The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-30
DON'T LIKE HIM.
Roosevelt Not in Favor With Wall
Street Gamblers.

WENT BACK ON Them.
Having Contributed Largely to His
Campaign Fund in the Last Pres
idential Election, They Thought
They Had Bought Him, But After
Serving Them Two Years He Kick.
ed Out, and Now They Turn to
Cortelyou.
The Washington correspondent Of
The State says George Bruce Cortel-
you has gone to New York. Of all
the people who are scared at the
panicky state of affairs in and about
Wall street, George B. is the scard-
est. His little presidential boomlet
would be blown into smithereens in
very short order were a real panic to
come. and he has been so close to
Wall street all his life that he is Who'll
ly unable to differentiate a real pan
ic from a break in securities in Wall
street and the consequent failure of
one or two of the big trust compan-
les in that vicinity.
For in spite of all the throwing OF
cold water on it, it is we'll understood
here that the young man from New
York who has had such a skyrocket
career has his eye on the White
House; and the only way he can get
there is to be put there il the same
way that Mckinley was put there, in
the same way that Roosevelt was put
there, namely by the backing of the
financial interests.
For whatever conspicuous circum-
stance Theodore Roosevelt may go
down into history, it is beyond per-
adventure that with the financiers,
frienzied and others, who trade on
what is termed confidence" and
who manipulate the peoples money
upon this confidence" so as to
amass their enormous fortune, he
will pass down the halls Of fame as
the man who would not stay bought.
Because he would not stay bought,
there is no man in public life or pri-
vate who is so unanimously hated as
Roosevelt by Wall street.
The money interests of New York
have always hated Roosevelt. The
one time they pretended to love him
was when they bought him up in the
last presidential election with large
campaign funds. He stayed bought
for a couple of years, during which
time he was the hero of Wall street
But when no longer able to stem the
tide of public clamor for the BUSTING
of those who had betrayed the peo-
pies trust and committed all sorts Of
outrages he turned upon them with
his mighty flow of words.
Wall street opened its phials Of
wrath against the man they had cleo
ted and who would not hold out
against the people and let them in
spite of the law continue their deeds
Of depreciation. They still have faith
in Cortelyou. He is the man with
whom they made the trade in 1904.
AS campaign manager for Roosevelt
he collected the money and the un-
derstandine vas that the admins
tration was to let the frienzied fnan-
ciers and trust depredators alone.
Cortelyou is still faithful to his
promises, expressed or implied, but
he can not control his chief. So Wall
streets candidate for the presidency
is Cortelyou. He promptly went to
New York to help out the Wall street
crowd, and he helped them out. Of
course, Mr.. Roosevelt approves of
this helping out, for the mere mat
ter of depositing a few million dol
lars in banks in New York is such a
customary thing and is so little un-
derstood by the people that there is
comparatively little danger Of an
outburst from the people, ones feel
that the little deal helps them out by
reestabIishing confidence in the bank
ing institutions of the country.
But the very day Of the failure of
the Knickerbocker Trust company in
New York and while Mr.. Cortelyou
was up there comforting with j. Pier
pont Morgan and other magnates
about how to relieve the situation
and prevent the people from losing
confidence in the men who have been
untrue to their trusts, Mr.. Roosevelt
was down in Nashville declaring that
during; the 16 remaining months Of
his term he would continue to agi-
title and put into operation my Pol
icies."
One prominent fnancier in Wall
street declared that the man respon-
slble for the financial crisis in New
York, which this fnancier thinks
means the whole country, is Roose-
welt. Men are declaring that every
day, but this man submitted to an