Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-16
TAFT CANDIDATE OF REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
The Marshalltown Times-Republican

The MarehaIltOWn Ilmes-nepuuAAS1A
says: 49,
the platform and seeing the temper OF
the republicans In that convention,
ought to thank his stars that his candl-
date got off so easily
President Taft is not candidate OF
q Taft man. He is the candidate for
president of the United States, noml-
mated by the republican convention at
Chicago and nominated in the same
manner that every republican candl-
date for president has been nominated.
He is the candidate Of the republican
party. If the Times-Republican Is re-
publican paper, then President tart is
it's candidate. II it is not for President
Taft. then It is not republican paper.
The county has now had enough OF
this spasm of talk about the dis
honesty of the convention. The repup.
lican convention held at Chicago last
month was no more honest nor no
more dishonest than any other conven-
ton of it's kind. It was simply regu-
lar convention.
It was held along the same line that
conventions are held in the states, dis
tricts and counties. The caucus system
fs no more dishonest nor no more
honest than any other system OF noml-
mating delegates The fact is there Will
be Just az many charges of dishonesty
and great many more charges OF the
use of money as more delegates come
to be elected at the primary.
In the convention nominating Cum
MINIS for third term for governor, there
were a great many contests and In the
county convention which selected dele
gates to the state convention were a
great many contests. There were dele
gates ousted who will claim they were
dishonesty unseated On the other
hand the delegates who secured their
seats will maintain that they We're
honestly seated. In number OF IN.
stances these men on both sides abso-
lutely and sincerely believe that they
are telling the truth when they make
their claims. Still az matter of fact
one or the other Is wrong as to which
It II. can never be definitely stated be-
cause 1t is only matter of personal
opinion. In electing delegates by pri-
mary the claims will be made that
men not afiliated with certain party
have voted party ticket they had no
right to vote. It will be charged that
votes have been bought and sold and
that money has been used lavishly and
dishonesty. !.
We simply write the above to call
attention to the fact that the primary
cannot In the very nature OF things be
q panacea for all Ills. It will not re-
move all troubles and out OF 1T Just as
many questions will arise as Will from
the caucus system.
The primary system for the election
Of delegates from the voting precincts
TO the county convention, it seems
would be q good feature but the fact
right there confronts one that there
probably would not be full delega-
ton elected unless some kind OF a
caucus was held at which an agree
ment was reached on a ticket. But
ones personal acquaintance will gen
orally allow the voter to select enough
members Of some one party for his
delegation from his precinct. The prf-
mary system Of electing delegates is
possibly Just as good and probably not
any better than the caucus system.
Theoretically, It is easy to get away
from the caucus system. Practically,
no one has devised a way out of it yet.
So all the fault finding, speeches.
curbstone arguments, conventions
orations and statements from politi-
clans in the newspapers about charges
Of dishonesty, etc, are simply bunk
pure and simple. The fact is that the
LEGISLATION is progressing, wrongs are
being righted, progress is being made
IN legislation and business and all
other lines about as fast today as 1t
ever has been and probably not any
faster. All the office holders. Of high
omcial positions are good deal in
the same box. There are some in
stances where dishonesty is little
more fragrant than in others. It is the
same thing in business circles. The
politician who holds high Office is
accused Of stealing it just the same as
he in his effort to make himself solid
with the common people" accuses the
man who is successful business man
and has money of having stolen It,
The railroad attorneys, attaches and
beneficiaries will work the legislature
to elect some man senator and then the
first speech he makes will be in the
interests of the common people" and
against the railroads. Immediately
he is heralded as world beaten in
the interests of the poor people when
the fact Is, he Is not working for the
people in that instance but is work
ing the people.
But the last few years have been an
era when the people would not stop
to analyze matters of that kind. The
man that could yell the loudest and
talk the toughest got the most votes
Tb, hooeioot bind of a bOsa would get
up and call everyone else a boss and
get away with it.
The time has come now when the
people must thiny the matter over and