South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-07
A BULL MOOSER UNDER CONVICTION.

BULL MOOSER UNDER OONNlCl IOlN.
y former bull nooser-now Heaven only knows what
who four and two years ago the proverb-
al wild the p and the bosses who were
dominating it-and who dominating it now-sends
this message. which we heartily appreciate:
Il follow your editorials closely, agree with
you mostly and enjoy you immensely, except
when you go after Mr.. Hughes ! can't recon
cile myself your view of Wilson. into
believing that Mr.. Roosevelt would endorse Mr.
Hughes if ne rot the right kind of man.
m going to quit reading your anti-Hughes
editorials. They give me the shivers."
Then don't quit, brother! they you that
way; well. you remember the old Biblical saying:
"Quench the spirit 1t is the editorials but
the truth in them that is troubling you. a lie would
have such is just beginning dawn upon
you that you a progressive only in in 1912
Il, reality only Roosevelt factionist and,
perhaps you beginning wonder if you real
y right being admirer of Roosevelt. Roose-
welt it to Mr. Hughes, you know, to give him
his Endorsement Roosevelt defeated Mr. Hughes for
republican nomination 1908 forced the
nation of Mr.. Taft by pretty much the
the "od guard defeated Roosevelt and nominated Mr.
Taft again in 1912. T. r was forced to swallow his
gall Now he is trying vomit it up.
No you going stop reading News Times
comment Mr. Hughes, such thing. You
AS Billy sunday would say: You suffering from a
case of conscience-yOu under Conviction. The
only thing that drive such coure. is proof
paramount that you were never a progressive, but
Roosevelt bull mooser-with the emphasis on the
"bull'-only you must be a reactonary and would
rather stand pat than the truth
and take chance being able to resist it,
Come o it, Don't De a moral intellectual or
even a political coward. Absorb the truth when it
too proud" to follow it. That is worse than being
too proud to fight" "A often changes his
mind but a fool never" The same might be said with
respect to changes of leadership. you a
real progressive in principle it would be prog
achievement and that regardless of the source that
would appeal you. course progressivsrs with
you only bluff, and you just RooseveltiOn,
knowing difference progressive prin-
ciple and your funny-bone. and caring less-which
that you a reactionary disguise
all the tme.-then is different.
But in this campaign, the opponent of Mr.. Hughes
whom you would like idoze because Mr.. Roosevelt
endorses him. is a man. who has been doing the very
things for which you-socaed progressive-stood two
years ago; practically all the things md
so what S biting you? just good though
T r. had hand in it. if please. though it
have been done by someone, by congress- neither
manly am American enough pay for property which
Mr. Roosevelt president had stolen? That is the
shoe that is pinchins Mr.. Roosevelts foot Have you
noticed Mr. Hughes defending his bit of sneak thevery?
II the Panama canal zone, not Mr.. Hughes, that is
worrying Mr.. Roosevelt Anything beat Wilson and
His foreign policy and Mexican policy clap
trap. merely kept the front because he dare not
raise real issue. IS a disguise, quite
as was his progressivsm of 1912; the progress
sivism of a demagogue
We just passing. Your case isn't hope
less. Let the truth seep in. Don't bar it out. It
won't hurt you. The plain truth hurts lust
because you beginning TO discover that you have
been wrong wrong, and ought reform you
needn't get scared at 1t. 1t is good omen Always
remember that it is the things that get under your
hide and make you think that do the good Take
that band from around your head and let it
pand. inmate of the sultans harem.