Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — IS WORSE THAN SWAPPING HORSES! [ARTICLE]

IS WORSE THAN SWAPPING HORSES!

Swapping horses in the middle of a stream is bad enough. But what shall we say of absolutely abandoning the only horse in the middle of the treacherous current? That is exactly what the defeat of President Wilson and the election of Mr. Hughes would mean, for the period between November 7, 1916, and March 4, 1917. The fact that President Wilson had been defeated would rob the administration of prestige in European eyes. Nothing that Mr. Wilson could say or do would have the proper weight. Discredited and rebuked by his own country, who imagines that foreign countries wotffd regard his voice as the authoritative voice of the nation?

Yet grave dangers, may arise within those four months. There may be special need for an administration known to have the power and purpose of the nation behind it. And if Mr. Hughes is elected there will not. he such an administration at Washington for a long and perhaps critical period. If it were only swapping from Wilson to Hughes in the middle of the stream it would still be unwise but not necessarily dangerous. But swapping from Wilson with Hughes still four months away—not even in the middle of the dangerous current—that would be folly.—Chicago Hergld.

It has ever been the aim of the American people to enthuse the rising generation with a love and respect for this nation of ours and the grand old Stars and Stripes, but such is made almost impossible when a considerable percent of the people, the Republican partisans, tauntingly portray Uncle Sam as being “gloriously drunk,” and send pictures broadcast over the country showing foreign nations in an attitude of derision toward us. When such talented men as John T. McCutcheon turn their efforts toward belittling our country, we can justly question their true Americanism.

A Chicago visitor from a nearby city on the day Roosevelt visited that city said at every depot in the city a hand was stationed with an announcer to urge people to attend the Roosevelt reception and . speech, and that the same procedure was pursued in the loop district. Evidently there was a determined effort to insure a crowd and not have Teddy’s reception a frost when .compared with the spontaneous reception accorded President Wilson the week before. Earlier in the fall the Democratic state central committee sent a quan-

tity of Wilson badges to this county which was considered adequate to meet all demands, but this supply was exhausted two weeks ago. The demand elsewhere has been equally beyond expectations, and alt efforts of the local committee to get more ha f, e been unsuccessful. The Republicans are reported to have a large number yet on hand. The fact that Charles W. Fairbanks, . Republican candidate for vice president, is a heavy stockholder in the Indianapolis Nejys, it is alleged, no doubt has considerable to do with the recent change in the editorial policy' of that paper, which until quite recently was a very warm supporter of President Wilson. Four years ago Wilson carried Jasper county by fifty-four, and the indications .are very favorable for an increased Democratic plurality in Ifl6. The total vote received by Wilson here in 1912 was 1,292; Taft 1,238; Roosevelt 694.