Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-06-27
THE COLONEL PIRATES OF HONOR

Colonel Roosevelt has written a long letter to the
Progressive national committee declining to accept the
nomination at the hands Of the Progressive party He at
the same time announces that he will support Hughes and
advises them to do the same.
He says it is a time to place patriotism above party
and to vote the republican ticket straight He has great
deal to say about honor" Just what he means by
"hOnOr" is mystery. He bolts the republican party
that had for nearly eight years given him the highest
position man can attain and had in addition allowed him
to his successor and then elected that successor
William Howard Taft. Then this mOuthy gentleman who
pirates so loudly of honor became dsgnted at the man
he had selected for the place and asserted he unfit
fOrit He asked the party to allow him to name another
candidate for the place in 1912 but the leaders of the
party decided that he had been the whole thing long
enough and refused to to his naming himself for
the third term.
Then this man of honor started party of his own
gathering around him Of the brightest and branest
men in the country and from both parties. He made a
wonderful race too and while beaten he also beat the
party to which he owed all the honors that had been
heaped upon him.
That Should have been enough to establish him as
Of Honor but it was only beginning in the way Of
infamy for this modern Sir Galahad.
After having held the presidency nearly eight years,
after having had the man he selected for the place hold it
for four years and then when he had forced his party
out of power he again puts up lob by which he hoped
to scare the old guard into submission to his dctaon If
ever there was dirty political hOd-ip attempted any
where it that Of this honorable Roosevelt at Chicago
June to OF this year He the head OF the party he
had brought into existence and he held it inactive day
after day until all hope of forcing the republicans to
nominate him had vanished Up to that time he en-
cOuraged it to stand firm in his support and used
pawn in his game of politics. His henchman another
man of honor one Perkins, held the convention back
from action at his bosses dcation because if acted
ROosevets bridges would have been burned behind him.
1t was not the party either of them looking after but
Roosevelt and he alone
AS last bluff the Colonel offered to compromise on
Senator Lodge whom he knew was an impOssbiity still
hoping to finally bluff the old guard into naming him.
When all was he still allowed the loyal friends who
had supported him to go ahead and nominate him and
prevented them naming some one else leaving the way
open for his betrayal of them
Then he skunk to and began to perfect plans by
which he could get back into the gaces of the old party
for he still has the idea that four years from he can
get the nomination To square himself he deliberately
threw down the men who had followed him loyalty and
has the effrontey tell them he is going back the old
party and to ask them to forget party and all else, ana
follow HIM
1t remains to be seen if these gentlemen will follow
the besmirched plumes of their time Henry of Naval
re- in his skulkng surrender they did when he led them
against what they thought the common enemy Many
of them will naturally 60 back to the republican party
whence Roosevelt seduced them but they will go back in
spite of Roosevelt not because of him.