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COMMENT AT WASHINGTON.
UNDERESTIMATING ROOSEVELT.
BOTH PARTIES FACE HARD FIGHT.
Abaence at Bryce and Knox Dorins
Panama Controversy — Mart cash's
Answer to Andrew —Seed ot Co
dification and Revision.
From Our Special Correspondent.
Washington. D. C.. Sunday, July 21.
As noted from Washington, the special
feature so far of this year's presidential
campaign is a noteworthy lack of meet
ings hero and there over the land to ratify
the national tickets. For years it has
been customary in one form or another
and especially in large assemblages to
ratify the tickets, enthusiasm being evoked
as much as possible assisted by brass
bands and fireworks. If there have been
any such anywhere so far, they have
escaped notice. Such demonstrations
should have been particularly true of the
democratic ticket but the Wilson and
. Marshall demonstrations seem to be con
fined to Sea Girt. Undoubtedly the demo
crats in the main are enthusiastic and
perhaps their lack of outward and visible
sign of jubilation is due to that feeling
of content which goes with nominations
that are equivalent to an election. What
is the use of being fussy over an obvious
coming event?
So far as President Taft is concerned,
he is handicapped by being the chief
magistrate of the land and cannot have
porch ratifications; it is hardly custom
ary for a great party to show many
signs of jubilation when its candidate sits
in the White House. Harrison. McKinley
and Roosevelt had a quiet time of it
while as presidents running to be retained
in the Write House. But so far if there
have been any meetings of republicans
where ratifications were in order they have
been conspicuous by their refusal to pur
sue the ordinary and correct course. Note
lowa.
Paying Money to See Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt spite convention will
come next month and take the form of a
matinee performance with Col Roosevelt
himself the star performer. The tickets
of admission are high—Caruso in terms.
Washington laughs a good deal over this
feature of the convention giving birth to
a new party. No party has ever been
given birth under paid ticket auspices. So
spontaneous then is the coming of this
■ party of the people!” Whether it likes
it or not it is not to be consulted as to
what its set principles shall be. This it will
have to receive ready made from Oyster
Bay where it is announced the colonel
is busy drafting what the new party shall
. stand for.
Seemingly the new party is not to be
sneezed at, however artificial its founding.
Its strength can be easily underestimated.
It will receive plenty of Taft attention
no doubt, much will have to be done to
keep republican voters away from the
ticket and in a good many instances with
out avail. But the democrats too will
have- to give the ticket their attention,
chiefly in New York. It has been known
for some time that Mr Wilson is none
too popular in the Empire state, especially
in New York city. The regard for Theo
dore Roosevelt, under all the circum
stances, Mr Taft himself having a great
lack of support, is no mean menace. For
instance Representative Calder of New
York, the only republican in Congress from
Long Island has been in Washington tell
ing his colleagues that if the election were
held to-day Roosevelt would carry the
Empire state. This is not talk from a
Roosevelt republican at all. He is a Taft
man. and a shrewd observer of what the
people are thinking and saying. His fore
casts heretofore have proved remarkably
accurate, particularly with reference to
conditions in New York. If what Mr
Calder says is indeed true the democrats
and Mr Barnes have hard work cut out
for them in New York.
Panama Toll* Complication.
The Panama canal tolls controversy has
been somewhat damaging to the diplomats,
both of the United States and Great
Britain. Embassador Bryce is understood
to be under considerable criticism him
self. His absence is much deplored in
his own country, it is said, and is even
feeing held blameworthy. He has been
away for some months now, visiting New
Zealand. His absence is certainly un
fortunate for his country. Of course at
the time he left nothing exciting was ex
pected to happen in Washington. Summer
was nigh and the adjournment of Con
gress wns thought probable early in June.
But meantime the Panama canal con
troversy has broken out in virulent form.
It is said that the delivery of the British
note was clumsily done and the manner
of it has greatly irritated the home of
fice. The United States has been equal
ly unfortunate. It is said that Hunting
ton Wilson, assistant secretary of state,
should never have sent the protest of
Great Britain to the Senate sources in the
manner he did. Mr Knox, the secretary
of state, comes into blame here. He was
out of town, but his absence does not
excuse him. even in July. The incident
seemingly enforces the need of a second
official in the state department of caliber
almost as able as the chief of the de
partment as would have been afforded in
the office of under secretary of state, as
proposed four years ago. In fact ail of
our departments need such a high second
official to be worthy to act in the secre
tary's place when he is away. Only the
department of justice seems tn have such
an official in the solicitor-general.
Andrew’s Visits With MacVeagh.
A. Piatt Andrew, the dismissed as
sistant secretary of the treasury, appears
less and less in good light. His fulmina
tions from Gloucester make him more un
presentable. for by his statements he need
lessly bares confidences and embroils in
nocent people. One of his complaints
about Secretary MacVeaph was that it
was so hard, to reach him, the assistant
secretary going for long periods without
being able to interview his chief. The
secretary of the treasury has a record
made of all people who consult him and
how long they stay. This is the special
duty of a clerk. The record shows that
in the period that Andrew says he was
unable to see the secretary he did see him
21 different times, the conferences lasting
no mean length. The office of the secre
tary apparently is more efficiently and tell
ingly organized than ever Andrew
dreamed. It is said Andrew also com
filained that the secretary of the treasury
aeke<- decision. It would appear, how
ever, that Andrew is the one who lacked
that or at least would never take “no”
for an answer, returning again and again
in the hope of changing ihe secretary's
mind. Of course he did not succeed.
