The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-07-11

into the coming campaign. Foremost
will be, according TO the present plans
the argument that the course Of affairs
in both the republican and tn
democratic conventions and in the re
cent history Of the country has de-
monstrated the need of a new party
which will be national in scope ard
which will go on record as opposed 10
bosses" such as Colonel Roosevelt
has said flourished with equal power
among both the democratic and re-
publican parties.
Most Of the leading newspapers of the
country will be found advocating the
tights of the people under the new party
TANNER So far, such influential publica-
lions as the Kansas City Star and
Times, The Chicago Tribune and Post,
the Philadelphia North American, the
Boston Journal, the Washington Times,
the Baltimore News, the Pittsburg Leader
Emporea Gazette, Indianapolis Star, the
Muncie Star, the Terre Haute Star, the
Louisville Herald Spokesman Review
San Francisco Bulletin Los Angeles
Tribune and Express, Fresno Republican
the Wisconsin State Journal and most
Of the country press of the Pacific Coast
are enrolled under the Roosevelt party
banner.
The Chicago Post after pointing to its
twenty years of loyalty to the re-
publican party, in a recent issue SAYS:
I'm our judgment President Tafts
nomination was tainted nomination.
There was in it trickery and fraud. Strip
ped to it's practical essentials. it was a
nomination made by a minority instead
of a majority.
1.-THE miserable twenty-one votes a.
bove the nominating point which the
roller drivers were able to
muster for Taft fade instantly away UNI
der scrutiny from any standpoint OF
representative determination. Subtract
the delegates from Alaska. Hawaii. Phil
ippine Islands. and Porto Rico. who re-
present no electoral votes. and the
margin shrinks to nine. Subtract next
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana
Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia
where there is no real Republican party
and the sol becomes 312. Subtract still
further the forty-eight votes in Arizona
California. Washington and Texas which
were given to Roosevelt by the people
and taken from him by the national
committee, and the total is 264. Even
these ultimate figures shrink almost to
nothingness when deprived of the votes
Of States like New York. Indiana, Mich
igan and Colorado, where political trick
cry stopt the people from registering
their free choice.
1--WE have believed from the first that
the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt or
Mr.. Taft was a question for the people
to determine; we have believed that the
people finally showed their overwhelming
preference for Roosevelt at the pri-
maries; we believe now that they should
be allowed to say whether or not they
wish Roosevelt to carry forward their
banner by means of a new party.
"If the people want the new party.
they will have it. And If they demon
strate at the proposed convention IN
August that the demand for it is sincere
ly and earnestly that of the Progressive
majority, they should go into the Presi
Dental fight with fair field and q
chance to win.
1--WE can and do support Colonel Roose-
welt in his appeal to the people to decid
whether or not they wish such a new
party. In their hands be it. Through
cut the next six weeks they will have
to make one of the most momentous de-
cisions in our national history.
The Pittsburg Leader insists that
from the standpoint of justice, and
morality, that the action of the Chicago
convention was invalid, and has no