Evening star., 1912-09-10
Says Hands Will Be Tied.


"If the leader of the third party is made
President what will be his situation? :?
Does anybody suppose that he will have
third party Congress behind him? Is it
not inevitable that in such an event there
Will be in Congress such a mixture Of
elements and groups and coteries that
the President cannot possibly get any
program whatever put through. We have
had samples of the confusion already
We already have very qlSeerly assorted
Senate of the United States. There are
some democrats in 1t, some near-demo-
Gratis. some republicans, some ex-republi-
cans, and 1t has been gamblers chance
whether they would get together on any,
thing or not. 1t has been difficult to guess
after bill passed the House of Repre-
sentatives exactly what was going to
happen to it when it got into the Senate
Lots of Noise, Little Done.
Now, suppose you had a House of
Representatives mixed up like the pres
ent Senate. l think we could all go
fishing for the next two years, And if,
at the same time, you had a leader in
sistent upon certain policies. l think
the air would be full of clamorous
voices, but the statute book would be
cause, 1T may be. nobody was trying to
fulfill the promises, but because every
body was trying to fulfill a different
promise.
But the most certain impediment to
progress | have no. yet spoken of. The
new party does not even propose to clear
the decks and set the government free
to act. The central proposal Of it's ac-
tual program is to legalize monopoly. In
stead OF defeating, instead of reversing
and remedying the evil things that have
been done under the mistaken leadership
of the regular republican leaders, it pro-
poses that the results of their mistakes
shall be legaliZed and made regular by
being taken under the direct supervision
of the government OF the United States.
Fine Discipline of Defeat.
Then you have only the democratic
party left: and you will ask me how 1
| can set up claim for the democratic
party. Well. in the first place. 1t is
rather fine discipline to have been on
the outside for sixteen years. You have
not intrusted the government of the
United States to the democratic party
because the democratic party has been
opposed all these years to the things that
the republican leaders were doing. Is
not that a statement of mere fact?
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posing them all these years, and pro-
posing programs that once looked radical
and now look reasonable?
| I'VE haven't just begun being progress
I sive. We have been progressive for six
| teen years. and we saw the year 1912 half
| a generation before II came. Are you
going to give us no credit for vision? Dc
you not think IL counts for something to
stay out in the cold on a conviction for
/ sixteen years?
| Democratic Teamwork.
| THE democratic party is now, per-
haps for the first time in generation.
united. solid and enthusiastic And the
democratic party is the only organized
| force by which You can set your gov
erament free. l was bred in foot ball
college. 1 know what wins is team
| work; and l want to tell you that we
have now got democratic team. school
| ed in years of adversely. that can hold
| together against any team that can be
put in the neld. and as compared with
which some teams recently organized are
| only scrub teams"