Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-18
Indiana Moosers Boom
Colonel to Again Head
National Ticket.
AT STATE CONVENTION
Senator Poindexter, Official
Spokesman, Pays Respects
to Both of Old Parties.

Indianapolis, Ind, April 1s.-Sena-
tor Miles Poindexter of Washington
I launched a boom for the nomination OF
Theodore Roosevelt as the president
ial candidate of the progressive party
1 in 1916 in a speech delivered here to-
day before the Indiana progressive
state convention. The senator, after
an elaborate discussion and attack up
on the democratic and republican par
ties, declared the progressive's presi-
Dental nominee would have the sup
port of the great mass of the people.
The democratic administration, he
said, had not dealt effectually with
current national or international
questions because 1t was bound by
IAN unfortunate sectional issue" He
denounced particularly President VIII
sons stand for repeal of the tolls
exemption clause of the Panama canal
act.
1.-The progressive party is fortunate
in having in its ranks and as it's prin-
cipal leader Theodore Roosevelt" said
the senator. He has the prestige of
his record in the presidency. Should
he be nominated by the progressives.
as he probably will be, for the presi-
dency, he will have the support of
the great mass of the members of the .
republican party, because they are
progressive.
Agencies Must Be Enlarged.
"The progressive party pcs forward
the proposition that the activities and
agencies of the federal government
must be enlarged and extended, pri-
vate monopoly is nation wide and can
not lie restrained or controlled by the
individual states. The democratic
party and the republican party are
both opposed to this proposition. The
one because it is jealous of the power
of the states, and the other because it
is opposed to further governmental in
reference with the great corporations.
THE policy of the republican organi-
zation is illustrated by the declara-
ton of Senator Lodge in the senate a
few days ago that his politics stopped
at the waters edge; when he urged
that foreign and international ques-
tions should be settled upon their
merits, implying that in domestic
however vital their concern
might be to the prosperity and even
to the lives of our citizens, he would
play politics and decide them upon a
basis of party expediency and advant-
age rather than upon the basis of the
public welfare.
"The democratic party, like the re-
publican party, contains great mum
bers Of progressives, still, is bound
hand and foot by an unfortunate sec.
tional issue which impedes and Grip.
pies it as a governing power from
dealing effectively with current ma
-ionaI and international questions. The
racial question sits like an incubus
upon its political activities. With
complete control of the government 1t
the caucus system; denied
he appeals of women; and hastened,
ike a disorderly rout. back to the
spoils of patronage and the flesh pots
Of political success.
Charges Distorted Treaty.
"The progressive party does not be-
ieve in distorting the language of a
-reaty and deprive the people of the
benefit of the Panama canal. 1t re-
mains for the democratic party, have
ng voted for the tolls exemption, ap.
proved 1t in their national platform
and on the stump, to now propose to
surrender the sovereignty OF this
most costly of all the American pos
sessions to the whims, caprice and
sordid interests of foreign countries
and domestic railroad lines. This
Shim as expressed is nominally based
lpon Article VIII of the Clayton.
Bulwer treaty. That treaty was made
n 1850. In 1S47 Great Britain seized
n defiance of the Monroe doctrine
ireytown, the American terminus OF
he proposed canal which was to be
located at Nicaragua. Article VIII
" that treaty provided that the Unit
ID States and Great Britain should
ointly promote and protect not only
N inter-oceanic canal but an inter
ceanic railway. Shyiock England
laims the heart of our system, and
avs II is nominated in the bond. She
generous enough, however, TO say
nat she VIII not claim any greater
rivileges in the canal than We our
elves enjoy"