Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1914 — PLOT TO KNIFE WILSON. [ARTICLE]

PLOT TO KNIFE WILSON.

Suppose Taggart wins in Indiana; suppose Sullivan wins in Illinois; suppose Murphy wins in New York; suppose the Harmon crowd wins in Ohio— does any sane and reasoning Wilson-Bryan Democrat imagine that the Taggart-Murphy-Harmon delegates to the 19 16 Democratic national convention will be Wilson-Bryan men? 1 hink what those four states, working together, will mean in the national Democratic convention. Add Michigan, under Ferris, and a few others of like note, and it is easy to see that the victory this year of these combined state bosses means in 1916 the overthrow and retirement of Woodrow Wilson by action of the bosses in control of the convention of that year. The plot is now being worked out by the machines in the pivotal states. The bosses today are trying to induce voters to believe that a vote tor the state boss and his machine power is a vote to back up Wilson. The cold truth is that a vote for Taggart in Indiana and a vote for Sullivan in Illinois, the Harmon Ohio crowd and the Murphy crowd in New York, is a vote to strengthen the anti-Wilson conspiracy for 1916. .If the Wilson-Bryan Democrats wish to see the one-term plank enforced by the bosses against Wilson, then the Wilson-Bryan Democrats will vote for the Taggart machine still greater power than it now has. If the anti-machine Democrats wish to destroy the cabal of the crooked bosses against Wilson, then the Wilson-Bryan men will rally as they are doing, to elect the Progressive ticket and to rebuke the machine politicians who would displace Wilson with one of their own favorites.

- /Leading standpat piachine meh are saying that voters ought to vote against a constitutional convention. Ihe standpat platform “favors’’ a constitional convention. Rank and file Republicans actually do want a constitutional convention. Rank and file Republicans naturally resent the public repudiation of their party platform declarations. It is up to Hugh Miller to call to account the standpat machine men who are making a mock and a by-word of Republican integrity and good faith. Is Mr. Miller for a constitutional convention, with the rank and file, or is he with the tsandpat machine and

against carrying out the party platform? Of course Miller can nob be with both sides on this fundamental thing. Of course Mr. Miller can not dodge the issue nor escape from the consequences of the perfidy and dishonor of the standpat machine.