The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-06-15
Roosevelt to Head a
New Party?

Can Roosevelt corral a sufficient
number of disgruntled Democrats and
Republicans to form a new party that
would be worth the paper on which
its platform was written?
There is some talk going the rounds
to the effect that Roosevelt inchot-
Garfield plot is being formed and will
be sprung as soon as the former has
been home long enough to glance at
the situation and go throuh a few
formalities incident to the return
home of wanderer.
r In a speech Saturday night before
the Roosevelt Club of ST. Paul, Clifford
Pinchot, the deposed forester, strongly
assailed the interests" whose tool his
party is. He declared that the Amer
lean people were tired of the rule of
these interests, and strongly intimated
a change in the color of congress. Mr..
Pinchot said in conclusion:
We have had enough of that cry
don't disturb the business interests
and of that policy of let we'll enough
alone" take it that the American
people are not content to let things
drift. We demand constructive, con-
sentative legislation, and We demand
that our public officers take the lead
in securing it.
Some people are disposed to look
upon this utterance as a sort of feeler
thrown out by man fresh from
Roosevelt" Pinchot and Garfield both
have a grievance against the present
administration. Mr.. Roosevelt is an
ambitious man, but whether he will
permit his ambition and the grievance
of his friends to tempt him from the
path of his party, remains to be seen.
1t remains to be seen, too, if Roose-
welt could survive the inroads into his
political vitality made by ambition.
An excess of this attribute has ruined
countless thousands. Will it ruin
Roosevelt? He is the only living man
who could make any kind of a show
with a new party, and it would be
necessary for him to command the
solid strength Of the insurgent element
of his own party, whose brightest star
is Robt. NJ. La Toilette of Wisconsin
Recently Senator La Toilette made
a confession in the senate. He had
been severely criticised for going into
the states of System senators" and
telling their constituents how they
had been voting. According to the
New Orleans States he promised his
fellow senators that while he lives,
whether in public life or out of it, his
time will be devoted to the restoration
of representative government and in
forming the people of the many ways
in which public officials discharge
their obligations to the public. Mr..
La Toilette said:
1 believe, as l believe in my exist
ence, that the government founded for
us by our fathers, dedicated to equal
rights and equal opportunities, is up-
deTgoing a change, and l believe that
as the generation of the sixties eman-
cipated slave labor, so do I believe
that this generation has committed to
it the work of emancipating legisla-
ton. State and national, from
mighty force that controls transporta-
ton and production-that controls the
market price of everything we buy
and sell and the cost of passing those
products back and forth from the
places where they are produced TO
where they are consumed.
Whether the Wisconsin statesman
means that he would follow a new
banner in order to accomplish his
ends, is doubtful, but it will be inter
esting to watch the La Follettes, the
Pinchots and the Roosevelts for the
next three years