Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-09-19
0P[N[DTHE CAMPAIGN
Archie Mccall Democratic Candidate
for Congress Spoke Saturday.

Alma was the scene of the open
| ing of the Democratic campaign last
Saturday night, when Archie Mccall
of Ithaca made the first speech of
/ his four weeks tour through the
| Eleventh Congressional District.
Standing in an auto i'll front of Cush-
ing & Benedict's store, Mr.. Mccall
spoke to a large crowd of Saturday
! evening visitors. While not going
into any one subject specifically, he
chose to endorse the nominations of
/ Wilson, Marshall and Ferris in high
terms, and then hit out a number OF
issues in a general way.
The speaker was introduced by the
Hon W. A. Bahlke of this city, who
in his remarks gave his unqualified
endorsement to Mr. McCalls candi-
dacy.
Mr.. Mccall opened his talk with
eulogies of Wilson and Ferris and
then told of the Democratic conven-
tion at Baltimore. He had led the
struggle for Wilson at the Demo
cratic convention at Ithaca and then
went to Bay City where through his
efforts, aided by other Wilson men
around the state, nine delegates were
sent to BALTIMORE pledged for Will
son. and Mr. Mccall had the signal
honor of being one of the nine. Mr..
Mccall in his speech pictured elo-
quently the scenes at Baltimore when
Bryan made his famous speech con-
demning Murphy, Belmont and Ryan.
Upon mention of Bryan's name there
was only slight applause. At no time
during his speech did Mr. Mccall
have the crowd enthusiastic over
Bryan, Wilson, Ferris or Democracy.
A ripple of applause now and then
greeted him but it was quite evident
it was Republican crowd
The speaker opened fire on the
tariff, declaimed it a great danger to
the conutry and professed that the
tariff was sapping the life Of the
country. Then the speaker made his
= appeal to the farmer and the laborer
quoting the price of the daily wage
as 81 so and $1.75, while the corpora
tons are reaping riches from what
the speaker characterized as high
: tariff. Then Mr.. Mccall attacked the
= sugar trust and sought to corrall the
farmer vote with promises, if elected
to give them every dollar due them
{ from the growth of sugar beets
/. While the speaker was very earnest
and sincere in his remarks, he failed
to get down to hard tacks and prove
a that the farmer was not getting
enough for his sugar beets and poin
out way to accomplish his purpose
by taking off the tariff on sugar.
e A number OF sacred pledges were
4 made by the candidate. When hC
a spoke of his platform, the speaket
: said, Il have not time to tell yot
e what it is, but my platform is tn,
!. platform OF Woodbridge Ferris. Reat
: it over and you will see how | stand.
: Another pledge was his support 70
). Wilson. "Wilson is my ideal, my pat
d tern" said Mccall. In telling of vii
r sons views on the tariff, he said tha
the Democratic candidate for tn
presidency did not favor Simon pur
free trade, but since the corpor
ations were here to stay, he would Ell
deavor to deal with them i'll such
manner as to not disturb the wei
fare of the country. "WS believe i
} competitive tariff ist he way h
characterized it. The remarks on tn
tariff were followed with few o
the income tax and then with prais
to the Democratic House for votin
for an increase in soldiers pensions
which was also passed by a Repub
lican senate.
The closing topic of the speaker
address with his republican opponen
He told of Mr. Lindquist's bushes
of mail-order nature and appealed t
the people not TO patroniZe such
business but to be loyal to the bus
ness men of the county who hav
made possible the cities of the cour
ty and extended credit to the peopl
in those seasons OF the year whe
the laborer and the farmer is withor
ready cash. Then Mr.. Mccall mad
the strongest appeal OF the evenin
when he asked that the peole be nC
again bamboozled by eleventh ho,
letters of the nature that were sci
out by Lindquist in the last day {
the primary campaign. Mr.. McCa
said that he was willing to meet h
o. opponent in debate and fight it OF
q. in an honorable way but cautioned h
hearers against the contents of Il
Is letters and asked them to look int
the matter carefully before the
~. minds were made up.
Mr.. Mccall left on the late Ar
-, Arbor train for the northern part
the district from which point he w
work back to the south end in fot
III weeks campaign. He ms campaig
weeks campaign. He is campaig
ra and speaks at Boyne City and Cha
levoix.