The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1904, Page 4

¥ DENT ROOSRVELI'S LUTTER WS A (i | False and Dead Issues Sepa Anil tr OPEN LETTER 10 MR ROOSEVELT | ‘ON HIS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE Against True and Living Issues. TEN QUESTIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN. “Woe ers content to stand or fall by the record Which we have made end are making.”—-PRESI- anon. "! The paramount tasue of this campaign fs not, as | 4 gq \ Ou would have it, free trade or free ailver, but OU youreelf—Theodore Roosevelt. ‘Thia lesve ts forced upon the country by your Gpuses] temperament and talents—your ows trong, adle, ambitious, resourceful, mifitant, pas- Gletiate pereonality, your versatile and curprising Qeaies. As the French wing oald of the state, you can with greater truth any of the Republican party, “It 401." More absolutely than any of your predecessors in office ever did, you procured your @wa nomination. You dictated the plstform. You efited the nominating speeches. You appointed te campaign manager. You moved your @Micors like pawns to meet the exigencies of your game of politics. By an act of Executive usurpe- tlen you added many thousands of pensioners to @ rel already containing 6 miljion names, in order to make vptes for yourself—the first open yee ever ‘made of the National Treaspry as a party's cam paign chest. You have glorified war and threatened the future Pence of the country by propoding a bullying over. lordship of the other countries {n this hemisphere ‘and offeriag to constitute the United Gtates the Constable and Collector for Burope in the rotten 204 irresponsible states of Central and Gouth America, F * You have, by yourrecommendations to Congress and your signature to its extravaganess, Increased clsive isdua in the last two elections, Your speech that you will seek to revive it, buried past resurrection. (From This Morning's Edition of The World.) | The free coinage of silver, which was’ the de- | gator and curber of great corporationa to be @ no longer OF ACORPT- | 4 jiving queation, though there are indications in The collector of campaign funds from them! . . . You aay that you “earnestly desire friendship overwhelming verdict of the people, regardiess of | with all the nations of the New and Old Worlds,” | @ party, im the last two elections; the law of 1900/ ang that you think “peace 4s right aa well as e4- | ¢ re-establishing the gold standard; the enormous] yantageous.” Can you wonder that the pedple ingrease in the world's production of gold; the ,find {t hard to recognise in these pacific utter- fact that mo party and no public man of impor-| anees the Roosevelt they have known hitherto? tance, not even Mr. Bryan, is now advocating free} A short time ago, ia urging the creation of an aiiver; and, beyond all, the declaration of your] ever larger navy, the advice you gave for the opponent, Judge Parker, that he regards the gold] guidance of the nation was: “Speak softly, but § standard ae “firmly and irrevocably eotablished”—| carry a big stick.” Is the man who habitually & declaration unreservedly accepted by the &t.| does this generally “seeking peace?” Do you Louis Convention by a vote of 774 to 191-~-afford| think that the other nations of the New World cumulative proof that the silver tseue is dead and, thought that you, as President of this Republic, really “desired peace and friendship" with them when you wrote in your letter to the Cuban din- nert— You boast that your policy is “to do fair and Any country whose people conduct tt noes Wei equal justice to all men, paying no heed to whetber s man {s rich or poor.” Can it be main- tained that a tariff law which enables favored Manufacturers, in return for big campaign con- tributions, to levy tribute on the whole body of the Deople is an example of “fair and equal justice!” Who represents anti-monopoly and the rights of labor in your Cabinet? Is it Secretary of the Treasury Sbaw, the banker, who preaches that § high prices are @ biessing!—or Attorney-General Moody, who has not lifted « finger to enforce the Anti-trust lews!