Show THE ISSUES whatever facts and ide ideas is bearing upon thle the campaign for the presidency may be in possession of colliers will have plenty of time for their exploitation between now ow and november ath most of the issues will be discussed I 1 by us repeatedly and in full just now we offer merely a scenario a baiek brie outline of conspicuous principles ples in the first place we wholly refuse defuse to see fard fundamental antagonism between the various free and progressive pol cical forces in the field the wilson democrats democrats the progressive republicans and those 0 of both parties who have joined the now new party all make for destruct destruction iod of obstacles ob and unjust privileges on many measures desiga designed ed to forward this cause all progressives Progress ives are practically agreed on some questions of importance there are differing views and some of these questions cannot be postponed let us first consider some of 0 the objections made to the bull moose party on the third term tear fear our opinion is well known it is reflected in the cartoon again this week the belief that george washington thought long service in the lie presidency dangerous to the public welfare is one of the most erroneous of the many fictions of oc history the most prominent papers papera which talk about roosevelt as a diaz new were urging a third term on grover cleveland not many years ago another attack on the new party that may be dismissed is that it is destroy inga party which has a long ing and noble record in reality the brigand chiet chief I 1 tans of the republican republica n party have destroyed troy edit it and themselves they are going I 1 ng to b be e 1 a bad ad third ln in chis this election and the democrats and the B ull moose will absorb most of what has been best in ia their ranks it is dangerous to steal a national convention it would have been dangerous e aeri eal without the sheer fraud to have ove overridden hidden popular opinion so conclusively expressed in nearly all the preside presidential noial prefer tuce primary states that ing insolence olence following mr tafts fatal errors in his chief advisers his fight against the republican progressives Progress ives his laudation of 0 the ac payne aldrich bill his support of oe ballinger his continuing support of mccabe and secretary wilson his veto or of the wool bill took most ot of the strength out of the G 0 P the new party merely carries on many of its best traditions the fact that it was being formed made it possible i for mr bryan and the free democrats to win the superb victory over money and machines in the nomination of woodrow wilson if wilson is elected the new party will help him to control the situation and will come into power with a rush in 1916 if the democrats betray their leader now lor some of the attacks being made on wilson some ot of them it must be said are unworthy because they are trivial and others because they are insincere continually calling Goer governor nor wilson dr strikes some people as smart it strikes us as t third rate the man who went through the great fight against plutocracy at princeton princston and then won non a progressive program in new jersey Is governor wilson or mr wilson or wilson and any attempt to jeer at him because he is a student will become more sickening the more it is repeated then take the prophecy that lie he will wil I 1 be dominated by machines everybody not blinded by factional anthus easm knows that nobody has ever been in ill the presidency who w ws less welcomed by the bosses and who will act more entirely according to his own personal convictions whether his measures are defeated or whether they are passed by democrats republican progressives Progress ives or whether they are passed by democrats republican progressives Progress ives or new party members some of the most vigorous denunciations ever delivered against the idea that a virtuous leader must never be supported by anybody except a saint can be found in the words of theodore roosevelt while he was president and while he be was governor when wilson was running for governor he stated emphatically that if elected he himself would be the leader and he be has been under the head of hypocrisy also mus must t be put the distorted quotations from mr wilsons Wil sons books let nobody attack wilsons Wil sons position about immigration unless he disagrees with it to belleve believe it exactly right and yet seek to arouse prejudice against it is not less than contemptible these personal matters ended we shall say a few words about the intellectual issues the industrial and social program of the third party will ofer fer no important difference of opinion with ith the democrats it can be an issue only with the tatt taft faction the same is true of the direct or popular government program the issue of nationalism against state rights offers a fighting ground on an which the democrats will be ata at a disadvantage unless governor wilson makes it clear that lie he himself on such living issues Is as water power is one of those who realize that steam and electricity have been harnessed since the constitution wai was agreed upon the foremost issues we believe will be the tariff bariff and the trusts on those two topics colliers will express itself constantly during the next three months Coli colliers lers |