The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-02-09

II confess l don't follow you" muir
INJURED the other person.
Il didn't expect you to-" said the
man at the next desk. But La Fol-
lette's out Of the game-that's ALL
Nobody could stay in that made an
after dinner speech of two hours and
a half 1t wasn't that he insulted the
newspapers-they'd have passed that
up. People like to hear newspapers
ripped up the back. But to post-pran-
dalize for two-hours and half
1.-The unforgivable sin"
"Who do you want for president? ?"
asked the other person.
WELL" said the man at the next
desk, while regard Marshall as the
only Democrat in the state. my per-
sonal presidential preference would be
Eugene Debs."
"A Socialist shrieked the other
person.
"Why not?" asked the man at the
next desk. Its only a choice of men
between the others. Things will be just
the same whoever gets in. But with
Socialists in the saddle-there'd be
something doing"
when Debs got in the White
House." said the other person you
couldn't tell him from Roosevelt or
Woodrow Wilson"
"Er-who was that last?"
Woodrow Wilson-Harvey's hand
made candidate, you know"
recall him." said the man at the next
desk. But, frankly. Id like to see the
Socialists win out" he continued.
What have the Dems and Repubs
made of 1t SO far? Look at the mess
we're in now? Who cares a rum-dum
for the Initiative and referendum, the
arbitration treaties or the wool sched-
ule. Aren't we marooned on the desert
isle of the high price of living? Aren't
the winters getting colder and the
summers hotter? Does any sane person
know what the beef inquiry's about.
And who. in the name of hades. can
define the present status of the Lori
mer investigation? Isn't beefsteak a
tradition and eggs myth? Don't they
charge you seventy-five cents for a
forty cent pair of overshoes and fifty
cents for butter made out of lard?"
And STILL" interrupted the other
person, silk stockings were never
cheaper and a man paid $S5, 900 for a
Corot in New York the other day"
That's begging the point" said the
man at the next desk. You know and
everybody knows that Socialism is
making enormous gains-for one thing
they control the next German parlia-
ment and the Kaiser's sitting up and
taking notice.
They've elected a lot of mayors
round the country and have repre-
sentative in congress. Half the people
you meet are Socialists on the side.
The vote has increased from $1,000
votes in 1892 to 100000 in 1911, al
though this is not an index since about
one-third of the Socialist vote is not
counted or omitted In the final returns.
"Everybody's tired with the present
order.
"They don't want revolution and
they don't want anarchy. But they
want-well. they want q chance" said
the man at the next desk
"EverybOdy's got chance-the
thing is making the try at the chance"
Never was a greater fallacy utter
ed" cried the man at the next desk.
Nobody has a fair chance. The Social
lists are going to try to give 1t in 30 far
as environment is concerned.
But, even at that, you know" con-
tinued the man at the next desk,
there is the boa-constrictor of heredi-
ty."
THE only living thing that has an
even chance is the worm," he went on.
They get fair chance at everybody
in the end"
whats this got to do with the price
of AUTOGRAPHED" asked the other per-
son.
"Oh, nothin'-except that Roose-
velt's commands a good price-and
has never been quoted. Not in
the market" grinned the man at the
next desk.