Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-07-19
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La FclIette Draw striking contr-rs
Between the Two Men

Between the Two Men
Under the caption, The Case Ct
Mr.. Roosevelt Senator La Foalette
has written the following editorial in
the current number Of La Follette s
Weekly:
Bryan at Baltimore foregoing all
chance Of his own nomination. mar
shalling all his forces, Drawing Tam
many and the trusts. to rescue his
party from their domination, carrydn
the convection for the adoption Of
the most progressive Democratic
platform yet offered and the nomina-
ton Of the most progressive Demo
cratic candidate available. was a
towering figure Of moral power and
patriotic devotion to civic righteous.
ness. !! 90.
Roosevelt at Chicago, backed by
money derived from the stock-water-
ing operations Of the steel trust and
1.-THE harvester trust, organizing what
are now confessed to have been fake
contests as to nearly 200 delegates
in order. to control the Republican
convention and secure his own uomi-
nation, refusing to aid On making a
progressive platform, bound to have
the nomination or destroy the Repub
licap party, was a most striking ex.
ample Of misdirected power and un-
worthy ambition
Roosevelt had as great an oppor-
tunity to serve the. progressive cause
at Chicago as Bryan he'd at Balti.
more But Roosevelt was serving tn
man.. not the cause. He wanted one
thfng-he wanted the nomination.
J And YET heidi not have er0uh votes
i. to nominate himself, upon any honest
basis. He. did have enough delegates
in. that convention ultimately to have
nominated a real progressive and
adopted "a strong progressive plat.
form. He; could. even have nominal
ed Hadley In mucha the same sri:it
as hundreds Of thousands CT them
will. not support. Wilson. Neither
Hadley nor Wilson: are veterans in
the progressive ranks. Neither Of
them has been tried by the sevepest
tests. Both appear to'be men q
high ideals. whose records though
short, give promise.
; But Roosevelt would not consider
Hadley. He would have no one but
himself AT. the first suggestion o.
Hadley he ordered the third party
msheuVers. lest he lose his followers
If he had the evidence to prove
that, Taft could not be honestly ant
fairly nominated. why cid he not di
rect his. lieutenahts to present .tha'
evidence to the national committee
and then.to the. convention and the
country so clearly thai; the conyen
ton. would not have dared to 'nomi
mate Taft. and that Taft could not. 4
honor. have accepted the nomination
II made? = =.
Roosevelt could not enter upon al
analysis Of evidence to prove Taft
regularly elected delegates, dh the mi
nority.. as he claimed. he could. with
out inevitably subjecting his own sp'
riously credentialed. delegates to al
examination so critical as would ex
pose. the falsity Of his own contention
. that he had an honestly elected ma
jointly of the. delegstes. He there
fore deNberatly chose to claim every
thing, to CRY fraud, to.buIly the ma
tional committee and the convention
and having thus created a, condition
' which would make possible cain
investigation OF cases upon merit
carry the convention by storm
That this Is the. true psycholog,
OF the Roosevelt proceedings become
perfectly pladn,. He was there Il
force. his own nomination or. 'smasl
the convention. He was not ther,
to preserve the integrity Of the Re
publican party, and make It an in
strument for the promotion Of pro
gressave. principles and. the restore
ton of government to the people
Otherwise he would have directed hi
floor managers to contest every incl
of the ground for a progressive
platform before the committee OF
resolutions and IN the open cOnyen
ton. IS
But MI Roosevelt was not. gov
erned by suggestion, Of that spirit q
high patriOtic and unselfish purpos,