The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-07
Memory Of Emancipation
Preside mt Is Desc
Grated by Loriner.
MUST BE TRUE, FOR
COLONEL S SAYS SO
Roosevelt Sees Himself in Role
Similar to That Held by War
President, Leading Masses
Of People Against Embat-
Elements of Privi-
lego.
lspecial d The Tlmes -p!spat eh. |

l'-ptEI'ii " l. nc 1 IN cS -t1tSD3 ten.
Springfield. ILL.,. April Elm the home
city OF the Emancipator, President
Thee lore Roosevelt, tonight bitterly
denounced az an outrage upon the
memory OF Abraham Lincoln the use
of his name by Senator LorImcr in
connection with his political orEaniza
ton. the Lincoln League. Roosevelt
declared that issues which confront
the people to-day arc the same that
Lincoln batticd to aurmount and that
the Fundamental plank of Lincolns
platform. tho rishl OF the people to
rule themselves aud not be ruled by
a mere part of the people. Is precisely
the Issue of to-day.
1T Is Of vital importance that the
rule OF the people should be exercised
for social and Industrial justice IN a
spirit of broad charity and kinIlinass
TO ALL he said but with stern in
sistencc that privilege should bc eli
minated from our Industrial life anu
should be shorn of its power in our
political life. Tho defenders OF priv!-
lege have no real right to represent
In Republican party, still less to domi-
nate H. Especially is it an infamy
and an outrage that Lincoln. who
stood for honesty In politics, as we'll as
III every other phnse OF our national
life. should nave his name dcsccrated
hy its use in connection with Mr.
Lorimcr ana his associates They
stand for and typify all those evil In
nucnccs against which iincolr's whole
l!fc was protest.
Hostile to Party Traditions.
Thee are not tho only men. bow
ever. who at this crisis. while claim
Ing 10 represent US or bciong to The
Republican party. are fundamentally
hostile 10 every wcr,hv tradition In
that party. y nnmner 81 very rich
men. including boin tho heads of big
corporations ar.i zig -ruro,iou law
yers who have been associated .vith
them, have shown that they arc not
loyal to the cause OF human rights.
Tic rich man who trusts In his rich
es, the rich man who feels that his
wealth entities him to more than his
share OF political. social ana Industrial
power, Is naturally against US.
so. likewise, the men of little faith.
Eut this is no now thing. II is OK
actiy what happened ttty-four years
ago. when out OF the plain people,
Lincoln and those like MIN, fashioned
the Republican party. In November.
1855. Lincoln wrote: out OF .sansamon
as well as in it. much of the plain old
all of the old exclusive silk stocking
whiggery is against us.
The individuals who believed in
privilege and those who distrustod
tho people were against Lincoln then;
and they are against us now.
1T is announced that Mr.. Joseph
Choate is to head an association OF
lawyers to protest against our pro-
posals for seeing the rule of the pco-
ple made genuine. Mr.. Choato eyi-
IDENTIFY docs not remember that Lin
n
issue. He insisted that when the
court. as in the bred Scott decision.
misrcprescnted the people and stood
against the rights and in tho interest
of the special privilege and tyranny.
t became tho duty OF all friends
OF true freedom temporarily and reso-
lutely to continue the light for hu-
man rights without regard TO who
the opponents might be- whether
those opponents We're President or
Chief Justice or Senator-and Lincoln
coupled the names of two Presidents
a Chief Justice and a Senator as be-
Ing specifically the opponents of the
people and justice. and the friends Of
privilege. and he unsparingly attack
cd and critizcd the Chief Justice.
"Mr. Choate says he is defending
the Constitution. So Presidents
Ruchanan and Pierce. and Chief
Justice Tawney said when they were
defending the Constitution against
Lincoln. and James Russell Lowell
spoke OF them az 'pcttifogging the
Constitution II is even more true
to-day that our opponents are petit
Jogging the Constitution
Milking Flight for People.
The men against whom W, stand
include tho mon who desire to exploit
the people for their own purpose and
who profit financially by the wicked
alliance between crooked business and
crooked politics.
Every man who fights for the pro-
lection of children from excessive Toll,
for the protection. of women from
working In factories for too long
hours--in short. for the working man
and his family-every man who works
for any such caus. is our fellow
worker.
Tho sons of miliionaires will find
this Il very poor country TO live in II
most OF the men and women who make
up the bulk IF our culinary citizen
ship do not have conditions so shaped
that they can lead solf-rcspectin :;
lives, retain their own sense of dignity
and live as good citizens"