davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
F ELECTION WERE ovER7
While Democrats Are Admittedly the
Champion Question Fiends, II Is
Believed This Quiz Is as Un-
ansWerabe as Their Most
ChildIike Effort.

If election day were past would
President Wilson make so little of the
principle of arbitration in industrial
disputes? Would he be so sure that
| ii is more important TO preserve peace,
when a great strike is threatened, than
| it is to make judicial methods rather
| than force the means of settling diff
ferences between capital and labor?
If election day had come and gone
would Mr. Wilson keep the national
| guardsmen of the country in camp on
the ground that they may be needed
TO protect the United States against
Mexico? Would there be months of
inaction and indecision in which no
use is made of large body Of citizen
soldiers? Would they not be allowed
to go home or else be set in motion to
make Mexico as safe neighbor as the
Administration seems to think that it
is already?
If election day were past would the
President drive through Congress
bill like the shipping bill which is in
tended to embark the federal govern
ment upon new venture in a hazard
Gus field and use s5OO0O.OO0 Of the
peoples money to buy tonnage held
above its normal value or else so
owned that it cannot be used without
peril of international complications?
Is sound public policy behind such
a measure or only campaign politics?
If election day were not TO be con-
sidered would Woodrow Wilson use so
many high and mighty words in inter-
national notes and do so little to make
them mean anything practical? Would
his deeds lag so far behind his
phrases ?-Cleveland Leader.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
VILLA AIDED BY WILSON'S
FAVOR AND BACKING.

In March last, Villa made
raid into American territory. He
was bandit leader whose
career of successful infamy had
been greatly aided by Mr.. Will
sons favor and backing. He
was at the head of Mexican sol
diers, whose arms and munitions
had been supplied to them in
consequence of Mr.. Wilson's re-
versing Mr.. Taft's policy and
lifting the embargo against arms
and munitions into Mexico. They
attacked Columbus, New Mexico,
and killed a number of civilians
and a number of United States
troops. On the next day the
president issued an announce
ment that adequate forces would
be sent in pursuit of Villa with
the single object of capturing
him." On April 8th. the an
nouncement was made from the
White House that the troops
would remain in Mexico until
Villa was captured. 1t was
furthermore announced in the
press dispatches from Washing
ton that he was to be taken
dead or alive" Fine words
Only-they meant nothing. He
is not dead. He has not been
taken alive.-From speech Of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, deliv-
cred at Lewiston, Maine, in be-
half of Charles Z. Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
WILSON KISSED THE HAND
RED WITH AMERICAN
BLOOD.

President Wilson explicitly
shows that the Carranzistas. not
once but repeatedly, made at
tacks on American towns, and
killed American citizens, and
mutilated them in September
1915. Yet on October 10Th, 1915,
less than q month later, this
same President Wilson, through
his same Secretary of State,
formally announced to Carran-
za's agent that it was his pleas
ure" to take the opportunity "of
extending recognition to the de
facto government of Mexico, of
which General Venustiano Car
rama is the chief executive"
President Wilson thus recog
nized the government which, his
own Secretary of State declares,
had been less than a month pre-
viously engaged in repeated
assaults upon Americans, and in
the invasion of American soil,
the government at whose head
was General Carranza, who, less
than two months previously, on
August End, 1915, had contempt
uously refused to pay any heed +
to any representations of Presi-
dent Wilson on behalf of media
ton, saying that under r no
consideration would l permit. in
reference in the internal affairs
of Mexico" President Wilson
did not merely kiss the hand
that slapped him in the face. He
kissed that hand when it was \
red with the blood of American
men, women and children, who
had been murdered and mutilat-
ed with, as President Wilson,
through his Secretary of State,
says, RUTHLESS brutality. From
the speech of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, delivered at Lewis
ton, Maine, in behalf of Charles
e. Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
WHY HUGHES is NEEDED IN
THIS TREMENDOUS CRISIS.

Against Mr.. Wilson's combina-
ton Of grace in elocutlon with
futility in action; against his
record of words unbacked by
deeds or betrayed by deeds, we
set Mr.. Hughes rugged and I'M
compromising straightforward-
ness of character and action In
every office he has held. We put
the man who thinks and speaks
directly, and whose words have
always been made good, against
the man whose adroit and facile
elocutiOn Is used to conceal his
plans or his want of plans. The
next four years may well be
years of tremendous national
strain. Which Of the two men
do you, the American people,
wish at the helm during those
four years; the man who has
been actually tried and found
wanting, or the man whose
whole career In public Office is
a guarantee OF his power and
good faith? But one answer Is
possible; and 1t must be given by
the American people throughout
the United States. From speech
Of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, de-
livered at Lewiston, Maine, In
behalf of Charles E. Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

IN. W SUN STROKES.

