The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-23
PATrERsoN AND RoosEvrLr.

mas donS good service Tn coiiectlnE ana collating extracts from the various writ ings and speeches of President Roosevelt. These extracts have to do with quite a variety of topics and undoubtedly throw strong light on the mental operations and character of the man. It will not do to say inconsistencies can be shown In every public man: that the wholly con- sistent man is fool: that Roosevelt has proved his manhood by changing his views when he had mastered all the facts. Mir. Patterson's arraignment goes farther and helps us to comprehend the nature of the President. He proves him to be both defamer and shuffler.
 Let us see what he shows. taking the Congressman's statements in the order followed in his speech in the House. New York" the President says. ''has always had low political standard He found one-third of his associates in the legislature where open to corrupt infiu- ences in some form or other And again. lone or the other of it's great parties and factional organizations. and often both or all of them. being at all times most unlovely bodies of excessively unwholo- some moral tone"
 In the matter of his predecessors in his office he damns Monroe as a "fgurehead, Van Buren for his crafty interruptions ness" and words fail him in his abuse oi that .'sheer accident" Tyler. Polk was next to 'the smallest of the line of small Presidents who came in between Jackson and Lincoln" Pierce becomes "a small politician, of low capacity and mean sur roundings. proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself Buchanan is "a timid, shifty and selfish politician In fact he has spared no deceased predecessor. except such as were Federalists or whigs. even Jefferson be- coming scholarly timid and shifty doctrinaire.~
 Mir. Patterson then goes on to set out Roosevelt's opinions in favor of strenu- ous life and against the timid good and Quakers. adding his rap at Senator Till mans brother as one who never wore az overcoat or an undershirt in his life.
 As to the tariff there was no difficulty in proving Roosevelt's gross inconsistency He was for years member of the Cob den Club and has frequently arraigned the doctrine of protection in his writings He now stands ready to abandon outright not only his earlier beliefs, but his pledge at Buffalo to carry out Mckinley! policies. He has denounced colony talk ing even the Mexican war was to hin bloody and unrighteous" and he ha: actually participated in recent years IT taking over any earth hands could b' placed upon and even now. it Is wei known plans descent upon San Domin go. He was bitter against pension leg islation. passed nominally in the in terest of veterans, but really througl demagogy and the machinations of specu lators," and has taken the country breath away by his recent blanket exten sion order as to veterans entitled to l place on the pension rolls. The sam may be said of his conduct with respec to the civil service. Lastly he has com mended lynching in the West and ha savagely denounced it in the South.
 This is no common record of inconsist ency and as we have said throws stron
 light upon the man himself. Granted
 was sincere in everything he has said o
 written. when he said or wrote then
 what Is the American people to thin
 when it is seriously proposed. to them t
 keep such man in the Presidency he does not know his own mind fror one days end to the other. how are the
 to know it. He becomes to them yer
 decided risk. He is too impulsive. to rash. too prone to consider all moralit as summed up in what I want done There is not one in the line of President whom he has so carelessly maligned wh did not possess greater intellectua force than Roosevelt does and not on | who ever so habitually erected his ow
 will into sovereign moral law. Senate Carmack has we'll described him as ., horse whose habitual gait is runnin | away"