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BIG STRIKE OFv MINERS ABOUTOVER
Lioyd George Calls Conference and Union Leaders Avert Transportation Walkout
OPTIMISM PREVAILS
liOndon, Oct. 23.—The pendulum of the British labor troubles swung to¬ day from threat of a sympathetic rail¬ way strike to the other extreme of new official negotiations looking to¬ ward settlement of the miners walk¬ out.
With a deputation of miner repre¬ sentatives scheduled to meet Premier liloyd George in Downing street at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, a wave of optimism swept over the country and the opinion was expressed in official circles tonight that the new week would see the miners back at work.
The turn of events came today with bewildering rapidity. Executive boards ot the miners and railway workers met to discuss the latter's sympathetic strike, which was set for midnight Sunday.
An official statement was suddenly issued, announcing that the miners liad formally requested the railway msn to postpone their strike because the miners had received an invitation tc re-open negotiations and did not wish the embarrassment of the eympathetic walkout hanging over the proc»>*dlng8.
This was followed by another for¬ mal statement from the railway workers saying the request had been acceded to for the purpose of giving "every opportunity for an honorable sirftlement" and that 'the suspension would continue during the period of negotiation. The premier's Invitation was conlained In a letter to the mirrors, asking them to participate in un immediate conference In Downing *:vreet. The in\itation was accepted by Secretary Hodges on behalf of the irtiners who have been Invited to send a delegation to the government.
The action on the part of the min¬ ers and rallwaymen was regarded as a victory for the government and the conservatives in both unions. J. H. Thomas, secretary of the National Union of Rallwaymen, had opposed the Idea of a sympathetic strike from its Inception. After it was voted over his protest he publicly repudiated his as- sorlwtes' action and continued to work for abrogation of the strike order. He was oppos€>d by President Charles T. Cramp, a frank extremist.
Miner*' Cause Supported
Leading the radical element of the miners i*-ere Hodges and President Robert SmilUe. They were opposed by Vernon Hartsshorn, Stephen Walsh, William Brace and C. B. Stanton, all merpbers of Parliament.
It was assumed tonight that upon the outcome of the negotiations open¬ ing tomorrow would depend whether the meeting of other unions Wednes¬ day at the behest of the Board of Trade would be held. The transport workers, constituting the third branch of the "triple alliance.'iJtere expected to piark time pending the final result of the conferences.
The miners' Btrike, which began a wryek ago today, and involved more than a million men, already had thrown tens of thousands of steel and dock workers out of work, because of stop- Ps/ge of the fuel supply. Several liners biimlDg coal were forced to postpone their sailings.
Official announcement was made to¬ night that the corfference between the premier and the miners tomorrow will be a preliminary effort to reach an agreement before the formal confer¬ ences begin.
Mayors of two London boroughs to¬ day refused the government permis- alon to use municipal buildings to enroll 'volunteers ,to fight the strike.
Since   the   mayors   of   eleven   more London   boroughs  are  labor  men.   the sMuatlon   |)romised   to   be   serious. Harsh   Regulations.
The two mayors who definitely re¬ fused to belp the government were said to have acted on advice of Rob¬ ert Williams, radical leader of the transport workers. Williams advised them not to "let the middle, class" volunteers function. He declared th« transjiort men had plans of their cwn fo^ the distribution of food In event Oi a general strike.
The government's emergency strike Monday provides for a wide range of action. The government would have power to declare an emergency by proclamation whenever anyone
"threatens interference with the sup¬ ply or distribution of food, water, fuel,- light, or the means of locomo¬ tion." Emergency regulations can be made by others in council for th© preservation of peace and the sup¬ plying of- necessities. Such regula tions would become effective on pre¬ sentation to Parliament and would be enforcible only during ses.sions of par¬ liament.
Penalties of imprisonment for three years or fines of 100 |X)unds sterling were provided In the legislation for any infraction. ^
BOY'S  LEO  BROKEN.
Harr>' Bowman, 5 years old, of 11 f^ranklin street, Edwardsville, broke his leg last night at 7 o'clock when he feU from a porch. He was taken to Nesbiit West Side Hospital.
