Bisbee daily review., 1904-06-01

On June 21, 1900, in signed letter to the New York Journal. the honor able gentlemen from Ohio said this of President Roosevelt:
 Here is something new under the sun. We have a brilliant, cratic. curious sort of a man. whose friends are trying to promote him. His enc mics are trying to destroy him, and great herd of selfish politicians are trying to use him for their own selfish ends. And apparently not one of them. friend or foe, nor selfish person. seems to have the slightest care for his welfare. That man is President Roosevelt. governor of New York.
 It is coolly and calmly admitted. .nd not denied when charged. by a in the New York delegation. that they opposed Roosevelt for governor, be- cause they do not think he is the proper person for the place. There fore they are willing to push and dump him upon the presidential tick ct. Suppose he should be nominated tomorrow for vice presi- dent. what will be said of him? And sitting in the White House to- day is the man they made vice presi- dent, by the very men who wanted to get rid of him. and Roosevelt is to- day nationally in public life, because his friends and his enemies wanted to put him in a place where he could do neither harm or good.
 Mir. Roosevelt was distasteful to Mir. Mckinley. He was humiliating to Hon. Charles Grosvenor, the now sturdy champion of Theodore the First.
 But the most crvel stabs of all were Mir. Grosvenor's further remarks to. wit:
 Let MT. Roosevelt .it dowr right now and calmly consiler do Lct believe he is a man vho can aopreci- ate good advice when he gets it, but let him sit down and oelmly reason with himself in this way:
 "'The little temporary time l opar- ate upon the tail end )f the Presiden- tial ticket will, of course, nave a whole lot of hurrahs in it. All the Mckinley men will hurrah for me, and all the other fel. ,ws will hurrah for me; but is it not the calm, Gelib- crate juo gment that when the moment comes to turn the searchligh- on me four years hence, the people will say:
 This man has not any courage, any nerve, for he could not bring himself by one word to extricate himself from the dilemma he admits he was in. though crying out. T am saved, 1 am saved,'" But it is a great thing to be shouted at in a convention It is great thing to have men come to my room and cheer and congratul. p me. but the American people are the coldest-olooded people on earth. They look through shams, they look through tricks, and they look through all sorts of performances
 Surely this is high authority MT Grosvenor is from one of the greatest states in the Union Mir. Roosevelt was elected vie president His friends and his 4emies thought they had put him in cage. But fate broke those plans. Disdaining the dignity of our nation, disdaining to consider consequences, this same fate broke the bars of the cage into which his friends had consigned him, and the Republican party had made for him, and Theodore Roosevelt was made president by the assassin's bullet and not by the ballot.
 And now they tell us that this man takes McKinley's place. That this curious. cratic sort of man" takes the place of the dead president whose office he fills, not by the suffrages of the people, but through the hand of fate. It is a wonder that the Repub- lican party does not arise itself and protest against this desecration of a good and wise president Theodore Roosevelt is an unsafe man for the country to have al it's head as the ex- ecutive. His election will but un- bridle the "erratic and curious" acts of this man. The people have never elected curious and cratic sort of man" to the presidency. With the right kind of man now in the oppo- sition, upon perfectly sound platform endorsed by a united Democracy stripped of blathering. personal wor ship of a pocketbook, with the revis ion of the tariff as the slogan, and the curbing of the trusts, the Democratic party never had SO good a chance te