Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-24
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10 the Ed!tor OF The Times d Dispatch:
y appeared 'e n'''; n;ii,arslp or May
caption. Roosevelt Recklcssness read
.nnt editorial with great deal OF in
! the exceeding !en!ency with which you
handle! tins masked obstructionis,.
whose unbrol<en record for the last
twenty years. when out OF Office. has
mcnting dlscord and obstructinE or
oihcrWiSe hampcr!ng or hnderins pub
duty
Throw large monkey wrench into
presses when it is going at full speed
dorc Roosevelt would do to the admin
!sirat!Ne machinery here in Washing
do SO.
Why, only few months ago the Col
such flourish and flare and blast OF
Gu!eicd. even startled, every admins
trat!on official from the White House
down had ti;e central figure been a
hootb!ack instead Of the Colonel. But
ihe puDiic In general and the admin
lstrauoh in particular have come TO
know precisely with what seriousness
mis- noisy, v!tuperativc man Is 10 be
regarded or noted. and as he deserved.
he met such 4 chilly reception as would
make a Nova Zembla appear torrid BY
comparison.
The public is not over scrupulous
these trying times in remembering and
,"nn NE N past record OF its pqblic
somnolent and unmindful.
me public recalls that this same
Colonel Roosevelt went up and down
the country dcnouncing in iuridest bill
!nSsgatc the trusts and all who sus-
tanned trusts. yet in that same hour he
completed and rounded out n plan by
H Wn!ch me biggest trust Gf the present
day became amalgamated as one with
the Tennessee Coal and Coke Company.
We recall with what fierce denuncia
OF capital in political campaigns. while
At the same time he held wide open
the back door of the White House for
with no qualms of conscience what
ever. accepted an enormous campaign
contribution levied upon the big in
terests and which was employed in the
The public remembers this same Col
onel posed for years as the chief
doctrine, War Shall BE No More" We
see him at The Hague convention with
Nobel prize and we hear him in II
II have directed that the army shall
not be RECRUITED up to I its present IT az
listed men to 72.194. And now this
same Colonel denounces the President
because our army is not larger. when
the truth is, President Wilson had.
prior to these denunciations, recon-
mcnded and had passed a bill authorize
ing an increase of the standing army
20 2S9,S40.
In a, letter appearing in your paper
yesterday Sergeant j. T. Collins adj
vises you to be fair with Mr.. Roosevelt.
You have been fair-fair to the limit
hardly warranted by the facts.
In dealing with this highly acrobatic.
literally ax-carryinG. grindstone- hunt
ing, ofiicc-craving man of nerve" you
certainly followed the advice some doc
tors give their patients. namely: IF
you lie, lie on the right side
In closing. Dryden's fine satire oc-
ours to me. and want to include 1t
always makes me think of our Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt
"a man so various that he seemed to be
Not one, but all manllinds epitome;
Stiff in opinions. always in the wrong,
Does everything by starts and nothing
long:
Who, In the course of one revolving
moon.
was chymist, statesman. fiddler and
'buffoon.'"
FLEETWOOD L. DIXON.
Washington, d. c., May %. 1918.