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The Washington times., 1917-03-09

through opinionated obstinacy,
soon to forgive. Senators who must
continue to point the finger of indi-
cation at the blot themselves have
made only render forgetfulness more
difficult. They cannot begin a
course in sturdy American patriot
ism a moment too soon, for their
own sake. The facts remain that
there was an organized filibuster in
the Senate against the bill which au-
thorized the arming of merchant
ships against submarine attacks;
that every effort, through days, to
bring the question. to d vote, failed;
that unanimous consent was asked,
again and again and was refused,
and that the bill failed of passage
for this reason alone. Seventy-six
Senators signed a manifesto declar-
ing that they favored the bill and
were helpless to pasSit. Those who
did not sign are now on the defen-
slve, explaining, apologizing, or
glorying in their shame. 1t is to be
hoped that some of them have
learned their lesson and will not
need to relearn it when the toler-
ance of peace has been succeeded by
the intolerance of war.
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
POLITICAL ENERGY
In SMALL COMPASS
W. R. HOLSTER, Country Editor
From Missouri, Presides in
Democratic Sanctum.

W. R. Hollister. five feet fve inches
OF energy, has office, in a suite ef
rooms numbered 435 to AL in the
Woodward building.
If you go up there today, you, may
nnd him closeted in private sanctum
with some Democrat from Ottumwa,
Iowa, Hattiesburg, Miss. or some
other community of modest proper
tions, but which includes numerous
citizens who cast their votes every
four years for a President of the
United States.
It's HOLSTERS vocation In life to
talk As assistant secretary of the
Democratic National Committee and
the ruling factotum in the extremely
busy headquarters OF that political or
ganization, Hollister must take up
with the men in the political ranks
the possibilities of future Democratic
success. AEf
star Of sEdueatorz.-
The Democratic National Committee
has provided HolIister with the Of
fices and corps OF clerks. or what
Hollister terms educators" and he
has been instructed to spread Demo
cratic doctrine far and wide.
He began his new duties today fol-
lowing the departure from the city
Iof the Democratic National Committee
members, who met here to pat each
other on the back because Of the sue
cessful termination OF the campaign
last fall, and to lay a few. wires for
more OF the same kind OF achieve
ments. 80
The national committee paws the Of
hce rent and provides for the pay
roll OF HOLSTERS aides. In return for
the outlay the committee expects to
continue Its life OF usefulness, and
Holltster Is expected to encourage
enough Democratic sentiment In the
next four years to bring this about.
Hollister says he will do II. but it's
big task for such a little man. Un-
derstand, he's little only physically.
The campaign OF spreading Demo
cratic doctrine In q vocal way already
has been begun, with HoIlIster as
chief spokesman. Visit his offices and
see IL you can get a word with him
without waiting your turn"
The work of appealing through the
mails to voters of the country will be
inaugurated next week
Missouri Country Editor.
Hollister, before becoming actively,
engaged with the Democratic National
Committee, was an editor Of .coun-
try newspaper in Missouri He was
assistant to Henry Morgenthau, for
mer ambassador to Turkey, chairman
Or the national finance COMMITTEES. IN
the 1912 campaign, and last year he
was attached to the New York gen.
eral offices of the national committee.
Congressman Carter Glass of vir-,,
yinia is secretary of the Democratic
Committee, but the executive
work OF that office has been left to
Mr.. Hollister. Associated with him
n the headquarters here viii be for
ner Congressman W. d. Jameson OF
shenandoah. Iowa, assistant treasurer,
who will look after finances, and Mrs.
Y. W. bennett, OF Washington, secre-
AIRY Of the woman's organization
in charge Of the woman's
part of the work.
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A PORTRAIT.

] disliked the man very much!
He was such a braggart,
And swaggered SO in his speech
He tore up trees by the roots.
Diverted rivers,
And tunneled through mountains
In his path-when he talked to me
II made me feel very small
Despite the palpable pretense.
Then ! met him again much later:
Meantime his wife had left him,
And, besides. he felt himself standing
still
While the financial escalator
Slipped beneath his feet.
He avoided my eyes, and he whined
Like a tiger cowed by a trainer:
He blew like a wind broken horse;
1t sickened me, and ! wished back
into his voice
The amphoric resonance of the empty
barrel,
And hoped never to see
One OF Gods creatures changed again.
j. w. Brandeis.
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
PASSING OF THE CONGRESS
SI0NAL UNION.

