The evening times., 1900-10-04

1t is maintained by Democrats and ad-
mitted by many Republicans in Washing
ton that the candidate of the Republican
party for Vice President is one of those
unfortunate men who talk too much.
Often, it is said, has the cowboy candidate
and broncho- busting Office hunter written
too much. Republican politician said
today: 1T would have been better from
the point of view of political expediency
had Governor Roosevelt LEFT unwritten his
unfriendIy criticism of the negro regulars
at San Juan HILL
Governor Roosevelt has placed himself
on record as in favor of government by
injunction In the Review of Reviews
in September, 1886, he wrote:
The men who object to what they style
government by, Injunction are, as re-
CARDS essential principles OF govern
ment. in hearty sympathy with their re-
mote ancestors who lived in caves, fought
one another with stone-headed axes. and
ate the mammoth and woolly rhinnoceros.
They are interesting representing a
geological survival, but they are dangerous
whenever there is the least chance of
their making the principles of this ages
buried past living factors in our present
me 1hey are not IN sympathy with men
Of good minds and sound civic morality
According to Mr.. Roosevelt in an article
in the Century for February, 1898, the
outbreak against him at Victor, COL was
probably the result of "beisterous light
heartedncss' rather than '-viciousness''
In the article referred to under the cap
tion of Ranch Life in the Far West" Mr..
Roosevelt said;
when drunk on the viIIainous whisky
of the frontier towns, they (the cowboys
and rough riders) cut mad antics, riding
their horses into the saloons, firing their
pistols right and left from boisterous
light -heartedness rather than from any
viciousness and indulging too often in
deadly shooting affrays, brought on either
by accidental contact of the moment or
on account Of some long standing gTVdge
or perhaps because of bad blood betw cen
the ranches or localities
But they are much better fellows and
pieasanter companions than the small
farmers or agricultural laboreTs: EGr are
the mechanics Of a great city 10 be men
toned in the same breath with them"
The Unhappiness of Colonies.
Governor Roosevelt has also recorded
his disapproval of colonies. In 1898 G. P
Putnam's sons issued from their press a
book by Mr.. Roosevelt entitled ''Ameri-
can Ideals. and Other Essays" In this
book Mr.. Roosevelt undertakes to discuss
several American problems. social and
political. In his essay on The Manly
Virtues and Practical Politics" written in
1887. he SAYS:
AT best the inhabitants of a colony are
in a cramped and unnatural state. AT
worst, the establishment of a colony pre-
vents any healthy popular growth. At
present the only hope for a colony that
wishes to attain full moral and mental
growth. is TO become an Independent
state"
II. his speech at Saginaw. Michigan. on
September T. Mr.. Roosevelt said:
The issue OF the campaign is contained
in that pIacard: Let we'll enough alone
'Old man we'll enough is old man good
enough. and it is the best to let him
alone"
On April ;. 1900. David Star Jordan.
President OF Leland Stanford University
said in an interview. when asked which
view of the issue OF imperialism McKin-
ley's or Bryans, was gaining most among
the people.
Let NE quote you Roosevelt on that
He SAID to me last week:
q Jordan 7 wish to God we were off the
Philippines and had them off our hands,
and many other Republicans are thinking
the same
I am free TO quote Roosevelt. because I
consider him In many respects one of the
greatest men in the Republican party
How do you like Mckinley?'' was asked
President Jordan.
Let NE quote you Roosevelt again"
was his reply He said to me: Mckinley
has about as much backbone as toy
chocolate man that you can see on the con-
feationer's stand He is a terrible disap-
pOintment-' y
Hir. StevenSon's Record
The Republican managers, represent
ing the trusts, which are the fees of
organized labor, are seeking to distract
attention from themselves by giving
wide circulation to certain charges that
were made in Republican newspap RS in
1892 that Adlai e. Stevenson then presi-
dent of the Mclean Coal Company, was
an enemy to organized labor. and espe-