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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 24,1920
HARDING’S PAPER ASSAILED T. R.
AS TRAITOR AND FAKER IN 1912
Bitter Denunciations of Party Leaders Come Home
To Nominee Through References
To Files
MARION, 0., June 24—To War
ren G. Harding’s newspaper, the
Marion Daily Star, Theodore noose
in velt in 1912 was “utterly withou,
conscious and regard for the truth
and the greatest faker of the time.’’
He was compared to Benedict Arnold
and Aaron Burr.
Hiram Johnson, of California, in
1912 was “both faker and a black
guard.’’
Numerous other men to whom
Harding is now looking for support
were merely despised Bull Moosers.
All this, an investigator for the
New York World finds, appears
from a reading of the newspaper,
which is on file in the County Clerk s
office of this small city and local
politicians are wondering what ei
feet it will have in the coming cam
paign on the friends of Roosevelt.
When Senator Harding was mak
ing speeches in the west last spring,
somebody got together some of his
pet diatribes against the Progressives
and sent them ahead. They were used
as the basis for questions when the
Senator spoke. The then primary
candidate told his audiences that the
dead past was dead and should not
be raked up.
Rival Paper Lo»e» File,
An interesting fact is that the
copy of the files of the Star contain
ing the most vicious attacks on
Roosevelt has disappeared from the
office of the Star’s political-business
rival, the Tribune. The owner of the
Tribune has been trying vainly to
learn what has become of it.
The reference to Roosevelt anu
Benedict Arnold was on Sept. 13.
1912, under the title “Getting the
Measure of Hiram.” The Star says
editorially that Johnson had placed
Taft below Benedict Arnold, who
is more like Roosevelt, for he won
his country’s plaudits and turned
traitor when he might have joined
a victor.”
The Star then goes on to say of
Johnson: . . .
“He appears at close view to be
both a faker and blackguard. When
the utter collapse of the Bull Moose |
pretense may be practical’ be charg-j
ed to too much Johnson.” I
The Star’s articles show clearly J
that in 1912, Wilson, viewed by-
Harding, was preferable to/ Roose !
velt as president. The attacks on
Roosevelt began in a mild way prior
to the Republican Convention in
June, 1912, as soon as there was talk
of a third party.
Bitter Raps at Rcvsevelt
During the convention the Star
• had little to say, and such “knocks”
as were published concerning Roose
velt were not particularly hard.
About a week after the convention it
began to talk of Roosevelt’s belief
“that he can continue to fool a ma
jority of the people all the time.
It charged that, “declaring for the
purification of politics, he financed
a deliberate attempt to steal the con
vention,” and added that Roosevelt s
candidacy had but one cause, “his
own lust for power and conspiracy,
and that he had “closed his mind to
all considerations of pledged faith,
of personal friendship, of establish
ed precedents, customs and traditions
of party fealty and loyalty.”
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“special interests,” the article goes
on, “he accepted the help and guid
ance of the very apostles of privi
lege, and the money of Wall Street
was poured out in millions to sub
vert the primaries he urged as the
means of political salvation. Preach
ing the square deal, he resorted to
libel, misrepresentation and slander.”
It charged that Perkins “and the
money bags of his trust brothers”
had no hope of electing Roosevelt,
but “merely sought to defeat Taft,
the President who cannot be coax
ed or bought or frightened from his
attitude of determined enforcement
of the law.”
Burr as Prototype
“Aaron Burr, his prototype,”' is the
head of an editorial that appeared
early in the campaign in part as fol
lows:
“In seeking a prototype for Col.
Roosevelt, among American public
men of the country, one finds the
closest resemblance to Aaron Burr.
- “The same towering ambitions, the
same overbearing disposition and un
governable temper, the same ruth
lessness in disregarding the ties of
friendship, gratitude and reverence,
the same tendency to bully and brow
beat, and finaly the same type of
egotism and greed for power and the
same mental tendency generally.
From that time up to September,
when Roosevelt was shot, there was
hardly a day that passed in which
the Star did not take sime fling,
many of them of the utmost bitter
ness, at the Bull Moose chieftain.
Samples of the usual sort of thing
were the following:
- “The Colonel says he would not
be a king. Sure not. It’s the Colonel’s
ambition to be the joker of the pack.
“The Colonel appears to see a
wide distinction between stealing
delegates and stealing electors, but
as yet he has not produced any sat
isfactory chart to make the !th ing
plain to the run of the people.
“The hari-kari business is not con
| fined to the Orient. Over here Col.
