Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-10-11
WHY ROOSEVELT?
Is There No Other Man Who May Fill the
Office as Well?

Is mere NO Otner man W no Nay Fiji the
Office as Well?
DENVER, CoLO.. Oct. =, 1907.
Ed. STANDARD:
l have just read an editorial in
Success .Wngp=ime that is amusing to
say the least. The writer asks the
prevailing question of the day, Twill
Roosevelt run in 1882 And an
swers his query by saying, He can
have the nomination, he need not ask
for it; he need not even withdraw
his full and final remuneration. AS
the tide blows now, he will be nOmi-
mated over his own protest and re-
elected practically unopposed. Why?
Because no other man in public life
has ever caused such a flutter in the
vulture rOosts of plutOcracy," etc.
Now ] ask. in the name of common
sense, if Roosevelt is the only pebble
on the beach? 'Tis true he is the
best Republican President we ever
had since Lincoln. in my opinion,
but is he infalliblc? He has made
more mistakes than all the Presi-
dents combined and yet has done
much good, but he has never caused
half the " tlutter in the vulture roosts
of plutocracy" that Bryan has. In
fact plutocracy never tiourished so
much as it has under the greater
part of the Roosevelt administration,
and it was in consequence of Bryan's
outspOken hatred of plutocracy that
Roosevelt was elected in 1904. The
plutes have always feared Bryan and
they had good reason for it, and
made millions of dollars by putting
up millions of dollars to defeat him.
They recognized the fact years ago
that Bryan was the champion of
equal rights for all and special
privileges to none, and that their
chance for an unlimited plundering
of the people by laws comforting
special privileges would cease so
long as he was President. What
gall man must have to assert that
there is no other man whom the
people can trust as hating plutOcracy
as Roosevelt hates it, in face of the
fact that Bryan has been urging him
for years to enforce the laws against
the scoundrels and put en- behind
the bars.
It's only recently that the d. o. p.
wakened to the fact that plutOcracy
is the greatest menace to this cOun
try we have had to contend with, and
yet the Democratic party has been
aware of it from the inception of its
organization, and the representatives
of the party have been busy in every
campaign portraying the evils of spe-
cial privilege whereby .Jro become
immensely rich at the expense OF the
many. Who is responsible for the
monopOlistic condition of this cOun
try that Republicans as well as Dem
Ocrats and all other parties are COM
batting? Is it not the Republican
party? Has not that party had con-
| troll of the government practically for
forty years? Have not all the sys-
TENS of plunder that have become
fostering sores on the body polite
been generated under Republican su-
pervision? If not, why not? They
have had full swing. If a man has a
monopoly of anything he can GER
tainly have his own way and if the
d. O. p. hasn't had monopoly of this
government for forty years, / hope
they never will. Then what party is
to blame for the conditions under
which we are laboring? Emphati-
cally the Republican party. Then
let us remove the cause. An intelli-
gent doctor will first diagnose the
disease and then try to remove the
cause before he can affect cure.
The d. o. p. is diseased; it is putrid;
it is reeking with corruption from it's
head to its tail; itstinks; it ought to
have been buried years ago to pre-
vent infection; it's worse than small
pox or yellow fever or the itch; it is
only stalking around to save funeral
expenses. Let us bury it at public
expense, and elect to Office men of a
party that have some regard for
cleanliness, honesty and purity.
G.. Cog.