The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-05-02
COLONEL HAILED AS \
INDUSTRIAL MOSES MOSES. "
LAWRENCE Strike Makes Voters
Think, Also S|ur on Pennsy|Va.
MIA Victory Rank and File
In Victorious Line.

Boston. - Whatever the so called
Taft sentiment might have been ten
days ago, today it Is all for Roosevelt
The conservatives In the Republican
ranks-educutors, lawyers, business
men, farmers, operatives, the backbone
OF New EngIand-were the first to hear
the note sounded by Illinois and Penn
sylvania, then taken up by Nebraska
and Oregon, and today rock ribbed New
England Is In line for the one leader
that can lead not alone the party, but
all the people, to victory The third
term cry Is today too weak, to echo.
1t Is lost In the same rdicule that
meets Congressman Gardeners uncon-
sclously humorous demand that the
colonel meet him In "joins debate"
~ The colonel has shown so strongly as
THE man. THE leader, that all class
es OF Republican voters. assured until
now that Taft alone could win, turn
toward the misinformers and smilinply
utter Missouri's unwritten motto
Or the incidental happenings that
have kindled- Roosevelt sentiment to
enthusiasm none has been stronger
, than the sneering comment of Bos-
ton newspaper that the Roosevelt vic
tory In Pennsylvania was "a triumph
for professional reformers and the coal
miners" This awakened indignation
= among the workers. the rank and file
OF the party. who are always keenest
to detect the popular trend. The Penn
sylValsia workers knew what they
wanted and voted accordingly. Those
OF Massachusetts will do likewise on
Tuesday. April 30.
80. .a. The Real Progressive.
IN no state 49, than in N1asSachu-
'--Nntts have the silent voters had more
srr1Eing cause for real de!iberation on
( the presidential issue. and the leading
element in this cause has been the
spectacular Lawrence strike. What
ever individual circumstances went to
make up that calamity, the fact re-
mains that the strike itself proved the
existence Of an Industrial unrest that
could mean only one thing-namely,
that the people were dissatisfied and
demanded and would bring about a
change. Would they re-elect President
Taft? How could they re-elect him
when the demand for Il change was so
obvious? Would they elect a Demo
cratic president? Perhaps since there
must be II change, But-when has the
election Of Il Democratic president ever
meant anything but Industrial disas-
ter? Who. then, WIS the real progress
siye. the man of vigOr--an initiative
and referendum in himSeH-the man
OF deeds. to WHOM all the people could
look for leadership out Of an industrial
wilderness?
Tho Workingmen Answered.
The Massachusetts workiugmen ask
ed this question. The candidacy Of
Theodore Roosevelt answered it i'm
mediately. But Massachusetts, one of
the Oldest OF states ana perhaps the
most conservative. pauses to breathe
before it begins to shout, and In the
Interim It's own child. Maine, declared
with emphasis for Koosevelt-M Maine,
III which the need Of strong, mag
netjc leader was not half so immedi-
ate as in Massachusetts Nor was
massachusetts, deaf to the shouts Of
Illinois and Pennsylvania. In it's con-
seryatism perhaps the Bay State was
little surprised at the magnitude Of
the Roosevelt victories in the west,
but they were the spoken reflections
. of its own opinion rather than argu-
ments for falling into line of which
Massachusetts, was already part.
All For Roosevelt
The clamorerS alone-the standpat.
ting machine, backed by an almost
unanimous party presS-did the prena-
ture shouting. invoked the obviously
sacred name Of precedent" as argu- I
ment In favor Of party suicide. The 81 i
lent voters were silent still, waiting for !
the echo Of their own thoughts. They !
heard 1t, not from one quarter. but
from many, and perhaps no more i'm =,
pressively than from the Connecticut
convention, in which the name Of Taft ,
was heard in silence, while that Of
Roosevelt called forth cheers that :
were more than significant
New England IS aroused and is all
for Roosevelt. His candidacy stands
for national expedjency, surmounting
any possible question Of precedent
Massachusetts Republicans know It.
and they will 80 vote