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

tion.
From now un there will be a sharp
decline in the stock Of Theodore
Roosevelt. His corps Of press agents
at the capital may continue to grind
ont three column stories about the
awful conspiracy Of his "trusty"
friends to ruin him. but his bubble Is
pricked and the cheap glory in which
he reveled is departing forever.
"Wall Street Pets"
Only the very ignorant or the very
foolish believe that president wht
has surrounded himself with Wall
street pets as cabinet ministers has
any serious designs upon the trusts
The Roosevelt, Ryan and Root com.
binatlon is ideal 1t speaks for itself,
and with such shining lights as Taft,
Cortelyou, Knox and Paul Morton sur.
pounding It, all lingering doubt is
removed and the fools paradise is il
the full blaze of its glory.
The story OF President Roosevelt
and Paul Morton, If truthfully told.
would make luminous chapter in
the story of railroad rascality and TO
litical jobbery. 1t was to this no
torious strike.breaker and self-con-
fessed criminal that Roosevelt issued
bill uf moral rectltude long as
Pope's essay that landed him into the
$4,000 a year insurance graft he now
holds down. There is In this promo
ton the very climax OF the irony Of
doodle"
Paul Morton, who began as a strike
breaker on the c. b. so. road anu
reared a monument TO theft at Hutch
inson. Kan. and left his trail of crime
all the way from the Mississippi 10
the Pacific, is fit. indeed. to be the
cabinet associate and confidential
chum of a president who puts him at
the head uf the company whose funds
were stolen to buy him election.
William H. Taft is another of the
elect, and 1t is easy to understand
why Roosevelt has decided to make
this illustrious son his successor as
president of the United States and
is now grooming him with the patron
age OF the federal administration.
Taft Is a man after Roosevelts own
heart. Among his early acts as
Judge. he fined the bricklayers OF
Cincinnati $1,000 for going on
strike: he was next whirled to To-
ledo by special train and ordered by
the Toledo, Ann Arbor a North Mich
igan railroad to issue an inJunction
binding and gagging its striking en-
gineers and firemen and locking their
leader up in jail and he compiled
with alacrity. From that time on 1t
has been smooth sailing FOR the ac-
commodating judge, and there is not
plutocrat in the country who would
not hail with joy the election of VIII
liam Taft as president-he would be
hllnoSl as aSS'plabit 10 NS'SN'N'
himself.
The Burton Case.
The case of ex-senator J. II. Bur
ton of Kansas Is an example of Roos2-
veltian tactics Other senators had
taken thousands in similar cases TO
Burton's paltry few hundred dollars,
but Burton was marked by Roosevelt
for refusing to crook the knee to the
sugar trust and pursued with merci-
less ferocity until he was lodged he
hind prison bars The president did
not have a call TO go after his old
friends, Chauncey Depev md Thomas
Flatt, with the same virtuous passion
to see crime punished and criminals
jailed.
While Roosevelt was making his
continental campaign in the palat' u
special trains furnished free by the
railroads, he stopped at Abilene, Kan.
the home of the then Senator Burton,
and opened his speech there in these
words: Il am glad to be at the home
of the senior senator from Kansas and
am delighted to meet and greet his
neighbOrs and friends. want to saJ
that no man in this world has done
more, and | had almost said, as much,
to place me where am now, than
your distinguished senator"
FINE way the president had OF eX'
pressing his gratitude. Burton should
have known better and taken warn
ing. Whenever Roosevelt gets that
close to a man something is going TO
happen. MY dear is then due to be
metamorphosed with startling sudden
ness into an "atrocious lair"
Roosevelt can brook no rivalry. He
is the selfappointed central lumiu-
airy in the solar system. All others
must be contented with being fire
flies. He must violate all traditions