The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-25
ELECTION
SLDELIGHTS
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY

AS these lines are written, the Tam
many Tiger is getting ready to boggi4
up the Democratic donkey. / do not
know in what light food faddist
would regard jackass as an article
or diet but it is obvious that Tam
many is prepared to take the beast
into its seasoned tummy with every
prospect of survival without having
recourse to Americas national medi-
cine, advertised on the nations bill
boards.
Radio announcers are informing an
interested populace that the Smith
managers are willing to give native
sons and favorite sons chance to
break into the headlines before the
striped beast of New York's political
jungles decides lunch time cannot be
postponed any longer. And if the
favorite sons have any ideas to in
corporate in the jackass platform
they can wiggle their ears and bray.
They may get in unless the great
god who runs both capitalist parties
DEGREES otherwise.
Did anybody hear of McAdoo, VIII
sons Crown Prince, since the bally-
hoo for the Houston convention got
going? William Gibbs who had his
name written on every treasury note
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vertising one should judge - is all
wrapped up in his night shirt and
pillow case and no Kluxor is mean
enough to do him the honor of men
tioning his name. Jim Reed of Mis-
souri, is playing the role of the last :
of the Democratic Monicans to sound
the tocsin of war against that CAPT
talist by-product, corruption, but the
odor from Teapot Dome and the New
York Sewer Scandals has evidently
plugged the olfactory organs of the
fellows who fill the columns of the
employers press for the edification
of the voting populace.
The New York World no longer
beats about 'the traditional corrup-
ton of Tammany Hail. Tammany
used to be crude in its methods but
it has seen the light and learned front
it's betters. An Alfred has come to
Judgment. Smith may be blocked on
his way to the White House by the
boys from the prairies who hate in
corporated breweries and the self
styled prisoner on the Tiber, but since
]. P. Morgan is the financial agent
in the United States for the papacy,
the catholic church, as the most pow
erful bulwark of capitalism, will lose
less by having believer go down in
defeat than by losing a nomination.
Better to have run and lost than not
have run at all.
The average person" is deeply in
terested in the farce that is about to
be staged at Houston. His way OF
arriving at conclusions is interesting.
One would be justified in thinking
that workers would have learned with
in the last ten years that American
capitalism functions through both pet
parties and that it will not turn down
chance at making profit, no mat
ter which set of confidence men win.
Yet one hears workers talking OF
Al, the boy who rose from the bot
tom. And others with a less emo
tional makeup sing the praises of
Hoover, the efficiency man who will
make two dollars out of one after he
| is elected.
The Socialist Party, through its
spokesman, the Reverend DR.. Nor
man Thomas, walls like an alley cat
because of the corruption of both par
ties and suggests that his party alone
would give a fumigated administra-
ton to the country. There is no
doubt of the willingness of the SIP.
to serve the capitalist system as 10y
ally as their contemporaries in Ger
many are doing it today and Ram
sey Macdonald did it in England,
starting with the putting across Of
the Dawes Plan on Germany and end
ing when the British rulers did not
need the renegades any more to fool
the workers. But Thomas hasn't got
a chance. Wall Street does not yet
need Ramsey Macdonald
The Workers Communist Party
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