Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1912 — WHAT COL. ROOSEVELT DID [ARTICLE]

WHAT COL. ROOSEVELT DID

Record as President of the Man Who Now Seeks to Be Elected Again. When a man has held office for seven and one-half years, and still wants more office, it is proper to ask what use he has made of his term of power. What he thinks, talks, wishes or hopes does not count. He had a chance to do: What did he do? Mr. Roosevelt was president for almost two full terms. What did he do that another term should be given to him in violation of the nation's tradition against third terms? He' protected his friend? who own the Sugar trust from prosecution, while that trust was stealing millions of dollars from the government by means of loaded scales. He ran up the expenses of administration to double what they had been a few years before. He brought on a panic which caused hundreds of thousands of workingmen to be out of employment for months and spread rujn and bank rupfcy all over the country. He'permitted the Steel trust, in direct violation of law, to buy up Its only important competitor. He tried to revive the alien and sedition laws to abolish a free press and free speech. He allowed the infamous tariff rob bery to continue, not only unchecked but unchallenged through his entire term. ' ' > His most intimate friends and his most trusted advisers were standpatters and beneficiaries of the robber tariff. He was the best president for, Wai! street that Wall street ever had. And yet, in some mysterious manner. Mr. Roosevelt has persuaded the country to believe that he is just the reverse of what his record reveals.