Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
Called the Senator Of.
Thinks Roosevelt Candidate.

William Randolph Hearst, in response
to questions submitted by Sumner Curtis,
Washington correspondent of the Chicago
Record-Herald, in New York last night,
gave the following interview:
I'm your opinion, is Col. Roosevelt a
candidate for the presidency in 1922
I'm my opinion. Col. Roosevelt always
has been a candidate for the presidency,
and always will be a candidate for the
presidency.
But / don't think that Col. Roosevelt
will be the candidate of any party for the
presidency in 1912 or in any subsequent
year.
"Mr Roosevelt has been President of
the United States. and has been the most
boisterous. bombastic, disturbing and de-
structive President that the United States
has ever had.
1T is astounding to hear Mr. Roosevelt
criticising Mr.. Taft for disturbing bus-
ness. when Mr.. Roosevelt in his term SO
completely disturbed business as practi-
cally to put it out of business.
Mr.. Tafts activities may not be eX-
actly benefiting business, but the main
trouble with business is that it has not
yet recovered from the panic into which
Mr.. Roosevelt impelled it by his indis-
criminate attacks and infiammatory un-
teranceS.
More Bark Than Bite.
MI Roosevelt's trust policy was to be
sure, more bark than bite. but confidence
can be dissipated, investors terrified, and
business demoraliZed by sufficiently
loud bark
was forever publicly denouncing Ameri-
can big business and American big bust
ness men, while secretly aiding those
| men in their trust transactions. and even
inviting them as practical men to help
him write his public documents.
But 1t was not so much Mr.. Roose-
velt's secret dealings with the trust mag
mates that unsettled business in America
as his eXtravagant and indiscrtminate de-
nunciation of American business condi-
tions.
"A great part of the capital employe ed
in developing American enterprises Is in
vested from abroad. These foreign in
vestors are naturally somewhat timid
of investments so far from home, and
disposed to watch such investments very
carefully.
Scared Foreign Investors.
IAN Mr. Roosevelt's extravagant ex-
pressions and indiscriminate attacks were
printed in full in the foreign papers. and
the foreign investors. reading these re-
ports and knowing nothing Of Mr.. Roose-
| velt's secret association with the trust
| magnates. became frightened at condi-
tons in America, which they supposed
were truthfully related by the former
President Of the United States, and with
drew their capital.
MIR. Roosevelt may have done some
good things while he was President. 1
am disposed to concede that he did a
number Of commendable things. But de-
veloping business along any lines, even
the most simple and legitimate, Is not a
matter either within the character or
capacity Of Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t is ridjcu-
lous thing. therefore, to see Mr.. Roose-
welt attacking Mr.. Taft for disturbing
business that Mr.. Roosevelt himself,
when President, wholly demoralized and
partly destroyed
'Mr. Taft has at least some definite
trust policy, a mistaken one, truly be-
lieve, but nevertheless a. definite policy,
which he consistently and conscientious
ly adheres to-