Roger Sullivan steps aside.-News-
paper headline.
Students of Democratic politics
know what thin line divides step
ping aside and sidestepping.
The Democrats seem to realize, to
their dismay, that if they can't per-
suade Mr. Hughes to change from
plaintiff to defendant the case Is lost.
The President twill not take the
stump" but will accept invitations
to speak at different places" Chair
man Vance Mccormick is as Machia-
vellian as a muskmelon.
1t is not what Wilson has kept us
out of but what he's got us into that
counts at present.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
EMPTY PHRASES INSTEAD
OF CONCRETE ACTION.

Not once has President Wilson
squareIy placed before the Am
erican people the question which
Abraham Lincoln put before the
American people in 1860; what
is our duty7 Not once has he
appealed to moral ideaIism, to
the stern enthusiasm of strong
men for the right. On the con-
trary, he has employed every
Evolutionary device to lulI to
sleep our sense of duty, to make
us content with words instead
of deeds, to make our moral
ideaIism and enthusiasm evap-
crate in empty phrases Instead
of being reduced to concrete
action.-From the speech of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, delivered at
Lewiston, Maine, in behalf OF
Charles E. Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
Telling Tariff Points

Let these telling points on tariff
and protection in the speech by
Charles Evans Hughes, the Republic
can candidate for President, delivered
in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, be fixed
permanently in your mind and
memory during the remainder of the
campaign:
We are DESTROYS of having strong
and sure the foundations of our ma
tional greatness in this pursuit OF
competition among the nations which
is sure to follow the cessation of
the present struggle.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
WILSON'S IGNoBLE, UNsUc-
CESSFUL LITTLE WARS.


President Wilson tok Vera
Cruz in 1914, as we were official
Iy informed at the time, to get
salute for the flag, and to
prevent the shipment of arms
into Mexico Ese did not get his
sAiute. He did not prevent the
shipment OF arms. But several
hundred men were killed or
wounded; and then: he brought
the army home without achiev-
ing either object. President
Wilson sent an army into Mexico
in 1916, as we were Informed
at the time, to get Villa dead
or alive" They did not get him
dead. They did not get him
alive. Again several hundred
men were killed ard wounded.
Again President Wilson is bring
Ing the army home without
achieving his object. OF course
it is a mere play upon words
to say that these were not
wars" They were wars, and
nothing else; IonobIe, pointIess,
unsuccessful little wars; but
wars. They cost millions Of del
lars and hundreds Of lives,
squandered to no purpose; they
accomplished nothing; but they
were wars.-From the speech Of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, deIiv-
cred at Lewiston, Maine, In be-
half Of Charles e. Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
THE NEUTRALITY
OF PONTIUS PLATE.

But as soon as the need for
deeds arose, Mr. Wilson forgot
all about "the principle he held
dear" He promptly announced
that we should be neutral in
fact as well as in name, in thought
as well as in action" between
the small, weak, unoffending ma
ton and the large, strong nation
which was robbing it of its SOW
ereignty and independence. Such
neutrality has been compared to-
the neutrality of Pontius PLATE.
This is unjust to Pontius PLATE,
who at least gently urged mod
GRAFTON on the wrongdoer.-
From the speech of Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, delivered at
Lewiston, Maine, In behalf of
Charles E. Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
A HEARTLEss
ADMINISTRATION

This Administration has dis
played no more feeling Of re-
sponsibiIity for the American
women who have been raped,
and for the American men, wo-
men and children who have been
killed In Mexico, than 4 farmer
shows for the rats killed by his
dogs when the hay 10 taken from
. barn. And now the American
people are asked to sanction
this policy In the name Of peace
Righteousness and humanity
From the speech Of Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, delivered At
Lewiston, Maine, In behalf Of
Charles e. Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

The President gets up early during
the hot spell, and there are some who
think he may have to continue the
practice until November if that man
Hughes continues to be so undigni-
fied.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