1t was suggested in these columns
not long ago that the suicide of the
Congressional Union would be a good
thing for the suffrage cause. We
note with pleasure that it has
merged with the Woman's Party and
will take over that name. 1t is just
as well. The old name had too many
associations with irresponsible futil-
ity to be continued.
The chairman of the Congress
sional Union, Miss Alice Paul, be-
comes president of the Woman's
Party and its former president, Miss
Anne Martin, becomes vice presi-
dent. Miss Paul is brilliant, earn
est, single-minded devotee of the suf-
frage cause. Unfortunately, she
gained a taste for militant methods
in England, in association with Mrs.
Pankhurst, and failed to understand
the governmental differences that
made the Pankhurst methods worse
than useless in America. In attempt
ing to hold the majority party re-
sponsible for the passage of con-
stitutional amendment, and making
war on that party by attempting to
defeat friendly members of Congress
who belonged 20 it, the union sue
ceeded only in postponing the sue
cess of the suffrage caus5 in several
of the States. in increasing the ma
iority representation in Congress
from the suffrage States, in 1912,
and in carrying those States for
President Wilson in 1916. Methods
which only hurt ones cause, injure
ones political friends and help ones
prescribed enemies can hardly be
called politically wise.
Let US hope that with a new name,
even under the same leadership, the
old methods will be abandoned. II
women should be misled into voting
as a party on one issue regardless of
all others, the fact would not be re-
assuring to those who are asked to
extend the suffrage to the women of
the whole nation. Thus far the
women voters have Indignantly
spurned the appeal to sex antagon-
ism. A Woman's Party conducted
along that line will soon need to
with something else and
to change its name.
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
Commercial Problems As
Result of European War
A Non Technical Explanation of the Big Ques-
tons Confronting Business Men At This
Time of Worlds Upheaval.
By SAMUEL WANT.

The problem of United States
the armng Of merchantmen defensive
with the gavest under the peculiar constitutional
limitations OF Government it least debaabe whether the
power is already inherent in the Presidential Office
Pursuing his usual President sought the opinions
the counrys abes otherwise The
by him result such the hand render
commercial rights and the freedom the
gher aborte the
determination to without Congressional authority
places the hands of the Germans
funes consisting Of the destruction of shipping and the
ecution of the as pirates.
The settled private may
for the Of attacking
whether be country
the hands Of the
States Constitution restricts Congress the declare
letters of and rpa the Presidents
question futile praica operations
chant vessels with official authority
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
MONITOR AND MERRIMAC

1t was fifty-fve years ago today
that the famous conflict took place
in Hampton Roads. While the fight
was a drawn battle, the ultimate VIC
tory was with the Merrimac, as it
became the prototype of the armored
battleships and dreadnaughts of to-
day. The American civil war also
produced a submarine and Zep-
pelin, DR.. Benjamin Andrews diri-
gible balloon being fairly entitled to
the latter name. The aeroplane, the
telephone, and the machine gun are
also American inventions ainestimable
in modern warfare. And.Edison still
has his thinking cap on.
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
The Shells.

Hear the cannons and the shells
bursting shells.
What a world of horror their boom
ing sound foretells,
AS they split and plOw and tear
Through the earth and in the air.
While the stars, their vigil keeping
In the heavens, all seem weeping
With an impotent despair,
Keeping time, time, time,
As a dirge that's set to rhyme
To the shrieking OF the dying,
stricken men.
While the howitzers are Staying
And the gatling guns are spraying
The green earth with the blood of
loyal men,
Their only bier-the sod,
As their souls return to God.
And their only knell
The whistling of a she'll
A brazen, venomous, staying shrapneI.
Listen to the children weeping
As their mothers watch are keeping
For their men who will return to
them no more,
Praying to their God in heaven for
their souls,
That they be shriven,
So to meet them on a happier, peace
full shore.
When the great. last call shall
summon
And our souls, each one in common,
Prince and peasant, serf and SOW
ereign,
Stand together at the throne.
There the white recording angel, pen
In hand,
Fills out each passport
Dare We then look up and face what
we have done?
EIINiCE WENTWORTH SANnERs
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
The Waiting of Nora.

