The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-12

In preconvention campaigns. They have
usually thought II neither necessary nor
appropriate TO consider platforms or can
didates before the national convention
had cot forth the one or named the other:
but circumstances have made the present
preconvention campaign OF such q char.
actcr that both the Philadelphia and New
York clubs have indicated in resolutions
on the part OF nearly all their members
that there is something AT stake In this
| campaign that should awaken the interest
and arouse the action OF all who believe
in the principles and form Of government
that are embodied in our present Consti-
| tuition and who cherish the institutions
| preserved and secured by that Constitution
as essential to the maintenance OF liberty
regulated BY law, and to real progress OF
popular government toward greater
equality OF opportunity and greater happi-
ness OF the individual.
The necessity that there was for arousing
our people to prevent the abuses OF cor
porate privilege and power and to Wrestling
from concentrated wealth the exercise
Of political control and the success that has
attended such agitation among the people
have been taken advantage OF by persons.
some Of them sincere. some OF them dema-
gogues, and all Of them with an insufficient
knowledge OF the necessity In the main
tenance Of liberty and progress Of our
Constitution and its guarantees. to pro-
pose changes rather for the sake OF change
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realized from these proposed changes. and
in some instances have perhaps unduly
| broadened constitutions restrictions to
declare them invalid l. il ropOsed to change
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pubic AZ large their sense ol the CRISIS
through winch our institutions are passing
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would our liberty and everything that
We hold dear in our homes and our life
against the innovations that are so recklessly
advocated by men who profess TO he acting
in the interest of reform and progress
! They fail to recognize or appreciate the
benefits of our present civilization and
do not seem to understand that the progress
already made in this great country OF ours
from its small beginnings has been due
10 the cohstitutiohal principles upon Whicf
ago anu mas oeeh haih'a'heu ever since,
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convention ana the thion League u,
toward the Roosevelt doctrines ne didn
, mention the Colonel by name Senate
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proposnioh you may oe sire that
something fundamental lie continued
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Although he did not use the wor'
Senator Roots hearers understood tha
he was referring to the recall when h
5 went on:
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aar,,o, ,h., rho ma iori,v ia entitled N 4
; Whatever il shoosss without regard I
justice 1t does not consider any gres
! principle Of government or right conduc,
and against that assertion the morality OF IN
, country must comoihe'
There was a great burst of applaus
when Senator Root referred to the kind c
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