New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28
ROOSEVELT FAILS
TO WIN CONGRESS
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has now won a measure or victory
which has attracted the admiration OF
all his insurgent clansmen.
Every week in his magazine Senator
La Toilette delivers a broadside against
the Third Term candidate, iointing out
well known truths, but doing it with
telling effect, because his words are
not discounted on the ground that he
Is a reactionary or a stand-patter. he
maintains that he was carrying the
banner and fighting the Lattles OF
Progressiveness long before Mr. Roose-
welt perceived the eXpediency OF 80
doing, and that the latter, even now,
has espoused these principles only 10
promote his own ambition. He recalls
with obnoxious iteration the days when
Mr.. Roosevelt stood shoulder TO shout
der with the very Senators he Is now
abusing and describing as bosses, ana
against those things for which MT La
Toilette was striving.
La Follette's Effective Work.
But far more important, so far as
the insurgent members Of Congress
are concerned, than the articles In Mr..
La Follette's magazine are his per-
sonal appeals TO Senators and Repre-
sentatives. in which he IL able TO meet
their objections and to make them APP
preciate that If the extreme radlcalism
now advocated by Mr. Roosevelt is the
true gospel Of progress he, Robert NJ.
La Toilette, is its true apostle and not
the eleventh hour convert from Oyster
Bay.
Then, too, Mr.. La Toilette has got
hold Of certain Ill advised expressions
OF the Third Term candidate regarding
his anticipation OF the extreme conceit
of the insurgents if they assist him to
success and his purpose to rid himself
Of them and their vagaries as soon az
he has used them to climb to power
expressions which are couched in Ian
guage SC Enthusiastically Roosevelt
ian that the Wisconsin patriot needs IL
furnish no affidavit as to their anthem
ITCHY to have them believed
When Senator La Toilette remarks:
you saw what he did TO Taft. You
have seen what he did to me. Have
YOU any doubt what he Will do TO your
most Of those to whom he puts the
question answer il, either verbally or
mentally, precisely as he would have
them.
OF course. Colonel Roosevelt Is fully
alive TO the baneful influence which
Senator La Toilette Is eyerting on the
| Bull Moose movement and Is doing his
utmost t. counteract IL. He has moro
than once summoned the insurgent
Senator'S and some OF the members OF
the House to oyster Bay, confident. NJ
doubt. that once there they would yield
/ TO the spell Of his all powerful mag
netlsm. But thus far they have been
/ wary and have declined to 60. they
I are persuaded that while the Bull
! Moose may be dangerous at certain
seasons Il is not ordinarily so, and that
II has a penchant for bogs and quag-
mires. and there il not one insurgen'
or Progressive member Of either house
Of Congress who cares 10 find himself
fast in the slough Of dospond when NJ
yember ) has come and gone.
4 certain Progressive member Of tho
House is also doing much TO hamper
the Bull Moose movement. He sets
forth that he carried his district by
10000 majority; that he has never
failed 10 vote for single Progressive
measure: that his constituents are sat
isfled with him, and that nc Is certain,
under normal conditions. 10 come back
IN the gid Congress 10 cast many mora
votes for Progressive measures, but
tina, ne is now confronted with the al
formative Of coming out for Roosevelt
and casting aside his nomination az a
RepubIican. which would mean certain
dofoat or OF refusing to come out for
Roosevelt and having Bull Moose
candidate for Congress named 10 run
against him. which would mean the
success of his Democratic opponent:
and he asks with much pathos and no
little show of reason, as there any
thing Progressive about that?"