Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-16
Just Why Bull M0oseism Can't Last.


just Why Bull Mooseisn1 Can't Last
The standard established in Maine
last year for counting prediction
noses has been adopted by Chairman
Dietrich of the Bull Moose party in
PENNSYLVANIA. Alarmed by the rapid
disintegration of his party as shown
by the recent enrolment throughout
the state. Mr.. DIETRICH has given out
an explanation and an apology. Here
is his logic; is it not Dingleyesque !!
He does not dispute the tremendous
decline in enrolment as compared with
the party's vote at its high tide dur
ing the Presidential contest of 1872
but he does assert that every Bull
Moose party enrolment in Pennsyl-
yania at this time means three votes
at the November election and this
spells victory"
That is the logic and the "argu-
mente (minus the remarkable liter
airy fireworks and gymnastics with
veracity) used by Names Bull Moose
expert in the Third district campaign
last year An indignant subscriber
after election wrote for an explana-
ton of the utterly false and wholly
unwarranted claims and declarations
that had been made, and asking how
readers could ever be expected to
place any reliance in such an organ
again-"for any newspaper must have
had facilities for knowing that such
claims were false and have put them
forth purposely to mislead Republic
cans and elect the Democratic candi-
date
This subscriber was assured that the
political expert" had told the edi-
tors, up the day of election, that
Lawrence was an easy winner.
Lawrence can beat Pattangall, Pc
tiers can't; Voters by thousands are
focking to the Progressive standard;
"A vote for Peters is vote for Pat
tangaH," etc. Down in Pennsy the
leaders are now telling the voters that
one Progressive enrolment means
three votes and victory; while in
Massachusetts the leaders are accus-
ing each other of treachery.
The biggest plank of the Bull Moose
Mo tfor,y, a,yarvuvbara caarnS RI ba
pieced together of distrust, suspicion
and unfounded denunciation. The per-
feet brother of today is the perfect
devil of tomorrow.
The Bangor convention proved the
Progressives more intolerant than is
the average political or other human
gathering Hon. John E. Warren was
howled and hooted down in spite of
the chairman's appeals; Dunnack was
Kissed and sneered at for proposing
to place the party as a believer in
prohibition, and so was Rev. Mosher
who supported Dunnack's amendment.
And yet the Bull Moose organ of
variegated veracity inficts the fol-
lowing editorial utterance in support
of its news reports:
THE so-called Maine Republican party
of Penrose and Haines held yesterday
was out-and-out ti-Roosevelt-thanks
to the Yarmouth delegation and to ga
vies for making the fact clear and thanks
to Peters for accurately defining himself
by getting on The Parliamentary Lid as
is the habit Of the two old parties in
Congress and in Legislatures The Pro-
gressives at Bangor had no Lid and al
lowed free debate. The Haines conven-
tion CT Thursday al Augusta made not a
ever can match the job Of two years ago
at Bangor-but all records of Bunk and
Punk in the platform were beaten by
Thursdays Haines, Peters, and Burleigh
aggregation.
Not only was the above writer, his
managing editor and his star news
gatherer at theBangor convention bur
all saw and heard the free debate"
The same star man and another were
at the Augusta convention and must
have known that ample opportunity
was given Mr. Davies TO have dumped
his plank into the hopper for discus
sion with the others in making the
platform. Not choosing to do so he
was given the privilege of offering ii
as separate resolution for discussion
In convention. He chose not to ac-
cept the opportunity.
This has been explained publicly
and privately to the above-quoted
editorial equilibrist yet he reiterates in
this form:
The Androscoggin member of Haines
Burleigh Futiiity Court made UP of Bur
leigh's Democratic son-in-iaw and Of
two Burleigh Republican lawyers de
rlares that opportunity was given Da
vies TO put in Roosevelt resolution, but
not as an amendment Of the platform