Show VITALIZING ISSUES THE HE New York World is less happily happily happily hap hap- accurate than usual when hen it remarks that in Hin all the controversy among Progressive leaders as to whether the third-term third party should hold lold together or disband none of them hem presents an issue that could by any possibility keep a political organization organization organization or or- alive Had the V World orId stated rather lather that none of them presents an issue that cannot be he bemore hemore more readily furthered to victory through Republican auspices it would have come nearer tho truth There was much in the platform written ritten by Colonel Roosevelt for tor or his new party in 1912 1013 that the nation n needs eds and amI must ultimately have have- There was much in that platform too that could mean nothing more than the lure spread by a clever politician for the snaring of votes and that thai doubtless will be repeated whenever two Progressives take counsel together to- to gether er Bu But insofar as the Progressive sive declaration of faith dealt with the necessity for protecting the American workingman and manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer from ruinous foreign competition competition tion and anel with the need for a n vigorous vigorous' and ana self respecting foreign policy il it furnished political and economic fundamentals that must long endure They arc are written however into tho the tenets of another political party that has be been n promoting them for more than half a century They are arc found creed of another political political poUt poUt- ical party that has proven its ability and antI its make them op op- The Republican party furnishes furnishes furnishes fur fur- its former members with a a. med medium um through which they may express express express ex ex- press their their- desires along lines of national national national na na- prosperity and vigor in inter international international national relations Nowhere else may mayr mayI r I they hey the hope for what the they desire Their only certain means of obtaining it is isby hy by jy reunion w with lh tho the party that believes be- be as they do in all matters of importance im- im importance im im- since sinco as a party of protest the they hey must continue continuo to be bo a party of or ormin min minority rity Were the Republican party nonexistent nonexistent nonexistent non non- existent had tho the schism of 1912 destroyed destroyed de lIe it the he i issues sues of tho the Progressive sive party part would keep that party part alive ali and assure its ultimate triumph But the Republican m party part represents the he majority vote of or tIle the nation it represents all those who believe that the tho restoration of th the protective principle principle prin prin- prin ciple is the only road over which the tho nation lation may travel back hack to prosperity So long long- longas h as that is true of Republican party larty success there thero can be bc no manner man man- ncr ner of doubt r |