The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-06-26
The Question for Voters to Con-
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S1UCI.
! What Democrats foretold has come
to pass and the Republic is coming
perilously near to a monarchy or die
tatorship. Who would have believed
! it possible when Lincoln was nominal
ed. that the Republican party would
in few years tamely submit to the
Chief Magistrate. after two terms of
office, decreeing who his successor
should be, allow him to prescribe the
platform. edit the speeches delivered,
and even dictate the nomination of the
Vice President? Can anyone deny that
President has ordered all these doings
of the Republican party, by just touch
ing the button at the White House?
Allowing that President Roosevelt is
a patriot, who can be trusted to man.
age the politics and policies OF the
United States how will the country
fare when some less able and honest
man undertakes to follow his example
in years to come? If Mr.. Taft is
elected can ne be trusted TO dictate MS
successor? 1t will be a very dangerous
proceeding to trust him, judging from
what he has done to aid himself in OBJ
tanning his ambition.
! When the campaign opened for the
nomination of candidates, as far as
Secretary Taft was concerned, he hav-
ing but little personal strength, the
crucial test was whether with all the
power of the Administration, he could
secure the delegates from Ohio. Boss
Cox. whom .sSecretary Taft had de-
nounced as corrupt, would control the
delegates from Cincinnati and some
other counties, and prevent them from
supporting Taft, and these held the
balance of power They were natural
Iy allied and favorable TO Senator
Foraker.
What was promised or paid Boss Cox
to go back on Senator Foraker may
perhaps never be known, but whatever
the influence was it can hardly have
been honest influence. Secretary Taft,
and his sponsor, the President, must
know what brought about this CONVEX
sion of Boss Cox. Senator Foraker
might perhaps tell what happened, if
he would. 1t is said to have been the
dictatIon of principal state Offices by
the corrupt SIS Cox, which many Re-
publican newspapers are now denounc-
ing.
The question for voters to consider
is whether they are willing to perpetu-
ate the Roosevelt dynasty by electing
Taft after his unholy alliance with Boss
Cox, and then again elect whomsoever
he may decide should succeed him.
The Taft policies, whatever they are,
will be just as dear TO his heart as
my policies" are to President Roose-
Welt, and whether good or bad the
effort to perpetuate them can be made
just as successful through the exceed
ing power of whoever is President o.
the United States. The precedent of
theAdministration debating its success
scr mas been set, and ambition will
force it to be followed if taft is elect |
ed. There perhaps will never again be |
such strong combination of Republi- |
can leaders attempting TO defeat the |
Administration program of perpetual |
ing itself But all these favorite sons
have ,dwindled into nothing, and get |
few complimentary votes without any |
prospect fora future for any of them. |
They were as clay in the hands of the |
White House potter. They will have |
20 take their medicine and shout for |
their master or the Republican ele-
ohant will be ruthlessly driven over |
hem. The Republican leaders can only |
blame themselves. They have been |
persistently giving power to the Presi- |
dent. and following this Hamiltonian |
policy of Capitalization have defeated |
lheir own plans and purposes.
There is said to have been SO million |
aires who were delegates to the Repub-
,ican National Convention, and those
Republicans who are dissatisfied with |
he candidates nominated, or the plat |
form adopted can hardly wonder that |
heir party favors Wall Street and the |
Trusts, when those representing ''the |
interests" were so numerous in that |
gathering. "Some of those malefac- |
tors of great wealth" are no debut |
practical men" like Hartman, who |
vas delegate to the Republican Con-
gention of 1904, but vas perhaps for |