Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-11
Taft Termed ''Wet Nurse
for Saloons" Wilson is
Held to be No Better and
Roosevelt Worst Of All.
NO HOPE OF REFORM
SEEN IN OLD PARTIES
Rochester Man in Speech as
Temporary Chairman Of
Prohibitionist Convention
Says Drys are Solution.

Atlantic City, N. j.. July 10.-A sen
sational attack upon President Ialt,
Col. Theodore Roosevelt and the
republican and democratic parties IN
general marked, the beginning here TO-
day of the eleventh national prohlD Di-
ton convention Clinton N. Howard
Ct Rochester, N. Y, temporary chair
IN of the convention, made speech
ch bristled with denunciation OF
..boss-ridden, liQuor-controlled old
ties"
4e declared nothing in the way Of
real reform was to be gained from
either of them or from a third party
dominated by Col. Roosevelt.
Taft Saloons "Wet Nurse"
"No other president since the
foundation OF this government, de
clared Mr.. Howard, "has surrendered
more abjectly to the liquor interests
CT this nation than has William How
crd Taft. His record is too recent,
familiar and odoriferous to require re-
view in this intelligent presence"
Mr.. Howard said it would be Grim
inal waste of time to argue that the
liuuor traffic could be stamped out
through the republican party by it's
silent platform, it's present and un-
! worthy leadership, Its long consistent
Iiuppr record and it's present monopoly
-urtured candidate. who obtained MIS-
r-inaticn at the hands Of conven-
which Theodore Roosevelt de-
IS represents nothing but success
political fraud perpetrated IN the
,,i-rest cf political and financial pr1vi-
~ and Tho more than any of his
b, lecesscrs has become the wet
,,r Sc for the saloons"
And what better legislation can be
expected from the democratic party,
oniy little but less than nothing at
all.
Gov. Wilson No Better.
Exactly the same influences that
poisoned the republican party at Chi
cago were in control at Baltimore. 1t
may be said in truth that the splendid
Woodrow Wilson was not Mr.. Murphys
choice but the campaign banner.
decorated with his picture was flung
to the breeze in front Of Tammany
hall one half hour after his nomina!
ii on the order of Charles Murphy
u, long distance telephone and the
candidate has since sent his regrets
that prior engagement prevented his
presence at the Tammany Fourth Of
July
The temporary chairman said that
while Gov. Wilson was known as
"good man" the prohibitionists are
"not here to elect good man but to
kill the liquor traffic" Mckinley and
Harrison were good men" in the
white house, he added, "but they went
out Of the office with the country more
saturated with rum than when they
went in"
After severely criticising the demo-
cratic house of representatives for its
failure to enact legislation prohibiting
the shipment CT liquor into prohibi-
ton territory in the south, Chairman
Howard turned his guns upon Col.
Roosevelt.
Roosevelt Worst Of All.
"How about the promised progress
siye Roosevelt party?" he asked. 1--WE
already have two whisky parties and
do not need another. From the stand
point of the prohibitionist by his rec
ord public utterances and confessed
personal habits, he Is the least desir-
able of them all.
s.Pcsing as the Thou shalt not steal
candidate because his partisans were
not preferred over President Tafts in
the convention he brazenly bosts that
he stole the isthmus from Colombia
and let congress debate about 1t
afterwards
IF the Chicago convention played
the same trick, they get the cue from
him. His title to the Panama strip
was as good as the stolen Taft Gre
dentials in the hands Of boss-made
delegates and no better.
STEALING is stealing, MIR. Roose-
velt. When you taught that the end
justified the means, you gave every
thief a passport to heaven
Mr.. Howard referred by name to
the various "bosses" at the two old
party conventions, concluding with
this sally:
And to think Of Billy Finn, the
vice protector and promoter of Pitts
burgh, and Timothy Woodruff Of
Brooklyn, masquerading as Roose-
velt 'progressives.' What hope is there
or reform in America at such I'M
.lean hands? Absolutely none"
The speaker predicted that the proht
Dition party was certain Of ultimate