Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Roosevelt’s Real Position. [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt’s Real Position.

“And oh: my friends: for one thing at least we should be profoundly grateful. “We are more fortunate than oar fathers in that there is not the slightest tinge of sectionalism In the fight we are now waging. The principles for which we stand are as vital for the south as for the north, for the east as for the west.” —Theodore Roosevelt at Chicago. Mr. Pecksniff never approached this. Where did the money come from which paid the heavy expense of Mr. Roosevelt’s preconvention campaign? What considerations moved Mr. Perkins, archpriest of big business; Dan Hanna, the son of his father; the McCormicks, who represent the Harvester trust as Mr Perkins represents the steel trust; Boss Flinn, rich through the control of city contracts, to take chief roles In the movement to bring him back to power? As the Roosevelt managers held out crisp new bills before delegates from the Black Belt, how Impressive is the proof of the death of sectionalism and the beneficent reign of “the principles for which we stand” over south and north alike!