The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-25
BRYAN LOSES BATTLE TODAY
IN AN ATTEMPT To DEFEAT
PARKER FOR THE CHAIRMAN
Young Men

ne party oi HlSmOEieS mas uSeu
wrecked. The new party. the party of
expectations, social justice. is here
The wrecking was not done at Chi
cago.
The oldtime managers merely fin
ished the job in the convention. The
real destruction was achieved when
President Taft went over to the dis
credited Aldrich-Cannon organization
and allowed its members TO control his
administration.
The Chicago outcome was fortunate.
There was no possibility of harmonic
ing the representatives of special priv
ilege and the representatives of the
square deal who have been in the Re
publican party. II would merely have
been crying peace, peace, when there
is no peace.
The fact that Taft's nomination was
procured by the theft of seventy-odd
delegates and through the patronage
bribery of two hundred from Southern
states that never cast a Republican
electoral vote, is fitting climax to the
special privilege regime, but il is of
no particular Importance save that il
furnished the impetus for the forma-
! ton of the new Progressive party.
| The new party is to be a party not
/ of memories, but of expectations. Ii
! is to be the party of men with a fu-
ture. not of men with a past.
| For years the politicians of the two
old parties have been living on tradi-
tions. The Democratic organization
has been appealing in the name of JET.
ferson and Jackson. The Republican
has been barking back to the saving
of the Union and the freeing OF the
slaves.
But new issues have arisen. Men
cannot forever sit moping around a
grave.
The new generation is facing front
The young men are in the saddle. Yes
terday does not concern them: tomor
row is their day. They do not ask
who was your grandfather, and what
did he do?"- but, Who are you, and
can you make good"
No ambitious young man of the West
zation that is commanded by the beat
en- bosses, by Crane and Penrose. who
could not carry their own states; by
i iTawney, beaten in Minnesota; BY
Watson and Hemenway, beaten in In
diana, and by Aldrich and Cannon and
Hale and Lorimer.
The new party is going to be pre-em
ipanfly y0nnO rpop'S marty with fh<
yigor and the enthusiasm and the
ideals of the young men, who have
caught the fighting spirit in the cause
OF social justice and human rights o.
the young mems leader-Theodort
Roosevelt
Young men of both the old partie.
are going to take possession OF the
new organization 1t has been Ions
apparent that the progressive Demo
Gratis and the progressive Republicans
belonged in the same ranks.
The old parties have been cut in tive
by the emergency of new issues. The
old party names have ceased to be sig
nificant. The old party divisions have
become artificial and unnatural.
The new Progressive party wal
bound to come. The stolen convention
roll at Chicago has brought it.
Now there is a chance to get thing.
done. to get rid of the agents of spec
ial privilege who have been CONTROL
ing the organization in both parties
and to smash ahead with the new Pro
gressive party with no traitors in tn,
camp.
These are great days to be alive.
w. R. Nelson in The Kansai
City Times