Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — Editorial Comments [ARTICLE]

Editorial Comments

The Democrats continue to ignore Mr. Hughes' speeches to the extent that all they do is to sputter and gasp. Let it be conceded there are really strong grounds for the opinion that President Wilson may carry Texas next November. If these indications are taken at their full worth some enthusiasts will soon be going out to bet that the tide will sweep ou until Mississippi and Alabama are also enrolled in the Democratic column. Many big Democrats willing and ready to speak for Wilson are careful that their money shall not say anything on his side. —• President Wilson says he is utterly indifferent as to his re-election. Perhaps that explains a good things nobody has heretofore bron able to understand. “Help me, Cassius, or 1 sink!" For “Cassius” read “congress.” The notion seems to be that the Democratic national chairman is claiming more than he will get. but not any more than he will need. As further evidence that he is warm hearted and intensely human, jfw Hughes likes apple pie. No man is going to be elected--or re-elected-to high office by votes gained from states’ rights declarations this late in the game. The states’ rights question was settled some fifty years ago to the evident satisfaction of a considerable majority. —“Kansas City Star.

“Adequate preparedness is not militarism. It is the essential assurance of security. It is a necessary safeguard of peace.” Candidate Hughes has left nothing to be said on this subject. He has snuffed out counter argument at the very outset.

“Are we Americans a nation of bunglers?” asks the New York Sun. It would be very harsh to answer this in the affirmative—and, anyway, we elect a Democratic president only every once In a while.

Charles E. Hughes cannot get so far away from Washington that the men in charge of the chariot of government there do not feel the jolting of his criticisms. In fact, the Democratic leader* at the capital.city show~symp • toms of seasickness from the way In Which the ex-justice of the supreme court has shaken them up. Mr. Hughes is pursuing the only proper method, which Is first to take the deadwood out of the way so that the path to righteous and propitious government may be made clear.