Codification Bill Presented,
A work highly praised and much needed
has been the codification and revision of
the laws of the United States at which
Congress has been at work for some years
and put into effect, but there yet remains
considerable to be done. There is a good
deal of disappointment that this is not
now being done, nor is there any prospect
of its being soon done. The penal code
has been revised most acceptably, and a
considerable part of the civil code, espe
cially that relating to the judiciary, has
been revised. Those who are zealous for
1 fills reform- jn>-Titnr —mWressing Them-'
selves to a revision of the practice before
I rue federal courts, ami that is planned as
i Ino next thing to be done. The bar of the
I nited btates would like -to see this done.
This cannot all he done by the courts.
| There is law for it. and the law needs
reforming. It is the business of Con
■ gross. but Congress neglects it. obvious
though its duty be on this score. Con
| gross is erratic in legislation: it will run
i away from serious tasks like the school-
J boy from his lessons. But this cannot al
। ways be avoided. Congress at last gave
. these needed reforms its attention and
i appointed a joint committee from both
! houses to revise and codify the laws, and
this committee has labored hard and a< -
I compltshed wonderful work, she ehair
! man of the Senate side was the highly
capable Senator Heyburn of Idaho, and
for the House the efficient Representa
tive Moon of Pennsylvania. It is hard to
conceive two better men for this very
great task.
I Their work was accomplished extraor
j dinarily well, and when it was reported
I it was really amusing to see the Senate
and the House run away from the task of
making their reports law. Senator Hey
burn early in the sessions would report'
his bills and address the Senate again and
again on the great need of considering
them, saying nothing more important could
be achieved by the Senate. The senator
is ever interested in the tariff, but even
he conceded that it had secondary import
ance to improving the laws of the land.
But he spoke to deaf ears. Day after day
the Senate would adjourn after being in
session for a few minutes. Finally in
characteristic fashion the Senate swal
lowed the whole hill at one gulp. This
was repeated with other bills.
The House considered the bills practi
cally in the same way. For a long time
one of them headed the list on calendar
Wednesday and was used as a buffer to
keep other legislation on the calendar of
that day from coming forward. Suddenly
at one gulp the bill would be swallowed.
To the great credit of the committee be it
said that their report was practically
found without flaw and required conse
quently little amendment.
Need for Speedy Action.
The House appointed its single commit
tee and although there is a democratic
chairman of its committee now, still Mr
Moon continues a member. A new mem
ber on it is Representative Harris of Mas
sachusetts, an able man. The House
members say they are auxious to go ahead
and work; they long for something to do,
tut nothing is being done. The House re
fuses to till out its complement on the
joint committee, there being some kind of
hitch. It will not report out the resolu
tion creating anew the joint committee.
Representative Moon, by one of those per
versities in elections, has been most un
expectedly defeated at the primaries, and
Congress is to lose his invaluable serv
ice. Senator Heyburn too is not in the
best of health and it would seem that his
indefatigable services must to a great de
gree be lost. Thus, while Congress has
been dreaming of doing something and
the machinery is ready, fate has inter
vened and opportunities of doing something
well with exceptionally able instruments
are being irretrievably lost.
T. R. TICKETS SELL WELL.
New Party Committee Meets—Water
way Plank in Platform.
The sale of tickets to the third party
national convention in Chicago August 5
was opened at headquarters Thursday.
Within a few hours it was announced SISOO
had been received, SIOOO of this amount
being for 50 tickets from one man, whose
name was not given out. Medill McCormick
said it was planned to have the receipts
from the tickets pay most of the conven
tion expenses, estimated at $25,000.
A general committee of arrangements,
with various subcommittees, was appointed
Thursday. Ralph C. Otis, who has been at
Oyster Bay consulting with Col Roosevelt,
was made chairman. The committee is to
have charge of all details, including dis
posal of tickets and finances. Gov Deneen
was asked by telegram yesterday when he
would receive a committee appointed to ask
him and other candidates for state offices
whether he would support Col Roosevelt or
President Taft.
National control of the construction
through any state of a lakes-to-the-gulf
deep waterway, and of the use of the Pan
ama canal machinery in guarding the Mis
sissippi river against floods, are favored by
Co! Roosevelt in a letter made public
Thursday by La Verne W. Noyes, an Illi
nois supporter. It points out that not
only would such a work protect thousands
of acres of rich lands from devastation by
flood and prove commercially important in
storing of power that could be turned into
electricity, but it would do a great social
service in wining out sectional lines and
give the North and the South opportunity
to join in the great work.
“Only by a new party, in which all join
on equal terms, can the needed social and
industrial tasks demanded by our people
be successfully undertaken.” says the let
ter. "and one of the greatest of these tasks
is the development of the Mississippi.” Mr
Noyes had asked Col Roosevelt whether
Illinois should expend $20,000,000 for
building its part of the deep -waterway.
Col Roosevelt's reply says there is no
need for Illinois to pay $20,000,000 or
any part of it, in an individual attempt
to secure a deep waterway from the lakes
to the gulf; and that such work is a task
for the nation, siuce the nation alone can
properly do it. It is an interstate mat
ter. "The tremendous devastating floods
of the last few months,” says the letter,
“with the attendant Joss of life, of homes
and of property, have made it clear that
no more time should be lost in undertak
ing the control of the flood waters of the
Mississippi and its tributaries, and the
connection of the great lakes and the trib
utaries of the Mississippi with the gulf
by means of a great commerce-carrying
channel.”
TO MANAGE CAMPAIGN.
Executive Committee of the National
Republican Committee la Named.
The personnel of the executive commit
tee of the national republican committee
was announced by Chairman Hilles at na
tional republican headquarters at New
York late Saturday. The committee will
consist of .1. I'. Adams of Dubuque, la ,
Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia, Ct., Fred
AV. Estabrok of Nashua. N. IL. .James P.
