Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-04
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ROOSEVELT A MENACE.
George Harvey Warns Country Asains
Third Terner.

George Harvey Warns Country Against
Third Termer.
Rejecting President Taft as one
whose lack Of strength disqualifies
him for another term in the presi-
dents chair, and reiterating his be-
lief in the worthiness Of Gov. Wood
row Wilson, George Harvey, editor OF
the North American Review, turns to
the subject OF the third termer's can
didacy in the October issue Of his
magazine, and with a cry Of warning.
declares his election would be ma
tional calamity of incalculable mag
nitude," that the issue which trans
cends all others Is Roosevelt or the
Republic"
Mr.. Harvey, in his leading article
says:
If 1t were possible to re-elect Pres
ident Taft what would be the use? The
incoming house Of representatives
will surely be Democratic and the Sem
ate will just as surely be anti-Repub-
lican. Mr.. Tafts continuance in Of
flee then could only involve prolonga-
tion Of the government divided against
itself, which has been the bane Of the
country for the last two years.
/
gard for MIR. Taft. AS true an .Ameri-
can, as honest and honorable e. man,
as faithful and forgiving a friend, as
just a judge, as conscientious and un-
selfish an administrator Of laws as
ever lived, his record as president,
nevertheless, Is a register Of failure
not because he Is a man Of straw, but
because he Is not a man of iron.
IF Roosevelt should be accorded a
4 III To- xa,-, ,t,ak
know Of no way Of judging the future
said Patrick Henry, to the virginia
convention, but by the past 1t Is a
true test. which, however. in this in
stance, despite the proverbial short
ness Of mems memories, need hardly
be applied. The salient movements
in the seamy record Of Roosevelt's
advancement, from a solemn pledge
to follow the prudent course marked
by his predecessor t. the domineer-
ing designation Of his own successor,
are still so fresh in mind that the
scatching indictment which would
ensue from their recapitulation readi-
ly forms itself.
I'VE are deferred, moreover, from
painting the picture In historic detail
| by a sense Of shame. The first twen-
| ty-five presidents of the United States
possessed talent in varying degrees.
Some were less forceful, some less
courageous, some less broad minded,
some less far seeing than others, but
all were conscious Of the dignity Of
the great position. all were deeply I'M
pressed by cognizance of their grave
responsibilities, all recognized their
own limitations, all were appreciative
Of the influence for good or i'll Of their
personal examples, all strove assidu-
ously and successfully to exemplify
the qualities which inhere in men Of
honor and breeding.
Roosevelt was the first president
whose chief personal characteristic
was mendacity, the first to glory in du-
plicity, the first braggart, the first
bully, the first betrayer Of a friend
who ever occupied the white house.
It Is with distaste amounting almost
to nausea that we are forced, In per-
formance Of public duty, to recall his
breaking Of his solemn pledge to the
American people to observe the most
vital Of their great traditions; his dis
| ingenious evasions; his brazen disre-
gard of his own written promise; his
blatant professions Of exceptional
probity at the very moment when he
was bartering his official influence for
large sums of money to be used In the
corruption Of voters; his boisterous
and profane denials Of accusations
which he knew to be founded on fact;
his precipitation Of panic by. uncon-
scionable mouthings; his cynical re-
joicing at pecuniary losses which he
had brought upon a few without heed
| of the havoc which he had wrought
| for the many; his hasty and alright
ed yielding to pressure exerted by
| interested persons when he became
convinced that common calamity was
impending; his fragrant violation OF
| his oath Of office when he agreed to
suspend the enforcement Of specific
laws; his deliberate stoppage Of pros
ecution Of a trust which the otticial In
uuiry ordered by himself had shown
to be guilty, at the behest Of one who
had added the savings Of the poo
to his corruption fund and who con-
tinues to be his chief supporter; his
arbitrary discharge, for personal rea-
sons. Of honorable prosecutors who
| persisted in proceeding against con-
| fessed rebater; his vituperative as
saults upon trade combinations whose
numbers he was permitting simultane-
ously and covertly to multiply; his
| shameful abetting Of revolution In
violation of a solemn treaty, to the
everlasting dishonor Of his country:
| to crafty his craving of personal
|
| publicist as an accomplice In the as
sassination of his predecessor, only
later to welcome him for political rea-
sons to a chair beneath the present
| ment of that martyred president; his
| savage condemnation as crooks and
scoundrels Of just judges who refused
to hound journalists to jail through
misinterpretation Of the law; his con-
slant villifying Of bosses In pubic
while secretly Strengthening the heads
of all who subserved his wishes; MS
brutal refusal of Justice to the faithful
and dying public servant whom he
had wantonly wronged; his virtual
stigmatizing Of q great archbishop as
falsifier of spoken words; his fe-
rocious treatment of helpless wom-
an pleading for consideration; his
blaring Of trumpets; his gun carrying;
his explanation Of the language OF the
| prize ring in the white house; MS
sickening repetitions OF the personal
pronoun in public speeches and omclal
communications; his cuttleflsh polltlcs;
his shameless demagogy; his perpet-
ual lying; all these are spots upon
the light from the lamp Of expert
ence to which we would but cannot
blind our eyes.
"Of Roosevelt's conduct since he
| forsook the white house we need not
speak. His bloody deeds In Africa
Iecturing of foreign potentates, his at
tempt to make political capital through
insolent disregard Of common ameni-
ties in Rome, his denunciation OF the
| president as a thief and a pickpocket
| to distract attention from his own at
| tenn pts at wholesale robbery, his bra
| zen volte-face on reciprocity to catch
the votes Of a class. his silly batting or
equal suffragists, his yawping about
bosses while eating from the hand OF
the worst political brigand OF his day
his profiting from the plunder which
his own official cooperation enabled
his most intimate political associates
to wiring from the American farmers
his outrageously false accounts OF the
nomination Of his Democratic oppo-
nent. his insidious wheedling OF the
specially favored few. his open pander-
/ ing to the mob in the name OF right
eousness for the sake Of self; these
are symptoms of distinguished person
al traits too recently displayed and too
familiar to call for recital.
Mr. Taft recognizes the limitations
fixed by the constitution upon execu-
tive authority Roosevelt makes plain
by his words and has proven mis- acts
that he holds them in derision.
1T is not the common war so com.
monty anticipated as a consequence OF