South Bend news-times., 1916-11-06
vicc'-if IL win help him TO escape that $780,
600 annual income tax

vicc~-if it win help him to escape that $780,
600 annual income tax
OUR REPUBLICAN friends are making
great plans for election day demonstration
Tuesday morning all the workers and "who-
socvcr wilI' blossom forth with a nice
piece of Inen-badge styIe-big enough TO
knock your eye out, and il Is to announce that
the wearer il for Hughes The badges arrived
Saturday, a whole trunk full and yesterday
and today, they are to be distributed under
strict instructions that nobody il to get a fur
ther glimpse OF them until tomorrow. Simple
tons whose chief delight is to wear a badge
of some kind, Il may DC thought. will gladly
emorace this opportunity to decorate them
selves, and strut up to the polls and vote for
Hughes. i'm their exuberence.
ONLY ONE EXCUSE can be given for not
voting thc cTtre democratic ticket this year.
That excuse is that YOU may not be a
democrat, and even if YOU not a demo-
crat. and for Woodrow Wilson. anxious to
him elected. his policies indorsed, and the
"cOppcrheadism" that has opposed him. duly
resented. you should remember U,at it is the
local democratic candidates that have borne
the brunt, and especially the financial brunt of
the local campaign. Unlike the republicans
there has been barrel of money rushed i'm
here by outsiders TO help the democrats out.
Only $500 il the national and state commit
tees allotment ST. Joseph county. There
has been rush of page advertisements to
the local press paid for from the outside. to
boost the cause of the democrats. The local
democracy has had finance its
paign, and the local candidates have been
Obliged to contribute unusually. They deserve
the votes of every democrat, at least. What
has any man on tire republican ticket done to
help elect Woodrow Wilson?
DEMOCRACY furthermore. has been lit
orally boycoued BY the local republican press,
and democratic candidates have no way of
reaching republican voters through such col
umns Advertising by democratic candidates
has been deliberately refused at the adverts-
ing desk of the republican organ. This is
merely supplemental the minimum of pub
licity that has been given democratic meet
ings i'm that papers news columns; quite i'm
keeping with It's trying to hide a prospective
visit to south Bend, be made by the pres
idcnt. until literally driven out into the open
with it, IL i just a matter OF sizes, that is all,
quite in keeping with the entire republican
proSram-a program of eNasperation and fear,
lest republicans be permitted to see the other
side.
REPUBLICANS on the other hand. have had
every OppOrtunity TO exhibit their faces. their
virtues. their vices. alleged issues. trckery.
chicancrS, etc, that money could buy. They
have that opportunity not only i'm the repub-
Ican press, but i'm the democratic press "a
wcll. The answer Is. stand solid by the demo-
cratic ticket. this too, without a single excep-
ton. top go bottom. Here il Is: for president
Woodrow Wilson; vice observation-disclosures
Il Marshall: L. =. senatOrs-John W. Kern
and Thomas Taggart; governor-JoIpl y. vi.
Adair: lieut.. gOVernOr-MasOn j. \iback; see
rotary of state-Homer l.. Cook; state auditor
Dale j. Crittenberger: state treasurer
George III. BttIcr: statistician-S. W. Kahn;
attorney gcneral-E van B Stotsenburg
superintendent of public instruction-Samuel
j. scott: reporter of supreme cOurt-Phillip
Zocrcher: judges supreme court-Charles r..
cox and Douglas Morris; judges appellate
court-John {. McNuu and James j. Moran;
congrcSsman-IIenry \. BaInhart: prosecuting
auOrney-Chester II. Montgomery: joint SEN
atOr-Charles \. Hagerty: Representatives
Marion =. Gorsk Gus r. Hasanger and
George Y Hcpler: treasurer--Edward +. KeI-
Ter: shern-Charles T. Bailey: cOroner-T. J.
SwanH: county commissoners--Edward \.
ZctIcr and Thomas Williams.
ONLY BY DOING TIIS-voting the ticket
straight-Can democrats show their proper re-
sentiment. to- the republican campaign meth
Ods i'm keeping throughout with that party's
monopOIistic tendencies shown i'm its
buying mp exclusive control of street car adj
Vertising space. But the merits OF the demo-
cratic ticket il equally strong. The rcpubli-
can nominees have absolutely nothing
them either i'm character. ability. fitness for
the Offices and then they have been following
different leader. The rebuke TO MIR. Char
les Evans Hughes, and TO the republican party
all the way down the line, should be 80 strong
and pronounced that no party will again
attempt To resort to the 'cOpperhead" methods
that have marked the republican course i'm
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