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a BERGER FACES HARD BATTLE IN WISCONSIN Bace With Bodenstab, Fu- sion Candidate, Is Kun Martyr Style. 1,000 VOTES MAY DECIDE Anvrican Legion Makes House to House Canvass Against Convicted Socialist By Staff Pomtponient of Tm 8cm. Milwaukhsb, Dec. 2. At the most- - head of the Milwaukee Leader la the announcement that Victor L. Berger la editor thereof. Beneath Mr. Berb- er's name Is the announcement: On Indefinite leave of absence and not responsible for contents of paper. Whether this notice bo foreboding;. hope or alibi, tune alone will divulge, for the United States Government would clap Berger into jail for his re- bellion against the espionage law and Berger insists upon assuming the seat in Congress that Is denied him by the House of Representatives. At all events Mr. Berger Is now occupying his nicely appointed editorial sanctum In the offices from which the Leader and other ultra-naiv- e publications issue, wielding a trenchant pen with an abandon so utter that the stranger in Milwaukee Invariably demands to know how he gets away with it. Either, the uninformed casual con- cludes, libel laws have been banished from the book of statutes of the State of Wisconsin and the Government of the United States hasn't read the Leader or Victor Berger is just clam oring; for additional indictments. Playing the Martyr Game. \Arrest him?\ scoffs a Government agent who happens to be In Milwaukee Just to keep Mr. Berger and his Joyous sheet under a more or less reactionary eye. \Confiscate tho Ltaderr Shut Berger up? What do you want us to do .' Make his election a ten to one shot? No, he's played the martyr gama as far as we want him to. The third Indict- ment thiit the Government slapped upon him In 1918 was what elected hi u to Congress. Fo:ks began to i! o are him a martyr; that we were persecuting him. And immediately a lot of folks who hud had no Intention of voting for Berg, r east their ba lots for him Just to show him that whilo they weren't socialists or anything like that, they were for the under do when it b,gan to look as i( the bigger dog was getting rough. It was oid humnn nature that elected Ber- ger to Consr-s- s ; not Socialist votes.\ Just how right the Government asent was may be deduced from that which follows here. VI t. rJsrfST, Bodallst boss of the Fifth Congress district In Wisconsin, seeks r. etUon to Congress. He siys that be doesn't care a ra'abash for tho Job; that he'd be of more service to suffering humanity were he to stay at i li rjrpf Tlt'an I eduot the masses But he demands vindication. He says he's a perpetua. candidate for the House of e\ rtntlves, and Dan Hoan. the Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee, declare that the Firth district is going to kep on electing Mr. Beiger until the House does accept him. Thus committed to a test of en- durance Mr. Berger has built a political machine that need ask nothing of the organizations evolved by such astute statesmen as Mr. Tweed. Mr. Taggnrt, Tom Johnson, Mr. Hmna or the satur- nine Mr. Mc.N'Ichol of Phl'ade'phla. On D.cember 19 the Fifth Congress district goes to the polls to fill the vacant seat to which Mr. Berber was elected In 1918, but which the House of Representatives derided to keep vacant not becauBe Mr. Berger Is a Socialist, for he already has served a term In Congress, but because he has been con- victed and he Is at large under bonds aggregating slightly less than $150,000. Close Contest Indicated. To predict Berger's election would be as daring as to predict his defeat. About the only venture one can make regarding the probable outcome of the elections Is that the difference between the two can- didates will be little if any more than 1,000 votes. The Socialists claim victory a certainty with this margin. The Fustonlsts Insist that Henry H. Boden- stab will defeat Berger by about 1.000. A survey of the normal division of the vote of the district gets one nowhere at all. There Is nothing normal about this fight It Is one of these enjoyable battles where the two gentlemen Involved lock themselves within a room, chuck the key out of the window and have at it. Probably no Congressional election In recent history baa drawn such general attention. It la a strictly class war, no matter how you view It. with Bolshevism on one side and Americanism on the other. To speak of Americanism In Milwaukee Is Nullify Constitution amendments. His speech, use so as make one wonder Government, were In position dictate new Gov- ernment, survive As a matter own splendid organization an') machine. ay of flattery the political machines they would they control methods and autocratic either of , constructing that Is a efficiency. political wisdom ! expediency. Can They Care For Money? Yon think that your family will not want after your dcuth because will leave fairly well off, but will they stay \fairly well off?