The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-11-03
REPUBLICANS AND
PROGRESSIVES FOR WILSON.
Wilson Landslide Says Thomas Edison, Republican.
Eugene .Levering Favors Wiison---LaFolIefte De-
sers Republicans Straw Votes Favor Wilson.

Henry Clay Hansbrough, Repub-
Ican and for eighteen years United
States Senator from North Dakota, has
declared his support of President Will
son.
Several thousand Wall street clerks
cheered President Wilson for more
than Is minutes Saturday afternoon
and forced a corps of Republican or
ators, who were holding a meeting at
Wall and Broad streets, New York, to
retire somewhat ungracefully. This
remarkable demonstration shows that
while the Republican candidate may
have the big men" of Wall street with
him. President Wilson has the clerks
and the workers.
Chicago, Oct 28.-To ascertain the
sentiment of the railroad men. John
Grunau, former Progressive member
OF the Legislature and general yard
master on the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St Paul Railroad, sent out 1000
postal cards to the railroad men in
the Twenty-frst Senatorial District.
Up to the present time $50 have
been returned, the vote being as fol-
lows: Wilson, $50; Hughes, so.
o A. Miller, President of the Central
Ohio Paper Company Of Columbus, a
Republican, has come out for Presl-
dent Wilson. Otto Onstad, Superln-
tendent of Public Properties of Wis
consin and one of the organizers OF
the Progressive Party in that State.
Arnold ElZey Waters, of the banking
firm of Townsend Scott & Co., gave
to the Woodrow Wilson League, Bal
timOre, strong statement in favor
of the reelection of President Wilson.
He said that he was not supporting
President Wilson because he was a
hidebound party man; that he had
voted for Taft for President and
Goldsborough for Governor, but that
he was for Wilson because OF his
great wisdom and worth"
Bruce f. Lesher, a railroader, re-
ported that he had made a careful
canvass of 129 men in the Riverside
and Camden yards, Baltimore, and
found 120 of them for Wilon and only
8 for Hughes. The list stood: Dem
ocrats, "A; Republicans, 40; indie
pendents, 4, one Socialist and one
Progressive, all for Wilson; and 8
Republicans for Hughes.
Victor Murdoch, Progressive, who
bolted the convention when his party
decided to make up with the Repub-
licans, is off the fence. In long edi-
torial Mr.. Murdock's Wichita Eagle,
Kan. comes out for Woodrow Wilson.
Buffalo Bill has sized up the pOliti-
cal situation and believes the re-elec-
ton of Woodrow Wilson is assured.
This is the way he expressed it in
telegram: Hughes can't ride Wood
row. He is pulling leather already
and will be disqualife.d d"
}. p. Griffin. president of the Chi
cago Board of Trade, Chicago, and
lifelong Republican, announced his
decision to vote for President Wilson.
He advanced the opinion that Ameri-
can business men who oppose Presi-
dent Wilson are opposing their own
best interests, as we'll as the bsst in
tereSt Of the nation.
Thomas A Edison and Henry Ford,
Republicans, have announced their in
tention of voting for Woodrow Wilson
Two men who have won a place in
world business who place welfare of
country above politics. Both lifelong
Republicans with no AK to grind. Men
who have never sought office. Who
have no favors to ask of office hold
ers. Whose integrity and patriotism
are not questioned. This is the first
time that Edison has taken any in
terest in politics. When Edison and
Ford line up with Wilson, it is a sign
that the business world is content with
the present administration. Edison
and Ford have done what many other
giants Of the business and commercial
world will do, viz: Vote For the Man
Who Has Kept Us Out of War.