Weekly journal-miner., 1910-10-19
POLITICAL SIGNS.

Wherever ne spoke to enthusiastic thousands and tens of thousands dur ing his remarkable journey through Indiana, in behalf of the Senatorial candidacy of Beveridge on Thursday last, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt de- elared that the things for which Beveridge stands are the things for which the Republican party stands, and that before the Presidential bat tie of 1912 the Republican party will have made national declaration along the Beveridge, or rather, the most progressive lines.
 In other words, Theodore Roose- welt declared that the Republican party has once more come into it's own as the great moral party of the nation by purging itself of the impurities which mad fastened them selves upon the party. His. words can be construed to mean nothing else. What Beveridge stands for, Cummins, Deliver, LaFollette, Bris- tew, Nelson, the great editor of the Kansas City Star, Johnson, Poindex- ter and a host of other splendid patriots in the great Republican West stand for, and President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Governor Hughes and Henry Stimson of New York are their mighty champions in the East. Can a finger be placed upon one of the men mentioned as having the utmost good of his country at hearti Can either of them be charged with ever having placed personal ambition above his country's goodf Is not the record of every man of them a guarantee to the people of the Re public that in their keeping the des- tiny of the Republic is safef:'
 What do these men stand for, and therefore what. is to be the creed of the regenerated Republican partyi ...u
 ABOVE ALL, THE EQUALITY OF ALL MEN BEFORE THE LAW I AND DEATH TO SPECIAL PRIV ILEGE. -'.'..s .'--.f' ,"i
 The Republican party withn such
 
 with but the single plank named in the capitals above, could win the biggest political victory in American 1, history in 1912.
 The new leadership of the Repub lican party stands soIidly behind the great Lineolnian precept that this is a government "of the people, by. the people and for the people" They believe that under a Republican form of government there is but one power to be trusted-the power of the peo- pie themselves And so believing, and making that belief a cardinal clause in the Republican creed, the Republican party is pledged to a pol icy which shall bring the government into the hands of the people them selves without sacrificing those indi- vidual rights guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States.
 The initiative, the referendum and the recall, enacted on a dignified basis which snail take them out of the limits of the personal and the faetional, are simply a step in the evolution of the government towards the ideas of Abraham Lincoln. The initiative, the referendum and the re- call, wisely enacted, means the per feeting of the Lineolnian system, through which this Republic is to be a government "Of the people, by the people and for the people,
 While the regeneration of the Re publican party has proceeded, while it has been purging itself of Aldrich- Ism and Cannonism and all that these terms mean and have meant in the past decade of the Republic the Democratic party has been open ing wide its arms to embrace them The tiger of Tammany was never be- fore so supreme as he is today. Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany Sachem, is dictator of the Demo cratic party as he never was before "I gave them the candidate they wanted" declared this wonderful champion of the peoples rights, when John A. Dix had been nomin- ated by the New York Democratic State Convention at Rochester.
 And while New York, the key of Democratic success in the nation, bows the knee in humble subjeetion to the former keeper of a dive on the notorious East Side in New York, who has been elevated by the infamous Tammauy system to the po-