The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-13
ROOSEVELT AGAIN
ATTACKS GuuR I
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electoral vote would have been in the
progressive column. The action or
the rcactionary court, taken in COM
| Dlnation with the action of the Rcpub-
lican machine, resulted in the dcprlva-
tion of the right of the people of Idaho
! To- express their choice for President
Abraham Lincoln said that he be
i'eVed the Drod scott decision repre-
| scented a conspiracy against liberty be-
/ tween the then Supreme Court and tho
leading officers OF the reactionary party
| to which that Supreme Court belonged.
l believe that with even more Justice
Aoraham Lincoln, if alive to-day could
make the same statement about the
action OF the reactionary court OF
Idaho In connection with the reac-
tionary leaders of the Republican ma
chine OF Idaho.
There was In Idaho n newspaper which
fearlessly and in entirely proper man.
ntr condemned the court for this out
rage. The editor and publisher Of that
paper. and another man connected with
! them, have beun thrown into Jail and
fined heavily for contempt by the
! court. The court in It's opinion has
cited the numerous dynamite outrages
and the like that have occurred. as
Justifying their action. No more cx-
traordinary plea was ever made
yield to no man in the horror I feel
for the anarchists and for all other
| criminals who do murder. whether by
dynamite or In any other fashion.
should Hive Jailed Lincoln.
"But the damage they do. though
/ great, Is by no means as great 10 the
| cause of law and order as is thai done
! by decision such as the decision in
/ question: and no anarchist ever can or
ever Will hurt the courts as they are
hurt by such action rs this OF the
/ highest court OF the state OF Idaho.
/ Remember that if the position of the
| Idaho court in furnishing it's critics
Tor contempt is proper. then Abraham
| Lincoln should have been jailed and
| fined for his words about the Supreme
Court of the United States in conncc-
ton with the Dred Scott decision.
Abraham Lincoln was no more or
less guilty than the three men whom
the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho
have imprisoned for contempt. becauso
they criticized, in less severe language
IMAM Abraham Lincoln, a decision as
inoetchsiblc from every standpoint OF
Ia" and Justice and popular rights as
the bred Scott decision itself.
"A case like that in Idaho shows the
need of the power of popular recall of
inc judiciary, need which ! believe
could probably be best met by having
me Judges appointed or elected for
IRE. out subject on petition to recall
~ Popuidi vote every TWO
This action would not, however
meet all the difficulties of the case. In
inns State, Tor instance, there have
neeh many well-mcaning judges, who,
In certain cases. usually affecting la
DOR nave rendered decisions which
were wholly improper. wholly rcac-
tionary, and fraught with the gravcst
injustice to those classes of the com
inuhlty standing most in need of jus-
ice. What Is needed here is not the
rISht to recall the Judge, who I'm some
one instance gives a mistaken and re-
ac.,onary Interpretation to its consti-
tuition. but the right of tho pcople
themselves to express after due DELHI
Grafton their definite judgment as tn
what the Constitution shall permit in
the way of legislation for social and
industrial justice
People Must Decide.
u hold that in such Il case as thc
bakeshop case in such Il case MS the
Workmen's compensation act I'm sucb
Il case as the tenement house cir,r
factory act, in such Il case as the nct
providing for the safeguarding of n
DANGEROUS machinery, in such q case
as the cight-hour law that il is for
inc people themselves to decide who
lhcr such law is or is not to stand
on the statute books. do not caro
whether you call this action of tbeiI
constituting the Constitution. or making
fn NJ
and not for the name"
substituting the word progressive"
iof Republican" in Letter written bv
Lihcoin-the substitution being, Col
ohel Roosevelt said. only that Of the
name OF the Progressive party Of to-
va; lot inc progressive party of Lin
CONS time-Colonel Roosevelt read
the letter as follows:
AS 70 the matter OF fusion. 7 am
Tor IL II II can DE had on ProprcssiveI
grounds; and j am not for it on anv
other terms. a fusion on any other
terms would be as foolish as unprin-
clpled 1t would lose the whole fof
what we have). while the common
enemy would still carry Gall the vote
mat Is hostile to us). The question
or men Is a different one There arc
good patriotic men and able states
men On this territory opposed to us)
whom / would checrfulIy supnort a
they would now place themselves on
'frosressivc) grounds, but am
against letting down the NroGressive)
standard hairsbrcadth.'
what Lincoln then said as to plat
form principles. men and methods. ap-
phes exactly to all attempts to fuse
any other party In our own days"
McCOmbs His Guest
william +. McCombs, chairman of
tho Democratic National Committee
was at the dinner as Colonel Roose-
velts guest
unions OF voters will join the Pro-
sressive party when they are sure that
10 an organized force that will last
IN me opinion of Albert j. Bevcridge
former United States Senator from In
diana: Mr. Bevcridge said In part:
VINO can toll what Republican or
Democratic principles are to-day? The
WORD 1tepubiican means one thing In
Wisconsin and the opposite thing In
pennsylvania; the Governor of Connec-
ticut and the Governor OF Washington
are both Democrats. yet they are
farther apart than Speaker Clark and
senator Root. The two old parties are
nothing more than Rroupa Of warning
FACTIONS. Their platforms arc jumbles
OF meaningless compromises"
Mr. Bevoridge reviewed the program
or the Progressive party. and declared
that II would ond scotionalism and thus