Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-09-07

Vance Mccormick says the Progress
sives are stampeding to Wilson, and
It's ten to one bet he wishes he
| could believe it.
The Democrats are finding out that
pork comes home to root out their
stan4ing.
The men and women who preferss
man who does things to man who
writes notes about them will votel
| for Hughes. Government by CORE
/ spondence takes too long to get any,
| where, but government by deeds isl
always on the job.
Those |ho are concerned to know
| what Mr.. Hughes would have done
had he been in Mr.. Wilson's place
may rest assured he would not have
| done as Mr.. Wilson has. And that
is answer enough.
Mr.. Hughes is not only going direct
to the public, but the public is going
direct to him. A genuine American
fifty fifty
President Wilson's alarm clock Is
ringing at O'Clock these mornings.
He can reach out of bed and turn it
off the morning of March 5.
Postmaster General Burleson Is too
foxy a politician to adopt for his de-
! partment the McAdoo rule forbidding
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
ervations to the public pledges of adj
| ministrative reform given by Charles
E. Hughes. His record as governor
of New York guarantees the fulfill
ment of every promise.
Democrats are now convinced that
| Charles Evans Hughes is warm pro Z
position.
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Mr.. Wilson still stands on the suffrage
question where he stood at the begin
ming of his administration. He has
changed On about everything else
Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
1t strikes one that instead of wildly
hustling for the State of Maine, Vance
Mccormick might do better work by
taking his wrecking 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 wageearners of the country
received during the Wilson Admins
tration $3,0O06000O0 more than they =
received under Taft. And all it cost
them to keep something in the dinner
pail was S600O00O00O more.
| AT the annual meeting of postmas-
tiers in Washington recently, the first
assistant pOstmaStergeueral lauded
the postal savings system. That must
have been bitter pill for Postmaster
| General Burleson, who sat on the same
platform with his assistant. When the
| postal savings bill was passed, Mr.,
Burleson, then Congressman from
Texas, voted against it. Every vote
cast against il was cast by a Demo-
| GRAFT Not one Democratic Congress-
man voted for it. Yet President Will :
son says the Republican party has not
had new idea in thirty years. Whose
idea was it?
1t was the instinct of lawyer for
Hughes to support his damning charg-
es against Wilson, by calling Wilson's =
own secretary Of state as a witness
to prove them.
Mr.. Hughes says there should be
firm dealing In Mexican affairs. May
be so; but we have had enough Of
the firm of Wilson. Carranza Co.
The impression is growing at the
White House that MIR Hughes Is DELHI
erately unfriendly. Lock out for notes.
II those Democratic norifiers put or
their notifying much longer they may
6nd Mr.. Wilson In no mood to accept.
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