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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-11-25

Rockham, S. D.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-07
CLEAN UP PARTY
Senator BOrah Pushes His
Charges of Extravaganza.
Demands Senate Order Probe of
Candidates Expenditures.
SAYS SOUTH is IN BAD MESS
Declares 'Carpetbag Politicians
From North to Blame.
VIII Garry His Charges Onto
Floor of Convention.
BY L. c. MARTIN.


Washington. May Announcing a
| determination to clean up the Repub-
| lican party" Senator Borah has set
out to compel the serious attention of
leaders to his charges of undue and
improper pre-convention campaign
| expenditures and activities.
If Borahs plans work out the way
he hopes the Republican nomination
for president may hinge upon the
question of expenditures of money and
promises, it seemed evident today.
Wants Senate Probe.
Borah will first concentrate his en-
ergy on getting his resolution for a
senatorial investigation adopted. The
senate elections committee is expected
to take 1t up this week. Borah hopes
that Senator Kenyon, Iowa, will be
named chairman of a sub committee
to investigate.
The next move probably will be to
gather information concerning a large
number of contests in southern states
These contests, which are being made
in practically every southern state, are
being paid for from some mysterious
source, according to Borah's alleged
he asserts. that the contests in many
cases have been engineered" by
northern politicians for purposes of
their own.
South in Bad Mess.
The situation in the south is 'intol-
cradle" Borah said today. He de-
clared he had received pleas from Re
publicans in that section to help them
rid the party there of the influence of
"carpet-bag politicians from the
north" This, Borah says, he intends
to try to do with a view to making the
Republican party in the south an eff
fective minority organization, standing
on its own feet and not swayed by the
money or influence of northerners.
Borah intends he said, to have this
phase OF the investigation conducted
in Chicago while the Republican ma
tional committee is hearing the con-
tests there in order to bring directly to
the attention of the party leaders the
charges concerning the contests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-07
PARTY FOR j. W. MOWERS.
Employees Celebrate Car Accountants
Forty-First Year With Santa Fe.

surprise entertainment was given
John W. Mowers, head of the car ac-
counting department of the Santa Fe,
by 200 members of his department at
the Elks' club Thursday night. The
celebration was in honor of Nowers's
forty-first year of service with the
railroad.
After a supper at the club in honor
Of his sons thirty-third birthday, a
messenger called Mowers into the ball
room, where he was greeted by his
entire department. A band had been
obtained to furnish music for the &C.
casion.
Movers entered the services of the
Santa Fe May z, 1879, and has served
in the accounting. auditing. engineer
ing and operating departments. He
was an intimate friend of the late A.
A. Robinson. former general manager
and vice president of the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-07
Try State Journal Wants.
UNCLE SAM GIVES
FREE SCHOLARSHIPS
United States Marine Corps School Has
Earn While You Learn" Courses

Hereafter young men enlisting in
the Marine Corps will not only
learn to be soldiers, but, il they
wish. they may go regularly to
school. After one. two, three or
more years the Marine may be
graduated as an expert automobile
mechanic, chauffeur, plumber. or
what not. Not only that, hut the
United States Government puts at
his disposal its tremendous inffu-
ence with employers in satisfactor-
lily placing the U. s. Marine Corps
Institute graduate in a weu-paying
Job
The young man who is facing the
hard problem OF making a living
while working his way through
nigh school, college or trade school
should welcome the opportunity
afforded by the Marine Corps Insti-
tute. BY this plan he is not only
enabled to gain the education he
desires. hut at the same time
Lead a healthful, bodybuilding
outdoor life. receive free board,
clothing. lodging and medical at
tendance-thus leaving his pay for
pocket money" or for a snug saw
tngs account.
To the average "red-blooded"
young American, the Marine Corps,
with its adventurous, carefree life,
and its opportunity for travel by
land and sea, at home and abroad.
has always proved particularly al
Turing. When to these are added a
chance OF good education
Well. 1t makes a long apprentice
ship at a trade, or weary hours at a
night school. look rather unat-
tractive by comparison.
The Marine Institute
The U. S. Marine Institute, which
bids fair to become as famous as the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, or
the Military Academy at west
Point is already well under way
at the Marine post at Quantico,
Virginia.
Hundreds OF young men are en-.
rolled in courses that range from
reading. writing and simple arith-
metic to such subjects as higher
mathematics and journalism.
If a man comes into the Marine
Corps hardly able to sign his name,
he can gain a grammar school edu-
cation and continue to learn to the
limit Of his ability and the length
OF his enlistment. Among the
courses open to the Marine are ele-
nnentary and advanced English,
mathematics in practically all its
branches, French. Spanish. stenog-
raphy and clerical work, automo-
bile mechanics, horsemanship and
care OF horses in sickness and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-07

