The Greeley tribune., 1912-02-29

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vears ago a great senator ssld tnas
nwritv in politics was--What DID
10 sav IL was?-'an iridesceut
araam" IL is not surprising Tor
hoth parties are getting their sinevs
~ war from the same source from
favor seeking corporations. Weu
street would nominate botn tlckets
and sit back and say, Ihey ero
both good men, no matter whicn
wins the people lose. (l-augnteT.'
II used to be when you asked wnere
the campaign fund came from you
anoloeized for asking an imperti-
nent question. That day has passed.
Now YOU understand public cleo
t;on is a public affair, the people
have n right to know what is going
an When the people found what
had been going on they demanded a
law to make it a penal onense lot
naonle to contribute to campaign
funds. but We now have another law
making it necessary to publish De-
fore the election the names OF IN
diyidual contributors. This victory
is so recent that until few years
ago the question before the people
on this subject was whether OF hot
the publication should be before the
election or afterwards. Anu Se.
three Years ago President Iait saio
il ought to be Afterwards anu
President Roosevelt said 1t would
be eminently improper to nave II
before the election. That was only
three ;ears ago. Today the law says
it must be- published before the
election, and do you know when
that bill passed they called the ron
and there was not single fllenipeI
of congress of either party that
voted no; when it got TO the senate
there was not senator OF any
party who spoke against the pun
iicity before election, and when the
bill reached MIR. TAFT he had the ex-
ouisite pleasure of signing a bill
that repudiated everything ne nao !
said on the subject three years ago |
and carried out the democratic
platform. (Applause.) That is
progress toward the purifying of
politics, and the beauty OF 1t Is.
everybody agrees about 1t now anu
nobody raises protest.
This it not all. We have made
another advance on toward the
rights of the people and during the
,ame time. 1t is on the income tax.
If | have ever been called an anar-
,hist for one thing more than an
other, it is for advocating the in
come tax. / went down to defeat
three years ago on a platform de-
nanding the submission Of this
very amendment, and my opponent
in the campaign said, we don't
need the amendment" He was OPP
posed 10 it, Yet within three years
what has happened? The very man
who said we didn't need the amend
nent, took that plank out OF our
platform and used it. The man who
defeated me came to our platform
md took a plank l wrote myself
md put it through the senate with
,ut opposition. loud applause
That is what has happened my
friends. l will admit to you that
Mr.. Taft has done more than l
could nave done, II l had been
elected, to carry out this plan. II
l had been elected I am afraid the
republi IAN senate would not have
helped me carry out q democratic
plan. hat when republican presi-
dent took our platform and took our
people with 1t and had his own be-
sides, Wy It went through tae saa.-
ate like it was creased. l never
sew anything like 1t. daughter
and applause) God moves in
way his wonders to per- .
form. Are you surprised l am
happy? Why l never felt better in
my life. l commenced feeling good
about the time Mr.. Roosevelt be-
gan to show familiarity with our
platform. was in Washington at
banquet given by the Gridron
club. He was chief guest and | sat
on the other side of the toast
master, and the newspaper men +,
who gave the banquet joked him
from beginning to end about what
he was taking from our platform,
and when l spoke l joked him, too.
told him also that some democrats {,
complained, but I didn't, our plat
form was made for use and If we
didn't get the chance to use it was
glad to have anybody use It, Cloud
applause.) l told him l was so glad
to see republicans climbing up on to
that platform that l was very much
in the attitude OF young fellow
down in Alabama OF whom | had
heard. He was very bashful
young man, he courted his girl
| three years before he had courage
to propose to her. One evening he
told her he loved her and asked her
to marry him. and she was very
frank sort of girl and said, why
Jim, have been waiting these
many months for you to tell me SO
that l could tell you" Jim went
out. looked up at the stars, felt
happy, and said. 20 Lord, amt
got nothing again nobody" (Ap-
plause.) That is the way | felt.
Cloud applause.) Then have been
feeling happy ever since. The car
toons are treating me better. II
used to be that these picture papers
were 80 bad that | had to keen
them out OF my house, they kept
my family irritated all the time.
! but they are getting better now
One OF the differences appeared in
Golfers Weekly soon after this