Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-19
BASHOR ACCEPTS
IOWA NOMINATION
n nterIco Progressive Takes Knock ut
Rooscyolt's Action in Selling
Ont Party.

/ ing today the progressive party nom
inaticn for governor Of Iowa, Hon
Stcphen II. Bashor of Waterloo in
/ letter referred to the selling out OF
the party by our Machiavelian lead
/ err" criticised both democratic and re-
/ publican parties for the alleged es-
( p0saI of Observation-Disclosures, and de-
clared that in Iowa there appears to
be no honest political purpose or man
IL patriotism left in the old organlza-
tons.
with no party campaign fund.- and
/ in somewhat uncertain health, about
the only thing / will be able to do
will be to shake the progressive
broomstick and let the people of the
state of Iowa know where we stand
On questions of public policy as affect
ing the best interests of the people
at large" he said.
Sold out by our maChiavelian lead
er. betrayed by his invisible cabinet
and mere worshiping host, there
is nothing we can do 10 maintain our
integrity and patriotism as honorable
and consistent advocates of complete
social and economic justice, of equal
rights to all, special privileges to
none of a government of the people,
by the people and for the people but
/ TO stand by our colors. honestly, I'M
finchingly and uncOmpromiSingly
AS between the platform deClara-
/ tiOns of the republican and democratic
/ parties there is not essential difference
| enough for the average man to turn
| his hand or to strive to remember. 1t
| is the difference only of two groups
| of pOt-hunters chasing around the
! barn from different angles in mad
I effort to capture the same coon.
Both parties insist that if placed
/ in public control, they will take the
/ tariff out Of partisan politics by APP
! pointing a nOn-paTtisan tariff revision
, board. About what either party will
/ do will be to esta board of
! lame political ducks
! THE most striking and beneficial
thing President Wilson has done has
been thus far to keep our of war. The
only thing the republican party has
done so far is to nominate a Candl-
date for president who, seemingly
| without constructive ideas, is out over
the country drastically criticising the
opposition without explaining what he
would have done differently except
plunging the nation into war.
/ Both parties have eSpOused the
long exploded craze of ancient know
/ nOthingism' by jumping on the hyphen
I and hyphenated citizens with both
feet Reduced to its last analysis,
even the originator Of the craze, the
ex-big bull mOOser, is not many gen
erations removed from the proud use
of the hypphen himself, and most of
the rest of us are hardly out of sight
of where we were proud of our ORR
gin.
In Iowa state politics we are even
! worse off, There appears to be no
honest political purpose or manly pa
triCtiSm left in the old organizations
The legislature of four years ago
passed a mOngrel initiative, referen-
dun and recall measure intended to
be self-nullifying, with jOkers at the
right spot TO completely fool the pro-
gressive citizen.
Both parties have been playing the
wet nurse in different ways to the Ii
quOr issue in Iowa for the last two
decades not from principles, but in
/ trimming their sails to catch the most
votes
This year both parties come back
with a vigorous prohibition plank in
their platforms and nominees are
vOciferating loudly that they stand
squarely on the platform. Do they
mean il, or is there for the future, as
there was two years ago. a niger in
ccutive official forces Of the state are
not breaking their necks to enforce
the hibitOry statute is very ap-
parent
Now, the progressive party asks
that the people be allowed 10 vote and
decide what the law on the question
of liquor control shall be- and insist
further that laws. whether good or
bad, just or unjust, be rigidly and i'm
partially enforced in every city and
/ community of the state
The loan shark law, the corrupt
practice act, the double standard of
taxation for land owners. the expen-
sive methods of state printing, the ex-
pensive employment of surplus clerks
and lackeys around our Legislative as
sembles and the unusual methods of
general and cooperate taxation need
attention and correction, and if YOUR
candidate for governor should be
elected. they will all be attended to
and adjusted in the interest of the
people, or he will know the reason
Whv"