The Oakes times., 1912-08-08
PULSE OF THE STATE PRESS

oSicS oIeo " eHS AuIu dTIy COHVeHIlOH,
being mostly Roosevelt Stalwarts-if
such an anomaly can exist-hooted
"steam-roller" as the credentlal COM
mittee elected them. But the new
party started with the age-old wisdom:
"He that is not for US is against US, +"
and if the pretended Progressives were
not willing to leave all and follow
Roosevelt, that was the time and the
place to cut them out.
LaMoure County Chronicle: 'Tis
said that "house divided against itself
cannot stand" Neither can Congress
composed of warning factions Progress
sive Republicans and Democrats and
the .'Old Guard" of both parties. Wit
ness the Wool Bill deadlock as an ex-
ample of stifled and blocked, legisla-
ton. First the Democratic house pre-
pares a wool tariff bill with sweeping
reductions-then by a coalition of
forces in the Senate the Penrose SUBJ
stitute measure is passed-and then the
house turns right around and knocks
that out. It's sort of continuous
legislative :; Merry Co Round. And
what's the moral? Simply that bad
judgment in the selection of public SER
wants must necessarily ever result in
poor service. The people collectively
are.the matter. They select their SER
wants through the medium Of the bal
lot. 1t is to be hoped that gradually.
little by little mal-legislation will bring
them to thoughtful and careful use
OF the ballot. !:
Cooperstown Courier: The action of
many of the leading men of the state
in forming new party at Fargo last
Friday for the purpose of getting a
square deal in politics is all right. 1t
shows that the people of the country do
not any longer intend to put up with
such highway robbery and misrepre-
sentatlon as they got at the Chicago
convention. 1t is. not q desire ron the
part of few to get an office but gen.
uine desire to have clean politics ex-
pressed and carried out by the people
themselves without being robbed OF
their choice by ballot by few gang
ridden politicians like those who con-
trolled the national committee at
Chicago. A full list of delegates to
the third party at Chicago was elected
at the meeting on Friday and if any
body thinks this new party is a joke
they will have another guess coming
after the votes are counted in Novem-
ber. With Theodore Roosevelt at the
head of the new party on strong plat
form there are many states in this
good old union that will be found cast
ing their votes for one of the greatest
progressive statesmen in the country.
Stick pin IN here and remember what
we say.
Bathgate Pink Paper: The third
party people met at Fargo last week
and held convention of their own. 1t
was real third party affair. Many OF
the old line republicans were in atten.
dance and claimed that they were en-.
titled to participate because they took
prominent part in the Roosevelt move
ment before the primaries. The real
third party men had succeeded in plac-
ing Judge Lauder in the chair AMI he
was the right man IN the right place.
His motto seemed to be, "No partici-
patton by any who were not willing tc
burn their bridges behind them and re.
pudiate the action of the republican
organization. He ruled entirely along
these lines and would listen to no one
who would not declare for an entirely
new party. 1t was the only stand tc
take if the movement was to have in.
dividuality. To compromise in any
way would defeat the purpose of the
movement and make it an appendage
to some other party or organization ir
which it would after this campaign
lose its identity. Had it been simply q
movement for the purpose of boosting
Roosevelt for president. all dissatisfied
republicans could we'll be admitted
Judge Lauder and those who thought
as he did were building more broadly
and with greater object in view thar
advancing the interest of any individ'
ual We doubt their ability to estab'
lish a permanent third party, but they
can not be denied the right to make ar
effort IN that direction and to say thai
none should participate who did moi
agree with them on the main issue.
Cooperstown Courier; Barnes, the
greatest of all political pirates, decriee
the new Roosevelt movement and sale
that it was all bluff and there wa.
nothing to it, but he has changed hi!
mind as he notices the new movement
growing and late press dispatches stat,
that this same Barnes is fearful les
Roosevelt carries the State of New
York, which in all likelihood he will do
and Barnes and the other political pi
rates of Wall street are sitting VI
nights trying to hatch some new dea
that will head off the man from Saga
more Hill. What is true of New YorI