Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-24
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He 10 the platform-Stoux City Jour-
nal
The Journal 10 not far out in it,
assertions that Roosevelt 10 the plat
form Of the new party. At any rate
Roosevelt is the decimal point from
which the new party calculates integers
and fractions. But the Journal fails to
go far enough in analysis.
II Roosevelt 10 the core Of new
party 1t Is because he furnishes the
most available center upon which the
square deal sentiment, which the ma
ton feels and which Roosevelt gave
public and imperative voice. may CEN
ter itself to new formation. He Is
the point Of alignment OF protest
against an arrogant party minority
which assumes to deny the will OF the
party and substitute q political dig
archy in the place Of popular party
expression. In the final analysis the
Roosevelt movement Is not bolt with
Roosevelt and against the republican
party. 1t is bolt within the party
with the ex-president as file leader.
1t is idle to argue party regularity
this year. There is no party regularity
so far as the head Of the ticket is con-
cerned. The Roosevelt movement Is
simply the protest against bossism and
common piracy more accentuated than
the determination to repudiate TAFT
and and the gang which put him over
which obtains with astonishing uni
versatility among the rank and file OF
republicans from Philadelphia to
Frisco. This is a year when platforms
will receive almost as little consider
alton from the common voter as plat
forms generally obtain from the poll
tician. 1t will make small difference
whether Roosevelt is sneeringly re-
ferred to as the platform or whether
there is or is not a written platform.
The fact is that the voters who re-
pudiate the Chicago nomination have
set out to set their plain and unmlstak-
able disapproval upon party burglary
and that Roosevelt as national leader
Of the popular movement of the past
decade will get most Of the votes OF
the boilers whether they align with
the new party or stay inside the re-
publican party.
1t is also idle to attempt to read out
of the republican party the voters who
absolve themselves from obligation to
the head of the party ticket. The re-
publican party repudiated Taft where
ever it had opportunity to express it
self The vote whereby he was nom
mated was as utterly foreign to the
real republican party as tho 1t had been
imported from Patagonia. 1t came
from states where the republican party
can not do business. where it never
could do business and where 1t VIII
never be able to do business. The
republican party still belongs to its
owners quite as honestly and legally
as stolen horse belongs to Its owner.
has quite as good right to unhorse
the rustler and recover the animal.
This is not q year when platforms
will receive large consideration. IT
Roosevelt is the platform of the new
party he is popular platform 1t will
win votes. With judgment displayed
by it's promoters 1t would not be especi-
ally astonishing If Roosevelt were to be
returned. In Iowa for instance, were
the Roosevelt party to name their
leader for the head Of the ticket and
endorse the state and county tickets
already and honestly nominated the
prediction that he would carry the
state could be made reasonably if not
confidently. Like Roosevelt the voters
are not paying much attention to plat
forms.