Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-09-09
The Posts EdIteral.

el oienel Rooseyeit's ire was entitled
"Modest iMr Roosevelt aud was
rs follows;
"'Ns should like to think Of Mr..
Rooseyelt,s performances yesterday aus
those Of the ever boyisn. He reminds
one Of q college athleric hero, who after
graduation simply cannot live without
the old, heaft.tiling cheers, and so
shows himself on the football field la
eraer to near the glad sound once more.
Il is two years since Nj, Roosevelt
has fed On the yells ofthe crowd la rail-
road stations, and yesterday he made
up FOL long ,ahsteption by gIuttony.
Yet, as we say, we should prefer to
tank OF all this a. comic.
"Taere is ohaea.@biy an amusing
side to a.. kJa,,v Is was side uratory
l. recalls The political speaker pre-
served IN The amber Of James Whit
com Riley's verse, who
Helt the banner up'ards from y
trailin' in the dust,
And out loose on monopoly, and
cussed and cussed and cussed
'sBut laughter cannot help passing
into anger and Of gross outrage,
when the real significance Of Mr..
Roosevelt's haranguesiare fully taken
Ia. Forsbere is private citizen assuln-
ing that he has supreme POLITICAL
power.
s.Here is an ex President showing
aside the actual Presieentas If he were
a truckman.. 81 Here is man who for
ever chatters about the SCARE deal, yet
who treats hisiown party with absolute
unfairness.
"He pushes himself forward as the
! only true.fouptainiofju Justice, announces
what Il will do just as though his
being elected President next time were
already settled, and bears himself
throug bout as a peculiarly repellent
combination of demagogu and die
tator
''The thing goes eyond display of
bad taste. AS such it is shocking, but
It is, besids, an exhibition Of moral
Eimpudence, II will make the corpora
tions came to time,n shouted Roose.
welt to the mob. But did he not really
mean that he would make them come
down with the cash to elect him, as
before? For a man with Mr.. Roose-
velts proved records 1t is simply dis.
gushing hum bug for him to rant about
the corporations, upon whose treasures
he fawned when he was President ana
wanted their money for his cam paign.
Does he think that nobody has
memory which goes back to the life
insurance Investigations, and that
everybody has forgotten the 500, 900
taken from widows and orphans to
increase Theordore Roosevelt's political
corruption found?
"Did he not take q big chsck from
the Beef Trust, aud glad to get it?
And now be is going to make cor
porations come to time.
"One can have respect for sincere
radical, for an honest fanatic, for an
agitator or leveler who believes that he
is doing Gods will, but it is hard to
be patient with man who talks big
but acts mean, whose eye is always 10
the main chance politically and who
lets no friendship, no generosity, 30
moral srnuple stand for moment be-
tween himself and the goal upon
which he has set his overlnastering
ambition.
''Such wild and whiting words as
Mr.. Roosevelt uttered yesterday are
cruise to public life. They aroused
passion without directing it. They
give no one clear idea of what the
speaker meant, except that he sought
to inflame the crowd and make mis-
chief. He Eliminates against crooked
men. He is going to cluch' the crooks.
Why not be specific? Whom does
he mean? Even Nr. Roosevelt canCot
be detective, police, magistrate jury,
jailer, all in one, and will get after
every burglar and swindler in the land.
No; his crooks. What he wants the
crowd to understand is that he is with
them in their present wrath against
men who go into politics to make
money, or VIII. advance by political
corruption, or who are notorious and
INSCRIPTIONS machine politicians.
"Yet this champion of purity, this
roarer for political virtue, is The man
who was for years, when in public life,
h and in glove with the worst political
cnrruptionsts of his day; who toadied
to Platt, who praised Quay who paid
court to Hanna.
"Ur der him as President, Aldcich
rose TO height Of his power, always on
good terms with Roosevelt.