Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1916 — GEORGE ADE IS FOR HUGHES [ARTICLE]

GEORGE ADE IS FOR HUGHES

Indiana Author Writes State Committee Telling Why He Will Support Hughes. In a letter to the republican state committee George Ade, Indiana auth* or and playwright, teHs why he has come back to the republican party and will support Hughes for president of the United States. Mr. Ade says:* “This year I am going to vote for Charles E. Hughes, as against Woodrow Wilson, for a good many reasons. Four years ago I was a progressive. It is true that my enthusiasm for some of the planks in the progressive platform was so moderate that I had no trouble in controlling it. I liked and makeup of the progressive leadership and I tried to be loyal to the organization two years ago, but it was evident even then that the very structure of the party was beginning to crumble. The progressive party had to keep growing or go nut of business. The logic of events restored the republican party to its time honored place as a principal corrector of democratic mismanagement. The progressives must not figure that they made a losing fight. 1 “I believe "that the first "duty of every good American citizen this year is to change Washington from a word factory to a deed factory. For one, I have had enough alpaca coat, and chautauqua and college rhetoric and the oleaginous Josephus to last me for a hundred years. “Colonel Roosevelt did the patriotic thing last January when he indicated he was ready to jump in and support any good republican who could defeat Wilson. The Colonel saw what was -wrong at Washington from the very stdH. Mr. Wilson, means to be sincere and wants to do what is right, but he was brought up on a college campus. He -was accustomed for years to be dogmatic and oracular before a lot of college boys who couldn’t talk back. Accordingly whenever a Tampico or a Lusitania crisis or a railroad crisis confronted the good doctor, he did not tackle it according to the methods of old fashioned, statesmen brought up in -a school of hard knocks. “No, he collected a lot of pretty adjectives, symmetrical phrases, choice metaphors and high grade similes, mixed them in a silver bowl with frankness and myrrh and maple sugar and touched off the whole thing and, as the smoke arose, he sat back and s<sw things in the smoke.”