The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-10-09
HARVEY FOR HUGHES

The detection George Harvey the North American Re
view very grave cause very serious blow to the hopes
Wilson the first propose him for President
years He for the most industrious
supporters 1t only when there fear that such
support might ALLEVIATE those who stood with Mr.
Bryan Wilson suggested that he ofped Those the
neighbor since converted sort of ukewarn
kind of abby handshake deghtne
himself and amusing his hearers with his trueent assaults on the
: from New jersey
What Col Harvey say characteristic IIarveyian
style He the performance well as
promise rarely finds them Whether he Pres
the Kaiser good Lord kept out of war he eem
of particular since the crisis existed has lone
passed away reached that degree of partisan
insanity that would prompt them either Mr. Wilson Mr.
Hughes of melting inviting with Power European Asa
American.
The questions be polls November have
parrot cry They the contrary practical
They rather than with the the present
correctly past present be considered only insofar
they may enable judge of the future What those
tionsY We quote:
Which great parties a this particular june
progress Nation the better equipped and
likely to render the highest public servceY
Which of the two designated leaders the certain
preserve protect and Defend the Constitution of the
United States2
Properly to meet these questions the up
the overpowering Military Industrial Preparedness
Government by and for the People and National Honor and Prosper
ity.
vote for Wilson
tas charge Conceding urpassne
excellence" Secretary of War;
found that the situation is dscOuagg than that
the navy.
Acting the spur of aroused citizenship champoned in his
invgoratng by Co. Roosevelt converted but epd
Administration did at length succeed in swelling appropriations I'M
spite the of the President that his attitude would not be al
tered beause and excited al
tered What did and will change however the intimate
position of those entrusted with the expenditure the voted
Secretary Daniels Opposed his heart adequate provision for
defense" 1t impossible nocuae him with the obvious truth
that must be fighting and that such rng he has
been guilty of only prayze that and to bring him into
derison.
Secretary Baker pofessed pactists prn
cpay his credit that deception the National Guardmen that
tricked them into enlistment they had nded make
Frankly, then the situation resolves itself to this
Whether approves disapprove the huge expendL
dures provided for National Defense, the appropriations
have been made The only question now is Who utilize
the hand to the greatest advantage of the
try in obtaining he quickest and efecual resus9
The Republicans who sincere in their advocacy of Pre-
paredness the Democrats who not The question
itself.
But this There problem
fare purpose
the Allies possess the markets the world Germany
the enemy view But there implied aimed
ica which country the Allies will be enormously Swamp
ing with goods dumping the produce of impoverished labor
that is method of Will the Democratic
party protect us? Will it have for the working and his
employment That it another question that answers
itself9
The surrender Observation-Disclosures Harvey
degnaes the backmeng of the Nation by the President himself
is gone INTO with That rencant particularly which we have come to
expect from the editor of the North American Review
He shows from the Presidents was
Sudden crisis that the matter had been giated for than
year. and that the claim that the demands backed by the
favorable judgment of society the merest assumption Ora
matte enough this of the situation it presented itself
just a month since
Four parties to the proposed settlement mvolved
The labor unions the shippers and the railway companies
represented by their respective officials and the people,
resented by the President And the President of the
United States who deliberately proposed the mucng of the
great body of his situency, the millions of owpad
woringmen farmers professional teachers, clerks,
saleswOmen and tOrs swashOps less than the welo
do not the interest of class but of within class
comprising four hundred thousand voters without the
companies the shippers who to comprise the other
parties TO the conspiracy
In terrozed Democratic Congress the proposition figured
the basis of he climax of very happy day 1T
the President who hit the phrasewas for its es
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