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Show TRIUMPHANT PROGRESSIVISM. EVERY battlefield thus far is marked mark-ed by a progressive triumphal memorial. The liberal movement In the Republican Repub-lican party, gathering headway when Theodore Roo3evelt took the field at its head, has not wavered or faltered. It has swept ahead over all obstacles. Its ranks have gone up to the convention conven-tion doors unbroken. It represents and its leaders speak for the undisputed majority in the Republican party. Its victories have been substantial and they will be lasting. It has placed a measure of genuine self-government In the hands of the people such as they never had before and It is unafraid un-afraid of the consequence. It has given to the electorate of many states the right to select and instruct their delegates and to pass directly on candidates for nominat'on for president. It has given such an impetus to the demand for presidential preference primaries that a reasonable rrediction embraces a majority of the states in this, extension of suffrage within the next few years. It is doing more to put the Republican Republi-can party on the square than has been done in twenty years before. It is making the Republican party a liberal party seeking honestly to represent the wishes of the people of the United States, willing to submit Important is-aues is-aues to them without humbug and to speak for them without deception. New leaders who stand for the square deal and for fair play are coming com-ing to the front. It has rid the party of a number of tricky and deceiving men who sought leadership for personal per-sonal and corporate advantage and who maintain themselves in pliant submission submis-sion to special privilege and who endeavored en-deavored to conceal their stubborn unresponsiveness un-responsiveness to popular will by pretentious pre-tentious humbug. These men have been disclosed for what they are. They have been defeated de-feated and the control of political affairs af-fairs has been taken away from them. The real and genuine Republican party has not been so healthy and wholesome whole-some for thirty years. This is the achievement of progros-slvlsm. progros-slvlsm. Theodore Roosevelt made it posaible when leaders appealing less effectively to popular imagination seemed about to fall. Progressive Republicanism has given the members of the partj a new deal. It has given them new 'coders and new methods. It is trying to make the Republican Re-publican party again n patry of the people. From California to New Jersey the BHBMBHHBBBH awakening has come. Pennsylvania has discarded Penrose; Massachusetts has discarded Crane; Illinois cut out the discreditable part of the Republican Republi-can organization and threw it away. Progressive Kansas found the liberal White to substitute for the tory Mul-vane. Mul-vane. Missouri has been sealed to pro-gresslvlBm. pro-gresslvlBm. Maryland took that stand. Michigan and Indiana were choked by organization knavery, but will break their bonds. Ohio is in line with North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Wis-consin. It la a successful movement, substantially sub-stantially and conspicuously successful. success-ful. The foundations have been laid and laid well. On them a real and genuine party is being built a house for government by the people, and it is n. house which is not built on the sands. It will endure. Progressive Republicanism is dominant domi-nant Republicanism. Toryism has tried to make it stutter by choking it, but it cannot be denied. The liberal campaign has been won. It needs one other victory and it is free. It needs fair representation' in conventions and if that be obtained, if delegate strength bo apportioned to voting strength in elections, the Republican Repub-lican party is free. With preferential primaries and fair representation the Republican party is a free party. It never again will be forced to endure such humiliation as was forced upon it in this convention by discredited organizations. Chicago Tribune. |