Show hO BOOMS O a 0 MS ROOSEVELT no El ELT T FOR Fon PROGRESSIVE NOMINATION IN P 1 1 iJ 0 1 0 D 0 r INDIAN INDIANAPOLIS POLIS Ind April Sena IS Sena- Sena f J tor tor r Miles Poindexter of ot Wa Washington r- r launched a boom for or tho the nomination pf Qt Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt as the presidential candidate of or the tho Progressive party In 19 1916 6 In A a spee speech h delivered here today before the Indiana ana Pro Progressive state The Tho senator en tor after an elaborate discussion discus discus- Eton slon and attack upon the Democratic Cc and Republican parties declared d the ProgressIves ProgressIves' Progressives Progressives' Progress Progress- SS- SS h ives' ives s' s presidential nominee would have haie the support of the great mass miss of or the people The aho Dem Demo Democratic administration he ne said had not d dealt alt effectually effectual with current national na national national na- na a or International q questions because k kIt sectional it Via bound bound b by an unfortunate Issue He denounced particularly President Wilsons Wilson's stand for tor rep repeal al of ot the tolls exemption ex ex- emption Cla Clause se of or the Panama canal act ct Tells TeUs of ot Roosevelt Prestige The Tho Progressive party arty Is fortunate In having In i Its ranks and as its principal al lender leader Theodore elt Roosevelt said paid tit the e senator sen- sen sen sen- ator He HI He has laB as the prestige of ot his r record cord cordIn In tho the press epcy y Should he be nominated b by the Progressives Pro Pro- gref as as l h Improbably probablY will 1111 be for be for the presidency he will have the su support port of It f. f the great greats ma mass s. s or of tho the members of the Republican Re Re- Republican r publican party parti because the they are Pro progress progress- 8 r ress- ress ss he we j Tho Progressive party puts forward forward the he proposition that the the activities and agencies of or th the fed federal ral government muslI must I be be enlarged and e tended e tended Private mo mo- monopoly monopoly Is Js nation nalton wide and cann cannot t bo be restrained restrained re re- strained or controlled by the Individual states The rho Democratic party and tl the Ue e Republican party are arc aro both opposed to this proposition The h one because It 11 IK is jealous of th the power of or the states tates and the thc other because I it Is s opposed to further gavel government nr ent inter interference fe ference with the gr great at cor corporations orations i Old Parties Parties' Bound to Issues The tine Democratic party like th the Republican Republican lican party contains great numb numbers numbers' rs' rs of progressives l es still sUIl is bound hand and foot toot by b Y a an 1 unfortunate sectional issue which impedes and cripples It as a governing I power from dealing effectively ely with curent cur cur- current rent and International questions The racial question cial sits like lle an incubus upon Ys Its political activities I With control of the ment It precipitated the contract system denied the appeals of women omen and arid hastened has like lIka a u disorderly rout back bacle to the spoils of or patronage and the flesh pots of ot poll political success Tho Progressive c party does docs not believe In distorting the language of or a H. treaty S. S and deprive th people of the benefit of the Panama canal It remains for the Democratic party part having ing voted for rot the tolls exemption approved it il In their national na na- na platform and on the stump to now propose to surrender the sovereignty of ot this 1 most io t costly 0 ot of- ofIl all Il the tho American possessions possessions possessions pos pos- sessions to the whims caprice and sordid Interests of Or of foreign countries and domestic railroad linesS lines y S the hc heart lt of of- o our r i Jt system s and Sil S It I Is nominated In the bond She is Js generous enough however to say that she will not claim an any greater In the canal than we wo eJ ourselves i enjoy Since the fist railroad was as built buill to the I PacifIc coast the people of or this country have labored under under- the extortionate charges of or 11 a railroad rate rato policy which levied lcd upon traffic all aU that it would bear of or tho the cities clUes For twenty years ears man many of that coast have hae litigated before the in interstate interstate In in- I commerce commission a and d In the courts for for relief from the discrimination I and overcharges overcHarges of this system Now I Just as as the they aro are about to come into the I enjoyment of ot this com competitive transportation tion line Une the cup Is dashed from their lips I b by the Democratic part party arty In repudiation of or its platform anc and pledges and In surrender surrender der det of our International self sete respect Now ow It is proposed in pursuance of or th the same futile policy to pa pay of ot the peoples people's mone money ito to the republic o ot of Colombia Colombia Colom Colom- bia bla presumably bl to buy its good will There seems to be a mania In this administration tion Uon for or making treaties It Is ur urged ed as is asa asa isba a ba ls is of peace As a m matter of or fact they are tho the source of or controversy vers and d disagreement l to unfriendly unfriendly rather rather than peaceful r relations This proposal of or 5 to C Colombia Is nothing but an unwarranted raid upon the American treasury Tho The Progressive party now has an op opportunity opportunity op- op given to but few fety human humon agencies to render a service to liberty to democracy democracy democracy racy and to mankind by preserving ln the tho Panama canal from tho unwarranted demands demands de de- mands and Influence of either thor foreign power po or private Democratic monopoly |