The campaign cry of the Demo
cratic party last year was: "He
kept us out of war." It was upon
this is&ue more than all others
combined that President Wilson
was re-elected, and since the elec
tio,i ther^ in no reason to believe
pubfic sentiment has changed in
the least against becoming involved
in war with any Dation, therefore
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it is not probable that the public
press is voicing that sentiment in
its criticisms of the twelve sen-
ator.-* who stood by their com ic
tions by refusing to give even as
safe a president as President Wil
son has shown himself to be, a
free hand in arming vessuN to go
into the European war /one no
doubt 10 carry munitions of war
to the allies.
Senator Clapp was one of the
independents who voted against
arming vessels to practically pro
mote war, and his constituents
this state should feol under obli
gations to him for doing some
thing which no doubt a vory largo
majority of them would have fav
ored had the matter been first sub
mitted to them, to prevent the
president from doing anything
which might bo construed as an
act of war.
Bigger Than the Indian
Last year Mrs. Kdivard Pemult
applied for the position of baker
at the Government Boarding
School here, a position which is
now being nominally filled b.\
Mrs. Baumgarten, wife of the
principal of the school, while the
school girls, it is chaiged, do the
work.
