Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-16
CHAIRMAN OF DEM
ocRAT.c CONVENTION PRE-.
Diets PARTY SUCCESS.
FLAWS TAFT As UNFIT,
ROOSEVELT AS UNSAFE
say. Trusts Still Live and Thrive De.
spite Republican Efforts to Curb
Them-RoossveIt Rsbukins Taft Lik.
ened to Satan Rebukins Sin-Fort
Dodge Orator lauds Bryan.

Burlington. May 16.-M. F. Healy. OF
Fort Dodge in his speech as tempo
rary chairman of the democratic state
convention, waxed eloquent in his con-
domination of Taft, Roosevelt and the
republican administration and in his
laudation of William j. Bryan. His
address moved the convention to fire.
quent applause. He said in part:
Evil days have come upon our
country The times demand patriot
ism Of the best and highest kind. The
broken and disordered lines of the
republican party in 1912 excite not
only contempt but sympathy Inc
rank and file of that broken army re-
bel against the present admlnlStra-
ton with its faults. failures and pit
liable weakness, and in madness
threaten to follow false god,
dangerous experiment and st1ll more
dangerous leader. From the evils OF
Taft and his surrender to special in
terests they turn to Roosevelt 10Y
the third term ard prospective era
Of sham progressiveness. of central
lied government of mob rule, and the
destruction of the rule against the
third term, the rule inaugurated bS
WASHINGTON 1allowed by Jackson
and so periodically maintained Wheh
General Grant went to defeat in 1880
1t shocks public sentiment to thlnk
that the party OF Lincoln, of Grant
of Garfield and Mckinley is able 10
find but one man in its ranks worthy
and able TO be president We can not
blame them for wanting 70 get rio
Of Taft, but we pity them in having
only Roosevelt left. The shame OF Ii
is. that any number of men in free
country should think for moment
that any one man is necessary for
our safety, and TO think that even
Roosevelt himself should SO think, IS
a reproach to the spirit of free insti-
tucions among men, and a disgrace
10 the party that in despair turns &c
him as the last nope. On April! 21th
of this year at Worcester, Massachu :
sets, Mr.. Roosevelt made public q
letter received by him from PTesi
cent Taft just after March. 1909. II
was in part as follows. L can never
forget that the power ! now exercise
10 me, and that am under obligations
TO you to see to it that your judg-
,nent in selecting me as your sue
cessor and bringing about the sue
cession. shall be vindicated accord
ing to the standards which YOU and
in conversation have always formu
lated" Mr.. Roosevelt added afte'
reading this craven submission, 1t i;
~, <Iox kny h2f
YOU
Flags Taft.
The man who wrote that crlngihs
letter is unfit to be president OF nine
u millions of people, and the MAJ
who received ii and in his over
wheming egotism published it, is IN
At TO sit in the great chair Of WASH
ington and Lincoln. 1t is new AM
| humil!ating sensation for US to hea
| a president and expresident insolent
| ~ talking about the succession. Tn
! novelty of il, however. does not tax
| away the sting of reproach that suci
| a fawning and complacent discussio!
/ in private gives 10 our sense or pa
| triotism. How deluded the people Wer
! in 1908 in electing Taft, or AT leas
! foolishly thinking they elected hin
| when it nov turns out that laft knew
! better all the time, and that it va
the mighty Theodore himself who fixe
the succession Upon what meat dot
this our Caesar feed that he is grow
so great?"
God moves in a mysterious way HI
wonders to perform, and now the trut]
Is out, and the king and the king max
er are entertaining the voters with will
cries of fraud, deceit. lngratitude, lynn
land accepting aid in private from tn
trusts and criminal corporations tina
each of them in public pretended 1
condemn.
Trusts Still Live.
The tobacco trust and Standard o.
trust are making more money tha
ever. and will cheerfully contribute il
1912 as heretofore, no matter which o
i, them is nominated.
Just now the harvester trust is mad
to jump thru the hoops, but Wis
people know that the prosecution
like a limited railroad ticket. good TO
this trip and train only, the election i
1912.
The beef trust is unscathed; tn
money trust is doing rushing bust
ness at the same old stand in Wa
street. the railroad trust Just as power
full as when Roosevelt solicited an