Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-03
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SOUTHWEST EDITORS

tous of them all, next to Standard Oil appear in the list? MT. Roosevelt's undertaking principal in this contro- versy expended thousands in trying to uncover the malefactions of the Anthracite Coal trust only to run finally against the stone wall of MT. Rooseyelt's interstate commerce com mission. Are we to believe that Mir. Roosevelt hewed without regard to where the chips fell or that he per secuted at his convenience and with an eye single to the interests of him self and his party? The circum- stances are such the list is not com plete without recording what has been left conspicuously undone.
 MT. Roosevelts defense of the non publication of the names of contrib utors to the republican campaign fund is both ridiculous and pathetic. 1t is difficult to believe that he wrote it seriously. He begins by quoting himself. It is a letter of his to the chairman of "my campaign commit tee" written October 26, 1904, in which he said that contributions would be accepted with the explicit understanding that they were given and received with no thought of any more obligation on the part of the national committee or of the national administration than is implied in the statement that every man shall re ceive a square deal, no more and no less, and that this I shall guarantee him in any event to the best of my ability"
 If MT. Roosevelt had not maintain ed an embarrassing silence on the question of tariff revision for three years and more after that letter was written it would be possible to con cede his honesty in writing it. But he was silent.
 At this time, too, MT. Roosevelt shows great familiarity with the in- famous contribution made by E. H. Hartman and calls attention to the fact that it did not affect any action taken by me as against MT. HarrI- man." There was time when MT. Roosevelt knew nothing at all about that contribution, bur now he knows much, and among other things, says he has been informed that 1t was used not in the national campaign but in New York state. MT. Bryan asked an embarrassing question as to that liar riman contribution, namely, Would 1t not have affected the result of the election if 1t had been known?' Mir Roosevelt admits that 1t would and, by creating a false impression" !" have impaired the chance or success. His argument is that men anxious for partisan success would misinter- pret the intentions of the gIyers and receivers of campaign contributions and infer a guilty association, instead of accepting as true and genuine and honest the averments of the parties to the deal. In fact, Mir. Roosevelt fears that the letter he quoted from himself to the chairman of the cam paign committee in 1904 would be in- eloquent and flat when aligned against an impressively eloquent s24O,000 donation by E. H. Hartman. It certainly would be.
 But because 1t would, are we to insist less strongly that the rela- tiCns between these corporate givers and the most incorruptible candidates be made known? What have the can didates to fear if tiioy are trcorrrpti- ble and honest? And yet Mir. Roose- felt fears that his incorruptible and honest heir would be defeated if 1t were made known before the election who had subscribed to the repuoIi- can campaign fund
 It is a fair argument that If the publication of such information would defeat William Howard Taft, the fall ure to publish 1t should also defeat him. The confessed fear of MT. Reese welt that publication would be dis astrous should make the failure to publish the information still more dis astrous.
 The republicans are damned out or the mouth of their leader.
 DIsGusTED WITH RoosEVElTisM
 All of the Democratic and independ- ent papers of the east and the more dignified of the Republican editors, are severely criticizing- the part the president of the United States Is play ing in t;ls campaign. The Buffalo Times says:
 An idol has fallen. Theodore Roosevelt stands a prisoner at the bar of outraged public opinion. He has vTougSt his own humiliation. When he lost his selfrespect, he lost the re- spect of others. Roosevelt has mis-