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Today It Is Wilson's Day. The Mammoth Dies. How Kings Pass On. "Let Him Not Boast-" By ABTHUB BBISBA5E. (Copyright. 1111 Yon read, this morning the great news that changes the face of the world, restores hope to humanity, substitutes building for -destruction, peace for murder. You know the part that this nation has played in this great peace, in the salvation of the hu man race. You know the man who has directed the effort of your coun try, whose determination made this kind of peace in advance, certain. You have today the opportun ity, with your votj, to tell the people of Europe what the peo ple of this country think of their President Woodrow Wilson has done good work for you. He has other work as important to do, in re construction, in adjustment. He wants nothing from you FOR HIMSELF, but asks the power to work for you. Time enough for politics and partisanship later. Today the United States will vote with the President of the United States, with the army and navy of the United States, with the magnifi cent victory that is due to the United States. A few months ago Berlin be lieved that German arms were about to strike Paris. German shells were exploding in Paris, Paris heard the German guns n&ht and day. "Now the army of the United States is within striking distance of Berlin, flying machines could no there and back easily but they will not need to go. You hare read all the great news, including the Austrian peace terms complete surrender. Quite a change in a few months. Dozens of automobile trucks bearing the Hohenzollern arms have been arriving at a castle in Switzerland owned by a friend of the Kaiser. Switzerland would make the Kaiser's safest home if he could get there. In Switzerland every man is a soldier, with his gun in good order all the .year .round, and if they accept aman they protect him. The hour glass of history Is .turned upside -down. t Voltaire fled to 'Switzerland to escape the power of kings. He went to Switzerland's border to visit his friend, Frederick of Prussia, who played with phil osophy between wars. Frederick's successor, the Hohenzollern of today, is send ing his property to Switzerland, to escape the power of the peo ple. "Let him not boast that put teth his armor on." Did you read carefully the Kaiser's letter, in which, on behalf of the Hohenzollems, he bade farewell to power? The letter will stand as one of the great marks in history. For if this nation and the allies make democracy permanent after the war, the letter addressed by the Kaiser to "Your Grand Ducal Highness" Prince Maximilian, will stand as the farewell word of autocracy on this planet. Kings that are well behaved will survive for a while, as the vermi form appendix survives, when it doesn't become inflamed inside of ns. But the days of kings that rule are ended. These are the fare well words of the last great autocrat: "A new order comes into force which transfers the fundamental rights of the Kaiser's person to the people." That is 4the dying word of autocracy. The Kaiser says "Thus comes to a close a period which will stand in honor before the eyes of future generations." As a matter of fact, thus comes to a close a period, the end of which marks the coming of age of the human race. Strange and dramatic are the endings of kings. The greatest dies, like an eagle in a cage, on the rock of St. Helena. The most good natured, moral king of France, Louis Sixteenth, dies un der the guillotine's knife. St Louis, the good king of France, his mind turned toward the Holy Land, has himself taken from his royal bed and put on a bed of ashes that he may die humbly as a Christian. Caesar is murdered when he could have been most useful. The Georges of our colonial days die fat in body, weak in mind. Charles the Fifth. Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain, perse cutes PROTESTANTS in Spain because it pleases him, protects Martin Luther in Germany, to oblige his large fat friend Henry the Eighth, angry because the Pope won't give him a divorce. Charles spared Luther to help Henry to spite the Pope. With everything in lis grasp, Charles the Fifth, fiftv-five years of age. divides his kingdoms anon his children, and retires to a mon astery, where he mixes stern awtirism with, active politics, and WEATHER: Fair taalgat and tomor row not much chance In temperature. Tempera ture at 8 a. m-, 47 de cretal normal tempera ti i for Nov. B far laat 30 years, 49 degrees. NUMBER 10,972. ALLIES ATTACK ON A LATE REPORTS SHOW BIG VOTE TO BE POLLED BY EMMY r t NEW YORK. Nov. 5. Sin. Catherine Smith, wife or the Democratic candidate for gover n6r, today eaat the flrat ballot la the. flrat assembly dlatrlct, the polling alaee for -which rraa di rectly aerosa the atreet from the Smith home. Early reports to political head quarters here showed today that the American voters are fuming out early and in great numbers for onfumtn. of the mosVspirited elections in the nation's history. Both Democrats and "Republicans today were confident of victory- At Democratic national headquar ters, it was stated that a Democratic majority in the Senate is certain. Party leaders said the party will gain a Senator each in Rhode Island and Nebraska, and if it loses one each in Illinois and Kansas, where the fight has been close, "South Da kota and Massachusetts should re turn a Democratic Senator each." If the Democrats held the balance of their present strength, they would increase their present majority in the Senate by two, under these cir cumstances. G. O. P. Claims Senate. At Republican headquarters, how ever, it was claimed that the Re publicans will elect fifty senator. In-1 eluding one each from Illinois. Man- j and Kansas all claimed by the Dem ocrats giving the Republicans a gain of six or seven and a majority of two In the Senate. Both headquarters admitted the House outcome Is uncertain. The Democratic National Committee de clared today that the party will gain from fifteen to twenty-fle In the (Continued 'on Fagc 3, Column 4.) 1 .200 NE VOTES CAST HERE Residents of Washington cast about 1,200 votes for governor and Congreva men In New York State today All the voters had to oe in the unl form of the arm), navy, marines and the Red Cross. About 100 v. omen ot d at the polling place at 1400 Penn sylvania avenue, the majority of whom were members Of the navy reserve. About 25 were members of the Red Cross and there were about 10 women members of the Marine Corpe The election was authorized by a law recently passed by the New York legislature, by which any member of the American lighting forces would not lose his or her ote through ab sence on duty. TODAY soon dies because he was foolish enough to quit. Now, William the Second. last of the mammoths of autocracy, beaten by the superior thinking power of democracy, as the mam moth was beaten by thought, yields and retires. Perhaps he will foV low his cousin, the Russian Czar. Perhaps reign without ruling, as does his cousin George of England, perhaps take up his residence in Switzerland, land of hotels and travelers, there with his six sons to watch the world go by. W $tte fWtmaltro PuBllihtd every evenlar (Including Sunday! Entered as aeeond.elaaa matter, at tha post otlce at Wahnrton. D C. 150- SISTER'S DREAM SHOWS BROTHER WOUNDED BY FOE Mrs. C. S. Bruoe, of Washing ton, Had Strange Premoni tion of Her Soldier-Brother Being Wounded Same Day He Fell in Battle. i On the morning of October 6, Mrs Clarence S. Bruce, of 2601 Eleventh atreet north eit. told her husband she had dreamed that her brother, refer, had been wounded In the fight Ins "Over There." Neither she nor Mr. Bruce paid a great deal of attention to the dream Dreams usually go by opposite, he said. Today, the name of Corporal "Peter T. Wolfe, a Western High School graduate is carried on the latest casualty list from France He was wounded rn action. -But tnai u ooiguio rsmarKanie cir- 'Jn-her brother's birth day she" received, a telegram from the War Department that he had been wounded in. action October 6, the day of the dream. Mrs. Bruce has heard from her brother since he was wounded, and ha said: "I celebrated by birthday In a hos pital in France. I was wounded In the right hand and had a part of it amputated to prevent Infection. I was also wounded in the back by a shrap nel fragment. "Don't worn', I will be back at the front soon for the fourth time. It was on my third trip that I was wounded, I had a premonition of it from tny experiences, for I know that one can not be so lucky all the time. I guess it was my turn." Wolfe attended the Western High School and worked for the Washing- ton Railway and Electric Company be fore he enlisted He went tn Camp I'pton last December, and has been in France since rebruary. 