Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-07-10
1,R, OPENS FIGHT
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Flags Wilson and Pays Re-
spects to Pearose
HIS TALK At PITTSBURGH
Ex-President Ridicues AdmEi3tra.
tion's Antitrust Plan and says
Democratic Tariff Brought EiStress
Upon Nation.

tion's Antitrust Plan and Says
Democratic Tariff Brought distress
Upon Nation.
Theodore Roosevelt da,i"erel in
Pittsburgh, Pa, Tuesday the !tt@t pr
litical address that has conc ron
him since his return from Brazil.
1t was divided, generally speaA.A3'
into three parts-an attack on tie
Wilson administration, an Indictment
of "bosses," and an exposition OF the
principles of the Progressive party.
During his exposition OF the prlnci'
pies of the Progressive party the eX'
president only made the briefest rel
erence to Clifford Pinchots candidacy
for the United States senate, as a.s1
that of William Draper Lewis, Pro-
gressive nominee for governor.
The administration tariff laws
Colonel Roosevelt hailed as a colossal
failure, particularly hard upon t4a
farmer. It's antitrust program lie
branded as an economic ubau.dity.
It's foreign policy he styleI rs L-it;
"wretched," but upon this ne ii 1T
elaborate.
The Democratic tariff, he i3.i*t H.
had brought distress upon the l;,~ II
had not lowered the cost Of livil a!
had chiefly benefited foreign rivals oi
American business.
The solution, he argued, is support
Of the Progressive movement and the
enactment of laws providing for tarln
revision by a non-partisan cCmmis
sion.
OF the "bosses" Mr.. Roosevelt said:
"Messrs. Penrose, Barnes and their
associates at Chicago, taking advan
tage of the fact that national noml
mating conventions are not protected
by law, followed a course of conduct
morally every whit as bad as that
which at elections result in wrong
doers of humber rank being put in
stripes.
"Tley stcie from the rank and file
of the Republican party the right to
govern themselves, to nominate their
own candidate and promulgate their
own platform. They took this action
with the deliberate purpose OF elect.
ing a Democratic president, because
they infinitely preferred the triumph
of their nominal party foes to seeing
the control of their own organization
wrested from their hands by the rank
and file of their own party. They arc
foes of decent citizenship. Their po'
litical lives depend upon their keeping
politics in such condition that decent
men cannot succeed them ard that
the ordinary citizens cannot get con-
troll OF their own government.
Rather than see this control brok.
en-, Penrose, Barnes and their associ.
ates deliberately put the Democratic
organization and Mr.. Wilson into
power at Washington"
To meet such situation Colonel
Roosevelt argued that the voters OF
Pennsylvania should repudiate Pen.
rose and his nominees and followers
and further should oppose the support
ers of the present administration.
Concluding HE indictment of "the
bosses," he outlined what he styled
the Specific performances of the Pro-
gressive party in the matter of state
and national legislation, and again
took Up the tariff question.
In conclusion the coloGol sketchod
the Progressive idea Of needed anti
trust regulation by properly empower
ed commissions.
Such a program alone, he contenl.
ed, proved the inadequacy Of the
Democratic party. He said:
at is and always will be the States
Rights party, the 'Party-AfraiG-of.
Power"
Yet the colonel warned those dis.
satisfied with the administration not
through their resentment to throw
their support to the leaders lie had at.
tackled. To dc so, he said, would only
ensure a continuation OF government
by CONFUSION. of a governmental see
saw between TWO sets OF policies"