St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1916-07-15
ROOSEVELT

MED that he is the luckieSt mortar
on earth and that his luck is de-
pendent on a shreWd insight into
human nature; it is a faculty he
possesses in common with the late
p. T. Barnum, Sangrado, Laws OF
the Mississippi Bubble, and the
army of successful gamblers in
Wall Street and behind the rou-
lette tables and the long green.
In Cuba, any other man would
have been courtmartialed for in
subordination; he was elected presl-
dent. In 1912 he played the role Of
Judas Iscariot in the tragedy of the
g. q. p. while now he it the "Fidus
Achates" of Hughes and would be
his secretary Of state if there was
any remote possibility Of the gen
tleman, who dragged the Judicial
errnine of the highest court in
Christendom in the dust, being
elected.
In the late convention OF the de-
funct Bull Moose party Roosevelt
was the unanimous choice and se-
iected standard bearer with John
M. Parker as first lieutenant, the
latter ais loyel a friend and gallant
citizen as ever stood in the van
guard of a forlorn hope; with a
selfish ruthlessness that surpasses
belief he left his friend Parker and
the thousands Of loyal ~progressives
high and dry and has trimmed his
sails to the republican breezes and
has now rallied to the support of a
man, although his former chief de-
tractor, worse, a hyphen, who is
playing to the German galleries;
il there is one thing more than n
other that Roosevelt prides him
self on it is his clean cut Ameri-
caDism and his detestation of hy-
phenates, but the dog has returned
to his pomit and salyes his elastic
conscience by a private under
standing that Hughes hyphenism
Us for political effect and that at
heart he is sound III his Ameri-
eanism.
No one doubts that if Hughes
were president he would not dare.
play into the hands Of the Kaiser,
Z if he did SO, and no man would
arise with a nerve to put a quietus
on him, the glorious womanhood OF
America would furnish a Charlotte
Gorday.
The danger lies in the effect the
election Of Hughes would produce
iii Europe and in the future in this
country, where it is showns that
foreign influences can determine
the course of a presidential cleo
tion. If ever there was a time in
American history where it is OBJ
ligatory to set the seal of disap-
proyal and condemnation on med
ding foreign interference in our
politics it is now. Every patriotic
American regardless of party af-
fliation should suppore Wilson, on
account of the foreign enemies he
has made.
Even the pachydermatous hide OF
Roosevelt must have been pierced
BY the ccld-blooded selfish treach-
cry TO the men who had been 50
loyal Id him, adverse criticism APP
peared throughout the length and
and breadth of the land to which
he was extremely sensitive. AS an
offset to these, this monumental
four-flusher. in order to create a
press diversion. in his favor, and
keep his name before thee public,
offers a division fully equipped and
armed to the smallest detail, but
makes The terms of this pound of
flesh, Roosevelt to be major gene
.eral, a mar without military eX-
perience, temperamentally disquali-
Ned TO subject himself to military
discipline, nay worse, judging his
record by the past in Cuba
he would subvert the discipline of
the army in Mexico in a desperate
effort to Pe-establish himself as a
national hero and some convenient
Wall Street Plat would not be
wanting to give his the requisite
newspaper boost and the columns
DC the yellow journals would be
blazoned with a "hero of Chapulte-
pee" as a~pocryphal as the hero OF
San Juan as it is a notorious fact
hat the hero of San Juan was not
,n San Juan during the fight and
viewed Kent's division as it march
ID up and captured the fort from
Kettle Hill, a half mile distant.
1T is to be hoped the commander
In-chief will refuse the offer OF the
army division as long as it is cou-
,led with the calamity of Roosevelt
il major general.