1 District of Columbia troop com prising the 312th Mnchlne Gun Rat tallon went into battle recently sing Ing and yelling like bererkr. ac cording to letters Juat received by Mrs S S. Janney, of Rsltimore. wlfr of Major Stuart Janney, command ing the Washington unit Major Janney himself has been mentioned for distinguished service In the battle In which the Seventy ninth Division from Camp Meade took an Important part, and In which the fighting blood of Washington soldiers was aroused Word of Major Janney's citation reached Washington today from Camp Meade, where the ,112th Ma chine Gun Battalion was In training before It left for Traty-e In July. D. C. flaya Rnahrd Foe. "We have Just come out bat'li in which the 312th covered Itself with glory," said Major Janney, In a letter written to his wife, October 8 "Mothers of the Washlngtor lads "n this outfit wouldn" have recog nized them when they w-nt yelling and cheering after the German. All were covered with dust and the grime of burnt powder, but they ke-it nftcr the retreating Germans, and the clap-clap-clap of their machine guns could be heard rising stnccato-like over the rumble of the artillery In our rear "We will be In rest billets a few Jays longer and then we are off to a new sector of the front to aid In driving back the German still far ther," continued Major Janney "Al though we tuffered a few casualties In the big fight, most of the men are well snd happy while their morale Is su perlatively high They all send their love to friends and relatives in Wash ington. "I am ery proud of my mn and they seem to realize the responsibility of carrying the honor or the Nation' Capital on their shoulders," said Vain Tani,i "When the dust covered 312th rushes Into action, sets up Its 'type writers' and start to pour lead Into enemy troops. It would do your heart good to see them. They are men." JANNEY LAUDS DISTRICT TROOPS WASHINGTON, aaaaaaaaaHaaliif r'VWH BBBBBBBBBBBNBVHBBaDRamPBBBBBBBBBB! BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOBaaaBBBBBBBlft&!!sBBBBBBB! ',oHik&"jBanananaal Banana ' 'bbbbbbbbbbHbbbbbbbbbbbbbb' aaaaK" HtnaaaaaaFnaaaaaaaH aaanaanm.--'' 'aanaar bbbbbbbbbbbi " aaBBBBBBBa. vPlJb aaaBBBBBBBBBB CORP.- PE9JBB TpWTJOjrJV ; whose sister here saw htm wonndtiT "over there." 1- The Senate broke all record, today when It adjourned one minute after convening. Six Senators were present Smith, Georsrla: Culberson and Shpnnarri Texas: Martin. Virginia. Democrats. McCumber, North Dakota, and "Len root, Wisconsin. Republican Provost Marshall General Crowder today issued a rail for IS. 300 white men for limited serir- At Crowder' office. It wa stated that draft call would go on as usual at least until Germany had signed armistice terms aid that the majority of ofilcers favored tht-ir cont'nuatlon until the actual loni-IuKlon of peace The quota of the District ..f Colum bla I 175 Mar Ian w ill furnish 20. Virginia 630. 6 SENATORS HOLD IVIINUTE SESSION 18.000 CALLED FO LUTED SERVICE WATCH THE SKY FOR TIMES ELECTION RESULTS By SEARCHLIGHT A giant naval searchlight has been in stalled on the top of the twelve-story Mun sey Building. As soon as definite news of the result of the elections has been received it will be indicated as follows: Waving of the searchlight ray from the eastern horizon to the western horizon will give you the news that Con gress remains Democratic. Waving of the searchlight ray from the northern to the southern horizon will give you the news that the next . Congress will be Republican. During the time while the result is in doubt the ray will point directly up into the sky. Watch The Times searchlight Get the news from the sky. TUESDAY EVENING, MILE FRONT B0LSHEV1KJ WANT PEACE WITH COPENHAGEN, Nov. 5,The Bolshevik regime in Russia is reported to have handed a note to neutral diplomats for trans mission to the allies for the opening of peace negotiations with the allied countries. LONDON, Nov .5, There is no official confirmation here of (he report from Copenhagen that the Bolshevik government in Russia has requested the open ing of peace negotiations with the allies. "What remained of the Ger man legation at Moscow and had been transferred to Pleakau, returned these last few days to Germany wlthont noise." So read a diplomatic dispatch reaching Washington today from Basle, and quoting the Lokal Anzeiger. COPENHAGEN. Nov. 5. A great demonstration was held Sunday at the Bismarck monument In Berlin In favor of continuation of the war. according to the Berliner Tageblatt. Resolutions were adopted against accepting a "humiliating peace " REICHSTAG BACKS KAISER