The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-04
New Yorker Shows Up Fal- IaCieS Advocated In His
 Published Address
NE SAYS ROOT CANNOT
 SERVE TWO MASTERS
Judge Parker shows the Weakness of the Senator's stand in Posing as Taft supporter While Work
 ing for Rooseyelt

Cortland. N. r., November s.-"Let us cut the cancer of Rooseveltism," said former Judge Alton B. Parker in reply made here tonight to what he called the 'astoundinge address of Senator Elihu Root, delivered last week at Carnegie Hall. New York city
 N~."We learn that in this electon,' he continued, thousands upon thousands of republicans and Independents intend to- vote a democratic ticket. We welcome their assistance and thank them for their appreciation that in this election there Is greater issue than the gevernorship of New York at stake. Let us cut out the cancer of Rooseveltism and-Mr. Root to the contrary. notwithstanding-th once disposed of our citizens can determine who shall be their president, and the citi- zens of each state who their governor, without the fear of the threat that the strong hand will take possession of our government if we do not in this state ac- cept it's nominee.
 .rhat was most astounding address which MT. Root delivered Dare not re- volt or worse shall befall you: accept your chains or feel the lash cringe or be crushed; assert your right to name your
 
 ly taken from you-that in all fairness is the sense of his speech so far as it re- latcs to the issue of Rooseveltism which confronts ua But, who is the special pleader who speaks and who is the client whose cause he advances? A master of suggestion. adept at innuendo, an adroit intellect, clever politician. Such is the special pleader. and his client we know better than before. And when we consider the past relations. betwen them. the hpHusxness and lack of sincerity In the suggestion that MT. Taft's noriiina- ton by the republicans of 1912 is in any wise Involved in a rejection of Mr. Roose- welt in the state of New York today is clear.
 An old Argument
 s~rhe argument is the customary one of a lawyer when he assures the jury that if they find against his client they will incidentally imperil his own interests in some other direction when, for example, he bids them disregard their oaths as jurors and not convict his client, just MT Root urges his republicans to dis regard their duty as citizens lest some thing which he conveniently imagines as an evil shall befall the community at large. In other words MT. Root poses as the supporter of MT. Taft, but is in fact the secret advocate of MT. Roosevelt. Nor is this the first time when MT. Roosevelt's political fortunes trembed in the balance that MT Root, the Machia- velli of many situation. has arisen to his aid.
 But let not any adherent of MT Taft delude himself with the belief that vote for MT. Stimson is vote for Mir Taft's renomination; it Is vote for Root and Roosevelt. pure and simple Nothing can impair MT. Taft's personal prestige in his own party greatly as
 
 private defamer. And, who is this nomi- nee of our Warwick, the new kingmaker? {? Who but the close associate. the partner, the 1ocum tenens of the sensior counsel for the defense? And that same senior counsel for the defendant now at the bar of the people of the state, this same junior associate, If only we will elect him governor, will dominate not alone his senior, the artful advocate himself, but even their joint client, who turks in the rear of their ambition.
 Adverse Interests
 '.Mr. Root says that to defeat MT. Roosevelt is to injure MT. Taft's admin istration. Can any sane man believe that to fndorse Mr. Roosevelt is to further MT Taft's interests? If the republican convention at Saratoga, in its platform. had sought to give Mr. Root an ex- cuse for it's argument we would have MT Roosevelts own words that he would have opposed It. Mr. Root also arr,1es fin his speech that 1t was because MT. Roosevelt was right that he dominated eAe republican convention. He says the 4ssue was a revolt against the tyranny Of party machines and he points out that Nr. Roosevelt holds no office and had no patronage to bestow; whence he ar gues republicans should be grateful to him.
 s"rhe republican party machine which. ad of Ca TO h.. to MT Roosevelt's machine of many of its supporters, has been tremendous. evil in this state. It prospered through, corporation and like every adroit manip- ulator of men. MT. Roosevelt seized the opportunity for his personal ends to- swallow alive the opposition to 1t, beat 1t with its own forces. It's own game and substitute his personal nominee and His machine in its place On its de- feat, the republican, as well as the demo- cratic voters of the state may congratu-i late themselves, but their next. duty is to prevent a substitution of the even more obnoxious Roosevelt machine S
 Denunciation of Courts Also MT; Root minimlzes Roosevelt,s, s, continual denunciation of judges and courts with glittering generalities and with generalities still more glitterinp smootlis over MT. Roosevelt's new ma :. tionalism. Of the latter, he says he knows not wherein it consists. Let him read the debates that preceded the adoption Of the constitution and inform himself, Not one of the doctrines fatal to the continued existence of liberty in this country which MT Roosevelt has triclxed forth in new phrase. will he fail to find in this. And let him reflect that 1t is z but those Judges and only those courts that stand between us and the enforce ment of those doctrines which would destroy us. and which can be summarized as the extension of the personal power of the chief executive, which God forbid his client may ever again be-" "A
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