The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-10-20
Vital Washington News.


RooSeveltS star of destiny is falling!
While he was in the South decker
ing for the support of Republican
delegates to the 1912 convention,
vigorous 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
quietly talked the situation over and
decided not to permit Roosevelt to
run away with the leadership of the
national progressive movement If
necessary to prevent the eN-preSident
from using the progressive movement
for his own personal advancement,
these real progreSSiveS will publicly
repudiate Roosevelt They will di-
rect public attention TO the gross
duplicity Roosevelt practiced on the
people by prochiming himself a pro-
gressive and then straightway turning
about and allowing the New York
state convention-over which he had
absolute control-to adop, 4 platform
indorsing the Payne-Aldrch tariff
iugglery and the reactionary Taft ad-
ministration.
The New York platform Squarely
describes the Payne-Aldrich law as a
fulfillment of Republican promises,
because it states there was an aver
age reduction of all duties of IL per
cent, which, ii true, would constitute
revision downward.
This is in contrast to the Wisconsin
republican platform which states I'M
equivocally that 1.-THE Payne-Aldrich
tariff is not a compliance with the
pledge Of the Republican party. -"
LaFollette, Clapp. BriStow, CumminS
and Deliver are on record as saying
the Republican promise of downward
revision was not carried ont, There
fore ii Roosevelt was right, the pro-
gressives 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: 1--WE enthusiastically indorSe
the progressive and StateSmanlike
leadership of William Howard Taft. y
The genuine progreSSiveS "enthuS-
iastically" do NOT indorse the Taft
administration. ProgreSSiveS like
. LaFollette condemn Taft for having
filled his cabinet with representatives
of the special interests; for having in
dorsed Cannon rs another Lincoln,
Aldrich as the greatest living finan-
cier and the tariff law rs the best
tariff bill ever passed; and last but
not least, for having throughout his
administration sought counsel from
men like Aldrich, Guggenheim, Ste
phenson, Dalzell and Fordney, while
at the same time refusing to give
even respectful notice to the SuggeS-
tons 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 progress
sive movement, much less to bring in
with him Mr.. Taft and Elihu Root,
the messenger boy OF Wall street.
Roosevelt Was in Control.
Roosevelt declares that had he been
in absolute control of the New York
Republican Convention he would
have written the tariff plankdiiferent-
~" He was in absolute control.
He named the platform committee
himself, in violation OF aIlpreccdentS.
AS temporary chairman of the conven-
ton he removed four members of the
committee ard substituted delegates
personally acceptable to himself
He had made a rough draft of the
platform before he left his home nj
Sycamore Hill. Hcmade 4 spcechon
the floor Of the convention in behalf
of the direct nominations plank, but
he said never word about the tariff.
Query: Ii he had pronounced views
on the tariff why did he not air them?
II would have bapn m oOnortunitv IN