White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-28

a faetional fight for the control of
party machinery. The third party
won't be a party at all If the col
onel allows the interests of his
professional political supporters to
be consulted in its formation. 1t
won't even have the same name all
over the country. 1t will be part
inside the Republican party, and
treacherously there, and part out
side of it. 1t will be part under
cover and part in the open"
While the regular Republican
papers like the st. Louis Globe
Democrat jeer at what they call Col
onel Roosevelt's forlorn hope and
characterize the third-party aetiyi-
ties as shooting in the air" and
while the Democratic press insist
that the nomination of Woodrow
Wilson makes another progressive
candidate on a t~hird-party ticket
worse than superfluous, the Roose-
welt papers maintain unfalteringly
that the only hope for real reform
lies in a third party. Wilson's sue
cess means the p~erpetuation of the
Democratic Bosses" declares Mum
sey's Washington Times, because
the same election that would carry
him into the presidential chair would
also carry the representatives of
these notorious state bosses into
congress, and it would also perpetu-
ate the state machines of these boss
es in their respective common
wealths."
The convention call of the new
party, signed by representatives of
forty states, is addrest Ito the people
of the United States, without re-
gard to past political differences.
who. through repeated betrayals.
realize that today the power of the
crooked political bosses and of the
privileged classes behind them is
so strong in the two old party
organizations that no helpful move
ment in the real interests Of our
country can come out of either"
The Philadelphia Press (Rep.),
indianapolis News Qnd.). Providence
Journal (Ind.) are among the many
papers which lightly dismiss the new
party as a one-man, personally CON
Quoted affair. To the New York
World (Dem.) it represents mot
progressive Democracy. but Demo-
crazy in retreat, seeking refuge in
the arms of the strong man"
Turning to the specific issues on
which the new party will take its
stand. We find a certain lack of
definiteness and details in the state
ments so far issued-a condition ex-
planned by the Washington Times on
the ground that the movement deals
with moral, not political aspects. .
and lis too big to be hampered by
considerations of mere expediency.e
1.-The CALL" remarks the Chicago
Post, approyingly, distinctly refuses
to delimit the issues upon which the
proposed party shall be formed"
The broad issue. says another
Roosevelt paper, is whether govern
ment is to be a private industry or a
public enterprise" While admitting
that "a call is not a platform" the
Chicago Reeord-Herald fInd.) warns
the party that 1T must start with
defined ideas and concrete pro-
posals." Colonel Roosevelt him
self, according to Oyster Bay cores
pondents, has indicated that the high
cost of living. tariff revision. and
trust regulation will figure promi-
nently in the platform when it Is
constructed. An Oyster Bay cores
pondent of the New York Tribune,
writing on July 4. quotes him in part
as follows:
Neither platform of the two old
parties shows the slightest compre-
nension of understanding of the
social and industrial movements that
are shaking the very foundations of
this government. The Democrats as
well as the Republicans have taken
up with the anne old time-worn poll
cies and the same battle-cries. They
have no understanding of the kind of
movements that all serious, thinking
people are dwelling upon in these
times of social and industrial un-
rest.
what the new Progressive party
is aiming to get is better conditions
of life for the ordinary wage-earner