Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — Page 6

LATEST PHOTOGRAPH OF PRESIDENT WILSON

FARMERS IGNORED BY REPUBLICANS

But Democratic Administration Quickly Gave Them Justice in Rural Credits. Don’t forget Mr. Farmer, that through your Farmers’ National Congress, National Grange, National Farmers’ Union, American Society of Equity, and similar organizations you have for years demanded and have importuned Republican administrations for legislation you needed. WHAT DID YOU GET? Through all the years since 1864 the Republican Party was deaf arid blind to the farmer’s financial needs. This in the face of the fact that successful systems of Rural Credits were in operation throughout Europe for a century. When this great Democratic measure was put to vote in the Senate on May 4, 1916, only five Republicans dared vote against it! Three of them were on the sub-committee who wrote the Republican Platform of 191 G. Was it because you were not Big Interests? You were, many of you. highly financed, and High Finance held the mortgage—and to that extent you belonged to High Finance. But you paid big interest to associate with Big Interests. A stack of wheat wasn't as good collateral as a sheaf of scraps of paper held by a stock gambler. Nor did the Political Bosses of the Republican i’arty care to give you financial justice. They were too busy “protecting*’"themselves. THE PROMISES OF,THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1912 written in courage and honesty and with sympathetic understanding of the needs of every honest American interest—HAVE BEEN KEPT. The Republican Party refused to do these things, which the prosperity of the American Farmer required. The Republican presidential candidate, Charles E. Hughes, denounces the Democratic party and President Wilson for having done these things. Where Does Your Interest Lie? (From Farmers’ Pamphlet issued by the Democratic National Committee.)

BURLESON’S “THREE STRIKE”

“The Democratic party seems to have enough capacity to run the Post Office Department. Postmaster General Burleson has deposited a check for $5,200,000 with Secretary McAdoo, being the profits of the fiscal year of 1916.” Sounds like a Democratic campaign orator, doesn’t It? But it isn’t; it is the Philadelphia Public Ledger, a paper that is supporting Hughes, telling its host of readers about merely one of the deeds ,of the Wilson Administration. Continues the Ledger: “The Secretary oT'the Treasury replies that his department has experi-

enced the sensation of receiving a postal surplus only three times, and those three times have been under the Administration of President Wilson and Mr. Burleson. But we have no hope that this will satisfy Mr. Hughes. He will tell the next audience he gets hold of that the service is not nearly so good as it used to be when Postmaster Generals were Republicans and there was a deficit every year, the amount being something over $17,000,000.”

DEMOCRATIC PROMISES TO FARMERS FULFILLED

Benefits Under Wilson Set Forth in Official Pamphlet. The Democratic platform of 1912 made tjiis promise to the farmers of America: ; . “of equal importance with the question of currency reform is the question of rural credits or agricultural finance. Therefore we recommend that an investigation of agricultural credit societies In foreign countries be made, so that it may be ascertained whether a system of rural credits may be devised suitable to conditions in the Uniteci States; and we also favor legislation permitting national banks to loan a reasonable proportion of - their funds on real estate security. “We recognize the value of vocational education, and urge Federal appropriations for such training and extension teaching in agriculture in co-operation with the several states.” These pledges, with many other services to the farmer, have been completely fulfilled in the legislation of the present Administration. The record of Democratic Performance is offered in comparison with the Republican record of broken promises to the farmer, in an attractive pamphlet issued by the Democratic National Committee. Copies have been furnished to every Democratic State Committee for free distribution.

PRAISES WILSON’S STAND IN BEHALF OF SUFFRAGE

The action of the National Suffrage Association at Atlantic City, N. J., In rejecting by an. overwhelming vote the proposal to make the suffrage movement a partisan annex of the Republican campaign, was further emphasized by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, “the sage of suffrage,” in an' interview published in the Philadelphia Press, a staunch Republican organ. “The President, in his speech to the convention, promised all he could carry out,” said Dr. Shaw. “If he had promised more we would have known that he could not carry it out. “Not the Republicans alone, nor the Democrats alone, can bring suffrage. If it could be done that way I would favor it. But It can’t. We must get enough Democrats and Republicans together to do it.”

