Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-04-15
"Hypocrite, " "Demagogue0 and Political Prostitute ' Are Some of the Mildef Terms Applied.
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 Pittsburgs Kansas, April 15.-"Hyps ocrite, "demagogue" and political prostitute" are some of the miider terms applied 10 President Roose- welt by Eugene V. Debs, former oo- cialist candidate for president ln signed statement made public today. Debs attack on the president was oa= easioned by#tbe latter's charaeteriza- tion of Hearst, Mover Haywood and Debs as undesirable citizens and is as follows:
 By Eugene V. Debs.
 "Regarding the president of the United States as l do, simply as q cit izep and felow-man, the same as any other, l shall speak of him and his acts free alike from awe and malice, and if l place him in the public pH- Tory, where he has placed 50 many others. to be seen and despised of men, it will be from a sense that his official acts, so often in flat denial of his professions, merit the execration of honest men
 Tn the first place, 1 charge Pfesl. dent Roosevelt with being hypoerlte, the greatest that ever occupied the executive chair of the nation. His profession of pure politics is false' his boasted moral courage the bluf of q bully and his square deal de- fusion and a sham.
 "Theodore Roosevelt is mainly for Theodore Roosevelt and incidentally for such others as are also for the same distinguished gentleman, first last and all the time He is smooth and slippery politician, swollen purple with self-conceit; he is shreWd enough to guage the stupidity of the masses and interruptions enough 70 turn it into hero worship. This con stitutes the demagogue and he is that in superlative degree.
 "Only.a short time ago he appeared in a characteristic role. Rushing into the lime-light, as necessary to nm as breath, he shrieked that he ant Root were mortified because of cer tain scandalous and revolting charges made by one of his own former polltl cal chums. Of course, be and Root n them all were mortified because O the shock to their political virtue bo it so happened that their horror tool effect only when they found them selves uncovered The taking of Har riman's poodle for corruptly electin> him president and the use of the sto! en insurance funds for the same puE pose did not horrify' the presiden and Root, nor would they be horrifie yet if they had not been caught red handed with the booty upon their per sons
 This much is preliminary to tn extraordinary official conduct of tn president which has mortified it's vie tims and many others and nov prompts this protest.
 Something over a year ago ChafIa Mover, William Haywood and Geor@ Pettibone of Colorado, leading otlicia! of the Western Federation of Miner! were overpowered and kidnapped by gang of thugs and torn from thei families at night by the conspiracy ( two degenrate governors and anethe notorious criminal acting for the min and shelter trust ,one of the mo; stupendous aggregations of force an plunder in all America.
 Every decent man and woman wh knew of this case was mortified by and the whole working class of u nation cried out against it.
 Was Roosevelt also mortified Yes.
 Because three citizens of the repu lie had been kidnaped@ Oh, no.
 The three citizns were only wor' ing cattle and he never had any otht conception of them. He was ,borrifie because the mine and smelter tus unclean birds that feather their nest especially in Colorado, with legisl tsres and United States senatorship had hot killed instead of kidnapt their victims.
 When Roosevelt stepped out of u White House and called Mover, Ha wood and Pettibone 'murderers,' m he had never seen and did | know; men who had never been tri' never convicted and whom every l; of the land presumed innocent un proven guilty, he fell a million mi below where Lincoln stood, and thu