Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-24

ernment.
 A few of the more influential re-
 publican newspapers suggested to
 President Roosevelt yesterday that
 he let Bryan alone and not reply to
 his dispatch. Their suggestions fell
 on deaf ears. Roosevelt considered it
 the chance of lifetime, for he
 loves to get into the limelight, and
 so he replies, to Bryan by simply re-
 iterating Hearst's charges. There
 does not seem to be anything new in
 what he says which leads ono to ask
 why was Hearst employed or engaged
 to do the work he Is now doing and
 why does President Roosevelt cuddle
 up to the man he accused of being
 partially responsible for President
 McKinley's death. There are some
 republicans, we feel sure, who would
 not care to win an election If it was
 necessary to call to their aid William
 R. Hearst. Not so with Roosevelt,
 however, he seems to have gladly
 availed himself of Hearst's services
 With the president, 1t seems to be,
 win the election and continue "my
 policies" at all hazards. The Hart
 ford Times in commenting on this
 Roosevelt-H Hearst alliance says: Evi-
 dence is not lacking that this year MT Hearst has more than one string to
 his bow. He saw early the republi-
 can anxiety about MT Taft, and he
 realizes the value of the aid which the carrying out of his purpose to-
 ward Bryan will give to the republi- can party, and particularly to MT Roosevelt. He sees that he must help this year to elect to the gover- norship of New York the man against whom he ran for office two years ago, and whom he assailed with all possi- ble bitterness for year or more af- ter the election. To be a candidate himself again, but on an independent ticket only, may help to cover up that part of the game a little. He has changed the tone of his newspa- pers entirely. Practically they are, for the time being, republican news papers, or rather we should say, ad- ministration newspapers. The car toonists who lately amused us with such funny pictures gsKa- cooks" and his fat friend, haveshad a vacation, and are, now beginning to roast MT. Bryan and his friends. The change in the whole outfit" is so abrupt and complete as to make such characterizations. of MT Bryan by MT Hearst. as that of 'sthe loose skin man" seem almost out of place. But the most interesting question of all is: What is the compensation that MT Roosevelt or MT Taft is obligated to pay for the powerful aid they are so willingly accepting from MT Hearst? He is not man who is likely to leave that side of the bar gain indefinite. His eye teeth have been cut, and that job seems to have been finished up by MT Bryan himself at the St Louis convention in 1904, ! when he urged the nomination of | Cockrell instead of proposing the name of Hearst to the convention. It would be worth while to know what | the compensation to MT Hearst is to | be. It cannot well be a public office | of any kind. Is there any other way | except one in which he can be paid l for his services?. Speaking of For aker and his connection with Roose- welt this same paper says that at the | time when Senator Foraker was on | the pay roll of the Standard Oil Go he was the Roosevelt senator from | Ohio and that he continued to be Mir | Roosevelt's favorite until the presi- | dent embarked on his scheme of ca- tering to the radicals and constitu- n-stretchers. Senator Foraker is jumped on" now, not because he was a corporation man. but merely be- cause he antagonized effectively some of Roosevelt's widest and most ques- departures from republican policy It was for the same reason and that only, that MT Taft refused | to be politically associated with him last year.