The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-08-08

thousands of progressive Democratic
votes while he held the Republican
masses. So ii is he aud Roosevelt
have disrupted the Republican party
and destroyed all present hope of
victory by IL. To vote for Taft is to
reward him for all his fOllies, mis-.
takes and political crimes. II elect.
ed he would be, as he has been, the
tool of the reactionaries Ia both par.
ties, especially of the high tariff
plunderers, whose excessive profits
have been added to for four years
past because Taft approved the AL
driCh monstrOus tariff revision act
and vetoed the lower tariff bills Of
1910, not one Of which violated the
Republican 1908 platform; not one of
which but left enough protection to
cover the total labor cost In every
manufactured article it listed, 1t
will be remembered that the Depart
mcnt Of Commerce and Labor sew
eral years ago investigated the diff
terence between foreign and domes-
tic cost of production and found the
total American labor cost In it aver
aged about ri per cent Of its whole.
sale price, which was less than the
protection given in every bill Taft
vetoed. His admiss sion of ignorance
as to TINT cost difference and asking
light AS To it 10y the Tariff Boards
findings, which but confirm the pro-
gr"ssivcs' efforts To- revise down
ward the tasif. have been but pre-.
texts to enable him to keep his sell.
out pledges aud abide his surrender
to AldriCh and the reactiOnaries and
10 enable the tariff eXtortiOlists for
four years to plumber, by their eX-
C"ssive prices. the people, they
| thereby exacting from them over "A
billion dollars IA year. In short the
money loss TO the American people
suddlcd on them by Taft's weak.
| stupid or corrupt breaking Of his
pr".l9OS election pledges and our
! then platform including the Cana
dian reciprocity loss to the farmers
has been fully 5000 ,O00, O00-too
much money lost to justify our vot.
| ing for him. Nor have his trust
| prOsccutiugs resulted in anything
| but paper trust dissOlutiOus with in
creased prices since on all trust pro-
duets and increased prices Of all So
called divided up trust stocks. The
reverse of the restoration of cumpe-
tition has been reached, to say moth
ing of the restoration of the laws of
competition, supply and demand. In
| the Tobacco Trust cases Tait's At
| torney General, Wickersham, Of
course with Taft'> approval, refused
to allow an appeal from the unfair
| Judgment of dissolution and distri-
| hutton of the assets of the trust
| The Government counsel who won
! The cases condemned. That proves
| TAFT = administration is a trust bus
ter only to be- trust enricher-
Tatt's record simply proves he has
| been "A failure and Is Il political fraud
or fool
| intend, As do thousands of Re-
| publiCaus, 70 vote for Wilson, he.
cause b." stands for all that is good,
As neither Roosevelt or Taft do, in
our politics, because he represents
9jper cent ofthe principles We believe
in, which principles are approved hy
40 per cent Of the American voters,
| Irrespective of their past political af.
| filiatiuns; because we believe he will
cause To be enacted and enforced the
refOrmatOry measures necessary for
the emancipation Of the American
people from the commercial slavery
imposed on them by the trusts and
the predatory rich; because his nom
nation was the result of honest pub
lie opinion. with Democratic corrupt
bosses IL the baltimore convention
immersed, whereas in the ChiCu-0
convention they ruled. aud b"cdUs
we believe Wilson is able and pa
trtOtiC and Will restore our govern.
meut To our people and divorce 1t
from the rul" Of the bosses, as here.
tofurc. In this matter our soul, are
our own and we have the courage eft
our convictions 1t is not lightly
that | , an old Union soldier and a
Missouri voting Republican for
furty.fo0r years, thus, for the first
time resolve To vote against II so.
called Republican cuudidat" fox
President and for the candidate nom.
mated by the Democratic party, But
! clearly see my duty, not alon" H.
Ia" country. but even to my own
party, to rcbukc, by 50 doing, the
Infamous methods by which Taft
was nominated and his miserable
betrayal of the best interests Of the
American people. Under the chas-
tisement of national defeat, certain.
~ awaiting Taft's candidacy in No
vemher, the Aldrich class 81 corrup-
tionists will be deprived of future
political influence and the Repuhli.
can party can, aud will, in 1916, re-.
organize with its honest reform,r-
like La Toilette, Cummins and Had.
ley wisely and patriotically leading
IL, for social and political Justice.
Therefore, in voting for WILSON /
shall MOI leave the Republican par
ty. I shall vote for Wilson expect
ing Ia get for the country the same
good results that would have fol-
lowed Hadlcy's nomination and
election as President, # Roosevelt
had not at Chicago been tn" dog IN
the nanger and prevented his nom.
ination,
AS to Missouri politics, believing
the rule of Missouri Democracy was
for years inimical to the States
good; that the old Democratic guard
is still in the saddle ana predomin-
ates that party in this State md that
Hadley's administration is and has
been all that is good and desirable,
| shall vote the Republican State
ticket, trusting the good done in
that administration will be psrpetu-
ated under Republican rule.
II. b. CAHOOS, SR.