Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — FORMER PROGRESSIVE COMMENDS HAYS [ARTICLE]

FORMER PROGRESSIVE COMMENDS HAYS

Endorses Republican Platform and Will* Support Cause in Lake Co. Elections This Fall.

Indianapolis, Ind., July B.—Chairman Will H. Hays, of the republican state committee, today received a letter from E. C. Davis, of Crown Point, Ind., who was a progressive in 1912, in which he commended the republican state chairman for the statements he recently issued “to every well wisher of good government in Indiana.” Mr. Davis writes as follows: , “I take pleasure in endorsing every Statement made in the literature being sent out by the republican state central committee, and I hereby pledge you my assistance and cooperation in the coming campaign. “I left the republican party and voted the progressive ticket in 1912 4n the belief that the progressive party, at that time offered the most effective panacea for the ills of democratic legislation. Since then the changed attitude of the republican party, coupled with the pleasant remembrance of its great achiever ments, its position on the vital issues, and among them the tariff question, on which democratic legislation has proved so hurtful, I became convinced that the republican party should be returned to power. Living examples of democratic incapacity are in daily evidence in the administration of both state and national affairs. The party has always been strong n promise and weak in execution; its leaders a/re usually impracticable theorists. Democracy is by far a greater menace to good government today than the so-called republican bosses. “I agree with you that this country needs today to united republishall come to the republic.’ “Yours for the success of the republican party.”