Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-08-10
IS HE UNSAFE?

At the present time there is ground
for hope that the presidential candi-
dates will be spared from the low
personalities which have marked some
of the campaigns of the past. The
high character of both President
Roosevelt and Judge Parker is con-
ceded although the latter is unfor-
tunate in that those who constitute
his chief advisers and managers are
not men to command the confidence
OF the public, owing to their relations
with the trust interests of Wall
street and the low political methods
that control in New York City poll
tics.
The one slogan which the Demo
cratic orators and organs are going
to use this year and one which had
it's origin in Wall street, is that Pres.
identn Roosevelt is unsafe" We
will not be told in what way he is
unsafe because any attempt at expla-
nation would reveal the righteousness
of such a charge and be refuted by
acts and facts that redowned to the
credit of Theodore Roosevelt and the
glory and honor of his country. Only
a few days since the Butte Miner, a
Clark organ, in contrasting the two
candidates for the presidency, took
up the cure which is to be worked
overtime and gave expression TO the
following:
The unfortunate side of Mr.. Roose
velt's candidacy lies in the fact that
his public career has been an errat
ic one. well calculated to provoke the
suggestion that he is not a nan who
can safely be depended upon TO meet
an important national crisis"
But here is another estimate ant
opinion OF Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t will be
good reading because II is true. The
following was not taken from a stand
ard biography; it "a not prepared
as a campaign document; it is no
from a Republican speech; it is no
the utterance of a personal friend
II is merely the estimate of Roose
welt as given by the New York World
one of the leading Democratic jour
nails Of the United States:
mo other man ever rose from pc
lice commissioner to president of tn,
United States in less than five years
No other so vigorously and so sue
cessfully turned stumbling blocks in
to stepping stones. Theodore Roose
welt entered politics as a reforme
as soon as he had left college, an,
made a reputation at the very star
for public spirit, honesty, combativc
ness and unshakable physical an,
moral courage. He made enemies a
every step and every enemy mad
him ten friends. The boy assembly
.lan forced a hostile legislation T.
condemn its W political allies. TIL
young civil service commissions
boldly challenged the national leader
of his party and compelled them I
observe the law. The police commi.
4, sioner trampled ruthlessly over n
4, the prejudires of a cosmopolitan con
munity. whether they represented I'll
vicious instincts of a criminal ia
ton or the innocent desires of I'll
liberty loving majority. The assis
ant secretary of the navy thrust
rude hand into the coils of red tar
that swathed the department an
cleared the way for the commando
that smashed the fleets of Spain. I'll
governor of New York accepted Il
I hostility of the public service corpo
atoms by signing the Ford franchi'
! tax bill. The president of the Unite
States challenged Wall street by for
(, ing a settlement of the anthraci'
] strike and ordering the dissolution