South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-04-07
7. r. OPENLY IN RACE FOR q. O. P.
PRESIDENTIAL. NOMINATION.

Now that the Sage of oyster Bay the big believing
bull Of 1912 dscoverer of the River of Doubt,
a Devl-Brd the Myself and God" of the frenzed
preparedsts is openly in the for the republican
nomination president it will be interesting to note
the kind Of platform the O. p will give him to run
upon. should ne be nominated and the kind of plat
form ne viii be willing to 1ccept Are we to expect
initiatives referendums judges and of judicial
decisions suffrage. child labor laws. social and
Industrial justice. all that OF thing, insisted
upon by him in the progressive platform of 1912, or
will these things the most Of them be forgotten as
he returns the republican wagon? Candidly, are
the opinion that Mr.. Roosevelt is the verge Of
proving himself the political jacksnipe that both re
pubcans and democrats charged him with being four
years ago. that ne did really believe in the prin
eipes of the but appropriated them
getters. and that after ALL il is power and
political preferment that he hot after. and not prin
ciple all.
or course Roosevelt is a republican He always
republican. We would not blame him for that were il
rot he has tried to pretend that he
wasn't merely because piqued his failure TO land
presidential nomination after much the same manner
has been mad and verbose at Prest Taft ever
since. because Wilson defeated him in the election
Roosevelt progressive except in his itch for
office. His progressvism about like that Of Edwin
NJ Lee Indiana chairman. who felt able enter
into with eX-Ciov Frank Hany that all the
fundamental progressive principles would be eliminated
from the Indiana progressive platform If the latter
would make the progressive for COVER
1t is enough make every true believer in the
progressive platform 1912 ashamed that he
able 10 recognize the hypocrisy that leading it,
ring sincerity that the party its immediate
standing and appealed 60 the OF people despite
that leader had long fought pretty much
every principle enunciated degeneraed that
IL AL including aforesaid leaders pretended con-
version. sounds like the vail Of the demagogue
OF course. there is much for the progressive
party 20 aspire way enunciatng progressive
principles there in 1912. IL stole those prin-
cples in main democratic leaders and domoc-
racy i'm power transforming those principles
into with sufficient dispatch that much that was
good progressive thunder in 1912 leaves today naught
echo Of work accomplished. Had democracy
had the opportunity previous the past four years
much that has been during these years would no
have made the progressive propaganda less at
tractive then. but that is different matter. 1t is
enough that Roosevelt and the RoOseyeltian-not
essive-foIlowers will have none it.
they can have credit it, apparently they
re willing the republican party. and stand
pa7ism that their blum has not worked.
And they viii refrge under the cloak OF pre-
Daredness" Every effort be made magnify that
issue sufficiently that may overshadow every other
thing possible for consideration. BY believing pre-
paredness" with sufficient voice all things else. il is
presumed forgotten. Roosevelt and his follow
ing plan TO hack into the republican party under
pretense OF contingency. just they marched out
pretense having discovered certain needs OF
reform. Intelligent people regardless Of party. are
bound in the progressive movement OF 1912 and
the crumbHng - IL In 1916. under such strenuous
boasting both nothing more less than
political by-play for position.
IL is indeed some fall for the Army % Armageddon.
The host which in 1912 SANG onward Christian SOL
diers." and Mine Ewes Have Seen the Glory Of the
Coming o. LORD with abandona in 1916. viii
rag1Ime such popular songs as-"Haii Hail. the
Gangs All Here and "Thereu BE a Hot Time in the
old Town Tonight"