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THE LA KEMP CITIZEN
THE CAMPAIGN IN ROUMANIA
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1. Paris reports main Roumaniunarmy has retired hack of the Sereth
river and into Bessarabia, where it is being reorganized and refitted. 2. Pe-
trograd reports Itussians'have halted Teuton advance south and southwest
of Rirunicu-Sarat. 8. Gen. von Mackensen reports hostile columns retreating
to Braila were successfully attacked by airplane squadrons. 4. Berlin re-
ports Teutonic forces advanelng northward in Dobrudja have crossed the
line between Babadagh and Peclneaga.
WILSON'S TOTAL IS 9,116,296 farm loan banks placed
COMPLETE RETURNS GIVE PRES.
IDENT 568 822 PLURALITY.
Total Popular Vote for the Four Pres-
idential Candidates It
18,638,871.
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New York.—Complete official re
turns on the presidential election
show thai Mr. Wilson received
9,116,296 votes and Mr. Hughes 8,547,
474, a plurality of 568,822 for Mr. Wil-
son. In 1912 Wilson (democrat) re-
ceived 6,203,019; Taft (republican) 3,-
484,956; Roosevelt (progressive) 4,-
119,507.
The vote for Mr. Benson, socialist
candidate for president, was 750,000
with eight missing states, estimated
against 907,873 for Debs (socialist) in
1912, and Mr. Hanly (prohibitionist)
was 225,101 against 207,928 for Chafin
(prohibitionist) in 1912.
The total popular vote for the four
candidates was 18,538,871, as against
15,007,282 in 1912. This is an increase
of 3,631,589, accounted for by the
increased population and the woman
vote in the new suffrage states. The
following is a table showing the votes
by states for Wilson and Hughes:
Vote by States.
States— Wilson Hughes
Alabama 97,778 28,662
Arizona 33,170 20,524
Arkanasas 112,186 49,827
California 466,289 462,516
Colorado 176,816 102,308
Connecticut 99,786 106,514
Delaware 24,521 2:1,794
Florida 56,108 14,611
Georgia 125,831 11,225
Idaho 70,021 56,368
Illinois 950,781 1,152,316
Indiana 324,063 341,005
Iowa 221.699 2S0.449
Kansas 314.588 277,656
Kentucky 269,900 241,854
Louisiana 79,875 6.GI4
Maine 64,118 69,506
Maryland 138,359 117,347
Massachusetts 247,885 26S.S12
Michigan 286,775 339,09 >
Minnesota 179,152 179,544
Mississippi 80,?,S3 4,2y3
Missouri 398,032 369.339
Montana 101,063 66,750
Nebraska 15$.$27 117,771
Nevada 17,776 12,127
New Hampshire 43,779 43,723
New Jersey 211,01S 268,982
New Mexico 33.553 31,161
New York 756,880 S75.510
North Carolina 168,383 120,S90
North Dakota 55,271 52.651
Ohio 604,946 514,830
Oklahoma 184.123 97,233
Oregon 120,087 126,813
Pennsylvania 21.784 703,734
Rhode" Island 40,394 44,858
South Oaro ina 61.*46 l.SO'.t
South Dakota 59.191 £4,261
Tennessee 153.S3.ri 116,114
Texas 285.909 64,949
Utah $4,025 54,12;:
Vermont 22,708 40.20.>
Virginia 10S.824 49,359
Washington 183.3*8 167.244
West Virginia liu.403 143,124
Wisconsin 193.042 221.32:!
Wyoming 28,316 21,69s
Totals 9,116,295 S,547.474
Caplan Goes To Prison.
Los Angeles.—David Caplan, last of
the dynamiters tried for the destruc-
tion of the Los Angeles Times build
ing in 1910, when twenty men were
killed, was sentenced to ten years in
San Quentin penitentiary on a charge
of manslaughter.
Oklahoma Is In District With Kansas.
Colorado and New Mexico.
Washington. — Twelve cities in
which are to be located the federal
farm loan banks were announced by
the federal farm loan board, and it is
expected that within sixty days the
new system will be in operation, ready
to make the loans for which applica-
tions already are pouring in from
every section of the country.
The banks will be set up in Spring-
field, Mass.; Baltimore, Md.; Colum-
bia, S. C.; New Orleans, La.; Houston,
Texas; St. Louis Mo.; Louisville, Ky.;
St. Paul, Minn.; Omaha, Neb.; Wich-
ita, Kan.; Spokane, Wash., and Berk-
ley, Calif.
The twelve districts into which the
country is divided were announced by
the farm loan board as follows:
District No. 1.—Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York and
New Jersey.
