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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-04
POLITICAL ADVERTISING.
ELECT MAYO

In the Republican advertising put out
IN the Montpelier Argus of Oct. 80. un.
der the heading Vermont Republicans
Must Wake Up, | read of the harmony
meeting between Clement aud the Re.
publican candidates and state commit.
tee. Evidently. Clement gave them some
knockout drops, for he put them TO
sleep. In their sleep they went back
10 the days when Vermont voted in
September and IN the advertising they
urge Republicans 10 give Clement a
large vote for its effect on other states.
With all states voting next Tuesday. the
effect Of Vermont i vote for governor
on the other states is about as much as
y ny spcck on the wallpaper of your
room
Clement must have given the Rcpub-
lean managers horrible nightmare.
Tor IN their advertising they say: Yer.
mont = representation in national party
affairs is exactly conditioned on Yer.
mont 8 vote for governor in the Novem.
Der election. Nothing else counts. Don I
fail 10 vote This is not camouflagc.
u is described by n shorter and uglier
word. In national Republican convcn-
cgatcs as il has men in Congress. Yer.
mont always has eight delegates. Each
stntc has ono member Of the national
committee. Unless there is secret
chamber in party national affairs of
which common people know nothing,
Clements defeat will not make one
iota = difference in Vermont 5 repre-.
scntation in national party affairs
II Clement in one short meeting can
cause the Republican managers TO
stultify themselves in their advertising.
| shuddcr 10 think what effect he would
have on them during an administration
OF two years. He certainly would have
them all eating out Of his hand.
The advertisement referred 10 above
speaks Of the large amount of money
that Vermont must spend in the next
two wears. The character Of Clement =
activities in his political campaigns, and
the character Of the editorials in the
Rutland Herald, which he owns and
controls. convince me that he is not a
good man 10 have charge of the i'm.
portant duties which governor Of Yer.
mont must perform.
Would that tho Republican managers
might "wakc up and az least tell the
truth in their advertising!
Oh Republicans, Won t Won wake
Wy 20 the seriousness Of the present sit
uotion' II you do, YOU will elect Mayo
next Tuesday. aud confer a blessing on
your party by Kidding il for all time Of
this Clement barnacle, which has al last
secured firm grip upon il.
O. X. HOLLISTER.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-04
IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW
What a Heap of Happiness it Would
Bring to Brattleboro Homes.

what heap Oh Happiness 1t Would
Bring to Brattleboro Homes.
Hard to do housework with an ach
ing back
Brings you hours of misery at lei
sure or at work.
If women only knew the causc-tbat
Backachc pains often come from
weak kidneys,
'Twould save much needless woe.
Doan 5 Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys,
Read what Brattlcboro citizen says:
Mrs. a. c. Ycaw, 6 Highland St,
says; ''Doan ; Kidney Pills have been
a household remedy in our family for
years and am always glad to SPEAK
i'll their favor. have been troubled
from time to time with kidney disor.
ders and my kidneys have acted irreg.
ularly. | have also had attacks of
backaehe and the pains have become
quite sharp when | have stopped over
to do any sweeping or other house
work. | have only had to take box
of Doan's Kidney Pills at these times
have soon left
Price 60c, at all dealers, Don 7
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs Yeaw had. Foster Milbur.s Co.
Mfgrs., Buffalo, n. Y.-Adv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-04
PERSONAL.


