The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-09-29
ADVOCATING DIRECT PRIMARIES,
Mr.. ROOSEVELT ARGUES
SUCCESSFULLY.
TRUST IN THE PEOPLE
Voters Can Be Depended Upon, Says
Colonel, and He Who Fears TO Trust
Them Has Not the Right on His
Side. as Shown in States Where
Primaries Have Been in Vogue.

Saratoga. y. v. sept .S. After
General Stewart l.. Woodfnrd had
spoken ror the ma jprity and u. T., Mcr-
ritt republican leader ~ the assembly.
| for the minority report. Colonel
Roosevelt took the platform IN advo-
carv ~ the majority report lie said:
we have now come 10 the vital
moment in this convention. and now
/ By your votes you are - determine
whether the republican party IL thr
state or New York Is to W the party
of progress or the party of The reac-
tionary.
Matter Of Fact.
And In the first place let me cor
rect one or two misapprehensions as
to fact The system of direct nomina-
4 tons has not been abandoned in other
\ states of the union. | have listened
10 men here. holding up the repub-
licans Of the west as people whose
4 example VIZ should avoid. In my re-
| pnhlicansm ] know neither east nor
west. ! have lived In the west and
! | know them through and through.
4 The alusion has been made to the
state Of Wisconsin. They have just
held direct primaries In Wisconsin. All
the money was used against the side
that won the overwhelming fight. and
the side that won spent an amount OF
money that would not he considered
adequate to run n congressional cam
paign In the state of Now York"
Here the colonel was interrupted b,
; laughter and cries Of oh"
Exactly" he continued with empha
ais. amid more laughter and cheers.
Salvation by Primaries.
! IAN allmsion has been made to tho
case of Congressman Sbley Greai
sums were spent. and Improperly
spent, In securing the nomination O
Congressman Sbley They were spen
In influencing n direct primary. jus
as they would have heen spent in in,
flnencing II convention.
The difference WAS and agaif
the colonel was interrupted, this tim,
by mingled cheers and misses
Il will give you chance to express
yotr dissent again." retorted The Ak
q president.
''rhe difference was that Mr. Sib
+ ley won't be congressman, whercn,
, he would II they had not direct pri
. maries.
New Works Alliance.
THE gentlemen who present the mi
nority report say they represent tn
republican traditions, They rcprcsen
Il majority of the legislature compose
:. of the majority Of the democrats
y members and minority Of the ropnb
: lican party"
:. Here the convention broke into tn
t mnltnous applause, Flags We're waved
G the band played. and 1t was som
1 minutes before the colonel continue.
: II ask that this republican conven
y tion of the state of Now York pm
itself behind the republican govcrnn
y Of the state Of New York and benin
y the majority of the republican legis
lators of the state OF New York, an
that 1t do not put itself behind tn
: minority of the republican legislator
plus ,Tammany Hall"
L Here great applause again interrupt
ed the coloners speech.
Too Late.
H THE minority represents wha
would have been progress ii quartz
Of century ago, and II the gentle
man had introduced II In the Ne,
York legislature % years ago 1t woul
have been laughed out of court Ii
the spiritual borebears of the indvid
uals who back II now" he declared.
THE principle expressed in the RI
port of the minority does not repre-
sent little concession" said Colon,
Roosevelt, 1T does represent a lit
progress; 1t does represent II enoug
To make absurd the argument that
have any progress means ruin. If
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