The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1916-07-01


tional political campaign is on.
The conventions have been held,
and the delegates are back home.
The men and the platforms have
been selected. and nothing now
remains but the big noise and
some desultory voting in Septem-
Der and November. Then things
will move along again in some
manner until something else hap
pens. or until another campaign.
The socialists got in their work
early. and by referendum vote
elected their candidates, giving
Debs a rest this time. The demo-
Gratis at st. Louis renamed Wilson
and Marshall. The republicans
at Chicago decided on Hughes
and Fairbanks. And the pro-
gressives nominated Roosevelt
and are now holding the sack
since his refusal of the nOmina-
tion.
The republicans this year made
good their statements that pro-
gressivcs should come back to
them chastened and willing to
take back seat" In the repub-
lican convention in this state, the
standpat element controlled, and
at the Chicago convention, out OF
the forty-tWo votes cast for presl-
dent by this state S fourteen
delegates, only one vote was cast
for Roosevelt, the other forty-one
votes going to Root, Weeks,
Hughes and Fairbanks, showing
distinctly how this states repub
lican organization looked at the
progressive upstarts.
The naming of Hughes and the
writing of the republican plat
form were by the standpat ele-
ment, and Messrs. Taft, Root,
Penrose, Wall Street and Special
Interests went back home with
eulogies for Hughes as the man
they want. Roosevelt was beaten
by the men whom he beat four
years ago, and it is loudly limited
that the money to nominate
Hughes came as a revenge against
the man who beat "Brother Bill"
in 1912.
On the other hand the declina-
ton of Roosevelt to run on
third ticket, and his Endorsement
Of Hughes as man but not OF the
republican party or its principles,
are said to be studied plan to
beat the standpat leaders at their
own game in consequence OF their
refusal to permit his nomination
by the republicans. Inability to
elect Hughes will definitely show
that without Roosevelt no repub-
lican ticket can be elected. lie
showed that four years ago. lie
will show it again. And in 1920
he will be the logical candidate
for president.
The 1916 campaign by the dem
ocrats is based on the accomplish
ments of the administration. The
Hughes campaign is based on the
desire of certain manufacturing
interests to regain their high
tariffs for personal profits, and on
the desire of other interests to see
this country adopt a military at
titude. Wilson has kept the
country from the European war,
and in this he is denounced by
the Hughes people, who denounce
him for not having taken military
issue with Germany in the invas-
ion of Belgium and the sinking
Of our ships.
"Hughes and War" will be met
by Wilson, Prosperity and
Peace" and throughout the long
hot days Of the summer, and the
hazy, delightful days Of autumn,
the battle will rage between rabid
partisaps, on platform and stump,
in newspapers and pamphlets, un-
til on election day the farmer and
the laborer and the artisan and
the average citizen will go to the
polls and vote the way he has de
cided How he will vote, the
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