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t 1 RUSSIAN GENERAL THINKS CON- niCT WILL END THEN SEES AUSTRIAN DEBACLE Briisflorf Admits AusUlun Army is Stronger Than Ever Hut Says lie is Facing l>as( Set of Men That fan be Sera|>ed Together by the Dual Empire. Ludovic Xaudean writes the Lon don Drily Chronicle from the heud- cjuarters of the Russian uTmy on the Bonthern front: « When I arrived on the southern front 1 had the honor to be received by the illustrious chief whose mem orable victory in the month of June annihilated an army of 450,000 Aus trians, that decisive event which is still developing. Utf to now its pro gressive consequences were the dehn- onstraUon of the indomitable power of Russia and undoubtedly brought about the participalion of Roumania in the war of liberation undertaken by the Quadruple Entente. Qeneral Brusiloff's characteristic features have been made familiar to the whole world by the publication of innumerable photographs and pic tures and I need not. try t6 describe them. I content myself with noting an Impression, fugitive perhaps but very acute at the moment. In de meanor and silhouette Brusiloff's face recalls to my memory the fea-1 tures of the late Lord.Roberts when be was still at the apex of bis activ ity. General Bruslloff, looking at me with his sparkling and scrutiniz ing eyes said: “It goes without saying that I felt -when I h saedr There has been another and rath-^ er sharp exchange of notes between Great Britain and Sweden in regard to the difficulties, brought about bp the Entente allied blockade and Sweden’s retaliatory seizure of mails In transit between Tlhgland and Rus sia. No solution of the problem As :n sight. The British foreign secretary, Vis count Grey, insists that as a condi tion to submitting file matter to ar bitration Sweden must promise not 70 interfere again with England’s par cel post matters in transit across Sweden. The Swedish government apparently is determined no| to make such, an agreement. , It is noticeable that until now the correspondence lias been conducted aimost wholly between Viscount Grey and the Swedish minister in London. Count Wrangel, but Vis count Grey’s latest note to Co\int Wrangel says the Count’s compiuni; cation is not understood and that the British minister at Stockholm is be ing directed to present the matter to the Swedish government. Count Wrangel now has gone«to the conti nent andJIJs announced he will stay for several weeks. ^ Count Wrangel’a letter, giveiLQuf Sunday, says Sweden shares the hopes expressed by Viscount Grey that the correspondence may bring definite solution of the questions at issue, and that Sweden “would warmly congratulate itself on tlie application of the fertile principle of international arbitration.’’ • The Count says further he Is glad the British government appears Ao recognize it is an impossibility for the Swedish government to_ "re nounce in advane the right to take 1 measures w hich regrettable circum- MMices might render necessary." Di reply, Viscount Grey says the meaning of this communication is not clear. SOMME SUCCESS TO START SOON, SAYS AMERiaN- NEW SYSTEM OF MINING Nothing so Complete as British Of fensive Since German Invasion of Men German courage, but the shell fire is not unprecedented. The}' have been 'losing ground | steadily under such shell tire as the ‘ small original British army held fast receiving nothing worse from French under at Ypres. The Germans are and British guns than the French lived under for more than six months at Verdun. Now, on observation of the Somme show, I believo they are giving the British shell for shell, and still they lose ground. ... T An ordinary day on the Somme, such as to-day, is not worse for shell lire than days on the Aisne at the beginning of the war, when the French and British held, without yielding, a trench for six weeks with out being able to return one ci.ell.f9r ten. 1 have been through both, arid ■WTIIW <IW>taDt4.-MMtr <HI Austria • M v left flaftlt. now resting on the Rou- manten army, with which It hes vir tually brought itself into contact, is now undoubtedly secure. The Rou manian army Is a strength with which one must reckon. It is under good leadership, an excellent spirit animates it, and it is subjected to remarkable discipline. Its body of officers are well learned, serious, and competent. Above all, the Rouma nian army has magnificent, artillery, which It uses with perfect skill "During the last two years Rou mania haa had plenty of time to ar- rnmulate great quantities of ammu nition, and that la a capital point, because artillery plays In modern war a role not only enormous, but preponderating, and any nation with out the help of powerful artillery would In vain expert great military anrress. “If you consider, moreover, that Roumania in taking part In the war ctoeea naturally her boundaries to TURK* AID Belgium — Kaiser's Men Fight Bravely But aro Gradually Losin^is is worse only because L 0 she.l: Ground in Continual Defeat. ‘ Xhe V itish shelling of the German lines is no