Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-29
ONE HUNDRED REASONS WHY ROOSEVELT
SHOULD NOT AGAIN Be PRESIDENT

CATION as "unseemly and ,mnroper." vuh,,o
suppressing the admirals official explana.
ton.
49-When Col. w. r. Stewart. U q A.
declined to be retired he caused him to
be cxied to a lonely post in New Mexico
until he could be compulsorily retired
at the age Of 81.
5o-He automatically deprived the Bos-
ton Herald Of departmental news at
Washington, including the weather fore
cast, because that paper had published
something that displeased him.
lille permitted the age retirement of
Gen. Nelson A. Miles without a word of
commentator, despite the brilliant record
of General Miles in the Civil War and as
an Indian fighter on the frontier.
52-He has attacked the honor and ca =
pacity OF nearly every Judge who refused
to decide cases according to his wishes
After Judge Anderson Of Indianapo polls de-
cided against him in the Panama libel
case. ne called the Judge "a crook and a
jackass." He afterwards denounced the
United State Supreme Court as
"fossilized"
Sale dismissed three companies of the
18th infantry. colored, without proof of
their guilt, and later sought to justify his
arbitrary action by an alleged confession,
repudlated by tho alleged confessor and
obtained by negro detective who could
neither read nor write
54-He has time and again, as chief
executive, insulted the other two co-ordi-
nate branches OF government, the legis-
lative and judicial
b5-When a Southern postmistress re-
ceived threatening letter, instead of &C
cording her protection he arbitrarily
closed the postoffice and deprived the
citizens of that community Of their mail
lille caused the official records In the
Harvester Trust to be taken from the
files Of the government department and
sequestered in the White House. refusing
Congress all information concerning them.
H-Exposed in an intrigue to influence
the appointment of an American cardinal.
he broke a long-standing friendship with
Bellamy Storer, forced him to resign as
ambassador to Austria and publicly hu-
initiated Mrs Storer
5S-As an appeal to the Grand Army
vote he issued pension order No. Is, Gre
ating service pension without authority
of Congress, taking money from the pub
lie treasury without authority Of law
59-He nullihed in large measure the
pure food law by creating the Remsen
referee board. which overruled DR.. Wiley
and permitted manufacturers to continue
the use of certain adulterants.
60-He has persistently appealed to
militarism, jingoism and the war spirit
6l-By opposing the Taft arbitration
treaties he has shown n willingness to
continue existing expenditures for wars.
past and to come, which require Il per
cent. Of the revenue of the government.
62-He employed rank favoritism in GER
tain army appointments, the most flag
rant example of which was the case of
DR.. Leonard Wood, now chief Of staff, a
personal friend, advanced in rank at the
expense of regular army officers of long
experience.
3-When he became president he In
herted a large treasury surplus from the
Mckinley administration. and. despite the
largely increased revenues of the govern
ment, he bequeathed to his successor a
deficit.
6-He has denounced socialism, and
anarchy. while advocating sociallstic
doctrines and measures. His new ma
tionalism Is but a name for repudiated
old popul!sm.
65-The socialist vote increased 400 per
cent during his administration.
ellis efforts to centraize power In the
federal government and to create a
multiplicity of commissions and bureaus
have tended toward Outstanding the gov
eminent.
67-He has persis tently appealed to the
passions of the mob and to class pre-
judice inhaming the poor against the rich
and the rich against the poor.
6s-He misrepresents the motives and
views of Abraham Lincoln by constantly
asserting that his own motives and views
are the same. The proof: Lincoln said.
NO man IL fit to govern another man
without the latter's consent" In speech
at Carlo University March 49, 1910, while
the Fgvpt!an people We're holding a gen.
eral assembly and pleading for a constitu-
ton, Roosevelt declared they were not
tit for self-government and urged them
TO submit unresistently to British rule.
Later he censured the British for not ex-
erc!s,ng more aggressive policy IN
Egypt saving. ''Weakness and sentiment
tally are more harmful to an uncivilized
people than violence and injustice"
69--Before his ambition and lust for
power had become an obsession he wrote
the following. which was published In the