Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-22

su6ScSlS also NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with '''N
candidates especially the republican can
didates. Even the victor in the battle
lost some of the normal democratic vote.
his popular vote being less than Bryan
| in all three of the latter's unsuccessful
campaigns.
PRESIDENTIAL POPULAR VOTES.
Roosevelt. 1900 las v.P. with Mckinley 2Oa 923
Roosevelt. 1904 .......................l 623 4S6
Roosevelt. 1912 T. 1885
s1 iSoS SSo
nryan !SS0 100
S0S 400. 200 i iSa
Wilson 1912 6, 1893 154
Mckinley, 1896 .7,1O4.I19
Mckinley. 1900 .....................7 4. 201 .923
Taft got. in 1905 the largest popular
vote ever cast for any candidate. and in
1912 the smallest for any candidate of the
two great parties since 1872, when Gree
ley's vote was less, though Grants was
greater
Roosevelt got in 1904 the second larg
est popular vote ever cast for President,
and in 1912 the smallest for either of the
two leading candidates since 1876, when
Hayes had smaller popular vote. though
Tildens was greater. One has to go back
to Horace Greeley to find a candidate OF
the two leading parties who received so
small an electoral vote as Roosevelt
The voters of the United States have
negatived Roosevelt's arrogant claim
that there can be no genuine pro-
gressivism except under his banner:
that every one who is not for him is
against him. and that every one who
is thus even indirectly against him is
infected with the reactionary faint.
According to the census calculations
there were over twenty-nine millions Of
persons of voting age in the United
States in 1912. After making liberal de-
auctions for all disqualified by other con-
ditions than age. there remained
twenty-five millions who could have
conceded that as between progressives
and reactionaries the bulk of these
voters are progressives. Roosevelt ap-
pealed to them all-republican. demo-
cratic and stay-at-home progressives-
to demonstrate their progressiveness
by voting for him. OF the twenty two
millions seven millions were deaf to
his appeal and stayed at home. six and
quarter millions voted for Wilson.
three and one-half millions for Taft
and little over four millions for him.
Under the ordinary tests perhap s two
thirds of these twenty-five million
voters would be classified as progress
siye. under Roosevelts test only four
millions are progressive and eighteen
millions are reactionary.
Progressives United All-Powerful.
The prOgressives of the United States
are thus separated into groups: and
Roosevelts attitude and policy of AFRO
CANT abuse toward the other groups
seem to preclude the possibility of his
absorption Of any of them. His own
group instead of increasing would nat
urally slowly dwindle
The progressives. thus divided into
groups. are conceded to be in the ma
jority in both the great political parties
The natural realignment of these groups
for 1916 will bring together the protective
mr. cufx- 80
moose parties against the ariff-for-rev-
enue only or the free trade-heavy income
tax prOgressives of the democratic party
Republican progressives ought to get
together on progressive platform with
progresslves in control. under the repub
lican standard, and If there boilers
they ought not to be progressives (the
majority of the parity. but reactionaries
if there are any left at one end of the
line, or a little group of constitution-de-
line. Republican prOgressivism is as much
entitled to the conservative progre ssve
vote Of the republican organization as the
democrats are entitled to the heavy vote
which Wilson received from democratic
conservative progressives who do not fol-
low Bryan.
The republican prosressives or progress
sive republicans should get together
under the republican standard.
II Taft was the real bOlter, carrying off
with him wrongfully the republican
| standard now that he is defeated, the
progressive republicans collecting from
all the camps into which they are SCAT
tered should recover the banner and
make it stand for the progressive doc
trines which they advocate.
ROOSevelts suggestion that the repub-
lican banner is to be d.sdained and re-
pudiated as worthless and tainted. disre-
CARDS the fact that this standard was in
the keeping of the progressives. who
were responsible for its condition. at lea
from 1904 until the 1912 Chicago conven-
ton. when 1t was temporarily abandoned
through Roosevelt's influence
| There is practical political value in the
republican standard If its possession held
| to Taft fwho according to Roosevelt had
absolutely no strength in himselG at least
one-han OF the republican party, includ-
ing many hundreds of thousands of pro-
gressives, and the most conspicuous of
the recognized progressive leaders.
To stick to the contention that the re-
publican banner is infected with reac-
tlonary faint. that all under IL are lep-
| rous and to be Stunned. that the same is
true of those under the democratic stand
ard. and that the only sincere. pure and
true progressives are the followers of
Roosevelt Is to nullify and stultify four
millions OF good progressives and con-
denim them to impotent isolation. These
Rooseveltites will find themselves selma
| rooned on an Cnb!essed Isle Of pharisafc
| self-exaltation, hypnotized and paralyzed
| into fatuous impotency through absorbed
contemplation OF the perfection of their
own wisdom and supreme righteousness.
The republican protective progressives
| are entitled to get together under the re-
publican standard and to make their
| fight with candidate who will not alien
ate hundreds of thousands of voters by
| his radical constitution undermining doc
| trfnes like the recall of judicial deci-
| sions. and who will not drive away from
the cause other hundreds of thousands Of
voters who are unalterably back of the
i proposition that: What Washington
would not and Grant could not Roosevelt
| shall not have"
No Surrender to Reactionaries.
| No surrender of progressives to reac-
tionaries is involved in marching into the
| republican camp and combining with pro-
gressives In that camp to hold the repub-
| lican standard for progressiyism under a
| leader Of the combined armies, acceptable
| to both. No sacrifice Of principle on either
| side is demanded. The Chicago conven-
| ton, IL unembarrassed by the personal
wrangies OF ambitious and angry men,
could readily have drafted a progressive
| platform which would have represented
with reasonable accuracy, and In good
faith the political creed of the great mass
| Of the seven million voters whom that
convention represented And SO with the
convention of 1916. il 1t is organized on
an equitable and reasonable basis of rep
Iresentation, and personal jealousies and
hatreds of leaders are pushed aside.
Not reconciliation and love feast of
leaders, but a reunion of followers is the
demand Of the situation. 1t is not neces-
sary. for example. to insist that Roosevelt
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