The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-11-07

stop the clock for brief while and
review the campaign of 1916 as it
has been conducted locally.
In the rush of the eleventh hour,
voters should impress themselves
with one extremely significant fact:
Wilson supporters laid their
cards upon the table long ago and
have changed issues not one
whit, From the start, the plea
for votes for President Wilson
has been upon three incontest-
able and indisputable grounds
peace, prosperity and progress
iveness.
Hughes supporters, at almost
the final moment, have injected
new element into the campaign
the calamity croak. This is
embraced in their howl for a pro-
tective tariff and their cry
against the high cost of living for
which they themselves have been
responsible.
1t has impressed many voters of
Knox county that this cry of the
Hughes shouters is political scheme,
pure and simple, and IT is. The
rankest kind of canard is being foist
ed upon the public with the vain
hope of staying the deluge which
more and more gives every promise
of engulfng the presidential candi-
date, Mr.. Hughes, in Knox county.
The purpose of this political can.
ard is to blind people to the real
issues of the campaign. The Hughes
ties have retreated to the last ditch,
singed and burning, before the
scorching fire of peace, prosperity
and progressiveness. They throw
up this meager barrier for final, un
scrupulous stand.
This is what the voter is confront
ed with a few days before he casts
his ballot-a form of deceit like unto
that which polluted Knox county two
years ago when Gov. Cox was so braz'
emily and so vigorously misrepresent
ed that the present incumbent was
placed in the chair. The Banner
some time ago, called attention to the
similarity of the Hughes presidential
campaign and the campaign for the
state in 1914.
ALL THE FACTS OF WHICH
THE HUGHES PRESS is NOW POS
;SESSED WE'RE IN THEIR HANDS
MONTHS AGO. WHY WE'RE THEY
NOT USED? BECAUSE THEY
WERE SAVED FOR THE FINAL,
DESPERATE STAND AGAINST
THE FORMIDABLE CAMPAIGN OF
PEACE, PROSPERITY AND PRO
WHICH THE WILL
SON PARTY HAS WAGED RIGHT
ALONG.
Two years ago, the local Willis or
gan took a leading part in the fool
the-people campaign. This newspa-
per, however, has not had the brass
to deny the extravaganza of Willis
administration or the fact that he has
built up an army of ofIice-holders
which, to man, would far outnum-
Der those under Gov. Cox.
The Willis sheet has attempted Ger.
tain things along the line of decep
tion. It tried to make the working
people of the city believe that Dem
ocratic state administration would
mean an income tax, until its driyel
was exposed, down to the rotten
depths of sheer ignorance, by The
Banner.
1t tried to make out, when Willis
revision board scandal was upper
most in the minds of the people, that
a certain letter from the state tax
commission had never been received
in the city when a reporter of The
Banner found the letter, the very
next day, where it should be and had
been all along.
1t tried to make workingmen of the
city believe they did not know what
they were. doing when they signed
a petition, seeking the restoration of
the workmen's compensation law to
what it was under Cox.
It tried for while, and then quit,
to impress upon the minds of its
readers that Willis has reduced state
expenses. although the official reports