The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-10-09
COME LET US
REASON TOGETHER
cYRENUs COLE,
In Cedar Rapids Republican.

i In Cedar Rapids Republican.
|! Our text is addressed to all who
have believed in the Republican party
and to all who are not yet lost be.
yond the saving grace of common
sense and patriotism, as Republicans
understand patriotism, which does not
mean that q Democrat or any other
party man cannot be patriot also.
| But there are men who believe in
the Republican party, who were born
in it, educated in it, or who have
come into it through conversion to its
undying principles. The Republican
party is an entity. 1t stands for GER
tain things in this republic of ours.
1t has been the mission of the Repub-
lican party to be part of great things
and to do great things. The era of
its power has been fifty years-the
most remarkable fifty years, we be-
lieve, in the history of any modern
nation. The Republican party has not
done it all, but it has been present.
to say the least, when these things
We're being accomplished. It's policies
have not stood in the way Of the
greatest development of the nation,
in every way and along every line. II
the policies Of the party that has been
in power had not been right policies,
this development would at least have
been hindered and hampered.
Is the Party Suddenly Bad?
We are now told, all of a sudden,
that this party has ceased to be an
achieving party. that it has suddenly
become corrupt and corrupting or
ganization. This good and great or
ganization, after fifty years Of service,
almost in a day fell from grace and
fell so deeply that 1t ought to be
killed, wiped out of existence blot
ted out of the affairs of the nation.
And how did it fall so suddenly?
What brought it about? What is the
fact and what the philosophy of that
fall?
Listen: Its failure to nominate
Theodore Roosevelt. If it had nom
mated him in Chicago last June, there
Is no one in the land who would today
be crying for its death. Every man
who Is now denouncing the party as
worthy of death, would, in that case.
Low be proud OF it's record, proud of
its achievements-and Roosevelt the
most of ALL
Do you doubt this statement? Just
read it over again and see II you can
not agree with it-because it is lit
orally and spiritually the truth
He Is the Whole Thing.
And this same Roosevelt, this one
man, is the sole Judge of the party
and it's sole executioner. He Is not
only the Judge, but he is the pleader
in the case. He submits the facts
and he makes the argument from
thenl-and then. he sits as the Judge
and stands with the ak as the exc
Cutioner
1t is the most astounding and ap-
palling spectacle that we have ever
read in history.
An historic party must be killed be-
cause it did not nominate him-and
it would be great and glorious party
If it had nominated him.
And in refusing to nominate him
the party had simply taken him at his
own word, namely, that it Is wise
precedent which limits presidents to
two terms and upon his own declared
avowal that he would not under any
circumstances take another term
mark the words, any circumstances.
and upon his own admission, in writ
ing to a friend, that his denomination
would be calamity.
And then he changed his mind, and
because the party did not change its
mind with him, he says, kill the party,
damn the party He calls it den Of
thieves and robbers. filled with liars.
Judases and malefactors of great
wealth-and every eplthet and op-
probrium that the brain of man can
devise or the tongue of man utter
Are You Willing?
Now. let us reason together: If you
ere a Republican, or have been a Re-
publican, are you willing to accept
Mr.. Roosevelt's statement? Are you
willing to slaughter your own party.
the party that has stood for so much,
the party that has SO wisely COM
pretended the greatness of this ma
ton and that has SO nobly struggled
in the fulfllment of its mission-are
you willing to strike 1t down at this
time and for this man? Are you will
ing to substitute the will of one man
for the dictates of whole party?
Are you willing to make yourself
Rooseveltian instead of Republican?
Just think 1t over We are now
talking to rational-minded men. mar