Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-10-29

GAOkACooANS ReAey Wes0
Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson as
its standard bearers. Mr.. Taft
was then sitting President, and
in command of his party. He
had both houses of congress, the
supreme court, every northern
state of consequence, his cabinet,
the White House, and in fact
every branch of our government
in his command in November,
1912. All of which he inherited
from Mr.. Roosevelt when he ran
on Roosevelt's record and was
elected in 1908.
Mr.. Roosevelt was then only a
private citizen, as he is now.
However, he was 4 candidate for
president, running on his own
previous record and at the head
of a newly organized party, but
upon the greatest and most hui
name platform ever written BY
any party and offered to the
American people. Mr.. Taft was
running this time, however, on
his own record and achievements
at the head of 4 party of fifty
years of almost uninterrupted
power, with such names as
Lincoln, Garfield, and Mckinley
to give it prominence and infiu-
ence, with most of the press OF
the nation, and the Republican
machine with unlimited money
at his back.
In ninety days from the birth
of the Progressive party there
was experienced the greatest po-
litical struggle the world has
ever known. and what do we
find? Something over three mil
lion votes for Mr.. Taft, with on
ly eight electoral votes in the
college, and four of these votes
came from the blue fronted Yam
KEGS of Vermont, while the other
four came from the Mormon
church of Utah. The Progress
sive party, founded on the very
principals of humanity, with raw
recruits, green; unframed, con-
fused, even fighting through the
courts of numbers of states to
get on the ballot, fighting the
old trained political crooks, and
in ninety days we have nearly
FIVE million volunteer soldiers ID
our ranks, with SO, or clever
times as many votes in the cleo
toral college as the remnants Of
the Republican party was able to
win. It was the most stupendou:
political victory ever won by any
party. And why? Because oil
the unfair, crooked rottenness Of
the Republican party which was
at last caught with the goods
while in the very act of theft Al
Chicago.
They are as unreliable and rot:
ten now as they we're then, and
still resort to all sorts of unfair
methods to catch votes.
They are in this very cam
paign making lots of noise about
Progressive legislation enacted
by the Republican party, but
they are too unfair to add that
this Progressive legislation was
enacted BY the Progressives who
left the Republican party be.
cause of their crookedness and
reactionary opposition which
prevented those same Progress
sives from enacting much more
such Progressive legislation.
Mr.. Troutman of Topeka re-
Gently made a speech in Baxter
and in order to catch votes he
told that the price of wheat was
IA cents per bushel less the first
year of Wilson's administration
than it averaged the four years
of Tafts administration. But he
never mentioned the price Of
hogs, corn, hay, cattle. sheep
and many other commodities that
have been higher under the Will
son administration.
Not that we are in sympathy
with the Democratic party do we
mention this, for neither do we
see any means of relief from
them, but it shows the old tricks
the Republicans are still trying
to blind and fool the people in
order to catch votes.
When a Democrat makes .
speach he tells what wonderful
prosperous help the free trade
and income far and other Demo-