Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-08-04

Hay to the court OF claims is a clear
case OF man being kicked upstairs.
II is small wonder that the old-line
Democrats are objecting to the pre-
sence Of Progressives on their cam
paign committee. Mighty few Pro-
gressives are going to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket this fall--certainly not in
numbers proportionate to even one
member of a committee of a dozen
members. Consequently, to give a
Progressive place that might be taken
by a deserving Democrat is a sheer
waste of job.
The poison gas now being used along
the Somme is said to psralyze the voice.
Wonder if Bryan has been having
whiff of it.
News dispatches tell us every day or
so OF an important political conference
the President has had with some of the
Democratic campaign leaders. He is
evidently of the opinion that the people
of the country have in mind changing
horses whether crossing a stream or
not
Chastising Carranza is peculiarly a
function of the Wilson administration,
whose child, politically speaking, Car
rama is.
eff you want to make this fight on
the tariff, we will point you to the re-
Election of the furnace fires which are
blushing red against the Skies" bawl-
ed Collier Of Mississippi, to the Re-
publicans, while delivering a home
consumption speech on the seven
headed revenue measure which recent
ly passed the House. All right, Mr.
Collier. And the Republican party is
going to place firm grip on each one
Of your long, furry ears and point you
to the wide-furrowed warfields of
Europe blushing red with the blood of
countless thousands slain with shot and
shrapnel made in Americr," carried
to the front on American trucks and
railroad cars, and fired from American
guns, the manufacture OF which revived
the furnace fires, which, under the
smothering influence OF the Demo-
cratic tariff law, were mere heaps of
ashes before the European war broke
out Can you meet that argument?
Some highly sensitive observers who
make fetch of figures have been
pointing out Hughes vote for Governor
in 1908. The main thing to be remem-
bered from that campaign, however, is
that Hughes was reelected in 1908 and
that no Governor of New York has been
reelected since.
The biography of President Hayes
which Prof. John w. Burgess has just
published calls to mind the fact that it
was during the Hayes administration
that Dlaz came to power in Mexico.
"Mr. Hayes, says his biographer, was
not more pleased with the way Diaz
came to the Presidency than was Mr..
Wilson with the supposed or assumed
completely of Huerta in the killing of
Madero, and there were the same vio-
lations Of and dangers to American in
terests and the same boundary infrac-
tons to be dealt with. But Mr. Hayes
was a practical statesman OF refined
manners-and to Mexico were vouchsa-
fed thirty-five years Of such peace and
prosperity as it had never before en-
joyed." The reflection on Mr.. Wilson
is none too harsh.
The Democratic platform OF this year
does not follow its Baltimore prede-
cessor by incorporating a declaration
that the pledges Of the document are
made to be observed in office as well
as to be used in seeking votes. The
reason for the omission is entirely
clear. The promises of the Baltimore
platform were so much more uniform
ly honored in the breach rather than in
the observance that the Democrats this
year sought to duck the obvious and
individious and odious comparison.
However, it is Of small consequence,
because the st. Louis platform is not
the document which will be invoked
during the next four years. The chart
for this country's progress during that