The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-11-09
MILES ROASTED
THE PRESIDENT
THE GENERAL SUPPLIED DEMO
GRATIS WITH THE CAMPAIGN
LETTER THEY WANTED.

NEW YORK, oct. 23.-General Miles
President Roosevelt which August Bel
mont, Patrick Henry McCarren, and
William +. Sheehan, manager of Par
ker's campaign, have been looking for.
1t is addressed to civil war veteran,
Finley Anderson, at Cold Spring, N. Y,
in answer to the one recently received
by the former head of the army The
letter is in part as follows:
1--WE have now reached the parting
of the ways, and the question whether
we shall continue that glorious career
which our fathers inaugurated and our
comrades, living and dead, preserved,
or whether we shall take that other
course which has been fatal to other
republics in the worlds history, must
be determined by the sovereign act of
our people on the Sth of next NoVem-
ber Our fathers, in establishing the
government, with cOnsummate wisdom
created three great coordinate branch
es-the legislative, executive and judi
cial. The history O. our country shows
that for more than one hundred years
political parties have existed; and now
to assume that there is but one party,
composed of approximately one-half of
the voters, that is fit or qualified to
administer the executive branch of the
government, and that even in that par
ty there is but one man qualified to
hold the highest position, is utterly I'M
warranted, and, in fact, a serious re-
Election upon the intelligence and pat
riotism of the American citizen.
Il assume that members of one par
ty are just as conscientious, sincere,
and honest as those of the other, and
have just as much right to their opin-
ions and will perform their political
duties with as much integrity.
IF we have reached the condition in
which there is but one party or class
that can be trusted with the duties of
the executive department, and only one
individual qualified to exercise the
powers Of the highest position, then we
have reached a condition of arlstocracy
and Imperialism that is only found or
tolerated in despotic countries.
THE danger of imperialism was
awakened some years ago i'm the minds
of men, many of them the prominent
leaders and founders of the Repub-
lican party. At first this idea was
scoffed at and ridiculed. Yet the ten
dency toward Capitalization, the eXal-
tation of the executive branch of the
government to the prejudice of the 9TH
er two, has caused a feeling of concern
not only i'm the minds of a few indi-
viduals, but in the great mass of hon
est, patriotic people to the extent that
it now is one of the chief elements of
| discussion by the Democratic party
and is a matter of deep concern in the
minds and hearts of many in the Re-
publican party.
"On the banks of the noble Hudson
there dwells an eminent citizen, a
courtly gentleman, a distinguished
patriot, a profound statesman, just
Judge, who, if elected President OF
these United States, will carry to that
responsible office dignity, ability and
high character and his administration
/ know, will be marked by patriotism
! integrity, and earnest efforts, not only
| to promote the welfare of the people
now living within our borders but ia
! preserve for those who shall follow us
! this blessed inheritance within the
| bounds prescribed by the fathers who
! founded our great republic"