day with relatives in Wilmington.
Miss Ruth Littlefield of Boston was a
guest at J. L. Stewart 5 yesterday.
Miss Gladys Fish has returned from
week visit at her home in Bellows
Falls.
Benjamin Harris was here from Bos-
ton TO spend the weekend with Mrs.
Harris.
Edwin F. Lindsey, who was i'll with
influenza IN the emergency hospital. is
out again.
Miss Mary Turner of East Putncv
visited her sister, Mrs Walter C. Halla-
day, Sunday.
Private John Gcraci, who is camp
barber at Camp Devens. was in town
over the weekend
William Dwycr and John Sharkev of
Dccriield, Mass, were visitors in town
with friends YESTERDAY
Mrs. Raymond Adams resumed work
Saturday as clerk in j +. Mann's store,
after week S vacation.
Miss Elizabeth Spencer. who is a
student at Middleburv college, came to
her home here Saturday evening.
Miss Maude Barrett resumed work this
morning in Donnell & Daviss millinery
store after an illness of several weeks
Arthur Chamberlain, who is employed
at shiphuilding in Portsmouth, ~ H,
was at his home on Frost street over
Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Whitney has closed her
home on Myrtle street and has taken a
room at Mrs. L. C. Crosby s for the
winter.
Miss Adelinc Salstrom. teacher in the
Brattleboro Business Institute, returned
Saturday from her home in Great Bar
rington.
Arthur l.. Trip was here from Bel
lows Falls to visit over Sunday at his
home on Cedar street He returned this
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Thompson
went TO Boston this morning to remain
until Wednesday Mr. Thompson is on
4 business trip.
Miss Patience Wilder, operator in tho
telephone exchange. went this morning
to her home in Bellows Falls to spend
a week s vacation.
Mrs Clinton NJ Dugan and son, Al
bert, went today to Springfield, Mass,
10 Join Mr.. Dugan, and they will make
their home there.
Private Herman Brooks and Private
Leslie Dimes were here from Camp Dew
ems Aver, Mass. to visit from Saturday
until last evening.
John w Hamilton. who is employed
by the Springfield Beef Co. in Springfield,
Mass. visited his parents. DIR. and Mrs.
Fremont Hamilton, over yesterday.
Miss Ruth Prentiss. teacher in the
Montpelier seminary, returned there to
day, after a two weeks visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. c. R. Prentiss.
Private Raymond Thomas returned
this afternoon to Camp Dcvcns, Aver,
Mass, after having visited here since
Saturday at his home on Walnut street.
Ralph c, Root, who is in the naval re
serves. stationed at Provincctown, came
Saturday and visited until last evening
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.
Root.
Charles f. Knight finished work Sat
urday for c. II. Eddy & Co, where he had
been employed as travelling salesman 10
years. Mr. Knight has no definite plans
| for the future.
Mrs. Frederick A. Spencer of Brattlc-
boro, who had been director of home
economics for the Worcester County
Farm Bureau, has resigned that posi-
ton. She will 90 to Mortified (Vt.)
to join Mr.. Spcncer, who is professor OF
electrical engineering at Norwich uni
| versitv.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-04
Red Mems Hall

Regular meeting OF Brattleboro camp.
No. 72S7. NJ. W. A., Tuesday evening,
Nov. 5. at o'clock State Deputy George
+ Baldwin will be present on important
business. Let us have full attendance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-04
Odd Fellows Temple

Monday evening, Nov I. at 80
Regular meeting of Wantastiquct lodge
No. ,. Members are urged to be pres.
Ont.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-04
POLITICAL ADVERTISING.
Confirmed!
Republican State Committee Admits Clement
Contributed 10 Make Up State
Auditors Shortage

The Mayo Club denies that there is any ''nsinua-
ton or "misstatement" of an essential fact in its
message of November I'd; the meaning is entirely
plain and its essential truth is confirmed by the state
ment of the Republican State Committee made in the
state press The money was furnished for the pur-
pose named and, beside the furnshers only one man
cares whether it was given or loaned
However, the Mayo Club, gladly accepting both
the confirmation presented by the State Committee
and its minor corrections restates the proposition
follows
1.-THE facts are that some friends, including the
Republican candidate for governor have LOANED
Governor Graham the thousands of dollars needed
to the shortage in the state auditors accounts
for the last twelve years"
Whether sympathy or consideration of bust
ness" actuated the lOaners, one cares. Those of
them who knew about the deficit in the auditors Of
flee two years ago and yet helped to promote him to
the governorship, have fortified the right to be
"actuated by state pride" They stumble from mud
to mire and pull their neighbors in.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-11-04
Masonic Temple

Tuesday, Nov. ), at 7.30-Regular
of Bingham chapter.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Germans Recruit
Anarchists and Malcontents

