The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-16
Fear of Progressives Shown
by Bombardment Directed
on Them by Socialist Cam
paign Opening.
| r. VAN VOORHIS AND
FRED WARREN SPOKE
Socialist Editor Devoted Most
of His Time to Bitter Per-
sonal Assault upon Col.
Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt and the Pro- |
gressive party was flayed and crucifed
by R. F. Van Voorhis, Socialist candi-
date for congress from the Sixth dis |
trict, and by Fred d. Warren, editor
of the Appeal to Reason, in meeting
held at the Coliseum last Saturday
evening.
The purpose of the meeting was to
increase the subscription list of the
Appeal to Reason, admission to the
hall being a stub torn from a sub
scription blank for which each person
raid twenty-five cents. About / 800 per-
sons heard the attack on the Bull
Moose party. A number of ardent
Roosevelt followers left the Coliseum
while Warren was hurting his arraign-
ment at the colonel.
Warren was scheduled to speak on
the Political Revolution of 1922 but
the topic was referred to only in the
introduction and conclusion of his ad-
dress. For the main part his address
Roosevelt and a denunciation Of the
principles of the Progressive party.
Warren Not Debs.
In the hall were many professional
men of the city who had been attract
ed there by the subject which War
rem was announced to discuss. Many
of them believed Warren would be
he ali ri l~<Sv ~.
Eugene Debs is, but they were doomed
to keen disappointpaent. They had
heard the latter iask year and were
ttrfieHsed with his pia zenta alton ef th~
socialistic principles, but they left the
hall Saturday evening chagrined at the
inconsistent harrangue Of Warren.
| The vitriolic attack of both Warren
and Van Voorhis on the Progressive
! party and its leaders, convinced Bull
Moosers who heard the denunciation
Saturday that there is nobody whom
the Socialists fear more than Theodore
Roosevelt. His unqualified stand for
the betterment of social conditions
along sane and approved lines has
made powerful appeal to the masses,
while the platform of the Progressives
containing planks advocating social re-
form has added thousands of working
men to the Bull Moose party, leaders
of the third party said after they heard
Warren.
Afraid of Roosevelt.
That Van Voorhis and Warren evil
IDENTIFY realize the charm in Roosevelt s
name and campaign was apparent
from their addresses, for both Of them
trained their guns on him and the
Progressive party at the very outset,
and neither spared invective, satire or
r:dicule.
Nothing is so comical as the pres
ent campaign" began Van Voorhis.
Time was when the people believed
there was a difference between the
Republican and the Democratic party,
but as years passed they realized that
these parties we're Identical The inti-
macy between the parties grew and it
bore fruit at Chicago where it gave
birth to the Bull Moose party.
"Sired by the Democrats, 'damed' by
the Republican party, capitalism gave
birth to the little moose, and II the lit
tie animal gets anywhere it will be
damned by all. Neither of the old par.
ties will feed. care for, warm or nurse
the little Bull Moose now, but capital.
ism, which owns the dam and sire will
raise it.
Capitalism will raise the Bull
Moose party because it knows that
reither the Republican nor the Demo.
cratic party has an appeal that will at.
tract the working classes.
Attacks Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt said he never
Iaccepted money from the Standard Oil
company, but he never denied accept,
ing funds from the insurance compan.
lies, the steel trust and the harvester
|combine. / would like to see the poll.
t;cian who can convince me that a
man is spotless, if that man claims he
never received one dollar from the
devil and yet accepted funds from
hell"
/ Van yoorhis then argued that capi-
tslism knew it could not attract the Ia
boring men by the old political plat
forms, so George w. Perkins, after
TEDDY had skinned his teeth, said to
the colonel, Eureka, have it. We can
disrupt the socialist party like Samp-
SON with the pawbone of an ass. We
will organize a third party"
"At Chicago Teddy claimed Taft
stole his delegates, and then the Bull
Moosers came back to Wayne county,
iput red bandanas around their hats,
forgetting, however, to put on over
IaIls, and tried to steal the Republican
lcounty nominees. And the reason they
wanted the Republican nominees was
that if they joined the Progressive
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