Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-04

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Although he had q hand-picksd
crowd. you. could not have put thai
lrssOlution Through his convention. for
/ Mr.. Roosevelt had. ~ hIi chief nnAn-
fetal hacker and - his principal poo
i litical adviser, man who WaS untA
recently q partner OF J. Ptefpont Mor-
G1n's, and n now q director OF the
steel trust and manager OF the hAr-
yester trust. and he could not have
put that kind OF q resolution Through
his convention. There IL the direr-
ence between the conventions.
The New York delegation went
down to Chicago after a presidential
nomination. and 1t got it and took It
home. But at Baltimore the New
York delegation's support of o candi-
date was detriment to him instead
OF q help to him. And those jemo-.
Gratis at Baltimore said that no mat
ter how good q man might be, In this
crisis, we could not come before the
people and ask them to trust US as
leaders OF the progressive movement
If Charles F. Murphy was allowed to
pick out even a good man and put
him under obligation to Wall street.
(Applause.)
When Mr.. Roosevelt says that those
/ two conventions, the republican and
democratic, were just alike. be either
does not know what he is talking
about or does not care what he says.
TELLS TILE CROWD TO
STAND BY WOODROW
WILSON ALL THE TIME
But let me speak now of these
three candidates. And I have to speak
very briefly and very hurriedly. A
great deal depends upon logical or
der. And there are two logical orr
ders that might use In speaking of
these three men. might speak Of
Mr.. Wilson first, as the one term can
didate, because he is committed by
his platform to single term. And
then might speak of Mr.. Taft as
two term candidate, for, If he is
elected, he will serve a second term.
And then can speak of Mr.. Roose
welt as third term candidate. who,
if elected, would serve a third term,
and then spend the rest of his life
trying to add to those terms. Gap
plause.)
But have another plan, another
order. will speak of Mr.. Taft as
the president who Is, and OF Mr..
Roosevelt as the man who has been,
and then of Mr.. Wilson as the presi-
dent who will be. (Applause.)
I believe Mr.. Taft is an honest
man. know him personally. II
have a high regard for him person
ally. believe he means we'll. be-
lieve he has done what he thought
was best for the people, and that IL |
he is reelected he will continue to
do what he thinks is best for the
people. But I want no republican
stop. That is not enough to make
him president again. I want now to
tell you why I believe that this hon.
est and well meaning man ought not
to be reelected.
SAYS TAFT DOES NOT
TRUST ALL THE PEOPLE
He has many faults that might be
mentioned, but that is not strange, !
for all people have faults But he
has one great fault, so great that I |
think it makes it impossible for him
to serve the people OF this country in
satisfactory manner. His great
fault, II I understand him and his
administration, Is that he does not
have the faith he ought to have In
the people Of this country. He does
not trust the average man as he
ought to. He is afraid that IL tho
PEOPLE control their government they
will hurt themselves. And he loves
them 80 well. and is 30 anxious to
keep them from hurting themselves
that he is not willing to have them
run their governments. He Is afraid
that II they do 1t, they will make
mistakes, and he would rather make
mistakes for them than to let them
make their own mistakes.
TAFT rs AFRAID THE
PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW
WHAT THEY. WANT
You think that is hard charge.
/ want to tell you that while 1t does
not reflect upon his honesty, or his
good intent, and while It is fatal to
his claims as a candidate, that there
Is evidence sufficient to support tho
charge. In the first place. he is OPP
posed to the initiative and refersn-
dunn. Why? Because he Is afraid
the people are not intelligent enough,
or not honest enough. or not virtuous
enough, to use direct legislation. He