Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1914 — A Progressive’s View That Expresses Belief of Many. [ARTICLE]

A Progressive’s View That Expresses Belief of Many.

I am one of the many thousands who worked and voted as a progressive, not for the purpose of wrecking the republican party, but in the hope that we might eliminate the evils 1 that had fastened themselves to the organization like barnacles to ">a ship and bring about the rejuvenation of the grand old party that stands for human freedom, social justice, American labor, and prosperity for all the people. As a result of the progressive movement the country has suffered commercial and industrial depression. The progressive vote made possible a democratic administration and a low tariff law. The progressive movement has cost this country a vast sum. But it was worth the price. It has given us a republican party that gets its inspiration from the people; one that has the necessary energy to inject sound Americanism into our government policies and the strength of purpose to make this a government for, of and by the peO' pie. < A lam a protectionist. This is why I turn to jßl.republican party. I know that itt'ptinciples are right. I believe that its heart is right. It is the samftold Party, magnificent in its etattoX but there has come to It, by reason of Its ordeal, a new Spirit and progressives are rallying to its support because they know it is the party that restore to the people those Messings that belong to them. * I believe that, we former progressives who are coining back are bringing into the republican party an enthusiasm and a patriotic purpose that will give renewed life to the republican party and make possible the restoration of prosperity and the rehabilitation of sound American principles.—Mayor Thos. Bauer, of Lafayette, in the South Bend Tribune. - -