Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-05-16 | Page 6 | Roosevelt, Big Boss

ROOSEVELT, BIG BOSS. Col. Roosevelt, iu his appeals to tho people everywhere, is voluble in denouncing de-nouncing tho bosses. In his telegraphic tele-graphic letter to Col. C. li. Loose, National Na-tional Republican Committeeman for Utah, the same appeal is carried, "Down with the bosses and support me." is the tenor of his whole plea and argument. It is manifest, however, that, in tin? Roosevelt is simply striving to make himself the big boss of all. X0 man in this couutr3' has ever heretofore appealed ap-pealed so furiously, so egotistically, and so dictatorially for the privilege of bossship as Roosevelt has done, lie demands to be considered as the special spe-cial representative of the plain people; and vet the big trusts, tho Sice Trust, tho Harvester Trust, arc- not oul.y for him viciously', opcnlv. shamelessly, he is their special candidate and pel. There has never been a Presidential candidate upon whonf Iuonc3' was spent with anything like the lavishncss that nionev is now beiug spout in tho 0.1 use of Col. Roosevelt. A good deal of outcry out-cry was made because Senator Stephenson Stephen-son of Wisconsiu spent $107,000 to capture cap-ture 250,000 votes; But, in the county of New York there was spent in the RoOBOvclt interest $71,000 011 an on rolled party clcci orate of. 30,000. Stephenson spent less than at a rate of (if t v cents a vote for the Rcpnbli can vote of Wisconsin; but in Roosevelt's Roose-velt's interest, almost a dollar a vote was spent iu the primaries, in Now York. So that, if Stephenson is to be damned for lavish expenditure of mon. i'v aj. elections, Roosevelt- should bo donblv .damned for a much greater proportionate expenditure. An official of Greater New York had difficulty with his vegetable man; tho official wanted carrots of uniform size; the vegetable man said that carrot" didn't grow that way. Appeal was taken to Ma3-or Gaynor, who sustained tho vcgctablo man. Sec what it is to have a ma3-or who is up on agriculture! ,(The rule of the people" is urged and defended by demogogic wind-bags, but always with the reservation thnt tho ruling shall be ns. tho wind-bag wants it. Report has it that Harry Lauder, the vaudeville singer, has broken down in London, from overwork. Moro likelv, because somebody got him inadvertently inadvertent-ly to treat.