Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-09-09
HILL ON ROOSEVELT.

| The New Yorker Abandons PYine1ples
to vilify the President.
| Evidence multiplies that the Dsms.
cratic party will decline to discuss poll
tics or principles In the present cam
paign, but, 20 far a. local conditions
permit, will confine itself to critics.
ing President Roosevelt Ex-Senatos
David B. Hill, who poses ~ the diS
coverer and wet nurse of the Democratic
| nominee, in opening the campaign In
New York State last week deliberately
abandoned one Of the chief planks Of ths
st. Louis platform when he said:
Il do not care to say much about the
tariff question, because Il 10 one -
which very few of us agree"
So the denunciation of protection - .
robbery" il to be relegated to the scrap
heap Of irrevocabiy exploded campaign
nOstrums, along with the heAven-ssnt
ratio of 10 to l and the crime Of '73s
Senator Hill also concurrsd with the
silent crytogram Of Esopus that, the
coinage question il settled" not a. hs
explains, through Republican legisla.
ton, not by the edict of the American
people twice expressed at National cleo.
tons, but by the act of Almighty God
the last few years. From which II 10
legitimate to infer that the Boer war
that for two years stopped the gold
production of South Africa, and the labor
war in Colorado that has partially par.
alyzed the gold yield of that State, would
be classed by Senator Hill A. acts Of
Almighty God" to limit the supply Of
gold or to rehabilitate an irrsvocablV
settled issue.
Having cleared the decks Of the tro1
blesome questions of sound currency and
protection of American industry, Soma,
tor Hill numbered the batteries Of VOL
fcrt's Roost upon Theodore Roosevelt
He told his audience that the President
was "a fraud," but shrewdly withheld
any specifications. He asserted that 10
had had experience with the Republican
candidate when he Child was lieutsnant
and Roosevelt was in the Legis
lature, where he was constantly trim
ming"
As Z matter of fact, Mr.. Roosevelt
was 4 member of the New York Assem-
bly,, and Lieutenant Governor Hill, a.
presiding officer of the State Senate, haA
40 opportunity to gavel the Troublesome
Republican reformer off the floor.
But, waving the baseless assumption
II knowledge ON Mr.. Hills part. he
hould have specified the nature of the
trimming in which Assemblyman Roos~
'elt was constantly engaged. There are
runners and trimmers. There are
politicians like David B,
Hill, for instance, whose entire public
ife has been spent trimming his sails
? catch the Tammany gales that riot
round New York City. And there are
Their trimmers whose work is done with
onest shears cutting of onlcial sxcres
ences here, clipping the claws of danger
US beasts there, and everywhere per
orming the highest service to the people
nd to the State.
Assemblyman Roosevelt's service T.
lew York was of the latter description.
he work he did for the reform of the
ublic service in the State and county q
lew York in 1882 1884 was an earnest
what he was to achieve In broader
elds as he grew in years and experience
% claim of infallibility has ever been
rged for him. But his motives and
lethods have always been 20 honest
bove board and straight forward that
ley naturally aroused the antagonism
nd censure of David B. Hill, who has
ever pursued Z straight course II
'ooked, underground passage was avail
ole.
Ex-senator Hill says he prefers the
lent judicial Parker to the aggressive
oossvslt 1t would be strange IL he ~
It.
President Roosevelt has nothing =
ar from David B. Hill, except his euls.
es- Should he win these he nigh
ell begin to suspect himself.