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"Party of Vocal and Equivo
cal Parts" He Characterized
Hughes and Followers.
AROUSED MULTITUDE
PROLONGED APPLAUSE
Republican Is Party For Pos
session and Not of Terms,
President Declared - Big
Double Celebration at Shad
ow Lawn Marked The
Course of Yesterday.
Shadow Lawn, N. J., Oct. 28. Pres
ident Wilson addressed 10,000 voters
In re this afternoon at a joint co.o
b rut ion of Woodrow Wilson Day and
Empire Slate Day.
He reiterated a charge that the
Republican organization was a party
of "local parts and equivocal parts."
He aroused prolonged applause with
i he charge that the equivocal parts
spoke only for themselves. The
equivocal parts, it was declared, were
t-ry necessary in order to make the I
statement of the Republican candi
date suit any situation.
The speech delivered by Mr. Wil-s-cu
was in no way similar to the ad
vance matter given out for publica
tion except in spirit. An appeal was
made to the voters of New York to
.stand by the Democratic candidates
'for office in' thatSfHtef - r'v .
President Wilson'ji speech astteliv
ered, in part, follows: '
' The campaign that we are now en
gaged in has reached a point of cul
mination where perhaps it is possible
to view the field and characterize the
results. Looking at the field as a
whole you can see that all that has
been disclosed on the side of oppo
sition is confusion and futility. It is
not singular that it should be so be
cause they serve under no single cap-
tain. They are moving in no single i
direction, they have no single body of
principles, they have no 4?ingle pur-j
pose in mind. !
"So far as we can discriminate ele-j
ments in the opposition there are
only two main elements. Perhaps I
may call them the vocal axid equivo-J
cal. The vocal element uiters very
distinct and emphatic sentiments. It
professes very definite purposes, but
so soon as you question its authority
you find that it speaksJor nobody but
itself. i
"Their party is a party for posses
sion, not a party for terms; their par-:
'y is of those who, though they pro;
f-ss to be outside, desire to be inside,
but fo rthe time being they are out
side and speak for nobody but them
selves. "'On the other hand, there is the
equivocal element that has to speak
lor everybody at once and dares not
speak for anybody in particular. They
must speak in equivocal terms be
cause they must speak in terms that
can be translated in any way that
the exigencies of the day demand.
They possess no stamp of definite
Policy. They suggest no lines of def
inite action.
"On the one hand, the - vocal ele
ment says that we have accepted the
purpose thafthey did' have in mind,
that i hey desire peace but they do
not like the way which peace was ac
cepted. They prefer a peace that is
produced by the methods of those
v.-ho defy,, of those who brag, of those
who threaten. In order to establish
'heir powers they have forgotten
their manners. They want a peace
indeed, but they do not want a peace
obtained as gentlemen obtain it, but
cnly as braggarts obtain it.
"We have a peace founded upon
'he definite' understanding that the
United States is powerful, self-pos-sested
and has definite objects. We
have determined whether we get the
respect of the rest of the world or
not, that we will deserve it by the
way in which we act.
"The people of the United States
:re looking with more and more ad
miration and confidence on this con
'rasted picture. On the one hand a
body of men casting about for an is
sue, for some means to throw those
rjut of power who are now in power,
keeking any sort of support no mat
ter how incongruous it is.
"Those who are doing the definite
'hinking for the opposition are desir
inS to destroy the Republican party
(Continued on page six.)
CHARGE MADE BY
SENATOR LODGE IS
CKLY DENIED
Claimed That President Wil
son Had Postscript to The
Lusitania Note.
MEMBERS OF CABINET
THREATENED RESIGN
Massachusett Senator Tells of
Alleged Conversation
McAdoo Promptly Wires
Hot Denial.
