The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-18
|SAYS DEMOCRATS
ARE FREE FROM
BOSSES CONTROL
Gov. Thomas r. Marshall Speaks
at Hannibal, NO., in Campaign
for Vice Presidency
MUST PUT BAN ON PRIVILEGES
Says that Both Bull Moose and
Regular Republicans Would
Legalize Monopoly
MUST PUT BAN ON PRIVILEGES
Associated Press Dispatch.


Hannibal Mo-, Sept. 17.--Gover-
nor Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic
nominee for vice president. in q
speech here tonight, declared that
the Democratic party was the only
one which offered relief from poll
tical bosses He. said:
1T rarely h4pens that man
voting a ticket gives his unqualified
support to every plank of the plat
form. 1t is only blind and dear
woman who unreservedly declares
her husband perfect. A woman
neither blind nor dear, may SO de,
clare, but what she really means is
that he is comparatively perfect
that he Is better than other hus-
bands. Your duty and mine, there,
fore, is to support that party whose
platform offers the best solution OF
the problems in which we are inter-
ested.
Il hazard the assertion that just
now the three things which You
most desire to have eliminated arc
the boss in politics, the high cost Of
living and special privileges.
Would Legalize Privileges.
''SInnnCN TnUaIv6 thO
ance of the boss as the most vital
How does he become vital save as
the agent of special privilege? What
good will avail to fight a few little
bosses and stand by the big boss oi
bosses, who, himself stands upon q
platform of special privilege? The
Progressive candidate for President
boasts of being a destroyer of bosses
just as the sailor in the Yarn OF
the Nancy Bell" boasts of destroy
ing his comrades. He ate them all
that he might sing
"Oh, am a cook and a captain bold
And the mate of the Nancy Brig,
And bo'sun-tite and midshipmitf
And the crew of the captains gig
What solution of the boss an6
trust systems does either the regu
lar or progressive offer? None. Each
Is going to get rid of special priv
ilege by making it legal. Each il
in favor of changing the unlimited
partnership of government and spec
al privilege into a limited partner
ship. 1t is to be vested interests
from now on, not coated, vested ant
painted interests as heretofore. 1t is
to be lawful to take horse but un,
lawful to take team. As a matte
Of fact, as long as one citizen can by
operation of law take without my
consent one cent out of my salary he
has a special privilege and the law
that permits him to do so is a bigger
boss than any man born of woman
The heart of the evil, the root OF
the wrong, is special privilege. Ant
against it the Democratic party de
clares it has an age-old and never.
ending fight Will you be in at tho
death? AS it was necessary that
Carthage be destroyed that Rome
might live, SO special privilege must
be destroyed that constitutional gov
ernment may survive.
Officer is the Servant.
Among the legends of the Ameri-
can people Is one to the effect that
the office-holder is the servant and
not the master of the people. Recall
ing this, let me direct your atten-
tion to the fact that this campaign
has it's business side as well as its
moral and patriotic sides,
Since 1896 the Republican party
has been in exclusive control of gov
ernmental affairs What has been
done has been done by it; what has
not been done has been left undone
by it.
''The economic system inaugurated
and enforced by the Republican party
has not met the approval of the peo-
pie. Standpatter and Progressive,
both, were present at the birth, al
the baptism, and at the marriage oil
this system to the general govern
ment. 1t does not make any differ.
ence whether the standpatter or thu
Progressive was the father or moth.