The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-10-22

Of the South
Chicago, Oct % Some people have
allowed the glitterihg but irrelevant
promises Of the Progressive conven-
ti9n to influence their thinking on the
political situation This reasoning OF,
ters the strangest contradictions.
In July, Wilson was the enemy Of
all bosses; now his election would be
the enthronement Of the bosses. In
July Wilson was the champion Of the
progressive movement and New Jer-
sey was a model commonwealth: now
Wilson is duped by the trusts and
New Jersey is the mother Of trusts BY
Wilson's consent and approval What
has happened IN the short space Of
three months to bring this revolution
in their thinking? It cannot be any
change in Wilson, for the Baltimore
convention had done its worst and
only d month ago Wilson tsounced
James Smith, ir, whose undoing a
little while before was cited by thou
sands of progressives as proof of Will
sons true value to the nation. It can
not be that Wilson has fled to the
bosoms Of the bosses whose opposl-
tion was cited in July as proof Of VIII
SONS independence.
Is it Roosevelt who offers so much
to command our approval? / cannot
think 50 am no enemy OF Roose.
welt, but | cannot see how any real
Democrat, anyone who has followed
Mr. Bryan through the wilderness"
can turn now to Roosevelt as a simon
pure reformer Progressiyes say that
Wilson Is surrounded BY bosses and
yet admit that Roosevelt has as his
choice friends Dan Hanna, William
Finn, Tim Woodruff and George Per-
kins. The difference between the po-
sitions Of the two candidates is that
Roosevelt defends Perkins and his
bosses (see his lc Boston speech),
while Wilson repudiates and goes into
primaries to defeat his This our
ardent third party men refuse to see
or seeing refuse to understand. How
can Roosevelt offer liberation from
men whom ne defends? And why is
Wilson to be condemned as a tool Of
the bosses ne denounces?
They say to us every day that the
Wilson fight against the tariff is a
sham and cite the attitude Of certain
plunderbund senators as evidence be-
cause forsoo5a they are proteetionlst
bosses.
In Virginia there has been long
and bitter war between the progress
siye and the reactionary wings Of the
Democracy The reactionary wing has
won its victories by an alliance with
the Republican officehcidsrs brigade.
Everybody in that state knows these
facts In 1907 Virginia progressiyes
went to President Roosevelt, who was
about to 30 to Norfolk to make a po.
litical speech, and asked him in the
name Of the progressive cause and
honest government to denounce the BIZ
partisan alliance acknowledged to be
The same thing that Lorimer stood for
in Illinois Roosevelt replied. Il am
a Republican and would lose Republi-
can followers were / to do what you
request, though know the conditions
are as you describe them.
Now that Wilson has won in vir-
ginia through these progressives and
is about to be elected president as the
greatest progressive ever nominated
for that office, save Bryan alone, op-
ponents Of Wilson come before young
voters and try to show that his cleo.
tion would mean The domla.Ance OF the
very men III Virginia whom he has
put down Did not Ryan spend Sl12,.
O00 I'm the pre-conventon effort to de-
feat Wilson, Ryan claims Virginia as
his home; ne is defeated there and
all his on-hangers were overwhelmed
at Baltimore. why should Wilson,
victorious, turn to the man or men,
who did their utmost to ruin him, for
counsel in the hour Of victory2 To
argue that he viii do so is to argue
that Roosevelt would repudiate the
whole progressive platform If elected.
I should IKE to say word about
the Progressive trust plank, something
about Rooseyelts strange alliances
something Of the conduct Of the Chi.
cago Roosevelt leaders who ran off tc
Oyster Bay to persuade Roosevelt tc
come into the campaign fer the presi
deney long before La Follette's sup
posed breakdown in Philadelphia.
But a word about the Progressive
trust solution must suffice tt pro
poses a commission to regulate tn