Evening star., 1914-11-22
Amos Pinchot Says Mere Per-
sonaI Leadership, Like
RooseveIt's, Is Intellectual.
MIDDLE-OF-ROAO PLAN
PLEASED NEITHER SIDE
Declares Movement Merely a Politi-
cal Faction With No Serious
Economic Program.

According to Amos Pinchot the bat
Tic at Armageddon has dissolved into
the mists whence it came and
the progressive party is a failure.
Amos Pinchot is brother to Clifford
Pinchot, who unsuccessfully bore the
shield of the progressives in the recent
Pennsylvania senatorial contest, and
although at the outset q good enough
progressive he now writes an article
for the Masses Magazine, headed The
Failure of the Progressive Party" in
Which he charges the leaders of the
movement with having diverted their
activities from the original intentions.
He says the leaders are following
false gods and are more concerned in
winning a few votes than in building
up Il solid foundation for radical
movement that Will correct the evils of
present day society at large.
In other words. Amos Pinchot re-
jccts the progressive party. He de-
clares. too, that its collapse proves that
no party can be built merely on per-
sonai leadership. such AS Theodore
Roosevelt offered
The article says:
The progressive party should either
have undertaken to go deeply and in
teliiEcntly into the causes of the eco
no.nic troubles which threaten the peace
of society, is the liberal parties n Eng
land, France and Germany have done.
,'r it should have kept its fingers out of
The pie.
1T did neither Under blind leader
ship, the party followed q shallow mid
,lle-of-t -the-road course. 1t had no serious
economic program. 1t coutented itself
with 4 series of unobjectionable reforms.
supposedly adapted to yote-getting from
ali quarters CARRYING a withercd and
lVl
% Labor and canltal and 10 democracy
and ol.garchy alike it pleaded for uni
ycrs,i approval, This piea was rejected
Not Really Political PARTY.
The progressive party polled more
than 1000 600 votes in 1912. 1t had and
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my VI ie'i puoiic "p14 1t
ana msh apiiltH, VINO are willing TO
make large sacrifices for the public good.
Rut in a certain sense II ,ras not reaIIv
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= = polilicdl parry, put rather a poil.lcai
"a ae1ioi; for II grew support iess IRON
.'Ie auiiei SiS eiiIe oi luei1s thah from tie
pefsohdi ioloWers OF man. ON the
great personality and popularity OF Theo-
nofe kooseveit the party was founded
4 personal following is not enough to
The fall of the nropressive marty
though inevitable under the circum-
stances, is nevertheless lamentable
~ ,,: 10 tnousaLas OF earnest men mel;
or as leaders for What thev snnnosaS ed
was a campaign against privilege and
injustice. the failure of the progressive
party, endlnS IN the election of Novem-
ber ., mas been tragedy Buoyed up
pE the nope that they had at last found
nome m party that would fight
1ouraeeousiy 10 Tree the public from
oppressive lhdustrlaiism, they gave
wen. ihto odttie. or "hat they thought
Nds oatlIe. with the 1erVor OF a religious
.IuStue. l heE sang onward, CHRISTIAN
7oi"ltFs, anu were told that thev were
.Ndiiuiiis - AFhlaseddon ana battllng
~ tne l-olu- !nty oecl2red war
.iie cAploildIioli oi the people
'ac - - 10 iiio.iopolies aliu uehouilceu
-. % ~ - 80; - W " ou, soVeIi zen
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soiI 80, 49, IL " ~ POI S' tiois. M MIheE
- ~ sls, - VI S''ii iit'o ooiiie
W. '.eai vi tIoi
iitirsI idaI IA - ,'' to,.,i eli as " po-
-nirac1e. anJ il, IL tis1. 60. - ~ - -, :" q
Of an era of prosneritv and instice am5
tbssn neonie n,ea,, 81, on, -, aii9 9
,Ia1lv made Ivbg+avar So; 49, s,oa,,ai O.
neccSsarv+o carry forn.,r,i 80 e. 4su
~ 'ii' nag.
Line of March CHANGED
But as time went on the rank and
lie of the progressive marty bepar 70
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HHsteiloua4! Sliahseu- Ihey had sup
posed the glst OF the situation in
america-the cause of our social un-
t est 'ha s i,t aslta tion-"ds the coheehtra- ira.
lands OF few people They had be-
IeN ~ 'nl. '1s auN .I' 'r,,e oI oeiioeratS HiS
,,a,t nj 3, iuster distrihutio, of wea1tb
md power. and that this was the