The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-20

Williams. In an editorial published
In the Roanoke Times of Sept %,
wherein that foreeful writer express
es himselves thus:
The Colonies Foes.
Colonel Roosevelt doubtless is an
irritating man to those who dislike
him. For one thing he has the an
noying habit of winning always. This
naturally is exasperating to his ene-
mics. Therefore they make them
seleves extremely valuable to the col
onel because in their rage they for
get to have any sense. They sputter
and pour out floods of incoherent and
contradictory abuse. \ few years
ago they said he was insane and
quoted medical opinion that he would
be in an asylum within two years.
Then they said he was drunk all the
time. They accused him of cowar'
dice at San Juan hill, although he
was neal enough to the trenches to
shoot with a revolver a Spanish
soldier running out of them. They
said he was an assassin because he
shot the Spaniard. They said he
couldn't ride a horse or hit anything
with a gun. When he went to Afrla
and shot lions and rhinOcerOses they
said he was wantonly butchering in
nOcent. tame animals. When the
New York statee committee defeated
him for temporary chairman OF the
state convention the incident was
heralded gleefully as "Roosevelt's
Waterloo and "Stinging Defeat for
Roosevelt -, as if nineteen men IN a
committee room could destroy any
BODY. Within the last three days we
have e about Roosevelt Riding
to a FALL
On the eve Of the convention the
New York World sprang a story of
a mysterious claim of 100000 from
the Pennsylvania railroad and $40
900 from the Pullman company
against Roosevelt for special trains
and transportation while he was
president. We always have beer
skeptieal about anything The World
prints. 1t has the longest record OF
f~orgeries and libels in the United
States and never gives the sllghtes'
attention to the trifing details o.
truth. 1t is the same newspaper tina
printed the story that Mr.. TAFT
brother and others had conspired Il
swindle the government IN the Pan
anna canal and afterward dodgeC
trial on technicalities and defended
its RIGHT to circulate libel and sland
er as part of the sacred liberty o.
the press. This Pennsylvania stOr,
impressed us as a peculiarly awk
ward warn. We could not under
stand why the road had not sued TO
the money if 1t is due. Col. Roosevelt
doubtless is good for the amount AM
he has been private citizen a yea
and a half. Then counting a specia
train at $3.50 a day and a Pullman a
800 a day would make 400 days o
travel and hardly thought the col
onel had done so much.
The explanation forthcoming fror
some of the colonel's newspape
friends is that in his first term h
followed the custom of president
and travelled dead head, just a
Grant Hayes, Harrison and McKinle
had done. 1t was the rule p trave
the president complimentary, just a
senators and governors and member
: of the house and state legislature
were travelled. Mr.. Cleveland wa
the first president who broke the pre-
cedent. He always paid his fare an
if he had a special train or ear CAV
a check for the full amount at usui
rates before the end Of his Journe
was reached. Col. Roosevelt In h
second term, when the movemer
against accepting favors from trans
~poration companies, became genera
had a bill introduced in the congress
appropriating $4,000 a year fc
travelling expenses of the presiden
and il was passed.
The colonel's enemies should n
strain themselves Undoubtedly
good deakis to be said against hi
and he is not a man to follow blin'
fold or without wary scrutiny of ii
way he is going and where 1T lead
But his owner never will be erstrall
ed or his use of it directed wisely
mere fsh-wife abuse and attach
which mean nothing but desperat
blind, impotent and disordered hate
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