The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-09-03
lands AND ROOSEVELT.
The Indianan Charged the New
Yorker With Being a Dude.


In view of the fact that Representative
Lands of Indiana is quoted as having re-
| Gently said that Mckinley and Roosevelt
ought to be elected and in his opinion
/ would be elected, it is pleasant for his
: friends to recall that few months more
| than ten years ago Mr.. Lands said of Mr..
! Roosevelt that he was a young dude, -
that he was by nature mugwump," that
he did not have "a pure~drop of Republic
| can blood in his body and that he was
affiliated with pure and un5potted cusses .
When Mr.. Lands said of Mr.. Roosevelt
! that he did not have pure drop Of Re
! publican blood in his body he had no Goa
! ception that by this anomalous statement
! he was paying a high tribute to the CON
! queTor of Spain. That was not his pur-
| pose. Mentally Mr. Lands was swearing
| at the man he now supports.
| Persons who live in Delphi, Ind, or those
/ who have carefully studied the Indiana
section OF the Congressional Directory,
| understand that Mr.. Lands was an editor
/ From 1883 to 1887 he YVES connected with
! the 'Logansport Journal and about 1888
/ Though historians on this momentous
! point are obscure), he came TO be the edit
/ or of the Delphi Journal" 1t was in the
columns of that paper that he paid to Mr..
| Roosevelt the unconscious compliment of
! drop OF Republican blood in his body"
| Mr.. Lands, as an editor and as an Indi-
/ ana republican. did not like the Civil SerV-
| ice law. He did not like the Civil Service
| Commission, and OF the Commissioners.
the particular object of his inky wrath was
| the man who later sailed from Port Tampa
to Baiquiri, and there whetting the edges
| Of his sword and exposing his teeth. moved
! upon the enemy, cutting him up on San
| Juan Hill, annihilating him at Ell Caney.
/ and pinning him to his swords point in
Santiago. Mr., Lands did not then know
that the man whom he politely "cussed'
was to have Christmas trees OF laurel fea-
TONED upon him by Fame.
In his paper, the Delphi Journal" of
November 2S. 1883, in speaking of the
| members of the Civil Service Commission.
Mr.. Lands expressed his views in the fol-
lowing manner:
Theodore Roosevelt is the moving spirit
in this Commission. He is young dude
He is by nature a mugwump and conse-
| quentIy a Democrat There is not pure
drop Of Republican blood in his body. BY
what right he is elevated to the dictator
| snip OF the Republican party no one pre-
| tends 10 explain. His chief claim TO prom
| inence is his close utilization with George
William Curtis and the other pure and un-
spotted cusses who defeated Blaine and
| worked with the energy of desperation
against Harrison"
In advocating the passage of the Force
Dill IN the Delphi Journal of Decem rsr
20. 1888. in which he demanded that a
vote be taken, Representative Lands said /:
We want to see the names of the COW
ards who are tarred with the same stick
/ that has made the names OF Roosevelt
curtis ct al odoriferous TO purgative
extent"
Under date of April S, 1897 the Delphi
Journal contained the following article
from the pen OF Representative Lands
/ RefoTmer. gets a job; this chronic office
seeker and spokesman is appointed assist
ant Secretary of the Navy"
Theodore Roosevelt commonly known
as Teddy, has posed before the people
Of this great country during the last ff-
teen years as a reformer. The chief eff
tort of Teddy has been to discourage of
fceseeking. Teddy is afflicted with
nightmare about eight nights in a week.
interfering with his sleep and disturbing
| his dreams. all on account OF a morbid
I lear that too many people In America
want to hold office. This, al least IS
what Teddy would have the people be-
lieve: but from Maine to California and
from Canada to the Gulf, every county
township. and precinct may be searched
and no case of Office itch half So bad as
/ Teddy's own could be discovered It is
both chronic and acute
Teddy has held office almost continu-
ously for many years. in fact ever since
| he was old enough to hold Office. Even in
the few interims when he was not in office
i he occupied his time in asking for Office
He was q member of the State Legislator
in New York. He was a candidate for
Mayor of New York He was a Civil Ser
| vice Commissioner a Washington and
subsequently a police commissioner at
New York. And Mckinley was no sooner
elected than Teddy started q campaign
for the position of Assistant Secretary Of
the Navy, to which he was aTpointe d few
days ago And during all these years
Teddy has been waiting against the Office
seeker. How long, o Lord must we en-
dure these shams ?"