The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 28, 1918, Page 4

-Roosevelt Exposure Causes Sensation Unassailable Evidence That the Anti-Farmer Interests Were Using Roosevelt, mrnaTiIn rn - et rm e the Liberty Loan and Loyalty for Base Ends Is Hard Blow for Gang \ s JAST week the Leader exposed correspondence between A. A. D. Rahn, a political fixer, and F. H. Carpenter, leader of the special interest forces in Min- nesota, showing that the recent loyalty and Liberty bond speeches by Roosevelt were planned and paid for in part, at least, by the special interest politicians to fur- ther their aims. These documents, first brought to light by the St. Paul Daily News, have created a sensation throughout the country because the nastiness of special interest politics has rarely been revealed with more startling frankness. Even those who have had no use for Roosevelt for many years hardly believed that he would stoop to such a role at this time. In addition the documents reveal that Roosevelt is attacking the Nonpartisan league not on his own information but on 'the canned stuff which Carpenter, Jerry Bacon, the On the Square Publishing company and other discredited anti- League agents have gotten together for him. The Leader has received hundreds of letters from readers expressing their disgust at this prostitu- tion of loyalty and the Liberty loan to old-gang tactics. Here are some of the comments by the liberal press: STILL AT IT (The Capitol Times, Madison, Wis.) Theodore Roosevelt is still playing the role of betraying the progressive movement. He betrayed the progressive movement in 1912. He unscrupulously ditched the progressives in 1916. y . He is evidently getting ready to do the same thing in 1920. In a speech Saturday night Roosevelt took oc- casion to denounce the great democratic movenient that is now sweeping the wheat fields and prairies of the Northwest. i One of the great forces in this country today for bringing the common people together for intelli- gent and constructive political action is the Non- partisan league. It is one of the greatest hopes for bringing redress to classes that have been ex- . ploited by sordid business aggregations, organized ;- themselves to the highest power. Because of the tremendous success of the or- | ganization it has incurred the opposition of those who thrive on the abuses which-the League plans to eliminate. Wealth and privilege in the North- . west are seeking to smash the League by as black . a campaign as has ever been waged against any | organization. Roosevelt admits that there are many wrongs ¢ to be righted among the farmers of the Northwest. He admits that there are abuses which should be / stopped. But when the first serious attempt is { made for a movement to remedy these wrongs he {.proceeds to throw bricks at the plan. Roosevelt has always done that. He has done nothing but place obstacles in the way of men who have fought the REAL battles of . demoeracy in this country. With all his grandilo- quent trumpery and noise about being progressive we have always felt that Roosevelt was a reaction- . ary at heart. Great democratic movements initi- . ated by ethers never gained the attention of Roose- ¢ -velt until the momentum was such as to make them " attractive political possibilities. i What remedy has Roosevelt to offer for the \ L A "\: ,7/‘ 1k el NI AR RN AN AT ANy ua gurvrrTem Q qt(‘.sE\.F'_ b o oesey [N This is the way the Roosevelt speeches against the farmers’ Nonpartisan league appear to Cartoonist Foss. The documents exposed by the Leader last week show_Roosevelt as getting his material direct from the old anti-farmer gang politicians of the Northwest. He is just a big horn bellowing out the lying records which the old gang put on the machine. Very honorable employment for an ex- president, isn’t it? The simple truth is that Roosevelt wants a third term and he thinks the special interests are going to be strong enough to give it to him. ure in the “big object.” Heonor and truth don’t cut much of a fig- By its rapid development and its uncompromising stand against the special interests, the League, of course, threatens a special interest ‘victory in 1920 and so becomes the most hated ememy of the third-term hunter. wrongs that have been committed in the North- west? Or is he the same egotist who will pro- " claim that his election as president in 1920 will solve the ills of the farmers? " - guess is that the farmers long ago discov- ered that the progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt has been a thin veneer. If Roosevelt thought for a minute that he conld drive the League into his political preserves in 1920 he wouldn’t .be out attacking it. He never ovenlocks any political windfalls. ; Meanwhile it is beconiing more and more evident - that Roosevelt is to be the candidate of those in-. -terests which are against all such democratic move-: ments as have been instituted by the farmers of the Northwest. . THE FALLEN LEADER (The Grand Forks (N. D.) American.) Theodore Roosevelt is himself a wealthy man, owning a manorial estate on Long Island and liv- ing in the style of an old English squire. How shameful a thing, then, that Colonel Roosevelt should accept contributions from the big financial interests for his speaking tour. S The documents printed in yesterday’s Ameri show the close relation between Colonel Roosevelt and the reactionary interests of Minnesota—the same interests that are striving to defeat Governor Frazier in North Dakota. Correspondence between PAGE FOUR " in the world.” a Minneapolis millionaire and his lobbyist disclesed the arrangement to bring the ex-president to Min- nesota under the camouflage of making a Liberty loan speech. From the moment he arrived in Min-. neapolis, Colonel Roosevelt was arm-in-arm with the Republican gangsters. Instead of uniting the people by Liberty loan speeches, he sowed dissen- sion‘ by attacking the right of the farmers to or- ganize. ; The St. Paul Daily News says: “We should re- member that Colonel Roosevelt belongs to a by- gone era when such activities were considered en- tirely proper, when ANY scheme for achieving the limelight was considered respectable, when no oc- casion was thought inopportune and no subjeet too sacred for partisan campaigners to use.” = The. New Nortixwest of Missoula, Mont., sees a - - close connection between the failure of Roosevelt to see real democratic movements at home and his previous lurid praise of what the kaiser stood for: “Colonel Roosevelt seems to be lacking in intel: e lectual charity. He himself failed to see behind - the splendor and pomp of the ‘imperial palace at Berlin. - With eyes blinded to all these great out- standing facts the colonel returned to his own be- loved America to assure his countrymen-that the kaiser represented the greatest power for -