Mr.. Wilson during the past few days
mas become such lifelong opponent
Of the pork barrel that he is almost
sorry now he didn't veto some of those
bills.
Secretary McAdoo warns Treasury
employees against too much political
activity, and if they don't disobey the
order they are likely to be bounced.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

OF the 3S electors who cest Penn
syIvania's vote for Roosevelt in 1912,
IS are living and 81 Of them have
pledged, unitedly. their support to Mr..
Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
SACRIFICED coUNTRY's
HONOR AND INTEREST

Mr.. Wilson's defenders say he
has kept us out Of war" A.
matter Of fact his policy In
Mexico has combined all the
evils Of feeble peace with all the
evils Of feeble war. He has Sc
cured mono Of the benefits Of
war; but he has not avoided
war. He has sacrificed the hon.
or and the Interests Of the coun-
try; but he has not received the
thirty pieces Of siIver.-From
the speech Of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, delivered at Lewiston,
Maine, In behalf Of Charles E.
Hughes.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

The President must be credited With
having put slick one over 4 ~ ~
get the votes and make the people ~:
the freight.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

If you are going to have the basis
for prosperity in this country; If you
are going to protect the American
wage scale; If you are going to have
American enterprise able to meet the
competition which will follow the end
ing of this war, you must have an
honestly devised, wisely framed tariff
law to protect America industry.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
REPUBLICAN THRIFT IS
sQuANDERED BY WILSON
Built Panama Canal Out Of Cur
rent Revenues, Periodically
boarding Bonds in Treasury
Which Democrats Fitch
to Hide a Deficit.
CARNIVAL OF DEBAUCHERY
IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE

Senator Penrose Believes the Looted
Condition Of the Treasury Will
Necessitate the Withholding Of
Contracts for BattIeships and De-
lay the Whole Scheme of Prepared
ness - Nations Money Frittered
Away to Finance Hare-Brained and
Ill Advised Projects.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

The Democrats continue to ignore
Mr.. Hughes speeches to the extent
that all they do is to sputter and gasp.
Let 1t be conceded there are really
strong grounds for the opinion that
President Wilson may carry Texas
next November. If these indications
are taken at their full worth, some
enthusiasts will soon be going out to
bet that the tide will sweep on until
Mississippi and Alabama are also en-
rolled in the Democratic column.
Many big Democrats willing and
ready to speak for Wilson are care
full that their money shall not say any
thing on his side.
President Wilson says he is utter
Perhaps that explains good many
things nobody has heretofore been
able to understand.
Help me, Cassius, or l sink !" For
"Cassius" read Congress-"
The notion seems to be that the
Democratic national chairman is claim
ing more than he will get, but not any
more than he will need.
AS further evidence that he Is warm
hearted and intensely human. Mr..
Hughes likes apple pie.
No man is going to be elected-or
re-elected-to high Office by votes
gained from States rights declara-
lions this late In the game. The
States rights question was settled
some fifty years ago to the evident
satisfaction of considerable major
ity.-Kansas City Star.
adequate preparedness is not mill
tarism. 1t Is the essential assurance
Of security. 1t Is a necessary safe
guard of peace" Candidate Hughes
has left. nothing to be said on this
subject. He has snuffed out counter
argument at the very outset.
"Are we Americans nation of |
bunglers?" asks the New York Sun.
1t would be very harsh to answer
this in the affirmatlve-and, anyway, |
we elect a Democratic president only
every once in while.
Charles E. Hughes cannot get so far
away from Washington that the men
in charge of the chariot of government
there do not feel the jolting of his
criticisms. In fact, the Democratic
leaders at the capital city show symp-
toms of sea-sickness from the way in
which the ex-justice of the Supreme
court has shaken them up. Mr.
Hughes is pursuing the only proper
method which is first to take the
deadwood out of the way so that the
path to righteous and propitious gov
eminent may be made clear
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
OH, you JosEPHus!

