The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-18
FACES BOTH WAYS.
INCONSISTENCIES" AND "coN.
SERvATIsM" OF PRESIDENT.
To the Ordinary Man the Frequent
Changes of Front by the Chief
Executive Are Somewhat
BeWiIdering.

With the president plunging into tn
congressional campaign as genel
al manager so as ito secure a cor
gress of his own" insures a livel,
campaign and probably something
spectacular. At present the presiden
stands pat" on the tariff, but VIII,
can tell what will happen? He ma!
II the ~eXigencieS of the anvaSs re
quire a change of front, throw owe
the standpatters and stand for tariff
revision, or ever free trade. Senator
Dryden assures the people of his state
that the mental attitude Of Presiden'
Roosevelt toward public questions Of
= our day is a fine blending of a broad
and courageous progresiveness with
a wise and steady conservatism that
as altogether admirable"
Senator Dryden is in a tight place
himself, with the hounds of reform OF
his trail, and knows full we'll the
short a Republican statesman
is bound to cut in these perilous times.
He evidently sees in President Roose-
welt qualities that he is envious of,
for what trust and corporation repre-
sentative, not to say life insurance
president, would not like to appear
progressive" and conservative" at
the same time? Progressive to the
people on one side and conservative
to the trusts and corporations on the
other. One day issuing orders for
the vigorous prosecution of the trust
officials, another day ordering the at
torney general not to press the Grim
lnal charges against John d. Rookie
Teller which had been commenced al
Cleveland. On one side appealing to
the Republican voters to subscribe q
dollar each to the campaign fund, on
the other side having Wall street fig
uratively scraped with a small tooth
comb for campaign contributions.
One day he assures President Comp
ers. of the American Federation of
Labor, that the eight-hour law has
been constantly and vigorously en-
forced; and the mex day issues an or
der for the enforcement of that obso-
3ete law. One day he speaks of
President Monroe as a failure" as
one well fitted to act as a presiden-
tial fgurehead;" as too much to the
taste of the Jacobinical Republicans
Of France, and on the next day he
declares that the n grand purpose
OF his administration is to uphold the
Monroe doctrine. One day
he denounces the pension grabbing
congressman and their supporters
h vicious special legislation,
sure, in the end, to bring about the
breaking down of some of the most
important principles of our govern
and the next day he issues
IN executive order, without authority
II law, imposing upon the treasury an
.nnual expenditure of more than
so, 000, 900. One day he favors free
rade and 'denounces a protective tar
If as vicious in theory and harm
in practice" and the next day he
for the %stand-pat theory.
day he stands for reciprocity, and
he next day against it. d,
Always he cries for peace in one =.
reath and for the big stick and war
4 the next. One day he speaks of ,
he religious system of the Quakers 6
s "a direct incentive to crime and T
'r~ong-doing," denounces their Q
vaunted policy of peace" and de- 4
that the colony of Pennsyl- 6
ania was Contemplate, supine and {;
and the next day he says 4
lat the Quakers are righteous, r
and virtuous." One day he =
peaks of the negroes as "a perfectly +
,upid race" and the next day he =
oses the post office at Indianola con- q
airy to law because the people of -
lat town object to a negro as post n
aster; invites the negro, Booker
'~ashington, to dinner, and says that
he door Of hope" for equality with
men and women must be kept
zen to the negro. One day he de- N
ounces political corruption; and the ts
ext he refuses to compel C~ortelyou el
Id Bliss to return to the insurance d
'mpanies the money stolen from the X
and orphans of their policy y
'lders and used as a corruption fund bl
place him in the White House. One d.
he %denounces the railroads for VI tn
ating the law against rebating; and 10
e next day he appoints Paul Nor pl
n, a notorious rebater, to a place in ps
5 cabinet, and discharges from the ps
bile service Harmon. and Judson for It.
oposing to prosecute Morton and his m
Is. W,
This is the man who is going to tn
nduct the congressional campaign tn
Is year. The camelion and the ka- nc
doscope are surely in politics. tn
ere will be Infinite variety" at We
in the performance. Ts
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