The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-10
GETTING ENOUGH OF HIM.

GEENAN0 RNOUGH OF HIM.
 It begins to look as if our esteemed contemporary. The Chattanooga Times has gotten about enough of Roosevelt and Rooseveltism. Witness this para graph:
 MT. Hartman discovered the Ryan the President retaliates by exposing the Hartman Hearst Rockefeller conspi- racy. The great American people are Hey to Gry bplasae on ,ss Dotn yonr ize the peoples" combination against greed, graft and the sordid cunning of both these warning factions.
 Evidently The Times Is about ready to admit that the parties on one side of this business are fully as good as those on the other. If they would en- gage in a regular Kilkenny cat-fight and nothing but the tails be left of either faction, the country would be better off. But that isn't the most significant of The Times's comments for. in another editorial, it says.
 The more the Roosevelt Hartman quarrel is understood by the people the more humiliating must the disclosures become at least to those having even an ordinary sense of official propriety and political integrity. Stripped of all diverting features, the correspondence reveals the President of the United States in the role of a suppliant for of one of the rich railroad promoters and stock manipulators in the country; that same manipulator subscribing
 600 apa ram sa frends sn and SinSrsd manipulators and giving 1t cheerfully as one practical man would do to another practical" man, to aid the ence and power And all this was 4o- ing on while the President was writing his fiery and denunciakory denials of and trust magnates were being smilked" in aid of his campaign. Mir. tiarriman was practical" man and MT. Roosevelt asserted that he was the same. so that the transaction has only one significance to practical men.
 It is not at all necessary that we should feel or exhibit any liking for Mir, Hartman or express approval of his methods. Whether he is good, bad or medium as a man and as a corpora ton magnate, has nothing to do with the case The plain fact, which cannot be successfully controverted. is that the President of the United States, knowing exactly what manner of man Hartman was, entered into a deal with him through which a large campaign fund was to be raised to control New York politics in a State and national campaign which was then being bit- terly fought and in which the Republi- cans were not assured of success. :.
 These are the plain, patent facts of the case. No vehemence or bitterness of denial on the part of Roosevelt can vitiate these facts. He cannot remove the stain from his own smirched of fcial robe by calling Hartman a liar, and he might as well realize the fact More than once he has endeavored by calling other men liars to clear his own skirts, and more than once 1t has been shown conclusively that the other men had told the truth. He may as well abandon at once and forever his theory that the country will regard everything he says as gospel truth merely because he has said it. That will not go any longer. Unprejudiced. thinking men have reached point that when Roosevelt makes an assertion on any important matter. they will ask themselves, if not the public, Can he prove it?
 That is the humiliating dilemma to which Theodore Roosevelt has succeed ed in driving the best thought of the country. That he has friends and ad- mirers who will stand by him in any event, and who will continue to be- lieve that what he says Is true and what he does Is right, Is beyond dis pute, but, as The Times further says, "the revelations have been shocking to a large number of the Presidents friends and hitherto admirers and dis tinctly distressing to those who believe that aspirants for presidential honors as well as incumbents of that high of- flee should not have the slightest sus- picion of countenancing the practices of the ward heeler and political boodler."
 What effect it is being asked, will this altogether discreditable affair have on Roosevelt as a leader and on Roose- veltism as a policy? It has been heralded far and wide that Roosevelt will demand that the Republican nom inee for President shall be a man of his own sort and who will be sure to carry out his policies. The question to be considered is whether the sane and intelligent leaders of his party will longer look on him as a safe man to follow, or will regard his policies as best for their organization The state ment sent out that a powerful combi- nation has been formed to down him may have been a fake, or 1t may have been a story concocted by his own fol- lowers for the purpose of working up sympathy for him and getting the tide turned back in his favor Whatever may come of 1t, however, we agree with the concluding words of The Times that this unfortunate episode be- comes one of the most humlliating records in the political history of the republic as 1t now stands"
 A PRETTY QUARREL.