Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-09-29
Roosevelt, Bombastic Egotist.

publican congressional campaign COM
mittee, Theodore Roosevelt says: ssTo
fail to elect Taft would be calamity
to the country"
AS president of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt provoked calamity,
plunging the country into panic.
But Theodore Roosevelt denies re-
sponsibility for the panic Therefore
he is unfit to determine what will pro-
duce calamity.
His own occupancy of the white
no use proven calamity, when he tells
us, as in his letter to Kohrs, that he
and Taft ''have the same views as to
what is demanded by the national in
telest and HONOR we .are justified in
concluding that the election of Taft
means fresh calamity.
The prosperity ledger shows Theo-
dore Roosevelt in red ink and his credit
gone. We would be foolish to extend
credit on his recommendation to a man
what is demanded by the national in
terest and honor.
Men seeking wise counsel sit at the
feet of wisdom, not at the throne of
folly. They consult men who have
been safe custodians of the interests
committed to their care, not men who
outraged their trust in gratifying a
lust for the plaudits of the passionate.
Death made Theodore Roosevelt
president when the nation was at the
high tide of prosperity. He will retire
from the presidency with the nation
In the ebb of industrial depression.
The manager of business who came
into control with great surplus in
bank, untitled orders innumerable, and a
record OF dividends regularly paid, who
dlsslpated the surplus, made it impos-
sible to get additional orders, and was
unable to meet dividends, would be
thrown out as a failure, and his advice
thereafter be unsought, and offered,
spurned
The average man with a record of
such failure, would never offer counsel
or seek to guide the affairs of the or
ganization of which he is in charge. But
Theodore Roosevelt is not the average
man, in ability nor in modesty. Theo-
dore Roosevelt is an egotist, arrogant
and intolerant. With the wreckage of
business all about him, with millions of
men tramping the streets in search of
an opportunity to earn bread, with
capital shaking and afraid, Theodore
Roosevelt, with the presumption begot
of inordinate vanity, Theodore Roos e.
welt, prosperity bankrupt, has the
effrontery to say, Fail to elect this
man. my rightful heir, who shares the
views | hold, who will follow in nv
footsteps, or you will have calamity. ,
1t is spectacle that affronts reason
and raises question of whether the man
is merely drunk with egotism or insane.
Theodore Roosevelt's success is not
as statesman, a reformer, a doer of
things, but as an advertiser. He is
the greatest advertiser known to pres
ent day civilization. His ambition is
to have his name upon the lips of the
multitude. Processing devotion to
truth, virtue and honorable dealings,
his acts prove him to be the antithesis
of the virtuous. He assaassinates
character with ruthlessness, and upon
his liars list are men and women of
established regulations for probity,
whose lives have been lived honorably.
He does not scruple in the attainment
of his ends to reach into the very gut
ter for slime to fling at those opposed,
any more than he hesitated to inaug-
urate an era of government by denun-
citation. Nothing is sacred that runs
counter to his ambition He moves
with ruthless step, appropriating as his
own the good of another's creation,
and damning as bad that what is not
in his record as made up, the while
seeking to justify his course with the
statement that he seeks to serve the
popular welfare, when the one and
only, the great overshadowing consid-
GRAFTON with him is to rule, as despot
rules, to be the Colossus of Rhodes,
bestriding everything, to be the censor
of the home life of wives and husbands
the evangelist preaching morals, the
most respected patron of prize fights
the greater than the winner of the
Marathon, the last authority in mat
tiers of craftsmanship, the greatest
soldier of them all, the master nava
strategist, the mentor of Noah Web.
ster, the coadjutor of Plus, Pope OF
Rome, the emperor of the Philippines
the high court in natural history, the
arhiter dictum in affairs political. No
content to be president, his obsessior
leads him to employ the mighty power
of government to dictate who shall
succeed him, that he may continue hi,
rule through proxy. He is NOR,
than Rajah, more than Prince, he i.
The Great | Am, the Trinity execu
tive, judicial, legislative. the monarch
of all he surveys, the universal pan
acea, the infallible accoucheur, the last
word-After my influence is gone, the
end of the world!
God keep us!
Dubuque Telegraph Herald.