—or Secretary of the Navy Mor- ton, lately a Vice-President of the Santa Fé Rajl- road, an ally of the Beef Trustt—or Secretary of the national expenditures during your term td Commerce and Labor Metcalf, a political represen- more than $2,600,000,000—an exceas of $81,000,000 over the expenditures during President McKinley's term (which included the expenses of the war with Spain), and exceeding the cost of President Clevelind's second term by $880,000,000, ‘You and the Congress of your party have con- verted a surplus ot $80,000,000 in 1900 into a deficlt of more than $40,000,000 for the fiscal year just closed. ‘This extravagance {s encouraged, and in fact made inevitable, by the high tariff and the policies of war and imperialism of which you are the most jah expenditures. The more colonies and depend- encies we have the greater the need of more war- Ships, more fortifications, more coaling stations, Nsthe soldiers, Every high protectionist is a Jingo, and every jingo « high protectionist, These| + cardinal features of the Republican policy are in-| terrelated and interdependent. They stand to} @ach other in the relation of cause and effect. In view O% this surpassing record of oxtrava. | ‘ance, It is perhaps not strange, but will be re- a _ tection, garded by the taxpayers as significant, that the “words “economy,” “retrenchment” and “reform,” onee the rule of the nation and the ehibboleth of stateamen, do nol once appcar in your entire speech of acceptance—NOT ONCB! Hy e has come at home.” Are there not the Department of Commerce—created, as the law thousands of workingmen who have great! declares, to make “diligent investigation” of the tative of the Southern Pacific Railroad?—or Poat- master-General Payne, long the legislative and lobby agent of raflroad and other corporations? Do these acta of yours give very strong back- {ng to your words asserting equal regard for all classes! You say of the “great organisations known os trusts,” that “we do not have to explain why the laws againg them were not enforced, but to polat| out that they actually have been enforced.” This will be news indeed to the victims of the un. puntshéd and unhampered Beet Trust and the trenuous champion, ‘The greater the revenue, other “conspiracies In restraint of trade” which 4 trom customs the greater the temptation for lav. | continue to stifle competition and to rob con- sumers in defiance of law. Far worse than thie political partnership with ‘rusia under the tariff is the blow which you dealt to public confidénce in the sincerity of your | opposition to monopoly by the changes in your Cabinet on the evejof your personal campaign for election to the Presidency, The politic removal of Attorney-General Knox jum as he had demonstrated in one notable in- stance hia ability to enforce the law against com-| | | men of the country, who above all need nanity CAV ELKINS CAN General of both parties had falled, was a shock-| the White House whose temperament, training | ing submission to the plutocratic power which | and character will enable them to go to sleep at with admirable courage you successfully chal-| night without fear of waking on any morning dining corporations, after all previous Attorneya- ean count upon our hearty friendliness. If a nation shows that i knows how ¢o act with decency in tn- Gustria! and political matters, if it keeps order and 9076 ite obligations, then It need fear no interfer- ence from the United States, Brutal wrong-doing or 4n impotence which results in the general loosening Of the ties of olvilised society may finally require intervention by some civilised nation, and in the Western Hemisphere ihe United States cannot ignore uty. Is not this unmistakably @ threat that {f any of the republics of Central or South America falls to ‘act with decency”—you being the judge—or if it falls to “keep order and pay its obligations” (as some of the States of our Union have failed to pay), it “need fear no interference {rom the} juanee States;" but that if any or all of these states fall to live up to and morality, “civilised society may finally re- quire intervention,” and that then “the United States cannot ignore (te duty?” ir standard of order In other words, you propose that you, as Pres!