Goodrich of Indianapolis. Ind.. Alvah N
Martin of Norfolk, Va , T. H. Neidring
liaus of St Louis, Mo.. S. A. Perkins of
Tacoma. Wash., Alfred T. Rogers of Mad
ison, Wis., Newell Sanders of Chatta
nooga, Tenn.. Charles B. Warren ot De
troit. Mich., Ray O. West of Chicago, II!.,
and Ralph Williams of Dallas, Or. The
selections are tlie result of two davs' de
liberations of a subcommittee of the na
tional committee, which was also empow
ered to select an advisory committee and
u treasurer. The work of picking the lat
ter officials was not completed, however,
yesterday.
Tlie executive committee, all of whom
are members of the national committee,
will be distributed to direct the campaign
work at the three major headquarters as
follows: Messrs Brooker. Estabrook, Good
rich, Martin and Sanders nt New York;
Messrs Adams, Neidringliaus, Rogers,
Warren and Went at < hicago, and Messrs
Perkins and Williams at a Pacific coast
city to be chosen later, possibly Portland
Or.
It would be a terrible blow to Bill Flinn
if a full party ticket were to be put up in
Feonaylva^m. Pcurosc is prepared to
come back to the republican leadership the
moment Flinn has to support an independ
ent state ticket.
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1912.
' A PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION.
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' GATHERING AT JACKSON, MICH
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। Itifttl EnthuMiaMin Mionn for Koomv-
Gov Unborn in Ignored.
i Mivlngan progressive^ divorced them*
selves absolutely from the republican party
in their state convention at Jackson. Mich..
Saturday. By almost a unanimous vote
the delegates went on record us favoring
the placing us an entire ticket, both state
and national, in the livid. A few instruct*
•' ed delegates Voted against the move in
order to record the sentiment of their home
' counties, but explained to the convention
that ihey personally were for separation
। from the old party. Delegates to the na
! lional progressive party convention in < hi*
! cago, presidential electors, members of the
{state central, coiumittve and a member of
i the national committee were chosen Sat
' urelay. •
Members of the state central committee
* recommended the following men for state
ottices: For governor. State Senator L.
I Whitney Watkins of Jackson; for United
1 Stales senator, Theodore M. Joslin of
Adrian. Friends of Gov Osborn protest
ed vigorously, but futilely, against the
indorsement by the convention of a can
didate for governor. They insisted the
people should not be offered any sugges
tions regarding candidates. When the
convention indorsed Senator Watkins, cir
culation of Osborn petitions was begun
immediately. Nathan P. Hull of Dih”
monddale was recommended for con
gressman-at-large, but he declined to
make the race.
Only two days remain in which the peti
tions may be filed with the secretary of
state. Many petitions were put in circu
lation at the close of the day’s session of
the convention. The coming of Senator
Joseph M. Dixon to the convention prob
ably had as much to do with carrying the
“full ticket” plan as anything. The fac
tions for a “stub” ticket or the nomina
tion of presidential electors only and the
•‘tul! ticket” crowd were lined up for a
bitter tight when he arrived. But he told
them that Col Roosevelt wanted a full
state ticket, and after that it was all over
but the shouting. The shouting, however,
required much time, for the convention
was as enthusiastic as the 1000 or more
delegates and a brass band could make it.
Frank W. Knox, who had been heading
the •'stub” ticket faction and favoring an
indorsement of Gov Osborn as a repub
lican candidate, was the first man to take
the floor of the convention ami give up
the fight. Senator Dixon, while address
ing the convention, declared “it is a bet
ter chance now that Roosevelt will be
elected than it was last March that he
would be nominated.” He charged that
progressive sentiment was being edited
out of many papers. New York will go
progressive, he said, and he named as
aelegates to the Chicago convention,
Bourke Cockran, Gen Horatio King and
Gov Garvin of Rhode Island. Henry M.
Wallace of Detroit was unanimously
elected Michigan national committee
man.
The delegates to the Chicago convention
at large are Julius Kirby, Charles A.
Nicholas, Gen L. P. Abbey. Sybrant Wes
seling, Frank AV. Knox and John AA".
Patchen. By districts: Dr Howard Bak
er and Charles E. McCarthy, Ist; Theo
dore M. Joslin and John George. Jr., 2d;
C. N. Barre and G. S. Hadley, 3d; E. K.
AVarren and Oliver Avery. 4th; M. A. Sooy
and C. B. Edison. sth: AV. 8. Kellogg and
Dr A. D. Sayre. 6th; George H. Force
and Josepli N. Rankin. 7th: George E.
Atkins and A. B. Cook. Bth; Henry A.
AA’olff and Geii AV. H. Seers. 9th; E. L.
Gardner and Homer E. Buck. 10th; F. B.
Sotham and J. F. Carson, 11th; and
George S. Potts and Max Socha. 12th.
The platform follows;—
"AVe denounce in unequivocal terms the
crime against popular government perpe
irated at Chicago in the national repub
lican convention. AVe repudiate the ac
tion of the convention, made up in part
of fraudulently seated delegates, and de
clare that the fraud there perpetrated
strikes a blow at the very foundation of
the republic which can only survive through
free and untrammeled popular government.
AA'e declare the action thus consummated
cannot be and is not binding upon any
citizen.
"The situation thus produced makes it
imperative that proper steps be taken to
give to the people the opportunity to ex
ercise their will in the selection of a presi
dent, out of which they were cheated by
the successful fraud practiced by a re
pudiated national committee at Chicago at
the behest of the special interests. The
constant effort of crooked business in un
holy alliance with crooked bosses, to
usurp the powers of government through
control of party machinery constitutes the
greatest menace to real popular rule.
