The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-27

not sight Tor men ana Angels 10 bee Une
| Solid South, which exists by virtue OF its
notification Of the Constitution, which
promises Judge Parker the bulk OF his
electors through a suppression OF a vast
majority Of its voters, attacking Theodore
Roosevelt in the name OF an endangered
| Constitution? Is II not grovellinR farce
to see Tammany Hall, whose name Ia
kissing and reproach to Q disguised civili-
zation, accusing the Republican party OF
| extravaganza and corruption? But the
| campaign has narrowed itself to this. Every
thing else has vanished, dissolved In mist
of contradictions.
Protection Is robbery--but they are In
favor of reasonable protection. Their
leaders say the gold standard Is fxed
fact-but the majority OF their party SUI
side with Mr.. Bryan. They cry out against
appropriations in general but do not dare
to specify those they, will cut on. with
| that discretion which Ia valor's better part
they abuse our army, because 1t Is small
fully Of our navy because 1t Is strong. Their
candidate denounces the pension order.
admitting fixed age as partial proof OF
disability, and then offers, as bride Tor
pension for everybody Of an indefinite and
unspecifed age.
In this hopeless lack Of unity in this
dearth OF issues, they fall back on a cam,
paign Of fiction and SANDER. They remind
one OF the classic French story Of the fam
GUS household where there was more wit
| than means, where the dinner was often
merely feast of reason and hlet OF sole.
| On one Occasion the thrifty lady OF the
house telegraphed her clever HUSBAND:
"Give us another story; we've got no roast.
CHAMPIONS THE PRESIDENT.
1t is misfortune for a party, as it is for
an individual, to have no serious occupa-
| ton, for Satan finds mischief for idle hands.
Because they have absolutely no facts to
bring forward they have produced fan
| your time by recounting these rather ig-
noble flights of imagination. ] will only
refer to one class of charges-.those which
ring the changes on two words; the Presi-
| dent is "lawless" and unsafe
Every act of his which they qualify as
| lawless has been done after careful study
OF the law. after counsel with the best law
| yers, and every one which has been brought
to the test of the courts has been triumph,
antly approved by our highest judicial
| authorities.
And then that hoodoo cry unsafe
how is it to be treated seriously Unsafe
| he undoubtedly is, as the law is to the male
factor. as the judge is to the criminal as
the disinfectant is to the microbe. But
what shall we say to those who in the same
breath accuse him of dangerous hostility to
business interests and also OF subserVience
to the great corporations? Let them an
swer each other.
But we are told he is dangerous to the
peace of the world, he is a fire eater. war
ord--he wishes to embroi us in policy OF
adventure. What does the record say?
| He and his predecessor have done more
in the interest Of universal peace than any
other two Presidents since our Govern
ment was formed They have done more
for the cause of arbitration than all the
rest put together. They have composed
more difficulties by friendly negotiation,
they have settled more questions that
threatened our peace, they have made
more treaties, and more mutually adj
vantageous Ones than any other Presidents
in our history. Theodore Roosevelt gave
| to the Hague court of arbitration the
breath of new life when death threatened
| it. His influence, constantly and quietly
| exerted among our sister nations, mas
often dssuaded from violence and led TO
a set of arbitration treaties with all the
countries which desire them. In COM
pliance with the call of the interparlia-
nentary union-who had confidence in his
discretion and his love OF peace-he is
trying to induce the Powers to come to-
gether once more in conference at The
| Hague to concert measures for the peace
and welfare Of the world. And yet would
not ask you to believe that the President
holds peace higher than all other consid-
eratiops Sacred as the word is to him,
there are others more sacred still-honor
and duty. So long as the millennium
| delays he will stand by American interests
| and American rights, keeping his sword
SUPPOSE.
1t sometimes seems a waste Of time to
meet these wild and whirling words OF
calumny. The men that utter them do not
themselves believe them. Each man of
| them knows very well that he could wish
that he might grow up TO be such man as
Theodore Roosevelt. If some weak minded
Anarchist should take it into his added
brain to adopt the amiabe and chivalrous
! advice given the other day in public
speech by an Alabama Congressman and
| send President Roosevelt to join the equally
| loved and maligned Lincoln and Garfield
| and Mckinley, you know now what pail
| of aOrrow would spread over this country
| from end to end, and not over this country
alone, for the shadow Of that grief would
| sweep like sudden night around the world.
| 1t Is the curse of party spirit, especially
| in times when the opposition has no great
cause to advocate, when there is no great
men to say what they do not believe and to
| incite disordered minds to deeds which fill
| with anguish the heart OF nation.
! WHO BELIEVES THE MASSACHUSETTS DEMO-
| GRATIS?
| read a while ago in the platform Of the
| Democrats OF Massachusetts, this reckless
charge against the President:
| He has declared war against a sister re-
public without an act OF Congress- IN dc, de-
| opinion from his chief law adviser. 1t Ia COM
| monty believed.
Who, l may ask, believes It? Who is the
man gifted with the malignant credulty
| which makes such belief possiblef This is
a model campaign fiction, for every word
| in it is false The President has not declared
war on any nation. A declaration Of war
| is solemn official act impossible except
| by vote Of Congress No such act ever
took place. 1t may be presumed the plat
form refers to the notice given to the hostile
| forces on the Isthmus that they were not
! to fight on the line of the railroad, which
| 1t was our duty to keep open. But this was
| no war, and no declaration Of war; there
was no defiance of our Constitution, nor
or international law. The action of the
! President was in the interest OF peace
/ and it. was effective. Not a hostile shot has
J since been fired on the Isthmus.
And to complete the story of this amaz-
ing fiction, all the Presidents legal ad-
visers, numbering good ntellects," such
az Knox, Root, Taft and Moody. have
heartily Endorsed and approved his action.
Both houses Of Congress have adopted 1t.
The Senate accepted the treaty based on
it by an overwhelming majority, embrace
ing half the Democratic Senators, who
| honored themselves by rising above the
| pptty notifies of their wOuld-b leaders