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Show MR. EUHU ROOT. (Communicated.) When the great upheaval took place in Philadelphia Phila-delphia a little over a year ago, and chaotic conditions condi-tions reigned in that city when Mr. .lames Mc-Xicho! Mc-Xicho! was designated as a thief and bhu kgnar.l : when politva! turmoil reigned by virtue i Mr. Wia.ver's stand' against the gang Mr. KHhu went into ihe city of Philadelphia and told the people lo vote with the reformers. We did not tak much siock in Mayor Weaver's revolt at that time, because we believed it was due to a desire on his part to get even with Israel Durham and his friends for throwing tobacco quids at the mayors picture while en route to conventions and pleasure jaunts, and for ignoring him in the secret councils coun-cils of the so-called gang, which., as it was maintained, main-tained, held Philadelphia by the throat. And his latest move in leaving the Lincoln party and going back to the gang justifies our belief. Ihe Quaker city folks, like the good and dutiful children chil-dren they have always been until reoentlv in matters mat-ters of politics, followed Mr. Boot's advice, and elected the City party candidates. We do not desire de-sire to defend city politicians, whether Independent. Independ-ent. Republican or Democrat; nor do we de-ire to defend city politicians and ward heelers because they happen to be Catholics. Such men have very little respect for the Catholic faith or for anybody any-body but themselves. What we do wish to do is to prove that Mr. Root has occupied two distinct positions po-sitions in one year positions directly antagonistic, to each other. N'ow this sending of cabinet officers offi-cers into state campaigns is one of the defects o! American political life. Dragging the White House, the home of many illustrious men. into Crokerisin, Coxism, or any other petty city or state tight, degrades America as a nation. Behold the writer's astonishment, who is a layman and who has followed Philadelphia politics to some extent, when it was published in Salt Lake papers that Mr. Root was campaigning in Pennsylvania, and telling tell-ing the people to vote the state gang ticket. What a position for a cabinet officer in these United State! Then this same Mr. Root went into Xew York state and told the people Hearst was an assassin and the murderer of MoKinley. It must be admitted that Mr. Hearst's papers have not always followed the golden rule in publishing news, and in the indiscriminate use of epithets, but, on the other hand, tell us the name of one paper that does much different when treating of a political enemy. en-emy. Kvery one who remembers the length of time that elapsed between the blowing up of the Maine end the outbreak of war is aware that the whole country was in an impatient attitude and that th late President MeKinloy's own friends were eofids'inning him for his seeming dilatoriness. Excerpts uld, no doubt, be given from a thousand thou-sand paper of that war-like time which would show as much bitterness and intemperate language as those quoted r.y Air. Root. This is being written without regard to whether Mr. Hearst will be eVcicd or not. But Mr. Hearst has been maligned and bitterly assailed by many public men who are hostile to labor's interests. You called Mr. Hearst m u recent editorial, a veritable Lincoln, in his defense of labor unionism.' union-ism.' and I see no reason to differ from that opinion, opin-ion, irrespective of what will take place Tuesdax. If Hearst is guilty of the murder of McKinley. he is guilty of the murder of Garfield and of Lincoln, Lin-coln, which is impossible. The corporation abuse of power in this country has ceased to be a menace. It is now a curse a withering, blighting curse on American life a breeder of anarchy and every unholy un-holy ism that has no reverence for American institutions. in-stitutions. What they want on the American tlag is a gold dollar not any more stars. There are ninety senators in Washington two from each state and every one of them. Democratic and Republican, Re-publican, is a millionaire and a representative of some corporation or trust, as Mr. Root himself, a cabinet officer, is. and he has never attempted to deny it. He has deliberately gone into the state of Pennsylvania, and told the people at one time to. support Mayor Weaver against the gang, an.l one short year after he tells- the same people to support the gang the looters who spent more than $8,000.-000 $8,000.-000 too much in erecting a state eapitol and dishonoring, dis-honoring, or trying to dishonor, the Catholic religion re-ligion in its mural decorations. When President Roosevelt returns from Panama, Pan-ama, the -best thing that ho could do would be to retire-Mr. Root to private life. Mr. Elihu Rut would be an adornment to political obscurity. At present he is, a menace to his. party and to the principles prin-ciples of justice and truth, for it is very probable that the murderer of McKinley never read a line of one of Hearst's papers any more than did Guiteau or Booth, who never even heard of William Rui-dolplr Rui-dolplr Hearst. |