The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-18
COLONEL TELLS OF
 THE LORIMER CASE
 IN SECOND SPEECH
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 -)~-~------>~--->>-.-~-~-- - have sought to grapple with. The differ ence is that we grappled with them in an efficient way and the socialists are chas- ing will O the wisps."
 Colonel Roosevelt in part said: Appeal to Women
 Men and women of Massachusetts And on the platform on which I stand make the same appeal of serious and sober purpose to the woman to the man-I come to this state with It's Background of adherence to lofty ideals and ask you in the name of Massa- chusetts' past to place the Massachu- setts of today by the side of those who battle for the best that is in our na- tional life. The first essence in securip E the right of the people to rule is to secure the unsparing condemnation of dishonesty in nominations and elec- tions. To steal nomination or to steal an election is even worse than to steal a purse, for 1t is a theft of the peoples rights; 1t is theft from the people as a whole. Every hon est man should set his face like flint against such dishonesty whether t takes the form of swindling at the polls or debauching a legislature or of the theft of a nominating convention.
 The Lorimer Case
 | Two years ago the fight against MT. 1 Lorimer was started by a great Chi- | cago newspaper and was continued by i certain private individuals lodging ev- ] erywhere. And we who took part in the fight did so at time when the leverage public man obviously thought | it would come to naught. Gradually and especially in the recent contest in the republican primaries we ham, l mered it into the heads of the poll ticians that the people were against Lorimer and L4orimerism rules. We said as long as he was useful all right, but some of the men who hitherto defend | ed him turned against him. But friends, remember that our real con- cern was not in smashing one bad man who by improper methods, had secured | his own election to the United states Senate, but in smashing the kind of l politics which he symbolized
 l Tt is a bad thing to win d senatorship by such methods as Ma Lso,imer em- 1 to steal nomination for the presidency by such methods were employed by | the bosses who controlled the republican conve ntion at Chicago last June.
 New Englanders Took Part
 Certain of our New England senators l I regret to state took the lead both in conducting the campaign for the defense ] of MT Lorimer and in putting through the steal of the republican nomination indi- cated at Chicago. Whatever else is said against the senators at least their actions | in this respect was consistent. When | senator Crane, Senator Aldrich, Senator Penrose, Senator Guggenhein, Senator | Gallinger Senator Dillingham; and their associates together with Senator Bailey Senator Johnston and their assocIates or | the democratic side stood by Senator Lori iner and Senator Lorimer's right to sii | in the Senate, they were doing precisely | what Messrs Penrose, Crane. Guggen- fein, Gallinger and their representatives later did when they secured the triumph | of Lorimer and Lorimersm Tn the re publican convention in Chicago There was no essential difference between ht iniquity which cuninated in MT. Lori mer's election to the Senate and tht inequity which eliminated in the chicag convention.
 The Wilson Speech
 T condemn those who stood for botf forms of iniauity. In his speech of ac ceptance MT. Wilson. after asking wha IS the meaning of the Baltimore plat
 form. and answering his own question rather vaguely says that he does no ask the people of the United States tt adopt that platform and that the plat form is not a programme We progres sives are much more fortunate in ou
 rlatfoim.
 We do not have to apologize for it no
 tc speak of it in language so careful, guarded as to convey the impression tha
 we are endeavoring neither to repudiat
 1t nor support 1t. We stand on our plat
 form
 We do ask, however, that our plat
 form be adopted by the nation. Gu platform Is our programme. We Urea it as such And what Is more we trus lit as a contract which we shall scrup ,ulously fulhll if the people give us tn power. Our proposals are definite an,
 concrete and our intention Is to enac
 them into law and to make them par of the active governmental policy O
 the nation.
 To Aid Working Man
 At this moment ask your attention
 only to the proposals that we mak
 to secure social and industrial justice iIn the first place we set forth definite ly what we mean to try to secure q the present time In the way of socia
 and industrial justice. for instance t
 secure by law one days rest in sevei for all wage workers, and an eight hou
 day In continuous 24 hours industries
 the prohibition of child labor; the es
 tablishment of an eight hour day fo women and young persons, the cree ltion of minimum wage standards fo , working women, workmen's compensa | ton acts, the securing of proper con , ditions of life and labor for working
 men and women, and the prevention c
 occupational diseases and the fixing Q i occupationa1 health standards. W propose to secure the installment c social and industrial justice by actlo | lin both the nation and the severa | states. Tberefsre we propose to SC that our representatives, give the pee ; pie these laws wherever in nation c