Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-29
PEOPLE To RULE,
SAYS ROOSEVELT

ST. LOUIS, March 29.-Colonel
Roosevelt put in yesterday keeping
politicians wondering If he will bolt
the Chicago convention and set up a
third ticket If somebody else is nomi-
mated. This impression grew out of
the colonel's declaration n Chicago
Wednesday, that the results OF such a
primary as thai in New York are In no
way representative of the Republican
party and have no binding force upon
1t.
AT the Planters Hotel, which hap
pens also to be the Taft headquarters
for Missouri, the former President said
regarding the fright he had thrown in
to the Taft camp:
ST made no allusion to the Chicago
convention in my speech. The allusion
had 10 do with what had been done
in the New York, Indiana and Colo
RADIO primaries. What I said was that
those primaries could in no way be-
binding upon the Republican party"
THAT has been taken by the Taft
managers as meaning that you will
bolt the ticket If the contested dele
gates are seated" was suggested.
II have nothing to say to that" was
the reply.
Asked II he would support the candi-
date of the party no matter what the
outcome of the convention, the colonel
replied:
81 stand on what I said at Boston
and at Chicago"
At Boston, the night after he had
tossed his hat into the ring" the eX-
President said he would support the
Chicago conventions nominee.
Last night at the armory the ex-
President talked to a large throng on
the right Of the people to rule, closely
pursuing the lines of his Carnegie
Hall speech. He said in part:
When I say that / believe not only in
the. right of the people to rule, but in
their duty to rule themselves and to re-
fuse to submit to being ruled by others.
] am not using a figure of speech, l am
speaking of a vital issue which funda-
mentally affects our whole American life.
I not merely admit but insist that in all
government and especially In popular
government there must be control; and
furthermore that If control does not come
from within It must come from without,
Therefore it is essential that any people
which engages in the difficult experiment
of self-goyernment should be able to prac-
tise self-control and l contend that the
American people most einphatically are
capable of ii. l hold that our people can
and will govern themselves q great deal
better than any small set of men can
govern them. The attempt has recently
been made to improve on Abraham Lin
coins statement that this is a govern
ment Of the people; for the people, by
is proposed that this government shall.
hereafter be a government of the whole
people by a part of the people, which
simply means a government of the people
sby the bosses.
Whenever there is tyranny by the ma
jority | shall certainly eight it. But the
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fering in this country have, ninety-nine
times out of a hundred, been t~yranntes
by a minority, that is, tyranny by privilege.
Sometimes, as in the case of some public
utility franchise or other bit of grabbing
by a few what belongs to the many, the
tyranny is primarily commercial; at other
times, it Is primarily political.
In a government like ours. our repre-
sentatives do not rule us in the sense
that a monarch or an aristocracy, bears
rule over the people. We the people rule
ourselves, and what WI really wan from
our representatives is that they shall
manage the government for US along the
lines we lay down. and shall do this with
efficiency and In good faith. To illustrate
that, l mean, take the Panama Canal
under Colonel Cocktails. We have been
delighted to give him a free hand and let
him manage the whole affair. But we
first of ali decided that we wanted a
canal. and that we wanted 1t in Pan
type, and then set Colonel Goethals to
work to realize those various wishes of
ours. Well, what is true of Colonel
| Goethals is true of all other public Of
ficials. from a justice of the peace and
an alderman up to the President and the
chief justice of the United States. There
is not one of them who is ruling us. We
are ruling ourselves.
We are engaged at the present day in
O great struggle for social and indus
trial justice in this country. and our chief
opponents in this struggle are the pow
ers of pillage, the powers that profit by
privilege at the expense of the rights of
the plain people as a whole. I advocate
genuine popular rule in nation, in State,
in city, in county, as offering the best
possible means for eliminating special
privilege alike In politics and in business.
and for getting q genuine equality of OPP
portunity for every man to show the stuff
there is in him..
l hold that we Of this nation are false
to our professions. false to the traditions
handed down to us by the founders and
preseryers of the republic, If we do not
make it In very truth a real republic, a
democracy In fact as well as in name, a
democracy where each man stands on his
work as a man and is judged as such; a
democracy in which the people really rule
themselves, where their representatives. do
not rule them but honestly and efficiently
manage the government for them.