WHO WILL ANSWER?
Who Will Answer? WHY WAS the Bull Moose platform changed from anti-trust to pro-trust? Who selected Roosevelt's close friend, Oscar King Davis, to be head press agent for the Roosevelt...
...But all who find Him lose Him, though all have found Him fair...
...It has not fully dawned while still a child's careless laughter is drowned in the dreary noise of machines, while yet a maiden, who might be pondering her mercies, is weary in her young days with the heaviness of shame and anxious toil, while yet a mother must needs turn from the child at her breast and the children at her knee...
...Long ago they found Him...
...Who was it that first suggested that the paragraph of Roosevelt's "confession of faith," pointing out the advantages of big business combinations, be substituted for the eliminated anti-trust plank...
...And this from "The Lord of Christmas Week:" "Men have long dreamed of the perfect ruler, some happy prince who shall love his people well, whose leadership shall be wise, gentle and just...
...it opens up the magic box of the Seasons...
...We crowd Him out for other guests less radiant...
...Again and yet again, men will ask him to cease being true to type for a little while, to give them a rest from his intensity, his fierce handling of the sore spots in human consciousness...
...Newspapers have printed a letter from Roosevelt to McCarthy—written before election—in which Roosevelt says he favored that anti-trust declaration and had only "just discovered" it had been stolen from his platform...
...If His dominion over the hearts of men were more than a lovely episode, if He might but abide, it would be well with us...
...GOVERNOR HIRAM JOHNSON of California, the Bull Moose candidate for Vice-President, issued the briefest Thanksgiving Day proclamation on the records of his state...
...Why did they not tell the voters about their discovery...
...What-not ¶HEIGH-HO...
...But he gives them no rest...
...History is wistful with men's effort to find him—the hero, the strong man, the righteous ruler— and then to establish him in dominion over their broken lives and warring wills...
...The Spirit of Christmas (Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York...
...It is a collection of brief essays—one might almost call them "editorial poems"—written by Arthur H. Gleason and put into a book entitled The Spirit of Christmas...
...is a most excellent gift book for reading at Christmas time—and any other time, for that matter...
...So to our Christmas we will little by little let in a richer music, like a golden-tongued bell turning from a minor to a song of the ultimate triumph...
...What discussion, if any, did Theodore Roosevelt have with Senator Joseph M. Dixon, his campaign manager, after Perkins and Dixon found the anti-trust plank in the platform as adopted...
...Why did the supporters of Roosevelt who knew about this tampering with the "covenant" long before election day—why did they keep silent...
...For it "shows how the reign of the Lord of Christmas week can be extended over all the weeks...
...DR...
...It seeks to interpret the inner meaning of our great national holidays...
...He has no gentler speeches, no playful interludes...
...SPEAKING OF the change in the new party trust plank— looks as if the Bull Moose steam roller was one of the kind that rolls easily over planks...
...What passed between George W. Perkins and Theodore Roosevelt on the evening of August 7 when Perkins saw the mimeographed copies of the platform that had been adopted by the resolutions committee and the convention, and discovered that it contained his pet aversion—an anti-trust plank "with teeth in it...
...This from "The Reformer:" "You cannot make him more lonely than always he has been...
...it puts into pregnant phrases the inspiration which supreme personalities have for all of us—Lincoln, Jane Addams, Mark Twain, the Scholar, the Air Pilot, the Reformer...
...He was referring to the rumpus over the "missing" anti-trust plank in (or, rather, out of) the Bull Moose platform...
...What is Gifford Pinchot, secretary of the resolutions committee, and in charge of its records, to say to Oscar King Davis, whose hasty '"explanation" charges some one with "over-looking" a plank "which the resolutions committee had adopted...
...Meanwhile the public is waiting, more or less good-naturedly, to find out just who is the "colossal liar...
...Who selected Roosevelt's close friend, Oscar King Davis, to be head press agent for the Roosevelt campaign...
...Fifty cents, net...
...The Spirit of Christmas" A LITTLE VOLUME has just come from the press which has in it beautiful thoughts, beautifully expressed...
...First they tried to convince the country that Roosevelt was "robbed" in the Republican convention...
...Who directed Oscar King Davis to go to the Associated Press office and make this change before the platform could reach the newspapers of the country...
...He has driven himself hard at the flinty opposition, till he has become stern and solitary...
...MC CARTHY SAYS, "Somebody is going to be shown up a colossal liar before we are through with this thing...
...Now they are trying to make the country believe he was "jobbed" in his own convention...
...Consider this fragment from "The Christmas Yet To Be:" "Christmas is coming, but never yet has it come...
...He simply announced: "In accordance with custom and the proclamation of the President of the United States, I do hereby designate Thursday, the 28th day of November, 1912, as Thanksgiving Day...
Vol. 4 • December 1912 • No. 49
