Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1915 — PLEDGE TO VOTERS MADE BY CHAIRMAN [ARTICLE]

PLEDGE TO VOTERS MADE BY CHAIRMAN

Equal Voice Guaranteed All Who Return to Party—Will H. Hays Urges Patriotism. In a public speech aft Anderson recently Chairman Will H. Hays, of the republican state central committee, made the following appeal and pledge to those voters in Indiana who are figuring an affiliation with the republican party in the campaign of 1916: “All those good citizens who voted other tickets, and especially those who were affiliated with the progressive party last year and who have not yet come with their friends in the republican party, are again most earnestly and sincerely urged to join our 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. “As here and now we greet these good friends who are with us, with that peculiar pleasure, that strength of hand and warmth of heart that comes only with the reunion of strong spirits in a perfect understanding, so here and now we renew to all our pledge that the rights of individuals within the party to a full participation in the party’s activities shall be and rem. in equally sacred and sacredly equal. This is the party’s solemn promises. Its fulfillment shall be our most earnest, constant aim. “The solution of the entire matter is now solely a question of patriotism. We are approaching a period in our industrial and national life second to none in complexity and in most serious, importance. The country looks to the republican party to meet it. It has never failed in such a crisis. It will not fail now—but there is a tremendous work to do. To aid in this is duty. The. country needs the repubilcan party —and what this country needs it is the duty of every man to give. The country needs the party; the party wants these men. To them all I say, let us be constructors, not obstructionists. Let us do this work together. Gome.”