Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-26
Why Mr.. Hughes Should
Be Elected
BY Arthur capper, Governor o

Kansas folk, as rule, are no longer deeply
agitated over mere party success. At least they
don't look upon that as the chief end and aim o.
existence. They are just as loyal to fundamental
political principles as their fathers were, but they
have pretty generally decided that clap-trap and
| red-hre and demagogic rant do not constitute
patriotism.
| am not going to attempt to tell all the
reasons why Hughes should be elected, but this
is the wayne feel about it in Kansas:
We are going to give Hughes plurality in
our state Of close to 100000 votes.
And we know why we are going to do it.
In the first place, Kansas folks are more
interested in results than in any hne-spun theories
about government They want to get things
done.
They want for president Of the United States
not merely disciple OF Hamilton or of JEFF
ferson-not merely follower Of Cleveland or
of McKinley-but man who can fill the job.
We think this is particularly important for
the next four years We're not getting together
and passing resolutions that view with alarm
or that despair of the republic" or anything like
that but we do know that this nation has a
lot of new ground to break in the immediate
future, and we want a man on the job who
knows what we want and who knows what he
wants and who will stay put.
We want man who will stand hitched with
out getting the baking habit
We want man who has insight and fore
oBHl-IdtHCI tHdH HHuolBHt, do we say.
man Of keen perception, of courage, of de-
termination; a man whom Mexico and the allies
and Germany and the rest of the world will
hear the first time he speaks.
A man who will keep us out OF war without
giving us the wobbes; man who will MAIN
tain peace and retain honor and respect. In
short, we want man big enough for the job
the biggest job in the world.
And we've looked the field over and the man
for us is Hughes.
We can't help thinking of the new problems
and the new dangers that the next few years
will bring. Our foreign relations resulting from
our new place among the nations; our domestic
problems-aways complicated but made hun
economic revolutions in Europe-will bring situa-
tons as serious as any faced by Washington or
Lincoln. The high-tide Of prosperity. due en-
tirely to the debauch of barbarity in Europe
will recede. The Kansas farmer knows where
his good prices come from, and he knows they
are not due to any act of the present admins
tration. .t.
What when the crash comes?
a We realize that we must prepare industrially
and economically for that time. And the more
we look at the democratic administration the less
we're inclined to trust to it the Job OF preparing
Its bungled tariff law, its buresque tariff COM
mission, its $8000,000-a-day appropriations its
pork-barrel wallow, its 10000 new Offices, its
broken pledges its rape of the civil service law
and its vacillatng policies on every important
ssue, do not appeal to the people of Kansas.
On the other hand, Hughes has never been |
ound wanting in courage or decision He was |
dominated by the people, by the rank and file, |
because they trusted him and wanted him.
And for the same reason he will be elected.
The people know that they know and the world |
Inows where to find him.