The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-07-19
Roosevelt in Outlook Denies That He Was
Fl Named Through Trickery.
WILSON'S ELECTION WILL FOSTER BOSS system
Colonel Compares the Republican and Democratic Conven
tions; in One Bosses Sacrifice Party to Defeat
4 Him, In Other Bosses Named
Wilson to Save Their
Organization.

, was to persuade the bosses Into them
selves nominating DIR. Wilson, thus Sc
curing the perpctuation OF their own
control In their several states. Mr.
Sullivan of-lllinois, Mr.. Taggart Of In
diana and. others like them brought
about DIR. Wilson's nomination. Mr..
Murphy acquiesccd at tho end. DIR.
Wilson's victory would not mean the
dethronement of these men: 1t would
mean their perpetuation In power. My
election would mean that MIR. Penrose,
Mr.. Barnes and Mr.. Guggenhcim would
be definitely eliminated from political
control Of their states
In summing up his second article.
Colonel Roosevelt declares that In ad-
and interests who oppose him and to
the respectable support they have
from individuals who are misinformed,
there Is a considerable body of sup
port from respectable men who do
know something Of the issue at stake.
Men Who Live Softly.
"Thcy are men who find life easy.
who live softly and who. instead Of
feeling that their own good fortune
makes II incumbent on them actively
to work for betterment In the life
conditions of others. are overcome by
the fear that any such effort to i'm
prove the general welfare would jar
the present system sufficiently to
cause them inconvenience.
"These men abound In the New
York and Boston social and business
or professional clubs, In the boards of
trade and chambers of commerce, In
the bar associations. In the residential
districts where people OF means and
leisure dwell. They are free from
physical TOLL and hardship: they live
under conditions that tell for case;
they are charitably inclined. but their
vision Is narrow; their sympathies are
restricted by their inability to realize
the feelings and needs OF less for
tunate men OF harder lives and they
become panic stricken when required
to face the question as to whether our
social system really does justice to
these other less fortunate men.
"A Panic. Born immortality"
"They develop a panic c-born I'M
morality which makes them not mere
ly excuse. but eagerly commend the
theft Of a nominating convention, or
any other rascality which In their es-
timation helps to save society," or to
preserve the constitution or to repel
assaults on the courts for these men
under such conditions follow the lead
of the great corporations and great
corporation lawyers In treating the
constitution and the courts--quite
without warrant-as instruments des-
ignated to protect privilege and vested
wrong and to prevent the people from
really ruling themselves. They have
apparently been educated to the point
of feeling all this In accentuated form
about mo and about the changes l
champion. They sdo not know that
most of the things / advocate have
been successfully tried out In few
of our own states-Wisconsin for in
stance and even Massachusetts, "a
In foreign countries such as Germany.
England. New Zealand and Switzer-
land II was merely trying to get this
country to be wise in timc-which Ia
nine tenths Of wisdom.
Il wish to see our less fortunate
| citizens avoid the dreadful excesses OF
| syndicatism and the like to which their
fellows abroad have been prone This
can only be accomplished II our peo-
pie as a whole will formulate and re-
| duce to practice certain great moral
principles which,. most OF us are now
dimly beginning to see shape them
selves from the confused welter OF our
business and our politics"