Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-10-18

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+ The attempted assassination OF
e Roosevelt last Monday is an act that
= Is so out OF accord with American
D ideas and American institutions that
II Is useless To spend time and
4 energy In condemning it. But il is
: worth while to note the kind of man
who attempted the deed Scbrank.
: Guiteau. czolgcsch are all names
which are coupled with foreign ideas
and foreign conditions.
They have no place in America
and no connection with American in
stitutionn. Yet they represent a class
20 whom the politicians appeal be-
cause OF the highly inflammable ma
ture of their minds. Every man in
the United States who joins In the
cutlery against our courts and our
officers and our public men, every
man guilty OF Joining in the cutlery
charging fraud and liar and theft and
exhausting his vocabulary against
the President and all other officers |
OF this government for the purpose |
of gratifying personal spite and 7
gratifying malicious propensIties is
as guilty of attack on Roosevelt as
the poor crazy alien who fired the
shot
For all the outcry against our
public men and our public institu-
tions tends 10 inflame the already
abnormal condition OF the minds OF
the Guiteaus, Czolgosches and
Schranks until they commit their
deeds with, the conviction of a
martyr to their cause.
Mr.. Roosevelt is victim. in a :,
measure, OF his campaign methods. 7
He charges his misfortune to the .
Inbridaled utterances of newspapers o
opposed TO him. but Mr.. Roosevelt n
imself early In the campaign ex-
austed his vocabulary of invectives n,
gainst all who opposed him n
He himself is the most petulant p,
nd impetuous character ever in 90
merican politics and he naturally da
tracted about him a following of 90
ndred spirits. He and his followers a.
i the pace in this campaign and ar
itlined the plans of their own at ar
ok upon those opposed to him. The
'fense had no choice in the matter. u,
r they must OF necessity meet their as
on their own grounds of IN,
ntest. Mr.. Roosevelt announced In an
vance that his platform would be ?
e most radical ever placed before 70,
9 American people. The real arti- 90,
was fully up TO the announced mi
ms and specifications and so much cor
that even the Socialists charge
II their platform was stolen as a 20,
del. Radical platforms must be -.
'ended by radical methods and oq,
lical men and must of necessity no.
{ up radical opposition. ~
That such radical methods as the ~
of the campaign have mo,
duced would seriously affect the 80,
Ids OF the Schranks. Guiteaus and ~,
lgosches, who have no conception -
American ideas of government, is a.,
TO be wondered. The only won
is that the campaign has not CIV,
eloped more men of the same
racter and that serious conse- ?
noes have not been more frequent -,
4 they have been. There are
lessons to be learned from the
sevelt incident one is that our
paigns should be conducted along ~.
q reasonable and rational lines.
h can only be accomplished by ~
leaders setting the reasonable -,
rational example and the other -.
} use finer-meshed screen at ~,
e Garden through which slfts
oreign immigration into the new - -
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