Barton County democrat., 1914-01-09

No program is conpletevfn Kansas
now without Hodges. I'm glad you
have agovernor a like him. Men like
make it impossible for the Repubh-
cans to claim a monopoly on intelN-
gence and respectability. And I'm
glad that Democracy appeals to the
heart Of the women as well as the
men. It is the mother that trains
of the child and the young men are
the hope Of the country.
And Thompson-God bless him.
came here when he was candidate
and am sorry that he had such a great
majority as l might have been able
to claim more credit in helping to
elect him.
| am glad to know that you have
campaign and are ready for It. l
didn't expect to hear a eulogy Of
Bristow when l came here. Bristow
is not a Moses. What he saw was
not a burning bush, it was a hight
ming bug. He's gone back to the Re
publican party and the return reminds
me Of a drunken man who was re-
turning home and met a friend. -
will you help me up?' the friend
inquired.
No. answered the man, but l will
lie down with you
And so with BriStow. He has
found that he could not help the
stand-patters up, so he has laid down
with them.
And l understand that Murdock
has been talking. Some one sent me
a paper here wherein he says that
have helped Wall street. He is like
a Scotchman who, while in the British
parliament, was making a speech op-
posing capital punishment. The
Scotchman said that the worst whip
ping he had ever received was for
telling the truth, and as he finished
the statement a voice in the audience
added:
And it cured you, didn't it?
l have been with President Wilson
long enough to know that he is on
the side Of the people. Wake him
up amy time in the night and present
any question and he will look at It
from the peoples side, and ask how
it affects the people. Nine-tenths Of
the people are Democratic at heart.
That's the kind Of a man that leads
US from darkness to light.
Ever since there has been en- ef.
fort to rvise the tariff you have seen
the Republicans trot out the bogey
man threat, saying that If the tariff
wallis were lowered the country wouk
be ruined. l have lived in a period
when employers told workingmen not
to return to work on Wednesday ur-
less the Republicans won on Tues
day. The Republicans said we would
have panic if the present tariff bill
We're enacted. We have the tariff
and they have the panic. The couni
try was exposed but the disease
wasn't catching.
Woodrow Wilson is trying to raise
the world s disputes from brute force
to the forum of argument. He is not
wanting to make war remote because
he doubts the patriotism of the peo-
Pile. If he should make a call to
arms at dawn for a million volunteers
a million young men would be in lime
by sundown to die for their country
and the line would reach across every
state. He believes man was made
for a higher purpose than to shoot
and be shot at. He believes it is as
glorious to live for this country as
to die for it.
Now the president is ready to take
up the trust question. He says that
private monopoly is indefenstble and
mtoSerabh. They tried to talk Viii
son to death on the tariff. Then they
tried to frighten him to death on the
currency. That didn't do, so now
they are ready to unscramble the
eggs. Under the Republican admins
tratin a telephone company reached
out and 'swiped' a telegraph COM
pany, then took all its competing
lines; then refused to let independ.
ent companies use its main lines.
The other day the administration got
a polite letter from the telephone
company, saying 1t wished to please
and wanted to know II it would be
all right to let loose of the Western
Union.
Governor Hodges
With Democratic secretary ot
state, a Democratic United States