Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-01

issues presented to the convention
over which your chairman presided
with such a just and eve hand, made
a crisis in the parly's life. "A faction
sought to force the party to violate
a valuable and time.honored national
tradition by entrusting the power OF
the presidency for more than two
terms to one man, and tina man, n
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 ex-
preston of profound gratitude at the
victory for the right won at Chicago.
By that victory the Republican party
was saved, for future usefulness.
After reviewing the legislative en-
actments of the Republican party the
president launched into a bitter at
tack upon those responsible for the
popular unrest" of the present day.
Started by sensational Journalism
and unjust and unprincipled muckrak.
lA6S AC Colu, ~uCS udVO
seized the opportunity to inflame the
public mind that they might turn Pc
culiar conditions to their own advan.
tage." In the formation of new par
ties the president said, these men
have promised the satisfaction of un-
rest by the application of a panacea.
In the ultimate analysis, l fear, the
equal opportunity which those seek
who proclaim the so-called social JUS.
tice, involves a forced division Of
property, and that leans Socialism.
| venture to say there Is NJ national
administration in which more real
steps of progress have been taken
than in the present But as for
the millennium, a condition in which
the rich are to be made reasonably
poor, and the poor reasonably rich by
law, we are chasing a phantom; we
are holding out to those whose unrest
We fear, a prospect and a dreamy, a
vision of the impossible.
Il do not say that the two gentle
men who now lead, one the Demo
cratic party and the other the former
Republicans who have left their party,
in their attacks upon existing condi-
tons, and in their attempts to sat
isfy the popular unrest by promises
of remedies, are c~OnscieniOusly en-
bracing Socialism. The truth is that
they do not offer any definite legisla-
ton or policy by which the happy
conditions they promise are to be
Drought about, but If their promises
mean anything, they lead directly to-
ward the appropriation of what be-
longs to one man, to another.
"lhe 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 a direction they do not
definitely know, toward an end they
cannot definitely describe, with but
one chief and clear subject and that
is of acquiring power for their party
Oy popular support through the prom
Use of a change Tor the better.
These gentlemen propose to re
form the government, whose present
defects, If any, are due to the failure
of the people to devote as much time
as is necessary to their political du.
ties, by requiring a political activity
by the people three times that which
thus far the eople have been willing
to assume.
but after We have changed all the
governmental machinery so as to per.
NIT instantaneous expression of the
people in constitutional amendments,
in statutes and in recall of public
agents, what then?
Votes are not bread, constitution
endums do not pay rent or furnish
houses, recalls do not furnish cloth
ing, initiatives do not supply employ
ment or relieve inequalities Of con.
dition or of opportunity. W. still
ought to have set before us the def.
mite plans to bring on complete
equality Of opportunity and to abol-
ish hardship and evil for Humanity. !
We listen for them in vain"
The president discussed at some
length the recall Of judges and judi
cial decisions and the proposals to
forbid the 8 Of injunctions to pro
tect property against q secondary boy.
colt and the use of juries in contempt
proceedings brought to enforce de-
crees or crers. The recall Of deci.
sions he labelled the sgrotesque prop
osition by the leader of former Re-
puclicans who have left their party"
The Republican party" concluded
the president, Stands for none Of
these innovations. 1t refuses to
make changes simply for the purpose
Of making q change, and cultivating
popular hone that IN the change eornA.