The Falls City tribune., 1910-11-04
HAYWARD PROGRESSIVE
Commended As Such By Senator
Cumm.ns of Iowa
HIS RECORD PROVES THE FACT

VINO dppIpNc the |bOObeF6lI pOllCles
in the nation, both those already en-.
acted into law and those still awaiting
congressional action, find an honest
and sincere answer TO their hopes and
wishes in the candidacy Of William
Hayward for congress in the First
district.
William Hayward is a progressive
republican, not by proclamation OF
a favorable press bureau or the declar-
alton of prejudiced personal friends
for e~lection-day purposes, but by vir-
tue Of the acts of his entire political
career and the record of things accom-
plished in his years of struggle for
progressive policies and progressive
public officials in Nebraska-years
through which he fought for these is
sues and principles without thought
Of the effect of such a course on his
personal fortunes and without thought
of himself becoming at some future
time a candidate for public office.
In fact, at the time William Hay
ward entered into mans estate and be-
gan to take a part in public affairs
as a working unit in the political par
ty of his hereditary training and
choice, no field of personal advance
ment looked more barren and forbid
ding. no our of personal action held
our surer promise Of defeat and retire
ment to political oblivion. than an al
lance with the small band OF progress
siYes who fought for the control by
law of the great and arrogant corpora
lions and all special interests which,
through the iron hand of political SUI
premacy, exploited the people either
through the forms of law or by the
absence of regulatory statutes com
pelling a square deal" between them
and the people.
But Hayward did not hesitate to
choose because the fight for the right
looked disastrous 10 future personal
ambitions. That it was right, that it
was for the people. was. enough and
ne enlisted for the war" letting con-
sequences care for themselves.
This is the public record of Will
liam Hayward, written indelibly in the
history Of the republican party in Ne
braska In the years of the recent
past. That it Is known and arpre-
ciated at home and abroad is well
proven by an event of recent occur
On Thursday, October 9th,
Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa. one
of the acknowledged leaders of west
ern progressive republican thought and
action in the Senate of the United
States, spoke on the issues of the
pending campaign in Lincoln. At the
very beginning of his address Senator
Cummins paid a sincere tribute to the
candidacy of William Hayward for
congress in the following words:
81 want you to understand that no
word shall come from my lips hat
does not come from my heart, and /
find 1t a very keen pleasure to speak
for the republican party in the district
which has nominated for high office
that fine example of American young
manhood, that mar of high ideals and
of splendid service to his party, a a
who will confer honor upon any posi-
ton in which he may be placed, and |
can not begin without expressing the
hope that when the shades of Noyem-
Der Sth shall have fallen upon Nebras-
ka it will be discovered that my friend,
William Hayward, has been trium-
|phantIy elected to the House of Rep
resentatiyes."
SO spoke this leader of republican
progressiyes and the foundation of his
faith was leid deep in Hayward's rec
ord known to him.
Back in 1895 Hayward wrote and in
troduced the resolutions in the re-
publican convention of Otoe, his home
county. ~pledging the party to fight rail
way determinations and rebates, the
free pass evil and to support other re-
form and progressive policies which
eliminated in that splendid document
the republican state platform of
1906-eyery promise of which was re-
deemed by the republican legislature
of 1907, as a result of which the peo-
pie of the state gained the first sweep
ing and complete victories against the
intrenched corporations of Nebraska,
placing IN the statute books the con
stitutionally sound and unassailable
anti-pass law, railway commission
law, two.cent fare law. terminal taxa
ton law, express rate reduction law,
freight rate reduction law, direct pri-
mary law and other progressive meas
of the utmost Importance to the
people. These great reforms did not
come by chance. They came as the
results OF the untiring efforts. the 10y
al struggle for the peoples rights,
made throughout Nebraska in the pre-
vious years by William Hayward and
many other patriotic citizens of his
type, scattered in the towns and on
the farms and fields of the state. They
were and are the progressive repub
licans of Nebraska and among that
militant band which carried to vic
tory the banner of the peoples cause
no mans record is clearer or more
complete than William Hayward's.
On these established facts was
based the sincere approval of William
Hayward voiced so recently by the
eminent senator of our sister state OF
Iowa. He knew also that Hayward's
progressive principles have not been
cast aside in this campaign to win
votes. That Hayward has declared his
unalteraDle opposition to Cannon and
Cannonism in every form. That he
stands for a permanent tariff commits
sion to gather exact facts to the end
of further revision in exact accord
with the promises of the renuhlican