Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1914 — CLEARLY STATED; COME WITH US [ARTICLE]

CLEARLY STATED; COME WITH US

Ton Must Be Interested If You Want to Get the Best Kind of Government. Will H. Hays, chairman of the republican state committee, has issued the following statement to the voters .of the state, under the heading “Come.”: “There are thousands of republicans in Indiana who have never taken an active part in their party’s affairs.

‘iMany think their duty ends with voting. These men are ‘not interested in politics,’ and by their neglect permit evils to develop—evils which would vanish absolutely with the proper increased participation by citizens in the actual ‘polities’ of their country.' 1 “Many have not taken part by reason of the belief that their help was neither needed or not desired. They believe they have not been asked. ~ ‘The reasons of neither class are sufficient. “If we want clean politics, strong tickets and consequent good government, we can get them—but never if we are ‘not interested in politics.’ What we need in this country is not less ‘politics’, but more attention to politics. The man who has no tftne for attention to politics has no just complaint, whatever he may receive. He is riding on another’s ticket.

‘The campaign of 1914 is open. The issues are definitely drawn. The republican state platform is an unequivocal declaration of the , party’s purposes. The state is alive with republican enthusiasm. The absolute necessity of the practice of the great fundamental principles of the republican party in the nation is again demonstrated. The state’s need of the party in the management of its affairs is no less apparent. Our candidates ape men of the very purest character, severest honesty and greatest ability. Success is merited—victory is ahead. “All republicans in the state of Indiana, all those who ever voted the republican ticket, all well wishers of good government, regardless of past party affiliations, are urged to aid. To all the faithful workers who, since the earliest days of the party’s history, have worked for its success, we appeal with a full appreciation of the great service rendered in the past and a thorough realization of the efficiency of their experience and quality of their loyalty; to those men who, two years ago, for any reason voted other tickets, we appeal with an equal appreciation of the quality of their citizenship, the integrity of ther motives, and ther loyalty to the principles on which the party is founded; to those good men who have always in the past been the opposition, but who now, in the light of the additional evidence of the correctness of our position, are concluding that we must, indeed, be right; to the taxpayers of the state of Indiana, who in their own affairs strive for efficiency and practice economy, and expect like efforts by their public servants; to the young men, on whose shoulders the burdens will soon rest, and who will see the republican party, the party of the future, applying to new confidences the wisdom of experience and the efficacy of honest, zealous service. “Especially do I appeal to those republicans who in the years gone i by have taken no active interest in I politics, feeling possibly that they were net needed or desired as working members of the organization, and ask that they, and every one of them, become volunteers today in the cause of the republican party, not voters merely, but workers; that they today offer their services to the precinct committeeman in their precinct, to the county chairman In their county, and to us here, day and night, and-will work from now until election, for a purpose far greater than the success of the party—for the ultimate goal that no harm shall come to the republic; Tt will not be said in the campaign of 1914 by any republican in 'the state of Indiana that he was

not given a chance to work. You are here and now most earnestly and most sincerely urged to join the fighting force and become a potent part of the party of protection and prosperity, with an equal voice in the management of the party’s affairs with every other man in the party. To do this is your privilege and duty. Tt has always been the volunteer soldier that has merited the praise of a grateful people. Be a volunteer in this fight for better government, a protective tariff and lower taxes. Come.”