The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-11-18
INTERESTING ARTICLE
FROM HENRY FORD
Shows How Republicans Are
Liling Up and How Moneyed
Interests Are Planning to
CONTROL GOVERNMENT

| To the extent that politics is syn
| onymous with getting down int
| the ditch and throwing mud" Henry
Ford, defeated candidate for United
States Senator from Michigan, Il
through with the game forever. Tt
the extent that continued support o.
President Wilson is politics, Mr.
Ford will stick to it. This assertion
was embodied in typewriter state
! ment commenting on his defeat
which Mr.. Ford made public yester
day through his sales agent in this
city. Mr.. Ford said that he got lots
of satisfaction out of his candidacy
ANY man worth while likes tt
know that he stands well with his
neighbors," the statement said
1.-THE vote shows that in my home
city and county where | have livet
all my life, l got all the Democratic
votes and nearly half the Republi
can votes"
Mr.. Ford wound up his statemen,
by limiting at possible recount O.
| the vote in Michigan.
"If so, it will be for the purpose
of showing how our elections arr
manipulated by the moneyed inter
ests; nor will that cease with the
election" the statement continues
"If organized effort can inform the
people and hinder the rule of thu
dollar, l think we shall accomplish
something"
Wall Street interests, now organ
izing against $176,000 to get thu
Republican nomination for his oppo
nent, Commander Truman H.. New
berry.
How much was spent in the elec
tion to secure that Senatorial sea
goodness only knows" the state
ment said. "If they would spent
i$176,000 to get ont little nomina
tion, they would spend $176,0O0,OO,
| to clean up the country. That il
where our danger lies; that is wha
mkaes for Bolshevism."
Mr.. Ford said that he derived
larger satisfaction than he did from
the proof of his own popularit!
among his neighbors, from the dem
] onstration the election brought tina
Michigan was not so 'rock-ribbed
Republican that voters could not bt
pried loose from the party labe
when principle was involved. Thougl
the State is normally Republican b!
100000, the Michigan Republicans
had to call for outside aid to bea
him, Mr.. Ford insisted.
1.-TWO ex-Presidents and one
wouldbe President got into the fra
cas-" according to the statement
1.-TWO of them stopped making face'
at each other long enough to get to
gether and take a united wallop a
me, and the wouldbe came limpint
in late with his partisan contribu
tion."
After this fling at the Roosevelt
Taft appeal and the Hughes aircraf
investigation report, Mr.. Ford con
tinued:
"At that, nearly $4,000 Republi
cans jumped out of the corral ant
ran loose, and they seemed to lik'
Lit. That bodies well for the future
/ "Everybody's hope in Europe il
pinned on Mr.. Wilson's name, hi!
deeds. He has performed we'll thu
work of carrying a peace1oving ma
tion success, and he is now facing
the great problems Of helping tt
bring the nations back to peace
basis, a just and lasting peace.
will not probably be able tohelp hin
in Congress, but shall help him IL
every other way I can. The demon
strations all over thecountry, follow
ing announcement of the cessation
of hostilities, show that the people
do not like war and are with him il
a love for peace that comes will
honor, the only kind of peace any o
us want.
"But there are influences organic
ing against him now, organizing t.
turn the results of the war to thei
profit and to keep all the peopl
from reaping the full benefit o
their sacrifices. We saw that Il
Michigan In the recent election. |
is this sinister influence that mus
be combatted. After Germany