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r»«t, \_ MARION IS THIRD FOR LOCAL OPTION Of 57 Counties Reporting Official Vote Only Three Farorcd Wet Measure—Roads Meas ure in Balance. Little Hock. Nov. 15.—Amendment No. 14, the good roads measure, was not adopted by the voters November 7, according to complete official re turns from 57 counties and incom plete returns from the other 18. The vote recorded Tuesday indicated that tiie amendment had lost by several thousand votes. Tiie amendment lacked 1,067 votes of a majority of tiie total number of votes east on Act No. 2, and in vir tually all counties the vote for gov f emor was even greater than the vote on No. 2. To ha\e been adopted, the amendment must have received a i t) vote equal to a majority of the total number of votes cast. 125,527 Votes Accounted For. Complete returns from 57 counties accounted for 125,527 votes. Among the counties not having reported their official vote were Sebastian, Miller. Phillips, Jackson and others having large votes. Complete re turns from virtually every county should be available Thursday of Fri day. Several county election boards Y ■ were in session Wednesday, but by Wednesday noon had not completed their tabulations. Marion Wet County. The third county giving Act No. 2 1 a majority reported it complete vote j ’ Wednesday morning. The county was Marion, which gave 600 votes for the proposed loquor measure and 568 against. Searcy and Stone counties, in their complete returns reported Tuesday, gave the defeated measure small majorities. The other 54 counties from which com plete votes were available ali gave majorities against the act. The 57 counties reporting official votes gave the following totals on the two proposed acts arid three pro posed amendments: Act No. t—For, 72,662; against, 36, 419. Art No. 2— For, 42,164; against, 83, i 363. Amendment No. 12—For, 79,552; ' ag8inst, 38,743. 1 Amendment No. 13 -For, 50,150; against 56,890. Amendment No. 14—For. 61,096; against, 53,758. WILL “LET THE° PEOPLE RULE.” Sen Gridin Says, However, Self Government League Will Go On. ! Special to The Star. Little Rock. Nov. 15.—Ben L. Grif ? '• 11 n, president of the Local Self Gov ernment League, says that the League will not he disbanded be cause of the defeat of Act No. 2. “The League was not organized to | advance the interests of Act No.2," : ' said Mr. Griffin. “That was an in cident, and no part of its real mis . sion. which is the conservation of 1 popular rights. The League will continue to light for the rights and > ;if franchises of the people. It will never again be engaged in a local option tight. Had the act been ;jt‘ adopted, and an effort been made in accordance with its terms to es tablish saloons in Little Rock, l would have voted against them. 1 , am not in favor of saloons, Suit I am in favor of letting I lie people F'? ruie. And they have spoken in this instance. That settles is so far i as I am concerned.” “LET THE PEOPLE HI LE.” George W. Lotinghey Sa\s Direct Legislation Is Justified. Special to The Star. Little Rock, Nov. Id.—"The theory 1 of direct legislation has been justi fied." remarked former Governor |i| George W. Donaghey the other day. “The people do rule and they rule i righteously. They have shown splendid discrimination in the acts and amendments that were submit ted to them. They declared against saloons ami in favor of purer elec lions, better schools, better roads.— 1* that's a pretty good showing, isn't it?” Bledsoe ('.use in Status Quo. Little Rock. Nov. 15.—It lias been i; authoritatively stated that the Board fi of Control 1ms not officially dis cussed the Bledsoe case since the , Supreme court handed down its de . cision November 6. He has until November 21. fifteen days after the decision, (o (lie a motion for a re hearing. which will cause a further delay of one or two weeks to dis |f pose of it. In the meantime, the |f Board is not disturbing the status j* quo. j "BILL" WHITE EXPLAINS IT. iBtill lloose Couldn't Forgive tin- Chi cugo Tom entiim, the Editor Says. \V. A. White in the Emporia (>azett< This is a Republican country- - u spite of the fact that tiie President and the Congress, arc* strongly am partisanly Democratic, and soon w shall have a Democratic majority ii the Supreme court and lower fedora courts. Tin* Republicanism of tin | country is indicated by the fad lha I a majority of the states outside o • the solid south elected Republics) I governors and Republican legists lures, and an overwhelming majorit; of Republican local olHcers. In I8HI the mugwumps elCrte< Cleveland. In 1016 the independen vote, largely Bull Moose, electei Wilson. They buried the Bull Moose will a bullet in his heart last June, bu his ghost got into the ballot box. am President Wilson may thank tii lucky stars that the Moosers gav him a second term. Yet he and the; have mutually a low opinion of om another. Then why did they vote for him Why was he elected? Mixed motives governed more o less. The cold blooded group tha sat in the Republican eonventioi this summer and shrewdly nomin a ted Hughes to beat Roosevelt, of fended the average citiren of thi Republic—of whatever