The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-18
ROOSEVELT TEARS 'EM UP
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 q carried Washington at the polls. he carried it before the national com mittce. He has never had and has not now chance with the people, and | have just as little chance wherever the crooked type of politician has power. If 1 am nominated It will be because whenever they have had a chance the verdict of the people, ex- pressed in millions of votes, has been over 2 to in my favor. If MT. Taft were nominated it would mean the ruin of the republican party; for the call of his delegates as prepared by the national committee consists first, of delegates from states that never cast q republican electoral vote; second, of boss controlled delegates from states where the republican voters were not allowed to express their preference; third, of the dele gates stolen from me, and fourth, and least in importance, of the delegates given him by the people the last who are the only delegates to whom he has any claim in right or morals, representing but one eighth of his strength the other seven eighths representing the interruptions use of patronage in the south, the unscrupu- lous tactics of unprincipled machine politicians in the north and naked thefts of the national committee.
 Tt Is not to be wondered at that our opponents have been very bitter for the line up in this crisis Is one that cuts deep to the foundations of government. Our democracy is now put to vital test; for the conflict is between human rights on the one side and on the other special privilege as- serted as a property right. The part ing of the ways has come. The repub- lican party must definitely stand on one side or the other It must stand by deeds and not merely by empty phrases for the rights of humanity, or else it must stand for special priyi- lege. Our opponents are fond of cal ling themselves regular republicans. in reality they have no title to mem bership in any party that is true to she principles of Abraham Lincoln They are fighting for the cause of special privilege and their chief strength is drawn from the benefi- ciaries of entrenched economic and social justice.
 "A period of change Is upon us Our opponents, the men of reaction, ask us to stand still. But we could no. stand still if we would; we must either go forward or go backward. Never was the need more imperative than now for men of vision who are also men of action Disaster is ahead of us if we trust to the leadership of men whose souls are scared and whose eyes are blinded, men of cold heart and narrow mind who believe we can find safety dull. timidity and dull inaction. The unrest cannot be quieted by ingenius trickery of those who profess to advance by merely marking time, or who seek to drown the cry for justice by loud and in sincere clamor about issues that are false and issues that are dead. The trumpets sound the advance and their appeal cannot be drowned by repeat ing the war cries of bygone battles. the victory shouts of vanished hosts
 Friends, here in Chicago at this time you have great task before you.
 T wish you to realize deep in your hearts that you are not merely facing a crisis in the history of a party. You are facing a crisis in the history of nation, and what you do will have an appreciable effect throughout the world at large. Here in America we, the people have continent on which to work out our destiny and our faith is great that our men and women are fit to face the mighty days. Mo- where else in all the world is there such a chance for the triumph on gigantic scale of the great cause of domestic and popular government.
 If we fail the failure will be lamens- able and our heads will be bowed with shame; for not only shall we fail for ourselves but our failure will wreck the fond desires of all through out the world who look toward us with the fond hope that here in this great republic it shall be proved from ocean to ocean that the people can rule themselves and thus ruling, can gain liberty for and do justice both to themselves and to others
 We who stand for the cause of the uplift Of humanity and the bettermen. of mankind are pledged to eternal war against wrong whether by the few or by the many, by plutocracy or by mob We believe that this country will not be permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it reasonably good place for all of us to live in. The sons of all of us will pay in the future if We of the present don't do justice to all in the present Our cause is the cause for justice for all in the interest of all, The present contest is but a phrase of the larger struggle. Assur- edly the fight will go on whether we win or lose but it will be sore dis aster to lose.
 What happens to me Is not of the slightest consequence; l am to be used as in a doubtful battle any man is used. to his hurt or not. so long as he is useful and then cast aside or left to die. | wish you to feel this. l mean it.: and 1 shall need no sym pathy when you are through with me, for this fight is far too great to per init us to concern ourselves about any mans welfare. If we are true 10 our selves by putting far above our own interests, the triumph of the high cause for which we battle. we shall not lose. It would be far better to fail honorably for the cause we champion than it would to win by foul