Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-10-13

makes the issue very plain Every
/ good citizen who faVorS constitutional
government and the preservation of
/ American institutions must 'scornfully
reject your candidacy and vote for the
conservator, President Taft.
G. l charge you with responsibility
for the defeat Of the arbitration treat
/ les. the greatest progressive measure
yet proposed by an American presi-
dent. These treaties slgnlfied the first
practical step in the direction of a
peaceful settlement of all future inter-
national controversies, and would even
actually have resulted; other nations
would surely have emulated the Ameri
can example, in general agreements
| for the reduction of armaments. and
consequently in the relief Of the hu-
man family from lntolerable burdens.
| The same as in the case of reciprocity
which you both favored and opposed,
| you advocated the gospel Of peace in
your Christiania speech, but immedi-
ately began knocking II when Presi-
! dent Taft submitted a concrete plan
to carry it out. The deciding vote by
which the treaties were emasculated
was cast by your own political mana
ger. Senator Dixon, who had favored
them up to the time of "A visit with
you at New York on the night pre-
ceding the vote In the senate. Your
opposition evidently was prompted by
envy and jealousy of President Taft's
possible success in the matter of this
great world reform. The United
States was, by DiXon's vote, nobbed of
the prestige of leadership in the
movement for international peace,
and no true friend of arbitration on
that score alone, will ever again coun-
tenance your candidacy for the high
est office in the gift of the people. The
same cause had received another blow
at your hands when, after calling the
NseCond Hague conference at the be-
hest of the Interparliamentary Union,
YOU voluntarily yielded to the czar the
trump card by which You might have
made that conference an epoch max
ing success.
Z. l hoid up to the sober judgment
of the American people your denial Of
all knowledge of the 5000 900 contri-
buted 10 your campaign by the Stand
ard Oil Company in 1904. AS you
knew of everything else connected
with that campaign, that denial repre-
sents one of the most remarkable is
sues of this remarkable campaign. We
are all fools, Of course, in supposine
that trust maguates in contributing
will insist on receiving the benefit of
the candidates knowledge. The test-
mony before the Senate Committee
shows that above amount was actually
contributed in September and had al
ready been expended when, in October
to keep the record straight YOU wrote
Corteyou not To accept any corpora
ton contributions. But why go back
as far as 1904. when the present cam.
paign furnishes so instructive an pb.
iect lesson? George w. Perkins Frank
Munsey, Medill Mccormick, Dan Han
ma, William Finn and others
charged with having furnished your
sinews Of war since you threw your
hat into the ring and YOU have never
denied it. And are not these men
the representatives Of the Steel and |
harvester trsuts which were
protected by YOU and prosecuted by
President Taft? And as the candidate
Of these men you dare to appeal TO
the plain people for their support, and
do It without blushing? Oh, reform.
what crimes are being committed in
thy namel
y, ! charge you with having accept |
ed. by Your diatribes against the nat
onal committee to incite the people to |
riot and bloodshed Have YOU forgot |
ten what you said about such crime
and a crime 1t is--ln your first mes
sage TO Congress after the assasslna- |
ton of President Mckinley? Have |
you forgotten that you sent your then |
secretary of state to New York to |
charge Mr.. Hearst with rosponsibi1itv
ior that great national calamity? But
Mr.. Hearsts editorials were mild as
compared with your furious outbursts
in which you characterized hpnoroblo
men as thieves and brieands The
popular mind was unusually excited -,
the time and every true patriot felt IT
his duty to counsel calm deliberatlon