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Wednesday, September 16. THE FORT WAYNE DAILY NEWS CIRCULATION FOR AUG, 16,412 1 15,982 2 8un. 3 17,003 4 17,600 6 15.768 6 19,771 7 19,006 8 18,046 9 8un. 10 16.901 11 15,924 12 16,032 13 16.078 14 16,156 15 16,963 16 Sun. 426,694 Daily Average 26 Dayi.

.16,412 The above statement of circulation of the Pally N'ews has been prepared anil verltted bv me ami Ik correct. A. FERRIS. Circulation Manner. Subscribed and Bworn to before me tills in day of September, 1SU.

CHARLES M. BRINK. Notary Public Mv commission expires Jan. 27. 1916.

FORT WAYNE NEWS Newt Publishing Company SI LiSi'KU'TION RATES: Bv Mall, per Annum Bv Mull, per Month Carrier, per Week, Delivered Second Class Matt' anient Poll office Hi 1 Wayne, Ind. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1914. iha meantime our beloved Jnpn And still Hie reluctant Impreaalon Is upon that there are some decidedly accomplished llara giving out concerning Hie war in And wh' ii you walk up to pay taxes jiiHl remember that the increase haa been clue to the wicked and wilful extravagance of "ur administration of "economy i retrenchment und reform." A cablegram from Amsterdam con veyi the ohewlng information that the American minister to Holland. Brand Whltlock, lias succeeded In cornering the cattle market In Brussels and Is manipulating things to hla heart's desire. That's a dandy little commentary on American statesmanship now Isn't It? Homer I Cook announces that lie will defend himself In any court against the.

charges of legislative fraud. Inasmuch, however, as Governor Ralston will not demand the calling of the grand Jury to Indict him. Mr. Cook Is comparatively safe. And no doubt it Is upon the governor's remarkable attitude that he Is banking.

Colonel Roosevelt vigorously expressed his disgust over the result In Maine hut declared that the campaign In other states would be vigorously pushed Just the same. It Is good that the colonel feels that way about It and It Is to be hoped that he will push with all his might. For It will make all the more acute his feelings on the morning after the November election. This Is the year the colonel Is going to get It ns he never got It before, and It Is to he hoped that tha experience will do him good. Many a man has been saved from his fully by a hard bump, and may even do the colonel good.

One has only to watch the amies of the food market these days to realize, that the sensational boosts given to the prices of flour and other staples, aside from sugar, ore the result of wild speculation. Sugar's price in the main la due in the competition of the United States and Kngland for the Cuban crop and is a very natural conseuuenoo of tho present tariff law und the Euro pean war. But the prices of most of the other commodities arc due to the attemplH of frenzied gamblers to create an abnormal condition and commercialize public necessity, a task which has been materially lightened for them by the reckless buying of panic str icken householders the country over. And the sorry Joke of it all Is that despite the ostensible activity of the federal government to put an end to this abuse, the shameful exploitation of the people la allowed to continue without let or hindrance. The THggart press bureau declares with a nourish that If the republicans are placed In control of the state gov emmenl they will not dare reduce the tax levy.

However, they can be depended upon not to raise It again, and that is considerably more than can he said for Mr. Taggart'a merry men. In view of the wild excesses and extravagances that have been Indulged In Tor the thn or four years, It is patent thai the present tax levy will have to sijind for awhile In order to permit a cancellation of the state's obligations, but by business like and Judicious management these burdens heaped upon us by Incompetence and extravagance can be lifted and a return be mnile to reasonable taxation. But It goes without saying that so long as the present regime Is continued In power, Just so long will our taxes be multiplied and Increased. It Is high time for a change In the control of affairs In Indiana, According to the summary of the German casuallty lift there have been less than 7,606 German soldiers slain lb action since the beginning of the pnsm i war.

While the vast number of men engaged and the terribly de of modern warfare would seem to dls credit as unduly minimized this ad mission of loss. It nevertheless tends to discredit as thoroughly the allies' assertions of "thousands of German dead" covering every battlefield, and to sadly discount those thrilling yarns of dead bodies stacked six feet high. Unquestionably the German lossea have been heavy and the correct figure Is probably somewhere between the Germans admit and what the allies claim. But let no one believe quite all he reads of the "awful sluught When we remember that during our ow civil war of four years only 67,000 t'nlon soldiers were killed, we may be better able to revise busty estimates of what hns happened In Europe dur 8UCH 18 FAME. Upon what splendid foundations are laid the claims of cerluln favored ones to fame and to applause! Note the following press telegram: "COVINGTON, Sept.

