Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-24
HARDINC'S PAPER ASSAILED T.R.
AS TRAITOR AND FAKER IN 1912
Bitter Denunciations of Party Leaders Come Home
To Nominee Through References
To Files

special interests" the article goes
on, che accepted the help and guild
ance of the very apostles of privi-
lege, and the money of Wall Street
was poured out in millions to sub
vert the primaries he urged as the
means of political salvation. Preach
ing the square deal, he resorted to
libel, Misrepresentation and slander." "
1t charged that Perkins 'and the
money bags of his trust brothers"
had no hope of electing Roosevelt,
but merely sought to defeat Taft,
the President who cannot be coax
ed or bought or frightened from his
attitude of determined enforcement
of the law"
Burr as Prototype
aaron Burr, his prototype, " is the
head of an editorial that appeared
early in the campaign in part as fol
lows:
"In seeking a prototype for Col.
Roosevelt, among American pubic
men of the country, one finds the
closest resemblance to Aaron Burr.
b "The same towering ambitions, the
same overbearing disposition and un-
governable temper, the same ruth.
lessness in disregarding the ties OF
friendship, gratitude and reverence,
the same tendency to bully and brow.
beat, and finally the same type OF
egotism and greed for power and the
same mental tendency generally.
From that time up to September
when Roosevelt was shot, there was
hardly day that passed In which
the Star did not take some flng
many of them of the utmost bitter
ness. at the Bull Moose chieftaln
SAMPLES of the usual sort of thing
we're the following:
/ "The Colonel says he would not
| be a king. Sure not. It's the Colonets
ambition to be the joker of the pack
'The Colonel appears TO see a
wide distinction between stealing
delegates and stealing electors, but
as vet he has not produced any sat
isfactory chart to make the thing
plain to the run of the people.
"The hari-kari business is not CON
I fined to the Orient. Over here Col
Roosevelt and a number of lesser
lights have been practising political
ndTl-hdIl lOG oOAhN sAAAASs
Artist in Fooling People
Then comes this vote buying In
sinuation in which, referring to 8
statement of Roosevelt that Walk
Street "teeters between the two ole
parties" the writer says that PROB,
ABLY he will make an exception OF
that part of Wall Street represented
bv Mr.. George W. Perkins and Other
members of the Steel, Harvester anc
Tobacco trusts, who have been knock
ing off the heads of their barrels II
the hope of manufacturing enougf
sentiment or buying enough votes
to land him in the White House tol
third term"
In reference to the award of the
Nobel Peace Prize to Roosevelt, the
Star said it might call attention u
the fact that Denmark once CON
ferred a decoration on DIR. Cook
but it preferred to call attention tt
the fact that the Nobel prize wa
conferred on Roosevelt because ol
his Intervention in quarrel IN
which he could not become part!
in any other way" and that his serv
! ices were "purely perfunctory an'
|
official"
Thinks He Can Keep On
On September 16, 1912, under tn
heading of "Great Artist in Foollnt
the People," an editorial said O.
Roosevelt:
"His is not constructive or con
secutive mind. Whatever he think
will listen good to the electors n
happens to be before is god enough
for the occasion. If called upon t.
account later he unblushingly denle
that he ever made the statement
which seems to have been unwlse
Still Mr.. Roosevelt has been wonder
fully successful in fooling most o
the people all the time, and sees M
reason for believing ne cannot keel
on doing So"
And on the day following:
"Mr. Roosevelt would make US be
lieve that he is the Luther Burbanl
of the animal kingdom, that h'
transformed George W. Perkins intt
patriot and a lover of the 'plair
peepul,' as Col. Bryan would say