South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-24

homecoming week. Michigan City
people have been exceedingly hos
pitable and many OF the newspaper
men are located in private families
Following the Industrial parade
the editors we're scheduled for an
hours ride on Lake Michigan aboard
the steamer Roosevelt. Someone
suggested that riding the Roosevelt
was hardly sticking 10 party lines.
but the reply was that Theodore had
done the democrats a good turn and
his kindness should be appreciated
To Dine at Prison.
Al six o'clock tonight the editors
their families and a number Of
Michigan City people viii take din
ner at the state prison as the guests
of Warden +. J. Fogarty. Follow
ing the dinner vaudeville perform
ance will be given by prisoners. Sew
eral OF the editors expected 20 at
tend the final game of the series
between the Haskell & Barker and
the Fairbanks Morse teams at Lake
view park Each club has won one
game and tOdays contest is exciting
much interest among the townsmen
here Kading. DOnnelly. Riley,
Scheneberg. Baumgartner and other
members of the Michigan city club
are will known 20 South Bend fans.
The editors arrived in Michigan
City shortly after z o'clock Wednes-
day night. having travelled all day.
They We're met by a committee OF
citizens here and conducted 20 the
park. where addresses were deliver
ed by Van Nuys. Philip Zoercher.
reporter of state supreme court;
George W. Bittler. state treasurer,
and Chester A. Mccormick. candi-
date for state senator from this dis
trict.
German il Applauded.
Zoercher. i'm the opening speech,
declared that there is no reason in
the universe for a German not con-
sidering himself an American as
long as ne is a citizen of this coun-
try. Zoercher is a German himself
and his declarations brought forth
much applause
Immediately preceding the speech
making the queen Of the centennial
celebration, which iss being held
here, was crowned Miss Esther
Ernest was chosen queen, and more
than 10000 persons saw the corona
ton and the majority remained to
hear the democratic addresses.
Predicts Wilson Victory.
Il do not come here with the ex-
pectation Of telling the members Of
this association. observers of cur
rent events, anything new in a po-
litical way" said Sen. Van Nuys in
opening his address. 81 come on
request 10 felicitate with you upon
the democratic past. present and
promises Of the future, which. UNI
less all signs fail. unless the intelli-
gent and prosperous voting public
of Indiana are unappreciative, that
Woodrow Wilson for president. and
John a. NJ. Adair for governor viii
receive splendid pluralities, the
facts and circumstances warrant.
II want you veteran editors,
grown gray in the service. to re-
member for but one moment the
arguments. claims and demands of
the republican party when it was in
power as TO why it should forever
hold possession of the government.
Prosperity. the full dinner pail and
stand pat were the slogans by which
this resourceful party hoodwinked
the vast majority of the voters who
believed the republican policies
were so interviewer and dovetailed
into the Industrial prosperity OF the
country that the success of that
party was the only safe guarantee
for continuous peace and prosperity
of this nation.
Challenges Spellbinders.
What republican spellbinder to-
day-even Jim Watson, who has
been on the unfair list for years
Will have the temerity in fact OF
conditions today with peace all
around us; prosperity, with poverty
and bankruptcy at the door of all
our sister nations; with the greatest
volume of trade in the history of
the country. will these spellbinders
repeat the sophistries and fallacies
i'm which that old republican party
INDUCED for 20 years.
Il am revealing no secret in say
ing that if the speeches of Hughes
! on his western trip are a criterion,
he does not measure up TO the high
standard and qualifications required
| for a presidential candidate. In his
unfortunate effort 20 find some issue
ne finally laid upon Americanism.
Patriotism still Lives.
"Americanism What is it? Pa
triousm. surely. That love of coun-
try which causes men 70 sacrifice
! their homes property and lives in
time of war on the field of battle.
One hundred thousand brave Amer
lean boys are tonight sweltering in
their tents along the Mexican bor-
der as conclusive proof that patriot
| ism still lives in America-and under
! Wilson.
obedience 10 law is American
ism. surely That obedience TO law
which distinguishes the difference
between liberty and license. which
recognizes the fundamental princi-
pies of leaving of where another
mans rights begin. The tens Of
! thousands of railroad employers and
/ employees are tonight trying 10 solve
their differences. legally and peace