Evening journal., 1912-08-17
ROOSEVELT
AGAIN URGES
PEOPLE'SRULE
By The United Press.

By The United Press.
REVERE BEACH, Mass. Aug. IT,
In a speech on social and industrial
justice. Colonel Roosevelt to-day re-
ferred to Woodrow Wilson as having
referred to the Democratic platform in
such guarded phrases as 70 convey the
impression Of neither repudiating nor
supporting IL He coupled President
Taft with Lorimer and discussed the
Progressive attitude toward the judi
ciary. In a vigorous appeal for sup
port for the Progressive platform, he
said IN part:
ION the platform on which stand
J make the same appeal OF serious and
sober purpose 10 the women as TO the
men. and come 10 this state and ask
you IA the name OF Massachusetts,
past to place the Massachusetts Of to-
day on the side Of those who to-day
battle for all that is highest and best
IN our national life.
I'VE invite into our ranks men and
women entirely without regard TO
their former political afiliations. to
their creeds, 10 their birthplaces. or to
iut ANAhI OF kntlI chlIus
ours is a movement OF genuine
progress; we who at the moment lead
you are endeavoring to represent the
hopes, the desires, the highest enthu-
siasm OF the earnest men and women
Of this country whose purpose Is TO
smite down the wrong that sits in high
places and 70 bring nearer the day
when justice shall be done alike TO the
great and small throughout the land.
Theirs is a patriotism OF prayers and
tears, and OF yearning TO uplift the
country that we so dearly love. The
FIRST essential in securing the right OF
the people to rule is to secure the un-
sparing condemnation OF dishonesty IN
nominations and elections.
TO steal a nomination or 10 steal
an election Is even worse than TO steal
a purse. for It Is a theft Of the people s
rights; it is theft from the people
as a whole
Two years ago the night against
II. Lorimer was started by q great
Chicago newspaper and was contin-
ude by certain private individuals
And we who then took part IN that
fight did so at a time when the aver.
age public man obviously thought II
would come to nothing In the re-
cent contests in the Republican pri-
maries we hammered it into the heads
of the politicians that the people were
/ against Lorimer and Lorimerism; anc
then the very men who had been seek.
ing to profit by Lorimer's support &C
long as they believed he would bt
useful, turned against him
1T is a bad thing to win a Sena-
torship by such methods as Mr.. Lor.
inner employed but it is not one viii
worse than 10 steal a nomination fol
the Presidency by such methods al
we're employed by the bosses VIII,
controlled the Republican Conven
ton in Chicago last June. Certain o
your New England Senators, I regre
to say, took the lead both in conduct
ing the campaign for the defense O
Mr.. Lorimer and In putting througl
the steal of the Republican nomina
ton at Chicago
I'VE Progressives propose 10 CIV
| the people power to rule their nom
mating conventions and to contro
their own party organizations.
I'VE propose to make them the rea
and not nominal masters OF their owi
servants. We believe In direct pre-
ferential primaries because only b.
means of such primaries can the peo
pie really choose their own candi
dates without REGARD to the bosses. w
have fearlessly faced the social ant
economic problems OF our time ant
not since the day Of Lincoln has ther
been any movement which has con
tanned such large promise for tn
good Of the people as whole