Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-08-18
BY MEAD PUBLISHING co
Official Paper Of the City and the County
Issued on Friday of Each Week
Prone..ives will Support President

tH0SreSSlVeS VIII ouPPVtt AIesiVe"s
Chairman Vance C.. Mccormick of
the Democratic National committee has
given out the following letter from
cambridge Colby who placed ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt in nomination in the
progressive convention at Chicago,
telling why he and other dis
tinguished members of the Bull
Moose party will support Presi-
dent Wilson for reelection, whereas he
has vigorously opposed Hughes in a
number of pnblic utterances. 1t is Mr..
Colby's first announcement that he is
for Wilson:
"Aug. 10, 1916.
''Hon. Vance Mccormick, Chairman
Democratic National Committee,
New York City.
"My Dear Mr.. Mccormick
Your suggestion that there is am
pie foundation for effective and agree
able cooperation between the progress
sive and the democratic party in the re-
election of the president is true be-
yond all question and accept your in
vitation looking to such cooperation,
unhesitatingly and with pleasure.
|'The achievements of the democrat
ic party under the leadership of Wood
row Wilson, in the field of progressive
legislation, constitute much more than
an appeal for support, upon all sincere
progressives, which the latter cannot
consistently ignore, or deny. Particu-
larly is this true, as the opposition to
thepresident's reelection proceedsfrom
an unregenerate republican party that
has weathered the danger of reform,
reabsorbed its most voiciferous critic,
and abandoned itself again to rancid
reaction.
''There they all are, the old guard.
See for yourself. Count them if you
wish, Cannon and Penrose, Smoot and
Gallinger, Jim Watson, Joe Healing,
Eastabrook, Rodenberg, Mckinley of
Illinois, Hert, McGraw, Hemenway,
Crane, not to speak of the others, too
numerous to mention, all friends of the
tariff.
what business progressive has in
such company as this cannot for the
life of me see. They are the pickets
and monitors of privilege. Hughes is
only their decoy and retriever. If he
were elected they would rope and tie
him as they did when he was governor
in Albany, reducing him to plaintive fu-
tility.
There are, of course. reactionary
!, elements in the democratic party. I'm
til lately we had them even in the pro-
gressive party, but these elements in
the democratic party are, at the worst,
only retardation and drag upon the
steady, forward push which the presi-
dent has maintained.
In the republican party the reaction
aries are in the ascendant. They domi-
nate the party, giving to it their char
acter::and features. 1t is the party of
reaction, and the progressives who
haye allied themselves with it are the
most unfortunate of dupes.
81 am rejoiced to know and to be
able to assure you that the president
will receive an immense support from
the members of my party. They rec
ognize the simple courage, the rugged
fortitude and the quiet strength which
have enabled him to guide his country
men in peace and honor through the
dangers of the last two years, and, as
Americans, they are impatient to mani
fest their loyalty to him.
yours very truly,
CAMBRIDGE COLBY"