The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-16

tltute are some OF tne mllucr TERMS
applied to President Roosevelt by
Eugene V. Debs. former socialist can
didate for president. in a signed state
ment made public today. Dobs a..
tack on the president was occasioucd
by the latters recent characterizat on
OF Hearst. Moyer, Haywood and Debs
as undesirable citizens" and IL as
follows:
(By Eugene V. Debs)
Regarding the president OF the
United States, as | do simply as a
citizen and fellowman, the same as
any other. shall speak OF him ana
his acts free alike from awe and ma
lice, and II place him in the public
pillory. where he has placed so many
others, to be seen and despised of
men, it will be from a sense that his
Official acts, so often in flat denial
~ his professions, merit the execra-
tion OF honest men.
In the first place, | charge Presi-
dent Roosevelt with being nypV
critic, the greatest that ever occupied
the executive seat OF the nation. His
profession of pure politics is false,
his boasted moral courage the bluff
of a bully and his Square deal" a
delusion and a sham.
Theodore Roosevelt Is mainly for
Theodore Roosevelt and incidental
Iy for such others as are also for the
same distinguished gentleman, first.
last and all the time He is n smooth
and slippery politician, swollen pui'
pie with self-conceit; he Is shrewd
enough to gauge the stupidity Of the
masses and INSCRIPTIONS enough to
turn It into hero worship. This con
stitutes the demagogue, and he Is thaJ
in superlative degree.
Only a short time ago he appeared
in characteristic role. Rushing into
the limelight, as necessary to him as
breath, he shrieked that he and Root
were mortified" because of certain
scandalous and revolving charges
made by one OF his own former po-
litical chums. OF course, he ami
Root. of Tweed fame, the NXiest nix
er" of them all. were Mortified be-
cause Of the shock of their political
virtue, but 1t so happened that the
horror took effect only when they
found themselves uncovered. The
taking of Harrlman's Doodle for COR
ruptly electing him president and the
use of the stolen insurance funds for
the same purpose did not "horrify'
the president and Root, nor would
they be mortified yet II they had not
been caught red-handed in the act
with the booty upon their persons.
This much is preliminary to the
extraordinary official conduct Of the
president which has mortified" its
victims and many others and now
prompts this protest.
Something over a year ago Charles
Moyer, William Haywood and George
Pettibone, of Colorado leading ciii'
clals of the Western Federation Of
Miners. were overpOwered and Kid
naped by gang Of thugs and torn
from their families at night by the
conspiracy Of two degenerate COVER
nors and another notorious criminal
acting for the mine and smelter trust,
one of the most stupendous aggregn'
tions of force and plunder In all
America.
Every decent man and woman who
knew of this case was mortified by
II and the whole working class Of tn,
nation cried out against it.
Was Roosevelt also Mortified"
Yes.
Because three citizens OF the repub-
lie had been kidnapped? oh. no.
The three citizens were only work
ing cattle and he never had any other
conception of them. He was nor
rlfied" because the mine and smelter
trust. unclean birds that feather Their
nests, especially in Colorado, with leg
islatures and United States senator
ships had not killed instead Of kidnap-
cd their victims.
When Roosevelt stepped out of the
white house and called Meyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone "murderers,
men he had never seen and did NO.
know; men who had never been tried
never convicted and whom every law
of the land presumed innocent until
proven guilty, he fell n million miles
beneath where Lincoln stood. and
there he grovels today with his po
lltical crimes, one after another, find
ing him out and pointing at him thoi'
accusing fingers.
No president OF the United States
has ever descended TO such depths a
has Roosevelt to serve his law-defy
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