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The Watchman and Southron Pifltffafi?flWednesday and Satnr ^ ~ - day by -Osteen Publishing Company, Sumter, $. C. : Terms: S2.00 per annum?In advance. ~ Ad vertise meats: One Square, ;flrst insertion -.$1.00 3very, subsequent msertion .50 ttoniracts. for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. - Alt* communications Vhlch sub serve private . Interests will oe charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and "tributes of re spect will be charged1 for. The Sumter Watchman was founded in 1850 and the True Sotlthron in 1866. The Watchman and Southron now has the conj oined circulation and Influence of both of the old papers, and is man- I ifestly the beat advertising medium | in Sumter. j The following article taken - from "Printers* Ink" vividly describes a condition faced by weekly . and daffy newspapers, and .after read ing 'same we feel ; like. . saying 'amen.* ? BOOTLEGGERS OF THE AJ> VKRTISIXG BUSIXKSS (By Samuel ?. Rice) The best -horse, doctor between Denver and . Cincinnati, took a course in.news writing in a\ school of journalism -recently. The doctor is a sort of livestock commission er, an' expert techr-.cial adviser to the livestock industry of one. of the biggest agricultural States in Amer ica. As such; he. not only, has to i?wta?p- the goods, but he- must- lei it-, be known that he is dehvering iheM goods; otherwise, there would j;flt_ be the aligat^st chance for him ii* get a -raise in salary from the j next^ession of the State legislature, j So he figured. that- if he could ! learn how 10 inject news value |n-j tola Statedwide prescription for a' , ? - .? ?''*. j homesick, :hucket~fed ealf, and similar objects,. he - could quickly make^biniself solid throughout the 1 whole'State. All. the editors would be iso grateful for the fine, newsy, helpful articles that the-doctbr' sent ouV free that they would gladly give him a million dollars* worth, of free, advertising. .Every farmer would love* him, for "Doc" : would . charm them with his press-agent! artifices into reading his expert ad-! vice. '.They would raise more and; better cattle,, sheep, and swine more' economically and "more easily than ever beforel . ] So the doctor, who is a conscien-j tiojus, competent and well-trained-i veterinarian and scientist, went about jo ^become a. scientific press' agent that he might make his of-! fioe more useful to his fellow man \ anil, incidentally, better hia own' condition. His purpose was laud- i * - ? * j abier -his-ambition justifiable. It ? was great idea?only .it didn't: wo"*^ Six' months after he began ' his^p5r?3s agent's career he came to I me very-\much discouraged. ?S^'jiCre." he said. **you-ve] been air editor and a publicity j man,\,too:--maybe you can tell, me; wljat's wrong. I'm- sending out? a I neifcs letier of three or four brief. ? snappy, *timely, dependable, articles \ oxuiiems every week to all the pa new* in the State, yet nut of more th?TT 600 weekly and daily papers ! not~-more than twelve or fifteen! ever^printed in any one.-week as' many__as one of my stories. .Isn't j thai Jtuff worth while?" . i He'tHrusf a file of his news let-I ter?*arto my hard. . ?? -1 ^"It*s good," I said after scan-; nihg it, "but did you ever hear of Osawatomie? Kansas?" ^ :.'.-v; "Of Kansas, but not of Osawa tomie. What about it?" . This Country Publisher Is not "'feeble-minded ^?Osawatomie is a pleasant little j country iowm I believe it has some small railway shops, hut its chief claim to distinction -of recent years j is -that the State asylum for the | feeble-minded is in Osawatomie. I Osawatomie cured me of any fool- ; ish faith- in news letters, bulletins j and other free-publicity-seeking material that is sent through the; mails by the ton every day and \ dumped almost by the bushelful in ! practically every editorial office in the United States?and there arej about 22.000 such offices in this^ country. It's the biggest single pi^.ce of7 organized waste in this cou ntry- teday." "But I'm a State officer and?'* "Xo? denjf; interrupt, doctor; lis ten. Pvrrr- years ago I was direct- \ ins a pnbiriciiy campaign for a. < large college. It was a rather un- j selfish? enterprise. I was sending j out excellent news stories, our j propaganda, but as honest, fair, helpful-and entertaining stuff as you might -see in a day's reading,. Result?same as yours; nobody wanted it. I asked counsel of edi-j tors and- -publishers in several ] &ta:esv Among them was a chance acquaintance. Keith Cleveng^r, then publisher of the Graphic... a| country weekly at Osawatomie, Kan.. "One month last summer.' said Mr. Clevenger, 'I wasn't * ery busy, so I kept accurate tab on every piece of free publicity that came to >my paper by mail. In that one month so much