Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-11-01
Which Candidate?

|jiH7lEE ] Which Candidate?
succeeding campaign just the
Of baderash and rot published and peddled to the voters
pretending tell them just why they should for this
that party and also telling them that the county is
high road to destruction they don't cast their ballots
certain men
This sort of fooishness by confined one
set of men party Democrats do it. Republicans
do it, Socialists do it, Progressives do it, and the Pro
Mbitionsts guilty of the thing although their
marks confined chiefly the evils of ntemperance
OF much of the literature sent out by the various
campaign bureaus and most of the speeches made by the
called "spebnders pure bancombe handed out with the
apparent idea of appealing the of the voter
rather than to his judgment
That sensible men, them with issues
of the day. will be satisfied with such tommyro preposter
future by considering what has happened in the past and
taking the records of the political parties which
have tickets in the field this year, considering he the
light of past performances what do find?
The Socialists offer to the lot of untried theories
of They have been control of national
affairs and probably will be- they dismissed
without further comment.
The progressive party made largely of who be-
ing out of office, have nornate itch and desire
little so it would be Socialist if little less So It'll
wouldn't be anything actually is is Theodore Roose
velt HIMSELF. The big "I".
The prohbtonsts have made the abolition the LIQUOR
traffic the paramount issue in their platform This CAM
be considered as their sole end and aim It is beautiful
theory but it is theory nevertheless may be considered
i'll that light only Its practical working is quite another
matter
The democrats have always been contenders mi
the fight for control of the national government twice in
the last fifty have actually ganing
of federal affairs Grover Cleveland the only man the
nave succeeded in eectng president in the last
nifty years His first term embraced the years 1884SSS and
marked by the hardest closest country has
pelienced since 1882 His period
lS921S96 and introduced shameful things asI
Coxs Army and kindred labor greatest,
number of unemployed men American con-
Outside of these things the reign of Cleveland anal
De That the country plunged still farther into debt and
hundreds OF thousands of people rendered homeless
less That just about constitutes the Democrats
for the past fifty AS party it has long on
promises and mighty short performances.
Compare these records if such they may called
record of the Republican party We claiming that
the Republican party has always right nor vet that
grave abuses have crept into the administration affairs
from time to time But reminding you that Re
publican party the country Abraham fought the
civil to successful freed the slaves re-
united the country after it had reat bv the civil war;
placed the country on sound and enduring financial
osered and developed and industries
day this is the greatest manufacturing nation the world
freed Cuba and wiped out the last vestge of old
archa rule in the hemisphere: made tho Ini+ed
States flag respected world over and the United
the greatest and most powerful nation the shone
Does that sound like buncombe? Democrats will YOU
that 1t IS buncombe pure and simple and eyery
statement made here is historical fact stub
born things.
Cutting out the buncombe, then and getting right down
like this:
Socialists, O. ,-<:-"
Prohibitionists, 0. 80
Plogressves, 0.
Democrats, than nothing the only times
the last fifty that they have been with
they have only succeeded in bringing about hard
in disruptng business conditions Democrats may try to
evade these arguments and say that they unfair
the fact remains that time their theories govern
meRt have tried the civil war onv ruin has fol-
lowed Does the average working man, farmer business
man want to try it again? s
We realize that it is part Of the business news
paper to tell HOW to vote unless it tells
and here are six good WHY all who
interested in the welfare of this country should vote for
the Republican candidate for president Tuesday:
The republican party by it's performance has
shown itself to be the party Of progress.