Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — PROGRESSIVE LEADER WILLIAM D. HEADRICK DECLARES FOR WILSON [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVE LEADER WILLIAM D. HEADRICK DECLARES FOR WILSON

Says His Progressive Convictions Require Him to Sustain President. HUGHES ELECTOR QUITS TO SUPPORT WILSON Republican Supreme Court Justice of New York Deserts Hughes. - r' MANAGERS OF THE G. 0. P. BECOME PANIC STRICKEN ■# Landslide for Wilson Is Apparent In All Parts of the Country as Date of the Election Draws Nearer.

BY WILLIS S. THOMPSON

Indianapolis, Oct, 24.—W. D. Headrick, Progressive leader in Indiana, has declared himself for Woodrow Wilson. So strong in his conviction that all Progressives should support the President that he is making a tour of the state on his own responsibility. He is one of the strongest speakers in Indiana and his name will attract large audiences. When Progressives were making up their Indiana ticket Mr. Headrick could have had any place he would accept but as chairman of the state convention he expressed the wish to retire from politics. He was one of the first Republicans in Indiana to become a, Progressive in 1912 and was on.e of the powers in that campaign and again in 1914. In a speech at Indianapolis last week Mr. Headrick said, among other things: “I am for Wilson because I have tried to give the mutter careful consideration and am now following what is to me my best Judgment. I have a deep-seated conviction that lie is for the mosses as against Wall street when the interests of Wall street and those of the masses conflict. The picture of ‘Mary and the vine-clad cottage’ is still with me, and I still believe the hand of the invisible government is busily engaged in trying to defeat Wilson. He is for proper defense and at the same time ia doing his best to avoid war. Hughes has appealed to the Progressives to forget past differences and work hand in hand with the Republicans to secure his election. I nm still a Progressive and am supporting Wilson because of that fact. It Is impossible for me to forget a difference either past or present when that difference is a principle. “During Mr. Wilson’s term of office many commitments of the Progressive national platform have been enacted into law, some of which are the rural credits act, the income tax, federal reserve act, good roads law, the trade commission law and many enactments which are for the betterment of the labor conditions of our country. These are a few of the many of his achievements which have squared exactly with the declaration of the Progressive platform. Mr. Hughes Is not promising Progressive legislation; he desires the Progressive vote, but does not wish Progressive principles. Mr. Wilson stands squarely against bossism and machine rule, as his acts > while governor and president clearly show.

Watson and Mulhall. “I do not believe in a man being able to obtain prestige through the suffrage of the people and then barter that prestige to private interests as a lobbyist against the interest of the masses who once voted for him and then come back to the people and ask for more prestige at their hand by sending him to the United States senate. Will the Republicans of Indiana say they haven’t such a candidate for the senate?” Headrick was considered so much of a leader in the Progressive ranks he was a canddate for the Progressive nomination for mayor four years ago. At that time the only thing that defeated him was the fact the Progressive drew a nominee from the Republican ranks in Dr. W. H. Johnson. Two years ago Headrick was proposed for governor. He is regarded as one of the mpst effective campaigners in the state.