Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-06-18
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speech at Denison, Iowa, on June 2:
II think you do me the justice 10
say that | do not say what ! do not
mean. | never said anything off the
stump that | would not say on the
stump. So what say now you can
take as sincere. /"
So. you admit, Mr. President, that
your two months swing around the
circle was u stamping tour, pure and
simple. Now then, in view OF your
article, written in 1900 and publish
ed in the Youths Companion last
November, en- the duties and res
possibilities OF the President of the
United States, in which you said
there are few harder tasks than
that of filling well and ably" this
Office, do you think il entirely prop
er for President to leave his post
for more than two months ut a time
TO stump the country for his own
nomination and election Had you
presidential stumping tours in mind
when you said that time 1.-THE Pres
ident should be held to a strict ac-
countability alike for what he does
and for what he leaves undone p
We're you sincere free trader
when yon were a member of the
New York Free Trade Club in the
Early sos and when you said that
you would die for free trade ?" If
so, how do you explain your letter
of resignation to the secretary, Mr..
Poultney Bigelow, written after you
had decided to desert the Indepen-
dents, who had elected you 10 the
New York Legislature, and when
you had decided to go over to the
enemy, Platt and the professional
politicians whom you were elected
to fight and against whom you ex-
pressed great hatred i? Was it not
purely and simply to promote your
political ambitions 7 Are you will
ing now TO repeat your free trade
speeches on the stump You say
you are always willing TO say on
the stump what you say of of it.
You are now playing the republican !;
when will the free tFada parferm-
ance begin?
One year ago DIR. Schurman, one of
your good republican friends. gave
as the campaign slogan for 1904 of
the three r 's-"Roosevelt, Reciproc-
ity and Revision" of the tariff. If
as generally supposed, DIR. Schur-
man then correctly summarized your
position on the tariff, as gathered
from your New England speeches,
are you willing to repeat those
speeches now? If not, why not?
Is there any truth in the widely
published statements that the Pro
tective Tariff League people chang
ed your views when they informed
you that if you did not cease to talk
revision they would prevent your
nomination
Are you now willing, Mr.. Presi-
dent. to say on the stump what you
said of union workmen in the Re-
view of Reviews of September 1896?
You then said: THE men ,cho object
to 'chot they style government Jy iajiunc-
ton are, as regards the essential
principles of government, ia hearty
sympathy ruth their remote SL,in-cIad an
cestors ,chO Hred IN cares, fought one
another tCth StoHe-hed,ied aces, and q
he mammoth and ,cooNy rLiaoceros.
They are interesting as represent
ing geological survival, but hey
are dangerous whenever there is the |
least chance of their making the |
of this buried past |
living factors in our present life.
They are not in sympathy with
men of good minds and sound civic
Why were you not repeating on
your recent stumping tour what
you said OF the farmers and me-
chanics and workmenin your Ranch
ifa onI u,xr3srr. T.1:I -
You there said that although the
and roughriders might be
broken by weeks of brutal dissipa-
Iion." yet they are much batter tel-
o'os and pieasdRter companions than
small farmers or agricultural iaLorerx:
aor are the mechanics aud tcorkmea OIL
. great city TO Be mentioned IN The same
bFcdth.
Ii you will show your sincerity
oy repeating on the stump what you
have said of free trade, of union
workmen and farmers. we will not
ask you about your sincerity as IA
,ivia service reformer when you ap-
pointed Payne and Clarkson to high
office,- or il you think it entirely
proper for the President, who every
year must sign many bills affecting
he railroads, 10 ride in private cars
II the expense of these same rail-
roads.