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YOU CAN KILL THE BILL,
BUT YOU CAN'T KILL THE BULL
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12. LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL: NEWS: Republicans fail to kill
part of energy bill
Daily news section of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Nevada's
largest newspaper.
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/Mar-22-Fri-2002/news/1836...
Colorado Republicans Kill Adoption Bill Friday, February 21st
2003 DENVER -- A bill that sought to extend equal parenting
rights to gay and lesbian couples in Colorado was killed by
state House Republicans in a straight 7-4 party line vote on
Tuesday.
http://www.datalounge.com/datalounge/news/record.html?record...
1. Republicans Kill Community Radio ... Commission (the last
two essentially controlled by pro-corporate-power-concentration
Republicans) ... to set the agenda of investigations, pass or
kill a proposed ...
http://members.aol.com/wrfr/Republicans-Kill-LRPS.html
6. Data Lounge: Republicans Kill Hate Crimes Amendment
Republicans Kill Hate Crimes Amendment Monday, October 9th 2000 ...
C. Barillas, Editor. Subject. RE: Republicans Kill Hate Crimes
Amendment. Message. Your Name. ...
http://www.datalounge.com/datalounge/news/record.html?record...
54. Republicans Trying To Kill Gay Order / Clinton barred
discrimination
Search in: Articles - 30 days - Archive - Photos -----
Classifieds Jobs Rentals Real Estate Vehicles ----- Dining
Movies Events Art Music PerfArts ----- Lodging SFGate Home Today'
s Chronicle ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/ar...
56. Pelosi: 'Child Tax Credit Issue is Simple -- House GOP
Wants to Kill It'
... But the House Republicans want to kill it. "The Chairman of
the House Ways and Means Committee says there is not enough ...
http://www.house.gov/pelosi/prChildTaxCreditIssue061703.htm
18. The Seattle Times: Regional politics: Senate Republicans
kill anti ...
... updated at 12:00 AM. Legislature 2004 Senate Republicans
kill anti-discrimination bill. By Ralph Thomas Seattle Times
Olympia bureau. ...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/regionalpolitics/20018...
20. Republicans Kill Tobacco Bill; Burden Now on Dems [06/18/98]
Republicans Kill Tobacco Bill; Burden Now on Dems [06/18-2]
http://no-smoking.org/june98/06-18-98-1.html
7. Bush and Congress Kill the OSHA Ergonomics Standard ... To
kill the rule, Republicans employed a largely ignored law called
the Congressional Review Act. The bill, which ...
http://www.teamster.org/sh/topic1.htm
11. REPUBLICANS KILL FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO PROTECT PUBLIC
SCHOOL ... REPUBLICANS KILL FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO PROTECT
PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN AND STAFF FROM CHEMICAL POISONS. from
Agribusiness Examiner #136 Dec.
10. LAS VEGAS RJ:OPINION: Kill the truth squad
... in the Nevada Senate, in an attempt to kill a campaign ...
victim to the new law was Las Vegas Republican Bob Beers ... of
a mailer he used against an opponent in the ...
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1999/Apr-25-Sun-1999/...
1. Campaigns & Elections: Clean kill in the old dominion: how ...
... Articles > Campaigns & Elections > May, 2002 > Article.
Clean kill in the ... Jersey governor's race showed Democrat Jim
McGreevy trouncing his Republican opponent. ...
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2519/4_23/86517877/p1/ar...
2. Republican wins kill Democratic state house hopes - The
Washington ...
... Republican wins kill Democratic state house hopes By Stephen
Dinan ... and Kentucky are two of the most Republican states in ...
One issue his opponent, incumbent Gov. ...
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031105-115254-1349r.htm
29. Sen. Kubly Disappointed that Republicans Kill Bonding Bill
Date: April 24, 2003. Sen. Kubly Disappointed that Republicans
Kill Bonding Bill...
http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/caucus/dem/membernews/2003...
19. Mudslinging at local levels hits new lows
... kill a former deputy who testified against him. In Clay
County, clerk Jennings White's vehicle was shot at during a
campaign swing, while his opponent's ... the Republican National
http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&Artic...
40. The Medication Prescribed For You May Kill You! Thank The
Republicans!
