The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-08-30
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He then credited Mr.. Taft
with seeking to apply the antitrust
law more vigorously than his pre-
decessor, and added:
But the time to have applied the
Sherman antitrust law effectively
was in the infancy of these trusts.
l don't believe the man who was
President for seven years while
the greatest growth occurred, at
the time of all times when the
Sherman law could have been
made potential in deterring trust
organization-I don't believe the
man who was President then is
the man to find the way out now
Mr. Roosevelt's warmest friends
cannot with honesty to themselves as
citizens shut their eyes to the real
character of the man.
If man disagrees with him, he
does not argue, but promptly calls
him a lara method of disputation
efficacious in frontier days, but no
longer in vogue in decent society. Had
Mr.. Roosevelt in his breast spark
of loyalty to the people who SO blind
ly followed him; had he a spark of
common honesty in his mad below
ings that the people were being job
bed and that he was fighting for them;
had he anything is his breast but that
unquenchable desire for public Office
and great power, he would have gladly
welcomed the proposal of Mr.. Borah
and stepped aside with Mr.. Taft to
make way for man that could have
cemented the different factions of the
Republican Convention and helped the
great party to bring peace and plenty
to the land as it has done SO many
times before. But no! the country
must come to him-he is the one
honest man, the one Moses to lead the
people out of the wilderness!
Up to the moment he feared that
he was going to be left out in the cold
the Republican party embodied all
the virtues of Saintdom But the
moment he caesed to be dictator the
party became like the good men that
dare to differ with him, cohort of the
devil. Mr.. Roosevelt is truly a mon
ument of wonderful rectitude, envel-
oped in nimbus of dazzling purity,
and animated by the soul of "a
fishwife.
True progressives-men of un-
doubted honesty and integrity of pur-
pose, such as Robert La Toilette, are
determined upon certain much-needed
reforms. They will have them. To
get them they see but one chance of
success: the Republican party. The
tight will be made within the party.
Mr.. La Toilette and others of his
calibre will support Mr.. Taft, for it
is easier by far to correct mistakes
within the party than to create new
parties whose principles, if they have
any, are untried. Shall we stay with
men of the integrity of La Toilette
or leave the party for such man as
Roosevelt has proven to be? And do
not mistake Roosevelt is not a Re-
publican and those that follow him
go out of the party. No man can with
common decency serve in any political
position in this state, in the coming
campaign, that does not to the best
of his ability support Mr.. Taft. Mr..
Taft is the nominee of the Republican
party and while every man has right,
as a private citizen, to support whom
he pleases, once he accepts an Office
in the party he pledges himself to
support the party nominees.
The Republican party, under the
Constitution, has led the country to
a success and prosperity absolutely
unheard of before. 1t will continue to
bring peace and prosperity to the
people. Reforms will come-tney are
bound to come, for if there be wrong,
it cannot for long prevail in these
United States of America-injustice
is a crop that soon peters out in
American soil.
The Tribune believes as firmly in
the sanity of the American people as
it does in the sound principles of Re-
publicanism. Mr.. Taft will be elected