Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-29
10 TEAR LID OFT
PRESIDENCY Fight
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN GIVES
PROMISE OF GETTING IN
TENsELY WARM.
SPECTACULAR BITTERNESS
TO MARK ITS CLOSE
Republicans Marshaiins Facts to Com
bat "StoIen Thunder Of Democratic
Cpponents-Demoerats Busy Polish
ing Up SIogans-Settlement of Mexi-
can Situation to Be Proclaimed.

weeks the presidential campaign now
getting into full swing promises to be
one of the most remarkable and spec
tacrlar contests in the political history
of the nation.
Both the republican and democratic
forces have been organizing their ar
mics of campaigners, filling their war
CHI SITS and storing up polemic ammuni-
ton for use in the desperate conflict
which it now appears certain will mark
the close of the canvass.
While Mr.. Hughes has been touring
the west the republican strateGists have
been perfecting their battle plans. which
call for great drive on the democratic
administration. beginning in the latter
part of September. A score Of investi-
cations of the Wilson regime by ex-
perts employed by the republican man
ayers are in progress, the purpose be-
ing to subject the secret workings of
this most secret of all administrations
to the glare of that 'pitiless publicity"
which the president promised before
his election.
The democrats are bracing them
selves for the coming onslaught. The
president himself will strike the key
note of his campaign and defend him.
self against the attacks of Mr.. Hughes
in the speech he will deliver when he
is formally notified of his nomination
on Sept. y All the departments of the
government have been transformed into
agencies for disseminating campaign
literature lauding the record OF the ad-
ministration and contradicting and eX-
planning the charges preferred by the
republicans.
Democrats Polish Up Slogans.
The democrats are polishing up va
riety of slogans with which the coun-
try already is beginning to resound.
Chief Of these is the cry Wilson has
kept us out of war" meaning thereby,
say the re publicans, the wars with Ger
many and Mexico, which the president
nearly got us into
The campaign plans of the democrats
include sort of grand finale in Octo-
Der in which the settlement OF the
Mexican question" will be proclaimed.
1t is intended that the commission now
taking up the differences between the
United States and Mexico shall report
on agreement well before elections
which will be hailed by the democrats
as ar assurance OF the restoration OF
order on the border. ~ ~
Then the Pershing expedition will be
withdrawn and, If no hitch occurs. the
national guard will be brought home.
The democrats believe these events Will
sweep thelpeopie off their feet with en-
thusiasm for the president, and they
will abide in the hope that the Mexican
ghost will stay laid" until after the
election, at least, Cynical politicians
are of the opinion that ii yCarranza pre-
fers Wilson to Hughes in the White
House he will not start any fresh trou-
BILE till after Nov. next
Other Democratic Movies.
Other democratic campaign movies
will show President Wilson belaboring
Great Britain and France for censoring
and confiscating American mail, dis
rupting American trade and blacklist
ing American merchants with German
affiliations. The fact that Mr.. Wilson
never has won any concessions of i'm
port to his yoluminous but mild epis-
tolary demands upon Great Britain and
France has produced so widespread
conviction of his Partially for the cause
of the allies that the democrats see the
necessity of giving the lions tail few
spectacular campaign twists.
In addition the Jeffersonians hope to
be able to present the people some time
in October with a formal settlement of
the Lusitania controversy with Ger
many, despite the fact that the repub-
licans say the democrats are welcome
to any glory they can get out of mon
ey indemnity of lis American lives sac
rifced to the policy of a president too
proud to fight
The president believes that he is well
fortified to meet the issue Of prepared
ness by the army and navy legislation.
altho the republicans will show that
Mr.. Wilson resisted every move in this
direction for year and a half after the
war started, and that they forced upon
him a measure of preparedness which
at first he sought to oppose.
The democrats will proclaim them
selves the authors Of the prosperity
which is upon US. while the republicans
will quote statistics to show that the
coming of the war brides was all that
saved the country from disaster after
the Underwood tariff law went into
effect.
The severest Indictment Of the extra
vagance of the administration yet heard
in the campaign was uttered on the
floor of the senate last week by Sena-
tor Penrose.
According to the formal statement
made by the ranking republican mem
Der of the appropriations committee of
the house at the close of the sixty third
congress, the total appropriations of the
first democratic congress were s2.231.-
900, or SIT 100000 greater than the to-
tai appropriations made by the last
preceding republican congress- he said.
Total expenditures for the fiscal year
ended June 20, 1915, exceeded receipts
by &64.0O0.o00. It is yet too early to say
what will be the exact amount of the
total appropriations Of the first session
Of the sixty fourth congress, but the es-
innate is now about 100000, 900,
which will be at the rate Of $3,400,00O,
900 for the entire congress. or more
than billion dollars more than the last
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