free publicity and propaganda came to my little country weekly it would have cost $53 to send it through the mails as first-class matter. Jn one,month enough propaganda came to me to have , filled , every line in my paper for a: year or. two.. Of course, most, of .it .went into the waste bas ket. Print it? Why. no editor has time even to read half the free publicity and propaganda that come tc him, if he did nothing else. It's done to death. There's too much of; it. It has become a..nuisance and a useless waste." The World is His Osyter ; "There's vour answer.' Doctor. Mr. Clevenger's experience ? is typical of every other editorial of fice, .although every editorial office has not the .distinction of being the locus of the State asylum for the feeble-minded. Nor must you be lieve that .it was only the thought less or irresponsible who. sent that flood of propaganda to Osawato mie.. At that time the postmaster at Osawatomie ?as regularly sort ing out for. the Weekly Graphic publicity offerings from an impor tant railroad, tvo of the very big gest New York banks,, two big New York theatrical (not motion pic ture) producers, a New York in vestment banker, a score or more of industrial groups and . manufac turers' associations, and the phil [Omathean literary society , of a State normal school. . There. were many other enterprises, sending their unsolicited and useless pub licity apd propaganda. ; to the Graphic, but the foregoing is a fair sample. , . "1.dp not know that any of these are .now sending-out.f ree .publicity; | publicity , bureaus, or 5 propasguda;] j mills, change: constantly, -\ but as ! great as was this torrent, of publici i ty. rolling throughthe vmaii 7 four : years ago, it is much greater now |_aid getting,larger, every day.. It; j seems you can no more keep good |lmsiness.ine.n from tmrowing money [ away in propaganda; "than you c&H jwarn wage-earners against Ponzi I frauds. Yet Ponzi and. Propaganda \ pay practically, the same dividends to those, who. put up the money. | j You've discovered that, havent yen? , .j - - . > ~}ry . "A tew weeks ago I attended ah \ industnial group meeting:.. in New York. Twenty-five or thirty men. heads of large houses, were there to consider their mutual interests, and one question was that of pub licity or propaganda. They had the i ohviersal ... itch for organizing a I publicity bureua which . would ad ' vertise their industry practically for nothing. They had a keen ap preciation of the ad vantages, of get ting their industry more in. the ? -? . i public eye, but they didn't wish to] pay for it. They had some kind' of a hazy , notion that a. hired pub licity director could get it for them. Til admit, too, that several high pressure and persuasive candidates! for the industry's publicity job j rmade . the art of propaganda- "; [spreading seem the one sure-fire | way of getting something for noth-j ;ing. No. trouble .for. those boy-s. to] ! run a dollar's worth of stamps and i f$10 worth of typewriitng into | $50,000 worth of free advertising! --to hear them tell. it.. * "Doctor, the minute you or any man lets fly a few bales of this jfree publicity material,,, no matter j how good it is, at once it becomes j junk in the eyes of eyery self-re- , ispecitng editor. And that's what it j is,, partisan prejudiced, self-seek- j ing propaganda disguised as news or 'uplift' stuff. "Our old alma mater has a pub-. licity bureau writing about its good j points and hiding its shortcomings. I The workman repairing the ele- j ivator in this building just nowj j pays dues to a union that has a hired publicity bureau. Th*? milk i man who delivered milk at your J house this morning belongs to an ; I organization which has as its chief1 j object the spreading fo propaganda; jto increase the consumption of [milk., it would be difficult to j put your finger on a man who isn't 1 paying real money tu ?upport some! I sort of a press agent, publicity mill I or propaganda bureau. And every last one of them is trying constant ly to sneak his stuff into the news I papers and magazines. fr**e. Why is it that you never ask the paint: manufacturers to give you paint' and the painters to donate their' I services that they may go out and' I -i spread your publicity all over the landscape? Why don't you ask the signboard companies to carry your message for nothing? . News Gets the Decision ?'You. know Andy MacLeod, who publishes the Newton City Daily I Clarion? There's nor a fairer, finer man living Well. I was in his of fice last March when one of your weekly news letters came in. He spoke highly of you and said he would like to run all your stuff because he believed in you He laid aside your news letter, to print it. It was that one that had that gem of yours on a humane and certain method of starting, a