Military Ambulance Unit Ordered
As Part Of Third Artillery Force
Creation of an ambulance unit as a par^of the Third Reid Artillery has been ordered by officers of the Pennsylvania Na¬ tional Guard, according to an announcement made last night in this city. The State "officers have agreed that the Luzerne County regiment will heve the privilege of organizing the first ' of four units that are to be distributed over the entire State. The order means that the local regiment will be entirely complet>~«s a military ofganization after the new branch has been given the oath of allegiance.
Dr. F. D. Thomas of Dorranceton, who •was iri the medical corps of the American Expeditionary Forces, will be the captain of the new unit. Other officers who have already been decided upon are Dr. C. A. Judge of Kingston and Dr. Burton Weil of Plymouth. Both will have rauik af lieutenant. Under the con¬ ditions of organization the ambulance unit must have a minimum of sixty-six officers and men, although it may «zceed that num¬ ber to a good extent. Dr. Thomas declared last night that already fifty-mx young men have applied for enlistnyent and that places are ready for twenty more. He will hold a meeting next Friday night, at which time he will receive applications.
The unit •will likely be limited to yotmg men living in tovmo on the West Side. When it is given full equipment it will have a dozen ambulances, three motor trucks and three motorcycles. It will require a special building or an enlarged armory to house the equipment. By securing the first ambultmce unit for the Wyoming Valley regiment, local men interested in military af¬ fairs believe they have executed a stroke which •will place the Third Artillery in a better position for service than any other outfit in the State.
HUGHES IS OPPONENT OF LEAGUE
Charges Acceptance of Five Recommendations But Finds Languaige is Changed
A WAR LOBBY
KILLED A MINISTER
Tenants of Reverend Ruff Hold Up Theory That Landlord Acted Like Intruder
ONFSHOT FATAL
Chicago, Oct. 23.—Police tonight re¬ leased Fredrick W. Sextro, who shot and killed his landlord, the Rev. Fred¬ rick G. Ruff, early today. The coroner's Jury gave credence to Sextro's story that he mistook the landlord for a^ur- glar and recommended that he be given his freedom.
Rev. Ruff, accompanied by his wife and three children, was preparing to leave for the country to spend the day. The minister found he had forgotten the key to his automobile and returned to the apartment for it while his family remained In  the machine. V
He entered the building and a minute later a shot sounded. Mrs. Ruff rushed into the building and found her husband lying on the first landing, in frovt of his apartment in a pool of blood.
Sextro. who lived in the apartment above was throwing cold water on his wife, who had fainted. Sextro and Ruff had quarreled fre¬ quently over Increases In rent placed in effect by the landlord.
M. C. Liss, an attorney, who repre¬ sented the preacher in legal matters, said the landlord had obtained an order in municipal court Thursday which would havo forced Sextro to vacate his apartment.
Sextro's story was con/lrmed in de¬ tail by his wife, and, in part by Mrs. Ilarold White, who lived on the third floor, as to what happened after Rev. Ruff entered the building. ^
Sextro said he was awakened iJy his
General Grievance Bodies Are Called Together Here and Leaders Go To Hazleton
WILL SEE OPERATORS
Determined to continue the flght against the action of the anthracite coal operators in boosting the price of coal sold to company employes, the ijrle'vance committees of all col¬ lieries ownedby the Lehigh and Wllkes-Barre Coal Company will hold a   meeting   tomorrow   night   in   Union
New Haven. Conn., Oct., 23.—Ad¬ dressing a political meeting here to¬ night. Judge Charles E. Hughes de¬ clared the real League of Nations issue of the presidential campaign is whether the covenant proposed by President Wilson with its article ten, is one Amtirica should adopt.
Hughes denied he had changed front on the T.,eague issue and assert¬ ed that although flve of his recom¬ mendations for amendments to the ccvenant were accepted, they were not accepted as he proposed. Ke said, furthermore, that, one reservation he proposed, but which was not adopted, •was that guaranty or article X be omitted.
