The Falls City tribune., 1910-07-01
HAYWARD ENLIGHTEKS
NEW WORKERS
STANDS UP FOR NEBRASKA.
Declares Progressive Republicans To
Be Vital Force of All National
Progress.

on the Androscoggin on June 18th TO
greet Colonel Roosevelt, says the
New York Sun. Mr., Hayward came
on partly to pay his respects to the
colonel and at the same time TO try
to get the latter to go out to Ne
'braska In August fer the conventions
OF the Union Veterans republican
clubs and the EpWorth League, and
was disappointed to learn that Colonel
Roosevelt had decided not to make
any western appoinl ments before the
John Brown celebration in kansa
in September.
Mr.. Hayward is out for the repub-
lican nomination for congress in the
First district of Nebraska, which is
now represented by John Mcguire,
democrat, and which was once guilty
of sending William Jennings Bryan
to Washington. 1t includes Lincoln,
the capital, and it is Mr.. Hayward's
proud boast that it contains less IL
literacy than any other congressional
district in the United States. Mr..
Hayward is more than hopeful of
winning in the direct primary and IN
the election as we'll. He makes his
home in Nebraska City.
Nebraska Republicans Progressive.
How about the insurgents out in
Nebraska?p Mr.. Hayward was asked
at the Hotel Belmont.
Il don't know that l believe in any
kind of adjectives or qualifying words
for republicans was the reply. I
have no apology to make for the re-
publican party either in Nebraska or
anywhere. But out there We prefer
the term progressive to 'insurgent.'"
What is a progressive"
lone who takes advanced ground,
in the first place on Roosevelt poll
cies; who sticks unalterably on Mr..
Rooseyelt's main proposition that the
most powerful corporation is under
the same obligation to obey the laws
as the most humble private citizen.
That is, after all, all that Roosevelt
has said. and that is what Nebraska
republicans believe in.
Progressives Enacted All Reform
Legislation.
I'm our state" Mr.. Hayward con
tinued, warming up to this theme,
those men are known as progressives
who in the face of ridicule. of calum-
ny and threatened political annihila-
ton advocated and fought for the .
cent passenger law, a law providing
for a railroad commission "a measure
for terminal taxation, the pure food
law and the direct primary law in
the convention of 1906, which nomin-
ated for the governorship George L.
Sheldon and for the United States
senate Norris Brown.
That is the situation in Nebraska.
The thinking republicans are pro-
gressives, not insurgents, in the sense
of revolving against President Taft or
the republican party. They simply fol
low tn example of one Theodore
Roosevelt, who always did his insurg-
ing within the reservation.
Nebraska Opposed to Cannonism.
II feel safe in saying, however, that
with nine-tenths of the republicans of
Nebraska there is a feeling against
the reelection of Speaker Cannon,
who is regarded as an obstacle to
the growth of the republican party.
They know of no reason why Can
non in his position should be held
sacred by the republican party or by
any member of it.
"As for the tariff, the republicans
of Nebraska are not entirely satisfied
with the tariff bill; nor, on the other
hand, are they ready to conlemn it
in its entirety. There are certain
schedules, such as that of wool, which
they believe should have been low
cred. Personally | believe in a
tariff commission to gather facts sci
entifcally and accurately on which
to base future reduction in such a
way as to comply exactly with the
requirements of the Chicago platform,
to cover the difference in the cost
of production at home and abroad,
and yet in such a way as to do as
little violence as possible to estab-
lished business.
County Option.
THE liquor fight on in Nebraska is a
fight primarily for county option; in other
words, making the county the unit Of To-
cal option instead of the municipality.
The only bearing 1t could have on the
congress situation would be in regard 10
the federal law. Personally l am in
favor of a federal law to prevent the ship
ment Of liquor into a dry territory under
any cover or shield such as the inter,
state commerce law. But IN my opinion
every right thinking person would be
glad to see the liquor question settled
and free from the machination of polit
tics. 1t ought not to be determined by
anu unuef the conditions lnat surround
politics any more than is absolutely nee
essary.
Il think the republican party in its
principles and performance is so far SUI
perior to anything the democratic party
has ever offered or done that it will hold
together and remain the great vital force
underlying the progress of the nation.
even though each individual may not ind
In the party platform or In the laws en-
acted by the republicans exactly what he
wants in every particular. AS for the
democratic prospects, they are as they
always are six months before an election,
brighter than at any other time. For
the last forty years they nave been able
to carry the country in June and lose IL
in November.
Democrats Opposed to Farmers
Prosperity.
As for things out in Nebraska, we'll.
1t hardly seems reasonable to elect a
democrat to congress from a republican
district in Massachusetts because of high
prices for farm products in Nebraska and
also elect a democrat in a republican dis