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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-06-07
For SHERIFE.

/ hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination of sheriff Of Garrett county,
subject to the result Of tn. Republican
primary election, and solicit the support Of
my frIehQs.
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FOR COUNTY TREASURER.


! hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination for County Treasurer. sub
iect TO the result Of the.kepublican Primary
Election and solicit theasupport of all Rep
ublicans at the polls.
J. W. kIMMELL.
Deer PARK, District No. 10.
| hereby announce myself a candidate for
tue nomination of County Treasurer subject
to the result OF tie Republican primary
election, and solicit the support of all my
friends. If nominated and elected | viii
give the office my personal attention and
best efforts to make the administration OF
financial affairs of the county satisfactory
to the tax payers and all concerned.
GEORGE GIESSMAN.
Oakland, District No. II.
hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination of County Treasurer. subject
to the result of the Republican Primary
Election, and solicit the support of Republi-
cans throughout the county, | am so sit
uated that it viii be impossible for me TO
visit all sections OF the county and | trust
that may have the united support of my
party.
NJ. II. LOHR.
GrautSyille District No q
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For SALE-One So h. p. Boiler, l 25
h. p. Engine, manufactured by Hart
Bros, Clarksburg, W. Va; l new
Smokestack, 80 feet high, and about
200 feet u inch pipe. Price 5000 to
quick buyer. Stuart F. HamiIl, Oak
land, Md. Adv. 5-tf
Subscribe for The Republican.
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WANTED-A girl for general house.
work. Apply to Mrs. Stuart F. Hamill,
Oakland. Adv.
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Information for Contractors

Sealed proposals addressed to the County
commissioners of Garrett County and in
dorsed Proposals for building a section of
state Aid Highway in Garrett County," up
on or along the Elder Hill road, beginning
at the Railroad Crossing in Friendsville and
about three and two one-hundredth miles,
SOP will be received by the County Com
missloners of Garrett County, at their Of
hce oakland, Maryland, until Il O'Clock noon
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TRUSTEES SALE
OF VALUABLE
Minerals and Min
eral Rights
IN GARRETT COUNTY

Under and by virtue Of a power Of sale y
contained il Deed of Trust executed
floyd Lee ct al, dated the 29th day of Apr
1908, ana duly recorded in Liber E. Z. T.. No =
y folio l3G, etc, one Of the Mortgage Records
OF Garrett County, Md, default having oc-
cur Ell m the terms and conditions of said
Detu OF trust. |, GilmoT :. Hamill Trustee
named IN saiQ Instrument WIN IN
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ROY O. WHITES.


hereby announce myself candidate for
the nomination for Sheriff OF Garrett county.
subject to the result Of the Republican
Primary Election, and solicit the support Of
my friends throughout the county.
GEORG Z D. WHITE.
Oakland, District No. +.
hereby announce myself candidate FOR
the nomination of Sheriff, subject TO the re
suit Of the Republican Primary Election. and
solicit the support of my friends throughout
the county.
J. :. KELLY.
noEIapJ D4-trf..+ ~,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-06-07

Prof. VIM. King, mathematician at
the Naval Academy, Annapolis, accom-
panied by Mrs. King and their two lit
tie sons, en- route from Annapolis to an
Ohio point by automobile stopped off in
Oakland yesterday afternoon and are
guest for today at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs E. H. Sincell.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-06-07

Published at request Of the Home
Economics Department of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs for the
Women's Preparedness and Survey
Commission of Maryland.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
WANTED-A MAN