Somerville, Mass., Oct. 28. Sena
tor Lodge tonignt, at a Republican
rally, offered proof of his charges that
President Wilson had drafted an ap
pendix to the first Lusitania note,
which nullified the strong words of
the main portion of the document and
that the postscript had been with
drawn when two or three members
of the cabinet threatened to resign.
The Senator's proof is a conversa
tion with former Secretary of War
Henry Breckenridge, the latter's re
marks betriff ?f epxrtect to IKe "Senator
by Dr. Charles Harvey Baiiey, a pro
fessor in Tufts Medical School, Bos
ton. The conversation was on July 15,
last, when Dr. Bailey and Mr. Breck
enridge were riding on a train from
San Francisco to Omaha. The Sen
ator read a letter from Dr. Bailey.
According to the letter Mr. Brecken
ridge said that the postscript was
kept a secret from all of the cabinet
except Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan let the
cat out of the bag and word of it
reached Mr. Garrison, then Secretary
of War. He and two or three other
members of the cabinet went to the
President and threatened to resign
and make the matter public if the f
postscript was not removed.
Mr. Breckenridge, who resigned
with Mr. Garrison from the cabinet,
told Dr. Bailey, according to the lat
ter, that neither he nor any patriotic
American could support Wilson, but
that he was a Democrat at heart and
would not work actively for Hughes.
Declares It Is Fake.
Washington, Oct. 28. Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo sent a telegram
tonight to Mayor James M. Curley,
of Boston, to be read at a meeting
there thisi evening. The secretary
said in his telegram:
"Let me. say that the charges made
by Senator Lodge concerning the Lus
itania noti are wholly without foun-
dation. It is to be regretted that the
extremities of the Republican cam
paign induce men of Senator Lodge's
standing to make such serious, harm
ful and indefensible misrepresenta
tions. There is not a shred of truth
in the fabric of this disgraceful libel." I
The remainder of the telegram was
devoted to a prediction of Democratic
victory and a support of the Federal
Reserve System, which McAdoo said
had been opposed by Senator Lodge
and the Republican party.
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BLOW TO UNRESTRICTED
SUBMARINE POLICY.
Berlin, Oct. 28. The greatest
blow the von Tirpitz-Revent-low
faction has received since
the outbreak of the war was
dealt today when the so-called
"Independent Committee for
German Peace" decided to sus
pend its nation-wide propa
ganda in behalf of a resumption
of unrestricted U-boat warfare.
The committee completely
surrendered to the party of mod
eration, led by Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg and Field
Marshal von Hindenburg.
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ROOSEVELT GALLS
THE PRESIDENT
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Makes Red Hot Speech Before
Shrieking Mass In New
York.
ASSAILS WILSON
IN MANY WAYS
Again Points to Belgium and
Ridicules Foreign Policy
Says Wilson Is In
sincere.
New York, Oct. 28. Theodore
Roosevelt denounced President
Woodrow Wilson tonight as a hypo
crite. His speech was delivered at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music. A great
throng heard him speak. Half an hour
before the hour set for the meeting
the doors were ordered shut.
His attack on President Wilson de
livered in his manner brought forth
loud cheers. At times it seemed as
if the audience could not be con
trolled, . There were shrieks and
yells. Occasionally there was a. gasp.
Accustomed-asi thed1ence Vaf td
the Roosevelt mannerisms and pre
pared for an attack, it still was not j
prepared to go with him the length j
that he went tonight. I
The speech, in part, follows: j
"Today, so our Democratic friends i
tell us, is Wilson Day. n so, It should
be appointed a day of fasting and j
humiliation for the people of the !
United States , for during the last
three years they have eaten the bit
ter bread of shame and trod the paths
of dishonor under the leadership of
Mr. Wilson.
"Yesterday, while returning
through Ohio, I saw in a Cleveland
paper supporting Mr. Wilson two par
allel columns, the headlines in one
running, 'President Wilson says we
shall have to fight in the next war,'
and in the other, 'Voters will sup
port Wilson because he is against
war.'
