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THE DAY BOOK N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 30O s. rKoniA ST. ciiicauo, ilt Telenhnne.1 JMItorlal, Monro 3S3 4 eiKfjuunva CIrcullll,on juonroe tos6 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chi cago, 30 cents a Month. By ZmM. United States and Canada, 13 00 a Entered as aecond-claaa matter April 31. 1914, lit the postofflce at Chicago. III. under the Act of March 3, 1S79 HUGHES AND "BLOODY SHIRT." Among .the infinite variety of short comings of the Wilson administra tion, according to Candidate Hughes, is that many of the men in positions of power are from the south, and that the south has been unduly fa vored at the expense of the north in congressional appropriations and in executive adminisration. This is what used to be known as "waving the bloody shirt" and was the favorite sport of Republican can didates during the generation follow ing the war. Hughes is the first presidential candidate in recent years who has had so low an opllnion of the intelli gence of the voters as to appeal for their support on the base and un patriotic ground of sectionalism. The fact that the charge that the Wilson administration has favored the south is untrue makes the Hughes, offense doubly unpardon able. ' The 15 southern states embrace 29.5 per cent of the land area of con tinental United States, 19.4 per cent of the estimated property value, and 30.9 per cent of the population. They received in 1916 20.7 per cent of the government expenditures, -excluding the District of Columbia and foreign countries. The estimates fer 1917 give them 19 per cent " Pres. Wilson has demonstrated many times that he thinks in terms of problems and not of sections., Harry -Garfield, president of Wil liams college, son of fontfer Pres. Garfield, recently made the follow ing striking statement, which has in it the ring of true patriotism: "I have decided to support Mr, Wil son. His character as a man, his sympathetic understanding ' of the problems of the day, his record in office, his unusual ability, pre-eminently displayed in meeting and deal ing with the three great emergencies of his administation, and the impor tance of maintaining an uninterrupt ed policy at this juncture in world af fairs lead me to believe that the best interests of our country will be served in keeping the present admin istration and its party in office for tne present. - "Permit me to add that the sec ional issue raised by some of our Re publican leaders is repugnant 'to the American spirit and the welfare of our institutions. Under the circum stances it offends the sense of fair dealing with political opponents, it tends to arouse old fires of passion, and, if successful, will disunite a peo ple now united and incidentally de stroy the party that fosters so calam itous an issue!" DRESSED, OF COURSE Mrs. Newwed went into the butch er shop. "I want a chicken for roasting, she explained. ' "Dressed or undressed," asked the butcher. "Dressed, of course," she said. "My husband is very fond of chicken dressing." And the bufcher never laughted until after she left.-i-N. Y. World. HELEN KNEW ALL RIGHT "Helen," said the teacher, "caa you tell me whatU 'myth' is?" "Yeth, ma'am," lisped Helen; "It ith a woman what hath not got any huthband." Ladies' Home Journal. iaE..-r !.. mttMtttmtmttmmttm