Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-09-28
WHY ELECT HUGHES
By Gov. Arthur Capper

party success. At least, they don't
look upon that as the chief end and
aim OF existence. They are Just as
loyal to fundamental political prin-
ciples as their fathers were, but
they have pretty generally decided
that clap-trap and red-fire and
demagogic rant do not constitute
patriotism.
! am not going to attempt to tell
all the reasons why Hughes should
be elected, but this is the way we
feel about it in Kansas:
We are going to give Hughes a
plurality in our state of close to
100000 votes.
And we know why we are going
to do 1t.
In the first place, Kansas folks
are more interested in results than
in any fine-spun theories about
government. They want to get
things done.
They want for president of the
United States not merely disciple
of Hamilton or of Jefferson-not
merely followed OF Cleveland or
of McKinley-but a man who can
fill the job.
We think this is particularly i'm
portant for the next four years.
We're not getting together and
passing resolutions that view with
alarm" or that despair of the Re-
public" or anything like that, but
we do know that this nation has a
lot of new ground to break in the
immediate future, and we want
man on the job who knows what
we want and who knows what he
wants and who will stay put.
We want a man who will stand
hitched without getting the baking
habit.
We want man who has insight
and rather than hind
sight, as we say
A man Of keen perception, Of
courage, of determinations man
whom Mexico and the allies and
Germany and the rest of the world
will hear the first time he speaks
A man who will keep us out of
war without giving us the wobbles;
a man who will maintain peace and
retain honor and respect. In short,
we want a man big enough for the
job-the biggest job in the world
And we've looked the field over
and the man for us is Hughes.
We can't help thinking of the
new problems and the new dangers
that the next few years will bring.
Our foreign relations resulting from
our new place among the nations; |
our domestic problems always
but made a hundred
fold more complex by the social and
economic revolutions in Europe
will bring situations as serious as
my faced by Washington or Lin
'oln. The high tide of prosperity,
lue entirely to the debauch of
larbity in Europe will recede. The
Kansas farmer knows where his
rood prices come from. and he
,nows they are not due to any act
# the present administration.
What when the crash comes?
We realize that we must prepare
and economically for
hat time, And the more we look al &
he Democratic administration the
sss We're inclined to trust to it the (
1b of preparing
It's bungled tariff law, its bur
'sque. tariff commission, its eight {
lilllon-dollar-a-day appropriations, {
$ pork barrel wallow, its 10000 y
ew offices, its broken pledges. its a
lpe of the civil service law and its A
policies on every import 4
At issue, do not appeal to the peo- y
g of Kansas. a
On the other hand, Hughes has 4
'ver been found wanting in cour x
,e or decision He was nominated Y
/ the people. by the rank and y
e, because they trusted him and 3
lnted him. a
And for the same reason he will n
elected. The people know that A
ey know and the world knows A
lere to find him. Y
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