The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-06-11
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Some of the penny -dreadfuls have
been having another attack OF snakes.
and are again featuring chow Teddy
elected Wilson as president" If he did,
II was better than to let the Chicago
convention go unrebuked. But he didn't
do it 1t was the pin headed bull
ed Taft ring, that would rather nomi-
nate Taft and lose than Roosevelt and
win. The people wanted Roosevelt. not
Taft. OF all the idiotic things a great
party ever did. his denomination was
the worst. To try to charge the result
of this idiocy on the majority who
could not endorse 1t, is simple minded.
And Roosevelt couldn't have made or
coaxed that majority to vote for Taft,
anyhow; it would have been two mil
lion more votes for Wilson. Rchfeld
Recorder.
The Recorder may not be correct In
all of its conclusions. but that 1t tells
more truth than fiction there is no
doubt. One contributing cause to the
division was that two fractional leaders
placed their own selfish ambitions above
the best interests of the party and
the country and the result was that the
people who were not responsible for 1t,
They should both have stepped aside
for some one who could have held the
party together. II could have been
done had the two principals desired ii.
and therein lies the offense. And yet
some people are so leather headed that
they cannot see, or will not admit that
the principles of the republican party
were not involved In this controversy
all h,,t tlat l,,..
the dictatorship of the corrupt element
which insisted upon manipulating the
great body of voters who believed in
the republican principles and using
them for their own selfish purposes.
going so far as to even steal the nomi
nation for their presidential candidate.
One of the greatest obstacles now
standing In the way Of reuniting the
party Is that while the sane and sensi-
BILE leaders of the progressive repuDli-
can element are doing all In their pow
or to bring the two elements together,
these bigoted, party pharisees wrap them
selves In their righteousness and par
ade the public places as the simon pure
and only true brand of republicanism
They intimate. and even assert at
times. that those who would not swal-
low tart on stolen nomination were
less honorable than those who register
ed their protest against the open thiev-
cry OF the Chicago convention, by vot-
Ing for Roosevelt, even though recog-
MIXING his selfish act. If all that was
left OF the republican party was that
corporals guard Of "slmon- pure" Taft
ties II wouldn't be worth the saving,
but. thank the Lord. that isn't all there
Is OF It. There are tens of thousands
of independent progressive republican
voters. who believe with all their hearts
in the principles upon which that party
Is founded. and at the same time are
bitterly opposed to thievery and Chi
canery within the party. and stand
ready to oppose and denounce them.
They are "the salt of the EARTH and
would save both the sandpatters and
bullmoosers from themselves and make
good upright sensible citizens of them
and preserve the republican party In
its purity to the nation, which at this
time sorely needs 1t. win you not lend
a hand to this great and desirable end,
Bro. Standpatter. and Bro. Bullmooser
and cease your senseless wrangling and
sparring over minor differences?