health, forestry, concrete and brick
masonry, carpentry, electrical me-
chanics. plumbing, blacksmithing,
house painting. band music, draft
ing, journalism, cooking and bak-
ing, ETC., etc.
The instructors are not only
competent teachers, but eminently
practical men, and are selected for
their proficiency regardless of their
rank in the Marine Corps. For ex-
ample, the teacher of Spanish is a
corporal. who is a law graduate of
a foreign university, and a former
public school teacher. Many of the
trade schools are in charge of in
structors who are graduates of
Annapolis. Massachusetts Tech,
Stevens Institute, Colorado School
OF Mines, and other leading institu-
ttons. Others have received their
training in such great industrial
corporations as the General Elec-
trio Company, the Standard Oil
Company, the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, and SO on.
All students enrolled in the
Marine Institute courses receive
their instruction on an average of
three hours for i've afternoons each
week, all purely military training
being confined to the morning
hours. The evenings may be
devoted to study. reading, or the
various camp recreations, such as
the free movie shows or the pool
tables.
We hear a great deal about "coI-
1eSe life" but it is extremely
doubtful If any of our institutions
OF learning afford more opportu-
nifty for pleasant companionship
with real good fellows than does
the Marine Corps. For this branch
OF service attracts the sort of a
man who has the markings of a
good fellow" Few colleges can
offer any better facilities for base
ball, football, boxing, swimming
and other athletic sports-all under
the direction of competent trainers
and coaches. And no school, unless
it is a military institution of the
first rank, can approach the Marine
Corps in giving a man that self
reliance. alertness and qualities OF
leadership which military training
affords.
II you are even slightly inter-
Marine Recruiting once. You will
not be urged to enlist. but you will
he told the truth. and nothing but
the truth, about the service. Send
for booklet.
U. S. Marine Corps Recruiting Office
4f2 Kansas Ave.
Topeka, Kan. Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-07

Sterilization of wearing ap-
parel prices in America must be-
gin at some place between raw
material and the last point of dis
tribution. Until this time, every
element of the Clothing industry
has been satisfied to drift with the
current of advancing prices, and
while here and there sporadic eff
fort has been made to call atten-
ton to the necessity of finding a
common level of prices, the fact
remains that the Retail Clothing
Dealer has been forced to pay
prices far higher than conditions
seem to warrant.
Months ago, this firm was con-
WINGED that the public could not
absorb further advance in prices,
and so far as we are concerned, we
are determined to take a step that
to some may seem revolutionary
in character.
Every Wooden, three-piece Suit
in this store will be sold at prices
comparatively shown in an op-
posite column. We have esti-
mated as. nearly as could be the
actual cost of every Suit, and they
will be offered at those prices to
the public. A complete record of
every sale is made, carrying the
name and address of every buyer.
At the end Of the sale period, the
sales will be audited, and if it be
found that the aggregate sales
are in total greater than the ag-
gregate cost, we shall rebate to
every customer his pro rata share
of such excess.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-07

