Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1916 — Congress Also Should Be Republican. [ARTICLE]

Congress Also Should Be Republican.

Indianapolis Star. The indications, are. that, the great silent vote in the United States is proposing to play safe. The trend of sentiment' seems to be toward Mr. Hughes and the republican party as giving best assurance of capable, consistent handling of the country’s business in the trying days that will follow, the and the reconstruction of industrial Europe. Very few in this country are fooling themselves regarding, prosperity. The people know it is artificial, warmade. It can not last. Nothing is more apparent to the aveiage voter than that we must be prepared to cope with unprecedented complications after peace has been established. The public has not forgotten the dissatisfaction the Underwood tariff was giving when its defects arid limitations w re submerged in the flood of war business. It knows that law is not what we require and it has little confidence in the ability of the democratic party to give us what we need. The people will- feel safer with tjie republican party, and the' tide of sentiment has set in toward Hughes and Fairbanks. But, a republican president without a republican congress to support him could do little. It is not only important, but it is imperative that he should be backed by republican senators and representatives in congress Don’t elect a man to serve you in a crisis and then tie his hands so that he can do nothing.