Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-11-05
THE PRESIDENT IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR APPOINTMENTS.

No man, republican or democrat,
is fit for president of the United
st ties, who holds in contempt, or who
disregards, the expressed will or
wishes of al! the people in so impor-
tant and vital business as a post
office. Woodrow Wilson has built up
the most vicious and most damnable
patronage machine attempted by any
national political party since the or
ganization of this government. He
has, as president, ignored the people,
going over their heads, and over the
heads of the democratic county organ
.atio1s, and in the hands of few
henchmen placed the power of patron
age, making it possible for this pat
ronage machine, existing because
Woodrow Wilson created it, to name,
however Objectionable to the rank Of
his party, every post master in the
state. In Idaho National Democratic
Committeeman Elder of Occur d.
Alene City is absolute. His endorse
ment is always confirmed by Presi
ucil w OOuIOW w iioOn.
Experience has shown how powerful
this patronage machine is, and how
utterly needless it is for the rank and
file of the democratic party to protest.
No other president has dared to so
insult American citizen. And if
! American citizens thus insulted do
not register protest at the coming
election this paper misses its predic-
tion.
Woodrow Wilson is always prating
about the common people and popular
liberty, and ''Let the People Rule, "
and such slush, and in practice he
says: 1.-THE People Be Damned
In theory Woodrow Wilson Is a
ser ant of the people; in practice he
is monarch. He has no respect for
public right or popular desires. He
apparently holds in contempt the most
cherished privileges. yea, rights, of
the people. And the people will not
tolerate it.
When 95 per cent. of the patrons of
the Orofino post Office protested again
st the appointment of P. H. Blake
for post master, no president worthy
so exalted a position of trust and
responsibility would throw an insult
in their faces by forcing the candidate
of democratic patronage machine
gang down the peoples throats. Yet
Woodrow Wilson did it. And he has
done it repeatedly throughout Idaho,
and the same vicious and un-Americar
system has been forced upon the citi-
zens of every state in the Union by
Woodrow Wilson. His patronage
machine is supreme. The people be
damned.
In humiliation and shame have dem.
ocratic citizens tried to find some ex.
cuse for their president. They have
pointed out that 1.-The president
doesn't know about these things; that
protests never reach the president. -
Yes, but why don't they? Because
Woodrow Wilson has placed himel1
beyond the reach of the great masses
who elected him. Woodrow Wilson,
as president, has willed the distribu-
tion of patronage. including post
offices, to a political patronage ma
chine of his own creation, in Idaho,
headed by Democratic National Com
mitteeman Elder, and represented in
Clearwater county, not by democrats,
not by the democratic county organiza-
ton, but by discredited remnant of
a disgraced gang that had been repu-
dated by the democrats of Clearwater
county when Woodrow Wilson appoin-
ted Mr.. Blake post master at Orofino
over the protest of practically all the
patrons of the office.
If these things exit; if one man. a
national committeeman, living in the
re note northern part of Idaho, can
dictate to the entire democratic organ
ization in Clearwater or Latah or
Idaho or any other county in the state,
It is so because President Wilson per-
mits it to be SO, and President Wilson
is responsible and must be held ac-
countable