Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1916-10-19
dy $4,000. All of them raised
from $1,000 to $4,000.

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from $1,000 to IS, 1000.
Hughes was evidently correct
when he said he was 100 percent
q candidate" His talk OF Wilson
turning Republicans out of office
and putting in Democrats is en-
tirely unworthy Of a presidential
candidate, OF fcoursa H u g b 9 s
knows, as everybody else knows,
that all parties in power h a s
done this. Senator Vance, of
blessed memory, in speaking OF
this [custom finely said: "The
horse that pulls the plow should
have the fodder"
Hughes stock in trade is criti-
cism of Wilson. Reckless in state.
ment he declares that Wilson was
"weak and vacilating in his In
ternational policy that his d.
plomatic communications were
nothing but words" Hughes
knows that the world knows that
those communications had such
compelling force and singleness
OF purpose as to put a stop to
German submarine warfare.
When pressed by the public to
tell what he would have done had
he been in Wilson's place, he on
ly replied in glittering generali-
ties. His answer is an abortive
attempt to ''hold with the hounds
and run with the hare" Would
he have engaged US in war with
Germany? Ii SO, why is it that
a large German element, who fly
the American flag meath t h e
folds OF the German are his nois.
lest supporters? Has he a secret
alliance with that contingent?
The evidence points strongly in
that direction for it boasted that
it defeated Roosevelt and elected
Hughes. Oh! but he rings t h
changes on Wilson's Mexican
policy, and here too he fails to
tell what he would have done.
Would he have waged war with
Mexico, or would he now have
the American army on the Dor
der for defense, cross into Mexico
and sacrifice the blood and lives
OF our noble soldiers IN order to
protect the coal mines and oi
wells of one Bill Hearst and 9TH
ers of his like? All OF them art
howllng for Hughes. If the Amer
can people really believes what
Hughes says, and want war with
Germany and Mexico, then they
should vote for him, and this
Notwithstanding the fact, that
few weeks before his nomination
Roosevelt called him a pussy
footed feather duster."
Ii the people are in favor of th'
income tax passed by the Wilson
administration, and which force
the rich, as never before, to pa,
their proportionate share of tn
government expense, then the,
will vote for Wilson; if agains
it. vote for the "pussy-foote'
feather duster" Hughes. Thi
hope of repeating the income tax
Hughes regards as "a straigh
flush" in his political game.
elected he would win all the stake
on the table, for the rich woul
no longer pay, and they an
Hughes
"Would sit down to dine,
Quaff to each other in sparkling win
From goblets of crystal and green,
Then happy and gay, they would lou
ly say:
} 'Whatfools the people have been.'
Ii Wilson had been largely il
! strumental in no other achiev'
ment than the enactment OF I'll
Federal reserve banking ac
which has liberated the countr
l from its vassalage to the grea
t New York banks, he would be el
2 titled to reelection. The none
: barons of Manhattan are solid
S against him, but that a ! o n
e should make the rest OF the cou
!. try stronger, more earnest al