The Cairo bulletin., 1912-08-18
Also Talks on Social and Industrial
| Justice in Speech at
Revere Beech
CONTRASTS WILSON'S ATTITUDE
Does Not Think Wilson Should
Have Said Democratic Platform
Was Not a Program
Associated Press Dispatt h.

Associated Press Dispatch.
/ Revere Beach, Mass, Aug. IL
Honesty In nominations and cleo
tion, and social and industrial JUS
tiee were the text Of a speech deIiv-
cred here today by Theodore Roose-
| velt The progressive canr.dale also
| contrasted his attitude toward the
| Progressive platform with that of
Governor Wilson toward the Demos
cratic platform as expressed In the
| latter's speech OF acceptance. Where
as, Governor Wilson, he said, stated
| that THE platform Is not pro-
gramme" Colonel Roosevelt ce-
clared that the progressiyes treated
their platform as a programme and
| a contract which we shall scrupu-
lously fulfill if the people give us
tho power"
Colonel Roosevelt said In part:
Men and women Of Massa-
chusettsand on the platform on
which I stand make the same appeal
| of serious and sober purpose to the
| women as to the mani come to
this state, with its back ground or
| adherence to lofty ideals, and ask you
Tin the name OF Massachusetts past TO
| place the Massachusetts of today on
the side of those who battle for all
that IL highest and best In our nat
ional life.
Condemns Dishonesty.
| THE first essential in securing the
right Of the people to rule is to Sc
cure the unsparing condemnation Of
dishonesty in nominations and cleo
| tions To steal a nomination or to
steal an election is even worse than
to steal purse, for II Is a theft OF
the peoples rights. It is a theft
from the people as whole Every
honest man should set his face like
flint against such dishonesty, wheth-
er it takes the form OF swindllng at
the polls, or debauching a ,egrs.a-
ture or of the theft OF a nominating
convention.
| Two years ago the fight against
Mr. Lorimer was started by great
| Chicago newspaper ana was con-
| tinued by certain private indiyid-
luals And we who then took part,in
! G,h 4
average public man obviously
thought it would come to rothing.
| Gradually, and especially in the re
cent contest in the Republican prlm-
aries, we hammered 1t ilto the
heads of the politicians that the peo-
pie were against Lorimer and Lori
merism and then the very men who
| had been seeking to profit by Lori
mer's support, SO long as they be-
lieved he would be useful and some
even Of the men who had hitherto
had defended him turned against
him, But friends, remember that
our real concern was not in smash
| ing one bad man who by improper
methods had secured his own elec-
tion to the Senate, but in smashing
the kind Of politics which ne SYM
bolized 1t is bad thing to win a
senatorship by such methods as Mr.
LoFimer employed, but It rs not one
| whit worse than to steal a nominal
ton for the presidency by such
| methods as were employed by the
bosses who controlled the Republic
can convention at Chicago last June.
Certain of our New England sena-
tors. | regret to say took the lead.
both in conducting the campaign for
the defense OF Mr.. Lorimer and I'm
, putting through the steal of the Re-
tpubican nomination at Chicago.
Whatever else Is to be said against
these senators at least their action
In these respects, was consistent.
When Senator Crane, Senator Aid
rich, Senator Penrose, Senator Gug-
genheim, Senator Gallinger, Senator
Dillingham, and their associates, to-
gether with Senator Bailey, Senator
Johnson and their associates ON the
Democratic side, stood by Senator
Lorimer and Senator Lorimer's right