Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1914 — Mistaken About Will Ade Having Been Defeated. [ARTICLE]

Mistaken About Will Ade Having Been Defeated.

its discussion of the Beveridge and Ade meeting here Tuesday The Republican of Wednesday stated that Ade had been twice defeated for treasurer of Newton county. The statement, however, was not true and we acknowledge the error, which was made on the authority of a former resident of Newton county. Mr. Ade ran and was twice elected treasurer as a republican. While some may not so regard it, i( the writer has never been able to reconcile the withdrawal from the republican party of men who have been beneficiaries as office holders of the party. They have deserted at a v time when ambitious leaders withdrew because they were peeved at their own failure to secure office. The four years which “’Mr-Ade served as treasurer of Newton county were doubtless important ones in his period of accumulation and probably one of the farms he now owns’ about represents what he made as an office holder through republican support. And now he boasts that as a farmer he should have the support of farmers for the office he seeks (join-a party that represents in the main a withdrawal from the one which bought him the farm. Mr. Ade represents a common type of men who went to the progressiva party. Many were former office holders, some at the very time of their withdrawal. Others had sought office and been defeated, while others have imaginary slights of one’ kind or another. The Republican by —no means wants to say that there are none connected with the progressive party movement who did not identify with it because of conviction in the principles for which the party stands, but we do contend that those who have been office holders in the party owed to it a duty to remain with it and help to free it of the evils they allege. Will Ade and Senator Beveridge occupied different positions within the party in the campaign of 1908. The republican party declared for county option. Will for it, while Albert Beveridge was against i't. It wasjhe liquor question which defeated the republican party in Indiana, and it was charged at the time and has never been successfully controverted that Albert J. Beveridge was against the cause of temperance. Will Ade told* a skunk story Tuesday, which re ferred to the liquor question in Indiana. and related that Governor Frank Hanly had the skunk poked almost out from under the house when Jim Watson was nominated and the skunk had been under the hduse ever since. He might have said that Albert J. Beveridge, then the United States senator from Indiana, and who owed the republican party- the best talent he possessed,- instead of remaining here and helping to poke the skunk out from under the building, spent thecampaign down in Oklahoma trying to make that state republican. He might have said that Mr. Beveridge later said “it was a wholesome defeat” and he might have said that Albert J. Beveridge wrote the republican platform two, years and that county option was left out of the platform and that Mr. Beveridge lost the votes of thousands of temperance men who knew he had deserted the patty on that Issue two years before. .True, the argument lij offered that James E. Watson,-wiio was nominated for governor, was not a temperance man, but neither was Tom Marshall, his democratic opponent, but it would not have been Mr. Watson but a state legislative body pledged to the enactment of temperance legislation that would have passed the desired lft»s had Beveridge and ■his kind remained true to the platform which Mr. Ade approved. s Yes, Will Ade was twice elected -■treasurer of Newton .county as a re publican; Albert J. Beveridge was twice chosen United States senator as a republican and wss •* candidate a third time; and Theodore Roosevelt was elected governor of New York, vice-president of the United States and president of the United States as a republican, and they were all loyal to the party and its platform as long as they held office, and the desire for the initiative, referendum and recall did not come to them when these were issues of the populist party way back in 1890 and 1892, nor did -tt appeal to them during their long periods of office holding, but came as plausible issues with which to interest the voters when they had turned their backs on their ; friends and were scratching for food 'for their disaffection. Had Beveridge been elected as a republican in 1910 or by the legislature chosen that fall, he would today be ■ republican. That he would have fought for progressive legisla tion we have no cause to doubt,

but that he owed a duty to make it within the party that had given him full swing is a conviction that is fixed with many of his old admirers, whose chief disappointment in him is the fact that along with his ability he did not have the qualities of stability and gratitude. Opposed to him this year on the republican ticket is Hugh Th. Miller, a clean, straightforward business man of Columbus, Ind., who was the lieutenant-governor when county option was passed by a special session of the state legislature and who proved his loyalty to the cause not only through his term of office but by voting for the platform and the candidate after he had been defeated as a candidate for the republican nominationr for governor, and Mr. Beveridge never expressed loftier ideals than Hugh Th. Miller hoidp as a part of his daily practices and which he will exercise his influence to secure for his country if elected to office. Yes, Will Ade and Albert, Beveridge have held office as republicans and both should' be at this very time laboring within that party and urging it to higher accomplishment instead of baying on the outside for strange things which they never urged before and concemingj which there is-strong evidence of Insincerity. In the meantime, it is worthy of consideration that continued support of these men means the continued success of the democratic* pa^ty—Tom Taggart and Crawford Fairbanks in Indiana, • and free trade in the United States. It is the best time right now, if you want to accomplish real reforms, to join with ths iepublican party and then to make it embody into its policies the things which you admire In the platform of a lost cause.