St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 13, 1919

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COMIC PAGE JULY 12, 1919, "VE Gor A PUNCTURE AMA "sm 25 Miles “IO GT THE yiRe ARO E bopyvright, 1919, by H c. F . age Mark Reg. U. 8. Pat. Of asf Se en i y Jean . * % q . ( we z despotism which swept Prussia aft the date of the first “German revolu- Today all sides admit that! 1848. It is the law known as “Bela-; +}, German proletariat stands almost gerung-zustand” or state of siege.) 45 a body for the revolution. Mem- By employing this law the German) phorg of the German Government | sovercign had the privilege of ews themselves admit that they are no | ing out of existence with a stroke of) Government of the people, but mere- 7 * ernment and justice and substituting ( instead a pure military dicttatorship. ‘invoke this law—the darkest and most} Although he is the most ' note that ' ~Maj. Gilsa, Capt, Nickola, . . r. ) a pen all civil and institutional gov-, ly figureheads kept in place by the iron hand of Noske. How long Noske will survive is a question which time will answer. Deciding Vote Is His. d Noske is a tall, dark-haired man ,with a black mustache. He wears Noske to/( glasses and walks with a slight stoop. violently feudal of all legal blots on Prus-) hated man in Germany the sia's despotic past-—-as the basis for { masses, he does not give the impres- the life of new Germany. Today all, sion ofa villainous despot. His own Germany is under a state of siege./ words and acts give an idea of his Neither the German Cabinet nor the) character. In 1906 Noske entered the German Government officials, from Reichstag +p member of the Social Ebert down, have the deciding voice ) Democratic party. He had prepared in the life of new Germany. This) himself for the position by editing a voice lies with Noske and his circle( small newspaper in Prussia. He of military men. It is interesting to} in this circle are names | sionists,” made famous in Germany by the war) cratic party who desired to remove Pabst, Col von( some of the Marxian Socialists rrom Ludendorff, Hindenburg. the party's tent. Yon Lettow, Vorbeck and others. } During the war he was a stanch When Prince Maximilian, a real lib-| supporter of the German military it remained for Gusta\ by those of the Social Demo- _ eral, came into power for a few hours ;party. In January, 1916, he made a _ ian but not for Noske. _ ke’s first acts as dictator was to re- by Maximilian, was | ette, a very German variant. 4 dictator there was no revolution to | No Revolution to Speak of. /@e and left wings was a minority’ . affair. ase. im March the German workingmen | Wealistic way for some future So0-} a philanthropist. ‘Pert of contented hope cherished by the working class. The change from 4 ea to Noske, however, dis- this state of affairs. In order in Germany, one of his first acts was‘ speech in the Reichstag in connec- the dismissal of Col. Nickolai, bead) tion with the famous Baralong case. of the Germany espionage and propa- The Baralong, an English ship, had ganda departments. Nickolai was) sunk a German U-boat, and, accord- too reactionary for Prince Maximil-) ing to German charges, fired upon One of Nos-( the U-boat crew in the water. “The English note on the Baralong case store this most pan-German of all(is the most disgraceful and cynical of old Germany's officials. } communication we have ever heard,” Gen. Ludendorff, likewise deposed | said Noske. “When one reads the called in by) German Government answer one Noske to help prepare plans for a) asks if it could not have been harder Proposed military campaign against | and stronger.” Poland which has not yet material-( 7m seed. It must not be fancied that | “Hear, Hear, from Liebknecht | Noske is merely a puppet utilized by) |. ee ee ay ea At this point the Reichstag rec- ke’s life his ete ahd thdmeeverines ords show that Liebknecht exclaimed, | . ’\ “Hear, hear,’ expressing his opin- reveaig a man of parts—a sort of) ion of a Social Democrat who thought German variant of the French Lafay- the Government of the Kaiser and | the Crown Prince too weak in its tac- *,\i tics. Noske continued: ‘However, ‘we admire and love our brave U-boat men, and even if the Government did not make the note harder, we have every confidence that these men will speak of in Germany. The revolu-) make it sufficiently hard for the en- tion led by the Socialists of the mid-( emy without any notes.” In~ May, 1916, however, Noske suppressed it with) heard uttering the paradoxical In November, in January and} in the Reichstag, ‘““The censorship and ; } Before Noske's advent as military Noske is cry state of siege are purposeless and dis- 88 a whole were not. revolutionary.) gusting institutions to impose upon Under the Kaiser they were allowed\ the people.’ This was the same t© organize into a large political par-) Noske who less than three years later ty. This party was an orderly palit. | was to inaugurate a censorship and a eal unit within the German emptre, | tate of siege which made the Kais- Working in an orderly and rather/ er’s look like the amateur efforts of Figures show that Clalist Utopia. It occupied about) Noske's regime has thrown 100 per the same position in the life of the\ cent more men and women into jail. Ration that the American National) in six months and, executed several : Guard did in peace times. hundred per cent more political of- fenders in a similar time than ,the former Kaiser did during his entire reign. Again in May, 1918, Noske is heard in the Reichstag explaining: “Now is not the time for a debate on the war aims and, therefore, I do not) wish to speak of that. If it is de sirable and necessary our colonial | possessions wil) be augmented by the Bah > sondes es Four. The inner politics of the former Kaiser Wilhelm was distinguished by @ patriarchal benevolence which the revolution and left ita Deeserve the military classes of and to keep intact the , capitalistic system, Noske a ee ee hp tacked it on successfully. for a long stretch without apparent fatigue ' about William. know him - Why He Came to Shorten His First Name From William, How Took His First in Na- tional Convention PoliticS in st. Louis When McKinley was Nom- inated and Whv He Never Forgets a Name and Face, All Explained by a College Chum. | w0SSON] By MEREDITH NICHOLSON. Author of “The Vatley of Democracy,’ “The Port of Missing Men,’ ‘The House of a Thousand Candics™ and many other books. SLENDER, boyish-looking man: an alert, A tisick-movine man, who walks with a long, swinging stride, clutching a big black portfolio: such is the stranger’s first im- pression of Will H. Hays of Sullivan, Ind., chair- man of the Republican National Committee. As he crosses a hotel lobby there is a general stir. Men who have been lying in wait rush forward to intercept him at the desk, where he grabs a mass of telegrams and mail and turns with a smile to find himself surrounded. Someone relieves him of the portfolio (he's the kind of fellow people like to do little things for), and he bégins to shake hands. ~ It ts a long, shapely hand, and he gives it with a cor- | . If the delegates “What name?” in he gets his head dial clasp. He does not say the manner of the old-time politicians; in instantly, and it is filed away in with a snapshot photograph of the belongs to. He has a thin, long face, nose that had already achieved a fair length when it took a notion to add a section and His well-shaped head thick, dark-brown hair. The 100, is covered with eyes are brown, sive eves that sadden or brighten with the play of the owner's quick emotions. His voice is a lit- tle nasal, but in conversation pitched the platform it grows a trifle shrill but it car- ries. and the effect of what We is saving is not spoiled. When he strikes a conversational tone in a speech he plays with his voice in an inter- low. ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY M He | } / } » Johnson person it | with a. ; i ~ € Noy. 5. They are steady, respon- , } some suite with mahogany furnishings in a new: ? bureau. ‘a bunch ‘they won't.burst out sobbing if switched to Boon- On } } ‘ ill Hays, By His Friend Meredith Nicholson, Democrat , = name is William Harrison Hays. He has always | signed himself Will, perhaps from a feeling that ; something hifalutin and When a friend suggested that he there is ostentatious ‘ural that should give thought to the appearance and dig- nity of his name in history, he wrote it out in full. studied it quizzically and the slip of paper into the waste basket. The ways of Hays are interesting Hays, who is the most unconscious person alive, is different. He is unlike any other politician because how he must puzzle and worry some of the grand, gloomy and peculiar statesmen of his party who feel that theirs is the God-given right to hand the people what they think the people need. Hays is not like that. He thinks in terms of the whole United States. and then dropped / { )of the young men of what was then a new Com- | ‘or zo home. It now in the public eye, and it tickles me to think ( } | | , ‘tablet on { \ he continues | to be interesting and impressive even after you ? Bill and chagrined yellow pretty well and call him have begun to be disappointed and because you can't find any green or streaks in him. He looks like a college senior, but often, when been chafing him and talking nonsense, he suddenly grows serious and talks like Aegyptus, who was old and knew 10. 000 things. Le = Indiana has produced a great number of poli- ticlans in the 103 years of her existence. She has one President to her credit and Presidents than anyone cares to count. Taggart and Harry S. New have served you've Will Be 40 This Year Thomas their ‘ clared ( } ards, and Hinkle. man his sons Will H The father was an indefatigable worker, a of with the highest standing at the Indiana bar. and his | probity, practice was not confined to his own county but ( bs } intruded upon neighboring circuits. There is | wheat and corn land on railroad litiga- in + the Lower Wabash. and coal and lent variety the business law has to usual country offices. “ Hays Was not«an athletic youngster, and | Sullivan Will boy to do in fe spent his leisure, from about his tenth