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New-York tribune., 1918-10-29

wife and children of the soldier, who
has served his country in this war.
he American army overseas, and
the officers and enlisted men of the
navy, and the officers and enlisted men
of our army here who eagerly desire
TO go abroad, have put US all under
an immeasurable debt. They are the
Americans who more than any others
we delight to honor, and we must make
our honoring them matter of actual
lacl ana not OF empty phrase"
men eXtemporaneously the Colonel
took up President Wilson'S letter to
senator Simmons, of South Carolina, in
which he explained that he did not in
tend to advocate free trade in the
thlrd of the fourteen points, saying
that It, meant nothing else, and added:
Under the Presidents interpreta-
ton OF this afternoon of what he
dldnt mean, the other day it means
that at the close of this war we are
forbidden establishing favorable trade
relations with any country, including
france and Belgium, which are half
ruined by Germany, unless we estab-
IlSn Slr0l!ar r0l~tionr ---i.i, Cow SO
:. On the speakers platform were Miss
Mary Garrett Hay, leader of the suf-
tiage hosts OF New YORK, Heleu
Roswell. Mr.. and Mrs. John T. lawreq.
Mrs. Arthur D. Livermore, Miss Laura
:stlnner, ex-senator Elsberg, James R.
Sheffield. DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler.
congressman Bertrand H. Smell, Frank
Moss, Mrs. John H. Grissell, Captain
Matthias Herbert, Speaker Thaddeus G.
Sweet of the Assembly, Senator Will
lam NJ. Calder, Edward Duffy, Of Cort-
land, and Samuel S. Koenig.
Taylor Moore, of the Republican
Club, called the meeting to order and
introduced Robert w. Bonynge, presi
dent of the Republican Club, as the
chairman of the meeting, who intro
duced Miss Mary Wood. of New York.
secretary of the Woman's Republican
Association Of New York. She at once
demonstrated ability to evoke cheering
and laughter by her thrusts at the pre-
tensions of Tammany Hall. She said
that the only Time the Democrats in
times past had recognized women in
politics was when they needed cash
contributions.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29

through their party organizations, were
against the war, we're against the peace
of overwhelming victory and de-
nounced the Liberty Loans, which were
then called war loans. Their candi-
dates, notably here in New York State,
were assaiing me on the ground that
to elect me meant to approve the war.
and they were against the war, and
this in spite of the fact that the fight
ing had finished. They were conduct
ing their campaign on the explicit
ground that they intended to elect a
Democratic Congress in order to pre-
vent the full mplishment at the
the Republican Congress because it
WAS nrO-Wnr
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Pays His Respects
10 Henry Ford

"Mr. Henry Ford has announced
that he does not believe in patriotism,
that he thinks the flag is silly and
does not believe in ii, and that when
this war is over he will pull the flag
down and never hoist it again. The
son of this multi-millionaire stays at
home while hundreds of thousands of
men of small means leave their wives
and children and go to the war But
Mr. Wilson is supporting Mr.. Ford
for the Senate On the other hand,
Senator Weeks does believe in pa-
trlotisn. He does believe in the war
HIS only son is fighting overseas at
this moment, facing death side by side
with his comrades from every rank of
| life. But Mr.. Wilson is opposing Mr..
Weeks. There are dozens of such
cases; and the only explanation pos
sible of the Presidents attitude is
that he makes adherence to his per-
sonal fortune and not loyalty to the
nation the acid test in accordance
with which he gives or withholds sup
port.
81 believe in putting this war
through to our last man and our last
dollar rather than to fail in beating
Germany to her knees. That is the
spirit of our wonderful fighting men
at the front. The world has never
seen finer fighting men than our SOL
diers at the front. But let this people
never forget that in the bitter weather
of last winter we left our small army
overseas without sufficient number
of overcoats or shoes; we got uniforms
from the British, and two-thirds of the
ships in which we ferried our troops
across the ocean were from the British
we got our cannon and our machine
guns from the hard-pressed French, the
tanks from the British and French
we had practically no airplanes at the
front until seventeen months after we
went to warm short, our govern.
mental shortcomings were so lamen.
table that even now we can fight at all
only because of the weapons our allies
give us
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Statement of Lincoln
Is AnS.uer to Wilson

