The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-11-01
Sea cirt, N. j.. Oct. 10, 1919.

Sea Girt, N. j., oct. 10, 1919.
To the Voters Of America:
am glad to have opportunity to state very
simply and directly why am seeking to be elect
ed President of the United States. feel very
deeply that this is not ambition should
entertain for his own sake. He must seek to
serve cause, and must know very clearly what
it is he is seeking to serve.
The cause am enlisted in lies very plain
20 my own view: The Government of the United
States, as now bound by the policies which have
become characteristic of Republ can administra
tton in recent years, is not free to serve the
whole people imparti tally, and it ought to be set
free. 1t has been tied up, whether deliberately
merely by unint ent onal deve1 opment, with
particular interests, which have used their pow-
er, both to control the government and to
troll the industrial development of the country.
1t must be freed from such entangl ements and al
liances. Until it is freed, it cannot the
people a whole. Until it is freed, it cannot
undertake any programme of social and economic
betterment, but must be checked and thwarted at
every turn by its patrons and masters.
In practically every speech that make,
put at the front Of what have to say the ques-
tion Of the tariff and the question of the trusts
but not because ct any thought of party strategy
because believe the solution of these ques-
tions to lie at the very heart of the bigger
question, whether the government shall be free
not. The government is not free because it
has granted special favors to particular classes
by means Of the tariff. The to whom these
special favors have been grant have formed
great combinations by which to control enter
prise and determine the prices of commodities.
They could not have done this had it not been for
the tariff. No party, therefore, viii CHI does not
propose TO take away LneSe special faVorS ana
prevent monopoly absolutely in the markets Of the
country so much the most elementary
part Of the method by which the government is
ITO be set free.
The control TO which tariff legislation has
led, both in the field of politics and in the
field Of business, is what has produced the most
odious feature of our present political situa-
ton, namely, the absolute dominatto of power
full bosses. Bosses cannot exist without busi-
ness alliances. With them politics is hardly
d1st1ngui shable from business. Bosses maintain
their control because they allied with
who wish their assistance in order to get con-
tracts, in order to obtain special legislative
advantages, in order to prevent reforms which
Will interfere with monopoly with their en-
'1oyment of special exempt ons. Merely po1tt-
;1ca1 leaders, not backed by money, not supported
by securely intrenched special interests, /bosses
would be entirely manageable and comparatively
powerless. By freeing the government there
fore, We at the same time break the power OF the
BOSS. He trades, he does not govern. He
ranges, he does not lead. He sets the stage for
what the people to do he does not act as
their agent servant, but as their director.D
For him the real business of politics is done
cunder cover.
The that Will set the government
gree from the influences which now constantly