Therefore, this body of independent citi
zens here and now dedicate their efforts
to the maintenance and perpetuation of
those principles of social and industrial
justice and equality of opportunity upon
which the republic was founded, and
which must endure and he transmuted into
a rule of political conduct if the nation
is to survive.
AVe are especially concerned in the elec
tion of it progressive delegation to the
Senate and House of ‘Representatives
and we repudiate as unworthy of the
confidence of the people of the state of
Michigan any candidate now holding of
fice who does not favor the progressive
measures advocated by Theodore Roose
velt and the progressive delegations in
Congress and who do not make open and
specific declaration of their fidelity
thereto.
AVe pledge the delegates to the na
tional convention of the party to the
nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for
president of the United States and in
struct them to commend to the national
convention a thorough discussion and a
clear declaration of progressive principles
to be embodied in the national platform,
and among others the following:—
The initiative, referendum and recall,
and direct nomination through primary
elections, nor only ns applied to states,
but also in the extension of these princi
ples to the nation as a whole. The
direct election of United States senators.
The equalization of the burdens of
taxation, upon a property basis,
A universal parcels post.
The extension of the postal savings bank
system.
Government operation of and owne.r
shin of express and telegraph service.
The reasonable valuation of the physical
property of railroads and making such
value rim base line for determining ronsou
ahle rates and a fair return on the nctnal
investment.
The extension of the powers and tbe
admini:rmtiv ß control of the interstate
commerce commission
The fedeial regulation of all corpora
tions engaged in .interstate business and
the Prohibition of the creation of artificial
values by watered stocks and bonds
Ihe extension of the civil-service lawu
to the consular service of the United
States.
Severance ot the diplomatic service from
such financial interests as are seeking to
exploit defenseless nations.
Opposition to the Aldrich currency
*'heme in the interests of competition in
bunking nnd iiisurtiiict.
ilm xuaiiHeuutK-c of a projective tariff
for the benefit of the industries and the
laboring men of tbe United States, ex
cept where coiuiietitiou in trade has been
destroyed by monopoly and the tariff is
used to exact an unjust tribute from the
people anti unjustly increases the cost of
living.
,We favor the conservation of tbe na
tion s niittiral resources ami tin- rescue
of pilblle property and public rights from
private bunds.
We favor lire proposed amendment to
Ike state constitution providing for equkt
suffrage in Michigan.
DENEEN FOR TAFT.
Illinois Governor Finally Gives His
Decision to Committee ot Five Pro
gressives.
The committee of five progressive repub
licans who were appointed by Medill Mc-
Cormick to wait on Gov Deneen and as
certain whether lie would support Taft or
Roosevelt for president were informed by
the governor at Springfield. 111., Monday
morning that he considered Taft the reg
ular nominee of the republican party for
president, and that as such he felt obli
। gated to support his candidacy.
Secretary of State Doyle, Auditor of
Public Accounts McCullough nnd Attor
r.ey-Genera) Stead were waited on by the
committee and gave the snipe answer as
did Gov Deneen. Andrew Russell, candi
date for state treasurer, told Chairman
McCormick he would send him an answer
by hiail. Lieut-Gov Oglesby, who is at
Elkhart, was written by Chairman Medill
McCormick for the committee and has
made no answer as yet.
Gov Deneen, in his reply to the progres
sive party committee, said in part: “It
is plain to me that there is but one
course I can pursue in this situation.
Having sought the support of republicans
and haring been chosen as their candidate
for governor in this state, there is no op
portunity afforded the republican electors
to change their minds in reference to tny
nomination as governor and to nominate
another in my stead, and I have no more
right to change my status as their trus
tee or in any way to alter the terms of
the position I hold in trust as their rep
resentative.”
Following the interviews with the state
officers, the progressive republican com
mittee held a conference at the Leland ho
tel .at the end of which Chairman Mc-
Cormick announced that the progressive
republicans would put a third party state
ticket in the field, but that there prob
ably would be no new county tickets.
Roosevelt Says ‘'l Thought So.**
When Col Roosevelt was informed at
Oyster Bay, N. Y.. of the decision of Gov
Deneen 'of Illinois to support President
Taft, he indicated that the news was no
surprise to him. “Yes, I thought so," said
he. Further than that he would make no
comment.
Senator Dixon Tells What Must Be in
Illinois.
That there must be a full third party
state ticket in Illinois, with candidates
for governor and other officers favorable
to Col Roosevelt, was the ultimatum of
Senator Joseph M. Dixon, Col Roosevelt’s
campaign manager, delivered Monday at
Chicago to the Illinois leaders of the third
party movement. It was in answer to
doubt expressed at Roosevelt headquarters
whether the third ticket would be put out
in the state pending Gov Deneen’s answer
to a question whether he would support
President Taft or Col Roosevelt. When
shown Gov Deneen's announcement that he
would support President Taft, Senator
Dixon said: "It simply means that Gov
Deneen is not in the progressive party and
that a third party candidate against him
will be put out.”
FLINN CONSULTS COLONEL.
Pennsylvania Case Unsolved—Compro
mise May he. Effected.
For fottr hours at Oyster Bay, N. Y.,
Monday Col Roosevelt and William Flinn
of Pittsburg talked over the Pennsylvania
tangle formation of the new party.
When th® (conference ended the tangle
was appareiftlj* just as knotty as ever. It
was announced that the question has been
left open until after the Chicago conven
tion. Mr Flinn pronounced it the most
complicated situation he had ever had
anything to do with, one which was with
out a parallel in American politics. Col
Roosevelt let it go with the statement that
he did not want to dictate.
