The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-10-24

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to vote for a republican for presi-
dent. This action was so dishonest
ami dishonorable that the New
York World, an independent paper,
in speaking of it, said:
"rweed, the Tammany boss,
who vas convicted of bribing the
New York aldermen, never was
guilty of SO rank q betrayal of the
people"
The idea of the Huron convention
seemed to be that they could COM
pei the republicans to vote for
Roosevelt by denying them the
right to vote for the republican
candidate for president.
Mr.. Roosevelt is no more a republic
an than Mr.. Wilson is. He was a re-
publican just so long as the republican
party kept him in Office but as soon as
the republican party refused him office
he left and denounced it in most bitter
and violent language. When Mr..
Roosevelt was twenty-one years of age,
he was elected TO office by the repub-
lican party and since that time be has
held office, or been a candidate under
the republican party every year of his
life until he went to Africa about three
years ago. During all these years, no
=,
man ever heard him say aught against
the republican party, but as soon as he
was refused a third term by the repub-
lican national convention last June, he
suddenly discovered what a wicked
thing the republican party was and a
few days thereafter, in a public speech
said.
There is not n particle of hope for
social or ecoaomic reform contained i'm
the triumph of either the Democratic
or Republican parties. They serve no
other purpose than that of a screen to
protect crooked politicians and crooked
fiuanciers who rule and nillage with
inipunity.n
And yet, two weeks before he made
this remark Mr.. Roosevelt was moving
heaven and earth to secure the nomi-
nation for president at the hands of the
republican party, Does any one be-
lieve that he would have made this re-
mark if he had secured that nomina-
ton? No. Mr., Roosevelt would have
been singing the praises of the repub-
lican party III as loud a voice as he
now condemns it. Does any one be-
believe that the republican party is
any worse now than 1T was last spring
when MI. Roosevelt was campaigning
from n end of the country to the 9TH
err to secure its endorsement? If the
republican party is bad, who is as much
to blame as the man who not only had
enough influence over the party to OBJ
tain the nomination for governor of
New York; for vice president, and then
president, but who actually dictated to
the party, against its own wishes, who
II should nominate as his successor for
president? The only place we know
of where the republican party erves as
q screen to protect crooked politicians
is in California and South Dakota
where the party machinery is in the
hands of Roosevelt's friends who have
left the party and are using the name
aRepublican Party" to screen their
crooked work. Thanks to the treach-
cry Of the Bull Moose crowd, the re-
pnblicans of this state must choose te-
tween Mr.. Wilson. the democrat, and
Mi. Roosevelt, the bull moose. If there
were no other reasons why we should
vote against Mr.. Roosevelt the fact
that he is willing to be the beneficiary
of the dishonest, d~ishonorable tactics
of the Huron convention, and is viii
ling to obtain votes in this state by de-
ception and false p~retense would be
sufficient, but there are dozens of other
reasons, all equally good, why we
should oppose him. In the first place
we are republicans; we believe in the
party and its continuation. Mr.. Roos