Arizona republican., 1911-03-07
HIS CURE FOR HIS PARTY
He Believes It Must Be Found in the Nomina- tion For President of an Able and Progressive" Leader.

| Akron, Mar. 6-More than 500 re
 publicans. mostly progressives, in at ] tendance at a Lincoln banquet today heard Clifford Pinchot, seconded by
 James R. Garfield, of Cleveland, and
 A. L. Garford, of Elyria, Ohio, de- clare for independence of party rather ] than regularity, in order to free from corporate control the nations re- sources and the republican party.
 Pinchot said:
 Generations have their character
 istics as well as men During the
 last third of the nineteenth century
 the American people gave their en-
 ergy and their intelligence mainly
 to the great task of material develop
 ment. Under the power and drive
 of their concentration upon material
 success they developed this continent
 with a thorough going effectiveness
 without parallel in history. New in-
 dustrial devices, both mechanical and
 legal. were needed, and appeared, and
 they were as effective as they were new. These new devices were ap-
 piled to our vast natural resources
 and made the nation rich. But in
 the process the tools came to out weigh their masters, and the political
 power of corporations created by the
 people became the dominant factor in government,
 When the great combinations of capital found that monopolistic con trol of the natural sources of wealth could be secured more easily through politics than in any other way, they went into politics. Using corrupt commercial methods with the tireless efficiency they had learned in their legitimate operations. they set out to get political power, and they sue ceeded. Political power opened an easy way to use money to get more money and they chung to it till they wore their welcome out. The Payne Aldrich tariff was the last straw.
 The sign and promise of all this is the political unrest of the pres ent day. As l have had occasion to say more than once the fundamental fact today in politics is the profound indignation of the voters against the political power of the special inter ests. As citizens we are beginning to see that if we are to govern our selves in the future with less dicta ton from the special interests than we have had in the past, the machin cry of government must be so adjust ed as to make it easier for the popu- lar will to produce results. It must be made easier for the people to secure continuously the honest en- forcement of their will than it is for the business and political bosses to secure continuously the defeat of the popular will in their own interest. We cannot always work along under a political organization such that un- bearable abuses are the only stimu- lants strong enough to make the e/peo- pie demand and get their rights. Good government in spurts is not good enough. What we need is machinery under which the hardest work will always have to be done by the men who are trying to defeat the popular will, and not by the men who are trying to get it enforced.
 The demand for better things is working out in many state leSisla- lures through the passage of pro- gressive laws for popular government. Under these laws, which are by no means revolutionary. the people will take better control of their own af- fairs. There is no movement in pol itics today more vital than this. and it is for this reason that the organi- zation of the National Progressive League was thoroughly good thing
 In the field of national politics the situation is less clear. Here the cen tral question about which men are thinking concerns the presidential Public mention of it by public men is not heard. but much quiet work is being done. and the lines are already taking shape
 This is. of course. the formative time. Therefore l see every reason why the public discussion of this matter is in order now, while there still remains a chance for the gen. eraI body of the voters in each party Eo influence the result. The longer we wait. the nearer the conventions. and the less likelihood that the will If the people may prevail against po- itical maneuvering and the dictation 1f the bosses. Many national con- vention does no more than ratify a nomination safely secured. by methods we all know, months before the dele l gates assemble. The time to strike s when the iron is hot and can still De shaped.
 | am republican. and as such nm interested in the success of the l republican party as an instrument