The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-02-20
OUTLINES BULL
MOOSE POLICIES
GarfOTd Declares For Regulation
Of Big Business.
OENOUNCES CHILD LABOR EVIL

Party's Candidate For United States
Senator at Fall Primary Delivers
Address at Lima eatherlng-PointS
to Stand Taken by ProgressiVes In
Behalf Of Woman Suffrage and
Against Liquor Traffic.
Hon. A, L. Garford of Elyria, who
will be the Progressive candidate for
United States senator, in his speech
at the opening of the Progressive
state campaign at Lima Thursday
evening, Feb, u, said in part:
One of the most significant facts
in modern American life is that on
Aug. Z, 1912, the Progressive party
was born and at once became a
strong virile, progressive political en-
tity in the United States.
The importance OF that event called
together the largest and most repre-.
sentative body Of American citizens
ever assembled in a national political
convention. The patriotic fervor
which animated those present is
shown in the utterances of the candi
date unanimously chosen to head its
national ticket in the campaign just
ahead.
Occasions like this gathering have
furnished opportunity for spellbinders
to center their fancy and eloquence
around events of history. To carry
their hearers back into the past, to
eulogize in feTvid speech the great
men of their political faith of a gen
Grafton gone, and recount their deeds
of valor on the field in time of war
and their great service to their coun
try in times of peace, to dwell on par
ty traditions and feelingly recite in
song and story the exploits of patri
otic men whose zeal for principle and
devotion to country have exceeded
their love of life.
Verbal Effervesence Insignificant.
But to those of us who believe that
the todays and tomorrows are oil
greater importance than the yester
days in the working out of our ma
tional welfare, that history's CHIEF
value is in the influence it may have
in molding the present by using its
experiences as a guide and safeguard
in the activities of today, who believe
that in, this strenuous age there are
great problems peculiar to it still to
be solved, great patriotic work yet to
hn fhof oa1IC for HnNrnfinn IN
principle equal to any demanded in
past periods Of our country's life and
that the making Of history is far
more important task than recording
or reciting it, to us, l say, such verbal
effervesceuce is insignificant com
pared with the real work and political
necessities of the hour.
/ would remind those who have
their eyes forever turned toward the
past for inspiration that the secret
of all great accomplishments on the
part of men enlisted in their coun
try's service was the squaring of prin'
ciple with performance.
The political faith, founded on the
eternal principle of justice, which
these men believed in and held sa
cred, was the ruling passion of their
lives, and actuated every impulse and
activity of their existence and If they
would endure, this rule likewise must
apply to political party organizations
The fundamental principles of the
Republican party adopted at the con
vention which nominated the sainted
Lincoln in 1860 had in them the very
essence of liberty and justice. And
the men who in the dark days of our
great fratricidal tragedy gave up all
that life holds dear for the freedom
of the slave and an indissoluble union
squared performance with the princi
pies in which they believed when
they sacrificed themselves for coun
try.
What a spectacle was that witness
ed at the national convention of that
same Republican party in 1912, in the
same city where half century before
it gave Lincoln to the nation and to
the world.
Principles forsaken! Party control
held through triekery and fraud, dis
integratlon and decay triumphant
is Party of Today.
The Progressive party as political
organization has neither history nor
tradition. 1t can boast neither OF
great sacrifice nor of service to give
it place and power. 1t is essentially
a party of today, designed and equip.
ped to meet the exigencies and prob.
lens of our times and solve them as
they should be solved, in order that
this, and the generations to follow
may have nation truly democratic,