SECTIONALISM CRY S REACTS ON HUGHES

G. 0. P. Candidate Is Mocked by Record of His Own Party in Congress. LAWS ENACTED ARE FOR ALL On Its Achievements Administration Invites Judgment as to Whether Its Work Is Sectional in Its Scope and Purpose. Charles E. Hughes has raised the cry of sectionalism, complaining to his Western audiences because the important Committee Chairmanships in the House and Senate have been filled —this being due to seniority promotions—by Southern .members. “During the last year of Republican control there was not a committee chairmanship from the South,” replies Congressman James B. Aswell in his speech reported in the Congressional Record. “Was that nationalism or blind, ignorant partisanship?” he asks. “Let the people decide,” he suggests, “whether the following great measures enacted by this so-called South-con-trolled Congress are sectional or national : “The Underwood Tariff Law, just to the consumer as against the Special privileged class, followed by a nonpartisan tariff commission removing the tariff question from politics. “The Income Tax Law, causing the rich to pay their just proportion of the expenses of the Government. “The Rural Credits Law, the Ast legislation .solely for the farmers. “The establishment of rural routes, the extension of the parcel post, and better mail service for our rural population. “The Good Roads Law for all sections and for all our people. “Farm extension laws, Including Smith-Lever Act, grain and cotton standards, regulating cotton futures, and so forth. “Numerous just labor laws, the most beneficial in a century by the American Congress. “The Child Labor Law for the children of the whole country and for civilization. “The Federal Reserve Act, giving'a*i elastic currency and preventing financial panics—the greatest act ever passed In the history of our Government. “Conservation acts for the people as against special Interests. “Anti-trust laws and arbitration laws, preventing special-interest control. “Shipping act for open markets for our products and commercial mastery of the seas. “Federal Trade Commission Act, protecting the Individual as against the vested Interests. “The Seamen's Law for the workmen, and public safety. “Legislation supporting the President In keeping us out of the European war while maintaining peace with honor to the American flag. “Mr. Speaker, for the sake of the great dignity of the high office he seeks and in the name of common decency, let Mr. ex-.Tustice Hughes specify and name the sectional measures in the above list and mention those he would repeal I”

BURBANK OUT FOR WILSON, “THE GREATEST STATESMAN”

Announcing his support of President Wilson, Luther. Burbank, the horticulturist wizard of California, said: “I believe him to be the greatest statesman we have ever had.” Mr. Burbank, the Edison of scientific horticulture, declared that without reserve he endorsed the position announced a week earlier by Thomas A. Edison. Both Burbank and Edison

have been life-long Republicans. Edison put it this way: “Times are too serious to talk in terms of Republicanism or Democracy. When it’s America that is at stake men have got to vote as Americans. A fool, or a coward would have had the United States in all sorts of trouble. As it is, we are at peace, the country was never more prosperous, and we have the strength that comes with honor and integrity of purpose.”

IF THE G. O. P. ELEPHANT COULD SPEAK THE TRUTH

VOTERS of the U. S. A.— We, the Republican party, being at our wits’ end and desperate, put it up to you: For nearly four years how a Democratic Administration has been in power. Contrary to every law of reason,, every principle of progress, the country Is at peace and alive, nay, humming with prosperity. Business is rushing. Wages are high. The only discontent is the discontent of those who are reaching for bigger chunks of plenty. We are flabbergasted. All this has happened during a period when the rest of the world has been agog, when international crises were impending on all sides,“when we would have sworn only Republican statesmanship could pull the nation through. No war has engulfed us. No panic has paralyzed us. No nation has with impunity continued to infringe upon our rights. We can’t deny what has been done. All we can do is take our oath we could have done it better. How, we do not know. If only. we said it loud and long enough we hoped the country would believe us. But the country is busy and our voices grow hoarse. We are having a hard time. Woodrow Wilson has nothing to show but what he has accomplished. He has none of the glamour of the what-might-be. We, on the contrary, have our old promises and policies, mellowed by age, but still bearing the stamp of the nation’s solid interests. Protection, privilege,, government by influence —surely the county has not given them their last trial. Wall street is with us. Big business is with us. But O, Voters, we Confess it, we need you. Don’t keep looking at the peace and prosperity around you. Try to get our point of view. Whatever Wilson has done, the man is a Democrat, and neither Federal Government nor Federal offices were meant to be forever in such hands. Let’s forget issues and talk as friends. Turn him out and give us a chance!

“WATCHFUL WAITING” HAS SAVED A NATION’S LIFE

Mexican Envoy’s Tribute to President Wilson’s Policy. Convincing testimony to the wisdom and justice of President Wilson’s Mexican policy is brought from Mexico itself by Luis Cabrera, one of Mexico’s commissioners at the joint Mexican-American Conference now in session at New London, Conn. "I do not care to discuss political

or international questions of any kind,” said Senor Cabrera in a recent interview, “but I will say that in official circles of Mexico President Wilson is looked upon as one of the greatest men the United States ever has had as a leader. He is calm and considerate, and his much abused ‘watchful waiting’ policy has probably saved the life of my nation and prevented your country from entering into a needless struggle.”

