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The Lamar Register VOLUME XXX.. REPUBLICAN TICKET For President CHARLES E. HUGHES For Vice President CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS Presidential Electors LAWRENCE C. PHIPPS CHARLES BOETTCHER DR. WILLIAM F. SLOCUM BRUCE J. E ATON C. W. CREWS DAVID R. C. BROWN State Ticket Congressman Third District George E. McClelland Justices of Supreme Court—W. H. Gabbert, Denver; Gebrge W. Allen, Denver. „ . _ . Governor George A. Carlson Lieutenant Governor - Moses E.l^wis Secretary of State -k , Treasurer Harry Mulmx Attorney General .-William C. RoUmwn Superintendent of Public Instruction Mrs. Helen M. Wixon Regents of the University—Mrs. Anna Wolcott Valle, William R. King. District Ticket District Judge , Hillyer District Attorney. Joseph W. Hawley Representative—Baca-Prowers Counties Allyn Cole County Ticket County Clerk L , M - Markham County Sheriff . 'V-Hu"" 1 1 1 County Treasurer J ol ' ll L. Mm-phj County Assessor ~ A - W? County Superintendent of Schools Mary L. Lake County Surveyor 11. C. Byrnes County Coroner... L. W. fee County Commissioners: District No. 1 A. P. knuckey District No. 3 C. C. Sterrett Justices of Peace: . , . District No. 1 J- T. Kirkpatrick, A. Deeter Constables Dist. No. 1 Geo. A. Watson, 0. F. Rhodenbaugh Roll Call of the Cabinet Poatmftater General Burleson is in the middle west trying to explain why the postal service has been so rotten for the past three year.’,. Secretary McAdoo is in the same states thimble rigging the public with his “no bal ance” figures. Secretary Baker has been tourir-g New J.rscy. Secretary Daniels is campaigning in lowa. Mis souri and Kansas with a pop gun and a toy ship. Secretary Houston is in New England explaining why his de partment published unreliable reports in regard to the wh-at crop. Secre tary Wilson i- in the middle west try ing to show that ten hours wages for eight hours work on the railroads coastitutas an «i*ht-hour dsy. Secrc LAMAR, PROWERS COUNTY, COLORADO,WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1,191 H. PART TWO, PAGES STO 14. REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARERS i Lary Red field has been touring Now England and New York, abusi.ig man ufacturers, denying that the war has had anything tc do with our ; rosper ity, and yowling for free trade. S *c rctary Lane is tied up with the Mexi can conference, but an ccasional bul letin emanates from that secret con ference informing us that all is well. Meanwhile, Villa is chasing Carranza up a tree. Secretary Lansing refuses to be dragged into the campaign of villification and falsehood, but he is holding up the German agreement un til after election. Vice President Tom Marshall perches on top of the demo cratic tree singing “Woodrow, tit Woodrow, tit Woodrow.” Attorney General Gregory crawled into his hole shortly after the Maine- elections and all he does is growl a little. He used THU PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF PROWERS COUNTY up his lexicon in the Maine cam paign. In fine, though the dignity of the presidential cabinet has been pawned ir a second hand store, it is remarked that the efficiency of the various departments over which these cabinet officers preside increases with their absence. Capitol Correspondence As the campaign draws to a close three things stand out with startling distinctness. One is that prohibition has come to stay. No political party and no organization of responsible men, business, social or political, anywhere in the state, are urging or even suggesting its repeal. It has been an unqualified success and this due not only to the splendid way in which our citizens generally have ac cepted its provisions, but also to the common-sense, impartial and tactfull way in which it has been enforced by the state authorities. For this successful administration it is admitted Governor Carlson de serves supreme credit, and the way voters are rallying to his support in dicates that the people are not willing us yet to trust the continued enforce ment of this law to a party that two years ago declared against it. The second outstanding fact is that the industrial peace and material prosperity the state is now enjoying is in such marked contrast to the disturbances and anarchy that pre vailed during the previous six years of democratic misrule, that no man or woman with a memory that extends back this far is willing to run the risk of a relapse into former condi tions. The forces behind the demo cratic candidates, and that control the party’s policies are identically the same as they were during the Shaf roth and Ammons administrations, :.nd should the deomcratic ticket be elected every labor agitator and trea son inciter and bootlegger in the state would rejoice and properly consider they had received a license to renew their devlish work. The third outstanding fact is that during the last ten days the tide has turned strongly against President Wilson. There is no use denying that a month ago republican leaders were seriously alarmed at reports of de fection, especially on the part of women voters, influenced by the spe cious plea that Wilson had kept us out of war. Colonel Roosevelt’s un answerable arguments on this subject and his appeal to womanhood to place duty before safety have soaked in and produced a revolution of feeling that is very likely to turn into a landslide before the 7th of November. The good women of Colorado realize that a president who will deliberately close his eyes and stop his ears to the in- I human barbarities and cries of dis- I tress that have come to us from the - thousands of helpless Americans and millions of miserable, starving na tives in unhappy' Mexico, has no claim on the votes or respect of the Chris tian womanhood of America. They recognize that bruve and patriotic notes sent to foreign powers, followed by private assurances that the warn ings were not to be taken literally, but were meant to satisfy his indig nant countrymen are an insult to the patriotism of the country and a dis grace to the government. Colorado is no longer in the doubt ful column, it is confidently believed that Governor Carlson will be re-elect ed by 30,000 plurality, and if the anti- Wilson sentiment keeps growing as it has the last ten days Hughes is likely to run away ahead of the Governor. Heard at the National Capital Washington, Nov. 1. (Special Cor respondence).