Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-24
ROOSEVELT LESS ACTIVE AND
TALK LACKS SPIRIT IN PRES.
EMIT CAMPAIGN.
BULL MOOSE LEADER ATTACKS
cuMMlNs IN oEs MONIES.
Finds Fault With Iowa Senator Be.
cause He Refuse. TO Follow Roe.s-
vsit's ForIorn Aops-coIonsl Not
consistent in His Attitude Toward.
Senator and Anti Trust Question.


Des Noines. Sept. 2l.-Roosevelt in
his speech to Des Moines people last
night made it plain that he is far more
concerned for the defeat of Senator
Cummins than that the progressive
party betkept intact in Iowa and else
wheres and he pointed out, in way
not noticed by all his hearers, just why
he is so bitterly opposed to the Iowa
senator.
This was in his attack on the senator
for his part in the formation OF thesbili
to create national trade COMM ssfon
! under regulations that mean all the
effort Of the federal government shall
be used to restore competition3ahd TO
prevent the formation of trusts and,
monopolies. Roosevelt declared that ~
is useless to undertake to maintaiii
,competition. He placed himself square ?
ly against the principle Of the Sherman
antitrust law and the amendment
/ thereto. and the principles embodied in
the trade commission bill and in part,
at least. in the Clayton antitrust BILL
He did not elaborate as to what he
would do. but made it very clear that
he is opposed to all effort on the part
of the federal government to prevent
formation of trusts and combines and
to restrict unfair competition and pro-
tect business from the modern system
of combining. This was the source of
his complaint against Cummins, except
that he reiterated the hackneyed and
exploded canard about Cummins be-
lieving in free trade.
Roosevelt Losing vigor.
Inasmuch as the progressive move
ment in Iowa was based primarily upon
the thought that something definite
should be done to curb the trusts and
| combines and 1t has always stood
sQuarely against the Wall street IDEA or
letting the kings Of big business con-
troll the country. 1t was easy enough for
Roosevelt to place himself squarely
against the Iowa idea of progressive
legislation.
The ex-president was not as spirited
and active in his talk as in the past and
his speech seemed to lack fire.
Altho only three fourths of the
, Coliseum was in use it was calculated
that the crowd which heard the colonel
numbered not less than 10000.
Urged to Vote Principles.
My main plea to you here in Iowa
and do not permit yourselves to let
loyalty to names make you disloyal to
principles Colonel Theodore Roose-
Welt said to his hearers at the meeting
/ of progressives. "As at present con-
trolled and managed the democratic and
republican parties are as poor instru-
ments with which to work out the
welfare OF the country as were the
democratic and whis parties sixty
years ago when the republican party
was first founded. Abraham Lincoln
was then man of middle age and all
his life long had been a whig. He
found that he could be true to the
principles which had made him Henry
Clay whig only by refusing longer to
be fettered by allegiance to a party
name. He left the party with which
for quater of century he had been
identified and which had elected him
TO office and joined the new party
the progressive party of that day.
For sthe first six years of it's ex-
istences the then progressive party, the
republican party had to struggle with
all the difficulties with which the pro-
gressive party today is now struggling.
There were foolish radicals who said
it did not go far enough. and foolish
conservatives who said that it went
too far. Moreover, there We're plenty
of wellemeaning men who wished the
progressives instead of standing by
their own men to support near-pro-
gressives in both the old parties.
Attacks Cummins.
Senator Cummins and those who
train with him are on the wrong track.
They can not be true to the old time
rip nj ofJ r ~ A,t
as long as they continue their associa-
ton with the utterly reactionary re-
publican machine as now controlled in
the nation and in the largest and most
populous states. We must not let our
loyaltyeto a name blind us to existing
facts. THE Iowa progressives when, in
1914 they oppose Mr.. Cummins. stand
exactly where the republicans stood in
1858 when they opposed Mr.. Douglas.
Mr.. Cummins and the republicans
who think as he does really stand in
absolute alliance with those in control
of the present democratic party and
with the national democratic admin
istrations as regards both the tariff
and the trust questions"
Mr. Roosevelt discussed the tariff
questions at some length. criticisins
the policies of both the democratic and
republican parties.
Control Of Trusts.
Touching on the trust question he
referred to plan Of limiting the cap
.talization of industrial tenets that no
unit should have more than % per
cen. of the business Of any given type,
which he said had been advocated by
both democratic and republican, lead
ers.
Mr. Roosevelt sounded note of
warning as to the control Of trusts In
that I'VE must not war against eff
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