partisan af filiation, about as seriously as tin same group offended the eountr; four years ago. The Republics) convention stagnated enthusiasm after it adjourned no one carei much what happened. So it hap pened. Then the President, who is tin most adroit and skillful manipulate! of public opinion who ever has sa in (lie White House, played the wist hand. He kept harping upon the ai truistic note. He insisted upon dis cussing economic measures, and In had laid the ground for the discus sion, by forcing a number of impor taut and largely progressive meas ures thru Congress. These measures appealed to tin independent vote. Tile country ha( been clamoring for these economii changes fur two decades. So th< President had a talking point. Anc he talked plausibly. He made votes Hughes lost votes from the day In began to speak. He could have beei elected in June. But his manager! had no sense, and counselling vvitl them lie made a campaign of criti cisms, and no Republican mind evei !>■.>. V... —- ~ i: 1 ” ” ’ U' PSUI/II’II II I 1 I I l (I I JP ing. And as the negation and carp ing went on, (he soul went out o the campaign for the Republicans and Wilson stock rose. It was not so much that Wilsor kept us out of war. as Hughes kep us out of office- and that all in thi best of intention, but under had ad vice. For this is a Republican coun try ami when the Republican party cares to return to its constructive hopeful, positive attitude upon pub lic questions, it will return to power and will give the government tin only effective government it wil get. It is curious that we have a Demo cratic administration elected in this country with all the Republican ism that is obvious in the lower lev els of government. But until thf Republican party reorganizes ant reconstructs its present leadership we shall have the party of obstruc tion in power, and we would shaki hands with the Fates over the glo rious fact that at the head of that party is so shrewd a reader of his tory as Woodrow Wilson. For hi is jealous of hut one thing, whirl will hold him in check: The opin ion of posterity. And that opinion ho ran read as an expert. A leadei of Democracy like Mr. Champ ('.lari, in power might make the angel? weep and the high gods shudder! HENRY FORD IS DEFIANT. Positively Refuses to Buy Stock ol (he Itodyr Brothers. Detroit, Nov. 16.—Henry Ford president of the Ford Motor Com pany, testifying yesterday at tin hearing of (lie Dodge Brothers' in junction case, said that the petition ers. John F. and Horace E. Dodge sought to force him to buy their in terest in the Ford Motor Company The Dodges own ten per cent of tin stock and Ford said they demanded $35,000,000 for their holdings. Ford said that tin* Dodge Brothers told him he must buy their stock or “they would harass me in every thing I tried to do." Shaking his finger at one of the attorneys for the Dodges, Ford said: "If you sat there until you were petrified. I would not buy the Dodge stock, nor would 1 buy that of any other stockholder." RI MANJANS LOSING. Are For ceil Rack by \ustro-Grr Mans, Who Get Reinforcements. Petrograd. Nov. 15.—The Ruman ians were forced hack yesterday by the Austro-Cicrmans. who have been reinforced, in the Tirgujiuly, Ault and Jiul volleys, the w’ar office an nounced this afternoon. | DISTRESSING RHEUMATISM How many people, crippled and lame from rheumatism, owe their condition to neglected or incorrect treatment! It is the exact combination of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil with glycerine and hypophosphites as contained in KOTTS EMM that has made Scott’s famous for relieving rheuma tism when other treatments have utterly failed. If you are a rheumatism sufferer, or feel its first symptoms, start on Scott’s Emulsion at once. IT MAY BE EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED. Scot, A Bowm. Bloomfield. N. J. Mb* WHOLESALE FI ON ADAMSON Af * ltiiilni.nl Mummers to File \pplica Mons fop 5,(MM) Injunctions, Cover * ii>j| Fntirc I'nltol States— I'. S. i ! (o Defend Bill. I I New York, Nov. 15.—The railway i managers, continuing their confer ’ enees Imre today, an* said to favor wholesale action against the Adani II son eight hour law. in the form ot ! applications for approximately 5.000 * injunctions, covering the entire rail- ] road territory of the United States. 11 The cases are expected to be in the ■ courts within ten days. I _ l . S. to Defend Bill. Washington, N'o\. 15.—Attorney , General Gregory decided this morn ing that tin* railroad’ suit against ’ tin* enforcement of tin* Adamson 8 hour law will be defended by the de partment of justice. F Solicitor General Davis, with the 1 United States attorneys in tiie vari ■ ous jurisdictions, will plan the de * foiUo I - The First Test Suit. ' New York, Nov. 15.—The llrst in ' junction suit to test the constitu i tionality of the Adamson law will • l>e by the New York Central, it was t officially announced here this after ■ noon. This action, it is understood, will ho directed against H. Snowden Mar shall, United States district attorney, and several local officers of the trainmen brotherhoods. A temporary stay will he sought to enjoin the defendants from insti tuting prosecutions against the road to compel it to comply with the Adamson law. The principle contention in the New York Central’s suit is that the 1 law is in no sense a regulation of I commerce, but a temporary and ar bitrary increase of wages for the 1 brotherhood men.” Another Suit Filed. Philadelphia, Nov. 15.