The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-17
EXPOSURE OF
THE BULL MOOSE
Harlan and Bede Trail Roosevelt and
Arouse Tremendous Enthusiasm
Throughout California
State
MASK STRIPPED OFF.
Record Of Hypocrisy and Broken
Promises Of Third Term candI.
date, Told to the People
Of the West.

i SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. Sep. IT,
Before two enthusiastic audiences
here and at Oakland John Maynard
Harlan of Chicago and j. Adam Bede
Iof Wisconsin laid bare Theodore
Roosevelt's record of hypocrisy and
broken promises. Set against the
background of Roosevelt's meeting
here Saturday, last nights rallies gave
a most powerful impetus to the Taft
campaign in all of California.
The first meeting was held at the
Piedmont Pavilion in Oakland and
the second packed the National Thea,
ire In San Francisco The gatherings
were the largest and most enthusiasts.
tic yet addressed by the two Taft
campaigners. who are touring the
country just travelled by Col. Roose.
welt, answering the arguments and ex.
posing his Misrepresentation Both
speakers left San Francisco just be
| fore midnight on a special train for
Los Angeles, to speak at a big meet.
night. Carrying the battle into Gov
| Johnson's own state and right on the
heels of the Roosevelt visit, the Taft
campaign party made a most vivid
impression on this part of the state
and the state republican leaders vile
arranged the two meetings are en-.
thusiastic over the result
Mr.. Harlan said in part:
Mr.. Roosevelt has made himself the
chief issue in this campaign. His only
excuse for seeking a third term as
president is that he is the only man
who can save the country, or, as he
himself expresses it, the only man
in sight to do the job.
| Mr.. Roosevelt tells US, the people
that we should arise, throw off the
yoke that Expresses us and rule our
selves. He seeks to flatter and ca
jole us, by remining us that we, the
people, are the soyereigns, that we
the people,, are freeborn and a still
virile and energetic race, entitled to
and able to govern ourselves. OF
course we are And yet in the same
breath and by way of excusing his
third term candidacy. Mr.. Roosevelt
tells us that in all the 100000, 900 OF
our people no man except himself is
fitted to perform the duties of presi
dent of the United States.
This is the language of king, an
autocrat. a car, not that of a man
who, counting himself but one of a
free people, aspires to the honor OF
being their leader.
The best way to judge of the value
OF Mr.. Rooseyelt's word, of his prom
ises of today, is TO see how he has
kept his promises in the past. What
has become OF that solemn promise
made to the American people Noyem
Der 6, 1901, when having just been
elected TO succeed himself as presi
dent, he announced on the 4th OF
March next shall have served three
and one-half years. These three and
one-half years constitute my i:as,
term. The wise custom which limits
the president 10 two terms regards
the substance and not the form, and
under no circumstances will / be a
candidate for or accept another nomi.
nation
This pledge to the American people
he reiterated again and again and as
late as a year ago he said that he
should esteem 1t genuine calamity
fif movement to nominate him we:e
undertaken. This promise to ma
ton Mr. Roosevelt broke with quib-
BILE, to excuse his violated word.
And the man who has so lightly
broken his promise made to the ma
ton in the hour OF his triumph yiolat-
ed Just as lightly his promise made to
the nation In the hour of its bereaye-
ment, when he took the oath OF presi-
dental office, as the accuser of vii
liam Mckinley. He there pledged
himself to carry out the policies of
the martyred Mckinley.
At the moment President Mckinley
was assassinated he was announcing
to the world a program Of maximum
and minimum tariff schedules as
means OF extending our foreign trade.
But during his two terms OF office
Mr.. Roosevelt never lifted a finger to
carry out the plan which the martyred
Mckinley had so much at heart. and
never made it the subject of so much
as paragraph in his message to CON
gress.
These are two notable examples of
the broken promises of the man who
now seeks by fair but frazier promises
to hoodwink the American people into
giving him an honor which Washing
ton and Jefferson declined. and which
the American people denied to Gen.
Grant one of the saviors of the ma.
ton.
Contrasting Taft and Roosevelt. ]
Adam Bede said:
one offers hope and happiness. the
other vengeance and discontenf one
IS gentleman, learned in the law.