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Show Once More COLONEL INGERSOLL through his Pocatello - organ, sounds the praises of his patron saint, Colonel Roosevelt. He declares that "he is the . 4 first president who has had the moral courage to denounce those who resort to unfair methods in our private and public economic methods." Why did he not add that the colonel Is the first ex-president who ever tried by unfair methods meth-ods to get nominated for a third term and when j he failed bolted and got himself nominated to defeat the party that had showered so many I honors upon him? And was it not that same colonel who, after shouting for years for a square deal, ratified the taking in of the Tennessee Iron & Coal company by the big Steel Trust? Of course, when president-, he tried to run congress and the supreme court and after he lost his ballast through the death of his secretary of state, John Hay, he seemed to be like the skunk which, when complained com-plained to that he gave off a most offensive odor, replied: "Anything for distinction." He might have sent a messenger to the stock yards of Chicago Chi-cago to warn the managers that the yards must be kept in a sanitary condition. He preferred on hearsay testimony, to denounce them, causing them a loss of $17,000,000 of trade in a year, which fell mostly upon the farmers and stock raisers. He had been governor of New York a term before he was president, but had not been concerned con-cerned because of the impurity of New Yorkpoll-tics. Yorkpoll-tics. Tammany was there and had then for half a century been open every year to trade Its power for its own profit. His anxiety for a "square deal" always begins when he wants something for Colonel Roosevelt. Then he becomes an evangle for purity in a moment, and for previous honors and emoluments heaped upon him, he has not one trace of gratitude. grati-tude. As a clincher Colonel Ingersoll pulls what he calls Mr. Root's confession. That is but the embittered expression of a soured man who thinks he has not been suffi- - clently honored. In it Senator Root is made to '' say: "For I don't remember how many years Mr. Conkling was the supreme ruler of the state; the governor did not count; the legislature did not count. And in a great outburst of public rage ho was called down." If Mr. Root said that he should feel covered ! with shame. If Mr. Conkling ruled the state it was through sheer intellect and patriotism. He was always poor in money, but he was the foremost man that New York produced in the last generation. He was a United States senator. When a Re- i publican candidate for president was conceded to be beaten by even Mr. Blaine, Conkling and Grant started out and elected him. At the first opportunity that president betrayed Mr. Conkling in the interest of such men as l Whitelaw Reid and George William Curtis and the other malcontents in the party. Conkling resigned re-signed and appealed to the New York legislature to re-elect him. With the whole power of the Washington administration, ad-ministration, the Democrats and mugwumps in the New York legislature against him he was Anally beaten. It was the triumph of a pack of mangy fy wolves over a real lion. If Mr. Root knows anything any-thing he knows the above is true. If Colonel In-gersoll In-gersoll can got any comfort out of it, he is welcome wel-come And he forgets when he quotes from Mr. Root his arraignment of Piatt that it was that same Piatt who nominated Colonel Roosevelt for vice president on the ticket with McKinley. And ho was the colonel's friend up to the day of his death. The colonel has never yet had occasion to denounce de-nounce corruption in New York politics, except when he wanted something personally. And judging judg-ing the future by his past, ho never will. |