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THE KINSTON FREE PRESS
- MONDAY NOVEMBER 13. 191 .V
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MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13. 1916
Mr. Hughes' littleness U still being manifest. Congra
tulation! or no congratulations, he is whipped to a fraz-lift
iters item: Hughes and Willcox will remain in Now
V&k for another week, awaiting the official count from
California. They have the drowning man and the pro
verbial atraw story beat a block.
The Woman, whom the voters of Montana have sent to
Congress, and who h the first or her sex to be accorded
auch an honor, fa listed with the Republicans, but one of
dependents to carry their .point.' !The odds, with a few
dietricta in doubt, favor the Republicans, having a plu
rality and, of course, they will endeavor to olect the
Speaker and supplant the Democratic chairmen.
If the Anal returns give the Domocrats control, or they
are able to form such coalitions with the Independents as
to enable them to name the presiding officer and chair
men, there la Iktie likelihood of any material changes be
ing made In the present line-up, except, of course, where
Democratic leaders have suffered a defeat in their dis
tricts. Champ Clark will bo the Speaker und Claudo Kit
chin tho majority leader, and other North Carolinians will
preside over the Important committees as now.
With the tables turned, and tho Republicans having the
privilege of organizing the House, the complexion of
things will change up entirely. The election of Speaker
will precipitate a most interesting fight. Logically, the
Republicans will want to promote their present 'Houne
leador, Jim Mann of Illinois. Washington talk has it
that Mann would not be acceptable to the Independents
and to some of the Republican members, and auch a situ
ation will necessitate the ca-iOing about for another and
more acceptable man.
Although Mr. Mann is the present leader and logical
candidate of his party for speakership honors, his elec
tion would e distasteful to a great many people of the
country. In the first place, he Is not the calibre for the
position. Mann Is a narrow, bigotted and "little" politi
cian. He possesses none of the characteristics e3sential
to statesmanship; he is a product of the seniority system,
and his elevation has been because of his long tenure In
office and not because of any peculiar fitness for leader
ship. If the Republicans have the organization of the House,
tho selection of most anybody for speaker will be prefer
able to Mann.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
An analysis of tho votes cast last Tuesday for Charles
Evan Hughe but tears out our estimate of the Intelli
gence of the American people. Our contention before
election waa that the intelligent except, of course, we
made allowance for the partisans people of the United
States would not turn their backs on the true and tried for
the enigmatical and untried. Mr. Hughes' chief strength,
it developed, came from the centers, where large numbers
of illiterate and Ignorant foreigners voted. The grca
rank and Ale of the Intelligent business, professional, ag
ricultural and industrial men voted for Woodrow Wilson.
Several ships have been sunk by Carman submarined
recently without warning, it U alleged in the first reports.
Some of the Mediterranean line ship have been sunk
but it also reported that they carried guns. It must b
borne in mind that Germany and the United States have
never gotten together on the armed-ship matter. Ger
many ha maintained all the time that passenger ships
which carried guns, were subject to attack without warn
ing, but the United States has claimed otherwise. Thi
sinking of auch armed ships now will probably bring the
matter to a head, and some definite understanding with
Germany be had.
WELCOME, CHURCH PEOPLE1
The Free Press, in behalf of the citizens of Kinston,
welcome the visiting church people, who hnvo come here
for the sessions of tho State convention of tho Christian
church, beginning tonight, and running through Thurs
day. Not only are prominent members of the brotherhood
from various congregations of the State here, but repre
sentatives of the several national boards will be hoard.
iKlnston is glad to have Mate gatherings always, and
especially so when the religious and patriotic organiza
tions come.
The home of the city have been thrown open to the
visiting delegates, and everything will be done to afford
them comfort and pleasure while in our midst.
ORGANIZATION OF HOUSE.
jjThe organization of the next House of Representatives
will furnish one of the most Interesting fights over staged
in the lower branch of the Nation's lawmaking body.
From the face of returns now at hand neither side has a
working majority, and must depend upon the vote of in-
"CAST ASIDE PARTISAN FEELING."
Wilmington Star: "President Wilson displayed presi
dential broadness when he took occasion at Williamstown,
Mass., to declare that 'now that the campaign is over, we
may all address ourselves to tho welfare of -.Tie Nation
without thought of partisan feeling.' That is our duty as
American citizens, and surely, tho words spoken by tho
President show that he la broadly fit to be at the head
of a nation of more than 100,000,000 people whose inter
ests clash in epito of the fact that a tolerant Americanism
should inspire all our political parties.
