The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-09-15
POLITICAL JOTTINCS

POLITICAL JOTTINCS
At that. however. from beginning
to end this has been more of a you
kick me and III kiss you" administra
ton.
Vance Mccormick says the Progress
sives are stampeding to Wilson. and
It's a 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 a
man who does things to q man who
writes notes about them Will vote
for Hughes. Government by CORE
%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
had be been in Mr.. Wilson's place
may rest assured he would not have
done as Mr.. Wilson has. And that
is answer enough.
MI. Hughes Is not only going direct
to the public. but the public Is going
direct to him. A genuine American
~ffty-hftyI
President Wilson's alarm clock is
ringing at 8 o'clock these mornings.
He a reach out of bed and turn It
on the morning Of March s..
Postmaster General Burleson Is too
foxy d politician to adopt for his de-
partment the McAdoo rule forbidding
Treasury department employees parti-
cipating In politics. Mr.. BurIeson re-
Allies that p0stmasters are entitled
to some exercise for The money.
There are nc strings or mental res.
ervations to the public pledges of adj
ministrative reform given by Charles
e. Hughes. His record as governor
OF New York guarantees the fulfill
ment of every promise.
Democrats are now convinced that
Charles Evans Hughes Is q warm pro-
position.
1t Is gratifying, indeed, t find that
Mr.. Wilson still stands on the suffrage
question where he stood at the begin
ming of his administration. He has
changed on about everything else.-
Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
1t strikes one that instead Of wildly
lustling for the State of Maine, Vance
Mccormick might do better work by
aking his NIecking crew to the West
o repair the Democratic bridges that
re being dynamited by Justice
hughes.
According to the weeks latest work
I fiction. the Democratic Campaign
'ook, the w-age-earners of the country
eceived during the Wilson Admins
ration S3,00O.000,00O more than they
under Taft. And all It cost
lem to keep something in the dinner
all was 100000, 900 more.
AT the annual meeting of postmas-
srs IN Washington recently, the first
postmaster-general lauded
ne postal savings system. That must
ave been a bitter pill for Postmaster
eneral Burleson, who sat on the same :
with his assistant When the
ostal savings bill was passed, Mr.. T.
urleson. then a Congressman from
exas, voted against II. Every vote
list against 1t was cast by a Demo-
Not n Democratic Congress-
an voted for it. Yet President VIII
N says the Republican party has not
I'd a new idea in thirty years. Whose
ca was it?
1t was the instinct of a lawyer for
to support his damning charg-
against Wilson, by calling Wilson's
IN secretary Of state as a witness
prove them.
Mr.. Hughes says there should be
dealing In Mexican affairs. May z
so; but we have had enough Of
, firm of Wilson, Carranza & Co. :
The Impression is growing at the 3
l{fo norco tIa< A. H,~boo T. Am n
'tely unfriendly. Look out for notes. 3
I those Democratic notifiers put on
ir notifying much longer they may Il
] Mr.. Wilson In no mood to accept. 4