Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-07-24

ciples and measures for which they
are supposed to stand. If this is so,
and it is not difficult to prove, we
are today in the United States suf-
fering from all the defects of party
government and deriving none of the
benefits that are supposed to flow
from the united action of men bound
together by a common belief in cer-
tain specific principles These sepa-
rate entities standing for no we'll
defined policies of government have
perpetuated themselves in power by
getting control of the election and
party machinery. They have allied
themselves with selfish financial in
terests and bartered the party name
for personal profit. In some States
they. have joined with the most
vicicas element in the community
and pandered to vice and crime. in
others they have debauched the leg
islatures and common councils; have
everywhere encouraged the alliance
between big business and sordid poll
tics, fostered special privilege, at
tempted to defeat all measures in the
interests of the public and denied the
people the right to rule themselves.
Finally, in utter defiance of all sense
of justice. right or morals, the lead
ers of the Republican party delib-
erately and with malice stole from
a majority of the Republican voters
in the country the victory they had
won in the nomination of Theodore
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United States.
Sees Remedy in New Party.
What is the remedy for these dis
tempers? My friends. believe the
remedy is to be found in new party,
united, as Burke has said, for the
purpose of promoting by their joint
endeavors the national interests upon
some particular principle in which
they are all agreed, and the particu-
lar principle upon which l would
write the numbers of the new party
would be the principle that the peo-
pie shall control their own govern
ment and that the agencies of their
government should be scientifically
applied to the correction of Indus
trial, economical and social injustice.
1.-The leaders and bosses of these two
parties do not realize that reform is
no longer matter of conversation
and futile promise but scientific
proposition This they cannot grasp.
The only scientific thing about party
organization with which they are IA
miliar is found in the manipulation
OF conventions, the distribution OF
patronage and the miscounting Of
ballots
I'm spite of all the prostesta-
tions to the contrary, we shall doubt
less develop healthy appetite for
Office and reveal practical knowl-
edge of political manipulation our
selves not altogether inconsistent with
the simplicity of our professions. We
shall meet with many difficulties and
disappointments, and if in the future
power and the control Of the govern
ment, we shall be subjected to al the
temptations of the old parties, and
will live only SO long as we cling to
the fundamental principle that is
uniting us today. We cannot make
men equal; we cannot bring about
the millennium; but we can insist that
the upper road, through the pleasant
places and beside the still watery
shall be left open, that those with
heart and courage and the sovereign
power of self-control, may travel
that road without fear that the ugly
spectre of privilege and greed will
have the right of way"
Osborne Flays G. o. p.
Addressing the convention, Edmund
B. Osborne, president of the Progress
s;ve Republican League of New Jer-
sey, said in part:
1--WE ought to rejoice because the
bosses and their masters, drunk with
power, have committed the crime that
has shocked the country to realiza-
ton of the immediate necessity of a
new party united for the destruction
of the boss system and for real SER
vice to the American people.
1.-THE bosses have done the progress
sive cause an immeasurable service
by demonstrating the futility of Pro-
gressives continuing in either of the
old parties But let US not pass light
ly over the crime of the Chicago con-
verftion and let us not forget that the
men who stole the nomination the
Republicans of this country had
awarded to Roosevelt and gave-it to
Taft are thieves in spite of their So
cial respectability and their ratings
by the financial agencies-just plain
thieves.
No Hcsitancy In Quitting.
MEN of courage will have no hesi-
fancy In leaving the old parties. They
will see that, just as the great work
of 1860 could not be done by either
of the old divided parties, so today
the great work that we have to do
cannot be done by either of the di-
vided old parties. They will remem-
ber that the great political events,
which have put civilization forward
and made the world q better place TO
live in, have not been the work OF
conformists, anxious to be regular
but of non n-conformists, who have the
courage to break away. The organi-
zation of the Progressive party Of
fers the greatest opportunity in fifty
years for. disinterested. courageous
political service.
"There are thousands of Progress
sives who believe that the nomination
of Governor Wilson and the adoption
of a semi-progressive platform by the
Democratic party makes 1t unneces-
sary to organize a new Progressive
party-they have the impression that
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