The Washington herald., 1907-04-13
RIDICULEFOR GRAVES
Representative Hay Says He
Spoke Nonsense.
CANNOT NAME ROOSEVELT
Democrats VIII Never Nominate
Him, Says Virginian-ship Subsidy,
Tariff, Sentiments on Confederate
Soldiers, and Booker Washington
as Something 10 Recall.

n BeAiJCIa+ic Congressman came to
town yesterday who talked very warmly
about the suggestion OF the Georgia edi-
/ tor. John Temple Graves, that William J.
Bryan in the next Democratic national
convention should nominate Theodore
| Roosevelt for President. The speaker
was Representative James Hay, of the
| Seventh, or Shenandoah Valley. district
/ Of Virginia Mr.. Hay is serving his
/ seventh term in the House and is one Of
the leading Democrats in Congress.
1T is the sheerest nonsense" he said
Of the Graves suggestion. 1T is the alb
surdest thing in politics have heard, ex-
! eept possibly the story % the s5O0.OOO
conspiracy TO defeat President Roosevelt
and iis policies.
/ 1T is impossible" continued Mr. Hay,
that any Democrat in a Democratic ma
I tional convention should nominate Presi-
/ dent Roosevelt. His record is anything
( but Democratic. His policies. however
well meant. are not Democratic, and
cannot see how any one calling and feel
/ ing himself a Democrat can admire. re-
spect, or commend what we understand
/ is the Roosevelt way Of conducting the
government.
Policies That Are URdemOeratfc.
Take the ship subsidy. which Roosevelt
supposts. There is not a single Demo
cratic idea IN that business. If there Is a
| Democratic idea left in the country. # is
opposed TO the ship subsidy and all other
subsidies.
How does Mr.. Roosevelt appeal to
Democrats as tariff reformer? If he
ever was inclined in that direction. il was
when ne wrote books as youth, at the
same time that he mathematical Thomas
Jefferson and other Of our geratest Dem
Ocratic statesmen. Throughout the six
years OF the Roosevelt administration he
has been as unyielding a standDatter as
Speaker Cannon. Payne, Dalzell. OF any
Of the rest Of them. President Roosevelt
has very ostensibly made war on the
trusts. / would like 10 know wherein
from his method Of attacking trusts and
lmonopolies the people of the country have
been substantially benefited
What is the article Of trust produc-
/ ton the price Of which has been reduced
/ 10 the consumer by trust-busting Of the
I Roosevelt kind2 We as Democrats, have
/ fought trusts and monopolles as the
/ creatures OF the high protective tariff.
Roosevelt and his party have enacted
/ laws that have sustained and maintained
1 these trusts and monopoIies. The Repub-
/ liean party has fried the fat for campaign
1 purposes out of these trusts and mOnopo-
/ lies. and at the last election. notwith-
standing Mr. Roosevelt's denial that the
money was used for improper purposes.
/ his national campaign committed solicited
and received and used money obtained
/ from the trusts and other corporations. Is
{ there Democrat vino believes that these
great business Institutions. composed Of
practical men, would have contributed TO
/ Mr Roosevelts election merely out Of
personal infatuation for him? Mr.. RoOse-
| Welt himself is too practical a man to
I think Of such "a thing.
Roosevelt and Road Regulation.
And ali this talk Of railroad regula-
/ ton through Roosevelt policies makes me
/ tired. If there be glory in il for Roose-
yelt. where Is the benefit to the people
What freight or passenger rate has been
reduced by it? And what is the ultimate
/ purpose of the Roosevelt railroad policy
but to strike down all State participation
/ in rate legislation and to concentrate all
railroad regulation here in Washington?
Every substantial step Of progress made
/ in the direction OF relief of the people
| from abuses Of privilege by the railroad
had It's origin in the States. A little
while ago the railroads protested against
Federal regulation. and talked about in
vasion of constitutional State rights Now
they have shifted to State regulation.
and in that they are playing square into
the hands OF President Roosevelt who
has about as scant respect for the rights
Of the States as any Republican who ever
iauded Alexander Hamilton as the great
est of our statesmen.
NO Republican President or leader in
that party has ever gone as far toward
! Capitalization Of governmental power as
| President Roosevelt That is a consuming
idea with him, 70 which all else is
suboTdinated. No man who is infatuated
with personal power as he is could be
otherwise Is this sort Of thing to be an
inspiration to a Democrat to nominate
Roosevelt for another term. and 10 pro
mote his ambition to make a One-mau
government here?
Some Things Hay Recalls.
IF ! we're talking TO an audience Of
Southern Democrats. I think I would re-
mind them of some things in Roosevelt 3
record which some Democrats down our
way seem to have forgotten. would re-
call to them that the negro schooI-teach-
er, Booker Washington, as recognized by
President Roosevelt, has superior claims
TO consideration as an adviser than have
United States Senators who happen not to
| agree with the President In patronage
affairs, as notably in the case of Alabama
and Ohio. ] would recall the Crum ap-
pontment, the Indianola post-office sus-
pension, and I would remind the Southern
people that he had spoken in public of
Southern soldiers as no better than
anarchists, as ne did In n speech at
Arlington Cemetery. with the graves Of
Confederate soldiers in sight of him. OF
all Democrats to suggest the election of
Roosevelt, one from the South ought to
| be the last"
Wouldn't you vote for him as the
nominee of the Democratic party?" he
was asked.
He will not be the nominee of the
| Democratic party" replied Mr. Hay.
Sentence of Paymaster COmmuted
The President yesterday approved the
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