The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-16
OHAUNCEY AND THEODORE

he should advocate q third term fol
President Theodore Roosevelt. And there
is every reason from the viewpoint OF
President Roosevelt why he should re
pudiate the oficious interference OF
Chauncey Depew in this matter, which
has now become one Of personal honor
and trust between the President and
the people,
BY linking himself at this early time
with movement, which has more OF
less vogue in the country. Depew hopes
to rehabilitate himself after his fall
from dccency. Discredited in New York
by his participation in the scandalous
and dishonest insurance affairs; asked
by score of newspapers and million
citizens to resign, and still declining to
resign; conscious that this is his final
| public service, unless he can miracul-
ously recover ground which he has lost
in ethics and politics; Depew sees his
final opportunity in making himself
the spokesman for the third term cult.
With presumption worthy of the old
days. when his buffoonery was popular,
he hands the nomination for third
term 10 Theodore Roosevelt If upon
this he could pile dclegateship TO the
! convention next year and could make
the speech of denomination, he would
count himself restored 10 public admira
tion and assured that his end, at least.
would be a blaze of glory
But President Roosevelt has placed
this case with his fellow citizens. In
terms as direct as his supcrlative direct
ness could demand, he declared that this
was a second term for him in the Presi-
dency; that a subsequent term would be
third one; that he was opposed 10
the third-term idea for any President,
and that, under no circumstance, would
he consent to be n candidate or to accept
nomination or election A large share
of the popular JOY in Mr.. Roosevelt
is due to the emotions he awakened by
that bold and unequivocal declaration.
la the first place, the view was one
which the people approved, and in the
second place, the assurance conveyed
by the President on the night following
the election was particularly crafty
ing, IN It's creation of the widespread be-
lief that he would be President for the
whole people and not for party-since
he could have no desire to do things
or say things from mere political mo-
tive, Both his personal honor and the
trust of the people demand from the
President fulfllment of his pledge,
L.
friend attempts 10 undo the President s
integrity and reputation, The man who
seeks to force a condition. which will
in its turn force violation of that
pledge of honor, is putting an indelible
blemish upon the historical character of
Theodore Roosevelt; where the purpose
is known and is deliberately pursued.
1T is enmity Of his fame; and where
tho idea IS echoed unthinkingly, il ia
ignorance of the intense devotion of
the President TO the "square deal. -
The American people are looking for
the use Of the ''big stick" against
Chauncey Depew for his selfish impu-
dcnce in this matter He is not ignor-
ant, and therefore he must be the Presi-
dent s enemy. IL he really loves and
admires Roosevelt as ne claims, he loves
himself more. and is willing to sacrifice
Roosevelt honor upon the altar of his
own need for rehabilitation-and that
is the worst kind of enmiiy.
Chauncey Depcw as sponsor for
Theodore Roosevelt s third term is an
insult to the President and the people.
Chauncey Depew narrowly escaped
prosecution upon charge of felony in
New York. The act was there; he was as
guilty rs some of the men who were
prosecuted; he took money for himself
and voted money TO others without
any return Of service; he scattered the
means belonging TO widows and orphans
for which he was trustee; he was the
head Of dummy corporation which
borrowed large suus from the insurance
company of which he was a director;
and the only plea which ne made in de-
fense was that he had paid little or
no attention TO the matter, involving
the transportation Of millions and in
volving payment to himself Of TWEEN.
ty thousand dollars per annum for ex.
orcising his very best talent in giving
attention to the affairs of the trus
teeship. In comparison with the doings
OF Depew in this matter and in others
like unto it. the crime of a common
highwayman in holding up citizen at
night and robbing that citizen of his
purse becomes respectable Depew, the
Jester for princes; Depcw, the attcn-
tive church member; Depew, the sena-
tor; trusted with hundreds of millions
OF money paid by toiling men as in
surance premiums to protect their dear
ones from want. snua nd erino tho ,,,o,or