11 Chnrles E. oliphant, of Covington, unit Miss Opal Cunningham, of Foster, were married In Justice Patterson's matrimonial annex, Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. The young people will reside in Cov ington. The groom is a cousin of the funious (Jlen nilphaiit, Purdue football Mar, who is widely known In the pigskin world." By the way. who knows anything about the present whereabouts or activities of the football hemes of And.

who THE MAINE ELECTION. Tho republicans certainly have every reason to be well content with the result of the election in Maine on Mondav. where they increased their vote 150 per centum over the vole cast for Tsft two years ago and where the bull moose vote suffered the very significant slump of 65 per centum. To be sure, a democratic governor was elected by a small plurality, but his the result In Its bearing on national issues must he considered from the congressional elections where the republicans seated three of their four candidates. This result Is all the more noteworthy In view of the fact that when the congressional election in Maine two years ago was held, with the republicans and moosers cooperating on candidates who had been nominated before the split at the Chicago national convention, the democrats elected two of the four.

And yet today, In spite of the defection of the bull moose element, the republicans elect three of the four congnssmen. The feature of this election which should appeal to all honest moosers, however, is that which hat been repeatedly emphasized In all other elections held since the fact that the bull moose party Is nothing more nor less today than a democratic sideshow. Accepting the assertion that the bulk of the moosers were originally republicans. II must be plain that If the moose tickets were not In the field, inooarrs generally would support the republican organization. In fact, It is remarkably plain that In many sections the democratic party la financing the moose campaign, proceeding on the theory that every vote that organiaatinn gains is a vote lost to tho republican cause.

It Is a democratic game all the way through that Is being played and such men as Albert J. Beverldge are parties to the great conspiracy. TAGGART'S OPPORTUNITY. If Indiana hail a stale wide primary law, Tom Taggarc would be nominated by the Hoosler democracy for the United States senate. Mr.

Taggart Is a multimillionaire and he has complete control of the democratic machine. Moreover. It Is known that he absolutely dominates four lifths of tho democratic papers of Indiana, besides being on friendly relations with the others. Yet Mr Taggart Is a politician of the most objectionable type. He clings to the ancient strong arm methods which so discredited politics In the pant, and he lias for years been a ruthless boss, his rough work In "putting tnings across" being relieved only by a very (harming personality and his always liberal treatment of his vanouished party foes.

It Is not too much to say that Mr. Taggart is representative of that which Is worst In American politics and is exponential of all that the reformers of today are crying out against. He Is a politician of the old school and an unconscior able boss. Yet, If we bad a state wit primary law he would be his party nominee for the senate beyond the shadow of a doubt. Ills vast financial resources, his absolute domination of the machine, and his personal popularity with "the boys In the trenches' would sweep him io an overwhelming victory.

Still, we know that Mr. Taggart doea not dare to try conclusions at a state convention where the responsibility is centralized in the voting delegate. He tried it once and he lost even men who longed to vote for him not daring to brave the wrath of tho antl Taggart element, and compromls lng on a candidate not objectionable to either faction. The anti Taggart element of the Indiana democracy has always been eminently respectable and has, moreover, enrolled men of much Influence in their respective communities. It has been sufficient to block Mr.

Taggart In the open light of axonventlon or a legislature, but It could never stop him In the shadowy zone of a direct primary, where the dear pee pul are supposed to rule. He would win in Indiana Just as his friend and co worker, Roger Sullivan, won In Illinois. PRIVATE OPINIONS PUBLICLY EXPRESSED To lbs eTTheNaSri: Tile writer Is of tin, opinion that mils, out, he BEWARE the price of Italy's neutrality and treachery to thp Triple Alliance Is the Italian speaking territory of Austria Hungary In case the Triple Kntente wins, Italy's mobilisation of troops has kept hundreds of thousands of Austria Hungarian troops on the Italian border, which otherwise would be employed against the Allies. In case of victory for German and Austria Hungarian arum they would be Justified in cleaning up the Italian nation and putting It out of existence, because her base treachery In falling to fulfill her part in the Triple Alliance has made the lighting against the Triple Kntente all the harder and where defeat may now he tho case with Germany and Auslrin Hungary. victory would have been certain with Italy's aid.

