Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-10-03
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A lew weeks x j.. Adam Beue maze
the following comparison of Roosevelt
and Lincoln:
'"This close resemblance between Col.
Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln was not
noticed till the colonel discovered it
along with the ten commandments. 1t
was then recalled that he scolded Gen.
Miles in public, making a d~isgraceful
scene at the white house, which was so
much like the thoughtful and consider
ate Lincoln.
"Again when Senator Proctor, of Yer
mont, died, with whom Roosevelt had
had some differences, and he was asked
If he vas sorry, he replied that he was
sorry it was not Senator Hale. This
sounds very much like Lincoln!
''In his book on ''The Rough Riders"
he boasts of shooting a Spaniard in the
back! How Lincoln would have gloated
over so brave a deed!
Son his trip down the the Mississippi
river with the waterways commission
he had a pilot peremptorily dismissed
from service without a hearing and for
no cause whatever. Lincoln always dis
missed pilots in that way!
"And because a government employee
passed his carriage in an auto on the
streets of Washington he amended the
civil service rules so that a department
chief could dismiss a clerk without a
hearing and forced his dismissal under
this rule that did not exist when the
act Was committed. Lincoln did some
thing like that almost every morning!
when a schoolgirl on horseback
passed his riding party he is said to
have struck her horse an angry blow
with his riding whip, frightening the
animal and almost throwing the girl to
the ground. Lincoln always had just
such a lordly crouch as that!
"The closest resemblance, however,
was shown when Roosevelt, while presi-
dent, in an article published everywhere
over his own signature, charged cor
ruption upon Gen. Tyner, who was post
master general under Grant, but at
this time was a subordinate in the post
Office department. At the presidents
behest, he was indicted in the District
of Columbia. The trial dragged along
two or three weeks, and / frequently
saw him, feeble and more than 80 years
of age, in an invalid's chair, wheeling
himself into the courtroom. But he was
acquitted and as a free man went to
his home home to die.
"From his deathbed he wrote a last
appeal to the president to withdraw
what he had said and let him die with
out a stain on his name or a disgrace
on his family. "But Roosevelt let him
die without an answer, and the letter is
still unanswered" That is Just like
Lincoln, Of whom it might truthfully be
said he came to preach the gospel to
the poor and to heal the broken hearted"
At Chattanooga, Tenn, he again took
up the bull moose candidate who is now
asking for a third term as president of
the United States, in the following
language:
"The name Theodore is said to mean
gift of God, but sometimes God may
give a scourge OF a plague. We had
one in the shape of a panic in 1907.
brought on by presidential wind jam
ming.
To-day all is well in the financial
world. About 10, 0O0, 600 depositors have
81, 900. 00o, 900 Of saving in banks and
building associations. And v was
employment general or the COM
forts Of life more universally distributed.
;Shall we return to the panic of 1907
or the free silver and free trade panic
Of 1893? Is success q crime and pros
perity a punishment, that we must
shrink from them?
LAST OF sLUsH FUND PRESIDENTS
k'The scourge Of God was here today.