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The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-16
Boys at Play shoot Baby Girl.

Sterling-Helen, the 1S-months.old
daughter of John Kobler, who lives
near Graylin, was shot and dangerous.
ly wounded when her two brothers
knocked down rifle while playing.
The child was wounded in the head.
The brothers are and 5 years old.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-16
Sporting News
Standing of Western League

Johnny Dundee was awarded a de-
cision over Ever Hammer at Kansas
City at the end of their fifteen-round
match.
The University of Colorado at Boul-
der, has a new football coach this
year for the first time in fifteen
years. He is M. C. Evans, a graduate
of Milliken University.
The Wichita baseball team will be
known as the Millionaires. The Kan
sas Club was formally transferred to
Colorado Springs and the remainder
of the games of the season will be
played at Colorado Springs.
Eight Colorado baseball teams have
signed to play the Grizzlies on their
transforming tour through the state
when the Western League closes it's
season, Sept "a. The amateur clubs
are Pueblo, Bayfield,, Delta, Grand
Junction, Firestone, Berthoud, Brush
and Greeley.
General
Vice President Marshall is to be
notified of his nomination Sept. 16.
President Wilson began his first va
cation of the year by laying plans for
the porch campaign" he will conduct
from Shadow Lawn.
The National American Woman
Suffrage Association convention in its
final business session adopted a dec
laration of principles, in which it
reiterated its adherence to the policy
of nonpartisanship.
At Millville, N. j., Mrs. Jane Face
meyer, within a year of the century
mark, gave her girl" Mrs. Mary e.
Peters, sc, in marriage. The happy
bridegroom was James McNeal, well.
to-do contractor. only 6S.
Vivid descriptions of the marine
phenomenon which caused the de-
struction of the United States ar
mored cruiser Memphis. with the ,oss
of about forty of her crew, in the har-
Dor of Santo Domingo Aug. 20, were
given in New York by witnesses of
the disaster, who had arrived on The
steamer Iroquois. The conjecture
that the disaster was the result of an
undersea eruption was strengthened
by assertions that nothing resembling
a gale accompanied the sudden dis
turbance.
With the border situation set asid,
temporarily, the American M Mexican
joint commission devoted itself to de-
termining the extent of the control
exercised in Mexico by the de facts
government, the information being
supplied by the Mexican commission
ers at the request of the American
conferees. 1t was stated informally
that upon the showing made by the
Carranza government rested the DOS.
sibility that the Washington govern
ment would revoke its warning to
Americans to stay out of Mexico and
would encourage their return to their
properties there.
President Shonts of the Inter.
borough Rapid Transit Company an
nounced in New York that he will not
accept the recommendation of Mayor
Mitchell and the Public Service Com.
mission to call off the strike and arbi.
trate the differences between the rail-
way companies and the labor unions
Because he sewed his hogs eyes
shut to keep them from catching
chickens, Joseph X. Leigh, a Pleasant
Valley farmer. was arrested and fined
$40 and costs, making total of s225O.
by Justice of the Peace j. ]. John Of
Lambertville. NJ j.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01

SAVING that if Major Motion is ouoted
iectly ana feels that way that he
- UNITED for the presidency NJ on
Institution which is designed to At co1-
ored youth for life. Manhood shou1d
De the basis of all training.
what more is needed to make . MOI,
resentful than an attack On he ni uan
eno oelug VINO would not defend his wife
oem every foe is unworthy to he
oai!eu man. Even among the lower
ANIMALS al the males willingly give IN
'n9Ir llVes IN defense of their mates
tne present unhappy state of tho
Holoreu people in the United States is
1arsely due to the servile tactics of
ne so.called leaders who have heen
not only too cowardly to defend them.
saves "hen attacked but have actn-
ally advised submission to eres+
wrongs. eoa'
MAJOR Motion is in no sense a leader
OF the colored people, but the fact that
ne IS at the head Of Tuskegee gives
MIN influence and he is doing the col-
ored people a great wrong when ha
lalis 10 resent any wrongs. He was
pickea Tor his job by white people
VINO are not looking for the real well
rare OF the country but for their own
selfish ends. o"n
II the trustees of Tuskegee really
mean TO serve the colored people thew
should ask for the resignation of priv.
c1pal Motion and put in man who will
resent attacks on the rights of tho
race. VIC
Manhood is the basis of all real
progress. oe'i
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
An ApoIogist.

