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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09

ing like prairie fire from the Red
Flame field of North Dakota, COM
pletely submerged under an avalanche
of votes that should wipe the league
from the state.
There were men, pretty keen men,
too, who thought that there was a
considerable likelihood that the Non
partisan league might control Idaho's
political destiny for the next two
years. They viewed with apprehen-
sion the possibility Of the establish
ment of such Socialistic regime in
Idaho as is now leading North Da-
kota to certain industrial stagnation,
if not actual destruction
Those men were wrong. Fairchields
the strongest league candidate as evil
denced by the vote polled Throughout:
Idaho, carried only two counties. In
general, Republican candidates were
elected by an actual majority of all
votes cast, that is, they received more
votes than did the league and Demo
crat candidates combined. Bates and
Whitaker, supported by the league
and large percentage of Idaho Dem
ocrats, came far from being elected.
The league is dead. Farmers have
been willing to pay $l8 per year men,
bership in an organization which gave
such glowing promises as league lead
ers held out to them. Most of these
promises, it is needless to say, could
never have been carried through, be-
ing industrially and economically i'm
possible.
The league is dead. 1t was SO COM
pletely showed under last Tuesday
that there is no question that it can
never become a dominent factor in
Idaho politics. For the first time,
its true strength was tested and found
far wanting. The league has been
losing ground. Many farmers have
learned that it is being led and di-
rected by Socialists, near Socialists
and men who stand convicted as
enemies of this country. And most
farmers are loyal American citizens.
Perhaps higher percentage of farm
ers than any other large class of citi-
zens are loyal. And the league in
Idaho has completely absorbed the
Socialistic party.
The league is dead. Farmers may
pay $18 per annum to vote a winning
ticket and to elect state and county
officials who may direct the reigns
of government. But they will never
continue to submit to any such graft
to vote ticket that is hopeless and
poor third and that can never cast
a larger vote in Idaho than it did last
Tuesday.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09
Editor The Tribune:

AS a reader of your paper, l saw
an article in recent issue that made
me furious, headed, SERIOUS Wreck
on Parma Road; Road Hog Gets in
Deadly Work." etc.
Now, l will tell you just who the
hog was. started east out of Parma
about 7 p. m. Wednesday evening,
got to the hill about half-mile east and
caught up to a. Ford with an Oregon
number that was going at about IS
miles per hour. 1 signalled to pass;
they specded up to about 80 miles, not
offering to let me pass. l drove close
to them short distance, then dropped
back to avoid the dust. They slowed
down to 10 miles per hour, and as
the road was narrow, they could cas-
lily hold me back of them We soon
came to wider road and tried to pass;
they again speeded up and often drove
to left side of road to prevent me
passing. l had my car lighted; they
did not, SO they could easily tell of
my desire to pass. We drove on at
about 80 miles per hour. We met a
car also without light. They drove
to left of road obstructing my view
nearly causing head-on with the
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09
Bryan Drives 1t Home

Probably no more accurate sum
mary of the conditions which led tc
the overwhelming Republican victory
in the recent campaign has been made
than that attributed to Mr.. Bryan
From the day of the Democratic con-
veation closed its work at San Fran
cisco until November 2, Mr.. Bryan
never entirely resigned himself to the
acceptance either of the Democratic
platform or Of Mr.. Cox. Mr.. Bryan
had . few rows of his own to hoe
aad he didn't get very far at Frisco
with his ideas. Perhaps his attitude
may be we'll expressed in the time
honored adage relating to "sour
grapes" and all it implies.
But the fact remains that Mr.. BRYAN
had perhaps better put into works
that attitude of the general American
people than has any other person
when he said: ...
The American people want the
government to play its part in the
abolition of war. but they are indif-
terent as to whether we are part of
league or part of an association of ma
tons. There is nothing in a name,
but everything in a sentiment. The
real issue presented by the Democratic
party was not whether we should CO.
operate with other nations interested
IN peace. but whether we should as
sume moral obligation which had
no weight except as it suspended the
right Of congress to act independently
when the time arrived for action. The
nation will do its part in aiding to
prevent war. but it will not surrender
into the keeping of any foreign group
OF right to determine when we shall
declare war.
Governor Cox, instead of repairing
the injury done by the president, ag-
gravated the situation by the manner
IN which he avoided domestic issues
and misrepresented the position of the
Republican party on the league issue,
which he decla.sd to be paramount"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09
WHERE WILSON
PAVED THE WAY
FOR DISASTER
The Observer Traces
Events Which Led to
Reputation of Presi-
dent at Election.

