the robbers in general of the working class.
They picked him for a winner and he has not failed them. Elected by the
trusts and surrounded by trust attorneys as cabinet advisers, Roosevelt
is essentially the monarch of a trust administration.

If this be denied, Roosevelt is challenged to answer if it was not the
railroad trust that furnished him gratuitously with the special trains
that bore him in royal splendor over all the railways of the nation. He
is challenged to publish the list of contributors to his political
sewer funds, amounting to millions of dollars, and freely used to buy
the votes that made him president.

Did, or did not, the men known as trust magnates put up this boodle?
Boodle drawn from the veins of labor?

Will Mr. Roosevelt deny it?

Did he not know at the time that his man Cortelyou was holding up the
trusts for all they would "cough up" for his election?

Will he dare plead ignorance to intelligent persons as to who put up the
money that debauched the voters of the nation?

It is true that a spasm of virtuous indignation seized him when he found
that the trusts had slipped the lucre into his slush funds when he was
not looking, but this was only after he saw the people looking behind
the curtain. Then he bounded to the foot-lights and denounced Alton B.
Parker as a liar for charging that the trusts were furnishing the boodle
to make him president, but no man not feeble-minded was deceived as to
who was the liar.

Read the Washington press dispatch in the Kansas City _Journal_ of April
4th: "It was declared in banking circles that light could be shed on the
question of campaign contributions in 1904 if the books of the national
Republican committee were thrown open."

The books will not be thrown open. Roosevelt will not allow it; he knows
they contain the damning evidence of his guilt.

The case is clearly stated in the platform of the Democratic state
convention of Missouri, adopted in 1906, which reads as follows:

"We believe Theodore Roosevelt insincere. Pretending to inveigh against
the crimes of trusts and corporations, he openly defended Paul Morton,
when, as manager of the Santa Fe railroad, he was compelled to confess
enormous rebates to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. It was Roosevelt
who advanced the pernicious doctrine that you must punish the
corporation, not its officials who cause it to commit crime. It was
Roosevelt who denounced large campaign contributions, whi