The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-17
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THE ROOSEVELT PROGRAMME.

He simply wants to win office, caring
nothing about principles, about hon
esty, or about what is just. The dis
patches yesterday morning quote HIN
as in favor of n clean-cut organiza
tion Of the third party-with reserva
tions, however. If he would declare
souarely and emphatically for third
party organization in all the States
that would be honest, and the move
would clearly be within his rights, and
within the rights of those who take
part in it.
But he declares for this honest
course only where he cannot help him
self; that is, in such States only where
he cannot capture and use for his own
purposes the Republican organization,
He announces fatty, 81 shall not
acquiesce,' meaning that he will not
agree to any halfway measures with
the regular Republican forces; for il
nc cannot run the party, he will
have party of his own. But in
States in which his followers have con-
troll of the Republican organization, he
is ready to carry on his campaign
through that medium but "No com"
promise!' is his cry,
That is, he is sailing a piratical
political craft, and will have nothing
to do with any other craft that he can
not capture and subdue.
1t is clearly the most dishonest pro-
eramme ever set on foot in any cam
paign in this country,
The Colonel's position throughout is
very ftly described in. the following
scathing summing up Of his case in an
editorial Of the New York Evening
Post, as follows:
The Colonel is a terrible user-up OF
language He takes a common word and
hammers upon IL until t is battered out
OF shape and comes to mean exactly the
reverse OF what IL did originally, THE
square DEAL" for example. has become.
under his handling. synonymous with all
chat Is unfair and tortuous. When he
first began to fling about the eplthet
liar" II startled people; soon 1t be-
came Joke; and finally II got to be
the disagreeable truth. The latest phrase
which the Colonel has set about per-
vertlng Is ''honest man." He declares
that every Republican elector who is an
even If he is on the ticket as a Taft
elector. and seeks to be chosen by the
regular members OF the party. 1t is easy
TO see that this makes out the honest
honesty imaginable. Really. the Colonel
ought to lenve us a few words that re-
tain their dictionary and common sense
meaning. II he keeps on, he will make
our language an instrument, not Of con-
cealing, but OF reversing thought, and
will speedily acquire the rank OF the Jo-
seph Surface OF American politics.
Governor Deneen of Illinois an
nounces that he will support President
Taft and will oppose the formation OF
a new party; this In the face Of threats
from Colonel Roosevelt, and despite
the following notice given by the
Roosevelt headquarters in Illinois from
Mr.. Medill Mccormick, who stands
for the Roosevelt campaign, first, last
and all the time:
In Illinois there will be a candidate for
Governor who repudiates the nomination
of Mr.. Taft as fraudulent and invalid. |
and who will support Mr.. Roosevelt and
the Progressive principles for which he
stands
This is a fair sample Of the BULLDOG
ayers.
Colonel Joseph r, Baldwin of Mary !
land has been known as strong |
Roosevelt supporter throughout the
He was put on the ticket |
by Republicans of Maryland as an
elector prior to the Chicago conven-
ton, and it was assumed that he |
would, if chosen elector, betray the Re-
publican nominee and insist on .vot-
ing for Roosevelt.
But Colonel Baldwin is not in that |
line; he gives out public statement
that
can ticket would vote for Roosevelt, II |
makes no difference how much he ad-
mires Roosevelt. There are certain |
morals and I for one wish 10 state my
position. The electors are not under
OF any written law to cast |
their vote. but they are under compul- |
sion of moral law.
lie therefore will vote for President |
Taft, if he is chosen an elector by |
the voters of Maryland. OF course the
Roosevelt managers consider this po
and foolish They believe that the
strong, right thing for manly men to
10 is 10 betray their trust, and if Re
publicans put confidence in their good
faith and choose them for electors,
hey should at once show that they
we're not fit to be trusted, that they
we're the sort of men in whom no CON
idence could be placed
One prominent feature Of the Roose
;elt campaign has been the claim OF
,he Colonel that he could break the
'oid South; that the progressive party
which he stands for (witbout
specifying what the principles of that
party are) are Just as important for
he South as for the North; aud that,
Is there is no color line in them,
here is no reason why all Southern
nen, Democrats and Republicans,
alike, should not rally TO his standard
But of course the main thing is not
ne poIitical principle nj all hut the |