PUBLISHED EVERY AFTEUXOO.V Except Sunday. By The Alexandria Gazette Corporation, 117 King Street, Alexandria. Va. HOWARD W. SMITH, President aDd; Treasurer.
WILLIAM ALHKRT SHOOT, Vice, President. BRADLEY HARD, Editor and; General Manager. Entered at the I'ostoIUce at Alexandria, Virginia as second class matter. GUBERNATORIAL NOMINEE. From present indications Westmoreland Davis, of Loudoun county, was nominated for Governor of irglnia in the primary election yesterday.
While we preferred J. Taylor Ellyson and gave our reasons on several occasions, as good deinooiats we bow to the will of the majority and wish Mr. Davis success after he shall have been inaugurated as chief executive of the state. But while Mr. Ellyson failed pf election, he poses noble in defeat.
His 'is by no means the only case in history where capable men- men who have honestly earned their spurs in the interests of a nation pr political been sidetracked by the members of their respective organizations. We will not go back into ancient history to show this, but will refer to cases of illustrious men in our day who were knifed by people from whom we should have expected better tilings. Wade Hampton delivered Scuih Carolina from carpetbaggers. adventurers, bayonets and negro rule, playing a part in the Dalmctto State similar to that of Mr. Ellyson in the through which Virginia passed at times during the past half century.
Both fought in the Confederate army. The distinguished South Carolinian had his political enemies and J. Taylor Ellyson has his. Senator Jce Blackburn, of Kentucky, had his adversaries who a few years ago forced him out of the limited States Senate, thereby casting into an eclipse one of the brightest minds "that ever "represented that state. A majority of the people oi Kansas carrying populist it banners relegated John J.
lngalls to private life and placed one DeflTcr in the United States Senate in his stead. Roscoc Conkling was virtually set aside by the President he helped to elect and was compelled to resign his seat, in the United States Senate and retire to private life. The Gazette has heretofore said about all that could be said in regard 10 the claims of J. Taylor Ellyson the democratic party of the Old Dominion and there is necessity for recapitulating them. His history is well-known to the great mass of voters, and his labors in be- half of his party will not be forgotten by appreciative, people of though they may bo temporarily in 1 the minority.
Ln 184-1, when it became definitely I known that James K. hr. been elected President of the United ymri that Henry Clay, the idol of so many Americans, had gone down in i defeat, the then editor of the Alexan-j nm Gazette, who was an earnest supporter of Clay, appropriated the following from Doctor Samuci Johnson. who wrote the lines on the death of Mb. Pelham: Let others hail the rising sun.
bow to that whose course run. Wc repeat it in the case of Mr. Ellyson who has performed his duty to his pa; and state. Horace Greeley in his autobiography s.t/.-: ''Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion; no at can foresee what a day bring forth, while those who cheer today will often curse tomorrow." Mr. Greeley as not the only man who realized these truths.
I HE FOOD PROBLEM With the most determined and desperate struggle of the war raffing on western front, the question of peace clearly occupies the foremost place in the mmds of the Germ.cn and Austrian people and of those why represent them. What both che Gorman and Austrian governments dread more than the French and British jirnvies Is another winter of hardship and short rations. The food outlook is ret encouraging for the Centra! Powers, and the realization of the n-oorisg themselves for another period of greater self-denial 5s Indicated by the announcement that a new German "food dictator has been appointed in the person of, Kerr von Waldow, that the system of, food distribution is about to be re-1 organized, and that a conference of, German and Austro-Hungarian rep? Up held icnnu I resentetives is to be heut a to discuss the division or the Rou Liian crops. Even with the additions which will come to their larder, from this source there food prosrkc.r bl the certainty that om snorts to Holland, Norway, Sweden Denmark will probably nit down still further the total ot ava.Iabie very little doubt that shortuftc is more critica in any previous year, and t.ut otli the German and Austrian rnments look forward with appreension to the tusk of their ungl.y popuintions to endure anot sinter of irre.it inter ot greac tht moral as well the phy effect of such a strain as il en ecu 01 cumulative, and that a few mths the popular patience isc to the break point. When people have gone led stomachs tor several cessarily lose a (rood deal ot -hting Vim, and doubts begun to eep into their minds as to the pr of war.
An empty 't or Austrian belly will be no reieeter of Kaiser or Emperor searching cold of next December, anuary and February, especially; hen it is obvious that 'j mueior arc making a losing hght. The Baltimore Sun. after drawing? te above picture, suggests that the Husk's government and the dent and the government of his A rian ally are faced by chich cannot bo argued i.ev cannot make good 011 the ol ssue the last months of this ycar: md the early months of IMS threale. ellipse from within. That, all is the explanation of Ue K-rsistent peace talk that onian.a.es: (rem Berlin and Vienna, of the re-; ilea ted suggestions that come from; their spokesmen.