Hughes asserted that Governor Cox and t*resldent Wilson have agreed on the League of Nations. The only reservations which they wouM ac¬ cept were those that did not affect the sub.stance of true Import of th© covenant as it was submitted by Preaident Wilson. ^
Quoting from the President's letter to Senator Hitchcock on March 8, re¬ garding article X, Hughes said: "After reading these assertions, not the less emphatic because seriously mistaken, we are prepared to flnd that Mr. "Wilson was not WilUng to agree to any reserva¬ tion which would impair the obligation of article X. Do his supporters say he was willing to sacrifice the heart and life of the covenant? To weaken or destroy its foundation? "To repudiate the essence of Americanism^ "To be guilty of "bad faith" wilh respect to a matter in which he had been the prin¬ cipal actor? Those who most strenu¬ ously oppose Mr. Wilson will nut lay this charge at his door.
Wilson An Autocrat.
"From his determination to compel the American pteople to accept, (article X) he has never wavered a moment. It is this determination which has cost the American people the privilege ot taking part in a proper association of free nations. 11 is this inflexible pur¬ pose  of  Mr.  Wilson  to  have his  way
Anthracite Taxes May Offset Caves
Harrisburg, Oct. 23.—Attorney- General Schaffer is expected- to re¬ port at the meeting of the Constitu¬ tional Revision Commission at its meeting on November 10, whether it would be a violation of the fed¬ eral constitution for the state to levy a tax on anthracite coal for the purpose of creating a fund to re¬ duce the mine cave hazard, it was announced today.
If found to be constitutional, op¬ erators claim, they will advance the contention that bituminous coal should likewise be taxed, although there is comparatively no mine cave hazard in the bituminous region. It was pointed out that a tax on coal, if levied at all, shoutiLJ>e made on the community coal and not on a particular kind of coal.
At a recent meeting of the com¬ mission it was decided the amend¬ ment as submitted was a violation of the constitution as regards the impairment of contracts. The oper¬ ators who lease the property claim the tax is not considered in the lease, which takes car^of tLe mine cave risk and they would be paying a double indemnity.
The commission reconunended a redraft of the amendment to pre¬ vent conflict with the federal con¬ stitution and to distribute the award to take care of past as well as fu¬ ture loss arising from mine cave disasters.
It was,alleged by the operators that the levy might as well be paid direct ta the mine owners as to be taken in the form of a tax on an¬ thracite, when the state acts toward the fund merely as a fiduciary agent. The amendment as frtuned by the mine property attorneys Is expected to include all of these points and to adjust the difference over the right to tax for such a purpose. It will be claimed, it is understood, that all parties wil Ibe benefitted.
WOMEN ARE EAGER ENEMIES OF LEAGUE RALLY HERE PROVES
Thousands of New Voters Jam Wilkes-Barre Armory and Support Lillian Russell In Pleas To Save Sons From Quarrelsome Europe and Autocratic Article Ten.
PLEDGE REPUBLICAN TICKET
Hall for the purpose of making plana
In   a  new  campaign  directed  against   which has created this issue and now
the    mine    owners.      Other    matters   th*'* ^*- *«*8 bean squarely met and Mr.
against -which thc men feel they have jast grtevaacss will also come up for consideration, Lewis Davis, chairman of the proposed session, announced last night.
One of the things to be accomplish¬ ed at the meeting will be the forma¬ tion of a general grievance committee whose members will handle all mat¬ ters over which the men are dissatis¬ fied. Thjs general grievance body will not   interfere  with   the   colliery   com
Wilson is shown to have been in the wrong, our opponent? cannot oe per¬ mitted to obscure the issue and invent another. If article X were a meaning¬ less form of words, he, (the President) would hot object to removing it. Hav¬ ing secured the imposition of the obli¬ gation he has no objection to what he considers a vacuous statement as to the way in which we discharge our ob¬ ligations."
Hughes    attacked    Governor    Cox's
CRASHUPaNTHEM
One Stealing Ride On Street Car and Other Was Playing Near Home
DRIVERS ARRESTED
wife, who said  there was someone at   adelphia.   The committee meeting will the door.    He listened and heard Jing-j determine the nature of the    sugges-
mitleos which will continue to handle statement that he was willing to ac- local disputes. The purpose back of the plan for the central body is to have complaints against conditidns and circumstances aa they develop taken directly to the company officials with¬ cut loss of time.
