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_ Ghe-Saelic Amenican.
. October 7, 1916,
WASHINGTON APPRECIATES 0’ GORMAN
No Man Ever Made Such an Impression on the Senate in Such a
Short Time—Forged to the Front R
k at Once—Member
. of Four Important Committees, He Made His Influence Felt
oz: All the Leading Issues of the Day—His Chief Character-
istic Is Independence—His
tary Retirement,
{From the Washington Post.)
No matter whether it be a Republi-
can or a Democrat who is elected to the
Senate from New York to succeed to
the seat now occupied by Senator James
in, of that State, the new
man will find a very large pair of shoes
‘0 fill, Senator O'Gorman retires volun-
tarily after serving one term in
Senate. e tee the Senate from
the bench, where he held f the
Most distinguished Seatetal positions jn
the Empire State, and he will return to
New York to resume the practice of his
S
&
e Democratic
Committee when President Wilson was
the candidate in 1912, has
Baked the Democrats for Senator,
er Representative Will
Calder of Brooklyn, is the Republican
nominee, baving defeated former Sec
retary of State Robert Bacon, in
close State-wide primary.
Few men in the United States during
their first term the
prominence of Senator O'Gorman. He
ts a member o'
ttuential committ
eign Relation:
and Rules.
oreante Canals Committee and Is also
migration Commit-
fee, which in a very y substantial manner
deals with one phase of our relations
with foreign nations.
This position ot responsibility and
party honor Senat relin-
quishes voluntarily. for the Democrats
claim they will elect
ma: etire from the Sen-
ate was received with the keenest re-
gret here in Washington. Few
term. And among all his colleagues
there is none so absolutely fearless,
independent in thought and action and
rtisan
za
ny
ont
well as the most able of men, an
i hold tat to the
warm friendship of every mber of
the “e rps of Washington meer respon
dent
eran ALWAYS FOR PATRIOTISM
Colleagues of Senator O'Gorman who
resret. ‘exceedingly to see him leaving
the chamber, say his work in commit:
tee has teen consclentious © and
thorough, and on th loor, whenever
he has had occasion to participate in
bate, he has sustained the traditional
standards of the great Empire State.
The qualities, however,
the deepest impression upon peopl
whose business it 1s to observe the
of public men have been the
cor
sterling independence of Sei
his unfaltering courage and
intellectual honesty.
has not, his friends point ont,
triotic one.
Prevent the repeal of the Toll! Exemp-
clause of the Panama Canal Act
me city assailed him
ness and with upfaimness for
his opposition to the recommendations
of the President.
When, with equal independence and
aggressiveness he fought the proposed
Ship Purchase | Bult ta the last Congress,
8 generous with its
praise and its approvel of his couras,
th
showed himself
to blame if be que stifled to himself his
own official co
STILL sTROve. IN HIS PARTY,
mines upon le
grammes, subject only to the review of
the caucus.
3 committee, 's chonen with every
wr consres
was renamed ‘Smmediately tater hig suc
cessful fight in the last Congress against
the Shipping Bill, a fight which, by th
© Administration to
ly shorn of the features Ce
ous objection was raise:
APPRECIATION BY : counracve.
One of Senator 0% Gorman’ 's colleagues
recently sald of
“He belongs to the
tive, high min type of statesman-
ship that characterized a former genera
‘4 dispatched (as
ions of his party | total
r O'Gorman | of
Colleagues Regret His Volun-
. He has struck no theatrical
Poste, bought no spotlights, but calmly,
n impressive dign! e has
his “vay, true to his own “nigh
character and worthy of the imperial
Commonwealth he has so splendidly
served.” :
APPALLING COST IN MEN.
Losses of the Alliss “on the
Somme Are Out of All Pro-
portion With: the Ground| »,
ined — An erican Cor-
mi
respondent! 's Estimate.
By Wrirtam Bayarp Hate.
(From the American, Sept.
Army in the West, Sept. 27 (via Berlin
and Tuckerton, Sept. 28.—The battle
®lof the Somme continues in undiminish-
ed proportions. From noon Monday
until Tuesday night the rage of steel
~ one | continuous tempestlike howl of
ola & world so beautiful as this, can-
opied over with dellclous September
skies, a ts Impossible to bring oneself
beings are
staughtering each other at a rate never
before Paraileled on earth.
r day twenty-ix geroplanes
were shot down out of the blue. To
tacular in the ext Teme, put it is in
bruised earth that the thousands of vic-
pes lay nen down and die inglorious-
ly in the dust
ew BRITISH op ers BROUGHT
‘The whole orld as contributed to
ir away shops
now have come the
latest reinforcements, an expedition
just sent inglant Under cover
tween September 14 and 18,
I
cable they were “sia thin, great re-
Inforcements - mn “ he
Somme.” This
reached the
task.
