Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-22
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ROM PAST TO
FRET HARDING
Hot Shots That Editor Fired
at Bull Moose Not
Forgotten.
HoOsIER HERD HOSTILE

Senator Warren G. Harding's invita-
ton to the former progressives to come
into the fold now that he is the repub-
hcan presidential nominee is evoking no
little comment among Indianians of
Bull Moose proclivities.
Followers OF Theodore Roosevelt and
the supporters of Senator Hiram W.
johnson and Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood
are receiving the Ohioian,s overtures
with a little bit of skepticiSm in view
of the fact that Senator Hsrding's news
paper, the Marion (Ohiol Daily Star,
had a good many mean things to say
about Roosevelt and Johnson in 1912.
The ghost Of his accusations greeted
the nominee on one Of his western cam
paign trips recently when they were
used as the basis of questions hurled at
b~by the audiences.
6~R-He evaded the issue. however, by de-
claring that the past was dead and
should not be walked up.
CONDEMNED BY FORMER
BULL MOOSE ORGAN.
Nevertheless Hoosiers who warmly
supported Gen. Wood and Senator John
son are somewhat exercised over SEN
ator Harding's newspaper comment.
The fact that the former state Bull
Moose organ, the Indianapolis Star, has
condemned the republican platform and
Senator Harding as being the products
Of the senatorial cabal, is also causing
an evident uneasiness among G. o. P.
leaders.
Among the spectres stalking out OF
the files OF Senator. Harding's newspaper
Is an editorial reference to Roosevelt as
a man utterly without conscience and
regard for truth and the greatest faker
Of the time" and ct the same time Sen
stor Johnson is styled both a eaker
and a blackguard."
Roosevelt was compared to Benedict
Arnold in an editorial in Senator Har-
ding's paper on Sept. Is, 1912, under the
tile Getting the Measure Of Hiram"
r'he article says that Johnson had
pls ced Taft below Benedict Arnold" who
is more like Roosevelt, for he won his
country's plaudits and turned traitor
when he might have Joined a victor"
The Marion Star, in discussing ROose-
welt during that bitter campaign. charged
that declaring for the publication of
politics, he financed a deliberate attempt
to steel the convention" and added that
his candidacy had bat one rauss-"his
own lust for power AMI conspiracy and
that he had CLOSED mis- mind TO all con-
siderations Of pledged faith, Of personal
friendship. Of established presidents,
customs and traditions OF party fealty
and loyalty"
The article continues he &C
cepted the help and guidance Of the very
apostles of privilege, and the money o.
Wall street was poured out in millions
to subvert the primaries he urged IS the
means of political salvation.
preaching the square deal, he re
NaArted TO libel, Misrepresentation and
slafder."
in seeking a prototype for Col. Roose-
welt among American public men Of'the
country" says another editorial, zone
finds the closest resemblance to Aaron
Burr.
The same towering ambitions, the
same overbearing disposition and ungoy-
ernabIe temper, the same ruthlessness
in disregarding the ties Of friendship,
gratitude and reverence, the same ten
70 dency to bully and browbeat, and finally
the same type Of egOtism and greed for
power and the same mental tendency gen
orally"
ROASTED FRANK MUNsEY,
NOW HIS SUPPORTER.
On Sept. IS. 1912, the comment is made
that Frank Munsey-now one Of the
senator's ardent supporters-"who owns
the largest individual holding Of common
stock of the United States Steel Corpo-
ration, and who. therefore, in common
gratitude, is for Roosevelt, the god
father and benefactor Of that trust. has
bought the New York Press and that
the colonel. with the help OF the Har-
vester trust papers," is assured CT q
certain amount Of publicity"
Senator johnson came in for his share
oSkSes attacks and in one article received
~foTlOving broadside:
THAT virulent sandlotter. Hiram
Johnson. has much to say about my
work in California" in his speeches in
the cast; but the papers in his state say
that in his first year in office as gov
ernor he was absent from the state ten
months and that in the two months he
was on the Job he did nothing but boss
the legislature, violate his campaign
pledges, nullify the primary and re-
organize the service so as to make places
for his henchmen and build up a per-
sonal political machine. and they fur
nish dates, details and itemized specif-
cations"
Senator Harding did not conine all
4 of his remarks about Col. Roosevelt to
the editorial columns of his newspa per,
however, as is shown IN a speech he
delivered in the Academy Of Music in