"I think these two appeals, side by
side, made on behalf of Mr. Wilson,
typify the campaign that is waged
by him for re-election. We have
never had any candidate for so high
an office who was so utterly indiffer
ent to the reversal of all his professed
convictions or principles and above
all, so indifferent to the flat contra
diction between his words and his
acts on almost every issue of real
importance before the people.
"At Cincinnati on Thursday Presi
dent Wilson uttered words which can
be justified only by unstinted condem
nation of everything he has done in
foreign affairs since he became Pres
ident. Mr. Wilson said:
" 'This is the last great war that
involves the world that the United
States can keep out of. The business
of the neutralityfs over. War now
has such a scale that the position of
neutrals sneer or later become intol
erable. Nobody can hereafter be neu
tral as respects the disturbance of
the world's peace for an object which
the world's opinion cannot santcion.'
"'From this time on America must
show that as a member of the family
of nations she has the same attitude
toward the other nations, that she
wishes her people to have toward
each other, that she will lend not
only her moral influence but her
physical force if other - nations will
join with her to see to it that no na
tion and no group of nations tries
to take advantage of another nation
or group of nations.
" 'America must hereafter be ready
as a member of the family of nations
to exert her whole force, moral and
physical, ' whenever the fundamental
rights of humanity are invaded, to
the assertion of these rights through
out the round globe.'
"I nowj wish you to consider the
exact words I am using when I say
that no President in all our history
has never before ventured to use
such lofty words of promise when
his deeds in the past have been pre
cisely such as these words necessar
ily, must severely condemn.
(Continued on Page Eight.)
HYPOCRITE
Rumanians Being Slowly
Crushed Between Jaws of
Nutcracker.
FURTHER ADVANCE
MADE IN DOBRUDJA
Bucharest, However, Reports
' Rumanians Have Taken
Offensive In Transylva
nia Many Prisoners.
!
London, Oct. 28. The squeeze of
Rumania between the two jaws of the
Teutonic nut-cracker continues with here tonight that America must be
i undiminished force. prepared to sacrifice everything for
i Today's despatches reveal further I patriotic ideals and declared he did
1 oi 4. ri . , . , ; not want "to be President of a people
i advance in the Dobrudja, where voni.. . . . . . .
, , ,. . " .that are not ready to give their all
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coiounsueu
xn. ocd, t
la point from 40 to 60 miles north of J
the Constanza-Cernavoda Railway. I
;The Hirsova district, on the Danube,
has been occupied.
More sensational, however, is the
Snews received from unofficial sources
lin Petrograd that driving down I
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through the Carpathian passes Gen-'
eral von Falkenhayn's forces have
reached Campolung, only 80 miles
northwest of Bucharest, and with the
worst of the going behind them. The
town of Campolung is south of Torz
Burger pass and 20 miles from the Ru
manian frontier.
From this point the great interior
plain stretches almost level to the
capital. The official statement from
Berlin today fails to bring confirma
tion of the capture of Campolong, but
says the situation on the Transylvan
ia front is practically unchanged with
the exception that the Teutonic
troops have captured a height in the
region south of Kronstadt and have
advanced to the Partzuga Valley.
On the other han'dT Bucharest re
ports .that the JluinianshOTelken
Tfasylvanian front and ''have made
prisoners of more than 1,800 officers
and men.
A strong Austro-German offensive
has been launched along the Bystrit
za, in the region of Dorna Watra, near
the Bukowina line, according to Petro
grad. Russian advanced posts have
been compelled to withdraw in the
face of a violent attack. "
That part of the Russo-Rumanian
army driven back before von Mack
ensen's smashing blows succeeded in
making good their escape across the
Danube on pontoons is indicated by
J S a e -r- -m t
uispaicnes irom uoDruaja.
x, J
x uuoj o ii uuiauiaii u initial BLctLclueilL '
says.
