The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-13
DECISION AS TO ELECTORS WAS
WORSE THAN THE DRED
SCOTT DECISION.
ARRANGEMENT is SEVERE
The Colonel Speaks at Lincoln Day
Meeting of Progressives in New
York and Numerically Excoriates
Tribunal Which Deprived Electors
of tho Gem State of Their Votes.

New York, Feb. 12.-Former Presi-
dent Roosevelt made his first public
appearance in the councils Of tho pro
g"cssive party for many weeks to-
night, to say that SO far as he was
concerned, there would be no COM
promise, no amalgamation, no yield
ing in the fight for the party.
"The progressive party has come to
stay" he declared.
He again attacked the supreme
court Of Idaho for it's decision deny
ing the progressive party place on
the ticket at the fall election.
Many Of the conspicuous figures in
the progressive campaign gathered
for the Lincoln day dinner of the Ma
tional Progressive club. Many wom
en- were present and hundreds of spec
tators filled the balcony overlooking
the ballroom in which the dim r was
held.
Albert J. Beveridge, progressive
candidate for governor of Indiana at
tho last election; Oscar S. Straus,
who ran for governor in New York,
and former Congressman w. Bourke
Cochran also made speeches.
Said Colonel Roosevelt:
abraham Lincoln was no less
guilty than the three men whom the
supreme court of the state of Idaho
imprisoned for contempt because they
criticized. in less severe language than
from every standpoint of law and JUS
tice and popular rights as the Dred
Scott decision itself"
4oJ
made in months, his address was per-
meated with passages from Lincoln's
writings and speeches. In Lincoln's
words he replied to the critics of the
progressive party, likened republican
leaders to the "old exclusive silk
stocking Whiggery" which opposed
Lincoln before the civil war;" and de-
clared that the time had come for the
people to act as a court of last resort.
He said in part:
Part Of the Machine.
"At this moment there has occurred
in Idaho decision by the highest
state court, which within it's own linn
it's is an even graver offense against
justice and decency and an even
61SdlCA blol oI lhc tAliiSi iAall Jt-
dietary than the Dred Scott decision
itself. The reactionary supreme court
of Idaho has played into the hands of
the republican machine of which itself
was part.
I'm Idaho the result was as grave
miscarriage of justice at the cleo
ton as already occurred at the nom
mating convention and the court be-
came the most potent instrument in
this denial of justice. This decision
hold to have been an outrage upon
the people of Idaho and not merely
upon them, but upon the people of all
the United States, for any interfer-
ence with the right of an American
in any state to cast his vote and have
it counted for the president Of his
choice is an offense against the
Americans of all of the states.
abraham Lincoln said that ne be-
lieved the Dred Scott decision repre-
scented a conspiracy against liberty
between the then supreme court and
the leading Officers of the reaction
ary party to which that supreme court
belonged. I believe that with even
more justice Abraham Lincoln if alive
today could make the same statement
Dor Iyt