year, browsing in his father’s office, or watching the trial in the courtroom. An Indiana lad learns politics as he learns the way to the best hole and the place where the paw: , paws ripen first. So when he was 16, young | Hays attended his first National Convention in St. Louis and saw McKinley nominated. Whether ; eases call a National Convention to order is not known, but from that experience dates his entrance into | politics. Born faith, it was nat- Wabash College at bi into the Presbyterian Will should attend Crawfordsville. Wabash God-fearing New Englanders to the end that the might to the attention ( was established humanities be brought monwealth, Wabash is one of those foolish in- stitutions where students are expected to study | has never tried to be a univer- ( but substantial Resides ) college. educational sity or anything just a being a place of stand- ¢ its Americanism opened its doors 109 per cent. There the that the of the graduates and undergraduates who answered 1861 And Seotch as his name, has been is a bronze names Walls recites the call to arms in President George lL. MeIntosh, the if necessary he would nail up the doors of the col- busi- | de- that , who is as at beginning of the recent war lege until the Kaiser had been put out of ness. | How He Got Into Politics | ‘ Hoosier more Vice; ; respective parties as National Committee Chair. ; men. As both Taggart and New attained seats tin the United States Senate. a National Chair- man from Indiana may be considered to be within range of whatever lightnings play over } Hays not only got all there was to get out of his college, but he got a cood deal out of Craw- The town has been called the pernicious fordsville itself Athens, because of the of letter fraternities casionally painting up the town, but becausé@ 1! has from the beginning been a place where peo- proved it by not activity the Greek in o*- ple loved literature and frequent]; writing books. As 1 was born in this town [} shall not scruple to brag of it as a place cnockful of what Riley used to call culturine. And Wa- bash College is an institution where young gen- | learn to write Governor's messaces ; tlemen may the commonwealth. There are Republicans of }or even messages to Congress, and to impart seeming sanity who say that Hays is marked | to their public papers the grace and vigor of for high place. opinion on ‘this grave matter beyond predicting that Hays will call the Republican National ’ Being a Democrat, who voted ) real literature twice for Woodrow Wilson, I shall express no / found and married a wife there, the daughter of ; Hays did all this, and more; he Judge Thomas Leah eee JULY 13, 1919, Republican ) ‘Never Has Sought Office, but the » ward he entered the lists, { , an M. A.. ) ' mitted to the bar. \ Prosecutor in ») low gseore card. hand- | of ' publican , Hoosier Progressives were sliding on their own ' the he would one day ‘| } That no element lacking, he went to Cincinnati and borrowed a ) real \ sent it ) carried the State } from the day it ) ) Committee resigned. } dianapolis } organizer and abroad f ) his appointment Whenever there was an oratorical contest for- } — ee - . . - a — Os eo ee eee es maa = Ee a nein PAGES 1—16 — —— Governorship of Indiana Is His if He Wants It—His Career a Strik- ing Example of What Discretion Will Do for a Man—Never Knocks Anything or Anybody and, if He Can't Sav Something Says Nothing at All. * and where he did not win the first prize he tied for first place. his A. B. in due course, he went after and won it with a thesis he called “A Discussion of the Negro Problem, Including Law Brief on the Legal Status of the Negro.’ This essay did shatter the foundations of the earth and it has never been published: but it is an honest job, well larded with quotations and ceiving not authorities. particularly; it could be of no use to him in the practice of law at Sullivan, but he went out! for it and got it, and getting what he goes for is one of the ways of Hays. On the day he was 21 Hays voted and was ad- Sullivan County had long been a Democratic stronghold. There was not much chance that a young Republican, no matter how his pocket promising, would ever get very far with Sullivan | Hays was a candidate for this being a mere matter routine, every two vears the nomination is wished on some young Republican lawyer to al- a sacrifice hitter on the base. 1902. as his home “as him to figure as Republican way back in 1872 failing as a prece- dent for William. Undismayed, he became county chairman in 1903, and he displayed such zeal as an organizer that “Jim’’ (now Governor) Good- rich called him to the capital to run the speakers’ of temperamental Hoosier orators so ville or Rising Sun when they fully expect to spout to the larger and more critical audiences Indianapolis, Evansville or Fort Wayne, is clearly destined for immortality. | chosen to Head National Committee Hays was liking politics so well that in 1906 he tackled the County Chairmanship again and elected one candidate to the. General Assembly and the Sheriff. He was District Chairman for four years, widening, house-to-house