Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — PARKER FOR WILSON. [ARTICLE]

PARKER FOR WILSON.

Peace, Prosperity, Progressivism and Honest Issues Are His Reasons. Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 24.—John M. Parker, Progressive candidate for vice-president, is for President Wilson for re-election because “Wilson has brought progress and prosperity,” as he puts it. A vigorous, hard-hitting fighter, Parker, who’s from Lousiana, is touring the North, he says “to protest against raising of the sectionalism cry by Republicans.” “That cry has been dead 50 years,” said Parker. “I know I cannot be elected, and I'm going to vote the Progressive ticket nevertheless. but I’m for Wilson over Hughes. “The Progressive party In 1912 made the people begin to think. It was the first political party which put human welfare above the dollar. “Its demand for the regional bank and removal of the power from Wall street or nny other interest to control the financial policy of this country has been enacted Into law, Today the wheat, corn, oats, cotton, cane, rice and live stock of our farmers represent one of the best classes of security.

“A great New York newspaper telegraphed, asking why I spoke against Hughes? I answered: " ‘Because, in my judgment, the greatest calamity to this nation would he to again turn It over to the Republican machine, which is still under the absolute control of the same bosses, against whom even life-long Republicans arose in overwhelming revolt. " ‘Because, Instead of constructive statesmanship. Republican leaders prefer to iudulge in personal abuse and seek to revive sectionalism, which nil true patriots know Is a dead and buried Issue.’ “The men who on June 23 deliberately betrayed the Progressive party were former Republicans In whom we believed, and whose sole object was to again secure control of the power and patronage of the national government. "Their action showed they belonged body and soul to the Republican machine, and had forgotten Progressive principles, which were to them a temporary dream. “They first deserted the Republican party, dninned the “Old Guard" for every comelvable crime, pledged tlielr honor and loyalty to Progressive principles, and then deserted and betrayed the Progressive party, and, having again locked arms with the same old guard Republicans they so bitterly denounced four years ago, now have the audacity to appear before the people of the United States in the role of patriots, endeavoring to save the nation. “To save it from what? “To save it from the prosperity which Is rampant from New York to California? “To save It from the farmers who are making large crops, for which they are realizing more satisfactory prices than ever before In their history? “To save it from the working men whose brains and brawn are needed In every state in the union, and who are receiving more money than ever before in their experience, with shorter hours of labor? “To ‘save the country’ to them means to fleece It for tlielr personal, political and financial gain. “Snch brazen hypocrisy from such men who artist be judged by their past record cannot deceive the American people.”