Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1912 — The Alternative to Face. [ARTICLE]

The Alternative to Face.

Chairman Hilles’s campaign committee is sending out a hew circular to manufacturers, and in reply is getting some new light. The circular warns them of the effect Wilson’s election and tariff smashing would have upon industry and workmen. It closes: “If you will kindly send us a list of your employes who are voters, with postoffice address, each one will be asked personally to vote for Taft and Sherman and the Republican candidate for Congress and told the reason why.” The replies that have gone back from Massachusetts, copies of which have been sent to the Journal, set the mark for the state. “We are for Roosevelt and Johnson,” they say. This is the only logical answer alike for manufacturers and for men, for employer and employe. It is not a theory, but a condition. The re-election of Taft is absolutely out of the question, He has been an impossibility for two months. The next president will be Roosevelt or Wilson. And Roosevelt and Wilson are squarely divided on the question of a protective tariff. The progressive stand is qleur and unequivocal : “We believe in a protective tariff which shall equalize conditions of competition between the United States and foreign countries. * * * We demand tariff revision, because the present tarifT in unjust to the people of the United States. * * * We pledge ourselves to the establishment of a nonpartisan, scientific tariff commission.’ The Democrats attack and oppose protection as unconstitutional. There is but one way in which Republicans can vote effectively to stifle such a policy. It is in voting the Progress sive ticket. There is no alternative. And the replies to Hilles’s circular sent to use show that it Is- being adopted.—Boston Journal. At a banquet of the Union League Club, of New York, on February 10, 1904, a distinguished member of President McKinley’s cabinet gave the following eulogy of Theodore Roosevelt: "I count it, my friends, as one of the greatest privileges of my life to have been able in that day of our great sorrow, when our lamented President McKinley was carried away, to have been able to stand by and hold the hands of his true and loyal successor, Theodore Roosevelt. “I am told that he is not popular in New York. Men say he is not safe. He is not safe for the men who wish to prosecute selfish schemes for the public's detriment. He. is not safe for the men who wish the Government conducted with greater reference to campaign contributions than to the public good. He Is not safe for the men who wish to drag the President of the United States into a comer and make whispered arrangements which they dare not have known to their constituents. ' “But I say to you that he has been, these years since President McKinley’s death, the greatest conservative force for the protection of property and our institutions in the city of Washington. “I would rather have my boys taught to admire as the finest thing in our life the honesty and frankness, the truth and loyalty, the honor and devotion of Theodore Roosevelt than to' have all the wealth of this great metropolis. The work of President Roosevelt has more weight for good In this landthan that of any score, or of all his detractors put together.” The man who thus appreciated Theodore Roosevelt was Elfhn Boot

Dear Editor:—As there is a misunderstanding as to my being a candidate for commissioner for the 2nd district, to a number of th» people, I wish to State that I was perhaps the fault in part I did not state to the Progressive committee that I would not accept the nomination, but I did say that I did not want it I had an opportunity to accept the nomination for the same office on the Republican ticket previous to this, which I objected to, as I did not want any office. I rejected both times. If I wanted to come out for an office I would be proud to come out on the Progressive ticket as I think It is the best platform of any party in existence, with leaders that can not be .excelled. lam Progressive from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet, v ELIAS ARNOLD.