visita- tions, his knowledge of the fried chicken and quince preserves that grace the tables of the honest husbandmen of the Wabash Valley. Then, in 1914, he was stung by having the State Chairmanship conferred upon him. Re fortunes were at a low ebb. The by cellar door and not at all anxious to kiss and make up with the haughty Republican boys in next yard. There was talk of cutting the Republican State convention to a half-day ses sion, but Hays played it for three days, winding up with a love feast around the old totem pole. of picturesqueness might be inscribed it with O. P.. I am back already,” and ene streets of Indianapolis to Continuing in the elephant from the zoo, the legend “G. through the strains of joyous music. chairmanship through the campaign of 1916, he for Hughes by 7000 votes. This was an achievement. The Democrats had \ never had a better organization, and they waged battle with vigor and intelligence When America went to war, Hays, failing of acceptance for the army because he didnt weigh enough, became chairman of the State Council of Defense. He organized’ Indiana against the Kaiser with as much enthusiasm as though the great war lord headed a Democratic ticket. If anybody in Indiana didn’t do some thing toward winning the war, it was because Hays couldn't find him. lie was enjoying hfmself making Indiana a center of war activities when fate handed him Chairman Willeox of the National Hays was not a member he was not a candidate The reactionary element offered a brilliant oppor another job. of the committee and for the chairmanship. thought the vacancy ‘tunity to frame things for 1920 by selecting a chairman who would walk blindfolded. The contest at St. Louis was a very pretty little af Hays took no part in it, remaining at In on his He wasn't at all anxious for the chairmanship. He is a home- loving man, and to do the job right meant con stant travel. When the reactionaries found it impossible to land John T. Adams of lowa in the place it fell to Hays, on his record as an harmonizer Reports had gone the man from Sullivan preferred fair. war job. that ) the peace pipe to the tomahawk, and al! th'ngs Hays ana |! an Indian. called from considered. this was promising. were discussing Walt Whitman when he was in apolis restaurant Hie came back and we finished Compinued on Page Five. — Manager, Good, He. Re-, He didn't need the master’s degree | Hays was defeated, the fact that his. ‘father had been elected to the same office as a to be the full, responsible cause of the this mock sovereignty. Any man who can handle, as Hays did, |that we know definitely and official- \ ~~ lof a general peace in Europe, the Em- ee a ee a ea ee a i ee a A Deposed Kaiser; ee a a i a i li iewed eye i i i PBOQBPEA PDP eee i i i i a i i i French Emperor’s Crimes Never Presented to a Judicial Tribunal as German’s Will Be—Cases of Charles I and Queen of Scotland Also Considered in This Connection. ee ee — — ae OW shall the deposed German Kaiser be tried “for the violation of in- H ternational obligations and the sanctity of treaties” as the indictment against him runs in the treaty of Versailles? We have the assurance of Lloyd George, British Premier, that he will be tried before an international tribunal in London. That is the sole offictal pronounce-) peror Napoleon, faithful to his oath, ment as to the plans that has been( declares that he renounces for him- ziven to the world. self and his heirs the throne. of From a London daily newspaper we/ France and Italy, and that there is no have the unofficial assurance that) personal sacrifice, not even that of may or may not be true that he will/ life itself, which he is not willing be extradited from Holland, taken to( to make for the interests of France.” London and imprisoned in the famous) The allies; meanwhile had taken old tower. ‘possession of Paris and there they Another story, which also may or) held a council as to what should be may not be true, has it that an oni? Gack with Napoleon. The treaty ternational tribunal, set up by the | which they finally drew up provided league of nations and sitting in Lon-( that he and the Empress Maria Lou- don, will summon Wilhelm before it\isa should retain their titles during to answer to the indictment; that,/ their lives. To him the sovereignty whether he appears or not—and he is; and the right of ownership of the expected to appear voluntarily—) Island of Elba was assigned, with anf is case will be considered and a ver-{ annual income of $500,000, to be paid dict rendered, fastening forever upon) by France. The private property of him and his memory the blame’ for) Napoleon, however, whether as the war. According to this story, no\ extraordinary or as private domyin, other punishment will be meted out) Was to revert to the crown. to him, save that he shall not re-( The allies of that day belleved that turn to Germany, the assumption be-) they had settled the affairs of Europe ing that to be officially adjudicated( for good and all in the conferring of Although for (20 years the military operations of , } Napoleon had kept France in a mad | Wilson Berred