The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-10-21
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Washington, Oct. 10 - Theodore
Roosevelt's star of destiny is falling!
While he was in the South dicker-
ing for the support of Republican dele
gates to the 1912 convention, vigote
GUS movement was started among the
genuine" progressives of the West
and Middle West looking toward the
withdrawal of all support from the
former president.
Some of the leaders of the Congress
sional delegation of progressives qui-
etly talked the situation over and de-
cided not to permit Roosevelt to run
away with the leadership of the ma
tonal progressive movement. If nee
essary, to prevent the eX-president
from using the progressive movement
for his own personal advancement,
these real progressives will publicly
repudiate Roosevelt. They will direct
public attention to the gross duplicity
Roosevelt practiced on the people by
proclaiming himself a progressive and
then straightaway turning about and
allowing the New York state conven-
tion over which he had absolute
control-to adopt a platform indors-
ing the Payne-Aldrich tariff jugglery
and the reactionary Taft administra-
ton.
The New York platform squarely
describes the PayneAldrich law as
fullillment of Republican promises,
because it states there was an aver
age reduction of all duties of IL per
cent, which, if true, would consti
tute revision downward.
This is in contrast to the Wisconsin
Republican platform which states un-
equivocally that "the Payne-Aldrich
tariff is not compliance with the
pledge of the Republican party" La
Toilette, Clapp, Bristow, Cummins
Dolliver are on record as saying the
Republican promise of downward re-
vision was not carried out. Therefore
if Roosevelt was right, the progress
sives who declared otherwise are
members of the Ananias club, which
they emphatically deny, and which the
public does not believe.
The Roosevelt-made platform con-
tains still another paragraph which
makes T. r. impossible as leader of
the genuine progressives in 1912, to-
wit: "We enthusiastically indorse the
progressive and statesmanlike leader
ship of William Howard Taft"
The genuine progressives "enthus-
istically" do NOT indorse the Taft ad,
ministration. Progressives like La
Toilette condemn Taft for having
filled his cabinet with representatives
of the special interests; for having in
dorsed Cannon as another Lincoln,
Aldrich as the greatest living finan-
cier and the tariff law as the best
tariff bill ever passed; and last but
not least, for having throughout his
administration sought counsel from
men like Aldrich, Guggenheim, Steph-
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the same time refusing to give even
respectful notice to the suggestions
of progressive Republicans.
Through indorsing the tariff and
Taft, Roosevelt has queered himself
with the progressives. They will not
permit him to enter the 1912 pro
ressive movement, much less to bring
in with him Mr.. Taft and Elihu Root
the messenger boy of Wall Street.
Il have no defense to make of the
Payne law because it needs none,
says Mr.. Cannon. We move to amend
by substituting admits of" for
needs"
Champ Clark will have no opposi.
tion for the Speakership. The pros
pect of beholding him driving a pair