Anarchists and WalCOntentS
Before the United States en-
tered the war what was of utmost
military Importance to Germany
was the destruction of arms, mu-
nitions, food and military supplies
destined for the Allies. In a cir
cular letter dated November 18,
1914, the Imperial German Naval
Headquarters ordered mobilized
"all controlling agents and all de-
structive agents who are overseas
in ports where vessels carrying
war materials are loaded, in Eng
land, France, Canada, the United
States and Russia" Declaring it
to be indispensable" that all opera
tions be conducted through the aid
of third persons having no relation
with the official agent Of the gov
ernment, the German agents were
ordered "continually" to recruit
agents "to organize explosions on
ships sailing to enemy countries" ,"
and to produce delays and confusion
in the sailing and unloading of
these ships. with this end in view
we particularly recommend to your
attention the .deckhands, among
whom are to be found a great num-
Der Of anarchists and escaped Grim
inals," the order continued.
The Berlin government, as re-
vealed in secret cablegrams sent
by the German Foreign Office to
Won Bernstorff, instructed the am
bassador to arrange for the de-
struction Of Canadian railroads and
for sabotage in the United States.
"In the United States" the instruc-
tions read, Sabotage can be car
ried out in every kind of factory
for supplying munitions of war
1t was in line with these instruc-
tons from Berlin that Won Papen
and Boy-Ed from the very begin
ming established connections with
anarchists and the revolutionary
clements of labor. The Won Igel
papers seized by the Department Of
Justice revealed a fund Of $40.
100000 upon which German agents
and spies could draw. More recent
investigations showed that the Ger
man corruption fund placed in the
United States after the beginning
of the war amounted to $l00, 100000.
simultaneously With furthcring
pacifist propaganda through mouth
ing radicals, academic paciGsts and
the Socialist party. German agents,
according 70 Federal authorities,
alnce the Cnitcd States entered the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Oh
Induce Strikes
On New York Docks

In line with their habitual ef-
forts to hinder transportation, L.
W. w. agitators on October 12,
1915, induced 1000 out Of 1900
freight handlers employed in the
warehouses of the New York Dock
Company to strike.
When l. w. w. leaders attempted
to gain recruits from the ranks of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea at two collieries of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company, in April, 1916,
the loyal workers opposed the an
archistic propaganda.
In August, 1916, the |. W. ".
tomented strike in the Iron Range
in Minnesota. At Virginia, Mimi.
they tore down advertisements for
workers and substituted their own
literature.
Timed to divert public attention
IRON Germany's resumption of ruth
less t-boat warfare. |. W w. lead
'Ns'NA
crs early in February, 1917. started
tood riots in New York City In
March number of leaders were
arrested for plotting TO blow up the
Pennsylvania Salt Works az the
Greenwich piers, along the Della
~are River. In an attempt to stop
the supply Of fresh fool to New
York City by tying up freight they
called 10000 men out on strike on
March Q, 1917.
Regular army officers stationed in
South Dakota in July, 1917, uncov-
cred a plot which, if carried out.
would have meant an incalculablc
loss Of grain. The ! ". W. lead
crs had mapped ont the entire agri-
cultural districts Of the state, and
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
German Agents Practise
Sabotage on the job

In the " estern states labor dis
orders, caused by /. W. VS. and
believed to have been inspired Dy
German agents, resulted in several
hundred arrests and the hanging of
one of the agitators at Butte
Mont. Senator Thomas, of Colo
rado, charged that the Arizona cop
per mine strikes had been foment-
ed and financed by German agents
About the same time Fritz Baum
gartner, formerly connected with
the krupp works, was arrested in
Cleveland for trying to start
strikes. A plot to cripple transpor-
tatlon on the Great Lakes was un-
covered by Federal agents and ar
rests were made. The Department
Of State. in October, 1917, uncov-
cred plot concocted by the Ger
man General Staff to blow up the
Canadian Pacific Railway at vari-
Gus strategic points.
On December 20, 1917. an at
tempt was made to blow up the
Executive Mansion and kill Gov
ernor W. d. Stephens, at Sacra-
mento, Cal.-the act was ascribed
by Federal authorities either to the
|. W. W. or to German agents.
The enormity Of the sabotage ac-
complished by the German destruc
tionists under orders may be judged
from the fact that to repair the
sabotage done to German ships
in American ports the United States
government had to spend S8,O00,-
600 before it could put those yes
sells into service. From the l. w. W.
point of view, as we'll as from the
German, this was "royally good
job
Two enemy aliens and one nat
uralized American were arrested
at Sellersville, Penn, March %,
1918, charged with conspiracy to
furnish defective gauges for tor
pedoes to the government. The
men arrested were Fritz Bicret, as
sistant to the general manager of
the United States Gauge Company.
of Sellersville, Penn; George Schu-
bert, foreman, both of whom came
to the United States six years ago
and had taken out first papers, and
William Hendricks, general fore
man, who had been naturalized for
twenty-eight years. When they
made the arrest, government agents
found, they reported, Won Hinden-
burg's picture over Bieret's bed at
his home.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Berlin Government Gave Instruc.
ton for Destroying of Num-
tions and Factories Along With
Pacifist Propaganda Through
Academic Sources

