Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-10-13

tions looked around for candidate
with whom to beat Mr.. Taft, and iney
settled on you and furnished al the
money deemed necessary to carry the
primaries. These interests had a
double motive for their political a.ii-
vity even aside from their deslre to
swallow up the government as q
means of defense. Not only did the
wish to get even with President taft
but they wanted to pay you debt OF
gratitude for allowing them, In viola
tipn of law, to absorb their only rival
the Tennessee Coal and Iron company
transaction through which untold
millions were pocketed by the very
men who financed your preconven;:on
as well as your present campaign. We
have, then, this most anomalous sitlIh-
ton. President Taft is fighting tho
battles Of the people, and you. be-
lieve that by November the people,
seeing through your sham crusade
viii have fully made up their minds
as to who is the real progressive cam
didate and who the highwayman.
2. | challenge your sincerity In the
championship of progressive measures
and assert it to be an insane ambition
and not an honest desire for progress
and reform, which prompted your
candidacy. Why did not you propose
all these new plans while You we'o
still president and 1dd the power 10
carry them out? Instell GU snecrcd
at Senator LaFollette ,nl his f. low
ers. Your voluminous 'confessi IN of
faith by which you tell ihe people in
200 words what you ni:,e | - do
while president, will onYin he them.
not OF the sincerity of 'ol" inversion,
but of your growing amo'tiol for sel'-
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and power.
3. l charge you with violation Of
solemn promise given ito the Amer-
can people when you declared that un
der no circumstances would you ac--
cept another nomination. Your subse
quent explanation that you mad in
mind only a consecutive term" is
subterfuge and an afterthought. and
every sane American citizen is con
vinced Of that fact.
4. | am opposed to your candidacy
because 1t is for n third term. There
may be a growing disregard in some
quarters for time -honored American
traditions, but | know of one element
of the population, which, because Of
their inherent love of freedom, will
always reverently bow to them. re-
fer to the American Germans. They
rallied around the banners of Wash
ington TO fight for American inde-
pendence, responded enthusiastically
to the call Of Abraham Lincoln to
save the Union and free the slaves,
helped to save the credit and honor
of the country by supporting, almost
irrespective of party, the cause Of
sound money and in the present emer
gency, they will again be actuated by
their love Of liberty and not consent tp
this free government being delivered
to the hands of a dictator, for to their
minds this is what a third. fourth or
fifth term in the presidency would
mean. / am not prophet, but my
knowledge of the American people
warrants this predictions What Wash
ington would not have, Grant could
not have, Roosevelt should not and
will not have.
Attitude ON the Recall.
5. ! charge you with a deliberate
effort to overthrow the constitution
and the courts for this and nothing
else is what the proposed recall Of
judges and judicial decisions means
II the constitutional guarantees which
vouchsafe our lnalienabe rights and
their enjoyment by minority are tp
be overthrown by the passing whims
of n majority, why have Il constitution
at ali and why courts The will OF
the majority decreeing one thing to.
day and another tomorrow, will be Tho
new Gessler hat-to borrow n smile
from the Tell story-hung up on
high post TO which the American peo
pie would have to bend their knees
as the sole emblem Of authority i'm the
land. | fancy the American people ara
not quite ready to be ruled either bv
an individual despot or by the despot-
ism OF a majority and will prefer the
timely and necessary judicial reform
opposed by President Taft to the re-
Nolution proposed by you. And this