Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-08
THE PRESIDENT DID NOT FOR
GET

When President Roosevelt so
sweep my condemned Haskell for
his ALLEGED .coi.lec.ion with thd
Standard oil Company ne perhan,
forgot That in 1904 his (Roosevelts
committee received 100000 from
the Standard Oil Company for the
campaign fund and spent it."-Al-
ton Brooks Parker.
The president memory Is clear.
He could call of at a moments no.
tlce a long and interesting list OF
the criminal corporations from
whose Golfers the campaign fund Of
1904 was recruited. That IS why
he is so vociferous In the matter OF
Haskell. Roosevelt luck" is pro-
verbal. Throughout his admins
tration there have been occurrences
at the psychological moment to di-
vert attention from errors or acts
OF wrongdoing upon tne part OF .he
president. The run Of luck is seem
ingiy at an end. The Haskell eph
sode occurred in the nick OF time.
but 1t was not OF sufficient magni-
tude TO serve the presidents pur-
pose.
Had 1t been announced ard prov
en- that Mr.. Bryan began life as
road agent" and later robbed
railroad trains and cracked safes.
the sensation might nave been suffi-
Client to cause the people to forget
that president Roosevelt and his
managers and advisers freely ac-
cepted every obtainable quantity of
tainted money during the last ma
tional campaign. that they defeated
the publicity bill to the end that the
performance Nigh be repeated dur
ing this campaign, that they are
now, upon their own admission. col
lecting funds with a dark lantern
and black jack and afrail to let
daylight illumine their list OF con-
tributors, that they deliberately Sc
lected the head of an indicted trust
as the head OF their bureau OF cam
paign speNbnders. that they get
rid OF MIN only when public indig-
nation frightened them into accept
ing MS resignation, and that they
are now using william Nelson Crom
well to squeeze still more money
out OF the trusts to buy the doub--
full states and Offering the predato-
ry rich the pledge of an Aldrich-
onDalzell-Payne revision or
the tariff in the event OF q Republi-
can victory
AS matters stand the Haskell ap-
ISOLDE does not serve the presidents
purpose. For a number of years
the president has preached plain
living and high morality on The
front porch and forced the protect
ed interests to come across" in the
back office. The machinery of graft
Is exposed in the lis OF the patri-
OTIS connected with the machinery
of the party.
The Haskell episode will not do
The patent amalgamation of The in
terests OF the administration and
my candidate" with the interest
the president has pretended to be
arrayed against will not down. Nor
all the presidential piety nor wit
shall serve to confuse the issues
and delude the people
During the remaining three weeks
OF the campaign the liason of the
predatory rich will be marked by
all OF the unquenchable fire that
characterized that between Mrs
Glyn's ideal man and her ideal wn-
man. There is no other means Of
getting control OF a number of the
doubtful states. They must be
bought or lost, and the only hope
OF buying them rests In the gener-
osity OF tariff-protected interests
who are willing to make a handsome
outlay in dollars for the chance Of a
handsome income in graft. But the
indications are that even with Tie
enormous weight OF tainted money
cast in the balance the presidents
campaign will be ineffective and the
presidents candidate win be DO
feated. -Courier-Journal.