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Show THE HEAL MALIGNITY. Tho newspaper organs which Rup-ported Rup-ported Colonel Itoosovclt aro violont in thoir explanations of his defoal. Singular as it may seem, tho editors and managers of a numbor of those papers that ought to havo known better, bet-ter, wore convinced that Booaovelt was tho winning candidate. It has scorned impossible all along that anyone any-one could really believe this; but the outcry raised by thoin since tho election elec-tion is convincing upon the point that a number of the Itoosovclt organs did actually believe that ho was to be elected, aud thoy arc correspondingly curaged when they find what a poor figure ho cut as compared with the successful candidate. One of the chief Roosevelt organs attributes his-defeat to tho "malignity" "ma-lignity" with which Itoosovclt was assailed, sa'ing "never in the whole history of politics wns there such malignant ma-lignant misrepresentation of a man or a caufjo by the great bodies of news-papers news-papers in the country." But to mako a statement of that kind is to lose sight of the scquonce of events, and to show surprise where no surpriso was due. Tho prime mover in vilification, detraction, aud malignant misrepresentation misrepresen-tation was Colonel Booscvolt himself. And he has not quit it yot. His Btato-mcnt Btato-mcnt printed by tho newspapers of tho United States on Tuesday morning waa ridiculously misroprcsentativo of the loading facts of tho. campaign, and there has been no such abuse hcapod upon Roosevelt as ho himself heaped upon President Taft, whoro ho stigmatized stigma-tized the President as a receiver of stolen goods, a piekpoekol, and tho like; and Colonel Koosovelt directl' charged Governor Wilson with willful falsehood and political polit-ical turpitude. Tho Boosevclt organs or-gans followed tho Itoosevelt lead, and made their columns hot with vilification vilifi-cation and shouts of abuse both of President Taft and of Governor Wil-son. Wil-son. They -wore infamous in their references ref-erences to tho President of the United States,, and in their exultation in the prospective victory of tho Colonel they misled their readers by riotous imaginings. imagin-ings. Poosevelt inaugurated and continued con-tinued lo the last tho vory a-buse of which he and his newspaper supporters support-ers now complain, and they undertako to raise a popular issue on false pro-tenses pro-tenses throughout. Thcro is not a bit of practical sense in the whole Boose-vclt Boose-vclt platform and campaign procedure. proced-ure. All of th claim that is not mere wind, is impracticable, and the hot air couuls for nothing. T0 talk about principles prin-ciples in connection with the Itoosevelt campaign is to lose sight of the meaning mean-ing of -words. It, was a campaign, of vilification and malignant personal abuse, inaugurated and incited by the ambition of Itoosevelt to excel in length of service any man who had ever been President of the United Sfajcs, and to give vent to his venomous rage against. President Tafr, for which no sufficient reason has ever boon given. |