From thousands of them, now prison-
ers, it {s learned that the expedition
goraprined Be ess than 35
red a week ago, chiefly ‘a
the triangle | disclosed by the two great
and Peronne.
‘ew. torce has.
scene of their hopeless
e di-
way, it was less
miles from Bapaume that,
n 1,000
day, I came across Capt von Papen,
jot unknown to fame. e hour was
exigent and the afternoon was Ditter,
but there was not lacking fifteen sec-
onds for an exchange of opinions.
VON PAPEN I§ FACETIOUS.
“Who do you’ blame everything on,
now that Boy-Ed and I'are not in New
York? “Who brought the scouree of in-
fantile paralysis? e Giants
are doing well, but it ‘hey suffer occa-
P the former
Military Attache.
‘The net gain of the offensive in these
last five days of
een a few farms and hamlet:
the pishwey from Bapaume to Peronne.
In no place has the advance been mere
then a cuarien of am
of these, ‘alight gains can
only be diescribed. a8 stupetying. Many
of the divisions sent out trom Englan
only fortnight ago are no more recog:
nizable as organizations. Nea
court Abbaye their losses were "caved.
aly
attle of the Somme has now
peaved {te twelfth week. “Careful meee
urements show that the total Entente
gains for this period are 150 square
A conservative estimate of
of the Einglleh ts 350.000,
of the French are 150,000, a
of halt a millfon
There till remaine in German hands
29,000 square ome res of Beltgian
terrain and 21,000 square kilometrea of
French territory, a total of £50,000.
THEY HAVE AN nGnTY FoR .
TASK.
‘n three mont whe of agonized exertion,
with a loss of half @ million men, the
Entente has now regained three-tenths
one per cent. of their lost territory.
It ts a simple matter of calculation
that at the same rate of progress the
Allies will reach the Corman frontier
in eighty-four years, thet is y the
wi year 2000, spoa0 000 they are ‘ung to
act men, whicl
Neve, is rather more e than the total om.
bined populations of France and Eng-
fends Including the women and chil
othe expenditure fs amazing and {m-
possible of comprehension or belief by
General Headquarters of the German sti
holes and ravines of the scourged and |‘
of embarkation for the British Isles, be- vt
vision of 20,000 men to every illometre, FY;
lyzed, as mine pave been. ey the days
and nights of cot
It is difficult te belleve hat the am-
m world
not continue doing it much longer.
JOHNSTOWN HIBERNIANS.
Annual
ritish Government's Treat-
ment of Ireland and Demands
Protection of American Rights,
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Sept ft
the most interesting ‘and Teiccesatel con-
ventions ever
representatives of this district, mean-
ing United States valent ouver and
WwW.
to soe! that
g
“38
5
merican rights are Protected = the
matter of mail seizures, ree
al land to permit conti ne
follows: President, John M. Sloan of
South Fork; vice Fresider Me-
Devitt of Moxl Financial Secretary,
mn “ot Ashville; Record:
ed Skelly of Johns:
Wi T, T. M. Sheehan of Pat-
ton; “Chapiata, tne Rev. J. J. Gill
Conemaugh.
BROOKLYN IN LINE.
Committee Holds Meeting to Work
for Forthcoming Irish Bazaar.
The ‘ooklyn Irish Relief Rozaar
day more than a dozen met the sam ‘
fate. ‘These contesta on high are epee [Committee held its first meeting on
he| Wednesday ‘evening, September 27, at
Prospect Place, Brooklyn.
ice of Nomen, all burn-
cause of
a large attendenc
ing with enthusiasm for the «
sumering Ireland.
ir. Alphonse G. Koelble, in an inter-
esting talk, gave a general i
votne Com
of all women of Irish: birth or descent
Q Brooklyn. eg nese not already amie
municate with
Committee will be held on Friday everr
6, ‘at he , home of Mrs.
Herbert D. A. Donovan, 1421 Sterling
Place, Brooklyn
‘The Brookiyn | {rin Rellef Basear
Committee ine Mrs.
ge
33
a Oneete, e,
. J. lugene Moran,
Mra Bannon, Mrs, Grace Danzilo, Mrs
Herbert Donovan, Mrs, M. Me-
Donald, te Aveses, Titan Harrison,
Agnes V. McVeigh,
Charles, Helen
Nugent, Helen vos Mary Brady,
and Mary F. McVei;
aa
CUMANN NA mBAN, INC,
& special meeting of Cumann na
, held at headquarters on
Septem!
