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The Commoner
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Vol. i6, no.
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Progressive Democratic Senatorial Candidates
These Men Can Be Depended Upon to Uphold President Wilson's Program in the United States Senate
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GEORGE S. PATTON OF CALIFORNIA
In California today, over a vast Jtorritory, the
size of sovoral of tho eastern states all rollod
into one, thoro is one of tho strongest and warm
est political fights in years being waged. A con
teat for the United States senatorshlp that has
attracted tho attention of tho entire country is
under way and is being fought entirely upon
tho quostion of tho fitness of tho two presiden
tial candidates who have been proposed by tho
democratic and republican parties. George S.
Pulton of Los Angeles, distinguished lawyer,
orango grower and business man who, for thirty
years has been active in the politics of tho state,
is tho nominoo of tho democratic party for tho
placo in tho sonato, and Governor Hiram W.
Johnson, registered progressive, who sat as a
delegate in tho progressive convention at Chi
cago which failed to nominate a presidential
candidate and who now has tho progressive and
republican nominations, is his opponent.
Patton bases his candidacy squarely upon his
endorsement of tho administration of President
Woodrow Wilson. Immediately after tho pri
mary election he started by automobile on a tour
of California that will take him into every one
of tho fifty-eight counties in tho state. Already
ho has traveled 3,600 miles and has as many
utoro to go before election day. In every city
and town ho has visited ho has preached tho
doctrines of democracy and has advocated the
cause of his party's leader. So far he has visited
sixty-six places and has made sixty-nine speech
es. Night aftor night he has said to his audi
oncos that ho places the importance of the re
election or President Wilson above any personal
ambition ho may have, and constantly, night
and day, ho has been on the living line making
tho battle for tho head of the ticket. Campaign
ing in California is a gruelling, arduous task and
it takes a man of courage and stamina and de
termination to follow tho trail as Patton is do
ing. Patton has been a democrat since he was
twenty-one years old and ho is now past middle
age. In all that time ho has fought corrupt po
litical rule and has been a man of progressive,
forward-looking ideas of government. Ho bo
lieves sincoroly in Wilson and was one of his
iirst supporters in California when his name
was montionod for the presidency more than
four years ago.
Tho Patton managers reason that, in casting
his or her vote for Wilson, any intelligent voter,
of whatever party, must also cast it for the sen
atorial candidate who supports the Wilson pol
icies tho policies because of which the voter
has, after thoughtful consideration, decided to
voto to re-elect Wilson. In this" deduction lies
the strong boliof that Pa&on will bo returned
tho victor over Governor Johnson in tho Novem
ber election. George S. 'Patton can bo counted
on to support democratic legislation in the
United States senate. Ho is neoded there, and
every Bupporter of President Wilson and pro
gressive democratic measures should voto for
Patton November 7.
SENATOR ASHURST OF ARIZONA
Henry F. Ashurst, of Prescott, Arizona, was
born at Winnemucca, Nevada, Septembor 13
1874; was taken to Arizona by his parents whon
ho was three months of age and has since con
tinuously resided in Arizona; was educated in
tho public schools at Flagstaff, Arizona; was
graduatod from tho Stockton Business College
Stockton, California; studied law and political
economy in the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor; elected a member of the house of rep
resentatives of the Arizona legislature in 1896
re-elected in 1898; was chosen speaker of the
twenty-second legislature of Arizona; was elect
ed to the territorial senato in 1902; elected to
the office of district attorney of Coconino county
In 1904 and re-elected in 1906; was chosen
United States senator by the people of Arizona
at a direct primary held October 24, 1911 at
tho general election held in December, 19 li
was indorsed by the people of that state as one
of tho senators from the state of Arizona, and on
Maxell 27, 1912, was elected United States sen
ator by tho unanimous voto of tho first legisla
tive assembly of tho state of Arizona.
Mr. Ashurst was renominated without oppo
sition at tho primary held on September 12,
1916, as tho democratic candidate for United
States senator. He is chairman of tho senato
committeo on Indian affairs, is a member of tho
senato committoo on mines and mining, of tho
committee on the judiciary, of the committee on.
public buildings and grounds, of tho committee
on tho census, Cuban relations, and the com
mittee on education and labor.
Senator Ashurst voted for woman suffrage;
for prohibition in the District of Columbia; for
a system "of government railroads in Alaska;
for tho incomo tax; for an inheritance tax; for
rural credits; for a tariff commission; for the
bill .prohibiting child labor; for the Webb-Ken-yon-Sheppard
law; for the bill providing federal
aid to good roads; for the bill creating a bu
reau of markets; for tho resolution proposing to
abolish secret sessions of the senate; for tho bill
limiting campaign contributions; for tho reso
lution investigating contributions made in pre
vious campaigns; for establishing the new cur
rency bill and financial system, the result of
which law has been to deprive Wall street of the
control of the money market and to provide a
currency sufficiently elastic to meet the require
ments of trade at all times. He voted for the
federal trade commission; for freedom for the
Filipino people, and for every progressive prin
ciple brought to a voto in the senate.
His record is such that there should be no
doubt of his re-election, as the people of Arizona
recognize in Senator Ashurst a public servant
who represents tho best thought and best in
terests of tho people of Arizona.