- dent of the United States, shall constitute your self the Bupervisor and Sponsor of all the turbu- pay their debts to the bondholders, speculators | and usurers of Burope! ' Can even the wildest imagination conceive a more grotesque, preposterous and dangerous per- Version of the Monroe doctrine than is contained If there could be devived a more offective per- petual invitation to war and trouble than this polloy holds out, the imagination of diplomatists and the combative instinct of soldiers looking for | & fight have not yet conceived ft. Can you wonder that the conservative business | and security in their affairs, want a Presidem in lenged in the Northern Securities case. But the *"4 learning from startling headlines in the news- You say in your speech of acceptance that transfer of Secretary Cortelyou from the head of find that “wages are higher than ever before?” Committee, has all the appearance of deliberate Do the tens of thousands of employees dismissed Preparation for partisan blackmail of the very by our great railway systems share your roseate Corporations that were to be investigated, | view? Are the participants in or tye victims of Mr. Cortelyou, formerly your private secretary,| the strike against the exactions of the Beef Trust| was at the head of the Department of Commerce throwing up their hats over the “full @inner-pall?” just long enough to acquire by “diligent investt.} Deserting your early convictions in favor of 9 @ation” such information as would be useful to freer trade, you' cultivate the monopolfatic cam- the filler of your campaign chest The public paigm contributors of your party by “standing does not share this information, There is no pat” for a tariff higher in its average duty than evidence that the law officers of the Government the highest schedules of the war time—« tariff are making use of It to suppress and punish such _ which the Republicans of lowa have declared to odious and oppressive monopolies as the Beet be a “shelter to monopoly.” which the Repub-|Trust—which controls the greater portion of the Means of Wisconsin demand shall be revised in meat supply of 80,000,000 people. But ex-private the interest of consumers, and which tens of thou- and ex-public Secretary Cortelyou — Chairman Sands of Revublicans in Massachusetts and else- |Cortelyov of your Campaign Committee — no where insist shal) be modified by @ reciprocity doubt knows all that the law enabled him to treaty with Canada ‘The principle of protection has been maintained by every party that has held power in this coun- try since the adoption of the Constitution, in- eluding the administrations of eight Democratic Presidents, Representative Clark, Chairman of the Bt. Louls Convention, truly said that “the Pro- however necessary under some conditions, s needless aud unjust when intant industries! become hoary monopolies. It-is especially of the Government been on a cleaner and higher holders, but in that spirit of Independent thought as ve and exasperating when perverted to! level.” We appeal to all honest men whether In favored manufacturers to maintain arbi- the annals of our Government there was over @ prices in the home market while un- foreign competitors in the markets of| or a more unprineipled defiance of decent public Demooratic party is not a free-trade party,’ if learn of the inner workings of the potential cam. paign contributors! What save a consuming ambition to be elected President in your own right could have led you to shift your successful trust prosecutor to Quay's place as a trust agent in the Senate, and to convert your confidential private secretary and trust Investigator into & campaign trust fat- iryer, in place of Mark Hanna, deceased? papers that the President has despatched war- ships to Turkey, Morocco, Venesuela, China or impossible demande—or has been cabling bun- Féagon to feel that prosperity ts departing? Does affairs of corporations, and, as your platform says, Combe messages that he wants “Perdicaris alive the army of striiing cotton oppratives, whose to secure “reasonable publicity to thelr opera- oF Ralsull dead,” or ordering some of our Southern from Going to Father-in-Law| “tion about Maryland’ wages have been reduced 22% per cent. since 1900, tions"—to the Chairmanship of your Campaign neighbors to “act decently” and “pay their dobtat” dangers of your Administration and your police: are we not right in saying that the paramount the Delegates-at-Large from Maryland issue of the election is whether ydu, Mr. Prest-| to the Republican Nationa) Convention, dent, shall have a vote of approval, confidence ana | encouragement to go on in tae Theso being the results, the tendencies and th course you have marked out? You would have the right to ac- cept your election as @ warrant from the people to continue, to Increase and to intensity the Bx- ecutive acts which have amazed and alarmed the | friends of peaceful, lawful and safe administre- (lon, Our faith In the Intelligence, the common sense