The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1914-10-21

business affairs-except when some OF
us vote, then some of US leave our
common sense at home with our wives
before going to the polls and play our
old part of rubber stamp for the
political machine which controls US
through our partisanship and we vote
her straight
What Prospects Would Do.
LET me ask you this. II we had the
common sense ways OF the Germans
and French in making our tariff what
would be the possibilities OF prosperity
in this great, young and wealthy ma
ton? It is beyond our comprehension.
well our party stands for this kind
OF q tariff system and this kind Of
prosperity. What are you voters going
to do about It,
"You can't look to the two old
parties to provide this kind Of a tariff
making system. The question is too
useful to them as political issue.
Representative Murdock, the Progress
i've leader in congress recently pre-
sented a bill for tariff commission
patterned after the German plan, but
the Republicans joined with the Demo-
Gratis and refused to permit a vote on
tho measure"
Same Old Mob Rules.
NAA. o0ScAAuSS u oaely AAAubcO IA0
crowd with his description of the
Dear Friend" letters recently sent out
to Progressives all over the state by
the Republican state central commit
tee in which the declaration was made
that the party had purged itself and
now stood absolutely renovated and
ready to greet its former members
who had wandered away and forgive
them"
He declared the Republican party
from coast to coast was still In the
hands Of the same old mob who scut-
tied the ship two years ago and he
called them off, state by state, his sar-
castle descriptions of them bringing
out round after round Of applause.
He urged the voters to vote for the
calling of constitutional convention
and he told the crowd that the leaders
Of both old parties were industriously
trying to confuse the people into be-
ed United States senators. He read
two newspapers, one a Republican pub
lished in Evansville. ard the other
Democratic, published at Lebanon, in
which this assertion was made.
Tomorrow Mr.. TagEart takes the
stump to begin his campaign for the
senate two years hence. If Roger Sui
livan Is the Democratic nominee for
senator now, why should not Mr.. Tag
gart be then? And it is more honest
! and fortnight for the machine to elect
the man who gives orders rather than
to elect a man who takes ORDERS" Mr.
Beveridge said.
But even if Mr.. Taggart does not
intend to make himself the Demo-
! cratic candidate for senator, even if he
to Oh ale ho
| Democratic candidate for senator two
years from now, still. it is a brave
thing for him to take the stump for the
machine state, congressional and SEN
| atorial candidates. For they are his
men and he can speak for them better
than they can speak for themselves.
Even Governor Ralston, by far his
| strongest man, has not been able to
stem the tide. And Mr.. Taggart is
called to the rescue.
"Mr. Taggart and the machine want
Senator Shively and the Democratic
congressman elected because they will
control most of the federal patronage
in the interest of the machine.
Everybody in Indiana knows that
Senator Shively obeyed the machine q
demands when he forced that model
officer, United States Marshal
Schmidt, out of office and forced the
appointment Of Mark Storen, who is a
cog in the Taggart-Fairbanks machine
in Mr.. Schmidt's place. This example
Of the misuse of patronage for ma.
chine purposes was SO great that 1t
shocked all good men Of all parties
i And it is only a conspicuous example
J., of what is going on all the time and
of what Mr.. Taggart proposes to con
tinue in the future.
THAT is why he takes tho stump
himself for the machine congressman
and for Shively the Taggart-Fairbanks
machine candidate for the senate, and
that Is the only reason.
1T is not because Mr. Shively has
voted for the administrator bills
because Mr.. Taggart knows what
everybody in Indiana knows that Mr.
Shively would have voted for any bills
that Mr. Clark might have asked him
to vote for If Mr.. Clark had been presi