The Snowflake herald., 1916-09-01
POLITICAL JOTTINCS

POLITICAL JOTTINGS
At that however. from beginning
to end this has been more Of Il you
kick me and III kiss you" adminiSira.
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 q
man who does things to a 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
WlAdt NIL WOOIO nave OOiAN
had be been in Mr.. Wilson's place
may rest assured be would not have
done as Mr.. Wilson has. And that
is answer enough.
Mr.. Hughes is not only going direct
to the public, but the public is going
direct to him. genuine American
fifty-ifty!
President Wilson's alarm clock is
ringing at O'clock these mornings.
He can reach out of bed and turn il
off the morning of March 3.
Postmaster General BurlesOn is too
foxy politician to adopt for his de
partment the McAdOo rule fOrbidtling
Treasury department employees parti
cipating i'm politics. Mr. BurlesOn re-
alizeS that pOstnuSters are entitled
to some exercise for the money.
There are no strings or mental res
ervatiOns TO the public pledges of adj
miniStrative reform given by Charles
+ Hughes His record as governor
of New York guarantees the fulfill
ment of every promise.
Democrats are now convinced that
Charles Evans Hughes is warm pro-
position.
II is gratifying, indeed. TO 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
hustling for the State of Maine, Vance
Mccormick might do better work by
taking his wrecking crew to the West
to repair the Democratic bridges that
are being dynamited by Justice
Hughes.
According to the weeks latest work
Of fiction, the Democratic Campaign
Book. the wage-earnerS OF the country
received during the Wilson Admins
tration $3O00.OOO,OOO more than they
received under Taft. And all it cost
them to keep something in the dinner
pail was $6,OOO,OOO,OOO more.
At the annual meeting Of pOstmaS-
terS In Washington recently, the first
assistant pOstmaSter-general lauded
tie postal savings system. That must
have been bitter pill for Postmaster
General Burleson, who sat on the same
platform with his assistant. When the
postal savings bill was passed, Mr..
Burleson, then a Congressman from
Texas, voted against it. Every vote
cast against it was cast by q Demo-
crat Not one Democratic Congress.
man voted for it. Yet President Will
son says the Republican party has moi
had a new idea in thirty years. Whose
idea was it?
1t was the instinct Of lawyer for
Hughes to support his damning charg-
es against Wilson, by calling Wilson's |
own secretary of state as a witness
to prove them.
Mr.. Hughes says there should be
firm dealing in Mexican affairs. May
be so; but we have had enough of
the firm Of Wilson, Carranza & Co.
The impression is growing at the
White House that Mr. Hughes is delib-
erately unfriendly. Look out for notes. |
II those Democratic nOtifiers put off |
their notifying much longer they may
find Mr.. Wilson in no mood to accept. |