Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1910 — MIGHTY ROOSEVELT FALLEN. [ARTICLE]

MIGHTY ROOSEVELT FALLEN.

State Chairman Jackson Deplores Act of Ex-President. “The spectacle presented by Col. Theodore Roosevelt In New York Is a sad one to the people of the United States,” said U. S. Jackson, Democratic State Chairman, yesterday. "It is one to be regarded with regret by all men, regardless of party. CoL Roosevelt has been given the highest honor within the gift of the people of this country and it la too bad that, with the memories and associations and dignity of that high office still clinging to him, he has so far forgotten himself as to descend to petty political quarrels In his own state. "I notice in a newspaper account of Col. Roosevelt’s humiliation the expression ‘licked to a frazzle.’ It is an expression applied by Col. Roosevelt while president, to those who were overcome by him in his many activities. Now the expression is turned back upon him and is used to indicate what has happened to him. At one sweep the ‘old guard’ in the Republican party in New York state, has eliminated Col. Roosevelt as a political factor there. He is discredited in his own state. And the stake was the temporary chairmanship of a state convention. Think of it! For this prize he risked his political standing and dragged through the dust of petty politics the glamour of the presidency which was still his. It is not a pleasant spectacle, nor one that will meet with the approval of the people who trusted and honored him. "It is with these charges of broken faith from his friends, and discredited in his own state, that Col. Roosevelt is coming to Indiana in October to tell the people of this state how to vote and how to conduct themselves with propriety. The Lord is sometimes on our side and it would seem that He is with us now."