For one desire to thank the editor
for his editorial in the issue of the
5th inst. on Honor to Whom Honor
Is Due" When Woodrow Wilson
entered the presidency he was the
first southern-born man to hold that
office for "a years. Zachery Taylor
of Louisiana became president in
l849, but lived only few months and
then Millard fillmore, New Yorker,
took the office, and being northern
Wing, he gave northern administra-
ton; SO after the long political fast
of 68 years, since James K. Polk of
Tennessee, the southern Democrats
were hungry, as only few got to the
public crib during the Cleveland ad-
ministration, because the great bulk
of the people lived in the north; and
when Wilson called to his cabinet
twofrom far-off Texas and the North
Carolinian, and later his man Fri
day." and other southern Advisors,
Twas not surprised; and no man born
and bred an abolitionist Republican,
hot from those sentiments from birth,
my father being conscience Wing,
gave Woodrow Wilson more loyal
support as president, and in the early
part of 1914 was one of three Idaho
men of my profession to send a mes
sage to the presidents secretary ex-
pressing our confidence in him.. al
though of another party.
When congress almost unanimous
ly at the presidents request declared
war in 1917 I confidently looked to /
see him call prominent Republicans
to his cabinet as Lincoln did in Wells
and Stanton, and to treat Republi-
can generals as we'll as Democratic |!
Polk did in sending Taylor and Scott,
two Wing generals, to Mexico. Per-
shing was alright, but much more WASH
not right; and then for Wilson him.
self to go to France for the peace
treaty and almost ignore the greatest
party in the make up of
that delegation, was, think, a stu
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09
Looking Ahead.

There 10 always 4 sigh of RELIEF
when election day is over. The cam.
paigning. the arguments, the excite.
ment, the suspense of it all keep tho
nerves keyed up to such high pitch
that the reaction of the closed ballot
tox Is most acceptable, agreeable and
wholesome.
Now it IL all over, in this state at
tenfion may again be directed to other
subjects. In Idaho one of the biz,
problems is development. Without
il we cannot prosper. More reclama-
ton, more production, more trans
portation, more mining. more flocks-
these are imperatively demanded. The
development of the highest possible
type of citizenship is also required,
for without it the material gain be-
comes largely dross.
Idaho is not legitimately subject
to criticism because of her citizen
ship. Nowhere is the standard fun
danentally held higher or with firm
er hands than here, but we canno,
with safety become too we'll satisfied
with ourselves. The thing to do is
&c strive for better conditions.
Americanization goes to the tap root
of good citizenship. The terms are
synonymous. the ramifications identi-
cal. As we cling closer to the con-
stitutiSn of our country and as we
hold its flag and its institutions in
respectful contemplation, so we are
broadened in citizenship we be-
come better citizens.
We cannot afford to become neeli-
gent of our duties as citizens or cal
lous to our civic responsibilities. That
spells false security and invites dan
ser and upheaval.
To allow the gun to become rusty
and unusable would be a criminal act
u the pioneer days. Today we are
still pioneering against other enemies
than those our forebearers defeated
but fully as .menacing to progress and
stability. AS we are steadfast in the
faith so we shalt be victorious over
al instrumentalities whose operations
are violently opposed to safe and
sound government.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09
The End of the League.

After six years of preparation the
Nonpartisan league in Idaho stands
revealed as an impotent, weak politi-
cal instrument. Sacrificing SamueIs
to insure the election of Nugent to
the United States senate, league lead
ers have seen even that pivotal dyke
give way and the waters of an over
whelming opposition to the Socialistic
regime proposed by the offspring of
Townley's scheming mind and spread
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09

math has been even worse, showing
that the president was helplessly mar
row, or eaten up with personal am
bition. And thus he has missed be-
ing written into our history as one
of the very greatest men. He had
and has many traits l admire, and l
can truly say l am sorry for him;
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09

for l believe I am big enough to
recognize a great American if he is
not of my political party. With anx-
iety and dread 1 look forward to the
political development of the next fou-
months; Woodrow Wilson has an OPP
portunity to make an enviable repu-
tation as a loser, and l hope he will
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09

not add another to the call of those
respairing politicians of the expiring
federalist class. If he does, just one
word can be written over him and
posterity will show what Ichabod
means. Observer.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-09

Wanted hay; also wheat; phone 547
for price. Denney & Co. 1886
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
FOR MONTH
TO NURSE HIS FAMILY
Prisoner Serving Three Years
Must Return to Jail.