We must disagree strongly with
those Republicans who believe that
in spite of his pacifstic and pro-
German activities, Mr.. James R.
Mann would be of great value as
Speaker, because of his skill as a
parliamentarian, in the contem-
plated organization by their party
of the Sixty-ffth House. The sup
port of Congressman Martin Of
Louisiana, protectionist, is counted
on to give the Republicans 218
votes, the majority of one necessary
to control.
To elect Mr.. Mann to the Speaker
ship would be simply to notify Ger
many that she may go as far as she
likes. Persistently and consistently
Mr.. Mann has endeavored to mislead
the present House minority into
every anti-American trap set by
German propagandists in the
United States. His "God knows
where we will land if this coun-
try enters the war" Of the
other day was the sort Of aid and
comfort which is of even greater
value to the Kaiser at this time than
the destruction of American mu-
milton plants.
To make Mann Speaker would be
merely to continue in power the same
bipartisan disloyalty which has ham,
strung preparedness, sneered at pa
rriotism and heightened immeasur-
ably the peril of war for US under
the guidance of Claude Kitchin. The
elevation of Mann to the Speakership
will necessitate. if international COM
plications require a special session,
the alliance of the pro-Americans of
both parties in the House to depose
him as the first step in the defense
of the Government. At the very
least Mann's election would mean
death to all hopes for adequate pre-
paredness for another two years.
What the House needs is a real
man in the chair and the recent
straight American speech of Con-
gresham Irvine L. Lenroot of Wis
consin proves that there are Repub-
licans of that sort in Congress.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27

ing the same, the cost of living ris-
ing by leaps and bounds, and the re-
wards of private employment in
creasing in the same proportion, the
Government has played a niggardly
role. In the long run such a policy
is bound to result in the loss to the
service of the more capable workers
and a disinclination to enter it by
energetic and ambitious young
people.
The House policy takes notice of
the needs of those receiving between
81 200 and $500 a year. The ad-
dition of from $50 to $50 a year to
such incomes will be as welcome as
the greater porportionate income Of
those receiving less. The desperate
pinch of rising prices does not sop
as the Senate seems to have first
imagined, with the families who live
on an income of a thousand a year.
The fine words of the Democratic
platform on the Government as an
employer have been measurably re-
allied with the help of Republican
votes in both House and Senate.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
SENATORIAL MORTALITY

In the debate on the increase OF
salaries for Government clerks, Sen
ator La Toilette put into the Record
a roll call of the Senate of January
%, 1907, ten years ago. There were
ninety Senators, the number having
been increased since by the admis-
sion of the three States of Oklahoma,
Arizona, and New Mexico. Of the
ninety Senators who voUed for or
against the increase Of the salaries
of Congressman only eighteen re-
main in the Senate, and two Of these
will leave it on March 4.
In other words, the Senate Of 1917
will consist of nineIy-six members,
eighty of whom have entered the
Senate within the last ten years.
There is probably no such record Of
Senatorial mortality in any decade
Of the history of the Republic. The
fact will bring various reflections to
philosophic minds.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27

his taking arms for the protection
of his women's honor.
These are articles OF what we will,
without intended irreverence, call the
paciist's creed; that it is dishonor-
able to fight for the protection of
others, even of women; that the
American soldier as a class is a
bloodthirsty brute.
That is not the whole creed. But
it is necessary for the pacifist to be-
lieve these damnable articles of faith,
among others just as bad, the pre-
requisites to belief in nonresistance.
The dead soldiers of hundreds of bat
ties were, it is assumed, no more
than a herd of beasts. else it would
be incomprehensible that they should
have laid down their lives so freely
in struggles that were to the pacif-
lists view needless, wanto4 and ig-
noble. Pacifists are driven also to
hold that women should be aban-
doned to the invader, since Belgium's
fate has proved that invasion does
bring risk of personal outrage, and
since if a portion must be protected
the whole nation, with all its terri
tory and policies, might better have
been safeguarded in the first place,
while its entire strength was in it.
Here is but the mouth of an abyss
that opens between the pacifist and
the true American, 1t goes as deep
as the foundation Of the world, and
we see deeper into it daily. The pa
cifist is an enemy of his nation, we
fear, for he gives his higher ale
glance to humanity, and refuses TO
offend against humanity for Ameri-
cas- sake. He must then hope to see
humanity's authority some day
Americas. And as the
agent of an all-including power of
consolidating creation. he
must love and approve the Kaiser of
an empire which, being the invari
able aggressor, has naturally never
resorted to hostilities save where its
oppressors were unpacifically op-
posed.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
LET'S KNOW THE TRUTH

