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World's Letter to the Presi
dent.
In an open letter to the President,
dished on Saturday last, the New
World powerfully sams up the
tes of the campaign as the person
y of Theodore Roosevelt. The
"World says in part.
?he paramount issue of this cam?
paign is not, *as you would have it,
"free trade or free silver, but you your?
self--Theodore Roosevlt.
This issue is forced upon the country
by your unusual temperament and tal?
ents-your own strong, able, ambi
tiuos, resourceful, militant, passion
;e personality, your versatile and
ing genius - |
*' * *
You have glorified war and threaten?
ed the future peace of the country by
proposing a bullying overlordship of
ike other countries in this hemisphere
and offering'' to constitute the United
States the constable and collector
Jor Europe in the rotten and irre?
sponsible States of Central and South
America. <
* * ^ *
You have, by your recommendations
to Congress, and your signature to its
extravagances, increased the national
-expenditures during your term to
store than $2,500,000,000-an excess
of $211,000,000 over the expenditures
buring President McKinley's term
{which included the expenses of the
war with Spain), and exceeding the.;
cost of President Cleveland's second '
term by $880,000.
You and the Congress of your party
have converted a surplus of ?80,000,
000 in 1900 into a deficit of more than
?0,900,000 for the fiscal year just clos?
ed.
* . * *
. In view of this surpassing record of j
extravagance, it is perhaps, not
strange, but will be regarded by the
taxpayers as significant, that the words
"economy,9 * " retrenchment' * and
'reform/' once the rule of the nation
' the shibboleth of statesmen, do
once appear in your entire, speech
acceptance-not once!
I* * *
The principle of protection has been
maintained by every party that bas
held power in this country since the
adoption of the Constitution, includ
lag the administration of eight Demo?
cratic Presidents. Representative
Clark, chairman of the St. Louis Con?
vention, truly said that "the Demo?
cratic party is not a f/ee trade party."
Protection, however necessary under
some conditions, is both needless and
unjust when infant indutries have be?
come hoary monopolies. . It is especial
- Jy oppressive and exasperating when
perverted to enable favored manufac
: tarers to maintain arbitrary high
. prices in the home market while un
C derselling foreign competitors in the
markets of the world.
The free coinage of silver, which
was the decisive issue in the last two
elections, is no longer, a living ques
. tion, though there are indications, in
yonr speech that you will seek to re
vive it. The overwhelming verdict
of the people, regardless of party, in
the last two elections ; the law of
;.v 2900 le?tabiishing the gold standard ;
the enormous increase in the world's
; production of gold ; the fact that no
party and no public man of importance,
siot even Mr. Bryan, is now advocat?
ing free silver; and, beyond all. the
declaration of your opponent, Judge
Parker, that he regards the gold stand?
ard as * 'firmly and irrevocably estab?
lished"-a declaration unreservedly
accepted by the St Louis Convention
by a vote of 774 to 191-afford cumu?
lative proof that the silver issue is
dead and buried past resurrection.
. - . * * *
You boast that your policy is " to do
ly&ftir as? equal justice to all men, pay
?iig no heed to whether a man is rich
' er poor." Can it be mainlined that
a tariff " law ) which enables favored
% 3Eacufacturer?, in return ior big cam?
paign contributions, to levy tribute
. o?a the whole body of the people as an
^example of "fair and ?equal justice?."
Who represents anti-monopoly and the
.lights of labor inyour Cabinet? Is it
Secretary of the Treasury ShaWj the
banker, who preaches that high prices
:.nae a blessing-or Attorney-General
r5?oody, who has not lifted a finger to
enforce the anti-truBt laws?-or Sec?
retary of the 2?avy Morton, lately a
^Blice-presideat of the Santa Pe Railroad
na ally af the Beef Trost Qr sec*
letary cf Dottttere* and T abor Met?
A^l political representative of the
ffotitb'ttn PaCi&c Railroad?-or Post?
iaiftt?r>General Payne, long the legis?
lative and lobby agent of railroad and
Other corporations?
Do these acts of yours give ve rv
strong backing to your words assert?
ing equal regard for all classes?
Toe say of the "great organizations
Jcsown as trusts," that "we do not
have to expain why the laws against
them were not enforced, but to point
oat that they actually have been en?
forced." This will be news, indeed,
to the victims of the unpunished and
unhampered Beef Trust and the other
"conspiracies in restraint of trade"
?sich continue to striae competition
and to rob consumers in defiance of
-Mw.
* * *
"Mr. Cortelyou, formerly private
secretary, was at the bead of the De?
partment of Commerce just long
ssough to acquire by "diligent invest
-igstion" such information as would
he useful to the finer of your cam?
paign chest The public does not
i sitare this information. There i* no
evidence that the law officers of the
government are making use of it to
suppress and punish such odious and
oppressive monopolies as the Beef
3a*at-which control the great por?
tion of the meat supply of 80,000,000
people. But ex-private and ex-public
Secretary Cortelyou-Chairman Cor?
telyou of your Campaign Committee
no doubt knows all that the law en
?Med him to learn of the inner work?
ings of the potential campaign con
?fcotow!"
* * ?
Sta boast that "never hait the ad?
ministration of the government been
sn a cleaner and higher level." We
qBpeal toal! honest men whether-in
ito annals of oar government there
mm* ever a grosser abuse of power, a
?seater public scandal or a more un
principled defiance of decent public
^pinion than is this transfer of an offi
&a\ investigator and cur ber of great
corporations to be a collector of cam
3*gB funds from them !