'Tis my heart in its sorrow Is sob
bing and calling,
Sure your soul, lad, must hear 4,
wherever you be,
Though the wall OF the waves and
the gHlls' wicked screaming
Are both trying to drown out the
weak voice OF me.
Oh, tits long since 1 stood on the
brow of the headland
As your boat rose and fell in the
red and the gold
Where the sun sank to sleep on the
tides swelling bosom
Till the breath OF the night wind
blew bitter and cold.
My aching eyes strained to the edge
of the ocean
Where the sky and the sea and
the shadows were met,
And the sail and my Danny passed
out of my vision
So long, long, long ago, and I'm
waiting him yet.
For my boy gave his promise that
evening together,
The first night we kissed by the
Holy Wells shade.
And he swore by the Saints and his
love for his Nora.
He'd keep faith to the end with the
troth that we made.
And the years that went by or the
blacks powers OF evil
Could never bring i'll to the passion
we knew.
Twas so that you told me, oh, Danny,
boy Danny,
Come back now to the breast that
is longing for you.
'She was lost with all handsw was
the news that they carried
But II they spoke true, then your
spirit is free
To fly to mine over the great waste
OF waters,
Stealing out of the gray, shrouding
mists of the sea.
They say that I'm mad. and there's
those who will watch me,
creep from the cabin so softly,
ashore.
To cry out my heart to you here by
the ocean,
At the spot where you sailed from
our wild Connaught shore.
" you only would bark to the sound
OF my weeping,
But the mating times past with its
wonder and JOY,
And tits wishful I am that Deaths
angel may take me
For I'm weary, so weary, oh, Danny,
my boy,
George T. Pardy.
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
Amunementa
Tomorrow.

Address, The Civil Rights In Mexico as
Granted by the New. Constitution" Senior
Martinez de Alva. at meeting Of the Samuel
F. Miller Debating Society OF the National
University Law School, $50 .. m.
Banquet Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Univer-
sity Club, p. M
Reception to members OF the Y. p B. C.. by
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. L. Miller, at their home
sos street southeast, p. m.
Meeting. Biological Society Of washinEton
Cosmos Club. p. m.
Get-together meeting Associated Charttie. OF
the District, Rauschers, p. m.
Illustrated lecture, Immigration" Roger
O'Donnell, before Teachers Club, SOC Eley-
enth street northwest, Sis D. m.
Annual banquet, Phi Kappa Iota fraternity
of Emerson Institute, Lafayette Hotel, s
D. m.
Final meeting OF Chamber Of Commerce spe-
cial committee on investigation of National
Training School. Chamber rp0ms noon
Address by Ernest p. BickneIl national d.
rector OF American Red Cross, before Fed
eral Schoolmen's Club, Fairmont Seminary
27Ol Fourteenth street northwest 8 D. m,
Odd Felows-Canton Washington, No. I,
Patriarchs Militant.
knights of PythIss-Monthly meeting. relief
bureau.
National Union-Coiunbia Council. Nc. ca.
ara Nonpareil Council. No. 40
Red hen-osage Tribe
Motion pictures OF South American ana
American possessions, American University,
tp-m-
The Washington times., 1917-03-09

and large and profitable enterprises
that of Menocal as a regime of short
sighted, narrow-minded economy and
stagnation. The friends of Menocal
do not deny that many and great
schemes were launched under Gomez
but they hold that the cost of these
exceeded the present resources of the
people, and that they were encour-
aged chiefly as conveniences for a
wholesale system of looting the pub
lie treasury. They hold that Memo
calls policy is wise in postponing
huge improvements until the money
is in sight to pay for them and
until the tone of public life has been
raised above bribery and thievery,
the alliance of government officials
with the vicious classes and plumber
ing contractors.
In Cuba there is considerable diff
ference of opinion as to which view
is the wiser. The closeness of the
result in the pending election as be-
tween the Conservatives with Memo
cal as candidate and the Liberals
with one Zayas, tool or catspaw of
Gomez, at their head shows this
clearly. Many citizens would pre-
fer. it seems, to see big things doing
at the cost of a little graft rather
than nothing doing and clean ad-
ministration. But, on the other
hand, few seem to desire a change
from Menocal's slow but safe rule
sufficiently to seek it by revolution.
From the outset it has been clear
that the uprising of the last month
has been a trivial affair, a strike
of reckless and hungry politicians
backed by a handful of the desperate
element in remote provinces. Not
only has Havana remained loyal to
the constitutional government, but
fully 80 per cent of the rest of the
Only two considerable
places ever fell into the hands of the
rebels, Camaguey, in which SEEM
ingly the inhabitants were not in
accord with the band that seized the
city, and Santiago, where the al
legiance of the people is a matter
of dispute, but where the rebels have
a quasi-civil as well as military con-
troll.
The capture of Gomez and his
gang by the Menocal troops no doubt
ends the outbreak-happily without
by the United States.
President Menocal will be justified
in dealing with the rebel leaders
with exemplary severity. There is
no excuse for their action and the
result of their course, in
the burning of the sugar cane by
heir followers, proves the atrocious
anti-social character of their enter
prise. They deserve no mercy either
IN the ground of their past records |
or present aims.
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
PASSAGE OF THE CLOTURE
RESOLUTION

