New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-14
RULE OR RUIN IS 7. RS
POLICY, SAYS HILLES
Republican Chairman Brands
Progressive Party as Founded
on Personal Hatred.
IN DAILY LETTER SERIES
Colonel Called Disappointed
Oficeseeker," "Pretender'
and Boss Lacking in
federation.

Charles d. Hilles, chairman OF I4V ~
publican National Committee, sent out a
letter yesterday, in which he attacked
the record Of Ex-President Roosevelt,
Laying an outline OF the coloners career
before the voters. he told of the real
causes of the formation of the Progress
sive party. as viewed by him.
The letter, which is one of a series that
Mr.. Hnles purposes TO send out daily IN
I'll the end of the campaign, was in
part as follows
Bull Moose Moosettes and little Moose
are calling throughout the land: Destroy
the Republican party ,.,- -,
They make no pretcnce OF STRIVING 10
kin the Democratic party, not even IN
Tennessee, Alabama, LOUISIANA or V'htI
states where the third termer mas ,oeeh
party and fits alleged crimes and mls tS,
mtauOTs is everywhere the text OF the
Bull Moose herd.
Animus Personal.
Personal vengeance" as President
Taft has expressed it. Dishonesty OF
the Republican party because 1t would
not nominal. Me ana the accusation
of an unsuccessful litigant.' as Emu
Root has described them, form the chlel
q 80
the Republican party honored Win puohc
Office
Republicans are petitioned to, break
Il away from their party and follow Ine
Eull Moose into the wilderness, that ne
may avenge a fancied wrong, that ne
may destroy that which he no longer
Would they only stop and look, back
over the years since the arrival mo
public life of this soldier OF ArmaGea-
don. who as a campaign speaker recently
said: Arrived there three thousand Yeas
after the fight" Republicans might rec
ognize the same man who since the
early SOS employed his rule or rum
rclicy TO make himself the dominant
master OF his old party. No bossism ever
compared with his; no boss ever ldched
more the spirit Of federation.
Mr.. Hnles then reviewed Mr.. Roosevelts
political employment from his entry into
the New York State Assembly in 1881
until the war with Spain, and went on:
Developments leading to the war with
Spain affected him as iine day does the
man who is won't TO say: 1t is hne day.
Let's 90 out and kill something
Calls Him Pretender.
When the little war was over he came
10 MOntauk Point. where Demuel L.
Quigg, a Republican leader sought him
and induced him 10 stand as candidate
, for the Governorship. Plat had turned
against Governor Frank S. Black be-
cause Black would not do his bidding and
denied him denomination, and this pre-
tender went to Platt, kissed his hand and
accepted the nomination, as he told his
friends, Ito save the party"
Declared ineligible for the nomination
on the eve Of the convention, having
sworn off his taxes in New York City on
the ground that he was not a resident there
and having sworn them off in oyster Bay
ON the ground that he was resident OF
Washington D. c., ne had escaped paying
taxes anywhere, and was not legally a
resident Of New York State. Then came
the story of the missing affidavit" The
personal statement he had made i'm swear
ing on his taxes in oyster Bay disap-
pcarcd and never could be found. The
man who knew more about that missing
aihdaYit' than any one else received a
state appointment from the pretender
and afterwaTd federal appointment.
Only the Intervention of Providence in
President Mckinley's direful death opened
the way for higher uneaTned honors
When candidate, four years later, for
the Presidency, death again became his
succor, by removing his only feared oppo-
nent, Marcus A. Hanna
To review this mans official acts in
constituencies, vaporings, double dealing,
egOtism, compromises with forces he pro-
fesSed TO antagOnize, lack of effective
regulation Of the railroads and the trusts
would consume another chapter.
"On what has this man fed that he
hath grown so great?' Answer: The
Now he says destroy the Republican
party"
Saved by negro soldiers at San Juan
Hill, dining with Booker T. Washington
In the White House, he afterward COM
mtted the injustice OF Brownsville and,
finally, as a negro campaign speaker re-
q Gently said. "He takes away the votes
from the negroes and gives them to the
women"
Cunning and Betrayal"
Misrepresentation deceit, cunning. and
the betrayal of loyal friend have marred
his later course.
Why should Republican voters turn TO
him now?
What does he offer them as a reward for
deserving their own party in this cam
paign? Again he is the Roosevelt OF old.
with the cutlery: Follow me, follow me
everywhere or l will destroy you and
3 yours"
II Progressive party. as the American
voters now realize, is based on no great
moral or statesmanlike principle, as the
abolition Cf slavery, but merely on the
personal ambition and revenge of a dis
appointed Oficeseeker ian unsuccessful
litigant."
"A party formed to satisfy one mans
ambition cannot survive that mans de-
feat" The Republican party will out
live a thousand RooseveltS, even on the
field of Armageddon. for in battling for
Republican supremacy, with all II means
20 the United States, II is battling for
the Lords best land-America.