District No. 2.—Pennsylvania, Del-
aware, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and the District of Columbia.
District No. 3.—North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
District No. 4.—Ohio, Indiana, Ken-
tucky and Tennessee.
District No. 5t—Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana.
District No. 6.—Illinois, Missouri
and Arkansas.
District No. 7—Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and North Dakota.
District No. 8.—Iowa, Nebraska,
South Dakota and Wyoming.
District No. 9.—Oklahoma, Kansas.
Colorado and New Mexico.
District No. 10.—Texas.
District No. 11.—California, Nevada,
Utah and Arizona.
District No. 12.—Washington. Ore-
gon, Montana and Idaho.
standing army of 500.000
Is Plan Proposed By the United States
General Staff.
Washington. — Argentina's military
system is serving as a model for the
universal service bill now being draft-
ed by a committee of the army general
staff, Officers familiar with staff opin-
ion said that, while details had not
been completed, this would follow
closely the Argentine scheme and was
designed to keep half a million men
under training with 2,500,000 trained
reservists subject to call.
The main feature of the staff bill
will be its provision for one year of
intensive military instruction for all
youths subject to its terms. It is ex-
pected that exemptions due to physical
disqualifications and for other reasons
would leave available for army train-
ing between 50.000 and 500,000 of the
1,000,000 boys who reach the age of IS
nach year.
teutons ready for an
immediate peace
discussion
MAIN POINT IS SIDESTEPPED
Reply Falls to Name Terms On Which
Central Alliance Will Be Ready
to Treat.—Next Move Up
to the Allies.
Washington.—Germany's reply to
President Wilson's note is regarded
here as having advanced the peace
movement another step, despite the
fact that it disappoints in not meeting
his suggestion for an avowal of terms.
The reception Germany's reply re-
ceives among the entente allies,
whose statements have publicly de-
clared against such a program, now
becomes the point upon v. hich a fur-
ther move is hinged. The German
reply probably is the prelude to a
series of carefully considered delicate
moves in the great game of world
diplomacy, all possibly leading to an
approach for a real discussion of
peace terms on grounds which all the
belligerents may feel can place them
at no disadvantage.
Neutral diplomatic quarters regard-
ed the "note as a step toward peace
and rather leaned to the view that
Germany might follow it with a confi-
dential communication of some sort,
outlining her terms.
The view of the entente embassies,
frankly expressed, was that the note
was not an answer to President Wil-
son's communication, but, rather, a
TEXT OF GERMAN REPLY.
Berlin.—The answer of Germany and
her allies, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria
and Turkey, to the peace note of
President Wilson reads as follows:
"The high-minded suggestions made
by the president of the United States
of America, in order to create a basis
for the establishment of a lasting
peace, have been received and con-
sidered by the imperial government
in the friendly spirit which was ex-
pressed in the president's communi-
cation.
"The president points out that
which he has at heart and leaves
open the choice of road.
"To the Imperial government an im-
medlte change of views seems to be
the most appropriate road In order
to reach the desired result.
"It begs, therefore, in the sense of
the declaration made on December 21
which offered a hand for peace nego-
tiations, to propose an immediate
meeting of the belligerent states, at a
neutral place.
"The imperial government is also
of the opinion that the great work of
preventing further wars can be begun
only after the end of the present
struggle of the nations.
"It will, when this moment shall
have come, be ready with pleasure to
collaborate entirely with the United
States in this exalted task."
The answer of the central powers
concludes with the usual diplomatic
terms of politeness.
document for circulation in Germany
and in neutral countries with the ob-
ject of molding opinion to place the
responsibility for continuing the war
on the entente.
It was agreed that the principal
sticking point was the lack of defi-
nite statement of terms such as Pres-
ident Wilson asked and such as Lloyd
George declared the allies would re-
quire if they were not to put their
"heads into a noose With the rope
end in the hands of the Germans."
It is not beyond the realm of diplo-
macy, however, to find a way to
bridge that difficulty, and Germany's
failure is not regarded as a block to
the negotiations, although it makes
them exceedingly difficult. Germany's
declaration that she regards the work
of securing the world against future
wars, a work to be taken up after the
present conflict was ended, was re-
garded with a diversity of opinion.
Officials who turned back and com-
pared the statement with the phrases
of President Wilson's note did not find
the two out of harmony nor in dis-
agreement with the president's public
utterances on a world league to pre-
serve peace; yet there was an unde-
finable opinion abroad in official quar-
ters that the ending of the war and
the safeguarding of tne peace of the
future were a joint problem so in-
separable that one depended on the
other.
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"FIGHT ON!"--ALLIES.
