The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1912-09-12

You will perhaps ask why dor
come out for the Roosevelt party
The answer is, Wilson. There ar
also other answers. Some can b
put in the form of questions. Fo
example, Mr. Bryan puts the fol
lowing questions to Mr. Roosevelt
First, would the new part
have been organized at this tim
if Mr. Roosevelt we're not can
didate for President? If not, thcl
his ambition to hold the office 70
a third term is the controlling fac
tor. and no mans ambition is i'm
portant enuf to the public at larg,
to lead to the formation of a new
party merely to crafty it.
Secondly, would Mr. Roosevelt
have favored the organization of {
new party had anyone besides him
self suffered the modification o.
defeat at Chicago by President
Taft?
Third, in view of Mr. Roosevelt S
denunciation of the Republican
party as SO boss ridden as to de-
stroy its usefulness, it may be askt
with propriety whether Mr. Roose-
welt would have regarded the Re-
publican bosses as an insuperab1e
objection to the party if he had
succeed in seating enrf of his
contesting delegates to give him
aInajority in the convention.
If he had controlled the Nation
al Committee BY one vote and it
had seated enuf of his southern
delegates to dominate the con-
vention. would he not now remain
with the Republican party peo-
pies party and the only organi-
zation to be trusted?
We see how obnoxious these
bosses are, how absolutely de-
structiv of the party's usefulness,
under Mr. Taft's leadership.
Would Mr. Roosevelt have been
able to neutralize entirely their
influence and render them harm
less had he succeeded in securing
the nomination?
IF it is true, as has been widely |
circulated, that some Proeressiv, I
Hadley or Cunmins for instance,
could have been nominated in
stead Of Mr. Taft but for Mr.
Roosevelt S refusal to give way
to any other candidate. then tfis.l
in itself must weigh strongly N
the minds of many earnest and
honest Progressivs in the Repub-
loan party.
IF he could have secured the
nomination Of some one in har-
mony with his views upon a plat
form reasonably progressiv and
thus thus thrown a united party
behind Republican Progressi I
and a Progressive program if he
could have done this the Repub-
1icans, against whose motivs he
can bring no just accusation, will
feel that he did not exhaust all
his efforts within the party before
starting out to disrupt the organi-
cation to which he is indebted for
all his prominence and influence,
Why, for instance should a Dem
ocrat leave the Democratic party
which has 1abored in behalf Of tbs
popular election of Senators fol
twenty years, in behalf of an in
come tax for eighteen years, fo1
railroad regulation for Sixteer
years, for antitrust legislation fol-
twelve years, for publicity before
the election as to campaign con
! tributions for four years and fol
tariff reform for generation
why should Democrat leave sucf
4 party to march under the leader
sh}p of commander who did no.
f,3lieve advocating the popular
election of Senators until two
FEARS ago, the income tax until
About six years ago, railroad reg
(ulation until less than eight years
/ aQo, has remained silent all these
years as to tariff extortion and
HIS IL every campaign since 1892
ioi1sd Wall Street, the subsidized
+ Iess the p1underbund and the
5asEs ia defeating the Demo-
Some of lis remember how Mi
6o5sValt treated the progressivs,
+ |{is<1 + k51<5 {31fcaf1 and democratic