Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-04
IN
FINAL APPEALS
Both Hughes and Wilson
Finishing Their
Campaigns.
HUGHES SPEAKS FIVE. !,
TIMES IN NEW YORK
Wilson Makes Porch Speech At Shadow
Lawn to Residents Of New Jersey -
Wilson's Home State Claimed to Be
For Hughes Receives Cheer
ing Words From Managers in Middle
West-Dakotas and Illinois Claimed.

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West-Dakotas and Illinois Claimed.
New York, Nov. 4.-Cardidates for
the presidency and prominent cam
paign orators will make their last
spoken appeals for votes today. Some
time around midnight, when the last
cheer has died away, the last red lire
has burned out, and the last parader
has gone home, the national campaign
will be virtually over.
Charles E. Hughes ended his politi-
cal travels yesterday, but the last day
of his campaign is one Of the hardest
He made Ave speeches here this after
noon and will deliver his final address
at rally at Madison Square Garden
tonight.
President Wilson, at Long Branch.
will make his last speech before an
audience from his home state. Every
democratic county organization in New
Jersey will sena delegates TO Shadow
Lawn.
Both candidates will spend the two
days that intervene before election
quietly, the president at Shadow Lawn
and Mr.. Hughes at the hotel where he
has made his headquarters In New
York.
j. Frank Hanly, the prohibition pres
idential candidate, will reach his home
in Indianapolis tonight. Since Sept.
Mr.. Hanly has travelled nearly 10000
miles. thru thirty -four states
Allan Benson, the socialist candidate,
10 today In Kansas City. Mo.
Hughes Estabiishss Travel Record.
Mr.. Hughes holds the record for
campaign journeys. When he reached
New York yesterday he had made four
distinct trips. which have carried him
thru thirty-two states and a distance
Of $4,000 miles. I,
President Wilson'S campaign has had
the assistance OF his cabinet members
and OF Vice President MarshaA while
Mr. Hughes enjoyed the unique dis
tinction Of having two former occu-
pants Of the White House ON thc
stump for him. $780, y
The increase in the number Of states
where women may vote this year has
given women 4 greater part in cam
paign than ever before. The special
train OF women who have been trav-
! cling thru the country for Mr.. Hughes
arrived here last night for the closing
meeting OF their campaign. They have
iourneyed 11,7O0 miles and held 181
meetings in twenty -eight states.
Not Path TO War,
That Is not the path to war; that
is the way.to maintain our self respect.
Rights cease to be rights If they are
not enforced. It 10 not that we should
have policy Of aggression, 1t is not
that we should make a braggart as
sertion OF our claims that we should
20 thru the world boastful and trucu-
lent: but 1t is that. wherever our flag
flies, the American citizen who law
fully Is pursuing his work should know
that 1t is q symbol of full protection
to him, exercising his rights wherever
he may happen to be. whether 1t be-
on land or on the high seas.
There are those who ATTEMPT to
make political capital out Of the pros
perity we now enjoy. Everyone knows
how suddenly it arose and how sud
denly 1t is likely to depart Our friends
on the other side made eloquent
promises. Promises they make now
could not be more eloquent than those
they made four years ago.
An Unwslcoms Guest.
"They told us they were going to
reduce the cost Of living: they were
going to increase the opportunities Of
labor: they were going to provide ade-
quate revenue for the government thru
their new system; they were going to
afford new opportunities for American
enterprise as
They haven't touched the cost OF
living. That unwelcome guest, the high
cost Of living, is still with US, little
higher and a little stronger than ever
before. Instead Of reducing the cost
OF living the opportunities for max
ing a living were reduced We have
not forgotten that condition which
obtained twenty-five months ago.
What is the reason for the present
prosperity?
"The reasons lay in the European
war and the demand for American
goods created by the war;
The nominee went into details as to
conditions abroad, reiterating that the
Industrial plants Of most Of the bellig !
erent nations had mot been touched
by the war and that Europe would be
better prepared and better organised
and better disciplined after the war
than ever before" y
Need TO Fear cempstitien.
Does anyone tell US that Americans
need not fear the competition we Will
face after the warp" Mr.. Hughes asked,
."Such suggestions must bk deemed
appropriate only when addressed to
those who are unintelligents or who
have failed carefully to observe the
trend Of affairs.
what are we going to do about II !?
What do our opponents say? Why,
they said let us be efficient. alert and
skillful. We must be efficient, alert
and skillful, but we can not In many
OF our industries hope to compete un-
less labor is protected or the wages.
OF American labor reduced. That Is
the proposition before the American
laboring man; before the American
business man. It takes not only
America alert, efficient and vskillful