Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-29
VENOMOUS HATRED OF S. o.
Sneers at the Practical Side of the
President.
'DEGENERACY OF DEMAGOGY"
Peppery Chancellor Asks How Sin in
Foraker Becomes a Virtue in
Chief Executive.

| mis- conversational hlgh places IN
a statement given out by him last
night. The chancellor discusses Presi-
! dent Roosevelt. Standard Oil and Sena-
tor Foraker. asking how it is that what
is sin of the latter becomes a virtue
| in Mr. Roosevelt. His denunciation of
the President IS bitter. and in fact
| every word OF Mr. Days statement is
| exceedingly caloric.
| The statement in full follows:
The things that 1 predicted more
| than two years ago and that are on
| record have come true, and other Sc
quences are hurrying 10 their conclu-
sion. Never has this country known
such condition politically. Never has
1t seen its presidency descend to such
shameful degeneracy of demagosy.
The boast of its high moral ideas and
| trusts. which it considers the sum of
all villainy, is made contemplate by
revelations of the glazing inconsistency
of the chief boaster
For Senator Foraker to procure
| loan for political frien IS, who wish to
purchase paper for contest in the
| open. shocks Mr.. Roosevelt. But the
President was very practical when he
wanted S26OOOO to put where 1T would
do the most good when his election was
! involved. What was such a great sum
| to be used for?
A Sign of CorruptionP
| 1T is sign of political corruption
Tor Senator Foraker to have CORE
sponded with an officer of the Standard
| OIL Company, but only discretion and
| privilege of Mr. Roosevelt to call to
washington practical man, the head
| of the greatest railway CORPORATION in
I IN with
| announced his policies to Congress
! Inc standard Oil remains under Mr.
Roosevelts venomouS hatred for reasons
well known or the inside. but the greatest
trust In America receives his apprObat ton
| and consent to increase its holdings
fortunately. the Nominations from the
White House carry no conviction, so pre-
| JUDGING, unfair and untrue are they. They
Mr.. Roosevelt, but because they are from
the President. The Office is DEGRADED The
people are covered with shame
The little postmasters are removed for
engaging in politics. The most of the
business of the presidential Office is de-
voted to political campaign. Cabinets
are called. interviews are furnished, tele-
phone and telegraph wires are kept hot
the clerical force is worked far into the
night, If the newspaper correspondents
are to be believed. and our square deal
President is chatting at the bit to go upon
the platform.
Pen Picture of T. r.
with the first unsupported accusations
against his political enemy. by a man
| whom he has branded as an assassin, he
bestrides his broncho and rushes into the
dust of the melee. waving his lariat aloft.
in the form of a private letter from his
presidential appointee. to confirm the
charges of the assaSsin'-a letter which
shows plainly that that enemy was well
come as a political coadjutor while he
could be used, but would be stabbed and
thrown into the ditch when his corpse
could be made no longer serviceable.
"A representative Of predatory wealth
is in intimate counsel and cooperation
sign, not because of the sin, but the sure
with Mr.. Hitchcock until discovery be-
comes inevitable. Then he is forced to re-
discovery of 1t by political enemies.
The Foraker-Archbold incident is crack
ling with ominous sound.
The Foraker Archbold incident is shock
ing to hypocrites. but honest and thought
full men who are not hiding facts to pro-
mote a cause remember the conditions OF
brigandage in the legislatures. when men
in every state held up industrial and
transit corporations and demanded their
money or their lives. The only protection
the representatives of the corporate in
terests had was by their wits and the cir
convention of such pirates by defeating
| bad laws and promoting good ones The
lobby of the legislature was more the
work of the legislature than the corpora
ton. There would have been no wicked
| buying if there had been no selling,
selling which forced the buying and the
price
What Archbold Said.
Il know that no corporation resisted
| this mulcting more successfully than
| Standard Oil l was told by Mr. Archbold.
! fifteen years ago. that the only rescue of
the corporation from these brigands of the
! legislature was by federal law. He ear
nestly hoped for just and fair legislation
| by Congress.
He was not thinking of political ma
chinery in the form of commissions and
enactments that President could use to
arouse popular hate and prejudice against
| the great business interests of the coun-
try. precipitating panic in prosperous
times. involving a loss of billions of
| money-a loss more kaenly felt by the
poor than by the rich. :
The corporations hated and condemned
by Mr.. Roosevelt were the first to move
| for federal legislation. They were agi-
| tating that legislation before he had en-
tered national politics They were trying
| lures. They seem to have met a worse
fate.
Foraker Charge Absurd.
lie Charge against MI OTdker Tor
practicing as an attorney when in Office
is absurd. The very salary paid a SEN
ator proves that the country expects him
| to employ his spare time in some leglti-
mate business
Senator Foraker shows conclusively to
all who are fair that in no way did he
serve any corporation after the country
changed it's attitude toward such forms of
business.
LAS l have. shown, Mr.. Roosevelt then
a presidential candidate was hobnobbing
with trust magnates and urging them to
secure money to elect him. But more
| than that. he chose for member of his
| cabinet man who held at that time
retaining fee from a great corporation
and whose history was connected with the
defense of graft criminals. That man is
/ now i'm Mr.. Roosevelt's cabinet.
How is the sin of Foraker a virtue in
Roosevelt?
The eyes of the American people are
| opening wide. They are not all deceived.
What they need is to exercise themselves
| In the judicial temperament. They are
| 100 easily stampeded by the frenzy of the
| mad reformer.
| The American citizen cannot return
| too soon to constitutional government and
the reinforcement of business with his
| confidence.
Pioneer Marylander Dies.
| CHESTERTOWN. Md, September %
George w. Smith. one of the oldest re-
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