1t is more than gossiped that the
reason that the President wants
blanket powers conferred and Con-
gress adjourned is because he feels
certain that any move toward war
made by him would be unsupported
at the Capitol.
We cannot believe that this is true.
We cannot believe that Congress in
its majority is made up of towards
and poltroons. But if this is true,
if the alleged suspicious Of the
President are correct, the sooner we
know about it the better. Let's have
the question raised and settled. If
the President believes that overt
acts have been performed, and We
cannot believe that he does not, let
him ask today for the right to de-
clare war and see what Congress will
do.
II there is a doubt it ought to be
settled.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
IN THE CANAL ZONE

From the Panama Canal Record
we CLEAN some interesting data con-
cerning the traffic passing through
that waterway. January proved the
record month for both ships and ton
mage, 176 ships with 557, 1897 net ton
mage passing through that month,
while the ships clearing at the ports
of Balboa and Christobal numbered
367, including those that passed
through the canal. A note of war
like preparation is contained in the
order of Gov. Chester Harding. for
merly Engineer Commissioner of the
District, closing the channel through
the east and west breakwaters, to
navigation. The Colombia, followed
in February, the other two ships of
the Pacific mail feet, the Ecuador
and the Venezuela, engaged in ORR
entail service, the Colombia having
been purchased from the Royal Dutch
West India Mail at a cost of $4,000
900.
The total number Of ships passing
through the canal during the year
1916 numbered 2,780. evenly divided
between northbound and southbound
traffic.
The Panama canal seems to be do
ing business.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
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.

Whatever else be connection with the Of neuas
during between other countries the least settled
the proposition that neutrality Of freedom OF
international
the The world sentiment of the least possible interference
with neutral during the conventions
and other international declarations the face
the actual necessities the nations the
tion Of their national existence.
The Declaration of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and
the International Naval Conference of 1909 only Of the out
standing declarations of international indicating world
milton of the right of neutral unmmed freedom Of action
would tend directly the military naval forces Of
one of the beHigerents
While these conventions been for
may accded by all the Of the world there has
era acceptance Of their fundamental principles but throughout the
the declarations from bgnts both sides Of the conflict
have constituted regulations reflections Of all accepted
safeguards in favor of neutral commerce.
affairs business
of neutral countries beginning assert themselves great
this direction has created by business and Of
this country supported the declarations of number of the prominent
of the nations of the world including those engaged
the European conflict The Of this movement its relation
the lines along which American business
enforcement of their rights will
outlined in succeeding articles.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
THE PACIFIST CREED

An American pacifist creed is
shaping rapidly. Oscar Galloway, a
Congressman from Texas, added his
share to this new constellation of
opinions when he told the Boston
pacifists that American soldiers were
virtually a set of bloodthirsty indis-
criminate slaughterers. He support
ed his thesis with an abundance of
corroborative myths, according to
reports of his speech. No dissent was
audible in the audience so far as we
learn and none has yet come to hand
from any other pacifist. They all
accept the benefit which abuse of the
American soldier brings their cause
among certain elements. so they
must accept the shame as well.
A week ago a prominent New York
pacifist, Mr.. Willard, according to re-
ports in the newspapers, evaded the
question publicly put to him whether
he would be for tolerating outrage
on American women by invading en-
emies. In spite of his keen SYM
pathy with the feminine sex, Mr..
Willard forebore to speak in favor of
their protection. He has not re-
pudiated the inference that his peace
full principles would compel him to
acquiesce in the individual outrage
that may attend violence done to
the nation. Nor has any pacifst
known to US objected to the con-
clusion that pacifEm would forbid
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
METHoDIsTs HIT PAcIFIsTs
Meeting at New York Resolves
Against Resort to Armaments.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27.-The
Rev. E. w. Evans, of New. York, an
agent OF the Fellowship of Reconcilia-
.tion, a pacifst organization that
would not resist the Kaiser IL he at
tempted to invade the United States,
was informed yesterday by more than
100 Methodist ministers attending the
weekly conference here that peace
at any price" and the policy OF "sur-
render without a fight" have nothing
In common with Methodism
The New Yorker attended the con-
ference and requested permission to
address the gathering. He failed to
appreciate the temper OF his audience,
and talked about turning the other
cheek"
buke, for more than a score of the
ministers took the floor and denounced
him, the organization, to make IL
plain that Philadelphia Methodists
have no sympathy with the propa-
ganda OF the Fellowship of Reconcilia-
tion, passed a resolution reafnrming
its resolutions of several weeks ago,
in which President Wilson was up
held in severing diplomatic relations
with Germany.
The Rev. Robert Crawford, pastor Of
Fletcher Memorial Church, evoked ap-
plause by announcing the ministers
had no time for discussion with
Evans. This is no time to talk peace
when innocent children are being
slaughtered and helpless women raw
ished," he said.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
JUSTICE LONG DEFERRED

