Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Progressive Party News.

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County Ticket. The precinct chairmen of the Progressive party are hereby notified to meet at the Princess theater. October 3, 1912, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of selecting candidates. to be petitioned for the following county office?, to-wit: Treasurer, Recprder, Sheriff, Surveyor, Coroner and Commissioners from the second and third districts. RIAL B. HARRIS. County Chairman.

To those who are familiar with conditions over the county, the progressive party will be one of the two dominant political parties as a result of the coming election, and there are strong indications of complete success.

The progressive party it must be understood is not a bolting faction of the republican party. The Progressive partly must fight its own battles and the best interests of the party can be conserved only, by placing a complete ticket in the field from tbe highest to the lowest office.

The . |>£ople of this nation are progressive, they always have been and always will be. It is parties, controlled by special interests, and dominated by political bosses, who are not progressive. Both old parties are controlled, and the people hre now attempting to get the government into their own hands. ' The direct primary for the nomination of officers, will have much to do in leaving the politician 'without a job. The politician can work through caucusses, where there are small numbers, but he will be completely at sea, when we nominate hy primary, safeguarded as are our elections. The Direct Primary is advocated in the Progressive plat,form. The Initiative, referendum and recall, simply means that when a legislature refuses to enact a law the people want, they may compel its enactment; when the legislature enacts a law the people do not want, the people may reject it; and when a public official does not perform hiß official duties faithfullky, he may be recalled, just as the farmer discharge? a worthless farm hand, who fails to do his duty. The initiative, referendum and recall, are advocated by the Progressive platform. These are the means by which we will get the government into our own hands and compel the enactment of beneficial legislation and the rejection of hurtful laws.

For years Theodore Roosevelt and Albert J. Beveridge and other pro-! greceives have advocated the control of “big business.” Bryan and the' Democratic party stand for the “busting of big business.” Taft and! the Republican party, says that the' Sherman law is adequate to deal with j “big business” and in pursuit with that policy Taft has dissolved the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trusts. What is the result? For answer ask the price of gasoline, the price of tobacco and you will at once determine that you have been injured, rather than benefltted. Standard Oil stock is higher today than ever in its 'history. That kind of control is “adequate” for the fcrutts, the people who buy the product, but inadequate for the people. That is what is called “Trust Busting,” but the trouble is that such “busting” works to the disadvantage of the pople who buy the product. Combinations of great wealth are world’s work. Without great comabsolutely necessary to carry on the binations of wealth, we would be living in the “dark ages.” Wjould we have railroads? Would we have the deserts turned into fertile fields? Individuals can not do these things single handed. Big business is not bad simply because it is big. It is bad because we have followed an unbusinesslike course in dealing with it. The Progressive party advocates a policy of “control” of big business, not the “busting” of it. We control the railroads, we control National banks, the State conU trols the State Banks, why can we not Control all “big business” rather than attempt to destroy it? You can’t destroy it. It might be crippled to the point of developing business uncertainly and probable panics. But to control it t& businesslike. At Whe&tfield a short time ago,