Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1914 — PROGRESSIVE PARTY COLUMN, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PROGRESSIVE PARTY COLUMN,

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Don’t Be Fooled. If you were hiring a man to do an important job for you your would like to be sure 1st —That the man would do the "ork in the way you wanted it done. 2nd—That the man cared more for your interests than for the interests of some outsider. 3rd—That he never had disappointed other people who entrusted him with important work. William H. Ade is a candidate for Congress here in the 10th District

He is a Progressive. Not a crank or a visionary or a day dreamer but a real, live, up-to-date Progressive You are asked to vote for him. Ist- —Because, as a practical business man, executive and farmer he is qualified to go to Washington and dp your work in the way you want it done. - n< l —Because he is not allied with ■'machine” politics or controlled bybig corporate interests. He would care more for the interests of the District than for the welfare of any campaign organization or a railway company looking for friendly legislation. 3rd—-Because he has made, good in his own community and established a reputation for being trustworthy and guided by horse sense. Now, Mr. Voter, you have a chance to send your own kind of a man down to Washington. Will Ade is running against a couple of lawyers. Why must we always have lawyers as candidates? Is It because they have the gift of gab and talk themselves intb nominations? Why not let the farmers a»..l business men of this district be represented at Washington by a levelheaded business man and a successful farmer? Take Will Wood for instance. Will

is the Republican candidate for Congress. Now, Will has a right to be a lawyer and he has a right to accept important fees from big corporations but why does he deceive himself into thinking that he could be a fair and impartial Congressman and at the same time be the legal representative of traction and railway companies? Furthermore, Will Wood is a roaring and raving stand patter and always has been? Sure, Will Wood won’t deny that. He will put his hand on his heart and tell you that his legislative record is clean as a whistle and that he lies awake nights trying to think up new ways of helping the farmer and workingman, but if you were to accuse him of being a stand-patter nrpbably he would adopt an oratorical pose and shout, “yes, I am!’’ Will Wood is one of the regular dyed in the wool kind. He believed that Lorimer was an honest man, being persecuted. He believed that the Payne-Aldrich tariff law was almost perfect. He hated Roosevelt and justified the so-called ■ primaries’’ which gave Indiana to Taft. He has always defended the convention of 1912 at which the National Committee permitted the minority tor rule the majority. He was against direct primaries or any new tangled contraption which would take power away from the bosses and put in into the hands of he voters. He 'has always been in favor of the old-fashioned, onecylinder, chain-drive kind of machine politics. It is now dead and buried, but Will is still in favor of it because it gave him his bread and butter for a long time in Tippecanoe county.

Will Wood has been in favor of Uncle Joe and Boss Barnes and Jim Watson and all the other stand-pat-ters from A to Z and he has hated with an undying hatred such men as Theodore Roosevelt and Albert J. Beveridge. Think of the nerve of it! Will Wood has been put forward to placate the Progressives who walked out of the Republican camp two years ago. The Republican party says that it has cleaned itself and put oh white garments and is now holy and respectable and “progressive.” To prove that it is “progressive,” it nominates Will Wood for Congress. Can you beat it? Now, Mr. Voter, if you want to be represented in Washington by a gentleman who cherishes an intense and unfaltering devotion to the whole outfit that you repudiated at the polls two years ago, for goodness sakp go ahead and vote for Will Wood. If you want to be represented by a man who will take his orders from the farmers and business men of this district, then vote for William H. Ade.

WILLIAM H. ADE Progressive Candidate for Congress