The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-09-21
GRUB
STALKING" MOOSER

grubstaking'' Roosevelt's campaign
in the hope of profits to come, John
Maynard Harlan, Of Chicago, and J..
Adam Bede, of Minnesota. addressed
two enthusiastic Taft rallies in Ari-
zona Wednesday in the wake of Roose-
velt s tour through that state the pre-
vious day. The first was held at Tue
son at noon, and the other at Phoenix
in the evening. Both brought out big
crowds and cheers greeted the Taft
speakers at every turning point. Har-
Ian labeled the Bull Moose party the
Pollywog Progressives whose idea of
progress is perpetual motion.
The Republican leaders from Tucson
and Phoenix met the Taft speakers at
Maricopa, and announced that the
meetings would be the opening guns
of big fight to capture Arizona.
George w. Perkins, said Harlan,
lis grubstaking Theodore Roosevelt
in this fight because he expects to
share in the profits later. He is hop
ing to pay Roosevelt's expenses now
because he knows that if Roosevelt
should happen to be elected later there
will be division of profits. 1t is not
the first time that George W. Perkins
has helped to grubstake Roosevelt in
a political campaign in the hope of re-
payment. He contributed $4,000 of
the moneys Of widows and orphans in
trusted to the New Yory Life Insur-
ance company to Roosevelt's campaign
fund that wear, and Roosevelt gave
the Steel trust, of which Perkins is a
Il. Ic@o L.
by absorbing its only formidable rival,
and then he halted suit against the
Perkins harvester trust. Who SAYS
grubstaking such a candidate is not
profitable? Every time that Perkins
has contributed to Roosevelt cam
paign he has called upon Theodore
Roosevelt later to deliver the goods
and Roosevelt has deliverer the goods
Perkins has demanded that Roosevelt
do something he had no right to do, to
violate statute of the United States
and Roosevelt has obeyed. -
Harlan also referred to the Bull
Moose party as ''pollvwog progress
sives = 9fThe Roosevelt idea Of prog
ress,' he declared, "is perpetual mo
ton. 1t gives no heed in which direc
tion it is moving, or whether it is
right or wrong, just so it keeps in mo
tion. The Republican party is your
truly progressive party because it sees
to it that its progress is in the right
direction. But your 'pollywog' pro
gresive, your Bull Moose progressive
gives little heed to the direction. All
he wants to do is to keep inseecantly
in motion. If he can but catch the
eve of onlookers he cares little if after
period of most intense activity he
finds himself just where he started. =
Everywhere we have been on the
trail of the Bull Moose,' declared
Bede, "we have found gloom in the
herd In Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Neva
da and even California there is grow
ing despair and frank admi ion that
the trird party movement is dismal
failure. The people of the west be
gin to see that if it's penal offense
| to steal cattle brand or log mark
! it is far more criminal to steal the
good name of great party as it is be
ing attempted by the Bull Moosers in
Kansas, California and other states
where they are striving to put the
Bull Moose brand on the Republican
elephant. Men who would do such a
dastardly deed are being Justly brand
ed as a band of thieves and the tin
soldier who was not within cannon
range of San Juan Hill is properly pro
claimed their leader and exempliar.
"The plain people are saving, 'Thou
shalt not steal, and when beaten in a
convention of your fellows, 'Thou
shalt not squeal.'
"The Colonel claims he is much like
Lincoln. He says Lincoln was called a
radical like himself, but only copper
heads and slave owners said that OF
Lincoln. Radical Republicans called
him reactionary and tried to destroy
him in 1864, just as the red rag bunch
are trying to destroy Taft today, and
they brought out third canodate fol-
that purpose. But they failed, Just as
the handanna third termers will fail
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