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THELNEWS AND (SERVER TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1916. Tha Newt ad Observer mrt AND OMKBTKB tVVUMU. ircCONFAMT MOmi DAJtTJBJ tnan ako omutcb b-ctldimq , Ue-tM Wat JCuVGBsrmms1 smsVOBautP e - . LwJ Mess lliMimml. A4wNWa DaesrtaMal Full inserts led Free Reports nmacBirnoN raicii NH as A4wm Pm Teer h:r UmmOrn (lM MsMfc M Wat tv.te JI.T1 I a I at the rostofnc at lUMsa, Maria Cs rail as. at muni claw suttee. MORNING TONIC (Woodrow Wilson i We are bow going to vote, if we lie aea with eyes open that ran eee the world, as thoae who wiah to make a new America in a new world mean the same old thing for mankind that it meant when this great Republic was set up, jnieaa hope and just ire and r ighteous Judgment and unselfish action. . Reflecting Reflection 166 W. J. LampUa ia the New York Herald Magical flgwres, though yea do not ao aanaag them a aerea or area a three, yet magical figure they are. Just the aaaaa, aad millions of voters are hoping the) game will reaalt la their winning those three at the least, without proton. toxica If they are Increased, thoagh s two aad two sixes make ap an smoaat which Is sll right snd plenty to carry the reset Magical flgarea, aad did yea bat haow to which of the sides they wore destined to go yoa could hold ap tho goddeaa of Chance la her flight aad swipe all election money In sight. If only yoa knew for certain which wny those Igsres would fell oa election day there wealda't be money enongh left to got the betting contingent quite oat of year debt. Knowledge Is power, they tell as, and yoa weald anre be a power of powers If yoa knew where those fares would etaad when the count was all la to show beyond question which candidates win. For thin la the number, two sixty snd six, that ia seeded to make ap the figare to fix the victory wreath oa tho headpiece of Hsghee or Wllaoa, If Wileoa ia aot there to lose. Vote early Wilson. snd Vote for Woodrow It is up to the people today to "Win With Wilson. The record is the reason why you should vote for Wilson and Birkett. The re-election of Woodrow Wilson means the continuance of the rule of the people. The fight ia won in North Caroliaa , for ths Democracy, but let's rub it in with a whaling big Democratic majority. Charles E vasion Hughea will not be able to evade the result of the bal lot box. If Bughea is elected President there will be Joy in the camp of "invisible government." Peace and Prosperity with Wilson as President has , been the rule. Why rhaaget If the people are onto their job aad kaow what its good for them they will r haad a- kaeek-out to Hughes today. - Tha polls ope a st 6:4.1 this morning aad close at 3:13 this afternoon. That givea yea tea aad a half hours to east year ballots for Wilson. When you go to the ballot bet today to east your vote remember that Wood rev Wileoa hae "come clean" aad that the Republicans have lied ea kirn. Motley Morehead sayt he did it with hie little poeketbook, but we have an idea that his dear friend Marion Batter furnished that Idea. Tho polls eloea at sunset today. But yea should aot wait till the sun has early gone before yoa vote, (let to 'tha ballot boa early. ' Thoae eeuntiee which have wandered eutside the Deraoerstle liaes have an opportunity today ta get back ia good tearpaay. Tha America people kaow that the sdmiaistratisa of Wood row Wlaoa has proven of service ha this eoaatry. They are aot feiaf to give up tha tried fat tha aa tried. Dsmooratis eeatral af affairs ta North Carolina, has meant for ad i anise la edocaiiom, 1b farming, ta. saorsJUy, ia maanfaeturing. ta moroaatile life, ail aioag tha line. Tha people trad tha Desaograey for It does met fail these. Fear years ago oa eioctioa day are srgwl tha poopla ta east their ballots for Woodrow Wilson, that he waa the nx a who, as Prwaidsnt, would is things ia behalf af tha poopla. Ha fulfilled the pledges mads for him, ha hat made rd. It aow boeomea tha dnty af the .vmerteaa peopi ta make good la his T BUTLER AND BONDS AND NOW CUBA Agaia th ("tap ef th haadt of the hold era of the repudiated bond of North Carolina of Beeoattrartlou Dyt x at th throat of tali Stat. Tbl tint it U through a foreign power that tbsy eek the frip, for it is Cuba which if aew sadsavoring1 to hat th Ualtsd Stats Buprsm Court front it too right to fllo a petition to hav North Carolina pay iooi of lta repudiated bond to tht amount of 24M000. Thii it tha newt which first camt ts a Associated Press inecsag to th State yssterdayr and rigW -n tke -eve of the election there li brought Bom id our people knowledge of the