The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-20

that follows Roosevelt, or that is saw
ed" by compromise will be a new
party, or it will be two parties, one
relic and the other a foundation.
All this is clearly apparent to any
person who has watched the two ses-
sions of the convention thus far held,
who watched the preliminaries, both
In the states and before the national
committee. This uprising that has
wrecked the Republican party isn't
due to Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t began before
Mr.. Roosevelt took advantage of it.
1t will grow with or without his ex-
pert assistance. There is more to it
than there is to Rooseveltism, who
merely types it now, and there is
more to it than there is to anti-Taft-
ism. 1t is a basic, a fundamental con-
dition.
Old Patry Ties Outgrown.
The country has outgrown the old
system. 1t has outgrown the old party
ties. 1t is intolerant of organization
demands. 1t has cast the old style poll
tician aside. The people are working
1
at hand, and some of those instru-
ments are crude, but they will find
the men when they get the condition
established. The old time politician is
out of it. This convention shows that,
for even if the old time politicians
succeed in nominating Mr.. Taft they
have done nothing but nominate him.
The people have the say as to his
selection. And the same will hold true
of Mr.. Roosevelt. There will be poll
ticians, of course, but they will be
new politicians, not old style ones.
Here is a convention, now being
held in Chicago, that is epicene, not
one thing or the other. 1t marks the
last stand of the old crowd and sets
out the skirmish line of the new align
ment that must come. Certainly it
points out the fact that must be recog
niged, the fact that the politics of his
conservative party.
Inevitably, also, the convention at
Baltimore will prove the same con-
tention. There are now four parties
a conservative Republican and a radi-
cal Republican, and conservative
Democratic and radical Democratic.
Four parties cannot exist, for no one
and ours is a government by MAORI
ties.
Every Move Suggests Change.
Every word of debate, every bit of
strategy, every piece of manipulation,
every struggle for votes, every deal
with delegates, every speech, every
motion, every vote in this convention,
both on Tuesday and on Wednesday,
proved this Contention. Nominally all
were either Taft or Roosevelt demon
STATIONS. Really they showed the
struggle between the conservatives
and the radicals in the Republican
Party. Absolutely they pointed to the
disintegration of the Republican party
as it has existed in the past.
1t makes no difference whether they
succeed in nominating Mr.. Taft in this
convention or whether Mr.. Roosevelt
is named by this convention or by a
boiling convention he organizes. If Mr..
Taft is named the Roosevelt partisans
will make their protest on election
day, and if Roosevelt is nominated the
Taft men will do the same thing, and
if both are named the issue will be
clean cut within the Republican party.
1t will be the same if a compromise
candidate is selected, for in the case
of compromise, and after the event
of the Baltimore Democratic nomina-
ton, there is no doubt that the people
cal and conservative lines and that
the more radical of the two men NAM
ed by the opposing parties will receive
the votes of large proportion of the
radicals in both parties and the con-
sentative will be supported similarly
by the conservatives.
Roosevelt and Taft Nonessentials.
If Roosevelt had not gone into the
fight at all, and the Republicans were
now naming Mr.. Taft, as it seemed a
few months ago they would do with
out much opposition, the result would
be the same, for the radicals in the
Republican party, in that event,
would surely support the Democratic
candidate in large numbers, if he were
radical. Failing such a candidate, there
probably would be a third party.
No compromise candidate can make
a cohesive party of the Republican
party. It is split wide apart. This con-
vention has proved that time and
again, and is proving it every minute
it is in session.