(From the Washington. Bee.)
The Bee, at the time Major Motion
was named by committee of apollo
glsts, said then that he was a. "Hand
Picked Leader"
The condition of the colored race
IN this country is due to these ''hand-
picked leaders," Now, in the first
place, Major Motion represents a class
OF White men and not the Colored
Americans.
ne is not only a ''hand-picked
leader but an apologist who fails to
resent an insult. Would any Ameri-
can white man of any nationality at
tempt to make excuses for an insult
10 his wife by a common carrier.
Has this not been the policy of all
hand picked leaders? This hand
picked representative apologizes for
the insult offered his wife while en-
route to her home Will Major Mo-
ton the newly installed principal of
Iuskegee, enter a suit for damages?
NO, ne would offer an apology to those
who had insulted his good wife. The
Bee has always been an admirer of
Major Motion, and thought that he
possessed manly traits, that would
commend him to the thoughtful con-
sheraton of the American black
race, but The Bee must confess that
he is hand-picked leader and an
apologist.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
JAIL BETTER THAN HOME.
Kruss Paid TO- Stay There Rather
Than With His Relatives.

Kruss Paid to Stay There Rather
Than With His Relatives. ..-.
. Chicago August Kruse, who for
five years has been a voluntary inmate
of the Du Page county jail at Wheaton,
ILL.,, rather than live with relatives,
who doubted his sanity, told the sher-
if he was going west to live on
farm.
Kruse paid the county 81 day for
the privilege Of living in the Jail. In
1905 petition to have him declared
insane was heard in the county court.
He was found to be sane, but would
not return to his home, and after five
years absence returned to Wheaton
and arranged for quarters In the same
Jail to whieh he had been taken years
before.
II want to get back to the farm"
said. Kruse. II sit here and think of
what I used to do, and I'm going to be-
gin over again. I'm going away of,
though, not back to the old farm
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01

FORCED ana extended wherever practicable
The Democratic party has created since
March 4, 1913, 10000 Offices outside of tho
civil service law at an annual cost of ~.
100000 to the taxpayers of the. country. ~
Territorial Matters.
Reaff1rming the attitude long maintained
by the Republican party we hold that off1-
Gals appointed to administer the govern
ment of any territory should be bona f1de
residents of the territory In which their
duties are to be performed.
Labor Laws.
We pledge the Republican party to tho
faithful enforcement of all federal laws
passed Tor the protection Of labor. We
favor vocational education, the enactment
and rigid enforcement of federal child
labor law, the enactment Of generous
and comprehensive workmen's compensa-
ton law, within the commerce power of
congress, and an accident compensation
law covering all government employees
We favor the collection and collation. un-
der the direction Of the department of Ia
Dor OF complete data relating to Industrial
hazards for the information Of congress-
to the end that such legislation may be
adopted as may be calculated to secure
the safety, conservation and protection of
try and transportation.
Suffrage.
The Republican party. reafarming it's
faith OF government of the people, by the
people. for the people. as a measure Of
justice to one-half the adult people of
this country, favors the extension of the
suffrage to women, but recognizes the
right of each state to settle this question
for itself.
Such are our principles such are our
purposes and policies. We close as we
began. Tho times are dangerous and the
future Is fraught with peril We ap-
peal to all Americans. whether natural
lied or native born, to prove to the world
that we are Americans In thought and in
deed, with one loyalty, one hope, one as
piration. We call on all Americans to be
true to the spirit Of America, to the great
traditions of their common country and.
Above all things. to keep the faith.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
THE HAND PICKED LEADER.
(FrOm the Kansas Elevator.)

