The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-23
THEIR GUNS SPIKED
REPUBLICANS Will issue NO
CAMPAIGN BOOK.
They have No issue

Republican Senators and Congress
men Having Helped to Pass Demo-
cratic Bill, They Can't Protest
Against the New Laws Passed by
Their Political Opponents.
A dispatch from Washington to
The New York World says for the
first time in many years the Repub-
licans will not issue a campaign
book. The National Republican Con-
gressional Committee has decided
that it would be money wasted to
prepare and print such book as the
facts would justify. Therefore, the
standpatters back home will not be
told in handsome printed form what
their congressman have been doing
in Washington.
Democrats say that there is rea-
son for the lack of a Republican, cam
paign book this year. They say that
the Republicans have no issue, for
many of their leading men voted for
Democratic measures enacted into
law.
The Democratic campaign workers
point with pride to the following rec
ord: The Underwood-Simmons tariff
bill passed the House May 8, 1913,
by vote of 2s1 to 139, supported
by three Republicans, three Bull
Moosers and one Independent; by the
Senate September 9, A to 81, one
Republican and one Bull Moose vot-
ing for it. it.
The tariff bill of the Democrats
became a law by the aid of Republi-
can and Bull Moose congressman,
making it a non-partisan law. The
Republican committee can not con-
sistently make an issue on the tariff
when four of their men voted with
the Democrats.
The Federal Reserve act, one of
the most popular of the Democratic
administration measures, was sup
ported in the House by thirty-fve
Republicans and fourteen Bull Moos-
ers, and in the Senate by three Re-
publicans and one Bull Moose There
is no campaign thunder in that rec
ord for the Republican Congressional
Committee.
The Trade Commission bill passed
the House by acc1amation and
twelve Republicans voted for it in
the Senate.
Forty-one Republicans and fifteen
Bull Moosers in the House, seven Re
publicans and one Bull Moose in the
Senate, supported the Clayton anti
Trust bill.
Eighty Republicans and fourteen
Bull Moosers in the House voted for
the Rayburn Railway Securities bill:
the Senate has not yet acted on that
measure.
The Lever Agricultural Extension
act and the Industrial Employees
Arbitration act were passed without
a dissenting vote by the House and
Senate.
Seventy Republicans and fourteen
Bull Moosers in the House and twen-
ty-four Republicans and one Bull
Moose in the Senate supported the
Mexican war resolution.
The European war emergency leg
islation was enacted by Democrats
and Republicans.
While the Republican Campaign
Committee hesitates to reveal
through printed booklet its record
in the Senate and House since Presi-
dent Wilson came into power, the
Democratic campaigners are telling
the world how President Wilson was
aided in his fight for better tariff,
currency and trust laws by such Re-
publicans as Senators La Toilette of
Wisconsin and Poindexter of Wash
ington, Norris Of Nebraska, Weeks
Of Massachusetts, Clapp of Mime
sofa. Cummins of Iowa, Gronna Of
North Dakota, Kenyon of Iowa, Ster-
ling of South Dakota, Borah of Idaho
opJ JoDac of Wash in otop ond DoDro
sentatives Cooper and John J. Esch
of Wisconsin, Henry T. Helgesen Of
North Dakota and scores of others.
The Republicans are without an
issue. Col. Roosevelt and his party
are more at sea than the Republi-
cans. In order to get start the
Colonel had to go to Louisiana and
see his old Bull Moose friend, John
NJ. Parker.
On the other hand, the Democrats
are proclaiming to the country the
story of their record at the White
House and in Congress.
Every measure of legislation pro-
posed by Woodrow Wilson since he
became President ana enacted into
law has received the votes of Repub-
licans and Bull Moosers as we'll as
Democrats in both the Senate and
House." says statement issued by
the Democratic Campaign Commit
tee. ''No other president in the en-
tire history Of the nation has made
such a record.
''The legislation of the sixty-third
congress is Democratic legislation.
But it is more than that. 1t is legis-
lation for and on behalf of and ap-
proved by the vast majority of the
American people. The laws enacted
by the Democratic party, like the en-
tire record of the Democratic party
under President Wilson, rise above
party lines.
Service of the whole people. not
partisan advantage or advancement.
has been the guiding principle OF
action. By vote and speech during