and the consclenoe of the American people ts too great to belleve that they will give a commission for four years in his own name to the chance pilot who is now heading the ship of state toward the rocks upon which other repubiics been wrecked—tolerated usurpations by the Executive; warlike adventures for gain and glory; contempt for law; privileged classes sustained by election bribes; corruption in high places and extravagant expenditures from unjust taxes. Honor and pru- dence alike require a change of pilots and a re- turn to the chart of the Constitution, to the rule of law and the flag of a peace-loving republic, . . e Not for the Democratic party but for demo- cratic Inatitutiona fs this written, Not against the Republican party, but for the Republic, Not You boast that “never has the administration! in the interest of office-seekers against office. and action, inspired by @ co@imon desire for tne public good, which has led to the extraordinary and most significant union Ip opposition to your grosser abuse of power, a greater public scandal candidacy of all the independent journals of the ot Sho eaten / a oe hi a metropolis that advocated the election of Mr. MoKiniey in 1806, THE WORLD: SATORDAY VENTING: JOCTS", te. SCENE | SISOS] Clohe ele le wieteie’s) oo @ are; 1—ROUGH RIDER OR JUDGE sovereignty of the people—a Rough Rider for Chiet Magistrate? IL—REFORM THE TARIFF. discriminations"—or shall it be revised | common weal?” I—CURB THE TRUSTS. Shall monopolies like the Beef Trust, universal necessaries of life, continue to | Protection of a sheltering tariff, and enjoy Indulgence in the non-enforcement of ant! by reason of thelr enormous contributions to party {n this extraordinary proposition? It combines campaign funds and thelr potential influence with the humbug of Barnum with the Hypocrisy of party leaders? Uriah Heep—and all to prove, as you say in your | speech, that the non-interference doctrine of James Monroe is “a living reality!" IV.—THE ABUSE OF POWER. | elf of the one successful trust prosecut to placate the corporations—in making BEAT FATHER DAVIS @ u | Where not, on Insufficient information or with} Gen, Agnus Sure Senator Will) $2 Ba Boe using an for Vice-President. Gen. Felix Agnus, publisher of the and was also a member of the commit- tee named to notify the Republican tan: didates of their nomination, ts well in| ', formed on the situation in West Vir | ginia, as well ag on the situation in his own Sate, West Virginia, Gen, Agous declares, can be counted on to give \the Republican national thoket ten | or fifteen thousand plurality, while |! laryland, he thought, might also safety be placed in the list of Republican Sal | “All thie talk about West Virginia turning against the party of protec. | tion,” sald the General, “simply be- cause one of her sons has been chosen | \to run for the Vice-Presidency, has no| | foundation in fact. The leading indus- tries of the State would soon shrink into insignificance if the policy of free trade, toward which the Democratic ship !s now heading, were enforced. The Republican lcy of protection has been the upon which the vast indus- tries of that State have been built up! and maintained, and while Mr. Davis is probably not fully in accord with the tariff policy of his party, he would not deny that free trade would mean the destruction of the prosperity of the Btate which he has done so much to DDODOHHPDODOGHASDDDOOHDOHDDOOHDHOODHO: Shall the tariff never be revised except with the consent and under the direction of its beneficiaries— |lont, chronteally revolutionary, bankrupt sham | by “the friends of its abuses, Its extortions and its Yopublics of tha Western Hemisphere, and will | ft | undertake to make them “act with decency” and Spirit by “the friends of the masses and for the Shall the action of the President in ridding him- private secretary and head of the Department of Com- @erce 4 campalgn-fund solicitor from the very cor-| professional spoilsmen, be condoned and continued? porations he was appointed to “diligently Investl- gate"—Iin appointing a railroad corporation official! Shall the attitude of the United States toward for-| the strongest national and patriotic feeling? , use mea Keep West Virginia’s Vote ie a Ikane are @ happ: The prospects were never | ‘of the leadersh! nate | doomed. ‘Other that to conduct a him of party prestige ply more fartening. wi fighting for wor land gaye a perentel Roosevelt and irbanks, rekt