The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-09-26
ANSWER
TO ROOSEVELT IS
7 UNANSMERABL

JOPLIN Mo-. Sept 2G.-The Giole
ndepenlent-Dcmocrat with pro
nounced Roosevelt tendencies. gave
the most stringent criticism to the
president FOR failure TO prove his
charges against Governor Haskell
When the first letter was written the
Globe editoriaily used Two columns In
expressing faith of the president being
able ~ prove his charges. When he
undertook to switoh from Ohio "a Ok
lahoma the Globe demonstrated, lead.
ing denial Of such right as follows
The election OF Taft seems 10 have
become an obeesEion With Roosevelt
II was this monomania which intro.
duced into Republican poliucs the
steam roller. of which Theodore
Rooseveit. and nobody else was the In,
yentor and driver Men Of paris with.
in the Republican party: men Of note,
worthy participation IN the bic events
of the party's history; men who had
earned their way into the public serv-
Ice and who by ability had earned
their retainer Ia ehM service were
ruthlessly crushed into political pull,
by the Roosevelt steam roller IN order
thatTaft might he the nominee. Abil-
ity, character, achievement. the ca
pacity TO achieve-not thing was per-
mitfed 20 stand in the way OF Roose-
velts imperial ukase Taft must be
nominated" And having subjugated
his party into the yillainy Of the old
feudal regime. this twentieth century
Louis XIV. with the assumption Il am
the state" boiling within him. under
takes to proclaim from the White
House, Taft must be elected The
politician who subjugated his party
seems to Imagine himself potentate
who can subjugate the people. And
the means to that end be recks not
The Globe then proceeded 10 recall
history the Root speech at Utica, in
Tho following able manner;
"The crime of which Haskell Is
charged Is peculiarly atrocious But
h is not a whit lcofe atrocious than
The source OF the accusation in which
Roosevelt seemingly places such great
confidence The witness. not OF the
prosecution. hut Of the persecution OF
Haskell IS William Randolph Hears.
II is something or Il spectacle 70 be
Aold Theodore Roosevelt and Nlliiam
Randolph Hearst working IN periect
precision together for q common poii'
lcal purpose. namely,the election O.
Mr. Taft II is spectacle q VINE
The emply-pated win laugh; al whici'
the serious will shudder
For who is William Randolph
Hearst?
Lei MS question Theodore ltoosevell
'or our Information.
let us go back couple OF years le
,he Hughes-tgearst gubernaiorial figh.
IN New York. Thatwas q whirlwiind
campaign. Hearst conducted ihag
fight with an ability that amazed al
energy that bewldered, a resoureciAl'
aess that demoralizcd the opposi tlon
There came TO Washington from NeN
York the Macedonian efS. saw
uughesl" And Root whom history
viii write the Richelicu OF the hoose
eeit reign, was sent TO save the az
inr daS Ills speech AZ uiica was
srcdllod by informed commentators a.
having defeated Hearst Ana VIVA,
was the death stroke OF thai leafin'
phillpplc? II was. this:
Root charged William Randolph
aearet through his detamaiory news
naners with having imlamed ihe
n,ind of an assassin whose name waa
C1,leoz and whose bullet slew Me
Emiev while the uiterances were
sim fresh upon the martyrs ips ol
sentiments broader In their states
mauship. bigger in their Amerieanism,
f,ne, In their uniyersaiism man haa
.ear heen voiced by Mckinley before
uaarst alleged moral accessory pe
sasa the fact 10 the murder oil nc
,n,ny because the exigencses OF poi
tics demand IL,
Hearst reputable propagandlsl sW'
wears later and acceptable Fonenei
sor the character assassination oi has
'seu because the exigencies OF poh'
N tbe November result so doubtiM
l.hat Rongayeh must cite Healst os
authority for the defamation OF iias
Egell? - s,,.
t.rdous price as the behttlemenL oi
keepresldeney 10 the scarlet ieNei "
| character murderT "a,
Nniiowing this ihe Globe proceeds
IN a manner calculating and cohvlns
M .using President Rooseveits oMl
words TO damn his present utierahee'
as follows: ,sn
IA .his an outrageous way % talH
abo,ttthe presidept qt lhe 1iil'es ''
stetess7 The Globe has made y,
spologies in ,he aas. for t.e PTS =
\ accorded Roosevelt II makes n'
.pologies ln the present Tor tne 0si, ~,
,nre II bespoaks. Roosevelt IN M
,antrums is a public menace peeaus, '
Ne ia president. He IS mere tnan
menace: sikee he has been 90 i,es ). :
nn,ien lid motives Of men ava sly'
he he 10 the solemn assertions =, p
aen Of as hpNorabie rena.e as 49,, ~
| ,imself andeSmce. as Reauniaeln
sanlnaign speilbindev, he has siiemp,
al 10 blacken character OF n'~'
sish in the counciis OF the Defneera,
liz party. Il seeps both prpper w
ncrilnent 10 queAliop the sincerity ,
~, ,eao,a Ronsev elt. FIR when ne IN
amaies thai there ist on undersl anaih.i
~ an alliance. priap ihtriglle pesws q, =
| The Democratic raNihnfsh N,'.''-r =.
| nt,uI and Tho S,ssllsrd Qiy soll 4 &
Ion this newspaper aesunles 20 "'N'
| the honesty OF that liiStfhauoa