Evening journal., 1916-10-02
NEW JERSEY SAFE
IN c. O.P. column
Primary Vote Shows Re-
publicans United Against
Political Foe
HOLD UP" OF THE
AMERICAN FARMER
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ed on the New Jersey primaries
leaves no ground whatever for put
ting that State in the doubtful column.
Every indication points to It's giving
a large majority for Hughes Jersey
is normally a Republican state. IT,
has great industries whose men be-
lieve in protection, regarding it as the
only safeguard OF satisfactory stand
ard OF wages and living for them. in
1910 there was a strong Democratic
swing all over the country, and 1t re-
suited in the election as Governor
of Woodrow Wilson, then an unknown
quantity. reputed to be a man Of high
ideals and fine character, and adding
the quality Of novelty to the general
Democratic trend In 1912, however,
as candidate for the Presidency, Mr..
Wilson carried the State only by
plurality. the combined Republican
and Progressive vote exceeding his Dy
1886. In 1914. the Republicans swept
the State in the election Of a Legisla-
ture. and elected eight Representa-
tives to Congress out OF twelve; and
again. in 1915. they elected a large
majority Of the Legislature. This
year the people know Woodrow VIII
son. The Jersey voters bitterly re-
sent his arbitrary and didactic atu-
tude and the Jersey Democrats have
repudiated the President by renominat-
ing. by large majority. Senator Mar
tine. against Mr.. Wilson's emphatc
protest. and against all the influence
their own machine could exert. jim
MARITIME. who IS far less At to be Sen
ator than is the defeated Wescott,
who has been a bad joke in the Sen
ale. publicly announced that he would
rather go back to the farm" than go
10 the White House every day TOT MS
ORDERS" and the Democrats OF Jer-
sew endorsed his position. Wescott $
defeat is the first unmistakable mani
Hesitation Of that resentment when
Democrats generally feel toward Mr.
Wilson and his two secretly detested
advisers. McAdoo and Burleson.
WantOn Cruelty.
Barely has there been such glar-
ing instance OF unmitigated cruelty as
that perpetrated on Carranzas dele
gates TO the New London conference
nv Secretary Franklin X. Lane. As
Carranza has announced-and the
delegates have confirmed his an
nouncement-the delegates are not au-
thorized to discuss any subject except
the withdrawal OF American troops
from Mexican territory. and they have
not discussed any other subject. They
are typical representatives Of the
bandit Carranza, and as little interest
ed in social reforms for Mexico as
they are in the adoption of
the forum system In Kamchatka.
But. being Latins. they have a veneer
OF politeness-the same sort OF polite
ness which prompts the robber who
steals your watch to offer you a cigar
before parting and. being the guests
OF this country they are constrained
from frankly expressing their bore
dom. Taking advantage Of their posi-
ton. Secretary Lane has devoted an
entire day to inflicting on them a
lecture upon how other nations pro
gress. describing the admirable meth
DDS employed by the United States to
civiize and educate the Indians, etc.
II is reported that the Carranzistas
politely. but with difficulty. suppress
cd their yawns. and that further ex-
hibition Of such wantOn cruelty by
Secretary Lane will result in the for
nation Of a society for the Protection
of Cruelty to Carranzistas.
The Unhappy Farmer.
Fx- Secretary James Wilson has
pointed out. I'm an able argument. how
"the farmer will pay the freight I'M
der the Wilson-Adamson railway
wage increase law; and now. from an
other source, comes information that
Carranza. whom President Wilson has
held up 10 alteration as a man with
whose high ideals all right thinking
men the world over must sympa'
thize." has turned his attention from
shooting railway strikers on sight &c
holding up American farmers. Mr.
Carranza does not believe it practical
~ invade this country and levy tri
butte on the farmers personally. but
he has accomplished his end by estab
fishing a sisal monopoly which viii
take 1000 600 out OF the pockets o.
those American farmers who have tC
buy binding Irvine. A delegation rep
resenting the manufacturers OF bind
ing Irvine have laid the facts before
Secretary Lansing. pointing out how
American farmers are being mulcte(
by Carranza, and Secretary Lansinl
has had the nerve TO tell the delega
ton that he viii refer the matter Il
the New London conference, which az
Carranza has formally announced il
expressly prohibited from considering
any OF the internal affairs Of Mexico
0r indeed. anything but the remova
OF American troops from Mexican ter
ritory.
Mr. Wilson'S Ideal.
Despite President Wilson's idealiza
ton OF Carranza at New London, ant
the solemn announcement OF the Wa
Department. after the Carrazal ar
fair. that when Carranza returned
those troopers of the Tenth Cavalry
whom he had shot, he also returned
their equipment as we'll, the highly in
teresting fact has now come to ligh
that in a recent slSirmtsh between
United States troops and Carranzista
who were raiding American territory
one of the rifles captured by tn
Americans bear the L. s. Arsena
stamp and figures ak TO-" Thes
show. of course. that the rifle was on
captured from the Tenth Cavalry
that when Carranza asserted that b
had returned all the euipment car
tured at Carrizal. he did not tell tn
truth-or that when the War Depart
ment announced that all the equipmen
had been returned it was pursuin
that policy OF "pitiless publicity