Wilkes Barre, Pa. Feb. 2O.-Neah
Raskin, serving a sentence of three
years in the Luzerne county Jail for
sugar frauds, left for his home at Har-
vey's Lake 20 spend one month III
nursing his wife and child back to
health.
AT the expiration of the month he
is TO report back to Jail and serve the
balance of his sentence.
RaSkin has served sixteen months.
News from his home came to the effect
that wife and baby were i'll with i'll
fluenza. The Harvey's Lake section
is snow-bound, and there is little
chance of getting relief to the stricken
family.
The case was brought to the atten-
lion of Judge ]. B. Woodward. He
asked Raskin if he did not want to
go home and act as nurse. The pris-
Oner was anxious to, and the court
permitted him to go on parole.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
GET READY
FOR FLU"
Keep Your Liver Active, You
System Purified and Free From
Colds by Taking Calotabs,
the Nausealess Calomel
Tablets, that are De-
lightful, Safe and
Sure.

Physicians and Druggists are adj,
ing their friends to keep their system
purified and their organs in perfec
working order as protection agains
the return of influenza. They know
that a clogged up system and laz!
liver favor colds, Influenza and serious
complications.
To cut short cold overnight and tt
prevent serious complications take one
Calotab at bedtime with a swallow of
water-that's all. No salts, no nausea,
no gripping, no sickening after effects.
Next morning your cold has vanished,
your liver is active, your system is puri-
fed and refreshed and you are feeling
fine with a hearty appetite for break
fast. Eat what you please-no danger.
Calotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-fve cents.
Every druggist is authorized to refund
your money if you are not perfectIE
7eliThted with Calotabs.-(Adv.)
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
old or more worthless.

old or more worthless.
AS a matter of fact, he added, the
seven ships referred to were easily
worth $1O,OOO,OOO.
The bids were: Amchion, SOP, 900;
Susquehanna, 100000; Nansemond,
100000; Oeolus, $1,4SO,OOO; Princess
Matoilla, $1,125,000; Antigone, $1,200,-
600, and Pocahontas, $1,425O00.
The value of the thirty German
ships offered for sale was two to
three times the amount of the bids
received, Mr.. Stevens said. Their real
value, he placed at between $GS,000,O00
and $79,OO0,000.
Although he asked the ships be ap-
praised by experts outside the ship
ping board, and that he be allowed 70
sit with them, Mr.. Stevens said he
was not notified when the experts met,
and knew nothing of the appraisal
until it appeared in the committees
record. The appraisal was made by
Frank S. Martin and j. Rowland Gard
ner, New York, both recognized ma
rine experts, he said, but it did not
represent the real value" of the YES
SelS
The fundamental question involved
in the sale of the ships, Mr.. Stevens
said, was whether they could be oper-
ated as cheaply under the American
flag as foreign ships.
John D. York, Chicago, 4 marine en-
gineer, who did the designing at Hog
Island, said the International Mercan-
tile Marine had offered only $50 ton
for the former German ships, but pa,d
$3.50 a ION for British tramp steam
ships, although the German vessels
were "inestimab}y superior" to the
tramp vessels.
He added payment of S300,o00 a
year to the company for operation of
the American-built steamships s..
Louis and St. Paul as mail carriers
was virtually gift and gratuity," be-
cause the bulk of the mail for rssse.
years had been carried on British and
German ships. Most of the cOmpany's
vessels, he added, were differed and
manned by British sailors, incorpor-
aed in the British naval reserve when
.he war broke out.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
SALVATION ARMY
INN At DIX BURNS
Two Girls and Night Waterman
Missing hiioT Blaze.
BUILDING IS DESTROYED
Ninety Guests Flee and TWO Women
Injured, One Jumping From Third
Floor Window.

