South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-07
DEMOCRATS HOLD
MANY MEETINGS
German and Polish Speakers
From Chicago Address En-
thuSiaStiC Crowds.

OF EbleS at " dfSdW. fdJdkOWSkl ana
Linden halls. Adolph Weiner. we'll
known Chicago attorney, spoke TO
a large German audience at the
German hall on Kemble av.
Weiner devoted his talk principal
ly TO the presidents domestic policy
and declared that the straight dem
ocratic ticket was good enough for
anyone's vote He declared that
comparison of the utterances and
acts of the democrats and republi-
can leaders would establish with UNI
questionable certainty the fact that
the democrats We're the real friends
Of the German-American elemeHt
of our population.
Final Details Arranged.
Final details for getting out every /
democratic vote in the county were /
completed at the score or more of ]
democratic precinct and committee /
meetings held Monday evening The /
meetings were enthusiastic and il 4
was the prediction with many Mon |
day night that the largest democra- |
tic vote ever polled in st. Joseph !
county would come out today. 1t I
was the general opinion among the |
democrats Monday night that the |
party would easily carry all the |
city precincts with the possible eN- |
ception of the seventh and fifth. IL I
was even believed that they had a /
good chance of carrying these two. !
Several bets were placed Monday !
that the democrats would carry |
every office and elect the straight |
ticket today. odds offered that a I
majority of the candidates on the /
democratic ticket. county ticket !
would be elected. found few takers. /
MacKibbm at Walkerton.
Before an audience that filed /
every seat i'm the theater at Walker /
ton. Stuart MacKibbin made an adj /
dress in which he urged the sup /
port of the democratic ticket on I
election day. Mr. MacKibbin's /
speech was centered about a state
ment that Mr.. Hughes made in his I
Milwaukee address. The Whole .
Democratic Accom- plshments must
be wiped off Of the Books. This"
said Mr.. MacKbbin. sis the way
things will go if Mr.. Hughes is elect
ed. If you men desire all of the good /
laws. such as the income tax and \
the federal reserve law to be re-
pealed. then vc,e for Hughes and
they surely will be"
Mr. PiotrowsH spent seven and a
half months in the war countries of I,
Europe. as a representative of a
Chicago paper. with a special object
i'm view TO study the conditions in
war-ravaged Poland In his dis
course the speaker pictured the hor-
rors of war witnessed there and APP
peaied TO mis- hearers to support (
Pres't Wilson who preserved peace
and happiness in America.
Credits All to Wilson.
1T is due entirely 70 the wise
craftsmanship and patience of
Pres't Wilson that America has not
been entangled in the European con-
nict and that Germany has finally
been forced to respect our rights
upon the sea. He kept us out of
war with honor as a gentleman and |
not as a braggart.
1T is not true that this country
is not at war because no nation
wanted To fight with us. as Pres't
Wilson's opponents assert. If the
president had severed diplomatic
relations with Germany after the
sinking of the Lusitania. as his crit
les wanted him to do. there unques-
tionably would have been war. Both
Germany and the people of this
country were at that time in such a
temper Germany would then have
been free TO sink our vessels as well
as those of the Allies. But by diplo-
macy and patient waiting the pres
ident brought Germany 10 our way
of thinking He also made England
respect our rights
Mr.. Pi0uowski also discussed at
some length the scare which the
republicans are trying 10 put into
the working people by predicting
hard times after the war.
Appeal 10 Fear.
we are told by republican or
ators,' said the speaker. that un-
less Mr.. Hughes is elected and a pro-
tective tariff enacted thousands and
thousands viii walk the streets UNI
employed. that American industry
viii be crippled under the influx Of
cheap European goods This is an
appeal TO fear and the republicans
have been using 1t every four years
during the last twenty years But
fortunately the prosperity of this
countray is such at this time that
the working people VIII not be fool
ed by this false and silly prophecy"
The speaker then pointed out that
after the war is ended the European
countries viii be not only devastated
and completely ruined but they will
have lost 20 millions of their best
men who have been either killed or
Anyone who attempts 10
convince intelligent Americans that
those devastated. bankrupt and man
less countries viii be able after the
war TO compete with America by
ho0ding this country with cheap
goods. presumes too much Those
countries viii not be able 10 get
upon their legs for 80 years 10 come
and viii depend upon America who'll \
Is for raw material and for manu-
featured goods a. well for ar least
20 years. Tt IS plain 10 see that ar
ter the war this country viii enjoy
prosperity fer many