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NO NEED FOR 7. R.
Secretary StimsOn Says Roose-
velt Is Drag on Progress.
Has Done More Harm Than
Any Other Man.

San Francisco, Sept 5.-'I was
Theodore RoOsevelts candidate for
governor of New York two years ago
and Roosevelt and 1 have been very
close political and personal friends
put L am opposed to RooseveIt's con-
duct at present. There is no iustifi-
cation or reason or need for Theodore
Roosevelt in this day and generation"
said Secretary of War Henry I. slim
son in a general discussion Of political
conditions.
Theodore Roosevelt has some more
harm to the Advancement of pure re-
1itical 1itI., and netter governmental condi-
tlons than any other one man. or com
blnation of men, that has .ntermed-
died in political and government af-
fairs in a great many years.
L am Republican because the Re
pubIlcan party is the party Of progress
and 1 am progressive. 1 am support
ing President Taft because ne is the
real progressive of the Republican
party. Under the leadership of such
progreSSiveS as President Taft and the
men who have remained loyal to him
after a generation of fighting for bet
ter and higher things in ths party and
in the government, the people at large
are promised the very best results oh
tafnable from our form Of govern
ment"
Secretary Stimson declared that 20
years ago when Roosevelt vent into
politics for the first tina, conditions
had been before.
He took every advantage Of these
conditions and played the game of mol
itics according to the rules laid down
by Tom Platt," continued the seore-
tary. "Then ne continued to play the
game under the revised rules of Ben
Ode1 In those days and since until
only a few months ago Roosevelt was
the beneficiary of the rotten system as
carried on by the old guard and Black
Horse cavalry"
Wo- After Hard Struggle.
Stimson declared that after many
hard struggles Otto Barnard, Repub-
lican candidate for mayor of New
York; Herbert Parsons, LLOYD Griscom
and a few others succeeded IN getting
Roosevelt to cast his strength on their
side.
And we mad fine success" said
Stimson, but in the NOM ent of trf-
umph Roosevelt reversed himself and
decided he would break the American
ira adition against a third tenn in The
office of president of the United States
And who do you suppose are sup
porting Roosevelt in New Yolk?'' con-
legacies, the old guard and .he Black
Horse cavalry. Isn't that a pretty COM
mentary on pretended reforsn?''
After predicting that the wave of
unreasonable and unreaSoning discon-
tent" is subsiding in the wesr, the same
as it did in the east, Secreaar Stimson
continued:
Let no one miSund erStand me- I
am a progressive and know he needs
of fighting for progressive principles
and politics until reforms are attained
There are many bad things, some of
them worse than others, in +ne cor IL
tions of today, and they must be eradi-
Gated. The reforms demanded by the
people must be recognized AMI effected
with speed and certainty.
but the action of Roosevelt has re-
tarded the reform. The evolution in
the Republican party was going on
naturally and rapidly with every
guarantee of desired results. 1t was
a healthy evolution and Roosevelt Sc
lected the very worst possible time to
start his revolution"
Secretary Stimson predicted that the
administration of President Taft would
go down in history as one OF the most
successful in The annals of the nation
and that President Taft would go down
in history as the most astuto and able
man ever raised to a hign place by
this or any other nation.
what are Roosevelt's notives2"
Secretary Stimson was asked.
II don't care to discuss MS motives
His acts are sufficient to warn all men
and women against following him in
this camDaiZn.'