Paris.—The text of the note of the entente governments replying to
Germany's proposal for a peace confcrer.ee, made public here, followh:
"The allied governments of Belgium, France, <;reat Britain, ltalv Japan,
Moptenegro, Portugal, Roumania, ltussia and Serbia, united for the defense
of the liberty of their peoples and faithful to the engagement not to lay
down their arms separately, have resolved to reply collectively to the pre-
tended propositions of peace which were addressed to them on behalf of the
enemy governments through the intermediary of the United States, Spain,
Switzerland and Holland. Before making any replv the allied powers desire
particularly to protest against the essential assertions of the note of the
enemy powers that pretends to throw upon the allies responsibility for the
war and proclaim the victory of the central powers.
"The allied governments cannot admit an aliirmatlon doubly Inexact
and which sutlices to render sterile all tentative negotiations. The allied
nations have sustained for thirty months a war they did everything to
avoid. They have shown by their acts their attachment to peace; that
attachment is as strong today as it was in 1914. But it is *not upon the
word of Germany, after the violation of its engagements, that the peace
broken by her may be based.
Founded on Calculated Misinterpretation of W?ir.
"A mere suggestion without a statement of terms that negotiations
should be opened is not an offer of peace. The putting forward by the
imperial government of a sham proposal lacking a'.l substance and precision
would appear to be less an offer of peace than a war maneuver. It Is
founded on calculated misinterpretation of the character of the struggle in
the past, the present and future.
"As for the past the German note takes no account of the facts, dates
and figures which establish that the war was desired, provoked and declared
by Gei ~vny and Austria-Hungary.
"At The Hague conference it was a German delegate who refused all
proposals for disarmament. In July, 1914, it was Austria-Hungary who,
after having addressed to Serbia an unprecedented ultimatum, declared
war upoivher in spite of the satisfaction which had at once been accorded.
"The central powers then rejected all attempts made by the entente to
bring^about a pacific solution of a purely local conflict.
"Great Britain suggested a conference; France proposed an international
commission; the emperor of Russia asked the German emperor to go to
arbitration and Russia and Austria-Hungary came to an understanding on
the eve of the conflict, but to all these efforts Germany gave neither answer
nor effect.
No Mention of Penalties, Reparation and Guarantees.
"Belgium was invaded by an empire which had guaranteed her neutrality
and which had the assurance to proclaim that treaties were 'scraps of paper'
and that 'necessity knows no law.'
"At the present moment these sham offers on the part of Germany rest
on the 'war map' of Europe alone which represents nothing more than a
superficial and passing phase of the situation and not the real strength of
the belligerents. A peace concluded upon these terms would bo only to the
advantage of the aggressors who after imagining that they would reach
their goal in two months discovered after two years that they could never
attain it.
"As for the future disasters caused by the German declaration of war
and the innumerable outrages committed by Germany and her allies against
both belligerents and neutrals demand penalties, reparation and guarantees.
Germany avoids mentioning any of these.
"In Italy these overtures made by the central powers are nothing more
than a calculated attempt to influence the future course of war and to
end it by imposing German peace. The object of tlicso overtures is to
create dissension in public opinion in the allied countries. But that publlo
opinion has in spite of all the saerilices endured by the allies already given
its answer with admirable firmness and has denounced the empty pretense
of the declaration of the enemy powers.
"They have the further object of stiffening public opinion in Germany
and in the countries allied to her—one and all severely trlod by, their losses,
worn out by economic pressure and crushed by the supreme effort which liaB
been imposed upon their inhabitants.
People Refuse Proposal Empty and Insincere.
"They endeavor to deceive and intimidate public opinion In neutral
countries whose inhabitants have long since made up their mind where
responsibility lies and are far too enlightened to favor the designs
of Germany by abandoning the defense of human freedom.
"Finally these overtures fall to justify in advance in the eyes of the
world, a new series of crimes—submarine warfare, deportations, forced
labor and forced enlistment of the Inhabitants against their own countries
and violations of neutrality.
"Fully conscious of the gravity of this moment but equally conscious
of Its requirement the allied governments closely united to one another
and In perfect sympathy with their people refuse to consider a proposal
which is empty and insincere.
"Once again the allies declare that no peace is possible so long as they
have not secured reparation for violated rights arid liberties, the recognition
of the principle of nationalities and of - the free existence of small states;
so long as they have not brought about a settlement calculated to end once
and for all forces which have constituted a perpetual menace to the nations
and afford the only effective guarantee for the future security of the world.
