RV-, - ww&!m y ll. v v i; rJ"t v . i, i 8 EVENING PUBLIC LEDd-EE PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY DECEMBER 9, 1913 m W i 7 '' " it-. V IVZr 1ST I lt Gfc i$ h. ,a Politics Inside Out J Nowadays, Says Vare 1 , M'entlnofd fnn re One ia'fffctdh&t you can get a longer and bet- - 1 vai 4 ivi9 iui n, inunci 111 i'iiiim.oiin F?X for dolnc this the Comrrmamnn quail- sjncti nn nn. expert oy Bnowms inm no jajrmu ridden on earn in i-ameien, Wil mington ana Atlantic city New York, Chicago and efrnl other point! where car lines are operated were Tlot mentioned, either becatipe of time limitation- or because they are not tech nically within the confines of civiliza tion. Danger In Smaller Council Mr, Vare expressed great anxlet oer the fate of representative government and thedemocracy for which the world has been fighting The great menace which he described rising on the political horizon like a funnel-nhaped cloud on the edge of a wheat field In bleeding Kansas was the movement for a single City Council of small numbers or a com 5 mission to govern the cltv He criticised the advocates of charter revision for not having said more about It before the last elecMn He thought they should have made It a campaign issue then in stead of waiting until e-verjbody had been elected O. O, r. rillartd on Truth After explaining that polltlci Is now ".ibfolutelj free," since a candidate for office doesn t even have to pav to flic his petition, Ileprcscntatlvp Vare de scribed the dlvl-lon, ward and city or ganizations as the appear on the sur face and as they are supposed to be The whole sjstem he described as ob solutcly a sstem of democracy In Its ery, very general form ' The Republican organization, he said is based on the same things that are the foundation of a successful business truthfulness and quality of Fervlce With them, of course, go unlimited en ergy, pere erence and activity There ace times when the system does not please the public press, said Congressman Vare Fearful apparent y that he would be misunderstood, he said "I refer to the newspapers He th-n ticnt on to note that while President W ' son waB more loudly cheered than Mr Hughes whenever their pictur s were flashed on the motlon-plcturo screens In Philadelphia, the Republic-in orgnlza Uon rolled up a majority of 100 000 m Mr Hughes "New lork dldn t give Hughes a mnjorlty neither did l hlcago neither did lioston Why did l'hlladtl- phlaT" asked the Ilepresentatlve Wh Orjnnlmtlon Triumphs There was an awkward pause No body seemed to know You eoulel have heard a knife or fork drop "Because," he answered 'the organ ization lit Philadelphia maintains the jilghest standard of efficiency ' "Why a year ngo, when every piper In the city was opposing the organlza- tlon did It elect Its candidates?" This was another poser Hverybody turned to somebody els, each looking for an answer in the others eyes '"Because," said the Hepresentatlve wlth slow emphasis, ' the party organlza- ' tlon was based on truth and Integrity of purpose. No equivocation, no mental reservation " The Congressman then took up the cudgels for the present couiicllmanle and ward system 'It doesn't ap'peal to the public press; It doesn't appeal to men who want to see their names con stantly In the papers; It doesn't "M"1 to the so-callid reformers," he said, but It appeals to the man of common sense Who wants his taxes kept down, Defends "llrotlier l.d" on T.t Hnt "Porno business men asked Senator Vare If he would help keep the tax rate dovn, and he said that, although no had no vote in Councils, he would ad- i vise and co-operate to tho best or. nis ability to the end that the tax rate ue kept down Yet not a newspapiT puD hshed those facts without distorting them They represented Senator are as sitting as a czar and .saying "lel i rato should not bo incriased Well, i undtTUand that wo arc going -the same tax rate mmlW Keforni Cnmlhlule Hcpresentatlvo Vare said the 'so called reform candidate for Hicelver of Taxes" a year ngo, being unqualified to vote, made aindavlt that he had been out of town on the thrte registration days, but did not go back to mike the second affidavit, realizing that to 'do so might bring him nearer to 'plaies that wtro undeslinble where fresh air and sunshine would not bo so easy to secure us on the puhllc highways W I'reeland