White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-14
rum RIDDEN"
BOSS RIDDEN"
IN NATIONAL CON-
VENTION, SLAM REPUBLICANS,
DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESS
SIVES AS BOOZE PARTIES.

Denounclng the hepuDllcan and
Democratic parties as rum ridden"
and boss ridden" Clinton N. How
ard, temorary chairman, opened the
eleventh national prohibition con-
vention, with a sensational speech, at
Atlantic City, Wednesday. Howard
went to the convention loaded for
bear" not with booze, but with in
vective and denunciation against
the old parties, Taft, Wilson, Rooso-
welt, and the whole caboodle OF can
didates, past, present and future
who are not affiliated with the pro-
hibition cause. 1t was an awful yer.
bal wallop administered to present
political conditions as viewed from
the prohibition standpoint, and
places the prohib. convention on
equal terms with the two preceding
conventions at Chicago and Balti-
more, as a scrappy body.
mo other president since the
foundation of this government" de-
clared Mr.. Howard, has surrender
ed more abjeetly to the liquor inter-
est of this nation that has William
Howard Taft. His record is too re-
cent, familiar and odoriferous to re-
quire review in this intelligent
presence"
Mr.. Howard said il would be a
criminal waste of time to argue that
the liquor traffic could be stamped
out through the Republican party,
'by its silent platform, its present
and unworthy leadership, its long
consistent liquor record and its pre-
SEM monopoly-nurtured candidate
who obtained his nomination at the
hands of a convention which Theo-
dore Roosevelt declared represents
nothing but successful political fraud
perpetrated In the interest of politi-
cal and financial privileges and who
more than any of its predecessors
has become the wet nurse for the sa-
looms"
And what better results can be
expected from the Democratic party?
Not only as little, but less than moth
ing at all.
Exactly the same influences that
poisoned the Republican party at
Chicago We're in control at Balti-
more. 1t may be said in truth that
the splendid Woodrow Wilson was
not Mr.. Murphy's choice, but the
campaign 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 candidate has
since sem his regrets that a prior
engagement prevented his presence
at Tammany Hall on the Fourth of
July"
The temporary chairman said that
while Governor Wilson was known
as a good man." the Prohibitionists
''are not here to elect a 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
White House more saturated with
rum than when they went in"
"How about the promised Progress
sive Roosevelt party?" he was ask
ed.
I'VE already have two whisky par
ties and do not need another. From
the point of view of the Prohibition
list, by his record, utteranees and
confessed personal habits, he is the
least desirable of them all.
Posing as the Thou shall not
steal candidate because his parti-
sans were not preferred over Presi-
dent Taft's in the convention, he
brazenly boasts that he stole the
isthmus OF Panama from Colombia
and ''let congress debate about it
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