Death Penalty whirl of glory, and had terrorized the * , Continent, wise ones believed that An the star of the Man of Destiny had set forever. The affection which ly is that according to present plans)™&Uy of the French people had for he will be tried, that the trial wil) { "im. the dislike which they felt for take place in London and that the ) the Bourbons, and misunderstandings jJeath penalty will not be inflicted. (#™mong the allies themselves made it President Wilson is responsible for) POSsible for Napoleon to return and the inhibition against the death pen-/to conduct that brilllant yet unsue- alty. He and bis associates on os One Hundred Days’ Campaign American delegation were strongly) Which ended in his overwhelming de- against trying the deposed, Emperor ( fe@t at Waterloo. at all, holding that the only possible result from such a trial would be to‘ [ England Handled Napoleon | crown him with martyrdom and)‘. arouse more sympathy than ever for/ When the time came to decide upon him among the German people. It is\the fate of Napoleon after he had said that Clemenceau’ took pretty} broken his Elba parole, much harsh- much the same view and was more or\er conditions were imposed. Only a less indifferent to the proceeding.) slight change in affairs would have However, the British delegation was( resulted in his being landed on the very strong for the trial, in fact, de-)coast of England and taken to Lon- manded it, since the British Gevalia for trial, as is now proposed in ment had promised the British people) the case of the whilom Emperor of that Wilhelm would be brought to/ Germany ; judgment. Clemenceau finally sided\ Napoleon the prisoner of with Lloyd George and President > England by surrendering himself to Wilson agreed, with the understand-(\her. The Kaiser in the first gloom ing that there would be no attempt to) of defeat when he fled from Germany inflict the death penalty. had intended, according to all ac- Imprisonment, either for life or a, counts, to surrender himself to the term of years, or temporary or per-) British. The reputation of the dwell- manent exile are the only alternating‘ ers on John Bull's tsland for justice penalties that can be inflicted }and fair play is world-wide. This ta As for the trial itself, there is no( evidenced not only by the original precedent in international jurispru-) Plan of William Hohenzollern, but dence. Never before has a ruler been ( also In the correspondence between brought to bar on such a charge by a) Napoleon and the representatives of coalition of wronged nations. The/ Great Britain. nearest case is that of Mary, Queen; The Kaiser took refuge in Holland; of Scotland, who was beheaded after. the deposed Emperor of the French prosecution by Queen Elizabeth of ‘ upon the Island of Aix. In the offing England because of her alleged de-. were varships of Great Britain. RBe- signs on the British crown. The real(fore the break of day on July 11, 1815, cause for this famous prosecution,) the Duke of Rovigo went with a flag however, was personal rivalry for)of truce to inquire if a French ofr the throne of England. The trial and ( neutral vessel conveying the Emperor execution of Charlies I of England is) and bound for the United States could likewise not a parallel for the reason( Pass unmolested. Aa this request was that Charles had offended only) not granted and he feared capture against his own people. (by the troops of the restored regime — , ,of the Bourbons, Napoleon decided | Terms of the Exile to Elbe to give himself up to the British. % J, He did not consider that he had The case of Napoleon affords the/ heen guilty of any high crimes or nearest and most obvious precedent | ™!sdemeanors for which he might be though, not even preceding his exile Placed on trial. His attitude ts beteer to Elba did the proceeding against|¢*Pressed in his own words tn the } following letters sent to George Iv, war will be sufficient punishment. But this is all speculative. became him take on a judicial character , The allies had made good their in-, ‘hem Prince Regent: - vasion of France in 1814. Two million men were at hand to crush the rem-| [ Napoleon's A ppeal to King | nants of that grand army which Na-, anaes poleon had led into Russia. The Man’ “Royal Highness: Exposed te the of Destiny, betrayed by many of) factions which divide my coustry, those whom he had advanced to(and to the hoatility of the principal riches and power, was, on April 6,) Powers of Europe, I have terminated constrained to abdicate /my political career, and I come, Uke “The allied sovereigns.” to quote| Themitstocles, to sit down at the fire. from the document penned by Bona-/ side of the British people. I place parte’s own hand, “having declared( myself under the protection of thaie luncheon to receive notice over the telephone of that the Emperor Napoleon is the) laws, which | claim from your reyal sole obstacle to the re-establishment, highness, as the most powerful, the rs egret ; SE. _ - a = ge a “ anal Se ~ A A ETE A A I, A, At ti es a heme ga a SO OL AG TE AE, I ATT. St ace SL REE I RO pe ~ rf : “oe cee i ee ee ‘ & nn