The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-03

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 Chicago, H., October 2--(Special.)--
 James s. sherman. the Republican candidate for Vic, President, is speak,
 ing in behalf or 'Joe" Cannon. Now.
 MT. sherman has been E:ember of l Congress for m' ny years. Of course. he has been part and parcel of the It, | tie ring Cannon has built up for the purpose of sust-. Q tho interests In
 the House. He was put on the Repub- | tican ticket because he belongs to that | crowd. He was ,ut on so there would | be general feeling among the inter-
 ests, not necessarily the protected in- l terests but tho 9aancial interests of the | lower end and the financial end of New York City .---.t they had friend at 1 court. He is money raiser. which helps. He is a servitor of the money | power, which aiGs him to raise money. They call him Sunny Jim," but his smile somehow looks as if it was in- l tended to lure voters into an entirely | false position. What he IS done has amounted to ..othing as 8 matter of | statesmanship. He has been useful in the past in collecting funds. In fact.
 that has been his@ -ng suit. l am not entirely sure that instead
 of calling him Sunny Jim' we might | call him "-1oney Jim" He is the man | who, next to Sheldon, is the one who IS | raising the funds tSr the Roosevelt | campaign.
 Fears Sherman PeriIs Self. It was Mir. Cannon, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, wno will uever allow popular measure, or
 one intended for the good of the peo- pie, who took the platform at the Chi cago convention and asked, or really demanded the nomination of Sherman for Vice President. The first time MT.
 sherman appears in public is as the spokesman of -1r. Cannon a champion
 Of his reelection. The other day, ono of the ablest, and, I think, the most l earnest Republican Representatives in the lower House, was defeated for Con- gross because he was thought to De too close a friend of Cannon's. If that is the feeling toward Cannon in a dist ant Montana district, what must it be in his own district and neighboring ones?
 James Schoolcraft Sherman seems to
 me to be taking his political life in his hands when l.e comes to Illinois, not for the National ticket, but to ally with that ticket Joe Cannon. Does it mean the election of Taft Is SD closely tied up with that of Cannon neither can fail without the other one failing, too? We have not thus far observed any stren- uous efforts the part Of Mir Taft or of Mir. Roosevelt. who is much tn this campaign, in behalf of Cannon. Why the Sherman excitement on the subject? Everybody knows.
 It Is because Sherl n is the chief representative uf predatory wealth on the Republican ticket, and Cannon, If reelected Speaker, will be its chief de- fender in the House of Representatives, as he has always been.
 DecPies ~H0OseVeIt ReVenge.n
 How many prominent statesmen is 1t the purpose of the remorseless Roose- welt machine to destroyf It appears to be the intention of Roosevelt-Taft and the rest of the combination to overthrow LaFollette in Wisconsin. For the purpose of accomplishing that MT. Roosevelt, who is fond of the square deal, and MT. Roosevelt's managers threw all their strength to Senator Stephenson, who was elected to the United States Senate by LaFolletts votes, but as soon as elected went over to LaFollette's enemies. LaFollette now Is to be ptlloried, if the Taft. Roosevelt or the Roosevelt-Taft plan is put into effect.
 What are they doing with Governor cummins in Iowa? He has been DraG tically set aside and his candidacy for the Senate deferRed until the favorite Republican moment for tettling a ticklish question-namely: after elect ion.
 What have ;Ley done to Senator For aker? Months ago they announced they would drive him out of public l life. Then MT. Taft, meeting him upon | the platform fell metaphorically upon | his breast and introduced Foraker as the founder of his political fortune. | At that moment Tast knew the letter | he had written which W Id eliminate | Foraker, temporarily at least, from | public life. was in the possession of | Foraker's bitterest enemy. Was that | a square deal?
 Roosevelt, Past and Present.
 l said something recently in 4 letter | to the press concerning the enthusiasm of the more youthful Roosevelt for the | doctrine of civil aervice reform. After | looking up some of is writings in the | early days I present these as fair il- | lustrations of what he then said. From | the new Princeton Review of 1886 ] cuIl these impressive words:
 Whate made the sivil service reform | vitally necessary to the we'll being o6 | the Nation was the fact the public ser vice had by degrees been turned in- to vast political engine; thus eveD many eases formidable l. jtruments to | thwart the win v" the people and de. bauch political life. fp old times. when the law of the sword prevailed. | rulers soon learned the value of 8 standing army of hirelings. and in turn
  to changed conditions and rely on a vast organized horde of political f1ler- cenaries that Is furnished ready at | hand by a system of al pointing men to office under the State not on the ground oF merit but for factional or personal reasons.
 Going on to refer to "mercenary soldiers" and the bread and butter brigade" Mir. Roosevelt continues:
 To elect .nen to office now and then vt,. v.RVN Ffs1A EN- w411Nk cal purposes. without at the same time passing law to lrahibit succe 'ecrs from doing so.is absolutely useless.
 President Roosevelt must have lost the sense of humor with which he has been credited If today he can look upon these early ebulitions of political sweetness and light without a grin.
 PERSON AND P RSE.