The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-07
Roosevelt Disguised That Lorimer
Followers Should Use the Name
of the Great Emancl-
pator.
SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD
The Colonel Warns Illinois Voters to
Beware of the Bread and
Butter Politicians
Control.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
SPRINGFIELD, H.. April 6.-rn
the home city of the emancipation
president, Theodore Roosevelt tonight
bitterly denounced as outrage on the
memory of Abraham Lincoln, the use
of his name by Senator William
Lorimer in connection with his poll
tical organization-the Lincoln league.
: Roosevelt declared that the issues
which confront the people today are
the same that Lincoln battled to sur
mount and that the fundamental
plank of Lincoln's platform, the right
of the people to rule themselves ant
not be ruled by mere part of the
people, is precisely the issue of to-
day.
1T is of vital Importance that the
rule of the people should be exercised
for social and industrial justice on
a spirit of broad charity and kindli-
ness to ALL he said. "but with stern
insistence that privilege should be
eliminated from our Industrial life and
should be shorn of its power in our
political life. The defenders of privi-
lege have no real right to represent
the republican party, still less to
dominate 1t. Especially, men and wo-
men of Illinois, it is an infanly and
an outrage that Lincoln, who stood for
honesty in politics as we'll as in
every other phase of our nationai
life, should have his name desecrated
I.orimer and his associates. They
stand for all those influences against
which Lincoln's whole life was pro-
test.
ever, who at this crisis, while claiming
to represent us or belong to the re-
publican party, are fundamentally
hostile to every worthy tradition in
that party. A number of very rich
men, including both the heads of big
corporations and big corporation law
yers who have been associated with
them have shown that they are not
loyal to the cause of human rights,
human justice and human liberty
/ The rich man who trusts in his riches.
4 the rich man who feels that his
wealth entities him to more than his
share of political, social and indus.
! trial power. is naturally against us
/ So likewise, the men of little faith,
| the men who in the bottom of their
hna Aichaliaun uh nj ny.{r.
ciple of democratic governmental
| statutes are also against us. But this
| is no new thing 1t is exactly what
! happened 54 years ago when out OF
/ the plain people, Lincoln and those
/ like him, fashioned the republican
party In November Lincoln wrote:
Out of Sangamon as well as in it,
! much of the plain old democracy is
with u.s. while nearly all of the old
exclusive silk stocking whiggery is
against us.
The individuals who believe in
/ privilege and those who distrusted
j the people We're against Lincoln then;
and they are against us now.
\ II is dluOulIScU IDdi WI JOStDE
Choate is to head an association Of
J lawyers to protest against our pro
/ posals for seeing the rule of the
1 people made genuine. Mr.. Choatt
! evidently does not remember tha,
Lincoln fought his fight on the same
Issue. He insisted that when the
court as in the Dred Scott decision
4 misrepresented the people and stood
against the rights of the people and il
the interest of special privilege ant
tyranny, then 1t became the duty o
all friends of true freedom to tenn
perately and resolutely continue tn,
fight for human rights without regart
to who the opponents might be
whether those opponents We're presi
dent or chief Justice or senator =
and Lincoln coupled the names 0
two presidents, chief justice AM
a senator as being specifically th
opponents of the people and justice
and the friends of privilege and NJ
unsparingly attacked and criticise,
the chief Justice.
: Mr.. Choate says he is defending
the constitution So Presidents Bucf
anan and Pierce and Chief Justic
) Tawney said when they We're defent
ing the constitution against I1incolr
and James Russell Lowell spoke O
them as pettifogging the constitution