Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-13
!. R. SAYS new
!. PARTY WILL STAY
Denounces Idaho Court De-
cision as Worse Than That
in bred Scott Case.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1s.-Former
President Roosevelt made his first
public appearance in the councils of
the Progressive party for many
weeks last night to say that. so far
as he was concerned, there would be
no compromise. no amalgamation, no
yielding in the fight for the party.
stThe Progressive party has come to
stay" he declared.
The ex-President again attacked
the Supreme Court of Idaho for its
decision denying the Progressive
rarity a place on the ticket at the fall
election. He said it was worse than
the bred Scott decision, and added
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
Lincoln. decision as indefensible
from every standpoint of law and
Justice and popular rights as the
bred Scott decision itself =
Colonel Roosevelt spoke to Progress
siVes at their Lincoln Birthday BAN
auet The first political utterance he
has made in months. his address was
uermeated with passages from Lin
coins writings and speeches. In Lin
coins words, he replied to the critics
Of the Progressive party. He said in
rart:
AT this moment there has occurred
in Idaho a decision by the highest
State court which, within its own
fiurr off o
against justice and decency, and an
even greater blot on the American
judiciary. than the bred Scott de-
eision itself. The reactionary Su-
nreme Court of Idaho has played into
the hands of the Republican machine
ar which it was itself a part. pre-
cisely as Justice fancy and the ma
iority of the Supreme Court of the
nation in 1857 played into the hands
Of Pres dents Pierce and Buchanan
end the reactionary organization of
which he and they We're parts.
Abraham Lincoln said that he be-
lieved the bred Scott decision repre-
xented a conspiracy against liberty
between the then Supreme Court and
The leading officers of the reactionary
PARTY, to which that Supreme Court
belonged. believe that, with even
more justice, Abraham Lincoln, if
alive today, would make the same
sta tenaent about the action of the re-
dictionary court of Idaho in eonnec-
tion 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 pub
lislier of that paper and another man
connected with them have been
thrown into jail and fined heavily for
contempt by the court. The court in
It's opinion has cited numerous dyna
mite outrages and the like that have
occurred as justifying their action.
No more extraordinary plea was ever
made. | yield to no man in the hor-
rer ! feel for the anarchists and for
AL other criminals who do murder,
SSher by dynamite or in any other
fashion.
But the damage they do. though
great, is by no means as great to the
cause of law and order as is that
done by a decision such as the de-
cision in question; and no anarchist
ever can or ever will hurt the courts
80 they are hurt by such action as
this Of the highest court of the state
Of Idaho. Remember that if the posi-
ton of the Idaho court in Furnishing
its critics for contempt is proper, then
A braham Lincoln should have been
Jailed and fined for his words about
the Supreme Court of the United
States in connection with the bred
Scott decision