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A PARTY'S DESPERATION.
publican Managers Resorting to False Statements. Gains
Claimed Where Losses Are Increasing. The
Progressive Tide Mounting.
MKDIUi Mt-CORMICK. Vice
nan Progresßlva National
Committee.
.: , :ii action by Baity conven
r new poltficaj developments
• i importance marked the
f the presidential campaign
the week. It was notable
. for the energy shown by tht
Mean managers in the dtaaeaat
■ reports having a foundation
mi fog. Particularly anxious
::s or mistaken have been
: efforts to convey the idea that
i- i'< i n a r«-crudence of Hr
spirll in the West and that
gressive party has really lost
:. : That the circulation of such
r.-ports is hut the result of a
aceived plan is apparent from
: gularly coincident dates on
the hopeful announcement of
i condition of things was gives
> the campaign manager of
faft .'md by those who might be
ised to take their cues from him.
:. :!n- President himself se* ins- to
.-. n advised to chortle with the
asserting placidly in a recent
terview: "if the proper kind of a
is waged, we will carry
Orei i Kansas and Minnesota, where:
third term strength has rapidly
eakened since the recent tour over
section by the party's candidate."
'!!..' need leas fling by Mr. Taft at
the man who made him is passed—
;i personal matter—but if he
~, ■ lacking in comprehension of to
- political conditions as to give
nee to the reports late!;, sent out
bis manager, he is deserving of
~ ithy. He is as hopeless as Kip
- - vampire lady, who "did not Ba
rn: md." Por that matter, though.
Tafl has at no time really "un
• rstood," wherever the feeling and
ation of the people have been con
l • nied.
* » *
Neither the assertions of the Re
ian manager or of his month- I
•. • s tire supported in the slightest '
by development or the out
•: anywhere. They are simply a
iiiior rai.-ed in the vague hope that
• will assist in a strait —the cry of,
Irowning man clutching at straws.
• • •
\nother recent exploitation by the
R publican manager is the insistence
;iiat there is a return to the Republi
■.n fold because of the bumper crops
consequent prosperity, all of
tiich be attributes to the administra
tion (»f course, if bumper crops are
to i p counted peiitleaUr, the tiaim
the weather man for the presidency
■vould surpass that of Mr. Taft.
* * *
As to the "prosperity" following
the good crops and claimed as a Re
Farmers
Attention
Our Carload
of Bloom Manure Spreaders
have just arrived and in
order to dispose of them
very quickly we are making
very liberal and low prices.
Our Guarantee
is back of every Spreader. All we
want you to do, is, TAKE IT OUT,
TRY IT. If not entirely satisfact
ory bring it back, that's all.
Our Warehouse
room is very limited. In order to
make room for our new line of 1913
buggies and carriages we will close
out at nearly cost some odds and
ends in buggies. It will more than
pay you to call on us. If in need of
a vehicle every one up-to-date and
strictly guaranteed.
Lynden Implement
Ed. Eerkes Q.Q. °- J ' B y |sma
c , publican campaign asset, it is nota
lile that the boast of its existence is
unaccompanied by reference to th*
h.gh cost of living which has come un
i- dor this administration, or to its care
sj'or the favored "interests." Nor U
c; it esptaiaea) just whose prosperity it
n, is. As has well been said, what is
' the use of prosperity when the bull;
p of it goes into the coffers of a favorol
i- Oligarchy? That it is hoped to contin
sine this oligarch; in power appears
it j tacitly admitted, else, doubtless, eith
t er President Taft or his political
t J manager would have something ta
- j say ii explanation of the selection
t of such men as names of New York
t |as chairman of the Republican Na-
Mtlonal Advisory Committee, and of
i the Republican manager's collabora
-1 tion with Barnes and Penrose in the
l conduct of the Republican campaign
* * *
r Another halting effort for political
effect is. made by the Republican man
ager in a claim that the women o!
J (the country are changing their atti
tude which has been in favor of the
Pt igressive party, in support of this
assertion is quoted the expression of
■ m casiona] woman induced to apeak
,1 in rapport of the view that suffragists
should not align themselves with the
party, on the grjund that its promise
Ito them is not sincere. Such expres
sion from a few individual suffragists
i> doubtless easy to secure. But. not
only docs the fact remain that the
women of the country, and particu
larly those who are in favor of the
suffrage, are, with the Progressives,
but that they are becoming more gen
erally enthusiastic and hard working
every day in all that can be done to
romote the party's success. Ther?
is enthusiasm everywhere among
them and the result Is hard work
j everywhere. They are practical. They
-insist on taking their part in raising
'money for the necessary expenses of
a party which is not financed by the
I "interests." No tithe of their support
has hewn alienated and none is likely
;to be.