Conference Called. New working conditions wanted by the miners will be outlined tomorrow at Hazzleton when the full scale com¬ mittee of the United Mine Workers in the three anthracite districts will hold an a 11-day session preparatory to opening their conference on tbe fol¬ lowing day with the operators at Phil-
ling of keys al the door. He crept stealthily to a bureau and obtained a revolver. He said he purchased the revolver when the 'V\'hite apartment was robbed of several hundred dollars' worth of valuables.
Sextro walked to the door, he said, and demanded In a loud voice: "Who is there?" He asked several times, but there was no answer, he said. Mrs. White confirmed this.
First Shot Fatal
"When no one answered I threw the door open and saw the dark form of a man standing on the landing. The hall was dark .ind I could not make out the features of the face. I. shot once," Sextra said.
Rev.    Ruff,    according    to    Sextro's
tions to be made byt he men, who claim that the wage scale handed down by the Federal Coal Commission con¬ tains glaring inequalities.
President Thomaa Kennedy, of the Hazleton district, who called tomor¬ row's m eeting, declared that the entire conference progrram will be worked out by the committee. Since work was resumed ii^ all of the mines through the settlement of the "vacation" strike, the men have discovered conditions which are unsatisfactory to them. They have termed these conditions inequal¬ ities, indicating that all mine workers are not paid br treated on the same basis.
The only phase of the situation that may take the form of an outright de-
story, shouted:     "I am shot," and fell i mand is believed to be the question of to the  sairs.    He  rolled  down  to  thsj wages. The men are not satisfied with first landing, where his body was found   the  17. per cent increase given  them by his wife.   An ambulance was called i by  the  wage  commission.  They  want and removed the pastor to St. Vincent! at least 10 per cent addition, so that HospiUl at Evanston.     He   was dead i ^^^y w*" *>« P'sced on the same earn- when he ambulance reached the insti-i 1"*^ basis as the miners in the bitum- tutlon. j *"°»s fielda
Ruff inorei.»,rf i,i« ~»t« 7K ...... „««f        '^^^ conference will  last the great-
«„^ lo~   t!t^2^ t     I^^       f. ^'' ^"^ part ot the week.  During  Its  pro-
and more, according to information | ^^g, the miners will be instructed to brought out by a committee ot alder- , remain at work. The only exception men investigating the houseing situa- | to this rule that will be allowed will tion. Many of his ten tenants placed' be the observance of Mitchell Day placards in the windows, announcing! next Friday. On that day all of the that there landlord was unfair. ! mines will be Idle to permit the men
Sextro,    according    to    information |
to  pay  a  tribute  to  their former in-
CASEY AND BOSAK GIVE BIG SUM TO DEMOCRATS
cept reservations, saying that unless he had repudiated the Democratic platform, he was bound to support the covenant as submitted by President Wilson.
"The time has now passed," he said, "for efforts to placate an autocratic executl-v©. If Mr. Cox is going to part company with Mr. Wilson and is op¬ posed to article X, why should he not frankly say that he favors its elimina¬ tion? The reservations of Mr. Cox mean n othing so long as we assume the obligation.
FercInQ a War.
"What the President has called the 'absolutely compelling moral obliga¬ tion' of article X is Just as binding upon us as any obligation can be. Cer¬ tainly this obligation would be as binding. If It has any place in the treaty as any treaty obligation can be. "What Is the obligation to do? It is a guaranty to preserve a-s against external aggression the t eriJlorlal in¬ tegrity and existing political independ¬ ence of all members of the league. Does that embrace the only duty to go to war if necessary for the described purpose? Who careful of his reputa¬ tion will deny it?
"The President has recently said that there is nothing in the covenant •which, in the least, impairs the right of Congress to declare war or not de¬ clare war, according to its own ifltte- pendent Judgment as our constitution provides.'