The Medication Prescribed For You May Kill You! Thank The
Republicans!
http://www.anotherperspective.org/advoc232.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/news/PesticideBill120...
58. REPUBLICANS, BOMBING ALGIERS
REPUBLICANS, BOMBING ALGIERS From: To prove TERRORISM. Date: 08
Jan 1999 Remote Name: 128.100.46.63 To prove that the terrorism
still here, they are bombing the popular neighbourhood. ... Do
not panic to their manipulations, the republicans are a bunch of
coward. They kill just the GUELALAS who do not ...
http://aures.hypermart.net/_disc11/0000007a.htm
12. Republican Campaign Preview - George W. Bush's 9/11 candidacy. By ...
... the event is over, I tell Matalin that the Republican pitch
sounds ... as a broad-minded internationalist and his opponent
as a ... Movies: Kill Bill's Thrill Mill. ...
http://slate.msn.com/id/2094827/
2. totse.com | Operation Mount Rushmore, the Plot to Kill Clinton
www.totse.com - Operation Mount Rushmore, the Plot to Kill
Clinton - Bok Pon is alive and well, and very active in
Republican Politics in California. ...
http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/institutional_analysis/bc...
5. antiMUSIC's iconoNEWS Jan 2004: Con Threatens to Kill Hillary ...
NEWS: Con Threatens to Kill Hillary Clinton, 01-04-04 Keavin . A
convicted bank robber disclosed to a prison psychologist that he
http://www.antimusic.com/news/04/jan/item10.shtml
10. Men Reportedly Plotted to Kill Clinton
Topic: White Water Men Reportedly Plotted to Kill Clinton ET
(1826 GMT) July 14, 1998 Reuters Not for commercial use. ... Men
Reportedly Plotted to Kill Clinton. Fox News. 2.25 p.m. ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a399669.htm
22. Secret Service informant accused of threatening President
Clinton
... girlfriend told police he had threatened numerous times to
kill Clinton. At his arrest police found eight knives and ...
http://www.onlineathens.com/1998/011298/0112.a3clinton.html
14. CJ Online National News: FBI: 3 Republic of Texas members
plotted to
FBI: 3 Republic of Texas members plotted to kill Clinton, other
officials. By MADELINE BARO The Associated Press...
http://cjonline.com/stories/071698/new_repoftexas.shtml
20. Threat to Bush ("Kill Bush") on billboard gains Secret
Service
... don't they just vote for his opponent on election ... To: Dr
Warmoose. We never said kill Clinton...impeachment ... Only the
republican, I mean, Jew hating nazis rival ...
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/994380/posts
8. The Salt Lake Tribune -- Rolly and Wells: Rally has odd
sense of ... ... Tim Bridgewater, spoke excitedly about
Republican successes when College Republicans work hard ...
Mondale in that race, adding: "We had to kill off Wellstone to ...
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/feb/02202004/utah/140572.asp
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In 1992 Looper returned to Tennessee and became a Republican
In 1998, Looper sought the Republican nominations for United
States House of Representatives and state senate in the same
primary
http://www.realchange.org/severe.htm#murder
Murder
Byron (Low Tax) Looper was willing to do anything to get elected.
He legally changed his middle name to "(Low Tax)" so that phrase
would appear on the ballot.
But that didn't seem to be enough in his race for Tennessee
State Senate. His indictment for theft and misuse didn't help.
Nor did the lawsuit by his ex-girlfriend accusing him of forcing
sex on her, and illegally signing her house over to him. (Looper
was the County Property Tax Assessor.) Looper had actually tried
to pass her off as his wife in "Meet My Family" type
advertisements. And a former employee has alleged in affidavits
that Looper audited the taxes of his opponents.
Two weeks before the 1998 general election, Looper's opponent
(Senator Tommy Burks) was shot in the head. Looper has been
arrested and charged with first degree murder.
Oddly enough, this was a positive development for Looper's
campaign. He was the only one left on the ballot, and Tennessee
law provided no mechanism for removing Looper or replacing Burks
at that late date.
Even that was not enough of an advantage for this loser. Burks'
widow ran a write-in campaign and beat Looper with 95% of the
vote.