The impression gathered from the utter,
ances of the ex-president and his .Pitts
burg leader was that Mr Flinn had done
a good day’s work for his cause, and that
Col Roosevelt was mode inclined to look
at things from his point of view. There
was nothing to show that Mr Flinn had
definitely carried his point, but it is be
lieved that he succeeded in convincing the
colonel that his arguments were well
grounded. "Mr Flinn came to speak about
the Pennsylvania situation," said Col
Roosevelt. “We talked it over and agreed
that he should go back and discuss it with
his people and then bring up the matter
again at Chicago.”
"Have you any idea,” he was asked,
“what will he done?”
The colonel smilingly refused to make
any predictions. “I tried merely to ex
press niy own views,” said he, "but I will
not dictate.” This remark was received
in some quarters as an indication that he
might not insist upon opposing the Flinn
plan to the end. Mr Flinn said that what-,
ever was decided upon there would be no
breach in their ranks.
To Respect Roosevelt’s Wishes.
“We will not do anything the colonel
objects to,” hg said. “It is simply a ques
tion whether we shall have a joint elec
toral ticket, taking for the Roosevelt tick
et as many of the republican candidates,
as will regard as binding in the electoral
college, an agreement to vote for the can
didate, for president who receives the high
est numbr of votes, whether it is Taft or
Roosevelt.
"That is what my associates and I want
to do. The other proposal is to put up a
brand new ticket. Then we should have
three classes of men, the Taft, candidates,
the Roosevelt candidates, who would re
main on the republican ticket, and the
Roosevelt candidates who would resign be
cause they were unwilling to remain un
der such conditions.”
"What does Col Roosevelt wish?” Mr
Flinn was asked.
“The colonel has no fixed idea. He will
run an independent ticket if he wants it.
Our plan makes certain that all of Penn
sylvania's 38 electors are for Roosevelt.
There is no doubt that he would win on
a joint electoral ticket. I am confident he
will beat Wilson if he runs independently,
but lie is absolutely sure to do so on a
joint ticket." Mr Flinn said that if his
plans were not adopted he believed some
of the Roosevelt men now on the repub
lican state ticket would resign, but that
his lawyers had advised him that they
could not be forced off.
"The < andidates for Congress and for the
state offices are bound to be on both tick
ets. anyway," he continued. "We have
the state committee, and the state conven
tion has not been finally adjourned."
Whatever is done, Mr Flinn explained, the
national progressive party will have a full
ticket in the field.
Third Party in Gothnm.
The first progressive party convention
in New York will be held to
day, when the organization meeting of
the 2f)th Assembly district will take place
to elect its delegates to the county con
vention. it was announced last night.
This organization is the first dub of the
progressive party to establish its own
headquarters. It tins adopted n platform of
its own. which, it is announced, jt expects
to present for the consideration of the con
vention, and which in snid to he the short
est on record.
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“Government by injunction” may catch
it terribly m the Bull Moose platform,
now that a Kansas judge has issued a
temporary restraining order against Roose
velt electors running as republicans.
PILGRIMAGE TO SEA GIRT
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BY DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN.
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■ THE VISIT IS UNPRECEDENTED.
Champ Clark Head* the Parade and
In Warmly Greeted by Gov Wlhon.
Champ Clark, speaker of the House, led
1 his followers along the dusty roads of Sea
; Girt to Gov Wilson’s summer home at
Sen Girt, N. J., Saturday. They came,
110 strong, from the House of Repre
sentatives in a special train from \\ ash
ington, to shake hands with the nominee
and bid him godspeed for the presiden
cy It was the first time in Hie history
of the United States that democrats or
republicans in Congress had quit their
work to dash across the country and hail
the party standard bearer.
Gov Wilson met them half-way down
the walk. The tail of the long double
column had to stop and mark time while
he greeted the head. hile the speaker
smiled grimly and the governor beamed his
pleasure, the marchers behind craned
their necks to see what was going on in
front and pressed forward so nrmly that
the governor escorted Mr < lark to the
wide porch, where he completed the wel
come bv grasping every pilgrim by the
hand. Mr Clark had something to say,
and he did not wait until the long line of
representatives had filed by and had its
collective say. He held up the
sion while he told tbe governor that they
had come to see him and wish hini well in
his fight, and that they had brought along
their autographs in a little book, to re
mind him some day that the democratic
majority of the House had closed up of
fice and traveled down to Sea Girt to get
acquainted with the next president.
Would he please take it?
The governor was quite confused for a
moment as he looked out over the crowd
of expectant faces on his lawn and started
to speak, only to be cut short by a hearty
cheer. At length the governor told them
that he would treasure the book as great
lv as he had welcomed their coming, that
he hoped this visit was the beginning of
a long acquaintance. One way for a pesi
dent to get along with the House of Rep
resentatives the governor said, was not to
keep in close and intimate touch with its
members, but to be concerned in its de
liberations only. That would not be his
way. He greeted them to-day as his part
ners and comrades in a solemn duty which
they all owed to the American people.
After the governor ceased speaking and
Mrs Wilson had taken her place beside
him on the porch, the long line filed past
shaking hands with them both. Representa
tive Hughes ’of New Jersey was selected
to introduce his colleagues to the governor,
and for fear the names of some might slip
his mind, Joseph J. Sinnott, doorkeeper
of the House, who knows them all. stood
beside him. Speaker Clark chatted for a
quarter of an hour with the governor and
then motored to the home of Col George
Harvey at Deal Beach, where Miss
Genevieve Clark, his daughter, is a guest.
The Representatives Separated.
