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

ers. The millions of working men
and women. embracing practically ev-
cry labor union in America, count for
nothing with him. lie is not now
standing for their votes. He is fui-
filling his obligation to the gentlemen
who put up the money that elected
him-paying off the mortgage they
hold upon his administration.
"The Greatest LIAR"
Theodore Roosevelt is swift 10
brand other men who even venture
to disagree with him as liars. He,
ACCORDING to himself is immaculate
and infallible.
The greatest liar is he who sees
only liars in others.
when Roosevelt denounced Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone as murderers
he uttered lie as black and damna.
Bile. a calumny as foul and atrocious
as ever issued from human lips. The
men he had thus traduced and Wilt
fled, sitting in their prison cells for
having faithfully served their fellow
workers and having spurned the
bribcs Of their masters, transcend i'm.
measurably the man in the white
house, who, with the cruel malevo-
lence Of a barbarian, has pronounced
their doom.
Had these men, accepted, with but
a shadow of the eagerness Roosevelt
displayed. the corruption funds of the
trust pirates, they would not now be
languishing in jail. The SAME brazen
robbers Of the people and cpIrupters
Of the body polite who put Meyer.
Haywood and Pettibone in Jail also
put Theodore Roosevelt in the white
house. This accounts for his prosti-
tuting the high office Lincoln honor
ed and resorting to methods that
would shame n Bowery ward heelof
Here and now / challenge Press
dent Roosevelt. lie is guilty Of hign
crimes and deserves impeachment.
For second time President Roose-
welt has publicly denounced Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone. He has no.
pronounced condemnation upon Harry
Thaw nor upon any rich men charged
with murder. He has, however, made
a postmaster of man at Chicago
charged by the Chicago Tribune with
having shot another man in a brawl
over disreputable women, and then
used his influence 10 make the same
man mayor of that city
Meyer Haywood and Pettlbonc
have now been in Jail fourteen
months; they have not been tried,
but twice condemned by President
Roosevelt, the last time but a shor;
time ago, in connection with his quar-
rel with Hartman, his former poll
tical pal and financial backer. These
men are voiceless and at tho mercy
OF calumny. For a man clJthcI al.
most With absolute power Ia strike
down we2 gagged am bov "a. rs th"-,
men a'a. he mus. have an uns. "th-
ably Ciu'al and ;oV, j,y nature.
The ne chnrac,ar Of this man Is
being B,adually refer ID 10 the Amer
lean people. He has never been any
thing but an enemy OF working peo-
n1n 10 KFfsff hA A
politician, show how he held them
ia contempt. In his book on Ranch
Life and the Hunting Trail" page 10,
written long before he entered poll
ties, Roosevelt reveals his opinion of
the toilers. After describing cow
boys when drunk on the villianOus
whisky of the frontier towns, he says:
They are much better fellows and
more pleasanter companions than
small farmers or agricultural labor
ers; nor are the mechanics and WORK
ingmen Of great city to be mention
ed in the same breath"
Roosevelt Is an aristocrat and an
autocrat. His affected democracy is
spurious and easily detected. He be-
longs to the upper crust" and at the
very best he can conceive OF the
workers As only contented slaves.
And no one knows better than he how
easily these slaves are dupet and how
madly they will cheer and follow a
cheap and snowy hero"
President Roosevelt may shClt
liar until he turns black in tine
face as are the cracksmen at heart
who burglarized the safes of the New
York insurance companies to land
him In the white house, while he was
toying with the names of Jimmy
Hyde and Chauncey Depew as pawns
in the corrupt game, but the damn
ed spot will not out until the whol'
truth is lnown and the whole crime
eXpiated.
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