The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-11-02
Observations of Capital Correspond
emit on Roosevelt end
Hanna.
RANKINGS OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS.
Working People of New York Have
No Use for ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Skulking In Pryan's Territory
Financial Operators Are Against
Bryan.
Especial correspondenee.l


Roosevelt's western trip has injured
his voice enough that his New York
campaign may be curtailed. New York
shows every indication of going demo
cratic, and Roosevelt is likely to in
crease the Bryan vote by going over
the same territory this week.
The working people of New York
state have no use for Gov. Roosevelt.
He has always posed TO the public as
an objector TO sweat shops, yet during
his term of office he reappointed an in
spector of licenses who was VIGOROUSLY
in league with the contractors who
sweat" the tenement house workers.
Large quantities of ready-made cloth
ing are manufactured in the tenement
district of New York ty. Wage-work-
ers of all classes and many other citi-
zens have for years labored to sepa-
rate the home and the workshop. This.
partly for the benefi. of the workers
and partly to protect the public health.
1t was found that garments made in
sweat shops are ready carriers of the
disease germs with which they were
v
homes of the tenement house workers.
After many years of effort laws had
been passed regulating the manufac-
ture of clothing in these districts.
Each contractor was obliged to COM
ply with certain conditions and take
out license. The license inspector
was the judge whether the law was
being observed or not. His position
is one of great Importance. Yet
Roosevelt reappointed man who was
known to favor the contractors and
wink at wholesale evasion of law.
Then, too, Roosevelt will have an
opportunity in New York city and
state to explain to the wage-workers
why he favors government by in
junction. He cannot deny that he did
so in an article he wrote to the Re-
view of Reviews two years ago. The
files of the magazine are easily OBJ
tainable.
Next Roosevelt will have the pleas
ure of explaining to the inhabitants
of trust-dismantled towns how that
condition makes them prosperous
There are a number of towns in New
York state where the trusts have
closed factories and practically wiped
out the town.
For Roosevelt to Explain.
The farmers in that state will be
pleased to hear Roosevelt explain why
he did not punish the canal ring
thieves, as he pledged himself to do
before being elected governor. All
the citizens viii desire some explana-
tion of why he has Systematically
neglected his duties as governor for
the last two months in order to prance
about the country in a rough rider
suit and tell tales of his bravery
which originated solely in his own
imagination.
1t will be interesting to know why
Gov. Roosevelt has not prosecuted
the ice trust, about which he talks
so volubly when he is outside of his
own state. 1t will be only fair for
him to admit at home, that major
ity of the stockholders in the afore-
said trust are republicans. While he
is about it he might tell the public
confidentially why he has not pub
Hshed Mayor Van Wyck's letter to him
in relation to the ice trust, forwarded
at least two weeks ago.
just at this season of the wear the
coal trust is occupying more space in
the public mind than the ice trust.
Roosevelt might explain why Hanna
has not actually secured that bepgar-
ly ten per cent. advance in wages for
the coal miners. More than a week
ago Perry Heath announced to an
awe-stricken public that Hanna held
the whole situation in the hollow of
his capacious hand, and that he bv his
might as a political boss had forced
the coal combine TO give the men an
advance in wages. Now Roosevelt. be-
ing next to Hanna, the most promi-
nent republican in evidence, might tell
us just how it happens that the
miners are still out of employment,
and the public is paying two dollars a
ton more for coal than it did four
weeks ago, when the strike began.
Hanna's Bravado.
Hanna found the management of
the republican campaign so little to
his taste this year that he could not
deny himself the satisfaction of go
ing into Bryan's country-when the
latter was absent-and abusing and
villifying him. Likewise Hanna trav-
eled over Senator Pettigrew's country.
but lacked courage to meet his fell
low senator in joint debate. 1t is
noticeable that Hanna failed to dis
prove any of the statements aoout his
own political crookedness that Petit
grew had spread on the congressional
record during the closing days of the
session. Hanna has increased the fu-
sion vote In both South Dakota and
Nebraska. 1t is pity be cannot be
induced to speak in his home state.
The workingmen of Cleveland are anx-
ious to ask him few questions. They
have ready the record of his blacklist
and destruction of the Lake Seamen's
union. They want TO ask him about
ha I.