New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-03
ROOSEVELT AND THE PARTY
A Republican Protests Stronuous5
That Progress Does Not Lie the
Way of the Colonel.

| To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The man who looks out on the vys-
bled political sea with a clear vision lsrs
TO discriminate between professions. hcs'
ever yociferous, and actual cOnds<
Words may be brave-as were those
Colonel Roosevelt when he proclaima
that none w6uld be received into Ia
Progressive ranks except he unequivocsI
~ adopted every plank OF their platforms
do doubt meaning that adopted AZ cEl
cago in 1872 on that point an appeal VI
very recent history seems imperatIu
Has the colonel himself been loyal 10 q
those planks. or has he conioned nI
pudiation of some Of tho more signihcsrl
of them by men whom hc has taken VI
his heart and eulogizcd, or, worse. BEL
he repudiated any OF them In actual "a,
duct himself? The answer Is easy all
indisputable.
Your correspondent. Mr.. Baldwin, zs 4
not have forgotten that Planks I and ~
that platform favored direct prima1e
and nationwide Presidential prcierenst
primaries. Now. those who had the PM 4
legc OF listening TO debate at the On
Club late in Mr. Hughes's admintstratN 8
as Governor. at which the subject 4
direct nominations was discussed, viii ~
call that while Judge Wadhams, later 9 r
ardent advocate of the Reelection OF y
Taft. took the affirmative the man VI
made the principal speech in opposlue
and in favor OF retaining the converts
as the best method OF arriving al the VI y
of the people was Mr.. WOODRUFF
Brooklyn, who in 1912 supported y
Roosevelt's third term aspirations a.
was credited with having conducted
Brooklyn so remarkably successful
campaign for the colonel that the colcn
took him to his heart and ignored y
incongruity that he repudiated pl@zs
and > of the platform. In the E
of this, how specious the colonies
cent proclamation that none should
admitted 10 the Progressive fold eir
he adopted every one OF those plann
But further. Mr.. Baldwin will no doe r.
remember the coloners comment 90
Court OF Appeals decision in the !" q
case. He said in his Ohio ConstityiW
Convention speech in 1912 Il refer 70 IN
Outlooks' report that as a rsaS \
that decision Ives was compdN
"stagger through life MANNED dspn'"
or the power TO earn a livelihood. !"
Baldwin will refer TO the report Of t'e'
decision in 20l New York Reports he We
has
ages for five weeks loss of time. -
coloners story of his having been eSs
PEELED TO "stagger through life naun"
was pure invention-as really fiction
any tale in Baron Munchausen
Once more. Does MIR Baldwin apF
ciatc the colonels practical repudiA''
of plank 50 of the Chicago pla''",
Does he recall that during the au1~
OF 1912 President Emeritus Eliot OF
ward charged that the colonel heipeS
defeat the Invaluable arbitration w
ties" with France and England negcus
by the Taft administration? That o.
after his objection that there were ~
tons, like the Monroe Doctrine.
the United States never would aro'.
was completely met by the unsIun
adoption OF MIR. Roots motion OF
ate resolution excepting from the oFs
ton Of the treaties purely Amen
questions the colonel still msln'A
his opposition, never relaxing ths
tensity OF IL? Yet he pretentouSy
claimed that new supplicants for s'D
sion To the Progressive fold would %
jected unless they accepted every
of their platform.
Doubtless there are many Proeress
Mr.. Baldwin among them-who sn"~
ly believe. notwithstanding almost
berlesJ paradoxes and contradictions
the colonel really represents some NV
issue. But from day TO day hs"
thrown on the colonel's inconsis'ea
on his misstatemonts OF facts on Jun
and other matters.
GEORGE II. BiShVe
New York. Jan. -. 1914