The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-08-25
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decade ago.
He treats his own judgment above
the dicta Of leaders or the pledges of
platforms.
He looks at the candidate first and
his associates afterwards.
If the one seems good and the other
seems bad, he knows that little of ben
eft can come TO himself by an asso-
citation of the two.
Spells of rhetoric, infiamed oratory
and fractional appeals do not move
him to vote against his own studied
sense Of the situation and its envel-
oping conditions.
He must be shown rather than di-
rected. Every great political cam
paign has become campaign of edu-
cation in which the mind and not the
passions must be addressed.
Mr.. Hughes has not for many years
been an active figure in politics.
Peculiar conditions made him the
nominee of his party.
What his position on the great is
sues of the day shall be, only time can
reveal. What he at present hopes to
accomplish if elected is locked up in
his own breast.
But what those about him, the men
who made him the nominee, propose
to do is easily within popular conjec-
ture.
When we see the old guard of the
Republican party rallying to him, we
know that its purpose is to secure in
exchange for privilege the same old
masters who so long maintained it in
power for their advantage.
A close observer of the conditions
in Ohio is even more emphatic in the
declaration that Ohio will be a pos
tive asset to the Woodrow Wilson
election this year. Some of the most
conservative business men of Cleve-
land, Toledo and other important cit
les are making the open declaration
that Ohio will be Democratic this
year.
The appointment of the Secretary of
War and the recent appointment of
the Supreme Court Justice, both of
whome are held in high esteem by the
people of Ohio, will give an added in
centive for the Ohioans to Join the
ranks of the new Democracy of
Woodrow Wilson.
The activities of the Democracy in
Ohio are very manifest at the pres
ent time. Perhaps one of the most
unique inscriptions that has been put
forth in the present campaign is that
emanating from Ohio. The cartoon
presents cake of ice, and above it is
Just ice Hughes" with a splendid
assembleism about it.
There is an interest and enthusiasm
that Democracy has rarely seen.
While there may be some question
about Ohio electing its Democratic
Senator this year, the personality Of
the President and the prosperity OF
Ohio, all point very strongly toward
Woodrow Wilson's success in Ohio.
The Golden State, too, has all the
earmarks of being added to the Dem
ocratic ranks. On account of the
great disaffection caused by the Pro
gressive convention, California is
sorely nettied to degree that it has
never been in recent years. Most of
the leading Progressives, including ex-
Governor Hiram Johnson, and great
number of other big guns have start
ed booming for Wilson and anyone
acquainted with them can readily un.
derstand that their boom, once started.
will not be hushed under any condi-
ton. Joe Scott of Los Angeles is jub-
liant over the outlook for Wilson.
Through northern California, in Keene
and Kern counties and into Frisco it.
self there is q pervading spirit that
Wilson will win in California.
Massachusetts,, the old Bay State,
the home of Cabot Lodge and former
Senator Murray Crane, is also teeming
over with disaffection towards the
standpatters.
Matthew Hale, one of the most con-
spicuous of the Progressives, has op-
emily come forth againts any Progress
sive-Hughes combination. The feeling
there in Boston. Lowell, Lynn, Fall
river, Springfield and Holyoke, where
many Progressives abide, is very
strong in its resentment against the
apparent bargain and sale of the Pro-
gressives at the Chicago convention.
Many of these men sincerely be-
lieve that the Progressive party was
destined to be an instrument to com
pei both of the other parties to put
forward their best idcalisms and as
pirations. Many of those men be-
lieved in Theodore Roosevelt as THEN
Moses to lead them out of the wilder
ness. Their disappointme is keen.
An announcement made by William
R. Pattangall Democratic campaign
manager in Maine, respecting the
probable division Of the Progressive
vote in that State during the coming
election, abounds in sound reasoning
which will carry satisfaction to all
Democrats,
1t is the first responsible declaration
by an active political leader in the hot
campaign which has been started in
that hitherto pivotal State. Mr.. Pat
angall's statement will carry little
comfort to the Republicans at home
or abroad. They had fondly hoped to
fairly snatch Maine from the Demo-
Gratis while they were not looking and
run away with it.
Mr. Pattangalls estimate is that
Of the men who voted for