balky horse and.keeping him going, and some other fine stuff of value to the many hog breeders in Andy's dis trict. Andy had two reasons for running those two pieces; you're his friend, and your stuff was ex cellent. But before he could toss them, over to his telegraph editor, an old, gray-haired veteran of the Civil War came in with a piece he had written about the latest meet ing of his G. A. R. post. That old veteran's article was in the flam boyant, longwinded . style of .the seventies. It told every incident of the G. A. R. post programme in detail. It told how. superbly little Miss Amy Howell recited /Sheridan's Ride,* and it thanked her, also Sheridan, profusely. It waded knee-deep in rhetorical flowers as it told how wonderfully Miss- Maxine Bird * sang 'Annie Laurie/ and thanked her. It told how magnificently the Hon. Spilett Lowd, 'our capable and rising young citizen, who is a candidate for city attorney,' delivered the ad dress; of the evening and how grace fully the Hon. Smbothington Smythe, .'our neighborly and ac commodating* undertaker, lent us the. chairs for the meeting free of charge.* "Laugh at it? Doc, but no man] who knows Andy MacLeod butj will say.that Andy knows the daily! paper game. The paper was tight that night and Andy threw yourj stuff in the waste basket and print-1 ed that awful piece of the old vet- j eran's. Andy knows news and the lvalue of names in his field; also, ithe veteran's story wasn't junk, thrown to a thousand different [papers. It had home interest and; ithe local touch. Who paid for. those I chairs that the undertaker lent for [nothing? Andy MacLeod paid; their rental by printing that part-j news, part-propaganda piece. And that is just what everyone of you! [press agents try to do every time; you send put your 'free' publicity; j I you try to saddle some expense oni or steal some advertising from the] publishers. "Free "Why, publicity stuff is the mostj expensive stuff a publication cam buy.. . . . 'I "But you should not be disap-? pointed in Andy's throwing your stories away. In the same waste' basket were three splendid, author- ? itative articles on influenza^ its prevention and treatment. Two of these articles were from public health organizations. The third! influenza article was sent out by a fire insurance company. It was the best of the three. Fire insur ance has .good, but limited,, talking points. The fire insurance. com-j pany's publicity bureau had run' out of thunder, so it borrowed ai handy influenza epidemic andj hung its propaganda on that. Such] articles are calculated to make the1 publicity man's employer look like, a good Samaritan; also to grab valuable advertising for nothing. Yes, it's clever?too' clever. It land- i ed where it belonged, m the waste basket, beside more- clever stuff from a group organization of packers, from units and associa tions in oil, steel, grain, lumber, cement, coal, shipping and rail ways, two antagonistic tax leaguers, five antagonistic tariff organiza tions, the Farm Bureau, the State chamber of commerce, two farm ers' marketing organziatlons,. a mo tion-picture exchange, an organiza tion of Federal Government clerks, a tea house with a physician's yam about the prophylactic properties of tea, the humane society, the An ti-saloon League, the Boy Scouts: and an armful of stuff from a doz- j en Government bureaus. "Those are only a few of the reasons why the work of publicity men and bureaus is sure to be mostly waste effort. How much [kick would there be to Christmas! I if Christmas came every day?| Every day is Christmas. Fourth of j July and Hallowe'en to the free! publicity world. It overdoes things j to that extent. Doc, you and quite j a lot of other good men and women \ jare in the free publicity business' from very fine motives, but if you! v ill stoj) and analyze conditions you'll get out of it. It is the duty of the State to safeguard and up build its industries in work such as yours. By what excuse then can you seek to dump the burden j of the State's deputy upon the pub-? lishers? You .wouldn't think of asking a paint manufacturer for a barrel or two of paint every week to paint your propaganda on wall and fence. Nor would you ask a pianter to give his time in. spread ing your propaganda paint. Why then do you continually seek to im pose on the publishing business? The truth is that the free publicity business has as much license, to be classed as a legitimate part of the advertising business as the boot legger has to be classed aa; a law abiding merchant. Some day bus iness, men are gonig to wake up to that fact and are going to quit em ploying publicity bootleggers." A PRIZE DIPLOMATIC PROB It is said that' President Hard ing would be glad to give a; prize for a practical suggestion for the collection of