SENATOR ATLEE POMERENE OF OHIO
No United States senator has supported tho
Wilson administration more consistently or la
bored more faithfully to redeem his party's
pledges made in the Baltimore platform than
Senator Atlee Pomerene. As a member of tho
banking and currency committee he took a lead
ing part in drafting the Federal Reserve act and
the Federal Farm Loan act. As a member of
the interstate commerce committee his chief
work was on the Federal Trade Commission
act and tho Bill of Lading act which bears his
name. He was active in his support of the In
como Tax law for twenty years. As a member
of the committee on foreign relations he
co-operated enthusiasticaly with former Secre
tary of State William J. Bryan in securing fa
vorable consideration by the senate of thirty
peace treaties with as many different nations,
has strongly supported the 'President in his in
terpretation of neutrality laws, and has set his
face like Hint against intervention in Mexico
except as a last resort. Senator Pomerene dur
ing the first two years of his term was a mem
ber of the committee on pensions and he was
one of the enthusiastic supporters of the pres
ent "ago and service" pension law which was an
proved May 10, 1912, and which is tho most
generous pension law over passed by any legis
lative body of any country In the world. He fa
vored the Ashbrook Pension law passed during
the closing days of the recent session, and is on
record as- favoring the Key bill to pension the
widows and orphans of Spanish-American war
7! eFfa1!? i othor meaures supported whole
heartedly by Senator Pomerene, whicbrshow h m
to be in sympathy with the best progress!
thought of the day were: Bill to creatla de
partment of labor, bill to create children's bu
reau, general eight hour law on contraotS n
Public work, bill to eBtabltahtadiwolSaUoS;
commission, eight hour law for women and
5aw''r Ml n Sf (J!StFiCt f ?lumbia' hossy
jaw bill for the protection of emnloveeR in
match factories, Kern-McGillicuddy bin C1av
ton anti-trust bill, child labor bill, lOComotiv
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public life. In hia Giitnnnifm ,
in nnlr.fnr iho. vrfn e nu. , . 01ectIon hfl
interest bv returning KnnooM neir
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is askinc the voters nf nM 4.7.,Liec.Uon
his record, and they should vote for thoir by
upper house of congress.
KENDRICK OF WYOMING
Indications are that Wyoming will Pw
democratic United States senator thil VaP V,
first democrat to be elected to the national 'li
ate frefm that state in its history rL n"
John B. Kendrick is the nominee 0f uTiE?
ocratic party, and has for his opponent rinr
D. Clark, whro has been a United States llZl
iZ Vf8 iyone years. Clark , w ho
one time chairman of the senate judiciary com
mittee, represents the reactionary element T
his party, and has always stood with the tvnB
best represented by Smoot, Gallinger, Lodge and
Penrose. His record has been one of inacUon
of indifference and of obstruction where ho has
interested himself. a3
Governor Kendrick is a cattleman, broad vie
?SUn'ffeeinn? iUCi8iVe' He made the woo for
the United States senate four years ago against
Senator Francis B. Warren, and was beatfn by
that gentleman in the state legislature by only
one vote. He ran for governor two years ago
and was elected by a majority of over three
thousand votes in a state normally about that
number republican. During his campaign four
years ago against Senator Warren, Governor
Kendrick advocated the passage of an enlarged
homestead act by the national congress, and was
one of the first men in the United States to ad
vance the idea which has resulted in the present
640-acre homestead law now before congress. It
was through the sheer fdrce of the governor's
personality that Wyoming nqw has a workmen's
compensation law, a mother's pension act, a
state public utilities commission. and a number
of other pieces of broad legislation, urged by
him and pushed through the state legislature.
Governor Kendrick has resided in Wyoming
for .over thirty-five years, He is a self-made
man, educated and polished. His people believe
in him, they admire him, and without regard to
political preference, wilJvote for him. His
. long, active residence has enabled him to learn
the needs of the state at first hand,.and he has
proven that he is an abler advocate in helping
to supply those needs. Wyoming will have a
strong, forceful man in the United States sen
ate, if sho sends Governor Kendrick to Wash
ington, and the indications are better every day
that she will do this very tiling.
To T , BVW agricul
law, Alaskan railway law,
He is one of thr imnWf ..i . '
.to ana one or tho m KK TenT
SENATOR REED OF MISSOURI
Not so many years ago the senate of tho
fi,?. states was popularly known as the
Millionaires' Club." Un,der the present demo
cratic regime the senate has outlived that char
acterization. In the state of Missouri the democratic party
has renominated Senator James A. Reed; his
republican opponent is Walter S. Dickey of Kan
sas City. Mr. Dickey is the head of an institu
tion which owns a large number of clay pipe
manufacturing plants located in the south and
west. He is a director in several banks and is
otherwise connected with big business. Ho is
reputed to be many times a millionaire. Without
reflection upon Mr. Dickey it may with confi
dence be said that were it not for his great
wealth he would never have been the republican
nominee. He has had no experience in state
craft. On all of the great constructive measures of
reform which have been enacted during the ad
ministration of President Wilson Senator Reed
has voted on the side of the people. With
marked ability and eloquence he has fought for
democracy in the senate chamber. His return
to that body is a national need.
For Missouri to elect a mere millionaire to tho
senate over such a man would be a heavy blow
to the cause of reform. Mr. Dickey is not only
v-the Penroflo-Lodge school. There is nothing In
ins career commelul him to the progress"
element of any party,
' On the other hand, with his six years of ex-
ri