Kcndrlck, Itecnlver of Tnxes followed Senntor Vare eulogizing tho organization, criticizing all who crit icize It and urging harmony among the organization leaders, tho ' so-called re formers, ' and the editors Vrnntronc Offers i:pliinatlnn Tlio man to whom HcnreM.ntnt.lw Vare nlluded aa the r. form candidate for Receiver of Taxes a year ngo Is Thomns V Armstrong Mr Armstrong to'il what Representative vare nan saw of him, said Tor years I have summeied at Oiin City On Tuesdays I went to New York on snturdavs I was never In town Two of tho registration d ivs wire Tues days, the other Saturday (m mcseiiiys 1 Rot Into town from Oain C Ity nt twenty minutes of nine -mil took thp nine oc'oek train to iw V.ork So 1 wis technically In the cltv on two regis tration days Howevti for vpars I hid made if lldavlt tint I, was not In town on the registration dnvs and was never que Honed, though evervbodv kmw I had been In town twenty minutes on two registration divs Tho atlldavlt whs llko eertieln mmp '0 44-100 per cent true 't wnb so nearh true tint nobodv was snnll enough to question It But I fought that gang of crooks ten v ears In Councils and nothing was too "mill for th.m to do against me a year ago I dldnt go back to make another affidavit hepatite I was told it was no ute. for thev would deprive me of my vote on the technicality You see how hard pressed they were $7,500,000 Spent in German Plots Continued from Tare One messiRe In 1015 to the German consul at St I.ouls, s-vylng that two agents for the Brotherhood of Metal Workers in New loik, Samuel Scollard and J. V r f all had begun a movement to stop tho shipment of munitions to the- Allies Scollnrd was afterward InJIcted In the Industrial Workeis of the World trial nt Chicago Tho witness told how, when Captain rvanr von Rlntelen came to the United S ates In 191D to erldcavor to stop ship ments to Great Britain, he met David I.amar, conv Icted afterward In New York and eent to prison for Impersonating A. Mitchell Palmer, then a member of Con gress Von Rlntelen formed labor ifc rarlzatlons In the Interest of keeping the United States out of the war, lluougii Lamar, he raid, and In connection with that work (500,000 was collected. Moner Used In Polities The New York SUats Zdtung was mentioned by Dlelaskl In connection with the financing of a secret propiganda to the cxten of 1495. A letter from Bern storff to B H Bidder, of hat paper, said 'to my great regret I am unablo'to re fund any money for political purposes, as I feel that we must keep out of the domestic politics of the United States " "I think that letter must have been written for publication," said Dlelaskl ' because tho money was paid." Just what was the project referred to was not disclosed by the correspondence, but the witness said It might have been In connection with the election of Congressman Buchanan. A letter from Theodoro Otto, (Jcrman consul at Allentown, Pa , addressed to the counsellor of the German embassy, was read by tho witness, telling of a conversation between Otto and an un named person "Our conversation drift ed fb tho military preparedness of the United States." tho letter said. "And I heard that a relative of this gentlnnnn held a position In which he was able to give Information In this regard. Per haps It might be opportune to follow out this clew." Blelaskl was asked by Senator Over man to put In the hearing an account nt thp nntlvltleR of Bolo Pasha, executed I In France as a spy, while he was In thl country. Gives Fnctn on Itolo lolo wah brought to this country In n rptirpseniattve of Hearst Blelaskl siltl ' and was taken to the German Umbasse by Adnlph Pappnstndt, a weilthy Grr man of New York who Is now Interned -! ,ater tho witness said, B61o was intro duced to Henrst, who Invltod him to lunch and who later attended a number of meetings with him Bolo's mission In this country was ostensibly to obtain print paper, the committee was told, but, hi reality, it was to obtain money for purchtslng a paper In France. After get ting It, he returned to France, "There Is one ftct about. Bolo wo have which wbb ne'ver brought out before," Blelaskl said. "That Is that ho was In touch with tho German embassy here shortly after war began In 1914. In a noto book of Ur Albert, which wo have In our possession, this entry appears. " 'Prepare telegram