greater than the Germans gaire the Belgians for seventeen days on the Yser, and the Belgians were unable to return one shell in a hun dred, but the Belgians held. This has been a vigorous offensive, but not a supreme effort. The Ger mans are also trying to,show that the Allied advance here has been at enormous cost. It has undoubtedly been heavy, but .nothing likejthe Ger man estimates. After traveling the whole British front in France, it is apparent to me the Britisli are much better off in ammunition than the Germans. In most places they are^uslng five shells to one German return,jbut on the Somme the Germans have plenty, and are not sparing them, u Frequently the German shell fire is heavier than the British. The con stant unsuccessful counter attacks they are trying are always preceded by shell fire fully equal to anything seen in this war. I mention the circumstance be cause the way the Germans are over doing their heroics amuses the Brit ish officers. They see in it a sign of German weakness, as they say the Germans never bluffed, in that way when they were winning. “The Germans are trying to make the defense of the Somnje appear as heroic as the French defense of Ver ifier. Arno Dosch-Feurot cables his paper, the New York Worid, from the British headquarters on tne Somme: The luittlo of the* Somme is just beginning. Seen from “the British lines, the offensive seems hardly more than under way. All that lias happened since the Germans were blown out of their front line, trenches by the Franco-Brttish as sault early in July waa_a mere start and preparation lor what is coming. As one of the two American corre- st>ondents taken the length’"of the British rttiHt Hornet re HOO-mlle ) front in France since the Somme of- iensive attained its present propor tions, 1 can say 1 have seen nothing so complete as the British offensive since the German invasion of Bel gium. England is evidently prepared to light it out on the Somme, not only all summer but all winter, in the biting warfare both the French and British are willing to take a bite a day, especially as each bite is less expensive in lives. For the Germans are out of their deep shelters, and in most places are holding new, shallower trenches and mine craters. Copsequently it is much more expensive for them to hold the line, but they are doing so h a courage admired tiy the Eng Orman and Austrian buyers who formerly found on her territory huge quantities of corn end maize, you will admit that the armed interven tion of Roumania, who proudly en ters the lists, is an event of the first ■ord nr. “To my mind, the Austro-Hunga rian empire, assailed from all sides, win not be able to rtand much long er before the hordes of enemies who are hurling themselves against her, nnd are only preparing to increase the vigor of their blows. The hos tile army which I had in front of me til June and July la almost entirely exterminated or captured, but it has been speedily replaced by a conglom erate army,’ in which are to be found enemies of eveiy origin. “We see In it at first the very last soldiers which Austria and Hungary may still place In line and of which some have been hurriedly drawn from the Italian front, and also some Germans brought from our northern front and from the western front, and finally some Turks. “That army, more numerous just now than the one which stood In front of me in June, is indeed the supreme guard, the lant living ram part of the Austro-Hungarian mon archy. That army resists desperate ly on its strong mountain positions, which must be carried by storm one after another. We are advancing step by step, but we are advancing apd the spirit of our, army remains very bright and very high. Soon the co-operation of the brave Rouman ian army will facilitate for us the obtaining of definite results. “I follow with the greatest atten tion the admirable offensive efforts carried into .effect on the western front by the Anglo-French armies. T fully realize the huge difficulties which they have to overcome, I un derstand the enormous obstacles they have to overthrow, but I am never theless fully cpnvlnced that your ef- jlt in the rupture of the Help Teutonic AUieti to Hold Front Near Halkfc. There has been no great change on any of the battle fronts of Europe, according to the latest communica tions from the capitals of the war ring nations. The fighting continues on the Somme and In Galicia, the Carpathians, Dobrudja and Mace donia. with apaprently no decided advantage for either the Entente Allies or the Central Powers. Russian troops fighting In the Car pathian heights in Bukowlna are pressing closer and closer to Hun gary. Berlin admits a retirement be- tirement before strong Russian at tacks northwest of K&pul, and this may mean that the Russians again have entered Hungary, as the fight ing there has been close to the Hun- sarian border. Betrograd says the Russians have stormed a series of heights south of Baranoff- and have captured five hundred prisoners. Turkish troops are aiding the Aus- tro-German forces ef the Archduke