OCR Text |
Show THE PRESIDENT'S ENEMIES. We have a Democratic contemporary which is most bitter upon President Roosevelt. It copies from a Washington correspondent pf the Boston Herald, an indictment of the President that contains con-tains more counts than can be found against George III in that somewhat famous instrument known as the Declaration of Independence. Among these are the following: 1. He is lawless and arbitrary. . -He is as blind a partisan ns Andrew Jackson Jack-son turned out to be, wlthbut Johnson's respect re-spect for the Constitution. 3. He uses the advantage of his relations with the Senate obligarcy above the welfare of his country and above the welfare of his party. 4. His disposition is to run riot, etc. 6. He places his party above the country and his will above the party and the law. 6. -Ho shows his lofty conception of his own power by his anger toward Justice Holmes for refusing to join the Roosevelt view pf the Merger case. 7.- He shows his irresponsible power by his appointments to office, as in the case of Dr. Wood. 8, Ho is both a trust buster by pretense and a friend of the trusts in reality. 9. Ho is a spoilsman. 10. -He Is a promoter of war. He lacks personal per-sonal dignity and he Inflicts comic royalty at the White House on the people of the United States. Finally he is the most unpopular President that Washington has ever seen. That sounds portentous, does it not? "Lawless "Law-less and arbitrary." What law has he trampled on or defied? He has a will of his own, sure enough, but who has suffered through any arbitrary act of his? "As blind a partisan as Andrew Johnson." If ur memory does not run astray Andrew Johnson Wis not famous as a partisan, but as one who belayed be-layed his party. As to the .third count, how can such a man have advantages in his relations with the Senates Sen-ates Is the whole Senate corrupt? Then in what way has he trenched upon the welfare of either his party or country? Both seem to be In pretty good form. As to his disposition to run riot, in what way has he shown it? What proof is there of the truth of thenext charge that he holds his party above the country or himself above his party? What proof is there that he was angry at Justice Jus-tice Holmes? Why should he not be just as angry at the other two Democratic Justices who dissented dissent-ed from the opinion of the majority in the Merger case? And how did any one of the Justices know what the 'Roosevelt opinion was in that case? As to the case of Dr. Wood, General Wood received re-ceived all his earlier promotions .from President McKinley. Several of the older officers of the army were retired because of age limit. The President sont In new names to fill the vacancies precisely according to rank, or rather the Secretary Secre-tary of War did, and General Wood's name was Included. It was a matter in which President Roosevelt- really had nothing ta dp, except to endorse en-dorse the papers. As to trusts, what other President has done aught to restrain them? Then, if the President is a spoilsman, why does net this great correspondent correspond-ent name some case in which he has been involved? in-volved? As to "promoting war," what special war has he promoted? The truth in this" cUse 'can, we think, be reached by a very brief ex.pJan.aUon. Away back in 1872 a little bunch of newspaper that had been Republican sloughed off and supported Greeley.. They did not like President Grant. Their defeat that year only intensified their bitterness, and they have ever since played "the holier than thou" roll. Among those journals were the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, the Boston Herald Her-ald and later Harper's Weekly. They haye represented repre-sented the Carl Schurz and Wayne McVeigh class, and certain New England University pro-fessors, pro-fessors, etc. They have always been the off oxen in politics. They haye scrupled at no falsehood, have suppressed no slander, have seemed to have but one motto, and that has been "anything to beat the Republican party." They are lying now about Roosevelt, just as of old they lied about Grant and Blaine and plenty of others. Now, Mr. Morgan owns Harper's Weekly, and it is a guide for the others. The rich syndicates, headed by Mr. Morgan, want the President defeated, de-feated, because they cannot use him. Hence they have set their hounds baying on his track. That is the whole secret. It is not a case of the woods being filled with wolves, A few coyotes are making mak-ing all the clamor. In the meantime the masses are with. the President Pres-ident and he will be nominated by acclamation. That fact shows how unpopular he is, how lawless he must be, how he disregards the laws and likes to make war. His election is just about as certain cer-tain as is his nomination. |