The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-10

i We hear so much these Gays aDout
republicans, progressiyes, standpats,
insurgents and reactionaries, that /
wonder if all the people who are talk
/ ing and listening to the talks that are
being made on these subjects do real
4 ly consider just what the terms I'M
ply and their applications to the pres
ert political controversies. The
masses or common people Of this
] country are really wise, honest and
sincere and want that form of govern
ment honestly and seriously admins
tered which shall conduce to their
happiness and general welfare and If
any people ever were or should be
serious we should, and if our fathers
/ founded and formed a government
which was and is good and the best
ever made or formed and that this
government has proved the wisdom of
its founders. then before we should
seek to set 1t aside and take up
some other form we certainly should
consider we'll what we are going to
/ do. "Standpat" came into existence
when Mr.. Cummins and some others
without his party am not just sure
i which, to fight or destroy the republi-
can party because as they claimed IT
was not going right and not liking the
word boilers, insurgents or other
terms usually applied to such persons
| they took up the word progressive.
air. Cummins is great political
genius. fear more political than pa
1 triotic, and he and his friends have
carried their chosen phrase along I'M
It'll 1t has eliminated in the nomina-
4 ton of Colonel Roosevelt for presi-
Nlent and his new party, the national
| progressive. 1t is now wholly against
and outside the republican party
where it was born and reared until
it took on the horns and body of a
bull moose, an animal that is of no
particular use to any one and is about
extinct and as / do not doubt will
soon become so and the party with it.
!, There is now one who is paving the
earth and making great noise in
Montana where few of the real ami
mails still remain Well, what is pro-
/ gressive now with its sole command
/ er Roosevelt We look to its platform
/ taken from his speech in Chicago
and we find nothing practically diff
ferent on the tariff and other planks
of the old republican party except
woman suffrage" with the ,'referen
dun and recall and this is not
Il strange since Roosevelt's whole life
and education has been with this
Il party but to find some issue which be
can talk about, he adds the referen
!, dunn and recall and wants to Gel
back to the people with a peoples
government and not the bosses
. Great heavens, this boss OF all bosses
wanting the people to rule and he
left out Think of 1t, With his plat
form which in fact would vest in tins
. president the sole right to say wher
an individual, state legislature,
court or corporation is going wrong
that he. the president, shall put ths
one out and his own choice In, tina
is all any one can make out of tina
part of his platform and he does no
/, deny it but boasts OF il. Talk abou
the people ruling under such princi
pies. II Mr. Roosevelt wants to pro
gress back towards the people ruling
put the whole government back il
their hands and do it quick, there il
a very short road and that is TO wiD,
out the constitutions and laws OF gu
fathers in the states and nations
then we shall have a peoples govern
ment pure and simple with only enough
law to let Roosevelt be president. !
the people. of the people, by the pea
pie, Theodore Roosevelt A man 81
great in his own estimation ina
King Georges oyercoat wound no
/. make him vest pocket. II to be
progressive means 10 preserve our re
publican form of government and /,
faithfully administer it in all depart
ments and strengthen It vherever ez
perience and the changed condition.
seem to require then comes the ques
lions what has been left undone tina
was not done. Mr. Roosevelt follow
ed the great lamented Mckinley an,
. the greatest assurance he could Civ.
: to the people on resuming the offc,
of president was that he should fol
: low as closely as he could the policie
J being carried on and for the sever
years following no president ever hal
more unbridaled reign than he. HI
, put one of his own trained and tries
= men, Taft, in the office to follow
: him. Many Of the same senator
and representatives in the lowe
house remained through Taffs admin
istration and we may presume stroy
: to keep up the good government hi
predecessors had administered. w
/ all know that Mr.. Taft was ever faith
: fully and honestly trying to admins
ter the government and to have cor
= gress pass laws VIII ch the republica
e platform, practically of Roosevelt
adoption, called for. Then wher
v comes in the sudden necessity for
Z new party and immediate death Of tn