(Kirk Callan Smith)
PLACERVILLE, Calif. — My great grandfather was the publisher of the PLACERVILLE REPUBLICAN more than a century ago and true to his political faith, supported the presidential candidate of his party in 1912, Howard Taft.
His paper carried front page editorials masquerading articles [hmm, just like now] denouncing Republican turncoat Teddy Roosevelt such as one that reported rumors that “Roosevelt Would Spend $1 Million To Be Elected President.” [So much for inflation.]
But as soon as the election was over, his editorial on the front page declared that this Wilson chap was decent enough, let’s give him a try.
And that’s the way it has been throughout our history — except for the past election — your candidate does not prevail, you lick your wounds and recognize that the people decided, we are one country, we supported the one who won.
ABOVE IMAGE- Print shows a bespectacled man wearing a top hat and over coat, holding a book titled “Old Sleuth the Detective”, standing on the street where young children are reading the newspapers labeled “Daily Scandal Monger”, “Morning Cyclone of Crime”, “Daily Rot, Daily Scooper, [and] Morning Scavenger”, and newsstands are labeled “All the Sensation Papers” and “Don’t Fail to Buy the Sunday Slop Bucket”, with headlines such as “How to Poison a Whole City”, “Murder”, and “Crime”.
Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937, artist