. . .
Or Mr. Wilson in trie campaign it
may be said that, while he is develop
j ing admirable qualities as a public
speaker, he unfortunately lacks defi
initeness in his speeches. He eontin
lues dim and elusive concerning the
j trusts. It is true that he has attemp
ted to talk on the subject once or
i twice, but he has nothing to talk
labour There is nothing definite in
his platform and there is nothing def
inite in him . It is most unfortunate
for .Mr. Wilson that he is not loaded
for bear. It is not sufficient for him
|as he did when considering the sub-i
I Ject, to merely give utterance to the j
word "rats" or advise Mr. Roosevelt
to "tell it to the marines." There is
THE LYNDEN TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, J»18.
I still a general desire to know what
| Mr. Wilson thinks, or thinks he thinks
about the trusts an i what his inten
tions are regarding them. The ques
* tion of their best control Is the sub ■
•ject greatest in the minds of the
American people at the present time,
since it is the matter that most ef
fects the people's future welfare. The
Progressive party has no handicap
- here. What it proposes to do and what
> it will do when in power is defined
' in' its platform and reasserted in the
speeches of Mr. Roosevelt.
» « *
; There is no change anywhere in
favor of either Mr. Taft or Mr. Wll
i Json, and. in the very nature of things,
there can be none before election day.
llf there is to be a landslide it can
i only be in one direction, and that to
: ! ward Roosevelt. In him alone lies the
! quality of |>otential strength which
I can induce such rare but always pos
sible political occurrence. To imag
ine a landslide in the direction of
j either the schoolmaster, Wilson, or
the cumbrous Mr. Taft would be like
imaging a landslide up hill. There
;is nothing drawing or compelling or
!of the hammer-roan in either. There l
!is no force in either to smite a fissure
I sad induce a departure of the moun-
I tain-side. Roosevelt is the only one
jof the three who can move things.
• • *
Republican gains! If the declara-!
tion that he is for Roosevelt, by Qar-j
ernor Mc-Govern, heading the Repub-:
] lican ticket in Wisconsin; the hesitant
nomination of the unknown Hedges
against the loved and politically form
idable Strauss for governor of New
York: the resignation in favor of the
', Progressive of three Republican pres
idential electors in Missouri, and the
'outbreak in favor of Roosevelt of the
farmers of the Ozark hills of the
southern counties of that state —if |
: these be evidence of Republican gain,
then there is some foundation for the
i claim of Mr. Taft's manager—other- j
! wise he is foolish.
The week just ended has been a j
triumphant one for the. Progressive
party.
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Are You Registered?
The most important duty you owe
to yourself, to your neighbor and tj
your country is that you REGISTER.
! Every honest vote in Whatcom Coun- '
ty will be needed in order to put an
end to the dishonorable and (lishon
•St methods and exactions of the fish , .
trust and the rotten Bellingham ring I
;of political buccaneers. If you want j I
the people of this county to get their |
government back; if you want to re
'■ place incompetent and diahonorable
i public servants in the court house
with honest, capable, intelligent offi
cials, REGISTER, and insist that your
neighbor register. The only place to
order reforms in public government Is
at the ballot box. | a
A FEW THINGS HE BELIEVES IN.
Mr. C. B. Legoe. of Ferndale, the
Progressive party candidate for county
commissioner, to succeed Wm. Fell,
when his term expires, announces in a
letter to The Tribune that he believes
in carrying out the following:
see
"I believe in township organization,
and believe it will do much good for
Whatcom County and will cite you to
one fact, that on account of it all the
old road districts, except No. 2, will be
out of debt in another year. I believe
tand try to practice it in my private
affairs i in a square deal for all. and
would do my best to see that .the big
interests in Whatcom County paid
their share of the taxes and the higher
priced attorney they got to look after
their case the more 1 would think they
were trying to hide in their shells.
