The Calumet news., 1912-08-21
CONSTITUTION is At STAKE
In Fact the Preservation of Gov
ernment is involved
APPEALS TO SOBER THOUGHT

Utica, \. Y. Aug. 21.--senator su-
therland Of utah was spokesman for
committee which today notified Vice
President James Schoolcran sherman
Of his nomination by the Chicago Re-
publican Convention
Most of Senator Sutherlund's speech
aside from a short declaration of priu.
ciplcs of the Republican party and
tribute to Mr.. Sherman was composed
of caustic references 20 the Progressive
Party and it's recent convention which
nominated Colonel Roosevelt and GOV
ernor Hiram Johnson for President and
Nicc-Fresidcnt
We shall have arrayCd against us In
the coming campaign our ancient and
hereditary enemy. the Domocrstie Pa-
~" said he. I'm addition we shall bc
called upon 30 contend with some for
mcr associates who have concluded TO
abaEdon their amiablr custom Of firms
upon the tlag they have boon follow
ing in order fhot they may engage
i'm the moro honorable. but no more
cTectual. occupation of assaulting it
from the front
"Shadowins Promised Land"
For the next few months our ears
are 90 be filled with the voice Of tre
malcontent. strijeat and many keyed
calling upon tho people 10 forsakc the
tried and beaten paths OF constitu-
uonal government. along which they
have walked with sure feet for more
than a century. and enter upon per.
sonaly conducted pilgrimage through
the political wilderness TO prom
ised land as shadowy and unsubstan-
tial as a desert mirage.
THE advance agents Of this deliriouS
excursion Jarricd a few days ago at
Chicago. long enough TO pool their in
dividual grievances. visions and Va
carries In bewlderine farrase OF inn
practical political nostrums such as
never before has been collected at ono
time outside the violent wards Of a
madhoJsc. And thus the so-caHoG
Progressive Party was born. its suic
excuse for existence being the Wu-
founded claim. tha. its nominee for the
Presidency was defeated for a like
nomination by stolen votes at the Re
publican convention"
Senator sutherland briefly reviewed
the question ot contested delegates ar
the Republican convention with the
convention that President Tafts nom
uation v3s gotten fairly and honestly
lie referred 70 the published state
meni that some of the Roosevelt con-
tests had been set afoot for psyche
logical effect
A Unique" Convention.
"It would be a strange rule of owl
dence which would require Us 10 ace
cept the testimony of buccaneerng
psychologist who confcsses To an at
tempt to purloin the larger portion Of
an honest mans property ms conclus-
i've evidence NJ the psychologists title
to the remainder Of the honest mans
possessions" he continued.
There never has been in an history
a more unique convention than that
OF the Progressive rarty az Chicago.
Heretofore. when = PARTY hes been or-
ganized. its organizers have in advance
entertained al least suspicion re-
sDecting their principles. bat the dele
gates To this convention. whollyignor-
ant of the things for which they stood.
waited. with patiently folded hands.
the appearance Of Mr.. Roosevelt in tle
convention TO tell them what they be
lieved
Upon his appearance he was re-
ceived with rcveront alteration. W.th
q spirit OF scG abncgation never wit
messed since the charge of the Light
Brigade AZ Palaklava--a Theirs not 90
reason why. theirs but to DO and die
sort OF eAaltation, led by the C-ead
Young Man from Indiana, dcvout bdt
tuneful. the assembled vasssis pro-
claimed their joyous Intellectual SUI
render 10 the feudal lord In the fol-
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