The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-10-03
THE EXAMPLE OF RADLEY
As A LOYAL REPUBLi0as,,l

Gov. Herbert Hadley Of Missouri,
to whom was given the greatest dem.
onstration in the Chicago Republican
| convention, the recognized floor lead
er of the Roosevelt supporters in the
convention and who might have been
the nominee of the Republicans for
ishness and uncontrolable ambition
Of the Dictator" prevented, in Il
fine example of loyalty and lofty Re-
publicanism Nobody can doubt
where Governor Hadley stood before
the convention reached it's decision.
| He was strong and more effective
supporter of King Ted" than John
son of California or Stubbs of Iowa.
And nobody is to be permitted to
doubt where he stands now. Govern
or Hadley is a Republican, and as
such is supporting President Taft and
the Republican ticket, and there is
no inconsistency about it.
Writing to Leslie's Weekly and re-
plying TO the charge that the party is
sectional and has outlived its use
fulness-we can't resist writing that
it has only outlived its usefulness to
the ungrateful beneficiary who puts
his own ambition above party-Gov-
ernor Hadley says:
The Republican party is no
less sectional today than it was
in the days of Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield, Mckinley and Roose-
welt. The splendid service that
| it has rendered to the people Of
the United States and to civili2a-
tion has been rendered notwith-
! standing the fact that a large
| majority of those who composed
| it lived north of Mason and Dix
on's line.
| Speaking from personal
standpoint, | have felt that as the
head of the Republican party in
the fifth largest Republican state
in the Union, and the largest
west of the Mississippi, as the
captain of the ship for the time
being, l should not be among the
first to abandon it at all unless
| fully convinced that it is going
| down."
| Here is the utterance of a man and
loyal Republican, who glories in Re-
| publican accomplishments and secs
no reason for relinquishing Republi-
can faith. To Beveridge and a
Garfield and Bill Finn, the party is
fluence is gone. They put pap and
pull above all else They are like
the pitiful crowd in Ohio, which
would disavow or deceive solely to
capture a half dozen state offices.
If principle had inspired the Bull
Moose followers, they could have
written any honest declaration worth
| while in the Chicago Republican plat
form. Roosevelt energy, personality
and popularity, applied to the dec
laration of party faith, amid loyalty
and gratitude, would have been ir
resistible. But the "Dctator" had
no such concern. He meant to be
president again, for how long no
| body knows. When his followers told
him that party devotion and concern
could be wrought into the nomina
| ton of Hadiey in the Chicago con
vention, he condescendingly agreed
! that II would gladly have Governor
| Hadley on the ticket with me-" That
reward conveys the spirit and pur-
! pose of the whole Bull Moose cam
paign. We are curious to see how
many Republicans, blinded to hero
| Worship or drifting in disappoint
mert. will follow such seltishness, Of
| such an egotist, in this crucial year
{ American politics. Not many, we
fancy, when the sober, second
thought is taken. They will more
| ;ikely see fitting example in Mis-
souri's governor and Republican lead
ef, who made the fight, and lost, but
cIings to the party whose splendid
service in the past is an earnest Of
it's accomplishment in the future
Marion, O., Star