foreign debts to the United States.. While no definite award has been offered . by the White House, there is no doubt that a workable debt program would deserve rich compensation. The President is reported as overwhelmed with gratuitous gen eralities on the adjustment of these debts, but when he tries to pin any of his advisers down, to a con crete program he finds, notable dis inclination or inability. It is always easier to criticise than to make constructive sugges tions. It is easier ,to indulge, in generalities on any many-sided question than to find one feasible way. Even when some fairly- work able plan is proposed by one fac tion, there is always,the.little;prob lem of the other faction which refuses to co-operate because it has a perfectly good.: scheme of its. own, and wants the power and the glory which will accrue to putting it over. It might pay any public official uctually to offer a prize in some such connection- ? The effort to earn it would teach the critical citizen much about the real diffi cujtiesv of diplomacy. '' " 1 * ?? ? ? .* >? '"? ' ?' -V: ?'- . . ' AMATEUR BOOZE HORRORS It was* certainly a nightmarish picture of amateur brewing an<T distilling that Major Haynes, fed eral prohibition commissioner/drew recently in a message to the Amer ican Public "Health 'Association'/'' He has found, iodine, a deadly poison, used to color bootleg whiskey and give. it a "kick." He has found many stills operating on garbage, with half-rotten banana skins,. watermelon rinds, potato peelings, etc.,' appearing 'in the mash. And the home distilling is not much better than that done for profit. Ignorance of proper proce dure and inability on the part. of. amateurs to keep their stills at a proper temperature result in the production, of ether, fusel oil and other highly poisonous liquids in stead of alcohol. Often there is produced an ? aldehyde. which "pickles" the drinker's digestive apparatus. Some doctors say that the drinking of the sun! now being made and distributed is producing an alarming crop of diabetics. f The surroundings of the, illicit distilling business ;are _ nauseating, too. Some stills have been, found hidden under hog pens.. Nearly all of the bootleg stills are filthy: as well as unscientific. Some of them use lead pipe instead of copper, thus adding another poison to their devil's brew. It is not. so very much better with soft drinks, which also are being made in great quantity by home-brewers and, fly-by-night concerns. The chief of the Chicago food inspection bureau says soft drinks are being made, widely by people in their back yards or cellars. The ingredients are mainly carbonated water, saccharine and coloring matter, the product being wholly lacking in nutritive elements and often positively harmful. So un hygienic is the usual process that ot 47 soft drink samples he exam ined, every one showed some kind of bacillus present, with five con taining diptheria germs. Brewing and distilling, whether alcoholic or otherwise, are compli cated arts, requiring experience, skill and honesty. The only safe way is to buy or accept no amateur brew or distillation of any kind. IRELAND MAKES GOOD There has been little news print ed from Ireland lately, and that mostly good. To thosv who have followed the gradual dying out of fighting in South Ireland and on the Ulster border rnd the orderly progress made by the Dublin par liament toward the inauguration of the Irish Free State, it is a reve lation. With the virtual collapse of the revolt headed by. De Vaiera and leader, the sober heads have, had a chance to act, and have made the complete discrediting of that the best of it. New leaders have appeared to carry on the work of Griffith and Collins. In their work is evidence of real statesmanship. Ability in Irishmen awakens no surprise: but more illuminating than anything else, to those who may have doubted their capacity for wise action, has been their conciliatory temper, their willing ness to forget and forgive, past dif ferences and wrongs. The government, is Dublin is standing by the treaty of London, establishing the island as a free dpminiqp within the British Em pire, and the new. government in London is standing by it. The Irish Free. State will soon be a real ity. If the constructive work pro ceeds in its present spirit, it -may not be many years until the dream of an Ireland not only free but [ united is realized. ANIMAL SENTIMENTALISTS ?????? In Chicago a legal battle is go ing, on over a bequest of $40,000 left to two pet dogs. Boston is en joying a contest over $25.000, the inheritance of an ancient cat named "Mewsie". It is a fine sidelight on human folly. It .is right that pets should be provided ,for by those who must leave .them either permanently or tejnporarily, but this can be done with