Hiring a Scary, Black Phony Opponent
In May 1992, a Republican political consultant from South
Carolina named Rod Shealy was convicted of hiring an unemployed
black fisherman to run for lieutenant governor against Shealy's
sister. He admitted he did it to scare white voters to the polls
so they would vote for his sister.
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http://www.forensic-intelligence.org/corrupt/9606290116.html
NEW DEATH PLOT TIED TO TEZAK
SOUGHT CANDIDATE'S MURDER, COURT TOLD
By Bob Merrifield, Tribune Staff Writer
Web-posted Saturday, June 29, 1996; 6:21 a.m. CDT
Former Will County Coroner Robert Tezak, twice convicted on
arson charges and serving a federal prison term, has already
undergone a huge fall from his days as one of the most powerful
figures in county politics.
But in a sentencing hearing Friday for one of those arson
convictions, prosecutors painted the seamiest picture yet of the
one-time millionaire and Republican power broker with testimony
that Tezak tried to hire a hit man to kill a congressional
candidate and that he was a high-living drug supplier and user.
Floyd, on probation for his role as the middle man in an arson
that damaged a Tezak-owned bowling alley, said then-Republican
County Board Chairman John Annerino was with Tezak at the time
but out of earshot when the two talked murder.
Collins, a Democrat, was waging a congressional campaign aimed
at his Republican opponent, Jack Davis, who had ties to Tezak.
It is the third courtroom allegation of Tezak-sponsored murder
plots since he was indicted by federal authorities in 1992 for
arranging the 1987 fire that damaged his money-losing bowling
alley in Crest Hill.
Tezak pleaded guilty to that fire and is serving a 12 1/2-year
federal prison term.
In federal court, Tezak was accused by prosecutors of soliciting
a cellmate to kill Floyd and of threatening to kill former
daughter-in-law Nikki Leber if she testified against him.
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30. VoivodFan : Republicans want to kill you
... Author. Topic: Republicans want to kill you. Number 6 ...
http://www.voivodfan.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topi
16. RhymeZone Forum: The Republicans are going to kill us
ll without reason or thinking. ...
http://www.poemzone.com/f/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t...
19. Commentariat : News & Views
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 The Woodward Plan: Kill The
Republicans Why has Bob Woodward been so determined to build up
a resume as doing inside books on administrations? So he can
shoot down ...
http://www.hathaby.net/weblog.php?id=P1937
. Warblogging.com: Republicans and Republic ? Banned by CENTCOM ...
Either the Republicans are going to kill the Republic or the
Republic is going to kill the Republicans. Time will tell ...
http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000768.php
39. Untitled
I am 14 years old, and I am an avid golfer. If you are new to
the empire of sipamuma, then you do not know that the state
religion, if you chose to have one, is Buddhism. This is a
purely ... ... This is a purely democratic empire, but we will
not kill the republicans, we will put them to good work as our
septic ...
http://www.geocities.com/soupi2k1/realme.html
23. Chicago Radio Caller Says 'We need to kill Republicans...'
... Chicago Radio Caller Says 'We need to kill Republicans...'.
This afternoon while listening to the Skinner and Ski show ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3605b68325e9.htm
14. Manorville Man Tries To Kill Republicans WithRadioactivity
Manorville Man Tries To Kill Republicans WithRadioactivity ...
By Newsradio 88 Staff
http://ny.yahoo.com/external/wcbs_radio/stories/8661382744.h...
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"It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose"
Friends, I will disown and repudiate any man of my party who
attacks with such foul slander and abuse any opponent of any
other party; and now I wish to say seriously to all the daily
newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist
parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and
year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that
they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or
brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is
accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that
such natures will be unaffected by it.
Now, friends, I am not speaking for myself at all, I give you my
word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap.
I have had a good many experiences in my time and this is one of
them. What I care for is my country. I wish I were able to
impress upon my people -- our people, the duty to feel strongly
but to speak the truth of their opponents. I say now, I have
never said one word one the stump against any opponent that I
cannot defend. I have said nothing that I could not substantiate
and nothing that I ought not to have said -- nothing that I --
nothing that, looking back at, I would not say again.
