The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-06-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence Of Intclligcncer

Washington, d. c., June Is. 1908.
Just few words with President
Roosevelt. Is he backing up his words
with deeds? He said in his speech at
Denison. Iowa, on June 2: II think
you will do me the justice to say that
do not say what I do not mean. !
l would not say on the stump. So
what say now you can take as sin-
cere."
So, you admit, Afr. President, that
your two mOnths' swing around the
circle was stumping tour pure and
simple. Now, then, In view of your
article, written in 1900 and published
IN the Youths Companion last Noyeln
Der, on the duties and responsibilities
of the President of the United States,
in which you said "there arc few har-
der tasks than that of filling we'll and
and ably this high office, do you think
1t entirely proper for President to
leave. his post for more than two
months at a time to stump the country
for his own nomination and election?
Had you presidential stumping tours
IN mind when you said at that time
the President should be held 10 a
strict accountability alike for what
ne does and for what he leaves un-
donef"
Were you q sincere free trader when
you were n member Of the New York
Free Trade Club in tho early sos and
when you said you would "die for free
your letter OF resignation to the Sec
retary, MIR. 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 to go over to the
enemy, Plntt and the professional
politicians" whom yOu were elected to
night and against whom you expressed
great hatred? Was it not purely and
simply to promote your political am
Dltlons? Are you willing now to repeat
your FREQ trade speeches on the stump7
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?
One year ago DIR. Schurman, one of
your good republican friends, gave ma
the campaign slogan for 1904 of tho
three Rs-"ROosevelt Reciprocity and
Revision" of the tariff. If, as GENERAL
ly supposed. DIR. Schurman then cor
rectly summarized your position on the
tariff, as gathered from your New Eng
land speeches, are you willing to re-
peat those speeches now? II not, why
nOt9
ls there any truth in the widely pub
!lsheu statements that the Protective
Tariff League people "changed" your
views when they informed you, lust
before you left Washington on April 1,
that It you did not cease to talk revi-
sion they would prevent your nomi-
natiOnq
Are you now willing, Mr. President.
TO say on the stump what you said of
union workmen in the Review of Re-
views OF September, 1907 You then
said: "Tho men who object to what
they style government by Injunction
are, as regards the essential principles
OF government, in hearty sympathy
with their remote skin clad ancestors
who lived in caves, fought one another
with stone headed axes, and ate the
mammoth and woOlly Rhinoceros."
they are interesting as representing
geological survival, but they arc dan
gerous Whsnever there ia the least
chance OF their making the priuC::clee
of this ages buried past living facfors
in our present life.
They are not Id sympathy with
men ,oi good minds and sound civic
morality"
Why were you not repeating on
your recent stumping- tour what You
said of the farmers and mechanics and
HoT1men Honting T1a;,;E7, IN your "Ranch Life and
You there said that although the
broken by weeks of brutal dissipa-
tiOn." yet '.they are much better fell
lows .sad pleaeanter companions than
email farmers or agricultural laborers;
nor are the mechanice and wOrkmer Of
3 great city to be mentioned in The
same breath"
If YOU will chow your eineetlty By
repeating on the. stump what you kavb
said of free trade, OF unibh %orkmeh
and fnrrners, we will not usk you about
isef when YOU IL APPOINTED Al % sd' Payne Paw eeiE and
Clarkspn to high Office, or IL you thirk
1t. entirely proper for the President,
who every year must Sign many bills
affecting the railroads, to ride in pri-
vate cars at the expense Of these same
railroads.
Words are good when backed up by
deeds: and only 3d." az you told us, MIR.
fresldent. IN one OF your speeches last
July. 1t is up to you.
A little trick of the Presidents dur
ing his sewing around the circle was
to give to the Associated Press repre-
sentative accompanying him type
written copies of his address to be de-
livered at any given point, to be sent
out broadcast over the country as the
speech he delivered there. That
ana edited. 1t was not the speech he
delivered, hoWev by long shot.
MIR. Roosevelt said many things in his
speeches that did not reach the people
Of the country. and things he did not
want the country at large to hear. He
was caught ct his little game by the
Butte. Montana. Miner. That paper
~ n Of A1vS k<~t
velt and took his speech down YER
batim, and it differed materially from