The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-30

greatest enthusiasm for the President.
I'm the Closing Days of
Presidential Race
TN every presidential race most men
u make up their minds sometime in
advance of election day how they
should vote. 1t is safe to assume that
in the contest between Wilson and
Hughes there have been comparatively
few changes within the past two or
three weeks, yet in accordance with
icustom democratic and republican
orators alike will keep up their har-
jragues until the campaign closes next
Saturday night.
This is the week for Smelling the
woods, and in New York and other
states supposed to be debatahle both
sides will put in hard ticks.
Mr.. Hughes is still assailing Presi-
dent Wilson on general principles"
but his arguments are mostly OF the
negative sort. Democratic inefficiency
and Mr.. Wilson's ineptitude are ia
vorite expressions of the republican
standard bearer. He insists that the
prosperity of today rests on sand and
predicts industrial depression just as
soons as the European war is over
unless he is elected.
But the people are not so easily
fooled as Mr.. Hughes imagines. This
country has had periods of good times
under democratic administrations as
we'll as republican, but never has the
full dinner pail been so full as now,
and never has the demand for labor,
both skilled and unskilled, been as
clamorous as it is today. Never were
wages so high. Every manufacturing
town in the north is flush with money,
and in New York and other great CEN
tiers of commerce business conditions
were never so buoyant as at the pres
emit time. This resourceful land has
never witnessed such a boom as is
in full swing now. Peace and pros
perity are magic words, and as the
democratic slogan they are more eff
e. oil thn tn-
getherA which the republicans are adj
vancing why there should be change
at Washington.
The democratic record is one of
splendid achievement, and the public
should manifest its appreciation by
re-electing President Wilson by a
mighty vote.
According to an astrologer, the Kaiser
will be deposed in 1915 The Kaiser doesn't
talk like a man who expects to be down
and out in two years.
u
A Mexican raid on the border would
it would not mend "Pancho' Villas
political fortunes
Vice President Marshall calls Mr..
Hughes an echo of the past, which ex-
presses a great deal without being the
least bit harsh.
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running neck and neck, but Mr.. Wilson's
neck is apparently longer than that of
Mr.. Hughes.
The skeptical newspaper reader notices
what London says, then what Berlin says,
and proceeds to guess what really hap
pened.
A writer declares that G.. B. Shaw is a
modest man at heart However, he man.
ages to conceal his modesty remarkably
we'll.
The Teutons are still SO far ahead Of
the allies in points that the Kaiser seems
justified in believing the Lord is on his
side.
A poet named Sigafoose has written a
campaign poem. There are times when
any sort of nom de plume is desirable.
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The planter whose crop has been de-
stroyed by the boil weevil takes merely
an academic interest in 20-cent cotton.
y
AS the colonel is getting on in years. he
might be able to hold down settled
job like that Of Secretary Of State.
Now that the Rumanians are beginning
to get their dander up, the Austro-Ger-
man forces are slowing down.
!; u
Travel to and from Shadow Lawn is
unusually heavy these days. It's good
| to hear the footbeats Of patriots.
| At any rate, the farm loan board has
found out some Of the surprising possi-
bilities Of southern oratory.
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Some of the baseball stars are going
into the movies and leaving the uplift Of
| the stage to others.
Maybe the people who say "arrowplane'
| for "aeroplane will be able to pro-
nounce "airplane.'