Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1914 — FORMER CLINTON MOOSER BOOSTS REPUBLICAN CAUSE [ARTICLE]

FORMER CLINTON MOOSER BOOSTS REPUBLICAN CAUSE

George W. Black Predicts Party Victory and Urges Former Republicans to Come Baek.

George W. Black, of Clinton, formerly a member ofc the city council of that city, and a supporter of Roosevelt and Beveridge in 1912, (has written a letter to the republican state committee, announcing I his return to the republican ranks. ■ and setting -forth his views on the I duty of all former republicans in the campaign this year. He said: “I see a good many have been writing to tell why they have “come back’ to the republican party. I want to say there are thousands and thousands of us who have come back that haven’t yet .been - heard from. I am one of them. I (voted for Roosevelt two years ago because I was in favor of anything 'to beat the democrats. My judgment proved right, that he was a better vote getter than Taft, but we fell about a thousand miles short of electing him. What we need now, -more than anything else in this country, is to bring back the protective tariff. The moosers say they, too, are for the protective tariff. But I want to say to those still hanging out, they are doing all in their power to keep the free trade democrats in power. Aren’t they satisfied with all but absolutely putting us all out of -business? I don’t admit that bull moosers are wholly to blame for bringing this condition- about. Taft’s supporters are as much to blame as Roosevelt’s, because they -helped cause the bust-up that put Wilson in. But what Ido say -is that -any former republican who is so blind or so stubborn as not to see he is now simply helping the democrats by refusing to vote the republican ticket, is hopeless. There’s just one way to beat the democrat®. Vote the republican ticket And I want to say we’ll beat ’em, too, this very next election.” /.L_