"The above statement about President
Lincoln sufficiently answers the claim
of the Democratic organization that
President Wilson at this time occupies
a position corresponding to President
Lincoln, claim which is entitled pre-
cisely to the consideration we would
give to a statement that President Bu-
President George Washington did in
1889 and 1890 because each announced
that he was for the Union.
The same organization also pro-
fesses to see a similarity between my
plea in 1898 at the time of the Spanish
War for Republican Congress because
the Republican party was pro-war and
Mr.. Wilson'S plea at the present time
against Republican Congress in spite
of the fact that he is pro-war
when l spoke in 1898 the peace pro-
posal had been signed. but not the final
peace treaty. The Democratic party
through every Democratic state con-
vention had denounced President Nc
Ainley's war policy and two thirds of
them had declared in their platforms
tor free silver and for the nomina-
ton for President of Mr.. William ].
bryan, the anti-imperialist and pacifst
The New York State Democratic
convention denounced McKinley's Ad-
mlnlstratlon as a disgrace to the nation
30 did the Connecticut convention and
lhe New Jersey convention and every
otner Democratic convention with
which | was then familiar, and l was
familiar with the proceedings of most
OF them. The Democratic conventions
OF Nebraska, Arkansas, California, COL
orado, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan
and Tennessee had denounced President
Mchlnley's Administration for trying
10 raise a war loan of two hundred i
million dollars
W hen Mr. Ferris, the chairman of
the Democratic Congressional Com
mlttee. says that when William Nc
hh!ey was commander in the war with
SPAN the people never failed him
ne IS quite right, but he omits to
mention the fact that this was because
the people repudiated the Democratic
party and that the best and most loya]
patriotic Democrats were foremost in
this reputation.
Such were the conditions when
asked for the election of a Republican
Congress- because the Republican party
was pro-war, because it stood for the
Liberty Loans of that day, and because
1t stood for the peace of overwhelming
victory, and because, after having en-
( forced unconditional surrender in Cuba.
Porto Rico and the Philippines, it in
sisted upon the peace of overwhelming
/ victory, no parleying having been
! held and no notes exchanged and no
compensation INDUCED in, and no COL
onel House sent abroad until Manila
and Santiago fell and the victory was
an accomplished fact.
The Democrats at that time.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Republicans Are
Good Enough TO Die

"And | ask you to consider one thing
more, you Republicans and independ-
ents, and you Democrats who decline
to put cringing subservlence to any
man ahead of the Republic. Indeed,
appeal most of all to the high minded
are over in the army side by side
with the boys of their Republican
neghbors, and who do not wish to
see these loyal neighbors treated as
enemies of the Republic. President
Wilson says that Republicans are not
good enough to serve the Republic in
Congress at this time. But they are
good enough to die for the Republic
in the army and navy! They are good
enough to pay the taxes and subscribe
to the loan! We have sent our sons
and our brothers to spill their blood
like water overseas under the flag; we
have given our strength and our money
without stint to serve the country at
home, to float the loans, to back up
the war activities of every kind, and
now we are told that the blood Of our
sons. and the money saved at the en-
pense of our wives and little children,
do not entitle us to any word in saying
how the war is to be waged! Or what
made, or what shall be our policies
after the war.
"Mr. Wilson says that this is no
time for divided counsels. Yet the
Constitution of the United States says
that he must counsel with the Con
gress of the United States. 1t is mere
insolence for the servant of the peo-
pie to say that he will not counsel
with those other servants OF the pco-
pie whom the people have elected for
the express purpose Of giving him
counsel. The world would be better
off now by hundreds of thousands of
fearless lives and by many billions
Of dollars of treasure if MIR. Wilson
had been willing to supplement his
own selfsufficient ignorance by the
counsel of those who would gladly
have counseled him wisely, but who
would not creep into his presence as
slaves.
$50 far as l know, no Democratic
Congressman has resigned his seat to
GO to the war But six Republican
Congressman have resigned to go into
the army, and already one of these has
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Roosevelt Says Wilson Puts
Politics Before War Victory
Continued from Page |

