Omaha daily bee., 1912-10-22
THIRD TERM CAUSE WANING
American Voters Are Abandoning
the New Party.
PROGRESSIVE IS MIsNoMER
Number of Pertinent Questions Are
Asked in Regard to Relation of
Name to Principles and
Practices.
By CHARLES ID, HILLEs.
Chairman Republican National Com
T1iffee

| 1HlIu teIHl duNOCdteS say tHeS CdnHo
understand what has happened to thei
cause, why 1t has dwindled SO in popula
support in the last month, why it ha
been abandoned virtually by the grea
army of American voters.
An opponent. who has had a keen in
terest in the progress Of the campaign
might point out reasons which in hi
opinion tell why the American public ha
deserted the third term party.
The progressive party so-called, in tn
first place, was a name based on falls
pretense. Men have usurped that wore
progressive" as a watchword to whicl
they were not entitled.
Is 1t progressive to profess to chang
the organic law of the nation by de
stroying a part Of it?
Is 1t progressive to take from thu
courts the finality of judgment whicl
has stood as bulwark of our liberties
Is 1t progressive to seek to turn ovel
to an irresponsible democracy represent
ing only minority of the American
people on the great issues Of the day
control of the federal government fol
the next four years?
Is it progressive to question the au-
thority and decisions of the United
States supreme court?
Many More Questions.
Is 1t progressive to refuse to abide by
the decision of a republican national
convention, If you are a candidate before
that convention?
Is it progressive to assert that asso-
ciation with yourself turns corrupt po-
litical boss or a trust millionaire into
party leader" while association with
your adversary stamps everyone as dis.
honest?'
Is 1t progressive to become a candi-
date for q third term after your sworn
assertion that you never would?
Is it progressive to preach the square
deal" but to ignore it in practice?
Is 1t progressive for a man who has
been highly honored by the republican
party to become the tail Of the democ-
racy's kite?
If those virtues constitute a progressive
is it any wonder the American voters
have resolved to reject those who repre-
sent them?
The fact remains and the voters have
come to realize that fact, that the repub-
lican party Is the real progressive party
of the United States and has been since
its foundation.
Parallel to Greeley Movement.
A prominent republican recalled the
other day the Greeley movement and
now its campaign speakers predicted the
ruin of the republican party, that its
days of usefulness had passed, and as.
serted the only way out for republicans
was to join the Greeley party. But
Greeley did not secure the electoral votes
of a single state in the union.
United States Senator Hepburn of Idaho
tcld of hearing his father and Governor
Curtin Of New Jersey argue the Greeley
candidacy and of his father saying:
"Governor, 1t is easier to get out of the
republican party than it is to kill it or to
get back into it,
Governor Curtin got out and never
got back, afterwards going to congress
as a democratic member. There is a
wide gulf between the republican party
and thee democratic party and its allies,
and if a man goes floating along on an
anu-republican wave, he Is likely to get
too far from shore to swim back. Re-
publicans in this campaign have decided
to stay ashore.
The republican party and President
Taft its candidate, are true progressives
Is not a party progressive that has ad-
ministered the affairs of this government
for fifty years with only brief inter-
regnun, with the results which confront
US?
Would you dare say that the republican
party has not been progressive when it
has saved the nation from destruction,
reorganized 1t. organized the great finan-
cial system of the nation, inaugurated
a. settlement policy which has peopled a
vast territory, and brought about the
prosperity of the individual and of the
state?
Merely because someone claims some
thing which belongs to you, should you
concede the claim or combat the conten-
ton?
One element has arrogated to itself the
right to be called progressive" has de-
nounced the republican party as being
retrogressive, but this new organization
has no record to submit
Party of Principle.
The republican party, on the other
hand, is a party Of principles, not only
of men. Men come and 60 but our gov
ernment has stood on principles since the
beginning. ...
John Hay, a republican of the highest
type, in his address at the fiftieth ami
versary of the birth of the republican
party, said:
"For fifty years the republican party
has believed in the country and labored
for 1t in hope and joy; it has reverenced
the flag and followed it; has carried it
under strange skies and planted 1t on far
receding horizons. 1t has seen the nation
grow greater every year and more re-
spected; by just dealing, by inteiii-
gent labor, by a genius for enterprise;
it has seen the country extend its inter-
course and its influence to regions un-
known to our fathers. Yet 1t has never
abated one jot or 1.-THE Of the ancient
law imposed on us by our God-fearing
ancestors. We have fought good fight
but also we have kept the faith. The
constitution Of our fathers .has been the
light to our feet; our path is. and will
ever remain, that of ordered progress, Of
liberty under the law"
President Taft will be reelected If re-
publicans are loyal to their partys prin-
ciples.
Aliens Trial Postponed. o.