After a photographer had grouped the
representatives about the lawn, with the
governor and the speaker in the center,
they separated. Twenty-five or thirty
went- to Asbury Park by trolly and auto
mobile. A delegation of inland members
treated themselves to a sight of the At
lantic ocean, a mile away from the gov
ernor's cottage, and some of them went
in the surf. The governor sat bare-head
ed in a rocker on his lawn with Repre
sentatives Hardwick of Georgia and
Henry of Tennessee on either hand. "Me
folks down South,” Mr Hardwick told
the governor, “are for you. but we feel
that we are sort of out of the reckoning.
So some of us talked it over on the train
coming up. and we've decided to go back
home and raise $500,000 for you and give
it to your campaign manager for him to
spend' where it is needed.” The govern
or thanked Mr Hardwick heartily. Aft
erward Mr Hardwick told the reporters
that he and his friends planned to raise
the money by going to all the editors of
country newspapers in their districts and
getting them to start a campaign fund
through popular subscription. They
thought it was a great scheme, they said,
nnd one that should add at least $500,-
000 to the fund.
Representative Gregg of Pennsylvania
declared that Pennsylvania was going
for Wilson in November. Representative
Wilson from the same state added that
there was no doubt of it, because of the
governor's popularity there and because
of the split in the republican ranks. Cot
ter Bride of Washington, at whose home
William J. Bryau generally stays when
in the national capital, said that he
thought the Nebraskan ought to come
East some time in August, and that Sea
Girt might get a glimpse of him then.
Then Representative Fitzgerald of New
York, chairman of the appropriations
committee, joined the governor for a 15-
minute conversation.
“We talked of legislation in a general
way,” Mr Fitzgerald said, afterward.
“We reviewed at some length the work
before the House and what it has al
ready accomplished. It looks very much
to me as if Congress isn't going to adjourn
until August 13. and the chances are
that when Gov Wilson reaches the White
House next March he will call a special
session and we will be at work all sum
mer.” Representative Sabath of Illinois,
who went there, prepared to say that he
would not support Gov Wilson if he found
that the governor entertained race pre
judices. talked earnestly with him. “He's
fair and broad enough for me,” Mr
Sabath said afterward. "We talked about
what Gov Wilson described in his his
tory as men of the meaner sort. I
wanted to know what he meant by that
phrase, and he told me so plainly that I
am going to support him and work for
him."
“What did he tell you,”
"He said that he meant men of no
particular nation, but especially referred
to the lower element of many nations
from which we draw immigration. Ho
said: 'You know every nation Imp an
evil element, although a small one some
times; even our nation has a lower vle
ment.' Then he said that he had written
at a time when the special interests were
bringing that, sort of men over here to
compete with American laborers, horn and
raised here, and that the mop he described
were those who were stimulated hv the
steamship companies working under the
direction of the special interests to come
over hero and underbid the American
laborer for wages. Hr asked me if I
did not think they wore men of the moan
er sort nnd I told him 1 did. But he did
sav that healthy immigration was a good
thing and should ho onrnnrnced."
Says Maine is Going Democratic.
Representative McGillicuddy of Maine,
who has been selected to serve on the na
tional. campaign committee, and Repre
sentative Thayer of Massachusetts met
the governor together. It was the first
time Mr McGillicuddy had seen the gov
ernor since the latter gave him a place
i on the committee. “It was a surprise to
I me," he said when naked how he liked bis
r new position. T did not know it won
। coming, but 1 ntn very much gratified.
: Maine is going just as democratic ns
Texas this year.”
Henry Morgenthau of New York, who
I hue been mentioned as treasurer of the
campaign committee, had a long talk with
the gureruev At its termination Mr Mor
gentium said that he did pot want any of
vial position. tli«t he wotlld prefer Io
serve the party us a high private tiuless
the governor drutttd hhu hit<> uflkml
Mervice. The guvstH were nil served with
puiiuh without it stimulating ingredient
In it—and with cake, on the lawn. After
they had ail greeted the governor »nd
many hud gone lo the train, Rvpresciila
tivesS Rubey of .Missouri and Fruuvi* of
Unio came up to say good-hy. “Every
.Missouri I'epreNcntative in Washington
“l? io-iluy.” Mr Rubey told him.
I here isn’t any feeling Dow in Mis
souri aguinst yuu. We wanted ('hump
Chirk to win but we don’t hold it against
you because lie did not. and we want you
to come out to our state and make a
speech when you can.” The special train
pmled out of Sea Girt bound for Wasli
mgtou at 5.45. with Speaker t'liirk nnd
nearly all the others aboard. Several de
ed J.°, remain at Asbury I'urk over Sun
ui' • Jay "'ns one of the most de
lightful I have ever experienced." the gov
ernor said. "It was very gratifying to
have so large a representation of demo
eratlc members of Congress make the visit
to Sea Girt. I am told that the oeension
is unique in American history, and for
that reason it was the more appreciated."
At dusk the governor left in his automo
bile to spend Sunday "in retreat” nt the
home of a friend not far away.
GOV WILSON PREPARING SPEECH.
Democrats Expect 230 Votes in Elec
toral College Without Debatable
States of Connecticut, Massachu
setts, Wisconsin and lowa.
Gov Wilson discarded his gray working
coat Monday for a natty one of serge,
drew the shutters of his office, pulled down
the shades, locked the door and walked
leisurely down the steps of the “Little
White House” porch at Sea Girt, N. J.,
with a bundle of papers under his arm. A
moment later he entered a waiting auto
mobile and was off for seclusion and the
writing of his speech of acceptance of this
democratic presidential nomination. There
are perhaps a score of persons who know
where he went, but how long he will be
away is a problem as yet unsolved by
even the governor himself. That depends,
he said, on how fast he can set his brain
going and keep it going at the task which
lies before him.