The debate on this measure which
has been agreed upon by practically
unanimous votes in both party con-
ferences was a curious process OF
self-revelation on the part of several
Senators. Stacker Bill Stone turned
up smiling and contended that the
cloture process did not go far
enough to suit him, that he was in
favor of the majority's ordering a
vote whenever it felt like it, and
that while he supported the measure
before the Senate he was afraid it
was not drastic enough. Several
others of the twelve apostles affirmed
their holy hatred of filibustering
methods and tore passion into tatters
in the process. Cummins declaimed
against the lying press and declared
any man a falsifer who intimated
that he filibustered. Senators like
Hardwick and Townsend seemed
more concerned lest the passage of
the resolution should give credit to
the President than that the meas
ure they reluctantly supported should
succeed. Only Sherman, La Toilette,
and his faithful "Me Too" Gronna
of North Dakota, opposed all limita-
ton of the right Of debate in the
Senate.
Nevertheless, the press knows and
the country knows that the passage
of the cloture rule was due to the
description given out by the Presi-
dent the first of the week of the
helpIessness of the Senate. 1t was
an appeal to the people from the
tyranny of a self-willed minority
that the people have answered in
thunder tones. The press of the
country was glad to be the medium
for such an appeal and for the un-
mistakabie answer. It is true that
resolution very similar to the one
Just adopted by all but unanimous
vote was reported to the Senate in
May, nearly year ago. But it re-
manned on the calendar without any
serious effort to bring it to a vote.
Senators who supported it yesterday
may have felt like relieving their
minds on the subject of the descrip-
ton of themselves. Presidentially
drawn, and fitting like the paper on
the wall. They were welcome to
pair their speeches with their votes
so long as they voted the right way.
But the people understand the whole
question now, and if this rule fails,
the Senate will have to amend it
until a way is found for that body
TO DO business without harmful de-
lay.
What really hurts is the knowledge |
of the fact that the people backed !
the President on this issue and COM |
PEELED obedience to their will. Sena-
tors, however seriously they may
take themselves, are really making
ridiculous by abusing
the President. He would have no
power, if the people, who elect SEN
ators and frequently fail to re-elect
them, did not agree with him in this
instance. He merely told the truth
and the folks at home did the rest.
Nor will the action of Senators
who refused to grant the simplest
measures of self-defense against an
nation daily plotting
against and making war upon, the
United States be soon forgotten.
The nation saw too clearly the blot |
shattered upon its fair fame, it felt
too deeply the humiliation inflicted, u
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
STACKER BILL AND HIS SPEECH

90 Slacker Bill is going to explain
everything in his speech in the Sen.
ate, part of which he took four
hours and a half to deliver and part
Of which he is preparing now, "add-
ing and inserting" what he omitted
to say; The very announcement
makes one feel that the Stacker
doth protest too much.
What the Stacker will have to ex-
plain away is a good deal. His
blurting out of a naval secret con-
fided to him, by way of a friendly
warning to Germany of the methods
that would be adopted against her
submarine attacks. will require re-
markable talents to make it appear
a patriotic utterance. There should
not only be addition, but omission
and silence.
Then we trust he will put into his
speech, since he seems to have the
right to add what he pleases, ex-
plantations of a few other matters.
He might explain how he, as chair
man of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee and doubly bound to an atti-
tude of neutrality, has always in
clined so strongly to the German
side; why, in the universal voice of
denunciation of the Lusitania mur-
ders, he was the apologist for Ger
many; why he backed Germany in
the demand that American citizens
give up their right to travel in peace
full vessels on the high seas.
He might reveal the whole story
of the Gore-McLemore fiasco. How
he alarmed the timid souls in the
Senate by whispering that the Pres
ident had confided to him his wish
to plunge the country into war with
Germany; how he used his fellow
Missourian and pro-German Con-
gresham, Shackleford, to do the
same whispering in the House; how
the Gore and the McLemore reso-
lutions, warning free Americans off
the peaceful ships of belligerent ma
tions, were the result; how he ran
to cover when the President de-
manded a showdown and protected
his record by voting to table the
Gore resolution after its author had
reversed its purport by an amend
ment.
Then Stone might give a full story
Of that midnight to morning con-
ference in New York, during the
campaign, with Ger
political leaders in
the-effort to enlist them for Presi-
ient Wilson. What explanations
did, he make to them, and what |
promises?
1t will be interesting reading no
loubt. The gum shoes must walk |
softly over the rotten places. Mean
while the Stacker is confident of re-
election to the place of power which |
he has so fearfully abused, the
,hairmanship of the Committee on
Foreign Relations. He counts on
he favor of the Steering Commit
zee. But has the Democratic ma
ority nothing to say about this?
Are there not twenty-eight Demo-
ratio Senators who will decline to
,ut Stacker Bill in charge again Of
he most important committee of the
Senate, whose conduct in the next
wo years will spell victory or dis
Lster for the party now in power in
he Senate? Or has wisdom de-
erted the Senate majority?
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
WHATS ON PROGRAM
Interesting Events Of Tmpertsne.
Scheduled Today.