volcano upon which tbejr etaad eo long at there are achemen ready to exploit the State in order to fatten their poeketbook. In North Carolina thoae have been uuina-l ed before. When the maik lifts this tint whom lhall wo discovert The connection of former United states Senator Marion Butler, and of ths late eiQov. T. L. Russell with the fight mode upon thit Htate for pay ment of what were known as the Behof fer South Dakota bonds ia a matter of record, Siuee that time bonds of the repudiated class have been offered te various States ia order to hate those Htates bus North Carolina, but thus fsr there hns been no State fonnd ready to sell itself for a few paltry dollars. And the parties offering the bonds to the 8 tales have managed to keep their trucks covered. bailing to get a State of the United States to sue North Carolina the fight is now transferred to a foreign country, and having either gives or told to Cuba bonds to the amount of $2,184,000 that country is now seeking to have the United Hates Supreme Court grant it IN THE HANDS The witnesses have all boea heard, the argument has boea mads, ths ease, has been summed up, and- tha jury hat re tired to make up its verdict We are upon another election dty In the United Statei. What will be the verdict of the great jury of the people this dayt It is a day which ia reality Is a day of testing for ths people. In the White House for ths past four years there has been a man who has not failed the people in any mutter. lis it before them today at tho call of hit party asking their sup port. Hi has been an administration of ser vice. The people have learned that Woodrow Wilton it their friend. Are they going to prove their friendship to him today, or will they follow after strange godtt Wilson presents to them things doas for the glory, the peace, ths prosperity of thia great country; ha presents to them things dons to make the people supreme. Will the people stand Arm for hlmt REPUBLICANS AND RAILROADS. Are the peoplo of tht various States ready to yield State eontrol of rail roads, in to far aa it exists now, to the Federal government! That it the plan of the Republican party, which purpoeet to do away with all State eontrol and put the regulation of the railroads entirsly ia the hsnds of ths Federal government. In the Republi cs u party platform there occur thlat Interstate and intrastate trans portation have beeome so inter woven that ths attempt to apply two and often several acta of laws to its regulation her produced con flicts of authority, emuerassnieiit in operation and inconvenience and -expense to the public. The entire transportation system of ths country ha become essen tially nationally. We, therefore, favor such action by legislation or, if neceaeary, through aa amend ment to the Constitution of tha United States aa will result ia - placing -it under complete Federal -coutrol. There ia what the people of the States would have to face if the Republicaa party came into power and lived up to itt platform. At that plank in the platform it ons which would give to the railroads legislation which they desire, aad as tha Republican party always plays ap to the money power, it will be area that with a Republican Presi dent aad a Republicaa Congress there would sooa be sa end of intrastate con trol of railroads by ths people of a State and all control would be vetted ia tome Federal commission ia Washington, Federal control of railroad would nip out all of ths beneficial results which havs beea obtained ia North Carolina aad ether rttatea by mesns of the State rcgulatioa ef railroads. That the shipper have beea saved money by reason of State eontrol ia North Caroliaa ia kaowa of all the Bute, aad this has beea ths ease in other States. With the railroads entirely under Fed eral' control ear ewa people would aot be able to eoatrol railroad oa mat ters entire! within the Stat. Ws have beta goiag forward ia this Stat aad ia this country by mesas of Bute eontrol of iatrastat affairs -inn the railroads, aad tha platform ef the Republicaa party la a threat ta this eoa trol ef the railroad. Ia thia matter every vote ia Coaareas counts, aad North Carolina should seed a solid Pemeeratie delegation ta the Reuse of Representative ta aid la holding that body with a Democrat! majority aad keeping railroad eoatrol eat af the Fed eral government. With the government U the handt af the Republican, aad the railroads wholly aadar Federal eoatrol it weald indeed be "the pubLc the right to prat ita suit against, this State A yet there io nothing available to iadieata who aold or gave tha boadi ta Cuba. Bat