Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-08-08

| attended the Republican National
Convention just closed here in Cleve
land while in Madison via radio set,
and as heard Henry Allen Cooper of
Wisconsin read his minority report to
the Republican platform, was proud
that came from Wisconsin. Amid
the boots and Kisses and boos of that
convention, / remembered that ! was
born in Wisconsin, that my mother
and father were born in Wisconsin,
and that my grandparents on both
sides of old pioneer stock came into
the state of Wisconsin and with the
sweat and Drawn of labor they clear
ed home for themselves among the
timberlands of that state. And re-
membered that through a period of
twenty years of progressive legisla-
tion in the state of Wisconsin, while
Wisconsin had been hard hit by the
agricultural depression, it had been
able to weather the farm depression
better than any other state in the
Union. l say it right here and now
that it is due practically entirely to
the same progressive administration
that has been given to the people OF
Wisconsin by the progressives of that
state.
You have heard they began twenty
years ago to denounce La Toilette
and a little group of progressives
when they were making their fight in
Wisconsin, but as year after year the
state of Wisconsin kept returning and
returning the progressives by larger
and larger majorities, the paid news
papers and the hired press of this
country started in with a policy of
denouncing whole state. If | had
the time | could give you a series of
statistics on the actual financial con-
dition of Wisconsin that would con-
vict 80 per cent of the controlled press
of this country as being what great
many of us know them to be already
-unnmitigated liars.
The Right Shall Prevail
AS / listened to Henry Allen Coop
er read that platform Wednesday
night, remembered that as little
tot I was in the 1908 convention, and
again in 1919, and | remembered that
Henry Allen Cooper brought in a
minority report in 1908 and in 1912
and again in 1915, and in that period
Wisconsin had presented a minority
platform consisting of 81 planks. AS
I heard the Kisses and cries of de-
rision of The reactionary element in
the Republican Convention that has
just adjourned, remembered that 26
Of the planks in the platform that
had been submitted before by the
state of Wisconsin had been written
into the law of the land of these
United States.
And I recall, too, that when those
planks were brought in in 1908 and
in 1912 and in 1916, containing such
principles as direct election of United
States Senators and woman's suff-
rage, that those conventions hooted
and Kissed and called it socialism, rad
icalism and anarchism.
So | am not bit fearful about the
future, and I am certain that the prin-
ciples enunciated by the progressives
in the last convention meeting here
in Cleveland will before many years
be the law of the land.
You will read in the newspapers OF
this country about how radical and
dangerous Wisconsin is, and all of
these terrible and fearful things that
they tell you about Wisconsin. / hope
that every American will stop and
think of this for minute-that there
isn't anything that we need now in
this country more than we need men
with character and men with courage,
and that in the entire period that the
progressives have been in control in
Wisconsin, you haven't heard any
thing about gratis or Doodle. You
haven't heard that these dangerous
citizens from Wisconsin have been
bartering away the nations natural
resources. They haven't been accept
ing bribes brought around in suitcases
full of hundred thousand dollars in
bills.
In this country today we face SER
ious and difficult problem. I believe
that if you carve to the core of every
great political and economic issue
which faces the American people, that
at it's heart you will find one simple
issue. and that is the issue of human