The St. Joseph observer., 1920-08-14

lust for power and for the notoriety
which he mistakes for fame"
MIR. Roosevelt says that when he
was president and there was any
man from whom he could learn any
thing, he sent for him, and he boasts
that among those who obeyed his
kingly command were John l.. Sulli-
van and Battling Nelson. Well, we
know what he learned from them
We know now where he acquired his
manners and vocabulary"
Knew No Law But His Own
Roosevelt, erratic, vain, impulsive,
utterly, selfish and self-seeking and
knowing no law but his own will"
The most self-seeking' politician
the country has ever seen, the most
arbitrary boss the party has ever suf-
fered under, the most dangerous agi-
tator who has ever threatened the
perpetuity of the government"
III itiN'lldlllN uN - StlllSil' lhNOl-
Grant, unstable. violently headstrong,
vain and unstably ambitious OF
power"
Senator Harding's paper, in that
year. also expressed its unbiased
opinion of HI johnson, whose sup
port the senator is now counting. To
quote:
He appears at close view to be
both a faker and blackguard. When
the people have finished thinking the
utter collapse of the Bull Moose
movement may be practically charg-
ed to too much Johnson"
Also Soaked 1t TO Hi
THAT virulent sandlotter, Hiram
Johnson, has much to say about my
work in California in his speeches in
the east. But the papers in his state
say that in his first year in office as
governor 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, vo-
late his campaign pledges, nullify the
primary and reorgaiize the service so
as TO make places for his henchmen
and build up a personal political ma
chine, and they furnish dates, details
ana itemi2ed specifications"
"Vituperation is his highest ac-
omplishmrnt. But the blackguard
in politics does not last long, espec-
tally when he is only blackguard,
and this one will not be heard of If
he leaves his present office"
"A Bull Moose exchange refers to
/ Roosevelt as the red-blooded, militant
champion of plain decency. Imagine
man of plain decency tied up with
Hi Johnson
For Bull MoOscrs to Ponder Over
! If names were omitted, if the date
were omitted, and merely the ad1ec-
tivcs and cpithets quoted, the reader
would imagine that Senator Harding,
/ in these extracts from his newspaper,
/ was speaking Of Woodrow Wilson.
Certainly hc abused Roosevelt and
his friends and his party in precisely
( the same temper and in almost ex-
actly the same words that he and his
friends now use in abusing a demo-
cratic president his friends and
party.
Roosevelt had his faults, as Wilson
/ has. No man, however exalted, is
/ perfect. But Roosevelt, like Wilson,
was a great and brave man, honestly
| and valiantly striving to serve his
| country. 1t is a part of the price
! that greatness pays that it is maligned
/ and villified by mediocrity. 1t was
the fate of Lincoln and Washington
| and jefferson, the same as of Wilson
and Roosevelt
! Republicans who at heart and by
conviction are progressive, who are
hoping that if their party wins in th'
coming election it will herald the in
| coming of a progressive administra
tion, may find in Warren G. Hard
ing's views of Theodore Roosevelt ant
the policies he advocated something
TO ponder on.-Omaha World-Herald
There are at the present time 26S,
142 licensed motor vehicles in tn
state.