whenever there is tha eatioa af Morth Caroline repudiated beads there eases thoughts of tha sya dkato hawkiag rouad the bonds, aad Marlon Butler was oae of that sysdl eate. No matter who is behind the' attempt to agi bold-np North Carolina the fact that tome one is now using Cuba as eattpaw for tho eollaetioa of the re putliated -soada give aetisa to -North Carolina that if must beware of the tare of the Republican, who if ever ia power ia.the Stat will withoot doubt make it no that oar people will be called upon to pay out vaet sums of money. This let9t development shows that the bond sccVers are going to atop at nothing in order to gain their point They stopped i at nothing before, aad they will atop at nothing now. This action yesterday should put the Itomoiraev on its guard. It should exert itself today to the utmost to ad' minister an overwhelming defeat to the Republican party. That party bowed dowa to Marion Bntler and he dirtates to it. Tf victory should ever come to it and it should be in power ia North Carolina we believe (hat an effort would be made by Marlon Butler to force the Htate to the payment of the repudiated Beeonstruetioa bonds. We can only judge the future by the past We know what Republicanism, Russell' ism, Butlerism, bsvs cost North Carolina, The men of the State should stamp out this dsy ths forces of those who bars despoiled the Stats ia othsr years, and who may attempt ths same thins; in tht future. OF THE JURY Oa the other head there is a party which was rejected ia 1413 because it had failed tha people. Treachery with ia the ranks of another party has blowa new life into its nostrils, aad it dis putes ths day with the Democracy. It offers Hughes, the evasive, sgaiast Wit son ths definite. . Will it wint Not if the people want to rule, aot if the peo ple want to elevate the MAN above ths DOLLAR. It is ths party of tha favored few which is led by Hughes, the party of Special Privilege, tha party of ths Internets. It ia tha party that exploits the people. Is it to be Wilson or Hughe thia Jay I Ths fate of these two is now with ths jury whose decision is today to be mads in the ballot boxes of ths land. It the people meet the test, if tht people srt true to themselves, if neither false hoods, prejudice, hate, abuse, money, move them, thea tha verdict which eomes with nightfall will be: WOODHOW WILSON BE ELECTED PRESIDENT. ALL DEMOCRATS TO THE POLLS. North Carolina is one of those State ia which "Democratic aa usual" ia ths way ths returns are fiaahed on bulletin boards all over ths eountry. Tonight, as on other election nights for many years past, that will bo the news that goes to other .State. Of course here at home it is no aewt, for it is the ex pected. But there should be news in the size of the majority thia year. The strength of the argument is with ths Democratic party. Ia fact the Democratic party has hsd so many argumenta bated on facta that it has boea hard to pick and chouas amongst them for thoee which ought to be emphasised aad pressed. It has beea four years of accomplishment for ths party, aad it goes to the people with things done so well that it deserves a great vote of endorsement ' With such a record of whieh to boast every Democrat ahould bo at the polls today ia order to cast hi ballot for Wil oa for Preeideat aad Birkett for Gov eraor. Effort should bo mads ia all parts of ths Stats to get out the full Democratic vote ia ordeo to make the majority aad the tout vote of the rec ord breaking aiaa. Tonight the returns should show aa absolute repudiation of the Republicaa party and itt policy of deceit aad falsehood. .Every Democrat te the poll, every Democrat at work ia the interact of his party, aad a majority of ths great big six should bo the record ef todsy at the polls. BE OCR GUEST TOX1CBT. Toaight the Kews aad Observer is goiag to give the election news right hot from the wires. From all over the eountry it will bo rushed by the Asso ciated Press and by special correspond ents for this paper, which Is goiag te share all it gets with its friends aad arqualataacee aad all other folks. The eioctioa returns will be displayed oa a huge bulletia board ia froat of the Vows aad Observer building by chine, so that everyoss eta road the aewa aa it ceases) la. Aad whea there ia tha eertaia fart that either Wilson r Hughea has beea elected that news will ho flashed upon the bulletia board. Everybody ia lartted to tha reeeptioa ia froat of tha Newt aad Observer building tonight The announcements will bo thrown oa the board Just as see as thsy begia te arrive. Tais paper by mesa a ef its Associated Frees