inal oer the for het in
every ae possible the r to
be held at Madison Sauare Garden "tor
the relief of the victims of England's
barbarity in Ireland, was decided
Ata
tions from all friends.
the willin the
fuccenstt Teport a donations being got
b the members, it ia pro! epable
that iitteon booths will not be sufficien
to satiety Cumann na mBan,
euchre Mecheduled ‘to be held at the
jlaza, Assembly Rooms on Thursday
evening, October 26, so as to devote the
undivided attention of the organization
to the Bazaal
tlokets now sold for the euchre
should be held over and they will be
good for admission on a later date
when the euchre will be held. ,
THE PHILO-CELTIC SOCIETY.
e Sunday evening classes of the
New “york Philo-Celtic Society ye re
open on Sunday, October 8, at
‘M., at Tuxedo Building, Ping-nin
in ec and English.
ris]
Wnieh the, the Faslocentle Soctety bas long
been famous
tures of ne ev rene entertainment .
Admission will bé ant 1 mem-
bers are eauested ‘| ‘attend and bring
their friends alon:
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.The one bright spot is Ireland.”—
squith
rightest spot in Ireland is
Dublin toieze with the fire from Eng-
any one whose ears have not been para lish
Convention Denounces],
aragraph asks that | of
elected for the year are as} ©
of| Which was accepte
ly
e home of Miss Mar, mr McVeigh, 487
2 vas| {alleged aleo that shipping concerns
idea of the
Pi
, Ine,
it was also decided to postpone the| and
ig fea-| Oo
MARILA NOT IMMUNE,
British Extending 1 Their Activi-
ties to the ilippines—
Brigand Methods Resented and
High State of Feeling Prevails.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Official re-
it is alleged repre-
the
of, British and French displezsure be-
cause it employe: an A\ in citizen
ot an birth. This American citi-
zen een an enlisted in tl
In in;
Phillppines and became associated with
the, neutral firm. g to the re
in British vessels or with British’ cow
tries unless the ex-soldier was diomise.
utter, it was said, was oa
fasted by an explanation from the m
the British Con:
cer of the Philippine Gov.
t wrote to Washington that
crimination of this cheracter was be
coming | intolerable.
The report3 scent to Washington say
that firms in the Philippines rien Ger-
en notified to aie:
3 under Pel cnalty 0
suspension of Gealing witl h British tnd
French possessions. Cases of this sort;
the reports say, have applied Particular
to firms manufacturing tobac
have been
with firms employing
that. f
‘mans in man-
has referred ‘all
ses of complaint along these lines to
the cases involv-
ea the ‘action of the British | authorities
t Penang in unloading the
Britten, vateamehtp Chinese. Prince, from
New York for Manila, on ground
that it was ultimately intended tor Gor-
mans.
reports from Manila,
the United States. ‘authorltte ies there have
been unable to determine whether the
attitude shown by Bi ah and eran
firms sroploy
sentatives, h state of feelin;
parently prevatld in Manila on account
of the alleged disertminations and this
Government is receiving appeals to
remedy’ the situation.
OBITUARY.
MRS. CATHERINE BURK!
Mrs. Burke,
died at her home, 268 Seventh Avenue,
New York, on Friday, September 29,
after a long illness. The co
that he could net break him. He left
Kildare when a very young man and
lived for a time mmon, an
ere he has resided
over aine
Tom. Burke ‘was sworn in a Fenian
by John Devoy in Naas in 1864, has ve
mained a Fenien over since, and
been for many yea 8 Treasurer of the
R, B cterane’ Association. His
wife was as enthusiastic as her hus-
band, in her quiet, gentl
g
il into the
tends end old neighbors from all the
country around New York from
Paterson. Newark, and other towns in
Patrick McGuirk of Newark (firs
on me) ; Philip Brady and sister, Misces
Katie and Lizzie Grainger, New York;
September 5, 191
e-
David J. Nausbion and wife, and many
others. The honorary
vere John Kenny, John De
J Naugnion, William Aspel, John Car-
oll and Michael McCarthy. Interment
was in Calvary Cemetery.
JOHN F. MN ITYRE | FOR JUDGE.
Man Who Defended. Iv Wvory i in Lon¢or
Running for General Sessions
Bench,
John F. McIntyre, who is a candidate
for Judge of the Court of General Ses-
sions In New York, is an able lawyer,
a man of fine character, and in every
way fit for the office. is also an
01
Irish Nationalist who has rendered
service to the National Cause when-
ever the opportunity offered.