—The chief of the bu reau of foreign and domestic com merce who is doing everything he can to supply statistics to bolster up the Wilson administration has issued a statement predicting that European countries will need a billion dollars worth of lumber the first year after the war. Here we have once more an evidence that continued prosperity un der u democratic administration de pends upon the devastation that has taken place in Europe. Under re publican economic policies it is not necessary to base our hope of contin ued business activity upon the mis fortunes of any other nation. It should be kept In mind that Mex ican revolution! .ts an 1 de facto offi cials have been careful to confine their personal attacks upon foreigners, to American citizenß. While they ha** destroyed considerable prop<Mpy be longing to citizens of European coun tries, for which the United States will probably be called upon to pay, yet they liavc been careful not to in jure or kill citizens of Germany, Great Britain, France or other nations that make a practic. of protecting their rights under international trea ties. American men, women and ildren have suffered the indignities, injuries and death. In an effort to create the impression that business men favor the re-elec tion of Woodrow Wilson, the demo cratic press is making great display of the announcements of two or three railroad presidents that they will vote for the democratic president. It should be remembered, however, thht these men are and have been all their live.® staunch democrats. There is nothing new or surprising in the fact that they will support Woodrow Wilson in 1916 Senator Underwood, one of the au thors of the democratic tariff law, says that there was no industrial de pression just prior to the outbreak of the European war. Now comes the departemnt of commerce with a sta tistical statement showing that the output of steel works and the rolling mills in 1914 was less than in 1909. although the population of the country had increased very greatly. The facts compiled by the democratic adminis tration do not support the arguments of its campaign speakers. On October 18, Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo issued his daily statement showing aomng other things that during the first 15 working day-* of October the administration collect ed revenues to the amount of $32,- 396,000 and spent $57,189,000 thus spending ?25,000,000 more than it took in. That is certainly “going some” for an administration that was elected on a pledge of economy. Registration, in those states which require it, shows no sign of recession in the republican tide. The primaries have invariably disclosed a larger in terest and a far greater vote on the republican side than on the demo cratic, and the registration still far ther emphasizes the disparity between the parties. Of course, in some of the states there is no positive way to shoar that a registered voter is a republican NUMBER 22. or democratic —hut it is a fair test to note the comparative registration in the wards and other political units where there is a normal republican or democratic majority. In the large cities it is happening invariably that the registration in the big republican wards is much heavier than in the wards which are strongly democratic. The same thing is noticeable in the towns, also. New York and liilnois, in particular, arc showing this —and New York and Illinois, with 74 elec toral votes between them, are highly essential states in this year of poli tical significance. E. C. Coumbe of North Yakima, Washington, was at the national cap ital recently. Ned says the people of his state have heard so much about this Wilsonian prosperity, and have experienced so little of it, that they have concluded it is what Woodrow would call a “psychological prosper ity.” But he adds that there will be nothing psychological about the vote which Washington casts for Hughes. LAST RESORT Vile Slanders and Petty Gossip Chief Weapons of Some of the 1 oral Candidates As the campaign draws to a close the friends of certain democratic lo cal candidates have resorted to the most malicious and \ile tactics ever breught into Prowers county politics. They have started out with a houso to house campaign of lying vilification ami nothiag is too far from the truth for their use. Some of the talebear ers admit they have lived here a few waeks and yet they have the mendac ity to peddle all kinds of petty gossip about men and women who have lived in the community and been respected citizens for as many years as the gossips have lived weeks here. They know these lies will have no weight with the long time residents of the county, who have known the candi dates for years, but they hope to leave an impression on the newer voters. The latter should be warned that if there was any truth in these reports they would not have been withheld until the last week of the campaign, but would have been in cir culation long ago. The republican committee has hail some very direct dope- backed by affidavits offered them in regard to some candidates on the opposition ticket, but relying on the high character and well known in tegrity of the men and women on thi* republican ticket they have refused to enter into uny such campaign, and believe the voters of the county will repudiate slander as a campaign wea pon. Men and women, who have no personal interest in Prowers county, some of whom have not lived here long enough to be voters and others who are preparing to leave as soon as election day is over, are walking the streets of Ijimar stopping at each home to vilify candidates on the re publican ticket and some are even going to the other towns of the coun ty on the same errand. “Pansy" Baker To the newspaper fraternity at Washington there is nothing startling in the New Jersey speech of Secretary of War Newt Baker, wherein he de famed the character of the continen tals who left their bloody footprint-* in the snow at Valley Forge. Hu* Washington correspondenfer, recall that at the time the Columbus, New Mex ico, massacre came before Secretarv Baker for action, and several of them were gathered arund his desk to re ceive his morning statement on the subject, he dismissed the matter as inconsequential. A vase of fresh cut flowers were on the desk. Bjrying his nose in the bouquet he murmured bcatifically. “Boys, I just love flow ers.” That ended the interview. Nero fiddled when Rome burned. Baker de lighted his nostrils with the perfurmu of blossoms while Columbus buried her dead. The newspaper men prompt ly nicknamed Mr. Baker “Pansy.”