wires, its special Waahiagtoa wire, aad tha Berries which H received by the Postal, the Westers Union aad a Boll Telephone, is in a potiUem to get' mtua tha new that ta news ea eioctioa ftight aa oa other nights, aad it invitee all who will to com along aad see what is goiag oa in tho making of a Preeideat A REASON FOR VOTING. Tke allegation of ths Republican in ths years have been that Southera Democrats voted the iiertr ticket be cause their forbears voted it, that they voted the Democratic ticket because the Negro with the Republican ballot had te oe met at election Ni credit wn vaa ths fcouthera maa for adherence ta the urineinlee ef Pemoeraejr. -'And the cry of sectionalism reverberated ntTOtiarmrTficlanct This year, the Democracy having beea charge of the'srovernment for near It in four year, even the most uninformed know that the Republican criticism of the Democratic party falls fiat, for the Democracy hae w plainly given proof that it i a conntructive party with its worht baaed upon certain fixed nrinei- pie that Republican who attempt the Old time harangue againat the Democ racy cannot deceive the people. Votes are aake.l for Woodrow Wilson because of the thiuin which hare been accomplished during his term of office President In a greater decree than ever In our history the legislation n. acted by Congress has boea legistatioa called for by the President. And it is a matter very well known thai President Wileoa had to throw himself lx-hi.,1 certain measures in order to secure their passage. The neoule of ili'n decide the election. If they stand true to their beat friend anA t. then President Wilson will be re-elected rjy an immenae majority. If they let the Hnei'inl Tnterwata Hire tk! then Wilson will be defeated. There baa been no other administration so wholly that of the nennlo this K.. .. administration of Woodrow Wilson. If tne people rail htm today then they fail themselves. REASONS WHY WILSON SHOULD APPEAL To Democrats and Iadepeadeat Voters Set Perth by Nathaa Matthews, Forme Mayor ef Rsotew, la SpriagfieU Kopahlteaa. To the Editort Whether w arc in fluenced by the achievements of ths past or by the promises and probabilities of ths future, our vots should be cast for Mr. Wilson. Ho fsr sj the record of the past three years is concerned, while we may think that mists k es havs beea mad, w can not dsay that no party in the history of this eountry has brought about so many needed reform in so short a time. More fortunate than President Clevelnnd, Mr. Wilson has had a work ing majority behind him ia both houses of Oongres, and for the first tuns sines the civil war the Democratic party has been able to show what it can do whea has the power. Great Accomplishment, Deoplte DIB caltlea. Among the positive results have boea real though moderate reduction in the tariff, the establishment of our finances upon a sounder basis than at any time since the passage of the na tional bank act, the placing for tht first una of our army nnd navy upon a prop er footing. Ia the conduct of foreign affairs we have redeemed the honor of the nation ia the matter of the Panama anal tolls, we have kept oar faith with the peopi of Mexico and Booth Amer ica, and the dignity and neutrality of the government hs been maintained n the difficult aituation created by tha European war. These results have beea obtained ia part by tht eo-ope ratios by Republican member ef Congress; but, in ths mala, in spits of their opposition; and they would not have been possible but for the foreefnl aad persistent leadership of President Wilson. It go without saying that thit great work, undertaken aj it had to be In the middle of difficulties greater than any that have beset the government since H00, has not been accomplished without mistakes. Inefficiency hss been the handmaid of democracy ia every lead and age, and this eountry ia ths 20th century is no exception. Great finan cial reform cannot be brought about. gross eeoaomie abuts corrected, aad the whole military system of a nation changed in three hort years without the eommissioa of some legislative and ad- miaistratire errors. These caa be set tled in ths future. Much lees caa the foreign affaire of a democracy be eoa daeted without friction or mistake whea half ths world is at war aad cur most trouble torn neighbor ia a stats of aa- arehy. The main result have, however, boea obtained in apite of these draw backs aad difficulties. We ehould bo thankful to have secured them at so small a price. And this also is trust The adminis tration ef the past three years, both ia Congress aad ths executive depart -meats, has beea free