Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-10-26
POLITICAL JOTTINCS

h FUklllSA JUIIlN0Os
At that. however. from b. ginning
TO end this has been more Of . you
kick ms and I'll kiss you" administra-
ton.
Vance Mccormick says the Progres-
sives are stampeding to Wilson. and
its . ten to one bet he wishes he
could believe 1t.
The Democrats. are 6nding out that
pork comes home To- ,root OIL their
standing.
The men and women who prefer .
man who does things TO- . man who
writes notes about them will vote
for Hughes. Government by CORE
spondence takes too long to get any.
where, hut ~gavsrnneat by deeds ID.
always % the job.
Those who are concerned to know
what Mr. Hughes. wsuld have done
had he been In Mr.. Wilson'S place
may rest assured he iwsuld not hans
done a. Mr.. Wilson has. And that
r. answer enough.
Nj. Hughes 10 not only going direct
to the public, but the public Is going
direct to bin. "A genuine American
f~fty-6ftyl
President Wilson's alarm clock II
ringing at 8 O'Clock these mornings.
He can reach out of bed and turn 1t
OF the morning Of March s.
Postmaster General Burleson il toe
foxy a politician to adopt for his de-
partment the McAdoo rule forbiqding
Treasury department employees parti-
cipating In politics. Mr.. Burleson re-
Allies. that postmasters are entitled
to some exercise for the money.
There are no strings or mental res.
ervati0ns to the public pledges Of id.
ministratave reform given by Charles
r. Hughes. His record as governor
of New York guarantees the fulfll.
nent Of every promise.
Democrats are now, convinced that
Charles Evans Hughes IL q warm pro-
position.
1t Is gratifying, indeed. to find that
Mr.. Wilson still stands on the suffrage
question where he stood ut the begin.
ming ) Of his administration. He has
changed IN about everything else
Philadephta ,EvenIns3 Ledger.
II. strikes one that instead of wildly
hustliny for the State Of Maine. Vance
Mccormick might. do better work BY
taking. his wrecklny crew to the West
to repair the Democratic bridges that
are being dynamited by Justice
Hughes.
According to the weeks latest work
of fiction, the Democratic Campaign
Book. the ~wage-earners Of the country
received during the Wilson Admins.
tration $1,000. 100000 more than they
received under Taft. And all It cost
them to keep something in the dinner
pail was $4,000. 100000 more.
At the annual meeting Of postmas-
tiers In Washington recently, the first
assistant postmaster-general laudsd
the postal savings system. That must
have been a bitter pill for Postmaster
General BurlesOn. who sat on the same
platform with his assistant. When the
postal savings bill was passed, Mr..
BurlesOA. then a Congressman from
Texas, voted against 1t. Every vote
asst against 1t was Isl by a Demo-
crat. Not one Democratic Congress-
man voted for n. Yet President vii.
on says the Republican party has not
had a new idea in thirty years. Whose
idea was II?
1t was the instinct Of a lawyer for
Hughes to support his damning charE-
es against WsisOn, by calling Wilson'S
own secretary Of state as a witness
to prove them.
Mr.. Hughes says there should b.
arm dealing In Mexican affairs. May.
be SO; but We have had enough Of
the irm Of Wilson, C~arranza 1 Co.
The impression is growing at the
White House that Mr.. Hughes 10 DELHI
erstely' unfriendly. Look out for notes.
II those Democratic notifiers put OF
their notifying much lsnEer they may
ind Mr.. Wilson In no mood to accept.
POINTS FROM
HUGHES. sPEEchEs Z
Reckless extravagance Of the d
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