The long-deferred measure of JUS
tice to the department clerks has
been won by the action of the Sen
ate in agreeing to the House plan of
increase in the salaries Of Gov
ernment employees.
The Smoot amendment was osten-
sibly in the interest of the employees
of lowest wages, Is per cent increase
for those receiving less than $3.50 a
year, and 10 per cent increase for
those receiving between $3.50 and
$1,000 year. But its argument was
for governmental economy. The
House plan to which it has stead
fastly adhered, though it nearly sur
rendered in a vote on another appro-
priation bill the other day, provides
for an increase of 10 per cent for
all employees below the 1920 grade
and 5 per cent on all between 81 200
and 81 300 a year.
There is probably no body of en-
ployes in any private industry in this
country or in any government: service
in the world who will compare in
ability, faithfulness to their work,
or devotion to the country with those
whom Congressman are too wont to
refer to, contemptuously, as "gov-
ernment clerks"
Government service has its attrac-
tons, In permanency Of tenure and
certainty of employment. But the
salaries paid are generally meager
as compared with those Of private
industry. Under the standards OBJ
tanning two generations ago public
office may have been a private snap.
But with salaries practically remain
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
AND THE ACTION OF CONGRESS

Even a re-reading Of the Presi-
dents speech of yesterday does not
subtract from the difficulties of un-
derstanding the object of his visit.
He appeals to- a Congress about to
die for powers which by his own con-
fession he already possesses. He
seeks from an expiring body the
delegation of authorities which he
says are by implication his already.
He asks for what he already has, but
which having he has not used.
In less than a week a new Con-
gress will have been created and
very likely assembled. Has any
thing happened since the third of
February and yesterday which war
ranted the appeal to the Sixty-fourth
Congress for powers which it was
altogether within the right and
power Of the SixIy-fifth Congress to
grant if it saw fit?
Nor with the powers which he
sought given him does the President
give any intimation of what he in
tends to do. His program, if he has
a program, is as intangible 10 Con-
gress as it is to the lay mind, and as
cloudy and indefinite. to both as any
thing can be.
Congress and the country have
been most willing to accede to the
requests Of the Administration,
neither has hesitated in granting
what he asked nor in according a
support which must have been most
heartening. But yesterdays demand
was a seeking of power without
plans; Of authority without de-
cision.
Under present conditions Congress
is wise to seek means by which it
may summons itself of its own
volition. Its reasoning that it should
be on the job is sound in its premise
and its conclusion. It is immeasur-
ably safer that Congress, whatever
its shortcomings. should be in ses-
sion during the coming months than
that blanket power be granted a
President whose purposes are un-,
formed and whose intent is embry-
onic.
Congress should sign no documents
In blank, and it should remain in ses-
sion SO long as the country faces its
present problems.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
OFFER PRIZES FOR POSTERS
Mississippi Centennial Asks All Art
Students to Compete.

GULFPORT. Miss, Feb. 2T.-Art stu
dents OF every school in the United
States will be eligible in a poster
prize contest inaugurated by the Mis-
sissippi Centennial Exposition. to be-
gin at once. and close on May l. the
conditions of which have just been
announced.
The centennial exposition manage
ment offers three prizes. the first of
S25. second OF SIS. and third OF $40.
The designs submitted should be
sent to Miss !. B. Finley. care OF the
Centennial Exposition and
the following rules will govern the
contest. Designs must be original, OF
three colors never before used: have
margin on a II by 20 inch card,
must include lettering Mississippi Gen.
tennial Exposition, Gulfport. Miss
Opens December 10, 1917. Closes June
10. 1918" Open water must be pro-
nounced feature OF the design. Only
one design from each artist.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
THE BRITISH LOAN

