The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-16
Democratic Charge As YOUR I
President Roosevelt that show
Without Foundation. color {
- Tho
SAFEST MAN IN couN
Three Years In the White House IN.
No Time Has Anything Bees Dose U.S.
Did Not Tend Toward Peace you.
with All the World. ut

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the inevitable reply is that "RooscycAS.
~ an nhSife man. er
Now. Is he?
What makes an unsafe man2 WbeiS'
il n man safe md when IL he danges
ousp How are we to judge q MAN.
by what he has dom or by what somt
one says he may do? Are we justiia
In calling n man unsafe who has oil y
his life been cmincntly safe? Is not !
man entitled to the reputation he maks-
for himself?
For three years Theodore 1tooscvt
has had absolute power, ns President
the United States. aud vet during the Z
three years. although called TO the gre
office suddenly, as the result of a he
rible murder, he has never lost his bW
He has never lone a dangerous thh
he has at no time involved the counrh-
In difficulties, either Mt home or abro
False Predictions.
Immediately following the murder0NS
William Mckinley predictions w.
freely made in the Democratic pit
that President Roosevelt would invf "
the country in war Has he done 80
1t was also freely predicted that
would break with the ReppbY~wV
jority In the House and tAc Senate,
s'"t Nv WYNN it'tF WI tuNAA 80 "
way, disrcgarding the advice II I
~timc-lpnorel leaders Of the party. H.
he done SOP
Does not every one know, on the cos
trary. that the conditions Of peace be
tween the United States and the rest
OF the world were never more securely
anchored than to-day? This has not
been because the President has moi hAd
an opportunity TO W To war. There
have been half a dozen such oppOrtQWk-
ties Mt the very least since he becoGae
President, when. II nc had BEEN N
safe man he was alleged 20 be, he m1ghr
easily have involved us in war with one
or more of the great powers Of Europe.
lie has met every diplomatic cmcrgency
with rough and ready diplomacy aud n
traordinary tact, which have won for IL
United States the respect OF the civil
lied world.
Record in Diplomacy. paw
Look over the record OF the State j
partment under Theodore Roosevelt
the last three years, and nee bow m
has been accomplished to uphold the
nifty and the honor Of the United St.
without ut any time causing thAHSSe
est apprehension OF foreign was! II,
during the present administration th-
special commission was appointed to
just the disputed boundary between -
ka and the Dominion Of Canada. HsGGGt
OF the Canadian people and papers tai
rather savagcly. There was every
pOrtunity for II misstep on the part
the United States. 4 little too mi
bluster, n little ton pronounced BIZ .
failure in taCt ut the proper moment
substitution Of timidity for bravery,
OF rashness for conservatism by 1fQR
dore Roosevelt would have fame. ~
feeling In Canada into a dat6 w
flame. The Alaska boundary v
inheritance from the Mckinley a.
istration, but it was safely settlSd
der Roosevelt, settled to the crddi
the United States, settled withor'
loss OF an inch OF American 70 pair.
and settled. too, without the dest
of the friendly feeling between <'oo'
Britain and the United States.
When Germany and England
the thrOats Of the little republ ESQ,
Venezuela. nm unsafe President mls
easily have involved us in war wit
those two countries. and a timid Pres
dent might easily have brought upon III
flag the shame Of the rest Of the worth 81
Russia and Japan have been at warr
The sentiment Of the people In this1
country has been largely in favor or.
japan. Yet John Hay. the wise and dis !
erect Secretary Of State, appointed byae
Mckinley and u~nhesitatingly retainedy
by Roosevelt, has SO successfully dire :
ed the course of American diploma IN
that the United States to-day is rs MIR
the friend OF Russia as IL Is of the
fighting cock. Japan. The United ST.
In fact, has dictated the diplomaticSho
duct OF hostilities between Russia loose
Japan. This country has dominated tbew
situation, and yet ut no time has there \
been the slightest danger that we might
become embroilcd with any foreign NJ
ton. n
Safe Every bay In the Tear. ,nes 4,
These are the actual results OlaIitv III
years OF the foreign policy OF IT, -
Roosevelt, the man who. when 49,
tered the White House as the resiYr MS
mnrdcrous bullet, was by his politicar1 ~ =
vcrsaries pictured To the other nations\0rN,
the world as a braggart and a swasnk
bnckler. He has been safe. always safs.S
every day and every hour. since hefhaypm
been President OF the United States. Hswi
has never lowered the American flag t,sa
anybody, he has never been forced ia.
apologize and he has conducted every
episode OF our foreign policy. with thswwe
advice or JOhn Hay, in such a way n,lm
To preserve the hoaor of the Aniesicmsri
Republic. and to gain the respect OF :tlen
sovereigns of the world. There Is not az
kinIy, nor an emperor, nor 0 PRESIDING 20
nor a potentate from I'ekin to TmblsetSS \
whC does not know to-day that Thee \
dore itoosevelt Is NJ the best Amsriccn
type, honest, frank, courageous. sensi,
bile, and always safe for those who treat /
him fairly. X
Men OF the Roosevelt type are unsafe !
only to the dishonest. to the dlsturber, 4
OF the peace OF nations, to the graftsrs \
at home and the grabbers abroad, 10 the X
inshipn'ators of markets and the wreck \
ers OF nations. To the honest men, to
the people OF the home and the. Rreride.
to the good king and to the good subject.
the Roosevelt type Is the safest thing hees
oil his world. (4&.
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