ene Oo WEGOOODOHe THE VERANDA. OCVIBOLIDO: re —— , INN INN OOO OO OD OD ODM OOO OOD OO OC In THE TEN LIVING QUESTIONS. The real, ving, burning questions of the campaign) Secretary of the Navy, and « political agent of the, eign nations be thet of a bully with a “big stick,* Southern Pacific Railway to the head of the depart- and a chip on his shoulder, or shall we return to the ! or a Judge In & Judicial | inet to meet thelr views! controlling recelve the still longer {-trust laws Shall corruption bred of land-office scandals, in the ‘or in order his former Vi. that reapect is muoh more satisfactory to every interest except, perbaps, the fow thousand silver Democrats in the State, than the Democratic platform, which says nothing about an issue that wae paramount @ few years ago. Blin to Fight Davis. “Mr, Elkin te oe & power In the Stat Raya fo @ nomination of his fath wv Deen followed by talk thet Rhatoer tbh an ra epublican par sition ‘to say positively that will continue to his command to ove t in national ticket family in my State of Democratic defeat brighter. There are no [ac ude among the Maryland Re- ir fri the Democrats, the three highest off. te, the Governor, the ta Americ: whi United Btates Sei it and the rec. re eee ‘dee Myoithe’ ogni ined leader o1 the party. t. Gor- man, are not even political friends, The e ‘a¢em op- if \! oom Ogi ep re b+] preset ership an hold ~ 0 1 leader w palltioal power in tne Beate es A ip, of be ing In effect, an admisai hat ra ng 10 take « chancs, but Gorma knew great to Gorman ie sim= “Nonor that "he he Democracy meant he if Mary- jurality for Deas, 10 nim shou! ou! ween the And those opposed MA ” burted largely In the general ecting to- Ps need of bt tn Siais” The Infiluences affecting West Virg! and i] Maryland extend, of course, Into Dela- ware, guch as the benefite of @ pro- tecdve tariff and @ eound system of pa- tlonal Anance, je any here thi "The only State wi eed eee Je Say trou Ppons jb) ain, but ave just heard Spek the feet within the Tnely" wade erent FOR SALE. HOUSES tour 4118 Real Estate “Wants” in The Wofld last Spat 18 mate Sono ee month last Shall the people of the Untted States have for the his own campaign)—shall this “surrender of the next four years a Personal or a Constitutiona) gov- ernment—the sovereignty of a party dictator or the Rough Rider” be approved by the people? V.—-NO CORPORATION RULE, Shall the rule of corrupt corporations In politics and thelr controlling influence in government be further enlarged and confirmed by continuing In power & party closely allled with them by the grant- ing of special privileges in the tariff, by the election of corporation agents to Congress and to State offices, and through the reconstruction of the Cab- Vi—STOP THE EXTRAVAGANCE, Shall we continue a policy of reckless extrava- gance, as evidenced by the expenditure of more than $2,500,000,000 during the last four years, or shall we ment to supervise and curb corporations (all to ald! policy of Washington and Jefferson—“Peace and friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none”—minding our own business and expecting other nations to do the same? IX—WHAT WILL THE FILIPINOS DO TO US? Shall we continue the malevolent effect upon oure selves of so-called “benevolent assimilation” in the Philippines until It 1s too late to withdraw from that deplorable and un-American adventure in Astatic cole onialism—which becomes all the more dangerous the more we impose upon them the veneer of our civille ration—and until the hybrid and forever allen races of those Islands shall be incorporated into our body politic, to cast the die in our National Conventions, as the delegate from Hawaii did at Kansas City ty 1900; to participate {n our elections, to sit In ow 4 return to a reasonable economy? VIL—CHECK THE CORRUPTION, 48 instanced in the half-disclosed postal frauds, in the of offices and negotiation of corrupt public contracts | by Senators Dietrich and Burtom;~in the purchase of a Seat In the Senate by thg.Democrat W. A. Clark, ratl- fied by Republican Senators, and in the ascendancy and Executive recognition of notorious corruptionists and NO “BIQ STICK” BLUSTER. too long a lease of power,| out consent pension abuses, in the sale) nation of & ALES OF SPU BY JUDGE'S GUEST Candidate Parker’s Bull Terrier Pup, Lika His Distinguished Master, Plays No Favorites, Says Urey Woodson. “Talking about cigars, reminds me of a story,” said Secretary Thomas F. Smith, of Tammany Hall. “Edward Bbeehy, the former Tax Commissioner, never smoked, although he waa never seen without a cigar in his mouth. enjoyed what is known as a dry smoke, and he always hed a high-priced cigar for his peculiar form of tobacco relish. On the day of his appointment as Com- missioner one of his constituents said: “'@o “EA” got the appointment, eh? 18 | And what does it pay?’ | ”‘It’a @ %,000 Job,’ anewered his friend. “Five thousand dollars!’ echoed the gyoatinent ‘lL am glad to hear that. ow the emoke @ August Belmont, Charlee F. Murphy, Chairman “Tom"’ Taggart and several of the National Committeemen were al! that remained at Bsopus of the big dele- gation that visited Judge Parker | Wednesday, “Don't go to town on the train. I ex- pect my yacht. She ought to be in the offing shortly and I would be pleased to have you all go down to the city as my guests.” sald Mr, Belmont was on the porch of the Judge's home. phy, Senator Victor Dowling and Justice Morgan J: O'Brien, accepted the miil- wnaire’s invitauion, In the absence of a “trig the Tammany leader and his friends walked to the railroad station, In ihe mean time Mr. Belmont decided that his skipper was guing to disappoint him, and, several rigs having been summoned, he and the would-be guests proceeded to the depot. “We have just held a meeting, Committeeman Hopkins, "aud de that you never owned a yaoht, dr 3 i ution cannot prevail, for 1 know Mr. Belmont docs Lary yacht, ange good itor Dowling. wihcw on i, Congress and eventually to help to govern those wha now by force impose upon them government withe He} Commissioner can afford 10} cigar.” This, All, with the exception of Lender Mur-) and taxation without representation? X—"LET US HAVE PEACE" Shall we, forty years after the end of the war em after a complete reconciliation of the once hostile ' | States, tear asunder by a revival of the sectional issue the bonds of fraternity and concord—and this whea the people of the South have just ‘secured the nomi- conservative and sound-money Demo- crat for President, and have given repeated instances of ducing a box of pertectos bearing personal brand. “We might as well smoke them right here,” said Commite teeman Hopkins, and Mr. Belmont! Reing, te Co vecaslon, Lod o pee. ust two were left when the distribution ended. Three hours later, when the train reached New York, Mr. Belmont had the cigar-box with Its two Havana occupants care- fully guarded under his right arm. He boarded & crosstown car, seemingly ob+ livious of the fact that he was for the time being an animated olgar sign, Chairmis) Tom Taggart stood on the jTailroad track at Esopus looking up the long stretch between the rails, Sud- denly he exclaimed: "By jove, we win! There comes our train, See that wreath lof smoke in the distance? All hands strained thetr ey: airectiog tadioates. xe ® rk hi ah!” exclaimed Committesman ahiman, of Nebraska, “Fou senate can letory a deuce of a way off!” And in Leader Murphy, who conatl- tuted one of the walling’ aggregation, ‘ smiled. | Judge Parker's bull terrier trotted af |the heels of Leader Murphy, thes shunted off toward Senator Maher, ‘ [finally taking up the scent behind Sen- |ator Dowling and Judge O'Brien aa the distinguished men of public affairs | walked, toward the depot. "That mu! a bel ment Rit lars ne favorites, hi * | Bury Woodson, f, tuo Q yng ie noted sa a wit in his native “'T see the contest in Judge MoMahon's istrict over the leadership is going by the board,” sald a friend to Senator | Phunkitt. “Going by the board? Why, it i going out of su" t," sald the Gena tor. “They can’t beat the Judge in tha! district, no matter who trite Two week: * | ago Assemblyman Curry, whe owe: |his position In polttics t to thi Judge, seemed to have @ from now on there will be nothing ts it but McMahon, rry will fade fron view entirely, That's the reagon I say the fight Is out of sight.” “I have sized up the whole Republi ean situation, but I will confine my rey |marks to the State,” said Senator Plun- ; Kitt, “Odell comes out with @ state. |ment to the effect that he has been working for v's Root for six months, b ho one gave him credit No one gave the Gov- because he never came out Root. Now that Root has ed the nomination, 108s, Odell comes | ta sz. Umber, across the W nd killa him off. Now what does It aj! mean? It meang that Odelt ls going to have hii et just las Roosevelt, ee ® pin In that explanation ot