Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-10-16
PRESIDENT and BIC TRUSTS.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse Univer-
sity Talks.

J
sity Talks.
SAYS ROOSEVELT rs VENOMOUS TOWARD
STANDARD OIL, BUT FRIENDLY TO
! OTHERS-HE HOBNOBBED WITH
STEEL MAGNATES TO GET THEIR
sUPPoRT-APPOINTE TRUST MAN
TO PLACE IN HIS CABINET.
That the Standard Oil Company re-
mains under the venomOus hatred of
President Roosevelt for reasons best
known on the inside, while the Steel
Corporation, the greatest trust in Amer
ica, receives his appreciation and con-
sent to increase its holdings, was the
statement of Chancellor James Roscoe
Day, of Syracuse University, in an in
terview last week.
The chancellor charges that not only
did Roosevelt, when candidate for
President four years ago, hobnob with
trust magnates and urge them to secure
money to elect him, but that after his
election he appointed to position in
his Cabinet man who held at the time
retaining fee from large corporation,
that man being still member of the
Cabinet. The interview follows:
"GLARING INCONSISTENCIES" +"
'The things that 1 predicted more
than two years ago, and that are on re-
cord, have come true, and other sequ-
ences are hurrying to their conclusion.
'tNever has this country known such
condition politically. Never has it
seen its President descend to such a
shameful degeneracy of demagogy.
The boast of its high moralities far
above trusts, which it considers the
sum of all villainy, is made contempti-
BILE by revelations of the glaring incon-
sistency of the chief booster.
'For Senator Foraker to procure a
loan for political friends who wish to
purchase paper for contesting the
election shocks Mr.. Roosevelt. But the
President was very practical when he
wanted $26O,0O0 to put it where it could
do most good when his election was
involved. What was such great sum
to be used for?
''It is sign of political corruption
for Senator Foraker to have correspond
ed with an officer of the Standard Oil
Company, but only the discretion and
privilege of Mr.. Roosevelt to call to
Washington practical man, the
head of the greatest railway corpora
ton in the land, to confer with him be-
fore he announced his policies to Con-
gress.
ENEMY OF STANDARD OIL.
''The standard Oil remains under Mr..
Roosevelt's venomous hatred for rea-
sons well known ON the inside, but the
greatest trust in America receives his
appreciation and consent to increase it's
holdings.
REFERENCE TO HITCHCOCK.
ga representative of predatory
wealth is intimate counsel and in CO.
operation with Hitchcock until discov-
cry becomes inevitable. Then he is
forced to resign, not because of the sin,
but the sure discovery of it by political
enemies.
'The glass houses seems to be crack
ing with ominous sound. The Foraker
Arch bold incident is shocking to hyp-
ocrites. But honest and thoughtful
men who are not hiding facts to promote
a cause remember the conditions of
brigandage in the legislature when ev-
cry State held up industrial and tran
sit corporations and demanded their
money or their lives.
the White House carry no conviction,
so prejudiced, unfair, and untrue are
they. They are humiliating, not be-
cause they are from Roosevelt, but be-
cause they are from the President. The
office is degraded. The people are COW
cred with shame.
1lc llttic IoSIllletSbefS are TeiuONeu
for engaging in politics. The most of
the business. of the Presidential office
is devoted to a political Campaign.
Cabinets are called, interviews are fur
nished, telephone and telegraph wires
are kept hot, the clerical force is work
ed far into the night-if the newspaper
special correspondents are to be believ-
ed-and our square deal President is
chatting at the bit to go on the plat
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81 know that no corporation resisted