al ask all patriotic Americans to
consider just what is meant when TIE
President says that in the present
Congress the leaders of the minority
alth ough unquestionabay pro-war have
been anti ti-Adminstration.' These lead
ers supported the Administration when
Il declaration of war was needed. They
supported it when there was demand
for the draft They supported it when
we sent the army overseas They sup
ported every demand for money
whether by taxation or by loans. They
supported it or gave it initiative and
guidance on every issue where it stood
for vigorous prosecution of the war;
and they supported it on these issues
when half the leaders of President
Wilson's own party opposed him when
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Democrats Try to
CosU individuals

"The effort is constantly made to
confuse the mind of the average citi-
zen and to COW him into supporting
the Democratic party by accusations of
lack of patriotism if he does not do so.
This is an intolerable outrage. We
admit that party is an instrument
shat can be abused. but we hold not
only that the Republican party has
shown itself stanchly patriotic, but
that actually, in Congress and out of
Congress- it has rendered greater
percentage of war service to the nation
during and before this war than has
the Democratic party.
eve hold that the Republican party
is the only party that as party has
dared to attack the war failures and
has stood for the duty of criticism of
what is wrong, and therefore for the
imperative duty of telling the truth.
The Dem ocrats have announced that
it is disloyal to tell the truth. We hold,
on the contrary, that the highest proof
OF loyalty is truth telling when only
by telling the truth can we expose and
remedy shameful failure efficiently to
carry on the war. We hold that the
record of the Republican party for
patriotism in the last eighteen months
has never before been eoualled or an
preached by any party in opposition
U''i li'S d great wal ana that It's record
shines by comparison with the record
/ of its party opponents. We have the
right to assert our patriotism and to
stand by 1T and to say-and challenge
the support of the people when we do
! say-that we viii stand by the Presi-
dent and by every other executive off,
cial so long as he is right; that we
will stand against him when he is
wrong, and that we show our LOYALTY
TO the people in both attitudes. We
act in letter and spirit according to
the words of Abraham Lincoln when
ne said. Stand with anybody that
stands right. stand with him while he
is right, and part with him when he
goes wrong. In both cases you are
right; in both you are national and
nothing less than national. To act
otherwise for any reason is to be less
than a man, less than an American,
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
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New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Wilson'S IN Points
Should Be Repudioted

"When it comes to the peace nego-
tiations we should emphatically repud-
act the famous fourteen noints an
nounced by the President last January.
One Of them he has himself repudi-
ated but the remainder are either so
mischievous that they ought to be re
pudiated without further definition or
else we should insist upon having them
defined in order to know just exactly
what they mean.
again, VIC ought to know just what
the President means when he speaks
of breaking down economic barriers.
If he means that he proposes to allow
Germany to dump her manufactures
on us without restriction We ought to
be against 1T, and neither business man
nor workingman can afford to accept
it. We ought to insist on keeping in
our hands the complete right to handle
our tariff as the vital interests of our
own citizens and especially our own
workingmen demand
again, if the Presidents language
means anything, one Of these fourteen
points is a proposal to guarantee that
every nation shall reduce it's armament
to point suffi icent to preserve domes-
tic order. # this language is to be
taken according to rs necessary mean
ing, America would be obliged to scrap
its navy and reduce it's army to po-
lice force capable only of putting down
riot, and would have to trust to a
league of nations for protecting it
against outside aggression. Either
the PRESIDENTS language means this or
it means nothing.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
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New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Reconstruction
Period Is Vital