That the Kaiser has the Reichs tag's support In his refusal to abdi cate is the substance of the seml oftical Wolff Agency reports to Switzerland, relayed to diplomats here today. Berlin newspapers were quoted as salng the Reichstag parties had concluded, after several days' delib eration, that the Kaiser need not ab dicate ITALY HONORS GORGAS Surgeon General Gorgas today was notified that he has been awarded the decoration of Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy by the Italian ruler. MEETING IN BUN Wm NOVEMBER 5, 1918. FOCH TO PRESENT ARMISTICE TERMS ON BATTLEFIELD The allied armistice terms will be presented to the German High Command through Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch in the field. They will not go forward through Presi dent TViloon. This was authoritatively learned today. There are two reasons for this action. First the United States no longer has any definite line on exactly who now are the real rulers of Germany. The second is that the terms of necessity affect the German military organization. Consequently they should be initiated by the generalissimo of the allied forces. Th State Department today said It could be "assumed" that President Wilson's peace formula constituted the basis tor the armistice terms. When the armistice proposal was for warded to the associated nations. It was pointed out today. It was vir tually conditional upon acceptance of tha President's formula. Officials" nera ix tlut ,'tbe terms COpjaj'rta11jr-'-irUcted through eowparfsoB of tha..Q-HUUr military situs" ilea existed In C. R. SCHIRM FOUND E BALTIMORE. Md Nov. 5. Former Congressman Charles R. Schtrm of the Fourth Maryland district, a leading Republican and prominent In legal circles, was found dead In bed at his home In this city last night by his brother. Jerome fiehlrm, who bad called at the house for the purpose of paying a visit. Mr Schlrm was fifty-four years old Injuries received from a fall about ten days ago and the shock resulting from the death of his wife from Influenza recently. Is believed to have cause Mr Schlrm health to decline steadily. FARLEY WILL PROBATED NKW YORK. Nov 5 The will of Cardinal Farley, on probata here, re veals he left his entire astate In the hands of three Roman Catholic bish ops Hlckey. of Rochester, N. Y ; Hayes, of New York, and McFaul. of Trenton, under which the survivor of the three Is to take tha estate. The disposition was made with the under standing that the entire property shall go to the church The value of the estate was not dis closed. Cardinal Farley left as his helrs-at-law two nieces, three grand- nieces and a grandnephew, none of whom were mentioned In the will. DEAD AT HIS HOM By AEROPLANE Lieut. J. C. Edgerton, army aviator, will make three flights tonight for The Times and display from his plane colored lights indicating the results of the election. The flights will be probably at 8:30, 9 and 9:30 o'clock, although conditions may alter these times. Th2 display of red lights will give you the news that Congress remains Democratic ' The display of green lights will give you the news that the next Congress will be Republican. The display of white lights will indicate that the result is in doubt. Watch for Lieutenant Edgerton's aero plane. Get the news from the sky. Austria when the latter's armistice terms were framed. It Is assumed that the terms were sent forward from Versailles yester day as soon as they 'were signed by the members of the supreme council "nree. General Foch Is expected to have taken Immediate ateos to send terms forward .to German, great jleadauar- tarsi Whem. . 11'. taaTfmMTth nr airman military- Commanders are. md ch.n th. k-.r. ..rir.t h,.r from.TXher-was a strong- posslbliuyifroat of nearly 150 jnilea, from the (that tie terms would be in the hands of the German commanders today, or in any event, not later than tomor row, Pabllelty 3Tay Walt On Germans. Just how soon the allied armistice terms witl be made public Is not yet known. It was assumed that the Ger man command would be given an op portunity to study them before they are given to the world. If there Is a time limit accompanying them It la unlikely they will be made public un til either Germany accepts, or the time limit expires. Anny officers here very frankly were hoping that General Foch would be In no hurry to present the armis tice terms. They declare that an In spection of the map will show that a Oerman military cataatropho on