Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-10-04
Political Gold Brick.

The DEBORAH Republican of Thurs
day, Sept. Is, (please remember the
date, it is Interestingly contained
among its editorial articles one thatis
extremely entertaining, portion of
which reads as follows:
sHenry II. Rogers the keenest man
Gin the Rockefeller crowd, visited the
"president one day last aoeeh. His pur-
'spose was to find out whether the
"the president intended to make war
stN. e., enforce the law on the Stan
.sdard Oil trust and the United States
"Steel Corporation (trust). Re wanted
ia frank statement of the policy of
"the administration. This was put in
ga form that was almost equal to de.
smand. A distinct effort was
"made to get an expretion to this eff
"fect that the matter would not be
.pressed against these great corpora
'tions, and the president replied he
s'had no discression In the matter. \
"* y Then there will be war; Mr..
Rogers is said to have exclaimed ris-
Sing from his seat war or no war,
'said the president, 7 am no weak
cling. The law shall be no byword
with me. The conversation ended.
"Surely, the people of this country
"want no president who will truckle
ito, or be brow-beaten by the Stan
"dard OIL gang of blook-suckers."
That's wonderful pretty story,
isn't it. And how President Roose-
velt looms up 10 it as a ponderous en-
forcer of the law against the awful
Misunderstanding" trusts. How proud
and delighted the common mortals
should be that we have such fearless,
strenuous president that can't be
"brow-beaten" by the "keenest tinan-
cier'' on Wall street; and that we are
to have an opportunity of retaining
him In his trust killing capacity for
four years longer. Ititsuch pretty,
appealing story, so straight forward
In detail and fact--exact words being
given--that we almost regret that
there Is not a word of it true. That
that 1t is purely fictitious article
manufactured for a purpose by some
political copy flrnisher whose highest
ambition is to serve his party regard
less OF methods. We do not believe
the Republican would wholly invent
such fiction.
Now to prove conclusively that the
Republican has deceived its readers
by the publication of this fake inter-
view please read the following from
the news columns of the Chicago
Record Herald of the very same date
Of the DEBORAH Republican issue
Sept. 18th.
"New York, Sept. 14,-Among the
passengers on the liner Oceanic,
(which arriued today from Liverpool,
twas d. II. Rogers, vice president of
"the Standard OIL company, who has
"spent severs apeeks abroad while his
"wife has been recuperating at Vichy.
"Mr. Rogers was met at the pier by
Mark Twain. I have not read Thorn
''as W. Lawson's article on the Anal
"gamated Copper deal, said Mr.. Rog-
''ers with q smile in answer to inqui-
ries. \"
We would like the Republican to
explain how Mr.. Rogers could visit
President Roosevelt and at the same
time be with his wife in Europe.
The simple truth is that the Repub-
LEANS Roosevelt--Rogers interview
was made up and circulated as politi-
cal gold brick, for the purpose of max
ing the voters believe that the presi-
dent is going to Jurn hell loose on the
trusts II he is reelected to the presi-
dency. And it was very bunglingly
manufactured gold brick, too. Deco
fAh Journal,