"I confess that were this statement not over his signature I should find it difficult to credit it. If we agree to preserve the territorial integrity of every member of the league as against external aggression, can we ignore the obligation whn the exigency arises?
"We want no disputes in the future about the good faith of this country. We shall act at any given time, accord¬ ing to our conception of our duty at that time as that duty arises from the conditions that then exist. Wc want no duty imposed in ignorance of those conditions by a contract in advance."
Two boys .were killed last night in Scranton by automobiles in two differ¬ ent accidents.   One victim was crushed to death between a truck, loaded with cider and a street car on which he was stealing a ride.   The other boy to n^eet j death  was  run  down   in  front of  his! home and died  just as he w as being ! taken  into a hospital.    The drlvers,./<(f I both machines were arrested.
George Sluko, 17 years old of 206 Gibbons sireet, Dunmore, met instant death when a big truck driven by Oeorge Kerekes, a draymen of 1009 North Main avenue, Scranton, struck a Scranton Street Railway car on Drinker street hill, Dunmore. The youngster was stealing a ride on the front steps of the trolley car when the truck got beyond control of the chauffeur ^jlnd sldeswipped the car. He was swept from his place and rolled under the wheels of the truck, being killed out¬ right. ^
The police a^ested Kerekes and placed him in the county Jail where he is held while efforts are being made by his friends to have him released on bail. His machine was weighted down with many bushels of apples and sev¬ eral barrels of cider,
Stanley Hamburst, 10 years old, of 30,5 Wilbert street North Scranton, re¬ ceived fatal injuries when hit by a truck owned by Sterling R. Smith, a coal dealer of Scranton, and driven by George Brown, 21 years old, of 1438 North Lincoln avenue, Scranton. The accident happened in front of the boy's home while he was playing with sev¬ eral companions. He died as he was carried into the State hospital. Brown Vas arrested but was released under $500 bail.
FOUR NATIONS ENGAGE
IN BIG BALLOON RACE
A. J. Casey and M. Bosak, prominent business men of Scranton. are listed among the hea-vy contributors to the national fund of the Democratic party, according to the preliminary expense account of that party filed last night wfth the clerk of the House of Repre- nentatlves in Washington. They are ]»«tc-<f for contributions of (o.OOO- each Casey was a member of the firm of Cajaty Brothers, whi<;h was one of the largest wholesale liqoor houses in L«f kawanna county, while Bosak is the manufacturer of Bosak's Horke Vino.
The name of Vance McC^ormick is also on the list for $3,500, while At¬ torney General A. Mitchell Palmer gave
gathered  by the authorities,  was one j iV^^^lZ^LTn^^^J^ll k °"   ^"   *",**?'"
of   the   leaders   in   the   tenants   fight. I ^^^^ J:^^   ™"^^   ^"   ''«   '"   complete
The   pastor  was  bitter  against   those j °PJ'*"|,^-jj^.^j    co_f__._„- .. „_ iris," col6red bell boy of the Maryland,
Who opposed his rent  raising Policies I ^J^^^/J^'^'^^^P^,'^ most im^rtinT^?n   "w committed to Jail here tonight on
hllvlni'^b^en "sUrteS' bT^r-cheap ^ 'he  Wstor"y of \he  an?hrS''b«ncS   » "»— of^rnishlng liouor to Naval
^ri?'withTbee^[ncome^and a cS «' *»»« L"i^"u^«?H„f ^j;''^"- "k^'" pagne appetite." His apartment build-I ^„^*'^''"*„"?i*„"f t the  men hav©
ings. especially the onT in which he ?°"^ ^'^'^ i? *5*» '^*^^*°'^? ^^V ^''' lived and was shot, were of the bet-I J,'''^. T*"^ '^^^'^k*" ^^'t''.^l 'Whatever ter class along the north shored ! dscislon would be reached by a board
r.  « _     V,        ¦    ^ o""rc. 'composed   of   three   conciliatora   An-
Ruff was born in Crermany and came j other unnsual cicumsarce in the sltu- to this country when 20 years of age. . atlon   proved   to   be   President   Wil-
He attended Northwestern and "Wis consin Universities and taught in Lawrence college at Appleton. Wis. before accepting the pastorate of the Memorial Methodist church.