Now, friends, it ought not to be too much to ask that our
opponents -[speaking to some one on the stage]-I am not sick at
all. I am all right. I cannot tell you of what infinitesimal
importance I regard this incident as compared with the great
issues at stake in this campaign, and I ask it not for my sake,
not the least in the world, but for the sake of common country,
that they make up their minds to speak only the truth, and not
use that kind of slander and mendacity which if taken seriously
must incite weak and violent natures to crimes of violence. Don'
t you make any mistake. Don't you pity me. I am all right. I am
all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.
And now, friends, this incident that has just occurred - this
effort to assassinate me- emphasizes to a peculiar degree the
need of the Progressive movement. Friends, every good citizen
ought to do everything in his or her power to prevent the coming
of the day when we shall see in this country two recognized
creeds fighting one another, when we shall see the creed of the
"Havenots" arraigned against the creed of the "Haves." When that
day comes then such incidents as this to-night will be
commonplace in our history. When you make poor men - when you
permit the conditions to grow such that the poor man as such
will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to
hold what they improperly have won, when that day comes, the
most awful passions will be let loose and it will be an ill day
for our country.
Now, friends, what we who are in this movement are endeavoring
to do is forestall any such movement for justice now - a
movement in which we ask all just men of generous hearts to join
with the men who feel in their souls that lift upward which bids
them refuse to be satisfied themselves while their countrymen
and countrywomen suffer from avoidable misery. Now, friends,
what we Progressives are trying to do is to enroll rich or poor,
whatever their social or industrial position, to stand together
for the most elementary rights of good citizenship, those
elementary rights which are the foundation of good citizenship
in this great Republic of ours.
(At this point a renewed effort was made to persuade Mr.
Roosevelt to conclude his speech.)
My friends are a little more nervous than I am. Don't you waste
any sympathy on me. I have had an A-1 time in life and I am
having it now.
I never in my life was in any movement in which I was able to
serve with such whole-hearted devotion as in this; in which I
was able to feel as I do in this that common weal. I have fought
for the good of our common country.
And now, friends, I shall have to cut short much of that speech
that I meant to give you, but I want to touch on just two or
three points.
In the first place, speaking to you here in Milwaukee, I wish to
say that the Progressive party is making its appeals to all our
fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their
birthplace. We do not regard as essential the way in which a man
worships his God or as being affected by where he was born. We
regard it as a matter of spirit and purpose. In New York, while
I was police commissioner, the two men from whom I got the most
assistance were Jacob Riis, who was born in Denmark, and Arthur
von Briesen, who was born in Germany - both of them as fine
examples of the best and highest American citizenship as you
could find in any part of this country.
I have just been introduced by one of your own men here - Henry
Cochems. His grandfather, his father, and that father's seven
brothers, all served in the United States army, and they entered
it four years after they had come to this country from Germany.
Two of them left their lives, spent their lives, on the field of
battle. I am all right - I am a little sore. Anybody has a right
to be sore with a bullet in him. You would find that if I was in
battle now I would be leading my men just the same. Just the
same way I am going to make this speech.
At one time I promoted five men for gallantry on the field of
battle. Afterward in making some inquiries about them I found
that two of them were Protestants, two Catholic, and one a Jew.
One Protestant came from Germany and one was born in Ireland. I
did not promote them because of their religion. It just happened
that way. If all five of them had been Jews I would have
promoted them, or if all five of them had been Protestants I
would have promoted them; or if they had been Catholics. In that
regiment I had a man born in Italy who distinguished himself by
gallantry; there was another young fellow, a son of Polish
parents, and another who came here when he was a child from
Bohemia, who likewise distinguished themselves; and friends, I
assure you, that I was incapable of considering any question
whatever, but the worth of each individual as a fighting man. If
he was a good fighting man, then I saw that Uncle Sam got the
benefit of it. That is all.
I make the same appeal to our citizenship. I ask in our civic
life that we in the same way pay heed only to the man's quality
of citizenship, to repudiate as the worst enemy that we can have
whoever tries to get us to discriminate for or against any man
because of his creed or birthplace.
Now, friends, in the same way I want out people to stand by one
another without regard to differences or class or occupation. I
have always stood by labor-unions. I am going to make one
omission to-night. I have prepared my speech because Mr. Wilson
had seen fit to attack me by showing up his record in comparison
with mine. But I am not going to do that to-night. I am going to
simply speak of what I myself have done and what I think ought
to be done in this country of ours.