Wrightstown, n. J., Feb. 20.-The
Salvation Army Hotel here, near Camp
Dix, was burned TO the ground.
Three persons, the night Wa,chman
and two girl employees, were reported
missing after the fire and it is fear
ed they were burned to death.
Two women were taken to the Camp
Dix Hospital, one suffering from burns
and one from injuries sustained when
she leaped from Il third story window.
The last named sustained broken
back and was operated, upon at once.
Her condition is regarded as serious.
The women are: Mrs. Agnes Bar
bash, Wrightsrown, fractured verte-
brae, and Mrs. Frank T. Nichols,
Camp Dix, burns of the body.
Both women are said to have been
guests at the hotel and no explanation
was available as to why they gave
their addresses rs, Camp Dix and
WrightstoWn.
There were ninety guests in the no.
tel, which. had accommodations for
$50. 1t was dedicated November 81,
1918, eleven days after the armistice
was signed. Secretary or War Baker
and General March, chief of staff, at
tended the dedicatory exercises.
The flames from the hotel set fire to
two adjoining houses and the fire COM
panies from Camp DIX and Mt. Holly
were summoned to help the fremen
keep the fire from spreading.
\ high wind blew the flames direct
Iy through the structure and in an in
credihlY short time it WAS like a FIR
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20

mace. Built entirely of wood. ii burn
ed like finder and in an hour was en-
tirely destroyed.
The building was four stories high,
about sixty feet wide and 100 feet
deep. 1t cost 100000 and was much
the largest and most imposing struc-
ture in the town. lis particular object
was to house relatives Of soldiers who
went to Camp Dix as visitors and
thousands of persons from all oyec the
country have been guests there. 1t
was the largeSe of all the similar
buildings that were erected at various
camps and environments by the Saliva
ton Army
The fire was the fifth bad one in
WrightstoWn in little over a year. On
December II, 1918. an entire block in
the business section was destroyed,
with loss of 100000.
On July 9, 1919, eleven business
buildings were destroyed, the loss be-
ing estimated at the same figure.
just nine days later, on July Is,
of the town was destroyed and the
fourth fire occurred on October 2G,
when it was feared for 4 time the
whole town woUld go.
Considering the size of the town
and seriousness of each of these fires,
the record is probably unique. Wrights-
town was q sleepy village Of about
1000 population when the war de-
partment picked The site of Camp Dix
in the summer Of 1917. As Wrghts-
town was the nearest town, it immedi-
ately began to boom and at he time
Of the armistice numbered several
times its original population. Bust
ness due to the proximity Of the camp
has kept il from ever dropping back
10 its original quiet state.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
DEATH IN BAY RUM SPREE
Leather Worker Found Dead After
Inbibinu For DAYS.

Wilmington, Del, Feb. 2G-Peter
Grant, forty-siX years Old, was found
aSphyXiated in his home here.
His wife said she found him with
the window tightly closed and Il rug
placed in front of one or the doors.
She said he had been drinking heavily
for several days.
He had not been sober since last
Saturday." said Mrs. Grant. He be-
gan drinking bay rum at that time,
and drank three quarts. When I left
him he was rather wild. He got up
and drank a quart of milk and ate Il
dish of cucumber pickles, and think
he went to the gas stove 10 make him
self Il cup of coffee, because l found
the pot on the stove when | came
pa ck.'
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
NO ACUTE TENSION
Wilson Note Not Curt" and Allies
Reply is Concilatory.

London, Feb. 20.-Ihc emphatic de-
NAL of Andrew BOnar Law, the gov
eminent spokesman, in the house of
commons that the draft of the reply
to President Wilson's note concerning
the Adriatic controversy had been
modified as Il result of representa-
ton from Viscount Grey, Lord Robert
Cecil and Austen Chamberlain, is the
chief important new development in
the situation.
The denial is considered to Illustrate
the conflict between official and I'M
official utterances and to show the
anxiety of the British press for full
publicity in he face # what is deem
ed 1 great s,ra.n he ween Great Brit
al and the Cn.Jed Safes.
There seems To he a deTect in the
supreme councils machinery, in the
op Mon of Observers, who assert if the
council sitting in Paris mad organ
lied mach merry to convey its decis-
ions to Washington, nothing of the
'<ind has been employed in London.
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BIG OFFER FOR
WORTHLESSSHIPS
Commissioner Stevens Attacks
Appraisal i German Liners.
SALE ENJOINED BY COURT
Puts Value OF Thirty Vessels at &c.,
100000, Several Times the Amount
of the Bios Received.

