Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — BURBANK OUT FOR WILSON, “THE GREATEST STATESMAN” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BURBANK OUT FOR WILSON, “THE GREATEST STATESMAN”

Announcing his support of President Wilson, Luther. Burbank, the horticulturist wizard of California, said: “I believe him to be the greatest statesman we have ever had.” Mr. Burbank, the Edison of scientific horticulture, declared that without reserve he endorsed the position announced a week earlier by Thomas A. Edison. Both Burbank and Edison

have been life-long Republicans. Edison put it this way: “Times are too serious to talk in terms of Republicanism or Democracy. When it’s America that is at stake men have got to vote as Americans. A fool, or a coward would have had the United States in all sorts of trouble. As it is, we are at peace, the country was never more prosperous, and we have the strength that comes with honor and integrity of purpose.”