Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-29

put rebaters In jail he put rebater Morton
in his cabinet.
26-According to Governor Deneen IF
Illinois he asked that executive not TO
prosecute Il. II. Hartman for looting the
Alton railroad, on the ground that 1t
would disturb business
Pile denounces bosses, but accepted
a nomination for governor Of New York
from Boss Platt and nomination for
vice president of the United States fror,
Bosses Plat and Quay. Among his con-
| spcuous supporters and leutenants ara
Boss Ward Of New York, Boss Lyon OF
Texas. Boss Brown Of Ohio, Boss Finn
| Of Pennsylvania.
2s-According to the biographer of tho
late Senator Thomas c. Platt he went hat
| in hand to Boss Plat to ask an indorse-
ment as assistant secretary of the navy
and got It.
29-He personally bossed the republican
I national convention Of 1908 and the las,
republican State convention Of New York.
aO-He personally encouraged e. H.
Hartman to raise campaign fund of
$500, 900, which, according to Hartman.
! changed $1,000 votes in New York city
alone.
S1-He selected George p Cortelyou,
secretary Of commerce and labor. which
department had supervisory power over
| corporations. as collector Of his cam
paign fund in 1904. derived chiefly from
corporations.
32-He processes TO favor publicity of
| campaign contributions. but has refused
to make public the names of the cor
porations and the amounts they contrib
uted to his campaign fund of 1901, al
though challenged repeatedly to do so.
a3-He has never disproved the charge
Of former Senator Hansbrough OF North
| Dakota that he reappointed a spotted"
man to office at the instance Of ]. Pier
pont Morgan
34-His personal lawlessness has been
frequently displayed. a fair example of
which was in the matter OF the Senate
bill to secure justice for the negro troops
! he had dismissed at Brownsville, Texas.
He threatened to veto the bill If passed
and to ignore 1t If passed over his veto.
35-His primary campaign resulted in
tho expenditure of the largest campaign
fund for the selection of delegates ever
| known in a national campaign.
I 3G-IIe is supported by few public men
of the first rank or by any great party
leader.
37-His election to a third term would
be the first step toward the establishment
Of Diaz dictatorship. or a life term in
office.
| 3S-He has publicly boosted that II took
the Panama canal zone and left Congress
to debate the issue" n seizure from a
friendly republic which smirched the
hitherto unsullied integrity of the United
States.
39--By abettng the fake Panama revo-
luton and the taking of the Isthmus he
violated an existing treaty between the
/ United States and Colombia, in which the
government of the United States guar
anteed to maintain and defend the sover-
| eighty of Colombia upon the Isthmus of
Panama.
N-Under his administration s4O.OO0 oC
was paid by this government for the
! rights Of the French company In the
Panama canal The public has never
been able to find out who got the money.
I-He has to large extent lost this
country the respect confidence and
friendship Of the republics of Central and
South America.
States to uphold a revolution in Panama
which was Matched in Wall Street
43-He prostituted his powers as presi-
dent and abused the legal machinery of
| the government by attempting to revive
an Infamous sedition law to punish edl-
| tors who had personally offended him.
44-He attempted to establish prec-
edent that a person indicted by federal
grand jury for an alleged offence upon
a military reservation could be tried in
any one of the 2,So9 military Jurisdictions
of the United States.
45--ThrOugh the medium of an author
lied speech by Elhu Root he accused Will
liam Randolph Hearst of having been
| morally an accomplice to the murder OF
President Mckinley. and two years later
received Hearst at the White House.
46-He attacked the aged Assistant At
torney- General Tyner when he was on
trial and before witnesses were heard
Tyner was acquitted He ignored Tyners
dying appeal for personal vindcation.
47-The insurance graft at Albany, ex-
posed by the Hughes investigation, de-
veloped and fourished most during the
years of 1899 and 1900, while Roosevelt
was governor. He made no attempt to
check 1t and in his two annual messages
ignored the subject Of insurance
4S-He criticised Admiral Brownson's &C,
in resigning as chief OF bureau of navi-