Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1911 — James E. Watson Praises Republican Party at Topeka. [ARTICLE]

James E. Watson Praises Republican Party at Topeka.

* James E. Watson, former copgressman from Indiana, and the defeated republican candidate for governor, in a speech at the banquet of the Kansas' Day club, at Topeka, Kansas, defended the record of the republican party as a progressive record. “Is not our party sufficiently progressive?” he asked. “It was when It passed the Sherman anti-trust law in 1889, a law so drastic as to enable the administrative officers to destroy any obnoxious combination of capital found within the borders of our land. “It was when it passed the Elkins anti-rebate law, when it enacted the pure food law, the national inspection law, the employers’ liability law, the sixteen-hour law, the child labor law, the railroad rate law. “It was progressive when it enacted the legislation that practically takes the control of all the railroads out of the hands of the man who builds them and places them in the hands of the interstate commerce commission. “The republican party has always solved problems as problems have confronted it.”