"Then, whom the end of the war is
come and we have obtained the peace
of complete victory, peace obtained
by machine guns and not by type
writer's, we shall have to turn to the
affairs of our own household and un-
dertake the work of reconstruction with
cool intelligence and resolution, with
firm determination to secure the high
est good for the average man and yet
with equally firm determination not to
be misled by the visionaries and fanat
les who, under the plea of helping the
average man, would bring our whole
civilization to ruin.
81 shall not try to speak at length to
you on behalf of the state ticket, be-
cause those whose special familiarity
is with state matters will specially ad-
dress you on the subject But | ask
for support Of Governor Whitman and
all his associates, not only because Of
their records in Office but also because
this state cannot with wisdom see
Tammany Hall extend its grip from
New York to Albany.
York, now about to vote for the first
time. to think we'll what the enthrone
ment of Tammany in power at Albany
may mean. AS you know, | have been
very ardent champion of woman srf-
frage for the state and the nation. |
am sure that having granted it in New
York means that it will speedily have
to be granted in the nation as a whole.
"Now for the national side of the
question. ! ask support for the Repub-
licans because it is time to put an end
to that one party rule which has so
rapidly developed intolerable invasion
of the rights of free speech and of q
free press; and because it is time fear
lessly to assert the right of the Repub-
lican party to a life of useful perform
ance of public duty in the United
States. The Democratic party, under
the lead of the Administration, and
taking adrot advantage of the great
patriotic outburst in support of the
war, has, under the pretence of the
elimination of partyism, come danger
ously near to creating a condition of
-partyism. 1t has not striven to
eliminate partisanship; it has merely
striven to destroy the Republican party
in the interest of the Democratic party.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Removable Reply to the Presidents

safeguardad in their rights; CONSTANT
noplc made free city, and all other
iniustices remedied in SO far as 1T is
humanity possible to do so. The Ger.
man stranglehold must be removed
from Russia, and we should ourselves
help Russia SO far as she will permit
us to do SO, and we cannot efficiently
do so unless our government acts with
insight and resolution than it has
shown in its handling Of the Siberian
matters for the last six months.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
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New-York tribune., 1918-10-29

failure for more than two years to
make adequate preparation immeasur-
ably increases the price in blood and
money we must now pay for victory
This is the sound doctrine to which
all good Americans should subscribe.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
Late Market Quotations

| 81 900; market slow, steady. Mixed
and butchers. s16.35@17.45; good
heavy, s16.50@17.o0; rough heavy,
s15.6O@17.OO; light, $16.S0@17.50;
pigs, s12.50@16.50.
Cattle receipts 21.ooo; market
steady. Beeves. s9.7O@14.65; cows
and heifers, $6.3O@12.0c; stockers
and feeders. sS.40@11.6o: calves.
S1O.5O@16.00.
Sheep receipts $4,000; market
steady, strong. Native, $12.5O@16.25;
western, $13.O0017.0O; lambs. s15.25
@19.25; western, s15.50@19.50; ewes.
ST. Louis Live Stock.
EAST ST. LOUIS, April Cattle
receipts 5000; market strong, active.
Texas receipts 127. Native beef steers,
I$SO0@13.5O; yearling steers and heif-
ers, S7.OO@13.50; cows. $6.00@11.50;
stockers and feeders, s7.5o@ia.25;
calves, $7.75@15.50: cows and heifers,
Sc .OO@10.0A
Hog receipts 1880; market steady
1Oc higher. Mixed and butchers. $17.05
@17.45; good to heavy, $16.S5@17.20;
rough, s15.25@15.5O; light. $17.35@
1850; pigs, s14.25@17.25; bulk, $500
@17.45.
Sheep receipts 500: market steady.
Ewes, S12.OO@15.O0; lambs. $4,000
1900; Gamers and choppers, $6.50@
$50; wethers, s130O@14.00.
Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA, April 1.-Cattle receipts
8,700; market steady Steers, $1,000
@14.00; COWS and heifers. $1,000
t 11.O0: stockers and feeders, $4,000
1913; calves, s9.O0@13.25; bulls and
stays, $7.75@1025.
Hog receipts 10000: market active,
(10@15c higher. Bulk, s16.50@16.75;
top. $17.0o.
Sheep receipts 1000: market
strong. Yearlings. $15.00@16.50;
wethers, s13.25@14.75: lambs. $3.50
@19.2O; ewes, $12.00@14.50.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY, April Cattle
receipts 10000; market steady,
strong. Steers, sS.0O@1425; cows
and heifers. $7.50@12.75; stockers
and feeders. ssOO@12.6o; calves,
S750@13.5o.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01
Andrew N. Matheney, Well Known in
Business and Lodge Circles,
Died at Family
Residence.
ILL BUT A SHORT TIME
Had Lived in keokuk and Vicinity
Since 1852 and Will Be Re-
membered by Many
Pioneers.

