The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-10-17
WHY | CANNOT VOTE
FOR Mr.. ROOSEVELT
Number Four in This Series of Letters
Goes More and More Into Facts

The type manipulation played havoc
with some OF my sentences last week
and hence | repeat. The evidence
before the Senate Investigating Com
nittee a few days ago established
the fact that the Standard Oil con-
Germ contributed one hundred thou
sand dollars towards the election of
Roosevelt in 1904, and that Mr.. Frick
contributed the same amount. as did
also Geo. Gould, while j. Picrpont
Morgan contributed one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars for the same
purpose. Now it sounds extremely
patriotic Tor those people to say that
they expected nothing in return, that
it was solely to prevent the demo-
cratic party from running the
country, but it is taxing the cred
ulity of thinking reasoning people en-
tirely too much to expect them to be-
lieve such statements, even though
they are corroborated by Theodore
Roosevelt.
few months ago an ex-banker of
Philadelphia, whose name | do not
now recall, testified before the Sem
ate Committee that it had been ar
ranged for the moneyed interests of
Wall Street to elect Judge Parker
president and put Roosevelt out. But
a little later he met one OF those
men who told him that the program
had been changed and that they had
decided to re-elect Roosevelt, and
when asked for the reason, he replied
that they had Roosevelt frightened
and that he had agreed to do what
they wished, but he was to have the
PRIVILEGE or DENOUNCING THE
MONEYED INTERESTS TO HIS
HEARTS CONTENT, in order to de-
Jude the voters, and subs equent
events indicate that the testimony was
true. That same moneyed interest
seems to be behind him today. Per-
kiJls and w. have been openly ,lp
porting him from the beginning.
while it is announced that J. Pier
pont Morgan is for him. The proba-
bility is that John ID. is little too
oily to make his announcement pub
licly.
1t is the PRIVILEGE, it is the
RIGHT it is thu DUTY of voters, to
consider the records of man who has
been president and is aspiring to the
office again. Theodore Roosevelt
placed upon our nation the biggest
stain that has ever been attached to
it, One that can never be effaccd. One
that will bring the blush of shame
to future generations of the republic
/ There was time when many of the
citizens of the United States believed
in States rights to the extent OF
claiming the right OF state to Sc
cedc from the Union. The Civil
War, that came so near devastating
our country was supposed to have
settled that question for all time
But it fell to the lot of Roosevelt to
decide that while the principle had
been settled so far as our country is
concerned, it does not hold in connec.
ton with other countries weaker
than the u. s., in case it conflicts
with the desires of the latter coun-
try. He desired to build the Pana-
ma Canal The u. S. of Columbia
seemed to desire to take advantage
of the situation and makes us pay an
cxorbitant price for the right of way
! That was not nice of them. How.
ever, that is exactly what thousands
of business men in the H. S. do. But
Mr.. Roosevelt concoctcd a scheme in
connection with the state of Panama
for it to seccdc from Columbia and
that the u. S. warships would b.
sent there to prevent Columbia from
forcing Panama back into the Union
In the meantime the u. S. was tC
recognize the republic of Panama
and purchase the right of way from
that state, and that scheme was car
ried out to the everlasting discredit
of our country 1t is no small won
der that the children in the schools
of Colombia are taught to look up
on our country as devoid of honor
when our desires are in any way in
terfered with. If the u. S. of Co
lombia had been a first class power
like England or Germany, Roosevelt
would never have dared to do sucl
a thing. 1t is but an instance o
MIGHT determining the RIGHT.