The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-10

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agogIc BID Tor votes II III. Roose.I
velt were president again he would
not undertake to carry out this
speech tpFthe form Of Legislation or
administration. He would under
take ,oulySenough- of 1t to keep the
country seething with agitation and
his own name on the front page OF
the newspapers every incoming,
= Ohio State journal: On what
Mobably will prove to be the two
leading fssuesInl this campaign, Cor.
RoBsevslt6t1B n6 more progressive
than President Taft, whom he so
vigorously, deFfdes az, hopeless re-
actfoaafy The con fesslon of faith,
as he calls it, helps mot at all to-
ward clarifying the situation as it
relates to- the trusts and the tariff.
Albany journal: Specifically, the
Roosevelt doctrine means that IL a
law should be enacted taking from
citizens Of the United States rights
guaranteed by the constitution, when
the. courts would therefore decide
1t to be invalid, It should be in the
power of a temporary majority to
vote that nevertheless that law
should be valid and in force. Thus
conceivably, the freedom OF worship,
the freedom OF speech, the right OF
the people TO be secure from un-
reasonable searches and seizures,
their right to bear arms. their right
of trial by jury, OF any other OF the
guarantees of that part Of the con-
lstltution which is called the bin Of
rights, might be. taken away Il a
temporary majority should insist
upon. such action for iss effect upon
minority against which hostile
sentiment might be directed. r'''
philadelphia. Record: AS typical
sentences as there is in Mr.. Roose4
velt's tremendously long speech TO
hts chicago convention is The fol-
lowing: 'HThe Progressive proposal
Is definite. "r'' I'VE promise ade-
tauate. control of ali big business and
1.-THE stern repression of the evils con-
nected with big business, and this
promise we can absolutely keep"
Yet there is nothing less definite
or more easy than a promise OF an
end to be attained. OF the means to
attain it Mr.. Roosevelt says nothing,
except that he would keep the Sher.
man law and make additions to it
if which he gives no indication, and
supplement it by ia. commission
which shall use the presidential dis.
Beration in allowing ana forbidding
ACTS By corporations. So the only
ldehnits thing in his whole program
on trusts Is to make him president
and give him, plenary powers over
the business of the country
+ Philadelphia Inquirer: Itnis, 1. a
wonderful platform, CONSTRUCTED sup:
on the principles of; a crazy quilt. a
dazzling thing of threads and
patches. Architect Roosevelt has
drawn upon every party for. his
planks. He has tilched from the, So
clalists, from the Populists from, the
anarchists, from the Republicans,
even from President Taft. himself.
He has added to his tilchings the
fimsy material of which oyster
Bay nightmares are made.
New York Evening Post: He
turns from class to class. and Sec
ton of the country after section,
Offering to each kind of milientai
happiness II it will only contide in
his wisdom. but when you ask for
distinct proposals you get only
fog-bank of words. Mr.. Roosevelt
talks emphatlcally of making all his
political pledges take on the nature
of n solemn Contract" with the
people, but il anybody sought to re-
duce them to precise writing he
would 'hnd them all escaping in va
| por.
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