CURSE THE TRAITOR. Big Fire In Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH, Sept. Fire early today destroyed the seven story building occupied by the Logan Gregg Hardware company, In the downtown section of the city, with a loss of about 1600,000, of which (400,0000 was on goods In the building. Jose Elwell, a fireman, was Injured.

His hand waa severed. ASK THE CLERKS at the Acme Quality Paint Store for the best varnish for your linoleum. Corner Main and Clinton streets. Ten smiles for a nickel. Always buy Red Cross Ball Blue, have beautiful ch ar white clothes.

Touring cars, 510. WHAT WILL BE TAXED TO COVER THE DEFICIT? GASOLINE, BEER, WINE AND ALL SORTS OF PAPERS. WASHINGTON, Sept H. Demo cratlc Leader Underwood and his colleagues on the ways and means committee today Are preparing the emergency revenue bill, substituting a stamp tax for the freight Impost proposal. This was ordered by the house democratic caucus.

The hill, whkqh has the approval of President Wilson and Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, will call for a special tax on bankers and brokers to raise $6,806,000 by a stamp tax similar to that of the Spanish American war on bonds, certificates and legal paper. This Is expected to bring In 135,000,000. There will be an extra tax of fifty cents a barrel on beer, twelve cents a gallon on dry domestic wines and twenty cents on sweet domestic wines, a tax on licenses for tdbaccO manufacturers and dealers, and a levy of two cents a gallon on gasoline. It is estimated that the measure will bring In SlOS.OuO.OOO annually. Banks, with a capital not exceeding (25,000, are to pay 120 and 12 additional for each additional stock anil bond brokers, (50; pawnbrokera, (20; commercial brokers, (20; custom house brokers, (10; theaters, museums and concert halls In cities Of more than 25,000 population, (100; all other pub nt places, (10; bowling DESPITE GERMAN BULLETS, BELGIAN DISPATCH BEARER DOES HIS DUTY) M.

Bergen leaving hospital with Red roe. other. Bergen, a Belgian dispatch bearer, successfully rags) twenty alia. through tie German lines to a dispatch to Wlllebroeea (ertreas, near MaJlnea. In spKi of wounds from German bsJWta, received deli rtac deliver serious alleys and billiard halls.

(5 a table or alley. The tax on tobacco dealers ranges from (6 to dealers In leaf tobacco, doing an annual business not exceeding (50,000. to (24 on cigar dealers with a I'M it a year. Administration Was Lioked. WASHINGTON, Sept.

Insurgent democrats won a victory over Majority Leader Underwood and the administration, when they forced the abandonment of the proposition to place a 3 per cent tax on all freight charges for emergency revenue purposes. Following a conference with President Wilson and Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, Mr. Underwood went before the democratic caucus of the house last night and withdrew his scheme. Republican Senators Againet It. Republicans In the senate, however, seized upon the revenue tax measure as the vital Issue In the coming congressional campaign.

At a caucus attended by all the republican senators In Washington It was determined to obetruct the passage of any taxation measure during the present session, on tho theory that it Is not needed If there Is an economy In expenditures. Subject to further change, the tax bill, as It will be Introduced in the house as a result of the caucus, will provide for an Increase of llfty cents In the beer tax, twelve cents a gallon on domestic dry wines, twenty cents a gallon on domestic sweet wines, tfVO cents a gailon on gasoline, and the re enactment of schedule A of the Spanish American war stamp tax. Schedule A provides for the taxation of commercial Instruments. No will be levied on whiskey or proprietary medicines. Senators Defeat Underwood.

Majority Leader Underwood woe forced to hack water by his followers in the house. The leader's capitulation came, however, only after he learned that a tax en freight never could get through tho senate. Senator Simmons polled the democratic membership of the finance) committee and found It unalterably opposed to tho freight tax. The senator then polled the entire democratic membership of the senate. He found no supporters for the freight tax in the body.

