The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 4, 1918, Page 21

* questionable same lines that Roosevelt had -started him on. - Then Roosevelt determined on a shrewd political move. . He came out for president himself and on a new platform. Up and down the country he went, declaring for the initiative, referendum and recall, even for the re- call of . judges, attacking ‘“malfactors of - great wealth,” swinging the “big stick” and condemning men, who re- minded him of his past record, to the “Ananias club.” Taft, dismayed at be- ing deserted when he was only follow- ing the line that he had been started upon by Roosevelt, turned on him, so did other Republican bosses and by means they deprived Roosevelt of the Republican nomina- tion. So Roosevelt, with the aid of George W. Perkins of New York, “Boss” Flynn of Pittsburg, Bonaparte, Henry J. Allen, an anti-farmer editor of Kansas, and a host of real progres- sives who were hoodwinked into think- ing him to be a genuine reformer, or- ganized a new party. ' - What happened everybody knows, Roosevelt, because of the new policies that he -declared for, gained a tre- mendous vote. Taft, still standing for 'same things that he had stood for when he had been sent down to Okla- homa, carried only two states in the Union—Utah and Vermont.” Roosevelt carried state after state in the north and west. He even threatened to break into the “Solid South.,” ~ But he didn’t carry Oklahoma. The people of Oklahoma remembered what had happened when they adopted their constitution. They couldn’t conceive that the Colonel’'s eleventh hour con- version to the cause of the people was for any other purpose than getting elected to office. .Oklahoma cast its vote for Woodrow Wilson and enough other states did the same to elect Wil- Son: president. (The second and final article in the story of Oklahoma will appear in next week’s issue of the Leader.) 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