The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-12
M-asl,!2gton time q D. m. St. Paul..
ROOSEVELT STILL RoARs.

NJ one ever knows when the colonel
of The late rough riders is likely 10 break
out. He is like a barrel organ. lie Is
W. rked by a crank. and the crank is usu-
ally in the hand of some astute director
Of political monkeydom like The illustri-
Gus Plat. But the last known outbreak
Of this vcciferous person Is one Of his
worst. 1t presents him in a new role
that of warning the world against his
own chief characteristic. lie cries aloud
BE not hysterical,' Whereupon he pro
c"els to lapse into one of his weli-known
fits Of political hysteria, more prolonged
and more 9itiful than any to which he
has been subjected since his famous out
break At the Auditorium, Chicago, last
winter
The burden Of the SORROWS OF PIatt's
Young Man Is that the situation in the
Philippines. maud!in, weak-kaeei. design
ed rn:y for the benefit Of pet contractors
and military nincompoops is all due to
unrcasoning Democratic opposition.
Roosevelt specifies Here is his specifca-
tlon:
It viii call for the merest fraction of
our strength, provided only We choose to
exert thaj strength. If however. the peo-
pc let the'r representatives in congress
Hamper the administration as they did
la3t winter when they refused to put
tiit army upon Il proper footing as to
SiZa pei manence, and organiza ton, then
tao people have themselves to thank if
u" war fingers with difficulties and dam
gers increased.
Now, just think of any man capable of
getting off idiotic matter of this kind
advising others not to srow hystericaI.
This sort of thing is not only hysteria:
II is the hysteria Of the dangerous polit-
teal lunatic frebrand and a blather
skite. His calliope howl would suffice to
wake the dead of the 5IooGy shirt era
from their long sleep.
What does al this violent rhodomontado
amount to? Just this: That because the
Democratic minority ia congress
OF last winter, having voted all
the money the impelialist crowd
asked for; having given its hearty
sanction to the war for the liberation of
Cuba; having held up The hands of the
administration in every laudabe under
taking. and the men whom they repre-
sented having enlisted by the thousands
In the ranks of the Union army. that mi
nority IS now to be traduced because it
held the hand of the imperiaIist coterie
In the matter of establishing a standing
army. BY reason of that minority hay
ing so done, the disgraceful Incompetence
the shifting uncertainty, the faIsehood
and conccalment, and ali the crime and
suffering that have sprung from these
things. is, according to this wild ass Of
the political prairies. TO be charged up
against the Democrats in congress.
He tells us We need only to exert frac-
ton OF our strength in order to bring
peace to the Philippines. Why have we
not exerted it? Who has held the hand of
Mckinley or of his advisers, Hanna and
Plat, of Otis or of Alger, or of any of the
rest OF them. Why have not the 80 900
men that Root is now sending out not
been sent out any time since that army
reorganization bill became law last
winter? Is the Democratic minority in
congress responsible, too, for the cutlery
that is raised throughout the length and
breadth of the land, and which has been
echoed by every soldier that has returned
from the Philippines, against Gen. Otis,
end his senile management of the cam
paign?
It is about time that this loud-mouthed
harlequin should be stripped of some of
his gay political attire and be revealed
to the people for what he is-a noisy, po-
litical catspaw and mountebank.