Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-07-12

press, and The Tribune of the same city
"resolutely pledges its support" to the
new party, remarking at the same
time GAS the Republican party, was
founded to free the blacks from physi-
cal slavery, so the Progressive party is
founded to free all men and women from
the economic and political servitude to
which plutocracy has reduced the people
of this nation" "Standpattism throws
down the gauntlet and the Pro-
gressive party, instantly organized,
takes it up" remarks the Spokane
Spokesman-Review, which enlists itself
under the Roosevelt banner and rejoices
that "the fight for the square deal is
on" 1.-The day of dust-throwing is
over" says the Chicago Tribune, while
The Evening Post of the same city,
after fpointing to tits twenty years of
loyalty to the Republican party, goes on
to speak as follows of President Taft's
denomination and Colonel Roosevelt's
new-party candidacy:
"In our judgment President Taft's
nomination was a tainted nomination.
There was in it trickery and fraud.
Stript to its practical essentials, it was a
nomination made by minority instead
of majority.
1.-The miserable twenty-one votes
above the nominating point which the
'steam-roler' drivers were able to
muster fade instantly away under scru-
tiny from any standpoint of representa-
tive determination. Subtract the dele
gates from Alaska, Hawaii, Philippine
Islands, and Porto Rico, who represent
no electoral votes, and the margin
shrinks to nine. Subtract next Ala
bama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana.
Mississippi, South Carolina, and Vir-
ginia, where there is no real Republican
party, and the SCI becomes 312.
Subtract still further the forty Eight
votes in Arizona, California, Washing
ton, and Texas which were given to
Roosevelt by the people, and taken from
him by the national committee, and the
total is 264. Even these ultimate figures
shrink almost to nothingness when de-
prived of the votes of States like New
York, Indiana, Michigan, and Colorado,
where political trickery stop the people
from registering their free choice.
1--WE have believed from the first that
the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt or
Mr.. Taft was question for the people
to determine; we have believed that
the people finally showed their over
whelming preference for Roosevelt at
the primaries; we believe now that they
should be allowed to say whether or
not they wish Roosevelt to carry for
ward their banner by means of a new
party.
eff the people want the new party,
they will have it. And if they demon
strate at the proposed convention in
August that the demand for it is sim
cerely and earnestly that of the Pro-
gressive majority, they should go into
the Presidential fight with fair field
1--WE can and do support Colonel
Roosevelt in his appeal to the people to
decide whether or not they wish such a
new party. In their hands be it.
Throughout the next six weeks they
will have to make one of the most
momentous decisions in our national
history"
''Ths is no bolt" insists the Phila.
delphia North American; it is the be.
J ginning of national effort to effect g
J great moral purpose, and its strength
will grow as men understand that theil
rights have been stolen. and it is fol
, their reestablshment that the fight is
being made" From the standpoint OF
law, justice, and morality" insists the
! Pttsburg Leader, 1.-THE action of the
Taft convention was invalid, and has ne
binding force on any Republican. Mr.
, Moore's paper goes on to say
Theodore Roosevelt was nominated
by the people long before the counter
felt, boss controlled convention as
sembled in Chicago.
THAT nomination has been ratified
by an informal convention of regularly
elected delegates, and will be further
Endorsed by a later convention fresh
from the people"
The cause of popular government wa'
never in such peril as it is to-day, de
clares the Louisville Post, land tn,
= men conspiring to overthrow it fear nj
; one but Roosevelt. Him they feal
because his voice rouses a people thu
bipartisan bosses had drugged into in
: sensibility." NINETY per cent. Of thu
: voters in the Republican States today
are loyal to principles rather than t.
party banners" remarks the Madison