—The Penn sylvania railroad this morning filed i in the district court here a hill of equity, seeking an injunction against the three United States district at , lorneys in Pennsylvania, forbidding them from bringing prosecutions against the company under the • Adamson law. The court is asked to declare the law unconstitutional and void. DAILY PARDON LIST LS BIGGER One Killer Gets Full Amnesty—Tun Pistol Toters Freed. Special to The Star. I.ittle Rook, Nov. 16.—Henry Smith was convicted in Ashley county on August 30, 1913, of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. On May 6. 1916, he was granted a parole, and has since ttiat time, according to official statement, lived an honor able and upright life. Yesterday tin* governor granted a full pardon, ab solving him from further service. f ines were remitted in the follow ing i uses—Guy Brashers, Madison •minty, fined *50 for carrying ron ■ t ub'd weapons; Dr. \. A. Ruble, Harrison, lined 960 for carrying con cealed weapons; Abe Yarbrough, of (.’mot county, lined *20 and -en te.iced to sixty days for misdemean or Pardons were granted t> Leslie l't nlon and Frank Hill, who were convicted in Saline county on charg es of burglary and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment, on condition that they return to their home in Michigan, and never come back to Arkansas. A pardon was also grant ed to Willis Holmes, convicted joint ly with them, on condition that he return to his home in Tennessee. ORANGE GROVES UNDAMAGED. Galveston, Tex., Nov. 15.—Reports from Alvin Wednesday morning say that the orange groves in that sec tion escaped injury from the cold weather Tuesday night. The tem perature dropped to 22 degrees at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, hut began rising shortly thereafter. The low temperature did not prevail enough to do any damage to the fruit or trees. The minimum tem perature in Galveston Tuesday night was 35 degrees. SW AP TWO FOR ONE. Mexico City Rank to Exchange Sil ver Reserve for American Coin. Mexico City, Nov. 15.—Arrange ments have been completed with the Banco Naeional, on Carranza’s au thorization. for the transfer of the entire silver reserve of the bank to the government in exchange for American money received for taxes and customs at the rate of two for one. This step is taken to provide for silver to rare for the needs of the army. THANKSGIVING DAY DATE. President Will Name November 30 in An Official Proclamation. W ashington, Nov. t5.—President Wilson stated this morning that he will issue his Thanksgiving procla mation soon for November TO. 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They are still doing that even in bone-dry Kansas and Maine. Among the laws that will be pro posed in the next legislature will be one to limit the amount of liquor, alcholic and otherwise, that can be shipped into the state to any one purchaser during a stated period. There has been a law of this charac ter in Oregon, and by the recent election even flic limited importa tion of liquor lias been prohibited in that state. Liquor shops in Louisiana. Ten nessee, and Missouri have been do ing a thriving business in Arkansas. Tiic express companies and rail road-; have been bringing in great quantities. In some places ordi nances have been proposed or passed providing for inspection fees on shipments of liquor. Such a law was declared unconstitutional after collections had been made in Bates ville for some months. It has been suggested iu Little Rock, but has never been attempted by the coun cil. It is probable that a hill will be introduced in the legislature per miiing municipalities to levy such a fee. The decisive vote on the liquor act last week has demon strated that prohibition is popular in Arkansas. It is the cleanest-cut victory that has ever been won for prohimilion ip the state, and the slogan “Let the People Rule,” has been (horoly vindieated. NEGRO ADMITS DOUBLE MURDER Killed Mrs. Hen Diles anil Itahy at Ashdown for Money. Ashdown, Nov. 17.—John Hawkins, negro, 24 years old, Thursday night confessed, officers say, to having murdered Mrs. Ben Diles, wife of a railroad section foreman and her 15-months old daughter here on the afternoon of November 2. Rewards totaling #1,100 were outstanding. The negro was spirited away from town and rushed to the penitentiary at Little Rock. Officers say Haw kins admitted lie shot Mrs. Diles and clubbed her child to death when (lie woman ran on his demand for money. He overlooked #250 hidden in a bed. Hawkins produced the pocketbook taken from the Diles home. SEVER AL REPUBLICANS LAND Will lime Seats in Lower House of State Legislature. Little Rock, Nov. 15.