We are convinced that the pub
lie will appreciate any effort to
stabilize prices; that if the Retail
Clothier makes definite stand
against further advance, manu-
facturers will readily reflect it to
the two elements controllingprices
in production, labor and textiles,
with the result of hating of
further pushing up of prices on
any pretext whatsoever.
No business house in America
can exist without a reasonable
profit on goods sold. We know
that. But here is a store that for
twenty-four days is willing to
forego profit in order to establish
aprinciple.
We own every dollars worth of
goods in this store. No manufac-
turer is interested in financial
way in this business, neither are
we financially connected with any
Clothing maker. The Clothing
we own is personal property, and
we are choosing to let the public
have it without profit. That there
may be some element of safe
guard for those who doubt, we
offer this further evidence of the
sincerity of motives that prompt
this startling announcement:
That we will submit to the Fair Price
Commissioner of Kansas, Mr.. Edward
T. Hackney, or any group or committee
named by him, complete record of
every transaction, together with the in
voices covering every garment sold, in
order that it may be definitely estab-
lished that we actually did as we pub
licly declared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-07
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New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Evening Sun

The resignation of the Secretary of
State, Robert Lansing, and the sit
uAtion, past, present and future, which
it reveals fill the public this morning
with a sensation of amazed dismay
The correspondence between the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Lansing is pregnant with
material for thought, and none OF it
pleasant. There is hardly line that
Goes not create disquet, if not appre-
hension, concerning the existing proc
esses of government at Washington.
First Of all, we believe, comey the
astonishing disclosure of the Presi-
dents total lack of knowledge of the
manner in which the executive func-
tions centering in him under the Con-
stitution have been carried on
All this is strange, passing strange.
The President never relinquished the
powers and faculties Of his office be-
cause of his malady. Yet it
would appear the members of his FAM
lily, domestic, official and medical, must
have kept him in complete darkness
as to the things that were being
planned or executed in his name.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
The World

But the sensational element
in regard TO the Lar sing resignation
lies in the Presidents accusations of
uSurpa' n during ms illness. That is
graz charge fer a Pres dent of the
lntec States to make against his Sec
retary S-ste. and i cannot be left TO
the rea-m Of speculation and conjecture.
It IS = charge that the President is
under Moral obligations to prove by
etation OF cases. The otfense that is
alleged one that is impeachable, and
the Prasldent has no right to let it rest
on hi own general assertion.
II is conceivable that Mr.. Wilson is
anger. " the mere fact that Cabinet
meerins We're held or that Mr.. Lansing
presided. These meetings have been
going On for months and the fact was
known - the President. He could have
stopped them by word. Usurpation,
to merlt the name, must consist in
something serious. and that the Presi-
dent fega:ds the Secretary's conduct as
most serious is shown by the tone and
substaucs Of his letter.
What happened at these Cabinet
meetrgs. Did the Secretary of State
undo dertase to reverse the Presidents
Mexican policy while the President was
100 III 30 know what was going on ?
Vas hi labor policy reversed by the
ia!ner iajunctions in the coal strike ?
Dd tie ;ecretary set aside any of the
freslde9,'s decisions in respect to for
eign aifairs, or interfere on his own
iA!tiatVe and possibility?
lhe American people have a right to
know what is back of this extraordi-
nary case, which is without precedent,
IN respect, at least, to the matter of
usurpation. Secretary Lansing could
not have usurped the powers of the
president without having done some-
thlng definite. The mere holding of
is that something definite" which is
veiied ard masked in the CORE spond-
ence between the President and his
Secretary of State.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Secretary Is Held to Have
Rendered a Public Ser
vice by Remaining at His
Post Under Conditions
Call Wilson Act s'Hasty''
Precedent Is Found for
Cabinet Meetings With
the President Absent

