The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-11
What Temptation Does.

balance. and therefore the pick OF our
public life: five judges. h highest on
the bench: five senators. the highest in
the senate: five congressman. the high.
est in the house Of representatives,
fifteen of the Very flower Of American
public life, and there were eight Of
them republicans and seven demo-
parties at the national capital. And
they were sworn-they took an oath
that they would hear the evidence
and examine the law. and that they
would render q verdict without par
TALLY and without favor. And they
heard the evidence. and they examin-
ed the law. and then they voted. And
1t just so happened. by a strange coin
cidence. that the eight republicans so
voted on every question, and they did
it co~necientiously and without bias
but they so voted as to elect q repub-
lican. And by an equally strange CO.
incidence the seven unbiased. unpreju-
diced. justice-loving democrats 80
voted on every question as to seat the
democrat. And the only reason why
we didn't elect Tilden was that there
was n more honest. conscientious,
unbiased republican on that commits.
sion than there were democrats.
Same Thing Happened.
Now this is what happened when
the biggest case that was EVER submit.
ted to a jury in this country wat sub
mitted to the most respectable jury
that was ever assembled on American
soil. Now, my friends. if the biggest
men in h republican party and in
the democratic party cannot be trust
ed to be without bias when they de.
eide a presidential contest, you must
not expect too much of the delegates
to a national convention. or members
OF a national committee. But what
shall we do? I believe that we ought
to take the temptation from men
when that temptation is stronger than
they can bear. I believe that we
ought to MOI only repeat the Lords
prayer. but put It into operation,
Lead US not into temptation"
And at Baltimore our convention
adopted a platform that contains a
plank providing that in our party
hereafter a committeeman begins to
serve as soon as he is elected. In our
party there will be no more hold
ever committees. In our party there
will be no old committees made up
OF repudiated members Of the COM
m!ttee to act upon a convention. In
our party it will not be possible for
a dead man to reaci.H cut from the
past and strange a convention and
thwart the will Of the voters Of the
party. g
Have Worked Revolution.
We have worked a revolution with
a few words. We have changed the
system. and hereafter in our party We
VIII have a new committee to organize
a new convention. and the committee
ana the convention will be in har-
nony n represent the people OF the
party. That is What we have done.
the abuse. That is the way we have
met the issue. And I want those who
have been in the habit Of looking
down on the democrats, as if they
were an inferior people, want them
to remember that these democrats
at Baltimore-nearly 100 Of them,
representing the democracy Of the
nation. without one dissenting vote
party the abuse that remains in the
republican party. Did Mr.. Taft's con-
vention remedy this abuse? No.
-Four years from now. when the next
convention meets. the committee of
this year will be in charge. and it can
do four years from now exactly what
the committee did this year. And IL
there are contests in that. this years
COMMITTEES. holding over four years.
SANSSAy
what the voters Of that party don't
want. The republican party didn't
correct this abuse. But my friends,
it would be said in explanation that
nobody had told them how to correct
this abuse-nobody had suggested u
remedy to them. And it has been 50
long since there was an original idea
IN the republican party that you can't
blame them II they didn't know how
to change this system. That might
be said in defense Of the republican
convention for not changing the sys-
tenn. But how can you defend the
Roosevelt convention for not chang
ing the system? For that conven-
ton was held after the Baltimore
convention and they had the demo-
cratic example to inspire them and
the democratic platform to instruct
them. How do you explain that Mr..
Roosevelt. who has compiled a new
d~icttonery in order to get synonyms
for thief. and scoundrel. and rascal.
has not taken this eaw method Of
remedying the abuse Of which he
complains? In his convention four