Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-11

what is the effect of it? Don't you re-
member out in kentucky they had
night riders ant" they tore up tobacco
plants? They killed peorle and they
drove them off Of their farms in order
to reduce the supply Of hurley tobacco
because they could not get any prices
for it, and that was because the tobac-
co trust went in there and bought what
they wanted and paid the price they
wanted. Now. what is the result Of the
tobacco decree? Why. hurley tobacco
has gone up under the competitions
that have come in there by the various
companies in which this tobacco trust
has been so divided. Burley tobacco has
never been,so high. You talk to the Ken
lucky farmers and ask them whether
they do not approve the decree IN the
tobacco trust"
Answering the Roosevelt charge of a
Taft alliance with bosses, the president
criticised his predecessor for attempt
ing to inject into a national campaign
questions which properly concern the
states and with which q president has
no direct concern.
Mr.. Roosevelt said was not only in
favor of an aristocracy or oligarchy but
he said that I was in favor of an OIL
garchy of bosses; that approved that
kind of government and that made the
issue, the people against the bosses, and
that all the bosses were for me, and
they were all opposed to him, and that
is what he says today" asserted Mr..
Taft. THAT is the issue. If he is elected
there won't be boss In the country
and IL he Is not they Will just own me
at Washington and run the govern
ment. Well, am not in favor Of the
machine politics. They are abuses OF
our government. We have to have or
CARNATIONS. We cannot very well get
along without these, but / am just as
much opposed to bosses, in the sense
that Mr.. Roosevelt wishes you to un-
derstand that term, as he Is.
The Question Of Bosses.
"Now there must be good deal Of
vagueness and misunderstanding about
| this business Of bosses. The president
has very little to do with the establish
ment Of boss or his disenthronement.
He takes at Washington the congress
men and senators that are sent there
by the people and it is the people who
are to disenthrone the boss, the presi-
dent has no power to refuse to recog-
nize them when they come with the
mandate of the people. Now 1t 10 to In
ject something into national cam
paign that does not exist and to give
! the impression that the president can
| with a wave Of his hand abolish all
bosses. It is not for him to put his noss
into state politics and take up all his
energy which ought to be devoted to
national policies in reforming each 10.
| cal community. The people must do
| that themselves ! am not criticisins
| but I would like to know how many
bodies Of dead bosses were strewn along
the path OF Theodore Roosevelt when
he was seven years president Of the
Z, United States. 1 don't criticise him Tor
that. 1t was not within his functions ia
go about with a sword cutting of the
heads Of dragons like that. What he has
| done and what he has defended himself
J time and again for doing. was to use
those men to get good legislation and
| government If he would. have not
| done any differently In that respect and
don't promise you II elected that all
4 the bosses will die. have recommend
ed something that will assist in ending
the abuse Of that system. but have not
heard any approval from anybody that
was so loud that could hear It. That
lis, have recommended that all those
/ offices which are now treated as po-
llitical officers be put in the classified
civil service and that the congressmer
and the president be relieved from thekl