New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-03
PLAYING THE GAME
Roosevelt's Political Juggling Of
Trusts and People.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The revelations before the Senate
committee relative to the contribution OF
the Standard Oh Company 10 the RoOse-
vet campaign In 1904 are interesting and
illuminating. They are interesting because
they reveal the state OF affairs existing
between -,g business and the political
parties. and they are Illuminating because
they throw new and added light upon
the character and conduct OF Theodore
Roosevelt who for years successfully
posed as saint, but who now. In the
eyes OF all intelligent and thinking peop.e,
stands revealed as the chief sinner OF the
nation.
IL IL not plain that while Roosevelt was
denounclng the trusts and the 'malefac-
tors OF great wealth he had a secret I'M
derstanding with them whereby they were
to finance his political campaign, as the
harvester trust and the steel trust are
now doing7 These trusts are reported to
have expended 10000 In a vain attempt
20 buy for Roosevelt tho regular Repubh-
can nomination for President. which NOM
ination he gave the American people his
solemn pledge he would not take. Failing
TO get the Republican nomination. he Gre
ated new political party for the express
purpose OF accepting nomination which
he said he would not take, and the steel
trust and the harvester trust are dnsnc-
ing his third party canvass as lavlshly al
they financed his canvass for the Repub-
lican nomination.
Colonel Roosevelt is the only man In
history who has been able TO work both
ends OF a combination successfully. He
has worked the trusts for the money TO
dnance his campaigns. and he has worked
the people into the belief that he is an
enemy OF the trusts lie is certainly fool
Ing one or the other, and a person does
not have to he very intelligent to know
which he Is foollng now and which he
has fooled IN the past. II Colonel Roose-
Yolt had been Iooling the trusts In the
past does anybody believe that they would
continue to put up money 80 lavishly 10
buy his way back into the White House?
Is II not evident that the trusts have
discovered that with his wonderful versa
tillty and adaptability Colonel Roosevelt
IL the best man In the world with which
INC idI l'oi ANf p'bpA' lpi NAV
purpose Of securing and keeping control
OF the government? Is not this the rea-
son why they are investing their money
In his campaign so lsvishly? Is not this
the reason that he became a candidate for
third term at the request of the mon
eyed interests whom he favored all
through his administration
When Colonel Roosevelt was inaugural
ed President there were l49 big trusts I'm
this country, and when he turned the gov
eminent over to President Taft thore
were 1000 big trusts and combinations.
II Washington was the father OF his coun-
try. then Roosevelt is the father OF trusts.
II seems 70 ME that nothing can he
plainer than this. IL the Standard OIL
Company had contributed the additional
$4,000 asked for. that much abused trust
would then have risen to the dignity OF
good trust In the eyes Of this moral
crusader who In leading the battle at
Armageddon.
How long. on. how long. will the Amer
lean people continue to be hoodwinked.
deceived and misled by this snowy and
impudent political impostor?
CHARLES IT. BELTS.
Lyons, N. Y, Sept. Is. 1912.