The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-06-28


Roosevelt party, and makes the state
'hent that man who leaves the re-
publican party has the moral right IN
vote the republican ticket at the nri-
maries. BY the same process of rea-
soning democrat has the "mora,
right to vote the republican ticket at
the primaries. But nothing moro can
be expected of the Rooseveltian "mor-
al obligation" and square deal" Mr.
Dewey is unfit to represent any con-
stituency when he advocates politicol
deceit deception and dishonesty.
Roosevelt and his followers have
said much of steam roller" methods
me memory of man is treacherous
only four years ago Roosevelt was
the engineer in charge of the steam
roller IN convention of hand picked"
Office holders. picked at his dictation
and no driver was ever more merci-
less and relentless in fiattening ont
opposition.
What a singular position the Spo-
kane Spokesman must hold in the esti-
nation of honorable, thinking people.
After advocating the denomination of
President Taft for months it swings
to the support of Roosevelt. Taft. nor
the conditions of his administration,
has not changed within that time, it
is the Spokesman that never can stay
put that has changed No one can
guess where the Spokesman will be
politically from one month to another.
and how such n weathercOck can COM
mand any influence surpasses all un-
Outstanding.
The Roosevelt supporters in this
state have persistently and Insistantly
claimed that where primaries were
held in Washington to elect delegates
to the state convention a vast MAORI
ty of the republicans supported the
Roosevelt delegates. Probably no such
untenable claim was ever before set
up in argument to bolster any cause.
Primaries We're held in only few
counties. In Seattle no more than
some 5000 votes were polled. The
bulk of these were for Roosevelt. and
it was all that could be induced to go
to the polls by the most persistent ef-
forts on the part of the Roosevelt COM
mitteemen. Does any one for mo-
ment claim that these 8 900 votes rep
resent vast majority of the republic
can voters of Seattle, with women eX-
ercising the right of franchise? II so
then the party has lost tremendous
following in that city. The fact is
that there are 10000 or GO, 1000 republic
can voters in Seattle. Is II fair to
say that ne-seventh of this total rep
resents the political preference of the
other siX-Sevcnths. In Spokane only
5000 or 1000 republican voters partic-
ipated in the primary election If that
is all the republican voters in that city
tutU tUe newspapers VI opOhuuV uiuot
admit that the population of that city
has fallen off from One-third to one
hall since the last election. The same
propOrtiOnately light vote was pOllcd
wherever primaries were held. Hardly
above Ono-fifth of the normal republic
can vote was pOlled. Is it not the
heighth of mendacity to claim that
the greater portion of the other four
ffths of the republican voters favor
Roosevelt? But this is only on par
with the ROOseveltian argument ev-
erywhere. If Roosevelt runs for pres
ident and receives no more votes than
were pOlled for him in the several
states that he did carry, or claims to
have carried, he will run second only
to the prohibition candidate for pres
ident IL the people are to accept all
the claims put forth by the Roosevelt
followers then it must be admitted
that the average man is easily gulled.