Volume 17 , Issue 45

A Bull-Moose Obituary - 1912

Could not resist this news headlines found on page 3 of The Hancock Democrat, Greenfield, Indiana, dated 11 July 1912, Thursday: "A Bull Moose Obituary," via New York World.

Found on Newspapers.com

Young Mr. Kermit Roosevelt delivered an eloquent funeral oration over the remains of the Bull-Moose party when he sententiously remarked that "Pop's been praying for Clark."

Pop's prayers were not always effective, buy they invariably had a clear, definite purpose,a nd nobody knew better than Theodore Roosevelt what the nomination of Woodrow Wilson would mean to a third party candidate for a third term.

Already the slump had begun. Even the Republican Governor of Michigan, who was one-seventh of all the "Seven Little Governors," declared that he can see no need of Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy now that Woodrow Wilson has been nominated by the democrats. The desertions will come faster and faster as the time for the Bull-Moose convention approaches.

In the end, Mr. Roosevelt's great movement for the establishment of pure democracy will reveal itself as a political fight for the control of the Republican machine. When Mr. Taft is beaten, Mr. Roosevelt will grab the organization, and we shall hear no more about a third party and its great moral ideals.
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