Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-02
HAT PITTSBURGH SPEECH

THAT PITTSBURGH SPEECH
 We make bold to commend for a second reading, if the first did not suffice of the speech delivered in Pittsburgh by Thpodore Roosevelt and published in yesterdays Review. of especial in Arizona where laudabe effort accomplish fusion is being made and where men and women are seeking light situation which the national leader of the Progressive party seems best fitted to illuminate.
 Viewed without prejudice, Mr Roosovets categor teal comments the conditions obtaining present in this country and those men whom he holds respon sibe for these conditions comprise of the most ts tonishiug his many remarkable public utterances Mir Roosevelt has a good word for no one He comments nothing. The Administrators laws he brands "col- losal failures" He calls the antitrust program an economic absmdy." The foreign policy is etaoinoin
 Except for his assurance that Progressive principles will prouoe cureal for every evil that exists in the Nation MT. Roosevelts speech contains nothing caleu- lated to be helpful suggestive constructive or optimistic. Has he become scold? Is he the man whom many men and women irrespective of party affiliations regarded Presidential possibility for 1916? Due reservation formerly made for his enthusiasms and his tremendous bouyancy. He now himself in the grip of tremendous bitterness di- rected against all men and all measures which do not with his approval makes the astonishing dis covery that this country tottering the brink Is it reasonable to assume that the country has to such pass within the two years that Democracy has been the saddle? How he account for the near y eight years of his own stewardship; for the four years of Taft whom he elevated the Presidency for the long preceding reign Republicanism? Were ali these years of domination by the party which he es poused vasted? Was nothing accomplished in this time cI nd bpffp i'm tbf United States?
 Bossism is abhored although tolerated in this couu try Mir. Roosevelt could have gone further than he did in conforming it and stir have deserved ap pause But inevitably one is to look back the pages of Mr. Rooseves career In Ris importan, public cifce as Governor of New York State, nom mated rim? Boss" Platt Who nominated him for the yoe-Presidenoy? Boss" Quay and Boss" Pat. The split in the Republican party occasioned because Mr. Roosevelt was not permitted to "boss" the Chi cago convention in 1912 The steam roller which paved the way for Mr. Tafts nomination in 1907 "bossed by Mir. Roosevelt
 Mr. Roosevelt declares that the Democratic tarin hal brought distress upon the Nation Would he return q, the payue-Aldrch tarn? The creation of a Tarn Boar, was suggestion which he passed to his successor President Tan The Board spent four years fin assem- bling which would be helpful in securing other thai a political revision of the tarn schedules If the wor of this Board was not helpful whose the blame? Doe he charge that President Wilson insncere in stri' ing for a practical instead of political revision of tn tariff? Are the abtest financial leaders in the Unite States irrespective party who contributed their bea advice to the enactment of currency legislation, a wrong in their judgment and Theodore Roosevelt righ in his alone?
 Keen disappointment in all quarters will greet th Pttsburg speech which awaited with universal fl terast It cannot otherwise. It will shatter the ait of Progressives in degree in their leader It wi aenate tbe sympathea of men and women of other pa ties. who held Mr. Roosevelt in high esteem. It is nc generous for any man to besmrch a President of th United States during the incumbency in office, Tn offensa is an the greater when eTPresident is tn offender