Scheduled Today.
NESTING. street ear snployss. BI3ou Tssat-r.
midniEht.
q. M to I0:5O y. M
Private performance. The People," Casino
Lecture. Or. Elliott wadswOrth, beys' DE-
partmant, Y. n c. A, p. m.
Meeting. Loyal Daughters class Of thu Fff-
teenth Street Christian Church, TO change
name to Loyal Beams. IN church, D. m
Lecture on The Bibles Effectiveness on Men
OF Today" by William Knowles Cooper,
Ingram Congregational Church, Tenth street
and Massachusetts, avenue northeast. D.
Address, Character Analysis, ThrcuTh the
Name" by MiSs Louise Cults Powell, ths
Regular convocation by Capital Chapter, No
IL, Royal Arch hasous. and address By
Most Excellent Grand High Priest w. W.
Jermane. Masonic Temple, p. m.
Dance and social session, st. Jchn's Lodrs
Chapter. Order of the eastern. Star. Masonic
Meeting OF Committees In charge OF coming
Confederate Reunion. Chamber of Com
merce, p. m.
Home Club. Il jackson place, 7:so p. m.
Address on Shooting With the Shutter; In
innate Studies OF Wild Game" by William
Masonic Temple. $50 and SIS .. m.
Meeting of Petworth. Woman's Club, Pet
worth School BuildiAs, s y. m.
Z.
No 20; Eureka Chapter, No. Z, Capital.
No H. and Mt. Pleasant, No. -. ROYAL
Arch: Takoma Chapter, No. 12: Cathedral
No a and st. Johns Lodge Chapter No
Is, Order OF the Eastern Star.
Odd Fellows-Central Lodge, No. !. and
Phoenix, No. 3.
Rebekahs-Dorcas, No T.
knights of Pythians-Syracusians, No. 10:
Rathbone Temple. No. s. Pythian Sister,
National Union-National Capital Council.
No IT7: Mckinley Council, No. sac and
GEORGETOWN Council, 10ll. N
Red Men-Seneca Tribe, Mineola Trtba Idaho
Tribe. and Idaho Council.
Illustrated lecture. Yellowstone National
Park via the Gardiner Gateway" r. HAYES
Hamilton, Memorial Church, North Capitol
and r streets, p. m.
Belasco-Anna Held, In Follow Me-" S:E
New NationaI-Beegbohm Tree in Henry
VIII," S:l5 .. m
Poli's-New Poii Players. In Just . WON.
an" 2:l5 and Sis p. m.
B. +. KeIth's-vaudeville, 2:ls and Sis D. m.
observation-disclosures. 2:i5 and D. m
Losw's Columbia-Photoplays. 1850 Q. N to
II .. m.
u =. m. to II D. N.
II q. m. to IL D. N
The Washington times., 1917-03-09

Senator Cummins proved his aIibI.
He had an amendment, and a Cum
minis amendment is always the most
important thing on earth, worthy OF
hours Of consideration.
The Washington times., 1917-03-09

When the twelve United States SEN
ators who blocked the plans for the
nations defense sit down together the
ghost of the thirteenth well-known
person sits down with them in amity
and fellowship.
The ghost, as you have already
guessed, is Judas Iscariot.
DON MARQUIS.
The Washington times., 1917-03-09
a SUbSCHIBER-
Washington, d. c., March 8.
A Times Reader Blanes Bryan Fer
the Flllbuster I'm the SENATE

Times Reader Blames Bryan Fer
the FiIibuster In the senate.
To the Editor of THE TINES:
Do you remember that our dear
friend Mr.. Bryan had to come by spe-
ciai train FROM Florida ito save the
country" as your paper stated 1t.
Well. 1t looks as If the rascal sue
ceeded by the fiIibuster in Congress-.
He surely is responsible for those
Senators acting as they did.
Words cannot express my opinion
OF that rascal
1 know that he. is chucklinE to
himself now that things have tran
spired as he wished.
Poor President. he surely has e
hard road TO travel. but all honor to
him and the majority OF the people
stand by him. WILLIAM ELLIOT.
Washington, March ..
The Washington times., 1917-03-09

II Governor Whitman would not let
Stacker Darcy fight in New York, why
should Senators allow Bill Stone TO
slack in the Senate?