Charles Franala around HaMcs and In the Carpathians. Violent fighting still continues between the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester below Halicz. Berlin records the driving out of Russian detachments that had pene trated Geran trenches and the cap ture by the Turks of one thousand Rusaians. Petrograd says Austro- Gcrmtn attacks were repulsed in this region and that stubborn fighting continues. BRITISH MAKE GAINS German Casualties are Very Heavy, Says Brll.’sh Report. British troops have been engaged in the heaviest kind nf flghti’ g along a three and one-half mile front on the Somme, extending from High Wood to Leuze wood, and have cap tured Gimhy, which lies almost di rectly north of Combles, and all the ground between Ginchy and Leuze wood On a frjbnt of more than a quarter of a mile the British gained three hundreiL yards east of High Wood and northeast of Pozleres and cap tured six hundred yards of German trenches. In these engagements the German casualties, according to the Britisli official statement, were ex tremely heav^. GREAT TEUTONIC VICTORY It is for me an abso- forts will resu German front, lute certainty. ‘’TJ^e ‘offensive assumed by the Pran^b-British armies helps us here, In that it prevents the Germans send ing against us too heavy reinforce ments. They are all the same draw ing a certain amount of troops from the west and sending them against us, but not to such an extent that they may have a determining influ ence. They may simply delay our moving forward, and that is all. “By the way, 1 must declare that Great Britain, In creating in two years her huge army of 4,000,0X10 men, accomplished a wonder whjch most military men before this war would have thought' absolutely 4m- possible. If Ts a great credlt to her patriotism, her sense of organization, and to the inbortt discipline of her papulation. -Now the closer the con nection between the Allies the more their movements will be-eo-operatlve nnd the sooner, also, the war will be brought to an end. It la absolutely Indispensable that all the allied nnntoe should fight at the same time nnd without Interruption Buch ild bring shout conditions leading to rapid -Tie 1 it war Is a war that It for na to loony and al to r Kaiser Tells of Bulgarian Advance* Against Roumania. The Teutonic allies in Dobrudja have gained a decisive victory over the Russian and Roumanian foreesr says an official tejegram from Em peror William to the Express. BiQg ar i an troops, assisted by Ger mans and Turks, have regained from Roumania virtually all that part 9f Dobrudja taken by Roumania during the second Balkan war. The forces of the Central Powers hr.ve driven the Russians and Roumanians back to a line running from north of Silistria. on the.Danube, to Mangalia, on the Black 1 Sea Coast. accomplished), its successful result is already in our hands. The game is already won., -I said so two years ago, and I did not change my mind one year .ago when the penurx hf am munitions obliged us tcu ‘Xiridergo great trials: We must conkidfefthat for the Allies the present war'ean be cortpafed to a^totteryHr which every. number has to win, only we must go on until the end and not have the weakness to think about a premature peace. “Now youmritl ask me when on« may suppose that true peace will be signed, a peace which the Allies will be able to accept with the joy of an entirely fulfilled tank. I am not a prophet, the fntnr^ la in the hands of God, bat tf I had absolutely to mak<> aa hypot heals I shuald be to >•17. might see the aed of orif. Tbe extent of the German loss on this portion of the Somme front alone was great. 1 am writing in an underground hotel, fifty feet deep, built near Mametz Wood by the Ger mans. It was far back of the front line of German trenches before the Somme offensive began. It is now so far in the rear of the British troops who took this section of trenches by assault that 1 reached it without being shelled. I even stood on the high ground in advance, and the huge German con tact shells and lyddite and shrapnel were not brriRdng within a mile. A few of the longest range guns were reach me. shelling towns in the rear, but the ordinary big field guns could. not From this knoll one could sCcMn a wide arc the portion of the soil of France—regained by the British aione—all recaptured by direct as sault, leaving behind a long series of hundred-foot mine craters; splin tered sticks where a forest had been; crumbled walls to mark the villages. -This was but a portion of the Brit- lah front, including Mametz, Fri- court. Bazentin and Herbecourt, Con- talmaison lies on the northern hori zon; Martinpuich and Thiepval be yond, marked by the flash of shells; Guillemont on the eastern horizon. Maurepas and all the French gain to the south also lie out of sight. British officers here have read the descriptions of the fight from the German side, sent to The World by von Wieggnd, and have given me every facility to show how they bat tered down the German defenses. With me in ap -eMillggt‘ w ho has been b.urfed