Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-06-17
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence of the counxH.



words with deedsl He said i'm his
speech at Denison, Iowa, on June
2: Il think you will do me the
Justice To 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 A.
round the circle was a stumping
tour pure and simple. Now, then.
IN view of your article, written in
1900 and published in the Youth's
Companion last November. on the
duties and responsibilities of the
President of the United States. in
which yon said there are few har-
der tasks than that of filling well
and ably" this high office, do ycu
think it entirely proper for Pres
ident to leave his post for more
than two months at time to stump
the country for his own nomina-
ton and elections Had you pre-
sidential stumping tours in mind
when you said at that time 1.-THE
President should be held TO strict
accountability alike for what he
does and for what he leaves UNI
done Z"
Were you sincere free trader
when you were a member of the
New York Free Trade Club i'm the
early SOS and when you said YOU
would die for free trader" If
so, how do YOU explain your letter
of resignation 10 the Secretary,
Mr.. Poultney Bigelow, written
after YOU had decided to desert the
Independents, who had elected YOU
To the New York Legislature and
when you had decided 10 40 over
10 the enemy, Platt and the pro
fessiOnal politicians" whom Won
were elected to fight and against
whom you expressed great hatred
Was it not purely and simply to
promote your political ambition
Are y0u willing now to repeat
your free trade speeches on the
stump. You say you are always
willing To say ON the stump what
YOU say off Of it, You are now
playing the Republican, when will
the free trade performance begin Z
One year ago DIR, Schurman, one
0f your good Republican friends,
gave Us the campaign slogan for
1904 of the three R's-"RooSevelt.
Reciprocity and Revision" of the
tariff. If, as generally supposed,
DIR. Schurman then correctly sum
married. your position on the tariff,
as gathered from your New Eng
land speeches, are YOU willing to
repeat those Speeches now! If
n9f, why net!
IS there any truth in the widely
Rqblishled statement that the Bro
tsctiye Tariff League peopIe
"chaqged your tiews" when they
informed Won, Just before YOU left
Washington en- April l, that if YOU
did not cease TO talk revision they
wanld preVeRt Xo4r nomination .
Are you not willing, Mr., Presis
dent, Ia say on the stump what
you said OF union workmen In the
Review Of Reviews OF September.
1895. You then said: "The men
who object 10 what they style
government by Injunction are, rs
regards the essential principles of
government. in hearty sympathy
with their remote Skin-clad ances-
tors who lived in caves, fought
one another with stone-headed
axes, and ate the mammoth and
woolly rhinoceros. They are in
teresting as representing a geolog-
ical survival, but they are danger
aus &hR.Re%AF hafg' Is. fhS1 lISalst
sha4ce OF their making the princl-
piss IF this ages-bqFiled past LIVING
faatqrs IN qqn present HE:
"FheF arc not in sympathy with
men of good minds and sound civic
morality"
Why were you not repeating on
your recent stamping tour what
you said of the farmers and me-
chanics and workmen i'm your
Ranch Life and Hunting Traill"
You there Sold that a,tkonsn tao
eo&p8ysSk9 FBaghYidsts 'might'bS
Broken 81 weeks of brutal idisssfi-
GaaHfo,,PlRi.ss Yet :thsssy are I much bet
TAP fellows ana. BlrasaNser soIHRAB,
1873 t tIa9a small small farmers e!s or agr!l-.
cultural llabB99rrsrs; nor are tbs me-
chanics and wOrkmen of n syreat