"At Tulgheis and Bicaz there have
been some skirmishing and light ar
tillery actions. We captured four of
ficers and 190 men. We have retaken
Piscul in the Trotus Valley. The en
emy is fleeing in disorder. In the Uzu
Valley we attacked and repulsed a
counter attack capturing 10 officers
and 900 men and taking five machine
guns, many rifles and a large quan
tity of munitions.
"At Oituz we repulsed" the enemy.
In the Buzeu Valley we made an at
tac and made progress.
"Tn the region of Dragoslavele we
made a counter attack and repulsed
the Teuton right wing, capturing 300
prisoners, five machine guns and two
trench mortars.
"In the Jiul Valley the enemy ad
vanced from the west and were vig
orously attacked and vanquished. Our
offensive continues. Up to the pres
ent we have counted 450 Bavarian
prisoners, have captured 16 machine
guns and three cannon. The Teutons
left 1,000 dead on the field."
LIKENED ROOSEVELT
TO ALEXANDER DOWIE
Chicago, Oct. 28. When Clarence
B. Straus, former Progressive
National Committeeman from Vir
ginia, called Roosevelt the "Great Al
exander Dowie of Politics" today the
crowd cheered and laughed for five
minutes.
Shouts came from all parts of the
hall: "Show him up!"
"I'm afraid T've done an iniiieHne tn
the memory of Mr. Dowie," replied
Straus,
people.
"Dowie at least stood by his
Roosevelt hasn't.
NO GERMAN SUBS.
OFF VIRGINIA CAPES
waamgton, uet. zs. no German
subn arines are io te vicinity of the
Virginia Capes. None has been seem
in the neighborhood of Nantucket '
lighthouse, it was authoritatively.
stated at the navy department today.
A report that German under-sea
craft were approaching Norfolk or
Baltimore arose, it was said, from the'
fact that American submarines were
in those waters. j
Hughes Continues His Whirl
wind Tour In New York
State.
TAKES A FLING
AT SEC. BAKER.
Does Not Want to Be Presi
dent of People Not Ready
To Give All For
Liberty.
Ogdensburg, N. Y., Oct. 28. Charles
Evans Hughes told a big audience
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for tneir hberty, their land, their
country that they love." , . , . . .
f i am elected we shall have aJweek Mn Hughes received liA per
American administration with no de-cent of the Roosevelt vote of 1912 and
flection for the purpose of bending to j the President received 24.6 'per cent.
the policy of any foreign power, fori States which appear to lean to-
the purpose of meeting any alien ward the President have 263 electoral
Ioreign power tor tne macmna-
tionsof any sort whatever.
''Wo nrnnnso tr havp m
We propose to have an American
administration that will maintain Am
erican rights on land and sea. With
respect, to life there must be with us
as with our fathers, a willingness to
sacrifice for the country that we love.
"There is no hope for a decadent
people. You may pass what laws you
please, you may have what party in
power you please, but unless you have
that love of country which preserved
us 50 years ago, unless you have the
patriotic sentiment which will make
you have some oMhe ideals of our in
stitutions, of the liberties which we
havft e-ained here. it. is idle talk about
the future of the United States. lla
! do not want to be President of a peo- j
i pie that are not ready to give their
all, liberties, their land, their country
that,' they love."
.-.Taking another sarcastic r fling at
&jalsompar-
ing the American" Revolutionary "sol
diers to Carranza soldiers, Mr. Hughes
said:
"Recently we have found our sec
retary of war so busy explaining his
unfavorable utterances that it seems
that he could hardly have timeto t-j
tena to tne necessary duties oi nis oi
fice." He declared he did not believe "la
bor could be bought" with such legis
lation as the eight-hour bill.
Mr. Hughes was greeted here by an
enormous crowd swelled by excur
sions from surrounding counties. He
1 reached here in an automobile in an
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old-f assumed torch light parade be
ifore going to the theatre to speak.
