The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-01


and, Failing in This, Secured Can.
dictate Of Their Own.
(By Thomas w. Lawson.)
CWritten in Everybody's Magazine in
reply to a letter which asked him
why he supported Roosevelt1
am going to vote for Theodore
Roosevelt for president of the United
States, and with all my heart l pray
God that he will be elected. Partisan
politics is no part of my story. and
would not now enter upon the subject.
especially on the eve of national
election, if / had not. in the light OF
many such letters as yours. come to
believe it a sacred duty. While ] am
Republican by birth, education. envir-
onment and habit, l am one of those
Americans whose blood thrills at the
war cry of but one great party. 'ruy
country's." 1t is of no moment to me
whether a nan be Republican. a
Democrat, or Bryanite, provided he
is above all these IAN American"
Either Theodore Roosevelt or Alton
B. Parker is TO be the next president of
the United States, and il my opinion
it is a solemn duty for every man who
puts his love of country beyond all
else to vote for one or the other. be-
cause in this particular election there
are most vital principles at stake.
Ordinarily it is right and proper Tor the
Populist the Socialist. and the Prohi-
btionist TO register his vote for the
principle he believes in, even though
he knows it will not influence the
election of either OF the leaders of the
two great parties. but not so this year.
If Theodore Roosevelt is not elected
Alton b. Parker will be, and if he is
what will his election mean to the
people of America?
Standard Oil Against Roosevelt.
Now what will happen if Parker is
elected?
In answering | will not guess will
state facts, things know to be facts.
Theodore Roosevelt, while president
of the United States, refused TO allow
Standard Oil to run MIN, and Standard
Oil got hotter and hotter; but not
daring to rage openly, how they did
spit fire ION the quiet" If l have lis
tened once. | have listened twenty
times while Mr. rogers raved at that
- well, | won't use his exact
language. it wouldn't be respectful to
our president.
At last as i'll all such cases, there
came an absolutely not to be borne
ri; Nd
| Theodore Roosevelt was on the "sys-
TENS" blacklist until eternity. Mr.
| Rogers called me to New York in con-
nection with some other business.
| found him in a terribly excited mood
What do you think that fellow Roose-
welt has done nov? Young John
| Rockefeller telegraphed him To give
all audience to Archibold on the trust
matter. Roosevelt saw be had us and
| played some OF his dirty politics. He
! sent tor The manager Of the Western
Associated Press anu had him agree
| to publish the elegram in the west
| keeping II ont OF the east. and to pub
| lish il as having been sent by Mr.
I Rockefeller instead OF that unthinking
| boy and. of course. you have seen it
| in the papers; it's everywhere how he
! kicked Standard Oil out of the White
house. That is his last insult 10 us,
and We will defeat him at any cost"
How Parker Was Selected.
From that time on Mr.. Rogers able
| brain was working day and night, first
I to get John Hay to run against Roose-
welt, next Root, then Mark Hanna, but
owing TO one of those complicated en-
| tanglements that old Dame Fate now
and then reels out of her crotchet bas-
ket to the bewilderment of slick NOR
tails, his efforts went for naught and he
was compelled to fall back on a more
dangerous and expensive plan. He
laid ont on his campaign table the
most available" (what worlds OF eel
skin political piety those two words
coyer!) Democrats, and II didn't take
| him long to make his selection of q
man who would. if president of the
| United States. allow those who put
him there to run the shop"
| When his selection was made he
called in his faithful hired man. Sena-
| tor Pat" McCarren. of Brooklyn. N.
Y. and gave his orders, the same kind
OF orders as he gives for the purchase
of an oil well or the knocking In the
head of a business rival. or the setting
| M of an amalgamated knock-down-
| aad-irag -out-"Go here" Go. there,"
Buy this," Sell that" 'Billy Shee.
han to captain that company, and
| Dave Hill TO dig that mime S
Parker Machine Well Made. <,
In short order the venture was all
| covered to its finality. and there has
| never been slip of a cog or the IN.
| gearing ~ wheel that was not fore.
seen and provided for. To try to balk
| a part of his game I posted BRYAN in