The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-07-21

THE ROOSEVELT SOUND.
None too much emphasis is being
placed upon Gartields Cleveland utter
ances, following his interview with
Roosevelt, as a probable index of the lat
ter's opinion. Garfield is not especially
given to vigorous personal illusions.
Once when everybody in Ohio thought
that he would sound the keynote of in
surgency at a TippeCanoe club smoker
Garfield contented himself with a highly
theoretical exposition of the principles
of conservation.
Even admirers of Mr. Garfield will be
pardoned, therefore, IL they see the
gleam of teeth and eye glasses when
they scan these lines:
What We all know is that the achieve
ments attained by the recent congress,
and there We're some notable accomplish
ments in the last days of the session,
could have never been accomplished but
for the tenaCity of the men who stood
for progression, and not for stagnati
in public affairs. You may call them
progreS 3iveS' or insurgents or friends
of the insurgents or what you may, but
they were the men, like Victor Murdoch
OF Kansas, Senators Cummins, LaFol-
lette, Beveridge, and the men who have
stood fast all the time against the men
who represented the special interests.
1t was their work that secured all
the progressive legislation, not only that
which relates to the conservation mat
ters, but the railroad bill, the amend =
ment to the Sherman antitrust law, the
establishment of postal savings banks.
and the appropria tion of $3.50, 600 which
enables the tariff board to ascertain the
difference in the cost of production in
articles at home and abroad, as the basis
of future tariff revision.
1T is all right for the regulars to
preen themselves now on what was
done, but the people know that it was
the 'progressives' and insurgents that
stood behind the guns and at the guns
early and late, that won the fight
1T was also true of the laws relating
to conservation measures. The crea tion
Of a law granting the president authority
to withdraw certain classes OF public
lands from the entry in pursuance of the
national conservation policy, the law
permitting the mineral entries to be
made on lands withdrawn for water. pow
er purposes We're all things thar the
progressives had been demanding.
The things that congress did were
things that the 'progressives' were con-
stantly demanding should be done. They
were done by the men that some people
were going to read out of the Republican
party
What a good many of the people down
at Washington have not learned an
parently, is that there are not half as
many people interested In party welfare
nowadays as they are in the public
welfare. The time has come when the
servers of the special interests are no
longer considered fit to serve the people"
Garfield is absolutely right in his
claims. What the regulars have ac-
cOmplished was pointed out by the So
called insurgents. 1t is a poor boast for
the regulars to claim that their votes
carried out the insurgent program, when,
at the same time, their opposition was
the only thing that prevented its prompt
and early realization during the last ses-
sion of the Roosevelt regime. Congress
sonal inertia always requires the spur
and the guidance of a faction that is
five years ahead of the times, even II
that faction must be called rebel, insur-
gent or other hard name.-Akron Beacon
journal.
DELEGATES GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
The speech of Jas. r. Garfield at the
dinner given in his honor by Roosevelt
progressive Republicans, Monday night,
rings true and clear, and we miss our
guess If 1t does not make a mighty
strong appeal to hundreds and thousands
of men of all parties in this state.
No man who does not put principle
above mere party eXpediency and per.
sonal ambition would have the courage
shown by Garfield in boldly throwing
down the gage of battle as he has done
to the big and little bosses who for
Years have used the Republican party Of
Ohio as a mere lackey for every preda-
tory interest that wanted to gouge the
people.
Whether or not the Garfield platform is
adopted by the Republican state conven-
ton and Garfield nominated for govern
or. this fact must be clear to every man
who is smart enough to sense political
conditions and honest enough to admit |
the truth:
The great majority Of the rank and |
ale OF the Republican party of Ohio is |
progressive in the sense that Roosevelt |
and Garfield are progressive
Theodore Roosevelt Is the biggest and |
most loyal Republican in the nation to-
day. because he is trying to regenerate /
aNG purify his party and save it from
: O." utter annihilation toward which the /
Cannons and others of the /
same ilk would lead It,
Garfield has stamped himself as the |
biggest and most loyal Republican in
Ohio by trying to do for his party in the |
state what Roosevelt is trying to do for /
it in the nation
He has pointed the way, and the only
way, to party success and what is of far
more Importance, he has pointed the
way to party honor.
The delegates to the coming Republican
state convention have it in their power
to do their nation, their state and their
party magnificent service
VIII they do It? Or will the story Of
he convention be a repetition OF the |
"a me old story Of wooden headed pup
2ets worked by strings, pulled by the
posses. followed as such a convention in |
AVitably will be by another deserved re-
Duke at the hands Of the voters of the
Post Toledo News
Bee, Cleveland Press, Columbus Citizen. |