Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1919 — PINCHOT ON G. O. P. BOSSES [ARTICLE]

PINCHOT ON G. O. P. BOSSES

If any further evidence were needed as to the predilections and affiliations of the “bosses” in the Republican party than is supplied by their own records, Gifford Pinchot, progressive Republican and close friend of the late President Roosevelt, supplies it. In a recent speech before the Republican Presidential club at Cambridge, Mass., Pinchot said of. the G. O. P. leaders: “The reactionaries are enemies of the people, for they are owned and controlled by the Special interests which keep the cost of living high and continually drive it higher. Crane, Harding, Watson and their like, and Penrose, the flower of the flock, are the little brothers of the profiteers. They believe in money first and human welfare, if at all, afterward. Without such men as these the great monopolies could never have been formed.” At another point in his speech, Pinchot said: “How far these men have misread the signs of the times is almost incredible. For example, during the sessions of the Republican National Commitee in Chicago last March, the man most discussed as a candidate for the presidency was Jim Watson of a candidate who would be little more acceptable to the average Republican voter than John D. Rockefeller of Penrose himself. I was there, and I know.”