Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-16
ROOsEvELT's RECEPTION.

Roosevelt a wonderful reception at
pie on the coast are enthusiastically
for Teddy. He has lost none of his
old-time popularity, Notwithstanding
| the false statements which have been
so persistently circulated by his enc
mics during the past three years
through a too willing press repre-
senting crooked business and crooked
politics. Twenty thousand people
crowded Gypsy Smith Tabernacle and
the grounds around it to hear him
! speak. The audience was enthused
with the same old fire which has
been apparent since Teddy first be-
came president.
Unfortunately, all of the Portland
papers are against Mr.. Roosevelt. To
one who had witnessed the entire
proceedings during the stay of Roose-
welt in Portland, the reports of the
occasion as dished up by the Port
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papers lied about his reception. They
attempted to make it appear as a
dull affair, referring to many un-
pleasant bitches in the program
which did not occur, and grinding
out long story of an imagined book
episode reflecting on the tempera-
ment of the ex-president.
The writer attended the meeting
at Portland to see for himself. He
was member of the reception COM
mittee and was in a position to know
and does know exactly what occurred.
editors as liars, but no softer word
will fit such palpably intentional mis-
representation as is manifest in the
reports of Roosevelt's reception, as
set out in the press of that city. The
only place they told the truth was in
reporting the speeches of the eX-
president These were taken by die
tograph and printed correctly and in
full. The rest of the report is gar
bled with the design of leading the
people of Oregon, those in the rural
districts who were not able to be
there, to believe that Roosevelt's s
popularity is on the wane, and in an
attempt to confirm the misrepresen-
tations which have been generally
and persistently circulated for long
time reflecting on the ,motives and
disposition of Mr.. Roosevelt.
1t is unfortunate that newspapers
will lend themselves to such flagrant
misrepresentation of a candidate, in
such a crisis as now confronts the
American people. They would at
tempt to make it impossible for the
people to know the truth in the cam
paign, for they have maliciously cor
rupted the fountains of knowledge
1t has been the fear of the writer
that under the primary system the
subsidized press would prove men
ace to good government by suppress
ing and comforting the truth to an
extent as to make it impossible that
the rank and file should learn the
facts about candidates and issues
That is the next great danger that
confronts the country.
If the people are given an oppor-
tunjty to know the truth about
Roosevelt and the great fight he is
making for popular government he
will carry Oregon by large major
ity and will be elected president. 1t
all depends upon the people learning
the truth. The Portland newspapers
are lending their best energies to
color and suppress facts about the
popularity and candidacy of Roose-
welt. and the Tidings feels that the
time is at hand when the citizens of
the rural districts of the state should
be warned against the false repre-
sentations of the Portland press in
handling the present campaign.