Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-11
COLONEL AGAINST
PLAN FOR FUSION
Roosevelt Holds Moosers Might
as Well Join With Demo
Gratis as Republicans.

New York, Jan. 11.-Theodore !
Roosevelt has replied to a proposal !
advanced by Frank A. Munsey to bring |
the progressive and the republican |
parties together. He held there was
no more reason for the progressives
uniting with the republicans than with
the democra- S.
The colonel said: 81 firmly believe
that all good progressives who may
happen yet to adhere to either the
republican party or the democratic
party will in the end see that the
chance for honest government and for
the practical achievement of social
and industrial justice lies only in the
progressive party. l hold that we are
under he same obligations 10 ex-demo-
Gratis, like Judge Lindsey and Don
Dickinson, as to any ex-repubiicans"
Mr.. Roosevelt referred to a recent
speech by President Taft in which
/ he said the result of the Chicago
convention was a triumph for the per-
manence of republican Institutions
Mr.. Roosevelt then reviewed the cleo
tons in Arizona, Michigan, Indiana,
: Washington, California and some 9TH
er states where the progressives
| received heavy votes, and added:
/ The triumph for the permanence
/ OF republican institutions of which
/ Mr.. Taft speaks was the triumph of
| fraud and theft, and it was rebuked
! by the figures l have given above in
the various districts in which it was
perpetra ed.
Until the managers of the repub-
lican party learn that theft and fraud
and swindling the people and imposing
the will of the bosses when the peo-
pie declare by two to one majority
at the primaries in the reverse way,
is not the method in which to achieve
the triumph of the permanence of re-
publican institutions, 1t is idle to dis
cuss getting together with them"
Elsewhere in his statement Mr..
Roosevelt asserted that the republi-
cans had shown that under the pres
ent management of the party they
cannot be trusted not to cheat, not
TO swindle.
Moreover, the doctrine of the pres
ent republican managers about the
courts is just at present being prac-
tically applied in Idaho. The courts
of Idaho are acting along the lines
that Mr.. Taft, Mr.. Barnes and other
republican leaders uphold and defend
The progressives take the same view
of the Idaho case that Abraham Lin
coin took of the bred Scott case
We take the same view of justice that
Lincoln took, and of the rights OF
the people TO be masters of the con
stitution, of the courts and of the
Z congress that Lincoln took"
In conclusion Mr.. Roosevelt said
| "Ail honest men who believe in these
principles, both as REGARDS those SET
forth in the platform and those in
accordance with which We manage
the party, will be welcomed into oul
ranks We will treat them on an en-
4 tire equality with ourselves, and viii
work hand in hand and shoulder Il
shoulder with them for the better
ment of the social, industrial ant
political conditions of this great ma
: ton"
Boston, Jan. 11.-Resolutions con
& demning any proposal for amalgama
ton with the republican party were
adopted by the state committee of tht
I progressive party of Massachusetts
The resolutions express the belle
that the republican party as at pres
4 ent constituted is not in sympath!
with the principles of our party, ant
4 that any amalgamation between thu
progressive party and the republican
4 party would result in a partial aban
) donment of these principles"