SUB-TREASURY  CLOSED.
Washington, Occ 23.—Secretary of the Treasury today issued an order dis¬ continuing the sub-treasury at Boston after Monday. The order also abol¬ ishes t he office of assistant secrtary of the Treasury at Boston. Tbe Fed- eraK Resen-e Bank of Boston is to be used in place of the sub-treasury of B««t«n. Houston aaid
son's invitation to both the operators and the men to convene once more for the purpose of bringing about satis¬ factory relations in the anthracite in¬ dustry.
¦' CHARLES E. CHITTENDEN Charles BX Chittenden, 74 years old, of 1611 Mtilberry avenue, Scranton, died last night at his home after a iengthy Illness. H© •was one of Scranlon's foremost citizens. He had been owner of a drug store for a score of years and for 14 years was a select eouncilman. H« is survived by his wtfs.
TOO MUCH  LIQUOR
Annapolis, ^d., Oct.  28.—Ollie Har-
a charge of ftirnishlng liquor to Naval Academy cadets.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
IN WRECK OF AUTO
Quakertown, Pa., Oct. 3S.—¥1ra persons were Instantly killed here eariy tonight when a southbound Le¬ high Valley electric express train struck a touring car. Two men, two women and a girl about 4 years old. believed to be from Philadelphia, were in the morgue here awaiting identlfl- catlon.
The victims Were horribly mangled.
One of the women was carried 360 feet. The body of one man was hurled flfty feet along the highway. TTi© train was derailed by the impact. Trat- fle was tied up for several hours. The express was in charge of Motorman Hiram Erb of Soud^rten and Conduc¬ tor Nase, Allantowiw
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. S3.—Seven contestants representing four nations, —Italy, France. Belgium and the "itnited Steles,—got away this after¬ noon in the international balloon race for the James Gtfrdon Bennett trophy. There were three American entrants, two Itilian. one French and orte Bel-
San. The giant gas hags got away a mild breeze, sought high altitudes and sailed rtway to the northwest. They were preceded by a pilot balloon, which is not a competitor for the trophj'.
Promptly at 4:16 the "Birmingham," piloted by Roy Donaldson and bear¬ ing representatives fiom tine two daily lapers. dropped its sand bags and started as follows:
French balloon piloted by Captain Louis Hershauer, with Leo C. Nathan, aide.
United rftates army balloon piloted by Lieutenant R E. Thompson, with II. E. Weeks, aide.
- Belgian balloon "Belglca," piloted by Lieut, firnest De Muyter, Lieuten¬ ant Mathleu la Brousse, aid©.
Italian entry "Audcns," piloted bj Major J. Malle. Lieutenant de Loon, aide. \
American entry, Kansas City IX. piloted by H. E Honeywell, winner of the American national race, with Dr. Jerom3 KIngs'serry. aide,
;taUan entry piloted by Major U. Madori. with Lieutenant A. Plarasoli, aide.
American entry, "Goodyear," pilot- td by Ralph Upaon, present interna¬ tional title holder, with W T. Van Orrminn, aide.
The Armory was filled to overflowing last night to greet the members of tbe Flying Squadron, an organisation com¬ posed of women siiellbinders Who are touring the slate in the interest of Har¬ ding for Prisldent and for the whole Republican ticket. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Republi¬ can women's committee and was one of the most successful that has been con¬ ducted in Luzerne county in several years. Fully three thousand men and women filled the main flooc, balcony and aisles of the hall, more than fifty per cent of them being women who seemed to give eager attention to the first national campaign addi'esses they heard as voters.
The meeiing was preceeded by an automobUe parade in which more than fifty machines filled with active women workers participated. The procession to the armory was led by MacLuskie's band and proceeded around the West side of the Public SJuare and down Main Street between walls of red fire. The hall was jammed full more than a half hour before the paraders arrived and more than a thousand had to be content with stainding room.
Col. Asher Miner, chairman of th£. Republican county committee, presided and seated on the platform with him were all the members of the Flying Squadron and also several chairmen of the women's committee in the various legislative districts of the county. Besides Col Miner only one mere man occupied a seal on the plat¬ form and he was Clarence D. Coughlin, the Republican candidate for Congress.
