pro-
duction they had seen.
Now the fight for permission to
show the picture in Kansas VIII be
carried to the courts. The rejection
of the film has caused state wide in
terest Hundreds of Kansans have
expressed a desire to see the picture
and the fact that the film has been
displayed in other states and rejected
in Kansas has aroused a howl of pro-
test.
Comments of the Press.
'In rejecting the Birth of a Nation
In Kansas the moving picture censor
board has made a serious mistake
says Clyde II. Knox, Republican, in
his Independence Reporter. 1T has
allowed the fear of loss of negro
votes at the polls next fall to over
shadow its duty
Knox then reviews the picture in
half column editorial. He declares
that the film does not produce or in
cite race prejudice and points to the
which the picture was built, was
shown in almost every Kansas town
without the slightest signs of race
feeling.
The Concordia Blade. also RepubI-
can. carried a half column first page
editorial under the caption, "Our Cen
sors of Morals" The editorial is as
eloquent as the remarks of a Chau-
.auqua speaker. 1t pays tribute to
Ross and the state censors in part as
follows:
The Birth of a Nation" film will
not be allowed to be shown ir Kansas.
The high and mighty state movie CEN
sor, the Honorable w. ID. Ross, who
never in his life had an original iIea
and who is of a calibre that would
make a good ward heller in q country
Achool district, has set his mighty
mind at variance with some of the
greatest in the country and says that
This conceded masterpiece of the
movies will corrupt the morals of the
people of Kansas. The refusal CT the
picture was based on the fact that it
IS not instructive, and the people of
Kansas must have their morals looked
after by thirty dollar month ccun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01
RAISE FOR 100000 MEN
Ten Per Cent More for I. S. Steel,
Means $4,000, 600 Payroll Increase

New York. Feb. 1.-The United
States Stesl corporation put into ef-
feet today an aGvence of ten per cent
nthe wages of its employees, an
nounced some week ago. 1t is esti-
mated that the increase will add be-
tween S12.0OO.00O and S15,0O0,OOO to
the corporations annual payroll and
that it will affect about 100000 men.
Of this number approximately $50, 900
are laborers whose pay heretofore has
been between 10 and 2 cents an hour.
They will receive hereafter 81 to %
cents an hour
Many of the Independent steel COM
panies have made corresponding ad-
varceS in wages. some of them to take
effect today. Takin gthe industry gem
orally, ordinary laborers will receive
S2-20 for a ten hour day. While a
flat ten per cent increase could not
be made to apply to several classes OF
workers in rolling mills, bar mills and
wire drawing plants where the men
work on a sliding scale of pay depend
ing upon the tonnage produced. it is
understood they will share in the in
crease in some fc-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01

try school teacher ami n broken down
preacher that can't hold a job in the
pulpit but through some political pull,
was given n position where he can
shape the mo: atty of the state
through arbitrari saying that 'rhou
shalt not
Some of the Concordia people who
have seen this picture say thai it is,
without n doub., one of the greatest
productions that has ever been offered
to the American people, and it makes
those who claim to have u half way
mind of their own, peeved to have a
pewee like this country school teacher
joy the privileges that people of other
states have. FL of the larger cities
of this country have shown The Birth
Of Nation" but Kansas people are
so susceptible that this film is unfit
for them to see.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-01

quests for supervisors of public school
music have been received in the last
month from states so distant as Ari-
IONA, West Virginia, Nevada, Mime
sofa, Maine, Idaho and Florida. Let
tiers from all over the country are re-
ceived daily asking information con-
corning public school extension mu-
sic in Kansas. Professor Beach has
made what is considered one of the
most striking successes in music work
in recent years in introducing his par
eel post and telephone methods of
music extension. The enrolment for
the semester just over in the Kansas
normal music school includes in total
LAO in classes and 343 in private in
struction. Public school music is Pro-
fessor Beach's speciality.