Folioufng Is comment from NeaU
York morning papers of to-day amd
eysnimg papers Of yesterday concern
;ro the enforced yesigna ton of Sec
rslasy Lansing:
The Times
Is i 2 fact that "no action could be
taken" by the Cabinet without the
President? Action was taken, decisions
xsre reached at the "infosmal confer
spces" Of the Cabinet members in the
shsence of Mr.. Wilson. Under former
administrations, Cabinets have delib-
rated and decided matters of neces-
u-v business without the attendance
of the resident. Until President Will
con raised the point, there has never
been any question of the legality or
rsts.itr&iors';sy o1 tHe e nroce'ures
ra Ii. ls uet consEltu tionai
9ody
Fus.hermor the President gays shat
sshere could have been no dlsaa .an.
,sgs N awaiting sctior with ~ogard tc
matters concerning ~hic7 actiow could
no, hage been taken without me" We
fesr tbs. statement was not duly con-
sldered hy It's writer. The "disadvsn-
taee" Trespmahly aecrulng from the
applies on cf this theory of the Cab
;ne:'s pc ssTlessness co act without the
rres,dcut would have been the result
iry 50 nation af the puhiic business.
II :ssae 20 a! sare N aor and lcetfrss
sfsx,s, sae govafnmors wcg as4e buan
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Brooklyn Citizen

The resignation of Secretary Lam
sing can hardly be said to be
surprising, although the form 1t takes
had not been anticipated. 1t
would have been altogether more be-
coming had the President taken occa-
sion, without any manifestation of dis
pleasure, to let the Secretary know that
he could now retire from the Cabinet
without any embarrassment to the gov
ernment.
There is something petty in the COM
plant that Mr.. Lansing conferred with
other heads Of departments, during the
presieent's II sickness, without authority
This is very small, and it is not an act
of friendship to the President to say
anything else. The best possible ex-
cusc for him is that he is sick man,
peevish to some extent, as sick people
are apt to be, and disposed to put a
large meaning upon matters which
would be too small for serious discus
sion were he in his usual state of
health
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Gus oua. unselhshness that suggests real
Brooklyn Daily Times

me public will be inclined to be-
lieve Mr. Lansing when he saws Il n.v.r
entered his mind that he wa. actine
unnco!nstitutionally or contrary to the
Presidents wishes. " '
Mr.. Lansing deserved better at th.
hands of his chief. He has been a
faithful servant Of the Administration
-, Mr.. Lansing should have. and
VIII have, the sympathy Of the conntrv
IN the present situation. He has ON,
dured the variations in policy Of tho
most caRricious President we have had
is any discredit in the matter Il does
not attach to the conduct Of Mr. f.on'
sing. He is the victim Of a petulnnce
that is scarcely credible in tho hoider
of an office so exalted.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
The Globe

The Presidents action in forcing the
resignation of MIR. Lansing can only
be described as an amazing error. If
his judgment in this case be a speci-
men of the fully restored mental
vigor" of which DIR. Young has lately
assured us, the country is indeed in
sore straits. Of his right to remove
from the Cabinet any of its members
But on his technical legal point
the President is wrong, for there is
no constitutional inhibition on informal
meetings Of Cabinet officers. On the
general moral question he is equally
wrong. With the country's Chief Ex-
ecutive absolutely incapncitated for the
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Brooklyn Standardization

The mystery of why Secretary Lam
sing should stay in the Wilson Cabinet
all these months can be explained on
grounds entirely creditable to his deli
cacy and honor.
Lansing will not be remembered as
a great statesman, for none such could
ever gain admission into Mr.. Wilson's
circle. But in the consideration and
delicacy with which he treated Mr..
Wilson at the time when the President
was not in full possession of his
powers because of illness there was
certain~ high mindedness and gener-
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
New Orleans Times-Picayune

1t is difficult for one accustomed to
orderly processes of administration to
find room for fault when second in
command, during his chiefs complete
inability to exercise the functions of
his Office, calls into conference the
heads of various departments and en-
deavors to maintain unity of purpose
and coordination Of effort. Presi-
dent Wilson's letter reads him more
completely out of the scheme of things
during his illness than was ever ad-
mitted by his official family.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
indianapolis Star

