The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-06-20
Editor Los Angeles Examiner

n OUNT CLEMENS, Mich, May 13.-Mr. Roosevelt,
lvl though notably less able and less respectable, is en-
phatically the Asquith Of American politics. He is
out of power and he is greedily eager to get back into
power, and he does not scruple at any methods, no matter
how unfair to the Administration or how harmful to the
country, in order to accomplish his purely selfish political
purposes.
The attack which Mr.. Roosevelt now makes upon the
Administration is Just as baseless as the attack which As
quith made upon Lloyd George, and it will prove to be Just
as futile in its effect upon the Administration and just as
fatal in its effect upon Mr.. Roosevelt.
The immediate causes of Mr.. Roosevelts present out
burst are two in number.
The first cause is the fact that the magazine which
hires Mr.. Roosevelt at 81 per word to make vicious
attacks upon the Government of the United States during
war time was excluded from the mails in one issue for a
wholly false and absolutely unjustifed attack upon the Pres
ident of the United States and the diplomacy of the United
States, calculated to bring our country and our people into
contempt and consequently to injure our cause.
Mr.. Roosevelt did not write this particular article, but
it is conceivable that any menace to the existence of a mag
azine which pays so literally for political SANDER arouses a
natural concern on the part of Mr.. Roosevelt for his own
profitable, if not patriotic, contract.
The second cause of Mr.. Roosevelts immediate agita-
ton is the fact that the snail and lonely New York news
paper which is supporting Mr.. Roosevelts perpetual aspira-
tons for the Presidency was recently rebuked as a public
enemy by the representatives of the United States Govern
ment for printing as news certain articles which had no
foundation in fact, and which discredited the officers OF the
United States Army and held them up to ridicule and con-
tumely. without the slightest basis of truth or justice in the
allegations.
In any Other country IN the WorlO, 1T crlllca war umeS,
traitorous publications like Mr.. Roosevelts magazine and
Mr.. Roosevelt's newspaper, whose only objects in printing
fasehood were petty political spite against the President
and partisan support of the aspirations of a rival candi-
date, would have been wholly suppressed as reasonable.
Our Government, however, is lenient with such offend
ing publications and with Mr.. Roosevelt himself because the
Administration properly believes that in a republic the right
of free speech and free publication should be preserved
even though there be occasional disloyal abuses of this right
as in the case of Mr.. Roosevelt and the magazine which
hires him and the newspaper which politically supports him
That the United States Government was entirely right
in its denunciation of Mr.. Roosevet's New York newspaper
was conclusively proven in the suit which arose out of the
resignation from that newspaper of its editor, Mr.. Frank II
Simonds, well known throughout this country for his patri
otto articles on the war.
Mr.. Simonds definitely stated and showed that his desire
to retire from this disloyal paper was due to the fact that
this paper habitually invented news and concocted cables
in its own office for the purpose of manufacturing false
material with which to attack the Government of the United
States and the army of the United States for small and self
ish political purposes.
OF course, Mr.. SirRonds would not willingly remain con
nected with any disloyal publication, no matter how profit
able that connection might be, but there is apparently moth
ing in Mr.. Roosevelts makeup to prevent his connection Will
any publication, no matter how traitorous, as long as tina
connection will serve to line his purse and further his IN
scrupulous methods of promoting his personal political as
piratons.
Mr.. Roosevelts attempted reflections upon the Hears
publications are unimportant.
1t is sufficient to say in reply that whatever criticism
the Hearst publications INDUCED in was constructive crit
cism founded upon established fact, not upon manufacture,