Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-06
ABUSE,

That Republican candidate and com
NOR scold, Theodore Roosevelt, at
present Governor of New York, to which
Office he is holding on as A. B.. White
holds on to the internal revenue col
lectorship in that State and Congress
slonal Candidate Gaines to his office
under the Federal judiciary, makes a
speciality of criticism and abuse. He
started that sort of thing long ago, and
keeps it up consistently.
1t will be remembered that as long
ago as July %, 1898, during the Spanish
wal, the then Lieutenant Colonel Roose-
welt had the Monumental gall to slap
the National Guard and volunteer army
in the face, in the following letter to
Secretary Alger:
SANTIAGO, July %, 1898.
my Dear MI. Secretary
Il am writing with the knowledge
and approval of General Wheeler. We
earnestly hope that you will send us
most of the regulars, and, at any rate,
the cavalry division. including the
Rough Riders, who are as good as any
regulars, and three times as good as
any State troops-to Porto Rico.
There are $4,000 effective men in
this division. If those who were left
behind are Joined to them. we could
land at Porto Rico in this cavalry di-
vision close to 1000 men. who would
be worth easily II 10000 National
Guard. armed with black powaer,
Springfield or other archaic weapons
Very respectfully,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The above letter brought forth the
following merited rebuke:
Your letter of the 23d is received.
The regular army, the volunteer army,
and the Rough Riders have done we'll,
but / suggest that, unless you want to
spoil the effects and glory of your vic
tory, to MAKE NO INvIDIOUS COM
PARSONS. The Rough Riders are no
better THAN OTHER VOLUNTEERS.
They had an advantage in their arms,
for which they ought to be very CRATE
full. R. A. ALGER,
Secretary of War"
This would naturally sting any n
with anything like sensitiveness. but
it didn't penetrate Roosevelt's hide.
After he came home from the war,
in which his chief aim was to see how
much personal glorifcation he could
achieY.. and in which he showed an
utter lack Of the modest soldier, con-
tent to let others judge and estimate
him by his acts. he plunged into maya
zine articles. during which he told, with
self-satisfied complacency, of how he
had personally shot this man, and that,
after they had thrown away their arms
and were fleeing.
Pursuing this policy of egotism and
abuse, after his nomination for the
Vice Presidency, he at st. Paul, publicly
rebuked about six and one-half millions
of his fellow citizens, men just as hon
orable as he, and in a subsequent "ex-
PLANTATION rubbed the insult in. Later
on he has shown his supreme love of
self and contempt for everybody else,
and now, to cap the climax until he
makes another break, he insults that
pre-eminently respectable element of
the American people, the Quakers, in
the following words, reprinted from
the Register yesterday morning:
"A class of professional noncombat-
ants Is as hurtful to the real healthy
| growth Of a nation as is a class of fire
eaters. for a weakness or folly is ma
| t~ionally as bad a vice. or worse. and in
the long run a Quaker may be quite as
undesirable a citizen as a duelist. No
man who Is not willing to bear arms
and fight for his rights can give a good
reason why he should be entitled TO
live in a free community"
The Friends are among the best cit
liens of the United States of America.
They are opposed to all war, and are
particularly opposed to the conflict for
territorial gain in the Philippines. As
a c~la50tand as a CHURCH they are bitter
" opposed to its continuance. and for