Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-22

tracted by the latest Republican slo- gan Stand by Roosevelt" He is evi i dently giving much thought to this new shibboleth and in the last issue Of the Commoner makes an effort to hiring out more definite information concerning just who is meant oy "Stand by Roosevelt" and what line of governmental policy may be ex- pected by another endorsement of ms party. We give an extract from MT. Metcalfe's article:
 Without seeking to detract in the least from Mir. Roosevelts personai worth let us analyze the Stand by Roosevelt argument. "By which Roosevelt shall we stand in complying with the lsoo bhrasee Shall il he the Roosevelt whose words have stirred the Amerl can people to enthusiasm. and drawn from them declarations of affection for the chief magistrate, demonstrations sbo Iike ct which have not been known since the days of Jackson Ii ever then? Or the Roosevelt whose acts of omission or commission nave nrompted many of those who were disnosed tc be his warmest friends to doubt whether. after ali, he is man who may be depended upon to back fair worth with substantial deeds!
 "By which Roosevelt shall we sstapd?' tsRv the Roosevelt who called the trust magnates captains or iiduslrs to whom the American people owe Sebt of gratitadef, Or the Roosevelt who likened fhennsto masters or cun-
 t<arr otsd doing must oe 'shackled, as in the mast We have snaekled force"
 "By the one who called the Demo cratic p,atform adopted at Chicago anarchy because of it's criticism oi inc courts? Or the one who publicly rcprimanded Federal Judge Humphrey for his decision in the beef trust cases. and expressed the hope that Humph- rev,s had example would not be imi- tsted by other occupants of the bench?
 "By the one who permitted it to be understood that he indorsed Secretary Taft's order that the Panama canal supplies be purchased abroad. if such a a course were necessary to protect the S Government from extortion? Or the 7ne who bought for the canal service &o American ships of roo tons each <1, ,300. 900 when he was offered two
 reign ships of s.eQo tons each for fko, 900?
 *.By the one who approved( the law passed at the last session of congress dfrecting the canal commission to pur- chase it's supplies from American man. ufactures whenever the prices were hot unreasonable sor extoTtionate?' Or the one who, within a week after he signed that law. awarded to the Mary land Steel company contract for two dredges at $362.00 each. when for eign concern had offered to build these two dredges for s70,0e0 less:
 By the one who refused to with draw the brand cf infamy he had placed upon the late James H. Tyner in response 10 Tyner's dying request, and after Tyner had been acquitted by a jury? Or the one who gave Paul Morton, upor that gentleman's retire * nlent from the cabinet, clean bill to the defense of which even partisan Republican editors with all their agil- ity nave not dared to go?
 By the one who favors economy in the expenditures of public money? Or the one whose four years of admins tration cost-exclusive of all expense ill Panama-s434, ,104 ,699 in excess of the cost of the four years of the Nc Kinley administration, although the Mckinley administration conducted the Spanish war?
 By the one who. in a speech at Harvard college. condemned the able lawyers who for a price give their talents to great corporations in order mat the people We oppressed7 Or inc one who. within a few days after do. hNering that speech. appointed as his aly or state Elihu Root, one of tne most famous and successful, cor- poration lawyers and the man yrb,, ha,, y r retired from the post of sec or law for the special jnterastss ''ee
 6y the one who resents the intar- noe o1 trusts in politics and in @ upon Tree government? Or the Iats "no sent telegram Of congratu- euon 70 Dupont, chief of the powder t; oh the occasion of Dupont's cleo uon to the United States sanata F.s.'., Delaware? run
 e Dy me one who. in his message to said that it was important ase laws prohibiting corporations
 coitriDuting to campaign funds
 PuDitCllN Wltl reSnGrf ene receipt and expenditure of such iuncs. Or the one who. at the lime ne was pretending to exercise ieaIone care over every bit of pending Ieeis. leiion. permitted bills relating to these reforms to die-even though his at. ,ehion and that of other leaders in his party was repeatedly called fo these measures,
 By the one who protested from the heusetops concerning the shortcomings of the beef trust magnares? Or tbe one who. in his boasted proceedings against the Standard oil Trust. failed 10 call to account the RockefelIers and me Rogerses and permitted it to De made known by ore of those mys terious unofficial but reliable sfafe ments' that the department of justice has no hope of catching the more con spicuous offenders in it's Standard Oi drag net.