He so Informed President Wilson und Mr. Underwood at their conference. The president then suggested that the freight tax be abandoned, and Mr. Underwood agreed. The poll of the senate, however, demonstrated that the democrats there are as much divided over the whole subject of taxation as In the house.

A caucus of the senate democrats will be called Just as soon as the tax bill peases the house, In order to make It a party measure and thus command united support for It. Underwood Tskee the Blame. At tho house caucus Mr. Underwood addressed his colleagues, saying that he and not President Wlleon wai responsible for the freight tax The majority leader asserted that when he first broached the subject to the preal dent the latter disapproved of It. After argument, however, he gave it a teolt consent If the purty In congress agreed It was proper.

The fuss stirred up In the house convinced president It was not proper and, therefore, he recommended that It be dropped. Mr. Underwood said he expected tho tax on gasoline to return more than two thirds of the amount needed to make up the deficit in the customs revenue caused by tbe European war. There has been much objection to this tax, but It appeared that the house would agree to It. The democrats still regard the situation as a erltlonl one.

In view of the notion of tho senate rcpublicana, If there Is an defection In the party at all, the war revenue measure will either be beaten or ubandoned. Tho house members want to adjourn. Tho republican senators have made adjournment practically Impossible by their agreement. Haa a Birthday Party. Il el villi ill birthday anniversary with a birthday party on the Kmnresa stage after the last venlng performance.

He haa made elab rate preparations for the event and has Invited a number of friends. We make a specialty of funiiahing hotels, churches, lodge and club rooms. Fos The Book Reviewer By WALT MASON He riewB the pile of printed junk, in covers made of oloth or leather, that he must reaid, to earn the plunk that keeps his frame and soul together and, as he views, his spirits sink, his mind grotfa bluer vet and bluer. "The idiots who wade in ink!" exclaims the heartsick book reviewer. The same old junk, in gorgeous lids, the same hack authors and their brothers! The writers new, who make their bids for fame by imitating others; the melodrama raw and red, the maiden and her vile pursuer.

"Won't some one cure my aching headt" exclaims the wearied book reviewer. The book of verse that breaks the heart, with halting lines and doleful pitches; the novel, resolutely smart, that treats of idle rich and riches; the Kaufman type of ripe romance, that takea us through the slum and sewer, and makes white slaves of palsied "God save us!" cries the book reviewer. And there is always Oppenheim, whose diplomats and dukes are dismal, and Austin Freeman, who in crime, is sounding depths that are abysmal; the tired reviewer scans the heap for something better, stronger, newer, and scans in vain, then goes to sleep his job has killed the book reviewer. (Copyright, 1914, by The Adams Newspaper Service.) WEATHER SUMMARY I Uiral Office Weather Bureau, Fort Wayne, Sept. Wit.

ice yesterday morning there have plains stales from the Rockies to the Mississippi, but the rainfall has not extended to the states east of the Mississippi river. At Kansas City a rainfall of 1.14 Inches occurred yesterday, making a total fall of more than four Inches at that slat hm during thirty six hours. Some rain la reported from the north Pacific coast districts, where another storm has Moderately warm weather Is general throughout the central states, but some low temperatures ore reported from the extreme northwest. A tropical storm is apparently central off the Florida coast, snd it Is giving high winds and some rain over the south Atlantic coast districts. The season during which these storms approach the Florida and gulf coasts extends from August to November, and this Is the first one of this season to approach our coasts.

Fair and moderately warm weather will continue In this section tonlgbt and Thursday. No frosts are probable for the next two or three days anyway. KP g2 li Atlanta .0 Clear Atlantic City 88 II .1 Clear Bismarck 70 41 Pt. Cldy Boston 74 II .0 Clear Honralii .0 Clear Charleston 10 II .02 Cloudy Chicago 76 .0 Clear Cincinnati 82 .0 Clear Cleveland 78 64 .0 Clear Denver 88 68 .0 Clear Deis Moines 82 70 .0 Cloudy Detroit 71 62 .0 Pt. Cldy Dulutb 71 62 .04 Cloudy ftastport 71 .0 Clear Kvansvllle 78 60 .0 Clear FORT 81 60 .0 Pt.

