The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-09-28
NoRToNI SCORES q. or.
LkADkRS WHO ARE
BEHIND HUGHES
Former Progressive Leader Tells
WY He il Working for VIII
sons Reelection.

WY He i Working for VIII
sons Reelection.
Chillieothe, Mo-, Sept. %
am neither a Democrat nor a R,
publican, hut l intend to supper
Woodrow Wilson and Senate
heed for reelection for the Pre-
gressive measures enacted by
Democratic administration sal,
Judge Albert D, Nortoni of 81
Louis, speaking today at tn
Gardner campaign opening.
He told If how the Progressive
party in 1912 and again in 1916
until it was shipwrecked by Col
Roosevelt, favored a change il
the banking system OF this coun
try, and Il Federal trade commits
SION. u ehi1d-lahcr law and Other
measures passed by a Democratic
Congress.
II was educated and reared tc
he Republican who thoIsht nc
good c"WsI come from Demo.
cratic administration he said
My opinion has been changed,
for more humanitarian legisla.
tion has hcu enacted under the
Wilson administration than any
time in the history Of this coun-
try.
If Ne FrpsrcSSives were sin
cere in our fight, we should re-
fuse to give up. our chattels and
be delivered over to the stand
l.atter> and the reactionaries.
II prefer to be an Independent
who will carry my sovereignty un-
der my hat, We should stand on
party lines i'm this campaign. The
Democratic party has stood for
the majority of our principles and
has passed the laws we would have
enacted ii We had been in power.
We know Smoot, Penrosc,
Barnes anna the stand-pattcrs who
stole the Il publican Convention
i'll 1912 Arr now behind the presi-
DENTAL candidacy Of Mr.. Hughes.
The kAAllAli.aA- ea--fftt44+ Hate for fer
President is a typical lawyer who
lives III the environments Of big
business ~ Governor of New
York he vetoed a 2-ccnt railroad
law, We in Missouri passed one,
and the Supreme Court upheld the
legality OF this statute. Mr..
Hughes opposed the income tax. i
He vetori proposed law |
eq,talizlng the salaries o. women
with men, Now he tells us he
favorS woman s suffrage. |
vs. | am one of the few" he con-
tinued who refuses to abandon
CIR flag and he delivered over to-
Barnes, remruSc, Crane and Gug-
senhelmS and the unholy Hughes
Alliance, The Republican party
has honest mcn like La Toilette,
Kenyon. Cummings and Murdock,
,ut they are not in the saddle.
The Democrats have been led by
ach bad characters as Charley
Murphy vi New York, but in 1912
sryan ami Wilson triumphed. |,
Ne rrnyrcssivcs in 1912 saw
he n,s'6 al change in banking
avs and wanted an elastic eur
eneX. Nilsson took up our cause i,
md gave WS the Federal reserve
ct. We asrSrd a farm credit act,
imilar to thu plan conceived by ,
Frederick Gardner, who is my
leighhor ard who is esteemed by c
very st. l.euiSan, The party of v
Wilson, eaMs 10 our rescue with
his law, Then we advocated a
'ederal trade commission to look 4
fter big business like the Inter
tate CnmMerrr Commission does
b railroads, AZ in Wilson met
ne wishes nj the Progressives. Il
We frogr>>lvcS opposed the ne a
arions Al,srich-Payne tariff bill p
nd the Democrats have given us b
tariff commission to our liking V
nd urged by us. We saw that /
Dor was being crucified and OPP p
Osed inj,,nctions. This evil has %
cen reme,iird by Democratic ii
OngreSS. a
"Then a Democratic Congress al
ave us the ehild-labor law. o.
IF President Wilson had ac-
nothing else, ! would IN
I'VE had I" support him for ad- !
This, the greatest human =,
arian law ever passed by any ~
ongress, -;
NOrtoni reviewed briefly the i,
aropean war and the Mexican -,
lbrOglio. h.
He declared Mr.. Wilson had h.
ted sNnelv. wisely and honor "