The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-05-23
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turns to political parties to control
political activities. No matter how al
truistic the origin OF that party, sooner
or later it. fndssits moral fibre destroy
ed, its moral stamina gone and it be.
comes the slave of sinister force.
Democrats Failed at Crisis.
He illustrated by saying that the
lofty Democratic party found itself in
this condition when the crisis of '61 |
came. He asserted that if it had met |
this crisis the Republican party would |
not have been created and that the |
Republican party was lofty in spirit |
from 1901 to 1909 so that when the |
hand of Roosevelt fell from the helm
decay went on more rapidly than ever.
He compared it to decaying empires
and then traced the achievements end
| ing with 1909, when the last Republi-
can administration entered upon its
| term and within Is months it had lost
| some of the great Republican states
! and was shattered from ocean to
ocean. The reactionary spirit soon
| got control to reverse the spirit of the
Roosevelt policies.
He attacked the Payne Aldrich tariff
bill as favoring monopoly. He said
the Progressive party stood for tar
if commission that would take the
tariff out of politics as it has rail
roads He then compared the income
tax and the corporation tax and the
work in getting the income tax passed
to prove, as he claimed, that Taft and
his managers instead of carrying out
Roosevelt policies betrayed the inter
ests of the people and the theory of
the party, which had been exempt
fed by men like Lincoln, Mckinley
! and Roosevelt. He referred to the pos
tai law as being one of the means of
: getting control of the magazines who
were outspoken in the rights of the
: people and in the exposure of the peo-
pies betrayal which was done by rails
ing the postage so that many were
I driven out of business. He referred to
I the elections of 1910 in Maine, Massa
{ ohusetts, New York, New Jersey, Mon
S tana, West Virginia and Ohio, not due
/ to Progressives or the insurgents, but
S because of revolt of the people.
Verdict Against Combination.
i The year 1912 came and the Pro
!. gressives appealed to the people an(
,. their verdict was against the Can
, -AldrichTaft combination, and ha,
= the verdict been allowed to stand, Their,
= would have been no Democratic admin
a istration in power today; no Wilson
= tariff bill to threaten your industries
But the same spirit which had no
(" needed the verdict of 1910 ignored tn
verdict of 1912, and the betrayal 0
= the party at Chicago was the result
: The time had come, as in '61, whe
Il the great party, the dominant party
had become so canker eaten, so lost (
= a sense of service that the people ha
Is to organize 4 political movement as
protest under the leadership of Colont
Roosevelt.
The speaker referred to the success
p of the new party in various sections c
x the country and contrasted the view
q of the two parties by saying that til
n one held that even in free governmer
a there must be select few who sha
II arrogate to themselves the trusteeshi
ne for all. while the new party believe
It that no man on earth is good enoue
nd to be constituted guardian of the mo
us ais, finances, or political faith
al another. He asserted that it was id
5 to talk of reconeiling these two co
k ficting principles.
Mt The speaker prophesed that the san
ev law Of sequence would lead the Dem
Ter cratic party TO disruption and said TIL
ed. the party already faces open revolt
ON national issues while in the states
elk faces condition little short of aetu
II revolt on state issues.
F. He closed by prophesying that Il
All logical outcome would be two partit
ice one progressive and the other reaetio
ed airy.
nut Visitors from Away.
at Among those who were here for t
&C conference and the rally were O.
tel Rixford and o. A. Rixford of Ea
all Highgate, Guy b. Horton of Burlin
ere ton, Leah Coater of Rutland, DR.
Nelson Jackson, state chairman of t
vas party of Burlington, A. +. Humphr
ice of Lyndonville, 6. f. Lathrop
my South Royalton. j. L. Ward of Bar
r, Raymond Mcfarland and G. w. re
nd of Middlebury. w L. Nichols of 81
eft nington, Ernest Kelly of Salisbury. ]
ler w. j. Aldrich of st. Johnsbury, J.
c. = Jones of Rutland, T. B. Raymond
ugh Fair Haven, ex-senator Frank Russ
lin of Shrewsbury, DR.. J. II. Blodgett
the Bellows Falls and Franklin Barney
pedI Springfield.