Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — HARDING’S ROOSEVELTISM [ARTICLE]

HARDING’S ROOSEVELTISM

What is strange is that the friends •and »relptives of Theodore Roosevelt should campaign for a candidate who eight years ago used these words about their former leader: "He has betrayed and broken with the friends who have given him loyal and unselfish devotion for years. He has abandoned the principles which he advocated with voice and pen ever since he entered public- life. He has deserted and attempted to destroy the party which honored him. He has convicted himself of Insincerity, inconsistency, • ingratitude and untruthfulness. He has shamed his past and discounted his future.”—Senator Harding in 1912. What is both strange and unpardonable is that some progressive independent groups in the Republican party should not only submit to such leadership, but actively attempt to fasten that leadership on the country. ~