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Show 1 EXPLANATIONS; ARE IN ORDER. '" . j Now for a period of explaining, by the papers devoted to the I cause of the reactionaries, why the Chicago convention was a farce, ' j The San Francisco Chronicle is Ihe first to .essay the task and one of . ' its explanations is that "the mob'' was in evidence. j Db you observe with what contempt the reactionaries look upon ; J the plain people? When public sentiment runs contrary to the acts f J of the Standpatters, that judgment is spoken of as the utterance of . "the mob.'J The people are "the mob;" the Standpatters are the j j: j elect, according to the men whovire back of Taft, and yet this fall these same contemners of the people will be appealing for the votes J I of the mob on the ground that in their platform they state that they fjB favor-a-government of the people, for the people, by the people IJ the 'Chronicle praises the convention, because "it shut off the If demagogic assaults- upon American" institutions."' The very worst as- H sanlt! ever perpetrated upon our institutions was tire action of the M Republican National Committee in so prostituting a great party that II the will of the voters was defeated and popular government made a m sham. , Strange that these. assaults referred to "as demagogic qi-c overwhelmingly over-whelmingly accepted by the citizens of the country! Do we understand under-stand the Chronicle to' be possessed of a -.mind so keenly discerning I and discriminating that the .itrdgment of its editor is superior to that Of the mass of the people,- so much so that what the average citizen accepts as tending toward a purification and a driving out of rascal- u ity in polities is to be treated as demagog'uery by its wise one? II We always have held to the opinion that the people as a whole B are nearer- right than any one man, and we know the judgment of B j the majority invariably is moire trustworthy than the utterance? of B , . those who, serving MammOn, are laboring, to deceive the people. Why should any one praise the work of the 'Chicago convention B unless he is opposed to popular government? The majority of the K ' . Convention, aVmade up by the national committee, represented not M one sentiment drawn from the groat body of the citizens of this coun- . try. There were not more than thirty delegates in-(hat majority vote B ' B k HBHtv rc v ! rot dm that had a direct message to convey from the people; nearly one-half of the Taft vote was from states where Republican primary elections are scandalously corrupt and no thought of principle is even remotely involved; three-fourths of the vote represented less of public pub-lic interest than did the Utah delegates, with the exception of Loose, and that is almost the limit of ignbrement. . If the men who dominated the Republican convenHpn are to be the exponents of popular government, then the government established estab-lished by the Thirteen Colonies is lb perish from the earth and in its place we arc to have a government' of special privileges, for the very rich, by the vulgar and mercenary. |