Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-08

vVAC SO1ACCSVS r III
the real progressive candidate and who
the highwayman.
Second.-I challenge your sincerity
in the championship of progressive
measures and assert 1t to be an insane
ambition and not an honest desire for
progress and reform, which prompted
your candidacy. Why did not you
propose all these new plans while you
were still president and had the power
to carry them out? Instead you sheer
ed at Senator LaFollette and his fol-
lowers. Your voluminous confession
of faith" by which you tell the people
in $4,000 words what you omitted to
not of the sincerity Of your conversion.
but Of your growing ambition for self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and power.
Third charge you with q viola
ton Of q solemn promise given to the
American people when you declared
that under no circumstances would you
accept another nomination. Your sub
sequent explanation that you had In
mind only a Consecutive term" Is q
subterfuge and an after-thought, and
every sane American citizen Is con.
vinced of that fact.
FOURTH am opposed to your can
didacy because 1t is for a third term.
There may be q growing disregard In
some quarters for time-honored Ameri-
can traditions, but I know of one ele-
ment Of the population, which, be-
cause Of their inherent love of free
dom, will always r%everently bow
to them. / refer to the Ameri-
can Germans. They rallied around
the banners Of z Washington to
fight for American independence,
responded enthusiastically to the
call Of Abraham Lincoln to save the
union and free the slaves, helped to
save the credit and honor Of the cou
try by supporting, almost irrespective
of party, the cause of sound money,
and in the present emergency, they
will again be actuated by their love
OF liberty and not consent to this free
government being delivered to the
hands of a dictator, for to their minds
this is what q third, fourth or fifth
term IN the presidency would mean. /
am not a prophet, but my knowledge
of the American people warrants this
prediction: What Washington would
not have, Grant could not have,
Roosevelt should not and will not
have.
Fifth charge you with a deliber-
ate effort to overthrow the constitu-
ton and the courts, for this and moth
ing else, is what the proposed recall of
judges and judicial decisions means.
If the constitutional guarantees which
vouchsafe our inalienable rights and
their enjoyment by q minority are to
be overthrow by the passing whims
of q majority, why have a constitution
at all and why courts? The will Of
the majority %decreetng one thing to.
day and another tomorrow, will be
the new Gessler hat-to borrow q
smile fro mthe Toll story-hung upon
a high post to which the American peo-
pie would have to bend their knees
as the sole emblem Of authority in the
land. I fancy the American people are
not quite ready to be ruled either by
an individual despot or by the despot.
ism of a majority and will prefer the
timely and necessary judicial reform
proposed by President Taft to the
revolution proposed by you. And this
IllAhO0 JIG 0oOO ~ PA0AAAs NvOly
good citizen who favors constitutional
government and the preservation Of
American institutions must s%cornfully
reject your candidacy and vote for the
conservator, President Taft.
Sixth.-I charge you with RESPONSE
bility for the defeat Of the arbitration
treaties, the greatest progressive meas.
IRE yet proposed by an American presi-
dent. These treaties signified the first
practical step in the direction Of q
peaceful settlement of all future inter
national controversies, and would
eventually have resulted, az other ma
tions would surely have emulated the
American example in general agree
ments for the reduction Of ornaments,
and consequently in the relief of the
human family from intolerableS bur-
dens. The same as in the case of reci-
procity which you both favored and
opposed, you advocated the gospel of
peace in your Christiana speech, but
Immediately began knocking 1t when
President Taft submitted a concrete
plan to carry 1t out. The deciding vote
by which the treaties were emascu-
lated was cast by your W political
manager, Senator Dixon. who had fav-
ored them up to the time at a visit
with you at New York on the night
preceding the vote in the senate. Your
opposition evidently was prompted by
envy and jealousy Of President Taft's
possible success in the matter of this
great world reform. The United States
was. by Dixon's vote, robbed Of the
prestige Of leadership in the move
ment for International peace, and no
true friend of arbitration, on that
score alone, will eve again counte-
nance your candidacy for the highest
office in the gift Of the people. The
same cause had received another blow
at your hands when, after calling the
second Hague conference at the be-
hest Of the 1nterparliamentary union,
you voluntarily yielded to the Gar the
trump card by which you might have
made that conference an epoch-mak-
ing success.
Seventh hold up to the sober
Judgment of the American people your
denial Of all knowledge Of the 100000