It is essential that here should be organizations of labor. This
is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor
must organize. My appeal for organized labor is two-fold; to the
outsider and the capitalist I make my appeal to treat the
laborer fairly, to recognize the fact that he must organize that
there must be such organization, that the laboring man must
organize for his own protection, and that it is the duty of the
rest of is to help him and not hinder him in organizing. That is
one-half appeal that I make.
Now, the other half is to the labor man himself. My appeal to
him is to remember that as he wants justice, so he must do
justice. I want every labor man, every labor leader, every
organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing disorder and
in denouncing the inciting of riot; that in this country we
shall proceed under the protection of our laws and with all
respect to the laws, I want the labor men to feel in their turn
that exactly as justice must be done them so they must do
justice. They must bear their duty as citizens, their duty to
this great country of ours, and that they must not rest content
unless they do that duty to the fullest degree.
I know these doctors, when they get hold of me, will never let
me go back, and there are just a few more things that I want to
say to you.
And here I have got to make one comparison between Mr. Wilson
and myself, simply because he has invited it and I cannot shrink
from it. Mr. Wilson has seen fit to attack me, to say that I did
not do much against the trusts when I was President. I have got
two answers to make to that. In the first place what I did, and
then I want to compare what I did when I was President with what
Mr. Wilson did not do when he was governor.
When I took the office the antitrust law was practically a dead
letter and the interstate commerce law in as poor a condition. I
had to revive both laws. I did. I enforced both. It will be easy
enough to do now what I did then, but the reason that it is easy
now is because I did it when it was hard.
Nobody was doing anything. I found speedily that the interstate
commerce law by being made perfect could be made a most useful
instrument for helping solve some of our industrial problems. So
with the antitrust law. I speedily found out that almost the
only positive good achieved by such a successful lawsuit as the
Northern Securities suit, for instance, was in establishing the
principle that the government was supreme over the big
corporation, but by itself that the law did not accomplish any
of the things that we ought to have accomplished; and so I began
to fight for the amendment of the law along the lines of the
interstate commerce law, and now we propose, we Progressives, to
establish and interstate commission having the same power over
industrial concerns that the Interstate Commerce Commission has
over railroads, so that whenever there is in the future a
decision rendered in such important matters as the recent suits
against the Standard Oil, the Sugar - no, not that - Tobacco -
Tobacco Trust - we will have a commission which will see that
the decree of the court is really made effective; that it is not
made a merely nominal decree.
Our opponents have said that we intend to legalize monopoly.
Nonsense. They have legalized monopoly. At this moment the
Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust monopolies are legalized; they
are being carried on under the decree of the Supreme Court. Our
proposal is really to break up monopoly. Our proposal is to lay
down certain requirements, and then to require the commerce
commission - the industrial commission - to see that the trusts
live up to those requirements. Our opponents have spoken as if
we were going to let the commission declare what those
requirements should be. Not at all. We are going to put the
requirements in the law and then see that the commission
requires them to obey that law.
And now, friends, as Mr. Wilson has invited the comparison, I
only want to say this: Mr. Wilson has said that the States are
the proper authorities to deal with the trusts. Well, about
eighty percent of the trusts are organized in New Jersey. The
Standard Oil, the Tobacco, the Sugar, the Beef, all those trusts
are organized in the state of New Jersey and the laws of New
Jersey say that their charters can at any time be amended or
repealed if they misbehave themselves and give the government
ample power to act about those laws, and Mr. Wilson has been
governor a year and nine months and he has not opened his lips.
The chapter describing what Mr. Wilson has done about trusts in
New Jersey would read precisely like a chapter describing snakes
in Ireland, which ran: "There are no snakes in Ireland." Mr.
Wilson has done precisely and exactly nothing about the trusts.
I tell you, and I told you at the beginning, I do not say
anything on the stump that I do not believe. I do not say
anything I do not know. Let any of Mr. Wilson's friends on
Tuesday point out one thing or let Mr. Wilson point out one
thing that he has done about the trusts as governor of New
Jersey.
