The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
Roosevelt Would Make This the
Paramount Issue Of the Cam
paign If Nominated
ALL OTHER ISSUES
ARE INSIGNIFICANT
Outlook Editorial Tells of the Col
onePs Regard for Issues Raised
in Campaign Which He Says Is
a Battle for the People

NEW YORK, May 25.-"This cam
paign has been a fight by the rank
and file against the bosses. 1t is we
progressives who are the real repub-
leans, because it is we who are stand
ing along with the rank and file. The
popular primaries have shown that
the republican voters do not want
anyone else to govern them; they
want to- govern themselves" is the
opening paragraph by Theodore
Roeseyelt. which appears in the cur
rent issue of The Outlook
THE party is not de up of the
bosses or the party. workers alone; it
is made up of all the voters the ed
ltorial continues. Every party has 10
have it's leaders. The true party lead
er is the man who tries to lead and
not drive the voters, and to put into
effect their deliberate judgment. He
has the right and the duty to go be-
fore the voters and try to persuade
them; but he has no right, by trickcry
or violence to impose his own will up
on them against theirs. The man who
tries to impose his will upon the vet
ers, who tries to do things against the
will of the voters, is not leader
he is a boss.
"In this connection, we have shown
that wherever the people have a
chance to express themselves, they
have no use for bosses. Eleven
states, including Ohio, have allowed
the voters of the party to express
their wishes until out of 124 deleget .
that Mr.. Taft could secure with the
help of the party organization and
patronage and with the bosses on his
side, amounts only to As.
1.-THE only states where Mr.. Taft
has secured his real victories are he
states where the party is in the con-
troll, not of the people, but of the
bosses. That shows clearly on which
side in this issue Mr. Taft stands
That shows that this is a straight is
sue between the bosses on the one side
and the people on the other.
When, in the face of that fact, Mr.
Taft says in spite of this vote, that he
expects the Chicago convention to be
under the control of the Friends of
constitutional government 1t is clear
ly evident that what he means by
such friends All that this means is
that the convention which will make
the presidential nomination would
have to defy the will of the voters;
| it would have to overrule the peoples
will
| ''Those who want special privilege
VERY well know who their friends are
They are glad to make alliance with
the bosses. This is what they mean
when they talk about being friends Of
constitutional government The way
to break the control of special priv
| iege is to break the power of the
boss on whom it depends.
| 1T has been said by my opponents
that what I am standing for is 'trea-
son to the party When they speak
| of the party they mean the bosses and
and their understeppers who have so
often manipulated the party machn-
cry. ] decline to recognize the
bosses as embodying in their own
person the party. I recognize the
rank and file as making up the par
| ty and it is to them that my loyalty
| is due. When I say that no repub-
| lican is called upon to surrender to
the irresponsible action of party
bosses, I am showing my loyalty to the
people. No loyalty is due to the
| bosses who defy or disregard the will
of the people. The only loyalty / ex-
pect to acknowledge is loyalty t. the
rank and file, loyalty to the people,"