The Cairo bulletin., 1912-07-11
ATTACK upon
old PARTIES At
PROH|S MEET
Temporary Chairman Howard Of
Rochester Opens Con-
vention
TAFT AND T. R. DENOUNCED
Says Present Titular Lead Of G. O.
P. Is Monopoly-Nur-
tured

Atlantic City, N. j., July 10.--A
sensational attack upon President
Taft, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
and the Republican and Democratic
parties in general marked the be-
ginning here today of the eleventh
National Prohibition convention
Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, ~
", temporary chairman of the con-
vention, made speech which brist.
led with denunciation OF the boss
ridden, liquor controlled old par
ties" He declared nothing in the
way of real reform was to be gained
from either of them, or from third
party dominated by Colonel Roose-
Welt.
mo other President since the
founfation of this government" de-
clared lnr. Howard, has surrender
ed more abjectly to the liquor inter
est of this nation than has William
Howard Taft. His record is too
recent, familiar and odoriferous to
require review in this intelligent
presence"
MIR. Howard said 1t would be a
criminal waste Of time ta argue that
the liquor traffic could be stamped
out through the Republican party
"by its silent platform, its present
and unworthy leadership, it's long,
consistent liquor record and its
present monopoly-nurtured candi-
date, who obtained his nomination
at the hands Of convention which
Theodore Roosevelt declares repre-
sents nothing but successful
political fraud perpetrated in
the interest of political and finan-
vial privilege and who more than
any of his predecessors has become
the wet nurse for the saloon
And what better results can be
expected from the Democratic par
ty? Not only as little but less than
uothing at all.
Exactly the same influences that
poisoned the Republican party at
Chicago were In control at Balti-
more.
1t may be said in truth that the
splendid Woodrow Wilson was not
Mr.. Murphy's choice; but the cam
paign banner, decorated with his
picture, was flung to the breeze In
front of Tammany Hall one half
hour after his nomination on the
order of Charles Murphy by long
distance telephone, and the candi-
date has since sent his regrets that
a prior engagement prevented his
presence at the Tammany Fourth of
July"
The temporary chairman said that
while Governor Wilson was known
as good man" the prohibitionists
are mot here to elect good man,
but to kill the liquor traffic." Nc
Kinley and Harrison were good
men" in the white house, he added,
"but they went out of office with
the country more saturated with
rum than when they went in"
cvrtt nj tetn n n
Democratic House of Represents
tives for its failure to enact legisla.
tion prohibiting the shipment OF
liquor into prohibition territory in
the south, Chairman Howard turn.
ed his guns upon Colonel Roosevelt
'How about the promised progress
sive Roosevelt party?' he asked.
"We already have the two whisky
parties and do not need another
From the standpoint of the prohibit.
ZIONIST, by his record, public utter.
ances and confessed personal habits
he is the least desirable of all.
Posing as the thou shalt moi
steal candidate because his parti-
sans we're not preferred over Presi-
dent Taft's in the convention, he
(. 'brazenly boasts that he stole the
sthmus of Panama from Colombia
and let Congress debate about II
afterward.'
III the Chicago convention played
the same trick, they got the cue
from him. 10 title to the Panama
-,
fC0ncluded an pa9a Gix.1 rE