Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-11

From the New York Sun.


Colonel Roosevelt's letter t.
Everett Colby, of New Jersey, is in.
teresting only because of the atti.
ture of it's recipient toward the Re.
publicans in the negotiations proceed.
ing the primaries. Mr.. Colby was OF
that wing of the Progressive party
which in New Jersey sought for some
common ground of agreement with
the regular Republicans, on which
all those opposed to the Democrats
might unite to fight them. Edmund
B. Osborne represented the no sur
render Progressives, and he was
handily beaten at the polls by Mr..
| Colby.
At all times during the summer
Mr.. Colby and his friends were will
ing to meet their former party mates
at least half way in a reconciliation.
At one time it was seriously pro-
posed that Mr.. Colby might be nomi-
mated by a fusion of ti-Democrats,
and while this project was not car
ried through its respectful consid-
Grafton by him agonized the radicals.
To Mr.. Colby Colonel Roosevelt
pays the merited tribute of styling
him a pioneer Progressive" In New
Jersey. He yearns for Mr.. Colby's
success. and in this yearning, read
Will MI. may De
found an indication of Colonel Roose-
velt's attitude toward the Republican
nomination for President in 1916.
A New Political Philosophy.
From the New York Evening Post
The difference between a Progress
sive movement and a revolutionary
movement is presumably that one
progresses while the other makes a
clean sweep Of things. But so in
sistent are the Progressive leaders,
from Mr.. Roosevelt downward, upon
an absolute break with the parties
and principles of the past, that one
suspects a wrong use of names. Take,
for instance, the Progressive service,
a form of activity which, employed in
behalf of a less sacred cause, would
be described as a press bureau. and
see what its official program INCLUDES:
Dissemination of Progressive poll
teal ideas.
Establishment Of Progressive poll
teal principles.
Interpretation of Progressive
political philosophy.
Extension of general political
education throughout the country In
institutions of learning.
Translation of political thought into
governmental action.
Not only new political ideas and
principles, but new political phil
osophy; an unbuilding from the very
bottom. One is at once reminded of
the claims made for the Socialist
movement, as not alone an economic
movement and a political movement,
but a new philosophy of life that
calls for the reconstruction of our
ideas on art, science, mdpals and the
very forms of accepted logical rea-
soning, a Socialist dialects, they
call it. Like Socialism, Progressivism
is evidently a new dispensation. The
amazing thing about it is that the
transfer of a few negro delegates at
Chicago in July, 1912, might have
postponed this momentous recon-
struction of society indefinitely.
The Demand for Cotton.
From the London Times.
Is the present great demand likely
to continue? One thing is quite GER
tain. 1t has not yet reached any
thing like its possible limits. AS Sir
Charles NIAGARA has pointed out, there
are still 100000 900 of the worlds pop
ulation only half clothed, and ESQ.,
900, 900 not clothed at all. When they
begin to want more, and they are
doing so now, what they will want
will be more than all the world has
ever wanted before. At the same
time civilized countries are every day