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to the campaign fund in 1904, when
Mr.. CortelyOu was collector.
These plots" and "conspiraeies, "
which Mr.. Roosevelt has sworn TO
foil, may be the creation of Pres
idential brain storm" or they
may be put forward for the pur-
pose of stirring the popular wrath,
strengthening the President with
the people and diverting attention
from the Hartman charges.
Either as fact, fiction or the crea-
ton of ovcrwrought imaginations.
the allegations of plots and con
splracies' cannot divert the minds
of the people from the Presidents
admission that the corporation
chiefs, of whom Mr.. Hartman is
one, gave money to promote the
election of Mr. Roosevelt. After
his election they felt that they had
i not received the recognition 20
which they were entitled: that
they had, in fact, been denied a
squire DEAL If the people should
suspect that there was a double
dealing in 1904 to get contributions
from corporations, why should they
not fear that in some future con-
test there might be doubledealinp
with them when they, and not the
corporations, would be the Victims
The Presidents last statement
does not put him in any better
light than he was in before. There
was loud profession of innocence
and virtue in 1904, when the still
hunt for corporation funds was on.
The financial arrangements we're
represented to be of the very es-
sence of purity. Yet now the
President frankly states that cor
poratlons gave freely, but with the
understanding that it was all from
pure unseliishness. The President
and his party incurred no obliga-
lions by accepting railroad money.
and oil money, and trust money
generally. The money was not
tainted; it was dedicated to holy
purposes. Yet because the unself-
ish donors have not received some
thing they expected in return they
have gone to "conspiring and plot
tins" against the peace and digni-
ty of the President.
Sometimes great men have hal
lucinations. 1t may have been an
insane delusion that the railroads
and the trusts helped to finance the
Republican campaign with no de-
sire whatever to derive practical
advantage from their investments.
On the other hand, it may have
been a profound conviction on the
part of the President that the
money raised for his campaign in
1904 was for holy purpose; that
1t was spontaneous tribute to his
zeal by the railroads and trusts
which were to be punished by him.
All this may be true, but the
American people will not believe
1t until they lose their common
sense.
All who contemplate dissenting
at any time from Mr.. Roosevelt's
opinions, convictions and pro-
nouncements should be careful not
to make statements that he can
communicate to the Supreme Court
justices. If the justices of this
exalted tribunal were governed by
anything but the law, Mr. Harri-
man might feel uneasy about litioa-
ton in which he is concerned. But
not even the Presidents extraor-
binary act In acquainting the JUS
tees with Mr.. Harriman's alleged |
disparaging remaks about the
courts will make the Supreme |
Court of the United States render /
any decision which is not founded
upon the law and justice. There
is no "brainstorm" in the Supreme
Court.-Baltimore Sun.
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