The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
THE COLONEL AFTER "coRituP-
TION.v

TION.. :
I The Colonel is still in hot pursuit
or suspicious character who has been ,
travelling in the West under the name ,
of Corruption; but 1t is feared that
the noise of the chase has already
made the old rascal double on his trail
and that while the Colonel is riding
furiously in thetwest the game is es-
Gaping into the East What the COL
onel would do with him If he caught
him nobody, not even the Colonel,
knows: but, II what the papers say
about him be true. the Colonel would
ind that he has nett scoundrel be-
fore. says the New, York Worlds.
when Mark Hanna died, when Matt
Quay died and when Henry G. Payne
died. Mr.. Roosevelt wrote in unqual-
ified terms Of praise of notorious poltt-
zeal corruptionists.
ION october S, 1906 Mr.. Roosevelt
wrote to My Dear Sherman after Mr..
Sherman had been refused campaign
contribution by L. FL. Hartman, ana
violently assailed Mr.. Hartman, who
two years before by personal invitation
of Mr.. Roosevelt had gone to the
white House to confer about the po-
1itical situation in New York ana I'M
nediately afterward had raised SOU
600 for the Republican National Com
nnittee for use in this state. Speaking
of the use made of this fund IN the
last Gays of the campaign NJ Iva WI
Hartman later said that at least oo,.
900 votes were turned in the city OF
Nav Yor,, alone for Roosevelt, max
ing n difference of 100000 votes In the
general result
s"How much money was secretly
raised by the corporation members OIL
Mr.. Roosevcll's Cabinet and their plu
tocratic allies from the meat trust, tne
Standard OIL Trust and the rallroaas
for Mr.. Roosevelt's political oehehe III
the campaign of 1901?
STARTLED by the thought that. we
may fall into the hands of this Drag
CART in whom seif-seekins is SO fneiy
blended with hypocrisy" the New YORK
evening Post declares that this cham-
Mon of purity, this roarer for polltieai
virtue. is the man who was Tor years
when in public life, hand in glove with
,be worst political corrupttonists OF
his day; who toadied TO Plats, nc
nraised Quay, who paid court 10 Han
"a under him as President Aldrich
rose TO the height of his power. al
ways on good terms with HooSeVei.
Il, WINS Roosevelt who, in 1906, wrote
an open letter urging the re-eiec'ion
or speaker Cannon. against whom NUT
t.rinrs had then begun to rise; II was
uooseyelt who asked Hartman 10
come Ia the White House secretly, "ho
took his money TO buy votes IN We"
York. and who afterwards Wrote "
NV Dear Sherman-yes, the same
misunderstanding the capltai'ss ~
whom he had previously written say
Irs. you and are practical men, II
Roosevelt is the great cinchel %
c,noks. whyFdidnt he cinch them when
ne was shaking hands with them
commenting upon the Colonels fn'
rious threat. 'Ilwiu make the cerpor'
.tions come To. tisne,' The Evening Pos
Is. cruel enough to ask: "DAo he no
really mean that he would make theh
cnme down with the cash TO elect MN
.s he did before?i' Continuing' TN
Evening Post says:
..For man with Mr.. Roosevelt
nroyed record, it is simply dlsgustin
53,rohl,e- for him to rant about the coi
,o-,tinns. lipon whose treasufe's
1awned when 4ile was Presiueht On
wanted their. money Tor ms caiiipate
Does he think that nobody has mem
nrv which goes back to the IRE ii.s =,
ance investigation, and }1hal every po.'
has forgotten the S5oo tahen ~
widows and; orphans and ADDED
.inn 4undo Did he not take big chec
/ +ron, the Beef Trust, and glad 20 81
az And now he is going TO make II
corporationsF come TO time one ca
have respectttor n ssinceres raalcal, l.
an honest fanatic, for an agltaSor
& levener who believes that he Is ao1h
ri Gods Will; but it is hard to be patlei
with man who talks Dig pue ac
MEAN. whose eye is always 10 the ma
ctanca POLITICALLY, and who let's ]
friendship, no generosity, no prineipl
10 moral scrupIe stand for a momel
hatween himself and the goal up'
which he has set his overmasteril
ambition.
iThe Denver News, while admittil
that from the Colonel has "emanated
spirit of revolt against Injustice" !
minds him that reform did not beg
with him" and VIII not end WITH MN
"one of the great troubles which ]
intelligent admirers have fuond wi
E.i Colonel Roosevelt as a reformer' So
this representative journal OF The
s West, has been his ardent assnnapti
that he is reform, II he suppo
lodge. the standpatter, in Massacl
sets, there is reform; If he aids ST.
ton the Southern Pacific candidate
California, there also is reform, 4
let him who doubts sland condemn
1t has all been personal with him
These are not pleasant things to
about anybody,3a particularly ab
the man who IL spoken Of as the gre
a est living American. and who Was
claimed in Norway as superIpan'
they are all true. The man who
claims against the crooks was che
by-jowl with them when ne was
pttice. The man who shakes the 81
with his mighty tread against the