The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-09-26
MR.. CAHooN SCORES
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
Will Support Wilson and Hensley, anC
Major Unless Mckinley Repudi-
ates the Plank Opposing Presi-
dental Primaries.
special to The Pennington Times

the pest Known lawyers ana pOlltl-
clans Of southeast Missouri, deliy.
cred vigorous speech here this af.
tcrnoon on'the political conditions
of the country. Mr.. Cahoon is al
close observer Of political events,
and he has come To- the conclusion
that the Republican party has not
only outlivcd its usefulness, but j.
corrupted and dominated by the
worst foes Of the Republic. His
purpose to max, speech had been
announced couple of weeks in adj
vance, and n large crowd gathered
from all directions to hear him.
As IA basis for his remarks, he
said that the American people and
the United States, as nation, was
confronted with the gravest ques-
ton since the civil war, namely:
That the representation of great
wealth and the leaders and bosses
of the Republican party were striv-
ing to cnslave the masses or com
mon people; that, if successful in
their attempt, this slavery would he
far greater curse that negro slav-
cry was, and that our boosted politi-
cal liberties would vanish from our
shores.
He said that Candidate Roosevelt
was in with the great wealth. that
J. +. Morgan and his people brought
or the panic Of 1907 for the specific
purpose Of absorbing the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company, and that
Roosevelt positively knew OF this
fact and permitted Morgan to vio-
late the law In taking over this
rival; that Roosevelt was unworthy
Of the support Of loyal and liberty
loving American voters. He re-
viewed at length Roosevelt's politi-
and official life, and summed it all
| up by stating that he was insincere
and ambitious and opposed to every
instinct which controlled the honest
voter of this nation and that he was
opposed to him for many reasons.
He also took up President Taft s
record as President, and his declara-
tiuns In the 1905 campaign that il
elected president he would insist on
the revision of the tariff downward
But, he said, Taft was seduced bS
Morgan AID others to sign the Payu,
bill, and that this tariff act increased
the tariff and the cost OF living. Al
50, hat Taft betrayed his nation
and the Republican party when n,
vetoed the several tariff bills passed
by the present Congress, and tina
he is II failure and unworthy Of re-
election.
Taking up the money pswer %
trust issue, he asserted that the Re
publican party, by its leaders anC
bosses, had so manipulated nationa
politics and SO enacted laws that J
Z. Morgan and his banks not only
control the money of this country
but absolutely dominate the Nation
al Treasury, and unquestionably
control, through the banks and tn,
National Treasury, the industrial
interests of the nation.
He further asserted, that during
the past sixteen years the Republic
can party had designedly manipu
lated elections, by demanding anC
receiving millions of dollars iron
the protracted interests to purchase
and debauch the American. voters,
and that ut this time IL utterly dis
regards all honesty and all love f0i
our county, is unworthy of the sup,
port of the honest and thoughtful
American voter.
He said that he believed that God
had raised up Gov. Wilson as He
did Lincoln, to save this nation from
industrial slavery, condition for
worse that negro slavery; that Will
son was the greatest man since Lin
coin; that he believed Wilson To he
not only great in mind, but firm In
his purposes to serve the nation and
its common people. He said he in
tended tn support Wilson and Mar.
shall, and he would also support
Congressman w. t.. Hensley for
the same reasons that he supported
Wilson-he wanted Wilson to have
IA Democratic Congress back of him.
Mr.. CahoOn also stated that un.
less John G, Mckinley repudiated
that plank of the Republican State
platform which states it's opposition
to presidential primaries he would
oppose Mckinley and support Ma.
jor for governor.
Three times, said Mr.. Cahoon, lad
, he taken his political life In his
hands: In supporting d. q. Brown
for Governor, for refusing to sup
port Gen. Grant for a third term fol
President, and in refusing to sup
port Taft or Roosevelt; that he wal
an American above partizan.