Arizona republican., 1912-06-18

come to him without serious opposi- tiOn.
 The event has justified both my be- liefs I very earnestly ask our fel- low progressives who have supported other candidates to remember that one of the cardinal principles of the doctrines which we hold in common is our duty normally Loyalty and in good faith to abide by the well thought out and honestly expressed action of a majority. The over whelming majority of the repubh- can progressives have declared for me. It has become clear beyond shad- ow of doubt that if I had not made the progressive fight it would have completely broken down and there would have been no substantial Op- position to the forces of reaction and of political croOkedness.
 Let those progressives who stand for principle and who are concerned with the fortunes of any particular man only as means for securing the triumph of principle ponder these facts and refrain in this crisis from playing into the hands of our enemies.
 MT. Taft at first denied that he represented the bosses.
 His denial was of little consequence for his deeds beIied his words. But doubt if at present he would ven ture to repeat the denial. As it has become constantly more and more evident that the people are against him he has more and more undis guisedly thrown himself into the arms of the bosses. Here in Chicago at this moment he has never had one chance of success save what was giV- en him by the actions of MesSrs. Crane, Barnes, Brooker, Penrose, Mur phy. Guggenheim, Mulvane, Shoot, New and their associates in cheating the people out of their rights. He was beaten so overwhelmingly by the peO- pie themselves in the states where primaries were held that in the last state in which he spoke, in New Jersey, he permitted himself to be betrayed into the frank admission that he expected to be nominated because he believed the national committee would stand by him. One member of his own cabinet, representing a state that has just repudiated him. has been working hand in glove with the other Taft members of the national committed under the lead of MT. PenrOse Of Pennsylvania, MT Crane of Massachusetts, MT MulVane of Kansas, MT. Murphy of New Jersey and MT Scott of West Virginia all Ot whom have just been repudiated by their own states to steal from the people the victory which the peO- pie have won. Last February it was evident that MT Taft was the aC- cepted representative of the bosses of the men who uphold the combination of crooked politics and crooked busi- ness which has been the chief source not only of our political, but of our social and industrial corruption. It has now. alas, became evident that MT. Taft is willing to acquiesce in and to condOne and to accept the fruits of any course of action on which these men embark, even though such action represent treason as well as destruction to the republican party to which they nominally belong, and also treason to the cause of the Am erican people as a whole
 Among the national committeeman who have taken part in this con spiracy there are a number of men NllO III lIlt It4IllOIS OI lAIc are doubtless decent and reputable Probably these men excuse them selves for what they are now doing on the ground that they are not com hitting what the law recognizes as a crime. It may well be doubted whether on the whole our country does not suffer more from the mis- deeds of men who recognize as bind ing on their cOnsciences only the Ob ligations of law, honesty, than it suf fers from the misdeeds of actual criminals.
 Men like Messrs Crane of Massa chusetts, BroOker of Connecticut and Nagel of Missouri, who trail behind their bolder associates such as Messrs. PenrOse, Murphy and Mulvane are doubtless genuinely shocked at the misconduct of a defaulting bank cashier or at the action of some small election official who on election day falsfies the returns
 Yet the wrongs to the American people, the damage to the country by such action as these national com mitteemen have taken in deliberately seeking to nullify and overthrow the will of the people legitimately eX pressed as to their choice for pres ident is infinitely greater than the wrong done by the tempted cashier or the bribed election official. It has to me been both q sad and strange thing to see men hitherto es- teemed reputable take part in such action and to see it sustained by sim liar men outside. I suppose the eX- planatiOn must be found in the fact that in the slow but general moral advance certain men lag a little be- hind the rate of progress of the community as a whole; and where their own real or fancied interests are concerned. such men fail to rec ogniZe generally accepted standards of right and wrong until long after 1 they have been recognized by the majority of their fellows. There was | a period when piracy and Wrecking were esteemed honorable occupations and long after the community as a whole had grown to reprehend them 1 there still were backward persons who failed to regard them as inn proper. In the same way, as late as | 90 years ago. there were many men 1 in public life who while they would