St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-03-02

lROosEvELr CAMPAIGN OPENED
Dixon Of Montana Has Been Chose,
To Manage Il.
New York, Feb. 29.-The Roose
welt campaign assumed definite for:
tonight with the appointment of TIL
men who are to assume active man
agement. Senator Joseph n. Dixol
OF Montana Ia to be the man at tn,
helm. His official title il chairman
OF the executive committee OF tn,
National Roosevelt Committee. Mr.
Dfxon's first Official act was to Civ,
out q statement attacking the admin
1stratiOn of President Taft.
The appointments were announc
ed after an all-day conference will
Col. Roosevelt and half q dozen O
the leading supporters Alexander
Il. Revell OF Chicago, who was tempo
rary chairman of the national com
in1ittee formed several weeks ago, viii
serve as permanent chairman
I An administrative committee is tt
be formed with Truman H. Newberr5
OF Detroit, ex-Secretary OF the Navy
as chairman.
The executive committee is to have
general supervision over the cam
Ipaign. Senator Dixon's associates
on the committee are Frank Knox
chairman of the Republican Central
Committee of Michigan; William L.
Ward, Republican National Commit
Iteeman from New York; Walter
Brown, chairman of the Ohio Repub-
llcan Central Committee; Cecil Lyon,
Texas National Committeeman, and
State Senator William Flynn of Pitts
burg. Senator Dixon will have head
quarters at Washington, Mr.. Knox
will be in charge in Chicago, and Mr..
Ward in New York, while Mr.. Lyon
will look after the campaign in the
South.
Mr.. Newberry's administrative
committee is to have charge of the
business side Of the campaign. 1t
will open and maintain headquarters
and oversee the collection Of funds.
DIXON'S STATEMENT.
Senator Dixon's statement follows:
For more than fifty years the Re-
publican party, responding to the de-
mand of the majority of the voters
OF this country, has controlled the
policies Of the nation. This extra
ordinary lease Of delegated power
from the people has only followed the
response of its leaders to the intelli-
gent demands of political growth
and progress. A political party can
only retain power when its leadership
can command vote of confidence
from the people themselves.
Four years ago, by more than q
million majority, the Republican
party was again given a new lease of
power. Next November we must
again submit our claim for steward
ship to the people.
''The lack of positive leadership
during the past three years has turn
ed Republican majority of sixty in
the House OF Representatives into
an adverse Democratic majority CT
seventy; changed a two-thirds vote
in the Senate to the bare political |
control of that body; and temporari- |
~ has lost control of dozen Repub- !!
lican states of the North and West |
The lack of leadership has produced |!
a condition of business bewiidermenti
which has halted the prosperity of /
the whole country. There can be no I
cure for this industrial stagnstion
unless We substitute policy Of pro-
gressive and constructive legislation +
which shall meet modern conditions
with modern laws. These alarming |,
conditions challenge the sober atten-
ton of every Republics who hopes
for success in the coming presi dem
tial election.
DEMAND OF MASSES"
These are the things that have +
caused nationwide movement for
the nomination of Theodore Roose-
velt as the Republican candidate for
President. The overwhelming de-
nand of the masses of the Republi-
can voters for him to resume the
of his party can only re-
suit in his nomination by the nation
IL convention. The rank and file Of
the Republican voters have once be-
tore followed him to victory and are
now convinced that his leadership
Is absolutely necessary to success in
No man in direct touch with po-
itical conditions in all parts Of the J
country can doubt the existence Of /.
he overwhelming sentiment Of the
people themselves for his nomination.
During the past thirty days it has
begun to dawn on the leaders OF the
party that, while power
ful concentrated interest can some--
lines dictate convention control in L
he matter of political nominations, t,
.hese same interests are powerless
% control the action OF the people
themselves at the ballot box.
LITERAL, hundreds Of test votes
0f political sentiment in both the
great parties have recently been
made by reputable newspaper and
other agencies, and in every section
If the country, and with the single +
exception of the financial district in
he lower Manhattan Island, they
in moro than half million votes
10 tested, Gel. Roosevelt has led in
me balloting by an average ratio OF
more than five to enc over Mr.. Taft,
and by a clear majority over all the 4
combined, both Republs- 81
IAN and Democratic.
SENTIMENT OF VOTERS.
while these unofficial tests of Is
preference cannot be
automatically accurate, no sane
man can longer doubt the over
whelaling sentiment among the vot-
srs of the country who, by their bal (
ots, in November will determine the
political character of the next admin
stration. In political circles it is nc
longer a question of doubt that in
every State where the Republican
voters under presidential preferences {
,lectinn laws. can exnress their real [