West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-09-14
WEST VIRGINIA NEWS
FROM NATIONS CAPITAL
The Greatest Progressive

TIC IN tho hrst real progressive
leader that this decade has produced. .
This tribute was paid To Presidcn,
Wilson by Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell I'm an
nouncing her support OF his candidacy
as made public yesterday by tho Ma.
uonal Democratic committee. The an.
nouncement OF her position I'm the
Presidential campaign ia I'm the form
OF an interview with DR. George Dor.
soy of Chicago. who was an ardent
supporter of Col. Roosevelt In 1912
and the writer of the Chicago Tri-
bune's editorials I'm behalf OF the Bull
Moose candidate.
"A progressive OF President viii
sons type" said Miss Tarbell. "Is big
enough To see that the issues OF 1916.
because OF the world wide shako-up I'm
the last three years. must be different
from those OF 1912. There Ia some
thing bigger TO talk about today than
the referendum New issues are
bound to come TO the front. perhaps
with startling rapidity and frequency.
President Wilson can bring To these
issues his tremendous experience.
THE evolution in thought and nc
ton of tho last four years may be as
nothing to that which is to take place
In the next four. Does any American
today see bigger. better, or more dis
passionately or clearer than President
Wilson? l believe that Progressiyes
will see this; II they don't IL is n re-
nection on their intelligence.
THE great trouble with Mr. Roose-
Velt." continued Miss Tarbell, "is his
out-of-dateness. lie does not and
never has really understood what the
Progressives are fussing about, and
there never has been one OF them who
could tell him 80 that he could get the
idea Many of them recognized this,
but they wanted the asset of his ex-
traordinary personality"
Miss Tarbell sees huge difference
between President Wilson and Col.
Roosevelt I'm their conceptions of the
functions OF political leader. She de-
fines the Presidents conception of the
trst duty of leadership as ito find out
Just how long an upward step the peo-
pie are ready for and then to fire them
with courage to take the step"
Unqualified approval is given by
Miss Tarbell to the Presidents for
eign policy.
president Wilson," she said, has
proved his fitness to lead the cause of
progressive civilization. True, he
has not yet had time to convert the
man who cries for his pound of flesh,
nor alter the views of him who fails
to see that bloody war is but the prim-
tive expression of savage weakness
promoted by the ignoble desire of con-
quest or revenge. But he has forced
respect for neutrality and he has han
died his delicate Mexican Inheritance
with tact and wisdom"
To the Progressives, I'm whose move
ment she has played prominent part,
Miss .Tarbell says frankly that PresI-
dent Wilson, "our greatest progres-
sive, should have been that party's
candidate last June" adding: "He
would have understood the Progress
sives, which Mr.. Roosevelt did not"
In conclusion, Miss TarbeIl declar-
ed that Mr.. Roosevelt could have made
the Progressive convention at Chicago
solid for Hughes II he had wanted IL.
but In his chagrln at the refusal of the
Republican convention TO nominate
him, he threw over his followers"