The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-09-27

people--not with one eye ON Massa-
chusetts, another on Mississippi and
yet third on his re-election--restor-
ing to us the lost balance of powers
and enabling us -four years hence, af-
ter an interregnum of peace on earth,
good will to men, to cast about us
and determine what Is best to be
done with the problems which are
now SO hazy even to the clearest
vision.
What reason, what good reason,
can any independent especial
ly can any intelligent German voter
give for a refusal. to vote for such a
man?
Now take the alternative.
1t is the simple truth, Ii is only the
truth to say, that we should very
much like-1o speak Of the president Of
/ the United States as we should like
| the president OF the United States to
be--though agreeing not with his
opinions and policies-as an eminent,
upright broadminded man We can
not so regard Theodore Roosevelt
AS we read his books and his career
as we consider his public record, we
can see nothing but a sinister, cyni-
cal egotist, like Conkling, II not wick
ed at heart yet SO vengeful and intol-
lerantso corroded by ambition and
pride-as TO be equal TO any act
deemed essential 70 the qualification
'S>fa his prevailing desire, whether /,
be the sacrifice of the national honor
in transactions such as Panama and
the postal scandals, or the wreaking
OF personal spite against veteran
soldier like Miles, or some purpose
less, venomous and gratuitous affront
to an old man. like Jefferson Davis,
The story, from first to last, is in the
highest degree humiliating.
Beginning with his exit from col
lege, Theodore Roosevelt made the
public service the business of his life.
and to this good hour he has let no
grass grow beneath his feet, his
method having been to deliver civic
righteous speeches-to issue civil
service manifestoes--to write books
making history over again In the like
ness of his own distorted conceits-
and 20 bully the party managers. the
while into cashing his demands nppn
them for office.
The moral difference between Ben
adict Arnold on the one hand and
Aaron Burr or Jefferson Davis on the
other" says he in his Life of Benton,
a book teesning with intolerance and
insult is precisely the difference
that obtains between a politician who
sells his vote for money and one who
supports a bad measure in considera
ton of being giving some high politi
cal position"
The writer of these proscriptiye
words, grossly offensive, wantonly
needlessly offensive to millions of hi
countrymcn, ought to know; because,
as president of the United States, he
has himself ruthessly, shamelessly
sacrificed the professions of life
time to get only nomination to
high political position
His abuse of the South, and of all
things Southern, is a part-and per
haps the sincerest part-of the under
lying duplicity of his character, for II
doubtless had its origination in the
notion that, as there was Confeder-
ate side To his house, he must be ex
ira loyal 10 the other side In order 10
efrace H. Hence in his earlier writ
ings he has nothing but ''archcon'
spirators and rebelsr and trait
ors," to say Of most of the Confeder-
ate leaders His theory was that they
had but two rights. that TO be hang |
ed and that to be damned" Denied
by his tender years the happiness OF
the hanging of them, he
to damn them, as far as |
he could. in print. Yet, were MS
sentiments thrift |
thrift Horatio. thrift" He was not |
old enough TO know anything of the |
passions of the war. His father, |
though a patriotic Northern man, was |
a moderate man. The ruffle to his
shirt Is Southern-the hot blood II
not Roosevelt, blood-and II |
he had been born South and had lived
n the epoch preceding the war. he
would have been a rank Secessionist'
born North. with the Southern blot |
IN his 'sculcbeon, be thought II the
Fanny thing 10 do 10 pluck II out by
he roots. as il were-or TO seem 10
10 so-snd, from that day to this he
has lost no opportunity TO prescribe
md blacklist the people of the South.
indoing much ofs the good wrought
~ the more temperate. manloving
Republican leaders from Grant TO Nc
xinley.
A man who can 80 hate the kind
ed Of hts mother cannot by any
nance he a worthy man
Theodore Roosevelt stands today
he one menace not merely of the
ropes Of the Southern people, but TO
he interests Of those Northern PEG
lie who have invested money in the
;outh
n no e. elected president the act