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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH -f- zssxtz flffiSfflGWBSS & Republicans of Caclfie County, Will You Uncontiomlly Surrender? BBO Will You be Frightened Into Voting the Democratic Ticket? ' i ' President Vilson Has Thrown Down the Gauntlet. He has challenged the free exercise of your rights as citizens. . He has used his high office as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief--i- n time of War for purely partisan purposes, and has issued from the White House a call for The Unconr t ditional Surrender of all Republican Voters. mandate is that only Democrats must be elected to Congress. This is only a chalbut constitutes an invasion of lenge to your intelligence and fitness for your sacred rights as American Citizens. His self-governme- nt, Has Ever Come From President Wilson has declared that the fundamen- tal purpose of this war is to guarantee to all peoples in determinfree and untrammeled ing how and by Whom they shall be governed.- - And yet, in the very hour when Republican fathers are buying Liberty Bonds to the limit of their financial ability, and Republican mothers are dedicating and consecrating the lives and fortunes of their sons to this great cause, the whole body of Republican vofers are officially proscribed and told by their Commander-in-Chie- f either to stay at home on election day, or stifle their political convictions and vote without question or qualification for Democrats. A Chief Executive Of The have felt, for example, that'it was not fair for the administration to fix the price on the wheat and wool of the northern farmer and to leave untouched the price of cotton and rice of the southern planter. United States. n Splendid Republican War Record -- 4 The record of Republican senators and Congressmen for loyalty and patriotism does not permit of challenge. On President Wilson at his best or at his worst? His Astonishing Action . , f Some months ago President Wilson solemnly announced to the American people that, inasmuch as a great crisis confronted the nation, politics is adNow upon the eve of election, the Presjourned. ident, following a policy without precedent, has issued The Most Astounding Partisan Appeal That win-the-w- Although the Republicans of the House are in the minority, they cast more actual votes on seven great war measures than the Democratic majority. -- Is this Republicans of Utah, are you going to be intimidated into voting the Democratic ticket by that kind of shallow deception, in face of the fact that YOUR party has stood out gloriously as the great party ever since the war began? ' The Democrats employ this hypocrisy because they are afraid to stand on their party record during the past two years. They are afraid to meet such fact? as these. roll calls in the Senate on war measures, between April 6, 1917, and the 29th of May, 1918, the votes by Republicans in favor of such measures were 72 per cect, while only 67 per cent of the votes cast on the .Democratic side were in favor of such enactments. 'These were the Presidents own measures. Does that record look as if Republicans in Congress had hampered him, or would hamper him in the proper conduct of war? fifty-on- e hard-hittin- g The Democrats have added nearly $700,000 per year to the peoples state tax burden, and at the same time have almost doubted the states floating indebtedness. They have repudiated their own cry of economy by creating scores of new offces for their party place seekers, while the people were paying the bill in addition to meeting the heavy expenses of the war. It is true that Republicans have differed from the administration on some domestic questions. They The County Campaign. The County Democratic Committee insist on fighting the present campaign at long range. Ashamed of the record of the COURT HOUSE officials it refused to endorse its own in its County platform, and is now making a plea for the of these men on the grounds on that President Wilson must be supported. During the past year the administration has done all it possibly could to evade the law in the matter of salaries. Under the great law of compensation these genU?men, and the Democratic party, certainly have their nerve to ask to be returned to power -- under such a record. tion of Chairman of the draft board, a Democratic clerk, who is also a member of the draft board, a Democratic Attorney and adviser, and a Democratic Treasurer, the custodian of the funds of the people, to set aside the law and raise the salaries of these four officials. Reflect upon the consistency of these men in their convenient offices, drafting the boys of the county at a salary of $30 per month and then filing fake resignations to illegally raise salaries of more than three times in advance of the boys thit are making the world safe for them to live We condemn the action of the present Democratic county administration in its attempt to evade the law, and thereby raise salaries of favorite officials in defiance of the will of the people. When hundreds of. our local patriots are serving their counjry at the front, facing the most dangerous foe the world has ever known, ready to make the supreme sacrifice, and all patriotic citizens are making every possible sacrifice in order to support the soldiers in battle, it ill becomes the Democratic administration of a great county to conspire with the Democratic sheriff, who holds the exalted posi in. The loyalty of the Candidates on the State and County Republican Ticket is beyond question. American Citizens. It is your right and duty Republicans of Cache, you are free-bor- n to vote out of power a costly administration without having the slightest doubt cast upon ' your loyalty. And November 5th, is the day to drive that point home by a regular e sweeping Republican victory. old-tim- The Ticket appears on last page, vote for it on Tuesday, November 5th. 9 Cache County Republican Committee. Political Advertisement. ' " ' - |