Ye on the perjured evi-
“extreme” Nattonslst in New York, a
young "man named was put a
trial in Engla and for connection with
alleged. dynamite 3
went over to defend
plead in an English e only
e he 1D the British or ‘Trish lanyers by
sel and advice, as Mr. Doyle did
recently in the Casement case, but it
is Mr. Mcintyre’s legal ability that
saved Ivory. There wai
against him, that never
much difference with an
or a packed one in Ireland, in om Trish
political ca:
Mr Mcratyre ought to be elected.
+
DESTROYING MILITARISM.
How England Treats Those Who
Refuse to Fight for Her.
To the E Editor of the Nation
ve tried to wire but failed.
2
3
hbeid down while hair has been torn
, and I have suffered much other
physical abuse. I mot hold this
much loager without outside aid. They
refuse — let me pdiect, and [am torcea ph
t
“1 have extere pel oder today!
Relays of m« on each
working Jar; aa Mrs. | Paved by tl rit! and French Con-| They kicked my ankles, dragzed m:
Alphonse G. Koelble spoke on “The |Sular representatives ts said in some of| the floor, and continued for two hours
Methods Employed, by Workers at 2 the communications that have come to/fn Birkenhead Park before the public.
Washington ‘to have incensed Governor | Finally, I had to give in and drill
mittee ask the co-operation | neta! Harrison, “Twa: low after three days’ guard |o
» This Government
allowed a fuarter of an
C4
No!
? In August; 1916,
aia it happen? gi? & ertminal? To ‘
traitor? No! con-
sclence forbids, as tt forbede the, prim-
itive Christians, to take any part in
war. in what oracton sie it happen?
On ‘the occasion: war to destroy
militarism and to “estaba liberty.
urs,
a Lowes ‘Drextssos,
‘Watchful wattin
“We shall hold you to strict account-
OO ee onien lent Wileo:
ir President cxcels all ‘ot the others.
ere are two immortal (?) sayings to |?
little evidence] Ave
English jury, | st
LEGAL NOTICES,
GIRR, AGNE
New York by the
race
and indepenient to Eugene Meir, ‘has
“ot od
McGirr, Agn ‘hes, Margaret. wee
tacit aetna ae Ni
and Anna MeGirryAnme Mc! gQuat lo a executrix. ire
Hence tha Wane ga un err
iso Known 88 Aunes A. MoGirr, decesge},
ix, Campbell,
who, Fesiden a
ty No,
ust, 1316, relating to both
property, duly proved as the last will and tew
gt ad Anes McGicr, who was at the
Geach a resident of the Coun!
ypu and each of you are cited to
cause wefore the Surronates: Gourt of
of New ¥
oe
29 of New Yorke
nty, the 23rd gavot Septem.
he yeur of our Lord o a
id sixteen.
DANIEL J. DOWDNEY, |
Clerk of the Surrogates’ Ci
\
Tame
tie riee Pet toner,
New (280ct16)
SUPPLEMENTAL crra’
ccuaeti here ay “a
and independenr, t0 Catherine Mangan, Met
ieee b Ink. ws ni
or lex
have or
Dav
creditors,
the
ten
S
a tn tho Borough of Manhat
7 James J, Larkin. residin
cst 13ch Street, Hlorough of Maula
New Vork ley. fant
Youund cava ot 01
ae, hereby lted to ah
are of the County of New
ft jauner J. Us
Trustee of the tase, will a tment of &
westimony Whiereul, we Dave o
al af te Siurronates’ Court of the
To
1 the
said C of New York tobe hereunto
(e " iriees, HOS. Wobert Ludiow Fowler,
a, Surrorats of Our sald Gonaty a ty
Gouniy of New York, tho Zod
Gctaber, in the year of our Lord os
thousand nine h SOE eMIeti,
(280et16)° Clerk of th Court
EGGAT. RICHARD J.~The People of thé
of New York, by the grace of God fr
dey ‘A. Blake, Ge
cee on
etter
des at 9 East 59th Street, New
af, you are,
reby cited t
1e Surro: ne of ‘Nev York
Granby, held at the Hall ‘of Records in the County
9f New York, on the Hith day of November, 190, at
DANIEL a DOWDNEY,
_{280et16) ‘Clerk of the dirrogates’ Court
Bore
the Count
gil person
Jr. late
in pursuance of an order
Gotlan, a Surrogate of
lw York, notice la hereby given {0
‘ravine slain againgt John C. Horie,
the County of
scribery
office of
roadway,
the lath da
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his place of transacting busi
laude V- Palliser, hig Setorneys Ne 20
in the City of New York, on or before
iy of April. n
w York, the ath day of October, 116.
ichole.
ee Adininistrator,
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Ay, Borough of Manhattan,
jew York *TapeitD
BOYLE. JOHN C. Sr.—In pursuance of
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iven to ali
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ery, “Who struck Billy Patterson?" | Busiuens at tim offs
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ing.
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