The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-17
SENATOR WORKS IS OUT FOR WILSON California Progressive Re- publican Gives Reasons THEFT IN HIS STATE Says Whole Thing Has Been Con- temptible Deception and Fraud
 and Much of It Has Been
 Series of Crimes
THEFT IN HIS STATE
By c. E. STEWART

Washington, October 1e.-(special)- Senator John D. Works of California, progressive republican, has come out openly for Woodrow Wilson and advises all progressives to vote for the demo- cratic candidate for President.
 In his statement the senator bitterly condemns the progressive party, particu- larly of California, and arfirms that the third party obtained possession of that state through fraud and deception.
 In announcing his intention of voting for Governor Wilson, Senator Works said that, in effect he threw all personal ambition to the winds; that the progress sives of California, his former friends, have already denounced him as traitor ano are urging him to resign his seat 1 in the Senate.
 1 Nothing of benefit to progressive prin. ciples or honest politics can be gained by | voting for either Taft or Roosevelt" said Senator Works. The best service pro- gressive republicans can give their party and country under these unfortunate con ditions is to vote for Wilson. It will help to teach dishonest manipulators of poli- ! tics a wholesome lesson"
 Senator Works urges regular republi-
 cans to follow the same course, declar- ing that the President cannot carry Cali | fornia, and that a vote cast for him is worse than thrown away. The senator
 adds that no kind of evasion can conceal
 the fact that the methods by which the progressives obtained control of Califor-
 mia were fraudulent.
 Tt is a pity" he said, that a great
 movement for reform fin politics in Cali fornia that has achieved so much should
 have been brought to this sorry pass I The governor" said Senator Works
 would have been justified in calling Q special session of the legislature to SC amend the laws that every voter could
 have the right to vote for the candidate
 of his choice. This was not done; there- fore Roosevelt and his supporting candi- dates for legislative offices had no legal right to places on the ballot except by pe- tition.''
 They were unwilling to come out fairly
 and boldly as progressives," he con- tinued. The whole thing has been a con | temptible deception and fraud Much of 1t has been series of crimes.
 The enormity of these crimes against franchise are made more apparent bu I lit ihillS ol lHe supreme court or the state that it has no power to prevent this
 usurpation by the progressives of the | rights and powers of the republican party"
 | Attacking the contentious of candidates that they are progressives in national politics and republican in state matters,
 Senator Works said;
 'The progressives who are crying | Thou shalt not steal have by a system Il ff... .p | jury stolen the right of a republican place
 on the ballot, and deprived thousands ot voters of the right to vote for the can didate of their choice.''
 1 The Senator charged that President | Taft was not fairly nominated; that he does not represent progressive principles, and that, though his intentions are good,
 he has been i'll advised.
 l Roosevelt, he contends is too new a convert to progressive principles to trust | with the leadership of q new party. He recommends a few years of probation | He has never unti1 now stood openly | for progressive principles he said. "He I is all things to all men to get votes. He l has suddenly become an advocate of woman suffrage because so many of them have become voters. and have become so without any help from him. | If he had been nominated by the re- publican convention, the republican party | would have been good enough for him and he would have accepted and well
 comed the support of the men in the party which he now oenounces so bit terly.
 | 'No man or woman who believes in honest politics can support a candidate who obtained his nomination by the
 means used by the third party leader" l Senator Works term of service in the Senate expires March 5, 1917