Congress has no palmer nor more
imperious duty than to find out as soon,
and as exhaustively as possible, who
has been President these four months,
how much that the President should
have known and has been kept from
him, and to what extent this unofficial
group of regents has determined upon
the fate Of House, Lane, Lansing and
others who declined to recognize it's
authority as the government Of the
United States.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Philadelphia Press

The Presidents correspondence with
Secretary Lansing demanding the lat
ter's resignation shows Woodrow Will
son at his worst. 1t is the most unfor-
tunate, for the Presidents reputation,
OF any single incident in his admins
tration. =. Mr.. Lansing, on the
other hand, comes out Of the discus
sion with heightened reputation.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
San Francisco Chronicle

The ejectment Of Secretary Lansing
makes it very clear that one of the
first duties Of Congress after a new
administration takes Office is to pro-
vide by law some process by which,
when an occasion arises, the question
OF the duty Of the Vice-President to
assume Presidential functions shall be
automatically raised and decided.
How any self-respecting man could
continue to serve as a member of the
Presidents Cabinet has always been a
wonder from the beginning Of Wilson's
Administration. We shall have to get
on as best we can for another year.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

tatorial self sufficiency than his letters
to Secretary Lansing. The worst feature
OF the reproof which the President nd
ministered to Mr.. Lansing is the ex-
hibition Of childish temper, which not
even the Wilsonian felicity Of express
sion can cover, that the Secretary Of
State had been guilty Of usurpation of
Presidential rights.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Brooklyn Eagle

1t is not too much to say that the
residents action in forcing the res
ignation of Secretary Lansing amazes
the country and causes regret among
Mr.. Wilson's best friends.
So far as the President is concerned d
the correspondence betrays peevish-
ness and irritability to lamentable
degree. Mr.. Lansing is not at all hurt
by his dismissal, for that is what it
amounts to. He appears as a hard
working official upon whom was snd.
denly thrust burdensome responsi-
bility and who accepted it not with any
desire for self-exaltation but solely for
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

AZ
- Tca ons assigned Sy ,he Prcsi-
- for 80 summary course. The
tone of Nh. Wilson's first letter to Mr.,
Lansing is harsh to the point almost
OF brutality The stated cause for re-
moving the Secretary OF State is, in the
light of the information the President
has seen fit TO vouchsafe US, frankly
pwerile.
More nuzzling still is the specific
charge made by Mr.. Wilson that Mr..
Lansing TOOK il on himself TO call Cab
inc, meetings during Mr. Wilson's i'll
aess. But has the President just dis
covered the fact? Was he
ignorant OF Cabinet meetings al which
coal strikes and Mexican complications
were discussed? Who, { not his Ca
ret apsc -1oes and presumably his
-.stcd adyisors, were to carry on in
an emergency? The indignation at a
sudden discovery implied in Mr.. Will
sons letter is incomprehensible.
Why the sudden discovery and the sud-
den resentment?
We cannot understand the charge of
usurpation against man who, instead
OF trying to snatch power, seems to
have legally tried to do his part in
keeping the ship running while the
captain lay sick. Mr.. Wilson has either
said too much or not enough.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15
Philadelphia Public Ledger

While allowances must be made for
influences growing out of the Presi-
dents illness which may have actuated
his present course, it is obvious that
his own disposition to be a. law unto
himself in all matters, his inability to
take real counsel with others on great
New-York tribune., 1920-02-15

functions Of his Office, the
secretary Of State performed no more
1han his patriotic duty az a citizen and
an onicer whom he endeavored to keep
the executive machinery from halting
altogether. For the President to re-.
move In such an offhand fashion the
senior member Of his Cabinet, a man
whose tntegrity. and energy have never
neen questioned, causes grave doubt as
self again. ~
II Mr., Lansing is subject to any
legitimate criticism it is not that he
went too far, but that he did not go
far enough, in his "usurpation" Of au-
tnority. The event is one
which the President must certainly live
to regret and the nation to deplore.