PARTY SUFFRAGE RECORDS

Only Democratic Congressmen Appealed for Action. Congressman C. C. Dill, of Washington, cites the records of the committee hearings on suffrage in Congress to prove that “the only Congressmen who have gone before the Judiciary Committee of Congress this year to ask that a suffrage amendment be voted upon have been Democratic members.” He adds that “no others have appeared to ask for consideration of the measure. That is, I think, sufficient answer to any claim that the Democratic Party opposed Woman Suffrage.” This record need only bfe supplemented with the personal voting history of the rival Presidential candidates to show who is the real friend of suffrage. President Wilson made two trips from Washington to New Jersey to register and vote for Woman Suffrage when it was submitted in his State. Candidate Hughes did not take the trouble to register or to vote the same year—l9ls—when the suffrage amendment was submitted in his 7tete.

VICE-PRESIDENT MARSHALL FROM LATEST PHOTOGRAPH

SUFFRAGISTS CERTAIN OF DEMOCRATS' HELP

Leaders Resent Efforts to Turn the Cause Into an Adjunct of Republican Party. WON OVER BY PRESIDENT “I Have Come Here to Fight WITH You," He Tells Them—“ Wilson Voted for Suffrage; Has Hughes?" Asked One. Western women who have had the ballot equally with the men for several years resent the interference of one of the factions of suffragists and the attempt to turn the suffrage cause into an adjunct of the Republican party. They believe they know how to vote without being told by women who never had the vote; and they refuse to turn against the Democrats who have done so much for their cause in their respective states. This attitude is brought out clearly in an interview by Nixola GreeleySmith, nationally prominent as a writer on the staff of the New York World, with Mrs. Alexander Thompson, Democratic National Committeeman from Oregon,' and Mrs. Theresa M. Graham of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. “One would think,” observed Mrs. Thompson to Miss Greeley-Smith, "that if any instruction in suffrage matters had to he given it would come from the women who have won the vote and do vote rather than from Suffragists in the East who are still disfranchised. I am a young woman, but I have been through three campaigns for the vote in Oregon. In the final campaign we won through the co-operation and help and belief in us of the men of Oregon. Aided by Democrats. “We have been voting only five years and we are still grateful to our men. So, when the Congressional Union sent speakers to Oregon to tell us to vote against all Democrats we laughed at them. Why, at the last election they campaigned against George E. Chamberlain, who introduced the first Suffrage bill in Oregon and who had been the friend of the women all through their fifteen years' fight. “I agree with every word that Mrs. Thompson has spoken," declared Mrs. Graham. “The conditions in my State are the same as in Oregon, except that we hate had the vote for twenty years, and it was given to us without our having to fight for It The Congres sional Union has speakers in Idaho now urging us to slaughter the Democrats and free our sisters in the East. How silly that is! Are women in the East so foolish as to be led away by the mere declaration of a candidate, unsupported by his party, that he’s personally in favor of a Federal amendment? Woodrow. Wilson voted for Suffrage. Has Charles E. Hughes

ever voted for Suffrage? Wilson has done everything consistent with a belief in State rights, one of the fundamental principles of Democracy. Suffrage can never win as a partisan issue. Alienate the Democrats en masse and you have killed every chance Suffrage has." Won by Wilson’s Speech. It is admitted by practically all suffragists that their cause has been helped greatly by the speech President Wilson made before the convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association at Atlantic City recently, on Sept. Sth. When the President told them he had “come here to fight with you" the 4000 suffragists gathered in Nixon’s Theatre arose and cheered him enthusiastically. This pledge by the President led Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the association, to say: “You touched our hearts and won onr fealty when you said you had come here to fight with us.” “The astonishing thing about this movement.” said President Wilson, “is not that it has grown so slowly, but that it has grown so rapidly. ♦ * * I get a little impatient sometimes about the discussion of the channels and methods by which it is to prevail. It is going to prevail, and that is a very superficial and ignorant view of it which attributes it to mere social unrest. It is not merely because the women are discontented, it is because the women have seen visions of duty, and that is something which we not only cannot resist, but, if we be true Americans, we do not wish to resist, ♦ ♦ •

“I have felt as I sat here tonight the wholesome contagion of the occasion. Almost every other time that I ever visited Atlantic City I came to fight somebody. I hardly know how to conduct myself when I have not come to fight somebody, but with somebody. “I have come to suggest, among other things, that when the forces of nature are steadily working and the tide is rising to meet the moon, you need not be afraid that it will not come to its flood. We feel the tide; we rejoice in the strength of it.”

AN ANTI-CAMP AIGN?

As ar candidate Mr. Hughes has not yet Come up to expectations. The trouble is that he has not yet told the American people positively and concretely just what he proposes to do if elected President. The American people want to know what constructive program Mr. Hughes has to offer them. They' demand of a leader a demonstration of leadership. There is a serious danger that the Republican candidate may become an “anti.” And It never pays in this world to be an anti-anythlng.—The Independent.

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