The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-07-19
COL. ROOSEVELT,
WRITES OF TWO
BIG CONVENTIONS
Declares Steam Roller Was Not
Used by Him in
1904
TELLS OF BALTIMORE FIGHT
Says Bosses in Voting for DR.. vii.
son Perpetuated Own
Control
TELLS OF BALTIMORE FIGHT

New York, July 1S.-TWo phases
of the Republican national eonven-
tion at Chicago are discussed by
Theodore Roosevelt In editorial ar
ticles in the current issue Of The
Outlook The Steam Roller" and
MEN Who Live Softly" are the
headings Of the Colonel's articles,
In the first the writer answers
charges that the steam-roller meth
DDS were used to nominate him in
1904 and again to nominate Taft
in 1908.
In the second article, the Colonel
alludcs to the respectable men who,
with discomfort, stood behind their
leaders in securing the triumph OF
fraud and political theft at Chiea
&C." and scores "other respectable
men who felt discomfort in thus
supporting rascallty, who, on the
contrary, gloritied in their actions"
The Colonel goes into detail as
to how, he says, steam roller was
used to make majority for TAFT
at the recent Chicago convention.
lie reviews the history of the prim-
AIRY campaign in various states and
contrasts his ection in waving
technicalities in the Massachusetts,
primary as against the action taxi
Ell by the TAFT managers on the
delegates-at-large in the Ohio prim-
ary.'
In contrasting the conventions Of
the Republican and Democratic par
ties, Roosevelt writes:
There was one essential and in
structive difference between the at
titude of the biz Republican politi-
cal bosses at Chicago and the big
Democratic political bosses at Balti-
more. The former greatly preferred
certain party defeat to my nomina-
tion. The latter were willing to ac-
cept my nomination rather than
face certain party defeat.
''The fight at Baltimore was not
as at Chicago to eliminate the boss
es, and incidentally to nominate a
N,xE, ln+n tY 1Nu,
suade the bosses into themselves
nominating DR.. Wilson, thus secur-
ing the perpetuation of their own
control in their several states"
Regarding the Men of Ease" he
writes
'There are men who find life easy
who live softly and who are over
come by fear that an effort to i'm
prove the general welfare Of the
people would jar the present system
sufficiently to cause them incon-
venience. They are free from ply
sical trial and hardship, they live
under conditions that tell for ease
and, therefore, to that dreadful sci
fishness which is born of fear, when
they become alarmed lest the system
which has brought about these con
ditions may be changed
They develop a panic-born i'm
morality, which makes them moi
merely excuse but eagerly commend
the theft Of q nominating conven
ton or any other rascality which, IL
their estimation, helps to save so
ciety' or to preserve the Constitu
ton or to 'repel assaults on thu
courts
"They do not know that most O
the things I advocate have been sue
cessfully tried out in few of oul
own states and in foreign countries
am merely trying to get this coun
try to be wise in time, which is nine
tenths of wisdom. | wish to see ou
less fortunate citizens avoid th'
fearful excess of syndicatisms ant
the kind to which their fellow
abroad have been prone. Thl
can only be accomplished II our peo
pie will formulate and receive L
practise certain moral principle
which most of us now dimly sr
shape themselves from the confuset
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