from the domina tion of wealth, whieh under all recent Republicaa administratioaa has. filled ths cabinet, occupied the " diplomatic service and controlled the acts of Con gress. This administration has been a closer approximation to a govern meat of tha people than aay ia recent yearn. There has beea aa room ia it for tha illioaalres wao put their stock and profits above their eitiseaship or attain high placet by the ttmple proeeos of spending money. Judged by its record, tho administration of Preeideat Wuaoa deserves the vote of everyone whe be lieves ia democracy and progress. There It little ia the way of other issue furnished by the campaign. Attitade of tho Opposition Candidate. Mr. Huarhes'e eamDaiia raoaea at tho outset a question of political propriety, which ought of itself to defeat him. strong argument could bo advanced hat Justices of the supremo court of the United Statoa ought not to beeome candidate fer political office; but ta aay event, there ta ae need of following nt a resigastioa from the eoort by aay such campaign aa Mr. Hughea Is making, Unable, aawuling or afraid to mahs aay direct issue with Mr.Wilsoa, his speeches are nothing bat critic isms of his oppo nent's abilities aad motives aad glori teetiea of his eww, Hs refuse to cay what he would have deae la Mr. Wit- Boa's ilace. or, what Is ef snore eeaao aueaee, deeliaea te stats what he will do tf elected. His constantly reiterated plea ia a mere aaaortioa that he will djt better than ate appoaeat -Too speeta sla of a candidate fer tha preuldeBcy of thoUBrtedJjtatsB running up and down I aoaauy aoucmag voies oa purely personal grounds without any advocacy or principles or measures is an undig nified exhibition of personal ambition which Is nsw to this eountry, and which ought or Itself to bring defeat A good illustration is Mr. Hughe' attack oa th president for advocating ana signing, the o-caUedv eight hour law. Some of ua may think that th president was wrong in this matter; but is Mr. Hughes sound, or courage out, or evea sensibls on ths subject of uia law! when aakefl if h would favor Ita repeal, he replica with i phrase. "You caat reneal a surrender. This ia ths tlllleetind of evasion, for th law is eontiaaing in it effect, and if it ia fundamentally wrong, its opera- tioa eould be stopped by Congress at any time. Mr. Hughea, however, either favors the continuation of ths law. or is afraid to advocate it repeal. Ia either cats be Has no right to criticise it as a surrender of fuadamental principles. Ths Problem of Our Foreign Affairs. HUenea aad evasion are aot the oa. vies ia ths Republican campaign, Thtr is duplicity aa well. They appeal to those of u who think th government ight have gone further than it did in condemnation of the ambition, motive and conduct of th central European powers ia precipitating and carrying on the present war, aad they put forward Mr. uooaevilt to aay what th eountry ought to hav doae a year ago, or should do aow. Mr. Hughes saya, however, that h will see that oar maile are not Inter fered with and that no blacklist of American citisena is maiatained by any or the beluga rente, if this means any thing, it ia that Mr: Hughes sympathise with Germany la thia war. Which rep resents ths policy of Mr. Hughes if elected t HI awa ambiguous phrases of Mr. Roosevelt's dearer but inconsistent utterances t The people are entitled to kaow whether Mr. Hughes means, if elected, to embarras tha alii in their strug gl for the freedom of the world lim ply to save a few dAys in the delivery of mails, or to assist ths agents of Ger many ia this eountry in their cam paign of lying, spyin and conspiring. ins people are cniuiea to a now whether Mr. Hughea intends, if elected. ta keep this government neutral as Mr. Wilson has dene, or whether he intend to take aide, aad -If so, which aide. Until ho alears this matter ap tha maa ke votea in tha dark may be voting for some form of intervention in th European war oa ths aide of Germany, Austria and Turkey and against the cause of liberty, democracy and law. As to Mexico, there is only oae ques tion aad Mr. Hughes declines to an swer it. This country caa either con tinue to pursue the policy of Mr. Wllaoa, subject to all ita mbarrasemeat and dslav, or it eaa intervene with aa army of conquest Doee Mr. Hughes favot- ths latter court! Everyone hat a right ta kaow, but no da doss. A vote for Mr. Hughs may well mean a vote for a 13-year ooenpatioa of Mexico, the Iocs of all respect for this country, ia South America, aad tho abandonment of our Ideal of aslf government. Tho Tariff and Prsparedaeee. Getting no