\ Do they know how to care for their money? If yon teach them now to boy our Guaranteed Mortgages the habit will protect them wher. you are gone. Wt ha fiMrartW $700,990,000 in the pad 27 ytan and no in tutor hat ever lott a dollar. Bond & ootgage Guarantee fb- - Capital and Surplus, $10,000,001 176 Dndwy, New 175 R ...... St, IN MmUim St, rUys :S( Fshsa St., Jamaica 7 Jacks! At, leaf Idas. City be by went be Follette man. him. to election U.-- ' Mr. be aald at of - \willful men\ who against war Germany. To do Justice be said that he his To do less, to conatltuencv. he figured he pense with political discipline, would voting as would him vote that Instant nis at of German and they It. But discussion of origm for most opposed to Socialist methods Is of United engaging Germany or tne lOTy or Berger war. Wisconsin's Primary Law, The State of Wisconsin has enacted a and for Its that ticket in a that primaries all party To brief, first Socialist, second tms any one to run for and looked like ination, provided, he can a sure came the third one him. When the Berger Indictment and Milwaukee primaries open may be revolted. The and news mantes necking nomination. The two of MTwaukoc Leader suo number of cessfully as martyr are candidates whose that Independents who were going are presented at to vote for the only available Theoretically does with Carney, flew sheer sym- - machinery, and Idea to ro- -; received Juce elections a more democratla status. However, there exist a Re- publican, a Democratic a Progressive .md a Socialist psrty, and each has pre- served Its Nominally Gov. heads the Republican machine. Wisconsin Is by 100,000 in normal times. Democratic ma- chine Is puny. Is satisfied throw its powers to Republicans what ir can get out of It. The Repub'lcan faction dominated by 1a Is the only uncertain quantity In It may be fair divide the faction Into five parts, throe f which more than likely to throw themselves to the Socialist candidate and he remaining two being more cleave the mother party. This leaves but the Socialists, led by l.lerger and Mayor Hoan, and Win-re- d Zanel, District Attorney of ee until the last named found 'iat he could not stomach tho St. Louis P atform and bolted. Zabel, most licient prosecutor that ever j of heart ad and most Npeaker In Socialist ranks. Is marvellbus vote get ter. At he bids fair to retain the Attorneyship as long he It. lie Is quite adm't-edl- y square and legally The 8o- - iullsts cla'm they read him out of iho party because of his failure to sub scribe to party principles. Znbel Insists rat he resigned e he find it In himself to repudiate America. Zabel Is Heraer. Be that as It may, the fact that Z 'bel Is now fighting and great s the rejoicing In the As a result the primary law In Wisconsin there but two lidates for each city office. In the city f It t- - be assured that their ticket Will be In surviving lists the primaries. Naturally a so Is other candidate. And de- spite the law this Is previously flxeu upon Joint agree- ment i e! ween Republicans and the Democrats. But the primary law for cities does In county eloe tiona. Therefore entered tWe seeking vindication, fully expecting; that there would be the old three cor ...,.. the strongest Socialist country, District's Limits. in the all Congress District only northern of Milwaukee To Is composed of fourteen ward of city of the city of Milwaukee, the town Mil- waukee, Granville, Shorowood Whltofleh Bay. Incidentally of Milwaukee Involved, southern city of Milwaukee the Fourth Congressional District has population as neous of northern ha'f, but Socialists of north city are Lutherana was first elected Congres in 1910. It of d In got Cochems. Republican, nnd Carney, the Democrat, no war raging at the time. country was prosperous almost every- body who wanted work aown upon seir and general satisfaction forged literary Victor Cochems was candidate Berger from his and form the dope should He that is real, won. Socialist Wonld an ex- ample, Phlllpp Congress. their incidentals, tells overthrow, means parties surer you tltem able. carried 1910 trifle upon his honest. could not made practicable work- able night. He was 111 advised. He would not fences against the eleotlons of 1912. He party sheer stubbornnesa He on the that If Socialism would not lit where conservatism used nothing for the reason that would Soclal'nm or Naturally this developed In Republicans were back In the city, Berger, seeking to Con- gress, was defeated by Stafford, Re- publican running on ticket, who 15,(31 votes to Bergers The corralled only votes. Stafford, on tiw Republican was elected again In again in each defeating Berger substantial If not Impressive majority. the elections of 1918, with all Its war Issues. Barter won the Socialist nomination as but with two Indictments lunging Had gone the polls tW Vft two