Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — ROOSEVELT AND THE PROGRESSIVES [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT AND THE PROGRESSIVES

Chicago, Oct. 25.—T0 the Editor: The Progressive national committee did what the Progressive national convention couldn’t be induced to do —it sold out to the Republican party. Colonel Roosevelt knew when he caused the date of the Progressive convention to be made concurrent with the Republican national convention that he would not run if the Republicans did not nominate! him. He was convinced that he could not win with three tickets in the field. That is the reason for liis refusal to run—-nothing more. He is quite willing to resign to •he Penroses, Smoots and Lodges in the senate and the McKinleys and Cannons in the houses —all of whom he denounced as unworthy of trust —so long as he*is spared the humiliation of a Second defeat. There is no parallel in American history for the action of Colonel Roosevelt in sacrificing the 1,000 Progressive delegates and A,000,000 voters who out of sheer devotion to the man were willing, aye eager, to follow him. History records few such evidences of selfishness or insensibility to gratitude and loyalty. It is in poor grace for Mr. Roosevelt to talk of “national shortcomings” with his own so obvious. It is as had for him to talk of “national honor and interest’’ when dispassionate chroniclers describe his desertion of the Progressive host as a “cowardly stab in the back”—A. B. POOLE, a Wilson Progressive, in Chicago Herald.

James Gordon Bennett is the owner of the New York Herald, and of course a multimillionaire, and consequently a heavy income tax payer, which he does not like. He thinks the poor and the laboring classes ought to pay more taxes. The Herald is a non-partisan paper, but as Hughes has promised to repeal the Underwood tariff, which would repeal the income tax, the Herald is now supporting Hughes.

Will R. Wood of Lafayette, Republican representative in congress from this district, made a tour of the county Saturday and wept tears of sympathy with the Hoosier farmers because of the poverty thrust upon them through the importation of Argentine corn. “When the war ends” and “Had it not been for the war", were his chief subjects.

One of Newton county’s prominent Republicans was in the city Saturday evening, and when asked by a fellow Republican if he was not going to the opera house to hear Representative Will R. Wood speak replied, “I would not go across the street to hear Wood at any time.” .• \