The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-07
Magazine 'Reformers'' to Be
Shown in True Light by
President.
UNFAIR DENUNCIATION
TREASON To'REPUBL1c
Wanton Attacks on Public Men
and Lack of Good Results
Disgust Roosevelt.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The journal. ~. a n...-
Chicago, April IA Washington
special to the Chicago Tribune says:
AS reformer, President Roosevelt has
been so completely outclassed by the
magazine reformers and professional
graft developers that he has been
and in a notable speech he will de-
nounce their unbridled license and I'M
fair denunciation of public men as
something which falls little short Of
downright treason to the republic.
The president is as honest man as
ever entered public life. He has pur-
sued his course under the influence Of
the highest ideals, and the unbounded
popularity he enjoys turnout the coun-
he represents the best there is in Amer
lean citizenship.
But Theodore Roosevelt has never
thrown mud at men. He has never de-
nounced his associates or those higher
up, at time when there were so many
higher up. as thieves or blacklegs. He
has been ready to take most men at
their own estimate and seldom has been
willing to talk of graft, or of coward
motives in public life.
imposed on PRESIDENT.
On the contrary, the president IS
ideals have led him to believe that the
average American citizen is good
man and can be trusted when in public
life, just as much as when he stands
behind the counter of his store, or even,
perchanee, burns lis midnight oil con-
cocting sensational article for a. not
too serupulous magazines
There has haeO an siIsroa6 IF thoso
professional graft developers in Wash
ington during the last few months
They all made a Decline for the White
House because they knew the presi:
dent was honest and they believed
every one else in Washington was of
the contrary description. They swarmed
about the president S coffee, inundated
him with vague stories Of dishonesty
they were about to uncover, appealed
to him to help, then Disguised him by
ct their extraordinary vanity and thei1
supernatural ignorance of the details OF
public affairs. eE.
Magazinists came and went, they
pulled down no pillars or temple, they
started not single man toward tn,
penitentiary. they saved not a dollar OF
the public funds, they failed to max,
single definite charge which coul6
be investigated by any reasonable per
ing. Gatling guns Of filth were trained
upon members of the administration
and particularly members of the, house
and senate, but out of it all there
came not one tangible proof of actua
dishonesty.
Old Stories Warmed Over.
There was a revamping of ole
stories, vast amount Of personal i'm
of e.
readable stories which left bad taste
Q in the mouth-and then the bubble
burst.
r. 1t is. q curious thing that the ont
man in Washington who more thar
anyone else was disguised by thi
wholesale villifcation Of public men
without a word of syllable of actua
proof, was President Roosevelt, tn
patron saint Of the graft hunters them
selves, and the man whose honesty ha
become a synonym of the best Amer
lean citizenship thruout the world
Not one of the magazinists attacked
the president, none of his pet policie
was roughly handled, none of his per
sonal friends was unkindly assaulted
but the president has taken it upol
himself to rebuke the villifers and h
intends to do it, as he does every
thing, publicly, frankly, and com
pletely. Those who have seen Theodor
Roosevelt hit out from the shoulde
have heard the crack of his singl
stick beating down ian opponent
guard, know that when he is in earnes
he does his best. - ~
The ''Muck Rake
He is sick and tired of the maya
zinists and their filth campaign an
as president of the United States, a
well as an individual, he deems it hi
duty to expose the unfairness and tn
treasonableness Of these wholesale III
situations against the integrity of til
American government.
President Roosevelt s first public al
pearance outside of Washington thi
winter will be on Memorial Day be
fore the Army and Navy union a
Norfolk, Va. He will be in his ele
ment there because he will be speak
ing originally to the enlisted men o
the service, who make up that unio1
and it is to them he will preach hi
sermon.
- The president has taken as his tex
the Muck Rake, = and he has begu
to weave about that title a speec
which will be read turnout the countr
and probably turnout the world in dc
Tense of the integrity, the capacit
and the general average honesty Q
public men of the. United States.
It is easy to figure out the line o
argument the president will take i
his speech, which, by the way, is no,
only sketched out, and which !
subject to indefinite elaboration q
condensation. He has repeated it's sui
stance to many callers, however. F'ail
honest criticism of public men, as til