The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-01
REASONS WHY THEODORE
ROOSEVELT SHOULD NOT BE
PRESIDENT AGAIN.

PRESlDENT AGAIN. .
~ l. He has broken his solemn
Y pledge not to be candidate
= again, and therefore no reliance
y can be placed upon any prom
= ises or pledges he may make to
= govern his future condition.
y 2. He has himself announced
= as late as 1911 that MY (his)
= nomination would be a national
= govern his future conduct.
y 3. While he was President
= the number of unlawful busi-
r ness combinations increased
y from 149, with approximately
= three billions of dollars (S3,-
= OO0,000,000) capital, to 1920
= trusts, with thirty-one billions
y S31, 900, 0,000) dollars. This
= is his method of destroying the
\ trusts.
y 4. No trust was convicted of
y crime while he was President,
= despite his continued denuncia-
= tion of wicked trusts.
y 3. There was not a single
y criminal prosecution by the
y government of any individual
Y offender against the Sherman
y law while he was President,
= despite his continued denuncia-
= ton of "malefactors of great
\ wealth"
r 6. He refused to prosecute
= the Sugar Trust, although Geo.
= II. Earle rendered him ample
\ evidence to obtain a convic-
\ ton.
y Z. He forbade the prosecu-
4 tion of the Harvester Trust,
\ his personal friend and political
\ hacker being the organizer and
\ principal director.
= 8. His two administration
\ were unparalleled for extrava-
y gance costing the country ap-
y proximately nearly Eight Bill
\ lion dollars ($7, O,OOO)
\ more than DOUBLE the appro-
: priation for the four years of
4 Civil War.
= 8. His elective term from
+ 1906 to 1909, cost the people
y of the United States S3,522,-
y 9S2, 1867, TWICE as much as
= the combined administrations Of
7 Washington, Adams, jefferson,
= Madison, Monroe, John Quincy
\ Adams, Van Buren, Harrison,
= Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore
= Pierce and Buchanan.
= 10. When he became President
\ he inherited a large surplus
y from the Mckinley administra-
y tion, and despite the largely in
= creased revenue of the govern
: ment, he bequeathed to his
= successor, w. H. Taft, a big
= deficit 1000 dollars.
= This deficit has been wiped out
= by the Taft administration and
= there is now a surplus of ap-
= proximately $40,000,000 dol
= lars.
= IL. His attitude towards the
= bosses of the Republican party
= was exposed in the following
= telegram to the widow of Sen
= ator Quay at the time of Boss
= Quay's death, my LOYAL
= FRIEND IS DEAD" He de-
= nounces bosses but accepted the
= appointment of assistant secre-
= tary of the Navy, this appoint
= ment being made at the per-
= sonal request of Boss Platt. He
= accepted the nomination of
= Governor of New York state,
= being the nominee of Boss
= Platt. His nomination for Vice
' President was the joint work of
y Boss Platt and Boss Quay. He
= has been the associate and
= intimate of every boss he now
= denounces, and is now the in
= innate friend of Boss Finn of
= Pennsylvania, Boss Brown of
= Ohio and Boss Lyon of Texas.
= 12. He personally bossed the
= Republican National Conven-
= ton that nominated w. II.
= Taft; also personally bossed
= the 1910 N. Y. State Republi-
= can convention, selecting all the
= nominees, wrote the platform,
= stumped the State and claimed
= he had the Democrats clicked
' to a frazzle," but the returns
= on election night showed he
= had elected the whole Demo-
= cratic ticket including the legis-
= lature which elected a Democrat.
= as U. S. Senator.
= l3. His failure to secure the
= Republican nomination, start
+ ed him on a campaign of hate
= and revenge in which every
= public man who refuses to sup
= port him is called a thief, a
' liar, a burglar, a jackal or a
= knave, and shows that to graft
y fy his personal ambition he is
y willing to wreck the party
y which has given him every pub
= lie position he has ever held.
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