Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1912-03-15

in the state politics of North Dakota
but do know that any effort to befog
the issue by mixing the state situation
with the national struggle is blow
at progressive principles and progress.
sive organization within the national
republican party.
"The single object of our orgariza-
tion is to promote these principles
within the party by the nomination aui
election of Theodore Roosevelt as the
next president of the United States.
We are doing this because we know
from information gathered f:"m all
quarters of the country that he is the
only progressive that can be nominal
ed and absolutely the only republican
that can be elected by the people in
November. He flatly refused to enter
the field until it became obvious that
no other progressive could command
sufficient strength in the middle west
and the east to have even fighting
chance for the nomination. I know
this of my own personal knowledge.
"Today the progressive forces in
every state from. Illinois to the Allan
tic seaboard have combined in their
effort to nominate Roosevelt and all
have now come to feel that there is
no hope for any other progressive can
didate. Theodore Roosevelt is in this
fight for principles. He has been driv-
en- into the arena because of the failure
of his successor 20 carry out with any
vigor those measures to which Mr..
Roosevelt himself was committed and
for which he struggled so earnestly.
"To permit fractional splits within
the party to draw support from the
only man that can carry the country
is to play into the hands of the reac-
tionaries in national politics, such as
Lorimer and Mckinley in Illinois, the
latter being Joe Cannon's right-hand
man in Illinois. Penrose in Pennsvlvan-
ia. Barnes in New York and so on
through the list of the Taft campaign
managers.
cit should be the earnest purpose of
every republican in this state who
stands for progressive principles to TO-
Gus all his strength and enthusiasm
in carrying this state for Roosevelt.
Already the undertow is setting strong
ly in favor Of the nomination Of your
fellow-citizen and deputy sheriff. The
much Wanted solid south which the
Taft managers have been claiming, is
rapidly dissolving.
'Oklahoma has already shown that
there is no fetish for Taft in the south.
The Texas state central committee by
vote of Z to / while the latest re-
ports are coming into US, indicate that
| we will carry portions of Tennessee,
Louisiana and North and South Caro-.
lima. The west will be almost solid for
Roosevelt while in the great states OF
| New York and Pennsylvania the de-
mand of the people is SO undermining
the machinery of the politician for the
roping and tying of the delegates tc
the national convention for the man il
the saddle that we have the most en-
| couraging assurances that we shall spill
both Pennsylvania and New York
while more than two-thirds of Ohio
will be for Roosevelt. The same prom
Uses to be true of Indiana and Illinois
You Of North Dakota are the first one:
to show your hands in statewide
presidential preference primary You
-..r. send a sol;7 Roosev 1t ds!ega
ton to Chicago. The moral effect O
such action by you will be far create
than you can imagine. The whole
country is watching you today. I shall
open Roosevelt headquarters at the
Waldorf hotel (Fargo) and would urg
any republican that believes in progress
sive principles to come in and tall
matters over with me. This is fgh
of the people. 1t is the bitterest strug
I gle that we have had in many years
The Taft forces are using every avail
able means to confuse the issue and de
stroy the hopes of the progressive can
!. didate in the republican party. In thi
fight President Roosevelt will be tn
last man to quit