The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-02
to be investigated.

MT. Cortelyou. formerly your private secretary, was at the head of the De- partment of / Commerce, just long enough to acquire by "diligent investi- useful to the filler of your campaign chest The public does not share this information. There Is no evidence that the law officers of the government are making use of it to suppress and punish such odious and oppressive monopolies as the Beef Trust-which controls the greater portion of the meat supply of SO.O00, 900 people. But ex-private ana ex-public Secretary Cortelyou-Chalr man Cortelyou of your Campaign Com mittee-no doubt knows all that the law enabled him to learn of the inner workings of the potential campaign contributors!
 What save a consuming ambition to be elected President in your own right could have led you to shift your suc- cessful trust prosecutor to Quay's place as a trust agent in the Senate, and to convert your confidential private secretary and trust investigator into d campaign trust fatfryer, in place of Mark Hanna, deceased?
 You boast that never has the ad- ministration of the government been on a cleaner and higher level" We appeal to all honest men whether In the annals of our government there was ever a grosser abuse of power,
  principled defiance of decent public opinion than is this transfer of an ot- ace investigator and curber of great corporations to be collector of cam- paign funds from them!
 You say that you earnestly desire friendship with all the nations of the New and Old World" and that you think peace is right as well as ad : vantageous." Can you wonder that th Ry1a hor1 n raH0RniZp these pacific utterances the Roosevelt they have known hitherto? short time ago, in urging the creation or an even larger navy, the advice you was: Speak softly. but carry a big stick" Is the man who habituaily does this generally seeking peace?' Do you think that the other nations or President of this Republic. really de sired peace and friendship" with them when you wrote in your letter to the Cuban dinner:
 themselves well can count upon our hearty friendiiness. If a nation shows that 1t knows how to act with decency in industrial and political matters. if then 1t need fear no interference from the United States Brutal wrong d J. ing or an impotence which results in the general loosening of the ties of clVllIZe1 society may TtQuifO intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the United States cannot ignore its duty.
 Is not this unmistakably threat that if any of the republics of Central or South America fails to act with de- cency"-you being the judge-or if Y fails to keep and pay its obligations" Gas some of the States of our Union have failed to pay). 1t need fear ne interference rom the United States;' but that If any or all Of these States fail to live up to your stapuard Of or der and morality y,'>'ctviltzed society may finally require intervention" and that then the United States cannot ig nore its duty?"
 In other words, you propose that you, as President of the United States, snail constitute yourself the Supervisor and Sponsor of all the turbulent chron republics of the Western Hemisphere. and will undertake to make them 'act with decency' and pay their debts Co the bondholders, spectators and usur- CTS Of Europe.
 Can even. the widest imagination conceive more grotesque, preposter- ous and dangerous perversioH of the Monroe doctrine than Is contained in this extraordinary proposition? It combines the humbug of Barnum with the hypocrisy of Uriah Heep-and all to prove. as you say in your speech, that the non interference doctrine of
 
 If there could bc devised a more eff. fective perpetual invitation to war aad trouble than this policy holds out. the imagination of diplomatists and tne cumulative instinct of soldiers looking for fight have not yet conceived 1t. Can you wonder that the conserva- tive business men of the country, who above all need stability and security in l their affairs. want a President in the White House whose temperament. train . ing and character will enable them to go to sleep at night without fear of waking on any morning and learning from startling headlines in the news papers that the President has de- spatched warships to Turkey, Morocco, Venezuela. China or where not, on in sufficient information or with impos sible demands-or has been cabling buncombe messages that he wants 'Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead" or ordering some of our Southern neigh bors to "act decently" and pay their debts?" \
 These being the results. the tenden- cies and the dangers of your adminio- tration and your policy, are we not right in saying that the para mount is- sue of the election is whether YOU. NIT. PresidentA shall have vote of approval confidence and encoura cement to go on in the course you have marked out . You should have tho right to accept your election as a warrant from tbc neoDIe to continue. to increase and to intensity the Executive acts which have amazed and alarmed the friends of peaceful lawful and safe administra- tion.
 Our faith in the intelligence. the common sense and the conscience ot the American people Is too great to believe