The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-06-20
M: Hearst's Critical Analysis of
Mr.. Roosevelt and His Political PURPOSES

falsehood, and intended for the information and assistance
OF the Administration and not for its discontinue and de-
struction.
For years the Hearst publications have advocated pre-
paredness and have been denounced as jingoes by the short
sighted for doing so.
For years these publications have advocated the ex.
tension of West Point and Annapolis and the establishment
of national universities throughout the country to provide
trained officers for the army and navy in time of need.
For years these publications have advocated the con-
struction of the greatest navy in the world and creation
of a nationally owned merchant marine to act as an auxil-
larry navy in time of war.
Every since the beginning of the European war the
Hearst publications have advocated universal service, and
personally went to Washington and wrote in the Washing
ton Post a signed article appealing to my former associates
in Congress to vote for universal service and at least make
our own country safe for democracy.
Ever since the beginning of this European war the
Hearst publications have dilated upon the formidableness
of the German military machine and the necessity for i'm
mediate and immense effort on the part of our country if we
were to defend ourselves against that machine and even
tually overwhelm it.
If the advice of the Hearst publications had been taken,
we would be applying today in a determining way the
supreme force which the President now calls for and we
would be winning today the glorious victory which we will
assuredy win in due time anyway, in spite of delays, in spite
of obstacles, in spite of partisan obstruction and in spite of
treacherous attack in the rear by selfish politicians ami
mated by personal ambitions.
Let me say in conclusion that the attack upon the Ad-
ministration and the incidental attack upon the Hearst pub
locations, which are only seeking to secure justice for the
Administration, emanates from the reactionary influences
of Wall Street. The New York Tribune, which supports Mr..
Roosevelt in his unpatriotic activities, is owned by the Mills
and Reid estates, two of the greatest and most sinister of
New York financial forces, and not even wholly American
in chara2 ter, as the Mills and Reid families are both inter-
married with the English aristocracy.
The Metropolitan Magazine, which hires Mr.. Roosevelt
at a dollar a word, as professional vituperator of the Presi-
dent, is owned by the Whitney estate, which is administered
by Harry Payne Whitney, grandson of Henry B. Payne, the
Standard Oil magnate, and son of William c. Whitney, the
New York traction magnate.
Nor is it unusual to find Mr.. Roosevelt in such company
or in the financial favor of such influences.
Mr.. Roosevelt in 1912 ran for President as a candidate
of the Steel Trust and to defeat Mr.. Taft, who had prose.
cuted the Steel Trust.
Mr.. Roosevelt was financed by Mr.. Perkins oil the Steel
Trust, and when Mr.. Perkins of the Steel Trust refused to
finance Mr.. Roosevelt and his party in 1916, Mr.. Roosevelt
shamefuily betrayed his Progressive party into the hands of
the reactionary Republicans.
Mr.. Roosevelt has always been a badly camouflaoed
instrument of these sinister financial interests from the time
that he personally, as President, allowed the United States
Steel Corporation, in fragrant violation of the antitrust laws
of the nation, to absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany, down to the time of the recent election in New York
City, when he followed the lead of the Steel Trust and the
STANDARD Oil Trust and declared against the nominee of his
own party who had been regularly nominated by the Re-
publican voters in the open primary, which Mr.. Roosevelt
had always advocated.
AS Mr.. Roosevelt and his unfounded allegations were
overwhelmingly repudiated in the New York City election.
ard as Mr.. Asquith and his unfounded allegations were over
whelmingly repudiated in the House of Commons, so Mr..
Roosevelt and every political and public traitor should be
overwhelmingly repudiated whenever such an one sets him.
self disloyally against his constituted leaders and against
the best interests of his country for the meanest of all mo-
tives-petty jealousy and personal gain.
i, WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.