Mohave County miner., 1916-09-16
MAKING EXPLANATIONS
 OF INCONSISTENCIES

aneeS for ProgreSSlVlSm back Tn 1912 and 1914, and their 1916 apostacy to the party which today has the same old leaders, the same old principles and policies, the same old political methods.
 The masses are not easily fooled these days. They are not ignorant peons and peasants to overlook incon- sistencies and the shiftings of political leaders, to be made the victims of de- 'ception by office-seeking politicians.
 Telephones, cheap newspapers, cir culating libraries, good roads, rapid transit, school houses on 10000 hills and in 10 wales have done a world for general education, and the average auditor at a political gathering is every bit as well informed as the aver age public speaker and in most in stances more sincere.
 Now, for example, take the case of Hon. Albert Jeremiah Beveridge of Indiana. On March IA, 1912, as Pro gressive, in a speech delivered in In dianapolis, in Tomlinson hall, he de- clared:
 -Four Democratic years will be hard enough on the hundreds of thousands of honest business men in the country, but it will be harder on the millions of men who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces. To these latter it will mean the pinch of hunger. Add to these four lean years two more years to recover from them. Take these six years out of the life of a business man 90 years old and you have taken from him much, but take six years out of the life of a working man 50 years old and you have taken from him well nigh all"
 Where Is That Pinch of Hunger?
 Now just see what the distinguished gentleman has to confront.
 Where is that "pinch of hunger? Where those four Democratic years that were to be so hard on so many business men and so much harder on 'the millions who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces"?
 Never in the country's history was there so much money as there is to- day; never were there so many fac tories; never so many labOrers em- played at such wages; never such prices for produce; never so much full dinner pails; never so many school houses and good roads; never was money panic so impossible; never was money so easy to secure by farmers and all other classes; never did the statute books hold so many good laws looking to business advancement and steady prosperity.
 In the same speech, throwing a iavelin full at the Republican party, from which he had then divorced him. self, he declared: "For three years 1.-the Taft administration we have seen business growing worse. It is time that we should begin to make business grow better"
 He had turned then from the very political leaders whom he has now turned towards. They are the ones who were making business worse, that he is now advising progressives to vote for to set aside the makers of the past four fat years.
 Even as late as April IS, 1914, in the same Tomlinson hall, in the same city, he again delivered himself of a speech. In it he paid his respects to the Republican leaders of his state, those who were leaders in 1912 and are leaders in 1916. He said:
 "Here in Indiana the Republican managers are men who were lieuten- ants in the old machine, whose orders the Republican organization is carry ing out this very moment. Promises to reform from a party so controlled Iinsuh the intelligence of the people for breaking of promises is their spe- cialty."
 But, He's Lined With Them
 Yet it is with those same leaders that he is lined up today; with Jim Hemenway, with Joe Healing, with 1 Charles Fairbanks, with Jim Good rich, Harry New, Will Wood and the others.
 AcccrGirg to him, they were not to be trusted in 1912 and 1914; now he is asking Progressives to trust them in 1916.
 Have they changed? Have any of their spots disappeared? ] Are they not still the "ieutenants in the old machine" whose promises to reform were "an insult to the in