, 1912-08-15
The Bull Moose" Party

The Progressive Republicans, as they call themselves, and the
Bull Moose" party, as it's detractors love to call it, which met in CHI
cago last week, placed Colonel Roosevelt in nomination for President
and Hiram W.. johnson, governor of California, for vice. president.
There were a thousand delegates in attendance and the proceedings
we're closed with one of the most remarkable demonstrations ever in
duged in by a political body-the singing of the Doxology. The
old line, stand-pat, republican papers, with the assistance of the de-
mocratic press, at once started in to build up the new party and in
sure it a wide publicity by heaping ridicule on it's nominees and call
ing attention to the absurdities and discrepancies of it's platform prin-
ciples.
The editor of the Sun has a very clear and distinct recollection
of the birth of the Republican party. He cast his first vote for the
nominee of that "black republican, niger loving" faith, which was
then being held up to public scorn, from one end of the United
States to the other, by a perfect whir-wind of ridicule and biting
sarcasm. such as is now assailing the Bull Nose" party. This is
in accordance with Divine economy, which has provided that nothing
shall succeed that is not able to Withstand opposition. Resistance
is the very heart of the law of life, which has decreed that no. even a
bird can fly except it have the resistance of the air to hold it aoft.
And SO it is with the new party. The two old parties have
unwittingly startedin to help it all they can. They are passing it
back and forth thru the fire of searching sarcasm, thus purifying,
cleansing, steraIzing 1t, and if it can stand the furnace heat Of their
ridicule it will to drive one, OF both, of the old parties out of the field
and grow to be a power in the land until, after many years, it shall
fall, like its detractors have, into the hands of big Business" when
we may expect to Sc it decline from the high purpose which it now
processes and give place to a new party with more vitality.
1t IL interesting to watch the workings of the Law of Progress
1t will not be stayed or turned aside by anything, no matter how
powerful. All men and all things are used for it's purpose. 1t
has need of them all and It seizes upon one party of men with which
to compel or whip another party of men into doing it's work. Just
now we see it with the Republican party in one hand and the Demo.
cratic party in the other, scourging the Bull Moose party in a man.
nr that would seem most unjust and cruel did W e not know that it
was being done for the advancement of the cause of right. The
Law OIL Progress knows no man, no party. All men arr its servants
if they will but help the cause forward. Aud out of the ruck and
turmoil, the whir[wind of thot, the mail-storm of contention and
seeming destruction and confusion, comes the right, and the people
are helped and civilization is advanced. Let the good work go on
We would not stay it if we could. Let the Republican party live if
1T can. Let the Democratic party survive if it has the vitality.
Let the Progressive Republican party thrive if t can, which it Will
surely do If 1t is founded on right principles.