little expenditure of time, or money. .AH that any animal real ly needs for its comfort and hap piness is a little plain food, some fsort of shelter from inclement weather, and kind treatment. There are always reliable people willing to; take blooded animals and give them good homes without any charge. It is even, possible to find a .place for pets of low degree. [There, are .institutions devoted to caxing for animals of all sorts and [orjomoting animal welfare in gen eral A bequest to such organiza tions would .insure the safety .of individual pets and further the "cause...of .all dumb creatures. ? . So much for the animal side of if, to say nothing of all the'good these misdirected thousands would do if applied to human rights and ?needs. Presumably the individual has. a right to dispose, of his prop erty ?s he pleases, but there is something warped in the person and wrong with the social system when, a fortune is left to.a .pussy cat or a couple of dogs. THE PASSING" OF PROPAGANDA Propaganda was a good word during the. , war, and every one liked to use it. Allied propaganda, German propaganda, patriotic prop aganda and bolshevik propaganda followed each other across the stage, and got hands or hisses ac cording to the temper of the peo ple in. _ust that week . or . month. The government, through the Bu reau of Public Information, tried its hand- at propagandists, and i' - - \ . ? 'This bureau has spent millions .of But now, in this country, the use of the word seems confined to ad vertising offices... Japan is headed the same way. Retirement of Prince Yamagata as governor of Kw?ntung has given the new government opportunity to get rid of the Information. Bu reau of the Foreign Office of which he was the. sponsor and the chief. This bureau has spent millions of yen in. placing Japan's position on international questions before the world, and has also been active in supplying the world with news of China, and China, with the news of the world. The government, how ever, now admits the futility of ef fort along this line. Publication of news events through legitimate sources, particu larly in relation to the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments, has raised Japan's po sition in western eyes more than all the propaganda the bureau could produce, and without cost. The desire of the newspapermen of the United States and Europe to tell the truth, and proved fair ness in handling news, convinced the Nipponese that their interests are safe in the hands of the news gatherers, and that any message the government may wish to dis seminate is surer of a hearing if it goes out through regular chan nels. Now don't be suspicious. The dis patch on which this comment is based is by Associated Press. If the tired farmer got half as much consideration as the tired business man. he'd feel all rested. With Turkey becoming a re public, we hate to think of what will happen every little while t<> *.!*? party out of office. REPUBLICANS CONGRESS Election Cuts Their Majority to a Nar row Margin in the House and Senate New York, Nov. 9.?Continued Republican control of congress, but with the senate majority cut in half and the house majority slash ed to a scant handful appeared today, the net result of the general election. Belated returns'frorh Mon tana this' morning sent the Repub licans over the top in the house contest. Many contests are so tight that numerous recounts are certain to be asked. i Washington, Nov. 8T. (By the As-| isociated Press).?The country to-j day watched with intense interest; the hip' and tuck race for control! of the house of representatives, the; closest''since the war1 days of 1916. ft saw'most of the Republican' leaders stand up against the on-! slaught; it 'saw scores of men brought in by the Republican wave two years ago" go out with the Democratic undertow. Volstead, author of the'prohibit j ti?n iriforcemeht law, was the only j Republican cbhimitt'ee chairman (to go down, but fell,before an in j dependent minister candidate, self 'proclaimed dryer than Volstead, himself: This fact often was over looked by those who professed to; see in the defeat of Volstead a pun ishment for the dry law. ' ' While'they had been expected t'o"tafee ?'big' hand in the election the women of ;the : country were unable'to elect one of their number; in the' helterskelter race for seh-, ate: There'will be no woman In the next congress: Alice Robertson of Oklahoma will go out then along with Winnifred Mason Huck of Il linois, elected' yesterday to; fill tht term of her father, the late Wil liam E. Mason, expiring next March. Mondell, for the last four years the Republican leader in the house, aspiririg for a seat in the; senate from Wyoming, went down in a vain race for the senate and a new j leader will arise in his place. Speaker Gillette and Mann and Madden?all the big committee chairmen in fact, save Volstead, [held their seats. Most of them I never were in danger. ' Every Republican leader of the house has often declared during the last two years 'that the' majority ?around 170 at the start?was too ?big1, but none expected to see it cut [so low,' and none seemed to fear ithaf it would be cut below 40. 