Evening journal., 1914-09-08
Clean Campaign
/. FOR CONGRESS IS
MR.. Miller 5 AIM
Republican Congressional
Nominee Tells Voters He
Will Avoid All Personalities
c. 0. P. Record GOOD
ENOUGH FOR CANDIDATE

Of the Republican First District Com
mittee was neid last night at the head
quarters, No. $40 King street. Fully
400 Republicans were in attendance and
among those who spoke was Thomas w.
Miller, the Republican candidate for
Congress.
Mr.. Miller said;
Gas this is the first public utterance
have made since the Republican con
vention made me their nominee for Con
gress, 1 want to say to you that in
making my campaign ! do not intend to
engage in the interchange Of PERSONAL
ties with any of my opponents on the
opposing tickets or opponents that
may have outside OF the ticket. The
custom of throwing mud and making
/ insinuations is too often INDUCED in and
I serve notice on all of you now that
it is not only my intention TO refrain
+, from such tactics myself but / do not
care for any of my supporters to lower
the plane of politics by indulging in per-
sonalities OF insinuations not based on
facts.
From the Republican standpoint
this is to be one of the most aggres-
sive campaigns that has been waged
in recent years. The nominees which
you placed on your ticket at Dover
last Wednesday and those whom you
will place on your ticket at the pri-
maries next Saturday will form an
aggressive body of men who will
strive to lead the Republican party
to victory. Campaign issues will be
fearlessly met both on the stump and
in individual work by the candidates
and their friends but, reiterating
what / have said before, it will be a
campaign as far as / am able to make
il that will be based on the issues of
today and on the issues Of today our
opponents are on the defensive. In
the campaign of 1910 the Democratic
party gained votes through the issue
raised on the high cost OF living and
in that election they captured the
House. Of Representatives. Two years
later. In 1912. they were swept into
power in all branches Of the Ma
tiOnal government and In many
branches Of our State government
fby a minority vote Every one of
you who have a family to support to-
day knows that it costs even more
TO support them today than il did in
/ 1910 Can any fair and right-thinking
? man believe that the Democratic ora
tors were sincere when they preached
about the high cost of living being
due to the Republican party? During
= the 1910 campaign il was spread
, broadcast that the Republican party
I in Washington was making expendi-
lures in the national government that
, were extravagant and useless. You dc
M hur 70
= ell and figure the totals of the ap-
] preparation bills passed by the last
two Congresses to ascertain that the
figures are in excess of any previous
% annual expenditure Thus have two
) of the Democratic campaign slogan:
I, of 1910 been shattered. A party can
!. not expect to hold itself in power
when il was elected as a minority
, party and then failed to change anC
I. improve the conditions that it held III
{ as the fault Of the Republican party
. The Democratic party has had full
! sway and ample time in which L
prove its case. Only a few days ag'
the President went before Congress
and advocated the enactment of law
which would provide an additiona
revenue of almost a hundred million
\ dollars in order to make up the deficit
This measure was cited as a war rev
enue act, and the need of such meas
ure was laid at the door of the ma
. tions which are fighting in Europe
: There has hardly been a month o
o this war and the party in power viii
u have hard time proving that the de
e ficit has been brought on account o
the warning nations in Europe. Thi
e deficit was known and shown to exis
d by figures at the end of the fisca
J. year in July. and this was before an
e of our imports had been affected b
II the war. The party in power is clutch
s. ing at the European war as a life-say
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