The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-03-28


Delegates as Asset in Fight to Re.
nominate Former President, For
They VIII Never Co to Taft's Sup
port - Magazine Writer Declares,
After Trip Through Thirteen West.
ern States, That People Out There
Cannot Spell Name Of Standpatters.
BY ALLEN e. BEACH.
Columbus, o., March 26.- Especially
Better to go down to defeat with
President Taft than to win with any
other candidate" the Bourbon re.
mark attributed to Senator Penrose,
expressed the determination of reac-
tionary leaders of an administration
which was elected as a progressive
one to try to retain control of the
party machinery at all hazards, even
the hazard of party defeat. The
PENNSYLVANIA senator has not with.
drawn or revised this remark since
hearing the result of the North Ia.
kota primaries.
Held on the last day of calendar
winter, they were an equinoctial
storm Of progressive Republican sen.
timent that swept that northwestern
state. II was the first legally estab.
lished statewide presidential prefer.
ence primary to be held anywhere in
within 5000 votes of the vote Presi-
dent Taft received ia 1908. His vote
there four years ago was $3.50. but
last Tuesday he polled a bare 1000,
while Senator LaFolette, the winner,
and Colonel Roosevelt divided be.
tween them over $4,000 votes
The result registered the vanish.
ing of Taft sentiment in North IA.
kota. 1t disclosed how completely
the progressive spirit permeates the
Republican party OF the northwest.
II makes transparent what has
been pretty clear for a long while.
that the conservative and radically
progressive elements of the party
will clash at the Chicago convention.
Necessarily the progressives will be
united and for one man before the
end of the voting The North Da.
kota delegates never will 90 to Taft.
The Roosevelt men count the LaFOl.
lette votes as an asset in the fight
they are making TO nominate the eX.
president as an embodiment of the
progressive principles on which alone
they believe the party can 90 to the
country with expectation Of winning.
Roosevelts speech at Carnegie hall
following Taft's Toledo speech made
It needless for anyone any longer 10
ask why Roosevelt is against Taft.
There is a clear issue between them.
They are diametrically antagonistic
on the question how far and how
much the people should be trusted
TO vote right.
"Mr, Taft's position" said Colonel
Roosevelt, "is the position that has
been held from the beginning OF our
government although not always so
openly held, by a large number of
reputable and honorable men who
down at bottom distrust popular gov
ernment and when they must accept
II accept ii with reluctance and
hedge II around with every species
restriction and check and balance so
as TO make the power of the people
as limited and as ineffective as pos
sible. Mr.. Taft fairly defines the
issue when he says that our govern.
ment should be government of all
the people by a representative part
OF the people. This is an excellent
and moderate description of an oil.
garchy. II defines our government
as government OF all of the people
by few of the people"
II was to President Taft that Col.
onel Roosevelt referred in this
speech when he said 81 am not lead
ing this fight as a matter OF aesthetic
pleasure. ! am leading II because
somebody must lead or else the
fight would not be made, at all.
prefer to work with moderate, with
rational conservatives, provided only
that they do in good faith strive for
ward toward the light. But when
they halt and turn their backs TO the
light, and sit with the scorners on
the seats Of reaction, then / must
part company with them"
Another phase OF this reaction was
the retirement of DR.. Wiley, who was
practically frozen out of the govern
ment service Senator Beverdge in
his Indianapolis speech, reviewing
the achievements of the Roosevelt
administration, said
THE beef trust was selling death
TO the people. We passed a law to
end that infamy. The battle was des-
perate. Only the fact that President
Roosevelt used all his power saved
the law. Scores of thousands OF poor
people have been saved from
ptomaine poisoning, tuberculosis and
other diseases because OF this law.
The fight Roosevelt made to pass the
meat inspection law also passed the
pure food law. And what forces
fought both laws? The same forces
that are fighting Colonel Roosevelt
now"
The Roosevelt men won ground