And now, friends, there is one thing I want to say especially to
you people here in Wisconsin. All that I have said so far is
what I would say in any part of the Union. I have a peculiar
right to ask that in this great contest you men and women of
Wisconsin shall stand with us. You have taken the lead in
progressive movements here in Wisconsin. You have taught the
rest of us to look to you for inspiration and leadership. Now,
friends, you have made that movement here locally. You will
being doing a dreadful injustice to yourselves; you will be
doing a dreadful injustice to the rest of us throughout the
Union, if you fail to stand with us now that we are making this
national movement. What I am about to say now I want yo to
understand. If I speak of Mr. Wilson I speak with no mind of
bitterness. I merely want to discuss the difference of policy
between the Progressive and the Democratic party and to ask you
to think for yourselves which party you will follow. I will say
that, friends, because the Republican party is beaten. Nobody
needs to have any idea that anything can be done with the
Republican party.
When the Republican party - not the Republican party - when the
bosses in control of the Republican party, the Barneses and
Penroses, last June stole the nomination and wrecked the
Republican party for good and all - I want to point out to you
that nominally they stole that nomination from me, but it was
really from you. They did not like me, and the longer they live
the less cause they will have to like me. But while they don't
like me, they dread you. You are the people that they dread.
They dread the people themselves, and those bosses and the big
special interests behind them made up their mind that they would
rather see the Republican party wrecked than see it come under
the control of the people themselves. So I am not dealing with
the Republican party. There are only two ways you can vote this
year. You can be progressive or reactionary. Whether you vote
Republican or Democratic it does not make a difference, you are
voting reactionary.
Now, the Democratic party in its platform and through the
utterances of Mr. Wilson has distinctly committed itself to the
old flintlock, muzzle-loaded doctrine of States' rights, and I
have said distinctly we are for people's rights. We are for the
rights of the people. If they can be obtained best through
National Government, then we are for national rights. We are for
people's rights however it is necessary to secure them.
Mr. Wilson has made a long essay against Senator Beveridge's
bill to abolish child labor. It is the same kind of argument
that would be made against our bill to prohibit women from
working more than eight hours a day in industry. It is the same
kind of argument that would have to be made; if it is true, it
would apply equally against our proposal to insist that in
continuous industries there shall be by law one day's rest in
seven and three-shift eight-hour day. You have labor laws here
in Wisconsin, and chamber of commerce will tell you that because
of that fact there are industries that will not come to
Wisconsin. They prefer to stay outside where they can work
children of tender years, where they can work women fourteen and
sixteen hours a day, where if it is a continuous industry, they
can work men twelve hours a day and seven days a week.
Now, friends, I know that you of Wisconsin would never repeal
those laws even if they are at your commercial hurt, just as I
am trying to get New York to adopt such laws even though it will
be to the New York's commercial hurt. But if possible I want to
arrange it so that we can have justice without commercial hurt,
and you can only get that if you have justice enforced
nationally. You won't be burdened in Wisconsin with industries
not coming to the State if the same good laws are extended all
over the other States. Do you see what I mean? The States all
compete in a common market; and it is not justice to the
employers of a State that has enforced just and proper laws to
have them exposed to the competition of another State where no
such laws are enforced. Now, the Democratic platform, and their
speakers declare we shall not have such laws. Mr. Wilson has
distinctly declared that we shall not have a national law to
prohibit the labor of children, to prohibit child labor. He has
distinctly declared that we shall not have a law to establish a
minimum wage for women.
I ask you to look at our declaration and hear and read our
platform about social and industrial justice and then, friends,
vote for the Progressive ticket without regard to me, without
regard to my personality, for only by voting for that platform
can you be true to the cause of progress throughout this Union.
* * * * *
It Takes More Than That to Kill a Bull Moose":
The Leader and The Cause*
* Address at Milwaukee, Wis., October, 14, 1912. Just before
entering the auditorium at Milwaukee, an attempt was made on
Colonel Roosevelt's life. The above speech is from a
stenographic report, differing considerably from the prepared
manuscript.
[TR was shot in an assasination attempt by John Schrank, who had
been having disturbing dreams about TR's predecessor, William
McKinley and also thought that no president should serve more
than two terms. Schrank spent the rest of his life in a mental
institution. No one came to visit him. He died shortly after
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, TR's fifth cousin, was elected to a
third term. Schrank had stalked TR for thousands of miles before
getting a clear shot at him in Milwaukee. Schrank was caught on
the spot.]
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