Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-04-11
PEN PICTURE
OF ROOSEVELT
Old Time Press Correspond
ent Sizes up Presidential
Candidate
is MAD CLEAN THROUGH
Has Been Misled by Parasites
and His Thirst for
Applause
is MAD CLEAN THROUGH

WASHINGTON, D. c.. April g
Especially For a man who has been
absolutely opposed to nearly every
thing that Theodore Roosevelt has
ever done or said in the past fifteen
years. for the simple reason that
him up for what he really is, it is
rather remarkable that at this late
day, l am in absolute accord with the
former president of the United States.
Since his announcement G his can
didacy for the presidency and his
statement that all of the common
people were for him, as if he expect
ed everybody to get up and knowtow
to him and say my dear Mr.. Roose-
welt, here is the nomination on
silver platter, and since absolutely
the contrary has confronted this war
rior in buckram. he has been bowling
mad and hurting his anathemas at
everything in sight. He is mad clean
through and is calling everybody all
the names tIldt lHe new Spdpeio viii
print and the Lord knows how many
names he called them that they won
print. AS | said before. | absolute
ly agree with him in his estimate OF
the Republican politicians and their
methods. He says he has been
sxindled and robbed in all the pri-
maries that have been neld. He says
the Republican politicians are rob-
bers and thugs and thieves and high
binders and every known adjective
that can be applied to undesirable
citizens he has given to the militant
Republican politicians and, therefore,
| absolutely agree with Mr.. Roose-
welt and he is absolutely correct in
every particular appertaining to those
aforesaid politicians. | do not mean
that every man who is a Republican,
necessarily comes in contact with the
definition of MIR Roosevelt. but |
mean that he is correct when he says
that the aforesaid Republican pOliti-
clans are absolutely guilty of all the
crimes he imputeS to them They
have been treating the Democratic
party in that same way ever since
I can remember anything about poll
tics, and although they elevated him
TO very high position. to which he
was never entitled, Yet at this late
day he has discovered his error in
believing them whitestoled saints and
dotted on them because they We're Civ
ing him what he wanted. Now that
he finds out he is not getting what he
wants, he mad clean through and
willing to use his strenuous prOpen-
stiles for tearing down things and
playing the iconolast in ripping the
whole Republican party up the back,
simply because he followed the ad-
vice of a few soreheads and disap-
party, and he finds himself in con-
dition that never confronted any 9TH
er public man in the United States
in all of it's history He has thrown
a scare into his Republican friends
in this city who are members of the
Senate and the House of Representa-
tives and other high official positions
as big as an Iowa barn. They all
feel and know that he not only is do
ing incalculable harm 10 the Repub
iican party but that he also is elimin
ating them from public life. and get
ting them out of their jobs. They
see the handwriting on the wall and
there is great big committee FORM
ing in Washington to go to see RoOse-
vlet when he returns from his West
ern trip and tell him in plain Ian
guage that he not only is playing the
devil and Thomas Walker. Esquire,
with the prospects of the Republican
party, but that he is killing himself
and all of his good friends. and that
he would better put on the soft pedal
and subside.
Seriously speaking, the whole truth
is that the ablest politicians and
statesmen in the United States. who
congregate in this National Capital,
have come to the conclusion that
Roosevelt has been misled by CO