The daily sentinel., 1912-10-21

Brownsville. Texas. He threatened
to veto the bin IL passed and to ig-
more 1t II passed over his veto.
35-His present primary campaign
has resulted in the expenditure OF the
largest campaign fund for the selec-
tion of delegates ever known in n
national campaign.
36-He is not supported by any
public men of the first rank or by
any great party leader, or by any dis
tinguished lawyer, educator or citi-
zen.
37-His selection to a third term
would be the first step toward the
establishment of n Diaz dictatorship,
or a life term in office.
3S--He~ has publicly boasted that
II took the Panama canal zone and
left Congress to debate the ISSUE" 4
seizure from a friendly republic
which sn1i<ched the hitherto unsul-
lied integrity of the United States.
39-By abetting the fake Panama
revolution and the taking of the Is
thmus he violated an existing treaty
between the United States >and Co.
lumbia, in which the Government of
the United States guaranteed to
maintain and defend the sovereignty
OF Columbia upon the Isthmus Of
Panama.
40-uuder his administration siO,-
100000 was paid by this Government
for the rights OF the French company
in tho Panama Canal. The public
has never Deen able to find out who
got the money.
4l-He has to a large extent lost
this country the respect, confidence
and friendship of the Republics of
Central and South America.
f2-IIe used the navy OF the Unit
cd States to uphold n revolution in
Panama which was Matched in Wall
street.
f3-He prostituted his powers as
President and abused the legal ma
chipery of the Government by at
tempting to revive an Infamous Sc
dition law to punish editors who
personally offended him.
file attempted TO establish a
precedent that person indicted by
Federal Grand Jury for an alleged
offense upon a military reservation
could be tried in any one of the o.
500 military jurisdictions OF the
United States.
45-Through the medium of an
authorized speech by Elihu Root he
accused William Randolph Hearst of
having been morally an accomplice
TO the murder of President Mckinley,
and two years later received Hearst
at the White House.
i6-ie attacked the aged Assist
ant Attorney General Tyner when
he was on trial and before witnesses
were heard Tyner was acquitted.
lie ignored Tyner's dying appeal for
persoual yjpdkaiion.. =.
47lfbc Insurance graft ht'Albany
exposed by the Hughes investigation
developed and flourished 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 sub
ject OF Insurance.
4S-He criticized Admiral Brown
sons act in resigning as Chief of Bu-
reau of Navigation as .'unseemly and
improper" while suppressing the Ad-
mirais official explanation.
q 49-When Col. w. 7. Stewart, U.
S. A.. declined to be retired he caused
him to be exiled to a lonely post in
New Mexico until he could be con-
pulsorily retired" at the age OF six
ty-two.
50--He automatically deprived
the Boston Herald of departmental
news at Washington, including the
weather forecast, because that paper
had published somethipg that dis
pleased him.
5l-He permitted the age retire
ment of Gen. Nelson a. Miles with
out word of commentator, despite
the brilliant record of Gen. Miles in
the Civil War and as an Indian fight
er ou the frontier.
IoHp has n tho
and capacity of nearly every judge
who refused to decide cases according
to his wishes. After Judge Ander-
son of Indianapolis, decided against
bin in the Panama libel case. he call
ed the judge "a crook and jackass."
He atterward denounced the United
States Supreme Court as ''fossilized.
53-Iic dismissed three companies
of the Twcpty-filtb Ipfaptry. color
cd, without proof OF their guilt, aud
later sought to justify his arbitrary
action by an alleged confession. re
pudiated by the alleged coufessor aud
obtaiped by a negro detective who
could neither read nor write.
5t--He has tine aud again. as
Chief Executive. ipsulted the other
two coordinate branches OF Govern
meUt, the legislative aud judicial.
55--Wbcp a Southern postmistress
received threatening letters. iustesd
OF affordipG Der protection he arbi-
trarily closed the postoffice and de-
prived the citizens of that communi-
ty OF their nail.
56-He caused the official records
in the Harvester Trust TO be. taken
from the files OF the Government de-
partrept aud sequestrated in the
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