• • •
"I believe it is the duty of the coun
ty commissioners to conduct the busi
ness of the county just as any success
ful business man would conduct his
own affairs. As the auditor's report
shows that there is in round numbers
an indebtedness of tSOO.OOi in the gen
eral road and bridge funds, I believe
the commissioners should not spend
I any more money in the various town
ships, except in an emergency, until
these warrants are paid and the inter
est of about $2Ti,000 per year is saved
to the county.
"C. B. LEGOE."
TIMELY TOPICS.
ißy H. L Blanchard, Asst, Supt. West
crn Experiment Station, Puyallup.
Wash, i
A Few Labor-Saving Methods.
This has been an exceptional year
for the growing of forage crops for
our livestock, and those farmers who
succeeded in saving the young plants
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Ifrom being killed or stunted by the
weeds, will be harvesting good crops
The rains have been plentiful and the
plants have been making a continu
ous growth without being checked bj
dry weather, and will be ready for har
vesting on time —during the month or
October. For some twenty-four years
to the writer's knowledge, there have
been only two seasons that it was un
safe for root crops to go unharvested
as late as the middle of November.
The strong temptation to subject
these crops to the fall rains, after hav
ing suffered Somewhat from the sum
mer dry spells, has gotten many of the
farmers in the way of deferring this
work until about the middle of Novem
ber. But this year there will be no
excuse for such delay. The crops arc
sufficiently grown \ind matured for
harvesting, and as a general rule, as
soon as a crop becomes matured It
; ought to be harvested, and properly
secured for the winter.
Of the various methods employed
iby farmers in harvesting some of
■these crops tbe writer finds the fol
lowing to be the most economical ami
satisfactory. .
Mangle Wurtzels.
With this crop the principal tooi
: are a sharp hoe. and a fonr-tined fori",
the hoe being used to cut off the top?
land the fork to gather them up. The
o|>erator with the hoe in hand takes
his position between two rows of mar.
igels, cutting off the tops of both rows
in such a way that they may drop be
It ween the two rows, thus making a
single row of tops for two rows ol
: roots. The fork is then used to gather
i the tops into idles or the wairon. when
; they are ready to be fed. When tie
roots are of the variety that grows
largely above ground they can be est
; ily pulled by hand at once and throw y
i into piles, or the wagon direct, and
thus save one handling. The load
lean then be hauled directly to the pit
or storage place and stored at one 1 .
' The writer uses his manure spreader
for hauling and idling the roots for
'pitting, as it is a good plan to mak>
; the pits near the stables where th«
roots are to be fed out .and convenient
to get when needed. The reel of the ,
spreader is removed and a wide board
substituted in such a way that it may
leasily t>e removed when discharging
, tbe load. The floor of the spreader De
ltas operated by an endless chain tha f
is worked by a crank the unloading
becomes a very quick and easy irn'-
i ter. We first excava'e about six
i, inches deep and six' feet in width fot
the pile of roots, preferring long pile
to round or conical ones. The idles
• are four or five feet deep in the con
! ter. We first cover with straw, using
| plenty on the top. After the roo:>
have passed through the sweat (about
-'■ ten days) we cover with earth aboal
three or four inches in depth. Man
. gles are not sufficiently ripe for feed
j ing until January. Mangle? that do
not grow above ground after topping
jean be turned out with a small ploy
ito advantage. Carrots that do noi
■ grow above ground can be advantage
ously topped with the mowing ma
chine and turned out with a small
I plow. Carrots do not keep as well as
mangles, and can be fed from the
I time of their being harvested.
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NOTICE OF LOCAL
OPTION* ELECTION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
an election will be held in Whatcom
i County. Slate of Washington, in all
those portions of said county not in
j eluded in any incorporated city or
'town in said county, for the purpose of
I voting on the question of whether or
jnot the -sale of intoxicating liquors as j
I a beve rage shall be licensed.
Al! persons- voting at said election
'and desiring that the sale of intoxicat
lag liquors as a beverage shall be li
censed in said district shall vote "for
I All persons voting at said election
I who are opposed to licensing the sale
!of intoxicating liquors as a beverage
iin said district sha.'l vote "against U-
I cense."
Said election will be on Tuesday, the
15th day of November, 1912. the same
being General Election Day. under the
I laws of the State of Washington.
ALEX VAN WYCK,
i tSeali County Auditor of
Whatcom County, Washington.
104-61
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