The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-02-27
RATES
4 CAMPAIGN AGAINST ROOSEVELT

rro,nies of the President are extreAn'is
@ ; nresent. and are making q
vat,o endeayor to break down ms
popularity in the country The rresiaen'
over can play at the game ~
old and skilled hand az
ue cot few rounds now wage
,rs in the magazines and he"
80. zone very decidedly in FAVOR
Roosefelt side. .ba
p,,,,at,n saws, opposition 70 ~
poossv elt centers in the Seh
ote. where sit the captains OIL
:, Tho service Of the railroads ana o
b;ch the President WISHES
hoa or another, to curb ana
rag,,ate. The special intrests anu
representatives destist Roosevelt W.
- also fear him. And the ground o
.na,r fear IS his popularity. They WISH
n DEFY him., to defeat the MEASURES nc
20 urging. to reject his appointees' TO ~
harros him and to render him nudity IN
tho government but they are afraid u
do these things openly. because OF the
neople like Roosevelt and regard MN as
their and are disposed 10
count his enemies their en- mics too. me
Senate and the special intrests can't ar
:. ford to buck public opinion inthe cent r.
They can gain ground only by trick
plays and runs around the end.
And not My are the special intrests
hostile to Roosevelt for his present at
titude toward them. but they are con-
WINGED that he is not a candidate for
denomination and they shudd r at the
4 thought of his occupying the White
House another term. AS the Senate hos
a number of ambitious sat smea WIZ
would like to be President. the thought
OF Roosevelt's possible reel elton causes
more alarm In that august body than
1t does in the nation.
Obviously, the first point in the STRAIT
egg OF the Presidents opponents is to
cut away his immense reserve force
the. people. When a man has been Pres
ident more han four years and. instead
of being content to take the glory and
I, the pay and please everybody by doing
nothing. has attempted to accomplish in
= which he has erred. On those points
h opposition is training it's guns.
Roosevelt has not been infallible or al
ways consistent On occasions he or
his agents have blunGer d, on other oc-
casions temporized. on Others followed
a line of compromise. 1t is easy to pick
a mistake of administration out of it's
setting, magnify it and hold 1t up to
the country as a monstrous fault. An
Undertaking such as the Panama canal
oners an Astounding opportunity for arg
iui and moving misr presentation I'm
to date however. the President his o,..
se"craied the enemy In the campaign
insthe canal zone. and the statesmen ana
journalists who advanced so gaily to
the attack have been struck ON the
flank and crushed. President Tsoose-
welt never hesitates TO carry the war
into Africa.
The literature of exposure, as i,
mas been felicitously named, which is
now flooding the land. is not inspired bv
the administration. but in the main r.
IL very helpful to Roosevelt and burtso,
to his opponents. in spite of the fact
that 1t has hit a few of his frierds
pretty hard. supplementins the .litera-
ture OF exposure is the stny saa.
broadcast by Jacob A.. Riis and otna..
open literary partisans of the President.
snluch OF 1t gushy and some of il to be
taken with a grain OF salt, Now and
then. to add to the merry din. the Pres
ident himself makes a speech or writes
d letter. or authorizes an interview in
which he pours hot shot into the foe.
In the bewildering wihriwind of con-
tradiction and recrimination the aver
age American citizen ought not and. in
an probability, VIII NOT lose sight Of the