seven tlmesHtr undermining the German trenches, but is still on the Job. Von Wiegand’s account of the Ger man morale, they say, is justified, as the Germans are putting up a won derful defensive, hut the British method of attack is breaking them down. The British have a system of continuous mines, cont-ining seven ty-five tons of explosive to the mine, which blows the new German trenches to bits. I nave seen detach ed legs from the knee down, in the legging, and all the bodies without arms or legs, in the track of these mines. The Germans are evidently not strong enougli to' counter attack on the same scale, as they have been losing ground steadily for two months. The demoralizing effect of continual defeat is telling now on the Germafi troops. The battlefield is full of troops, encamped even on exposed ground. Such a vast army has been gathered that a successful German offensive is impossible. To see the troops en camped so openly seemed foolhardy to me until It was explained that the English air service is co much more active than the German that the Ger man airmen cannot get near enough to report their positions. The German batteries are continu ally busy, but they never know with what result. Consequently most of their shells do no harm. But. the British airmen are constantly over the German lines. In the i>; st hour I counted over thirty braving the German shrapnel, directing the fire. No German airmen attacked them. The obvious superiority of the Allied atr fleets was also confirmed by the British officers. We can camp troops on the highest ground and the Germans cannot find them, they say. This gives the Allies a great ad vantage, as.the Germans canpot tell on what piece of trench the next as sault Is coming. The country is only slightly roHlngr so-the capture of ~a town or wood is the same as open fields. - • There are no natural advantages for defeMe^seachtownls now com- machine guns, before an assault be gins. Recently the British captured a hundred-yard stretch of french without losing a man, a unique rec ord In trench warfare. , - Much has been cabled from the German front on the Somme trying to prove that the German defense has been extraerdlnary under the. un shell fire No one donbea after six months:” Walt and.. where the Germans are after another four months.” WHY FALKENHAYN 0UIT Advocated Retirement and Prepara tion for a l<ong War, “According to reports from Ger many received at Berne," cays a dis patch to the—YVireless Press, “the In Mileage and Wages the United Stated Leads the World. Illuminating‘figures betting forth the extent, amount of business han dled, the vast capital invested, and the importance of the railway sys tems of the United.States, compared 'jsytli those of other .nations, are given in a bulletin issued by the Na tional Geographic society from its he+tdq-pavters in Washington, D. C. • Vvu:i irs -more, than a quarter j)f a million .miles of railroads (25T,- 5XTSI/, The United Plates not only loads every other nation in the wu^id, but exceeds i*y-jU.OOO miles the total iai.\v..y mi.oage of r-urope. 1.1 ‘tact, it has two-thirds as much miloase as all. the rest of the world combine^ the length of tracks, in cluding switches and sidings, reaches the enormous total of 391,- 000 miles—enough to reach from the earth to the moon and with a surplus sufficient to girdle the globe Six times. “Over these tracks Po.OOO locomo tives are operated, drawing 2,32 7,- 000 cars. If ail these cars were converted 'into grain Carriers and were placed at the disposal of the farmers of. the country,'the entire wheat crop of more* than a ].illion bushels could have been moved at once^and not employed -more than one-third the total tonnage capacity. “The average number of em ployees of all the railroads Jn the United States whose annual operat ing revenues amounted to $100,000 or more last year was 1,409,342, the number of miles of road coming un der this clawsiflcation being about 225,000. 'fhe total compensation IpsH^ these employees was $1,165,- WiLOOO, an amotmt exceeding the total revenues of the United States government for 1913-14 by more than $ 12O,0oO,OOO. The average annual wage of railway employees Is, therefore, $826. “Among th e railway employees in 1914 the largest average daily com pensation went to general officers, other officers ranking ~ ~ — - f YTT ginemen, $5.24, followed by Con tors, $4.47. Tbe lowest wage was,to tbe trackmen, a daily average ’ of $1.59. • “For fhe 12 moutHs ended June 30, 1915, railroads carried 976,000,-' 00u ^•’ssengc rs, 76,000,000 fewer than during the previous 12 months. These travelers paid the roads $6 4 6.