The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-08-29
new YORK PAPERS
ROAST ROOSEVELT
Shafts Of Wit and Scorn Are
Turned Loose on the
Former President.
CALLED "TRusI BUSTER
cARlcATUREp A. CITING ON TOP
OF THE oTeEl 0cTUPU9-
THINK HI 10 IN TRAINING FOR
HIe ELECTION.

TVuNN NJ 10 IN UHAINuN0 POU
HIS ELECTION.
New York. Aug. 29.-When Theo-
dore Roosevelt was president the
glaring rays OF the political calcium
lights were not directed upon him any
more fxedly than they are now. He
IL the most entertaining character on
the stage despite the fact that he 10
now Q private citizen. but here In New
York most Of the metropolitan Jour-
nails are treating him AZ . soubrette
instead Of 40 the most serious Of the
"daramatis persona" a. formerly.
The editors seem to feel there 10 no
impropriety In discussing him with
perfect freedom since he 10 no longer
the oficial head of the nation. When
he was In the White House they held
themselves in restraint, but Of con.
sideration for the ONCE" they explain.
But. how different! Their shafts Of
Irony and scorn are fred at him day
By day. Tho Sun employs its most
cutting ridicule. the Herald its most
deprecating cartoons, the World and
Post their most powerful invective.
Hsraid's "DsadIy Parallel"
Sunday for instance, the Herald
published Q caricature Of the express
ident apropos OF his utterances con.
corning corporations in Cleveland and
Toledo. Ohio. The title 10 1.-THE dead.
~ parallel" and the inscription reads:
Look on this picture-and then on
this"
The first depicts at. R." CARRIED In
his Trough Rider uniform making a
speech and Aercely exclaiming: II
will make the corporations come to
time:" the personal pronoun is Of ex.
aggerated size. being designed to
represent egotism in pronounced
form.
On the other side ID an ugly car.
toon Of the Steel Trust holding Presi-
dent Roosevelt on its right knee,
while on its ample bosom 10 this leg
end: when u. 8. Steel Absorbed
Tennessee Coal and IRON" A triumph
ant leer covers the expansive ebony
countenance OF the alleged octopus,
while the coloneYs face 10 a picture Of
fear and anxiety while he nestles
shrinkingly and diminutively in the
protecting arms of the metal giant.
Those who recall theabsorption of
the Tennessee Coal and Iron company
BY the Steel Corporation during the
panic OF 1907 require no diagram to
understand the cartoonist's meaning.
Facts Of Deal Recalled.
A subcommittee Of the senate COM
mittee ON judiciary. which investigat-
ID the acquisition by the Steel Trust
Of IT. leading competitor In this coun.
try. reported that in it, opinion the
transaction was not inspired by the
most benevolent motives and was
also illegal. being contaminated In
disregard Of the Sherman antitrust
law.
Il will be recalled also that because
certain high oflicials Of the Steel Cor
poration conferred with the president
before the Tennessee company was
taken over. It was claimed that Mr..
Roosevelt had extended assurances to
them that the national administration
would not invoke the antitrust act to
prevent or subsequently dissolve the
merger.
The Herald from time to time has
the big Noise" and 20 has the
World. The Sun which prints no car.
toons, contents itself with character
istic editorial comment Saturday 1t
coupled him up with Kaiser VIII
helms divine inspiration speech. its
purpose being to show that the Ger
man Emperor was not alone In a.
suming to act by the express wish
OF Providence.
Personal preneun a."
Today the Sun printed what It
called syllabus OF speech at Chey.
enne." which reads:
II reached. accepted. I was glad.
have Q peculiar feeling. I lived. I
count. I am tempted. I am now id.
dressing. I myself saw. have seen
the herds.
II have seen the fortunate move
ment. now travel, first rode. md
cities, have urged the word. greet
you. I stand for progress.
II do not mean would preach fiery
wrath. I would not preach such wrath.
I Wish to say q word. speak. ]
thought, wish. hold.
my hunting trip. my neishbors.
my Ind OF the country. my life. my
own regiment. me-"
The Gotham newspapers-at any
rate. most Of them-are convinced that
Colonel Roosevelt 10 engaged In .
preliminary canvass for the 1919 pres
idontial nomination. Arguments to