The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-14
APPEAL TO FIRST VOTERS.

tinel Of yesterday explained to first
voters why they should not vote for
Theodore Roosevelt for president
The Sentinel, which is the State or
gan Of the Democratic party said
IF this is your first vote for pres
idential electors you owe it to your
self and to your future carefully and
seriously to consider with what party
iNuu make your first affiliation. 1t has
been claimed by the Republicans
that President Roosevelt will com
lnand the support of a large majority
OF those young men who will this
wear exercise their first suffrage III a
presidential election. We do not
believe this is true, but at the same
time we know the tendencies OF youth
and the things which appeal most
strongly to the ardor and the energy
Of those who have just reached man.
hood. As a private citizen, as man
in unofficial walks Of life, Mr..
Roosevelt possesses many OF those
qualities which appeal to the sympa-
thies and imagination of young man.
hood. He has courage, dash, plctur-
es0uesness. energy and ambition.
These are admirable traits in the
private individual, but as first votei
Won should ask yourself If they are
safe qualities-in the radical extent
TO which they are developed III Mr..
Ruosevelt's character-ln a president
of the United States to whose daily
acts are attached consequences OF
tremendous Importance to millions OF
people Look over the record OF
President Roosevelt and see for your
self how his impetuosity, ambition,
his self-will. his disregard OF constl-
tutional limitations and OF the safest
and soundest traditions OF the repub-
lie haSe disturbed the whole coun-
t,v and have shocked and alarmed
the sounaest statesmen IN his own
party. Then ask yourself 1t you can
afford to let your sympathles with
impulsiveness, with physical courage
and with dashing and picturesque
wav of doing things lead you into
supporting for president of the Unit
ed States man who has demonstrate
ed an inability to take broad, Sc
rene and judicial view of great ma
tional problems. He is apparently
unable to curb his military ambitions
and to recognize the force and au-
thoritv of those traditions OF adj
ministration established and observed
bv the fathers of the republic. And
evidently he can not discern those
constitutional distinctions which
should be clear and apparent to the
eye of the statesman.
''Also the first voter should ask
himself if he desires to give support
TO an administration of extravaganza,
of aggression and of militarism.'
Think if YOU can, dear reader, of
anything more absurd than the adj
vice the aged Sentinel gives to the
first voter In the first place the per-
sonality of the president is eulogized.
And in the next place his ability as
a president is ridiculed. Think Of
the present administration as one of
"eNtravagance, of aggression and of
The foreign policy Of
President Roosevelt. like that of
President Mckinley, has been mark
ed with honesty and fair dealing.
They have made more treaties than
any other two presidents, and the
sane conclusion certainly is that we
stand today in independent, though
ainicable relations to all the rest of
the world = without an ally and
without an enemy
Secretary of State John Hay in al
recent speech. said:
History affords no parallel to the
vast and increasing prosperity which
this country has enjoyed under Re
publican rule. hasten to say we do
not claim to have invented seedtime
and harvest, and industry and thrift.
We are a great people and success is
our right; God is good to those who
behave themselves. But we may just
ly claim that the Republican party