- 000.000 about 06 centk each, and the a\ crugc receipts per passenger mile were a fraction under two DEMOCRATS APPEAL TO NATION ON PRESIDENT’S ACTION LONG STORY OF MEXICO Campaign Text Rook Asks Twenty- one Pointed Questions of Charles E. Hughes—Platforms Contrasted anil Blank Spaces for Republican I^ack oj Achievement. The Democratic Campaign Text Book of 480 pages, has just been is sued. All phases of the fpur years of Democratic administration are dwelt upon at length. A strong plea is made to the voters to return Wood- row Wilson to the White House and give him a Democratic congress. Twenty-five pages of the book are taken up with a contrast of the Dem ocratic and the Republican platforms side by side. There are many blank spaces shown in the Republican col- unuFTn comparison to what the Dem ocrats stand for in the way either ot promise oy achievement. President Wilson’s speech of acceptance is printed and several pages are used to set forth just what the administra tion has accomplished. “The Story of Mexico” and “How Wilson Kept Peace” form prominent chapters of the book. Colonel Roosevelt’s “flop’' from Progressives to Republicans is also discussed. The book Contains a challenge to Candidate Charles E. Hughes in twenty-one bfief atrd pointed ques tions to speak out for br againct th record of achievement made by th president and the Democratic con gress. All the large issues, domes tic and international, are treated. The questions which Carry the cap- ,tioa. LApflEa! for Eight for Slxtceq a & The aver- mlle for these shipments was a little less than three-quarters of a cent. The tot 1 railway operating revenues for the year amounted to $2,956,000,000, with operating expenses of $2,0S8,- 000.000." WOMEN ON GERMAN RAILWAYS They are Working as Guards, Dis patchers and Conductora. VIOLATES NEUTRALITY dismissal of Gen. Erich von Falken-i cents, hayn, aa chief of the German general) "The number of tons of revenue staff, was due to his sugg^tion of a producing freight handled was 1.- complete change in Germany’s wa. j 802,000, fow. Tor which bhippers prid plans- which Emperor William in-1 the ror.'is $1,977,000,00^. ”” dlghantry rejected. age freight rate per ton "Pedieting the complete downfall of Bulgaria as the result of converg ing atacKS from the north and south, and in the end a consequent inter ruption of communications with Tur key, Gen. von . Falkenhayn urged that the whole Balkan campaign be abandoned, that the eastern line be shortened and that the occupied ter ritory in France be. evacuated. “The General expresed the opin ion that the transformation of Ger man strategy into a purely defensive campaign on a shorter front would paralyze Jhc Entente allies and make it impossible for them to crush Aus- tro-German resistance unless they fought with unlimited resources and then for tea years. Persistence in the present plan of campaign, he said, would lead to disaster. “Field Marshal von Hindenburg denounced this advice as childist, cowardly and unworthy of the Ger mans. Eqiperor William took von Htndenburgn ■i*' nnd ftjlPj 1 ""/'' 1 von Falkenhayn.’’ /*'■-* Allied Warships in Philippine Waters Stop Neutrals. 1 Thirty-six thousand women arc employed on the various State rail ways in Germany as car cleaners, door closers, platform guards, ticket collectors, telegraphers, train dis patchers, track walkers and me chanics in repaii* shops. In every department in which they have been put to work, it is claimed, they are rendering entirely satisfactory ser vice. In some sections the women are showing unrest. They are de--. . . manding better distribution of hours !s ‘ anas and more courteous treatment from foremen, who are said to have used Unpleasant language in criticizin'- Lheirtotbordinates. In Austria recently the women held a national convention which unanimously adopted a resolution calling upon the government to in troduce “compulsory service” for women in the form of one year’s in struction in housekeeping. The “ser vice” should be performed, the con- vention further resolved, after girls and young women have concluded their ordinary schooling and before marriage. Violation of Ameriean neutrality by a British torpedo boat which held up and examined the Philippine steamer Cebu within the territorial waters of the Philippines was re ported to the war department Tues day by Governor General Harrison The dispatch immediately was trans mitted to the state department and will J>e made the subject of a vigor ous protest to Great Britain. , ’.Thfi incident occurred.. -V ope mile and a-half off Carabao Is land. Afroi’dlng to-tFe-reportsolbriw steamer’s master, Lieut. Bailcs, com manding H. M. S. destroyer No. .2., boarded the Cebu, made inquiries about her passert^ers and took both the ship’s manifest anTT tier passen ger list. .Apparently the officer v.as searching for a man named^Bady, who was not found. There has been more than one federal reserve act? Would you have. protested against the violation of Belgium neutrality and have backed the pretest by plunging America Into the European- carnival of slaugh ter? - ' Do you favor tne repeal of the rural credits act? * Would you have recognized Huerta as president of Mexico? \ Do jrou favor the repeal of the Clayton antitrust act? Will you. Mr. Hughes, recom mend and will the Republican par ty in congress support, a law es tablishing unlvoiral compulsory military service in fhe United States? Do you advocate repeal of the feiWal trade commission