Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1915 — Christmas Gifts For Men. [ARTICLE]

Christmas Gifts For Men.

Bath robes, smoking jackets, umbrellas, initial handkerchiefs in gift boxes, rich silk neckwear, 50c to $1 in gift boxes; silk hose, silk shirts, different -from the ordinary.—Hamill & Co.

The republican party will come back into power in 1916 not because political leaders want it to win but because the rank and file of the American people are convinced that republican principles and administration are best for the industrial welfare and public service of the country. It will be a victory of the people and not a victory of the leaders.

Among the remarkable changes of opinion and position which have marked President Wilson’s course none is more striking than that in relation to Tammany Hall. While Wilson had a huge majority in congress and the opposition in the country was divided Wilson had no use for Tammany. But now it is different. The Tammany Tiger is in a fair way to supplant the White House cat as a family pet.

Lack of “team work” is noticeable not only in President Wilson’s own party but in the ranks of his former assistants, the Bull Moose. On the same day that Medill McCormick told the Colonel that there was no outlook for the third party, George W. Perkins gave out an interview of the most optimistic nature. There will be no question of putting anyone off the team because of this incident —for Mr. McCormick announces that he has quit the team of his own accord and that he will continue to act with the republicans.

Nebraska republicans are a resourceful lot of politicians. Their primary laws permit wide freedom of action, and to this is due the petition to put Justice Hughes’s name on the ballot. The Justice has promptly ordered his name withdrawn. But, nothing daunted, a group of Nebraska petitioners are now trying to put Mayor Thompson of Chicago on the ballot. In his home state Mayor Thompson is believed to be for Senator Sherman, and it would be indeed curious if he should turn up in the convention as Nebraska’s “favorite son”.