by the plotters of whom Rinteler
was the head had been manufac.
ured in Scheele's Hoboken labor.
tory. Detective George Busbv of
the Police Headquarters bomb
squad, testified that on April 1s
1916, he had found in ScheelA,,
shop plentiful supply of explosive
chemicals-a typical l. w. ". ont.
fit, sulphuric acid, nitric acid. bv
drochloric acid, etc. The French
liner La Touraine, he declared. had
escaped destruction only becaus.
the force of the bombs placed in
that vessel, and which exploded
was not sufficient to wreck tho
ship.
On April II, 1918. the America,
munitions ship Florence H. was de-.
stroyed by a terrific explosion
which killed forty-one of the crew
wounded seventy-five and severely
burned fourteen. While the cause
is unknown, survivors expressed
the conviction that the explosion
was caused by a clock bomb con.
cealed in bunker.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

maintains an important supply
base. On the same day, also, vigi-
liant watchman discovered a fire on
The deck of the steamship Adriatic.
moored at Hudson River pier, IN
the midst of mass Of iron tanks
containing gasolene which had been
placed temporarily on the forward
deck. Within the same twenty
four hours mysterious fires oc-
Cured in New York, Paterson,
n. j.; Maynard, Mass, and Peter
boro, Canada, and at Buffalo the
Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company's service and
repair plant near the waterfront
was burned. involving a loss of
Sf5O,OOO Is all this mere coinci-
dence?
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Fire After Fire in
War Supply Plants

On January 26, 1918, ten men
were killed and seven injured by an
explosion in a powder magazine in
the United States navy torpedo
station at Newport, r. l. On the
same day a disastrous fire involv-
ing a loss of $1,OOO,OOO occurred
at Port Newark. whore govern,ucn,
ships were being built and where
the quartermaster Of the army
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

English patriots chance to 90 to
the front and kill some Of their fc1-
lo'o slores IN Germany. # they get
INTO GermonY o'o' croqrd 7rjU take
care Of the property interests IN this
part Of the globe.
n German oith gun looks no
more o1c'ous to me than an Aoneri-
can 'elth got". Be careful not to
spoil o'o' plan of hari'1g a little
home gud5d of ou,' o,cn / may
some dag be elected captain of q
nome guard company.'
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Sabotage in Aeroplane
Production

Production
Asserting his conviction that
there are 100000 potential German
spies In the United States. Senator
Lee S. Overman, of North Carolina,
made the charge before the Senate
en- March % that German agents
had caused a hold-up of the aero
plane production in the United
States, and that by tampering with
aeroplanes they had sent several
American f1iers TO their death. Sen
ator Overman said that. while he
would not make a charge against
any one employe in the Curtiss
plant, there were spies there.
A mechanic employed by the Lib
erty Motor Company, according to
statement made by Representa-
tive Currie, of Michigan, before the
House last April, wilfully broke
complex machine used in the motor
factory, causing an actual loss in
production Of thirteen aeroplans
engines. Representative Currie a.
serted that Federal agents and or
eratives in Detroit had secured
proof of a thousand cases of simi
lar destruction on the job Albert
White, a foreman of the Curtiss
plant, declared in statement that
blueprints had been frequently
stolen and defective ones substi
tuted in that plant
Evidence was secured by the Nj
agara Frontier Defence League, an
organization composed of manu-
facturers in the locality of Buffalo
proving that at the Pierce Arrow
Motor Company, at Buffalo, Ger
man foreman and a German time
keeper were engaged IN putting EN-
cry and an explosive acid in the
motors. Another German employe
industriously spent his spare hours
IN saving the axles of cars loaded
with ammunition and war supply
materials, so that the cars would
break down and cause explosions
These men were interned for the
period of the war.
Senator Thomas. of Colorado al
legged in the Senate on April that
German spies, operating in one Of
the war factories, had tampered
with gas masks. Of 5000 masks
made for the use of American
troops, $500 were found defective,
tiny perforations having been made
IN the rubber. These perforations
were so minute as to oe invisible
to the naked eye. The masks would
have been useless in q gas attack
and the boys using them overcome
by the deadly fumes The persist
ence of enemy agents in this plant
was such that after the defects had
been discovered and the masks re
iected by investigators and thrown
aside they were later found packed
IN a shipment.
In their entire campaign of sabo-
tage, in the destruction Of prop
erty with loss of life, in fomenting
strikes and promoting social dis
cord, in seeking in every ay TO 90
struct our conduct of the war the
emissaries of Germany. as has been
shown, have followed Tie pro
gramme of the /. ". ".
SO identical are their acts and
methods, so parallel their maIevo-
lent programme, that it is impos-
sible to distinguish between tnv
war acts of German agents and /.
W. ". fanatics. When some fright
full explosion or fire Of unknown
origin occurs, when a ship sinks, or
when strike paralyzes some vital
industry, one can only ask: Which
is responsible: German spies or
; no VI.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04

their seditious meetings before they
got we'll under way
In an article published in 'Il Pro-
letario,' the official Italian organ Of
the [. ". W.. Baldazzi declared
that, in preparation for open at
tacks against the coal company and
the authorities, "the miners of the
anthracite district must be armed
and strongly armed"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
Sedition and
Opposition to Draft

