Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-27
Colonel Roosevelt Has Pungsnt
Editorial in Forthcoming Is
sue of Outlook Magazine Dis
cusSlng Fight.
LEADERS LEAD;
BOSSES DRIVE
Rough Rider Charges President
Taft Secured Delegates When
Free Expression is Not Pos
SibIe.
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New York. May sG.-"This CAM
paign has been fight by the rank
and file against the bosses. 1t is we
progressives who are the real republi-
cans, because it Is we who are stand
ing along with the rank and file. The
popular primaries have shown that
the republican voters dc not want any
one else to govern them; they want to
govern themselves" is the opening
paragraph by Theodore Roosevelt,
which appears in the current issue Of
the Outlook.
THE party is not made up of the
bosses or the party workers alone; II
Is made up of all the voters" the edi-
torial continues. Every party has TO
have it's leaders. The true party lead
er Is the man who tries to lead and
not drive the voters and to put into
effect their deliberate Judgment. He
has the right and the duty to go be-
fore the voters and try to persuade
them, but he has no right, by trick
cry or violence, to try and impose his
own will upon them against theirs.
The man who tries to impose his Will
upon the voters, who tries to dc
things against the will Of the voters, Is
not a leader--he Is boss.
"In this campaign we have shown
that wherever the people have had
a chance to express themselves, they
y. l.s.a
including Ohio. have allowed the vot-
ers of the party to express their
wishes. out of S24 delegates elected
at these primaries, the most that Mr..
Taft could secure with the help of
party organization and patronage, and
with the bosses ON his side, amounts
only to forty-eight.
"The only states where Mr.. Taft has
secured his real victories are the
states where the party Is in the con-
troll, not of the people. but of the
bosses. That shows clearly on which
side in this issue Mr.. Taft stands.
That shows that this is a straight is
sue between the bosses on the one
side and the people on the other.
"When In the face of that fact,
Mr.. Taft says in spite of this vote that
he expects the Chicago convention to
be under the control of the friends
of constitutional government 1t Is
clearly evident what he means by such
friends All that this means is that
the convention which will make the
nomination will have to
defy the will of the voters. 1t Will
have to override the peoples will.
'.Those who want special privilege,
well knew who their friends are. They
are glad to make alliances with the
bosses. This Is what they mean when
they talk about being friends OF con-
stitutional government The way TO
break the power OF special privilege
is to break the power of the boss on
whom 1t depends.
ut has been said by my opponents
that what l am standing for Is 'trea-
son to the party When they refer to
the party they mean the bosses and
the understrappers who have so often
the party machinery.
decline to recognize the bosses as en-
bodying in their own persons the par
ty. / recognize the rank and fle as
making UP the party and II Is to them
that my loyalty Is due.
when I say. therefore. that no re-
publican Is called upon to surrender
to- the irresponsible action of party
bosses. l am showing my loyalty to
the people. No loyalty is due to the
bosses who defy or disregard the will
Of the people. The only loyalty l ac-
is loyalty to the rank and
file, loyalty to the people"