Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-16
In DICTATOR'S ROLE
PRESIDENT RoosEvELT's ATTI.
TUDE AT THE PRESENT.
Talk of "PIot" and Fund Raised to
Oppose Him Is Plainly a Po-
IiticaI Move-The Cor.
ruption in 1904.

That was a shrewd move OF Presi-
dent Roosevelt to have the official
declaration made that the anti-admin-
! istration Republicans are in league
with the railroads and have raised a
fund of S., 900, 900 to defeat my poll
cies," or "a man of my type" 1t was
evidently intended to turn the public
from paying too much attention to the
confessions of MI. Hartman that the
president asked him to raise an addi-
ton to the corruption fund of 1904 to
save the state of New York to the Re-
publicans. 1t also has the effect of
putting those Republicans who are
not favorable to Taft, or whoever else
the president may eventually decide
upon as his successor, on the defen-
sive, and the weaklings hasten to de-
clare their allegiance to the dictator.
The president does not favor the in
dorsement of favorite son by their
states and demands that his friends
see that a delegation is arranged for,
that will either vote for him for a
third term or follow his instructions
as to whom to vote for. There proba-
bly, is no truth in the statement that
$4,000, 900, or any other sum, has been
subscribed or collected to defeat the
president in his ambition to control
the next Republican national conven-
ton. 1t is far too soon for money to
be spent, as any tyro in political do
ings knows, but the pretended expos
ure of "a plot" with vast financial re-
sources behind it, is being used as a
hair-raiser to scare the Republican
voters against giving aid and comfort
to the "conspirators." 1t will be "a
good enough Morgan" until after the
delegates are elected to the Republic
can national convention, AS the ma
chine politicians control the election
of delegates to the Republican con-
~ventions in most congressional dis
tricts and states, and the rank and
file either do the bidding of the bosses,
or are a helpless minority, there is no
doubt that when the time comes there
will be all the doodle" necessary tt
enliven the proceedings in the usual
Republican manner But experience
shows that the corporations and trusts
have generally found it cheaper and
more convenient to buy enough of the
delegates to Republican conventions
to make a majority after they have
been elected, than to bother with cau-
pucnc and tho minor yantiOnG
The corporations and trusts may be
relied upon in the future, as in the
past, to furnish the money to elect
the Republican candidate for presi-
dent, whoever he may be. They did
it in 1896 and in 1900 for Mckinley,
and in 1904 for President Roosevelt.
The latter may deny it forever and a
day, but the worn evidence in the
life insurance investigation shows
that the corporation magnates paid
large sums in 1904 to the chairman
and treasurer of the Republican ma.
tional committee, and we have the ad.
mission of Mr.. Hartman that he gave
a check for $4,000, and some friends
of Senator Depew paid in the aggre-
gate $150,000 more, less than ten days
before election.
The president should quit talking of
Doodle to defeat him until he has
caused his committee to make restitu-
tion of the trust funds of the widows
and orphans that were collected in
1904.