In Montana, Immediately after
the institution of voluntary regis
tratlon, the |. w. w. organized
riots against it. They were SINH
larly active in the anthracite coal
regions Of Pennsylvania. George
+. Buss, Sheriff Of Luzcrnc County.
PENN asserted that the past ac-
tlYltics Of the L. W. W. made it
necessary last summer TO break up
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
ought W Work for
The Liberty Loan

In the Chicago trial numerous
declarations by l. w. w. leaders
against the draft, the Liberty Loan
and the government we're read In
an official bulletin Grover II. Perry,
one Of the most radical workers in
the Southwest, declared: "The gov
ernment says the draft is going into
effect September /, but so far as the
|. w. ". miners are concerned it is
not going into effect at all"
In March, 1918, the I. W. w.
started a campaign in Chicago to
combat the sale Of the Liberty Loan
and War Savings Stamps by issu-
ing l. w. W. bonds and stamps, ,eto
be bought by members and sympa-
thizers instead Of government bonds.
The l. W. W. bonds were called
freedom certificates" and the
stamps general defence stamps"
in the shipyards at Tacoma,
Wash, a district infested by the
|. w. W., a Russian riveter when
solicited recently by fellow work
men to buy Liberty bonds replied
"To hell with the Liberty bonds ="
The |. w. WIS had driven spikes
into logs, damaged machinery and
practised sabotage to such an ex-
tent that all unknown laborers who
came to that district were regarded
with suspicion. SO extensive was
their propaganda and so grave the
danger that, to prevent l. w. WIS
getting in, thousands of drafted men
were put to work in lumber camps
cutting and saving spruce to be
used in aeroplane construction.
Upon the imperial German gov
ernment which made this war the
/. w. w. leaders have cast no blame.
The hosts which have been swept
forward by the German military
machine in it's last offensive con-
stitute merely "so-called enemy."
The American boys who are going
bravely forth to fight and to make
the utmost sacrifice if need be, that
American homes, American liberty
and American womanhood may be
safe, were called, in a motion passed
at a branch l. w. W. meeting at
Augusta, Kan, May 20, 1917,
band of potential murderers."
In line with their general plan to
obstruct the entire conduct of the
war the |. w. W., according to evil
dence presented ON May 10. 1918,
IN the trial at Chicago. aimed di
rectly to defeat the aircraft pro-
gramme. In an l. w. w. organ of
August s, 1917, headed "Why Not
Ask the Lumberjack?" authorities
we're quoted as saying that the ma
tlon's aircraft programme would be
delayed year unless the strike in
the Northwest lumber districts was
settled in two weeks. "This is an
open admission that we have tied up
the programme declared the ar
tlcle, triumphantly.
Charles Jacobson, an /. W. W.
leader, distributed and posted in
public at Virginia, Crosby and Du-
luth, Mimi, on June 222, 1917, post-
crs urging the mine workers to
strike. I'VE are here producing the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-04
By T. Everett Hare

Z N THE wholesale murder of in
B nocents, in the burning of fair
cities and despoliation of fer
tlc lands, in the breaking of solemn
covenants and the abrogation Of
human rights and justice and in the
invention of scientific devices for
slaughter and human suffering, the
imperial German government in it's
military campaigns has accom-
plished what is unparalleled in the
annals of mankind. Yet in its war
fare against the United States
within the confines of our own
shores, its agents, in efforts to OBJ
struct our conduct of the war. have
had only to adopt the essentials of
programme already prepared.
Seeking to do their utmost to mega
tive the governments prosecution
of the war and to render frpitless
the bravery and sacrifice of our boys
in the trenches, the agents of the
Kaiser simply adopted the methods
of the I. W. W.
In the manuals of the J. W. W.
Germany's agents found compre-
hensive catechism for sabotage,
crime, destruction and violence. A
comparison Of the activities of Ger
man spies and those of the I. w. ".
reveals starthngly identical meth
ods and acts.