Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-09-02
INDEPENDENTS ARE
DR|F TING DAILY
TO DEMOCRACY
PROMINENT REPUBLICANS IN sos
TON Organic A WOODROW
WILSON CAMPAIGN CLUB
ANOTHER MOOSE LEADER IN
BROOKLYN CHANGES HIS
WAY OF VOTING
QUIETLY BUT STEADILY THE
TIDE is TURNING TO PRESl-
DENT WILSON


With prominent Boston Republicans
organizing a Woodrow Wilson Cam
paign Club to work for the Presidents
reelection and with Arthur Slesinger,
another Progressive leader of Brook.
Ign, announcing that he will take the
stump for Wilson. the tide of Indepnd-
ent votes is rolling steadily upon
Democracy's shores.
Every day brings further proof that
the drift toward Wilson is going to be
complete Many of the Independents
who had waited hopefully upon the
sounding of Mr.. Hughes keynote are
at last making acknowledgement of
their keen disappointment. Some of
them are content to pledge their sup
port to President Wilson. Others go
one point further and bitterly assail
the policy of the Republican party.
/ In coming out for the Democratic
ticket Mr.. Slesinger, of Brooklyn,
characterized the campaign utter
ances of Charles E. Hughes, as what
! could be heard from any woman over
any back fence" Continuing he said:
q am an ex-Republican, but was al
ways a radical Progressive within
that party. When the Bull Moose par
/ ty was formed | joined it, not because
! OF Colonel Roosevelt's revolt, but be-
cause of the principles in it's plat
! form. am platform Bull Moose, not
T. r. Bull Moose, and | refuse to
be delivered by that gentleman just
to help put back the Republican par
ty in power.
Il fail to see how the Hemenways,
| the harnesses, the Penroses and the
Cranes have in any way
purged themselves of the charges
] Colonel Roosevelt made again them,
Mr.. Hughes just to rehibilitate that
corrupt plunderbund.
MIR. Hughes in all his speeches has
not advanced any propositions for the
general betterment of the country.
and what he has said so far | could
hear any day in any week from any
old woman over any back fence |
happened to be near.
while | am not a sympathizer
with the Democratic party generally,
j believe that Mr.. Wilson has done
more during his tenure of office to
for the benefit of the people generally
than any President since Abraham
| Lincoln and | shall therefore support
him tothe utmost of my endeavors
and as soon as convenient | will take
the stump in his behalf"
Boston Republicans Organize
A dispatch from Boston says that
the Republicans of that city
so favor Woodrow Wilson for Presi
dent for another term that they have
formed an organization to take active
part in the campaign. They met at the
Boston City Club and took steps to
form a Woodrow Wilson campaign
club. Among those present from the
metropolitan district were Charles II
| Jones, president of the Common
/ wealth Shoe and Leather Company
\ one of the foremost business men OF
Boston, who seems to. be the head,
and front of the movement; George
r. Nutter, John +. Moors, who has
h been for years one of the leading
|. independent forces in political move
ments in Boston; Major Robert f.
| Green, formerly on the staff OF Gov.
Walsh Reginald NJ. Hall, Edmund !
Burke. Robert II. Schacht, f. G.
/ Goodale. Alexander Banwart and Ell
lery Sedgwick, the editor of the At
lantic Monthly.
/ This was a preliminary meeting for
the purpose of organization and the
consideration of a list of names of
Republicans and Progressives who
have so numerously expressed their
desire to support Wilson that it was
thought that they ought to be or
ganized as an Independent organization
for the campaign. Another meeting
viii be held in the near future in
order to perfect the organization for
work for Wilson.
Leagues Working Hard in West
A dispatch from San Francisco to
Democratic National Headquarters in
New York says:
Prominent Republicans and Pro