Washington, Feb. 20.-BidS amount
ing to SG,S10C00 were received by the
shipping board for seven former Ger
man passenger ships more than twen-
ty years old that the board has listed
"as valuleSS.'
Commissioner Raymond B. Stevens,
former vice chairman of the board, so
testified before the senate committee
investigating the proposed sale of the
liners.
Meanwhile 4 temporary injunction
against the sale of the ships by the
shipping board was granted in the
district supreme court by Associate
Justice Bailey on application of Will
liam r. Hearst, New York.
Intent of congress to place in the
president or the shipping board power
to sell the liners was not apparent in
the statues, Justice Bailey ruled.
The value of The thirty vessels in dis
pute was placed by Mr.. Stevens, in his
testimony, at SUS,000000 to S79000,-
000 The highest lump bid for them
was $2S,O00OOO by The International
Mercantile Marine.
Judge John Barton Payne, chairman
of the board, who recommended the
sale, announced he would recommend
the department to file Immediately an
appeal from the temporary injunction
order. Meantime, he said, it was ex-
pected Mr.. Hearst would be required
to furnish bond TO protect the board
against loss by reason of the ships
lying idle. The cost of protecting
them in harbor is $4,000 a day.
The board has decided 70 reject all
bids and ask authority FOR new
scale.
Mr.. Stevens explained IN his testi-
mony the boards policy was to charge
off per cent year for depreciation
and it had held ShipS twenty years
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
Ru;It bv Private Yards,

Washington, Feb. 20.-Wooden YES
cells constructed for the French gov
eminent in this country were built by
private firms and in violation of the
shipping boards advice it was stated
at the shipping board.
The board, it was stated, had moth
ing to do with construction of these
vessels and sold no ships Of any kind
q France.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
Itching, Scratching, Skin Diseases
Thar Burn Like Flames q Fire

cases of Eczema and other skin
eruptionS. This wonderful remedy
IS one of the oldest and most re-
liable medicines on the market. 1t
has been sold by druggists for fifty
years. Get a bottle today and be-
gin treatment that will get results
You are invited to write to-day
FOR complete and full advice as to
the treatment & your own case.
Address, Clilf deal Adviser,
Swift Specie "a Dept. s., At
!anta, Ca.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20

This Is the moment of moments for
us to find our unity, our spiritual
solidarity, without sacrificing our
diversity and that which is most dis
tinctive to each of our communions
and which, by the way, is the choicest
possession we have
The reason why we of each denOmi-
nation most value that which is dis
tinctive to US is not simply because it
Is ours, but because we honestly be-
lieve 1t Is the truth. 1t is our choicest
possession. Without sacrificing our
distinctiyeness we want to realize our
unity and solidarity as we gather
round the figure of our Lord with open
minds, responsive hearts and, 1 would
say, hair-trigger whisky that l mean
wills that are eager to leap into action
when we see clear nath-
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20
TO ARREST FOOD HOARDERS
Attorney General Palmer Starts Cam
paiun to Force Stores or Market.

Chicago, Feb. 20.-Immediate throw
ing on the market of enormous guam
titles of foodstuffs, and a consequent
material reduction in the cost of liv-
ing, is expected to result from an or
der for wholesale prosecution of food
hoarders in all large cities, received
here by federal officials from Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer.
The order was issued as Il means
of forcing profteers to unload their
stored food supplies, it was declared.
Two years Imprisonment is the pen
atty under the Lever act for convic-
s!on of boarding.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-02-20

West Virginia VIII Vote on Suffrage.
Charleston, w. Va, Feb. 2O.-Gov-
ernor John ]. Cognwpll called Il spe-
cial session of The legislature for Eeb-
ruary -. Among the subjects II be
considered is the woman's suffrage
amendment to the federal consritu-
ton