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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1912)
THE MADRAS PIONEER Published every Thursday by PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. ? ' Subscription Rates One year $10 Six months 80 Three months o0 to his cost, would be nothing rt of suicide. - Rochester Entered as second class matter August 29, 1904, at the Postof fice at 'Madras Oregon, under th.3 Act of Congress of March 3, 1379. Thursday, March 21, 1912. An Issue of Personalities Nothing in the current hap penings of the day can compare with the public interest, favor able and unfavorable which has been created by the entry of "The Man on Horseback intc the political arena. When he announced in his letter to the now famous "seven governors' that he would accept the presi dential nomination if it should be tendered him at the Chicago convention, it was nothing more than the signal for a fight, and one which will be to the bitter end. More bitter, possibly, because of the fact that the per sonality of Mr. Roosevelt is the most conspicuous issue along which the fight for the presiden tial 'nomination will ultimately be waged. True Mr. Roosevelt has announced his belief in the recall of judicial decisions bj popular vote, and will reply upon that and other kindred progres sive measures, as he chooses to call them, as his campaign plat form. However, the voting strength" of the country, skepti cal ' of some of his announced doctrines, will hold Mr. Roose velt personally accountable for his previous pledges toward the present administration, and hip subsequent conduct toward it, and will vote for or against Mr. Roosevelt solely on the grouno of his personality. Nevei since the famous Tilden-Hayes contest has the presidential nomination or election beef, fought out so closely along, this line of the personality of the candidates. .. Below is given some pertinent comments ane'nt the Colonel's candidacv, as made by a few oi the large New York dailies, which show th'at in the East, the fore most '' isSue is reorardinsr all affiliations, principles or pre cedents.. it short of suici Herald. (Ind.) OUR CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT ivuuacvciii , vwu- forme'r political purposes has of late those With has beer, classifica- The policies and which Mr. Roosevelt avowed differ from which . Mr. Bryan identified chiefly in tion and but very little in char acter or aim; and the.v are tossed bv an abler and more resourseful man. Syracuse Herald. It is well enough to point to his : mistakes, his impetuosity and that sort of thing, but the' fact remains that he is a natural nrH skillful leader of men. His announcement of his candidacy means a fight. Nor is it the sort of fierht where feather dusters - - , will be wielded as weapons. -Uti ca (N: Y. ) Press. CnThrml Roosevelt's svstem of government is not progressive. Tt-. is rfi-ac.tionarv. It is not a Republican system of govern ment. It is not a Democratic system,' as democracy as has ever been practiced, on this earth. It is government by clamor and caprice. The Re publican party will never nomi nate the apostle of that sort of thing for president, and the people will not elect him. Syra cuse Post Standard. (Rep.) It is not so much .because Mr. Roosevelt seeks a third term that die people of the country will have none of him, but because he seeks it avowing policies, principles and intentions that would be destructive of the insti tutions we have built up and would in the end put the liber ties, the weltare and the happi ness of the people in far greater danger than they are now or have ever been.- The Times. , Social justice is as much Mr. Taft's aim as it is Colonel Roose velt's. The president is sanely progressive; unless to be pro rrossive one must be willing to . i ,k., Vin 5:ifn tniarus oi a aUclllUUli w.v. " " o written constituion. as a candidate for re-nomination he has no reason to fear the issue raispd bv Colonel Roosevelt s scheme for the recall of judicial decisions in the name of pro gress. The Tribune. All great men have their weak diutja. mi. uuuov,n,n u re ticular weakness, as those familiar with his career have long known, is his proneness to listen to the voice of flattery. He has owed it more to good luck than to wisdom that this has not hitherto led him far istray. But those who have be- seiged him persistently on the question of a third term well cnew where his armor was vul- ierab!e dand they have pene trated it. He has chosen his nnsition. "Aut Caesar aut nul- lus." Buffalo Express. If human history experience count that this issue government and human for so little of personal must aerain be For Good Farms City Property and Business Chances SEE