The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-06-10
ROOSEVELT, CLAPP AND
LINDBERG.

A prominent newspaper in the nor
them part of the state makes this
rather startling political suggestion:
"With Roosevelt as the Republican
candidate for president, Clapp for
senator and Lindberg for governor,
there would be nothing to the next
national or state election but Repub-
icanism."
There is no legal barrier to prevent
these gentlemen named from offering
themselves to the public as Republi-
can candidates for the positions men
toned, but such action on their part
would be the most stupendOus polit-
ical travesty that ever travested.
While we have never had any time
for the political acrobations of these
political acrobats, we have always felt
a sneaking admiration for the men
themselves. We always admired men
who possess nerve enough to break
away from old associations and who
possess the courage to fight establish
ed conditions, even if they are in err
ror all the time, provided they are &C
tuated by principle and a sense OF
duty.
In 1912 Roosevelt led national re-
volt against the Republican party and
Clapp and Lindbergh led the oppos-
ition to Republicanism in this state,
or at least they were out of sympathy
and antagonistic to both the national
and state Republican organizations.
Had these men remained loyal to the
party and lent their ability and in
fuence to the support of the Repub-
lican candidates, we, at the present
would PROFESSIONALLY have Republi-
can president in the white house and
a Republican governor in Minnesota.
Instead of doing this, they exhaust
ed the vocabulary of vituperation in
describing the Republican party as
corrupt, boldly proclaimed its policies
as detrimental to commOnality, and
its leaders as active agents of corpor-
ate wealth, "big business" the foe of
the masses and the paid hirelings of
sin.
'On this hypothesis they founded a
new party and let loose their dogs of
war; Things came their way with a
rush. Where they did not elect their
own candidates, they generally sue
ceeded in defeating the Republicans
and for the first time in it's history
the Republican party became minor
ity party in the nation and in very
large majority of the states, and the
political riff-raff of the nation danced
in ghoulish glee at an imaginary wake
over its imaginary corpse. Political
lunacy held high revel and chief
among the jewellers, maddest in their
mirth and loudest in their peans of re-
joicing were the gentlemen named.
All was well for time, but the I'M
reasonable Republican party refused
to stay dead. .. r.
''Truth crushed to earth will rise
again; ..z-s... r
The eternal years of God are hers,
But Error, wounded, writhes in
pain
And dies among her worshippers."
That political bubble, the Progress
sive party, was pricked by the needle
of common sense and the whistle of
the escaping gas sang the requiem OF
its leaders as Progressives.
AS soon as these men realized this
they instantaneously ceased gathering
boughs for the Bull Moose to brouse
upon and fairly threw their legs
around their neck in their mad chase
to be the first to offer their services
in carrying water to the elephant.
When a man, or any number of
men charge another man, or any
number of men with malfeasance,
boodling, corruption, deceit or any
series of political mis-deeds, or
criminalities, and then seek alli-
ance with that man, or any num-
Der of men, they have charged,
they advertise their own willing
ness to commit all these Offenses
themselves, if such action will re-
dound to their own political adj