The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1914-10-16
ALEXANDER'S PLEA
TO THE PEOPLE

M. Alexander, damocratic candi-
date for governor, made a STRONG
appeal Monday. night at the theater
in Lewiston for the support of the
entire .mocratic ticket as an en-
dorsement of the administration Of
President Woodrow Wilson, ~whom
he termed the peace maker" of the
civilized world today.
Mr.. Alexander arrived in the city
yesterday afternoon from Boise and
was met By a large delegation at the
depot. Democrats were here from
Moscow, Orofino, Lapwai, Kendrick
and other points to meet the party
standard-bearer and during the late
afternoon the hotel lobby was crowd
ed, the affair taking on the proper
tions of an informal reception.
The Lewiston band appeared before
the Bollinger hotel in the evening and
after few selections were rendered,
Mr.. Alexander was escorted to the
theater building by a delegation Of
members of the Woodrow Wilson club.
The band played before the theater
and the big auditorium was well filled
when the speaker was introduced by
Attorney G. w. Tannahill. County
Chairman James Armstrong occupied
q seat on the platform. Mr.. AleXan-
der said in part:
II ask everyone present, for the
time, to forget whether you are demo-
Gratis, republicans, progressives or So
cialists, but Join with me in the
proud remembrance that we are all
American citizens, living in the only
country on the face of the earth today
calling itself civilized, where life, lib
erty and pursuit of happiness is the
heritage Of every man, woman and
child, in contrast with the conditions
row prevailing throughout the civil
Iized world where men are engaged,
not in the pursuit Of peace, but in
that terrible confict-war, which
and all those things that are dear to
the hearts Of men and women.
"Our splendid civilization, begun
1000 years ago, the foundation of
which was Peace on earth, good will
towards men, is about to be tested
out by the struggle Of nations for the
gain of territory and the enlargement
Of the powers, contrary to the princi-
pies established by the Founder of
those truths that have been the cor
ner-stone of modern civilization
Peace on earth, good will towards
men, shall again be established
There is but one man today that can
act as the Peace on EARTH and that
man is Woodrow Wilson, president of
the United States, who has given that
notable example of peace on earth and
good will with his dealings with
Mexico.
"There his notable examples of
fortitude, prudence and forbearance
are manifest, and Mexico is today on
the road to prosperity, enlightenment
and eternal peace. With that example
he can face the warning nations of the
world and bring them the olive branch
of peace and he will do this very soon.
"No stronger endorsement could he
offer to these naughty lords'~of war
than to be able to say: I have come
in behalf Of 100,000,000 free people
who clamor for peace, not for them
selves, but for others. and arm not
alone their representative elected two
years ago, but I have again been en-
dorsed at the polls of the election or
1914, and back of me for the messen-
ger Of peace there Is united people
as never before and the evidence
thereof is when the nation shall have
elected a senate in harmony with
Woodrow Wilson and the lower house
of congress as well, and I appeal to
YOU as men and women not from a
partisan standpoint, but from the
standpoint of the peace of the world,
to vote this fall for James H. HaWley
for United States senator for Idaho,
Forney and Miller for the lower house,
and thereby put Idaho in line with the
balance of the states of this~Union for
the establishment of the principles
of civilization that have been the
pride of the world since the days of
the Redeemer of mankind.
ITO speak a word on the lessons the
war has taught us, first in relation to
the tariff, which is now really thing
of the past. Statistics show that we
raised 100000 bales of cotton that
was worth a thousand million dollars
before the war, but today cannot be
sold at hardly any price, Europe hav-
ing always bought of us two-thirds of
the cotton crop,s amounting to nearly
seven hundred millions of dollars. The
spindles of Europe have ceased to
work, the looms have quit making
cloth for the adornment of men and
.syomen-shot and shell and gunpow-
der are their wants. In place of the
pursuits of peace there is now the de-
struction Of war.
"Our wheat crop, of which we have
30O.OOO,OOO bushels to sell, is accumu-
lating in the elevators and If we had
a duty on wheat ever so high, it would
do no good, as we have no wheat to
import but 30O,000,00O bushels to ex-
port. In times of peace Liverpool
would buy it ALL There are no ships
to carry it across the ocean; there are
no docks to unload it; no people to
buy it; no gold to pay for it. 1t is not
a tariff that we need now, but custom
ers, and we learn that we are not ma
tional but International and our inter-
national commerce after the war will
increase from day to day and the
United States of America will be the
financial and commercial power of
the world and the Panama canal will
be the gateway for it."
The speaker dwelt upon taxes in re-
lation to state matters and stated that
the present state administration, of
which Governor Haines is the head,
levied 100000 more taxes for state