The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-19

Annie Riley Hale. Illustrated by Will
III: Chandler. Fourth Edition, Revised.
wi,h WI vInd, index Published BY the Author.
This work is dedicated "To the
galleries, TO whom my hero has
played so long and so successfully. -
the. false pretenses and the humbug
claims made by Roosevelt for himself
and by others for him. 1t traces his
public beginnings, and traces them by
no means in so rosy a light as other
works pretending to give the facts
have done. II exposes the San Juan
Hill myth, and brands the picture by
Verestchagln as work Of fancy alto
gether The Roosevelt activities were
at Kettle Hill, where there was merely
4 line of Spanish skirmishers, and very
little fighting. Roosevelt himself is
quoted as standing on Kettle Hill and
watching the desperate fight Of the
regular infantry in their assault upon
and capture of San Juan Hill, thing
with which Colonel Roosevelt and his
command had nothing whatever to do.
The book also shows the fallacy of
the Roosevelt claim that he was the
originator of the civil service idea, by
giving dates and quoting facts, show
ing that the civil service was adopted
before Roosevelt ever came into public
life, and that when he was member
of tho New York Legislature he did
not even vote for the civil service law
III that State.
With respect 10 his marshaling Of the
correspondents in Washington, dictat-
ing what they should say, and gen.
orally censoring the news that went out
from Washington, and furnishing those
who did not conform TO his ideas of
what they should send, the work is
full of instructive facts. 1t gives,
among others, the case of n woman
who reported the facts as to a clash
between the reception of the diplomats
and the members of the Supreme Court
in the White House, This angcred
Roosevelt, and he called up the man
was employed, demanding her dis
charge; and this being refused, he
barred her from access to the White
House from thenceforth For three
years he kept her out, and then the
management of the newspaper changed,
and the new management discharged
the woman reporter at the demand of
Roosevelt and on his dictum that she
should never get into the White
House. His attempts, generally sue
cessful, to punish newspaper CORE
news that he did not like, these efforts
being generally known among the pro-
fession, are given with some fullness
III this work.
The Ananias club business is fully
explained herein. and a number of in
stances are given where Roosevelt
fastened the membership upon others
than himself, where it really belonged,
The Tillman incident, wherein former
Cabinet Minister Chandler of New
Hampshire was involved, is given in
full. and the inference is irresistible
that Roosevelt first agreed TO certain
programme, and then, without notice to
those with whom this agreement was
had, he changed it and denounced as
liars those who claimed that he had
made tho agreement which III fact he
had done.
The "dear Maria business is given
in full, and Roosevelt is made to ap-
pear in his true colors therein. Many
other incidents and facts are gwen,
also. in which Mr.. Roosevelt does by no
means shine, 1t is an Illuminating
work throughout. and those who have
any doubt of Roosevelt's inslucerity,
his readiness to reap where he has not
sown, and to pretend 10 knowledge and
integrity which he does not possess,
ought by all means TO read this work
and he 1isilusionp6