Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-31
ROOSEVELT SAYS
G.. O. P.'S TRICKS
WILL FALL FLAT
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he announced in his speech last night.
1t is expected that this tour will be
made some time in October.
SAYS PEOPLE NOW
DO OWN THINKING.
Mr.. Roosevelt's speech in part follows
After three weeks l am back in the
middle west. l have passed through
fifteen states-out to the Pacific coast
and back-and l have met and talked
with thousands of good outstanding
manufacturing districts, in the grain
section, in the cattle country. in the min
lug regions, in the timber lands and in
the great commercial ports.
If l were asked what is the outstand-
ing feature of these journeyings which
most impressed me, 1 would answer that
1t is the preponderance Of progressive
thinking which the people are doing.
They are no longer voting ticket just
because their grandfathers did They
are keenly interested not in mere party
shibboieths, but in what the parties and
the candidates hold out to them for the
conduct of the government during the
next four years. In every place l have
been people are talking about the plat
forms of the republican and democratic
ceptance Of Senator Harding and of Gov.
Cox. 1t is no exaggeration to say that
a very large percentage of the republic
ans are thoroughly disguised with the
action of the Chicago convention, with
its vague, backward looking platform,
and with the method of choice of its
candidate for the presidency. They SUD-
NIT freely that the democratic conven-
ton was OF a wholly different type
that it was true and free expression
of the will of the delegates that its
platform is clear and progressive, and
that its nominee for the presidency Is
a man who has proved his worth by
definite accomplishments. Indeed the
record of Gov. Cox, in making ONO one
of the foremost states in the march OF
progress is becoming thoroughly we'll
known. His successful stand for meas
ures for the betterment of farm lie, for
women in industry, for widows, and for
the protection of labor and the human
settling Of labor difficulties, has created
a profound impression. The old guard
republican leaders are indeed put 70 IL
to find out what they can say about
Senator Hardings record of accomplish
ment. They have searched In VAIN LOT
something to praise while he was IN the
Ohio legislature, and Tor constructing
measures or actions since he has been
in the senate.
So. too. a serious situation has been
presented to these progressive repuo-
iicans of the west who realize the posi-
ton taken by Senator Harding in 19lZ,
when he was one of the opponents Of the
progressive movement and gave wnole-
hearted support to the old time party
bosses They know that 1t was COY.
James NJ. Cox who helped TO defeat In
Ohio that boss of unsavory memory
George B. Cox Of Cincinnati.
To sum IL all up. the people OF tne
west are lokoing forward with discern
ing eyes. Little attention is PAM 70 the
= Frh
ers are singing about the president o.
the United States. The voters, men ana
women, appreciate to the nun the great
great constructive measures whlcn con.
gress. under the leadership IF President
Wilson. has enacted into Jaw, not oX
democratic votes alone, hut with the IuA
concurrence of many patrlouc EePuD.
leans. They are not concerned ABOUT
the conduct OF the war. Ihey nave
definite PROOF that 1t was OF haI0hhI
and not OF partisan character, ana they
have seen men and women OF all parties
united in an unselhsh common purpose
But they do worry about the future
they do fear a return to the oId-Iasn
toned theory OF politics. Senator har1,
ing's statements about how ne W0uld
conduct the presidency nave thrown q,
chill into the old guards campaign IN
the west Visions of the senate caDal,
of an insidious power behind the chiei
ma gistrate will not down. The Penroses
and Watsons and Shoots ana lodges
are at least no more popular than IA the
past The people want ieaaer' not
isyndicated" presidency. -.
SO also the appeal for "normalcy mas
fallen exceedingly fiat The west IN .
derstands that the country IS Iosiehm!
and very properly not in certain par
tIcuIars in It's pre-war CONDITION. II
does not take a banker to know tnat
the buying power of money Is Vastly
decreased and that world trade Is IN
Thoroughly abnormal condition. Every
man knows that our national debt was
vastly increased by the war. and that
the nation made magnificent saerlnces 10
finance the steps necessary to victory.
AZ the same time 1t does not take
banker 10 know that other nations are
in far worse position than we are
that our national credit has the hlghest
standing of all-that our war finances
we're conducted on a more sound ana
honest foundation than in any previous
var and that our trade throughout she
world is gaining ground N a tremen-
IS TIE nation itself is indeed rather
proud than otherwise that we have coma
through so well from the economic
standpoint II is shown by the fact
that prosperity is the rule aud nor the
exception, and that breadlines are
memory Of that period known to some
a. the good CID days
THERE'S A WORRY
THAT STILL PERSISTS.
What chiefly worries the progressi e
west in this tai kof going back is the
fact that those who are making the plea
are the same men who were discredited
by the nation many years ago. We
fought out those old-fashioned theories
Of government through many years
which most people can still remember
They were the days of Mark Hanna, OF
Senator Foraker. of Boss Platt-the days
when a certain type of business was In
notifies for It's own health-the days
when the privilege and advantage on
the few seemed paramount to the ma
tfonal welfare
We are every thankful that much OF