* * *
"You sty that yon 'earnestly desire
friendship with all the nations of the
and Old Worlds,' and that you
tMnk 'peace is right as well as ac
tageous." Can you wonder that
people find it hard to recogniz
these pacific utterances the \too?*
they have known hitherto? A s
time ago, in urging the creation c
evea.larger navy, the advice you
for the guidance of the nation 1
'Speak softly, but carry a big sti
Is the man who habitually does
generally 'seeking peace?" Do
think that the other nations of
New World thought that you. as I
ident of this republic, really 'des
peace and friendship' with them v,
you wrote in your letter to the Cc
dinner?
?"Any country whose peoples cone
themselvesv well can count upon
hearty friendliness. If a nation sh
that it knows how to act with dece
in industrial and political matters
it keeps order and pays its obligate
then it need fear no interference f
the United States. Brutal wrong
iug or an impotence which results
the general loosening of the ties
civilized society may finally reqi
intervention by some civilized nat i
and in the Western Hemisphere
United States cannot ignore its dut
Is not this unmistakably a th]
that if any of the republics of Cen)
or South America fails to "act w
decency"-you being the judge-or
it fails to "keep order and pay its
ligations" (as some of the States
our Union haye failed to pay),
"need fear no interference from
United States".; but that if any or
of these States fail to live up to y<
standard of order and morah
"civilized society may finally requ
intervention," and that then "
United States cannot ignore its dutj
Our faith in the intelligence, 1
common sense and the conscience
the American^people is too great
believe that they will give a comm
sion for four years in his own na
to the chance pilot who is now he;
ing the ship of state toward the roi
upon which other republics have be
wrecked-tolerated usurpations by 1
Executive; warlike adventures
gain and glory; contempt for la
privileged classes sustained by el ec ti
bribes ; corruption in high places a
extravagant expenditures from un j;
taxes. Honor and prudence alike :
quire a change of pilots and a reta
to the chart of the Constitution,
the rule of law and the flag of a pea<
loving republic.
This is a powerful arraignment
the acts and tendenccies of Preside
Roosevelt's administration, and it h
received the unqualified end?rseme
,of such Democrats as Wheeler J
Peckham, George Foster Peabod
Edward N. Sheppard and Judge Rog
A. Pryor of New York. The Dem
eratic party has a great and importa
mission to fulfill at the next electio
When the issue between four mo
years of Roosevelt or four years
safe, sane and constitutional gover
ment, is fairly presented, as it wi
be, long before the election, there
little doubt on which side the ind
pendent vote of this country will arra
tself.
THE OUTLOOK IS NEW YORK.
Situation Declared Hopeies Jc
Republicans With Mr. Root as
a Candidate.
. Not even ?Elihu Root can save tl
State of New York to the Republi<
ans this year. President Roosevel
according to a generlly believed re
port, has besought Mr. Root to tas
the nomination for Governor, and tb
leaders of the Republican organizado
join their pleadings to those of th
President. They know that the Presi
deutial candidate is going to need hel
ia this State, and they with one ac
cord turn to Mr. Root as the most pow
erful auxiliary force they caninvoke.
Mr. Root would be a strong can
didate-probably the Republican lead
ers are right in their belief that h
would be their strongest. But hov
could he help Mr. Roosevelt? This i
the President's home State? He is, o
course, far better known than ?be ex
Secretary of war. The public hav
voted for him before and elected him
Surely he ought to call cut the ful
party vote and run ahead of all othe
candidates on the Republican ticket
in which case he might help the Guber
natorial candidate, though it is difB
?ujt to see. fcow tu6 Gubernatorial can
didftte- could help faim. We suppos?
nothing could help him.
Governor Odell has inspired the peo
pie with so deep a distrust of the Re
publican organization that even if thii
were to be an ordinary Governorship
?lection without the Presidential com
plication, any Democrat worthy of th<
office would probably be elected. Bui
j to the popular resolve to turn out Mr,
Odell's party must be added thc im
measurable force of the Democrat re
awakening.
The party is not only united, but ii
has a candidate who at the very begin
ning of the contest visibly stirs its en
thusiasm> and Whose rugged strength
of character and sound opinions wil
more and more arouse keen interest
and admiration as the campaign pro
ceeds. With the heavy handicap o?
Governor Odell's record-and he if
the time adding to the difficulties ol
his party by the scandal of his double
function as chief executive of the
State and chairman of a partisan com?
mittee-and contending against thc
formidable strength of Judge Parker'!
uniting candidacy. Roosevelt anc
Fairbanks seem to be doomed to lose
the electorial vote of New York ; anc1
with the electors goes the Governor?
ship, even if Mr. Root should be the
candidate.
Since the executive power of the
State is expected to come to the Dem?
ocrats they must put up a candidate
worthy to wield it. The high quality
of the Presidential nomination lorbidi
them co descend to the walks of com*
mon politics for a name. There is a
chance once more to choose a Demo
erat of brains and character, bound tc
no faction, hampered by no alle?
giances, who will poli every vote
within the party and many more.
The stories from Esopus about the
"demands" and "conditions" laid
down by Mr. Murphy, of Tammany,
upon the occasion of his visit to Judge
Parker never had any better founda?
tion than the gossip of small Tammany
politicians. They are, of course,
untrue, ? and have been authoritatively
denied. The demands are to be for?
mulated this year and the conditions
imposed not by any man or leader,
but by the high interests of a great
party confronted by a great oppor?
tunity.-New York Times, (Ind.
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