The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-15
GONE TO ROosT.

The New York Sun, after flying all
around the barnyard. lighting occas sion
ally to belabor and peck at the nearest
chicken Of the masculine gender; then
once more on the wing, a cantankerous,
e-tempered rooster II ever there
was one, has at last found a perch
The limb Is labeled Roosevelt and
Fairbsnks" On this limb The Sun is
busy smoothing out It's feathers, pick.
ing of the mud 1t has acquired in its
multitudinous encounters and associa-
lions with all kinds of political chick
ems, Republicans. Democrats. Mug
wumps and Beast Butterflies.
Il not The Sun the property of J.
| Pierpont Morgan? That Is commonly
understood in New York to be the case.
| The Suns decision to embrace and sup
port Roosevelt 1t Is undoubtedly one
OF the brightest papers in the United
| States, and the keenness and vigor of
its satire have never been SO manifest
as while during the past year 1t has
/
the candidate it has now determined to
support The average dictionary did
did supply language sufficiently pictur.
esque and bitter and the reader was
sent scurrying to the oxford Dictioa.
| airy to learn just how deplorably law
| less, dangerous and hateful the paper
considered Roosevelt to be. The Dem.
ocratic campaign committee would be
well advised to make UP pamphlet OF
| these utterances of The Sun.
why the flop? Does J. Pierpont Nor
gan own The Sun? If he does, the ex-
PLANTATION is not difficult. 1t is true the
| Administration assaulted one of Nor
gans bigger interests in the Northern
| Securities case; but Commissioner
| Prouty pof the Interstate Commerce
Commission. himself Republican. has
| assured the country that not one thing
was In fact accomplished by the de-
| cisioh in that case. And with the
| har ding down of the opinion. the De-
| partmcnt of Justice announced through
Attorney General Knox that 1t would
| not run amuck, and since then, so far
as trusts are concerned, has been souEd
asleep. The work in that case was
| theatrical and for show entirely. some
thing furnished to amuse the gallery.
Having accomplished that purpose.
Roosevelt turned to make terms and
| achieve peace with the very men he
had pretended he would relentlessly
pursue with all the powers of law
| Morgan has been at the White House,
| Morgan's right hand man. George w.
Perkins, has been in conference with
Friday Cortelyou. Has The SUMS sup
port been won without a sacrifice? Not
certainly without the giving of many
| promises of good behavior in the flu
| ture. Indeed. in announcing its adhe-
| sion to the Republican cause. The Sun
distinctly warns the President, 1t. or
Mr.. Morgan. will expect him to be as
quick and well behaved all the time
as he is just at present.
The amusing feature of this particu-
lar Incident is that these specimens
Of what Roosevelt when a member of
the New York Legislature called "the
| criminal rich Glass; should really
| think they can tie down that bundle OF
nerves with promises. He would barter
his soul to be President again, but that
Is not to say he would not try to re-
claim 1t. He has surrendered in n
most disgraceful fashion every seri-
| Gus conviction he professed to enter :
tain, and this to secure the support of
| the regulars. the stand -patters. Can
they trust do they trust, him? Novem-
| Der will tell the tale. For ourselves,
we confidently believe, dispassionately
judging the man, that If he should be
elected he will enter upon course Of
adventure such as will take away
the breath of the conservative citizen
and shock and alarm the world.