Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1912 — Coder No Obligations to Quit the Republican Party. [ARTICLE]

Coder No Obligations to Quit the Republican Party.

Ormsby McHarg, who was one of Roosevelt’s managers in his campaign for the republican nomination for president, has announced that he will support William Howard Taft. He says: “I supported Colonel Roosevelt as a republican, having no notion at that time that he was anything else. I was bitterly disappointed to find —later what his real intentions were. Tam under no obligations ,to him or anybody else, however, to get out of the republican party, and do not intend to do so. * * * I believe there is absolutely no future for she new third party beyond Colonel Roosevelt. If the new-party expects to live it will have to take out a-life insurance policy on the colonel’s life. Their cry of “fighting the bosses” is already being dissipated by the winds of public opinion. I do not think that Penrose is a bit more dangerous than Flinn, and some of the other so-called republican bosses have quite as good a standing with the voters as has Mr, Perkins.” Those men who consider their party of less importance than ’.the ambitions of one of the candidates within it will doubtless denounce Mr. McHarg as one of the “bosses” because he has had mind enough of his own to stay by the party that he has managed the affairs of the country with signal success. He will be charged by the party quitters as a “croQked politician” because he has been independent enough not to permit Roosevelt to “boss” him and drag him out of a party that was always all right until it gave rebuff to the third term seeker. Even the closest and most ardent supporters of Roosevelt in his race for the nomination are deserting him when he seeks to destroy the party that twice honored him and then accepted his recommendation in the choice of a candidate. The men who were with him in his campaign for the nomination know full well that his defeat was honestly accomplished. It is only the poorly informed who cry out “thief.”

Governor Hadley, of Missouri, is staunch for Taft. He knows that Roosevelt played the “dog In the manger” and kept him from securing the nomination. Senator Cummins, of Idaho, is for Taft. Senator- Lafollette, of Wisconsin, is for Taft. These men are real progressives. They advocated reforms while the lips of Theodore Roosevelt were sealed. They are republicans on principle amd not because of their personal ambitions. They know that the republican party has always and will always be responsive to the demands of the people and will adopt no radical halfbaked legislation that will bring disaster to the United States. Certainly there is little excuse for any man who has been a republican during these years of unprecedented prosperity to leave the party and follow the guidance of a man who changes his policies as a chameleon changes his color.

These men who know Roosevelt, men who have learned him inside and out, will speak in Indiana and throughout the nation during the campaign And will leave no excuse, for republican party desertion. Men should feel mighty reluctant to desert a party so signally right, so determinedly progressive, so unflinchingly fearless In adopting measures assuring national prosperity, and following the harrangues of a disappointed office seeker. They should stand firmly on tiie Mid ship and help to make it better wherein it may be wrong. For regular action of the bowels; easy, natural movements, relief of constipation, try Doan’s Regnlets. 25c at all stores.