The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-10-18
MOOSE
VIEWS IN
TH|SD|STR|CT
PROGRESSIVE VOTERS CAN
NOT CONSISTENTLY VOTE
FOR TAFT ELECTORS

When the consistent supporter o
Colonel Roosevelt finally learns wha
candidates on the Republican elec
toral ticket can be relied upon to yot'
for Roosevelt and Roosevelt only, h
will OF course vote for these electors
But if he is consistent he cannot yot,
for the Taft electors on this ticke
nor for the standpat candidates 81
the local or state ticket, nor for the
standpat candidates for congress II
this district 1t would be trayesty
for this district to go for Roosevelt
and Mcclure. There is nothing N
common between them, if Roosevelt
is what his supporters claim for him
| McGuire's whole record in congress
puts him in direct antagonsm to ey-
lerything for which Roosevelt stands.
| The politicians who are interested in
patronage and the local office will Of
| course urge those who have heretofore
| called themselves Republicans to
swallow the whole dose including reg.
ular Republicans and Roosevelt fol
overs, and including Mcclure They
urge this not to advance the cause of
good government, not in the interest
OF any principle, hut because this is
the one way to promote their own
schemes for private advantage 40
doubt the Bull Moose politicians who
want some local office or local patron.
age will urge all voters to swallow
the whole Republican ticket but the
voters now have way of disregard.
ing the politicians, of thinking fol
themselves, and acting upon their ows
intelligence, and their own corviC
tions. Nobody can criticise any man
for voting his honest opinion. This
is the inalienable right of every citi
zen, but the voter should have some
intelligence and display some discre
ton Why should any voter who be.
lieyes Roosevelt should be elected
president also believe Mcclure should
be elected to congress? 1t is incon
ceivabe that any intelligent man
could honestly believe both PROPOSE
tions, and that the Roosevelt men. 4
and intelligent will |
vote for Mcclure, or the McGuire men
OF the same quality will vote for
Roosevelt Somebody may say that
they will vote for MCGUIRE on the tar
iff issue, even though they favor
Roosevelt for president Some yot
ers may be alarmed by the effort Of
politicians to create
free trade scare. Ii should be re
however, that progressive
and Democrats have
stood together on the tariff for the
ast severalsession of congress. They
stood together in the fight against
he Payne-Aldrich bill and they CO
operated in the passage of the Demo
ratio tariff bills by the present ses-
sion OF congress, The record of con
,ress shows that no matter what an
agonism there may be in theory be-
ween progressive Republicans and
Democrats that in practice there Isl
10 issue Of consequence between them ,
IN the tariff. Any tariff revision that
nay be undertaken with Wilson or
Roosevelt as president would be along
he lines of the bills passed by the
Democratic congress with the support
If progressive Republicans and pass
ID in Republican senate by a com
1ination Of Democrats and progress
iive Republicans, and toed by
'tandpat Republican president John
Davis will more accurately represent ,
he tariff views of the Roosevelt fol
overs in the First district than Bird
IcGuire and if the progressive Repub-
leans vote their honest convictions
II along the line he wilr be elected
~ a large majority.