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Show CLASSIFIES El THE VOTERS Colonel Roosevelt Class- H es All Against Third H Party, Reactionaries H I Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 7 The Bfl voters of the country were divided '" Bfl into two classos by Colonel Roosevelt 'II in his speeches yesterday. They wore I. II those with, and those against the Pro- iMB gressivu party. The man against it, 'JflH however sincerely he may think he is !IH a Progresslvo. ia the ally of AY all ! street, the ally of privilege, tlie ally ' of bosslsm. Ill Coming Into North Dakota, which Senator LaFollette carried in the pn- VH raarles preceding the Republican na- mH tlonal convention, Colonel Roosevelt " 'KH made a particular effort to win over 'Kl supporters of Progressive principles VH from the Republican and Democratic WaW candidates. He criticised Woodrow liH Wilson for his stand in regard to the II Progressive proposal for an interstate ! frl Industrial commission to regulate ll large corporations. He appealed to ' tho farmers of tho state to stand with the new party on tho tariff. The colonel then whirled across IH North Dakota by special train to koep Kfl pace with a relentless schedule. He ( made half a dozen speeches and last Hfl night was on his way to Montana. 5 II In Fargo Colonol Roosovelt spoke- I l first to a large crowd at Island Park. 1 1 His audience was composed largely of II farmers. The Progresslvo state con- H'l ventlon was in session In Fargo, but iJHil when Colonel Roosovelt arrived tho Kl delegates went to the park, although El he had agreed to address the conven- fl tion later. When at last he reached the convention hail he found it almost empty, but close upon his heels the delegates trooped in to hear him H Sltuatfon In 1894. H "I particularly call the attention of IH North Dakota," said he in his speech at Island Park, "to certain similarities H between the situation now and that in 1S64. At that time a number of I! the Republican leadors, the Progreo- H slve leaders of the day. Including Fro- mont, the first Republican candidate IU for president, and Wendell Phillips, a lljjl leader in the anti-slavery cause, were lljl so discontented with Lincoln and cor- Hl tain actionsnilthfi maBB of their faj- '11 lB16355"113"50810 11 prohJosed-.--rva2"?"'i HckctjsSfcilnsc 11 Lij,- V -e' 'A II c r supported no one- 'or went -j K a0j.i?ist Lincoln I "Now the same kind of thing is be- inj done by these men today, who J claim to be Progressives and yet ail to support the Progressive ticket. IT IJ a man is not with us he Is against us and if be is against us he is siding j jJ with the reactionaries. No matter ; how well meaning he may be, no mat- j BJ ter how sincerely ho may think he is j a Progressive, be is the ally of Wall ' l street, the ally of privilege, the ally ', MLLm of bosslsm in politics, unless he heart- iH lly and in good faith supports the IJ Progressive party. Il Cause Can Be Helped. W "There is only one way in which. H the Progressive cause can be holpert at this election and that Is by sup- j porting die Progressive ticket. This jJ Is not a question of personalities. i "Mr Wilson the other day recited ( 1 his opposition to a federal commls- J sion to regulate monopolies, and said: fjH " 'No body of men exists which J ' knows bow to tell this country what the processes of Industry should be ' This is without the change of a word exactly what the reactionaries, the J opponents of progress, have always 1 said whenever we have introduced public utilities commissions in the IJ states, and without the change of a IJ word it is precisely what the great IJ reactionary railroad magnates said H when they were fighting the estab- lishment of the interstate commerce J commission. The prophecy proved false as regards the public utilities IH commissions. It proved false as about lJ tho interstate commerce commission J and it will prove false as regards the proposed commission to regulate the JJ Interstate industrial business con- JH cerns which have any monopolistic tendencies" |
