The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-13
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rheodorous Masimus.


Caesar fed" is the question citizens Of
/ this country are asking each other
! since Theodore Roosevelt. president (, +
/ the United States has laid aside his of.
/ ficial robes 70 iahblc IN the mud OF
I politics and would give finaiity TO his
/ acrimonious and invcctive haranguos
/ by the dictum "Thcodorus Wocla
maylt'
This man Who has prostitutcd the
higl office to which he was elected hy
! the American pc pie by indulging in
( the most ccnsurablc partisanship
would Impress upon us his personal
infalllblity and tho immaculate Guar.
acter Of the personnel OF the Republi-
can national campaign,
This tx President Roosevelt -prcsl
dent OF the people whom he Is insult
I ing by attempting TO dictate to them
who they shall elect as his successor
( thus proving himself against popular
government in the true sense.
] He accuses The governor of the state
! Of Oklahoma and finds him guilty with
out proof
Yet he is the same president who
summoned Hartman head of the
railroad trust and member of the
Standard oil company. and charged
him with the obligation of raising
campaign fund of s2j00O0 to be used
In corrupting the voters Of New York.
He is the president fer whom. in
1904. the insurance companies robbed
policy holders in order to provide
campaign fund
He is the president who made Eiihu
Roof, the attorney for Thomas r.
Ryan. secretary of state IN his cabinet
He Is the president who made
Robert Bacon. partner of j. Pierpont,
assistant secretary Of state.
He is the president under whose
regime the mills and the mines have
closed down
He is thepresident under whose ad-
ministration thousands OF workingmen
have been idle for months
lie is the president under whom tle
greatest panic in the history of the
United states has inflicted itself upon
the country.
He is the president who has not
harmed a single trust,
He is the president who wantonly
disgraced a battalion of negro soldiers.
lie is the president who lnsulted a
woman of high social standing.
lie is tho president who condoncd
the lnWlessncss of Paul Morton of the
Railroad Trust when he had been CON
vicied OF granting rebates.
He is the president who has set
aside the constitution and ridden
rough.ahcd oyer congress.
He rs the president who has lower
ed the dignity of the executive branch
of the government by calling men of
high character liars aud molly
coddies.
He is tSe president who addressed
an American ambassadors wife as
My dear Marie" and afterwards
branded her as a liar.
lie Is thefpresident who. when Sec
rotary CurtelNdm had some government
bonds for sale loss than a year ago.
was closetcd with J. Pierp3nt Morgan
at midnights
He is the president who afforded j.
Picrpont Morgan and his fellow con
spirators an opportunity to make 81 l.3
per cent interest in one year in bond
investments.
He is Bhs Aresident who made it
possible forz Ale and Cod Baer and
other anthracite coal mine owners 10
clean up alb All $lS,000.000 aud the coal
miners less than $4,000 000 on a strike
settlement
He is a president who uses a part Of
the navy equipment as playthings for
his children
He is a president who fired" and
disgraced river pilot without afford
ing him an opportunity to defend him
self
He Is the president who forced con
gress to pass meat inspection bill
that has given the meat trust more
power to outrage consumers.
He is the president who engages in
petty quarrels with private citizens.
He is the president who, through his
secretary of the interior, granted a
free franchise in Oklahoma territory
to the Standard Oil company.
He is the president who personally
licensed the steel trust 10 acquire the
Tennessee Coal q Iron company re-
gardless Of the sherman law.
llp IS the president who publicly
BRANDED preacher as FAX sr.
lie Is the man who removed "A ter
ritorial governor of Oklahoma for Of
fences committed by coterie OF Okla
homa Republican politicians.
He is the president who approves
The gang Of men under employ of the
predatory trusts who are now cen
Quoting the Republican national cam
paign
So il is this man, surrounded by men
in his cabinet who are creatures of the
trusts--in one notable instance giving
cabinet position 10 the man who
whitcwashed the packing trusts-who
assumes a lofty mcin when it was
limited that Governor Haskell, recently
treasurer of the Dem cratic National
committee, had had some connection
with the Standard OH company.
Il is this man who injects himself
into q political campaign and assumes
TO dictate whom the people shall