Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-09-15

-publicans everywhere to maintain
their organisation within the Repub-
ucan Party! What Senator La
Toilette would not do for a sound
Progressive movement because he
was not the candidate, he now does
for a destructive radical one because
he Is its candidate.
Later, in 1917, when the voice of
Roosevelt was sounding the call OF
patriotism, La Toilette was chief
among those who gave aid and COM
fort TO obstructionists at home and
enemies abroad. OF him Roosevelt
said: He Is acting in such fashion
as to make him one of the most po-
tent enemies of this country and q
most sinister enemy of democracy.
We are to stand against men OF
the stamp of La Toilette. We had
this type in the civil war. Then We
called them 'copperheads.'
IF this radical movement is more
than personal, it is either temporary.
for its effect in this election, or it is
intended as the beginning of some
thing permanent.
"As a temporary movement at
tached to candidacy which in the
course of nature cannot be repeated
1t can do nothing except harm.
There is no pretense that it could
win this election. Neither is it in
tended to turn the victory from one
party to the other. The only hope is
to deadlock the electoral college and
prevent an election by the people.
The present house of Representatives
Is also deadlocked. The vice pres:-
dent chosen by the senate-in which
La Toilette controls the balance OF
nnwar-xUn,Y1I Cpnnnn6 ~ hn
cancy. 1t is a device, then, to de-
prive the American people of the
power Of electing a president, and to
confer that power on Robert NJ. La
Toilette personally. We prefer the
people.
LAS anything more permanent. the
only possible purpose is class
party. 1t has no other Conference.
It's elements are in complete dis
agreement on national policies. Him
self a pronounced wet, Senator La
Toilette seeks the support of groups
almost unanimously dry. Himself
an irreconcilable isolationis. he has
obtained the Endorsement of certain
leaders of groups committed to the
League of Nations; and so with
many other isues. There is no unity
OF principle, and the unity of candi-
dacy ends in November. Only the
supposed class conflict remains.
Continuance of the movement would
be a mere alibi, covering a purpoS >
to establish the European system o.
multiple class parties, which social
ism in it's own name has never been
able to naturalize in America.
ITO all this is added the startling
proposal to wreck the constitution Of
the United States by making con-
greSs the judge of the constitutions
ality of its own acts. Mere persis
tence in passing unconstitutional
laws could set aside ali safeguards OF
the constitution. That among these
laws would inevitably be some de-
priving organized labor rights now
protected only by the constitution
does not seem To have occurred to
certain La Toilette supporters.
las ProeresSiNeS, ready to move
forward but determined not to move
toward the precipice, we see no
hope, and much danger in this
movement which seeks to uSurp the
Progressive name. We ask the
thoughtful attention of all Progress
sives to these considerations. We
regard it as supreme challenge to
vindicate the memory of Theodore
Roosevelt by Iepudiating this at
tempt of frustrated ambition to pro-
mote the class cleavage in class. pQli-
tics, which Roosevelt spent his life
to prevent
Lawrence + Abbott, New York:
George AIDE, Indiana; Henry J. AL
len, Kansas; Charles Sumner Bird,
Massachusetts; Mrs. Anna &. Bird,
Massachusetts; Wheeler l.. Blood
good, Wisconsin; William e. Bobbs,
Indiana; S. j. Duncan Clark, Illinois;
Frank l.. Corrick. Nebraska; MrS.
William Curtis. DemoreSt, n. VI:
Clarence L. Dodge, Colorado; Maudc
Howe Elliott, Rhode Island; Lewis
Emery. Jr., Pennsylvania; II. -. w.
English, Pennsylvania: James r.
Garfield, Ohio; Arthur l.. Garford,
Ohio; benjamin Griffith, Colorado;
Hermann Hagedorn, New York; AL
bert Bushnell Hart, Massachusetts,:
Elon II. Hooker, New York; Arthur
NJ Hyde, Missouri; Frances keilor,
New York: Irwin Eirllwood, Mis-
souri,; Laura Nelson I<irkwood, Mis-
souri,; Frank Knox, New York; Alex
ander Lamberg New Hampshire:
Mary Finn Lawrence, Pennsylvania;
Samuel McCune Lindsay, New York;
Percy Long. California; Ruth Hanna
Mccormick. Illinois; Julian S. Ma
son. New York: John Callan o.
Iaughlin. District of Columbia; John
NJ. Parker. Louisiana ;Gustavus ID.
Pope, Michisan; Florence Collins
Porter, California; George +. Por-
ter, Illinois; George {. PrlestlcN.
Oklahoma; RAYMOND Robins, Hi
nois; Charles Ringer. Illinois; Co
rinne Roosevelt Robinson, New
York: Chester II. Rowell, Califor-
MIA: Herbert Knox Smith. Connectl-
cut: Percy S. Stephenson, Virginia;
oscar Straus. New York: Julian
Street. New Jersey; f. A. Van val
kenburg, PENNSYLVANIA: Merle y.
Vincent, Colorado; Harriet r. VT
tum, Illinois.