Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-10

there was a bowed and broken figure of whom many said in sadness, "Thal is not Presidential timber now
 Before February 2, 1912, Colone Roosevelt, with many others, was oi the belief that Senator LaFollette was the natural leader of this country After February 2, 1912, Colonel Roose welt and everybody else knew that un der such leadership that cause could not win. But the cause was there the need of it to win was as great as ever. Do you perchance know of any other man, who, better than Colonel Roosevelt himself, could have stepped from the side lines and gotten into the game at this crisis?
 When Senator LaFol.ette, at the Taft convention in Chicago showed what many frankly called personal vindictiveness against Roosevelt; what many frankly called dog-in-the. manager attitude, he really hurt no one so much as himself, although he did not help, but wounded, the Pro gressive cause in which he had labor ed so long. He did what he could to give another man his proving. He gave another man full opportunity whether to hide behind the door, or whether to come out in the street and meet his gSuble. Roosevelt came out into the street.
 When Governor Hadley discovered that it takes more than silvery voice and a set of clean-cut, classic features to make a great man; when Borah of Idaho, concluded that re forms ought to be made inside and not outside of the old party; when Cum mins of Iowa, did not come through; and when Deneen of Illinois, agonized at finding fence both sides of whicf ne could not occupy-chose the wors' side-when all these weak-kneed folks did these weak-kneed things after tn, outrage of the Taft convention-tho people of this country concluded tha' that might be politics, but that it wa not government. So they started { new marty. The standpat folk Of bot the old parties cannot understand 1t They cannot understand that a part, can be governed by principles anc not by policy alone. But the worh moves on just the same.
 Republic An Experiment
 AS against the leader of this new party at the current date it is urged that he seeks to be a dictator. The assertion is not true. If it were true would the dictatorship of an hones' and courageous man be worse thar the dictatorship of cunning and av aricious oligarchy? The former might do something for you and me, the lat ter would do nothing. If this werf Rooseveltland and not America, would as lieve live in it as though I were Kuhn-Loeb-land or Rockefeller land. or Harrimanland, or Morganlanf Choose as you like for your own seff Great Britain still considers the American republic an experiment. l that republic is to be governed a1te' the fashion of the Taft convention Great Britain is right. If we are to DC ruled from Wall Street and not iron Washington, Great Britain is right The underlying principle Of this re nublic is the idea of the old town
 meetings in which the majority ruled
 If the majority is not to rule in Amer ica. then Great Britain is right, ane this republic is an experiment, and Il has failed. If we are to be governed by such rulers as the men who domln ated the Taft convention at Chlcag' then Great Britain is right, and thls republic has failed.
 ] But, because there are many men II