The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-08-08
BULL MOOSE MOVIES

Fuzzy days, these. for the progress
siye party Fuzzy days for anybody
who is trying TO decipher the progress
sive party. The Progressive Herald OF
Kalamazoo auimadverts 20 Mr. Os.
born's endorsement of the recall OF
Judge and judicial decisions in his
Ann Arbor speech, and argues
Mr.. Obsorn does not belong in the
republican party he belonged in the
progressive party.
That does not follow. Since it be.
came the fashion in Michigan for
candidates for the governorship to be
nominated prior 10 the state conven-
ton, il has become customary for can
didates for the nomination TO make
their own platform, and then impose
these platforms on the state convention
as the will of the republicans who
made the nomination. This ought TO
be plain to The Progressive Heralds
since its party platform was not only
dictated by its candidate for the presi-
dency, but the party itself was created
by him. If Mr.. Osborn chose to de-
clare his faith in horse cnestnuts as a
cure for rheumatism for all the people,
his party affiliations would be no more
affected than by anything he has al
ready said
Likewise, The Progressive Herald
promotes further confusion in the pub
lie mind when il says
He (Obsorn) is undertaking the diff
cult task Of putting one foot in the re-
publican camp and another foot in the
progressive camp
Nothing difficult about it. Roosevelt
has already done it by endorsing re-
publican for governor OF New York.
What is good enough for Roosevelt
ought to be good enough for The Pro-
gressive Herald-at least il always has
been. If Mr. Obsorn had feet enough
to go around, The Progressive Herald
might justly complain that he had one
of them in the democratic camp. too
for he has been noupartisan enough
in the past TO warrant such com
plant.
But confusion is worse COMPOUNDED
when we turn to hear ex Senator Bev
eridge of Indiana, now candidate on
the progressive ticket for his former
Office Speaking at Galesburg, ILL.,,
the other day Mr. Beverage said a
progressi We republican is only "a
political scrambled egg. or other wise !
"a man who is not progressive enough |
TO be progressive, nor republican
enough 20 be a republican, but who is
just progressive republican enough to
carry water on both shoulders Is
this what Mr. Beveridge thinks of Mr.. |
Roos is progressive republican
for governor Of New York, |
Hon. Harvey d. Hinmanl Is this what |
Mr.. Beveridge thinks OF Mr.. Osborn,
who describes himself as a progressive
The Pontiac Press Gazette
suggests that the Beveridge castigation
does not apply to Osborn. since he
demonstrated in the presidential cam
paign OF 1912 that he can carry water
on three shoulders
In this weller Of politics one or two
facts can be clearly discerned Mr.
Roosevelt realizes that the progressives
are too weak as party to elect gov
ernor of New York Mr. Roosevelt's
endorsement of Human is his hrst
of the strength of the re
publican party since he wrecked IL.
IL is also his first recognition of the
Of the party he created.
Now that the abandonment Of the pro
gressive ticket has been begun by the
chieftain, his reconciliation
with the republican party would seem
to be only matter of time AS TO Mr.
Osborn, he opposed the organization of
a third party from the beginning -
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