The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1908-10-14

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your hands and disquali6es you for
the presidency, as scores of issues and
subject outside of your platform, and
which are vital to the country's in
terests, may press themselves upon
you for action.
No presidential candidate ever
made such promise as that before.
The fear of these two mistaken
hobbies marred your whole speech. 1t
was another fatal mistake when, to
draw attention away from these two
hobbies, you declared that there had
been great popular growth in your
views and policies, when in fact,
these two, which were your only pro-
minent ones, had been left out of
your platform. We have never had
a presidential candidate before who
proposed to bring such a millennium
of reforms, who had to make so many
quirks in his speech of acceptance to
conceal and cover up his most impor-
tant views rather than to justify and
explain them.
The abuses of which you speak
are the fruits of the evil inherent in
human nature, which are present in
one form or another under the rule of
all parties, and the republican rule no
more created them, as you charge,
than it created your abuse of your
parties confidence, or the crimes of
your party in robbing large element
of our voters of their ballots in sever
al states, and which, though claiming
that the peoples rule or rights was
the issue, you was afraid to even men
ton in your speech, much less con-
denim.
1t was a great abuse of your
party's confidence when, with your
speech for free silver before former
convention, you deceived it into
nominating you for president with
your false claim that the country
would be ruined with the gold policy
of the republican party unless you
were chosen to destroy it with your
free silver plan. But you now see it
would have wrecked the country S
interests, and you have even kicked
that lunacy out of your platform and,
inferentially, made solem promise
in your speech never to call itup
again. The abuse was more danger
Gus than all the other present abuse
combined; but you will agree with me
that republican rule did not create it.
That was a bad business. But you
are just as confident now that the nos
trums in your present platform with
you as president to apply them, will
bring in the political millennium as you
were when running before, when
your success would have ruined the
country.
IF you are afraid that Mr.. Taft
will be too tardy in publishing his
campaign subscriptions, or that if the
rich people give his campaign fund
any thing it will prevent him, if elect
ed as president, from reforming the
abuses, why don't you publish the vas,
gifts of the barons and silver kings tc
your campaign fund, when a former
candidate; or why did you take them
Or perhaps you would have been toe
good for such gifts to have corrupted
you had you been elected president
1t is pity that every other candi-
date is rascal but you. If you are
to be elected the outlook is not auspi.
cious. With a man for president who
is afraid to put his chief views oil
policies in his platform, and then tc
draw attention from the fact by claim
ing great growth for them, and run.
ming on the ASSUMPTION that he is the