The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-18
In DICTATOR'S ROLE
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S Att
TUBE AT THE PRESENT.
raIk O: "Plot" and Fund Raised to
Oppca, Him Is Plainly a Po-
Iitical Move-The Cor
rupticn In 1904.

Iitical Move-The Cor
ruption In 1904.
That was a shrewd 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 $4,000, 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 Mr.. 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-
p~ublicans. 1t also has the effect Of
putting those Republicans who are
not favorable to Taft, or whoever else
upon as his successor, on the defen-
sive, and the weakiings hasten to de-
clare their allegiance to the dictator.
The situation is very similar to that
In the Turkish empire, where all who
will not declare for the successor
whom the sultan has elected to sue
coed him arc in danger of Punishment
or worse.
The president does not favor the in
dorsement CT ~favorite ons 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
IS, 600, 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 oon 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 1t, is being used as a
h~air-raiser to scare the Republican
voters against giving aid and comfort
70 the "cOnspirators." It will be "a
good enough Morgan" until after the
delegates are elected to the Republi-
can national convention. AS the ma
CLlhC pOiiIiCldnS SOllllOl III CICCllOA
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
enliven the proceedings in the usual
Republican manne 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 eau
cuses and the minor conventions.
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 sworn evidence in the
iiS iN ihNCoAlSoNiOA SLiONo
that the corporation magnates paid
large sums in 1904 to the chairman
and treasurer of the Republican ma
tional committee, and we have the adj
mission of Mr.. Hartman that he gave
a check for $50, 900, and some friends
of Senator Depew paid in the aggre-
gate $3.50, 900 more, less than ten days
before election.
If 1t was considered morally right,
according to Republican ethics, for
the corporation magnates to pay these
large sums into the Roosevelt cam
paign fund, which Doodle we are as
sured by Mr.. Hartman turned $4,000
votes in New York city alone, why is
It a crime to be raved at to subscribe
money to III a safe and sane can
didate to be elected by the use of
even more Doodle?
The president should quit talking of
Doodle to defeat him until he has
his committee to make restitu-
ton of the trust funds of the widows
and orphans that were collected in
1904.