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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1916
Page
1
A reading shows business notices and professional listings in Decorah Iowa. Includes physicians surgeons attorneys and shop ads with addresses and service hours and a Sugar Bowl Ice Cream Factory entry acknowledging local commerce and services in Winneshiek County.
A collection of editorials and observations on WWI dynamics, tariff debates, and political campaigns. It laments pre election rhetoric, notes public sentiment on democracy and taxation, and highlights small business thrift, public health warnings about tin cans, and a tale of a single idea becoming a fortune.
The Iowa ballot will run seven columns wide in most counties and eight in some. On filing day seven parties, plus a nonpartisan judiciary ticket, had full state tickets: Republican, Democratic, Progressive, Socialist, Socialist Labor, and Prohibition. Prohibition nominees include Governor Oren D. Elliott and others. Socialist Labor fields Dowler for governor and Hisel for lieutenant governor, with electors at large and district slates.
The Town Soldiers home lists 582 war participants in a semi annual muster led by Lieut. Col. C. K. Marshall of Day ton Ohio. Government plans to determine funding toward veterans care. The home totals 541 members including women and a few nonwar participants.
The highway commission at Town State College urges thorough fall dragging to prepare roads for winter. Properly dragged roads freeze smoothly and remain better all winter, yielding top condition come spring and a well kept boulevard highway throughout the season.
The state reports 77 666 in fees from traveling medicine vendors and registered pharmacists for the past two years. Vendors pay 100 annually and travel rural districts selling cures for hog cholera and hair restorer among other items. One vendor was announced last week.
A Woodrow Wilson remark from a Waldorf Hotel speech in New York on March 18, 1807 denounces labor organizations and leaders as a rival to freedom of opportunity, arguing both capitalism and organized labor form formidable enemies of equality.
In a January 12 1909 reply to an anti strike and anti boycott banquet invitation Woodrow Wilson declares he is a fierce partisan of the open shop and of individual liberty and would contribute to clarify thinking and form right purposes on this matter.
The Philadelphia Ledger argues that tariff policy remains a central campaign issue. It critiques the Underwood bill and Wilson’s stance as repeating past errors, noting Democrats’ postwar protectionist shifts for electoral gain while warning that true secure prosperity requires steadfast protection and adequate customs revenues.
At a Saratoga Springs convention Charles Evans Hughes responded to Richard Olney’s slur on his resignation from the judgeship. Hughes said he did doffed the ermine and wore the garb to seek office not for power but to defend American rights and honor before the American people. He stated he had no desire to return to politics yet accepted the summons no honorable man could refuse.
The New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser lauds the current president as a highly flexible yet opportunistic leader. It argues he shifts from states' rights to nationalism, pacifism to aggressive arms talk, neutrality to war rhetoric, and wage policies by political chance, critiquing the political system as a game where most fail to advance.
A Philadelphia reader recalls a Republican voter who rarely backed a Democrat, except 1872, to oppose voting for Wilson due to the railroad controversy. The piece argues Wilson chose expediency over principle, shaping a national mood and votes, while criticizing his Latin American policy and a string of recognitions as expediency driven.
Charles A. Rawson, chairman of the Republican state central committee, advised at Waterloo that Charles EB Hughes, the Republican presidential candidate, would visit Waterloo on Friday October 20 before traveling to Des Moines and Sioux City. A separate item notes a woman repeatedly stabbing a man in the heart.
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