In conclusion the allied powers think it necessary to put forward the
following considerations which show the special situation of Belgium after
two and a half years of war. In virtue of the international treaties signed
by five great European powers of whom Germany was one, Belgium enjoyed
before the war a special status rendering her territory inviolable and plac-
ing her under the guarantee of the powers outside all European conflicts
She was, however, in spite of these treaties the first to suffer the aggression
of Germany. For this reason the Belgian government thinks it necessary to
define the aims which Belgium has never ceased to pursue while flghtiiu?
side by side with the entente powers for right and justice.
Belgium Asks Peace and Justice, With Reparation.
"Belgium has always scrupulously fulfilled the duties which .her neu-
trality imposed upon her. She has taken up arms to defend her independence
and trer neutrality violated by Germany and to show that she remains
faithful to her international obligations.
"On the fourth of August, 1914, in the reiehstag the German chancellor
admitted that this aggression constituted an injustice contrary to the laws
ot nations and pledged himself in the name of Germany to repair it. During
two and a half years this injustice has been cruellv aggravated by the pro-
ceedings of the occupying forces which have exhausted the resources of the
country, ruined its industries, devastated Its towns and villages and have
been responsible for innumerable massacres, executions and Imprisonments.
"At this very moment while Germany is proclaiming peace and humanity
to the world she is deporting Belgian citizens by thousands and forcing them
to slavery.
"Belgium before the war asked for nothing but to live In harmony with
her neighbors. Her king and her government have but one aim—the re-
establishment of peace and justice. But they only desire peace which
would assure to their country legitimate reparation, guarantees and safe-
guards for the future."
THE SITUATION AT WASHINGTON.
Washington.—Opinion as to the effect of the entente reply to the
peace proposals of the central powers varies widely here, but in all
quarters interest now centers upon the allies' answer to President
Wilson's note in which peace advocates ardently hope to find an open-
ing for advancement of the negotiations.
Official comment from officials of the administration was lacking
entirely again. Secretary Lansing formally announced that the entente
reply had not been cabled for delivery to Germany and her allies and
that the state department had received the official text of the Spanish
note refusing to join in a peace movement at this time.
Publication of the Spanish note gave the American public its first
intimation that copies of the president's note to the belligerents pro-
posing a discussion of peace terms had been accompanied when de-
livered to neutrals with a suggestion that the action of the United
States be supported. Whether such a suggestion went with the copies
to all neutrals is not known, as officials do not even admit that it was
done in the case of Spain.
Teuton Reply Unlikely.
While some officials think Germany will not fail to respond to the
entente reply, if not to answer the charges contained in it, others be-
lieve the reply leaves little if any room for "further Teutonic advances.
The German embassy takes the latter view and holds that hope for
restoration of peace at this time depends almost entirely upon how
the entente replies to President Wilson's suggestions.
MINISTERS PROTEST PEACE
Twister Wrecks Havoc Over a Four-
Mile Path in Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark.—Twelve persons
tornado which swept a four-mile path
were killed and fifty injured in a
over south central Arkansas. Uncon-
firmed reports tell of many more
deaths and it seems certain that the
casualty list will be much increased
when communication is restored and
the complete story of the storm is
told.
Washington.—In a signed document
addressed to the nation, more than
fifty prelates and laymen of various
denominations representing many sec-
tions of the country have united in a
warning against what they declare
may be premature peace in Europe
which "may bring a curse instead of a
blessing."
Among the signers to the document,
made public here, are Lyman Abbott,
President John Grier Hibben of Prince-
ton; former Attorney General Bona-
part, Winston Churchill, the author;
President Henry C. King of Oberlin
college; Gilford Pinchot; George
Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia; Rev.
William A. (Billy) Sunday; James M.
Speer, chairman of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary movement; Rev. C. K. Nelson,
| Episcopal bishop of Atlanta; Rev. Jo-
seph F. Berry, Methodist Episcopal
bishop of Philadelphia; Rev. Philip M.
Rhinelander, Episcopal bishop of Penn-
sylvania; Rev. William Lawrence,
Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts;
Rev. Harry E. Fosdick of Union Theo-
logical seminary; Rev. Charles P. An-
derson, Episcopal bishop of Chicago;
and Rev. William T. Manning, rector
of the Trinity church, New York.
The address declares the Christians
of America should consider the right
or wrong of the occupation of Belgium,
Poland and Serbia, the Armenian mas-
sacres, the destruction of merchant
ships, the hardships of Jews and Syri-
ans, the "attempt to array Moslem
against Christian in holy war'' and
should be reminded that "peace is the
triumph of righteousness and not the
mere sheathing of the sword."
It further declares that the signers
"view with some concern the organ-
ized and deliberate efforts now being
made so to stampede Christian senti-
ment as to create a public opinion
blindly favorable to stopping hostil-
ities without adequate consideration of
the issue which the war involves."
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