The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-30
"We Are Done with Him, y
Say the Progressives.
LOST HIS HALO AT SARATOGA
Let Republican Platform Go Through
without Radical Tariff PIank-De-
nunciatiOn Is Unsparing-Chance
for Nomination In 1912 Killed L.
View OF Wesferners.

Republican progressives out here to-day
are just as friendly and cordial In their
love and admiration for Mr.. Roosevelt as
j. p. Morgan and ]. D. Rockefeller and
the members OF the Union League Club
were for Mr.. Bryan In 1896. Indeed. 1t
is not difficult TO find Republicans who
call Mr.. Roosevelt the Bryan of their
party. Mr.. Roosevelt Is scheduled TO
speak in this State on November 4. jus.
four days before election. Many radical
progressive Republicans do not believe
that he will come. They say that he will
make an excuse, rather than risk facing
audiences OF the chiiliness OF temper and
small size that will greet him.
This is one Of the progressive insur-
gent States OF the Middle West in the
heart OF the sO-called Roosevelt territory
which has ceased TO be a Roosevelt
State. The ex-President may come out
here and charm them again, but. in the
present state OF the public mind, when
one casually makes this suggestion 1t al
most provokes a riot. The more radical
and progressive the Republican OF Iowa.
the more bitter is he against Roosevelt
Since the attitude of open hostility to-
ward Mr.. Roosevelt developed there has
been reaction in favor or Mr.. Taft. The
President has gained some OF the ground
that Mr.. Roosevelt has lost. These people
are amused at the concern Mr.. Roosevelt
has displayed over the reports that have
gone East TO him OF his waning popu-
a VI n
part ot the country. Hardly a man In
ne State that does not know how urgent
q ere the appeals that Mr.. Roosevelt sent
70 Senator Cummins to come East and
talk with him about the situation out
here. There was some very frank, plain
talk at that meeting. Mr.. Roosevelt
knows just how diSheartened and dis
were the leaders and the rank
and file Of the progressive movement In
the Middle West by his course at Sara
toga.
From one OF the leading Republican
progressives Of this State who may be
the Republican candidate TO succeed DOL
liver In the Senate. l sought 4 frst-hand
impression of the present attitude OF the
Iowa insurgents toward Mr.. Roosevelt.
Republicans Are Bitter.
I'VE are done with him." he said. He
has led the insurgent movement with all
OF us following up blind alley, tied US 10
a stake and left us Naturally, we are
sore and bitter. The dlstrust OF Mr.
Roosevelt began among some Of US just
as soon as he got back from Africa
While he was in Europe he was quick
enough to tell the English how to govern
tel
ought to raise larger families anu talk
10 the Germans about world movements
and their control. so that We thought he
ought to be equally quick on the trigger
IN telling % here at home where he
stood.
There was but one question about
when he landed In New York:
Was he going to line up with the insur-
gents, or with the old-line regulars In the
Republican party? That is what every
body wanted to know. That is the ques-
ton that was put squarely up to him.
But he didn't answer Ii. Instead, he but
ter-hngered for four or FIVE weeks with
lot OF politicians and tried TO sense the
situation and see which side was the
strongest. Then he started on his West
arn trip. and in his first speeches ne didn't
make his position any clearer
When he got out TO Omaha he found
the people who came TO hear him much
colder than he had any reason to expect;
colder than they had ever been toward
aim before. While he was still speaking
II Omaha the crowd began shouting for
Dolllver, and Dolliver was the real hero
)f tina; occasion. The people out there
had begun 10 doubt whether Mr. Roose-
'elt WaS true-blue progressive Then
town in Kansas he made HIS Osawatomie
speech EnG tor the first time seemed TO
inc himself up with the progressive
movement Without reservation. We in this
state were not ready to go so far as Mr.
Roosevelt was apparently ready to go at
)saWatomIe. but We made allowances for
lis righteousness. Anyway, we knew II
Eould be long time before his most rad
cal suggestions would ever be taken up
seriously by Congress or the people. on
he whole, on his trip out here he pretty |
yell annexed the insuTgent country and |
)lanketed the leaders of the insurgent +,
movement Men like CUmmins and DolIi- |
'er and La Toilette and Clapp and Stubbs |
md Bristow and Beverage became subor- |
iinated TO Mr.. ROOsevelts great prestige |
I'D popularity.
The Saratoga Disappointment,
Then he went back East and took con-
roi of the Republican State convention /
I Saratoga. There were Just three blanks |
D the New York platform in which his /
blowers out here were interested. We
wanted to know what his declaration
would be in his home State about Mr..
aft. about the tariff. and about con-
ervation. Well, you know what hap
ened TIE President himself might have
'ritten ,he plank about the adminIstra-
ion, AlGrich the tariff plank, and Bal
niger or Guggenheim the conservation
lank. There never was a sorer LOT OF
eople In the world than we were out
ere when we read that platf, rm and
called that we had been ditcheI.
Right there the colonel got Of Right
here lie killed any chance thai he might
ave had to be the Republican nominee
or the Presidency in 1912. We quit him.
nd we quit him cold. He not only made
Is own nomination in 1912 impossible. but
2 killed on the chances of Cummins CT
a Toilette or any other of the real
aders of the progressives. He did our
Movement to reorganize and purify the
republican party more harm than any
Their one man could have done. For the
axe OF trying TO be the political boss
the Republican party in New York
tate he virtually threw away the lead
ship of a movement in the Republican
arty which is national in its scope.
Lost HiE Opportunity.
Where would another nomination for
Ir. Roosevelt for the Presidency come
rom? 1t would have had to come from
'ew York, Kansas, Wisconsin, or Iowa.
Iith those States for him he would have
ad the nucleus for control in the pext
republican national convention. But he
as lost his opportunity. There is not a
ngle newspaper OF any consequence out
ere in the Middle West country, except
he Kansas City Star. that is unreseryed-
friendly TO Mr.. Roosevelt That Is a
oosevelt newspaper. But the others