asaiataaee from th Re publican candidate beyond what ia fur nished by his evasioaa aad personal re must turn te tha platform and history of ths Republican party for enlightenment aa to ita purposes if successful la thia campaign. Hero we are to some extent en solid ground. We are told that tho tariff should be raised agaia, that is, that th ialcjuitis of Mo- Kialayiaxa aad Plagiarism should be re visited upon the people ia order to swell the profits of tho auaaafaetariag classes at th expense of all the rest And, although we are aot told, w know that the saoeeea ef tha Republicaa party saaaa a eabiast of millionaire aad pro atetioa lawyer, aad the tiling af oar foreign embassies . by men who eaa spead $100,000 a year beside their tala rie. N bettor proof of th differeaea.be- tweca tho two parties eaa bo givea than that furnished by their attitude toward the vexed qaestioa ef preparedness. Within 11 month after Preeideat Wil son1 laanguratioa, aad despite th fact that If there waa laeffieieaer ia the army aad aevy. it mast have beea the fault of th RepaMieaa administration during tha preceding eight year, the saam 0 th Pxetjdaat aad kua, eabiast f ot th insuf PRETTY POLLY" . .4-' 'fit : ficiency and demoralisation of the branches of the national service. Subse quently, when ths President was forced by the event whieh ware taking place In- Europe to revise his view about the proper six of our army and navy, and recommended a great increase in the appropriation for both, he waa accused of vacillation and denounced for chang ing hi mind. This, w take it. he did : rbu so did svery other thinking man in the United States when he understood the military lessons of th European war and realised that there waa at least one great power that was ambitious to dominate the world and to that end waa willing to violate every principle of in ternational law and every rule of Chris tian morals. Tha result of the extraor dinary appropriation voted by Con gress at President Wilson's request, and of his wise use of th militia during the past six months, is that onr navy will sooa be as efficient a th defense of the eountry requires, aad that the army ia probably in a better condition than A Kittle . vjms i n. ww ss m , -anuamw BTT- r r -sars u m rv .. aV mm l mr mfMms By SAVOTARD When Joseph -Holt, of Kentucky, In vented what is called in our political nomenclature "convention eloquence," in the Democratic national convention of 1840 at Baltimore, tha speech was th subject of much gossip among poli tician. Meredith P. Gentry, of Tennec aee, a Whig, asked about Holt and if he had "made the dobbin' stick." It wat a homely way of asking if tha orator had said something that caused his hear ers to think. Woodrow Wilson makes the dobbla stick. His speeeh at Shadow Lawn, Saturday, October 7, addressed to in dependent voters, was as fine a speci men of what wo call ttump" oratory as ever fell from the lips of American public man, and not even Abraham Lin coln in hi joint debate with Stephen A. Douglas was more effective. It ia a pity that ths dignity of ths office would not allow a joint debate between Can didate Hughes and President Wilson. After citing that th Democratic party was united, militant, and pro gressive, Mr. Wileoa put it thia wayt ' "On the other hand, what -have wef It baffle description. ; Men of every tort and variety of purpose, I will not aay united, but associated, for an un avowed object; more Interesting than that, and mors eminous than that, (hot through with ovary form of bitterness, svsry ugly form of hate, every debased purpose of revenge, and every covert desire to recover secret power a party made up like the occupants of the aa- eient cave 'of Adullam of everybody discontented and insurgent against ex isting cirenmstancoa, and therefore not very happily in conference wltb one another. Because their grievance are as different their purpose so con treated, their temperaments so incom patible, if they ihould by any unhappy ahaacat succeed, no divorce proceedings will be accessary to accomplish their separation. That is aa plain as language caa max a declaratioa, aad what i more, it la history. Just look at th diaeordsnt elements that make up the, oppositioa and rally aroand Hughes. How arc yoa going to get aay team work out of them if they ouLd be put la charge of the government at Waxhingtont There Ja Col. Roosevelt, tie demands that ths eountry go to war, e is transparently unneutral. W kaow that had ha beea President eur country would be eagaged ta the big war ia Eu rope, after invading, beating, aad eoa cjnei lag Mexico. &ut Mrs Mean, whe will