The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-18
X VANITY.

 is a vanity in itself, what could be more rasping than the laments of the Bull Moosers that they have been betrayed by Roosevelt.
 Why, except those blind victims of hero worship, who ever was mis- led by Bull Mooserdom? Everyone knew right well that the Progress i've party was Roosevelt. In Roose- welt it lived, moved and had it's be- ing, and now that he returns to the fold, they are left political vacuum which occasions their verbal belly ache.
 It is true that they told us that the progrp sive party was to up-li1t reform and transform society. Mag niloquence and lofty ideals outdid one another in a splendid outpour- ing of optimism that seemed to take the world by storm.
 But this is a world of hard facts. political facts as hard as the eco- homie facts upon which they are founded, and it needed something more than party idealism founded upon the hero worship of the sev- eral followers and the unsuitable am- bition of the leading individual to change, alter or affect in any way those hard facts.
 And just as is was the unsuitable ambition of Roosevelt to succeed Taft as a third term president which caused the progressive party to be founded, so also it was the ambition of Roosevelt which caused it's final obliteration from the pGdtiCa world, even though dead before that.
 Just at the crucial moment Roo5e- welt showed his weakness. Just when the situation required the strength of desperation, he wilted and wavered and the. machine which held control of the Republican party knew right well that he waVercd and would wilt if they hoisted their flag of No Surrender.
 Had Roosevelt had the individ' ual daring to force the issue by in- sisting upon the Progressives nomi- mating him and his immediate ac- ceptance of that nomination, he would in all probability have been nominated by the republicans.
 He did not stand the test. Ills eagerness to have himself accepted kept the postponement of his nomi- nation until the republicans had nominated Hughes, and by so doing had directly defied Roosevelt who was easily enough defied.
 It would be hard to imagine more ignoble surrender. His en- dorsement of Hughes is an endorse ment of practically every influence and every interest he made the basis of his former attacks upon the Re- publican party. Roosevelt knows and the campaign fund subscribed should show him that it was the leaders of predatory wealth and prl- yilege who elected Hughes Governor of New York. It was the influence of the "malefactors of great wealth that secured him the appointment to the Supreme Bench. and 1t was the same influence that controlled his nomination at Chicago.
 The very vital forces which Roose- welt fought at Armageddon are still masters of the field. Penrose has returned, Cannon is again in the saddle. Pennsylvania is still Stand ard Oil pocket borough. The cor rupting influence of the money trust is as rampant as ever. And not a single element upon which Roose- welt founded justification for his party insurgency in 1912 but is yet in evidence.
 In the nomination of Hughes, re- action is completely triumphant. The boss returns, the machine rules and the steam roller juggernauts along.
 Evidently Roosevelt wants peace at any price. Possibly he has dim hopes that still before he dies as a repentant regular he may yet be- come tenant of the White House. But he is now so completely dis credited that it is an almost fore gone conclusion all he has gained is