Cldy Galveston 90 82 .01 Clear Grand Rapids 78 66 .0 Pt. Cldy Helena 64 36 .0 Ft, Cldy Indianapolis tO .0 Pt. Cldy Jacksonville 64 .02 Rain Kansas City 82 72 S.14 Cloudy Knoxvllle 62 .0 Clear Los Angeles 72 64 .0 Cloudy ....80 68 .0 Clear 24 .01 Cloudy 66 .0 Clear Montgomery 80 Is .0 Dear Vow ori. an 14 70 Clear New York 70 66 .0 Clear OkJanoma 72 .0 Cloudy Pittsburgh 71 64 .0 Clear Raleigh 74 68 Cloudy St. Louis 74 14 .0 Clear St mm 80 it .0 Cloudy Salt Lake City 74 42 .0 Cloudy San Antonio 7t .0 PI.

Cldy San Francisco to 64 .0 Cloudy S. Ste. Marie 72 52 .01 Cloudy Seattle so .1 Rain 8pokane 44 .01 Clear Toledo 10 .0 Clear Washington 72 52 .0 Cloudy Wichita 74 .0 Pt. Cldy Winnipeg 70 52 .28 Cloudy Observations taken at 7 a. m.

central standard time. Precipitation for twenty four hours ending 7 a jjn. State of weather at 7 a. m. W.

8. PALMER. Local Forecaster. No person in Fort Wayne, with a reputation for paying their honest debts, need ever have to buy of installment houses. They can obtain needed credit at Foster's.

PEACHES! PEACHES! We'll have another car Yellow Freestone, 21.36 biiBheL We deliver to any part of the city. 106 East Columbia street The third anniversary of the dedication of Kmmaus hall will be celebrated by the Young Men's society on Thurso day evening, Sept. 17, 1914. It will be a smoker combined with a progressive card party. A large attendance Is looked for.

Lunch will be served. Music has also been arranged for. Scherer says: Eat "Milk Maid" Bread; it's good. Probably the most costly tree In the world Is a plane tree, which grows In Wood street Londoa It occupies a space that would bring a rental of $1,250 a year, and this capitalised at thirty years' purchase gives a value of Gold Seal, a perfect cigar for a nickel. A considerable number of well to do i 'blncse in Manchuria are able to read and write English.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. For United SUtes Senator: HUGH TH. MILLER, of Columbus. For Judga of the Supreme Court: (Fifth District) QUINCT A. MYERS, of Logansport.

For Judge of Appellate Court: (First District) LUCIUS C. EMBREE, of Princeton, and IRA C. BATMAN, of Bloornington. (Second District) IT. S.

1.1*11. of Huntington; M. A. CHIPMAN, of Anderson, and 8. J.

CRUMPACKER, of Bouth Bend. For Secretary of State: ED JACKSON, of New Castla For Treasurer of 8tate: JOB FREEMAN, of Terre Haute. For Auditor of State: I. NEWT BROWN, of Franklin. Fur Attorney Genera): ELE STANSBURY, of Wllllamsport.

For State Superintendent of Publle Instruction: DR. HORACE ELLIS, of Vlncennea For Clerk of the Supreme and Appellate Courts: WILL H. ADAMS, of Wabaab. For State Geologist: HARRY R. CAMPBELL, of Indianapolis.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY For Congress, Twelfth District: CHARLES R. LANE. For Judge of the Superior Court: WILLIAM ft. BALLOU. For Prosecuting Attorney: WILLIAM E.

CLAPHAM. For Mate Senator: GEORGE H. LOESCIf. For State Representatives: P. B.

MOORS, ERNEST A. WARNER and CARL S. TUMBLESON. For Clerk: OTIS L. FRIEDLINHI.

For Auditor: For Auditor: W. H. LATOURRETTB. JOHN 11. YAOOY.

For Sheriff: GEORGE W. GILLIE. For Coroner: DR, J. KINO. For Surveyor: FRANK J.

BROWN. For Assessor: MELVILLE M. CLAPP. For Commissioner: (Second District) WILLIAM BUIUtKLL. (Third District) O.

A. DENTHI.HHl'K. Trustee Wayne Townahlp: W. T. JKFFEH1EH.

For Township Assessor: EDGAR PIEHKON. For Juatlco of the Peace: CHARLES FLUTTER and and the Worst is Yet to Coma I.