Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-07
JACK HARRIS AGAIN
Writes in Defence of Senate Door
Keepers and Politics.
Criticizes the Methods of TAFT BOOM
crs-Mny Force a Nomination but
Cannot Garry nm Election
The Situation.
To the Editor of The Free Press.


una Iulg out a few garments of trutf
on 'he line of justice, hoping that some
poor "ayfarer might be clothed thereby
Ii ever a p~hilanthropic act was quickly
r""afueu' IL was that. The garments
were hardly on the line when they were
%"ppropriated ana In columns of leading
o"''oria' in various quarters proclaimed
10 DC Il perfect ht' In this case. too,
ocileve 1t were more blessed to give
ana seemingly more comfortable thar
y" receive. quite regardless OF the ac-
kho"ledsed fit, paradoxical as it may
Stem the recipients at once threw hts
ALSO quite regardless or my workman
SNIP l was alleged TO he a liar. Pos
siolY. W." have it on good authority
mat an men are | was also charged
win I'll" heartless and brutal crime OF
p'lhg no more or less than a Senate
doorkeener' Inc proof being accessible,
must plo"u guilty. one OF the behe-
icafles OF my charity even went so far
as 10 lhslnuate that my Information evil
uen'ly came from a coterie of senatorial
iars' Not entirely. Incidentally, may
say that TINS latter charge came from a
section iamed as having originated that
distressing parasitic malay known to
ease
All oil them, however, Tray Blanche
ana sweetheart. insisted on the deadly
tnarsc OF doork'"porlSlh. Again. admit
'cu' bul 'her" nave p'ch very decent
anu Iespt''"oIo doofKe'pers' lherc is
moi a mint IN history that there ever was
ii Har N me lo'' SAINT refer Is their
rH'ron SAINT ana ne IS ye' hoidihS ms
10" because Of. eminent hthesS ana merit
!" lact' uouDt II ms place could easily
I've H'ieu' II my accuSers ever nave oc-
cas'oh TO GO business win hiin' which
ro""'' '"c! MA! pe Sorr9 t"cE spoke SO
"iSreSpeciiulIy OF the ike.
AS 10 lhe charge tlat : stated false
HooGS AZ 10 the SITUATION IN general and
MASSACHUSETTS, IN particular. mat re-
mann" TO n" proven. In the latter state,
! oeIIeEe that II IN" Iaft adherents had
4 majority oi IN" state convention they
"ouId nave ADOPTED resolutions in his
laFor Ih'N nave not omitted to do So
"I'h 'heN couId. That they refrained
from DOING 50 N order to avoid trout
bie Is not at all characteristic OF them.
H'E ave not acqulreh a record Tor
Su"h MODE ration and forhearancc That
several olStrlcts nave adopted resolutions
III Iarls favor Is admitted but the dele
edtoh mas not voted al ChlcaS" yet 1t
may all Note Tor him. Half OF the dele
gat'on may vote Tor him Three or four
OIL the deIcsatlon may vote 'or MN. We
ShaiI see. a great many deIeGates are
gong To vote at Chlcago IN a manner
max ihey cannot forefee no" ana do not
cream or. a great many ar" going to
TeEret the day that they were ever in
Struclec nara ana last ana delivered to
anybody before they had any conception
whatever of the conditions which will
confront them there.
Nothing is further from my intention
or desire than 70 be unjust or unfair. !
believe In and hone for careful and sober
'ohSld"Na'loh pN the convention of the
menus ana strength OF ali the candidates,
! only ooJctt TO the hIInd stanpedinS OF
i''"Iic sentiment weeks before the con-
N'n''"0 by "I'd "hoopS and hoorahs and
band wagon h"WlS ana of1icial dictation
dnH Dig SUCKS ana Shr"klng claims.
lH'' SORT "l 'N'hT' so ropliGnahl to good
F'''So ANA "H'hSlN" 10 tn"iightiul citizen
SNIP may force a nomination but II
cannon carry an election. There is a
hereafter
ne year INTO when W" are now well
entered Is destined to he the most i'm
l"f''h'' from u" STANDPOINT or political
history "I ANY SINCE tHc Gays OF recon
H''"'''oh' me contests preliminary 10
'"' c'lo'oc on the national cahaidatcs OF
'h9 wv" parties may quite possibly de-
oi"' the erection Inc desire Tor and
ieehhR OF poi'tlcai hoorty Is IN the air,
aHu 'here Is gong on such Il reallghfnent
us mas not poeh roaiized since the days
Oh 'he formation or the two great par
'i'S' IL" "eHlocral or repupiran OF to-
""H i cauSh III couhter-currents. and
III what S'''' no VIII eventually be cast
Is p'H"hd dreaming. The republican
leaders endorse much OF what Is now
c"nsioered good democratic doctrine, and
bryan and other leading democrats en-
oorSe most OF FooseVelt's doctrines.
ioth' III many respects, 20 beyond mod
crate socialism, and some Of the social
istS are discovering all at once that they
are in tact conservative democrats and
republicans.
tach party shades off into and mcrges
win each ana all OF the others, and each
more or less unconsciously occupies Il
part OF the others ground. There is not
the sharp dividing line that for genera
ions mas conspIcuously separated the
great parties, The average voter all at
once discovers a few planks in the plat
form OF another party which
themselves to reason ana sense of JUS
tee, ana hr begins to wonder where he
IS at NO moderate socialists have ever
EUh' To suVh extremes IN doctrine as