The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-11
THE CASE FOR ROOSEVELT.
As Stated by Paper that Dislikes
 Some of His Policies.

AS ctdteu Dy Fa3ef that OlsHkeS
 Some of His Policies.
 The opposition to President Roosevelt originates from source which should not give it strong standing before the better elements of his party.
 President Roosevelt has made mis- takes which are grounds for legitimate opposition and attack. He has handled the negro question with lack of discre- ton. The hostile view is that he tried to gain delegates by codding the negro; we prefer to assume that 1t was chiv- alric, if mistaken, idea which impeled him to open an insoluble problem-in- soluble by any political action.
 President Roosevelt in the Panama business has discarded all his ideals, has violated the principles and prece- dents of the Republic. Preaching exal- ted justice, constantly declaring with the utmost emphasis on all occasions that the ideas of justice and morality are just as closely applicable to the con- duct of governments as to private con- duct, he has approved despoliation of q friendly republican attack which, in it's elements and results, was strictly piraatical-and in the attempted justi-l fication for the act has in effect cited our great need of the stolen goods, thus informing the world that our national virtue is not strong enough to resist a very high price
 If these things were the grounds for the opposition to President Roosevelt's s nomination, we should have not word to say, provided the opposition gave promise of bringing forward a better man backed by better elements of the party. Such is not the case, I there is something grave to be said in criticism of Roosevelt. there is also something on the credit side; and it is vxery consider able. He exhibited high moral courage | in the face of an impending campaign which is to decide his fate in resisting the demands of organized labor in the Miller case. He stood for the law, the interests of the government, the free dom and equal rights of all American citizens, when he knew that he was inn pertling his popularity among a power full class.
 Better still, if that be possible, has been his treatment of the postal scan- dais. We suppose that everybody of acumen knows that this is Roosevelt's IS 1 investigation. A Senate committee and a House committee had previously fin vestigated' the very same culprits, and Why? Simply because the scandals in l the last analysis are to be laid to the political 'sgrafting," otherwise known as the spells system, as practiced by the Senate and House. In appointments ] the Senate has been the means of per verting constitutional provisions and of undermining the presidential preroga- tives. The President no longer appoints l by and with the consent of the Senate: the senators are the appointing power | to a vast number of offices, and the practice has led to the barter and sale of l places of public trusts to the highest bidder-the man whose appointment means the largest number of voters tc the senator or representative.
 1 Roosevelt it is said lacks tact: so he does, and heaven be prasied that he also lacked oowardice in the postal scandals. It was wrong to condemn. in his statement accompanying Bristow s report, certain, certain officials prior to ther conviction. It was mistake, but weattribute it to an excess of zeal and an eager deterination to go to the bot tom of the scandals. There are a score of senators who are secretly hostile tc | Roosevelt. In the state conventions l they were deterred from exhibiting their hostility by the belief that the rank and file of the party wanted Roosevelt The grafters and the spoilsmen in the republican party are against Roosevelt
 If there is any dangerous enemy to the Republic, it is not across seas; it is rot ] tenness within i, and Roosevelt is its doughty foe.-PhiIadelphia Ledger