Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-08-03
ALTGELD ON TEDDY.

In his St. Paul speech to the Republic
can clubs Theodore Roosevelt, candidate
for vice president, referring to Demo
Gratis said:
They stand for lawlessness and dis.
order, for dishonesty and dishonor, for
license and disaster at home and coward
ardly shrinking from duty abroad"
At Toledo Wednesday night, ex-Gov-
ernor Altgeld of Illinois roasted the
young man. Among other things Mr.
Altgeld said:
This is reflection on the intelligence
and patriotism and the honor of every
Democrat in the country. tits personal
insult to the six and one-half million of
men who supported Mr.. Bryan in 1896,
and to the eleven millions of freemrn
who are going to support him in 1000"
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"Who, then, is this man, and what is
his history? Personalities are offensive
and l will not indulge in them. But,
surely, when we are thus brutality ASSAULT
ed we may ask who it is that is berat.
ing US.
"In the years 1897 % he held federal
Office in Washington, and in order to es
cape paying his taxes in New York he
signed an affidavit and swore before the
everything God that he was not cl,iz N
of New York. If this was true. then, un.
der the constitution of New York he
would not have been eligible to be ov
ernor of that state. BY subsequently &C.
cepting nomination and election to that
Office he showed that he did not believe
his own affidavit. This oeing so. may it
not be that he does not believe the charge
he has made against US?
at is next recorded that he entered the
Spanish war in Cuba, and, although his
regiment was commanded by another
man, he succeeded by means of that
modern weapon of warfare known as a
newspaper bureau, in winning more re
nown in week than General Grant did
in four years of hard fighting, and he
seems to be the only man on this cont
nent who boasts of having with his own
hand shot down and killed a Spaniard
who was fleeing from the battlefield. In
his book he says: "As they turned TO run
l closed in and fired twice, missing the
first and killing the second" He then
boasts that he had considered this feat
unique, and SO It is. He is the first brave
man to shoot an enemy in the back.
again, the modern historians tell US
that it was he who first demonstrated to
mankind that however useful the camera
may be to science. to art and to industry,
its true mission is to develop un-plate
heroes.
THE records at Albany show that the
governor got the legislature to pass a
law taxing the ranches OF corporations
"a most righteous law. But the records
also show that at the demands of Tom
Plat and the corporations he reconvened
the legislature in extra session and had
it change the law as the corporations
dictated.
The canal fund of New York has been
robbed of about 5000, 900 by Republi
can politicians and, although he talked
loudly of prosecution. the governor has
not brought one of these men to justice.
"History records the fact that the gov
ernor has never lost an opportunity
when standing in the temple Of the mar
ket place, to make loud protestations of
heroic virtue, but the historian has
searched in VAN for any evidence of
performance. The volums of profession
is full, but the page of performance is a
blank"
All board, Now,