The speech of acceptance is to reflect
his attitude on the leading questions of
the hour and on the platform adopted at
Baltimore. He may be gone two days or
three, or possibly four. Sea Girt will
not see him again until the last “i" of
his acceptance address is dotted and the
last “t" is crossed. The governor left
the “little White House” because he
found it impossible to greet personally the
scores of persons who have been coming
daily to wish him well and at the same
time find opportunity to write his speech.
He went to the home of a friend, not far
away from Sea Girt. The persons who
share the secret of what he called his “re
treat" are his family, his secretaries,
William F. McCombs, the national chair
man, and the newspaper correspondents at
Sea Girt. The latter were made to prom
ise not to tell anybody—not even their
managing editors —where he had gone.
Before the governor left he conferred
with Senators Reed and Stone of Missouri
and Representative Henry of Texas. “Of
course. Champ Clark will take the stump
for Wilson," Senator Reed said afterward.
“A Missouri democrat is one of those
fellows who takes off his coat and starts
to work for the ticket as soon as the con
vention is over. Champ Clark is a Mis
souri democrat." Senator Stone said he
had talked with Gov Wilson about liis
plans. They also had discussed debatable
states, he said. He'was reasonably sure
that Wilson would have 230 votes in the
electoral college before they reached the
debatable states. Among-these were New
York. Connecticut. Massachusetts. Wis
consin and lowa. They were not includ
ed in the 230 votes.
"Senator Stone is a political pessimist;”
interrupted Senator Reed. “When he says
a thing is reasonably sure, you and I and
some other folks would say it was abso
lutely certain. There is no doubt about
Wilson’s election. When Roosevelt gets
started and Taft begins his real campaign
there won’t be anything left of the repub
lican party.” Representative Henry talked
with the governor, he said, about legis
lation pending in Congress. He also dis
cussed the political situation. "This fight,”
said Mr Henry, "is among three presi
dents. the former president, the present
president and the future president. I can’t
see it any other way. and as for Texas,
she’ll give Wilson 300,000 majority. There
aren't any republicans left in Texas any
more.”
WORKS MAY VOTE FOR WILSON.
California Senator Says His Support
of Roosevelt Will Depend on How
Colonel is Nominated.
The controversy between Senator John
D. Works and progressive leaders of Cali
fornia advanced another stage Sunday,
when the senator was called upon by
telegraph by Lieut-Gov A. J. AA’allace to
inform the progressive voters whether he
intended to vote for Roosevelt, Taft or
AA'ilson.
“Will not vote for Taft.” Senator AA’orks
telegraphed back from AV ashington.
“AVould have voted for and aided in elec
tion of Roosevelt if he had stood on his
just rights to the nomination at Chicago
and run as republican. Wil) not follow
him into a new party. Believe a now
party abandons the ground that would
make his claim invulnerable.”
Senator AA’orks added that whether he
would now vote for Roosevelt, "depends
on how he is nominated and whether be
runs as a republican.” He further said
he felt he could “as a progressive re
publican vote for Wilson consistently if
no republican other than Taft is nomi
nated.’’
Republicans Support Gov Wllaon.
From more than 2000 letters of promi
nent republicans which Gov AA’ilson lias
received assuring him that the writers
would vote the democratic ticket this
year, not to mention uncounted missives
from more obscure members of the re
publican rank and file, there were made
public last night the contents of 100 or
more which the governor has answered
personally. In no case was the name of
the writer given for publication, hut the
original of each letter is on tile nt the
governor's office. A large proportion, per
haps 25 per cent of the nominee’s corres
pondence. is composed of these unsolicited
pledges of support by republicans.
“I have always been a republican and
never voted for any other party,” wrote
the president of a college in Pennsylvania,
“but I so thoroughly believe in you that
1 intend to give you my vote and my in
fluence. Depend on me for any service I
may be able to render.”
The president of a Brooklyn bank wrote:
“Your candidacy appeals to the people of
the whole country.”
This came from the president of u ra
tional bank in Maine: ‘‘Together with
manv former republicans from among the
most representative men of our good state.
I shall support you.”
From the bend of a trust company in
Chicngo: "I shall be happy to aid you
in any way within my power.”
A leading republican lawyer of North
Dakota: “You may count on the support
of not only the democratic party iu this
state, but of a very large progressive re-
publican vote. Pray feel nt liberty to
cal] uixm me at any time to assist you."
BERGER ATTACKS CANDIDATES.
Socialist Entertains Congress With
Diatribes Against Wilson, Bryan,
Taft, Roosevelt and Their Parties.
Representative Berger of Wisconsin en
tertained the House at Washington Thurs
day with a “keyhote” speech on social
ism. He described the socialist ticket
as "tile international ticket of humanity."
I his country is divided into classes much
ns any monarchical country,” declared Mr
Berger. "'Therefore the working class—
the men and women that work either with
their brains or their hands—must have a
party of their own to take care of the
interests of their own class.''
Mr Berger attacked Gov 'Woodrow Wil
son as "a creature of the bosses,” as
sailed President Taft and Col Roosevelt
and referred to William J. Bryan as a
"dictator." The only hope for the work
ingman, he asserted, lay in the socialist
party. Mr Berger wns subjected to a
sharp cross fire of interrogations from
both sides of the House. He declared he
and his party stood for government own
ership of the "trusts" and for a univer
sal old-age pension plan.