—There will lie several Republican representa tives in the next bouse, but the Sen ate will be solidly Democratic. Dan Mdpturf, of Baker, a Republican, defeated Cleveland Reid. Democrat, in Searcy county. Two of the unex pected Republican victories were in Poinsett and Hot Springs counties, where C. R. French and A. I. Ro and, respectively, defeated their De mocratic opponents. Newton coun y. which is traditionally Republican elected Ben McFerrin, a Democrat, to the lower house. Madison county elects a Republican member. TEDDY’S BIRTHPLACE SOLD BY SHERIFF UNDER FORECLOSURE Roosevelt Home ('.lull, Witli Dollar Fee, to Preserve Building. Failed to Pay Mori gage Interest New York, Nov. 16.—The 4-story house on Twentjeth street, where Roosevelt was born in 1858, is to be torn down to be replaced by a busi ness block. The Roosevelt Home Club, which was organized wHh a dollar fee for the purpose of preserving the build ing as a place of historic interest, lapsed on the mortgage payments and the property was sold under fi tree losure proceedings. The razing of the house will be gin soon. Ill CUES TO°T.\KE REST. Silent C. 0. P. Candidate to Lea\e Mew York Saturday. New York, Nov. 15.—Charles E. Hughes. Republican candidate for the presidency, will leave here Sat urday with tiis family for Lakewood, N. J., where he will rest several weeks. William R. Willcox, chair man of the Republican National Committee, will accompany Mr. Hughes. \< * SEP Alt VItTpIyACE—R l SSI A. Notifies Representatives of All Al lied Nations That It Will Stick. 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Hold by all Druggists. 76c. n H ALMOST CERTAIN ' , I Vast Organization of Employers ,s I Forming to Hesist Xdamson 8 llcwir Law—Sam CJompers Makes Statement. New York, Nov 16.—Prospects of the greatest industrial struggle in history in the capital and labor sit uation, arising from the railroads determination to operate under the present conditions, in spile of the Ydamson 8-Hour Law, started in the formation of a vast organization ol employers, to be known as a Nation al Industrial Conference Board, this new body, representing eight billion dollars in capital and employing 7 million persons, proposes that in dustrial legislation be watched more closely, that legislators shall he guided by public information and that favoritism to labor shall be eliminated. It will tight such meas ures as the Adamson Law. It is believed that the election showed no controlled and depend able labor vote and hence legislators hereafter, need not cufy favor with labor leaders as they claim has been done in the past. The significance of the new align . i . ii iU .. _e Iliriu lm l COOCU >>11.11 Vm < word in the United Press dispatches from Baltimore that the Brother hoods will join to enforce the 8-hour day in all industries—not by legis lation but by force of organized la bor. The railroads kept up their pre paration for trying to prevent oper ation of the Adamson law. More suits, covering all lines and all dis tricts, will he submitted to courts all over the nation in the next few days. It was apparent, in railroad cir cles today, that the managers have virtually given up the hope of com ing to terms with the Brotherhood chiefs, altho they said “The latch siring is out for the men and their representatives.” The managers’ conference has ad journed. Another meeting may tie called next week, however, it was said. One of thp leading railroad man agers says he knows nothing about a reported conference w ith the pres ident. LABOR FINDS FAULT. Objects to President's Plan Restrict ing! Strikes and Lockouts. Baltimore, Nov. 17.—The American Federation of Labor, by unanimous vote, today declared against the pro vision in President Wilson’s legis lative program making illegal any railroad strike or lockout prior to an investigation of the merits of the ease. \. K. BURNSIDE DEAD. Commissary Clerk Succumbed Aflcr Brief Illness. Special to The Star. Little Rock. Nov. 17.—A . E. Burn side, commissary clerk for the state convict farm at Cummins, died at Cummins Wednesday, after an ill ness of only one day. The remains were taken to Camden, where the funeral was held at 3 p. m. Thurs day. Gov. and Mr*. Hays, Ohmer Burnsides and Miss Burnsides. Com missioner T. J. Raney, and Capt. J. T. Burkett attended the funeral. The deceased was 38 years old. and his home was at Camden. He was the father of Ohmer Burnside, mem ber of the Board of Control, an un kle of Miss Burnside, stenographer in fhe Governor’s office, and a rela tive of Mrs. Hays. -o BROUGH IN MISSISSIPPI Expects, However, to Return to Fay etteville by November 17. Little Rock. Nov. 16.—I»r. C. H. Brough is spending a few days in Mississippi, filling speaking dates, and will return to his home in Fay etteville November 17, to remain un til the convening of the Legislature. Most of fhe time is to be spent in the preparation of his message to the Legislature, which, it is expected, will he a most practical and schol arly presentation and discusion of die problems confronting the state. His only other engagement for the year is an address before the Hot Springs Flks Lodge on Memorial day, the first Sunday in I December. MUSTANG For Sprains, Lameness, Sores, Cuts, Rheumatism Penetrates and Heals. 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