Autocracy hard and imperial pride hates to throw no the sponge, so that neither nation has yet been able to bring it- self to make direct ami frank over-1 tit res for peace. ANNIVERSARY OF DISASTER lie most serioU3 disaster which occurred on the Potomac river place forty-four years ago to, when the river steamer Wawa' was luirncd near Maryland Point, A fifty miles south of this city, mt one hundred persons their in this disaster, he ill-fated steamer left this port river landings early on 1-riday ruing, August 8, 1873, with a re complement of passengers. A of whom were negroes. While steamer was approaching Ghatton fire, which had broken, out Iriship, was found to be steamer was beaded for the iria fiats, which she seen reache 1 went aground. Passengers and mbcrs of the crew who happened he forward of the engine room re enabled to get overboard into illow water, but those abaft of paddle boxes were cut off, and of them were drowned, cspecialthe women and children, as the of the burning steamer was In rater.
survivors were brought to t.ns bv the steamers Lady of the of the Norfolk line, and the canna, of the Baltimore line, of their experience thrilling. years later the steamer r.xof the. Baltimore line was lost lCsapeake Bay a snort distance of Point Lookout during a sestovm. Sixteen or seventeen perwero lost on that occasion. the time the Wawasett was the boilers of an excursion id- exploded while she was at, vharf in New York.
About one red and fifty persons were killed disaster. These accidents -rl the steamboat inspectors to ne more exacting, and it was that in future all officers nboats should wear the positions they might hold ayed in letters upon their caps. THE GERMAN SHAKEUP (Ba'timore American). In the German shakeup there are discernible no t-icrns of comfort for the Allies. There are no signs of hope for the Germans who have been ardently hoping for a breakdown of the power of the bureaucrats in the govt'1 eminent.
The new ministers and other high civil officers are of the Michaelis stripe. And they represent I nothing for progressive opinion (1 Germany. Germany has learned nothing since the war started. It is still dragging the fringes of medievalism across Europe. It is still the unreconstructed Germany of 1870.
And the task of the Allies remains the supreme and the sure task of breaking the backbone of this unholy power in modern civilization. Predatory principle has to give way to democratic opportunity. And the entire force of the Allied nations will be brought to bear to effect this end. There is no shadow of uncertainty in the United States. It is moving ca'mlv and swiftly forward upon it? appointed destiny to crush to small dust the arrogant and brutish government that is responsible for the war because it nourished dreams of world domination that were as fantastic as they were criminal.
MILITARISTS STILL RULE Rranded As Bad Legacy Prom Betliniann-Holhveg Administration? Discredited Campaign. Berlin, Aug. press was decidedly lukewarm yesterday in its welcome to the new occupants of the ministerial bench, and characterizes the 14 newcomers to executive and minor posts as a Cabinet constituted of officials whose appointment does not betray a change in system. "It cannot be denied that the events occurring in our internal politics lack historic dimensions, as compared with our present military achievements," says the Tageblatt. "The German nation, which is the only 'kultur' people in the world, exercise neither direct nor indirect influence in the selection its servants." The National Liberal Boersen Zeitung in its comment says: "Is the result which we are now permitted to contemplate that which we and, with us, many others, have looked forward to? The question may promptly be answered in the negative.
We have again a Simon-pure ministry of officials." The Vossische Zeitung discusses the retention of Dr. Helfferich at length, branding him as a bad legacy from the Bcthmann-llolkvcg administration as an inspiration for a pro-English current in German foreign policy, and further charges him with having delayed and then discredited the Uboat campaign. "We cannot overlook the fact," r.nys the newspaper, "that in Dr. not only has a member of the old system been incorporated in the new Government which was to foreshadow a change in method, but, above all, one of the strongest supports of the old system, and that in a loading official capacity. Dr.
Ilelfferich's ambition is to exercise an influence upon foreign politics, and this he has occasionally changed the outward method of his foreign policy. He at no time has substituted for it a conscious determination to achieve a firm Continental understanding as opposed to the aggressive world-power policy of England and the United States. Personally (he new Foreign Secretary is suited to yield Dr. Helffevirh's views of world politic? still greater representation in the new Government." TO HAVE GREATEST SHIPS Powerful Merchant Marine Planned by Shipping Board After War. America will have a merchant marine second only to Great Britain, if to any, when the war is over, according to information obtained from HORSE SHOW.