Before coming to Ogdensburg he
spoke to large crowds at Newark, Os
wego and Watertown.
NARROW ESCAPE
I Came Near Being Crushed Be
neath His Own Special
Train.
Oswego, N. Y., Oct. 28. Charles W.
Hughes was almost crushed beneath
his own special train here today.
With Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. John D. Hig
gins, Charles Farnham, the candi
date's tour manager, and a chauffeur.
Mr. Hughes was occupying a motor
car. The car became wedged in a
motor jam, as it was crossing the
tracks of the New York, Ontario and
Western Railroad, when the campaign
itrain that Mr- Hughes was returnIf
to emergea irom a muum a,t n iayiu
rate.
A curve hid the train until it was
within two lengths of the stalled mo
tor. A small panic ensued. The mo
tor could neither back, proceed nor
turn out. E. C. Cook, manager of
transportation, fought his way fran
tically through the shouting crowd
anl raced down the track toward the
train. The brakes were thrown on
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wun a vioieuce iuu iuc
ana tne ensme slPPea -usl Ieet
away from the motor in which Mr.
and Mrs. Hughes were sitting.
ONLY ARTILLERY FIRE
RAGES.
Paris, Oct. 28. Aside from the
artillery battle which is continu-
ing with great violence in the
region of Douaumont, there
were no events of importance on
any part of the front. The bad
weather continues interrupting
operations.
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But New York Paper Thinks
Figures Point to
Hughes.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
DECLARE OTHERWISE
They Claim The Middle West
and New York For Wilson.
Herald Says Empire State
For Hughes.
New York, Oct. 29 President Wil
son is making gains and Charles E.
Hughes is losing ground in the straw
poll being conducted by the New York
rferald. In a total of 204,599 votes,
Mr. Hughes leads by 722. Last week
'ho lpd hv 727
In the vote of the
votes and those which lean toward
Mr. Hughes have about the same num
ber. The Herald concludes, from a
study of the figures, that the Repub
licans will win by a narrow popular
vote, but by a wide margin of elector
al votes.
New York is set down as Republi
can; also New Jersey and Michigan.
Ohio and Wisconsin apparently are
Democratic.
Claims the Middle West.
Washington, O'ct. 28, Indiana and
Illinois, as well as New York, will go
for President Wilson, according tcP
Secretary McAdoo, who returned from
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campaign tour in the Middle West
today-
Wilson Will Carry Illinois.
Chicago, Oct. 28. President Wilson
will carry Illinois by about 125,000 and
Governor Dunne and other state can
didates by 50,000, according to a state
meat -issued -tonight" by Arthur
Charles, chairman of the Democratic
State Committee.
State Department Has Receiv
ed Reply From Great
Britain.
Washington, Oct. 28. Secretary of
State Lansing admitted today the re
ceipt of the British reply to the Am
erican blacklist. It was learned that
the note has been in possession of
the state department since October
25th.
Mr. Lansing declined to indicate
whether the note was acceptable to
the government.
Asked if it vould be published be
fore November 7th, replied that it
might not.
The reply, it was learned authori
tatively, rejects the American conten
tions flatly. It contradicts practical
ly all the arguments and claims of
this government and asserts the Brit
ish position to be:
First That the black list is an in
strument of purely municipal legisla
tion, enforcable only upon persons in
British jurisdiction and neither dis
criminates against American foreign
commerce nor is intended to injure
this country's foreign trade.
Second That it is a war measure,
directed at the enemies of the Empire
and that both this weapon and its
use are legitimate in England's efforts
to injure her enemy.
Third That the application of the
black list is equitable, but if proof be
furnished that injustice has been done
to innocent parties the British govern
ment will consider their case.
Great Britain declines, with a tone
of finality, to recede from its posi
tion, claiming that she is en tied to
use it and asserting that she Will use
every lawful means of damaging her
enemies.
