The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-06-19
NACHES CITY, June Is.
EDITOR HERALD:

I<i|ilOft
To one who has been quietly watch
ing the trend of affairs connected with
our government and the men high in
the councils thereof, and their trail
torous. evil schemes to further OPP
press the people, makes it impossible
for thoughtful spectator to remain
silent. president that this day owes
his position to .one-time friend and
his sincere confidence that this man
would make good his promises to the
people were he elected. Has he done
as he promised? No! Many times
no! Not only has he deceived the
people, but like the weakling he is,
has basely turned and stung the one
who above all others was responsible
for his occupancy of the highest office
In the land today, And the people,
that he can hardly conceal his con-
tempt for, are today ashamed of him.
The spectacle he has made of him.
self, going abroad over the land and
setting forth his, claims to the graft
tude of this same mob (the people)
that, with entreaties he has in his
speeches besought TO give him an
other term in the presidential chair
for one great reason, that the "other
fellow had held it for two terms, and
,
too" Right at this point he must
have felt one of those spasms of pain
that he feelingly referred to later in
his speeches against Roosevelt.
Now you voters want to remember
this, that Taft his no love fer the
people. He has thorough contempt
for the men who work and toll He
has said the people are not fit to de-
eide on matters pertaining to their
government. Has he not time and
again referred to the reople>> as a
mob?. Moreover, he has s..id in a
speech that he had been straw
been a straw man, but is now, and
will be, for he is built that way, and
every voter that votes for this straw
man will have nothing but straw re-
suits at the end.
Fellow citizens, I tell you this man
is not wanted at the head Of our ma
tional affairs another long four years.
Vote for man that will do things
for the people; not for one that has
best served the corporations for the
last three years and more, and has
been as putty in the hands of schem-
ing political tricksters. who have used
him to further their selfish ends while
the helpless people were being robbed
of the fruits Of their toll.
Taft has stopped low to c. y favor
for votes. Has he not. visited in
friendly converse that arbitrator to
the United States, old Joe Smith Of
Mormon Utah; the sink-hole of
iniquity, Of which he (Smith) is pres
ident and leader. Was it, or was it
not, great honor to this Smith when
Taft preached in the great Mormon
tabernacle to these faithful saints :?
Did he not also make himself solid
with the Catholics by visiting the
pope and joining in with them at
regular seasons in some of their spe-
cial observances of certain ceremon-
les out of Difference to the Catholic
vote?
Everybody knows that nothing Of
any practical benefit to the people has
been done in the last three years ex-
cept few measures that were begun
before Roosevelt's time expired. In
fact Taft has been too busy putting
good, true men out of office and
embarrassing and propping up some
others to help them hold their office
when they had been proved to be I'M
fit and dishonest Now I ask you
men of this valley, are you going to
vote to continue such man in the
highest office in the land, after be-
ing referred to time and again as a
mob? Heaven forbid. According to
an excellent article in the Herald Of
late date the irrigation or reclamation
projects here in Washington and in
the valley here have languished for
two years. lacking approval by the
interior department.
We want man that will do things
for the people, and not an aristocrat
that has no sympathy for the toilers
Now vote right. Roosevelt is the man
for the people, though he is not fault
less. Vote for him.
One of the People.