Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-09-15
Who VIII Be OR
Next President >?
"Let as haze Peace"

more courteou,ly - Chief
Justice Hughes or Weodrow Will
son, our present chi-f magistrate.
will guide the ship OF State four
years, from March +, 1917?
1t is in the interest of couI ties,
and fair play that we pen these
lines.
Amid the guadrennial wrangles
that affiict Americans. there is Sc
much vituperation and fault find
ing that, judging from tie speeches
of our political orators. our Officers
high and low are vulgar black
guards unfit for their official posi-
tions.
The people of the United States
who do their own thin king. and
don't shape their political Judge
ment by campaign literature ard
harangues of political speakers are
able to Judge tor themselves tie
fitness of candidates for Office.
So, It behooves US to listen t'
calm, sound reasoning and cour
teous discussion of the questions
a. issue rather than appeal to
prejudice and political bias.
The conservative; intelligen
public have placed an estimate on
Justice Hughes moral and politi
cal worth and he stonds high as an
American citizen; as a lawyer of
repute, as governor of the Empire
State, he has a record of which he
may be justly proud; but as can
didate of great party, proud OF
its past, we hum bly, beg to state,
that he is lowering that record,
by his style of tault-hnding in the
present campaign.
President Wilson also has made
a record of which no American
need be ashamed. He has been
confronted by the most difficult
world wide problems the nation
has ever seen. He has met then,
honestly and has undertaken tO
solve them with dignity. witt
patience and with due considera
ton for friends and foes.
Yet President Lii coin met far
more serious and momentous cri
sis in our domestic relations and
who by his prudence and states
manship saved the union, and bull
the great republican party.
Democrats and republicans
alike. as united people, place Alb
raham Lincoln on a pedestal OF
fame to which no president tina,
has precede him is entitled. His
memory is cherished by our com
mon country, as g hero, u
statesman, and public servant, as
no other American citizen has
been OF will be, in all proba biliJy.
Republicans have reason to be
proud of the treatment of great
national issues, which from time
to time have arisen and settled
satisfactorily to the people.
The great issue of customs duties
levied, to meet the fna ncial needs
OF the nation, has been question
of supreme importance in the life
of orr repu blic. The difference OF
opinion arising as to "h Ugh" or
slow" tariffs, is one of honest and
sincere judgment as between the
two great parties that have been in
The question of pro
lection" 10 American industries
and to whom, and to what extent,
is of vital importance. 1t is now,
it has been all the time a vital
question.
1t involves the question of CAPT
tai and LabOr-of capital arrayed
against labor, considered in the
a distract.
This being SO, and human ma
ture what il is, it follows that the
representatives of both capital aud
labor have taken every advantage
that politics can give; that State
and national Legislation could give
to further the interests of each
Just here is the crux-tho crucial
test of the perpetuity of our form
of government. When the en-
lightened, sane, and consel vative,
element, can come to the front,
and eliminate some of our fostered
political methods OF buying. legis.
latures, electing senators and con.
gresham. we may hope to reach
a point OF fairness. as between
capital and labor. that shall insure
an equi table adjustment OF the ex.