Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1912-06-12
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From June number Review of Reviews.

and his friends had admitted
that if Roosevelt should gain a
clear majority Of the delegates
from Republican States it would
be ruinous to force Taft's noms-
nation by means of the rOped
and tied" delegations from those
Southern States in which there
is no actual Republican party.
And Roosevelt had gained his
plurality of delegates from Re
publican States before Ohio eX-
pressed it's choice.
PENNSYLVANIA AROUSED.
Nobody can understand what
has been happening in the Re
| pu blican party who has not
studied the situation in a great
typical State like Pennsylvania
| If it were merely that Roose
Welt had beaten Taft in the Re
publican primaries it N e h t
mean much to some men and
little to 9th ars. But the thing
that has come to pass is the over
throw of machine rule in the
| State. and a change as profound
as that which was achieved in
| Philadelphia last year by the
election Of Mayor Blakenburg
and the overthrow of the muni
cipal ring. The State conven-
ton met at Harrisburg on May =,
land adopted a platform that is
lone of the most ringing n q
trenchant documents in all the
political history of the United
States. This platform is a
trumpet call for government by
the people and for the overthrow
of conditions brought about by
Ian alliance between machine pol
itics and special privilege, Let
it be remembered that this doc
ument is not the personal full
mlnatiOn of some unsupported
refOrmer, but the deliberate eX-
preston of the Republican party
of Pennsylvania in the most truly
representative gathering that it
| has ever held. If the things
| that Western progressive lead
erS stand for are radical. then
| this Pennsylvania platform is
the most radical of all current
| Republican creedS. There l.;
nothing that Mr.. Taft has stood
| for in his recent campaigning,
, and in his larger policies, that
: this platform does not denounce.
\ MILITANT CREED AND PROGRAM.
Being in the most complete
control, the Pennsylvania pro
gressives have arranged to elect
State legislators and Congress-
, men holding tp the principles OF
: their platform, and they mean
without delay to reform the laws
and institutions of their State.
, These men are in earnest, and
:. they will not compromise. The
things that they have declared
, in their platform are III essence
ard in spirit the things that the
4 great body of Repu blicanS in the
United States have come to be
: lieve. A Republican par Y.
dominated by such sentiments
D could no more be led to-day by {
man like William Howard Taft
I than the Republican party 0:
q 1860 could have been led by ;
man of the temperament OF james
Buchanan or man Of the con
.tivict.uu~ i Nr Vallandingham
o The men who made the Fennsyl
Y yania platform, and who propose
!, to give effect to it's demands
:. hold in the most obnoxious form
, all of the views that Mr.. Tai
q 50 scornfully denounced IN hi:
Q caretaily prepared speech de
l. livered in New YORK Oh Lincoln
1: Birthday of the present year
such extremists, lie said, ar,
not progr5 ssive: they are politi
t cal emOtionalis,s or neuroticS
$ He also said that they woul,
5 hurry us into a condition which
q would find no parallel except il
, the French Revolution. Nj
y Taft. on the other hand. seem
Il to have had just as little vision 0
e cal conditions as they had il
q Mare Antoinptte's circle. Hi
l. platform talk SHOWS hardly NOR
!. contact with the real trends q
10 Thought and conviction in tlli
: T. country b II t h e privilege
1 class III France had with the fore
l that was about todestroy foreve
te the inlqui,ies of the cid regime
10 1t is precisely because the pro
= gre>sivc Republicans have ir
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