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VOL. X Oct. 4, 1912" | No. 40 
The Race for Governor. 
After the results of the primaries, 
the supporters of the Republican, 
Democratic and Progressive candi- 
dates are sounding the strength of 
their individual forces and laying 
their campaign plans accordingly. 
With a three-cornered fight this 
year, a great deal more work by 
the various parties is demanded, be- 
cause of the entranee of Charles S. 
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Bird, admittedly one of the strong- 
est men which the Bull Moose con- 
tingent could nominate, and the 
strong following which Governor 
Foss has throughout the State. 
District Attorney Pellitier met a 
sad finish to his political career, and 
although not perhaps discredited as 
one of the leaders of the Democratic 
party, will simply be the recipient 
of the ‘‘consolation prizes’’ of the 
party under whose flag he serves. 
Hon. Joseph Walker, the Republi- 
can nominee, is an excellent selec- 
tion of the stand-patters, and it 
would be hard to find a man who is 
better fitted by experience and ex- 
ecutive ability than he. The election 
as Governor of Massachusetts has 
long been his ambition and his en- 
tire training in public life has been 
preparatory to service in that high 
office. He will undoubtedly have a 
hard battle to secure the election 
with Foss and Bird in the field, but 
his cduse is not hopeless by any 
means. 
There are a certain number of 
votes that Governor Foss is bound 
to command, although the latter’s 
connection with labor problems which 
have come up in his administration 
are apt to be used as weapons by his 
opponents. With his determination 
Is This the American Idea of a Square 
Deal or Are Some of Our 
People Mad? 
(From the Oroville, Wash., Gazette) 
Taft said in his Winona speech that 
the Payne-Aldrich tariff was the best 
ever, and was damned for it. 
Roosevelt said in a signed article in 
The Outlook that the Payne- Aldrich 
tariff was better than any of its pre- 
decessors, and was applauded as an 
authority. 
‘Vaft prosecuted the trusts and was 
branded as a fool politician and a tool 
of the interests. 
Roosevelt exonerated Paul Morton, a 
self-confessed rebater and violator of 
the Sherman anti-trust law, and he 
‘stopped the prosecution of the Har- 
vester Trust, and for these things he 
was acclaimed as a friend of the peo- 
ple and their one great savior from 
the designs of the money power. 
Taft initiated, secured and consist- 
ently defended the Canadian recipro- 
city treaty and was repudiated by the 
farmers of the country as a conse- 
quence. 
Roosevelt at first approved and ad- 
vocated the treaty, praised Taft for 
securing its passage, then, a little later, 
denounced it and made it an issue 
against the President in his precon- 
vention campaign. For this he was 
given increased devotion. 
Taft carefully examined the records 
in the Lorimer case, asked several 
senators to do likewise, urged Roose- 
velt to help rid the Senate of Lorimer, 
and for his pains he was branded as a 
supporter of Lorimer before the con- 
vention and then rebuked by the Sen- 
ate for endeavoring to have the Illinois 
senator unseated. He is considered to 
have been weakly, pusillanimously and 
ignominiously wrong throughout. 
Before examining the record Roose- 
velt dramatically refused te sit at a 
banquet with Lorimer, agreed with the 
President to help unseat him; then de- 
nounced the President as a friend of 
Lorimer, and when Lorimer was ex- 
’ pelled from the Senate, glorified in the 
fallen reputation like an executioner 
over the dead body of a victim, shout- 
ing without rhyme or reason, ‘‘I did 
it, it was my fight and I won.’’ For 
which he is forever immortalized in 
the minds of his countrymen. 
Taft secured the corporation tax 
law, the maximum and minimum tariff 
provisions in the Payne-Aldrich tariff 
law, the tariff board and the publica- 
tion of campaign contributions law, 
and was denounced as a friend of pri- 
vilege and subservient to the bosses. 
For seven years Roosevelt dodged 
the tariff, ridiculed Bryan’s demand 
for the publication of campaign con- 
tributions, then later praised the pres- 
ent tariff law and the tariff board as 
the only proper solution of the tariff 
problem, and is hailed as the enemy of 
privilege and the one champion of the 
people as against the bosses. 
As Secretary of War, Mr. Taft went 
into Oklahoma at the request of Mr. 
Roosevelt and pleaded with the people 
to reject a constitution that provided 
for the initiative, referendum and the 
recall as subversive of representative 
government. As President he vetoed 
the Arizona statehood bill on the same 
grounds. For this people say that he 
betrayed Roosevelt and Roosevelt poli- 
to again seek the chair on Beacon 
Hill, the situation becomes serious 
for the other candidates. 
There are many workers among 
Mr. Bird’s personal friends, and 
this, combined with his business 
ability, may poll him many vores. 
But his platform is not one whieh 
should attract many voters to the 
folds of the Progressive party in 
this state. Mr. Bird’s enthusiasin 
is needed many fold to gain him the ~ 
election, but he is expected by his 
backers to make a strong fight for 
the Governor’s seat. 
‘“The executive council is obsolete 
and should be abolished,’’ said Gov- 
ernor Foss to a_ party of Essex 
County Democrats last week. He 
probably thinks that the council is 
obsolete because there is but one 
Democrat in the council, and that 
many of the measures he would like 
to push through the council receive 
but scant attention from that body.- 
It ‘‘sure is going some’’ when the 
various ‘‘peace sessions’’ in progress 
during the past few days broke up 
in rows. The Geneva delegates, 
however, have two years in which 
to cool, for they have decided to 
meet next in 1914. 
cies and has changed from what Roose- 
velt thought he was to some monstrous 
sort, of being. 
Roosevelt sent Taft to Oklahoma to 
denounce direct legislation and said 
that what he thought about the con- 
stitution that contained provisions of 
that kind wasn’t fit to print. He ridi-~ 
culed Bryan’s slogan of ‘‘Let the peo- 
ple rule.’’ Later he went into Arizona 
and opposed the recall of judges, and 
a few days afterward in California 
approved the same provision. Then in 
his Columbus speech went further and 
demanded the recall of judicial decis- 
ions and adopted Bryan’s former plank 
of ‘‘Let the people rule.’’ Now peo- 
ple say that Roosevelt hasn’t changed, 
but that it is Taft who has changed 
and that is why Roosevelt is fighting 
him and why he ought to fight him. 
Taft changed a big deficit in the Na- 
tional Treasury to a surplus in three 
years, lifted the postal department out 
of debt for the first time in years, and 
secured the establishment of postal 
savings banks, and is branded as an 
incapable Executive. 
Roosevelt plunged the country into 
debt, the deficit growing larger each 
year, failed to improve the postal ser- 
vice or secure postal savings banks in 
seven years, and is acclaimed the great- 
est Executive in the history of the 
country. 
Taft preached against war and nego- 
tiated peace treaties and is regarded as 
an inhuman monster. 
Roosevelt has glorified war and op- 
posed the peace treaties and is looked 
upon as a godlike benefactor of hu- 
manity. 
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