(FrOm the Kansas ElevatOr.)
The Elevator would like to know if
the time has not arrived when colored
men should select their own leaders
instead of leaving the delicate task to
the hands of designing men of the op-
posite race, and if any colored man
can serve two masters at one and the
same time, and if as general PROPOSE
ton, the ''hand picked leader" is not
always against his race?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
RESENTMENT NEEDED.
appeal Editorial, June g

After having been granted Pullman
tickets from Montgomery, Alabama to
Savannah, Georgia. the wife of Major
Robert R. Motion, recently installed
as principal Of Tuskegee Institute, and
Blanton Motion, his brother, were
elected from the car by ttwo police
men and some of the best citizens of
Troy, Ala. Although they had paid
Pullman fares and were interstate pas
sengers, both were forced to ride in
the jimcrow car.
The wires tell us that when Major
Motion was informed of the matter, he
condoned it saying that he respected
the traditions of the South and had no
resentment against the people who
committed the outrage"
THE APPEAL has no hesitancy in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
FALL CoRREcTs HIS VISION.

Broker Hits His Head on Sidewalk and
Doesn't Need Glasses.
Pittsfeld, ss.-Henry Travers, Jr.,
insurance and real estate broker, fell
on an icy sidewalk recently, striking
on his head and neck.
For several years Mr.. Travers had
worn glasses, but upon returning to
his Office after the fall he discovered
he could see better and could read
without them. Mr.. Travers does not
urge this method Of treatment for fail
ing eyesight.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
serviIity Brings Contempt.
(From the Union, Cincinnati, o.

(From the Union, Cincinnati, o.
If the above is true referring to
the "Moton Incident") then Major
Motion will rise to fame and fortune
as did his illustrious predecessor.
"Crooking the pregnant hinges of the
knee that thrift may follow fawning'
brings wealth from the great masses
of white people alright, but it also
brings a vast amount of contempt.
There is so much bowling, cringing
and nauseating servility shown by
some of our people, is it any wonder
that even the 25th class of white
people feel that they are the Lord
Amounted, and therefore vastly supe-
rior to all colored people?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
Major Motions First Duty.

(F'rom the New York News.)
The future of the great work at
Tuskegee, may call for an offending
silence, but it will never be helped
long or to any great degree by an
abject surrender of the races rights.
Major Motions first duty to himself
and his race is to set himself now and
at all times four square with the. pro-
gress of his people.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
Must Contend for Riuhts,
(FrOm Richmond PlanetO

We do not just understand the
position of Principal Robert R. Motion
IN the matter .......... There is no
other course to pursue than to con-
tlnue to contend for rights denied,
even though4wes are rebuked and dis
appointed in so doing. No question
is ever settled until it is settled right.
We must continue to appeal to the
conscience of the American people.
We must continue to attempt to en-
force our rights through the courts of
the land, even though some of them
may be prejudiced against us.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
Stand SquareIy for Justice.
(From the Omaha Monitor. }

Major Motion, please don't assume
the attitude of an apologist. We are
hoping for big things from you. We
know and appreciate the difficulties
OF your position. Stand squarely and
firmly for justice to your race. No
apology is due from either Mrs. Mo-
ton or yourself, because as a cultured
and refined woman she preferred to
ride in a Pullman rather than in a
Jim Crow car in which equal &C.
Communications" are not provided, and
in which the conditions are seldom
sanitary or pleasant.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01

Motion Incident

motlon. Booker T. Washington's pal
tidtlon gave us double work for man
nood rights not only in the South hit
inc North as well for untold years to
come ana his successors ambition is
20 De patted on the back and be called
good darkey" to the lower regions
WIN the good darkey" class. Anv
man who goes back on his wife when
abused for contending for her rights
pala 1or' to ride in Pullman car. is
unnt to lead and teach our children,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
Has Shown His Hand.
(FrOm the Cleveland Cazo++

