The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-10
HOW HE FOOLS THEM.


II used to be said as n quotation
from Lincoln that YOU can fool all the
| people some Of the time and some OF
the people all the time. but that you
cannot fool all the people all Of the
| time. And vet Col. Roosevelt seems TO
have very good success on two OF the
propositions stated He has fooled
pretty much all of the people part of
the time. and is fooling some of the
people all the time. His position in the
campaign this year is fair illnstra-
ton OF his power of fakcry, and OF
winning the confidence Of multitudes OF
people in his fakes. Thus he is posing
as special champion of the people,
and doing this on trust money. His
campaign is being financed by the mil
lions of dollars by the trusts; and yet
he is the "trust buster He is the
special champion of the people against
the trusts; and yet the special organs
of the trusts are for him.
He is also against the bosses and de.
iermincd that the porpctuatiou of the
control Of the Cranes. the Barneses,
the Peuroscs and the Guggenheims
shall end; and also that as Governor
Wilson g election means in his iudg
ment the perpetuation OF the control OF
the Murphys, the Taggarts, the Sulli.
vans, and the Democratic machine gen
orally. therefore Wilson is not fit to be
President But he is not only willing
i,ut e. hn pc
Lawson, Tim Woodruff, Of Finn, and
of George W. Perkins There must be
clean politics. he declares: and yet he
is willing TO be financed by the trusts
TO an unlimited extent iu his political
aspirations, and to steal the Republican
he can.
The hypocrisy OF all this is ahund.
antly manifest. And yet there does not
seem to be any power on the part OF
multitudes Of people to penetrate be-
youd the hurrah claim OF Roosevelt
that he is their special champion, while
at the same time being the dearest pet
of the trusts and the exponent of their
He is supposed by the peo-
pie to he firmly against the monopolles
and the trusts; and yet the monopolies
and the trusts are backing him to an
unlimited extent. and he ouenly de
clares that the Sherman antitrust law
was never meant TO be enforced
The convention which put him IN
nomination was from all political
e. thnn nj
authority of any kind from the people,
and it was under rigorous bossshlp
such as no convention has ever known
in this country since the days of Tweed
in New York, AS to this phase Of the
matter, the San Francisco Call sums IT
up in the following concise fashion:
The bull moose convention will consist
OF 63i delegates, each one OF whom has
been carefully hand picked by commit
tee Not one was elected by even a
straw primary.
Let the people rule.
The platform OF the bull moose conven-
tion has been prepared In advance by the
see IL until 1t Is presented to the con-
vention for adoption without unseemly
debate
Let US have free and untrammeled con-
ventions.
Every hand picked delegate is pledged
In advance TO vote for the Colonel.
II he doesn't, rsus init I'm.
Every detail OF the convcntion-the|
platform. the candidate. the chairman,
the committees, the resolutions and the
personnel Of the delegatioDs-has all been
arranged In advance. Everything is pro-
grammed.
And these fellows talk about boss ed
and programmes,
Very truly is Barnum s SAYING ex-
enplifieo in Roosevelt 8 political cam
paign this wear, "Tbe American peo-
pie like to be humbugged.