The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-06-24
! Editorial Page Of Che Caroma Cimes
II Won't Work Now

It's the same old game Of political bunk.
Worked by the same old gang Of political trick
They expect to get away with the people in the
same old way.
But will they9
The republican platform of 1912 is the greatest
effusion of superheated atmosphere since the uni
verse cooled off and became inhabited
1t is supremacy ridiculous
'sThe republican party assembled by its repre-
sentatives in the national convention declares it's
Exchanging faith in government of the people, by
the people and for the people,
Ye Gods!
For two solid weeks every subterfuge and trick
and bludgeon Of power has been used by the Taft ma
chine to prevent rule either of by or for the people
And then they come back with this scintilating
climax of oratory from the lips of the immortal Lin
coin. It's blasphemy on the memory of the great
EmaRcipator.
Processing to venerate the name Of Lincoln, the
machine stands sponsor for Taft, with his Bainger
Lurton record, and expects to up the fraud
with fulsome verbiage and glittering rhetoric.
Washington fought the crooked machine on it's
own ground, whipped it, and the boss-rued Taft
owned national committee turned down the peoples
delegates to the president who said the people
were not capable of selfgovernlnent.
California gave 1900 majority against Taft
and the bosses brush it aside and seat Taft men,
Texas, Arkansas, down the line through long list
of thefts, the national committee then the
lion betrayed the people, then insulted their ntel-
gence by declaring for government Of by and for tue
people
The platform is a stump speech by pettifog-
ging demagogue rather than clear statement of
principles
1t plays upon catch phrases and words to de-
ceive the voters but leaves string to be pulled b.
the bosses to prevent government for the ajority
1t talks Conservation but what about Balm
ger? what of Pinchot and Glavis2
1t talks parcels post, but has 1proper regula
lion" & string to it with zone system that will make
1t possible to kill it's effectiveness.
It slobbers all over the tariff question but fails
to tell of the broken promise of the past
1t wants money loaned to farmers, but proposes
to to it that it is left for private corporation
to skin them in the game.
1t conjures with such popular terms as ''public
health, wOrkmenS compensation, ssshort hours for
women and children but is going to see to it that
property rights get what is coming to them, and
the people know what Taft thinks is coming them
Drunk with their own stolen power, the Taft
crowd, working the old boss scheme to control
conventions imagine they palm off the same old
gush on the people and get away with it for the
essence of truth.
Party idolitry has been shattered, party labels
nothing today and the party lash has lost both
Its cracker and its sting.
The convention should have made complete its
hasco by one sane moment at the close long enough
to quote other axiom from the great first leader
of the party" to-wit:
. You fool all the people some of the time;
some of the people all of the Time but you cannot
fool all of the people all of the time.''
And the time has when William Howard
Taft has lost his power to fool many of the people
any Of the time.