(from the Cleveland Gazette.)
Four days after the Inauguration as
principal OF Tuskegee, Ala, Normal
ana Industrial Institute the South
forces Major Motion to "show his
hand' and there is not even deuce,
IN 1t Tor the race. One thing sure
and that is from a racial standpoint
ne IS certainly no improvement upon
Booker T. Washington.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
No Very High Opinion.
(From the Nashville Globe. }

We entertain no very high opinion
of President Notions explanation to
the Associated Press Correspondent
at Montgomery, anent that sleeping
car episode. We trust he was in
correctly quoted.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01
unless He Can Talk Like q Man

(from the Richmond PlanetO
Principal R. R. Motion has gone to
work. 1t would be we'll for him tn
keep at it and to have nothing further
to say about that Pullman sleenine
car incident. 1o
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-07-01

Unfit to Teach Our Children.
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer
Press.)
This paper has no retraction to
make in the Major Motion affair. It
thought then and knows now that no
improvement was made by his pro-
Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-15
|S EXTENDING
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Squadron Goes IS Miles to Colonia Dublan to Protect Harassed Mormons from Bandit Raids.
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 FL PASO, Oct IA report reach ed here tonight by way of Mexico that General Pershing had extended his line as far south as Namiquipa, where the Fifth U S. Cavalry went into the camp that it abandoned when the pun itive expedition was drawn northward because of the rainy season.
 FIELD HEADQUARTERS, Ameri- can Punitive Expedition in Mexico, Oct 14-A squadron of cavalry has been sent from the field headquarters of the American punitive expedition to Colonia Juarez, IS miles from this camp, to protect several hundred Am erican Mormon colonists there. follow ing the robbery last Thursday night of Alonzo Adelbert Taylor. Mormon merchant. by four Mexicans.
 Threatening death. the robbers de manded s1O.0O0 of the Taylors and held one brother prisoner while two of their number took the other to the Taylor store and secured several hun dred dollars. While the two Mexicans were trying to secure more money from another wealthy resident of Jua. reg. the prisoner escaped. Learning of this. the robbers took to the hills to avoid capture.
 Recent reports to headquarters say that the main body of Villistas is ad- vancing north from the neighborhood of Santa Ana, hamlet in Santa Ma ria valley, south of Madeira.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-15
WILSON PROMISES RELIEF FOR GUARDS
 ON BORDER SOON
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LONG BRANCH. N. J., Oct. IA President Wilson in a letter to Gov ernor Whitman of New York. sent on October 9, and made public here to- day, declared that the emergency that caused the sending of the militia to the Mexican border ''unhappily still exists" He added, however, that he demed that conditions in Northern Mexico are improving and that "in the near future" it probably would be possible ito do more than had been done to relieve the endorsements under which organized militia regi- ments have necessarily suffered"
Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-15
CANANEA REPORTED TURBULENT; AMERICAN
 FAMILIES COME OUT
Ousted Mayor Reported Re- cruiting Hundreds of Fol lowers and Fears Are Felt of Attack on Border.
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DOUGLAS, Oct 14.-Several Ameri cans living in Cananea have sent their families to Arizona because of the growing unrest there and the re- ported gain in strength of Margarito Rios, recently elected pTesidente muni- cipal of Cananea, whose election was set aside by an official proclamation of Adolfo de la Huerta, governor of Son ora. De la Huerta announced this step was taen because Rios and the city councilmen elected with him had been Villa supporters and were known to be inimical to Carranza-
 Rios escaped from Cananea at the head of 125 armed sympathizers, go- ing to the Ajo Mountains. twenty miles east. Since that time he is re ported tohave been reinforced by numerous deserters from the Carranza army in Sonora. as well as armed civilians who are dissatisfied with the Monetary situation. His army is re- ported to number several hundred men.
 Rios, being less than thirty miles south. is in position to raid the borde-. to attack Cananea on the west, Naco on the northwest or Agua Prieta on the northeast. Much uneasiness is felt in Agua Prieta over his nearness.
 The garrison there. under MajO- Benevides, numbers less than one hundred men. while there is no gar rison at either Naco or Fronteras. That at Cananea numbers less than three hundred.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-15
LAW |S TARGET IF
 TEDDY
Colonel Tells Pennsylvanians How He Arbitrated Great Strike in 1902 Without Any Legislation.
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WILKESBARRE, Pa, Oct. 1.-The odore Roosevelt, speaking at Repub- lican mass meeting here tonight, criti- cized tke attitude of President Wilson on the S-hour day for railroad employ es. He declared that arbitration would have been the proper method of avoiding the threatened nation wide railroad strike, and instanced the application of this principle in 1902 when he settled the anthracite coal strike.
 Roosevelt recounted the great an thracite coal strike in which he acted practically as final arbiter and point ed to the difference in the manner in which it was handled with that which the recent threatened railroad strike was disposed of by Wilson.
 In declaring for the eight hour day, he said:
 'T believe in the eight hour day. It is the ideal toward which we should tend But I believe that there must be common sense as well as common honesty in achieving the ideal. MT. Wilson has laid down the principle that there is something sacred about the eight hour day which makes it in1- proper even to discuss it. If this is so. if it is applied universally. then Mir. Wilson is not to be excused for not applying it immediately where he has complete mower, and that is in his own household"
Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-15