bo Speaker of Congrea if Bughea I elected, aad his party has a majority ti the Houss ef Representative, ia ao pacific that he would even deay Ameri can citisena the proteetloa ef tha American flag, if they xareid their right to take passage on a merchant raft like the Luaitania. Hew caa these two forces pall together f Take th tariff. All af than say ths Underwood law mast be repeated. Mr. Fordaey. whe will bo appointed to boat tho Job ia the House, and Mr. Pen- ress, wae will manage tt ta tha He ante, are agreed that th late infamous Payae-Aldrieh law ia th ideal tariff; the othsr tsnd, Mr. Cummins, Iowa, aad Mr. Norria, af Nebraska, hold at any Urn sine th cloeo of th eivfJ war. - Th difference between the principles of President Wilson and the Republican party is that Mr. Wilson wants aa army and navy for defense while th MeKin-ley-Roosevelt type of Republicans want on for th spoliation of countries that cannot tight, liks Columbia, Mexico aad Spain. There ia no roasca why anyone who baa boon a Democrat, although h may not liks torn of th policiea of th pres ent administratioa, should not rapport Mr. Wilson with enthusiasm oa account of his ability to aecure th nor funda mental object of th party i aad those independent voter who hav beea act ing with the democracy oa th tariff and other issue win make a terrible blander if by their votes they plunge the eountry into another orgy of gov- -eminent by money presided over by a man who either has ao definite views on the important qusstions of th day, or, if h hat, is afraid to state them. of Fish $fft- that Aldriehism la government ia abom inable. Without the aid of Cummins and Morris and other who agree with them, the Republicaa party in th Sixty-fifth Congresa will be impotent to enact any tariff legislation whatever. How eaa yon get any action out of a team, some of whom pull oa way aad snms another wayt Just one concrete difficulty: Republicans from the BtaU of Washington will demand a restora tion of protection to lumber, which 1 oa tho free list ia this Underwood rebel tariff. Then her will eomo th terrible Fees, of Ohio, who will cite yoa that 57 per eent of the lumber sawed la tha ' Union eomes from the traitor South, and of course that would stop th mouths of thoee howlers from Wash ington for a high tariff oa lumber. Thea take the income tax. New Eng land. New fork, and Pennsylvania de mand it repeal. So doe Chariot E. -Hugh at least he is oa record as opposed to it. What will Cummin and Norris and Ken yon and Iowa and Ne braska and Kansas aad tho Dakota aad others say to thatt Every on weald oppoeo the repeal, and so thai would be ao action oa that e - - -v "' Much abuse ha beea heaped oa th A dam aoa eight-hour .law. Of course Hughes will insist oa the repeal of that infaraou drunk ef Democracy. But there ia Uncle Cannon, tho Agamemnon of Republicanism ia the Houss of Rep resentative, together with a majority of hi fellows, who will sternly any him aay. They voted for the Adam son measure and are committed to it Thus on that issu th GO. P. will be pulling both waya, aad ao possible prog ress eaa be expected from tt And how about the spoils of victory f How many Pregrossive -wtlk be allowed in the cabinet t Will Bellinger or Gif ford Pinehot be the Secretary of tho -Interior! Both are for Hughea. Will George Perkins or Jokn W. Week bo ' Secretary of the Treasury f Without . the persuasive Perkins the PTogrescive -party would not hav died. Is there to be any gratitud afloat If so. Parkin should be given , tha'Troasnry. And why nott Is he aot of th houss ef Morgan t Is hs not a msgaata of Wall street Ia ho aot tho head of th Harvester trust t Ani what are they a-gwiaa to do for the Colonel! Without hla Hughea would havs as poo a ia 1918 a Taft la mi. aad la thisc paiga th Colonel gets tea times a ' much applause aa'Hugheac8ciaethlngT must be doae for the Colonel I he to hav the War Department f Hs will aot take it aalec ha eaa get a war with . tt, aad If th war coma, of court he win have to take tha field, for he t a candidate for Preeideat la 1WQ, aad military glory help in a convention. Decidedly the Colonel must bo consult ed about everything, and if h ia aot , . he will spill th bean. He ia a hand-ead-e half at that, aa evidanoe 1911, Aad Boot To be sure he will be Secretary ef Stat. Hs has th brains of the d.aP. Beside, hs is th dar ling lawyer of Wall Street, aad a aot to be deaied aay demand. What a devil f a kittle of fish WtahUgtoa, Npv. 4. .. f. .
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Nov. 7, 1916, edition 1
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