act? Would you have tried the policy of diplomatic negotiation as a m'ans of summoning the moral force of law and neutral opinion to stop Germany’s illegal use of submarines? Do you favor repeal of the “porkless" good roads act? Would you have broken rela tions with Germany and sent our young men by tbe hundreds of thousands to nameless graves at the bottom of the Atlantic or In Flanders before the policy of dip lomatic negotiation had had thor ough trial? Will you. undertake to repeal the Income tax? * - , Do you favor violating neutral ity and risking the future safety of your country by placing an em bargo on munitions of war? llo' you TaWr Ttiferventloa—In Maaifial ©tie tire or i) complaint about the activity of ttfe British vessels around the Philip pines, and while Governor General Harrison’s report furnishes the basis for a specific protest, it is probable that Great Britain will be called upon to restrict the operations of her patrolling squadron generally in and near the territorial waters of the SLAVE AGENT TRAPPED Caught on Ship in New York With 25 Girls Going to Texas. SMITH WILL PUBLISH BOOK Junior Senator Will Discuss Cotton and World’s Commerce. It became known-in Washington Thursday that Senator E. D. Smith of §outh Carolina Is bo~jU to publish a book on cotton. It is understood that he will deal with the subject from all phases and will discuss ex haustively the whole question of the -part that hoth fibre and seed play In the world’s commerce., - Senator Smith has been at work on Jhls hook for some time gathering his statistics here and there and verb A practical cotton planter, Sena tor Smith should bo able to put into Kook form for the use of Ithcrs much will complete his tabors and get his book from the press In about fifteen month*. j * It la expected that Senator Smith baa interesting and available matter Thomas Large, long known to the police of the Tenderloin district in New York city, and May Martin, a woman of many aliases, are under arrest in the metropolis charged with conspiracy to send twenty-four girls as while slaves to disreputable re sorts in San Antonio and other cities on the Texas border near which* sol diers are stations. Large was arrest ed as he was walking, up the gang plank of a steamer, three minutes be fore sailing f6r Galveston. The ar rest of Large is regarded by District Attorney Swann as the most impor tant yet made iri the vice investiga tion. Through him the authbrities hope to secure leads that will expose a nation widb traffic In women for immoral purposes. Large and Miss Martjn are held under gve thofisand dollars bail. The other women who were in the group were not detained by federal officers for fear an innocenf one might be held by mistake. If their status is ascertained in time, the Mann white slave act will be Invoked and they' will be returned to New York. Large Hw Tommy,” Johp .prowi end the “Creeper KTnf/*- Do you favor repeal of trie grain standards and -warehouse acts? What would have been your at titude toward the disloyalists of your party who have attempted prevent the enforcement by Pres dent Wilson, both on the part the American government and b all American citizens, of an hon est neutrality toward all the war ring nations of Europe? Inasmuch as'the largest amount collected in any one year under * the highest tariff ever enacted 1 Paj’ne-Aldrich act) was $333,- 000,000, what .form of taxation would you substitute to-pay a “preparedness” cost of $630,000,- 000? Do you favor the reactionary Republican plan of granting huge subsidies to favqrcd corporations, money collected from the people by taxation, as the best way of encouraging the development of an American merchant marine? Do you favor repeal of the child labor law, the anti-injunction law, the Seaman’s act, and related so cial justice measures of high Im portance? Do you favor re-enactment of the Payne-Aldrich act? Do you stand with those Pro gressives and progressive Republi cans In congress who voted for practically all ’ the progressive Democratic measures mentioned above, or do you stand with the reactionary Republicans who voted against them? ' - In conclusion, the Text Book says: “President Wilson and the Dem - cratic party submit their case to the American people on the record they have made. Broadly speaking, that is the issue of the campaign. Upon the public survey and estimate of the record depends the outcome of the elections." Denver Claims I .urges t U. 8. Flag. Thd largest American flag in the world hangs In the municipal audi torium In Denver. Col. The flag U on* hundred* and fhlrty-eeven ■feet not available to tbe ordinary layman, long and sixty-eight fern vide. Eyes 4’leered After Thirteen Years, •» Nicholas Millar, of Cleveland, QjtoY saw his first moving • picture shoflto several days ago, after living thfli^ xuddenlrns they became* blind. t -0- 0 m Ohio Mon Stole a School Heme. Cheater Gilroy, of 8t. Marys. O.. is charged with stealing tbe school boose in Goshen township He has been directed to restore the build ing to tu original sue