Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-01
Our Fancy Harness
j. E. Bankson,
Opposite the Postotfice. Canton, s. D..
The Place for Roosevelt.
What will Roosevelt do?


In his brief remarks at New York
Mr.. Roosevelt said:
l am ready aud eager to do my part
so far as am able in helping to solve
problems which must be solved II we
of this, the greatest democratic re-
public on which the sun has ever
shone, are to see its destinies rise to
the high level of our hopes and its Op-
every citizen, but it is peculiarly my
duty, for any man who has ever been
honored by being made president Of
the United States is thereby forever
after rendered the debtor of the
American people, and is bound
throughout his life to remember this
as his Prime obligation, and in private
life as much as in public life so to
carry himself that the American
people may never have cause to feel
regret that they once placed him at
their head.
Does that throw any light on what
is coming?
At the least it means that Mr.
Roosevelt will use tongue and pen to
aid in the solution of our political
problems.
In what relation to party politics
will Mr.. Roosevelt write and talk If
he does no more?
Talk of Roosevelt as the leader Of
third party movement Is nonsense.
There is no probability that he will
see any utility in work outside of the
party with which he has always work.
ed. Undoubtedly he will feel called
upon to use his efforts to establish the
republican party in popular con-
fidence.
There are several kinds of republi-
cans just now. This newspaper has
pointed out the difference between
standpatters, progressives and insur-
gents. The standpatters are the ul-
ira conservatives. The insurgents
are the ultra radicals. Throughout
his entire administration Mr. Roose-
velt tried to pull the conservatives
forward and the radicals backward.
His idea was that the golden means
of feasibility lay midway between the
extremes. If Mr.. Roosevelt shall ad
here to his old policy, we may expect
to find him lined up with neither the
standpatters or the insurgents. His
place naturally would be with the
progressives.
In support Of this suggestion it will
be remembered that il Roosevelt
never was able to cooperate cordially
with Aldrich and Cannon, he never
would have anything to do with La
Toilette or Cummins.
II Mr.. Roosevelt shall now decide to
throw his influence to the side Of
progressive republicanism. as distin-
guished from standpatism and insur-
gency, Mr.. Roosevelt will find himself
cooperating with President Taft.
That is the line of leadership along
which Mr.. Taft has been trying to
make good. In large measure he has
brought the standpatters, reluctantly
perhaps, to the progressive standpoint
he has taken. He has not been SC
successful In drawing the insurgents
back to where they could mingle with
the standpatters on common ground.
The success of the railroad bill was
however, an achievement in this
direction.
| President Taft has not succeeded as
yet in wholly convincing the public
that he is progressive. This is mainly
because of the uproar made by the In
surgents, who have clam0red that
Taft is reactionary because he has not
tried to Keep up with their made pace.
II the public could see Roosevelt
working side by side with Taft in sup
port OF rational progress It would be
an object lesson that would help ma
terially to clear up misunderstanding
In the minds OF many.
It Is the conviction Of this news.
paper that at least nine out Of ten
republicans resent classification: as
Ieither standpat or insurgsnt. But all