The border vidette., 1916-10-21

program of the party, and he showed how loans made to farm CTS, nominally at 6 per cent, would be reduced to 3M per cent.
 Please read our record" he declared was the motto of the Democrats, quickly adding that Please forget our record" was the motto of the Republicans.
 He paid his respects to Col. Roosevelt in humorous vein for making up with i.the same people that four years ago had robbed him of the nomination. Good roads, he stated, was another matter in which the De- mocratS had far surpassed the Re- publicans. A bill appropriatinG S85, ,OOO,O 900 for good roads had become a law under the Wilson administration while nothing had ever been done by the Republi- cans except to build a boule- yard every four years to ride into power"
 Senator Ashurst went into @ detailed defense of the federal child labor law recently passed, which had been attacked in Phoenix recently by James Gar field, exsecretary of interior, as
 ineffective. A telegram was read by the senator from Sena- tor Kenyon of Iowa, a Republi- can, testifying that the senate bill was strong and easily en- forced, and that the amendments to the law had. been drawn by Senator Cummins, of Iowa, also a Republican. The reading of this telegram drew loud cheers from the big audience.
 Tie ship bill was the next item of Democratic result taken up and Senator Ashurst showed how American shipping had been driven from the seas under Re- publican control until only per cent of American commerce was carried in American ships under Taft. He predicted that the De- mocratic policy of ship building would restore American control. After mentioning the work mans compensation bill which the Democratic congress had )dSSSO OSHdOOI ASIuTSU O0ClhI- ed that he would not discuss the tariff question except to say that President Wilson was the first president to take the tariff out of politics.
 The suffrage question was next taken up. President Wilson is the only president who ever vot- ed for woman's suffrage" he as- serted amid great cheering and then he compared the attitude of Hughes who did not vote in New York when a suffrage amend ment was before the people.
 Referring to the income tax, he compared the attitude of Will son, who favored it in New Jer- sey, with that of Hughes in New York, who opposed it.
 He touched on the question of preparedness, declaring that Grover Cleveland had built the navy that won the Spanish Am erican war. He declared that the Democratic party had in- creased the army from 32, 900 men to 17O, ,OOO men, and the pay to $15 per month adding voea- tional training.
 He praised Wilson's attitude in keeping the country out of war, and raised great laugh by asking:
 ''If there is anybody who thinks that we ought to go to war, let him come forward and give me his name and I will take him to the nearest recruiting station"
 Senator Ashurst also touched on the government powder plant and armor plate manufactory, showing how in the battleship "Arizona" $1, 100000 had been saved on armor plate.
 Senator AshurSt closed with an eloquent eulogy of Wilson's peace policy, declaring that he would go to war if the honor Of the country demanded it. Following the speaking an in- formal reception was held at the, Montezuma hotel lobby, where hundreds of people met Senator and Mrs. AshurSt and the De- mocratic state candidates. .. From here the Ashurst party motored to Patagonia, yesterday, thence to the county fair at So- noita, where several hours were spent before continuing on to