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Show BULL MOOSE MOVEMENT A REALITY. The great papers devoted to country life are leaning toward the third party. The Chicago Daily Farmers and Drovers Journal is one which, in its last issue, says: "The bull moose movement is a reality. The party is born and all thinking Americans will concede that if the new political organization organiza-tion accomplishes half what it purposes in the way of political reform re-form this will be a better country for having a third great political i party as a factor in influencing better government. "All great parties must have a great leader. A great party without a leader of ability to lead would not long be great, and a leader of a great movement who lacked ability to lead would not be long held out in front to point the way to his followers. "He would soon be relegated to the ranks and a real leader would take his place. "Corruption within both the old parties has been a by-word of accusation for years past. Political parties for generations back have been fraught with corruption in various stages of their history. "The bull moose party may in time have the same fight within its own ranks that has marked the careers of the two older parties in recent years. If this be the fate of the new movement in years to come than there will be a clamor to dissolve the organization and start a new and clean party. "The bull moose convention hrings together some of the most able men, in a political sense, this country has. It brings together a: really representative body of thinking Americans. They arc not all men who have been turned down by the older parties, but rather they have turned the older parties down. The distinction is plain. , ".& progressive- 'platform- advocating, the elimination of abuses T - in i i i in various forms which are now and have been fostered by the older parties will eventually bring order out of political chaos, but party principle must not be sacrificed that party success may be gained. ' |