The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-06-27

ton and nominated his man Friday
(TafD, in reality the latter is a re-
dictionary. He was the first judge in
the United States known as IAN in
junction judge" who believes that
capital has the right to restrain and
enjoin labor, without notice, from pur-
suing natural and inherent rights
which are guaranteed to all under the
constitution and law of the land.
William H. Taft is one of those jo-
vial men who always answers yes"
to the strong and powerful. that he
may be a good fellow" with them.
while the weak and downtrodden must
! take care of themselves or be crushed.
He has held high Office by Roosevelts
appointment, just as Root Knox, Shaw
and other reactionaries have, though
he is rightly known, by his own acts.
as the Original Injunction Judge"
Had Roosevelt wished to support a
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President. Senator LaFollette Of Wis
consin should most certainly have been
the candidate nominated.
AS to Sherman for Vice President.
who is he? A New York banker who
has constantly opposed in Congress
the policies of the President in the
latter's efforts to relieve the people
from the unjust and oppressive bur-
dens imposed upon them by the In
terests." of which Sherman himself
is a part Sherman is known as an
out and out reactionary, and one of
the principal lieutenants of Speaker
Cannon in Congress-, always in oppo-
sition to reform legislation for the re
lief or betterment of the peoples con-
dition.
The people have certainly got the
worst of it on the ticket nominated at
Chicago. A ticket which can get it
fixed with the Money Power and re-
ceive the warm Endorsement of such
men as j. P. Morgan, who sent his
from Paris to Taft, and i. H. Harri-
man, Henry Clews, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,
Standard Oil bankers, Senator Aid
rich, personal representative of Rookie
Teller in the Senate, and other of the
kind, we say such a ticket cannot rep
resent the people, and should not find
much enthusiastic support in the
struggle now at hand
Now, is there anything in the plat
form which gives any more hope than
the ticket? Absolutely nothing Abuse
of the Democratic party, and a lot Of
"glittering generalities" and egotistic
claims of what the Republican party
has accomplished in the past, is the
makeup Of the platform. The best
way to test the correctness of this
statement Is to compare the platform
as adopted, plank by plank. with the
platform submitted by the Wisconsin
delegation in the convention. We have
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platform. but few instances will be
sufficient to show the pretense and
hypocrisy of any claim that the Re-
publican declaration Of principles any
more than the ticket represents the
people.
The convention almost unanimously
voted down a. plank giving to the peo-
pie the right to elect their own u. S.
Senators by direct vote-a reform that
has been so often demanded by the
people and just as persistently denied
by the Standard Oil and the monopo-
listic Senators in Congress- No. the
people must be content without the
right to vote directly for our Senators
if the Republican ticket is again elect
ed. They tell us now that we cannot
have that right if they are successful
in November. Again. they turned
down almost as unanimously the plank
for the publication of campaign con-
tributions. Why? Because all the big
bankers and corporate interests with
offices in Wall street will contribute
millions of dollars to purchase this
election. if possible, for the Taft and
Sherman ticket and they don't want
the announcements made public be-
cause the voters of the country would
then see too plainly what ticket 1.-The
Interests are supporting. Along with
these they made a meaningless farce
of the demands made by labor for an
anti-injunction plank in the platform,
and turned down some other planks
that We're the embodiment of fairness
AS the campaign progresses the Irish
Standard will have more to say in de-
tail, but at present it will suffice Is re-
peat in the expressive language Of the
street. that the progressive or Roose-
Welt faction Of the Republican party