The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-09-10
Vitality Knocked
Out of RoOsevelt's Plans by
Parker's Nomination
Must be a Reconstruction
Along Campaign Lines
in Republican Party.

fast that before the presidential cam
paign is wen under way there mus
necessarily he broad reconstruction
Of campaign lines in thst party Prob
ably Mr.. Roosevelt in his letter Of ac
cepiance viii undertake 20 clarity the
situation, fut he will fail In his al
rection OF Republican politics the
president was hiehly successful unfit
the Democratic national convention
made Judge Parker his opponent. The
nomination OF the New York jurlsi
brought into relief unsuspected dill
cuities. II destroyed the vitality al
the money issue beyond the possibility
Of Republican restoration, and erected
in contrast 10 ROoseveltism a safe and
sound Democracy impregnable to the
forms Of assault planned by the pres
ident Witlin week after the Dem
ocratc conven ion the Republican
leaders. with Henry Cabot Lodge At
the front. were convinced, and in turn
convinced the president, that a grand
lose. egotistical. claim all campaigu
founded with equal "a uity on the
proofs OF Mr. Rcosevelt's mastery OF
Republicanism aud on the foolish as
sumption OF Democratic weakness
would not do. AS consequence, thg
presidents speech in repfy to the no
tifcation was n magnificent repression
Of every theory u the compaign which
had before that time received the
sancdon Of the president and his close
advisers.
II was TIE Brooklyn Eagle. we be
lieve, which pointed out in January
that The plesidcn had made mp his
mind 20 10 before tne country on
those deeds of the administration
which werc achieved upon Mr. Roose-
velts personal initiative That pol.
icy involved Republican endorsa ion
OF the executive acts now broadly al
legged TO have been nothing more nor
less than violations Of the constitu.
tional law usuipa'ion OF legislative AMI
judicial powers, an elaboration of The
extreme military theory OF govern
ment. patLmalsn ana Capitalization,
and many other practices and condi.
tiohs which the higher Republican
and Democratic intelligence of the
nation comedies to be un-An erican.
Judge Parker stood at the very mo-
ment OF his nomination without the
necessity OF other demons ration than
his career and standing on the bench.
in complete antithesis to all those
combined menaces Of Rooseveltism,
the personihcaticn Of the constitution.
the assurance that there will be no
such revolutionary change In the form
and SYSTEM of the government The
Republican managers oheyed the in.
s'inct Of SELF presG va,ion when they
trimmed the personal p-onouns out OF
the presidents Oyster Bay speech, and
set the eN-secretary Of war, Mr. Root,
and the secretary OF state, Mr.. Hay,
UP 10 prove that the Republican party
is still essentially the party of Pres
idont Mckinley, and that President
Roosevelt 50 mild. serene, self re-
pressed, slowmoying reflective ard
unambltious exponent Of Mckinley
ism. The Eagle's correspondent. Mr.,
Tanning, hqs found that the Indian
voters are not willing TO accept the
belatcd reassurances OF Mr., Root and
Mr. Fay until they have received sat
isfac DRY answers 10 these formidablo
questions
I. Is the administration Of Pfesl
dent Roosevelt headstrong arbitrary
9lnd spasmodlc ia It's methods and ro
sponsiblc for tie distraction oe bust
ness and the peRasion OF the public
mind wi h dvcac and distwst2
p Does President Roosevelt seal
TO establish an indefinite irespons
ible, discretionary and vague aosolat
ism ana policy Of colonial eAploita
tion9
3. Have unprecedented eN,rava
ghnces characterized President Roose
Yelt's administra ion
4. no the multiplied expenditures
for the military and naval establish
mcnts demonstrate ambitious inten
tions on the per Of President Rocsc
welt in the direction or wars OF con
Quest2
4. Has President RooseVelt's ad
minissraIion misapplied i,s powers Of
taxation fcr military and naval pur
poses2
6. Has President Roosevelt abr1dg