'But starting in the East, the Dem ocratic wave began picking up seats, j gathered 23 in New York and then: [ raced down the Atlantic coast, cut j ting across into Virginia then turn ed to the Southwest, and doubling back into PennsyK'ania, swept over into the Middle West country and towards the Far West in the hope |of finding enough upturns to keep 'ahead of the Republican column I coming along behind, j It was nearly noon today before I the Republicans, racing for hours behind early Democratic voters, got abreast of the enemy. Then for some hours the two parties - see i sawed and the Republicans pulled 'to the front. Only the vast ma-: j jority of two years ago saved them. I The drift away from the adminis tration was greater than they would have believed possible ten days ago. *' j Hours went by without bringing ! advantage to Republicans or Dem jcrats. Among the last of old i timers to go was McArthur of Ore igon, enmeshed in a local situation j in' which the Ku Klux Klan was jsaid to have played a big hand j against him. Stafford of Wiscon isin, right hand man to Mann of ! Illinois, the free lance of the j house, was bowled over by Victoi iBerger, the twice unseated Social list; who came back to. take his old jseat.' He will be the lone repre isentative of the Socialists, as Mey [e'r London x>f New York was over ! come by a Democrat j. Some of the big committees Icounted heavy losses among their j members, as one after another Re-' j publican sitting members fell out I of the fight. I Predictions were freely made a ;week ago by Republican and Dem ocratic leaders alike that no wo man would sit in the Sixty-eighth congress. Republicans admitted privately that Miss Robertson j would be beaten, and there- was j no Democrat ready to predict the .'election of a woman on his side. JThe prediction was accurate so far I as the next congress is concerned. I Only in Iowa were the Repub j licans able to send back a solid j delegation. In other states dele i gations were shot to pieces, both j Indiana and Ohio, solid hereto i fore, breaking up. New Jersey (and Maryland each gave a 30-;">0 ! break to the Democrats, but it was ithe big New York overturn that ,' cheered the minority. The old district of William McKinley in ! Ohio was captured by a Demo crat. Champ Clark's district, tak ;en from him two years ago, just ' before his death, drifted back to jthe Democrats. Uncle Joe Cannon's 'district, from which he retired, re jmained Republican. J Cordell Hull of Tennessee, au ; thor of the income tax law and now chairman of the Democratic na I tional committee, was among the' 'Democrats who came back. Henry IT. Rainey, Illinois, another Dem ocrat high in party council, was returned alter being out two years, and many others, who went out, then won easily this year. St. Louis. Nov. 9.?The Demo crats oi Missouri scored a sweep ins victory, electing, in addition to' Senator Reed, eleven of the six teen congressmen; a gain of nine,! the state school superintendent, I all three- judges of7 -the state su- f I preme court, twelve of the seven-! ; teen state senators and a large, i majority of the hundred and fifty i I legislators. I - ? . ! ! San Francisco, Xov. 9.?Late re-; turns from the far western states-! show that the results of the vote; for several important officers are! still doubtful. Chief interest cen ters in the contest for senator In Washington, between Poindexter, Republican, and Dill, Democrat. Dill was reported five thousand ahead this morning. Fargo, X. D., Xov. 9.?With sup-1 porters of Frazier, recalled ? non partisan league governor, claiming that he will be elected "senator by! fifteen thousand majority, O'Con-! nor, his Democratic opponent, had j a lead of seven thousand thisi morning. O'Connor's lead was cut! from fifteen thousand. Detroit, Xov. 9. -- Democratic! successes in the 'Michigan- elec- j tion appear more pronounced to-j day, on belated returns, which' show that in addition to electing; senator, congressman and five state; legislators; the 'party gained! ground in many state contests. In! many instances the party elected; county officers for the first time in [ the history of the state. - ? ? Oklahoma City, Xov. 9.?Okla-j homa will send seven Democrats j and one Republican to congress,' it is indicated in nearly complete j returns. The Democrats . wrested j four congressional seats from the I Republicans and re-elected three; of their, own congressmen. .1 Big Rapids, Mich., Xov. 9.?J Senator-elect Ferris, Democrat, de-! clared today that- his first official! act upon taking office, will be steps \ for the rehearsing of the New- j berry case, in an effort to unseat; the Republican junior senator.' - j * ?.' ' Indianapolis, Xov. 8.?Three /ea-j tures tonight stand out above all; else in Indianas' State-wide elec-j tion of yesterday. ? They arer; First?The victory of Samuel M.