The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-09-27
POLITICAL GR|ST
STATE POLITICS
NOTED DIVINE FOR WILSON AND
MARSHALL
By REV. 5. S WISE
(Rabbl Of the Free Synagogue, New


New York, Sept. 25s-While the re-
publican party has deliberately elect
ed to forfeit the confidence Of the na-
tiou, the democratic party invites, and
offers high guarantee that ii deserves
such confidence in welcoming the lead
ership Of Woodrow Wilson II is hard
10 believe that woodrow Wilson would
have accepted the nomination Of the
democratic party as it long was the
party OF the Gorman-Brice-Hill re-
gime-to name at this time only the
dead II Governor Wilson represented
the democratic party OF other days il
would be necessary for one-time re-
publicans, such as the writer, to op-
pose him as vigorously as they are
now moved to support him.
The nomination Of Woodrow Wilson
for president offers to the progressiyes
Of all parties q guarantee. humanity
speaking. that the democratic party
has been reborn, that it is once again
to become. under the inspiration of
Woodrow Wilson's leadership, a party
Of genuine and substantial progress.
When all is said in favor Of Presi-
dent Taft Of his honest and earnest
battle against the swollen trusts. Of
the admirable arbitration treaties
which he yainly sought to negotiate
with England and France, of his excel
lent non-partisan judicial appoint
ments, there remains the acceptance
and defence Of the tariff, dictated, if
not written, by its benefciaries, and,
above all, the outstanding fact that
President Taft has drifted, or suffered
himself TO be driven, into the ranks OF
reaction.
II, as It is claimed-and ! believe
rightly so--for President Taft, that he
sought to vapquish the reactionary ele-
ments in the republican party, then is
it true that he has sadly failed, as is
proved by the conspicuous and CON
spicuously unworthy leadership in the
party OF such men as William Barnes,
Jr. President Taft has failed to with
stand the pressure of reactionary in
fluences because within the republican
party these influences are dominant.
commanding. irresistible.
What of the candidacy OF Theodore
Roosevelt, the nominee of the Third
party? Apart from the inevitable re-
luctance to accept any man as presi-
dent of the nation for a longer term
than that occupied by the founder Of
the republic, / believe that, while he
once was needed in the life of the ma
tion, he is needed no more He was
needed to cry aloud and spare not, TO
lift up his voice like trumpet. 1t is
no little service to the republic to have
broadened the concept OF legal right
and to have ended the security of legal
wrong.
When all is said and done, Roosevelt
did most to bring about a wholesome
sense OF insecurity among those whose
privilege had been the absorption of
privileges, whose chief right had long
been the unchecked doing of wrong,
! have therefore no patience with the
yituperatioh which is layished upon
Colonel Roosevelt and in which he, TOO,
is tabled to indulge occasionally
shall support Woodrow Wilson for
the presidency because believe that,
with the aid of democratic congress,
he will carry into effect the party
pledges of tarin reform. and thus abate
if not abolish. the legazed oppres.
sions, the aforementioned expressions
Of the protective order The demo.
cratic party under Woodrow Wilson
may reasonably be expected to put an
end to those tarn laws which have
led to tmperialist adventure abroad
and to crnnaIly corrupt eztraya.
gance at home
The democratic party spurning To-
day the leadership which led to guilty
completely in the negotiations of the
republican tarin adiusters, is become
the valiant and uncompromisug foe of
protective tariff which protected
chiefly The parties in the crooked alli-
mce between big business and little
politics, which protected and aggran-
died the masters OF industry and en-
renched them in the almost unassail-
able strongholds of monopoly and priv
ilege
Governor Wilson is an illustration of
the magnificent potentiality of the
scholar in public life When in the
presence of Emerson objection was
raised to a certain leader in political
life because he was callow college
doctrinaire. Emerson is said to have
answered Better so than that we
learn our duty from the callous poli-
tician or man of affairs. Let large is