. It is maintained by the allies that they are sincerely endeavoring to avoid any enroachment on the legal rights of inoffensive neutral com merce"
 Ignores Hague Convention.
 Delays and annoyances are unavoid- able. it is pointed out, and the eXer- else of full belligerents' rights and a long list of precedents are cited to support the validity of the allied cen sorship methods. It is suggested that the Hague convention quoted in the American memorandum is not binding because it has not been ratified by sev- eral belligerent powers.
 In an informal memorandum sub mitted some time ago, Great Britain pointed out at length. the changes made in censorship methods to ex- pedite mail examination These changes are only referred to briefly in the present communication.
 Note Has 5000 Words. The note is nearly 5000 words in length. It argues that the United States and the allies agree that the postal union convention does not ap- ply and that postal packages may be examined to see if they contain con traband That being so. the note con tends it is necessary to open postal bags, and examination cannot take place at sea without delay and incon- venience. Arrangements now have been made to carry on the eXamina- tion with the least possible delay.
 Refuses U. S. Demands.
 Although the Hague convention of 1907 has not been accepted by some of the belligerents. the note says the allies are prepared to accept the prin- ciple in the preamble as ro guarantees due to peaceful commerce and legiti- mate business" but cannot abandon their right to prevent the fraudulent use by the enemy of neutral mails for belligerent purposes" The case of the Atlanta is cited to show informa- tion can be as useful a means of war as munitions and the note says infor- nation as @ military operations and enemy plots in neutral countries. has been discovered in this way.
 Cites Many Preeedents. An examination of precedents is held to show that the great powers have claimed the right to intercept enemy correspondence in neutral mails The allied. argument follows the line of President Lincoln's proclama- ton of May 12. of 1862. which de- clared things and information are really contraband of war and cites fact that intercepted enemy core spondence was used in the United States courts during the Civil War and laid before Congress.
 Take Our Money Too. The contention of the United States. the note argues, that money trder lists should be classed as genuine mail and not as merchandise, does not take into consideration that such lists sent from the United States to Ger many and Austria by mail correspond to money deposited in this country and serve as a notification to postal authorities of the Teutonic powers to pay out the amounts indicated. in- creasing the financial resistance of
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