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Show HE ATTACKS ROOSEVELT LaFollette Says Progressive Progres-sive Leader Fights Only for Self. Washington, July 12. Under the caption, "The Case of Air. Roosevelt," Senator La Follette has written the following editorial In the current number of La Follette's Weekly:: "Bryan at Baltimore, foregoing all chance of his own nomination, marshaling mar-shaling all his forces, braving Tammany Tam-many and the trusts to rescue his party from their domination, carrying the convention for the adoption of the most progressive Democratic platform plat-form yet offered and the nomination of the most progressive candidate available, was a towering figure of moral power and patriotic devotion to civic righteousness "Roosevelt at Chicago, backed by money derived by stock watering operations op-erations of the Steel trust and the Harvester trust, organizing what are now confessed to be fake contests as to nearly two hundred delegates In order to control the Republican convention and to secure his own nomination, and to aid in making a progressive platform, bound to have tho nomination or destroy the Republican Repub-lican party, was a most striking example ex-ample of misdirected power and unworthy un-worthy ambition "Roosevelt had as great an opportunity oppor-tunity to serve the progressive cause at Chicago as Bryan had at Baltimore. But Roosevelt was serving tho man, not the cause. He wanted ono thing the nomination. And yet he did not have enough votes to nominate himself upon any honest bnsis. We would have had enough delegates In that convention ultimately to have nominated a real progresshe and have adopted a strong progressh e platform. He could even nominated Hadley on such a platform and progressive pro-gressive Republicans could have supported sup-ported Hadley in much the same spirits as hundreds of thousands who will now support Wilson. Neither Hadley nor Wilson are veterans in the progressive ranks. Neither of them has been tried by the severest tests. Both appear to be men of high ideals, whose records, (hough shorlvgivo promises. ""But Roosevelt would not consider consid-er Hadley He 'ROuid have 1)0 one but himself. At the first suggestion of Hadley he ordered the third party maneuvers, lest ho lose his followers. follow-ers. Should Presented Evidence. "If he had the evidence to prove that Taft could not be honestly and fairly nominated, why did he not direct di-rect Ills lieutcuants to present that evidence to tho national committee and then to convention and then to the country so clearly that tbo convention con-vention would not have dared to nominate Taft, and that Taft could not. in honor, have accepted the nomination, nom-ination, If mado. The reason is obvious. An analysis of the testimony will. I am convinced, show that neither neith-er Taft nor Roosevelt had a majority major-ity of honestb or regularlj elected delegates. This, the managers on both sides well understood. Both candidates can-didates wore trying to seat a sufficient suffi-cient number of fraudulentl creden-tlalod creden-tlalod delegates, added to these regularly reg-ularly chosen to support him. to secure se-cure control of the convention and to steam-roll the nomination. "This explains the extraordinary conduct of RoosevelL He could not onter upon such an analysis of the eldcnce as would pj-ove Taffs regularly regu-larly eleeted delegates In the minority, minor-ity, without Inevitably subjecting his own spuriously credentialed delegates to an examination bc critical as would expose the falsity of his own contention conten-tion that he had honestly elected majority ma-jority of the delegates Ho therefore there-fore deliberately chose to claim, to cry fraud, to bully the national committee com-mittee and the convention and having thus created a condition which would 7nake Impossible a calm investigation of cases upon merit carry the convention con-vention by storm. j "That this is true physcology of the Republicans becomes perfectly plain. He was there to force his own nomination or smash tho convention con-vention He was not there to pre-servo pre-servo the Integrity of tho Republican party and make It an Instrument for the promotion of progressive principles princi-ples and the restoration of government govern-ment of the people ' Otherwise he would have directed his floor managers mana-gers to contest every inch of the ground for a progressive platform bo-fore bo-fore the committee oq resolutions nnd in the convention. "But Air. RooseveU was not governed gov-erned by suggestion pf the spirit of high patriotic and unselfish purnoso of which Bryan furnished such a magnificent example one week later in the Democratic convention at Baltimore. Bal-timore. Instead, be filled the public oar with sound and furr He ruthlessly ruth-lessly sacrificed everything to tho ono idea of his being the candidate. He gagged his followers in the convention con-vention without putting on record nay facts upon which the public could base a definite intelligent agreement regarding tho validity of the nomination. nomina-tion. He made no sugGestion as to a platform of progressive principles. Ho clamored loudly for purging the convention con-vention roll of tainted delegates, without purging hie own candidacy of his tainted contesto and his tainted taint-ed trust supports. He offored no reason for a third party excepting his own ever-mastering craving for a third term." . i |