Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-08-06
BEFORE ONE or greatest AUDIENCES EVER GATHERED Big COLISEUM At CHICAGO
DEALS FEARLESY WITH every GRAVE PROBLEM BEFORE The NATION today
BOTH Old PARTIES ARE EMPTY HSKS NE Says while THOUSANDS APPLAUD
SPEAKS FOR TWO HOURS
REMEDIES He recommends ARE ANTIDOTES FOR
SOCIALISM AND ANARCHY and MUST SURELY COME

er, Mr.. Barnes and Mr. Murphy. Mr.
Penrose and Mr.. Taggart, Mr.. Gug-
genheim and Mr.. Sulivan-differ from
Cne another, of course, on certain
points, but these are the differences
which one corporation lawyer has with
another corporation lawyer when act
ing for different corporations. They
come together at once as against q
common enemy when the dominion OF
both is threatened by the supremacy
of the people of the United States.
Il this country is really to go forward
along path Of social and economic
justice, there must be a new party of
nationwide and non-sectional princi-
pies, a party where the titular ma
tional chiefs and the real state lead
ers shall be in genuine accord,
party i'll whose counsels the people
shall be supreme, a party that shall
represent in the nation and the sew
! eral states alike the same cause, the
cause of human rights and of govern
mental efficiency" The reassertion
OF the states rights doctrine OF the
democratic party Cripples and fore
closes any real or genuine relief to
the people. 1t reduces their promises
to hopeless and empty phrases. The
mission and spirit of this progressive
movement will thrill the republic
from end to end.
THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO
RULE.
The actions Of the Chicago conven-
ton, and to an only less degree OF the
Baltimore convention, have shown in
striking fashion how little the people
Go rule under our present conditions
In order to assure this popular rule
! Mr. Roosevelt urged the adoption OF
/ presidential primaries, popular cleo
ton of senators, the short ballot, an
efficient corrupt practices act, quail
fed use of the initiative, referendum
and recall. The recall should be ap-
! piled to administrative officers. Mr..
! Roosevelt asserts that the adoption OF
these new methods of political admin
istratiOn is not antagOnistic to rep
reSentative government. "All | desire
! to do by securing more direct control
! of the governmental agents and repre-
sentatives of the people is to give the
people the chance to make their rep
resentatives really represent them
i whenever the government becomes
misrepresentation instead of represen-
/ tatiye. | have not come to this way
/ of thinking from closest study or as
a mere matter of theory; l have been
/ forced to it by a long experience with
the actual conditions of our political
| life"
THE COURTS AND THE PEOPLE.
Under this head Mr.. Roosevelt
strongly emphasized the necessity OF
the sovereign people preserving a
check on every branch of public serv-
ice. Under this head Mr.. Roosevelt
reiterates his now well-known views
regarding the courts. THE Ameri-
can people, and not the courts, are to
determine their own fundamental poll
icies.' This does not mean that the
people are to interfere in cases which
involve merely questions of Justice
between individuals except that
means should be devised for making
it easier than at present to get rid of
an incompetent Judge But when a
judicial decision involves an interpre-
tation of what the people mean by the
constitutions which they framed and
laws passed by the people are nulli.
fed because the courts say those laws
are contrary to the peoples will as
expressed in their constitution, there
must be reference to the people of
: the public effect of such decisions un-
der forms securing full deliberation.
to the end that the people may rectify
this alleged defect in their constitu-
: ton by a popular vote having all the
| force of constitutional amendment.
: Our purpose is not to impugn the
courts, but to emancipate them from
. a position whenever they stand finally
in the way of social Justice | am
) well aware that every upholder of
: privilege, every hired agent or bene.
! ficiary of the special interests, includ-
, ing many well-meaning parlor reform
, ers, will denounce all this as Social
} ism or 'anarchy-the same terms
2 they used in the past in denouncing
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