The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30

between a ten dollar bill and a grat- uitous insult?
 Wait a minute. We aren't quite through yet. 'This is'' such .an entirely new method of procedure" and fthe undersigned are so firmly in sympathy with the plan" that "you con readily see that it is important that certain goal abe surely reached by election day. that they are Yours truly" Right here the molasses gets thick That letter is not signed, T. F. G1uub, Assistant to the Assistants Assistant Secretary. Not on your. life! That touch is signed by eight men-with their own genuine rubber stamp John Henrys.
 Now a really busy man who is out for and in really Big Business, gets out he didn't have to sign checks he would of the habit of pushing pen, and if forget how to write. You have to guess at some of these names, but there are two of them that are as plain as the nose on your face: Robert Ba- con. Joseph H. Choate! And when a school teacher receives an auto graphed letter with these two names he gets so excited he doesn't care much whether something that looks like Nemyl Naiginson is Henry L. Higginson, the banker, or not. He just knows that he has got in his hands a letter signed by Robert Bacon and Joseph H. Choate, and unless he has been pretty good student of psy-, chology and learned "control," he may loosen up to the extent of s1O just to be in the same class with Robert Bacon and Joseph H. Choate.
 and when he goes home at night and
 He has something to talk about now remarks casually to his wife that he sent his check that morning of $10 to MT. Bliss, and Friend Wife says: Why, Johnr'-he has his answer ready: Why, Mary, Robert Bacon and Joseph H. Choate themselves ask ed me to send that $10p'
 And Mary blows! Mary can vote now; and Mary is wise You can't fool her with a personal appeal from Robert Bacon and Joseph H. Choate. She has their measure! She knows. that Robert Bacon is an old member of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co.,, and was anIavowed anti-German candidate for nomination to the United States from New York and got licked, and that he was Roosevelt's Ambassador to France, and that Robert Bacon just naturally and naively and inher- Sltly and by birth, by training, and by bank roll is, against the kind of President that MT. Wilson is.
 Mary also knows that Bacon is Director" for over one billion of dol lars; that Choats directs" close to one billion one hundred million,
 And that is not all that Mary knows Mary knows that Joseph H. Choate, next to Elihu Root, is the king-pin corporation lawyer, and that Hughes was once Choate's corporation law partner. But what Mary cannot un- derstand, being fairly new to poli- tics, is that this same Joseph H. Choate who only last April, did his darndest to prevent the New York Republican Convention from endors- ing Hughes as its candidate because it wasn't right that Hughes should drag the ermine of the Supreme Court in the dust" and because nobody knows what Hughes views are on this or any other important natter should now be party to plan to get her husband in for a ten dollar bill when she needs a new hat. As for John, he can vote for Hughes if he wants to because his father was a Republican but as for herself, she's going to vote for Wilson because Wilson gave us what we wanted and kept us out of war!
 Will it really make votes for MT Hughes, this MOllycoddle "SlIstaining Membership" plan? There is no doubt about one thing: they don't really need the little old ten dollars! A Committee with all-the-money-i in the-world can get along without that. It wants votes. Will it get them by playing up school teachers as Molly codd1es?