Representative Rainey of Illinois, demo
crat. sought permission to print in the
Record some views of Thomas Jefferson
on socialism and certain literature issued
by the American antisocialist society. Rep
resentative Austin of Tennessee, republic
an, objected and blocked every effort. "I
lune no objection to offer to the objections
of the gentleman from Tennessee,’’ said
Mr Raim > sharply when he acknowled(*d
defeat, “especially since lie is in favor here
of the water-power trust.” Mr Rainey
Wednesday blocked two of Mr Austin’s
water-power bills.
“The capitalistic class is just as willing
to deal with the democrats as with the re
publicans.” was Berger's opening shot.
“The latter is conservative and the dem
ocratic reactionary. A glance at some of
the honest ‘progressives' who are now
setting out to purify politics will at once
demonstrate that Robin Hood's famous
assemblage of outlaws bad nothing on the
gang that are now rallying around Theo
dore Roosevelt.
“Wilson’s election will not only perpet
uate the power of the bosses and their
machines, but will also inaugurate another
era of ’prosperity'—as we had under Gro
ver Cleveland—for men of the type of
Belmont and Ryan.
"It is unnecessary to explain where Mr
Taft stands. It is as natural for a mnn
of his type to be allied with men like
Root, Crane. Guggenheim and Hammond
as it is for a duck to take to water. The
republican party is the favorite organiza
tion of the big capitalists.
"The capitalist class is just as willing
to deal with the democratic partv as with
the republican party. Being behind the
times in most things, the democratic party
is especially ignorant in regard to the la
bor question, as. the laws of any southern
state prove. But the workingmen of this
country have votes and that is the reason
why the democrats have in recent years
discovered that they 'dearly love the work
ingman.’ That is the reason they have
passed a few labor laws—campaign food
on the eve of a presidential ejection. Of
course these laws will not add a single
sandwich to the daily fare of working
men or working women."
The socialist lender analyzed the sup
port and backers of Col Roosevelt, brand
ing them as “bosses” and machine lead
ers. “We must have a new constitution
or a bloody revolution," Berger declared.
"Our workingmen to-day build a few pal
aces and many hovels—the workingmen
to live in the hovels, and the few capital
ists in the palaces. They make a small
amount of fine clothes and millions of
yards of shoddy—they to y ear the shoddy.
They tmist ruin their health by overwork
that a few people may ruin their health
by too much leisure. The majority now
degenerates through poverty so that a
small minority may be able to degener
ate through luxury.”
WOODROW WILSON AS A SPEAKER.
He Ougiht to Be Heard in His Own
Behalf Daring the Campaign,
(From the Galveston (Tex.) News.)
But it is not the depth and accuracy of
his learning which will challenge the ad
miration of the masses—only those who
are themselves learned will be competent
to appreciate his purely intellectual
equipment. What will do more than
anything else to charm the country with
Dr Wilson is his unrivaled talent as a
public speaker. He is not an orator, at
least not in the sense that that word has
come to be understood; he neither de
claims nor “soars, the empyrean,” nor in
vokes the shades of the forefathers to
testify to the truth of his statements nor
to their validity. The charm of his speak
ing lies chiefly in the incisiveness of his
words and sentences. In the art of
clear and cogent statement—and that is
the cardinal of literary virtues —we have
not his superior in this country to-day;
nor among, public men is there one to rival
him. To find men with whom to compare
him in this respect the mind will have to
revert to the public men of England; and
when that is done Lord Morley and Vis
count Haldane are the men whose names
suggest _ themselves. Of course the first
prerequisite of clear, cogent speaking is
dear, cogent thinking; but the art of
thinking and the art of expressing thoughts
are not always at a parity in the same
men. Undoubtedly we have many men in
this country who think as profoundly, as
clearly, as precisely as Dr Wilson does,
but few if any of those who rival him
in this respect are to be compared with
him in the knack of picking the word
which has at once the maximum of
strength, precision and grace, and fewer
still rival him in the art of happy phras
ing, in combining words, phrases and sen
tences in a way to instil a suggestion that
lingers in the mind long after he is done.
Still a rarer talent possessed by Dr
Wilson, though one that is not strictly
an intellectual attribute, but more near
ly a psychical one, is an exquisite sense
of fitness which enables him, as it were,
to appraise the occasion of his speaking,
and thus to adjust his speech to its re
quirements. He has the ability to give
his addresses a tonal quality, as it were,
that harmonizes well-nigh perfectly with
both his subject and the circumstances
which call forth his address. He can be
grave without becoming ponderous, and
can indulge himself in humorous allusion
without suggesting a lack of earnestness,
an adventure which few public speakers
have the skill to attempt without danger.
One other rare and rich gift has been
vouchsafed to him; he can. as the phrase
has it, become “properly indignant”
without losing intellectual poise or sacri
ficing aught of Ids dignity: run the whole
gamut of denunciation without transgres
sing to the scurrilous.
It has boon reported that Dr Wilson is
not much inclined to engage in any very
extended speechmaking during the cam
paign. It is to be hoped that that will
not be bis final decision, and that if he
does not speak with the frequence of Mr
Bryan and Mr Roosevelt in campaigns in
which they had a personal concern, that
at least he will not go to the other ex
treme of being as reticent ns Mr Cleve
land was. No one. not even Mr Bryan,
will be able io apeak for him as effective
ly as he will be able to speak for him
self, nor can anyone in either party pre
sent. the questions which will make the
issues of the campaign with the same
delightful impersonableness which gives
dignity to political controversy.
DURING THE CONVENTION.
IFrow the Baltimore American.)
British visitor—“l say, doncherknow,
why do you call this Mr Bryan the Com
moner T'
American host—“ Because be is the peer
leas one.” See the joke?