The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-07-16
WILL THE PEOPLE
STAND FOR OLD
PARTY FRAmEuP
No Promise of Relief from Present
Conditions Seen in Either Demo-
cratic or Republican Parties.
If People Want Cleanup. They
Must act at once and
Deliberately

MUST act at once and
Deliberately
If there is any skepticism nreyaa
ing regarding the sinister influences
that dominated the republican and
democratic conventions. the follow
ing article from Henry Ford's Dear
born Independent should relieve
those skeptics of the impression that
American politics have been con-
Quoted on the basis of the greatest
good for the republic. But we sup
pose that even Ford shall soon be
branded as "Bolshevik, 81. W.
W. or "Radical." and the uninform-
ed public will again swallow the
bait. But surely the people will not
be so foolish as to tolerate such pro-
cedure for any length of time, and
for that reason we believe that men
Of the Henry Ford calibre will, with
in few years, prove to the world
the validity of their prophecies. The
article we print below is from the
advance sheet of the Independent. OF
the issue of July II.
Disappointed by the utter alb
sence of public spirit and responsi-
bility in the national conventions
of the republican and democratic
parties, the independent American
people have succumbed to a sense
of deep disgust for partisan politics
in general. This is most whole
some reaction and ii would promise
we'll for the nation, were there not
apathy.
The politicians count more conf
IDENTIFY than the people realize on
that interval of time which stretches
between the summer conventions
and the November election II the
election were to be held today, and
If the law required half the number
of votes to be cast as were cast al
the last presidential election before
candidate could be chosen, there
would not be enough votes cast to-
day to elect either of the candidates
to the Office for which the parties
! have chosen them
The republican covention was op-
emily and shamelessly dominated by
the financial representatives of thu
powers that pull governmental in
fluences like strings. The party.
own methods were clogged and soil
ed with shameless money scandals.
Progressivism and clean republican
ism were snubbed, insulted and
| crushed at every turn. The dele
gates were euchred. wearied. driv-
en- and deceived And the candidate
who emerged from this chaos was
even more colorless than the repub-
lican platform. if anything more
colorless can be conceived
The democratic convention was, III
anything, degree worse. because
there was an attempt made at San
Francisco which had no parallel at
Chicago-the convention was at
least given a flaming opportunity
to declare it's adherence to the NOR
al advance made by the American
people with regard to the liquor
traffic. But the hand of the de
funct and disgraceful whisky bus-
ness was heavy upon the men who
controlled that convention. Paid
agents, who were both public offici
ais and private retainers, We're in
evidence everywhere. There was no
question, not even the League of
Nations, which received the slavish
attention which booze received. The
whole convention resembled more s
chang over from the saloon regime
than a gathering of American citi-
zens selected to formulate policies
for the solution of the problems
which harass the nation and the
world And candidate. as un
known and as amenable to control
as the republican candidate, was
put forth for the high office Of presi-
dent.
The defeat of McAdoo and the de-
feat of the movement to insert a
wet plank in the PLATFORM were the
. two strong actions of the demo-
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