{"id":4609,"date":"2022-04-21T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2022-04-21T21:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T04:07:27","slug":"op-ed-politics-never-changes-or-has-that-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2022\/04\/21\/op-ed-politics-never-changes-or-has-that-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed, Politics Never Changes OR Has that Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>(Kirk Callan Smith)<\/pre>\n<p>PLACERVILLE, Calif. \u2014 My great grandfather was the publisher of the PLACERVILLE REPUBLICAN\u00a0more than a century ago and true to his political faith, supported the presidential candidate of his party in 1912, Howard Taft.<\/p>\n<p>His paper carried front page editorials masquerading articles <em>[hmm, just like now]<\/em> denouncing Republican turncoat Teddy Roosevelt such as one that reported rumors that \u201cRoosevelt Would Spend $1 Million To Be Elected President.\u201d <em>[So much for inflation.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But as soon as the election was over, his editorial on the front page declared that this Wilson chap was decent enough, let\u2019s give him a try.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the way it has been throughout our history &#8212; except for the past election &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/the-public-domain-review.imgix.net\/collections\/yellow-journalism-the-fake-news-of-the-19th-century\/32988835176_b9231af675_b.jpg?w=600\" width=\"600\" height=\"655\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">ABOVE IMAGE- Print shows a bespectacled man wearing a top hat and over coat, holding a book titled &#8220;Old Sleuth the Detective&#8221;, standing on the street where young children are reading the newspapers labeled &#8220;Daily Scandal Monger&#8221;, &#8220;Morning Cyclone of Crime&#8221;, &#8220;Daily Rot, Daily Scooper, [and] Morning Scavenger&#8221;, and newsstands are labeled &#8220;All the Sensation Papers&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Fail to Buy the Sunday Slop Bucket&#8221;, with headlines such as &#8220;How to Poison a Whole City&#8221;, &#8220;Murder&#8221;, and &#8220;Crime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ehrhart, S. 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