After the meeting had been called to order by Col. Miner the band played the Star Spangled Banner, following which Col. Miner made a brief address calling attention to the vital Importance to th«; nation of a Republican victory at the coming election. He made his speech as brief as possible, believing all the time should go to the members of the t'Hylng Squadron, the stellar orators of the occasion.
Three addresses were delivered by these T/omen and all of them wero such as to keep the undi-vlded atten¬ lion of the audience for more than two hour^. Two of the addresses were delivered by women who had always taken a deep interest in the cause of suffrage, Lillian Russell Moore and Miss Howard of New Tork. The other address was by Mrs. Charles Gorton of Darby, who said she felt it a duty to go about the State and preach the importance of Harding's election owing to the stand of thc Democratic parly on th© League of Nations.
Oood   Religion  ts   Vote
Miss Howard, an active suffrage worker for several years, was the flrst speaker introduced. She proved her¬ self a logical, convincing talker and ia evidently no stranger to the lecture platform. She confined herself almost entirely to the .suffrage movement and earnestly pleaied with the women voters to exercise the new power vested in them for the good of the nation. She felt it a deeply religious duty to use tho l>allot and use it as a partisan and not as a non-{>artisan.
The next spealtfer, Mrs. Charles Gorton, captured her audience at the outset by ralating a few good stories. She was one of the most entertain¬ ing -jampaicrn orators heard in this city in some time and her address was repeatedly interrupted by .applause and laughter. 'I am here tonight," she said, "to sell something and to sell it efpeclally to women. I am here to sel! you a straight Republican ticket, Hardi.ig and Coolidge, backed by a ftepublican Congress. There are a gi-eat many women here tonight who are like myseif. They did not believe in women voting. I was not in favor of women vctlng, but when the vote came 1 considered it my solemn duty to take my part in the affairs of my country.
"My father waa a Democrat—but he died forty years ago," she said, while the crowd laughed. "If he waa alive today, I have no douVit but that he'd be ashamed of his party. My friends tell me that I shouldn't be going around 'chewing th© rag' for Harding when my father was a Democrat.
"If you believe In Wllsonism and Coxism." Mrs. Gordon told the women, "if you believe in these isms' that will send our boys over the sea to fight the battles of kings and queens, then vote for the Democratic candidates. But if you believe in the party of McKinley, Lincoln and Roosevelt, that will mean that the United Stfites will do its ngbting on this side of the water, hen vote for the Republican ticket."
Although not down on the   program Tor an address Col. Miner called on Mr. I'oughlin, the candidate for Congress, •o   say   a      few   words.     When   Mr. Coughlin aroc« to speak he was glvn - a     bij ovation,    the  large    audience. •. howing nnmlstably  that  it  was with h'm in this flght to redeem the Lueerne | iliptrtct   far the Republican party.   Mr. i i'oughlin spoke briefly, but he was in-| terruptsi with enthusiastic cheers.       j
i-I© emphasized the Importance of a victory for the BepubHcan party, be- ' lie-vlng it the only way of having con- NlituUonal government returned to the country, thus ending for all time the one-man   Wilson dynasty at Washlng- lop.    The war. he said, wae    won by 1 3ll   the people, not by any one man or j party, and be believed that the peace i
should  be  the  people's peaca, not a Wilson peace.
Lillian  Russell's Conquest
The last spiker waa Lillian Russell, a woman whose reputation as an actress is natlon-wida Miss Russell made the longest address of the eve¬ ning, but she marshalled the facts sh© presented in such an interesting and thoughtful manner that th© audience stayed with her until the end. She was warmly applauded as she rose to speak. She said she always made it her business to study her part when on the stage and she never failed to learn all the other parts. "And so," she said, "when suffrage came I started in to leam a new part—lo study tho Re¬ publican party, which was my party. I also learned all about the others in the cast—the-Deny»crats. I learned ^ the records of both parties, and I a^ going to tell you of the wonderful things this great Republican party has done for the women and children of America. Our duty to our country is the first thing for us to consider. This country belongs to you and to me and our duty is Indeed a solemn one.
