Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-17

public appearance in the councils of
the progressive party for many
weeks last night, to say that so far
as ne is concerned there will he no
compromise, no amalgamation, no
yielding in the fight for party. The
progressive party las come to stay,
he declared
The ex-president again attacked
the supreme court OF Idaho for its
decision denying the progressive
party a place on the ticket in the
fall election and asserted this court
had done more harm to courts than
any anarchist ever can, and declar-
ing the decision even a greater blot
on the American judiciary than the
Dred Scott decision"
Many of the conspicuous figures
in the progressive campaign last fall
gathered for the Lincoln day dinner
of the National Progressive Club.
Many women were present and hun
dreds of spectators filled the bal
Cony overlooking the ballroom in
which the dinner was held. Albert
]. Beveridge, progressive candidate
for governor of Indiana Oscar S.
Strauss, progressive candidate for
governor of New York; William H.
Hotchkiss and eX-Congressman
Bourke Cochran also spoke.
Colonel Roosevelt said in part:
AT this moment there mas oc-
Cured in Idaho 4 decision by the
highest state court. which within its
own limits is an even greater offense
against justice ana decency, and an
even greater blot on the American
judiciary, than the Dred Scott de-
cision itself. The reactionary su-
preme court of Idaho has played into
the hands of the republican machine,
of which it was itself a part, pre-
cisely as Justice Taney and the ma
jority of the supreme court of the
HdIlOH III 100 Ptt'J ou illO Iio ndnuo
of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan
and the reaction2X. organization of
which he and they were parts.
I'm Idaho the result was as grave
a miscarriage of Justice at the cleo
ton as already occurred at the nomi-
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 inter
ference with the right of an Ameri-
can in any state TO cast his vote and
have it counted for the president of
Americans OF all the states.
81 think the result of the vote
showed that if We had been given
our clear and undoubted rights
IdGhos electoral vote would have
beel in the progressive column. The
action of the reactionaTy court, TAX
en- in combination with the action of
the republican machine, resulted in
the deprivation of the right of the
people of Idaho to- express their
choice for president.
Abraham Lincola said that he be-
lieved the Dred Scott decision repre-
sented conspiracy against liberty
between the then supreme court and
the leading officers of the reaction
AIRY party to which that supreme
court belonged. | believe that with
even more justice Abraham Lincoln
if alive today could make the same
statement about the action of the
reactionary court of Idaho in con-
nection with the reactiOnary leaders
of the republican machine of Idaho.
But the court did not stop here
There was in Idaho a newspaper
which fearlessly and in entirely
proper manner condemned the court
for this outrage. The editor and
publisher Of that paper and another
man connected with them have been
thrown into Jail and fined heavily
Tor contempt by the court. The
court in its opinion has cited the
numerous dynamite outrages and the
like that have occurred as justifying
their action. No more extraordinary
plea was ever made. | yield to no
man in the horror | feel for the an
archists and all other criminals who
do murder whether by dynamite or
in any other fashion.
But the damage they do, though
great, is by no means as great tC
the cause Of law and order as Is
that done by decision such as the
decision in question; and no anarch
list ever can or ever will hurt the
courts as they are hurt by such ac,
tion as this of the highest court OF
the state of Idaho. Remember thai
If the position of the Idaho court il
Furnishing its critics for contempt /!