Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-13
WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH 1T!

In his excellent and patriotic adj
dress at Gettysburg, President Wilson
looking over his vast audience, said;
Il would not have you live today Who'll
" in the past, but would wish to stand
with you in the light that streams upon
us now out of that great day gone b..
Here is the nation God has builded by
our hands. What shall We do with
it,"
The Gettysburg celebration was
great occasion for RECONSIDERATION to
the Union as the fathers made it-a
good time for both sides to pledge to
each other their sacred honor that our
system of government, that system
without a model, shall not perish fron
the face of the earth.
In view of such reconsecration, how
at variance with the spirit of the
Fourth of July celebrations are the
utterance of ex-senator Beveridge i'll
his recent article in the Saturday
Exening Post of June 2S,. His theme
was the "Progressiye-Republican Mer-
ger"
1t is we'll perhaps that the views OF
Mr.. Beveridge found circulation in the
Post, so as to get a large audience.
People generally are not aware of the
objects and intentions of the Progress
sive party as promulgated by the eX-
Senator from Indiana
He puts the country upon notice
that the Progressive party is here to
stay. He says: 1T is perfecting its
organization everywhere. In those
states where we had no organization
one is being built. In states where
our organization was weak, our COM
mittees are being strengthened. With
in two weeks after the election great
Progressive meetings began to be
held in various states and sections,
and at the present moment more party
work is being done by the Progressive
party than by both of the old parties
put together. Over 5000 clubs have
been organized during the present
year. We are organized and sowing
Progressive party literature and
spreading Progressive party propa-
ganda throughout the nation. We Will
have Progressive party candidates for
Congress in nearly all the COMPRESSION
al districts of the nation. In 1914 the
Progressive party will have its own
candidate for United States Senator
in every state where a Senator is to be
chosen. The Progressive party VIII
not be a merger"
Senator Beveridge stands next to
Roosevelt himself in the councils q
the Bull Moose party. He speaks eX-
cathedra.
Now comes the question put by
President Wilson: Here is the ma
ton God builded by our hands. What
shall We do with ito
The platform of the Progressive
party is not that of the Republic III
rarity. nor that of the Democratic par
/ ty. What is it? Does it seek reforms
under our old system of government
or seek innovations at the expense Of
that system? What says Beveridge?
The fundamental principle of the
Progressive party" says Mr.. Bever'
Iidge. lis to eliminate state action, and
the people of the nation should act as
unit" He laughs at the reserved
rights of states" as a myth, and de-
clares the nation should handle all
questions not expressly forbidden. The
new nationalism" is the same that
Roosevelt proclaimed in his Ossawa-
tonne speech in his Grafton on John
Brown.
Mr.. Beveridge set forth the initia-
tive. referendum and recall as the
means OF strengthening the new
movement for adjustment of the reo-
resentative for the direct system Of