The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-03-06
A CHANGE OF PRESIDENTS.

Theodore Roosevelt retired from the
presidency on March and William
III. Taft was inaugurated as his sue
cessor. After ruling the republic TO-!
seven years and Il half as an autOcrat.
Roosevelt is now shOrll of his brief
authority and once more becomes {,
plain American citizen. He made
warm friends and bitter enemies dur
ing his occupancy of the executive
mansion among the prominent mon Of
his own party; but though he has FREE
Quently been called q dcmagoGuc.
nobody has accused him Of official dis
dcncc of the majority of the America II
people to the day of his exit from the
presidency. He received more Demo-
cratic votes than any other Republic
can candidate for chief executive since
tho birth Of his party, and when he
positively refused TIL. nomination for
/, third term. he dictated his successor
and helped to elect him by cntcrn.;
the campaign and attacking his dem
ocratic opponent, William j. Bryan.
After all this, he retained his popular
ity to the last except with the politi-
clans Of his party The Irish stan
dard condemned his tactics on many
occasions but now that he is out OF
Office. we merely wish him safe
journey to- Africa and back, and hope
explorer of the dal.l continent. III
stead Of finding fault will, his adj
ministratlon, we shall let Congressman
Cook of Colorado q Republican, toll
what he thought Of it. In Il speech
delivered in the House of Representa-
tivcs ut Washington on Feb. %, Mr..
Cook said:
''Such Il keen political spcculator and
political and financial strenuOusity has
never been seen before in this repub-
lie, and let us fervcntly hope that his
like shall never be seen again. Look
at the paragraphs Of his ratified mes
sages and you will be startled to sec
and read tho insinuations and abusive
phrases against the legislative and
judicial departments Of the govern
ment. President Roosevelt seems 10
think that he alone is the government
and that his ipse dixit must rule every
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less black soldiers Of Brownsville, vino
were insulted, dismissed and degraded
without proof or trail by legislative
order and without any warrant Of rcn
son Of law. President Roosevelt runs
the government on the same principle
that the beef trust runs it's sausage
factory. from q personal standpoin:.
using executive and judicial pork rs
crude material for his fantastic adj
lninistration. When initiating Rien:i
and Cromwell in fooling the people,
he Is practicing the hypocrisy and die
tatorship Of Olcon and Dlonysius, and
built up a Roosevelt ring in the army,
navy and civil service. all for his per-
sonal and political glory, supreme IN
his impudcncc. vanity. arrogance ana
imperial cgotism."
What the Irish Standard dislikcd
most about Roosevelt was his imper-
ialism. He had no sympathy for peo-
pic struggling for freedom from OPP
preston. His praise of British rule
in India cxtorted thanks from tlls
London Times, one of tho most rascal
ly sheets ever published and the Bit
ter enemy of America. His interfcr-
encc with California on the Japanese
question was unwarrantcd. California
had been admitted to the Union before
any treaty with Japan was made. AMI
no president or his secretary Of Stato
has any right to enter into a treaty
with foreign power at the expense
Of a self governing state. There aro
other matters connected with Roosc-
vclt's administration that we shall not
refer to at this time because of his
departure frcm Office. but the country
has had enough Of him. and we ara
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