The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-10-20

"HaW and Rotten" is Roosevelt, In
One Remark-Principai Parker Pa.
pers and Speakers Close to Him
Conspicuous Examples Of Using the
Same Abuse Thrown at Other Great
Republicans.
Charles J. Ronaparte, the great Balti-
more lawyer and Democrat, widely
known as most unflnching reformer,
said In recent public speech that II
Parker should be elected David b. Hill
would be the real president of the
United States and that Gin such case
the federal government would have
about as unprincipled and untrust-
worthy man as the Union contains"
He has any amount of Democratic com
pany In that very opinion. So much
SO that having put Parker on the bench
for political services, and having man
ipulated his presidential nomination
as openly owned by Ancient Davis. Hill
has had to keep himself in the back.
ground for the good Of the party and
parade promise that he is going to
retire from politics as soon as this
election Is over.
Mr.. Hill verified the Baltimore
lawyers comment by his own speech
at Baltimore right afterward He
elaborated and magnified the New
York newspaper story that Cortelyou
Is Matchmaking the combines for cam.
paign contributions. Not content with
such dirty ISLANDERS about Roosevelt
and his campaign chairman, Hill han
died the Southern question with equal
evasion Of truth and responsibility.
He bluntly said that "the attitude of
the present occupant of the White
House, ever since his incumbency
thereof, has been that Of unconcealed
hostility to those whose notions of
social equality differed so radically
from his own" Such utter perversion
Of facts, yes, manufacture of false
hoods, and pandering to the basest
prejudices, comes from the great cam
paign speaker closest to Judge Par.
ker himself. VIII he make any pro-
test about II at all?
There was great parade of Judge
Parker's note to the editor of the
Democratic campaign text book not to
abuse Roosevelt that was not sent
until the book was pretty nearly all
printed. Here Is a chance for his
sense of fair play to show itself. While
his hand Is in, let Parker rebuke his
New York Times for its Cortelyou
falsehood that Hill spread abroad Let
him take the Brooklyn Eagle to task
for its equally false story about Roose.
velt's direct sell-out to the trusts. Let
him call down the New York World
for its story contradicted by all the
other Parker papers. that J. p Nor.
gan made secret visits to Roosevelt
and a conc ,aled compact Mr.. Par
ker's principal papers and supporters
must be getting desperate when they
talk in this way.
Is 1t any wonder, in view of such
campaigning at the fountain head, II
less conspicuous supporters of the
Esopus statesman should say mean
and ugly things? For example. H. M.
Quinn. on the Parker ticket in Missis.
sippi for presidential elector, speak.
ing in Governor Vardaman's paper,
the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger,
says Of President Roosevelt "he Is
raw at one end and rotten at the
other. Raw In his Ideas of statesman.
ship, in his ideas that the constitution
Is paramount, and that he is para
mount to the constitution, and in his
ideas of executive power; rotten,
when being the son of woman of
Southern blood he invited a man of
inferior race to dinner and tried to
establish social equality-rotten to
our nation"
Quite logical In this connection, and
natural outcome on a more fertile
soil of the ideas implied In Hills Bal
timore speech was the declaration by
Congressman Helflin of the Fifth Ala
bama district, in speech at Tuske-
gee, that he would have Booker T.
Washington lynched II Washington
took any part against Helhin In his
election for congress. Somewhat
more startling was Mr.. Helflin's re.
mark In the same speech that "if
CzOlg0sz, or some other anarchist,
had thrown bomb under the table
when President Roosevelt dined
Booker Washington at the White
House no great harm would have been
done to the country" Mr.. Helfin
does not deny saying this as 1t was
reported In the Southern papers, but
now explains that 1t was only pleas
antry. A nice joke, indeed. for
member of congress! Mr.. Helflin, by
the way, was only lately elected to
fill vacancy and was promoted from
secretary of state of Alabama to con-
gress mainly because he rushed into
print with abuse of United States
Judge Jones for Furnishing men guilty
of holding other men in that new form
OF slavery known as peonage.
All Of these things belong together.
They are simply symptoms of the
chronic condition of the opposition.
Having no legitimate arguments to
advance, they abuse Roosevelt, On
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