The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-07-13

iH'Te lay have been some few con.
less .'. "hich there were close cues.
tons, lut believe as a whole m.
members OF the national committee
acted honestly and conscientiously in
the decisions, and to charge that
they nave acted dishonesty and cor.
ruptly is not only uncalled for hut is
untrue.
Why, Mr.. President, the create st
amount of money that was ever raj
In any political campaign was raised
In 1896 during the Mckinley campaign.
and not dollar of the millions of del.
lars that were raised was used TO buy
votes; 1t was used for literature:
was used to pay the expenses o. I, g
speakers; IL was used to cover 9
thousands of expenses that are neces.
sary to carry on great campaign
| education. | do not condemn the us.
ing of great amount of money wheth.
er 1t comes from the Standard Oil Co.
whether 1t comes from Mr.. Perkins in
support Of his candidate, or whet'
II comes in support of the present
President of the United States, II II
Is used honestly and fairly for the pur.
pose of getting out literature, for the
purpose of presenting facts to the peo.
pie and not sensational falsehoods.
think the greater force we can have
to disseminate true political knowl.
edge over the country the better it
VIII be for the country.
The closing remarks of the Senator
from California in his first address on
this subject were not surprising to me.
IL Is part of what has seemed TO me
FOR the last or 10 years to be a con.
sistent policy-a policy of rule or
ruin. If We can not rule the party,
II we can not secure the success of
our nominee this year, we will turn
against the candidate who is nominal.
ed" Then they use that as a reason
why some other person, representing
different view, should be selected
next time. have heard in a number
OF the states in the past few years,
where we have conducted such elec
tons, the claim made:
I'VE have put up our candidate
will say our progressive candidate"
for number CT years in the pri.
mary; he has not been chosen; so we
will elect Democrat to that position.
That will furnish evidence to you, TIC
people of the country, that vcr r-
better nominate our candidate" It r.
simply a hold-up system. Supper
our views; support our candidate
we will destroy the party" That IS
the proposition in a nut shell 49,
presented to the Senate of the United
States in the argument that has JUS
been made. IF we can not secure
the defeat of your candidate in the
primary then the next step is to de.
feat him in the election. We will try
once more; We will defeat him, If It
is possible; If we should not succeed
in defeating him, it will be time
enough then to consider whether it is
necessary &c create a third party in
order to win
Mr.. President, believe in fighting
out our difficulties within the party
itself / do not believe that the pub
lie is so corrupt, ] do not believe that
the average people who go as dele.
gates to conventions are so corrupt
as the Senator would have us believe.
do not believe that those who sur
port one party are criminals and those
who support the other party are saints.
! believe that we should and can fight
out these questions in our conventions
or fight them out in our primaries II
We have the primary system, and then
let us rs good partisans stand by the
party of our choice. II there Is a
plank in cur platform that is not just
according to our idea let us try to
better fit it to the necessities of the
country. II We think our tendency
in the wrong direction, let us work to-
gether to guide the party in the right
direction. We gain nothing by unit
ing number of people who have been
defeated in their purposes and attempt
ing to destroy the old organization by
creating a new one.
Mr., President, only rose primarily
TO dissent most earnestly from this
continuous cry of fraud by those who
were defeated, and while might have
with the majority, differed as to some
NJ the contests that were decided,
certainly believe that the men who de-
cidad thann wara honeat in their con.