tntsotments M Carney, the Democrat, have won, for the Fifth Congress district, with all Its alien population, kfter not anxious regarded au was under heavy, He flagrantly violated espionage law, when all was was the law the country was war. Stafford was one the voted with Stafford reactionary party administration ft muat misjudged offer. try to dls- - for waa they have spell disaster for Socialists, folks home, know the the part, were out at th9 8tates K\ victor . In He Waa wrong, Looked Like Snre Camev. runnlnir strong on straight '.aw abolishes at the Administration district lines. be was of all Repub-- law permits nom- - llcan lastly Democratic, of course, get winner. Then to for ' north there twenty can- - county editorial columns so men obtaining the greatest portrayed Berger the votes the names those the election. candidate away to Berger in the pathy. Berger 17,920 votes to organization. Republican It to the for Senator Follette the field. to are parts, onservatlve, to by Mllwau-- l county, the ef- - Milwaukee the powerful present District as wants fearless, . couldn't Fighting- - Berger, BodVnstab carr.p. of are can- - enough after called. the candidate alwnys not m . i nld, Papers centre Fifth whom comprises exact, North entire would much It Is. heteroge as It Oerman Berger result a fight which votes, 5,433. It to a thunderbolts Follette hurls editorial the slmon model Stripped Socialists a lttack build party to It disaster, dis- trict. a a 8,251 lilt, a Came borne these It Uke'v to Berger a the which, done, would being place Winner. cities party about thlig Carney 12,460 and Stafford 10,578 It recalled Senator La Fol'ette was proDatry the most bitter of the anti-w- crowd In Washington attitude settled the question. It waa part his following which as he dictated, what that went to Berger when Borg proclaimed himself victim of an oppressive autocratic admlnlstra tion. subsequent history of Berger's ex elusion from the of Rcpresenta tlves Is such recent date as to forbid repetition here. However, Berger returned from Washington after hearing himself condemned as on'y unfit to sit in Congress unworthy of American clt Ix before the executive council of Socla'lst In Milwaukee met proclaimed a hero an nounced that Socialists send back and keep on sending back until Congress had change Berg'-- back to Milwaukee to lionized. Is a remarkable He can diffuse enthusiasm. He can arouse lethargic audience to a dervish excitement. His tactics are who'ly undignified, but mighty effective He Is dynamo of high spirits. He has a vocabu'ary that Is remarkable, vi triolic, lavish In adjectives and totally careless of the feelings of his blush It as though he'd be to Congress by an amazing plurality. people voted for bfefore were beautifully unified. Hundreds of Congress flouted the Fifth Congressional the voters A week after the House of Representatives practically unanimous! voted exclude the Mll- - Milwaukee the Socialists are strong waulcee Socialist looked folly for the by obtain La nor La He opponent to take the field against Berger. Good Government Leasrne. There exists In the city of MI'waukce nn organization ihe Good Gov- ernment League. Hundreds of American towns have Good Government leagU's. league is in no wise unique. tions. The old syrtem prevails In county iiiiive au j,i, that Americans want to pres-rv- e to Berger the the the the the the the the the not but Is representative of what the majority of Americans have do- tho polls and have 7h. w..h'iT,n. Goo1 Government League of Mil nerd fight among k. ,,.,. k ... ,k. ..... Democrats the Socialists. With such ' .\t with the exception of the Leader, an array he was quite within his rights r. sent out a call to the Democrat c forecast his reelection by .,,. ,.,,,,, tial plurality, for the Fifth district u tre only V\ of V, .TCSZT-- S tho half county. It the Milwaukee, and were city defeat surer half that the The the was Berger 13,417 The waa araw ones nicely that offices, on his have It year. that as that that that was hie and 1912 Into county and Fusion ticket, and time woulS was, cloud. had and this Quite some vote this still The that that had tint would come and The House not nship party and him and the would him came first looked The who him that had known as manded Tne and substan- - method The showing country that Berger was a minority rr preservative and not symbol of the majority that the two old narHen fu ,nlf fnrth Ann , rwt nl .......... . .1 . . ... it happens, jiowever. uiai me r uw ; for might vote be of Ber- ger's be a of a the working Bergr's wreclced a of a be a a returned v America. obtained. a the a thought, .1 was no hesitancy. The Repub licans nominated five repres the Democrats five and the Good Gov- ernment League ten. They met and after many candidates were reviewed Henry H. Bodenstab, a Republican, was fixed upon as the compromise nominee. Bodenstab