The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-01


 Pittsburgh, Pa, July 1-Cheered all most rapturously by the followers of '.BlI, Finn. for many years the un- disputed and .unshakaibIe Republican boss of western Pennsy1vania. Theo- dore Roosevelt last night sensa tionalIy assailed the Wilson administration, branded Boie4 Penrose. William Barnes Jr.. and other national Re publican leaders as no better than men of humber rank who have been put in stripes, spoke with patrontzing kindness to the men of sebig business who have hitherto felt his "big stick and declared that the progressive par ty, which has accepted him as sole leader, offers a panacea for all national ills, social moral and economic
 ssThe present national adminfstra- that prevents the existence of prosper ity and that does not offer a single serious intelIigible plan for passing prosperity around, should prosperity, in spite of the adminfstration's efforts, at some future time return to. our people.
 Their performances he said, H'has brought distress upon the nation The business community has been harass- ed and harried to no purpose and the prosperity of the business man, the farmer, and the wage earner has been checked At every point where the interests of the farmer were at stake he was made to suffer Tariff reduc- ton, as put into practice by the pres ent Administration has chiefly ben ef1tted foreign rivals azrd competitors It has done grave injury to the busi- ness comm unity and the farming com munity and has caused suffering to the workers and the whole policy of the administration has been one to cause injury to our people in business rnrT Fzr with dinner paiIs.
 Tt is of course essential to rebuke those leaders who by their action help ed to put the present administration In power, and. moreover, it is of vital consequence to the future zveIIbefng of our people to drive from public life all men whose political activities In state and nation alike have been such as those of Senator Penrose
 is well to keep in mind that we now have MT. Wilson's administration: mat we now suffer from a wretched foreign policy and from home policies 1 In national affairs which have seri- o1lsly impaired the well being of our people, primarily because of the ae- ton of Senator Penrose in associatins Barnes
 tMessrs- Penrose, Barnes and their associates at Chicago, taking af5van- 1age Of the fact that national nonni- natlng conventions are not protected | by law, followed a course of conduct morally every whit as bad as that I which at elections result in wrong doers Of humber rank being put in ] stripes They stole from the rank and I nie of the Republican party the right l to govern themselves; to nominate their own candidates and promuIgate l their own platform They took this acton with the deliberate purpose ot elect1ng mocratic president be- cause they infinitely preferred the 1 triumph of their nominal party foes | to seeing the control of their own or ganfzation wrested from their hands by the rank and file of their owr party They are foes of decent citi- zenship- Their political lives depend upon their keeping politics in such condition that decent men cannot sue ceed them and that the ordinary citi- zens cannot get control of their owr government.
 Rather than see this control brok. en, Messrs- Penrose. Barnes and theil associates deliberately put the Demo i cratic organization and MT. Wilson in to power at Washington
 The aim of the progressive party MT Roosevelt said, is to protect labor save children from oppression in the factories and to bring about co-opera- tion between operators and earners
 We believe,' he said that the wage earners and the business mer must cooperate for their mutual ad- vantage It has been the cut-throat competition in the past-the competi- tion that MT. Wilson is determined tc 1 preserve by law-which has not only 1 hurt business but has forced the work 1 ing man to ruinously small wages. We | propose to substitute the era of CO l operation for the era of competition 1 But this effort will come to naught if 7a hIT= ] ister politicians whose interested en- deavor is chiefly to help the crooked business man whose success is achiev-