Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-11
Some Political Gossip.

litical retirement of former Gov.
Frank B. Willis, and that word. is to.
the effect Willis will be candidate
for the Republican nomination again
in 1918 only on two conditions.
The conditions are: First, that
there is a genuine demand for his
candidacy.
Second, that Gov. James M. Cox
also is a candidate again for the Dem
ocratic nomination.
But the further statement is made
that Willis is not particularly eager
to run, that he is well satisfied with
the lyceum speaking business, in
which he is succeeding, and that he
has made it known to party men that
there are many things about the posi-
ton of governor he doesn't like.
This is declared to be Willis atti
tude as ascertained by early Repub
lican party efforts to learn his ideas
about 1918, and to be as near as even
his closest friends know about his in,
tentions.
According to the information COM
ing to the state capital, which is
called the first definite report as to
the former governors attitude yet rel
ceived, Willis indicated this position
in a recent conference with United
States Senator Warren G. Harding.
It is said that Harding, who is per
haps the most outstanding active fig
ure in state Republican politics and
who has very definite hold on the
state leadership, has told Willis he is
not opposed to the former governors
entering the race again and does not
want to be viewed in the light of try
ing to obstruct Willis.
First Battles Won by Roads.
This has been called railroad war.
Americas preparation for such war
| is a greater railroad mileage than
that of the entire continent of Eu-
rope, and a railroad army OF 1.750,00O
employees. Already the railroads,
nfobilized under their war board at
| Washington, have won some impor-
tant victories.
Up to Nov. II the number of car
loads of construction materials and
| furnishings brought into the national
army cantonments was 1874. To the
!
the guard camps amounted to 32,370
car loads; and 1868 car loads had
been shipped into the aviation camps.
A standard box car of 100000
pounds capacity is 40 feet and six
inches long. If all the cars carrying
material for these three classes of
camps could be coupled together, the
train that would result would extend
from New York to Chicago and on out
to Evanston, Ill.
That is a long train. It represents
a great burden added on to the task
accomplished by the railroads in the
record breaking year of 1916. But the
carrying of construction materials to
the cantonments is only a small part
of the total increase in traffic for 1917,
After the camps had been built, the
railroads had to move the men into
them. They have also had to carry
parts of the country, the men who
have gone to France. Up to Nov 19
they had carried total of 1 100000
soldiers to camps and ports of en-
barkation.
And after the men have been
|
supplies to them. Every day $500 car
loads of food and coal are being
| hauled to the national guard and ma
tiona1 army camps alone.
f Up to Nov. II a total of 1900 car
) loads of freight had been handled for
the shipping board. This figure rep
resents a part of the traffic involved
r by the building of 1,400 new ships.
: An enormously greater number of cars
have rolled down to Atlantic and Gulf
5 ports loaded with supplies and muni-
l tions for ships already built to carry
to France and England and Italy.
t All modern military and commercial
| activity is based on coal and oil-but
r especially on coal No figures reveal
/ more clearly the extent of the in
S creased effort put forth in the last
r half year by America generally and by
the railroads in particular than the
+ figures on the coal traffic.
In the six months from May to Oc-
tober, inclusive, there were moved
n 10000 more car loads of hard coal
G than in the same months of 1916, and
/ 751 900 more car loads of soft coal.
!. Figuring an average coal car at a
length of 33 feet, the total increase for
n half Of 1917 over the corresponding
h half of 1916 may be represented by a
o solid train load of coal extending from
4 New York, through New Orleans, to
+ Los Angeles and on up the coast to
# Seattle, and then east again to point
q in Montana, thirty miles east of Butte.
# The railroads are doing their best
on tremendous job. The citizen can
d Soldiers Thank State.
Y ''The officers and men of the S3d di,
# vision at Camp Sherman thank you
J. and the people of Ohio for your
i Christmas greetings and trust that we
d may be the humble means of preserv
5. ing to this state and this country
those ideals of home and liberty in,
5, herent in our democracy for which
/ the Prince of Peace died"
S, This telegram from Maj Gen
g Glenn, commanding the ChiIlicothe
E. cantonment, was received at Gov
Cox's Office.
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neither lavish in gifts nor sordid il
e your economies.
Of avoiding imported ones.
Of "5-Do not look upon the depart
is ures for the front of those dear to yor
,e as an abandonment. Be with then
s. constantly in thought, as they arr
with you, particularly in the hour o
danger.
r "6-Do not complain of the diff
culties, annoyances and priyation
Dr. caused by the war.
T-Multiply your activities in YOU
g, home as well as outside.
cause the germs are killed by expos
n ure to cold weather and will not grow
Or To locate all good seed the Obi
u Experiment Station at Wooster offer
e. to test corn free for any Ohio farmer
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