Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-02
Robert N. IAeWooe.


Robert N. MsNs1e.
Bismarck Tribune Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-Whether
or not the Rooseveltian movement,
which Just now is somewhat ambi-
tiously styled the Bull Moose party,
will peter out after the Chicago show
does not seem to be Of any concern
whatever to the progressive members
of the United States senate, like La
Toilette and Cummins, or they have
emphatically declared that they will
not and do not favor any third party
movement, and the Republican party
Is plenty good enough for them, as
well as for those who, they say, are
thoroughly sincere in their intention
to promote a progress in national az
fairs that will be neither anarchistic
nor socialistic in its tendencies. That
course will not commend itself to Mr..
Roosevelt, for 1t will not open the
way for his ambition, and will, In all
likelihood forever debar him from
again reaching the White House and,
as in the old days. running the Gov.
eminent and the nation to suit his
own sweet will. despite Constitution
al and other wholesome limitations.
LaFollette's counsel to fellow pro-
gressives to abide by party regular.
ity". is having an a%ppreciable effect,
for they, like the Wisconsin man, rea-
lie that Mr.. Roosevelt has nothing in
common with them in the exceedingly
important national issue OF the tarih
schedules. His evident desire to side.
step It, they agree, is in accord with
his record whilst in the Presidential
chair, when he had every opportunity
Of revising the tariff downward or up
ward, with the aid of Congress at any
and all times. It is recalled that,
whenever the tariff came up In a
manner that showed the possibility
Of direct results, he invariably evaded
the issue, and directed attention to
some other subject. In addition, 1t is
fairly we'll known that he does not
believe the tariff question is the lead
ing issue anyhow, and, although he is
squarely aligned with Trust represen-
tatives, and his anti Chicago conven-
ton campaign was partly financed by
Trust money through his intimate
friends. Mr.. Perkins and Mr.. McCor-
mick, that he insists that "the Trust
Question is the n and really only
great issue before the American peo-
pie today"
Another thing it is quite patent to
all who know anything about the plans
of the Taft and Wilson cnieftains that
they are fully we'll aware of the fact
that the tariff is the question upon
which they must campaign. the form
er basing their claims for the peoples
support on what they call a sane and
conservative downward revision and
the latter on a wholesale attack on all
tariff schedules, cotton, sugar, wOOi,
| etc. Outside of Senator's Dixon, Clapp
and Bourne the ~erstw'lile Roosevelt
following has dwindled with only
Poindexter on the third party fence,
until that triumvirate largely repre-
sents the remnant Of the solons who
so vigorously kicked over the party's
traces but a few short weeks ago.
That condition was shown in the vote
on the sugar schedule, when the reg
ulars and the progressives got under
the shelter of the same blanket. AS
one of the latter remarked immediate
ly after the announcement of the vote,
"The disposition of the progressive re.
publican senators to join hands with
the regulars and vote solidly for tle
party programme for revising the tar.
if affords real satisfaction to regu.
lars and progressives alike"
That disposition" will ultimately
bring both progressives and regulars
under the Taft banner, and, finally
leave the battle royal for the presi-
dency between Woodrow Wilson and
William Howard Taft, although the
call Of the Bull Moose will be sounded
in every state and territory in the
Union, with the potential help of the
Trusts and the Bosses. who, under
the hypocritical cries of "Thou Shalt
not steal" will do their level best to
divert the peoples attention from
their more than questionable methods.
Apropos of the fierce onslaughts
That are being made upon Woodrow
Wilson by congressman and others,
and the so-called deadly parallels that
are being so forcefully presented of
his writings and speeches, in contrast
with the %up-to-date remarks which, as
a candidate, he Is now charged with
using, it is suggested by not a few
of the Princeton professors adaerents
that Teddy has also written some
books, and has too, made many
speeches. which, If properly d~issect-
ed will show him up in a most unen
viable. light" That suggestion is a
straw and a significant n showing
that the Wilsonites intend carrying
the war to Rome and that, just as
soon as Mr.. Roosevelt begins his
threatened attacks on the New Jersey
man, they will throw the limelight on
his literary efforts, on his stupendous
egotism, on the San Juan Hill episode,
and other equally vulnerable points
in his boisterous and picturesque ca
reer. 1t is predicted by those who
know Mr.. Roosevelt and his methods
that this course will place him on
the defensive, a situation which he
dislikes very much, and where he has
always been at a disadvantage. II q
collection is to be made Of all of the
Princeton professors views on an
topics, of course, it will be the square
thing to give the country an equal Ol