the western front cannot very lone be delayed. They say that if the allied forces can continue their present speed the main outlets through which the Oerman army had expected to retreat will be entirely closed within forty eight hours. Ullltary men explained that ther were two methods, direct or diplo matic, through which General Foch will act The first is the direct one. If it was chosen, the general would send forward the terma of the supreme council accompanied by a flag of truce (Continued on rage -. Column 3.) IN GREAT DRIVE WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FR1NCE. Nov 5. District of Co lumbia troops are taking part In the great drive on Sedan. The center of the advancing line Is held by troops from New York. Mary land and West Virginia. To the right and left of them are regulars and troops from New York. New Jersey, the District of Columbia. Texas. Ok lahoma. Kansas, Missouri. Colorado and New Mexico. Since the resumption of the Ameri can offensive on this front the Amer icans have brought down in three days 124 German airplanes The Americans have lost twenty-nine ma chines. TAKEOVERTRIESTE AMSTERDAM. Nov. 5. The Amer ican fleet will soon occupy Trieste, according o reports received here to day from Tola. MRS. STOKES ARRESTED NEW YORK. Nov. 3. Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes was arrested at her home here early today on a charge of llleiral recrlatratlon. She later wis i released on $3 000 hall furnished by. j her hiibband, G. rhelps stokes. I State Superintendent of Elections ' Frederick U Marshall caused Mrs. DISTRICTTROOPS AMERICAN FLEETTO Stokes' arrest, claiming her convic tion of uttering seditious remarks In Kansas City made It illegal for her to register. 4 i 'EDITION) PRICE TWO CENTS. YAKS SHOT GAP UN SOUTH BRITISH CLOSE N . WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Nov. 5, 2:10 p. m. The Americana gained six kilometers (three and three-quarter miles) against heavy resistance, in a sodden lunge along, the 3teuse this toomlng- They captured Bean mont, Cesse and the Jaulnay forest and completed occapa- J&sZ-jut La Netrrjlle. . - n-.. -life. attaeklnV ever ' 1M awe are auacaun overs Moss canal southeastward to the Meuse. The fightnyf on the -vest front rapidly fs forcing the German armier along the southwestern edge of the Ardennes -into a trap. With the southern exit practical?. closed through occupation of the Stesay gap by the Americans, tha British and French are shutting the northern gateway in the region oi. 3Ianbeuge and Hirson. At tho same time the Erench are. squeeiinjcjthr Germans along the whole front be tween tfio two exits. The British" fighting-front extendi from the Mons canal at.Conde, south-, ward to -the Sombre, a front of, forty miles. The French. co-operatinjr with this drive are; on a 15-mile, front, from the Sambre SOTthwarjLf ft -tar Oise, at Guise. " : The French first army -began' "It new attack this morning- on tha 40 mile front from the Oise southeast ward to the Aisne, in the region, of Chateau Povden. Franco-Americans on Aisne. General Gouraud's Franco-Amert hcan army Is-operating- alongithe Atone from the right name or tne nrs army eastward to the left Sank of the American nrat army near Ve Che ma, on the Ardennes canal, a front 01 about fifteen miles. General Ligsett's first armv has extended Its front to about thirty miles from the Ardnsej canal, eastward to the Mruat. then southward along the west, oanx oi the Meuse. Rapid progress is being made along thi. whole front with the exception of the short strip along the Aisne. where the Germans appear to be holding welL The British captured the fortified town or La Quesnoy yes terday. It waa officially announced today, adding 1.000 prisoners to the 10,000 reported earlier In the day. Delglana AI Advancing. The Belgians have made a alight advance between Ghent and tha Dutch border, while the French end Americans astride Audenarde and the British north of Tournal are pushing cautiously eistward from the Scheldt. In th face of these continued vle, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) LOST AND FOUND VCTIX lady who was aeea to take pack age coatajnlnr a-rar messallne dreaa from Economy Shoe Store Monday noon plaa return aania to )3 P at. N. W.T Howard. Marie Anderson, 438 f New Jersey Ave. S. E., re covered the package she lost through the above ad in The Times. Phone your "Result Getters" to The Times. Main 5260. A bill will be sent. NORTH 1