Is of Germm descent He Is a lawyer served one term In the State Legislature with credit to himself uid his party. Bodenstab Is not a gifted campaigner. He not In the same class with Berger Is a chiefly Catho- - j as an oralo: on the stump he Is un- - llc. of chiefly the 13.14\ at th-- U,k impressive. he Is as clean an ex ponent of all that America likes to have the nccept as American as can he in Milwaukee, elsewhere. He has not the backing of a machine efficient as that which the Socialists have bnllf, but his slmp'e, strnlghtfnr- - can ba s how narrow was Berger a j ward intform of Americanism Is being margin of victory. acclaim. by hundreds of voters who It was a straight party battle. There nnve priae )n Milwaukee and Its was ; the prevailed, j and all he declaims But was a over nothing. reelection , ; will His r had h'm personal Ity. opponents had and like any and ,r- -- . But j environs than loyalty to any party. Platform Negatives. It is typical of Berger that should be running on a plntform of negatives. It Is clover platform that means every pure, blown In the bottle Americanism, The city of Milwaukee h id decided that thing and nothing. Berger announces and that Henry Bodenstab Is a puppet It was going something radical In himself \ag.lnst\ militarism and im-w- libels the name of Americanism. crder to get rid of David 8. Rosn, I)mo- - periallsm. after nil means noth-B- ut nevertheless and Ignoring for the crat, then Mayor, who prevlonsly Ing. He Is \against\ prohibition, wbloh moment the soundness of the political held that office from 1898 to 1906. Is regarded as an entirely personal represented by the two men, It would be Idle to go Into the his- - ter. Inasmuch as he csn do nothlng to the lines of battle clear. Bodenstab tory of the rule of Rose. Sufficient to make Milwaukee county wet even if he represents those who would not radically say that It had so Irked a considerable were elected. He Is \against\ the rt from the tenets to which Repub- - majority of the best citizens of the city called\ espionage act, and It Is agreed llcana Democrats and Liberals sub- - that folks were ready to try nn thing be is an thereon. He Is rcrlbe. In other words, his platform ia that would be diametrically opposed to \against\ meddling In the Internal an American platform, reccg-- ' what Rose had stood for. In this con-- . fairs of Russia. Germany and Mexico, nixing nothing European. To him nectlon It may be said that the Repub- - His \agalnsts\ are numerous and for clallsm Is a thing accursed an lmpossl- - 'leans offered nothing that the the most part abnird for there Isn't a tie departure from the principles of the d'slre for a radical change In the city j candidate of anyue In any part of the Federal Constitution, and therefore administration. I country dare come out for any worthy of nothing but damnation. j 'The volatile Emtl was offered of Berger's aversions. Anybody could on.Mtntloo of I rue aeiur. us a kuuu iuii uii h i u.t tt.17 uckui. ' ; had a ctean private The American Legion In Milwaukee Berger, on the contrary, would spread wera nothing If not antagonistic and has officially declared Itself to this country the doctrines of Lenlne ,,ul n,. p.. , for it i ih. .,. and forever cast aside or subject to a offer So Mauie got book of Emll to house work. Hundreds of boys wholly new Interpretation the Ameriran s . , , A d , , ,nt0 thft Mayor's olive drab and decorated with service and conception of free to Is amazing to Just how long his he to a would of ofMilwaukee, tribute to and announce that would as the ol by a machine an lurk old Is a Is \ element, to to or as a to Dy oociaiiain. :n citizen record in palgn ,i..i In chair with much waving of banners and and wound chevrons and wearing dec-- a great Seldel turned out to oration harettes walking the streets be a better Socialist than a Mayor. More , and roads of Milwaukee county asking about later, however. The Seldel Into of fice sent Berger to fact, the by 0( A the story the by are of election In Seidel's administration chaotic. No worthy In- tentions can be made. He woo theory would, simple be swept power received 14,025. Trottman, 1914 ty lual, over he all, black be vote might, of would ike At district thereof. to It at th.l to ,.,., wave jinrt There who Is world found en of he do which are authority So- - satisfied who'd Seldel all Its unirrs iw.....h plurality. the people of the Fifth district to up hold them and the flag they fought under. Women do not vote In Wisconsin yet, but they are out working for the defeat of Berger. Bodenstab, himself, la only a symbol. It Is a fight for Ideals. It Is a hittle wherein the question of He mnde th\ great m'stake of trying to Americanism Is uppermost or the Socialism Into effect. He tried to lerpretatlon of Americanism, uproot Institutions of mature age and The methods that Berger Is pursuing substitute