| Andrew N. Matheney died at the
family residence, 80 South Twelfth
;street, yesterday afternoon at 3:45
Io'clock after an illness of three weeks.
Death was due to complication of dis
eases.
Andrew N. Matheney was born in
Ohio on September 1, 1886. He came
to Iowa in 1852 at the age of sixteen
and located on a farm near Summit
vile with his father where he lived
for several years before moving to
Keokuk. On moving here he was an
apprentice in a shoe shop for some
! tome and being of mechanical mind,
| he soon learned his trade in a prac-
| tical way. During the civil war he
ran large shop employing several
men and fitted out many soldier with
shoes. He conducted a boot and shoe
store for thirty years but had prac-
tically retired from active work sew
eral years ago, yet he still maintained
his little shop where his friends would
drop in and visit him.
Mr.. Matheney was a member of the
old volunteer fire department belong
ing to the Rolla company that was sta
toned at Tenth and Main where the
present Tenth street station now
StduuS. x1c " ctS q luS1QUtI VI heOheh
lodge No. 13, l. o. o. F., for forty
seven years and was prominent in
lodge circles. He belonged to the
Trinity Methodist church and also to
the Sunday school,
| Mr.. Matheney was one of the well
known men about the city and his
passing will be deeply regretted by his
scores Of friends. He was a man who
always worked for the best interests
in every activity whether it was in his
business, home Or public life It was
said by one Of his friends today that
his life was an excellent pattern for
any young man to follow. 1t seems fit
ting that such man should pass away
| on a beautiful Easter Sunday.
| He was married to Miss Abigail j.
| Cove on January /. 1855 and to them
were born six children, John T., of
Sioux City; Charles Benjamin, who
died in infancy; Mrs. c. W. Hartley;
S. Elizabeth and Lucretia, all of Keo-
kuk, and Minnie Minerva. who died on
January "a, 1913. He also leaves one
sister, Mrs. Randolph Scheivers of this
city. He also leaves ten grandchil-
dren and four great grandchildren.
| The funeral is to be held from the,
residence, 80 South Twelfth street,
tomorrow afternoon at 2:30. The serv-
ices will be in charge of Rev. Edwards
/ of Trinity Methodist church, assist
| ed by Rev. Anderson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-01

granted separate trials. The defend
ants were marched handcuffed in
pairs under heavy guard through the
streets from the Cook county jail.
Months growth of beard adorned sew
eral, notably Red" j. f. Doran of
Seattle, Washington. He wore over
alls and a red mackinaw. Flowing
black ties were common among the
defendants.
In the court room they staged re-
union, shaking hands and exchanging
greetings. The entry of big Bill
Haywood, Gioyanitti and other I. w.
W. leaders who were out on bond
brought renewed handshakings and
greetings.
The federal building corridors
swarmed with police, deputies and
plain clothes men. Every person not
connected directly with the case was
"frisked'' for weapons.
The defendants will so over the
same handcuffed route daily through
out the trial. which is expected to last
several months. Admission to the
court room was by card. Few of the
general public could find seats today,
the first venire OF 200 occupying prac-
tically all Of the chairs back of the
rail.
Doran, Charles Ashleigh, Of San
Francisco and Carl Ahlteen, Of Min
neapolis, characterized the six months
most of the defendants have spent in
jail here as 'the worst We have ever
known" Three men in each small
cell, artificial light day and night, poor
food only redeemed by contributions
from outside friends, and occasional
cell mates suffering from consump-
ton or social diseases, Were alleged
conditions which brought down con-
demnation from the men.
That the prosecution does not meet
entirely with President Wilson's ap-
proval was the claim by Haywood.
Colonel House called this proceed
ing "a very foolish one" said Hay
wood. Il regard the prosecution as
the work of certain individuals con-
nected with the administration and not
meeting with the entire administra-
tons approval"