The Daily Missoulian., 1912-08-23
THE PEOPLES BUSINESS
POLITICS
The the failure
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of the people devote much time their political
Thus does Mr.. Taft in judicial fna1ty dispose Of the
demand Of the people that the countrys government be re-
stored to them The paragraph quoted taken from the
presidents speech Of acceptance when the bosses delivered
1.-THE goods and he received the stolen nomination
And there nobody who will dispute the autocratc de-
cision handed down from the White House bench It is
the neglect by the people that may attribute the evil
ways into which government has fallen and by the same
TOKEN is through the awakening of the people that
|are to climb out Of the slough
But it Mr. Taft who, in public speech this year
denied the ability Of the people Of this country to conduct
people are not fit to govern themselves And now because
they do not do it, he says that the people to blame for
all the defects which have crept into since
the people by default permitted the bosses to take charge
and run things to suit themselves.
And again. i Mr.. Taft who party to the rever
sal Of the verdict rendered by the people when they did
wake up and through primaries in all the great republican
staes demand the retirement of Taft and his BOSSES The
people decided last spring. in Of the greatest political
revvas this country has ever witnessed that they would
devote much time as necessary to their political d
ties. And they did it. The result that the declaration
against the rule Of the bosses whose representative Mr. Taft
has become nationwide 1t came from California and
from Maine 1t from the great central states
and it came from the presidents own home
But the declaration Of the people nuled by the
chine control which the bosses exercised The nomination
was stolen and it delivered to Mr. Taft stolen goods
AND HE KNEW IT WAS STOLEN.
Now he chides the people for their neglect Of political
duties He says they the to blame Yet when they
asserted their rights and made declaration of their Wishes
Mr. Taft became party to the machine made robbery by
which the will Of the people temporarily thwared
But Mr. Taft need not worry. The people will not neglect
longer their political duties If their trusted representa-
tves have betrayed them they will trust these representa-
tves The who will conduct the affairs of the
government from this time forward will be representatives
of the people and not representatives Of the bosses and the
bosses of the bosses. ~
Mr. Taft might have read the handwriting on the wall
last spring In fact it is said that he did read and that
he prevented from reading it aloud only by the most
strenuous efforts the part Of the agents Of the corpora
tions. But it will be written in bigger letters this fa-let
tes large that he read them even though he be
bndfoded by personal prejudice and his head be turned
the other way by the twist Of the corporation comealong
The people reading the progressive declaration of
principles They finding there the pledges which they
have long sought And they accepting the invitation
join the crusade. There mighty army backed by prin-
cpes and actuated by desire better the country which
marching in this crusade The attack is directed against
the agents special privilege the parties the theft Of last
ISpring.
Some of these agents operated as in Missoula county,
through the connvance Of the officers of the law to steal
the primaries, by voting children soldiers and Aliens 9th
ers waited until they reached the national committee where
was the process modified to suit the environment
But in either case the result the same The people
were robbed Their rights denied And now they are
awake.
Mr. Taft need not fret The people will no longer neglect
their political duties And this that the people have
sealed the doom Of him and his