Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-11-07
BIC CAMPAIGN
ENDS IN NH|RL
Hughes and Wilson Close
Speaking Tours and
Wait for Tuesday

| walt Tor TUESDAY
/ New York Nov. T. Candidates fer
the presidency and prominent cam
i paign orators will make their las.
| spoken appeals for votes today. Some
! time around midnight when the lasr
cheer has died away. the last red fire
has burned out and the last parader
has gone home. the national campaign
will be virtually over.
! Charles E. Hughes makes five
! speeches hero this afternoon and will
deliver his final address in Madison
Square garden which will close the
greatest republican rally of the cam
paign in New York City.
President Wilson. at Long Branch
will make his last speech Of the cam
paign before an audience from his
home state. Every democratic county
organization in New Jersey will send
delegates to Shadow Lawn.
! Both candidates will spend the two
days that intervene before election
quietly, the president at Shadow Lawn
and Mr.. Hughes at the hotel where he
! has made his New York headquarters
since he left Washington.
! They will receive the returns at
| these places.
J. Frank Hanlv. the prohibition pres
ideltial candidate will reach his home
! in Indianapolis tonight after final
! day Of speech making through Indiana.
F, Since September g. Mr. Hanlv has
travelled nearly 10000 miles, through
! thirty-four states.
The socialist candidate, Allan L.
! Benson. who has made campaign
speeches in almost every part Of the
country is today in Kansas City. Mo.
Hughes Sets Record.
Mr.. Hughes, the republican candi.
date. holds The record for campaign
| journeys. When he reached New York
yesterday he had made four distinc.
! trips which. since August, have carried
him through thirty-threa states and a
distance of about $4,000 miles
| None of the presidents trips were
| as long as those of his rival and most
of them We're made to some specific
point for the purpose of delivering one
PRINCIPAL address.
| President Wilson's camrag, ha,
had the assistance OF his cabiret mem.
bers ard OF Vice President Marshall,
,, while Mr.. Hrghes had speeches made
for him by William n. Taft and Theo.
dcre Roosevelt. both former presi,
dents.
The increase in the number OF
states whore women NAV vote for
president this wear has given women
a greater part in this campaign than
ever before. The most extensive cam.
paign trim ever undertaken BY fem.
mine nGlitical workers ended here
last nieht when a special train brought
back the women who have been travel
ing through the country to win votes
for Mr.. Hughes. Thew have iourneyed
Hoo miles and. addressed 1911 meet.
inCs in twenty-eight states.
Must Mainta n Honor.
Charles E. Hughes in noon day
campaign speech here declared that
rights cease to be rights if they are
not enforced" and that there will be
no lasting peacn IL the nations honor
is not maintained"
There has been OF late it semes to
me. growing tide OF sentiment in
this country" he said THE American
people know very well what policies
are essential TO their welfare. They
are not likely to be deceived by any
delusive statements with respect to
either peace or prosperity.
There will be no lasting peace Il
the nations honor is not maintained
There is no last security unless Amer
lean rights are fearlesslv maintained
throu ghout the world. Our peace de-
ponds on the confidence and esteem
which we secure and hold by justice.
firmness. by courtesy and by the man
Hesitation of that courageous and in
domitable spirit which gave us our
our country
That is not the path to war: that is
the way to maintain our self respect
Rights cease to be rights II they are
not enforced. It is not that we should
have policy of aggression. II Is not
that we should make braggart asser-
ton of our claims, that we should go
through the world boastful or tructl-
lent: but is that wherever our nag
flies the American citizen who Is law
fully pursuing his work should know
that it Is the symbol Of full protection
to him. exercising his rights wherever
he may happen to be. whether 1t is on
land or on the high seas"
Make Prosperity Capital.
Mr. Hughes declared that there ara
those who attempt to make political
capital out Of the prosperity We now
enjoy
Every one knows how suddenly this
prosperity arose and how suddenly it
is likely to depart" he said. Our
friends on the other side told us four
years ago they were going to accom-
plish extraordinary things. They were
going to reduce the cost of living: they
were going to increase the opportuni
ties for labor: they were going to pro-
vide adequate revenue for the govern
ment; they were going to afford new
opportunities to American enterprise.
The high cost of living is still with
us. a little higher and little stronger
than ever before. Instead OF reducing
the cost Of Lying the opportunities for
making a living were reduced We