The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-03-25

| 'iOii N"h iAhilIetLlOuS, all were dppTe
ciatiye of the influence for good OF
i'll of their personal examples, all
stroye assiduously and successfully tc
exemplify the qualities which inhere
in men of honor and breeding.
Roosevelt was the first President
whose chief personal characteristic
was mendacity, the first to glory in
duplicity, the first braggart, the first
bully, the first betrayer of a friend
who ever occupied the White House
1t is with distate amounting almost to
nausea that we are forced. in perform.
ance of public duty, to recall his
breaking Of his solemn pledge to the
American people to observe the most
vital of their great traditions; his dis
ingenious evasions; his brazen dis
regard of his own written promise;
his blatant professions of exceptional
probity at the very moment when he
was bartering his official influence for
large sums of money to be used in
the corruption of voters: his bois-
ferrous and profane denials of accusa-
lions which he knew to be founded in
fact; his precipitation of a panic by
unconscionable mounting; his cynical
rejoicing at pecuniary losses which he
had brought upon a few without heed
of the havoc which he had wrought
for the many; his hasty and alright
ed yielding to pressure exerted by in
terested persons when he became
convinced that common calamity was
impending; his fragrant violation of
his oat of office when he agreed to
suspend the enforcement of specific
laws; his deliberate stoppage of pros
ecution of a trust which the official
inquiry ordered by himself had shown
to be guilty, at the behest of one who
had added the savings of the poor to
his corruption fund and who continues
to be his chief supporter; his arbi-
trary discharge, for personal reasons
Of honorable prosecutors who persist |
ed in proceedingsc against a con-
fessed rebater; his vituperative as
saults upon trade combinations whose
numbers he was permitting simultan-
eously and covertly to multiply; his
shameful abetting of a revolution in
of a solemn treaty, to the
dishonor of his country,
o crafty his craving of personal
5lory; his violent denunciation of
'ublicist as an accomplice in the as
assination of his predecessor, only
ater to welcome him, for political
easons, to a chair beneath the pre-
eminent of that martyred President;
is savage condemnation as crooks
nd scoundrels of just judges who re-
used to hound journalists to Jail
trough misinterpretation of the law;
is constant villifying of bosses in
ublic while secretly strengthening
ne hands of all who subserved his
fishes; his brutal refusal Of Justice
faithful and dying public servant ,
HON he had wantonly wronged; his
ritual stigmatizing of great Arch
lshop as a falsfier of spoken words:
is ferocious treatment of a helpless
oman pleading for consideration: his
airing of trumpets; his gun-carrying; =,
IS exploiting of the language of the :
'ize-ring in the White House; his /,
ckening repetitions of the personal
'onoun in public speeches and official -
his cuttle-fish poll ;,
IS; his shameful demagogy; his per- !,
'tual lying; all these are spots upon .
e light from the lamp of experience ;,
which we would but cannot blind ;,
r eyes.
OF Roosevelt's conduct since he for b
ok the White House we need not ii
eak. His bloody deeds in Africa, a
5 lecturing of foreign potentates, his h
tempt to make political capital i,
rough insolent disregard of COM D
On amenities in Rome, his deuncia- II
IN OF the President as a thief and a ii
'kpocket to distract attention from n
5 own attempts at wholesale rob- n
ry, his brazen volte-face on reci- N
ocity to catch the votes of class, ST
silly batting of equal suffragists, fc
yawping about bosses while eating
I'M the hand of the worst political
gand of his day, his profiting from W
plumber which his own official in
operation enabled his most init IL
to political associate to wiring from q
American farmers, his outrageous la
false accounts of the nomination of q,
Democratic opponent, his insidious NJ
eedling of the specially favored few, al
own bordering to the mob in the 70
ne of righteousness for the sake of tr