The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-10-21
PIKE" POLITICS
AND PERD|T|ON
Whittier Way, Say You,
Are We Drifting?
PERTINENT MATTERS SIFTED
A Plea For Sane Government
and Consistent Party
Management.

And in those days came one Ted
dy, the rambunctious, a-pirouetting in
the lime-light and a-cutting of di-
vers sivigerous contortions. "He put
teth down one and stitch upon another
and, with blood in his eye and war
in his heart he maketh the deep to
boil like a pot, and cutteth a great
hole in the earth" Satan came also
excuse my classics.
What interesting extremities a par
tisan reveals in waging a campaign
with such argument as the follow
ing:
Special interests are for Bryan"
says President Roosevelt. THE te-
nacity with which Bryan held to Has
kell until the smell Of Standard Oil
became so loud he had to hold his
nose, would indicate as much" Well,
we'll! I'll be utterly hornswoggled.
Is this what a chemist would call
sublimated gall, or is it a retreating
shot from some misguided Darwinian
specimen, down on his all tours ,doub-
ling on his trail and headed for a CO.
coanut patch?
When our ancestral priesthood wore
hair shirts and the laity wore stubs of
tails, such a devastating eruption migl
have knocked the soX off the hard
shell meetin' house and precipitated
dreadful riot, but, this Late day
well. thousands of years makes a diff
ference, you know-we're supposed to
have evoluted some In the first
place, Gov. Haskell denied the allie
cation and defled the alligator in
commanding SORT of way that made
the President drop the charge like it
was red-hot. What else could he do?
1t was libelous and yet based upon
mere helrsay testimony-somebcdy said
Squires said Monnett said-that would
not stand one minute in any court of
law.
But grant the guilt of Haskell, does
it lie in Roosevelt's mouth to air such
linen? What must be thought of the
"tenacity" with which this great trust
buster. this ingenious and Tesourceful
anathmetizer, after descending into
the CRIME of dirty partisan politics,
outraging both the spirit and dignity
Of his exalted office, thereby infllcting
a sense of degradation upon every
patriot in the land. after accusing
and condemning an American citizen
without proof or trial, where even
a dog is given its day in court, clings
10 such men as Nagel, national Re-
publican committeeman and an
attorney of the Standard
Oil Company; Cortelyou, a
cabinet official, whose disreputable
political methods were disclosed in the
Paul Morton, another cabinet
dignitary, and head of the Santa Fe,
q confessed violator of the law, Mr.
Knox. still another, who is a known
attorney of a number of those very
'Iaw-defying corporations whom
with so much vociferous noise and
vigor, taxing lungs and squandering
ozone, he pretends to prosecute, to.
say nothing of Dupont, President of
an indicted trust and chairman of a
Republican committee; Cromwell,
stepped in the Panama scandal, Shell
dom, Penrose, AddiXe, of the Standard
Oil Co., who. four years ago, came
with its gift of 100000 and. shall l
stop at that exquisite apothem of mars
hood and honor who would feel
stair like a wound, the distinguished
and very busy member of the Ma
tional Committee, Mr.. Oulahan, just
now up to his chin in that perfid-
Gus infamous Cleveland Letter Scan
ial?
Whew! Talk about nauseating
stenches, Haskell guilty and a glue
were as the altar of roses and
the Fifth Labor of Hercules a bed
Of violets.
Sallust said, "Kings cannot get alon
without rascals; they fear to trust
the honest and upright" and Cardinal
openly declared that Kings
should avoid using the talents of
honest men," and-well,
son-in-law Nick's bad break was more
Of a sensation than a revelation, for