to Pasha. That showB conclusively that tho embassy knew Intimately of Bolo and probably knew of his activities" Couldn't Influence Negroes Ufforts of the Qermans to create pro nerman feeling among the negroes of the South proved entirely unsuccessful, Blelaskl stnted. Stories were clrculatedj there to the effect thnt tho negroes were desendants of tho Indlnns.Mnd that they veero the rightful owners of tho land In stead of tho white people. .Another story, designed to crente feeling agnlnst tho English, was a perverted account of the aid given the South during the Civil War 'The negroes tildn t tako to these stor!es however," Utcliskl said, "as they wero too loyal Money spent lntho South for propaganda was thrown away " Activities of tho I.ibor's National Pp'ice Council, organized In Chicago In Miv 19JC, were discussed hv Blelaskl The purpose of the organization was 'n demind that the shipment of mu nitions to the Allies be stopped. Th" council accomplished nothing, Blelaskl slid Iirgely because Samuel Gompers took a firm stand against It Questioned about the attitude of WIN im Itnndolph Hearst Tllclnkl ald: 'Of all tho newspapers published In the United States those published by Mr. Hearst were tho most pronounced In favor of Qcrminy. There Is no other man whoso attitude wa bo friendly to Germany In the war" "If this Inquiry were limited to psld propagandists;" he added, "we could not mention Mr. Henrst. Thero is no evi dence that Mr. Hearst, received any profits from the German Government or from any one acting for It." "What wn htn attltudo after the United states entered the war?" asked Chairman Overman "'After we entered the war," said the witness, "his attitude continued very questionable. Many articles In hlB pnP If published before the passage of the espionage act, as amended, would have subjected him to prosecution " SEIZE SAXON KING'S FORTUNE New Government Also Sequesters Princes runda (lenevn, Dec 9 (By A. P.) The en tiro fortunes of former King Frederick August of Saxony and his brother, Prlnco John George, have been nlactd under soquestratlon by tho new Saxon Government, according to Swiss news papers , I'he properties and estates of the for nor S-xnny royal family have been confiscated provisionally whllo payment of the civil list has been stopped, Joel G. Van Cise Dead Summit, N. J Dec. 9. Joel G. Van Clse, twice the Prohibition nominee for Governor of New Jersey and for fortv fie yenrs connected with the Hqultshle Life Assurance Society, died Sunday after n long Illness nt his home here He was In his seventy-fifth year and leaves a widow, four etaugnters and three sons Mr. Van Clse was actuary of the Hqultable eleven years, and for twentv-slx years was assistant actuary He retired nine years ago and had been in Invalid seven years BOY OF 17 RETURNS A HERO Koystono Youtli Wounded and Cited for Valor on Field His name Is Private Joseph Rodkey, but he Is no "rookie." Only seventeen years old, wearing a citation cord awarded by the French Government and a red Keystone given members of the Iron Division hv General Perahlnv Rookey-lg back at his home with rela lives, Mr, and Mrs J. ll Ward, at Drexel Hill, recovering from wounds and shell shock. private nookey went to France with the 109th Machlne-aun Battalion and nw active service six straight days u Chateau-Thierry. During that time he had two canteens of water, four pieces of hardtack and virtually no sleep. When It was over his clothing was In shreds. One time he stood with two compan ions hy a road. A shell killed both his friends. At another time he was with a detachment In which one man was killed and two wounded by a shell. On August 9 Rooltey was operating his machine gun from the top of a cliff. After firing 2000 rounds the gun broke and he started to crawl back after, a new part A German sniper saw him nnei he received n bullet wound in the leg. A minute Inter a high explosive shell threw him ten feet In the air. He was unconscious twenty-four hours on the field before he was found and taken to a hospital 1 UW-uiaiMMfdM nmnminmmi.il mTmSggySn,llv,... ..nnmi Artistic Lamps For Xmas Gifts Enrich the'home Lend Beauty to the sur roundings Dispel Gloom. Lamps of exclusive pattern and excellent workmanship at moderate prices. The Horn & Brannen Mfg. Co. 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