Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-07-10
ROOSEVELT.

Let the name of Theodore Roosevelt
appear upon the presidential tickle t
this fall. The third term candidate
should be given chance to get be-
fore the voters of the nation and then
we shall know whether or not the call
for him comes from the mass of PEG.
pie as he claims. To be sure he must
come before the nation now as the
third term aspirant of third party,
but he must get before the people.
Senator La Toilette has written the
following editorial in the current
number Of the La FolIette's Weekly:
Until Roosevelt came into the open
as a candidate for the presidency five
months ago there was strong and
rapidly growing Progressive move
ment within the Republican party.
It was based upon clearly defined
principles. 1t stood forth as the repre-
sentative of modern political thought
on fundamental democracy. 1t had
assumed national proportions. It was
united. Into this movement, when ir
gave promise of national success,
Roosevelt projected his ambition to
be president third time. He spent
weeks carefully planning a "spontan-
eous call" for himself. He responded
by announcing that he would be
receptive" candidate. His candi.
dacy began to drag. He and his
friends were in dispair. Then came
his defeat in North Dakota. He be.
came desperate.
An enormous campaign fund was
raised. Headquarters were opened il
New York, Washington, Chicago, ant
states east and west. Newspaper
writer's were engaged at large prices
to boom his candidacy. Specia
trains were hired and the receptive
candidate" started in frantic pursui
of the nomination. In the history o.
American politics there has neve
been in a primary campaign for presi
Dental nomination an approach to tn
extravagant expenditures made in hi
campaign. Men VIGOROUSLY identifie
with the steel trust and the harvest
er trust became his most active SUP
porters. Leading reactioDaries, stanc
patters and political bosses of tn
Hanna and Quay sort became his clio:
est political friends and represents
tives IN many states.
a NuInDGC OIL CH6 newer TGCulLS
1he Republican progressive cause
men who before 1909. with three {
four exceptions, had either been il
different or opposed to the prgressiv
movement, became the noisiest sur
porters of Roosevelt, the "winner
1t matCered not to them that Roos
welt had cO-Operated with Aldrich {
legislation during the entire seve
years he was president. They forg,
that it was only when Roosevelt W
out Of Office and in Africa through IL
united efforts Of men who for yea
had been fighting special interes
that the progressive cause became
national movement. That Rooseve
was for Taft in 1910 when Taft VI
denouncing all progressives as e
rates" and TRAITORS, that he watt
until little more than year ago ba
ancing the chances before decidir
whether to cast in his lot with tt
progressives in this presidential yea
counted for nothing with the class
progressives who wanted to Twin
not real progressive victory-just
victory.
And they did win precisely tn;
kind of victory. They carried owe
welmingly the great stand.pa stat
of Illinois and Pennsylvania. TIL
stamped the Roosevelt candidacy wi
its true cha acter. No real progre
sive could have secured anything lii
such a vote in either of those tY