The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-08-12
Old REPUBLICANS
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TURN T0:W|LS0|V.
One Who Voted For Lincoln
Declares Presidents Record
Should Satisfy All.
sNEERs OF OLD GUARD
DON'T SOLVE PROBLEMS
Civil War Veterans Give Reasons
For Deserving Party of Their
Fathers.
Many Republicans of long standing

Many Republicans Of long standing
are turning away from the party Of
their forefathers to vote for President
Wilson. There is world of interest
in the peculiar reasons some of them
party they have followed so long and
joining Democracy's ranks.
Three such men are to be found in
Milwaukee. One Of them is A. B.
Myers. an old resident Of that city.
prominent in the real estate business.
veteran Of the Civil war, and long
known as a conspicuous Republican in
campaigns of the past.
II have been a Republican since
1864" said Mr.. Myers to an inter-
viewer from the Milwaukee Journal.
II voted for President Lincoln for his
second term and for all other Repub-
lican candidates until 1912, when I
voted for Woodrow Wilson. I have
not been sorry did, and I believe
| the administration of President Will
who really have the welfare Of the
republic at heart.
'The Republicans have no real ise
sue in this campaigning place in it.
All they are doing; all they can do is
sneer. President Wilson has accom-
plished more constructive legislation
| in three years than the Republicans
| did in 16. I shall certainly vote for
Wilson again.
II am not alone in this. Why. nine
| tenths of the members of congress-
including representatives of the Dem
| ocratic, Republican and Progressive
parties voted>together on the bills Mr..
| Wilson has championed in the halls of
national 'legislation-the income tax
| bill, the free tolls and regional bank
bills, etc. ..-:
Cool Headedness at Washington.
''Mr. Hughes, the Republican, candf@
| date, in his telegram. of acceptanca
has criticized Mr.. Wilsonsinz 4 E1neral
way, but when he is asked what
ought to have been done other than
what Mr.. Wilson did he quieted down
| quickly. That sort of mud-slinginG.
was indulged in even by a former jus-s
tice of the United States supreme
| court.
II don't believe that anything will
Wilson, for the more men think
calmly over his record at Washington,
keeping this country out of war-and
particularly the way he has very re-
! Gently avoided a war with Mexico
the more they viii say that's the
| kind of coolheadedness we want at
Washington in times of worldwide
disturbances
'The United States has maintained
its relations with European nations
honorably. President Wilson has
stood up for American rights and car
ried every point by diplomacy. The
kaiser has Knuckled to his demands
concerning the submarine warfare he
was waging, and the Germans of this
country ought not to feel any hostil-
ity to Mr.. Wilson since the Kaiser.
himself, has sent them word to be
neutral and obey the laws of this
country.
when I joined the army in 1861
I swore to uphold the administration.
When voted for Wilson in 1912 L
told my sons if what Roosevelt had
said of Taft, and what Taft had said
of Roosevelt was true, then. neither Of
them were fit for the great office Of
president of the United stats.
Fought by Side of Carl Schurz.
General Frederick C.. Winkler, also
Of Milwaukee, and prominent socially
and in business circles, has been a
Republican voter ever since the
stormy days Of 1860, but he has de-
clared himself now a deyout follower
Of woodrow Wilson, and has sent the
President word by telegraph that he
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