Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

PROGRESSIVE PARTY COLUMN. All matter appearing under this head is paid for at advertising rates, and The Democrat assumes no responsibility therefor. Republican Leaders of Reactionism, Inviting Support for Reinstalemonf, Appeal to American People in Vain,

Perhaps the best answer to the speech of Messrs. Borah and Miller is supplied by the Maine election. The whole Republican campaign is based on fault-finding with Woodrow Wilson and his administration. This is the situation here. As it was also in Maine. The American people are grateful for Woodrow Wilson’s patience in Mexico and the consequent escape of our land from the horrors of war. They are with him in his ambition for world peace; they honor -and love himforthe perfect courtesy and correct deportment in his reception of German and Belgian complaints. On the tariff it would be as well for Republicans to keep still. The American people will never choose an Aldrich-Payne iniquity in a naked choice between it and the tariff enacted under Woodrow Wilson. Out of Republican malfeasance on the tariff was the insurgent uprising born and the Progressive party conceived. The standpat oligarchies, in Maine or Indiana, can appeal for support on high tariff till they are black in the face, but in vain. Wherever Woodrow Wilson stands resolutely against _ the errors and crimes of later Republican misrule, he has the American people behind him. His foes are the very creatures both in his own party and out of it, against whose discredited domination the Progressive party made its heroic stand. All that is truly progressive in President Wilson’s words and deeds has the heartfelt support of the Progressive masses in this country in all parties. All this is precisely what the Republican leaders implore the nation to condemn, and that is precisely what the American people will never do. The standpat cause is a forlorn hope. It is doomed from the start. -—— :o: The Progressive party is the custodian of the progressive movement for one reason because the Republican party is hopelessly and avow-