The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-09-06
Progressive National Com.
mitteeman futile
POSITIVELY ANNOUNCES SELF
In Favor OF Reelection Of vii.
son On Account OF Presi.
dents WOrthiness.
PUTS MATTER VERY PLAINLY

New York, Aug. 31.-Edwin f.
futile, Progressive National Com
mitteeman from Rhode Island, is the
latest of the prominent Progressives
to join the revolt against Hughes
nomination. His letter to Matthew
| Hale, acting chairman of the Pro-
gressive National Committee, dated
I Woonsocket, Rhode Island, August
20, was received to-day at Demo-
cratic National headquarters. Mr.
futile writes to Mr.. Hale as follows:
81 congratulate you upon your re-
fusal to submit to the shameless be-
trayal of the men and women of the
Progressive party to the Old Guard
led by Crane, Smoot and Penrose.
further congratulate you on your
determination to support that tried
and true Progressive, President Will
son. He has been the real leader of
his party since the very beginning of
his administration and he has led
Congress to enact a large number of
important measures demanded by
our splendid platform of 1912. From
the start he has been violently OPP
posed by the reactionary element of
the Republican party which is now
clamoring for his defeat The most
harassing problem which President
Wilson has had to meet is the Mex
lean situationf-indisputably inner
tied from the Taft administration
History may decide that mistakes
may have been made, but Mr.. Will
son has kept us out of war. While
Hughes is running riot in his unjust
criticism of our great President
thousands of American mothers are
thanking God for Woodrow Wilson.
'If Mr.. Hughes had been a candi-
date for President during the early
years of our Civil War he would
have attacked Lincoln as bitterly as
he is now attacking Wilson.
MIR. Wilson has been confronted
by more trying situations than any
President since Lincoln and his hon
est efforts have been assailed most
bitterly and criticised most ignor-
antly and numerically, yet through
it all he has kept his grip firm in
himself as in fate. Future gener
ations will appreciate his real states
manship.
For over three years the Demo-
cratic party has been in power. In
that time it has placed on the stat
ute books more real progressive leg
islation than any administration In
our history. 1t has also given us an
administration absolutely free from
the control of the invisible govern
ment.
1.-THE Republican party is controll-
ed by the same Old Guard against
which We made our fight in 1912.
The invisible government stands
vulture-like waiting for Wilson's de-
feat. Hughes Is presumably clean
and honest, yet he cannot hope to
cope with the Old Guard to-day
more successfully than he did when
Governor of New York
ITO my mind the duty of Pro-
gressives is clear. AS long as the
Old Guard are in the saddle. We can
expect nothing from the Republican
party. While the soldiers of fortune,
the Office seekers and the camp fol-
lowers of Roosevelt have gotten
back to the Republican party. the
real true Progressives who so loyal
ly stood by us in 1912 are now sup
porting Wilson,
with the majority of the men
who founded the Progressive party
in Rhode Island. shall vote for
Wilson,"