The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-04-27


Welt Had colIeagued With Bosses.
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Syracuse, n. Y, April 24.--Like the
mighty horse of Job, the prophet,
Colonel Roosevelt leaped and ragged
as Mr.. Ivins tried to make him admit
That he had been the friend of bosses
when he could get anything out of
them and their bitter enemy when
their usefulness was over. When Mr..
WINS, always jibing and pecking and
elapping at this volcano of a man,
went into intimate details Of the
Roosevelt 100000 campaign fund OF
1904, the colonel told the jury t1at
the millions that were dropped into
the hat Cortelyou passed were pure
millions apd most untainted cash.
Warming to the subject, the colonel
added that George w. Perkins con-
tributed $4,000 to the 1904 fund in
exactly the same spirit tnat he would
have contributed to the Y. M. c. A.
From Mr., Perkins $4,000 meant no
more, said the colonel, than $25 would
from the station agent at Oyster Bay,
and he would regard each man In the
same light And then thought oc-
Cured to him-his recollection OF
Thomas F. Ryan's $500, ,000s contribu
ton to the Parker campaign fund OF
the same year. And the colonel fairly
assaulted Mr.. Ivins with words as he
shouted tnat Mr.. Ryan's contribution
was probably as disinterested as Mr..
Perkins, and donated In the same
spirit as church gift.
II is probable that the colonel was
harder driven than ever before in his
life, because in Mr.. Ivins he had an
Quainted with his entire career and
who had an additional advantage OF
Nr Barnes knowledge Of Roosevelt
T. r. and the Bosses.
Mr.. lvins labored hard and pains
4akingly to show that Colonel Roose-
welt as governor and president had
cOlleagued with bosses and had taken
the same high-nanded attitude as he
Gccused Barnes OF. He intimated in
bis questions that the colonel was
particularly hard-handed boss himself
IN 1908 by debating the nomination OF
Taft and making local bosses toe the
mark. In every way possible Mr..
Twins continued his effort to wreck
Colonel Roosevelt's credibilty and to
bold MIN up as an insincere and un.
trustworthy person.
Mr.. WINS certainly scored at some
Doipts. Possibly his most notable
success was In making Mr.. Roosevelt
admit that he had given a pledge in
1904 not to run again for the presi.
dency and that he had not kept the
pledge. He also led Mr.. Roosevelt to
declare that the only evil thing about
campaign funds was their amount
chat they were bad wnen they were
ed to know II that $4,000 600 campaign
fund OF 1904 was in the class OF bad
4unds, and of course the colonel said
n was not.
Roosevelt did not commit the tao
tical error OF denying the undeniable.
That is to say, ne never failed to an.
aver yes when Mr.. WINS asked him II
he believed that George w. Perkins,
George Won l.. Meyer. Clifford Pinchot,
George J. Gould, Oscar S. Straus,
Charles s. Mellen, John II. Hammond,
ANDREW Carnegie and many more In
Ahat long list dug up by the Plat com
mittee, had been contributors to tne
1e04 fund. But whenever Mr. WINS
sought TO insinuate that one of these
amen had expected or had received
special favor from President Roose.
welt in return for their contributions,
he was instantly prepared with com.
plete denial,
herrick and Foraker Mentioned.
A very interesting line OF testimony
was developed when Mr.. WINS began
20 question the colonel as to the mem
fership OF the Republican nationa
eommttee of 1904. Roosevelt consid
'ored that Franklin Murphy of New
Jersey was boss. Mr.. Ivins wal
prompt TO ask II Myron r. Herricl
WAS q boss. 'in the Ohio sense of tn,
word" and the colonel was very qulcl
with mis- mo. sir" Penrose OF Phila
delphia was boss Cecil Lyon o
Texas wasn't, Nathan Scott OF Wes
virginia he wasn't sure about.
Then Mr.. WINS went into the per
oenality Of other distinguished figure
oa the presidential campaign OF tina
gear, among them Uncle Joe Cannon
Of Illinois. Colonel Roosevelt's repl
vas that Uncle Joe had certainl
been the boss OF the house OF repr,
Uentatives until he was overthrow
and when Mr.. WINS remarked iror
1cally that II had taken long tim
20 overthrow him and that he ha
1inally come back, the colonel score
when he said mot as a boss"
Joseph B. Foraker OF Ohio was hal
died rather nicely by the colonel, COZ
sidering what had passed betwee
them. At the time of the nations
convention in 1904 he was not bos
according TO the colonel.
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