Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-18

maries were held, that in the last state
| in which he spoke, in New Jersey, he
permitted himself to be betrayed into
| the frank admission that he expected
| 10 be nominated because he believed
the National committee would stand
| by him. one member of his own cabi-
net, representing a state that has just
repudiated him. has been working
hand in glove with the other Taft
members oil the National committee,
under the lead of Mr.. Crane of Massa>
ehusetts, MIR Penrose of Pennsylvania.
of Mr.. Mulvane of Kansas, of Mr.. Muir
nhy OF New Jersey and Mr.. Scott of
West VirSinia-all of whom have just
been repldiated by their own states
To steal from the people the victory
which the people have won.
Last February it was evident that
Mr. raft was the accepted represen-
tative of the bosses, of the men who
uphold the combination of crooked pol
ities and crooked business which has
been the chief source not only of our
political but Of our social and indus
trial corruption 1t has now, alas be-
come evident that Mr.. Taft is willing
to aequiesce in and to condone and to
accept the fruits of any course of ac-
ton on which these men embark. even
though such action represent treason,
as we'll as destruction. to the Republic
can party to which they nominaily be-
long. and also treason to the cause Of
the American people as whole.
very greatly wish that every de-
cent man in this country. every plain.
right thinking citizen who is in doubt
as to what the representatives of Mr..
Taft have done on the national COM
mittee, would read this book of Judge
Lindsey's. In especial. let him study
the part in which Judge Linsdey re4
fers to Mr.. Stevenson, and then let
him think for himself just what 1t
means when MIR. Taft and his as
sociates accept the help of Ar. Stew
Ienson, and import him from his own
state of Colorado, to act for other
states on the national committee, as
one of the ablest men engaged in the
movement TO rob the people of their
right to rule themselves.
Our opponents here in Chicago to-
day have waged such bitter and UNI
scrupulous fight for the very reason
that this is no ordinary factional con-
test. The big bosses who control the
national committee represent not
merely the led captains Of mercenary
politics but the great crooked fnan-
ciers who stand behind these led
captains. These political bosses are
obnoxious in themselves, but they are
even more obnoxious because they
represent privilege in its most sordid
and dangerous form.
The majority of the national COM
mttee. in deciding the cases before
them have praeticed political theft in
every form, from highway robbery to
petty larceny and political theft. is as
dishonests as, and more damaging
than ordinary theft. There is no law
To reach the oifenses they have com
/ mitted, but morally these offenses are
far more serious from the standpoint
of the national interest than any Of
the ordinary commercial or political
effenses which expos ethe perpetrators
TO he brought before the courts of
justice. The committeeman RESPONSE
Bile for such action need to be taught
that the national committee was Gre
ated to be the servant and not the
master of the plain men and women
who make UP the bulk of the Republi-
can party. The party belongs to the
millions of the rank and file. 1t does
not belong to the handful of politi-
clans who have assumed fraudulentlv
10 upesta the will of the rank and
file.
One thousand and seventy-eight men
are TO meet her in convention to de.
eide the future Of the Rpublcan party
At least seven out of eight Of these
, among them who really represent the