The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-10-12
~Watchtul Waiting" Insult to
President SheIved by Ma.
tional Committee.
IT DRAGGED IN RELIGION
Picture Prepared by Hal Reid Showed
Convent and Sisters OF Charity
In a Story erotesquely
Revolving.


loose a few days ago-a story Of dirty
methods to bolster up the political
fortunes Of a i%loundering candidate.
According TO the World the Republi.
can National Committee had n null
uple reel iilm prepared, entitled
"WatChful Waiting" to be distributed
by 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 ChHirmen.
According to this circular, the
movie story begins with the be-
trothal ~ John Martin to Marion LON
bard. Martin, a United States troop
or, Is called TO Mexico, where he Ia
killed BY one of Villas followers.
Upon the death OF her betrothed
Marion becomes II Sister Of Charity
and IL sent 10 Mexico TO nurse wound.
cd soldiers.
"ln the meantime" says the circu-
lar, "thc folio ,;ors of liuerta shoot
down the American flag. MIR. Wilson
organized n fleet of buttlcships, which
he sends to Vera Cruz TO demand
that Huerta apologize and salute the
American flag. but with orders to the
United States marines 10 withhold
fire.
Sometime later villa and his fol.
lowers make u night attack on Colum.
hus, ~ NJ. Immediately follows the
Carrizal fight. villa and his followers
make an attack on the convent and
drag the Sisters into the brush, leav-
ing them TO die. Marion, rather thun
meet such a fate, Kills herself.
The heads of both the Protestant
sud Catholic churches sent petitions
10 Wilson. whose onrS ar" deafened To
their cntrcatI"S, and he sleeps peace.
fully Mt his desk.
Views of both Col. Roosevelt aud
Gov. Hughes will be taken In con.
junction with this picture, but cannot
he described at this writing"
Denounced by Reds Own Friends.
That film was prepared at a cost
~ S35, 900, and It's director, Hal Reid,
wears ago was sentenced To prison on
a charge of assault OF n variety nc.
treSs. He served thirteen months In
the Saltwater (Minn) r%cnitcntiary
when he was pnrduucd and cxOnerated
of the charge.
SOM" Of MIR, Rrid'S friends, when
told OF his new ph"toplny, expressed
NhNn,N,lN.4 In gt1,1t,V,,.t No T,IIp,ua,
II do not believe that | have ever
listened to anything that shows 80
much real ro%ttcuncSS In politics as This
idea of IA" Republican National Com.
mittcc."
at Is the most disgusting thing
ever listened TO-"
IT constitutes a series of dalibrrut,
and studied insults to the Nations
chief executive"
Il think II will go Il long way TO.
ward bcaung Mr.. WILSON, said Reid
10 n reporter for III" World. "First.
show villa p"ering through the bush
es. Then there l. subtitle readlul
why didn't President Wilson stoI
the war In Europe by putting an en-
barge az all exports to all European
countries alike, except on foodstuffs'
NEXT | show Vera Cruz. A launch
filed with American sailors Is SeeI
approaching the wharf, Then | show
the wharf ana MeXlcans, armed, stand
Ing there. The! fire on the boat.
show the officer IN the boat picking M
the American flag riddied with hulle'
holes.
And thea | show the President
asleep at his desk. I show that al
through, u dozen times or more-ta'
President asleep. show II after ID,
attack on Columbus and after Carr
raj and after the nuns are attacked
The motion pictures were taket
near New York. Some OF them were
prepared at II studio NJ Clinsidc, Y. J
Some of the Mexican" scenes were
photographed at Shcepshead Bay
were taken at Rockaway Polnt-th,
Vera Cruz OF the picture.
"a corker," Says Colby,
Everett Colby, as Chairman Will
wa lNlhN9NhAhAlNN "no BN'''A" y
the photographing of IA number o
the scenes. He called the Him Il
corker.'
The day following the Worlds ex
pose, the him was privately screene'
for George w. Perkins, Herbert Par
sons, James Is. Reynolds, Candidat
Hughes confidential secretary
Chairman Willcox's private secretar,
and other members Of the Republican
committee. A pOw.wow followed
A couple OF days later, an expurga'
cd, denatured and dcyitalized cditloI
was thrown on the screen for mem
bers OF the Republican National Com
mittee. They found the "hlstOri
facts" sadly less interesting than III
advance hoticeN promised. They d.
not even gaze on the picture OF
a Vaa