Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-08-06


er.
Colonel Roosevelt aroused great en-
thusiasm when he declared he was
advocating neither socialism nor an
archy, but on the contrary was advo
eating "a corrective to socialism and
an antidOte to anarchy.
In discussing the courts, Colonel
Roosevelt said that there might legiti
mately exist a difference Of opinion
as to the disability of an income tax
hut there should be absolutely nc
question as to the right to impose
such tax if the people desired it.
The ballot is as necessary for one
sex as another" declared Colonel
Roosevelt amid great enthusiasm, es
pecially among the suffragette dele
gates.
Colonel Roosevelt said the antitrust
law should be retained and efficient
lily enforced" instead of 'inetficiently
enforced" as at present.
Il know & good deal about tht
! canal" said Colonel Roosevelt in dis
cussing the Panama canal and in up
| holding the right of the United State:
to grant free tolls to coastwise ships
to fortify the canal, and to close the
waterway to ships of other nations il
time Of war.
IF you choose to make me youl
choice for president you know what
| think said Colonel Roosevelt at one
point in his address.
! We do want you; We do shouted
the delegates.
Colonel Roosevelt started to clost
without having said more than hal
his speech. telling the delegate!
copies of it would be distributed
among them.
GO on, go on" shouted men ant
women.
Il almost forgot the tariff he said
as he resumed, Il believe in a proteC
tive tariff" he added, amid applause.
Colonel Roosevelt said the peOpl
should put no reliance in the tarit
pledges of the republican nationa
convention. He added: Il do not re
gard as an authority homily on hon
esty by detected pickpocket."
Mr.. Roosevelts speecn strikes
keynote for his followers and support
ers in the new party. 1t lays dow
the plan of battle to be waged by tn
national progressive party. He dis
cusses those principles under twelv
subdivisions, namely The Helpless
ness Of the Old Parties; The Righ
of the People to Rule; The Courts AM
the People: Constructive Control 0
the Trusts; Rights of the Wage
Worker: The Farmer; The Tariff
The High Cost of Living: Currency
Conservation: Alaska and 1nterna
tiOnal Affairs. The two old parties,
he said, ARE husks, with no real sou
within either. divided on artificia
l:nesi boss-ridden and privilege-cor
trolled, each tumble of incongruou
elements, and neither daring to spea1
out wisely and fearlessly what shoul
be said on the vital issues of the day.
As opposed to this incongruity an
insncerity of action he asserted tina
the national progressive platform
will be a contract with the people,
with definite and concrete provision
10 be carried out if the people ratif
the contract on election day as exac
ly and honestly "as if it were actual
enforceable under the law"
NO HELP FROM THE OLD PART
MACHINES.
Neither the republican nor the den
ocratic platform or managers show an
adequate recognition of the might
: fact that We are now in the mids
Of great economic evolution Thi
irresistible movement for economi
change and improvement must b
+ guided by both common sense an
+ the highest ethical Standards in o
der to prevent reasonable evolutio
| from becoming dangerous revolution
!. The democratic party, as is indicate
by its present record in congres
= lacks the comncn sense, and the r
/ publican party, by its record of stole
d delegates at the Chicago convention
d lacks the ethical standards. "Tf
:, men who presided over the Chicae
l. and Baltimore conventions. and IL
great bosses who controlled the tN
i conventons-Mr. Root and Mr.. Par