The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-10-21
CRITICIZES HUGHES
OVER THE INTERESTS
Gardner Says He'll Give Money
Back, if Any Democrats
Have Been Frisked.
DARKEY FAINTS AT TALK
Hears Story About Good Times
and Is Then Seized with
a Spasm.

While William Jennings Bryan was
paying tribute to Woodrow Wilson
for the Underwood frec-trade law and
the prosperity which,. he says, it is
responsible for, one of his listeners
arose in the crowd at the Fairgrounds
yesterday and yelled: "How about the
soup houses and the bread lines of
1914"
The Nebraskan ignored the question
and slipped glass of water while w.
L. limbs, the heaviest Woodrow Will
son advocate in Southeast Missouri,
showed the disturber through the
crowd and out Of the bulIring, which
enclosed the speakers stand.
For twenty years I went before the
people, asking them to give the Demo
cratic party a chance to demonstrate
what it could do" began the Com
moner, who Was the star attraction 1T
the Southeast Missouri Democratic
rally. This year l come before you
to ask that the Democratic party be
returned to power on the record it has
made.
For more than forty years the Re
publican orators have been warning
the people not to trust the Democratic
party, because, they said, 4 reduction
Of the tariff would bring disaster 10 the
country Four years ago tho Demo
cratic party declared for : revision
downward of the Ubiquitous Payne tar
if law. The people accepted the prom
| ises Of the Democratic party ard threw
the Republicans out of office.
"The Democratic Congress aid
Woodrow Wilson lowered the tariff,
and today We are enjoying the great
est prosperity the country has ever
seen, and in spite of war, the like
of which the world has never known"
Mr. Bryan attacked Charles f.
Hughes, charging that he was nomi-
mated by the same clement in the Re
publican party. which brought about
its defeat in 1912, and which, through
him, vas now attempting to get back
into power. "Depewism and Cannon
ism are the ismS which are parading
under the banner of Mr.. Hughes" he
declared.
The Nebrasl,an defended The Adam
son Law, declared it meant the emarci-
patton of the working man, upheld the
neutrality of President Wilson, charg-
ed the Republican party with respon-
sibility for all the panics the country
had ever experienced, and pleaded en-
Enthusiastically for the reelection Of
Senator Reed and Congressman Rus
sell of this district Col F. D. Gard |
ner the Democratic nominee for Gov !
ernor, who occupied scat on the stand |
with Bryan, was virtually ignored b. |
the Commoner
"The paramount question before the |
people in this campaign" shouted Mr.. |
Bryan. ''is whether the Government is |
to be left in the hands of the present !
administration, which stands for peace,
or whether YOU will turn il back to
the element from which it was taken
fuor years ago.
Mr.. Taft, who went into Office eight
years ago by a large majority, was
turned out of Office four years later
by unanimous consent Are YOU now
going to reinstate the men who were
responsible for Mr.. Taft's nomination
as well as his defeat?
MIR. Hughes has seen fit to make
Mexico an issue in this campaign. He
would have recognized MIR. Huerts,
who, by his own acts, committed high
treason. He murdered Madero. seized
the government by force and establish
ed his own depCtism. President Will
son acted in the interest of humanity
when he refused to make this gov
eminent partner of Hucrta.
You now are called upon to decide
whether you want to continue our
peaceful relations with Mexico or in e.
te1vene. When we cross tho Rio
Grandc. We sever the respect of all the t
Latin-American countries. This is c
what we are asked to do By the specu-
ators in Mexico. We will not safe
guard the American spectators in I
Mexico with the blood of American t
soldiers so long as Woodrow Wilson il
: in the White House If you want 7
President Who stand, for war. chen J