Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-12
FOLLOWER OF
ROOSEVELT IN
90. ATTACK
DIR. Edward T. Jones Declares
Chicago Convention Was a
BurIesque.
HE'S BORN REPUBLICAN,

which he points the nations needs dur
ing the reconstruction era and makes a
plea for a vote for .'the future interest
og the many rather than for the present
interest OF a few
DR.. Jones was practically born a Re-
publican" but was won over to Democ
racy after coming West
JIe writes:
70 the Editor the Times: 4 was born
and reared in Vermont, and, of course,
had to east my first vote for a Repub-
lican.
you know Eastern people are quite
jealous of Western people because they
can live on less; I finally came West
and / have learned a few things, and
have also used my Judgment as to how
/ should vote, and In so doing I have
always tried to vote for the future Inter
est of the many instead<of the present
interest of a few.
"A PROGRESSIVE VOTER
SINCE 1872" HE SAYS.
NOW l wish to express my views as
citizen and also as a progressive voter
since 1912, when ! was turned against
monopoly politics by party that placed
before the American voters a platform
that carried more meaning and future
value than all others since Abraham
Lincoln's revival of the peoples interest
and It had it's profound effect
1T killed rhe Republican party. truth
fully speaking, and gave credit to the
Democratic party by their forcing pro-
gressive laws for the future benefit of
the American people.
Il will speak of Theodore Roosevelt as
a great leader of a party which George
y. Perkins had the nerve to finance for
the peoples benefit, and bis party was
you remember It progressed very fast IN
ninety days.
ut convinced four and one-half mil
lion voters what their duty was as
against monopoly rule which William
Howard Taft gave his o. X. while send
ing over their pre-eonvention vaudeville
in Chicago.
: POINTS ACTION OF
ROOSEvELT'S FOLLOWERS
After the election in November that
rear the Republicans honestly got my
Vermont state; also Utah. and Mr.. Taft
has net smiled since.
What was the cause of this great
movement?
a few politicians trying to monopo-
lie the political and future destiny Of
the United States as against the peoples
interest, which Is, in plain words, steal
ing.
90 SdAu AOQL anu ullliiDn WI
ers, including Theodore Roosevelt. Hiram
johnson, Mr.. Parker, Mr.. Beveridge, Mr.
Bohear, Mr.. Garfield, Mr.. Crane, Mr..
Colby, Mr.. Perkins and thousands Of
others that are well known.
Some Of them are now speaking. or
trying to, for that same old bunch of
ssandpat reactiOnary promise TO do any
thing under the disguise of the same old
Republican office seekers party.
faade IN 1915 to let the people rule.
some Of che Progressiyes believed that
aweet saysng. coming from that set of
traitors Hnd again Joined them and they
sure tsied to win by Il wholesale con
-s-efnnf ffon aud burlesquing of an honest
PREF 1ent after he had placed twenty
Il .re progressive laws on the statute
l1ooks Of this country, which up to date,
Fave stood the tests of anx panic, a
worlds war of business experience in
cluded.
"They (the Republicans and all their
converted Progressiyes lost again. Why i?
Because of their tactics and past rec
ord OF burlesquing and condemnation
against peoples rule and progressive
laws.
calls NOMINATION
-oLD TRICK OF 1914
This experience has further developed
q language of reputation and untruth
against the President and all financial
values that the administration has gained
IN the last eight years.
ITO verify their high handed methods
rs against the rank and hle OF their
own party and the people, they repeated
their 1912 trick again in the same city
Of Chicago. making it greater crime
Tor IL was more boldly done.
uofu5nafed on tho old uro.
arranged plan with a grin. the same as
in 1872.
@You remember all this at the expense
Of the people. defying them
FL order for you to understand.
-1hey want the people to believe they
ape elders owned by the people. to serve
che people, fairly. truthfully and hon
cstly.
.The Golden Rule should have been
their platform, as they would have you
believe.
"But when the people read that plat.
form made by these elders with 8
room full of smoke aud big two-tncil
anger, II IS just as strong, and .rneans
just as much, and has as many holes
in It, and is just as imperialIy crooked
az the candidates are that have agreed
to support it.
"Burlesque IS their motto
SAYS &. D. 2. DESIRES
NOTHING SUBSTANTIAL.
Also. angels trying to be truthful.
TITS shame to have a strong front
porch and step on suche a dimsy plat
form, but | suppose they can patch
Il up as they go from State to State
isut as they are against the League of
Nations they don't want anything sub
stantially strong and solid.
II don't believe Abraham Lincoln on
Theodore Roosevelt, or any other citizen
living In America, with real progressive
leaning will say that il was just what
the good American father and mother
would want said Of them-as being re-
sponsfble for electing a President on
such q platform.
"A man that will stand on that plat.
form for his election, in my opinion, has
pronounced symptom of senile demen-
.lsa of long standing and incurable ane
from the way he answers his questions
, and his ability TO express himself, ana
What he would do if elected, gives fur
Their evidence he cannot and should not.
be elected.
But l don't wonder at it when he has
been so confused with Taft, Watson. Pen,
rose, Smoot. Knox, Lodge. and Little
Willie Hays.
You must judge him by who he has
been playing WITH they all want imperial
end, including standing army and a war
once in a while, Sc as to show just how
nm Irish mothers and an American ia
Tiers son will fight in Germany.
Again. to be a Republican candidate
nominated in minority prearranged con-
renffon Is not riOh