Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-25


boys and rough riders) cut many an.
tics, riding their horses into the sa-
looms, firing their pistols right aud left,
from boisterous Observation-Disclosures
rather than from any viciousness, and
indulging too often in deadly shooting,
phase brought on either by acct
dental contact of the moment or on ac-
count of some long standing grudge or
perhaps because of bad blood between
the ranches or localities. But they are
much better fellows and pleasanter
companions than the small farmers or
agricultural laborers, nor are the me-
chanics of a great city to be mentioned
in the same breath with Them
Here is what Roosevelt said once
about the Philippines:
II wish to God we Were off the Phil
ippines and had them off our hands,
and many other republicans are think
ing the same"
This is what Roosevelt said about
McKinley.
mckinley has about az much back
bone as a toy chocolate man that you
can see on the confectioner's stand. He
is a terrible disappointment"
The people of New York pay Theo-
dore Roosevelt a big salary for attend
ing to the duties of chief executive of
the Empire state The headquarters
of the governor of New York are i'm
Albany, the capital city of the state,
and the governor is supposed to be in
attendance at his post of duty.
Theodore Roosevelt's long absence
from his post of duty and his ne elect
Of his plain duty month after month
Is spectacle wholly without plece-
dent and is a scandal and sharne
The governor of New York is making
spectacle of himself through the west
day after day and week after week
He is constantly prating about Civic
honesty" and stern devotion to duty"
yet his practice does not carry out his
profession. The governor does not hes
itate to draw his large pay for pres,um-,
ably attending to his plain duty Yet
he wholly ignores that duty and pre-
sents the astounding spectacle CT a
candidate for high office, who hollis a
high Office, going about the country
abusing large class of people and
begging his hearers to elect him vice.
president of the United States.
The duties of the office of govern If of
New York are important and pressing,
yet Roosevelt abandons them to in
competent hands which are tied down
by party policy and the great state of
New York is practically without gov
| ernor.
Roosevelt Will be out of the stat for
q month more at least, and all the
While he will be talking about Civic
honesty" and stern devotion to duty"
If the governor of New York were
not humbug and a hypocrite he
would put into practice what he
breaches.
His present course is a scandal and
a disgrace to the Empire state and the
republican party
The cry baby" campaign that is
being made by some of the republi-
cans is assuming Il ridiculous tinge.
The Colorado episode in which Cover
| nor Roosevelt was the object of hNod-
lumism ON the part OF some of the
drunken cowboys" whom he had cried
in the past to ideali2e, is being magni-
fled altogether too much. A public
gathering is always likely to contain
an obstreperous element calculated to
make itself unpleasantly conspicuous.
The candidate who is the victim of
this sort of boorishness is wise If he
| disnisses the matter as of no conse-
quence. This is precisely what Mr..
Bryan did when the college boys of
New Haven allowed their animal spir-
it's to get the better of their discretion.
He laughed the matter off for he knew
that 1t signified nothing.
flise fepuDllCanS take an entirely OPP
posite course, and are attempting to
pose for sympathy. Hanna and Lodge
are working desperately to secure po-
| litical capital out of the Colorado cpl
sode, but their attempt is so childish
that they are succeeding only in maxi
/ ing themselves ridiculous. This at
| tempt is of a piece with the frequently
recurring story that a plot to assassin
ate President Mckinley has been dis
]. covered. The last manifestation of
the cry baby policy is the yarn about
a piece of ice being hurled through the
top of a tent in which Hanna was
speaking. The story has been told in
various shapes until, for republican
campaign purposes it now masquer-
AIDES as a Titantic effort to crush the
| life out OF the republican chieftain AS
a matter of fact some mischevious
boys dropped fragment of ice upon
the platform on which Hanna was
speaking.
The cry baby" campaign is dis
astrous failure as ii should be- The
American people take no stock in such
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