Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-11
Will. FOLLOW BULL MOOSE
Chairman of Prohibition Convention
Has Choice Lot Of Invectives.
TAFT TOOL OF LIQUOR MEN
Roosevelt Represents Only Success
tai i'oIiticai Fraud and Wilson
L Is F1irtins with 'ram-
4 many Hail.

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, j.. July 10.--A
sensational attack upon President Taft,
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the re-
publican and democratic parties In gen
eral marked the beginning here today OF
the eleventh national prohibition convenr
tion. Clinton N. Howard OF Rochester,
N. T., temporary chairman Of the con-
vention. made speech which bristled
with denunciation of the 'boss-ridden,
iquor-controled old parties" He de-
clared nothing In the way OF real reform
was to be gained from either of them
or from third party dominated by
Colonel Roosevelt.
mo other president since the founda-
tion of this government. declared MIR.
Howard, has surrendered more alb
jecty to the liquor interest of this ma
ton than has iliam Howard Taft. His
record is too recent, familiar and odorif-
erous to require review In this intelligent
presence
Mr.. Howard said 1t would be Grim
inal 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 rec
ord and its present monopoly y-matired
candidate, which Theodore Roosevelt de-
clares represents nothing but successful
political fraud perpetrated In the inter
est of politics and financial privilege,
and who more than any of his predeces-
sors has become the wet nurse for the
saloon"
Democrats Also Denounced.
And what better results can be ex-
peeted from the democratic party? Not
only as little, but less than nothing at all.
nxacty the same influences that
personed the republican party at Chi
cago were In control at Baltimore.
IT may be said In truth that the splen-
did Woodrow Wilson was not Mr. MUIR
phys choice, but the campaign banner,
decorated with his picture, was flung
to the breezes In front of Tammany hall
one-half hour after his nomination on
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
Governor Wilson was known as a good
man. the prohbitionists are mot 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 office
with the country more saturated with
rum than when they went in"
Roast for Roosevelt.
After severely criticising the democratic
house OF representatives for its failure
to enact legislation prohibiting the ship
ment of liquor into prohibition territories
in the south, Chairman Howard turned
his guns upon Colonel Roosevelt.
How about the promised progressive
Roosevelt party?' he asked.
we already have two whisky parties
and do not need another. From the stand
point of the prohibitionist. by his record,
public utterances and confessed personal
habits he is the least desirable of them
ALL
Posing as the Thou shalt not steal
candidate, because his partisans were not
preferred over President Tafts in the
convention, he braSenly boasts that he
stole the Isthmus of Panama from
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