The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-16
New Party bad Mixture.

New Party Bad Mixture.
Chairman Charles D. Hilles is
quoted as saying that the new party
viii draw more from the Democratic
party than 1t will from the::sRepub-
llcan party. The following editorial
by the wheeling Register shows
why the IHilles statement is true:
IA dispatch from Huntington tells
OF the formation Of Progressive
Club in that city at a meeting which
was attended by a number of Demo-
Gratis as well as Republicans. Con-
corning the attendance Of Democrats
at meeting of this kind, the Intetil-
gencer has no serious doubt. The
doctrines which Mr.. Roosevelt is
now preaching are more Democratic
and socialistic than they are Repub-
Ilican. The followers which he will
draw to his banner are as likely to
come from Democratic and Soclalistic
ranks as they are from Republican
ranks. Mr.. Rooseyelt's Chicago
speech and the Progressive platform
declare as unequivocally for fiat
money as the Populist platform and
the Greenback platform ever did.
Fiat money has always been one Of
the tenets of a large portion of the
Democratic party. The delusion
that the government stamp converts
piece OF paper into an article Of
value, without substantial value
back of that stamp, has been hug
ged alike by Greenbacks and Free
sryerites, and Mr.. Roosevelts ad-
dress. commits him and his party to
thessame hea.
Sixteen years ago the Democratic
party wrote into its platform an at
! tack upon the Supreme Court of the
United States and! upon the Amer
can constitution. BY an overwhelm-
ling majority at that time the Amer
lican people repudiated the authors
of the attack. Today Mr.. Roosevelt
proposes substantially to do away
with the Supreme Court of the
United States, and to wipe out the
American constitution. He has gone
further than the Democrats and the
Populists of 1896, and it is not
strange, therefore, that from Demo
Gratis, Socialists and Populists he
should draw a following. The issue
day by day becomes clearer. On the
one side is arrayed the great Re-
publican party, which stands for the
preservation OF the American consti-
tuition; for the honor and dignity OF
the courts. for progressive govern
mert under law, for the protection
of American industry and American
labor, for sound money, for safe
banking system and for orderly de-
yelopment, governed at all times by
the principles OF the American con-
stitution. On the other side stands
all the forces of disorder. discomfort,
Radicalism and Socialism; all the
men who have made failures in their
lives, or who conceived that in some
manner the present economic and
Industrial system has failed to re-
ward them as much as they think 1t
ought to have done; all the men who
have fads and isms, and who would
write those fads and isms into law
without recourse to the legislatures
and without the scrutiny of the
court; all the men who suffer from
Imaginary evils and who have in
vented cure-alls for the same.
The wisdom and the g05d sense
of the whole American people are
put on trial. The national Republi-
can party appeals to them to stand
by the truth, the tried and the good
things which they have enjoyed for
over half century. 1t promises
them safe and, satisfactory solution
of every national question. protect
ing the personal and the. property
rights of every man, and assuring
so far as any human agency can the
greatest equality of opportunity and