The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-14
STAND UP, BILL TAFTl.
And Answer These Questions of
the Editor of The Rip-Saw.
AFTER TEDDY'S MAN FRIDAY

Some Pertinent Enquiries Which
Have Contributed Ginger to Cam
paign in West, Replies to Which
Are Still Awaited. Being from
Missouri Editor Has to Be Shown.
Stand up, Bill Taft, and tell us
how it comes that you are now so
interested in the welfare of the la
boring world?
Tell us, Bill Taft, why you have
all at once become wet with per-
spiration over the hardships of the
worka-day slaves of America?
Tell us, Bill Taft, why, when you
were Judge of United States court,
that your sympathetic fit of love for
the farmers, the mechanics, the rail
road man, the ditch digger, and those
who earn their bread in hickory
shirts and overalls never seized your
ponderous form?
Tell us, Bill Taft, how it comes
that when you were a Judge of C
United States court that your cheeks
were never wet with tears of SYM
pathy for the calloused handed boys
who create the great wealth of the
world?
Tell us, Bill Taft, why was it that
when you held down a United States
judgeship job that you dished out
injunctiOns against the shirt sleeved
brigade, and forbade them putting
UP the best fight possible for their
wives, their babies, their homes, and
their firesides?
Tell us, Bill Taft, why, a few
months ago, when you were log
rolling and scheming for the nomi-
nation for president of the United
States, that you never sweat salty
drops of perspiration in visiting the
farmers and selecting the husband
man of the field to go to Chicago
to your national convention?
Tell US, Bill Taft, why, when you
were dickering with the cunning of
the earth for the nomination of pres
ident upon the republican ticket,
that you never visited the miners,
the farmers, the railroad laborers,
the mechanics, nor the day laborers
of America, nor had single one of
them elected as a delegate to go to
that Chicago convention in your be-
half?
We ask you, Bill Taft, in all can
dor and in all sincerity, why did
you, at the time your party were
electing delegates to that Chicago
national convention, forget those
boys in overalls?
ALI Bill Taft, until you answer
this marching, miserable, homeless,
hungry, half-clothed army of farm
ers, mechanics, factory slaves and
day laborers, and give them a rea-
Chicago, and tell them why you have
so suddenly become interested in the
very class that you enjoined and
kept from putting a few more
threads of wool in the little gar
ments of their babies, and another
loaf of bread and slice of meat in
their cupboards, and furnishing their
loved ones a home at least equal
to the dog houses of their masters,
your hypOcritical pretentions of love
for them upon the eve of the cleo
ton will fall upon deaf ears.
Answer us, Bill Taft, and tell us
why at the Chicago republican con-
vention that there wasn't a single
farmer, a single mechanic, single
railroad laborer, a single ditch dig
ger, nor a single individual who
labors; and naught but master
class who live off the miseries of
those whom you have failed to no.
tice until you want Their votes?
And until you do tell them, Bill
Taft, why you have never cared
d-n for those who toll until you
needed their votes, you need not ex-
pect them to give a d-n for you
when you need them.-The Missouri
Rip-Saw.