The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-07
SIZING UP TEDDY
ROOSEVELT A SHAMEFUL DHAIA.
GoGUE SAYS CHANCELLOR DAY.

Rockefeller's Champion Says De.
generacy Is Made Contemplate
BY Revelation Of Glaring Incon.
sistency Of Chief Booster.
That the Standard OIL Company
remains under the venomous hatred
of President Roosevelt, for reasons
best known on the inside, while the
steel corporation, the greatest tru' It
In America. receives his appreciation
and consent to increase its holdings.
was the statement OF Chancellor
James Roscoe Day, Of Syracuse Uni
versity.
The chancellor charges that not
only did Roosevelt, when q candidate
for president four years ago, hobno0
with trust magnates and urge them
to secure money to elect him, but
that after his election he appointed
to a position In his cabinet . man
who held at the time a retaining fec
from a large corporation, that man
being still a member Of the cabinet.
The interview follows: "The
things that I predicted more than two
years ago, and that are on record
have come true, and other sequences
are hurrying to their conclusion
Never has this country known
such a condition politically. Never
has it seen It's president descend To
such a shameful degeneracy OF de-
magogy. Most of its high moralities
far above trusts, which 1t considers
the sum of all villiany, are made con-
temptible by revelations of the glar'
ing inconsistency Of the chief boos'
ter.
"For Senator Foraker to procure
loan for political friends who wish &c
purchase a paper 70 rcontesting the
election shocks Mr.. Roosevelt. bu'
the president was very practical
when he wanted 100000 to put u
where It could do most good when
his election was involved. What
was such q great sum to be used Tor:
1T is a sign Of political corruption
for Senator Foraker to have cor
respondence with an officer OF tns
Standard Oil Company, but only tnt
direction and prkilege Of Mr.. Roose
welt to call to Washington a 'practi
cal man, the head of the greatest
railway corporation In the land u
confer with him before he announced
his policies to congress.
"The Standard Oil remains unde
Mr.. R%oosevelt's venomous hatred fol
reasons well-known on the inside, bu'
the greatest trust In America re
ceives his appreciation and consent u
increase it's holdings.
"A representative of predator!
wealth is intimate counsel and l:
co-operation with Mr.. Hitchcock until
discovery becomes inevitable. Their
he is forced to resign, not because
Of the sin, but the sure discovery o
it by political enemies.
1.-THE glass houses seem to b'
cracking with ominous sound Tn
Foraker-Archbold incident Is shock
ing to hypocrites But honest am
thoughtful men who are not hidini
facts to promote a cause, rememhe'
the conditions of brlgandage In tn
legislature when every State held up
industrial and transit corporations
and demanded their money or tne'
lives.
Fortunately the elimination frol
the White House carry no conviction
So prejudiced, unfair and untrue ar'
they. They are humiliating. no
because they are from Mr.. Roose
welt, but because they are fomr ta'
president. The Office is disgraced
The people are covered with shame
"The little postmasters are re
moved for engaging in politics. Tn
most of the business Of the presideh
tial Office Is devoted to a politlca
campaign. Cabinets are called IN
teryiews are furnished, telephone an
telegraph wires are kept hot TN
clerical force is worked far into TN
night-if the newspaper special cor
respondents are to be belieVed|h'
our square deal president Is cnanh'
at the bit to go on the platform.
81 know that no corporation resist
ed this mulcting more SUCCESSFUL
than Standard OIL. =,
"Charges against Mr.. Foraker 10,
practicing as an attorney when IN or
Ace Is absurd The very salary pa't
a senator proves that the copntry ex
poets him to employ his spare TIM
in some legitimate business. :,
1.-THE eye of the American peopi'
are opened wide. They are NOT al
deceived. What they need Is % er
ercise themselves in the judicial TEN
erament. They are too easy stamp
eded by tho frenzy Of the mad 70
former.
1.-THE American citizen cannot re
turn too soon to Constitutional gov