therefor Innovations that to win; the !L-- ht of the Socialists to In fine, Berger and his henehmen have were at best only theories and without 1 control Milwaukee; the Insidious propa- - decldsd to fight fire with dynamite, and the test of experience. Moreover he turned ganda that the Berger outfit Is dls- - the result Is that the Socialists of Mil- - out to he Komcthlrur of a epnllsm in, ap- - Tensing throughout the mldd'e West and waukee would fix upn the citizens of pointing Socialists to Jobs without re- - ' the splendid organlrt'nn of the Berger that city a government no more demo- - gard to their fitness. In brief, the ex- - machine will be dea't with in the second cratic than the most conservative and ceuent thaorlea that he may have had . Instalment of this story, 1 6 THE SUN fTEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1919. D. S. AGENT DENIES WETS BRIBED HIM Paaqnalo Pignuolo of Depart ment of Justice Says He Got No Money. JURY GETS CASE TO-DA- Y Charge of Perjury Against Witness for Prosecution to Bo Heard. Judge Julian T. Mack In Federal Court will give to the Jury this morning the caae of Pasquale Plgnuolo, Depart- ment of Justice agent, charged with ac- cepting bribes from saloonkeepers In re- turn for protection from the war time prohibition act V charge of perjury growing out of tho Plgnuolo caae, it Is expected, also will be heard before Judge Mack to- day. That Is the case ot Edward Fitz- gerald, a witness for the prosecution, whom Judge Mack charged with wilful lying on Monday, when the witness's statement on the stand became so con- flicting that the Judge was Impelled to say \Jails are made for your kind.\ Fitzgerald waa already under ball pend- ing a hearing upon another charge. t yesterday's hea-'n- g of Chief Fly nn's charges that New York remained \wet1' In \dry\ times because of the moro or less wholesale acceptance of bribes by Department of Justlcu agents Plgnuolo took the stand In hla own de- fence and attorneys for both sides com- pleted their arguments before the Jury. Though Plgnuolo is being tried sepa- rably at his own request, Indicted with him on charges of conspiracy and extor- tion of bribes from saloonkeepers lire Charles P. McCarver and William J. Polling, Department of Justice agents; nichnrd Yancoy, formerly of the Inter- nal Revenue Department, and Morton P. Allen of Nashville, Tenn. On the stand Plgnuolo admitted he had visited a certain saloon but con- tended that he had received no money. On the contrary, he aald, he went to warn the proprietors of fake revenue officers who wore extorting money from violators of the \dry\ law. His visit to the saloon of Carey & Brennon at Sixth avenue and Twenty-eight- h street after he had beon charged with accepting 160 graft from them waa for the purpose of asking them to testify In his behalf, he said. Plgnuolo reviewed his career In the Department of Justice, citing his In- vestigation of liquor law violations, white slave cases, bomb outrages and a conspiracy to kill President Taft. Among character witnesses Introduced In Plgnuolo's behalf were Judge John C. Knox, United Stutes Commissioner'; San uel M. Hitchcock, Assistant District Attorney J. F. Mulqueen, William Ben-n- m and Albert O. Adams of the De partment of Justice. Special District Attorney Jamea W. Osborne 2d undertook to convince the Jury that Plgnuolo's story was unre liable and Inspired by self Interest. Will- iam Fltts, attorney for the defence, en deavored to discredit the testimony of Carew and Brennan. BE SAFE; GET VACCINATED. ir. Copeland Issnoa Warning- - With Hmallpoa It nut mi in Canada. As a precautionary measure, taken because smallpox Is reported to ba rav- aging the southern Canadian provinces, Dr. Royal S Copelaml, Health Commis- sioner, In a statement Issued yesterday, advised vaccination for all residents of New York city that have not been vac- cinated In the last four years. Although the bureau of preventable diseases of the Health Department has reported no rases of smallpox in the city lUi.M'ABiMvv Ur.nA. for several days and there no cause for alarm because the State Board of Health requlrlrg all persons cross- ing the Canadian border to present evi- dence of remit vaccination. Dr. Cope- - land deems wise to take the simple preventive means offered by vaccination. Taken From ship aa lied Leaden, Nsw OauUNS, Dec. Jacob Abrams and Samuel Llteman, New York, and John Ballam, Boston, al- leged radloal leaders, were arrested by federal agents here the steamship Mexico, which they were preparing to sail Progreso, Mexico. Tiffany & Co. Firm Avenue 37 Strbbt Pearls and Pearl Necklaces The First Pneumatic Truck Tire This was the first truck equipped with Pneu- matic Truck Tires it was in 1911. The tires were Wobbies' fore-runne- rs of 'Nobby Cords', the perfect pneumatic truck tires of today. 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