Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A REPUBLICAN BOOMERANG. Nothing so forcibly reveals the desperate situation at tlie Republican National Campaign Headquarters ns their attempt to discredit President Wilson’s Mexican policy by a “Movie” picture directed by a pardoned cohvict whose Idea of a “thrill” is a scene showing duns being ravished and whose conception of patriotism Is the President asleep at bis desk. But after all the principal is responsible for this agent. Hal Reid was only trying to earn the S3S,(MX) appropriated by the Republican Nutional Committee for a film which now stinks so loud they don’t want to get within smelling distance of it. And they excuse themselves by saying they never knew it would be so rotten! The point is this —it wasn’t too rotten if they could get away with it. They were caught In tire act of trying to "put it over.” They were caught in the act of trying to deny responsibility for it. Does anyone believe that Hal Reid went abend with the faked film before he had had his scenario (). Iv.’d by someone in authority at Republican Headquarters? Everett Colby’s indorsement, “It’s a corker,” is sufficient proof of this. That it was in execrable taste eleven treasonable —what was that to this crowd which has nothing to spend but money! The whole sordid affair is a fit parallel to the Rum. Romanism and Rebellion campaign which proved such a boomerang to the parties that started it. . What can you expect of a party which campaigns on abuse, vlUficu tion, slander, Innuendo, and lies? W< agree with the Brooklyn Eagle In won dering “If there w'as anything In this film that was not more than suggested by Col, Roosevelt In Ids many attacks upon the President’s Mexican policy? He lias proclaimed President Wilson responsible for the conditions that he described. Other have done the same. In view of this, why should the playwright be blamed for adapting the material to his medium? Can It be that the vil liters of the President had to see* these things on the screen before realizing how truly despicable this form of uttuck appears to most people?" The exposure of the character of this putrid film should, says the Eve ning World, prove a sharp lesson to Republican campaign leaders. “The whole affair puts a stigma upon Republican campaign methods.”

I “FOOL’S PARADISE” g -HUGHES 3 (Springfield Republican.) 5 A political sensation was X caused today when on the eve $ of the visit of Charles Evans X Hughes. George F. Johnson of X this city and H. B. Endicott of X Boston, who own the largest Q shoe factory in the world, issued S a statement favoring the re- $ election of President Wilson. c Mr. Johnson has been known as X a Republican in the past.— X Binghamton dispatch to the C New York Times. X Among the reasons of these C business men is this: “He X (President Wilson) handled the 2 recCnt railroad crisis in a mas- fl terly manner. We believe he X took the only possible means to 2 avoid a Btrike. And they have ? dared to say this after reading 2 Mr. Hughes’s speeches. An armload of old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

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