The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-27
ATTACKED OLD PARTIES
AND ALSO BULL MOOSE
Winfield R. Gaylord, the Only Socialist
Member of Wisconsin Legislature,
Speaker at His Party Rally
in Barre Last Night.

Two hundred people gathered in the
opera house last evening to hear Win
field r. Gaylord of Milwaukee, Wis,
speak on national issues in the interests
of the Socialist party. The speaker OF
the evening was detained in reaching
the hall and it was some little time,
after the crowd had settled comfortably
into seats, that he appeared with Gill
bert Phillips, who made a short speech
of introduction. Mr.. Gaylord is the
lone Socialist member of the Wiscon-
sin state legislature and his arguments
seemed to fasten on the crowd certain
convictions that can come only from
man who has been in position to
witness the inner workings of politics.
| His remarks were received with frequent
ripples of applause that broke into a
4 loud ovation as he concluded shortly
after 10 o'clock.
| AT the outset, the speaker told about
| the situation in Milwaukee, saying, that
large number of people had received
mistaken idea from the Socialist over
throw in the brewery city. He con-
tended that the propaganda vote is con-
stantly growing in that section as else
where and predicted near day when
Wisconsin will have several Socialists in
its legislature and more than one repre-
sentative in Congress.
Plungingl into the body of his argu-
ments, the speaker assailed the old-line
parties and some others, chiefly the Pro
gressive The Republican party, he de-
clared to be the organization of the
trusts, and the Democratic party, once
the political expression of the slave
holding Southerners, to be the party
OF the southern manufacturing. mining,
numbering and agricultural interests.
Turning to the Bull Moose organiza-
tion, he said that the third term party
had its origin only in the personality
and petty malice of Theodore Roose-
veit Even as Taft has lined up with
the oil combine, he continued, Roosevelt
has seen fit to be ruled by the steel
and harvester trusts.
Mr.. GAYLORD dealt also a jab at the
tariff and said that although it was
not an issue, he would be pleased TO
consider IL. He averred that the pro-
tective tariff policy of the Republicans
had for its prime object the protection
of property. although posing as the pro-
teetor of the American working wage
standard. He believed that the tariff
had protected everything but tabor and
he attempted to show how it had worked
TO the detriment of white workingmen
and compelled them to cast about from
city to city vainly searching for en-
ployment and at last turning to va
grancy as the only recourse. Syndi
calism, he asserted, is the direct out
growth of the unrest caused by pro-
tective tariffs "This great political lie,
the tariff" he said, SIS the history of
the beginning Of the great army of un-
employed in The United States
Shifting to the subject of trusts
which he said the other parties claimed
as an issue this year, Mr.. Gaylord went
on to tell how trust regulation was
impossible He described 10 his audi
enee the way and manner in which the
trusts initiated against the best inter
ests of the workingman and summed
up much Of his argument in the single
statement that the government in this
country is located in Wall street rather
than at Washington.
The Socialist party. declared Mr.. Gay
lord, is the party of one class. Other
political organizations may claim to be
the party of all classes, he said, but
the Socialist program frankly claims
this to be impossible. While proceed
ing along this line of argument, Mr..
GAYLORD stated that Theodore Roosevelt |
had distracted bodily many planks in
the Socialist party and added that many
Of the things which have caused Social |
lists to be classed with anarchists can |
be found in the third-term platform
to-day.