Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-11-16

sweet the of adverSity.'
AS the Democratic party nearly done death by
human slavery by the for monetary imitation and
exponent of great ideas has recently suffered from in
sdous diseases If we would lay bare the of de-
cay we must seize the surgeons scapel and boldly cut to the
To say that the defeat of Hughes due false
on supposedly diseased skin The of defeat
political and not personal and must 90 down to funda-
mentas to get at the true situation
The great republican catacysm of 1912 would have been
ey hG party b naH not Pee the victim Of two great
EAST republcansm the victim of the yeow dog fund"
documentary evidence the case of Barnes VS. Roosevelt
mat system depended upon financial upon
Albany Instead Of visible responsible government through
CHOSEN CHOSEN representatives OF the people we had Plat or
In the West the Republican party was suffering from
the results of unhoy wedock with Molmondom The party
nn nG come to depend upon the Mormon influence to carry rot
in which the Mormon political propaganda is powerful
Of mas light to glory in the fact that in the days
striking hands the Rockies With corrupt political sys-
TEN involving sysemazed prostitution in the of reli
Edmnnds an-poygamy law gave blow to Momondon from
Wheh d can never Edds did precisely ceve
condemn Wilson's surrender of American rights
Panama canal incident down TO and through the European
war well as his deaf the appeals humanity in
Mexico he gained the confidence Of host of people by
t snad to WIN in spite Of ammany corrupt system in
with evil but he could not repeal the surrender to Smoot
As result of the split in 1912 the Republican party was
able to throw off the Barnes regime and to put the party
ganizaon in progressive hands When came how
ever the party was still in the grip of Mormondom
detection in 1912 and whatever the personal element it's
leadership that stand preemineny
for the enancpation of voting machines
put as standing for the purity and preservation of the Amer
lcan home from manifold menaces, and for social justice
When the men and women of the progressive organization
came to consider union with the Republican party Chicago
last June there the ugly visage of Molmondom as per
Sonlhed by Smoot conspicuousy running the republican
Before dealing with some of the inside history Of the
Chicago convention desire aid to full appreciation of
known political writer in his article for the Brooklyn
Eagle includes the following statements to what he
when great party permits Mormon dictate its
treatment OF women in this country its time for humiliation
ana ieeaI mas arrived What possible respect Nor
man have for women?
o. IF the exultant triumphant, women of the United
tam testimony before the United States Senate committee
ha6 investigated the moral status of Senator-eect Reed
oated IN the Congressional Record and other believers in
lion constituents who would be made ashamed for following
A cbcaso f6 o9 G he SNGSh s Of H.
Smoot whose record is to any citizen who will in
close postage to the clerk of the folding room Capitol
This not Mohammedan nation, and party that under
taxes to stand for Mormon leader ought to down dis
Mr. Chambers has not told the whole story however,
Smoot was not only opposed to the progressive champion
ship OF Womanhood but also to whatever of progressive spirit
Mr. Hughes represented Before the convention met Snoot
started in to unsea Hughes delegates was deferred by
cartoons in the Chcago papers showing smoot revng the
Smoq Joined with other "old Guard leaders in discredit-
me clam mat the kepuDncln
holding out until the against Hughes and seeking
to force the nomination of some Of their stamp
When the progressive convention asked the republican
convention to Join in committee of conference to get to-
gether Smoot opposed the plan and until Mass
achSetts had threatened to appeal to the convention as
Whole dld the Molmon-reactiOnary combine yield.
When the republican committee of conference was an
pointed who should head spokesman and visible head
bu Soot another challenge to the progreSSves. When
ator Lodge read the republican suffrage plank viz
tuay leaving the matter where it with the States was
guilty of trick Is it any wonder that the progressive West
ana especially the women believed the Republican party was
sun is
hen instead of trying to effect real union Of the par
ties the party that in 1912 had cast 3l00000 round
numbers asked the party that had 100000 votes to
surrender everything. 1t is evident that the repb-
cans could have brought themselves the nominate of
Johnson OF California vice-president for example with
Hughes, there would have been nothing to it."
After all that happened in Chicago the Of the re-
dictionary republicans of California in keeping Hughes and
Johnson apart and the betting Wall Street Hughes
simply confirmed the impression in the West that the Repul
lcan party had not really become progressive though
had nominated Hughes the original progressive governor of
the East 10 these factors should be added prosperity
from and the rural credit system appealing to western
farmers especially
The women have defeated Senator Sutherland the least
Objectionable of the two Mormon United States senator's