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...speech of acceptance, he had said: "The Democratic Party does not, and under my leadership will not, advocate any sudden or drastic revolution in our economic system which would cause business upheaval or economic distress. This principle was recognized as far back as the passage of the Underwood Tariff bill...
That last sentence would need explaining, because the Underwood bill placed on the free list a lot of things that farmers raise, viz. bacon, hams, hogs, wool, lambs, sheep, corn, wheat, potatoes, rye, milk, cattle...
...poll, Hughes decisively defeated Wilson by a plurality of 513 votes in the straw ballot. Out of a total of 1802 votes cast; Hughes received 1140, or 62 per cent; Wilson, 627; Allan L. Benson, 24; J. Frank Hanley, 10; Underwood, 1. The large number of votes indicates the interest taken in the poll, and the Republican plurality shows the Harvard opposition to the rest of the country in one of the most closely contested elections the country has ever witnessed. For two days the states were in a frenzy of excitement, Hughes being first announced as the winner...
...said: "The purpose of the tariff is not to balance the books of business corporations, but to safeguard the family budget. ... It has become the funda¬mental safeguard of the American work¬man and the American farmer . . . A retreat to the Underwood tariff scheduless on farm produce would ruin millions of our farmers todayo...
...issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping God-in-Nature on a mountain peak (via Underwood & Underwood photograph). Mrs. Stillman wrote on Paris fashions, not far from a huge photograph of herself. The U. S. institutions discussed-and apparently believed in-were "West Point-Its Idea" and "Broadway-from Pabst to Nedick." There was no discussion of the flag...