The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-12-02
Roosevelt Conspiracy a Nightmare
Attacks on Administration incited
by "The interests A Resume of
Roosevelt Administration

Washington, ID. c. Nov. q, 1903.
Did you ever hear of the Boyle
Man?
When l wa5 a little boy my nurse
used to scare me by telling about the
Bogle Man. Ii seems he was a great,
big, awful kind of fellow, who ate
up bad little boys. II l was bad. may
be he would got me; and ne might
get me any way. But somehow, tho
was badly scared. he never did real
ly eat mo up.
Well, there are a lot OF people
around here who have got Boyle
Man. They are so afraid OF him that
they sit up nights being skeared.
And when they arc sitting up late
that way they SEQ things. They are
having awful tad dreams just now.
The namo CT their boyle man is
Teddy. Ho is long ways off, but
they are more afraid OF him than OF
anything else OIL earth. They are
afraid he will come back, which Is
likely, and will be elected president
again In 1912, and when they think
OF the possibilities Of this they have
cole chill3 eli W and down their
backs, and tncy sweat dons of blood,
anG they SILVER and pull the bed
clothes over their faces. Maybe they
have been bad?
The lateSt dream is called con
splracy against Taft" It is a hor-
rible nightmare. These men cay that
some OF Roosevclts friends are band
ed together in g dark conspiracy TO
"discredit' Pres. Taft administration,
that they are throwing off on his Of
Ulcers and attacking him, and that
they are trying to make II impossible
for Taft to be renomlnated and re-
elected at the end of his present term.
Now those dreams are based on q
few solid facts. There has been and
Is a severe attack on Secretary Bal
linger lie is accused OF friendliness
TO the Interests, and a number OF men
appointed by Roosevelt TO different
offices have accused him OF violating
the law. Chief Of these attackers Is
Clifford Plnchot, who did such fine
work for the forests under Roosevelt
Then there is an attack on Taft
J by few mea. They claim that the
recent tariff revieloh was not very
much In the interests OF the whole
people. and tnft Taft was weak kneed
and otherwise lacking In the fight he
put up. and that he ought TO have
won more for the people from Con-
gress Also they accuse him of friend
illness to Aldrioh and Cannon and
that crowd. Also they accuse him of
making bad appointments.
= These charges are made and backed
up by several leading newspapers and
magazines. Some OF these magazines
are controlled by friends of Roose-
welt. The charges have been set forth
in public speeches by some men who
are also friends OF Roosevelt--and
therefore cones the Bogie-these
men are trying to get Roose-
Welt back as president, the people say.
Now. OF course ii is impossible TO
= prove what a man thinks, but there
are a few facts that make this bad
e dream look rather foolish. In the first
place Mr.. Taft H. not seeing anything
Q of tho hind In tho caoopd uIaca fhaoa
same papers that are criticising Taft
ana Ballinger are about the same
ones that criticised Roosevelt when
he was in power. In the third place,
and don't forget this, Taft was chosen
/, by Roosevelt Gs the best man in
America for tine place he now occupies
" by the suffrage of the people, aaJ
ALL ROOSEVELT'S FRIENDS KNOW
THIS. So II Is Plain that II there is
conspiracy, filst, Roosevelt has moth
ing 20 do wit. this, so 1t can't sue
coed; second, Roosevelt's friends
; know that he will not break them up
: in It; and third. Taft is not worried
, by it. Seeing these are all the people
!, involved. il makes that dream seem
:. rather silly. don't you think so?
And yet theoc men, some of them
q important, are really scared. and they
are really tryirC to scare the whole
a American people. There must be some
A reason back OF ell the fuss, and the
agitation makes 1t worth while to go
, into matters a little more deeply, and
I, see what the inside looks like.
Now the men who are dreaming
these dreapS, or rather Nightmares
=, are the ones who are doirG what is
, called big business, and the things
they are afraid Roosevelt will do Is
to hurt busincos-in other words, &c
decrease profits There are two ways
of looking at THIS big matter of pros
perlty. The business men, such az
run Wall-st, ard manage great corpol