The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-01-27
THE SACRAMENTO BEE AND PRES
IDENT ROOSEVELT.

The hot sting of the Sacramento Bee
is probing a Bakersfield editor. The Bee
cooks him we'll done and brown, then
turns him over and gives a roast that
will make the Bakersfield man think
twice before he tackles the Bee again.
The Bee says:
The climate at Bakersfield seems of
late to be affecting the editor of the Cal
ifornian of that s~un-baked W and to
be warping the shingles on his roof.
Can it be that the warm spell so
marked in the east a few days ago has
selected Bakersfield as it's only California
partner in winter inconsistency?
Can it be that the brain of we Califor-
MAN editor has been scrambled In the
sudden change to a spring day in Kern?
Our high esteemed but webbing con-
temporary chide the Bee in that, while
this paper criticises the Republican party
for the present "s~tand-pat" action of
Congress did all it could to keep tina,
same Republican party in power by
indorsing Roosevelt as it's Presidential
candidate.
Come, now, Harrell-cross your heart
not one of those Democrats who really
wanted to see Roosevelt elected, but who
did not support him. partly because you
wished to preserve the party organiza-
tion.' and partly because you thought you
could not afford, as a party organ, to
champion a Republican candidate?
You will remember, the Bee supported
William J. Bryan most earnestly in 1896
and 19O0-far more strenuously than it adj
vocated the election of Theodore Roose-
welt in 1904. e Bee championed the
cause of Theodore A. Bell, Democrat, for
Congressman from this district, while at
the same time it said a word now and
then against Alton Brooks Parker.
Nor has it had cause yet to regret
that Tn odore A. Bell was not reelected
to Congress from this district, and it IS
satisfied it would nave been a far greater
calamity had Parker been elected to the
Presidency.
Parker did not and does not represent
democracy. either in it's essence or as a
political organization. The Bee infinitely
preferred Roosevelt to him from every
point of view. Many an editor in this
State now holding up the banner of De-
mocracy-many a public man preaching
today the doctrines Of Jefferson-held the
same views as this paper. Their judg-
ment, their sense Of party fealty. kept
them from putting down in black and
white what they really thought. The Bee
cording to their lights, they followed
what they considered the best path. all
things taken into consideration. Yet the
election figures showed the stalwart De-
mocracy Of California would rave none
of Parker. but flocked by the tens of
thousands to Roosevelt.
Because the Bee supported Roosevelt.
1t can find no Inconsistency in its present
attltuue OF crltlctSm. |
Because a paper does what little may
lay In its power to further the election
OF a certain man. is 1t to be debarred
from afterward criticising him and de-
%nouncing the leaders Of his party in Con-
gress when they do wrong?
Can the Californian declare there would
have been any more earnest effort under
Parker to reform the tariff" than there
has been under Roosevelt?
1t surely knows better.
Parker's entire surroundings have been
and are plutocratic. He is today as |
closely allied to all tie syndicated Wall
street corporations as Is that other trust |
attorney. Stephen Grover Cleveland. He
would not have dared to attempt one |
tenth Of what Roosevelt has done. He |
would no more have thought of taking |
the bit in his teeth against the railroads |
than he would a thought of flying.
Roosevelt has made many mistakes. He
has been autocratic, dictatorial, DOM |
mineering. He has ridden rough-shod at |
times over the constitutional rights of f
other departments of the government. He