The Calumet news., 1912-08-01
PRESERVE THE
CONSTITUTION
This is Supreme Issue Before vot-
ers Says the President

Continued From Page one.
hope that he will see what his real
interest is, will understand the shall
lowness of attacks upon existing in
stitutions and deceitful promises of
underlined benefit by underlined
changcs?"
Accept Nomination.
The president had heard officially of
his nomination at Chicago from the
lips of Senator Elihu Root of New
York, chairman of the notification
committee.
Il accept IT," he began, 'as an APP
proval of what have done under it's
mandate and as an expression of con
iidence that in a second administra-
tion | viii serve the public well. The
issues presented to the convention
over which your chairman presided
with such just and even hand. made
crisis in the party's life A faction
sought to force the party to violate a
valuable and time honored national
tradition by entrusting the power OF
thc presidency for more than two
! terms to one man, and that man. one
whose recently avowed political Views
would have committed the party to
radical proposals involving dangerous
changes in our present constitutional
| form of representative government
and our independent judiciary. This
occasion Is appropriate for the express
sion of profound gratitude at victory
Tor the right won at Chicago. BY that
| victory the Republican party was saw
ed for future usefulness"
Attacks the Agitstors.
| After reviewing the legislative
enactmcnts of the Republican party
the president launched into bitter
attack upon those responsible for the
popular unrest" of the present day.
Started by sensational journalism
and unjust and unprincipled muck
raking," he said, "demagogues have
seized the opportunity to inname the
public mind that they might turn pc
culiar conditions to their own advan-
! tages." In the formation of new serv-
ice the president said, these men have
promised the satisfaction of unrest by
the application of a panacea.
In the ultimate aGal>sis, | fear the
equal opportunity which those seek
who proclaim the so-called social jus
tice, involves forced division of
property, and that means socialism
l venture to say there is no national
administration i'm which more real
steps of progress have been taken
than in the present one. But as for
| The millennium, condition i'm which
| the rich are to be made reasonably
poor and the poor reasonably rich by
law, we are chasing phantom; we
are holding out to those whose unrest
we fear. a prospect and dream. q
vision of the impossible.
Opponents Course Indefinite.
81 do not say that the two gentle
cratic party and the other the forme'
! Republicans who have left their party
! in their attacks upon existing condi-
tions, and in their attempts TO satisfy
the popular unrest by promises Of
remedies, are consciously embracing
socialism. The truth is that they do
not offer any definite legislation or
policy by which the happy conditions
they promise are to be brought about,
hut If their promises mean anything,
they lead directly toward the appro-
priation of what belongs to one man.
To- another.
"The truth is. my friends. both
those who have left the Republican
party under the inspiration of their
present leader and our old opponents,
the Democrats, under their candidate.
are going In the direction they do not
definitely know. toward an end they
can not definitely describe. with hut
one chief and clear object and that
is of acquiring power for their party
by popular support through the prom
ise of a change for the better.
These gentlemen propose To reform
the government whose present de
fects. If any are due to the failure of
the people To devote as much time as
is necessary to their political duties,
by requiring a political activity by
the people three times that which
thus far the people have been willing
to assume.
But after we have changed all the
governmental machinery so as to per-
nit instantaneous expression of the
people i'm constitutional amendments,
In statutes and in recall of public
agents what then?
Progress q Live Issue.
Votes are not bread, constitutional
amendments are not work, referen-