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Show ADOPTS THE KANSAS IDEA Colonel Roosevelt Announces His Political Po-litical Creed and Lines Up With the Insurgents. s Osawatomle, Kan. In clear and emphatic em-phatic fashion Theodoro Roosevelt announced an-nounced his political creed hero on Wednesday. It was a crowd of insurgent insur-gent Republicanism. It aligned him definitely with tho Insurgent movement move-ment within tho party as a whole. It placed him on record as an advocate of some policies which find favor with tho insurgents nnd ns an opponent of every "special interest" which ho believes be-lieves exercises a sinister Influence oh the affairs of tho people. Colonel Roosevelt declared himself in favor of wide increase in tho power of the national government so that It might assumo greater activity In control of tho corporations, and in working out the policies which ho believes be-lieves should be adopted. He declared de-clared for the "new nationalism," as he termed such an Increase In governmental govern-mental power. Colonel Roosevelt characterized tho issue of tho day as "tho struggle of free men to gain and hold tho right of self-government as against tho special Interests, who twist the mothods of free government Into machinery for defeating the popular will.'' "The Issue Is Joined and wo must fight or fall," said ho. |