The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-11-23
i Roosevelt Morgan,s CandidateI

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| In Theodore Roosevelt Wall Street
fnds3a new champion "a new safe
Eand sane candidate Tor president.
In hi sattack on President Taft and
/ our chaotic government policy as
regards business he makes Wall
Streets grievance against the Taft
administration his grievance.
He makes their objection 20 the
Sherman anti-trust law his objection.
He makes it's protest against the
steel trust suit his protest.
He makes its contempt for conpe-
tition his contempt.
He makes it's demand for new leg
islation his contempt.
The value OF the services which Mr..
Roosevelt as rendering to Big BUSH
ness cannot be oYerestimated.
He presents Wall Streets resent
ments against Mr.. Taft more forcefuI-
~ and coherently than Wall Street
itself has been able to do
He voices j. Pierpont Morgan's
celestial ire against the government
that dared attack the street trust
more eloQuently than Mr.. Morgan
has voiced 1t.
He comes to the relief OF Big Bua4
mess alta critical time, when it sorely
needs an advocate who can command
the attention OF the country and smear
It's schemes over with . varnisIr of
political progress.
He provides the mask of radical
ism which any movement to prevent
Mr.. Taft's denomination requires in
order to be successful
He secures to Wall Streets theo-
rtes Of trust regulation an audience
that no other man could obtain
He again richly deserves "the in
ftuence of the great Morgan inter-
ests which have been so friendly t.,
u.s. even in his contemptuous reference
who represent in reality In this mas
ter not progress at all but kind If
sincere rural ToFyism Even In his
generous Endorsement of the Gary
Perkins theory OF government regula-
ton Of prices.
Less than week ago, when Mr
Roosevelt gracefully accepted viii
liam Barnes, Jr., as boss of the repub-
-liean party in New York, the world
asked IL he were not again a candi-
date for president, The Outlook ar
ticle may be accepted as a full and
complete answer. Roosevelt is pala-
bly, a candidate and his extraordinary
political genius has set for itself the
task of bringing about a coalition be-
tween the anti-Taft progressives in
the West and the anti-Taft plutocrats
in Wall Street. OF his coalition he ex
poets to be the beneficiary. Mr.. Roose
welt is not given to disinterested POI
litical effort.
That he should reach out for Wall
Streets support for his ambition is in
no way inconsistent with his record.
He solicited Wall Streets support in
1904. His campaign fund came chiefly
from Wall Street. Two Of ]. p. Nor
CAMS partners assist in the collec-
ton of campaign tribute and part of
the insurance money was handled by
one OF them. Mr.. Hartman was in
Vited to the white house few days
before election and returned to New
York to raise the $3.50, 900 which he
boosted, turned $4,000 votes in New
York city alone, making difference
of 100000 votes in the general result"
AS president he made one of Mr..
Morgan's partners secretary of state
and Mr.. Morgan's son-fn-law Assist i
ant secretary of the navy. At Mr.
Morgan's request he licensed the abb
sorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company by Mr.. Morgan's Steel
trust, a transaction that he is still de-
Tending in the face Of the govern
ment's suit. During the Roosevelt panic
he turned the United States treasury
over to the committee of financiers of
which Mr.. Morgan was the head. No
other president ever denounced Wall
Street so vehemently and no other
president ever took such pains to
make sure that the deed did not square
with the world.
Roosevelt would be Morgan's logical
candidate for president 1912 No other
candidate representing Wall Streets
present desires could command such
support. No other candidate with the
faintest chance Of election would more
fully merit the confidence Of Big BUS
mess. No other candidate could be !
more thoroughly relied upon to help
"unscramble the eggs. New York
World.