The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-07-13
LAF0LLETTE SAYS
BRYAN bRAVED
TANMANY men
Commends His Action at Baltimore
in Fighting the
Trusts
CONTRASTS RooSEvELTS WAY
Declares T. R. Could Have Served
Progressives as Well as
Bryan
CONTRASTS ROOSEvELT's WAY
Declares 7. r. Could Have Served
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caption "The CAGE OF Mr.. Roosevelt t.
Senator LaFollette has written the
following editorial in the current
number of LaFollette's Weekly.
Bryan, at Baltimore, foregoing
all chance Of his own nomination.
marshalling all his forces, Drawing
Tammany and the trusts, to rescue
his party from their domination,
carrying the convention for the
adoption IF the most progressive
Democratic platform yet offered and
the nomination of the most pregres-
sive Democrats. candidate available,
was towering figure of moral pow
er and patriotic devotion to civic
righteousness.
Roosevelt, at Chicago, backed by
money derived from the stock-water-
ing operations of the Steel Trust and
the Harvester Trust, organizeing
what are now confessed to have been
fake contests as to nearly two hum
dred delegates in order to control
the Republican convention and Sc
cure his own nomination, refusing
to aid in making a progressive plat
form bound to have the nomination
or destroy the Republican party, was
most striking example of misdi-
rected power and unworthy ambi-
tion.
Roosevelt had as great an oppor-
tunity to serve the progressive cause
o. Chicago as Bryan had at Balti-
more. But Roosevelt was serving
the man not the cause. He wanted
one thing--he wanted the nomina-
tion. And yet he aid not have
enough votes to nominate himself
upon any honest basis. He did have
enough delegates in that convention
ul%imately to have nominated a real
progressive and adopted strong
progressive platform. He could even
have nominated Hadley on such a
platform, and progressive Republic
can could have supported Hadley III
much the same spirit as hundreds of
them will now support Wilson.
Neither Hadley nor Wilson are vet
erans in the progressive ranks.
Neither of them has been tried by
the severest tests Both appear to
be men of high ideals whose records.
though short, give promise.
"But Roosevelt would not consia
er Hadley He would have no one
but himself. At the first suggestion
of Hadley he ordered the third party
maneuvers, lest he lose his followers.
"If he had the evidence to prove
that Taft could not be honestly and
fairly nominated, why did he not ai-
rect his lieutenants to present that
evidence to the national committee,
and then to the convention and the
country SO clearly that the conven-
tion would not have dared to nomin-
ate Taft, and that Taft could not In
honor. have accepted the nomination
IL made.
''The reason is obvious, An analy
sis of the testimony will, am con
vinced, show that neither Taft nol
Roosevelt had a majority of honestly
or regularly elected delegates. This
the manajers upon both sides wei
understood. Each candidate was
trying to seat sufficient number o
fraudulently credentialed delegates
added to those regularly chosen Il
support him, to secure control of thu
convention. and steam roll the nom
ination. 1t was proceeding will
which each was acquainted, an,
which each had sanctioned in prio
convention.
This explains the extraordinar,
conduct of Roosevelt. He could no
enter upon such analysis of the evi
dence as would prove Taft's regular
ly elected delegates in the minority
without inevitably subjecting hi
own spuriously credentialed dele
gates to an examination so critica
as would expose the falsity of hi
own contention that he had an hon
estly elected majority of the dele
gates. He. therefore, deliberatel
chose to claim everything, tc CT
fraud, to bully the national commi:
tee and the convention and havin
thus created condition whic
would make impossible a.ealm inves
tigation of cases upon merit, carr
the convention by storm.
THAT this is the true psycholog
Of the Roosevelt proceedings become
perfectly plain. He was not thef
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