The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-29
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 Z Roosevelt A San Juan P". Episode. HE ARRIVED TOO LATE Battle Over When Rough Riders Left the Brush. Colonel Bacon 0ffers Reward of s1,ooo for Proof that Ills Criticisms are
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 New York, Oct 2s.-tspecial.)-In the August number Of The Army ana Navy Critic, an independent periodical published in this city, Colonel Alexan- der s. Bacon. a veteran soldier of the l Union army during the Civil War, and | now a prominent lawyer practictng in New York City, published an article in which lie scathingly ridiculed the boasts and pretenses of President Roosevelt and his friends for his par l ticipation in the charge upon San Juan Hill in the Santiago campaign. Republican campaign documents con tinue to attempt to deceive voters by picturing the Republican candidate as | a hero of the war with Spain.
 Colonel Bacon has been provoked to l fortify his previous statements ana mas furnished the Press Bureau of the Ma" tional Democratic Committee with the following additional statement and jus tification of his former assertions: l Circulated by the Million. 'sThe Republican Campaign Commit tee has issued a pamphlet called 'Roose- | veit,s Military Record which mas been circulated by the million, and mem Der of the Rough Riders, doubtless act | ing for the campaign committee, IS | sending it to all veterans of the war l with Spain, with a statement that the 1 President is now being vilihed and abused in outrageous terms for 'poiiti- cal reasons and states: I resent the bitter campaign falsehoods which are being uttered about him.. :.
 "This pamphlet was probably issued I as a reply to my article in the August number of The Army and Navy Critic | It is needless to say that 1t Is not an | answer to any charge contained in that article"
 Then Colonel Bacon proceeds at length to riddle most thoroughly the I lame attempt, unsupported by any rec | ords, to boost still more the claims of Roosevelt and his friends that he was the "hero of San Juan Hill"
 1 President Roosevelt, again, according | to Colonel Bacon, Is the rankest of tm-5 | posters. He quotes copiousiy from the records as contained in the reports Of company officers of the several infan- try regiments that were the first to clear the field, of spaniards. He pro- duces overwhelming evidence thus 10 show that the battle was practically over and the enemy gone when Roose' | welt and his stragglers came out of the bushes even declaring that he made an Imaginary charge on an imaginary horse upon an imaginary hill and put 10 flight imaginary Speniards."
  ous charges, Colonel Bacon offers q thousand dollars to any one with knowledge who can disprove single statement contained in his article.
 New York and Roosevelt.
 One of the most peculiar things of this campaign is the singular attach ment of betting sports, aided 1t is true by the bluffing of the Republican Ma ton Committee and some of its loose | hot an exceptionally popular man. Is 1t not demonstrable that he Is not sa populor now as when he came back from Cuba wearing the ostensible lau- rels of a hero and before old soldiers scoffed at his pretensions? Not more popular than when he was elected gov ernor?
 Election results of campaigns in which Theodore Roosevelt has been before the people on his own merits show that he was not as strong as his own party, and especially that he ran weakly in New York and the adjoining urban communities. This being the fact the election figures show. 1t is curious and 1t would be difficult to study out by what process of reason ing the Republican sports and buffers can reach the conclusion that they can afford to give odds on carrying New York.
 COrteIyOu's Spare Coin. There Is no other way to account for | 1t except knowledge of such fact that Chairman Cortelyou abundantly succeeded in his collecting mission among the trusts and his hold ups of corporate interests that were loath to contribute to the Re- publican campaign fund.
 Especially is the Republican bluffing
 
 ic city of Greater New York has just registered 6sS,6s4 voters.
 Is 1t not entirely reasonable to pre- sume that the Democrats, being united and harmonious as never before In To- cal or national campaign, will poll an increase of vote beyond all precedent? Think of the aggregate of the new city registration! Greater than that of the total vote of any State in the union in 1900 except the total vote of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois!
 There is nothing in election stories of the past which had MT. Roosevelt as a candidate. nor Is there anything in the present situation with MT. Roosevelt as candidate for the most exalted office of the republic to which the people never chose him. to warrant Republican boasts or to embolden the usually Iynx-eyed sports to give odds on Roosevelt carrying New York.
 Money the Sole Prop.
 It is needless to say the Republicans have become accustomed to count upon the use of money as an all-persuasive election power. It is manifest that they are more confident than ever in the eficacy of that means of carrying q national election
 Roosevelt ran for mayor of New Work fin 1886 He received 60,435 votes In 1888. under the same condi- lions as a Republican candidate, Err hardt received 73,OS7 votes and Fin stein republican candidate for mayor in 1892. got 97.9S2
 In 1898 MT. Roosevelt.-Colonel poosevelt hten-was grabed and booted and snurred in all the glamor, fuss and glory of the war with Spain, with all hIs honors. thick upon him." recei- ved as candidate for governor 66l,- ToT votes and the small plurality of IT TSs Four years before Levi P. Nor toi4 inc republican candidate for gov ernor won by plurality of 15s.10s. whAn roosevelt was elected governor. he Rad a majority of the voters against hiualfo the scattering vote was 42,2Aa