Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-09-05 | Page 6 | Reed on Roosevelt

REED ON ROOSEVELT. The Republicans of Missouri were Ftroug Roosevelt men prior to the Chicago Chi-cago National Republican Convention. Governor Hndley of that' State was one of Roosevelt's greatest admirers, and Hadlcy made a very strong, favorable .impression upon the convention. It was stated openly at that timo that Hadlcy Had-lcy 's chance for tho nomination was good, but he could not got it without receiving support from the Roosevelt people. This Roosevelt himself strongly strong-ly opposed. He refused to givo way, and so obliterated Hadlcy's chances. The result Is that Missouri Republican? Repub-lican? aro no longer playing in tho Roosevelt yard. Senator Reed. Republican, Repub-lican, of that State, took occasion, when the developments relating to tho Standard Oil contributipns in. 11)0-1 to tho Roosevelt campaign fund were narrated nar-rated by Senator Penrose, and when Colonel Roosevelt denied knowledge of the StandarTI Oil .contribution, to dc-liver dc-liver a severe philippic against Colonel Rcotcvclt.' In it he expressed his ut-tor ut-tor unbelief of the Colonel 's sincerity in making hia denial. "I do not believe,'' be-lieve,'' he said, "that Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, was ignorant of .that which look place in tho Republican National Committee. Com-mittee. I do hot believe that that man who has thrust his hand into everything terrestrial and who has sougM to regulate reg-ulate every avocation of life, to control all attributes of mind and aspirations of soul, who has instructed motherhood and specified tho number of children each woman must bear In order to bo considered a good citizen, who has ro-vised ro-vised tho English language and abolished abol-ished the spelling book, who has always and ovcr3'whorc been ginU' of Impudent, Impu-dent, insistent, pcslifcro'us intermeddling intermed-dling with the business of everybody now living and the reputations of all tho dead who sleep, did not know where the nionoy for his own campaign was coming from." Which, talk, is as sound, - as-- reasonable, reason-able, ns .iust. as it is vigorous.