Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-07
DEFENDS uINCOLN'S NAME
Outrage" to Connect It With Law
maker, Declares Colonel.
SPEAKS IN HARD RAIN
Crowds Greeting Former President
Observation-Disclosures Discuss Po-
litical Situation.

day put In the first half of his cam
paign tour of Illinois He made his n, st
speech of the day I'm Rockford and his
last one in Springfield. Although in
several towns the people who listened to
MIN did so at the cost of a drenching.
Col. Roosevelt was met everywhere by
crowds
The principal speech was delivered in
Springfield this evening In IL Col.
Roosevelt attacked Senator Lorimer of
Illinois in emphatic language He took
issue with Joseph Choate and other New
ork lawyers who have formed an asso-
citation to combat his ideas I'm regard
10 the judiciary, and expressed his opin-
ION about what he termed the mice, ex-
elusive persons" OF great wealth. who.
ne said are easily frightened. Especially
py the bugbear of ma jority tyranny
The formation OF the I,orimer-I lincoln
republican League, which is opposed TO
COL Roosevelt, furnished the theme for
the coloners remarks about the senator
III Is lnfamy and an outrage" he said
that Lincoln. who stood for honesty in
politics as well as i'm every other phase
OF our national life, should have his name
desecrated by its use in connection with
Mr.. Lorimer and his associates
Situation Is Repeated.
Men and women of Illinois. I do nor
see how any republican, shall go fur
ther than that and say I do not see
now any good American citizen-can he
In Illinois at this time and fail to realize
that in every essential the present situa.
ton repeats the situation when Lincoln
made his great historic struggles for
righteousness in this state i'm 1858 and
Isto Remember that Lincoln made his
hsht on the two great fundam mental is-
sues OF the right of the people to rule
themselves and not to be ruled by anv
mere part of the people. and on the vital
need that this rule of the people shall
be exercised for social and industrial
Justice IN a spirit of broad charity and
hihoilness TO all, but with stern insist
ence that privilege shall be eliminated
from our industrial life and be shorn of
It's power In our political life The de-
tenders OF privilege have no real right
10 represent the republican party. still
less to dominate il.
Assails Senator Lorimer.
Especially men and women of yyv-
nois, it is an infamy and an outrage
that Lincoln, who stood for honesty in
politics as well as I'm every other phase
I'm our national life. should have his name
desecrated by its use in connection with
Mr.. Lorimer and his advocates. They
stand for and typify all those evil in
fuences against which Lincoln's whols
life was a protest.
They are not the only men, however.
who at this crisis, while claiming 10 rep
resent or to belong to the republican
party, are fundamentally hostile to every
worthy tradition in that party and to
every principle which it was founded to
uphold.
I'll is a lamentable fact that a number
of very rich men, including both the
heads of great corporations and the big
corporation lawyers who have been asso-
cfated with them, some of the nominal
republicans. the very rich men. whom
we mean when we speak of Wall street.
have at this crisis shown that they are
not loyal to the cause of human rights,
to human justice to human liberty.
LAS a general rule, out of Sangamon.
as we'll as in 1T. much of the plain old
democracy is with us, while nearly all
the old. exclusive silk-stockinged whig-
gerry is against us.
Position of Choate.
1T is announced In the papers that Jo-
seph Choate is to head an association Of
lawyers to protest against the proposals
for seeing the rule of the people made
genuine, and for insisting that social jus
tice shall prevail against every form OF
reaction. even though the form taken at
the moment may be that of reactionary
court which acts as a bulwark Of privi-
lege and Of the special interests.
Mr.. Choate and those with him have
either forgotten. or do not care to remem-
ber. and certainly never allude to the
fact that Lincoln, In 1865 and later.
fought his fight largely on the very issue
the courts, as in the Dred Scott case.
the people and stood
against the rights Of the people. and
against justice. In the interest OF special
the duty Of all friends Of true freedom to
temperately and resolutely take issue with
the court.
''Do Not Care for Party"
Eight years ago Mr.. Parker ran for
the presidency. The lawyers Of precisely
the same stamp as those in the present
movement formed a Parker constitu-
tional club, with John E. Parsons as its
leading member. In every fundamental
matter that Parker constitutional club,
and under the lead Of John E Parsons
and his associates. occupied precisely
the ground now occupied by Mr.. Choate
Ind his associates.
The representatives OF privilege, the
men who stand for the special inter-
,StS, ana against the rule or the plain
people and who distrust the people,
are very little for party names They
we're for Mr.. Parker and the demo-
,ratic party in 1904. and now they
oppose us who stand for the cause OF
progress and Of justice within the re-
publican party. with just the same bit
erness and with exactly the same pur-
,ose. They were accurately described
W Lincoln when he said that there
lad been nothing in politics since the
evolution so congenial to their nature
IS the position then taken by his OPP
The same thing is true now.
Describes the Foe.
These men against whom We stand
include the men who desire to ex-
'loit the people for their own purpose
nd to financially profit by the wicked
lliance between crooked business and
rocked politics. OF course they in
lude also a large number OF worthy
nd respectable men. who have no i'm
roper purpose to serve. but who either
10 not see far into the future or who
re misled as to the facts of the case.
finally they include those who at this
represent what Lincoln de-