The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-19

. make his discoveries public at Thu
discretion q the president. This
nan and tais official the presideu
himself selected for chairman Of tbs
Republican national committee. HI
was without political ezper ence OF
familiarity with party management
and his designation for the chairman.
ship was received with universal sur.
! prise. Mr.. President the c.rcun.
stances of this appointment were Gu.
riously significant. if not sinister, and
the suspicious inevitably excited by
them have provoked a situa ion great.
| ly 10 be regretted. Why did the pres
1 ident select this inexperienced new
convert 20 be the head of his party o.
sani2ation? This accusing fact will
not down, tina the trusts did fiji Mr..
Cortelyou's campaign Golfers to over.
loglng. Happily we have the CON.
iortlrg assurance, youchsafed beth by
Mr. Root AMI the president that the
trusts had no improper motive in
making these cen ributicns, and that
40 improper means we're used TO in
luce them The country il asked TO
believe, what no doubt it innocently
will and does, that the trusts brought
their gold to Cor eiyou ont of purely
unselfish and patriotic considerations
and thar they expect nothing in re.
turn. These, indeed. were virtuous
trusts, and theirs an idealistie self.
sacrificing patrio ism. They scorned
all base expectation of favors to come
and secuted the very thought that
their gold would be used TO corrupt" /
He said the senate could not accept 1
hese assurances without question and |
that the resolution of inquiry there. |
fore should be adopted He also ex-
pressed the opinion that the presl. |
dents charges against the Democrat
&c campaign management should be
inquired into.
Cites Tom Lawson.
Mr. S one based his demand for an
inquiry into the campaign Of 1896 on
the allegations of Thomas w. Lawson
male n recent magazine article.
The senator was himself vice chair.
man Of the Democratic national com
'nittee during that campaign. but he
said that he did not propose to testl
~. Many thousand people, he said,
believe that election TO have been
bought and that fact alone would ius.
.ify an inquiry. 1T is hard" he add.
I'd, speaking of Mr.. Lawson, ito be
ieve that sane man, to say nothing
If his integrity. would deliberately lie
Without an apparent object to his
Dwn detriment. For the sake Of
hose whose good names are involved,
'rr the sake Of the public veal and
or the sake Of truth itself, this story
'hould be sifted."
Roasts Tom Platt.
Referring incidentally to he bill
Introduced by Mr. Plat of New York
0 reduce the congressional represent.
tcn Of southern states because Of
he imp sitien of qualifications On the
ight of suffrage he sad THE con
formed in New York de
iaach The electorate are not oaly
.rime against the suffrage, but a
.rime Immediately subversive CT rep
sentative government, and to its
The senator from New
York might probably doyo e his Sc.
ieitous attent on"
The Presidents Recomir endatlons.
Mr.. Stone also took cognizgnee Of
re recommendations made by the
resident in his last annual message
or the protection Of the integrity Of
lections. saying:
What the president asserts Is true
nd what he counsels Is wise. but
n surprised that he should. so soon
fter the election denounce this par.
ocular crime in language so explicit
nd defiant If Judge Parker spoke
ruly, then the president himself is
he conscious beneficiary of the very. I
rime he condemns. The presidents >
n'repdity puzzles me to determine
'hether he was in fact advised and {
moral means employed to promote
lis election. | would prefer TO be-
ieve that the president is ignorant
4 many things done for his profting q
Says Roosevelt Is Ambitious. b
Theodore Roosevelt Is instinc i've o.
y an honest man. But he is also in G
'rdinately ambitious. and have u
bought that ambition had so blurred n
lis native honesty as to blind him
and to make him do ?
hings. G. suffer things to be done. 4
hat would otherwise have teea re u
ulsive prefer to believe the best =
f him. and. all things considered. the :
lest | can believe Is that the presl -
ent, beng an honest man, sn1arting :
nder tie ing of remorse. and being !
imself no longer interested in cam !,
align contributions. has resolved I'M :,
elfshly to exert his strength to pro- =
note the public welfare in this be. d
all %