New Britain herald., 1916-10-18

| means a chance to know the perfume
| of new mown field and breathe the
! healthful odor Of the pines; a chance
to see the simmer of the heaving
| pulsing sea and hear the soothing
| murmur Of the waves. 1t cans that
| poor mans sons and widows daugh-
| ters will get a chance in college this
| fall to master the key of life and
open unto themselves doors that
would otherwise be barred. It tells
Of contentment in the cottage and
| philanthropy in the palace. It ban
ishes the fear of need, the timidity
of poverty and in their place insta!ls
| the independence and the bravery
| that come when necessity's shackles
| fall away, dread no longer stays the
| arm letters of the mind and men
| can walk with feet upon the earth and
head among the stars And for this
prosperity this abundance and this
happiness the voters Of this country
Will not forget that in fair weather
and in foul, in stress and in storm.
the democratic party during the last
four years has placed the materia,
individual happiness and the natione
dignity of the United States above
every other consideration in the
world.
The VaciDations of Hughes.
Then they make an issue out of
presidential vacillation." Who said
the people who lived in glass houses
n
as In his telegram of acceptance and
his speech of acceptance the republi-
can stanadrd bearer himself put Pres
ident Wilson's official actions under
the telescope, he cannot object if
other people put few of his official
actions under a microscope. When a
man starts a fire in campaign he
must not expect the opposition to
fight the fire with feathers. Vacilla-
ton. thy other name is the name Of
the present republican candidate for
president! Between his statements
as to why supreme court justice
should not and could not become a
candidate for president and his
double quick time rush in accepting
the nomination, he veered like a tin
weather cock in a criss-cross wind
storm. In side stepping and pussy
footing all around this issue. he was
as bad as the man in the perplexi-
ties of the famous old railroad ditty
of ION Again, Off Again, Gone Again,
Finnegan."
President Wilson or any other man
has got to do some vacillating in or
der to keep up with the republican
candidate for president as the cham
pion vacillator of the political arena.
AS q candidate for president the
republican nominee declares in IA
vor Of a federal amendment to the
constitution in favor Of woman suf-
frage. And yet when he was gov
ernor Of the State of New York he
refused to receive delegations seeking
equal rights for women and the most
he could be induced to say on woman
suffrage was THAT anything that is
| right must prevail" For this con-
| duct Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch a
| prominent leader In the Woman suf-
| frage movement, condemned the re-
publican candidate for president in a
| speech In Cooper Union in New York
city on February 8, 1908. In this
speech Ms. Blatch struck out from
the shoulder and about the republi-
! can nominee for president, she said:
| ''Politicians have no principles, they
have only ambitions. The governor
| Of New York has ambitions. When a
| delegation from 900 women asked
| to see him about the inequalities of
| the sexes he refused to see them. Do
! you suppose If we had had votes he
would have refused? He never will
see us until we can vote his ambi-
| tons up or down" When running
| for governor, In a state where women
| do not vote, the republican nominee
| for president could not see" the
woman suffragists, as Mrs Blatch
puts it; but when running for presi-
dent where women "can vote his am
| billions up or down. in several states
! he declares for a federal amendment
| on the suffrage question; and yet he
dares talk about presidential vacil
| lation. Nor is this all. He condemns
| the eight-hour law as an interference
with the business of the railroads,
| and yet as governor of New York
! be fathered a public service law which
supervises the business of the rail-
roads with q hand Of iron and a grip
| of steel He talks of economy and
yet he was the most extravagant gov
ernor that New York has ever had.
He talks of lifting the burden of tax
alton from off the backs of the people,