The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-03-07
FORMER FORESTER ADDRESSES
GREAT GATHERING OF RE.
PuBLichNS IN AKRON.
PARTY NOT THE THING
Republican Party Cannot Afford TO
Risk It's Chanc. OF Victory in 1912
Merely Upon Hope Of Democratic
BIunders--ln Next Campaign Presi-
dent Candidate, Himself, viii Be tho
Issue.

Akron, Ohio. March 6.-More than
200 republicans. mostly progressives,
in attendance at the Lincoln banquet
here tonight, heard clifford Plnchot.
seconded by James II. Garfield OF
Cleveland, and 4. L. Garford of Elyria,
Ohio, declare for independence OF
party rather than regularity, In order
10 become free of corporate control OF
the nations resources and Of the re-
publican party.
O. c. Barber of Akron also spoke.
"Whatover is right and vital in tho
republican party today Is progressive"
sad Mr.. Pinchot whatever Is not
progressive is dying or dead. The
republican party cannot live half dead
and half alive. II cannot continue
hnlf reactionary and half progressive.
We shall live IL we free ourselves from
the gangrene of blind devotion TO
things that have gone by
Mr.. Plnchot said the republican
party cannot afford ts risk Its chance
of victory In 1912 merely upon the
hope of democratic blunders.
"Tlme was when that was reason
ably safe" he said. today 1t is n de-
pendeuce distinctly less reliable than
in the past Also We need larger
issue. In 1912 the nominee himself
viii be more than half the platform.
lie must have certain Indispensable
qualifications. lie must be a pro-
gressive and stand for popular gov
ernment
Generations have their charncteri4-
ties as we'll as men. During the last
third of the nineteenth century tho
American people gave their energy
and their intelligence mainly To the
great task OF material development
Under the power and drive OF their
concentration upon material success
they developed this continent with
thorough going effectiveness without
parallel In history. New Industrial
devices, 10th mechanical and legal
were needed, and appeared. and they
were as effective as they were new
Thse new devices were applied to our
vast natural resources, and made the
nation rch. But In tho process the
tools came to outweigh 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 monopolstic control
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 treless efficiency
they had learned In their legitimate
operations, they set ont TO get poiitl-
cal power, and they succeeded. Po-
liticnl power opened an easy way 10
use money 10 get more money, and
they clung to 1t till they wore their
welcome out. The Payne Aldrich tar
iff was the last straw.
During the first third of the twen-
tleth century the political deals which
underlie our government are likely to
have a development comparable to the
development OF our material re-
sources since the civil war. This po-
litcai development is already well be-
gun II rests on the fact that our
people possess dormant resources of
political power as yet not put 10 use.
hut ready To be employed for the pub
lie welfare as soon as the necessary
devices are available. Political civil
ization, or government for the welfare
of the average man, Is likely 10 de-
velop as rapidly under the impulse of
this fact as material civilization devel-
oped through the application OF elec-
trlcity to the arts.
From the point of view of material
civilization, the most important event
- ia a a
this nation TO the conservation idea.
The American people are fully per-
suaded today that 50 far as the nat
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