The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-07-16
PROHIBITION. :
CONVENTION
Starts of With Sensational Attack on
President Taft ard Colonel
Roosevelt.

Atlantic City. New Jersey, July TO-
A sensational attack upon President
Taft, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and
the Republican and Democratic par
in general marked the beginning mere
today of the eleventh national Prohi
bition convention. Clinton N. Howard
of Rochester, New York, temporary
chairman of the convention made a
speech which bristled with denuncia
ton of the boss ridden, liquor cor
trolled old parties" He declared nc
thing in the way of real reform was
to be gained from either of them O
from a third party dominated by Get
onel Roosevelt
Attack on Taft.
mo other president since the foun
dalton of this government" declared
Mr.. Howard, has surrendered mo-"
abjectly to the liquor interest of this
nation than was William Howard r
His record is too recent, familiar ar
odoriferous to require review by thi
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 un
worthy leadership, its long consistent
liquor record and its present monopoly
nurtured candidate who obtained his
nomination at the hands Of a con-
yeution which Theodore Roosevelt de-
clares represents nothing but success.
full political fraud perpetrated in the
interest of political and financial pr
viiese, and who more than any Of mis-
predecessors has become the vet
nurse for the saloon.
And what better results can be
e&pt cted tom the Democratic party ?
Not only as little but less than no
thing at ali.
Exactly the same influences that
poisoned The Republican party Ct
Chicasy we've in control at Baltimore.
at may lie said in truth that the
splendid Woodrow Wilson was not Mr..
Murphys choice; but the campaign
banner, decorated with his picture,
was flung to the breezy front of Tam
many hall one-half hour after his nom
ination on the order of Charles Muir
ply by long distance telephone, and
the candidate has since sent his re
grets that prior engagement proven
ted his presence at Tammany hall on
the Fourth of July
The temporary chairman said that
! while Governor Wilson was known ;
"a good man." the prohibitionists are
mot here to elect a good man, but
kill the liquor traffic" Mckinley
Harrison were good men" in t
White House, he added, but they We
out of office with the country more sat
urated with rum than when they we-
| in
After severely criticizing the Demo
cratic house Of representatives for its
failure to enact legislation prohibiting
the shipment of liquor into prohibition
territory in the south, Chairman How
ard turned his guns upon Col. Roose
welt.
How about the promised progress
sive Roosevelt party?" he was asked
I'VE already have two whiskey par
ties and .do not need another. From
the pointo view of the Prohibition
lists, by his record, public utterance'
and confessed personal habits, he il
the least desirable of them all
Posing as the thou shalt not steal
candidate because his partisans wer'
not preferred over President Taft's il
the convention, he brazenly boast
that he stole the IstNmus of Panama
from Colombia and let Congress de
bate about it afterwards
IF the Chicago convention playe
the same trick, they got the cue fror
him. His title to the Panama strip wa
as good as the stolen Taft credential
in the hands of boss-made delegate
and no better.
Stealing is stealing, Mr., Roosevelt
When you taught that the end Just
fled the means, you gave every THE
passport to heaven"
Mr. Howard referred by name