D. W, BARNETT OKFIUK MAIN HTKKKT, MADHAB, OKKCION Houses to Rent CHOICE LOTS IN DEPOT ADDITION Copyrlcht by Pack. PRESIDENT TAFT AT HIS DESK IN THE WHITE HOUSE announceing his candidacy, and nothing else in connection with so fateful an act. A period of bitter and ugly turmoil has been opened in our politics. Pas sions will run high before this new Uaesar gains control oi the government again. Un necessary is his performance, if undertaken in the interest of democracy, and tragic some way the end the reckless adven ture may prove to be. Spring field Republican. To elect a man of settled and serious political purpose, of definite and clearly understood principles and of temperate, wise judgment to a third term would be a perilous act for this re public. To elect this irresponsi ble, changeable politician with fnncrht out. it might better be fought out now than later rhe country will never be better prepared for it. The American people temporized with slavery antil it forced them into a great :ivil war. Then they temp orized with . flat money until it Pnrrerl a trreat crisis upon them and became their Iliad of eco apmic woe. To temporize with personal government is to invite another national disaster. The World. l We give Colonel Roosevelt cre Jit for semiunconscio'usndss of the despicable nature of his per formance. He is probably able to persuade himself for the mo ment that he is sacrificing him self' rather than sacrificing ano ther. Such pallatives of con science are easily procurable by a man of his resources. Never -lses we pity him sincerely all the same; pity him for the weak ness he has shown; pity him on account-of the place he has delib erately elected to hold in the pages of histpry. The Sun. The most unfortunate feature of his candidacy therefore.fis the inevitable inference which it car ries that the Taft administration has ' failed in the fulfillment of the policies he inaugurated. This inference, we believe, does the president an injustice. He has made mistakes, it is true, but every president even Roose velt himself has made mistakes His views on all subjects have not been an exact agreement with those of his predecessor. That, however, was to be expected No two men ever thought pre cisely alike on every public ques tion. Where he has differed from Roosevelt, it has undoubtedly been an honest difference. He would have been untrue to him self if he had not obeyed the guid ance of his own judgment. Democrat & Chronicle. Mr. Roosevelt is' peculiarly dangerous because the ambition and opinions of Mr. Roosevelt are the court of final appeal. He starts into this campaign with the ec-otism that he is set for the deliverance of the country, that he is the savior of the people, and he begins by de claring himself against all con stitutional guidance and res traint. He will -be sufficient! Emma Goldman could not make a more violent assault up on our institutions. The en couraging feature of the case is that the incident will reduce Roosevelt to a harmless position from the fact that his election threatens so much to the coun try. We shall hear the last of Rooseveltism. All of the insur gent isms and other disturbing isms which he has created will follow him in the decent. The American people will not sub stitute Mr. Roosevelt for their constitution. Chancellor Day. N. J. SINNOTT OF THE DALLES, OREGON If the majority of the voters of the United States want Theodore Roosevelt to be the next presi dent, they can have him. He is a dangerous man far more dangerous than ever before in his public life but let the ma jority rule, Mr. Roosevelt should not ,a single principle that he ;.be congratulated upon the corn dare make his own, if he think mendable brevity of his letter River Rights to be Adjudicated Promptly Work to obtain adjudication of the water rights of the Des chutes River has been begun by State Engineer Lewis, accord ing to George T. Cochran, super intendent of vater district No. 2, who was in Bend last week, making preliminary arrange ments fdr the work, which is acknowledged to be a task that may require several years' labor. R. C. Wycrant, an assistant state engineer, has been in Prineville collecting data from the County records, preparatory to commencing the work of map making and surveying the river. This surveying probably will commence within a few weeks, and it is to include a thorough mapping of the entire Deschutes River from Crane Prairie, at its headwaters, to the Columbia, a distance of over 200 miles. Adjudication of the river water rights is of great impor tance to this section of the state, as the Deschutes is virtually the sole water source for the western part of Crook County. 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