This is free advertisement for
Life" issue Of September IA:
If you want to find a reflection of
your own inward opinion of the pres
ent amiable. inconsequential and be-
muddling Secretary of the Navy, here
it's; for Life" dedicates an entire is
sue to our own officious, omniscient,
theological, oleaginous. ollgarchical
Sir Joe-sea-fuss
Incompetcn-Sea.
lnefficien- Sea.
Idiosyncra-Sea.
Inadequa-Sea.
Delinquen-Sea.
impermanen-Sea.
Hypocri-Sea.
Also. with mind to the juice that
has made our State and Navy Depart
ments famous, Life" proposes this
toast:
Grape Nuts Bryan and Daniels r
Hic Jaceti
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

| presume that the Republican party
as the national party, according to
the constitution of the United States.
within the national sphere, shall pro-
coed wherever it is practicable, to
build up and foster and encourage
American enterprise, and open the
doors wide for honest American
achievement.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

Then came the Underwood tariff
bill itself. What was the result? En-
terprise halted and there was con-
traction of trade throughout the land,
and America, instead of going ahead,
stopped. That is what happened.
Three hundred thousand were unem-
ployed in the City of New York.
There was not a city in this land
where the jobless man anxious and
able to work did not walk the street.
They were fed by our charitable or
ganizations, which were taxed to the
utmost limit to provide for those for
whom American enterprise could no
longer make provision. 1t was sad
spectacle. Americans have not for
gotten it. 1t is not forgotten here
or anywhere. 1t cannot be forgotten.
1t is too recent.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

No, the Democratic party will not
be saved by the European war. If
you would know what our condition
will, be when the war ends, think Of
what our condition was before that
war began, If you think these nations
are so impoverished that they cannot
again turn to work. Those millions
of men now fighting are better able
to work than ever before in their
lives. Their factories are
there; their plants are there; they
know themselves better than ever be-
fore. They are better disciplined,
more alert, keener, stronger, better
physically than ever before, in the
main, and they are ready to turn
great national energies into the pur-
suits of peace to pay their war bills,
to produce up to the limit, to send
their goods throughout the world.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

propose that we shall study this
out, applying q principle that we be-
lleve in, and secure intelligently and
honestly adequate protection to Am
erican industries in every part of this
land
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

"Are we Americans a nation Of
bunglers?" asks the New York Sun.
1t would be very harsh to answer
this in the affirmative-and, anyway,
we elect Democratic president only
every once in a while.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

adequate preparedness is not mill
tarism. 1t is the essential assurance
Of security. 1t Is a necessary safe
guard of peace" Candidate Hughes
has left nothing to be said on this
subject. He has snuffed out counter
argument at the very outset.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

Many big Democrats willing and
ready to speak for Wilson are care
full that their money shall not say any
thing on his side.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

AS further evidence that he Is warm
hearted and intensely human. Mr..
Hughes likes apple pie.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
Editorial Comments.

The Democrats continue to ignore
Mr.. Hughes speeches to the extent
that all they do is to sputter and gasp.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

President Wilson says he is utter
ly Indifferent as to his reelection.
Perhaps that explains good many
things nobody has heretofore been
able to understand.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

The notion seems to be that the
Democratic national chairman is claim
ing more than he will get, but not any
more than he will need.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-09
FARMS ron sAIn.

- sA1s--srnxns stsrz. tsrasa ~ -.
paesnentes 70 tho right man that
eomss * the right time. will sell Vt
! bArgains farm containing 50 acres
az good land 40 acres Of place In
timber and wood About $4,000 xeef
III saw timber, about 1000 cords of
wood. 40 acres under high state of
cultivation. 1 u acres strawberries
Hetween two and three hundred
grape vines. all In good bearing.
Young orchard. near 100 trees att
fNrenk varieties. New T-room HOUSE,
lii gn0d condition. Concrete callax
md granAry; two chicken houses:
smoke house stable for 4 horses
shows for eoxs; wagon sheds, etc.
NpAn hne yuNuE mtliea. coming s
years old. ] driving horse. 10. city
ana family broke. cows corn. fot I
4 der and hnxs located Is miles of high
snho0I. miles from Richmond, about
inlle trum two ehnrehcy, On II. n,
I ~. mile frosn one Uf rho best
& pikes III the EfAte Of VlrxtnfA HOUSE
1 eitnAfea MI ! bAaHfas,sI grove Prizes
now &f.e0es hAlf cMah hAIance IN
yearly pkyussntA- Address n. "A.
FRTCK, ReAte \. Richnand.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-09
FARM FOR SALE.

