Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-07-12
FRIDAY, JULY IL, 1919.
THE NEW PARTY
From The Literary Digest]

Will the new party born in Chicago on
June % die of malnutrition or other in
fantile disease, as the scoffers predict, or
will it, as the most sanguine of its friends
declare, grow so rapidly to mans estate
as to be able to defeat in November the
Goliaths of Republicanism and De-
mocracy, together with all lesser anita
gonists? In any case it is evident that,
for an infant not yet even christened,
the new party is causing remarkable
commotion among the politicians, and
occupying great deal of space in the
newspapers. Already such influential
Republican and Independent papers as
the Chicago Tribune and Post. the Phila-
delphia North American, the Kansas
City Star and Times, the Boston Journal
the Washington Times, the Baltimore
News, the Pittsburg Leader, the EN-
poria Gazette, the Spokane Spokesman
Review, the San Francisco Bulletin, the
Los Angeles Tribune and Express, the
Fresno Republican, the Madison Wis
Star, the Muncie Star, the Terre Haute
Star, and the Louisville Herald have
rallied to the support of this newcomer
in the political field, and the same course
has been followed, says the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, by two thirds of the coun-
try press of the Pacific Coast. While the
new party has not yet held its first con-
vention, and is still officially nameless,
CORE pondents report that the work of
local organization is proceeding rapidly
in Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, and
many other cities, while the problems
of national organization are in the
hands of a temporary committee com
posed of governors, senators, news
paper proprietors, judge, an ex-con-
gresham, an ex-cabinet officer, and
others, representing in all some fifteen
States. Altho Governors Hadley of
Missouri, Deneen of Illinois, and Aldrich
of Nebraska, who fought under the
Roosevelt banner in the Coliseum con-
vention, refused to follow it beyond the
Republican fold, the leaders who stand
with the Colonel do not seem to be at
all worried over these assertions.
1.-The new movement will go right
ahead; nothing will stop it," declares
Governor johnson of California. "There
must be no compromise, no straddle Z"
says Colonel Roosevelt, who adds: II
shall fight the battle through to the
end"
In answer to the remark of Taft
delegate that it takes money to run
even reform campaign, and that ''it
remains to be seen whether the syndi-
cate that has been underwriting the
Colonel's aspirations for regular third
term nomination will care to subscribe
to any further issues of Roosevelt
securities" correspondent of the New
York Times Dem points out that the
new party already numbers among its
adherents such men of wealth as Clifford
and Amos Pinchot, Charles r. Crane,
William Finn, George w. Perkins,
Frank A. Munsey, Daniel Hanna, SEN
ator Bourne, Oscar S. Straus, and
Alexander H. Revell The same cor
respondent states that popular interest
in the new party is spontaneously TAX
ing the form of contributions to it's
campaign fund.
California indorses the candidacy of
Theodore Roosevelt as the leader of the
new party, declares the progressive
San Francisco Bulletin, which goes on
to say:
I'm the campaign preceding the open
primary in this State it recognized him
as the peoples champion. 1t gave him
1900 plurality, and the theft of con-
vention has not shattered its fealty.
Greater than so-called party regularity,
greater than tradition, greater than the
fate of factions or of individuals, is the
mandate of the people. Governor John
son has taken the only course which the
shamelessness and obtuseness of the
Republican bosses left open to him.
There will be some timid ones, like Sen,
ator Borah of Idaho, Governor Deneer
of Illinois, and the late Mr.. Hadley of
Missouri whose head was turned by g
bit of applause, but the rank and file
of the Republican party is with the new
party. and the great rank and file OF
the country's citizenry will follow un-
falteringly."
Roosevelt has fought for the
peoples right to rule, and if the people
are resolved to rule they must now fight
for him." says The Los Angeles Elk