The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-20
with . Speech ct Chicago in
Interest of Raymond Robins.
No Progress Until This Has
Been Accomplished.
Old Party Represents sPrivi.
lege' in Offensive Term.

Chicago, Oct. 20.-CoI. Theodore
Roosevelt bitterly attacked United
States Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman,
Republican candidate for reelection.
and Roger c. Sullivan, the Democrat
ic candidate for the United States SEN
ate, in a speech here ending a two
days visit to Illinois in favor of the
candidacy OF Raymond Robins and
other Progressives.
The old party candidates. he de-
clared. were typical of the bipartisan
nois, a. in New York, he said. was not
one Of party principle but of simple
civic honesty.
The Illinois Progressives. with his
approval. Colonel Roosevelt said. had
declined offers to enter into a deal
with Sherman for a junction with Re-
publicans and Lorimer Republicans
by which Mr.. sherman and a Pro-
gressive s--ndidate would have been
chosen to the United States senate in
1918 when finally Mr.. Sherman and
Col. James Hamilton Lewis were
elected.
'This year In Illinois, as in my own
state of New York, the dominating
issue Is not one of party principles
the colonel said, but of simple hon.
esty. We. Progressives are fighting
for q definite social and industrial
progress. but after all, it Is impossi-
BILE to get such a program unless we
have sincere and honest men In pub
lie life.
"In Illinois, as in New York. both
Of the old parties represent privilege
In its most offensive form-both po-
litical and Industrial.
Bosses Control.
"In New York Mr.. Murphy Is in abb
solute and unchecked control of the
MI and has
nominated whomever he saw fit. Mr.
Barnes is in similar control OF the
Republican organization.
"For governor. he has nominated q
man, Tammany's district attorney last
year, who numbers amongst the con-
and John d. Rockefeller of the Standrd
Oil company. The candidate for sena-
tor IL Mr.. Wadsworth, who won his
spurs as speaker of the lower house in
the legislature, when he was the right
hand man Of Mr.. Barnes in helping to
defeat the legislation upon which Mr.
Hughes most strongly insisted.
IF his public utterances can mean
anything, they mean that he believes
in the complete abandonment OF all
government supervision and control of
big business and in the unchecked lib
kind that have wrought such grave dis
credit alike to our business and po-
HE couples in his deingunciation those
whom he styles the functionaries,' who
seek to regulate and control big BUSH
ness-thus all government officers who
do their duty (and those whom he calls
demagogues)-that IL public servants
who desire that the police function of
government shall be used to prevent
wrongdoing by big men precisely as It
is used to prevent wrongdoing by small
men.
"A certain section of Wall street ex-
tremiste have always demanded for big
business complete immunity from con-
troll and regulation. and secretly big
business men OF this type are unques-
tionably supporting the leaders now
dominant in both the Democratic and
Republican parties for the sake Of OBJ
tanning such immunity, but 1t is rarely
that a public man champions the right
of big business to do wrong as openly as
Mr.. WadswOrth.
Here in Illinois the senatorial choice
lies on one side between our man, Ray
mond Robins. whose life has been spent
him two men whose political fortunes
have been based on their share in politi-
cal proceedings which their fellow citi-
Gems of high character looked upon
them and look back upon now as deeply
discreditable to the city and the state -
Colonel Roosevelt's speech was the
climax OF a busy day. in which he rush.
ed by motor at noon to Gary, Ind. to
speak to the steel workers there in favor
OF A. J. Beveridge. former United States
senator, now Progressive candidate to
the senate from Indiana. He attacked
bipartisan politics under the name of
Lorimerism and recalled that he had
refused to sit at public banquet here
with Lorimer while Lorimer was con-
testing for his seat in the United States
senate.
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