Doe-Acro Raver Farag Large F'ront On
& nAyt4Able water. one mile from
steamboat wharf and small town:
100 acres cultivated; laid on In
5 nice large, level fields; land highly
improved: 100 acres In original TIM
Der. worth $4,000 standing. 11-room,
! brick c04cntHf residences on river
shore: beAutifui lawn and grove;
good oukhuifdings and fences: locust
posts: large spring. enclosed In barn
yard FOR stock. This Is an ideal
place FOR esnerai farming or stock
raising. Price $4,000 on reasonable
terms This II 4 bargain and well
worth investigating w. SCOTT
GARRETT. sol Mutual Building.
Randolph <194.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-09

- ~ @14U1<Y Z, - ~ A. ~
i I'll 60 ~ -. - 0ilrs ssts<e ~
1i N 269ot 1tvide1 tnte - ~ acre
49, Xz11 1auA ad5oine the hocno
1912 ~ NJ NE home Of =. n CHI,
k71Sa 80 fnIIee from PetsrsburKs a.
cHSS3Sr1Si4 ~ the 16atoaca Road. %
.vhIek eSes1 fAfm fronts running baeik
aAoS9 ~ G1sAfe4 and II "a hiSh
1lnkS Sf S0l{Ivntlen. Tho balance q
3Sil tarx SHo1 anA watsred w old fowu
,1e5oS o. ~ khifty-acrs tract ID sftu-
80 sNe II 1Saes and ether eutbuild-
T 11i, rsssSsai properly eel1.
4 &nE m go - In sixty days; bal
ansS / il x61 Z years with interspt-
oT1nS not6& " al cash.
81 NJ HAERIcoN. Auctionssr,
N Petersburg
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-09
] Social
! HireIine
Story d al English Gentle-
nan Down on His Luck.

~ WILLIAM CHANDLER

x - 49,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
b i yonne man whose clothes were Of
M texture. of an English cut and ~
ginning % show signs Of long wear
st9pped into m ofl1ce On m upper noor
| ~ i skyscraper on Firth avenue. New
York, and approached sleek. gentle
mAn-like man sitting 1t rosewood
1esk.
.sBeg pardon, III" said the man who
entered, with smooth Engiish accent.
* have understood that ron desire
persons Tor social purposes"
Hint II nomefimes haYA 0crnsion
= recommend i young man to all -
To- % ron dancer.
II do"
-Tnere y also need for dinner sub
stitntes."
Ton are not familiar with New York
society methods7r
II have recently como from Eiond0n,
where have had the entree to the
smart set.,
'svery good We have here ! num-
her Of families who have recently be-
come enorlnou9ly rich and who are DE-
sirous 1T getting Into society. We call
them sociai climbers. They mnst be-
GIN By inviting the few persons in the
swim they can get to their functions.
Hl1Ing mp with those VINO ara not In the
swim. gradually Increasing The number
at the former and diminishing the lat
ter. It IL essential that the nllers
should be familiar with tho customs or
swelldom. perceive from your man
nsr that you will make an excellent
hIler."
what are your terms r
I'm the beginning can pay ron IS
for dancing parry and $25 for din
ner."
aWhy Is the greater work paid the
lesser price r
Because the dancer uses his heels
and need NOT betray himself by saying
anything The diner must talk
II see ons mist have intellect 70
b. dinner companion"
mot at III. He must Be able to talk
well about nothing Can you do that?'
Il can only assure you that / have
been In society all my life. Only be
ing out Of funds Induces me to ofIer
my services for what ron call = filler. Y
VERY good Mrs. Barnaby Ritz gives
Z dinner tonight and needs several
young men. The number hass4 been
made mp with one exceTtioags Have
you evening dress r II, ~. ~
my evening dress u iii l have It
h In fair condition
Il presume ron win need a little
something for carriage and other tr1.
nes." handing. tho man five five-dollar
bills.
"But, my dear sir. you, don't know
me. What IL 70 prevent my pocketing
this money and not seeing ron again. r
Excuse mS Tor contradicting ycu.
do know you. What you say ID by
no means complimentary to my dis
comment know 1 gentleman when
I see him and would know him II he
were In the garb Of Il huckster Z
THANK ron vsry much"
The agent. Mr. Pnlsifer Short. tosk
the mans name and address. the name
given being Ralph Piummer
Assumed. aaid Mr.. short dEyty
"As ron like. WINS the response,
When Mr.. Piummer appeared ut
Mrs. Ritx's-he was directed u b ON
hand In time to be looked oversize
brought 4 iorgnette to bear on him and
after asking him few Questions said: