Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-06
sive republicans should get together
ln.ier the republican standard.

sve republicans should get together
under the republican standard.
II Taft was the real better. carrying
off with him wrongfully the repuphcan
standard, now that he is defeated the
progressive republicans collecting from
all the camps into which they are scat.
tered should recover the banner anu
make it stand for the progressive doc
trines which they advocate.
Roosevelt's suggestion that the repuo
lican banner is to be disdained ana re-
pudiated as worthless and tainted dlsre-
CARDS the fact that this standard was
in the keeping of the progressiVes' VINO
We're responsible for its condltlon' az
least from 1904 until the 1912 chicago
convention, when it was temporarily
abandoned through Roosevelt infuence.
There is practical political value IN the
| republican standard If Its possession he!d
to Taft {who according to Roosevelt, mad
absolutely no strength in hinselfD at
least one-half of the republican party,
including many hundreds OF thousands
Of progressiveS and the most conSpicu-
f. Gus of the recognized progressive leaders
To stick to the contention that the re-
publican banner is infected with reac-
tionary faint. that all under 1t 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 ana
| true progressives are the followers OF
E, Roosevelt is to nu1lify and stuitify tour
! millions of good progreSsives ana con-
| denim them to impotent isolation These
| Eooseveltites will find themselves self ma
| rooned on an Unblessed Isle Of pharisaIc
| Standardization, hypnotzed and paralyzed
! into fatuous impotency through absorbed
contemplation of the perfection OF their
own wisdom and supreme righteousness.
/ The republican protective progress1ves
are entitled to get together under the re-
publican standard and to make thelr
! tight with candidate who will not alien
ate hundreds of thousands of voters by
j his radical tution-undermining doc
| trines 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 PACK OF the
proposition that: What Washington
| would not and Grant could not Roosevelt
| shall not have.
! No Surrender to Reactionaries.
| No surrender of proEressives to reac-
tiona ries is involved in marching into the
| republican camp and combining with pro-
gressives in that camp to hold the repuh-
| Iican standard for progressivfsm under a
| leader of the combined armies. acceptable
| to both No sacrifice of principle on either
/ side is demanded. The Chicago conven-
| ton if unembarrassed by the personal
| wrdngles of ambitious and angry men,
| could readily have drafted 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. if it is organized on
an equitable and reasonable basis of rep
resentation and personal JealousieS and
| hatreds of leaders pushed aside.
| Not a reconciliation and love feast of
| leaders. but "A reunion of followers, is the
! IL <Sft ,frtpt JC mt
sary. for example, to insist that Roose-
Welt. La Toilette. Cummins, Barnes and
PenroSe shall kiss and make up: 1t is nee
eSSary to bring together again the mil
| lions of voters who last year separated
because part of them believed Taft to be
reactionary and under the influence of
the interests and because another part
| looked on Roosevelt as a lawless consti-
| tuition smasher. a national menace as a
third-term President Eliminate the
causes of division springing from the can
| ddacies of Taft and Roosevelt. and these
millions should be able to reunite a
progressive platform and with a pro-
gressive presidential candidate though
some defections may be expected from
both the reactionary and the anarchistic
extremes of the reunited political army.
| Standpatism in excessive protection, the
most important issue in respect to which
| republican pfogressives differed. is now
abandoned Genuine downward revision
of the tariff. preserving the principle of
protection of home industries, is the re-
| publican slogan.
| The republican party has confessed to
Inadequate downward revision of the tar
| lift under Taft, and to a Standpat failure
to revise it at all for seven years under
Roosevelt The question to be settled is
whether the penalty to be exacted for
this political sin is capital punishment.
destroying the protective policy and the
r. RI hot he.r IRE
penalties already inflicted will be deemed
by the American people adequate pun
ishment: whether the traditional Ameri-
can policy Of moderate and reasonable
protection for American industries and
American workingmen. accompanied by
perfect free trade between the states. is
worthy to be preserved, and whether
those hostile to protection and favoring
he raising of national revenue by direct
taxation may not push the movement
past the imaginary dead-line of radical
ism which l have suggested, with the re-
suit of a reaction 80 familiar in Ameri-
can political eXperience), and a new
tria in national affairs for the chastened
and assressvely progressive protec-
tionists.
Greatness in Self-Denial.
| Roosevelt ought not to be willing. and.
if willing. ought not to be permitted. to
nullify several millions of voters to the
end Of self exploitation as perpetual presi-
dental candidate. Preceding the Chicago
convention l said in The Star of June s.
1912. under the heading Greatness in
| Self-Denial: The President and ex
President both claim at this time control
of the Chicago convention. If either of
| them in fact controls he would be a
wiser and a greater man to nominate for
the presidency some one else than HIM
| self. who would represent faithfully the
| principles of his victory. but who would
escape the savage and Perhaps fatal cut
| ting at the polls to which he would HIM
self as the nominee be subjected. But
| the abstract truths of aitruistic philos-
ophy may not meet at all the actual con-
! fronting conditions. The self-denial sug-
gested may be too much TO expect from
! human nature The substitution Sug
sested may under the circumstances he
impossible of accomplishment. even it dc
! sired. Genuine .-eIt-S:trFiiice would he
conspicuous if til. President. having con-
troll of the convention. should a I,resi
dental candidate substitute another: for
his safe, sound and progressive admin
| stration entities him in custom. In
! ep%,ity and in policy to the indorsc-
meat of fl RECOMMENDATION, whether not
reelection IL to follow. The naming of