I Roosevelt and a number of lesser
1 lights have been practising political
hari-kari for some time.”
Artist in Fooling People
Then comes this vote buying in-
I sinuation in which, referring to a
! statement of Roosevelt that Wadi
(Street “teeters between the two old
; parties,” the writer says that ‘ prob
ably he will make an exception of
that part of Wall Street represented
by Mr. George W. Perkins and other
members of the Steel, Harvester and
Tobacco trusts, who have been knock
ing off the heads of their barrels in
i the hope of manufacturing enough
sentiment or buying enough votes
; to land him in the White House for
a third term.”
I In reference to the award of the.
Nobel Peace Prize to Roosevelt, the
, Star said it might call attention to
I the fact that Denmark once ton
! ferred a decoration on Dr. Cook,
1 but it preferred to call attention to
I the fact that the Nobel prize was
I conferred on Roosevelt because of
' his “intervention in a quarrel in
which he could not become a party
! in any other way,” and that his serv
ices were “purely perfunctory and
I official.”
Thinks He Can Keep On
1 On September 16, 1912, under the
heading of “Great Artist in Fooling
the People,” an editorial said of
Roosevelt:
“His is not a constructive or con
secutive mind. Whatever he thinks
will listen- good to the electors he
happens to be before is good enough
for the occasion. If called upon to
account later he unblushingly denies
that he ever made the statement,
which seems to have been unwise
Still Mr. Roosevelt has been wonder
fully successful in fooling most of
the people all the time, and sees no
reason for believing he cannot keep
on doing so.”
And on the day following:
“Mr. Roosevelt would make us be
lieve that he is the Luther Burbank
of the animal kingdom, that he
transformed George W. Perkins into
a patriot and a lover of the ‘plain
peepul,’ as Col. Bryan would say.
The fact that Bourke Cockran has
Joined the Bull Moosers is another
straw to prove that there was merit
in Mr. Perkins’ claim that they were
well supplied with money.”
And on the same date this:
“Hi Johnson shouldn’t endeavor
to poke fun at Senator La Follette
for being annoyed that he didn’t get
the Republican nomination, as a lo
cal high school girl once said, ‘there
is others.’ ”
The Star moved to amend a state
ment that had appeared in the Cleve
land Plain Dealer to read:
“The people cannot be expected to
govern themselves successfully as
long as they continue to let them
selves be fooled by the Roosevelts,
Johnsons, Perkinses, Hannas and
others, representing lawless ambition,
secret interests and demagoguery.”
Took a Slap at Munsey
On Sept. 18 the comment is made
that Frank Munsey—now one of
Harding’s ardent supporters —“who
owns the largest individual holding
of the common stock of the United
States Steel Corporation, and who
therefore, in common gratitude, is
for Roosevelt, the godfather and
benefactor of that trust, has bought
the New York Press,” and that the
Colonel, “with help of the Harvester
Trust papers,” is assured “of a cer
tain amount of publicity.”
On the following day the remark
was made that if the Colonel “is not
friendly to the trusts h» is certainly
guilty of having secured some of the
large campaign contributions under
false pretenses.”
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ishing hypocrisy” of Roosevelt in re-j
lation to a speech he made at Spring- i
field, 0., before negroes, when he'
had tried to “square himself to the
voters in the Brownsville matter.”
It gives what purports to be the in
side of the matter as told by Gen.
G. Warren Keif er and concludes
“It is not a vastly important recital
now, except as it reveals the redl
Roosevelt. The man is utterly with
out conscience and regard for the
truth and the greatest faker of the
time.”
Hits Roosevelt Supporters
On Sept. 20 appears this attack on'
George W. Perkins:
“Still should Col. Roosevelt be
elected and George W. Perkins be'
made Secretary of the Treasury,'
George should be able to so handle,
the financial affairs of the country!
as to recompense himself for hite !
campaign expenses.”
The next day the Star had this,
reference to those on whom Senator
Harding is now depending for sup
port:
“J. P. Morgan, George W. Perkins,
Frank A. Munsey, Gifford Pinchot
Dan Hanna, Mr. McCormick of Chi
cago, Cleveland and Toledo news
paper syndicate fame—look at the
list. Isn’t that a dandy team of mil
lionaires to back a party that wants
to let the people rule?”
On Sept. 23, 1912, the Star re-!
marked: “We would like the name of!
a single magazine in the land that is
supporting Col. Roosevelt, which it
not under trust influence, and the;
same condition applies to almost all
the newspapers giving him support.”}
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