The Delta independent., 1916-09-01
POLITICAL JOrTMCs

At that. however from beginning
to end this has been more of "you
kick me and Ill kiss you" administra-
tion.
Vance Mccormick says the Progress
sives are stampeding to Wilson. and
It's ten to one bet he wishes he
could believe 1t.
! The Democrats are finding out that
pork comes home to root out their
standing.
| The men and women who prefer q
man who does things to man who
writes notes about them will vote
for Hughes. Government by corre-
spondence takes too long to get any
where, but government by. deeds Is
always on the job.
| Those who are concerned to know
what Mr.. Hughes would have done
mad 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
10 the public. but the public is going
| ifty-fiftyl
President Wilson's alarm clock Is
ringing at 5 o'clock these mornings.
He can reach out OF bed and turn 1t
ofY the morning of March 5.
Postmaster General Burleson is too
foxy politician to adopt for his de-
partment the McAdoo rule forbidding
Treasury department employees parti-
cipating In politics. Mr. Burleson re-
alizes that pOstmasters are entitled
to some exercise for the money.
There are no strings or mental res
ervations TO the public pledges of I'D
ministratiye reform given by Charles
f. Hughes. His record as governor
Of New York guarantees the fulfill
nent of every promise.
Democrats are now convinced that
Charles Evans Hughes is a warm pro-
position.
1t Is gratifying. indeed. to find that
Mr.. Wilson still stands on the suffrage
question where he stood AT the begin.
1ing 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 wage-earners of the country
received during the Wilson Admins
tration $1,000. 100000 more than they
received under Taft. And ali II cost
them to keep something In the dinner
pail was s6,0oo0o00OO more.
At the annual meeting of postinas-
ters In Washington recently. the first
assistant postmaster-general inuded
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 bin was passed. Mr..
BurlesOn. then Congressman from
Texas. voted against It. Every vote
cast against II was cast by Demo
Not nnmncrotf<
man voted for 1t. Yet President VIII
son says the Republican party has not
had new Idea In thirty years. Whose
idea was lit
II was the instinct Of a lawyer for
Hughes to support his dnmning charg-
es ugninst Wilson. by calling Wilson's
own secretary of state ms witness
10 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.
White House that MIR. Hughes Is deiib-
erately unfriendly. Look out for notes.
H those Democratic nOtifiers put on
their notifying much longer they may
and MIR. Wilson In no mood to accept
s:..s.Hs:ssss:s:H OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
! POINTS FROM 3
: HUGHES SPEECHES :