Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — PROGRESSIVES FOR WILSON [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVES FOR WILSON

Resolutions Committee Says f*resident Is Real Progressive. New York, October 31.-—“ Without a candidate of our own for President we are unalterably in favor of the re-election of President Wilson, under whose guidance and leadership more progressive principles have been enacted into law than we believe might have been accomplished if the Progressive party was in power.’’

The above endorsement of President Wilson was contained today in a statement signed by eleven of the nineteen members of the Bull Moose resolution committee that drafted the Progressive platform in Chicago. Five of the remaining Progressives were said by Democrat leaders to be in accord with the sentiment of the statement, but refused to name their choice for President.

The statement said: “We, the members of the resolution committee, that formed the platform of the Progressive party on August 7, 1912, do hereby reaffirm our sincere allegiance to the progressive principles embodied in this platform and do herewith call the attention of the American people to the unparalleled achievements of the progressive legislation secured during the past four years. “Of thirty-three planks in the Progressive platform of 1912 twen-ty-two already have been wholly or partly enacted into law. The eighty propositions embodied in these planks more than half of them have been carried out by administration acts or by laws.”