The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-10-07
SIZING UP TEDDY

ROOSEVELT a SHAMEFUL DEMa.
GoeUE SAYS CHANCELLOR Day.
Rockefeller's Champion Says De.
generacy is Made Contemplate
By Revelation of Glaring lncon-
sistency OF Chief Booster.
That the Standard Oil Company
remains under the venomous hatred
of President Roosevelt, for reasons
best known on the inside, while the
steel corporation, the greatest trust
in America. receives his appreciation
and consent to increase its holdings.
was the statement OF Chancellor
James Roscoe Day, OF syracuse Uni
vers;ty.
The chancellor charges that not
only did Roosevelt, when candidat:
for president four years ago, hobnnb
with trust magnates and urge them
TO secure money to elect him, but
that after his election he appointed
to a position in his cabinet a man
who held at the time a retaining fe"
from a large corporation, that man
being still member OF the caolnet-
The interview follows: Inc
things that predicted more than two
years ago, and that are on record.
have come true, and other sequences
are hurrying to their conclusion
Never has this country known
such condition politically. Never
has it seen its president descend 70
such a shameful degeneracy OF de-
magogy. Most Of its high moralitins
far above trusts, which 1t considers
the sum of all villiany, are made con-
temptible by revelations OF the glar,
ing inconsistency Of the chief ooos'
ter.
! "For Senator Foraker to procure
loan for political friends who wish C
purchase a paper TO rcontesting tne
election shocks Mr.. Roosevelt. Bl'
the president was very practical
when he wanted s260,000 to put J
where it could do most good Whei
his election was involved. "na'
was such a great sum to be used Tor;
"It is a sign of political corruption
for Senator Foraker to have cor
~aspondence with an officer Of tn
Standard Oil Company, but only tn
; direction and privilege of Mr.. Roose
yelt to call to Washington 'praell
cal man, the head Of the creates
railway corporation In the land, t
confer with him before he announce'
his policies to congress.
"The Standard Oh remains unde
Mr.. Roosevelts venomous hatred TO
reasons well-known on the inside, bu
the greatest trust in America re
! ceives his appreciation and consent t
increase its holdings.
"A representative Of predator
wealth Is intimate counsel and i
co-operation with Mr.. Hitchcock unit
discovery becomes inevitable. The
he is forced to resign, not becaus
of the sin, but the sure discovery o
it by political enemies:
1.-The glass houses seem to .
cracking with ominous sound Tn
I, Foraker-Archbold incident Is shock
ing to hypocrites But honest an
thoughtful men who are not hldin
facts to promote a cause, rememne
the conditions of brlgandage IN tn
legislature when every State held w
Industrial and transit corporation:
and demanded their money or thel
lives.
: Fortunately the elimination fror
] the White House carry no conviction
J. So p-eiudiced, unfair and untrue ar
they. They are humiliating, no
! because they are from Mr.. Roost
/. Welt, but because they are fonr tn
! PRESIDENT. The Office is disgracee
, The people are covered with shame
J 1.-The little postmasters are re
! moved for engaging in politics. Tn
most of the business Of the presidel
tial Office is devoted to a polltlca
= campaign. Cabinets are called, IL
, terviews are furnished, telephone an
t telegraph wires are kept hot, tn
clerical force is worked far into tn
r night-if the newspaper special cor
: respondents are to be believed-an
' our square deal president is chann
at the bit to go on the platform.
"I know that no corporation resist
ed this mulcting more successful
than Standard Oil.
"Charges against Mr.. Foraker TO
oracticing as an attorney when IN OF
fec is absurd The very salary pa''
senator proves that the copntry ex
pects him to employ his spare tim
in some legitimate business.
"The eye Of the American peopl'
are opened wide. They are not al
deceived. What they need Is to er
ercise themselves In the judicial TEN
erament. They are too easy stamp
eded By the frenzy OF the mad re
former.
"The American citizen cannot re-
turn too soon to Constitutional gov
ernment and the reinforcement o!
business with his confidence"