Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1904-08-05
An EFFECTIVE DOCUMENT.

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The respects Of the Democratic can
paigp fuLd sufficiently large to NEE. the
legitimate demands Of the campaign has
livened up matters at the headquarters
Of the Democratic Congressional Com.
mIttee Mt ! ashipHton aud tons Of liter
ature are being sent ont. When the
campaign is well under way there will
be a tidal wave Of printers INK that will
reach every part OF the country.
Che pamphlet that is in greatest de-
maud is the speech Of Congressman
Claude Kitchen Of North Carolina IL
which President Roosevelt is most
scatbingly criticised rs unsafe and er.
ratio. while his graudiloquent melo-
dramatics are ridiculed. Kitchen draws
IN indictment from Roosevelt's own
books and speeches. Half a million
copies OF this speech have already been
distributed and IA half million more are
now beng hurried FROM the press.
Que OF the chief reasons that this
speech OF Kitchens is so effective is that
he quotes the biting phrases Congress.
men Grosvernor wrote about Roosevelt
when the latter was being urged for the
vice presidential nomination in 1900.
As it is an estimate that Is rs good now
as in 1900 it deserves wide circulation.
1t is ns follows:
There is something new here under
the sun. We nave IL brilliant, errati:
curious sort OF Il man, whose friends are
trying to promote him. Ills enemies are
trying to destroy him, and a great herd
Of selfish politicians are trying to usehim
' for their own selfish and shameful ends
".And apparently not one OF them,
neither friend nor selfish person, seems
to have the slightest care for his welfare.
That man is, Theodore Roosevelt, COVER.
o OF New York.
at LIZ said that last night he snouted
and screamed and danced in the meeting
OF the New York delegation and said:
Il am saved; ! am saved" Saved from
whom? Saved from the men who want
TO get rid OF him. Is that it? Saved.
from the men who injudiciously i'll their
friendship for him want to see him nom
mated. Ia that il? Saved from the men
who are fighting over him as a bone 81
contention, one for his defeat and an
other for his elevation, and neither one
for him. Is that il?
at is coolly and calmly admitted, and
moi denied when charged, by a certain
| great force i'll New York and in the New
York delegation that they are opposed
to Roosevelt for governor because they
do not think that he is the proper man
Tor the place, and because he does not
suit them. Therefore they are willing
to push him of and dump him upon the
presidential ticket, upon the sole and
sordid interest OF themselves and thei T
own schemes OF politics. Here he is.
Suppose he should be nominated for
vice-president tomorrow. What will be
said oi him? That either he was "A dis.
honest man or else thai he did want the
place, and i'll this last instance it wonld
be said OF him that he uad no power OF
his own, 10 will, no vOice-:hat he was
simply taken possession OF by the men
who hated him, vino were opposed to him
and forced into the position in order
that they might get rid OF him."
Rooseyelt's defence OF lynching, his
contemptous reference 10 some OF his
distinguished predecessors in the White
House, and his sighting remarks about
farmers and mechanics are brought out
into the limelight. Pamphlet No. G, ms
it is known, PROMISES Ia play Il notable
part in the campaign.