Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1914 — PROGRESSIVE PARTY COLUMN. [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVE PARTY COLUMN.

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Thrones Topple! Despots Tremble! The campaign committee representing the Progressive Party here in the 10th District of Indiana appeals to you to support Will Ade for Congress. “ He deserves your support because he is clean and able and trustworthy and will truly represent you and your best interests when he goes down to Washington. You are asked to vote tor Will Ade because he stands on the Progressive platform, which has got away from the dead superstitions of the past and is courageously facing the real problems of the present and the future.

The Prosgressive Party believes that human rights are more important than property rights. The Progressives feel sure that tariff-tinkering should cease and that the complicated schedules of import duties should be revised by a permanent commission. They do not believe in ousting the democratic tariff-tinkers, merely to put back into power the men who framed the infamous Payne-Aldrich law and defended it until it was killed by an uprising of indignant voters. If the standpat republicans had kept the promises of a "downward revision" made in 1908, the democrats never would have had a Chance to pass the law which these very standpatters are now denouncing. Don't forget that. You are asked to vote for Will Ade and the whole Progressive ticket because the Progressive movement is a part of the great world-wide battle for justice to the lowly, the curbing of arrogant wealth and the guarantee of a square deal for all the wealth-producers, women as well as men, Two years ago four and one-half millions of voters, after due deliberation, broke away from their old party affiliations and voted for Col. Roosevelt and the other Progressive candidates.

If you will check over the Progressive Headers j n your own neighborhood you will find that they are men who keep posted on the important happenings all over the world. They are reading and thinking men who believe in justice and fair play. They are not cranks or "socialists" or disturbers of law and nrder. Don't let any one tell you that this great '(Progressive movement is a temporary flare-up. Let us repeat to you that the Progressive movement in the United States is a part of the world-wide battle for a true democracy. For twenty years, in all parts of the world where popular education has helped men and women to read and think and aspire to better things there has been a growing demand for w hat Abraham Lincoln called "a government of the people, for the people and by the people.”

We have seen the ’ast of the Spanish colonies in the new world organized as a republic. "e have seen China arouse itself and overturn a time-honored dynasty. We have seen. Portugal fighting for a truly democratic form of government. e have seen the “duma" recognized in Russia and franchise rights given to citizens. Even in Constaninople, the “young lurks broke down the sacred customs and traditions of a Mohammedan monarchy. ihe appalling war now raging in Europe marks the last frantic effort of European kings to unify their subjects. They are hoping that the roar of cannon will drown out the insistant and increasing demand for popular government. When the lighting has ceased and the people check up the causes and effects of the terrible slaughter, some of the royal families will find themselves in retirement, * The same influences that have caused thrones to topple and despots to tremble, have been at work here in the United States. Year by year, long before the "insurgents” were organized in Congress, a good many thinking people, who lived aside from the selfish ambitions of politics, believed that we were being governed too much by committees meeting in back rooms, by air-tight lobbies at Washington and by the great corporations that provided campaign funds.

Theodore Roosevelt went into the White House and turned the electric light on all the smooth citizens who were working i n the dark. Ever since that time they have hated him. Two years ago last spring a vast majority of republican voters believed in Theodore Roosevelt and favored his return to the White House. Wherever the voters had a chance to vote at fair primaries the Roosevelt majorities were overwhelming.

All of the people who believed in Roosevelt in the spring of 1912 and who opposed the standpat bosses, are still “progressive” in sentiment, although some of them continue to line-up as republicans, merely from force of habit. They are hoping against hope. They try to convince themselves that, by some miracle, the old gray wolves of the machine are going to be changed to innocent lambs.

Me say to all true Progressives: The men you opposed in 1912 have not changed and there is no reason why you should follow them any farther. If you are a Progressive, you belong in the camp of the Progressive Party'. If you are going to keep abreast with the world-wide movement for popular government, then vote for Albert J. Beveridge for U. S. Senator and W ill H. Ade for Congress.— Advertisement.