The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-19

The fight at Baltimore was not, as at
Chicago. to eliminate the bosses, and
incidentally, to nominate a certain
candidate; it was to persuade the
bosses themselves into nominating DR..
Wilson, thus securing perpetuation of
their own control in their several
states. Mr.. Sullivan Of Illinois. Mr..
them, brought about DR.. Wilson's
nomination; Mr.. Murphy acquiesced
at the end. DR.. Wilson'S victory
would mean their perpetuation in
power. My election would mean that
Mr.. Penrose, Mr.. Barnes and Mr..
Guggenheim would be definitely elm
mated from political control OF their
states"
Selfishness in Opposition.
In his second article. Col. Roosevelt
declares that in addition to the pro-
fessional politicians and in this who
oppose him, and to the respectable
support that comes from individuals
who are misinformed, he Is opposed
by body of respectable men who are
purely selfish in so doing. He says:
They are men who find life easy,
who live softly. and who, instead of
feeling that their own good fortune
makes 1t incumbent on them actively
to work for betterment in the life
conditions of others. are overcome by
% fear that any such effort to i'm
+, we the general welfare would jar
them inconveniences. These men
around in the New York and Boston
social and business or professional
clubs, in the boards Of trade and
chambers of commerce, in the bar as
sociations, in the residential districts
where people of name and leisure
dwell. They are free from physical
toll and are given to that dreadful
selfshness which is born Of fear that
the system which has brought about
these pleasant conditions may be
changed. These men are not hard
hearted; they are charitably inclined; !;
but their vision is narrow, their SYM
pathies are restricted. by their inabil-
ity to realize the feelings and needs Of
less fortunate men Of harder lives and
they become panic-stricken when re-
quired to face the question as to
whether our social system really does
justice to these other less fortunate
men.
"They develope a panic-born i'm
morality which makes them not mere
ly excuse. but eagerly commend, the
theft of a nominating convention, or
Oily Olu0I ldSCdHIy WHICH III Lu6lI OS-
timation perhaps to save society or
to preserve the constitution or to
'repel assaults on the COURTS for these
men under such conditions follow the
lead Of the great corporation lawyers
in treating the constitution and the
courts-quite without warrant-as in
struments designed to protect privilege
and vested wrong and to prevent the
people from really ruling themselves.
They have apparently been educated
to the point of feeling all this in ac-
centuated form about me, and about
the changes I champion. They don't
know that most of the things ! advo-
cate have been successfully tried out
in a few Of our own states. Wisconsin,
for instance. and even Massachusetts
and in foreign countries such as
Germany, Denmark. England, New
Zealand. Switzerland. am merely
trying to get this country to be wise
in time-which is nine-tenths Of wis
dom. wish to see our less fortunate
citizens avoid the dreadful excesses OF
syndicalisn and the like to which their
fellows abroad have been prone. This
can only be accomplished when oul
people as a whole will formulate and
reduce to practice certain great mora
principles which most Of, us are nov
dimly beginning to see shape them.
selves from the confused welter oi
our business and our politics"