Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1914 — WELL, WELL, JUDGE WILEY CAME BACK [ARTICLE]

WELL, WELL, JUDGE WILEY CAME BACK

Former Circuit Judge and Later On Appellate Bench Assigns Reasons For Return to G. 0. P.

Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 17.—Judge U. Z. Wiley, who for twelve years sat on the Indiana appellate bench, was one of the bigg'est figures in the Rioosevelt-Beveridge movement in Indiana in 1912. Today Republican State Chairman Will H. Hays received a letter from Judge Wiley in which he carefully reviewed the present political situation and announced that he had decided to support the whole republican ticket. In the course of his letter Judge Wile/ made it plain that the progressive party had degenerated into an ally of the democratic party and warned the voters of the state not to he fooled by the protestations of political virtue that are going up from the designing bosses of the hull moose party. Regarding the bL-partisan alliance Judge Wiley said: “The progressive party of today, through its leaders, hut not its rank and file, appears to be the bitterest enemy that the republican party has, and they are now hurling anathemas qpo'n the republican party that would put to shame a democratic ward politician, and yet this is just what is being done in the campaign of 1914. It appears to be no longer a political battle between the democratic and republican parties, but has resolved itself into a battle between the democratic party and the progressive party, as its ally, on one Side, and the republican party on the other.” Judge Wiley had the following to say regarding the management of the republican party; ‘Those who make the assertion that the republican party in Indiana today is under boss control and is being managed by machine rule are either ignorant of the facts as they exist or are purposely falsifying the truth. Never in. the;history of a political party in Indiana have the rank and file of a party had so much to do in shaping its policies and controlling its destinies. The party is not being managed and controlled by those in charge of the campaign ip the interest «! any selfish or personal ends, hut its affairs are being managed for the betterment of all the people to the §nd that good may come tci the greatest number, and that the political affairs of the state may again be put into the hands of safe and sane administrators.

“After a most careful investigation of this question, I have unhesitatingly reached the conclusion that any statement from any and every source, that the republks,n party of Indiana is under the control and dominion of political bosses, or a political machine, that such thought is father to the wish, and that the statement so asserted and re asserted, is a political bugaboo to keep in line the thousands of former progressives who are on the border line of again giving their support to the republican party, and an attempt to induce the many who have already declared their allegiance to that party to get them to return to the progressive party.”

William Chilcote, w T ho is now in the national military home at Marion, wTites to have The Semi-Weekly Republican sent to him at that place. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Clinton, who live on a farm near this city, left yesterday morning for Custer City, Okla., having received notice of the death of his brother. Mr., and Mrs. George Gwilliam, son and daughter, John and Lillian, of Fowler, were Sunday guests of Mr. and. Mrs. Noalf Zeigler and family, north of town. Mrs. Roy Lewis slipped and fell at the hack porch of their residence near Rensselaer Saturday and fractured a hone in her right ankle. Dr. English attended her. Mrs. Theodore Sell, of Union City, and Mrs. Andrew Locker, of Portland, returned to their homes today -after visiting their brother, Howard Smith, of Barkley township. Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Clark and family and Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCashen, of Lee, autoed over to Parr Sunday and spent the day with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs; T F. Warne. Farmers who are interested in the dairying business can not well afford to miss the dairy show which will take place in Chicago and it is probable that a good many will go up next Tuesday, which is Indiana day at the show.