The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-10-12
GEORGE ADE DECLARES FOR HUGHES

This year ] am going to vote for
Charle4 Evans Hughes as against
Woodrew Wilson fo;, good many rea-
SONS -Four years ago was Pro
gressive- IL is true that my enthusi-
asm fdr some of the planks in the
Progressive platform was SO moder.
ate that had no trouble N control
ling IL. ! was not scared TO death by
the proposals made in the platform,
as sonie OF our republican friends
seemed TO be. but l had my reason
able doubts.
like the spirit and makeup and
the leadership of the Progressive
party and i tried TO be loyal to the
organization two years ago, but it was
evident, even then, that the very struc
ture of the party was beginning to
crumble. The Progressive party had
to keep growing or go out of bust.
ness The logic of events restored the
Republican party 10 its time-honored
place as principal corrector of Dem
ocratic mismanagement.
The fProgressives must not figure
chat they have made a losing fight.
Why. even the democrats are now
talking tariff commission with a
hybrid sort of protection as an Incl.
dental and unavoidable side-issue)
and they have passed a child-labor
law. which is a poor imitation of the
one that will be passed very soon.
And the republicans have nominated
for president a candidate who was
simply made TO order for the progress
siye element.
/ marched with the Progressive
party until it became a dwindling
minority OF bleeding martyrs and |
would have continued to march il
there had been a probability of our
arriving anywhere. liked my trav-
cling Sompanions and the scenery but
man cannot continue a journey
which offers no terminus.
l believe the first duty of every
good citizen this year is to join the
movement to change Washington
from a word factory to a deed fac
tory. For one. have had enough
alpaca coat, and Chautauaua, and col
lege rhetoric and the oleaginous
Josephus TO last me for a hundred
years
Col. Roosevelt did the sensible and
patriotic thing last January when he
indicated that he was ready to jump
in and support any good Republican
who could defeat Wilson.
The Colonel saw what was wrong
up at Washington from the very
start. Mr.. Wilson means to be sin
ce-e and lie wants TO do what is
right. but he was brought up on a
college campus He was accustomed,
'for yessfs. TO be dogmatic and oracu-
lar before a lot OF college boys who
couldn't talk back He finally came
TO believe that whenever he said q
thing. il was so.
Accordingly. when a Tampico cris.
is or a Lusitania crisis or a railway
strike crisis confronted the good doc
tor, he didn't tackle it according to
the methods OF old-fashioned states
men, brought up in the school o.
hard knocks.
No, he collected lot OF pretty ad-
jectiyes, symmetrical phrases. choice
metaphors and high grade SMILES
and mixed them in a silver bowl with
frankincense and myrrh and maple
sugar and touched of the whole thins
and then. as the smoke arose, he sat
back and saw things in the smoke.
They say he has vision. He has 50
much vision. be sees things that amt
He is pezfectly nice man who be.
lieycs he can solve problems by talk
ing about them
When ! recall what has happened