| [Ralston, Democrat, over Albert J. Beveridge, Republican, in the. face ?f : Republcian victories generally throughout the ticket. Second?The shattering of the solid Republican representation in the: national House of Representa tives for the Thirteenth Con-i grt-ssi?nal districts with, /three; i Democrats assured victories. ... j I Third?The continued majority of; jthe' Republican party in both i j branches of the .State Legislature, j Former Governor Ralslon's 'lead over former Senator Beveridge' con tinued .to amount slowly as the-re sults from the rural districts were gathered. . The^ unofficial; vote -onj j the Senatorial race for 3,1*95 pre-j i cincts ?f 3,2:95 in Indiana vgave ! Ralston . 5 30,2 2 3: and Beveridge j 498,833. William Henry, Socialist,. J was running a poor third; his. total jvote" being ?,120." ? (RELEASED. j ONBOND Mrs. E. 0. Ingram Wffl Not' . Be Tried at This Term of .j Court Columbia, Xov. 8.?Mrs.. Eugene O. Ingram, wife of a local auto | mobile salesman, indicted yesterday I by : a federal grand .jury on I charges of writing improper anony I mous letters in connection with a (society wedding here last October,I IwiR not be tried at the present' j term of court, it was stated today I by J. D. E. Meyer, United States I District Attorney. Bond for Mrs. ! Ingram was fixed at $2,000. . ? -?- ? ? ?? ? ,; ?? Tramp, tramp, tramp, the^tramps are heading s??th. Wood alcohol, pistols, bolsheviks and graft politici?hs are among the things that we should try to filL up the Atlantic with. , ? CURED in G to 14 Days All Druggists ace authorized to refmKi money if PAZO OINT MENT fails to cure any case of ITCHING, BLIND, BLEEDING or PROTRUDING PILES. Cures ordinary cases in 6 days, the worst cases in 14 days. PAZO OINTMENT instantly Re lieves ITCHING PILES and yon can get restful sleep after the first application. 60c. REED "MAN WITHOUT PARTY" Woodrow Wilson ' Writes to Missouri Friend About / Senator 1 St. Louis, Nov. S.?United States-. Senator James A. Reed, who was re-elected for his third term in the Senate in. a JOemoeratic victory in ; Missouri yesterday, after having j been repudaited by his party two years ago, is "a man without ..va party," according to a letter" from former President Woodrow Wilson, -which was.made public here today, The letter, dated October 2?, ten days before the election, was. ad dressed, to. former Governor Ste phens, and stated, that if . Reed should be elected., he wQuId.be in the Senate "repudiated by -.Demo.-;, crats and elected.above, their own-. * frnan by Republican votesJ'. The letter^was not made public^ during the campaign .and ?erved a reply to one.to the former Presi-,. dent by Mr. Stephens, It was point ed out by Mr. Stephens in his letter . to the. former President that the "result of the primary .-showed-.-, clearly that a large rnajqrity of Democrats of Missouri are with , you, endorse your policies, and fa vor the league of-nations.' ? It was written wft-h: the thought ol informing President Wilson- -oti the outcome of the primary. ' Mr. Wilson's letter: " Mr: Wilson's letter follows: "My Dear Governor Stephens: "I,am sincerely obliged to you for your' letter of October 21; 'P ?Ttnow how'entirely competent you are to assess the tru? situation in ? Missouri, 'and I value, accordingly^ the carefully (^cmsidered inf?rma tiion conveyed in your letter. ?T do not think that I ought to attempt any. advice as to the elec tion. I' am too''' far1 away * from : ' yrhai I may .call^ the interior condi tiohs of .^the' situation*' VI 'feel; be-*"** sides, that leaders Tike yourself Van be confidently counted upon1' ib 'guide the .loyal Democrats, of Mis souri to the right course., of ?c- * j.tion. ? . 1 "ff Reed is. returned to Senate^ X he will, of course, be. there ? man [without a party, repudiated by.^ Democrats and" elected, above th'efe ^ ( \vn man by Republican votes. I \ j should think that the usual organ i:sation of the Senate would be rents' der^d ouite. impossible. . j-'- "With cordial greetings, .to" all ,. S true Democrats who, like yourself,... j.t:phold the real interests .and best ideals of the party and of mankind . , and with , sincere personal regard^*,. "Faithfully yours, ?/ "Woodrow Wilsum* A wise man never kicks back., at.-.. a mule or at a boss. . 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