Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1910 — SCORES ROOSEVELT. [ARTICLE]

SCORES ROOSEVELT.

Republican Country Editor Says Colonel’s Stock Hts Propped. The Newport (Ind.) “Hoosier State” the old Republican organ of Vermillion county, has had enough of Theodore Roosevelt. In an editorial the “HoOsier State” says plainly that Roosevelt made “an ass of himself’ when he refused to git at the table with Senator Lorimer at the Hamilton Club in Chicago. Attention ia called to the fact that Senator

Beveridge, former Vice-President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon were Invited guests and raised no obection to the presence of Senator Lorimer. Who, then, is this Roosevelt that he can consider himself better than these other gentlemen? inquires the “Hoosier Statd,” The editorial follows:

“Theodore Roosevelt, the great African hunter, who made a swing around the circle last week in the interest of a ‘muck-raking’ magazine of New York, to which muck-raker’ he is a contributing editor, created quite a sensation at Chicago last Thursday, when he refused to dine with the Hamilton Club if Senator William Lorimer, a member of the Club, was present.

“B 'Teddy’ wants to consider himself better than Senator Beveridge, former Vice-President Fairbanks, Uncle Joe Cannon, and other .celebrities who were there as guests of the club, and not one of whom raised any objections as to other guests, that is his business. But he should have been more mannerly and genteel about it ‘ ■ - ’

“Now-, honest Injun, what would you do, if you were invited to the editor’s home for a dinner and there was an enemy there? Would you raise h —ll about it? Or would you, out of respect of the editor’s hospitality, treat his guest civilly? “We agree writh Roosevelt in denouncing corruption, and if Lorimer is proven guilty we say give him the limit, but in this country he is presumed to be Innocent until proven guilty. It seems as though Roosevelt is trying to override precedent and the constitution' again. “Let’s see. Didn’t certain Indianapolis and New York dailies have something to say a few- years ago about a certain Panama canal deal? Were those papers not sued for libel? Have they been convicted yet? Couldn’t Lorimer with the same propriety refuse to have attended the banquet with a man charged with Panama crookedness?

“Oh, Teddy, you are boo much of a boss. You are too arrogant. You are too much of a dictator. There are several qualities about you that we admire, but you should come down 6ff your perch and not play for first page notoriety in the yellow journals. You should not be so anxious to create scenes. You would not have to sacrifice any of your independence. We think you need toe weights. “Roosevelt's stock has dropped several, points at this place since the incident.”