Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-02
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COL. RoosEvELT's FOLLY.

Leslie's Weekly wants to know what
Roosevelt expects to accomplish by
his projected new party. Already he
has been abandoned by a large ma
jority of the more prominent leaders
who supported him in Chicago-Sen-
ator Borah, of Idaho; Governor Had.
ley, OF Missouri; John G. Capers,
South Cardinals member of the Re.
publican National Committee; Govern
or Deneen, of Illinois; Senator Works,
of California; Governor Osborn, OF
Michigan; Senator Jones, Of Wash.
ington; Walter L. Brown and D. Mead
Massie, of Ohio; Governor Aldrich, Of
Nebraska; Thomas X. Neidringhaus
Missouri's member of the national
committee, and many others. And
the detection will be still larger be-
fore August 5th, the day set for the
Chicago gathering of the projected
new party. These secessions from
his ranks are fatal to the %colonel's
plans.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
whose personal friendship for Mr..
Roosevelt induced him to remain neu.
trail in the contest for the candidacy,
has come out strongly for President
Taft since the nomination. He prom
Uses to stump mis- and other states for
the party ticket. He sees disaster
for the party and the country in the
proposal to establish a new party,
provided that party could capture any
considerable number OF electoral
votes. Senator Summins of Iowa and
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin, who
were earlier fighters in the progress
sive ranks than the colonel, are sup
porting Taft. II shall not join the
new party" says the Iowa senator,
'but shall continue to use all the
strength I have to influence and d.
rect the course Of the republican par
ty toward dts true mission" I'm
doubtedly this expresses the purpose
of a large majority of the republicans
who preferred Roosevelt to Taft I'D
til the regularly chosen representa-
tives Of the party named Taft.
In another direction also Colonel
Roosevelt is assailed by progressives.
Governor Osbon, who was n Of the
signers of the request now tells pro-
gressives that they can support VIII
son, II they wish, without FORGETTING
their right to call themselves repub-
licans. This is quee, doctrine, but
several others Of the former Roosevelt
leaders take the same ground.
Only one Of the seven Republican
Governors who, last February, urged
Mr.. Roosevelt to seek the candidacy
signed the call for the convention to
establish the new party. This was
Johnson Of California. The rest, with
the exception of Osborn, who leans
toward Wilson, will support Taft.
There is not the fatntest chance for
the new party to accomplish anything
toward advancing Mr.. Roosevelt's for
tunes. Possibly he could take a few
states away from Taft and thus elect
Wilson. But would the democrats, in
that event, put him forward in 1915?
Certainly not. They would seek q man
whose democratic faith was older and
more orthodox than the c~olonels.
All OF which considerations bring
forward the query cited in the first
sentence pf this editorial: What does
Colonel Roosevelt expect to achieve
" his proposed new party. Does he
want 70 wreck<ae republican party?
jamss d. Birney. the Abolition party's
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