Acting Secretary of State Polk, in
his note to the British government of
July 26, served notice that this coun
try would not tolerate the continued
application of the black list to Ameri
cans. It was asserted by an authority to
day that diplomacy having exhausted
its means of arriving at a satisfactory
settlement of the matter with England
the only recourse remaining to this
country is to apply the retalitory
legislation authorized by congress.
MflKFS flWR TO
IIIIII1UU III1UI1UII I u
THE BLACKLIST
First Arrests Follow Public
Statement Made by Secre
tary Baker.
AMERICANS AND
MEXICANS INVOLVED
Charged With Furnishing Am
munition For Purpose of
Placing on Foot a Mili
tary Expedition.
Nogales, Ariz., Oct. 28 First ar
rests in the alleged widespread bor
der plot outlined by Secretary of
War Baker occurred here tonight. A
special agent of the Department of
Justice swore to complaints charg
ing two Americans and three Mexi
cans with conspiracy to vio.late the
United States neutrality laws by fur
nishing arms and ammunition to set
on foot a military, expedition against
a friendly country.
The men mentioned in the m
plaints were Louis Loos and 'Charles
Kiessellbach, respectiv ' 'y, president
and secretary-treasurer of the Noga
les Hardware Company; Guillermo
Barnett, an employe of the company;
Eduardo Ramirez, border agent of the
Legalistas, and a third Mexican. Kies
sellbach and Ramirez were rrested
on the Arizona side of the Vme. Bar
nett, an English-Mexican half caste,
is held at the military prison at No
gales, Sonora. Loos and the Mexi
cans had not been apprehended late
tonight.
The arrests came after weeks oC
iavestigation by United States and
Mexican agents into the activities of
the Legalistas who, it is alleged,
were preparing to enter Sonora from
the Arizona border on the American
side. The investigatory made the
charge that two lots of rifles, ten
each with 2,000 rounds of ammuni
tion, were delivered on Friday to a
Legalista agent, by Albert Steinfeldt,
at Tuscon. Steinfeldt asserted and
showed a written order to prove it,
that five rifles were ordered by tho
Nogales Hardware Company, the or
der being signed by . Kiessellbache,
who is a German who recently took
out his naturalization papers.
When arrested tonight by Special
Agent William Nuelnoffer, of the
Department of Justice, " Kiesselbach
made a sworn statement that he is
sued orders for arms and ammunition
to Barnett and Ramirez.
Barnett was to be shot tomorrow
at sunrise, . according to the consul,
Jose del Gado, unless he made a confession.
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Predicted That Odds Will Be
On The President This
Week.
New York, Oct. 28 Half a million
dollars has been wagered on the re
sult of the election at the big 'hotels
here during the past week. This es
timate was made today from the re
ports of the betting commissioners
and stakeholders making their head
quarters in the up town betting dis
trict. The odds, which have favored
Hughes up to the present, were wiped
out in the betting today." All the bett
ing and there was comparatively lit
tle of it was made at even money.
The scarcity of Hughes backers was
explained by the desire of the Re
publican supporters to get better
odds. It is generally believed that
next week will see the odds 10 to 8
in favor of President Wilson.
The list of the largest layers of beta
during the week is headed by Al. Dry
er, $100,000 on Hughes; Bernard Ba
ruch, $100,000 on Wilson; Tex Rick
ard, $60,000 on Wilson; Bob Rose,
$60,000 on Hughes; E. E. Smathers,
$50,000 on Hughes, and James A.
Murphy, $40,000 on Wilson.
BAKERS WILL ASK FOR
AN EMBARGO ON WHEAT
Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 28. The
Master Bakers' Association, of Wis
consin, tonight at a conference here,
decided to ask the President for an
embargo on wheat, declaring that
they could not continue in business
at present prices of bread, as com
pared with the wheat price. Secre
tary William Coleman declared that
efforts to continue the five-cent loaf
have already caused the failure of
Wisconsin bakers.
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