The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-08-08
WILL SUPPORT WILSON.
Col. B. B. Cahoon OF Fredericktown
Lifelong Republican, Gives His
Reasons for Refusing to Vote
for Either TAFT or Roos-
evelt.

public, which appeared IN that pa
per last Monday, Col. Benson Il.
Cahoon o; Fredericktown says:
These are my reasons for refusing
! to vote for Roosevelt or Taft and
why | mean to vote for Wilson;
/ |. While Roosevelt deserves cred.
| 1t for preaching, in gcneralities, r..
/ forms, because thereby he aroused
| the people from their lethargy aud
| set them to the work OF emancipat.
/ ing themselves from the slavery,
| from which they now suffer, be.
cause the trusts ana the predatory
rich have, with the aid Of excessive
high taritfs-sO high they exceed the
total labor cost in all manufactured
products - destroyed the laws uf
competitions, demand and supply,
yet Ro0sevclt's promises In no wise
comport with his reform perform
anccs, for when in power he per-
| United without "A protest the trusts
To- vastly water stocks in the law
less combinations in restraint ~
trade, when, under the Sherman iu.
tcrstatc commerce law he could
. have, as he would had he been a
/ true rcform"r, cujuincd such Ccmbl-
nations. Nc man, save Hanna -,
I vast political assessments in l0'h
( and 1900. on the predatory rich class.
cs in consideration of PERMITTING
them to continue plundering thu
people. ever controlled, in American
1 politics, more of that sort of corrupt
election funds, than has Roosevelt,
/ He, with Morgan and Perkins back
ing, is doing ii to-day. For him,
then, to pos" us II progressive re-
. former j. absurd. He means but To
deceive too many good people who
are mislcd by his false prOtestatious
of sympathy for the cnslaved mass
es. He simply means to regain
1 power to crafty his vanity. He Is
80 errHtiC, 80 unreliable, so untrue
/ and 80 outrageous in his political
/ methods, 50 welded to notoricty
seeking and So Inconsistent as "a
! late day progressive retOrmeT, that
| IL is said he IL able 10 deceive 50
many voters. II Is only because
! they believe he is the embodiment
of the reforms they know they must
secure to obtain commercial free.
dom. But truth as to Roosevelt is
/ coming. For one, | do not forget
| that when La Toilette, Cummins
and other pioneer progressive Re
publicans were heroically creating
! public opinion for the genuine re-.
/ form that i now to fuse itself into
| executed laws, Roosevelt had 10
/ sympathy or encouragement for
| them. He seeks now to steal the
. fruit of their work, to the extent cN-
/ en- that IN the Chicago convention,
when it was put To him by many in
! tiu"ntial supporters Of TAFT, who
/ knew h. cannot he elected, to throw
/ his strength to and thus nominate
/ Hadlcy or like progressive re-.
! former, he brutnlly spurncd that oil
fer and thereby placed his coars"
selfishness ahead of the harmony
aud sucCcsa OF the Republican par
ty and destroyed its only chance to
mike IA winning campaign. On that
point he and Taft are dog eat dog.
| Taft means to run, with inevitable
crushing defeat confronting him
Had he hci true Republican, hav-
! ing the success of the party at
| heart, he, too, would have got out
Of the way and permitted the nOni-
nation of II progressive Republican,
thereby giving us n fighting chance
to win.
Roosevelt's violation OF the third.
term pledge Is consistent with his
character. He has no regard for
his pledges, and will break them
any hour to minister To his ambi-
ti0n. opposed the third-term nom
iuatiOn of my old commander,
Grant, in 1850, rs | oppose il now,
because the principle is too danger
Gus to be tolerated by a Republic.
Two terms Of four years each was
long enough for Washington and is
long enough for any one to-day TO
set, by the third term, precedent
To Biazizc. MeNicanize this govern.
meut Is out of the question. The
proposed one term of six years as
Pres dcnt Is long enough tor any
man. We utterly refuse To- admit
the dcstinies of our country depend
Oh one man; they rest solely on the
morality, intelligeuc. and patriot
ism of the average American voter
with his voting opinion nnfctt"red
by the corrupt manipulation Of boss
rs resulting in such fraudulent
hoCus-pocus nomination rs was
Taft's, whose chief backing, under
such boss rule, came from southern
delegates who east no Republican
votes. The blind bosses imagine
the old days when mcn were sup
posed to vote for yellow dog caudi-
dates, 80 they had IA corrupt party
nomination, are still with Us. The
coming election will open their
eyes. Hereafter Presidents will not
be nominated as was Taft, IN utter
disregard of public sentiment They
will be nominated AT presidential
primaries. This campaign ends
boss rule in American politics. 1t
has always been corrupt, always in
partnership with the predatory rich
whose special privileges to rob the
people the bosses, irrespective of
party, conserved. Thereby they
lived; thereby they were enriched.
| refuse to support Taft because
he was and is false to the progress
sive Republican sentiment that
nominated and elected him aud false
to his prediction pledges. He be-
trayed that sentiment, when i'm
mediately on his election he threw
himself into the arms of Aldrich.
Cannon and the reactionaries and
sought to prosecute real progressive
Senators and Congressman, who
were in good faith only seeking TO
carry out the 1908 national Republic.