Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-18
"a REASONS WHY
TAFT OR COLONEL
SHOULD NOT WIN
Folder Issued by Democratic Ma
tional Committee Specifies
Candidates Records.
HILLES HANDS A STINGER.
Declares Taft Never Attempted to
Force Finn into United
States Senate.
BY Austin Cunningha IN.

WASHINGTON, d. c. Oct. 49,
Democratic national headquarters has
just issued a tiny, mailable folder, in
expensive but attractive, which is like
ly to prove great Democratic vote
maker. 1t contains one dozen reasons
why Taft should not be reelected, one
dozen reasons why Roosevelt should
not have third term and one dozen
reasons why Wilson should be elected.
The front page bears reproduction of
the well-known Seymour Thomas
painting of Governor Wilson. The
dozen reasons why Wilson should be
elected are given on the editorial page.
The reasons given why Taft should
NOT be reelected follow:
1. He signed the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill and he referred to it as the
best tariff law ever enacted.
2. He vetoed the farmers free list
bill, the woolen bill and other bills de-
creasing excessive tariff duties.
8. He has failed to take any steps
to lessen the present high cost of liv-
ing.
4. He supported Ballinger in his
efforts to turn rich coal deposits in
Alaska over to the Guggenheims.
5. He has used Federal patronage
to maintain a political machine, mani
pulated in his behalf.
6. He abandoned his official duties
to enter into an undignifled scramble
with his predecessor for denomination.
Z. He has lost the confidence of his
party and of the people.
8. He failed to support DR.. Wiley
in administration of the pure food law.
9. His trust policy has helped the
trusts and brought no relief to the
people.
10. His administration has resulted
in disappointment and failure.
IL. He is reactionary.
IL. Ex-President Roosevelt, who
knows him best, says of him: He
has proved faithless to the cause of the
American people"
The dozen reasons why Roosevelt
should not be elected November 8
follow:
/. He has broken his solemn
promise not to be a candidate for a
third term, therefore his other prom
ises are not relied upon.
2. For seven years he was presi.
dent and during those seven years
the very conditions he now pretends
TO combat viciOusly were more
thoroughly developed than during all
the other periods in the country's his
ory.
3. The day he became president
here were 149 trusts or combinations
capitalized at $3.O00.000.0 900, and the
day he retired from Office there were
1920 such combinations, capitalized
at $31 ,OO0. 100000.
4. He permitted the steel trust to
acquire the Tennessee Coal & Iron
Company, its principal rival, viola
tion of the antitrust law, and forbade
the prosecution of the harvester trust
at the request of George w. Perkins,
his present national chairman.
5. The man next to Roosevelt re-
sponsible for the third term movement
is George w. Perkins. Perkins is q
promoter and defender of the most per-
nicious trusts in the United States,
which are the most vicious imposers
on the men, women, and children
wage-earners Of the country.
6. He urges the legalization of
trusts, watered stock and monopoly, as
first advocated by Perkins, his princi-
pal supporter and financial backer.
Z. He accepted campaign contribu-
tions from trusts, insurance companies
and crooked business, and denied that
he had done so-"My dear Hartman" !"
He stands for Boss Finn, BOSS"
Woodruff and other bosses, who serve
him.
8. During the seven years he was
president he failed, even refused to lift
finger against high tariff. Who be-
lieves, If elected. he would try to re-
duce excessive tariff taxes? Why is he
surrounded now by high tariff men
who are contributing freely to his
campaign fund?
9. He loves war better than peace.
10. Out of Office he promises too
much and in Office he performs too
little.
II. He says that the small farmer
be mentioned in the same breath with
cowboys" etc. After describing the
drunkenness and deadly shooting af
trays of the cowboys, he writes:
But they are much better fellows
and pleasanter companions than the
small farmers or agricultural laborers;
nor are the mechanics of great city
to be mentioned in the same breath
with them"
II. President Taft, who knows him
best, says of him. 'He is a dema-
gogue. neurotic, fiatterer, an
egOtist."
From this Washington eminence, it
seems that very nearly everybody is
working for the Democratic national
ticket. Everv time new apple o.
discOrd is tossed into the Republican