"We are bound to have politics, as the president said,
for 'politics Is, after all, a moans of getting something
done, of putting forward Ideas.' Ho added the remark
that Mt Is a fight, but the man who does not love the fight
has no red blood in his veins.' Nobody objects to a fair
flght, but when the fight isn't fair, It takes a calm and
aturdy man to stand tho pollticnl bushwhacking that the
last campaign developoJ.
"It took an Intellectual Colossus like President Wilson
to stand unmoved during the fight made, on him during
the past six months. They assaulted his outer trenches
with misrepresentation, bombast and calumny, but lie
fired brains and silenced the fiery tongues of an unscru
pulous opposition.
"Whon the President can calmly advise ihat after the
heat of battle, all partisan feeling should be cast ankle
for the welfare of the Nation, surely everybody else
should be willing to forget their partisanship. It wns the
President who bore the brunt of battle and yet the master
mind is undisturbed and ready to be devoted to the ser
vice of his country. He is not small enough to be rosent
ful or bitter, for he is to go on with calm purpose han
dling the destinies of tho Nation for another four years.
"We can understand now the psychology which moved
tho American people to put their faith in Wllwon. He
seemed to bo a man of destiny foreordained to guide the
American Republic safely through tho world's most stu
pendous crisis.
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ELECTRICITY COSTS
LESS HERETHAN IN
. MOST SMALL CITIES
The city's Income from the muni
cipal lighting plant for the month of
Octoler has been more than $:),100.
with a few accounu still outstanding.
Receipt for the same monfh last
year were $J,:n!i.!2. City Clerk W.
B. Coleman in commenting on this
Increase of around K00, states that
the current cost the consumers less
per kilowatt this Oetober than last;
while during the present year the
minimum rate was increased, affect
ing small Consumers in a very few in
stances, the chargn per kilowatt to
large consumers was materially re
duced. He cites one Instance where
a cotton glnnor u ;ing electricity paid
$181.50 for ")uic?" during the past
month; the same number of kilowatts
in 1915 would have cost him about
$330, Mr. Coleman states. Electri
city is costing some manufacturers
here only about 2 :i-l cents a kilo
watt. Not another town In this sec
tion has as cheap -a rate, Ii is believ
ed. The city waterworks supplied $1,
080 worth of water to citizens this
October. Receipts In the same
month of 1915 were $881.04. .
COMPLETE DETAILS
GRjUVES' PROSECUTION
Washing; on, Nov .12. Arrange
ments for the prosecution of Karl
Armgaard Graves, self-style 1 "mast
er spy" and magazine writT, wli-
was arrested here yesterday on a
rmirco or cuemptmg to extort ...mu
from Countess Von Bernstorff, wile
of the Gorman ambassador, will bo
completed tomorrow at a conference
botwef-n agonts of the Department
JAPAN'S FOREIGN
TRADE IS GROWING
AT A GREAT RATE
By Ralph H. Turner
(Tuned Press Staff Correspondent)
Tokio, Nov. 13 Some idea of the
wonderful progresl Japan has made
in her foreign trade since the war Is
rained frm figures just announced
lure. In evry part of the world this
nation has been establishing her pro
ducts, new markets have been open
ed and steamship lines subsidized by
thi- government, extended to every
big port of call on the face of the
! glolxv ;
Greate.it prosperity is being en- :
j joyed, perhaps, in the trade with
j Russia, Japan's ally, who is buying
I everything from munitions to boots
t ami shoes. In one month, last Au-
gust Japan exported goods to Rus
i si a valued at $5,343.i!00. This figure
becomes all the more significant when
i! is stated that the Imports this
country received from Russia reached
onlv S32.125, leaving a balance of
S.".311,4475 in favor of the exports.
Smth. America is another part of
the world where Japan has found
markets which sho hardly knew exist
ed before. iExports to the South
American countries for the first
eight months of this year amounted
to ?l,0.'l(),('ti0, not a larg? figure when
out alonslde records in American
trade, but worth considerable atten
tion when It is recalled that during
the same period last year, Japan's
exports to South America were val
ued at only $003,574. Thus her trade
in that direction has been nearly
doubled in a year.
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