Evening journal., 1912-09-19
STATE COLD
WATER MEN
HEAR CHAFTN

consistent His slogan is let tho peo-
pie rule You are mistaken. He
viii not let the people rule. He does
not have 10 be consistent. He is the
only man who can declare every one
else a member of the Ananias Club I
and still have some people believe
him.
Monumental Boss.
He is the monumental boss Of the |
country. He charges Taft with using |
a steam roller at the Chicago conven- |
ton. If Taft did he used cumber- |
some machine. Teddy used a McCor- !
mick reaper 1t works smooth and /
has the steam roller beat a mile and /
when Teddy is the engineer he has
the appearance Of being the will Of |
the people.
II attended the Bull Moose couven- !
tion IN Chicago and appeared before |
the platform committee / advocated |
plank prohibiting interstate liquor
shipments In defiance of state law. !
was applauded. / was asked TO draft |
The platform. ! did so, and it ap-
peared In the tentative platform.
"rhe platform committee. poor, de-
luded souls, stayed up till 4 o'clock
in the morning getting the platform
IN shape Then 1t was submitted 60
Teddy. He sont It TO the waste pa
per basket After he had been nomi-
mated and before the nomination OF
johnson nc sent i'm the platform no
bad brought with him from oyster
Bay and that platform was adopted
md there is not a single word I'm IL
about the liquor traffic
"1he Bull Moose party is composed
principally of lot of political idol
ptors. who are following false god.
nh.
rather than salvation. A full, COM
complete and comprehensive platform
Tor the party. giving It's principles
md its excuse for existence would
read, We favor making the viii of4
Theodore Roosevelt the supreme law
If the land
Mr.. Chains Address.
Mr., Chain then made his address.
The theme being Government by Ad-
ministration." In part he said.
Now, there are some things on
which We can agree. Ono is that the
liquor traffic is the greatest curse
the world has ever known Another
Is that this curse ought 10 he do
stroyod, root and branch. IN the
whole world. And another on which
am sorry we must agree. Is that
after seYenty years OF the most he
roic effort ever made. and at n sac
riiice greater in time, money and ef-
Tort than any other case i'm the
worlds history, We find ourselves
With the liquor traffic, stronger and |
more thoroughly entrenched in the |
national government than eyer he |
tore and more liquor consumed annu- !
ally than In any year In our entire !
history. That being so, It ought to
Dccur to good people that thcy may
ni f.af.s
ey and effort in The right direction.
II want you Prohihitonists TO
learn a lesson from this ! don't
want any man who claims TO be a
party Prohibition middle-of-the-
-oad Prohihiuonist--ever 80 sign
another petition. or ask Congress or
legislature anywhere under the
American nag 10 pass any prohibition
laws on tho liquor question We
ion't want any laws Of any kind what
ever passed. All we want Is TO be
elected 10 power
What Party Would DO.
What will we do? Repeal tho In |
fernar revenue sometimes call |
ed the internal revenue law. Repeal |
the section OF the statute i'm each |
state that permits the granting of a
Jcensel Elect our political party 10
power and we will administer the
government from the standpoint that
the making and selling of liquor is a
crime and not q business. and the
thing will be dead Get out OF your
heads that you must enact some law
on the subject That is where people
have been wrong for seventy years.
You Prohibitionists have been run
ming on after false gods We don't
want any law passed at all Elect US
10 power, and we will repeal a few
laws and do the rest by Interpretation
and administration.
Going TO Win.
I'VE are going TO win this fight
Set that down. And we arc going TO
win through a political party elected
TO power to administer the govern
ment from the Supreme Court down
We are going to destroy the LIQUOR
traffic by Interpreting the law and
the constitution from the standpoint
that the traffic is q crime and not a
business We are going to refuse a.
censes and let The saloons an die
as they will do at the end Of the FIRST
year after We are elected TO power
We are going to simply repeal the H.
cense provision of the statutes. and
the tax and internal revenue laws
We are going TO hold that liquor is
not a legitimate subject of commerce
anu mas no rights 10 the malls In
fact We will establish the propo-
sition that the beverage liquor traffic
is an outlaw under any fair or rea-
sonable interpretations OF the COM
mon law and the constitutions. And
II there is any prohibition law need
ed, well pass il after the liquor traf-
nc Is dead and buried and gone for
ever-by a proper administration.
I'VE ought to win the Presidency
upon that doctrine on the fifth day Of
November, 1912 and II we do not. Il
viii be because, through blind pre-
judice temperance Republicans and
TEMPERANCE Democrats on the liquor
question will belle our whole history.
trample IL under foot and fail to use
their reason as on other questions.
but will put their religion into cold
storage until after election and vote
the grand old party liquor ticket
Socialist Interrupted.
Speaking of the initiative. referen
dun and recall the speaker state,
that this government was founded OF
those principles, the question decidel
by our forefathers not being the law
OF that day but the administration O
the same. Following the war, Wash
ingtOn, the statesman, incorporate
into the law that the Congressme