WAERENTOX, AUGUST 13-16. 1917 Southern railway system will have on sale at Washington. D. Lynchburg. Harrisonburg, Eront Roya! and intermediate stations reduced round trip fare tickets to Warrcnton, August 14th.
15th and 16th, 1917, bearing final return limit of August 17th, 1917. account, above show. Consult Agents for details or write R. H. TJeButts, D.
T. Southern System, Washington, D. C. 178-tf. HELP Roundhouse machinist's helpers, car repairers and helpers and tranfer laborers.
Good pay. apply to master Mechanic, i POTOMAC RAILROAD YARDS, PO-j TOMAC, VA. Shipping Bo; rd yesterday. Th. greatest passenger and freight vessels of the world will operate under the Stars and Stripes.
In addition to the large number ofj German interned ships which were taken over by the government and are now practically all ready for service, the United States will P'ourteen Austrian steamships; five German ships interned in Cuba; two German vessels tied up at docks in the Virgin Isles when the Danish West Indies possessions were bought by this country, and every tanker and merchant ship now on the ways in this country. Approximately eighty-five large and German ships that were Interned in this country were taken possession of by the United States at the outset of the war. Many of them were badly damaged; but they are all new in a state of service-ability equal to that at the beginning of the war. In addition to these the- government has announced its intention of taking over all the merchant and freight vessels now building. It is said that within the next two months more than 4,000.000 tons of additional shipping will come into the hands of the government.
CASE OF MRS. DE SAULLES nvoys Not to Assist in Defense Ileirefft. Although Major Alfredo Ewing, ilitary attache at the Chilean emissy, left Washington yesterday ir New York, It was emphatically ateu that his visit to the metropolis id no with the defense Mrs. Bianca de Saulles. Scnor Don Santiago Aldunale, jrted to have gone to New York to infer with Mrs.
De Saulles' altor3y, was said by embassy attaches i bo in Atlantic City, where he went week ago for a vacation. Ambassador Aldunate is expected return to Washington. It was at the embassy that his reirn to Washington was not in election with the murder ease, but thai rs De Saulles' attorney might eo ae to talk with the diplomat. Embassy attaches were most auxins that it be made entirely plain lat the diplomatic agents of the liilcan Government were not about the De Saulles case hi ny way. A KATE FOR NEGROES.
in Draft IN ill Not Go to Annislon. Washington, Aug. negro iticnal Guardsmen of Washington ill not be sent to Annislon. to tin with the while guardsmen from District, Maryland mud Virginia cording to an announcement yestery by War Department officials. Fears were expressed that should negro scldiers be sent to the same r.ining camp with the white soldiers ee clashes may result.
A number the Southern cities also objected the northern negro soldiers being lined within their environments. MONEY GOING TO GERMANY Thousand of Dollars From Cleveland Sent Through Switzerland. Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. agents yesterday were reports that thousands of dollars in money is being sent monthly from Cleveland to Germany through the neutral Swiss Government. Investigation, it is said, has revealed that scores of Germans and persons of German extraction are sending funds to Germany, ostensibly to relatives.
Federal officials want to learn whether any of this money is reaching the German Government. May be Shifted to Navy Secretary Daniels has telegraphed all shipyards with contracts for repair of former German ships, asking their, how the strikes affect the completion of repairs on these vessels. Unless assurance is given that the work can be taken up immediately where it was interrupted by strikes, the Secretary said he would cancel the contracts, and move as many of the ships as possible to Government navy yards for completion of repairs. Tablet to asem*nt Berlin, Aug. to the l.okal Ar.zeiger a tablet, commemorating the putting to death of Sir Roger Casem*nt, was unveiled on the shore, of f.ake Anmer, near Rederau, in Bavaria, on August The tablet is under a window of a hot where Casem*nt lived for some time.
London, Aug. anniversary of Sir Casem*nt's death was celebrated in Tralce on Sunday by a procession to MeKcnna's fort, where he arrested on landing from a German submarine. The demonstration was a sort of pilgrimage to the spot. Thousands of men and women wearing Sinn Fein colors assembled Tarlce, coming from all parts of the country. M.
Minnieh, 78 years old, for ib years postmaster and merchant at Dale Enterprise, Rockingham county, died Sunday. He is said to have one of the oldest postmasters in ihe United States in the point of continuous service. Tie enlisted the first week of the Civil War and was with Lee at the surrender at Appomattox. Classified Advertising FOR RENT Dwelling No. 202 north Columbus street, complete with all modern conveniences.
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