The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-16
RCOSEYfLTS INSINCER-
ITY IS SHOW UP
Called Down On His Ere.
Trade" Proposition
His Speeches
correspondence q DaI., LeadeI

Correspondence to Daily Leader
Washington, D. c., June 6.-Just
p few words with President Roosevelt.
Is he backing up his words with
deedsl He said in his speech at Deni-
son. Iowa, on June q u think you
viii do me the justice to say that I 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 a stumping tour pure AMI
simple. Now, then. in view of your
article, written in 1900 and published
in the Youths Companion last Novem-
her, on the duties and responsibilities
of the president of the United States
in which you said there are few
harder tasks than that Of filling well
and ably this high Office, do you
think It entirely proper for a presi-
dent to leave his post for more than
two months at time to stump the
country for his own nomination and
election? Had you presidential stump
ing ta'irs in mind when you said at
that time "the president should be
held to a strict accountability alike for
what he does and for wat he leaves
nndoneR"
Were you a sincere free trader
when you we're a member of the New
York Free Trade club iE the early
SOS and when you said you would
die for free trader If so, how do
you explain your letter of resignation
to the secretary, Mr.. Poultney Bige-
low, written after you had decided 20
desert the Independents, who had
elected you to the New York legisla.
ture. and when =ou had decided to go
over to the enemy. Platt and the pro
fessioncl politicians whom you were
elected to fight and against whom You
expressed great hatred? Was it not
purely and simply to promote your
political ambitions? Are you willing
now to repeat your free trade speeches
on The stump? You say you are al
ways willing to say on the stump whas
you say off of it, You are now play
iLg the Republican; when will the
free trade performance begin?
One year ago DR.. schurman, one Of
your good Republican friends. gave us
the campaign slogan fer 1904 of the
three Roosevelt, Reciprocity and
Revision Of the .arin If, as generally
supposed Or. Schurman then correct
ly summarized your position on the
tariff, as gathered from your New
England speeches, are you willing tC
repeat those speeches now? If not
why not?
Is there any truth in the widely pub
lished statements that the Protective
Tariff league people changed" your
views when they informed you. iusi
before you left Washington on Apri
1, that if you did not cease to talk
revision they would prevent your
nomination?
Are you now willing, Mr.. President
to say on the stump what you said o.
union workmen in the Review of Re
views Of September. 1862 You the
said: "rhe men who object to whsi
the style government by injunction
are, as regards the essential principles
of government. in hearty sympathy
with their remote skin-cIad ancestors
who lived in caves, fought one another
with stone-headed aes, and ate ths
mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.'
They are interesting as representa-;
a geological survival, but they arr
dangerous whenever there is the leas
chance Of their making the principles