The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1912-10-03
M'COVERN SAYS HE
IS FOR ROOSEVELT
Governor of Wisconsin Issues
Statement Giving Views
on National Issues.
Executive Says State Republican
Platform Is IN Harmony With
That of Progressives.

McGOvern, in statement issued today,
says he will support Colonel Roosevelt,
and vote for the republican state, con-
gressional, legislative and local tickets.
Governor McGovern was renomin-
ated by the republican party and in
dorsed by the Progressive party, and
this is his first statement explaining
his views on national issues. He rec
onciles his declaration for Roosevelt
and support of the republican state
ticket, by explaining that the Wiscon-
sin republican state platform is in har-
mony with the national progressive
platform, and says that no republican
who supports the progressive ticket
need leave his party in this state.
The statement says:
Progressive Movement Must Go On.
''The paramount duty of the people
of Wisconsin is to promote their own
welfare. The first business of those
who believe in the high civic ideals
their state has espoused and exempli-
fed in recent years is to conserve and
still further advance what has been so
we'll begun. The Progressive move
ment must not be checked or defeated
here at home. Not in torn merely
but in substance and spirit it must 60
on. This is common ground upon which
all good citizens should stand, what
ever differences may tend to divide
them upon other matters. But it is no
reason why they or those who repre-
sent them in public station should now
dodge vital national issues.
Why he Cannot Support Taft.
IL cannot advocate the reelection of
Taft and Sherman. Ae progressive
republican find myself diametrically
opposed to almost everything this tick
ct represents. President Taft's ad
ministration has accomplished some
good things; but in the main its history
is record of political incompetence
and retrogression. The composition of
President Taft's cabinet as originally
made up, his political warfare upon
progressive members of Congress-, in
which patronage was admittedly used
as club or a bribe, the Ballinger epi-
sode, the Charles R. Crane fiasco, the
passage of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law, the Winona speech, indorsing this
betrayal of party pledges, his dismissal
of Clifford Pinchot from the public SER
vice, his interference in the politics of
Wisconsin two years ago through the
so-called telephone convention, engin-
eered by E. L. Phillip and w. D.
Connor, his vetoes of the wool, cotton
and steel tariff bills, his advocacy of
the Aldrich currency scheme, his polit-
ical alliance with Senator Aldrich, Joe
Cannon, Boss Barnes and Senators
Penrose, Murray Crane, Smoot and
Guggenheim, and finally his acceptance
of denomination in the very teeth of
nationwide protest, make up a
record for laundering subservience to
selfish special interests, reactionary
personal inclination and reckless de-
fiance of the popular will unexampled
in the history of the presidential Office.
Say Taft Distrusts the People.
GAS republican cannot support
President Taft because within the
brief period of single term he has
wrecked great and historical political
party. AS progressive l cannot sup
port him because he is utterly react
ionary and grows more so every day.
Let anyone who doubts this compare
his speech of acceptance four years
ago with the one he recently made at
Washington. If Senator Aldrich or
Joe Cannon ever delivered a more
standpat address it has escaped my
attention. He profoundly distrusts the
people and is utterly untitled to lead
Them"
Say Bosses Rule Democratic Party.
Explaining why he cannot support
the democratic ticket, the governor,
first paying tribute to Woodrow Will
son as man in whom there is much
to admire, says Mr.. Wilson must rely
for election on the reactionary demo.
Gratis of the south, party bosses, and
Tammany chiefs. "Under the pro.
lection of his good name the gray
wolves of the great cities, and the
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