Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-06-29

iSddeS ne mas SHOWN d Willingness
to continue existing expenditure for
wars, past and TO come. which require
II per cent of the revenue of the gov
50. He employed rank favoritism IN
certain army appointments, the most
fragrant example of which was the case
of DR.. Leonard Wood, now chief of
staff, personal friend, advanced in
rank at the expense of regular army
officers of long experience.
63. When he became president he in
herited a large treasury surplus from
the Mckinley administration, and, de-
spite the largely increased revenues
Of the government, he bequeathed to
his successor deficit.
81. He has denounced socialism
and anarchy, while advocating So
cialistic doctrines and measures. His
new nationalism is but q name for
repudiated old populism.
IS. The socialist vote increased
400 per cent during his administra-
ton.
&c. His efforts to centraliZe power In
the federal government and to Gre
ate a multiplicity of commissions and
bureaus have tended toward Russian
izing the government.
81. He has persistently appealed |
to the passions of the mob and to |
class prejudice, infiaming the poor
against the rich and the rich against |
the poor.
IS. 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, mo man is fit
to govern another man without the
latter's consent" In a speech at
Cairo university March Is, 1910,
while the Egyptian people were
holding a general assembly and
pleading for a constitution, Roose-
welt declared they were not fit for
self government and urged them to
submit INTERESTINGLY to British rule.
Later he censured the British for not
exercising a more aggressive policy
in Egypt, saying, Weakness and
sentimentality are more harmful to
an uncivilized people than violence
and injustice"
So. Before his ambition and lust
| for power had become an obsession,
he wrote the following, which was
published in the Review of Reviews
Sept. 1, 1896: Furthermore, the
Chicago convention attacked the su-
preme court. Again this represents
a species of atavism-that is, of re-
currence to the ways of thought OF
remote barbarian ancestors. Savages
do not like an independent and up
right judiciary. They want the
judge to decide their way, and, If
he does not, they want to behead
him." He has since been fiagrantly
guilty of the atavism he condemned
20. He has INDUCED in derogatory
criticism of many of his predecessors
in the presidency, calling Jefferson
the most incapable executive who
ever filled the presidents chair" &C
cusing Madison of bringing shame
and disgrace to America" charac-
terizing Monroe, the author of the
Monroe doctrine, as a triumph of
1mbecility to the last" denouncing
Jackson as Ignorant" attributing
Van Buren's success to his moral
shortcomings" referring contempt
tuously to Harrison, Taylor, Fill
more, Buchanan and Polk as small
presidents" and Pierce as a small
. politician of low capacity and mean
surroundings"
II. He characterized congressman
as cattle" in speech before the
Syracuse chamber of commerce in
1899.
70. His attitude toward the real
bosses of the republican party was
exposed in the following telegram to
the widow of Senator Quay at the
time of Boss Quay's death: My loyal
friend is dead"
70. He has characterized the
Quakers as "a class of professional
non-combatants, who are as hurtful
to the real growth of the nation as
fireeaters."
"a. He has made his personal viii
paramount to law whenever it has
suited his purpose to do so, and i.
now biting the hand that fed him.
rs. He has been a chronic office
seeker, Office holder and taxeater fol-
nearly his entire adult life.
rs. He has attempted to create Law
by executive action, to make treaties
without the consent OF the senate
and to control interstate commerce
by applying the post-road clause o.
the constitution, making the ridicu
lous contention that routes traverseC
by letter carriers in delivering mai
were post roads within the mean o.
the constitution.
II. The wire trust officials, in
& Guiding a son-in-law of J. P. Morgan
that he failed to indict, were in
dicted after he left Office and plead
ed guilty.
IS. Declaring for the regulation o
railroads, he Communicated specia
trains for his own use at the expens,
of the railroads.
10. He used a United States YES
sci as a private yacht to send hi
children to boat races.
so. In 1903 he assembled and re
viewed the Atlantic squadron OF
Oyster Bay. where he lives, at a cos
of s250,0oO.