The greatest popular loan to a
government in the history of the
world has just been made by the
British-5,0 100000 people contribut-
ing $4,000, ,OOO,O 900 for the prosecution
of the war. 1t is an amount five
times as large as the national debt
of the United States, and serves 10
throw into relief not only the de-
votion of the British people and the
stupendous nature of the conflict
abroad, but the unhampered re-
sources of the United States which
coald be put at the service of the
Government in time of war.
A number of people made gifts
outright to the government, and
nearly a million dollars was loaned
without interest.
The success of this loan coming
just as the British forces have made
a large advance on the Somme front
and the Mesopotamian expedition
have redeemed an earlier British dis
aster by the capture of Kut-el-
Amara should convince the civilized
world and the German empire that
the immemorial bulldog per1inacity
of the British people is furnishing
its most conspicuous illustration just
now.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
Invocation.

luNoCuuOu.
Come IN the glory Of THINE ercellence
Rive the t0iId OIodm toith E0htnino Of
Thy St0ords,
Beat doI0n the helmets Of these todr.
ring lords.
Who sIay Thy people t0ith a fend's
intents.
Lo there, 10 there, the heaps Of dead
80 dense
They pare the very roads and choke
the Iords
So thick they lie the raven no mors
dccords
His obscene cIamor to the barquet-
scents.
Yet smite US not, o Lord, ,cho .oalk at
ease,
Thy totthIs's servants of the tGtal
path,
Who dare not stand the hazard Of the
cast;
But make US hear Thy dead CRY in the
seas
That t0rithe about our shoes in help
less t0TGth-
Or rouse US t0ith some shdtterino
trumpet blast!
-Perley A Child.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
WILL NAMES THREE FAITHS
Priest, Preacher. and Rabbi to
Guard Big Estate.

HOLLIDAYSBURG. Pa. Feb. 81
The will of Randolph McMullen, a
wealthy farmer of Tyrone township.
probated here. directs that his estate
he divided under the supervision of
three trustees to be appointed by the
court. consisting of a Protestant
clergyman. a Catholic priest and a
Hebrew rabbi.
The reason Is that each trustee will
watch the other and that every cent
given to charity will be rightly ap-
piled.
The estate. estimated to be worth
800, 900. will be divided among the
poor OF Blair. Huntingdon and Cam
hria- counties.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
MARINE BAND SCORES
Symphony Program at Marine Bar
racks Artistic Success.

The all symphony. program given
by the United States Marine Band
Orchestra under William H. Santel-
mann at it's regular concert at the
Marine Barracks yesterday after
noon, was an artistic success, proving
again the excellence that Mr.. Santel-
mann has achieved in surrounding
himself with players who serve
equally well for the band in its pub
lie junction as such. and for the de-
lightful series OF indoor musicales
that attract capacity audiences
throughout the winter.
The orchestral program included
three movements OF the Beethoven
Fifth symphony. that was read with
true appreciation: the Wagner pre-
lude to "LohenGrin," and the joyous
overture to Weber's Der Frei-
schuetz." They were given with ad-
mirable effect, finish and spirit
Musician Fritz Mueller. solo cellist
of the orchestra, gave with rich and
sympathetic tone the violoncello con-
certo in a minor of Goltermann.
!. MacB.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
Who They Are.

Sir: am the lean, lank, jaundiced,
hollow-jowled, hawk-eyed individual
who sits next you in the train, trolley
or subway and reads all the news in
your paper over your shoulder. BY
so doing 1 save my own until / ger
home, and thereby get a variety Of
reading matter at comparatively low
cost. And '7hen you discover my
glued attention, and you turn over the
pages abruptly before have a chance
to read anything, I customarily NUT
ter under my alcoholic breath ard
curse you silently and softly. I ain
then forced to filch the news from
somebody else's paper. Tyler.
The Washington times., 1917-02-27
BROWNS REJOICING.

BETHLEHEM, Pa, Feb: 27.-Has-
tening to tell his brother that he had
Just become the father of a boy. Jo-
seph Wislotsky. OF Northampton, slip
ped on the bank of the Lehigh Canal,
fell in, and was drowned before help
could reach him