"Then come Into the Republican party for the protectlori of your home, your children. The history of the last half century has been history of the Republican party. I say that the Re¬ publican party is sixty years young, and when I tell you that in that sixty years, twelve out of fourteen presidents have been Republicans you will see what I mean. The Republican party Is the party of Lin(»ln, of Grant, of McKinley and of our own Roosevelt. Let me tell vou of some of its accom¬ plishments."*
Miss ilussell then read of some of the achievements of th © party. Including the abolition of slavery; establishment of ©quality of suffrage; Civil War pensions; reduction of postage; life- saving service; distribution of seeds and encouragement of agriculture; en¬ dowment pf public schools; anti-trust law; building of Panama canal; the pure food law; meat inspection law; In¬ crease of widow's pension; child labor restrictions, and postal sa^vings ser- •vlee. She referred to child labor legis¬ lation as the "the most wonderful law we have."
Qod is Forgotten
"Why should we do any more now thain we've always done?" she asked. "Haven't we -always responded, and liberally, to every call from the small nations of the world. Haven't we al¬ ways answered the call for clothing, for food, for money, and yea w© bave given the blood of our children for the protection of other natlona And we want the privilege of always doing it in Just that way. Why should we tie our¬ selves up; why should we sign our lives away to a super-government over there in Oene-va that will tell us where our boys will go.
"In the league covenant, there is not one reference lo Di^vine protection; the word of God does not appear in it. I say that nothing good, nothing true, nothing right in this world can exist without Divine help. In Pittsburgh we have a woman who has suffered a ter¬ rible tragedy in her home, so that she never appears in public. But when she learned of the covenant, she circulated a petition among the people of the city, asking President Wilson to see that the word God was included in the docu¬ ment.    She received no satisfaction.
"The League," said Miss Russell, "has no backbone; no divine protec¬ tion; it is nothing at all. I'm for a league of nations—Pm for a league- of forty-eight states on this side of the water. God knows his business when he put^the AtlanUc and Pacific oceans between us and all other countries. If© said stay there and take care of your¬ selves. Washington did the sara© thing," she said, quoting from an ad¬ dress of the latter In which he urged against entangling alliances. «
"The league would draft your sona^ It would^ make a super-government over th^fe to tell us what to do; we're not going to renounce our principles. We're Americans, and we're going to stay Americans always. I love this country better than my life," said this woman, -who was a marine recruiting sergeant during the war. "and if we are looking out for our best interests, we'll send a vacuum cleaner to Wash¬ ington and clean it up."
The Owent Glee Society of Edwards¬ ville  rendered  two  pleasing selections and were well received by the audience. All Noted Women
The flying Squadron reached this city from Scranton yesterday at noon. The members came from Scranton, where a big meeti>)g was held on Fri¬ day night. Several women of prominence in the life of the nation are identified with the Squadron. Chief among them is Lil¬ lian Russell, the noted actres.s, who in private life is Mra. Alexander P. Moore. wJife of th^ Pittsburgh publish¬ er. Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of Com¬ missioner of Forestry Pinchot. Mrs. Charles H. Gorton of Darby, a prom¬ inent social worker, Mrs. Barclay War- burton, daughter of John Wanamaker, who Is in command of the Squadron, Mrs. Elmer Meli'-k, state organizer, Mrr.. John J. O'Brien, formerly of Mtff.re Haven, Fla.; Mrs. L Ji. Ollara officer of the Ptat. F-lera- tior of "^.'oraen: Mra J. Winis Martin, ' wife of Judge Martin of Phlladelt>aia.
The .Squadron is making a tour «« Penn.sylvanla under the auspices «£ tbe Republican W'omen s State Coao- mittee. Three large touring cars ar» required to accommodate the party, all of which are decorated with G. O. P. Insignia and the words, "Flying Squadron."     ^
Kaliorv"ln«  ianchnon  in  this city an of the party with the exception of Lil¬ lian   Russell   went   by   automobile   to (Continued On Page 5).
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