The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-10-01
ROLE OF WARD HEALER.

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The presidential campaign has
| reached "A stage which will not meet
with the approval Of the electorate.
The part that President Roosevelt
| Is taking will impress many as be-
| meath the dignity Of the bead man Of
the nation. This is the first time IN
| our national existence when the pres
ident OF the United states Injected
his personality into the campaign.
The Recorder predicts that he Is not
doing his legatee, Mr.. Taft any good.
The Ameii lean people are disposed to
he fair In their Judgment aud are not
liable TO endorse his acts IN throw ine
stones at the heads of tine democratic
| campaign managers when his own
party are living In dOmicies made
out Of very thin glass
The president is very willing to as
sail Bryan and his motives; and at,
tempts u criticise for things In
which his own perry Is deeper in the
mirs than he would try to make the
country believe Bryan is in the mud,
He assumes lofty degree OF virtue
IN the discussion OF political ques-
tions, He assaiIs the character OF
Haskell and charges hin with things
which he can not help but know the
managers Of his own party campaign
are guilty Of
lie tries To place Haskell Ia the
same class with Foraker bnt when 1t
Is put up to him for proof OF his
charges be ignores previous asseI lions
and tries 10 dig up others. Haskell
Is human aud may be Just as guilty
as Foraker but that does not excuse
the president OF the United States TO
stoop 10 the depths Of maliguing and
ctediting governor OF one OF the
sovereign states unless he Is sure Of
bis ground. In a letter u the public
published In another place la this
paper Governor Haskell dues not place
ROOseye aud his heuehmen In very
favorable light.
Every specification OF Roosevelt 5
accusation wore threshed out during
} the campaign when Haskell was a
+ aa at n for governor. These
charges were leiI-tJ the .IRunaI Q.
the people as a Jury and they declar-
ed him not guilty, Yet the ptesi-
dent assumes 10 reiterate these
charges, aud at the same zine could
not avoid personal attack upon
Foraker. The Onto senator probably
Ii guilty, but tho president did not
have the courage TO attack him until
lao knew no was down and cut and
Ciiscredited with the peopIt. The
American people like To see fair play
and few like TO see mau Jumped
upon when he Is down aud can't de
fend himself. The sympathies OF the
people are always with the under dog
regardless of his previous mistakes.
IL the president bad documentary
evidence in the ease OF Haskell
his charges might be OF some effect
but he does not pretend to offer any
evidence, but expects the people To
take his simple assertions. He adds
his own construction of Governor
HasSelrs veto of some state legisla-
ton, and assumes to take the story
from a magazine which would be con.
sidered, Ia any curt in the land. lust
about AZ reliable as report In the
most partisan newspaper.
In President Rouseyelt's entire let .
ter he does not produce enc iota of
evidence in substantlation OF his
charges that Governor Haskell is any
manner Interested or has sustained
corrupt relations With the Standard
oil trust or any OF its subsidiary
companies. AT the same time he
criticisos Haskell as treasurer OF the
democratic campaign aud he fails to
see that his own party has men man.
aging the campaign who are notori.
ously corrupt.
The president has forgotten how
Tour years aeu he appointed one llar.
riman. whom he has since declared
VAS an undesirable citizen, to raise
gigantic campaign fund from the
trusts aud the compositions. He
could not stop to think. In his crit.
ieism Of Haskell that George Il. Shsl.
Don, the treasurer 0f the republican
committee, is personally connected
With twenty different CORPORATIONS.
which are In trusts, He had forgot
ten that Charles +, Booker. and
other leading members 81 the com.
mlttee Is president OF railroad
which the government has CON
menced action against Tor tiiSolsyin.
the law. In his zeal to iucyfmiuai,
Haskell he forgot tie fact tina, NJ
purons, Is at the held u the exe,n
tive committee As we'll as hasins
charge IT the congressional cam
PaiSn. yet the government has 4 Suit
pending against the powder trust. o.
which Dupont is the bead. Ter dis
ooeying the United states law
There are other men Who are eauall,
prominent 10 the trust world VII.
President Roosevelt could devote /, j.
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